For once , I didn´t spend the whole vacation working and decided to take a small break. I spend the time with reading, eating and sleeping but it bothered me that I was doing nothing productive, so I just started making designs for new rooms.
I had temporarily finished the treasury and was now planning to create the Greenhouse. I not only needed many different sections with different climates for all the plants I could come across but also somehow get a caretaker for them. Creating the different areas wasn´t that hard but finding a proper gardener was, because there was no way in hell I was going to spend all my time plucking weeds.
The ideal gardener I could think of was something like a garden, plant or nature spirit but this reality didn´t have such things so I would probably just collect all plants, chrono freeze them and unfreeze them when I get a gardener.
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School has begun again and there was nothing worth mention happening. Idiot #1 and 2 had their little car crash at the start of the year, the narcistic idiot turned the school into his fan club and the chamber opened for the first time. Like I said, noting interesting.
I decided against stealing the hat for now because I still needed it to give harry the sword so that I could steal it. I did however steal the golden snitch, causing the game to go on till late at night and I´m certain It would have lasted even longer if they didn´t have classes the next day.
I was already mostly done with the greenhouse and all that was missing was for me to get all magical and non-magical plants from all over the world and I was obviously going to start with the school greenhouse and Snape´s supply storage.
The only thing worth mentioning was Nymphadora. She gave her parents a huge fright when she came home, suddenly being 2m tall and pregnant. Their relationship at home was rather tense but happy at the same time but I stayed away from them just in case, don´t want to be part of any family drama.
I could often hear them ask her who the father was but she obviously didn´t have an answer to that, so she always just told them that it didn´t concern them. Anyway, she was about 4 months in and as cranky and hungry as they get.
*****
Several more months passed and I had completed my green house a while ago. I caused a huge chaos when all greenhouses and potion supplies were suddenly found empty one morning. I also took control of many rich families and merchants across the world to order as many plants as they could so that I could gather them more easily.
I also went to the nearly dead Flamel couple to use their countless connections around the world to get even rarer plants. Work smarter, not harder.
Due to my theft, there were absolutely no more mandrakes to cure the petrified students around and you could basically see the fear and tension of the students. Honestly, for a basilisk to only petrify was a very weak accomplishment and even if that person just so happens to look through something, it could always still bite their head of. I can see the clear involvement of fate here and I was tempted to end the 'lucky' streak for the students.
Hogwarts always enjoyed being called one of the safest places there is, despite everything pointing otherwise. There is literally no one that ever had a problem sneaking inside, heck even trolls did it last year and I'm not even gonna talk about the structural dangers or everything that is happening this and the couple next years.
My offspring has also been delivered safely. I was actually there at the day of his birth and let´s just say her parents were not happy to see me there but I will spare you our confrontation and just move on.
She named him Leonard, or Leo for short, and I was glad that she didn´t name him after her father like her alternate son. That was mostly because he wasn´t dead yet but even if he was, I would have stopped her, no way my son is going to have the same name as the walking emo disco bowl.
Leo was a lot bigger and stronger compared to any other baby but that was my goal from the start, so not really a surprise. He had Pitch-black hair and eyes but has shown to have his mother´s shapeshifting abilities, which made babysitting a nightmare.
It got so bad that his grandparents even decided to lay aside their grudge with me and just handed me the baby so that they could take a break. Leo´s love for destruction, chaos and turning into either extremely small or big animal made even me consider if I should just leave and never come back.
Lucky for him, I decided to put in a little more effort in fathering him and openly used my ancient magic for the first time. I had always avoided doing so in case someone recognized it and I got on the worlds radar but right now, I didn´t care as long as he stopped.
*****
School kept going and it was time for the three idiots to jump in the severs. Over the last few months I have actively made sure that no mandrakes grew in the school and even used my parse tongue to give the basilisk my own set of orders. So, it wasn´t a surprise when there were actually some dead students.
Dumbledore tried his best to conceal the news but the parents still heard about it and forced some of their kids to drop out. Needless to say, after this Hogwarts prestige took a big hit and Dumbledore lost many of his supporter and this was only going to continue with everything that was going to happen here under his watch.
I watched Harry´s confrontation with Tom and the Basilisk until Fawkes showed up and dropped him the hat.
The rest was like everyone knew and I just waited for harry to let the sword fall. I didn´t have to wait long before both the hat and the sword were out of his sight and I just teleported them to me. I paid no attention to the hats screaming and cursing and just threw the two items into my Museum.
Harry looked for the hat and the sword before giving up and getting carried out by the phoenix. The moment they were gone, I appeared in the chamber. I didn´t know when a fresh Basilisk body might come in handy but its better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it.
The rest of the year went by quickly and to no ones surprise, Gryffindor won the house cup again.
Even during the years end, you could feel the students tension. The dead students haven´t been forgotten, it was hart to when there was a memorial with names at the school entrance and the newspapers were talking about it every day.
I wonder how many of these students will keep attending in the next few years.