After breakfast Vernon headed to work, and Petunia and the boys figured out their plan for the summer: outlining chores, activities, the planned trip to the seaside, and tentative plans of when they would do back to school shopping. Harry included a twice weekly times to be in the magical world to handle things in his plans, starting in a couple weeks.
Later Harry went to the dojo.
"Harry, it's good to see you. Did you just get back?"
"Hai, Sensei. I'm back and I'll be around the rest the summer except for the first week in August when we go to the beach."
"Great, do you want your old job back?"
"Actually we found out due to a series of legal mix-ups my guardians never got the money they were supposed to get to take care of me. So I don't need a job, but I do want to spend most my time here. I've really missed you and this place."
"How was school in Scotland?"
"Interesting. I'm still trying to decide if I want to go back."
"That doesn't sound good." There was a look of deep concern on his face."Want to talk about it?"
Harry grinned. "Not really, what class comes in next?"
"Beginners six to eight."
"I'll go change." After the class Harry sparred with his teacher who was pleased that despite the long months away Harry's skills had stayed pretty sharp.
"You're almost ready for your next belt test. Give you three to four weeks to smooth out a few patches and brush the dust off and you'll be ready."
"That would be fabulous. Is there room in the age ten to twelve beginner class Friday? A friend of mine from school was interested."
"Hai, I've got room enough for three more."
"I'll let him know."
That evening he wrote a letter to Neville, then decided he should let Flamel know what happened, so he penned a second letter. He then pulled out the Godric's Hollow journals.
There were nine in all, only two in his father's hand. One appeared to go back to his Hogwarts days: it talked of the magic he was learning outside the classroom. Harry was surprised to learn his father had been an animagus. His form had been a stag. Suddenly him calling Harry Bambi and his own nickname of Prongs, made sense. Harry found the notes fascinating and resolved to become an animagus himself. As he read through the notes he noted what he would need to learn before he could even begin. Most the notes in the journal were for pranks most of which made Harry chuckle as he imagined the consequences. He looked up hours later, and realized he had stayed up far later than normal and said a soft curse under his breath, he hated doing that.
Over the next week Harry found out from his father's other journal that the Potter family had been famous for defensive magic and warding for centuries. James had been kicking himself in them for ignoring his father's instructions to study the family grimoire and magics because he could have been doing so much more to protect the family if only he'd have listened when he was younger.
His mother's journals were long intricate details of things she was experimenting with and results of research. If Harry hadn't already heard his mother was a genius, reading her journals would have convinced him. Two were about potions and how she was experimenting to combine knowledge of muggle chemistry with them. They also included notes how this potion combined with that spell and a muggle compound could be used to create a devastating weapon, magnifying the effects of the spell fiftyfold. It was near this she noted:
"The Headmaster has discouraged my developing this further. He says we must be above such things or we are no better than what we fight." One was about charms. There were three that seemed to combine arithmancy, runes as well as charms to create what his mother called technomancy. Harry had had just enough physics in school to recognize that some of his mother's equations as containing segments of physics. The last was about warding which included information about warding from the Potter family grimoire. Towards the end was a section on blood magic. Lily had noted that yes blood magic was dark in classification by the ministry but her research had found not all blood magic actually was dark, what made the difference was when the blood was knowingly and willingly shed.
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