Chapter 75 - 75- Fidelius and plundering

Harry's POV

Harry was alone in the ROR, in the middle of trying to figure out a way around the need of a trusted secret keeper in the Fidelius Charm, one of the few times he had to be alone to do as it involved concentration that left him unable to use a wand to cast in that level as it has too much of waving, and with no tests to learn for this year, Luna stayed with him every second of the day except for classes, and while he loved her and trusted her more then any other human being, he didn't trust her completely with his wandless abilities and with the level of his casting, and in class Daphne started to sit next to him in classes, looking suspicious at how average he was doing in most of them while trying to help him, probably to get him to owe her.

That left him small amount of time to work on things like the Fidelius Charm.

Right now, the most he managed to do is changing the needed soul from a magical human soul to either any human being or a magical creature, although the regular human would take much more magic to cast and the magical creature would need a little bit more magic and the ability to talk as it would need the ability to pass the knowledge to other people.

It was at that point that Harry felt sad for the first time about freeing Lola (AN: His snake)

Flashback

Five days before the start of his first year

Harry was sitting on his new bad, in his new apartment, talking to Lola.

It's been two weeks since his parents died, 'no! They were murdered', and the only living he talked to except doctors, cops, social workers and a judge is Lola, a snake whose only conversation topics are food, nests and coupling, and he really didn't need the knowledge of the enjoyment a female snake get from it.

Even he could see how unhealthy having her as a companion, mentally, as he only talked to a snake and physically as he could become an enemy of Dumbledore the second he becomes known as a parselmouth.

"Lola, if you had a choose, would you like to be free?"

He decided to give her the choice, for even though he should leave her, he owed her that much.

"Free. sand. ground. plants. food. male. eegs. Children."

She wants to be outside, that much was obvious, and Harry was happy to provide her the chance to do it.

End flashback

Now Harry lost the chance to do this spell for as long as he need a trusted companion as he had no wish to get another snake.

Just as he lament about it, Dobby came in with a plate of fruits.

Harry would have hug Dobby if he didn't fear the elf would faint.

"Have I ever told you how much I love you?"

"NNN...No Harry, we just bonded two weeks ago." Dobby's face became red while he did an excellent Quirrell impression.

"Well I do, but most importantly, I totally trust you with my secrets."

"Rrr...really? It's an honor." The little elf's eyes sparkled.

"Yes, I trust you so much, that I would like you to become my secret keeper."

Apparently Dobby knew what it meant as when he heard those words he knocked himself out.

It took 15 minutes to wake Dobby up, calm him down and explain exactly what Harry wanted from him, mostly because he kept asking "Do Harry really want Dobby to be his secret keeper?" But when they where done Harry got himself a secret keeper who knew to tell Harry immediately about the secret.

Harry wasn't sure what information should he hide as you can only use the spell once, and only to hide one thing, after that, to hide something different you would have to cancel the previews charm.

In the end, Harry decided he would choose the thing that would let him have the best way way of using this defensive spell, as an attack.

Focusing his intent about his magical power and wandless abilities, he called "secretum custode Magia potentia non est magic.u.m"

Feeling his magical power leaving him and knowing some knowledge he once had was leaving with it was the most horrifying feeling he ever had, he felt like he was drowning, he couldn't see, he was shaking, and his chest hurt.

A small part at the back of his mind knew it was a panic attack but the much larger part was losing it shit.

Only by using the part in his Occlumency Snape taught him was he able to calm himself enough to let Dobby tell him be in the known of the secret and be able to breath again.

He now understood why the instructions said to have as less people as possible in the know on the secret before casting the charm.

Knowing something and having it ripped of your mind is an experience Harry never wanted to experience again which not only meant this was the only time he would ever use this charm, but that his next charm project is finding a defense against it before the fourth year.

Harry massaged his head as he thought about that, and decided to take the rest of the day off.

Two days later

This day was supposed to be the first day of testing, which meant that except the fifth and seventh years who had the O.W.L and N.E.W.T respectively, the entire school's student population was celebrating, except two people.

Hermione, who wanted to know how good was she doing even if she was petrified for months, and Harry, Harry was spending this lovely day in the chamber of secrets, taking everything that is worth anything out of the basilisk corpse after searching for clues and failing in finding Salazar's legacy, of which he heard Anastasia mentioning in her legacy room.

Why did he do it today instead of in the summer as he planed?

Because of what he heard yesterday.

Flashback

Harry was on his way back from the ROR when he saw professor McGonagall and Professor Snape arguing, as he had invisibility and a notice me not charm on himself, he only took his wand out to put a silencing curse on himself before moving closer to the two professors to listen.

"Why do I need to explain it to you again?" the transfiguration professor said with a profound sigh. "Because I can't seem to understand why does the boy who admit led himself to only run away and was luckily saved by a mysterious rooster cry get the 1000 years old basilisk's corpse? A basilisk whose body parts could advance the potions industry, magizology, create light armors that can save a few auror's life, and cure several dozens of people! Why would we give it to a child who in best case scenario wish to hang it in the wall of his house like a price, but would probably sell it to the highest bidder, of whom we can only hope won't be goblins, as with this corpse they can probably manufacture war instruments and maybe win the next Goblin VS Human war"

Harry was happy he has put a silencing curse, as he couldn't help laughing when he heard the ridiculous suggestion that goblins need the corpse to win the next Goblins VS Wizards war, as the goblins won every single war there was between wizard kind and them. At least according to the history Bogrod taught him, and the little pieces he got from the history professor when it reached his ear, while it sounded like the professor was only talking about goblin wars in his monotone voice because he is boring, he was actually trying to tell the students everything is a lie and to be carful when dealing with goblins.

When Harry stopped laughing he missed what professor McGonagall told professor Snape, and could only hear half the answer of the potion's professor.

".... talent to speak with snakes I would never have let the potters take the corpse in the summer."

After that the two continued to argue but Harry's thoughts were in the chamber, looting it from everything it is worth.

End flashback

After that, Harry went to sleep, only to wake up a few hours later and go to the chamber to the most gruesome and tiring job he had, as basilisks had a magic resisting skin he had to work on the skin with the knives he made in his blacksmithing lessons, a thing that would take him all day by himself, luckily he had help in the name of Dobby, so it would only take all morning.