Published at 30th of November 2019 10:41 pm

Chapter 64: Mind Healer and the plot

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"Now stay still and calm your emotions." The mind healer said and got a nod form Daphne in return as her father watched the proceedings from the side lines.

Daphne wondered if it was even possible for her to calm down with her father watching her like a hawk but the calming draught seemed to be doing it's job properly.

After crying on the very first day when she returned home, she had gone to the bathroom and checked her hymen which was thankfully intact.

Now she knew that she was not raped so she was not as scared of the memory as she once was. But she was still a little fearful of what she'll see once the mind healer did her job.

"Now lower your occlumency shields." The mind healer said in a gentle hypnotizing manner and Daphne fought against her instinct to strengthen her shields and let them fall so that she would enter her mind.

The feeling was uncomfortable but the mind healer was gentle, unlike her father who simply rummaged through her memories without even asking for permission.

She did not felt like she was being mind raped as the woman went about doing her job inside her mind.

She would never focus on any of her personal memories or any of her memories. Simply passing through them like a breeze and feeling them for a while before leaving them be upon realizing that they were not tempered with.

This went on for about a minute or so before the woman found something and clamped upon it hard.

"It is an old memory." She heard the healer's voice in her semi consciousness state. "Her memory was removed from her mind forcefully. An obvious sign of the Obliviation spell." The woman informed her father.

"I could try to see if there's anything salvageable but be warned that the memory will most likely be blurry and some parts might be missing. Not to mention that Daphne might not want to see those memories." The woman kindly told her father watched on the procedure with his dead emotionless eyes.

"Are you sure you want to go through with the procedure?" the mind healer asked and her father gave a grunt of acknowledgement and Daphne saw the woman nod her head.

"Are you ready Daphne?" the woman asked and she gave a nod before the Mind Healer dove into her mind once again.

Half an hour later, they had a test tube in their hands with a silvery glowing memory of the event that had been erased from Daphne's mind as her father took it to the pensive before escorting the Mind Healer to the floo.

Daphne on the other hand sat on the other hand sat on a chair and wondered how she could have missed something like this.

The memory, when recovered, had come out as a bit distorted, a bit broken and rather blurry.

But she was still able to make out it's contents with a bit of guess work.

First day in Transfiguration class.

Her sitting beside Harry Potter.

Him turning a matchstick into a living butterfly. Something that's not taught to them until the 5th year.

Him instantly turning the butterfly into ask before looking around to find anyone who might have seen it.

But seeing as both of them were sitting in the last desk and how Minvera was busy with other students, she was the only one who had witnessed his power. This true power.

And then he had turned to her with an annoyed expression.

And…

"Obliviate"

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Removing the tracking charms from the Cloak was an easy task. Especially with the help of Selena would could practically see the foreign magic sticking onto the Cloak like a leech.

The charms applied in the cloak made him distrustful of the Headmaster.

Maybe the old man only wanted to know his location so that he could keep him safe but Harry still saw this as a breach of trust and privacy.

Not that he ever trusted the old coot anyway.

He picked up the cloak and wondered about it's efficiency.

In truth, the cloak did a wonderful job of making him invisible. Even from Selena and that was saying something considering how she was able to see right through most of the other magical enchantments.

But the problem was that sight was just one of the many senses that a person has.

Sound being one of it's most glaring weakness.

Anyone walking while hiding inside the Invisibility Cloak was bound to make some noise.

Even if you ignore the footsteps, the cloak itself made a lot of flapping noise when walking.

And someone inside an small empty room would easily be able to pick up on his breathing.

In fact, beings like snakes who are sensitive to vibration could even feel his heart beating from some distance.

So he pelted the Cloak with four different Charms that would negate all the sounds and vibration from leaving the influence area of the cloak.

Then there was the smell.

Any werewolf worth his salt would easily be able to snuff him out in a room.

Charms for removing smell were added just as easily in the cloak.

And then heat.

Some of the magical creatures are able to pick up on heat, so charms to stop heat signatures from leaking out of the cloak were added as well.

After that, Harry continued to find weakness upon weakness in the Cloak and continued to add charms upon charms upon it.

He wanted to make it perfect so that not even the human machines like radar and other such things would be able to find him.

In the end, he had spent 19 hours full of research and applied about 47 charms in the Cloak.

At this point, he could wear the cloak and walk up to Lord Voldemort and say "Boo" in his ears and the dark lord would still not notice his presence.

But there was still one glaring weakness in the cloak.

That one weakness being the mass inside the cloak.

For example, if you walk in a place filled with people then even if you wear the cloak, you'll still hit other people which will instantly alert them about someone present inside a cloak and that will instantly break his cover.

And if he walks in a road filled with mud then he'll eventually leave a foot trail.

Then there was the problem of him walking in a rain.

People will instantly see his silhouette and know that someone is hiding inside an invisibility cloak.

And of course, he could never use the cloak inside water since his silhoutte will be clearly visible to all inside the water.

After some careful thinking, he was able to come to a solution to a problem.

There was a charm that he could apply to his cloak that would solve his problems but the problem was that he was not sure if the charm would work or not.

And even if the charm did work like how he intended it to do, he was not yet capable to casting it.

Yes, that charm was the Fidelius Charm.

The ultimate hiding charm.

If he could apply that in his Cloak then that should apparently give him the ultimate stealth ability.

But he would only know whether that charm could be applied on something like an invisibility cloak when he gains more strength and enough experience in order to cast it.

Till then, he simply have to work with this highly modified Invisibility Cloak.

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"Lucius. You must help me." He said frantically as Lucius Malfoy came out of the Floo.

Everyone seemed to think that he was a weak and indecisive minister who couldn't wipe his own ass and he had no problem with that as long as he stayed in power.

Especially when acting like that makes other people understimate him which gives him a huge advantage in return.

Till this day, even Lucius thinks that he is the one who truly controls the minister of magic, him, from the shadows and he had no qualms about the blonde ponce thinking like that as long as he kept giving him donations for his ministry campaigns.

"Calm down Cornelius." Lucius said irritably "What is the matter and why have you called me here so abruptly."

"That's because I needed your help and advice Lucius." He groveled. The things he did to remain in power "I've heard news. Terrible news that could sink all of us."

Lucius' irritated expression became somber in an instant. After all, for all the time that Cornilius went to him asking for help, he never used such serious terms.

No, he used such terrible terms like 'sink all of us' for instances which could truly sink them all.

This Black's case was just that bad though even if the truth came to light, he still had many cards to play. For once, he would simply give an Order of Merlin to the ex-convict while destroying Barty Crouch's image as he puts all the blame on him.

Still, it would be better if his hands remained clean from this case.

And knowing Lucius as he did, he knew exactly what he needed to do in order to give the blonde the perfect incentive to move.

"What happened?" Lucius asked and he told him everything he knew about this case.

How Amelia Bones brought Peter Pettegrew into her custody. How Sirius Black never received a trial and was an innocent. And how his godson, Harry Potter was about to open a case for freeing Sirius Black with the support of Amelia Bones soon enough.

But he kept the most important news for last which he delivered as subtly as he could.

The news that once Sirius Black is released, he would become the Lord Black once again.

The problem with that was that if Sirius had simply died in Azkaban then the whole Black vault, it's seat in Wizengamot and all it's wealth and properties would go to the male heir of it's remaining members.

Which meant Bellatrix and Narcissa as Andromeda was cut off from the family like.

But with Bellatrix in Azkaban and the fact that she was infertile, it meant that all of Black Family's properties and wealth would go to Narcissa's son Draco Malfoy once he came of age.

But if Sirius Black became free then it was unlikely that Draco would ever become Lord Black. In fact, the seat would then most likely go to Sirius' own son, if he even sired one or to his own Godson, Harry James Potter.

After Cornelius subtly dropped this news, he could see the mind in Lucius' gear turning.

For being a supposedly member of Slytherin House, Lucius was sometimes very easy to read.

After a long silence, Lucius finally looked at him sadly "This would indeed be a terrible news for you Minister. In fact, such a news was leaked out then it could possibly end your entire carrier."

"Yes Lucius. It's terrible. I don't know what to do. Please help me." He begged with years of practice and waited for a while before Lucius put his hands in his shoulder.

"Don't worry Minister. You've been such a good friend to me for such a long time. Do you really think I'll let something like this happen to you?"

"You'll help me?" he asked with a hopeful expression.

"Of course I will. But you'll owe me for this."

"Of course Lucius. Of course."

"Good. I'll talk to you after I settle this mess for you." He said and stood up abruptly and Cornelius followed his lead clumsily, not dropping his mask of a fat and jovial fool who was easily manipulated by anyone and everyone.

"I'll see you later." Lucius said and with one final handshake, he left the room via the Floo and Cornelius dropped down on the couch once again.

That had gone better than he had expected.

Lucius will most likely take care of this whole mess without even him having to bother about it.

But still, he would be ready if Lucius somehow managed to fuck this up.

After all, he had not remained in power for so long with being careless.

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