Chapter 102: House!
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Just before the red jet of light could hit the kneeling woman, it vanished into nothing.
Though Harry sensed the previous invisible process of absorbing, purifying and distributing taking place again.
"The last one, please." Harry whispered giddily, very sure of his victory.
Lily took a calming breath and said softly. "Avada Kedavra!"
The green beam of light soared towards Bellatrix. Something expected and unexpected happened.
As expected, the green spell disappeared as soon as it neared her. And unexpectedly, the silver chain disintegrated into ashes.
Harry observed and realised what had happened. The Killing Curse had been absorbed easily by the chain, but the process of purifying it was unsuccessful, resulting in its self-destruction.
"Damn it! The silver chain is only powerful enough to absorb one Killing Curse. Ah, my enchantments even at level 100 failed to counter the deadly curse. Mission failed." Harry lamented, scooping up the cool ash from Bellatrix's neck, not noticing the undead shivering at his touch.
"That was brilliant, Harry!" Lily gushed proudly, taking him in her arms. "You created a defence against THE Killing Curse. Do you know how unprecedented that is? Do you know how revolutionary it is? You should be over the moon for the accomplishment instead of being all gloomy and sad."
Well, when she said it like that, his mission didn't appear as a total failure.
"Okay. Put me back on my feet so I can continue with my explanation." Harry blushed as his mum was holding him against her side like a toddler. Which was really odd. Not just because of his age, he was 12 damn it, but also because of the height difference. While he wasn't anywhere as tall as his mum, he was still tall enough to reach the beginning of her neck if they stood on the level ground.
"Do I have to? You can continue your lecture from here too." She smirked, nuzzling his face and planting a wet kiss on his cheek.
"Mum!" He protested in a flustered tone. "I am not five!"
"But still as cute as if you were." She chuckled, but did put him down, knowing that he was getting annoyed.
He cleared his throat, unsuccessfully trying to regain the professional air, ignoring the giggling of his family before he continued. "As you saw, the chain can take one Killing Curse before getting destroyed. But that is enough for my second charm to kick in. The second enchantment is a teleporter charm which will bring you here when you are severely injured or when you are attacked by a Killing Curse. So just when the chain is destroyed, it will do one last job, that is to teleport you back home.
"You can also manually teleport to Potter Manor by using the password 'Safe Haven'. And the last enchantment is the one that took so much effort and time or else I would have given you this ages ago. The last function of this necklace is mana absorption. You will never know how difficult it is to charm an inanimate object to absorb magic on its own. With this you can take in the ambient magic around you to power your own magic. I had this idea when I thought about how Voldemort used the same method to strengthen himself in that Chamber. He had used the ambient magic around him to become far stronger than a bodiless soul should ever be. This works in a similar way."
Lily and Iris ran their fingers around their neck, around the thin silver necklace, awestruck and filled with wonder.
"It's brilliant work, love. Even the most experienced Enchanters of the Wizarding World wouldn't be able to achieve what you did in these couple of months." Lily praised, patting his head affectionately.
"Thank you, mum."
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"Which house do you want to be in, Tori?" Tracey asked the excited blonde.
All the friends along with Astoria were in the train compartment, on their way to Hogwarts.
"Gryffindor, where Harry is, of course!" She answered immediately. She sat by her sister's side with Tracey sitting beside her. Hermione and Neville were on the other seat with Harry and Iris.
The bushy haired girl asked the obvious question. "Why do you want to be in Harry's house, Astoria? Don't you want to be with your sister?"
"Ha! As if I want to spend more time with my sister. Do you know how boring and annoying it gets seeing her stupid mug every day, every hour? I definitely want to be in Gryffindor so I can be with my future husband instead. That is Harry if you didn't know. And obviously please don't fall in love with him or I will have to kill you." Astoria chatted happily, ignoring her sister's glare.
Honestly, she would be snuggling in Harry's lap right now if her mother hadn't hammered in her head how improper it looked to other people.
She didn't care what others thought of course, but she wasn't brave or stupid enough to go against her mother's direct instructions.
If she thought that angry Daphne was a demon then her angry mother was a Demon Lord herself.
Astoria shuddered, remembering her mother's scathing look when she was informed how Astoria had behaved on Christmas at the Potters.
Hermione glanced at everybody, silently asking if it was normal. They all just shrugged and motioned her to drop that topic.
But Hermione wasn't going to drop the chance to embarrass her friend. "Wow, Harry. I didn't know you already had a bride."
"I don't." Harry protested, but stopped when he saw Astoria's crestfallen and betrayed look. He instantly corrected himself. "But I do have a bride prospect. Don't worry Tori, when you grow up we will go on many dates and see if you really want to be my bride. Okay?"
"Okay." She yelled with a brimming smile.
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