Chapter 55 - Christmas Gifts and Wands (1/2)

It was perhaps the hardest thing he'd created till this day.

A small ring that he'd enlarged to the size of a table and then filled it with various kinds of runes for protection, for sensing the wearer's mood, for connecting it with blood so that no one else would be able to use it. For sending him a message when the wearer was in danger. For enchanting it like the magical mirrors so that the wearer would be able to talk with him through the ring. Among many, many other enchantments.

In the end, he created three rings after spending almost a week on them.

In a way, there was nothing really innovative about it.

Most the charms and runes he'd carved in the rings had already been created and have been in use in some way or another. But he very much doubted that there were artifacts like this in the wizarding world.

He had also wanted to enchant the ring so that it would gather the wearer's magical power over time and give it back to them during a battle so that they would have an advantage but he didn't really know how to do that and researching something like that might take weeks if not months so he had drop that idea for the time.

In the end, he finished writing all the instructions on a notepad and the duplicated the notepad so that there would be one notepad for each of the rings before he removed the enlargement charm from it.

It looked like the 'One ring' from the Lord of the rings. And it should considering how it was made of pure gold and how he had purposefully enchanted it to look that way.

He smiled in satisfaction at this work before he wore one the rings and packed the other two in a small box along with the notepad and a warning to not take it the wrong way.

It would a disaster if Hermione's mother opened her gift and thought that some boy was sending her an engagement.

After all, when a boy gives a girl a ring, there's a lot of chance that it would be taken the wrong way so a warning was needed.

It had been hard for him to hide this new project from Hermione and Penelope and he suspected that they already knew that he was working on a gift for them. They were frighteningly perceptive sometimes.

But he had finally made the necessary gifts for his two friends and learned a great deal more about runes and enchantments while he was at it.

So, win, win.

He took out a piece of stone from his collection of stones and set it down on the ground before getting to work.

Transfiguring the stone into wood. Changing it's size and shape to represent two boxes. Turn the joints into iron but let it look like a wood from the outside. Add a shiny ruby in the center that he found from the Room of Hidden things. Draw a few simple but elegant designs annnnnd… done.

Oh wait, one last permanent enchantment. Wouldn't want to box to turn back into a stone now would we.

Annd… done.

There, Christmas present is done.

Now if only there way a way to look at their father's expression when they find that some boy had gifted a ring to their daughter.

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Harry stunned the rat animagus before levitating him inside the trunk.

Christmas was about to arrive and despite the ȧssurances that Betty would be able to take care of the rat-man, he had decided to take Peter back with him. After all, Amelia has still not sent him a reply and if she did came to him to find answers, it would be better to have Peter in hand than not.

The 7 room trunk that was once filled with various ȧssortments was now filled to the brim with books copied from the Room of Requirement.

There were more than twenty thousand books in the Room of Requirement. Till now, he had not even managed to copy three thousand. Of course, he could have copied more books if he had spent more time and energy in the task but he was too preoccupied with all his personal projects and had not given much time to copying the books.

Regardless, he was going to stay in the school till the end of 2nd or 3rd year before leaving so he had more than enough time to copy all the book inside Hogwarts.

Including the Vanishing cabinet.

He would never forget how useful such a thing could be.

In the last war, usually when a death eaters attacked someone's home, they set up wards around the house for anti apparition and anti portkey along with disabling the floo before attacking. Because of that, most people are not able to escape but he already knew that Vanishing cabinet can bypass such wards easily because that was exactly how the death eaters entered Hogwarts in the movie.

So once he studied the cabinet and learned how to create one himself, he would have a method of travelling that would keep him safe from any death eaters.