"I have to come back again and do that some more!" declared the sandy-blonde haired boy. "That was... wow!"
Harry sighed and pulled a sheet of parchment out and wrote a quick note on it.
~ # ~
Frank and Alice
Please forgive Neville. He's 'suffering' from imbibing too much sugar and popcorn. Think of it as a short-term overcharged Pepper-Up Potion, but muggles call it a 'sugar high'.
When it wears off he's likely to very quickly fall fast asleep with no ill effects. Muggles call coming off a sugar high as 'crashing'.
Harry
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He quickly folded it and attempted to get the attention of his still very much currently hyperactive friend.
"Neville!" he firmly said, finally getting the boy's attention.
"Hunh?"
Holding the note forth he said, "When you go home... as soon as you see either your Mum or Dad, hand them this note, alright?"
"Yeah! Right-o, Harry!" declared the other boy, taking it and practically ramming it into his pocket.
"Don't forget!" Harry firmly ordered.
"I won't!" he declared.
Hermione just looked at the pair of them in exasperation. But, she was also trying not to laugh at it all.
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Eventually, as Neville was finally starting to get over the effects of the sugar and popcorn, plus the excitement of watching a movie for the first time, a house elf popped in and handed Neville a note.
"Thank you, Fluxy!" he happily replied, taking the note and opening it.
After a few seconds he said, "Mum and Dad are back home at the Hall. I hafta go! See ya!"
Before either Harry or Hermione could say a word, Neville held his hand out for the elf. A moment later they were both gone with a crack.
Harry gave a snort of amusement and said to Hermione, "Well, I certainly hope he remembers to give them that note."
"I still think they might want to kill you," she smirked.
"Maaaay-be," he replied. "However, as Frank's declared me his personal hero, I can't see that happening."
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With Neville gone, Harry was able to return to what he was working on. But, first, he wanted to write a few letters and get a few things happening before he properly returned to it.
His first was instructions for Ted.
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Ted Tonks
Law-wizard of Record
for the Noble and Most Ancient House of Potter
Diagon Alley
London
Ted,
First, I need you to look into whether or not the floo can be connected to the home of the Grangers. Now that Hermione is both the magical ward of the Lord of Black and the betrothed of the Lord of Potter, I wanted to see if this would get around the law against muggle homes having the floo connected.
Second, I need you to set up an anonymous donation to pay for a mind-Healer to help Luna Lovegood get over her mother dying in her arms and to help Ginny Weasley get over being partially possessed by the spirit of Tom Riddle for most of her first year at Hogwarts.
I do not want either of them or their families finding out I paid for it and I do not want either of their families deciding the monetary donation could be 'put to other uses'. Claim, for instance, it is from a wealthy witch who did not like the idea two young innocent pureblood witches have suffered such mental trauma and nothing was done for either of them.
As an aside, I got your second stack of documents you deem to be both urgent and important enough for me to go through and make decisions. Are you trying to bury me in parchmentwork, or something? Sheesh!
Harry
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With the note written, Harry was going to hand it to Dobby to take, but knew he hadn't made much use out of Hedwig for what she was designed to be, a mail owl, for the past couple of weeks.
Rising from the dinette table he went and opened the window and was just in time for her to glide in. Once in through the window, she performed a tight bank to bleed off speed and landed on the table before turning to him.
"Prek."
"Yep," he replied. "A letter to be delivered."
Walking back to the table and sitting down he was quick to tie the letter to her leg.
"For Ted Tonks in his office in Diagon Alley, girl," he told her.
She quickly checked for herself the letter was secure, gave him another muted Snowy bark and took off back out the window.
Thinking, he quickly checked the time and smiled.
'If I start dinner now,' he thought, 'I wonder what I can come up with?'
So much for working on House documents.
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The Unspeakables update that evening was that the Dog had met with the White Wolf. Leo and Lisa were working on getting their parchmentwork sorted, now they're back in the land of the living. Little Old Lady got one up on White Beard. Apparently White Beard had been a naughty boy and set in place a power tap on the Hogwarts' wards, among other things. The wards are now back to what they should have been, plus some extras, and―
"He did what?" asked their team warder.
"The White Knight decided we all needed another example of why we're all daft morons... his words, not mine... and figured out a way to get through practically any ward, in and out, that everyone else missed," replied the reporter, ignoring the warder's shock. "Apparently, a house elf can side-along apparate a witch of wizard and, since there are no wards I'm aware of that block a house elf apparating through them, it now means witches and wizards can get through practically every ward."
"Oh, sweet bloody Merlin!" the warder exclaimed. "Do you know what this means?"
"Wards to block witches and wizards from getting through via portkey or apparation are now pretty much useless?" asked another.
"No, you git!" exclaimed the now exasperated warder. "It means... all those pureblood witches and wizards who own house elves and are in... say... Azkaban? Can get out whenever they bloody want to! All they have to do is call their house elf to come and take them out!"
"Oh!" said the other, suddenly realising.
"Yeah... oh!" snarked the warder.
"That's not good."
"No, it bloody well isn't!" grumped the ward expert, who felt as if his very world was crumbling around him. "And the Knight's not supposed to be making people like me feel like I'm one of those daft morons of his!"
That had others snickering at their team member's heightened annoyance.
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