Harry Potter: Magical Legacy

"One hour per turn, Harry," Hermione snarled. She took a breath and got her anger under control. "But it doesn't matter anyway. We can't change anything. I told you this! You can't change the past with a Time Turner without risking breaking physics!"

Harry's stare hardened. "Then we won't change anything," he said nodding to her.

"What?"

"We don't have to change a bloody thing, Mione. I figured out why the Silver Spirit doesn't work just before I killed the Dementor. I was hoping to have six hours to make more but with an hour I should be able to fix two, maybe three. The rune stones won't fail no matter how many Dementors there are. We can use them to beat the creatures back and save everyone."

"I just told you, Harry, we can't change anything," Hermione said slowly as if she was speaking to a child.

"Hermione, we just have to wait until the instant before we leave. Shiva, Neville and Luna were holding out fine, as were Amelia, Sirius and Susan. Daphne, Tracey and Remus were in trouble and Tonks was struggling with her Dementor. We should have just enough time to get to them all with at least two Silver Spirits."

"Harry, Tonks was..." Hermione choked off a sob and couldn't finish her sentence.

"You didn't see her lose her soul and neither did I, Mione! All we heard was a scream and then another horrible screech. We didn't see her lose her soul so we can stop her being hurt or de-souled because we aren't changing anything that happened. It can't have happened if we didn't see it!" Harry said shaking his head defiantly.

"I...I don't know if that's the correct interpretation of the observer effect, Harry...or if it even applies here..." She wasn't outright shooting down the idea but it did certainly sound rather farfetched.

"It's magic. We routinely ignore the laws of thermodynamics and violate Newton's Laws all the bloody time. We just have to be fast. I am not going to let Tonks lose her bloody soul!"

Slowly Hermione nodded. "Okay, Harry, we can try. But if we wind up scattered, into little pieces across all of time and space don't come crying to me." She suddenly narrowed her eyes at him and slugged his shoulder with her fist.

"Oww! What was that for?" Harry asked holding his shoulder.

"That, Mister Potter, was for nearly dying right next to me. Twice!" She then grabbed his shirt in both hands, pulled him into her and kissed him. Harry's brain froze as her lips smashed against his and her hands clung to his shirt. She pulled back after a few moments breathing deeply. "And that, Mister Potter, was for saving my life. Again." Harry just dumbly nodded. "Now, you said something about fixing the Silver Spirits?"

Harry nodded again finally kicking his brain into gear and standing up beside her pulling her up with him. "Yeah. Right. It needs a connection to the caster. The Patronus works by being powered by a powerful positive emotion right? Well I can't inject a memory into the cluster; they don't work that way. But I can make it connect to who is using it and have it search for a feeling, memory or emotion to use as the power source on its own."

"How?"

"I add in a Soul rune. Most Soul runes or runic clusters don't have any effect at all. They're basically a completely useless branch because you can't manipulate a soul – unless you happen to be a Dementor I guess. But I'm not going to use it to do anything beyond facilitate the connection aspect."

"Well let's grab a side classroom and do it then. We have less than forty minutes for you to get this right and test it." She started marching ahead of him. "Remember, don't be seen – especially by your double. And what is with this 'Mione' thing?"

"I – ugh – err, sorry?" Harry stuttered.

"Whatever, you want a pet name for me? Fine. Use it. But only you and preferably when we are either alone or with close friends. And if you shorten my name to 'Herms' or 'Hermi' I will castrate you Harry James Potter, and you don't you believe for a moment that I don't mean that!"

"Yes, Mione," Harry dutifully replied. He smiled as she pulled open the door in front of them. "You know you're really cute when you're annoyed?"

"I'm not going to dignify that with a response until after we have saved our friends' lives." Her tone sounded disgruntled, but Harry caught the slight smile at the edge of her lips. He had had his back luck for the evening it was time for his good luck to pop up.

"I can't believe that worked," Hermione whispered as she watched a glowing silver panther prowl around the edges of the room before striding back over and nuzzling her hand. "It feels solid. I didn't think Patroni were supposed to be solid…"

"It's not technically a Patronus," Harry said. He set aside the Silver Spirit, the panther fading away as he let the cluster go. He moved to pick up his spare Silver Spirit and started to modify that one the same way he had done to the first. "It's more connected to the caster than a regular Patronus is. A regular one is just emotions forced through a wand. This is more like part of the caster directed outward. I think. Soul runes are weird. I didn't even think they existed at first."

"Is it tied to just you now? You'll have to tie the second one to me if it is," Hermione said frowning. "We're going to need to split up to help both groups."

"It's open ended. Whoever picks it up will form the connection and only as long as they have it activated," Harry sighed distractedly. "Good thing too. This is taking a lot longer than I had hoped."

"We have less than ten minutes, Harry." Hermione twisted her hands and paced back to the window looking out at the grounds. The tension was evident in the way her voice was cracking. "Are you going to be able to finish it? We might be able to make do with just the one…you could always use the Sword…you said the Dementors seemed to affect you less while you were holding it?"

"I think so. At least after I killed that first one." He cast a quick glance at the Sword lying on the table beside him. He could still feel its presence in the back of his mind. "I thought Dementors weren't supposed to be killable?"

"They're not. You can starve them if you can lock one away for long enough, but no one has ever directly killed one before. You really are making a habit of performing impossible deeds, Harry."

"Yeah, well bending Time over my knee will just get added to the list then yeah?" He let out a sigh and picked up the rune cluster blowing off the stone dust from the pattern. "Here, try this out, Mione." Harry handed her the stone and she studied it for a moment before holding it up.

"Is there an activation phrase?" she asked.

"No, figured these should be able to be used as quickly as possible. Just channel a bit of magic into it."

Hermione nodded and furrowed her brow in concentration. An instant later, an otter flew from the stone and floated around the room. It was just as substantial as Harry's panther had been. With a smile Hermione let the magic flow cut out and the otter vanished.

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