Chapter 152 - 152- SOC

HARRY'S POV

After having Remus put every magic container around Britain, and the twins made the announcement about card dueling being available all around Britain, more then half of the children in Hogwarts that had younger siblings, and some that didn't, came to the twins the next few days to buy a duel disk and beginner decks

Apparently, at the time of summer holidays all the students talked about the game and their wish to play it enough times for the children and some of the parents to be interested in playing, and with the disks and decks being cheap (costs 6 Galleons all together) many people ordered them for themselves.

As for the brooms, they also were sold like cupcakes, though for a different reason all together.

The reason was that while the brooms used a little bit more magic to use when not playing the game, they reached the same speed as professional brooms yet cost 3/4 the price of the cheapest broom in the world.

How? Simple, it has to do with how they were made.

With every Turbo brooms being made by a machine instead by hand, the only costs are the material from which it was made.

There was no paying for workers to carve each rune on the broom, no magical core being used, and most importantly, no mistakes.

Even the best rune masters make mistakes in carving runes, and those that work in the broom industry usually aren't even that.

But machines don't make mistakes, and even if there is one small mistake, they detach it quickly and melt the metal the broom is made of before making it again.

With the game taking flight like crazy, it isn't surprising that two weeks after the announcement there was an article about it in the Daily Prophet.

"IS THE TIME TO PLAY QUIDDITCH HAS PASS? THE NEW GAME THAT EVERYONE PLAY."

By Rita Skeeter

If you have a child at Hogwarts, you must have heard about the game that was invented there last year.

The game, called 'monster card dueling' or 'card dueling' for short, was invented by the twins Fred and George Weasley, who were at the time in the middle of their fifth year, created a game that quickly became the main thing students play at the school....

The article continued in that manner, telling about its evolution, the tournaments and the prices of the products, making the next day of school at breakfast the most chaotic breakfast anyone has ever seen at Hogwarts, as mountains of letters came for the twins with orders.

Even their mother, according to the twins, has sent them a letter.

Though she seemed to be pissed they haven't told her they were making a business, she only knew they made a game and sold some cards as a way to make back the money they waisted by making it, it hasn't crossed her mind they are doing more.

With all the new people dueling, the magical energy they now manage to secure a day is enough to create hundreds of runes if Harry had enough mental power and belief, instead, Harry, who knew he is about to need even more AI in the future and was unwilling to waste three days every time he needs a new one, created an AI whose purpose is to create more AI who follows the same rooms that GAI follows.

After finishing it, Harry could really focus his mind about the task in hand- move a soul to a soul container.

The thing is, once you understand that souls are made from magic, memory and belief, you would think it is easy, make the container like the MEC right? Wrong!

While magic is part of the soul.

The main part of it once you reach a certain part of like is your memories and beliefs, more so on the third stage of magic, when those things start to affect your ability to do magic.

In fact, it is almost impossible to do any sorts of soul magics on unwilling third stage.

Almost.

An interesting side affect to being a soul without its intended body, especially when the soul is split, is that it weakens your defense.

Think about it like that.

The body you are born with is a natural defense for your soul and Occlumency is about defending one mind, even the best Occlumency can be breached, and now let it defend 7 minds...

It was why no one except of Voldemort ever made more then one horcrux, not because it twists your mind, there are plenty of people who have twisted minds to do it still, but that it weakens your defenses.

Having one horcrux might not be hard on the mind of a third stage magical person, but having more? No wonder in the books OG Harry could look into Voldemort's mind.

As for the body being the natural defense, this was one of the things the mummification ritual solved, partially of course.

By making a container that is meant for your soul you create the closest thing possible to a natural body.

Of course, Harry had two soul parts in a body not made for them.

Making the soul container (SOC) took about a month, making ready only a week before the second task, as it was still close to what MEC is, only a few changes from the mummifying ritual, and, of course, Harry added a few defenses.

The two major defenses were that things can only come in and out of the SOC only with the permission of Harry, making any soul that come in trapped, yet, at the same time, souls and magical energy that are outside are unable to come in.

The other major defense was that the SOC had levels inside of it, eight, to be exact, and each level was made so it is unable to be accessed by other levels without Harry's permission.

Once Harry prepared that, the next test was happening inside his mind, where one part of the soul was smashed by ice, while the other was stuck at the Occlumency shield which was the closest to the surface.

If Harry had to explain how each of them looked he have said that the one that was probably from the diary looked like a dwarf 16 years old Tom, like half the size of the man.

The other one looked like Voldemort's face, the one without a nose, only on a baby's body.

Of course, it was understood, the one that came from the diary had 50% of Voldemort's soul while the other 1.5%, in fact, even having it take the look of a baby showed how Voldemort kept advancing all the time, otherwise, it would have looked like an eyeball.

They also looked to be watching each other with longing and disdain, as if they were disgusted with the other yet still wanted to become one.

But Harry didn't came inside his mind to study them, Well he did, but not in this state, he is about to study those souls in their original form.

"Obliviate!" Harry cast his spell on the diary piece, and saw, for first time how this magic affect the souls, and he had to say, it was incredible and horrifying.

The body looked like it was losing shape, as the things that used to define who it is disappeared, so was him.

It started small with Tom, his robe losing their color green, and then his entire body losing color as well, his hair disappearing, and little by little everything that made him atom disappeared until all that was left was magical energy being held together by something Harry couldn't define, maybe it was a small thread of belief every person gets from their parents as he is conceived, maybe it was something else.

The second the soul piece that used to be in the diary changed it's shape entirely, the soul piece that's been with Harry since the moment he came to this world was charging like crazy, using every bit of power it saved the last 13 years trying to reach what used to be a larger part of his soul.

Interested to see what would happen, Harry lowered the defenses.

The baby Voldemort reached the blob of energy and immediately fused with it.

The change was obvious.

What used to be a baby Voldemort now seemed to be a dwarf a.d.u.l.t Voldemort.

Yet before it could even say anything Harry casted another obliviate, returning the shape to a slightly larger blob of energy.

Guiding the blob little by little, it took Harry over an hour of magical manipulation to make it get into SOC.

Feeling that not only his mind finally entirely his for the first time since he was born, but that he managed to truly change how the story is supposed to end, Harry decided to take a brake.