Chapter One

Harry was back in Dudley’s second bedroom.

Tonight was his birthday and thus also the night of Vernon’s meeting with a potential client.

And thus Harry knew it was also the night when Dobby would make his appearance.

Harry knew that was still on the cards due to the fact his mail is currently being intercepted.

Before he knew it the excitable elf made his appearance.

Simply seeing him again brought a lump to Harry’s throat.

But he buried those emotions quickly so as to listen to what Dobby had to say.

To no surprise to Harry he quickly began trying to warn Harry from attending Hogwarts this year.

The moment he tried to badmouth the Malfoy’s he proceeded to punish himself.

Harry managed to stop him in time.

“Man, I'm glad I kept the Muggle Repelling Wards on this room” Harry thought.

“That should stop the Dursley’s and their visitors hearing this” Harry added.

Knowing physically stopping Dobby wouldn’t do anything he proceeded to summon his wand from his holster.

“Sorry Dobby” Harry thought before using the full body bind on the elf.

With Dobby subdued but still conscious Harry looked at him.

His large gold ball sized eyes were darting around.

His arms and legs were locked in place.

“Now listen here, Dobby” Harry said firmly yet fairly.

“I know all about Lucius Malfoy’s plan” he said, making the House Elf's eyes go even wider.

“I even have a plan to stop it. But I need a very brave and helpful Elf’s help” Harry said.

“And if you will be that Elf I will also see what I can do about freeing you from the Malfoy’s service” Harry added, going with the carrot instead of the stick.

“Now I’m going to release you and you will remain calm okay” Harry said.

The moment he released Dobby the elf darted towards him.

He wrapped his arms around Harry’s legs.

“Oh thank you great and wonderful Harry Potter” he said in a blubbering mess as his eyes filled with big ugly tears.

Harry then told Dobby the plan.

At first Dobby was a bit concerned but Harry managed to talk him into listening.

“Guess being in Slytherin for a year has really helped my silver tongue skills” Harry thought when Dobby nodded excitedly.

The pair then sat in the room talking about Harry’s plan for several hours.

This allowed Harry to learn about Lucius’ nightly routine.

And thus incorporate that into his plan.

When it was deemed to be the right time Harry held out his hand.

“You ready Dobby?” Harry asked.

The Elf nodded.

He then reached up and with bandaged hands grasped onto Harry’s.

The next second they both vanished with a pop as Dobby took Harry to Malfoy manor via Elf Apparition.

They soon appeared in Lucius’ study.

The man in question was sitting at his desk.

His eyes grew wide at the sight of Harry Potter suddenly appearing with his House Elf.

He went straight for his wand.

But because it was hidden within that ridiculous cane he was too slow on the draw.

Harry easily beat him to it.

His wand already being in his hand when they travelled after all.

He quickly hit Malfoy with a silent stunner.

Harry then looked around as though to determine if there was any other danger.

When he determined it was reasonably safe he sighed with relief.

He then proceeded to move onto the next stage of his plan.

First was to place the stunned Lucius Malfoy under the Imperius curse before awakening him.

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It was ironic really.

Here was a man who bribed his way to freedom on the Imperius defence.

And now he was actually under the effects of the curse.

From there it was a simple task of getting him to hand over the Diary, and freeing Dobby.

The Elf was instantly caught up in the joy he felt in that moment.

So much so Harry had to put silencing charms around the room so the other Malfoys didn’t wake up.

With their aims met Harry then had Lucius drink himself into a stupor.

When the man passed out Harry then proceeded to wipe his memories.

He was by no means skilled with that charm.

But thanks to the alcohol Lucius would instead think he got black out drunk and assume that was to blame for the memory loss of the evening.

He then placed a compulsion on Lucius to continue his plan with the Weasley’s.

In order to facilitate this Harry created a replica of the Diary.

Like the original it compelled the user to write in it.

And contained some of the darkest magic he learned from his time at Grimmauld Place.

And while not quite as evil as a Horcrux, it would prevent Lucius from immediately noticing something was immediately amiss.

With everything taken care of Harry and Dobby returned to Privet Drive.

There Harry hired Dobby to work for him after negotiating his pay and work schedule.

Of course Harry started off with what he thought was fair.

Only for Dobby to repeatedly negotiate down.

It was by far the strangest negotiation Harry could imagine taking place.

But with that taken care of the pair then had their own celebration of sorts inside Harry’s wizard tent.

The pair shared a Butterbeer.

Only for Harry to forget how much it affects Elves.

By the time Dobby had finished the bottle he was three sheets to the wind.

And made black out drunk Lucius Malfoy seem sober by comparison.

“Screw it, he deserves it” Harry thought.

Harry then proceeded to levitate Dobby to one of the unused bedrooms.

It felt all kinds of weird tucking him in.

“But a damn sight better than burying him” Harry reminded himself.

With Dobby asleep and snoring like a freight engine Harry then turned his attention back to the Diary in the other room.

“None of that Tom” Harry said as he felt the Diary trying to compel him to write in it.

Harry quickly placed it in the fireplace.

A minute amount of Fiendfyre shot from his wand.

Harry watched in satisfied glee as the cursed flames consumed the Diary.

A thick smock erupted in the shape of teen Riddle.

His face in a rictus grin filled with pain and agony.

It screamed and screamed until the smoke vanished into nothing.

Harry then cut off the magic to the Fiendfyre.

“That’s one less to worry about” Harry thought.

And just like that, the next year's worries were taken care of.

“Thank Merlin I had planned ahead enough over the last year to make this look easy” Harry thought.

“I just hope the rest of my plans for the future go off with just as much ease” Harry thought.

Somehow however he doubted that would be the case.

After all nothing goes easy for long when you are Harry James Potter.

The best he can do is enjoy the brief moments of peace he gets before the shit hits the proverbial fan.

Afterwards Harry got to enjoy the rest of his summer.

With his mail no longer being intercepted he caught up on his correspondences with his friends.

He also began getting his body into shape.

He did this by purchasing a great deal of exercise equipment.

Thus turning the outside of his tent into his own personal gym.

Of course to make room for everything he had to expand the size of Dudley’s second bedroom.

Which also afforded him the opportunity to make his defences a permanent thing too.

This was done by using pre-purchased rune stones from Diagon Alley.

Each stone could then be loaded with three charms..

He needed four, one for each corner of the room.

The first charm he “loaded” was an Extension Charm.

By the time he was done the room had enough square space available to him it could easily fit the rest of the Dursleys house within.

Usually not something that is placed within one of those stones but for Harry he didn’t mind.

Obviously he didn’t have enough space to use the defences they used on the Horcrux Hunt.

Thus he settled instead for adding of all things a Fidelius Charm.

Granted it took him a great deal of study time and practice to accomplish but thanks to his Time Turner he managed that in no time.

Usually it would be incredibly difficult to both cast the spell and make yourself the Secret Keeper.

But with the Time Turner he was able to have his younger self cast the charm and make his older self the Secret keeper.

Thus getting around the issue.

And with the defences now in place the Dursley’s (and anyone else for that matter) would never even know anything had changed.

The third and final spot in the runestones he devoted to what was essentially magical air conditioning and heating.

Thus the room would always remain a comfortable temperature.

With that all taken care of Harry finally set about vanishing the mess of broken toys and rubbish Dudley left behind.

With the now exceedingly large room clean it looked incredibly bare, even with the exercise equipment.

That was when inspiration struck.

Harry quickly rushed out via apparition.

He went on something of a shopping spree purchasing large amounts of building materials.

As well as a book on magical building practices.

Over the next few days (thanks to his Time Turner) he proceeded to turn the desolate space into a warm inviting home of his own.

He threw up several walls dividing the space available to him.

And proceeded to turn what was Dudley’s second bedroom into his own incredibly large one bedroom apartment.

Other than the previously mentioned gym this also included its own bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, study, library, Potions lab and kitchen.

Harry was exceedingly proud of his handiwork.

And Dobby was also pleased as he had a larger place for himself to work.

And thanks to having his own little sanctuary the rest of the summer went by much more enjoyably than any other summer he had ever had with the Dursleys.

He then used what remained of the summer to focus on his studies.

He continued sitting through future lessons in his Pensieve and completing the assignments.

This allowed him to work quite a ways ahead.

By the time he left Hogwarts he was already on second year material.

And seeing everything he failed to remember the first time encouraged him to keep this up.

His hope being that by the time he returned he would have moved further ahead into Third Year stuff.