"Attention students! I have a small announcement to make before we start our dinner. As many of you know I have a few different roles I play in the Magical World. I'm afraid my role as Supreme Mugwump will require me to be away from the school for most of the Easter break. Deputy Headmistress McGonagall will be in charge while I am away and I expect you'll all be on your best behavior. I will see you all upon your return from the break. Thank you for your attention." Dumbledore announced before sitting down to eat. There were many murmurs throughout the Great Hall but Harry was only left more confused.
-Monday Morning ~ After Breakfast-
"Harry! Good to see you again! Your Dogfather has come for a visit!" Sirius waved exaggeratedly as Harry smiled seeing his Godfather up and walking about. At his right was Andromeda and to his left must have been the Healer, a pretty ravenette with grey eyes.
"Great to see you up and about Sirius, you haven't been over doing it have you?" Harry asked as the three adults stopped in front of him.
"Of course not, I'd make Marlie here mad at me if I made her job any more difficult." Sirius grinned as he gave the Healer a charming smile.
"You stop harassing the poor woman, you mutt." Andromeda admonished as she swatted Sirius lightly with her purse.
"Ack! Marlie she's assaulting me, I'm still a recovering patient, throw her out!" Sirius whined playfully making the Healer smile softly.
"I can't throw her out of Hogwarts, Mr. Black, but I'll ask her politely to not smack you." Marlie replied before winking at Andromeda who only smiled back pleasantly.
"Aww, no one's on my side are they?" Sirius grumbled getting a shake of the head from all three of them. "Not you too Harry!"
"Sorry, Sirius, but I think wooing anyone counts as over exerting yourself." Harry responded with a grin getting a shocked look from Sirius. Andromeda and Marlie both burst into giggles at the quip and even Sirius playfully grumbled at him.
"You've been spending too much time around little Dora." Sirius pouted as the group followed Harry through the castle. Sirius happily reminisced about his time at the castle and shared tales of the Marauder's many pranks at various places. Harry laughed at the antics his father had gotten up to with Sirius and Remus back in their days as schoolboys.
"Why'd we come down this old corridor, Harry? Not much to see down here." Sirius asked as Harry stood by the wall.
"Just watch." Harry stated before opening a door that none of the adults had noticed was there.
"A secret door? I thought we found all of them back in the day." Sirius mumbled as he, Andromeda and Marlie entered the room after Harry.
"Not quite, I just used a few trinkets to hide this room from others. This is my private, and also secret, workshop. I practice my spell casting and my Enchanting here when I'm done with my homework and such." Harry explained getting all three pairs of eyes to widen.
"Harry, have I ever told you that you're a very impressive eleven year old?" Sirius asked as he looked around the room seeing obvious spell fire marks on the far wall. The Marauders really should have thought of having their own hidden room like this back in the day.
"You might have mentioned it in one of your letters." Harry chuckled as he showed the group some of the small trinkets and talismans he'd been fooling around with. It wasn't until he'd led them into his smithy and showed them the Rune Safe that Andromeda spoke up again.
"Harry, you said that your Safe only opens for you and doesn't need to be provided Magic by anyone to work, right?" Andromeda questioned getting a nod from Harry.
"Yes, it has quite a few security sequences within the array. Multiple protection sequences too. Fire, water, blunt force, cutting etc. basically anyway I could think of that someone might try and crack it. It also absorbs ambient mana from the surroundings to keep itself powered. Why do you ask?" Harry asked as the woman looked the iron safe over.
"Well, I'm no expert, but the way you described your safe makes it sound a lot like an Artifact; at least to me anyway." Andromeda stated making Sirius nod slightly since he'd read up a bit on Enchanted Objects and Artifacts during his stay at St. Mungos. After all, if his godson liked them Sirius wanted to be able to get him gifts that fell in line with Harry's interests.
"Hmm, I don't think I could make an Artifact without knowing it." Harry mused as he thought about the specifics of his Rune Safe. Seeing Harry lost in thought the adults waited for a moment only to hear a knock on the door.
"Harry, I think you have visitors." Sirius called out.
"It's Tonks and Penny, could you let them in real quick?" Harry requested as he went over to a bookshelf on the far end of the smithy and pulled a book down.
"Sirius?" Tonks called out alerting everyone that was in the workshop that Sirius had let Tonks and Penny inside. The four people returned to the smithy portion of the workshop, Marlie not leaving Sirius' side as his Healer, only to see Harry staring at an open book unblinking while Andromeda rubbed his back.
"What happened?" Penny questioned as she and Tonks moved over to Harry.
"I just mentioned that his Rune Safe sounded a lot like an Artifact to me. After grabbing this book and going through it for a bit he just started staring at it. I was only going to suggest he might want to get an expert opinion on whether or not he'd made an actual Artifact." Andromeda explained making Tonks and Penny widen their eyes at the implication.
"Harry? Are you with us?" Penny asked softly getting no response from the Wizard.
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