Harry Potter and the Artificer Legacy Chapter 20 (Patreon)

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Chapter 20 – Crafting Theories, Summer Trip

Harry hummed as he mused to himself about the properties of Basilisk Bone versus Dragon Bone. He’d tested their Magical Potential compared to each other and found they were both about the same. The Basilisk Bone, probably due to the creature’s age, had more mana packed into it but the rest of its properties were near identical to Dragon Bone. Because he’d ‘Conquered’ the Basilisk the mana in the bones would not fade for a very long time. This was a good thing because Harry had the whole skeleton to make use of. It would be a shame to lose the materials to time after all. He’d have to run a few more tests with Powdered Basilisk Bone and compare the results to standard Powdered Dragon Bone to be sure; but Harry was confident he could save money on supplies if he didn’t have to buy anymore Powdered Dragon Bone for the foreseeable future.

Other than that particular theory, Harry was already coming up with ideas for the rest of the Basilisk. The eyes had been recovered and preserved into two separate, unbreakable, crystal containers filled with a Preservation Draught. Harry had to give the ‘Renderers’ credit. The two unbreakable containers had also been spelled to be opaque enough to cancel out any lingering power the Basilisk’s eyes may have possessed. They were both currently sitting in his Rune Safe until Harry could find some way to make use of them. As for the Basilisk’s Scales, Hide, and Fangs; Harry already had some, rather obvious, ideas for these materials. The Horns on the back of the Basilisk’s head would also be used once Harry found a use for them.

“Decisions, decisions….” Harry mumbled to himself as he looked through his notes on Creature Craft. He’d taken the time to translate all of the Japanese into English and copy it down into a journal devoted to Creature Craft. As he progressed and expanded his skills with this form of Enchanting, Harry was planning to add his own thoughts, experiences, and ideas.

“Obviously the Scales and Hide can be made into Defensive Items, cloaks or leatherwear for the Hide, outright armor for the Scales.” Harry mused thoughtfully, if he could do this properly he’d have more than enough material to get Nym, Penny, Sirius, and potentially even Nym’s parents and Remus some Basilisk Leather Armor. “The Scales are so strong and Magically Resistant that I might be able to make something along the lines of full Plate Armor. Since I ‘Conquered’ the Basilisk I can even make Artifacts from the materials. Basilisk Scale Mail sounds cool.” The young Artificer nodded to his own thoughts.

“The Fangs, especially the two retractable ones, can be used to make weapons.” Harry thought aloud as he looked over the notes on Creature Craft. “Swords, knives, maybe the core of a focus of some type too?” He considered as he then looked over to the side to see the Basilisk’s Horns neatly packed into a wooden box in the corner of his smithy at Wood End Cottage. “If possible maybe the horns could be used for cores too? Or at the very least maybe they could be used for a spearhead? That seems simple enough.”

“Do you think he knows he does that?” Tonks whispered to Penny as the two of them stood in the doorway of the smithy.

“Probably not, but it’s kind of cute.” Penny smiled at the sight of Harry thinking aloud to himself.

“Harrikins!” Tonks called loudly making Harry startle at the unexpected voice. “Time to go! We’re taking the Portkey to France soon!” Harry spun to face Tonks and Penny with his hand over his heart.

“Must you do that?” Harry deadpanned and Tonks smiled as she nodded.

“Every time!” Tonks teased while Penny gently swatted her shoulder.

“Rudeness aside, it is time to go Harry. You got caught up in your work again.” Penny explained.

“Is it that time already?” Harry blinked before looking at the clock on the far wall of his smithy. “Oh, I guess it is; it’s a good thing I packed last night.”

“Come on Harry, time for a visit to your Third Wife!” Tonks laughed and Harry sputtered out denials.

“It’s not like that, Nym!” Harry retorted as he followed the two girls out of the smithy.

“Sure it’s not!” Tonks stuck her tongue out at him. Harry immediately insisted that they were just Pen Pals and that they’d never even met. Tonks just shrugged and Harry sighed at the Metamorph.

“Be nice Tonks.” Penny smiled softly at the two. They’d technically asked Harry to ask Fleur to ask her parents to invite them along as well. The idea of letting Harry meet a Veela girl that was already writing to Harry about a topic they both enjoyed wasn’t what concerned them. It was the thought of only Sirius being there with Harry! The Lord Black may have been dating Marlie Reed for almost a full year now, but just because he was taken didn’t mean he wouldn’t encourage Harry to make a few Veela ‘friends’ for the future. He may have gotten better after falling for Marlie; but he was still Sirius Black, horn dog extraordinaire! Self-proclaimed ‘Ladies’ Man’ of the Marauders! Both Penny and Tonks felt MUCH better tagging along on this visit.

“Tayla, could you bring me my bag please?” Harry called out as they made their way to the Portkey departure point. This particular point was in the field off to the side of Wood End Cottage. International Portkeys has to be scheduled after all. Crossing Border magically without informing the relevant Ministries of Magic was illegal after all.

“Here you are, Young Master Harry.” Tayla smiled brightly as she popped in with the said bag.

“Thank you Tayla.” Harry smiled at the House Elf making her beam at him before she popped away. Tonks and Penny stopped at the destination and picked up their own bags they’d left there when they went to get Harry.

“Good morning all!” Sirius smiled brightly as he approached with the Portkey, a length of rope, in hand. He had his own small bag in his left hand and was all smiles. His good mood was in no small part to another date with Marlie just a few days ago. It was the first date he came home very late from in fact. Harry had already been asleep by the time Sirius had returned. The young Artificer wasn’t even going to ponder on the WHY, but he had his suspicions and DIDN’T want them confirmed!

“Just about time.” Penny looked at her watch.

“Right, right, grab ahold everyone.” Sirius held out the rope to everyone. Harry, Tonks and Penny grabbed onto the rope and not even a minute later they were whisked away. Harry felt like something had grabbed him behind his stomach and then a sensation of spinning for several moments. When the spinning stopped Harry stumbled and fell onto the grass they’d reappeared on.

“Someone stop the world.” Harry grumbled as he waited for the disorientation to pass.

“I hate Portkeys.” Tonks grumbled from where she’d ended up sprawled across the grass.

“That was…less than pleasant.” Penny agreed though the blonde at least landed on her feet.

“You get better with experience.” Sirius laughed at the three as he helped Tonks and Harry off the ground.

“Monsieur Potter, Monsieur Black, Madame Tonks, Madam Clearwater; welcome to Chateau Delacour.” A House Elf greeted them. The little Elf was wearing what looked to be a modified silk curtain and was obviously female. “May Kolly be taking your bags for you?”

“That would be lovely, thank you Kolly.” Sirius replied with a smile to the Elf. With a snapped all of their bags disappeared and a soft pop saw Kolly vanishing as well.

“’Arry!” A delightfully warm voice called out and the group turned to the Chateau and saw a girl close to Penny’s age, a year younger according to her letters to Harry, approaching them. With the teen, obviously Fleur, was a woman who looked like an older sister, a slightly plump man with a styled moustache and goatee, and a small girl that couldn’t have been older than seven.

“Fleur, it is good to finally meet in person.” Harry smiled at his Pen Pal. The picture she’d sent him in one of her earlier letters didn’t do her justice. Seeing her face to face was far better. Fleur smiled at him and kissed both of his cheeks in greeting. Harry tried and failed to keep his cheeks from heating up at the platinum blonde’s greeting. He was pretty sure he heard Sirius and Tonks snickering in the background too!

“Please, I’d like you to meet my Papa and Maman and my leetle sister!” Fleur smiled happily at him. From there pleasantries and greetings were exchanged. Fleur’s father, Marius Delacour was a pleasant man, he and Sirius quickly got along. Her mother, Appoline Delacour, was the woman that he’d thought might have been an older sister. She was smiling and seemed pleased to meet him and the others. Lastly the young girl was Gabrielle, who happily babbled in rapid fire French. Harry was able to understand a bit of the little girl’s talking, but quickly lost track and was lost.

“Come in, come in, we’ve a lovely brunch set up!” Marius welcomed them into the Chateau and the four British Magicals followed along. The group was quickly led to a lovely dining room and the spread of food available was impressive to say the least. Sirius had had some of the food before and was comfortable enough to pick out a few favorites. Harry, Penny, and Tonks took what looked good and whatever the Delacours recommended. Harry found he liked the pastry called pain au chocolat. Though that might be because it was a soft bread with chocolate inside.

“I was very impressed to hear that you’d earned the Title of Artificer so young, Monsieur Potter.” Marius smiled at Harry.

“I was surprised too.” Harry admitted with a sheepish grin. “You can all call me Harry if you prefer, as well.”

“You were surprised ‘Arry?” Appoline questioned the Artificer. “Were you not trying to become an Artificer?”

“I was…I just didn’t expect to stumble into the Title.” Harry smiled as he heard Tonks snickering again.

“Stumble into?” Fleur questioned with a grin on her face. “That sounds like a story.”

“Oh I can sum it up pretty easily.” Tonks smiled brightly. “Harry was a bit of a Dum-dum and didn’t realize his completed project qualified as an Artifact.”

“Tonks….” Harry sighed with an eye roll.

“It wasn’t until my mother suggested he get it checked out that he realized what he might have created!” Tonks was stifling giggles at this point. Sirius and Penny were both smiling as well, laughter clear in their eyes.

“I was just trying to finish my Safe.” Harry defended himself. “I wasn’t exactly trying to create an Artifact.” By now everyone was chuckling lightly at the accidental nature of Harry’s first Artifact.

“A great many advancements are made by mistake or in the pursuit of other goals, Harry, you simply benefitted from such a scenario.” Marius chuckled and Harry had to admit the Frenchman was correct. He’d learned about accidental inventions during his Non-Magical Education. From there talk turned to schooling, then jobs, plans for the future and so on. Fleur wanted to be a Magical Scholar, researching different Branches of Magic, and trying to gain a deeper understanding of the Primordial Force that was Magic. Penny and Fleur clicked quickly after that when Penny mentioned her own interest in Spellcraft.

“I’m completely outnumbered by nerds.” Tonks playfully jibed at the other three.

“Maybe nerds are your ‘Type’, then Tonksie.” Sirius teased the Metamorph as he nonchalantly buttered a croissant. Tonks jabbed her finger at him and a Stinging Hex was sent his way. Sirius, having seen this coming, already had his wand in hand and cancelled the Hex with a Finite.

“Oh my, you can perform Wandless Magic, Auror Tonks?” Appoline blinked in surprise at the use of non-verbal, wandless casting.

“Yeah, but it’s not my secret to share, so if you were wanting to learn, I’m afraid I can’t help you.” Tonks rubbed the back of her head. She was so used to her circle of friends and family knowing about her Wandless capabilities that she’d gotten used to using her Magic without a second thought.

“Non, I was merely surprised.” Appoline waved off. “It is not often that you see a Witch or Wizard with the skill to perform much of any Magic without a wand.”

“I understand.” Tonks nodded. In Europe and North America wands were standard. Only in a few places in the world were different forms of casting taught. Tonks wasn’t one to go out of her way to look up this information. But Penny had looked into it and found that both the most prominent Magical Schools in Africa, Uagadou, and in Japan, Mahoutokoro, taught other forms of Casting. Apparently Wandless Magic wasn’t so much a mystery to other parts of the World. Merely something that took many years of study to perform with any skill. Tonks would take Harry’s method over whatever the other schools were offering though. It hadn’t taken her or Penny years of study and practice, merely coming to a better understanding of their own Magic and how to handle it.

After the lovely brunch, the adults happily chatted and traded stories, while the younger members went off to have a tour of the Chateau and grounds with Fleur. The Veela girl had happily shown her Pen Pal and the new friends she’d made in Penny and Tonks, around her home. Gabby, as the seven year old had asked to be called, followed along with them and asked her own curious questions in French. After the tour the group was sitting in the large gardens of the Chateau and getting to know each other better. Fleur was ecstatic to find out that all three of her new friends were Occlumens. None of them felt anything from her natural Veela Allure and Fleur was happy to have friends that liked her for her; instead of drooling on themselves or getting jealous or envious. To little Gabby’s amusement Tonks had demonstrated her Metamorphmagus abilities. Changing her face, hair, eyes all to the little Veela girls requests.

“You’ve created your own spell already?” Fleur asked impressed to Penny.

“It’s based off a couple of other Charms, but yes.” Penny nodded with a smile. “It can make a bit of a mess though.”

“Strangely it’s not a form of Fire Magic.” Harry shrugged with a teasing grin. “I’m pretty convinced that she’s a Pyromancer that just likes to dabble in other Spells occasionally.”

“Oh hush you.” Penny playfully huffed as she poked him with a small ball of mana. Sort of like a Stinging Hex, but without the painful effect.

“Fire Magic, you say?” Fleur tilted her head and raised her hand. With a small snap a ball of flame appeared above her palm which she held out to them. “I’ve a ‘bit’ of an affinity for that Branch of Magic.” The platinum blonde grinned.

“Ooh, are we about to have a ‘Magic Off’?” Tonks questioned, looking almost giddy.

“You sound like you want to show off.” Harry raised an eyebrow.

“What? Me? No….” Tonks held up her hands as if to ward off his accusation. No one there believed her though.

“I would not mind a bit of a friendly ‘duel’.” Fleur spoke up. “No one at Beauxbatons is much of a challenge. They either just stare at me until I defeat them or they attack to try and prove something to either me or themselves. Neither is very good for practice as you can imagine. The first isn’t a challenge and the other throws all of their Magic, or mana, behind their first few spells and quickly tires themselves out.”

“Well I guess, but I’m not the greatest Duelist or anything.” Penny shrugged.

“Says the girl who threw how many fireballs at me during the Dueling Club?” Harry teased and Penny flicked another mana ball at him. Harry swatted the ball away with his hand and stood up. “I do believe that was a challenge!”

“Maybe it was.” Penny sniffed in a faux pompous manner.

“Alright! Free for all!” Tonks cheered with a laugh as she picked up Gabby, making the seven year old giggle happily, and quickly took the young girl further away to a safe distance that she could watch from. The Metamorph reached out with her man and Transfigured a low stone wall from the dirt. She place Gabby behind the wall and told her, in the limited French she had, to not come out from behind it until they were done. Gabby had happily nodded along to the request, eager to see more Magic.

“I apologize, but Fire is all I can conjure Wandlessly, so I’ll be using my wand.” Fleur twirled the focus between her fingers before gripping it firmly.

“That’s more than fine, Fleur.” Harry smiled at his blue eyed friend. “I’m sure Penny will be tossing around enough fire for all of us.”

“Just keep digging that hole deeper, Harry, just keep digging.” Penny nodded at him with a grin that promised ‘retribution’.

“Ready?” Tonks began.

“Set.” Harry continued.

“Go!” Fleur finished and raised a strong Protego with her wand.

“Catch!” Tonks laughed as she yanked up some stones from the ground and Transfigured them into rubber balls. The balls were blasted towards the other three at speed.

“Nope!” Harry raised his own Protego followed by Penny and the rubber balls all bounced off the Shield Charms.

“I’ve already got all three of you on the back foot!” Tonks chuckled before using the spell Harry had shown her, Similitudo, to make an illusionary mirror image of herself. The two Tonks split up to confuse their ‘opponents’.

“So you think.” Penny retorted as she moved to her left and conjured fireballs that she sent towards both Tonks. One raised and moved her arms snuffing out the fireballs heading her way. The other moved her arm and the fireballs passed through her making the illusion vanish.

“Do not forget about me.” Fleur smiled as a barrage of snowballs pelted towards the other three. Tonks used Levitation to alter the course of any snowball headed her way. The Auror didn’t even have to move to avoid the barrage. Penny transfigured the dirt into a thin wall in front of her and shielded behind it. Harry used the Immobulus Charm to stop any snowball that got to close. When the barrage ended he had almost a dozen snowballs frozen in midair.

“You can have these back.” Harry grinned as he turned the snowballs into water and launched them like water balloons in the girls’ directions.

“Ha!” Tonks mocked as she exerted her will on the conjured water and made it disappear. Penny simply willed her dirt shield to move and she easily blocked the water balls. Fleur used an Evaporation Charm and the water balls were gone before they reached her.

Penny crumbled her dirt shield into sand and then whipped her hand into the air. “Sand Veils All!” The blonde intoned and a strong wind whipped up and caught the particles. In a matter of seconds their ‘battlefield’ was covered by the mini sandstorm.

“Well there goes my hair!” Tonks ‘complained’ loudly.

“Down!” Harry stated with an echo of power in his voice. All of the sand whipping through the air was suddenly forced to the ground and held there by Harry’s will. “You didn’t think I’d figure out a counter for that spell of yours? I’m hurt Penny.”

Ropes shot across the ‘battlefield’ and moved as if they were alive. The source was Fleur’s wand as she conjured more and more to try and bind all three of them. Tonks, Harry, and Penny all waved their hands unleashing Cutting Charms against the writhing ropes. Fleur watched as her constructs disappeared after being sliced to pieces. Without missing a beat the platinum blonde flicked her wand and then made multiple swirling motions with it. The ground warped as it was transfigured and a large bear made of dirt and rock formed. It let out a soundless roar before charging the three of them.

“Beasts huh?” Tonks questioned before raising her arms and framing the charging golem with her hands. “Cube.” The golem bear slammed into a nearly transparent wall. Bouncing backwards from the sudden stop made it collide with a wall behind it. Below it, above it, and on all four side were strong walls of magic, like inverted Shield Charms, but stronger. “Capture complete!” The bubbly Metamorph laughed.

“Am I the only one that doesn’t have a named spell of his own?” Harry ‘lamented’ loudly before moving his arms in large circles a few times. Water formed into two large spheres and then merged into a single large ball of water. With a chop from his hand a thin, fast moving, line of water left the ball and sliced clean through the ‘Cube’ and the bear golem instantly.

“How’d you do that?!” Tonks demanded with an almost pout on her face. “I worked hard on that spell!”

“Oh Harry, you know we can just…just…why can’t I ‘Finite’ your conjured water?” Penny questioned as she failed to make the water vanish.

“This isn’t Conjuration; I simply gathered this water together from the air.” Harry stuck his tongue out at the Prefect with a smug grin. “Cool off time!” Harry made the large ball of water blast forward like a rain shower. All three girls raised Protego to keep from getting soaked by the downpour. As soon as the water stopped, Fleur made her move. Flames leapt from her left hand and formed into a bird-like shape. The fire bird ‘flew’ into the air above the ‘battlefield’ and flapped its wings to unleash a constant stream of small fireballs. 

Penny dealt with the barrage with her own wall of fire. The small fireballs only merged with her flames. The blonde eyed Fleur, seeing the Veela teen focused solely on her construct and took action. A stomp on the ground sent a spell through the dirt. When said spell reached Fleur’s position the dirt under her feet heaved upwards about a dozen centimeters. This sudden disruption of her footing broke her concentration and the fire bird dissipated. Penny gathered her wall of fire into a ball for a moment and then sent a wave of flames across the battlefield at Tonks and Harry. Both of them had huddled under their own Protego to defend against the fireballs.

“Cheap!” Tonks squawked as she clapped her hands together with a look of intense concentration on her face. The air in front of her began to swirl and then spin rapidly. The flames were sucked up and blown out like a candle in mere seconds. Harry merely yanked the water from the wet ground and doused the wave of fire heading for him.

“Sagitta Flamma!” Fleur conjured fire from her left hand and then shaped it into arrows with her wand. That didn’t look safe to Harry.

“So much fire today!” Tonks laughed as she conjured up a large amount of water and then had it swirl into a point like a massive drill. That was going a bit too far!

“You’re not exactly giving any ground yourself!” Penny yelled to her older friend as a bright ball of mana was held between her hands. That also didn’t look good!

“Enough!” Harry roared out just before the girls could launch their spells. He conjured lightning for the first time in a while. Channeling the Fulmen Curse down his arm and to his index and middle fingertips he launched a bolt of electricity into the air. The sharp buzzing sound followed by the crack of super-heated air snapped the girls out of the ‘free for all’ and made them look at Harry. “I think we were all a little caught up.” He huffed, starting to realize how much mana he had expended during their little ‘duel’.

“I’m so sorry.” Fleur apologized as she dismissed her spell. “I got too competitive.”

“No, no, I’m the adult here. I should have calmed us down earlier.” Tonks shook her head and dispersed her conjured water.

“I think we all got a bit carried away.” Penny admitted as the ball of mana in her hands shrank and then faded away.

“Sorry about that.” All four of them apologized at the same time. When they all realized they said the same thing in unison Tonks and Harry cracked up. Their laughter triggered Penny and Fleur making the platinum haired girl and the blonde both descend into giggles.

“C'était incroyable!” Gabby came rushing towards the group, her beaming smile could have lit up the night. “Votre magie était si chouette! Peux-tu m'apprendre?
Je veux faire ça!” Fleur quickly gathered her little sister up into a hug and picked the younger girl up. Gabby giggled and hugged her older sister happily.

“Peut-être quand tu seras plus âgé.” Fleur smiled at her little sister.

“I only understood about half that.” Harry whispered to Penny and Tonks.

“More than me, I only understood the first sentence.” Tonks admitted with a shrug.

“She said, ‘That was amazing.’, ‘Our magic was so neat.’, ‘She wants to know if we can teach her.’, and finally ‘She wants to do what we did.’ Is what she said.” Penny clarified since she was fluent in French.

“What did Fleur say?” Harry asked since he hadn’t caught what his friend had said to Gabby.

“Maybe when you’re older.” Penny translated for him with a soft smile at the sister’s interaction.

-At the Chateau-

“For a moment I thought we’d have to intervene.” Marius exhaled in relief seeing how much his daughter and her new friends were getting into their ‘duel’.

“I figured one of them would realize pretty quick when it started going too far.” Sirius smiled, though he already had his wand out.

“They’re very impressive.” Appoline breathed out in amazement. “Fleur is so far ahead of her school mates in Magic already. But those three kept up with her so easily.”

“Harry, Penny, and Tonks are all quite the gifted Spellcasters.” Sirius chuckled as he put his wand back in its holster.

“They’re exactly the kind of friends our little Flower needs.” Marius smiled. “One’s that are on the same level as her, and won’t be jealous or resentful of her talent. I’m so pleased that she’s found three such people.” The French father looked truly happy for his eldest child.

“Yes, we should have visits from time to time.” Appoline agreed. “We should exchange Floo addresses so the children can talk or visit on breaks and such.”

“I don’t think that will be a problem.” Sirius smiled brightly as the adults watched the youngsters play around on their way back to the Chateau.

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Boom goes the spells! Seems like the lovely Miss Delacour has Three new friends instead of just one! It’s very nice to have friends that won’t drool on themselves in your presence. Especially female friends that don’t suspect that you’re trying to steal their boyfriend or get jealous because of your beauty or talent. Harry has some ideas going on for the Basilisk parts too! What will he make? Is there a benefit to Enchanting with parts of a Magical Creature that you’ve ‘Conquered’? What other ideas could he get on this trip to France? Fleur is quite the Student of Magical Theory, after all!

Keep reading to find out!

Current Mana Levels

Harry – 5,196

Tonks – 6,478

Penelope – 5,702

Fleur – 6,000+

Until I get your reviews, later!