That had Hermione perk up in subdued excitement. "Can I come, too?"
"Yes, of course," he replied. But, before she could suddenly leap to her feet and demand to go right there and then, he quickly added, "However, it's best I go on my own to start with. I need to see if the wards are still set to a war footing or not."
With a sigh of disappointment she asked, "How long will that take?"
"No idea," he replied. "However, it shouldn't take me long to grant access to you, your parents and our auror shadows. Depending on how much effort is required, I should be no more than... half an hour? I really don't know."
"Then, as you've finished your breakfast, how about you go now?" she asked.
He smirked at her and asked, "Eager to see your future home, are you?"
While she spluttered in half-denial half-laughter Harry could see that Wendell didn't react at all to his remark. It seems the man had finally accepted his little 'princess' was definitely going to marry him; it was only a question of 'when'.
When she tried to scowl back, Harry just grinned even wider.
"Fine!" she harrumphed "Yes, I'm eager to see where you and I are eventually going to live."
"I understand," he nodded. Quickly rising, he said, "No time like the present, then."
As he walked off to track down an auror to let them know where he was going, Monica looked to her daughter and said, "Don't expect some grand mansion, love. Not every princess gets to live in a palace."
"Actually," she said, "That's what I am expecting. I've seen the Potter family documents relating to the manor. From what I've read, the place is going to be huge."
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After convincing the Senior Auror who had leadership of his auror detail that morning that he had to go alone to start with, Harry tossed floo powder within the fireplace and barked, "Pottermore!".
He was worried the connection wouldn't connect, but it did. As soon as it did he then barked the password, "Ex pura cordis!" (Latin: Pure of heart) And stepped through.
As he was not concentrating too much on the travel through the floo, he hesitated a moment before he exited when he arrived at the other end. And realised he'd simply stepped out.
'Hunh!' he thought. 'That's all there is to it? Just hesitate a moment before stepping out?' And sighed.
A moment later and a house elf wearing a grey Japanese keikogi - incorrectly, but commonly called, a 'gi' -with a gold belt tied about his waist and a Potter crest embroidered in matching grey silk styled on his left breast popped in right in front of him. It stood in an aggressive stance about twenty feet away and with its hands raised to attack.
"Why you be―?" it started to demand before it froze in shock for a moment. Then it suddenly dropped all aggressiveness, popped forward and began jumping up and down in front of him. "Little Master Harry! Little Master Harry!" it practically shouted in obvious glee.
After seeing how the Longbottom elves reacted to discovering Frank and Alice were awake, the behaviour of the elf did not surprise him. Just as it did not surprise him when the elf suddenly snapped its fingers and four more elves popped in, also capering about and shouting, "Little Master Harry is back! Little Master Harry has returned!"
He gave them a few moments before he calmly said, "Alright, that's enough."
Instantly, all five stopped and turned to look at him. All five were showing both happiness and near adoration in their expressions.
Harry held up his ring and said, "I, Lord Harrison James Potter, Head of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Potter, hereby lay claim to this abode, Pottermore, the Seat of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Potter. As I say, so let it be written."
Immediately there was a flash of magic from his ring. It was quickly followed by a slight golden glow coming from all five elves for a moment. They all beamed smiles back at him.
Looking down at the elves he then noticed that, while they all appeared to be dressed identically, there was one difference. Different to the first, who wore a gold belt, the others all wore a dark grey belt.
'Rankings?' he thought.
Looking to the first, he said, "I take it you're in charge of the elf population of the manor?"
"Yes, Master Harry," it immediately and enthusiastically replied. "I be The Jeeves, Willy." He then indicated the other four and said, "This be Betsy, Raggy, Tally and Pinty." Indicating them in the same order he said, "They be Ladies elf, Guest's elf, Ground's elf and Lower floor's elf. I be The Jeeves. I be... Major Domo."
"Excellent," said Harry. "First things first, I need to adjust the wards so some guests of mine can come through."
Willy gave a firm nod, snapped his fingers having the other elves all pop away again and said to Harry, "Willy will lead you to ward stone." Then he began to trot away.
Of course, Harry with his much longer legs, only needed to walk with a slightly lengthened stride to keep up.
Once down in the basement, Willy showed him what he needed to do to access the ward keystone, then what he needed to do to change the wards and helped Harry do it.
As he'd expected, the war wards were up and active. He first scaled back and turned off the lethal wards, then adjusted the non-lethal wards concerning 'intruders' to immediately immobilise and stun. Next, he added the full name of Hermione as a 'resident'; and Wendell, Monica, Sirius, Remus, Frank, Alice, Neville, Ted, Andi and 'Call-Me-Tonks' went into the permanent 'guest' list - with Dumbledore, whose name was down as a permanent guest, removed.
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