30CH: 5 Werewolf or Not
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Harry and Dudley were leaving the bank only to encounter Bill. Harry proceeded to ask for his help later. Bill agreed and was told to be back at the bank at 5:10 PM. Then outside they met Tonks who was just returning with Moody to check into Harry's fainting spell. "Little late guys, I am already recovered" Harry laughed. "While you're here, can you stick around till 6 or so?"
"No problem Harry." Tonks replied. With the correct number of wizards/witches secured. Harry and Dudley got them to help go through the Auror and Weapons stores. They found basilisk hide armor and invisibility cloaks, as well as wand holsters and dragon hide boots in 'Aurors R Us'. Then proceeded to the weapons store and found one of the greatest things ever, well really a couple of them. First they found what the store owner referred to as weapon bracelets, they would hold any amount of hand weapon you wanted and were thought controlled. They could be loaded with a simple spell and would make duplicates of the loaded weapon on command. For example, load one throwing knife and have an unlimited supply. (Think Violet's bracelets in Ultraviolet with Magic) the bracelets were expensive and needed DMLE approval to purchase, which Tonks readily supplied. Harry purchased a pair for each of them and had them preloaded with most common weapons as well as martial arts weapons.
He then found some Desert Eagle hand guns that had several magazines with them. 'Unusual for a magical shop.' He thought. The magazines were never ending and could be loaded with any ammunition. Some contained empty glass bullets. When he asked, "There to hold spells or liquid components." He was told. Thinking ahead he got a set for each and used some of the clips to hold; armor piercing-explosive rounds, hollow point rounds, silver nitrate filled rounds (made Mooney nervous), acid filled rounds, one containing a concentrated Patronus spell (cast by all of them), and one containing a 'lumos solem' spell (again cast by all of them), others would be filled as necessary. "These should be good for giants, trolls, werewolves 'no offence Moony', vampires, and dementors/lithifolds. If you can think of others we can add them later." Harry told them and with the spell they were added to the bracelets.
With further searching they found some really unique swords. Each were told to pick out the ones they liked for a gift. The store manager 'David' told them they would be his gift to the war effort. He had already made more in the last hour than he did in a year anyway. Each went to a blade or set that called to them. Tonks found a pair of sais that had a Celtic design to them. Moody found a pair of large curved hunting knives. Moony was drawn to a long sword and dagger set that happened to have a deer and grin motif. Bill found a pair of daggers. Harry and Dudley both ended up with three blade Japanese sword sets. David told the boys their sets were his prized creation. The swords were forged from a combination of silver, mythril, and diamond. He told the group that all the knives/swords had ever-sharp, unbreakable, and camouflage charms; they could be bonded to them with a drop of blood and could be summoned with a thought. Harry and Dudley were also given a booklet about their sets, as there were too many features to describe. Their sets included a katana, wakizashi, and nodachi (Great sword).
Still having time left the group went to the book store and helped Harry and Dudley gather books that would really help them, not just for school. They went and refilled Harry's potion ingredients; and made their way to the pet store to see if Dudley could find a familiar. Dudley was drawn to the back of the shop. There he found the cutest grey and white striped kitten he had ever seen. The shop owned warned him away from the cage but Dudley had already had the kitten in his arms. "How in the world? No one has been able to even get close that menace since it got here." "What do you mean menace? This little thing wouldn't hurt a fly." Dudley told the shop keeper while the kitten purred in his arms. "That is a Siberian Shadow Tiger, not some fuzzy little cat! They are very hard to tame and meaner than a dragon when they want to be. I nearly lost a hand trying to feed it just yesterday!" "Well he has no problem with me. How much for him and the necessities." "I'll give them to ya', just don't bring him back when you can't handle him." Dudley took the kitten and items and left. He would find out about the fuss later.
They then went to Olivander's to retrieve Harry's staff. Olivander was waiting for them and guided Harry to the back room. "All that is left is for you to place a drop of blood on this rune. This will bond the staff to you and only you or one of your blood shall be able to use it. By this I mean children not your cousin." Harry placed the drop on the rune, and light enveloped him and the staff. The light was bright as the noon day sun and made of the colors of the rainbow. "Simply amazing." was all Olivander could say. After the light show died down, Harry asked Olivander if the bonding could be used for wands and was told it could but was not widely done. "It is a trade secret and not to be spread around. The Ministry doesn't want it known because it not only gives the person a closer tie to the wand but makes it un-summonable. It would be rather bad for Aurors if they could not disarm someone. (insert chuckle)" Harry asks if he would do it for his cousin and Olivander agreed. After they were done at the wand shop they proceeded back to the bank.
Harry reserved a private room and requested use of a ritual room. The group plus Griphook went to the private room. Harry using his staff in wand form conjured instructions for the ritual, as well as having Griphook make a permanent copy. He asked Moony to wait outside for a minute while they discussed it. "Wouldn't want to ruin the surprise" he told him. In the mean time Griphook had assembled four more goblins, one of which was Ragnock, the bank manager. Harry went over the ritual and every ones part in it. Ragnock conversed with him about the goblins part and Harry's intention of offering this as a treatment to other werewolves.
"It must be affordable to them and still make a profit for the ones involved to be paid from. I would like to set aside money for a fund to help with this and perhaps others could donate as well."
"The number of werewolves is significant and the volume would help lower the cost, still without your fund it would be more expensive than wolfsbane potion. The main advantage is this would be a permanent solution verses monthly potions."
"With my money funding it, for now, perhaps when it is shown effective others would donate. At least, it would give families with affected love ones hope. There should also be an oath that the cured patients will not use their power for evil. This will also eliminate the spread of the disease and allow the advantages to be passed down through family lines."
"I agree with you, Mr. Potter, this would strengthen the family lines and may help get the medical community behind us. The detractors would be Death Eaters, potion suppliers, and brewers. They would have the most to lose money wise. There may also be opposition to having us involved. It would certainly improve goblin's image but there are those who would oppose that. Most wizards are not as accepting as you."
"Well hopefully with time that can be changed, this is certainly a start. To that end, why not play this off as a goblin discovery. That would put an even better spin on it. Say I just happened to hear about the lack of funds and decided to help. Having a werewolf as a friend would make it a believable story. I am not looking to make money with this just help people."
"With that statement you have made a friend in me. I cannot speak for goblins as a whole but you may call on me any time."
"Thank you Ragnock, I imagine like with any people goblins have their good and bad. I would never hold it against the whole of a people, the actions of a few."
After their discussion they made their way to the ritual room, after acquiring Moony of course. Each took their assigned positions while Harry led Moony to the center of the pentagram. "Do you trust me Moony?" "With my life Harry." "Good cause this is gonna hurt. You will love the results though." With that Harry took his place and the ritual began. Moony was in pain, pain beyond pain. He felt pushed and pulled in all directions at once. His inner wolf was howling in pain. His body was forced to transform and then untransform. What seemed like hours to him were but minutes, then it was all over. He along whit the others were exhausted. He only managed to get out "what the he…" before succumbing to the exhaustion. The others retired to the private room and it was pepper ups all around. They let Remus sleep for a few minutes then eneverated him and gave him his dose. "What was that? What did you do to me?" he asked.
"Well we fixed your little furry problem. If things went correctly, you have a wolf anamagus form and still have the enhanced senses and strength, without the curse, allergy to silver, or monthly transformations. In other words you're cured." At that point someone needed to eneverated him again. As soon as he awoke, Harry said "catch". Like everyone else he caught what was thrown at him. Looking down he saw a silver sickle, the one form of currency he had never been able to touch, without gloves. Staring in fascination, he tossed it from one hand to the other amazed. Thinking about the rest he concentrated on his wolf form and found himself looking up at everyone. He turned into a brown and grey wolf, no pain, just him. He trotted around the others yipping for joy.
Harry leaned down and scratched his ears, telling him "this is Sirius' gift to you."