Harry Potter and the Artificer Legacy Chapter 11 (Patreon)

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Chapter 11 – Summer Time

“Carefully…carefully…” Harry muttered to himself as he worked the right lens of his glasses back into the frame. In the week since summer had started he’d been eagerly awaiting the completion of his new smithy. According to the Magical Stonemason it would be ready tomorrow morning and Harry couldn’t wait to get to work. Right now he was finishing a side project he’d considered back when he was working on his Rune Safe. “There we are…just like new.” Harry grinned as he held up his newly enchanted glasses. An Engorgement Charm had increased the size of his glasses enough that he could etch a Runic Array into the right arm of the frame. Cancelling the Charm had returned the glasses back to their original size and he’d set to work putting the lens back into the frames properly.

“Now let’s see if this worked.” Harry smiled as he walked down into the living room of Wood End Cottage and saw Sirius reading the Daily Prophet. A tiny amount of mana sent into his glasses and Harry grinned when a number appeared on the right lens. ‘4,688’ was a marked improvement from what Sirius had had when they’d first ‘officially’ met at St. Mungos. His Godfather was obviously regaining the mana levels he’d had before his coma. The next good news was that his updated Runic Sequence worked. The original Scouter Sequence had no ability beyond counting and displaying a numeric amount. With a small addition to the sequence his glasses now showed the proper number with a comma place every three digits. This would make it a bit easier to glance at a reading and understand it as opposed to having to parse out any larger numbers. He’d stumbled over Flamel’s number for a moment when he’d first read it; and not just from the shock of the old Alchemist’s ridiculously high reading.

“Wotcher all! I’ve come for a visit!” Tonks announced loudly as she strolled through the front door without even knocking. Sirius had given her permission to do so after the first two times the Metamorph had done it. Tonks had been over nearly every day and Harry couldn’t say he disliked it.

“Hello Dora, here to tease Harry again?” Sirius chortled as he looked over his second cousin.

“Yep!” Tonks admitted shamelessly as she looked up at Harry at the top of the stairs. “Harry doesn’t mind, right?”

“I guess…” Harry sighed playfully making the bubbly teen grin brightly at him. A quick scan and Harry chuckled making the, currently purple-haired, girl tilt her head.

“What’s up, Harrikins?” Tonks asked as Sirius looked on an amused grin on his face.

“You’re mana increased again, Tonks.” Harry stated and Tonks looked confused.

“Not that I’m not happy about that, but how did you know? You don’t have your Scouter on you.” Tonks questioned and Harry’s grin only grew more.

“Oh? Don’t I?” Harry questioned as he tapped the right side of his glasses. “I think you’ll find that I very much do.”

“You made your glasses into a Scouter?” Tonks inquired as he made his way down the stairs. Sirius looked surprised at the announcement and put down his paper.

“Yeah, took a bit to figure out a safe way to do it, but my glasses are now the newest upgraded Scouter.” Harry smiled and swiftly rolled his eyes when both Tonks and Sirius gave a, rather patronizing, golf clap for his achievement.

“Nerd!” Tonks and Sirius exclaimed in unison before turning on each other and shouting. “Jinx!”

“Real mature you two.” Harry grimaced and Tonks and Sirius both burst into laughter.

“So have I increased again? I still maintain that I’ve got more mana than Moony!” Sirius looked eager and Harry could only shake his head at his Godfather’s competitiveness.

“You’re at ‘4,688’ now Sirius. That’s much higher than when you were in St. Mungos, but still not quite at Remus’ level yet.” Harry informed his Godfather.

“Just you wait, I just need a little more recovery time, and then I’m totally surpassing Moony!” Sirius nodded with his arms crossed over his chest.

“You said my mana increased but then you don’t tell me what it is? That’s mean, Harrikins!” Tonks pouted at him and Harry smiled before telling her.

“You’ve gone up to ‘5,876’ Miss Soon-To-Be-Auror.” Harry informed and Tonks smiled happily, pleased with her increasing Magical Strength.

“What’re you at Harrikins? You’ve been practicing since the last time you told us.” Tonks wondered and Harry was happy to inform his friend of what his Test Frame had said when he’d checked his mana level this morning.

“I’ve increased a bit; I’m at ‘1,182’ as of this morning.” Harry proclaimed.

“Congratulations, Harrikins, you finally broke four digits!” Tonks cheered as she pulled him into a hug. Sirius clapped on the couch while Harry gently returned the hug.

“So, what did you want to do today, Tonks?” Harry asked and Sirius waved his hand widely like an over-enthusiastic student.

“Battle Royale!” Sirius declared before tossing a spell at each of them from his previously hidden wand. Bright letters appeared over both of their heads. Above Harry’s head the words ‘Nymphadora’s Harry’ appeared in bright multi-color. Conversely above Tonks’ head, in the same multi-colored letters, appeared the words ‘Harry’s Nymphadora’ and both of them turned a bit pink in the cheeks at reading the labels hovering over them.

“Sirius you’re dead!” Tonks roared out at seeing her given name hovering in the air. The Metamorph’s hair had turned red to match her indignation as she hurled a Stinging Hex at the Marauder.

“You’ll never take me, Auror!” Sirius cackled as he deflected the Hex and dodged the cushion Harry had thrown at him.

“Let’s get him, Harry!” Tonks cried out as she threw another Stinging Hex at the laughing man.

“Agreed.” Harry nodded as he levitated more cushions to assail his Godfather with.

“You two are only proving my labels correct!” Sirius chortled as he dodged the cushions and mad his way out of the sitting room while emitting bright spots of light from his wand. The next few hours would be spent acting like children and Harry had to admit, it felt good to just let loose and relax with his loved ones.

-The Next Morning-

“This place is perfect!” Harry grinned as he looked around his new smithy. Sirius stood back with a large smile on his face seeing Harry so happy. The young Artificer was practically bouncing between the various areas of the new smithy with sparkles in his eyes. “Let’s get to work!” Harry declared and Sirius could only shake his head at his Godson’s gung-ho attitude when it came to Enchanting. But it would be interesting to watch Harry work, so Sirius settled in while Harry started preparing to use his new smithy for the first time.

“Well at least I made sure the smithy was fully stocked with materials.” Sirius mused to himself as he watched Harry working to shape a piece of iron into the shape of a knife. The repetitive strikes of the hammer rang throughout the smithy and the hot metal slowly took on a vaguely knife-like shape.

“Darn it!” Harry exclaimed and Sirius started for a moment thinking his Godson had hurt himself. “I messed it up!” Harry complained as he used the metal tongs to hold up the now misshapen iron that had been much more knife-shaped a couple hammer strikes ago.

“Can you fix it?” Sirius asked curiously.

“I think so.” Harry replied as he looked over his first attempt and then put it back into the flames of the forge. Sirius had to admit he was rather impressed by his Godson’s passion for Enchanting. Most eleven, soon-to-be twelve, year olds often gave up on a new thing if their first try failed, but Harry just learned from his attempt and tried again. It was a rather mature state that Harry demonstrated and Sirius found it admirable. The two would spend the next several hours in the smithy that day, by the end of it Harry had a proto-knife beaten out. Tomorrow would see if it could hold an edge when Harry tried to sharpen it.

-Third Week of July-

Harry had barely paid attention to his End of Year Exam results when they came in. He’d seen a few O’s and some EE’s followed by an A in Potions. It figured that his lowest grade would come from Snape. But Harry was busy making his fifteenth attempt at a knife that could hold the Durability and Ever-Sharp Enchantments so he had other things to focus on.

“Hmm, this one came out well.” Harry mused as he looked over his newest knife. “Maybe this one will be able to hold the Enchantments.” He hoped as he placed it on his work table to start etching runes. Etching out the Runic Array onto the blade wasn’t difficult after doing it fifteen times. “Now for the moment of truth.” Harry stated as he prepared to test the Durability Enchantment. Swinging his blacksmith hammer down onto the newly enchanted knife Harry grimaced as a crack appeared on the blade. “Bloody hell, why won’t they hold the Enchantment? I must being doing something wrong, but what?” The young Artificer mused as he looked over the damaged knife.

“Harry? Are you in here?” Penny called as she stuck her head inside the smithy.

“Penny? Oh, is it that time already?” Harry questioned as he looked towards the clock near the doorway. Sure enough it showed the time as half past One in the afternoon. Penny had asked to come over after lunch today and Harry had gotten caught up in his work.

“Any luck?” Penny asked as she looked over the table.

“Not with the Enchanting, my ability to make a knife has grown by leaps and bounds though.” Harry sighed as Penny gave him a smile and a reassuring, one-armed, hug.

“You’ll figure it out, Harry, just give it some time.” Penny assured him before gently guiding him towards the door of the smithy. “Take a break for a bit and let’s do something else. Oh yes, I wanted to tell you that my mana level has gone up again! I’m at ‘4518’ according to the Test Frame you gave me.”

“Way to make my improvement seem less impressive, Penny.” Harry huffed playfully at her. “But a break sounds good.” He agreed with the pretty blonde as he walked out of the smithy with her. “Tayla, would you clean the smithy, please?” He asked at the doorway and a soft pop was heard.

“Of course Young Master, Tayla be doing it right away!” Tayla, Wood End Cottage’s new House Elf, replied happily as she stood a few meters away. The female Elf was a joy for Sirius and Harry, and Sirius had made sure to give her the most, well-made, not-clothes that he could. The Elf was dressed in a modified pillowcase that was made of soft cotton and slightly dark beige in color.

“Thank you Tayla.” Harry thanked the Elf before following Penny outside. “So what did you want to do Penny?”

“Hmm, it’s a nice day how about you show me how much progress you’ve made with the flute Hagrid gave you?” Penny asked and Harry smiled slightly.

“Prepare to be amazed, Penny, I can play a lullaby that won’t make your ears bleed now!” Harry proclaimed sarcastically which made Penny giggle. Harry went to fetch the flute while Penny sat beneath a tree in the backyard waiting for him.

“Going to serenade your girlfriend, Harry?” Sirius teased as he saw Harry walking outside with his wooden flute in hand.

“Shut it!” Harry retorted as he made his way out and towards the tree Penny was sitting under.

“You’d be so proud, James! So proud!” Sirius chuckled to himself watching Harry sit beside Penny under the tree from the kitchen window.

-Harry’s Birthday-

Harry smiled as he sat at the kitchen table. Penny, Tonks, Andromeda, Ted, and Remus were all at Wood End Cottage to celebrate his birthday with him and Sirius. The cake was going to be brought out and present given soon and the twelve year old was as excited as any child. Sirius seemed almost as excited, but that could easily be put down to the man’s enjoyment of festivities in general.

“Harry, could you go find out what’s keeping Nymphadora and Penelope?” Andromeda asked as the two teens had gone upstairs to chat a few minutes ago and had yet to return.

“Sure thing.” Harry nodded as he left the table and made his way upstairs. Finding the guest room door closed, Harry knocked before speaking. “Tonks, Penny are you two in there?”

“Come on in Harry!” Tonks called from the inside and Harry opened the door just before Penny’s rebuttal was heard.

“Tonks!” Penny cried out in shock. Harry stopped dead at what was in front of him. Tonks, topless, along with Penny, also topless though clearly only because she’d had her shirt and bra jinxed off by the mischievous Metamorph. Needless to say Harry’s brain stopped functioning at that point and he stood in the doorway slack-jawed his eyes wide. Penny quickly covered herself and turned her back to Harry; Tonks smiled widely standing before him with no shame as Harry got a long look at her breasts.

“Happy Birthday Harry!” Tonks smiled as she reached for her bra and put it on. Penny was already pulling her shirt on her cheeks bright red while she glared at the Metamorph.

“Uh…” Harry couldn’t form words just yet his mind still stuck on the sight of his friend’s breasts.

“Tonks, I told you this was way too much for Harry! He’s twelve!” Penny hissed at her friend before casting a worried look at Harry.

“He’s starting puberty and you can’t tell me he’s not interested!” Tonks argued as she pulled her shirt on. “I just wanted to make sure the first pair of tits he sees were ours. Neither of us wants some other girl at Hogwarts trying to tempt him, this way Harry knows we’re interested ‘for real’.”

“This is still extreme.” Penny retorted fully dressed again. Though Tonks noticed that the blonde didn’t refute her claim of showing Harry they were interested ‘for real’ as she put it.

“Well we should all be getting down to the kitchen; it’s time for presents and cake.” Tonks smiled as she guided Penny past Harry and out of the room. Two minutes later Sirius came upstairs to find his wayward Godson. Seeing Harry standing in the doorway of the guest room staring blankly ahead made him pause. Waving his hand in front of Harry’s eyes got no response. Sensing a prank Sirius called down stairs.

“Tonks, why is Harry near catatonic?” Sirius questioned loudly from beside Harry.

“No idea Sirius!” Tonks’ yelled reply came from downstairs.

“Definitely don’t believe that.” Sirius shook his head as he gently shook Harry. Harry started for a moment before looking towards Sirius. “Alright there, Harry?”

“Ye-yeah…never better.” Harry nodded his cheeks burning fiercely. Sirius noted the reaction and chuckled.

“She got you good, huh?” Sirius chortled as he led his Godson downstairs.

“No!” Harry refuted instantly and Sirius just broke out into laughter at the obvious lie. All in all, Harry could definitely say this was his best birthday so far. His dreams for the rest of the summer were filled with his two friends however. Harry vowed that neither of them would ever find out, he’d never hear the end of the teasing otherwise.

-First Week of August-

“Finally!” Harry cheered as he held up the Enchanted Knife. He’d finally succeeded in making one that held both the Durability and Ever-Sharp Enchantments. This was the first step to making an Artifact Sword, sure it had taken him sixty seven tries to reach this first step, but progress was progress! Now he could start putting together a Runic Array for his future sword! “Hmm, what can I make it do that’ll set it apart from other Magical Swords throughout history?” Harry mused as he placed his Enchanted Knife on his work table and looked it over. A sword was a much larger project but the basics were the same; he’d practice forging a few one-handed swords to start, then he’d move on to trying to forge a two-handed sword. There were plenty of styles of swords he could try as well, but to begin with a simple one-handed broadsword would be his first goal. “But let’s take a break from this for now. I need a break from the forge. Let’s make a few more Test Frames and then start on the Runic Array for the sword afterwards.” Harry thought aloud as he went about cleaning up the smithy and cooling the forge so he could make Test Frames.

Harry had gotten rather good at producing his Test Frames now. The Runic Sequence was familiar and he’d mastered the Transfiguration required to make the stone frames. Applying the self-destruction sequence to the wooden overlays to protect his work was second nature by now. At the moment Harry had sixty finished Test Frames secured in his smithy. His goal was to finish another forty and sell all one hundred just before he left for his second year at Hogwarts. Another six hundred Galleons would make for a nice little nest egg. Sirius had gifted Harry a nifty item known as a Mokeskin Pouch for his birthday. Harry had been fascinated by the item and had to restrain himself from taking it apart to try and figure out how it worked. But seeing as they were rather rare Harry had decided to simply use it to store as much money as he could. His Rune Safe had limited space inside, but with most of his money inside the Mokeskin Pouch he was able to store a far larger amount within the security of his safe.

“Harry you got more mail!” Sirius called out as he held up a stack of envelopes and walked into the smithy.

“Again? It never stops!” Harry grumbled as he looked through his mail. “Strange, I haven’t gotten any mail from my study buddies since the beginning of summer. But all this mail from every Enchanter, Scholar, and their mothers has come in almost non-stop since halfway through July.” He mused on the curiousness of the lack of communication.

“Maybe write to them and see what’s going on? Or you could Floo them if you know their Floo address.” Sirius suggested and Harry nodded. He didn’t know the Floo addresses but Hedwig would do everything in her power to ensure his letters arrived at their destinations.

“I’ll write to them and send the letters with Hedwig tonight. If they don’t receive them then I’ll know something untoward is going on.” Harry stated and Sirius clapped him on the shoulder.

“If someone is interfering with your mail they’re going to rue the day they decided to do it. I’ll bring every lawyer, attorney, barrister, and any other form of legal counsel in Magical Britain down on their heads! The entire Black fortune will barely see a dent from that and I’ll have them taken for everything they own before I’m done!” Sirius ranted, he was very protective of his Godson after all. Harry smiled at the excessiveness of his Godfather but he appreciated the gesture, the thought of someone interfering with his mail was an unpleasant one.

“I guess I should look through these, thankfully I haven’t missed a letter from Fleur yet. She’s been studying some more obscure Magical Theory recently and it’s fascinating.” Harry grinned as he went through the stack.

“Ah yes, your French girlfriend, how is the young lady?” Sirius teased as Harry swatted him with a random letter.

“Hush you prat! It’s not like that!” Harry huffed at his Godfather.

“Oh, I’m terribly sorry, how is your French ‘Mistress’ been doing?” Sirius chuckled and Harry sent a Stinging Hex at the man.

“That’s worse than what you said before!” Harry exclaimed as Sirius rubbed the spot where the hex had hit him.

“I regret nothing!” Sirius grinned cheekily making Harry grumble about ‘lonely’ Godfathers that needed to get out more.

“Huh, this is different.” Harry blinked as he felt a thicker than normal envelope. Looking over the parchment revealed the envelope was signed in a foreign language. “I need the translation spell again.” He murmured and Sirius grinned at being able to help his godson. A slightly complex movement of Sirius’ wand and the words on the envelope were imposed by English words.

“To Artificer Potter, from Suzuki Tōshū; Yōkai Buki Seisaku Guild Member, Mt. Moriyoshi, Japan.” Harry read off confused about the words that the translation spell didn’t translate. “Why is someone from Japan writing to me?”

“Just a second, Harry, I know a slightly more specific translation spell that should be able to translate the rest of the words.” Sirius stated as he twisted his wand in a few loops and three swishes. The words on the letter all became super imposed by English.

“So he’s a Guild Member from a Monster/Spirit Weapon Crafting Guild?” Harry wondered before deciding to open the letter. Pulling out the thick letter Harry had Sirius use the translation spell again so that he could read it. In essence this man, Suzuki Tōshū, had heard of him becoming the ‘Youngest Artificer in History’ and felt compelled to write to him. The man had sent him a detailed process for ‘Creature Craft’ that his Guild had specialized in for almost a thousand years. The man had only given him the most basic of knowledge of the process but Harry was still stunned. Mr. Suzuki was apparently of the belief that talent like his should be nurtured, hence the instruction on ‘Creature Craft’, but not coddled which is why only the most basic process was sent. In the man’s own words, ‘You should be talented enough to make use of this; if you can’t then your skills only go so far.’; which Harry felt was a bit of a back-handed compliment. Still this knowledge of another Branch of Enchanting was amazing! Harry couldn’t wait to look over it and transcribe it into English so that he didn’t have to keep asking Sirius for the translation spell.

“Seems you have another new thing to look into.” Sirius teased, knowing his Godson would definitely be studying this when he wasn’t working on his current project.

“Yeah, I need a pen and one of my notebooks!” Harry grinned as he pulled open the drawer under his work table and pulled out the items. Sirius chortled as his Godson’s attention was fully taken up by copying down the information present in the letter. Sirius would remind Harry of his other plans a bit later, the young Artificer had a habit of letting new information become his sole focus until he had it either committed to memory or written down.

“What’s a Rite of Conquest?” Harry asked aloud and Sirius cocked an eyebrow at the term. He was aware of this one at least so filled his Godson in.

“It’s a term used in a few Magical Topics.” Sirius started and Harry turned to listen to his Godfather. “Usually you hear about it in Wandlore when a Witch or Wizard gains control and ownership of another’s wand by defeating them in a duel. But it was also used to take over the Lordship of Houses and forcefully absorb other Lines into the winner’s back several centuries ago.”

“Huh, according to this process if you want an item made from ‘Creature Craft’ to last more than a year or two you have to properly ‘Conquer’ the Magical Creature in question through a ‘Rite of Conquest’. Only then can you impart the Magical Creature’s ‘properties’ onto the item you’re making.” Harry read off the sheets of the letter. “If this is just the most basic stuff it’ll definitely take me a few years to get any real skill with this Branch of Enchanting.”

“Don’t take too much onto your plate Harry; it’s dangerous to stretch yourself too thin.” Sirius warned his Godson as he’d seen what overwork like that could lead to during his brief time with the Aurors.

“That’s what I have you, Tonks, and Penny for, right?” Harry grinned cheekily at his Godfather. “To pull me away from my work when I’m falling too far into it.”

“Right you are, Harry, right you are!” Sirius laughed as he patted his Godson on the back.

“This is funny, Mr. Suzuki wrote that if I make anything ‘worthwhile’ with this knowledge to come show him in Japan.” Harry chuckled as he held the page of the letter up to Sirius.

“Hey, could make for an interesting summer trip sometime.” Sirius shrugged as he read the page. “The Ladies of the East haven’t ever experienced the wooing of the Gentleman Sirius Black after all. I shouldn’t keep them waiting forever.”

“Aren’t you still trying to woo your Healer, Miss Reed?” Harry questioned knowing Sirius flirted with the woman every time he went in for his check-ups.

“Marlie is a wonderful woman.” Sirius nodded. “But if she wants to tame Sirius Black she’ll have to bring her best!” He finished with a grin while rubbing his chin with his index finger and thumb.

“I’m sure if she showed even a bit of interest you’d be like a puppy begging for attention.” Harry rolled his eyes with a laugh.

“I’ll have you know that I had dozens of admirers in my time, mister!” Sirius practically pouted at his Godson.

“‘Had’ being the key word there, Sirius. You aren’t getting any younger!” Harry replied doing a semi-passable imitation of Andromeda’s voice.

“Don’t you start too!” Sirius harrumphed as he was reminded of Andromeda’s prodding for him to settle down and start his own family. He’d get to it eventually! Just had to find the right woman, preferably one that would make his bigoted ancestors roll over in their graves! Imagining the Ancient and Noble House of Black having a Muggle-born or Half-Blood Lady was the greatest prank Sirius would ever pull off in his opinion.

“Yeah, yeah…just let me finish copying this process down. I want to hit one hundred Test Frames before the end of summer still.” Harry waved at his Godfather making Sirius shake his head as he made his way out of the smithy.

“Typical Ravenclaw nerd.” Sirius said just loud enough for Harry to hear.

“Oi!” Harry yelled at the empty doorway. Only Sirius’ laughter coming from outside could be heard in response to his indignation.

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Well now, Tonks and Penny are staking a claim! At Tonks’ urging of course, Penny is still hesitant to make such a bold move! Just who is taking Harry’s mail from Hermione, Padma, and Mandy? Two guesses and the first one doesn’t count! We also see Harry receiving what amounts to a challenge of his skill from all the way across the world! What will Harry make of this new information? Will the crazy amounts of mail ever stop? Is Harry going to have to learn the Translation Spell? Yeah…probably. Poor Harry, never a moment of peace to just work on his stuff!

Current Mana Levels

Harry – 1,182

Tonks – 5,876

Penelope – 4,518

Until I get your reviews, later!