The months' till my arrival at Hogwarts were spent with a lot of reading and studying, what was especially interesting for me were the introductory books for Ancient runes.

It seems that I was destined to fail when I tried to carve runes in a table.

Runes could only be inscribed on something that has magic in it, an example would be trees, stones and even earth that was for a long time in an environment that was saturated with magic, or grew in it. Diagon Alley, Hogwarts, Stonehenge and the Forest of dean are among other locations, places like that.

The other things that you can inscribe runes on are Skins, teeth and other materials from animals that were magical.

And probably, even if it does not stand there from human or humanoid beings too

And while you do not need a special knife or rune carving kit, it is recommended to use one, especially when you are an amateur.

It is even explained why runes are not as prominent in the modern Magical world as potions or even arithemacy.

Runes take time, it doesn't matter if you want to create a rune based plumbing system that automatically vanishes waste and creates fresh water to flush for a whole castle or create a simple torch, it takes time to carve every single rune on an object, especially as you can’t use magic for the carving, so no animation or levitation charm on the muggel object or rune carving knife, which is made with a normal carving knife that goes through a magical procedure that makes it go through almost anything like a hot knife trough butter, but after the procedure is finished it is once again magical inert but still sharp like hell.

Every single rune must be carved without magic and with only a miniscule amount of errors and deviations from the rune, because you can't make every rune perfect if you only use your hand.

Well, you could make more and bigger errors and deviations and still use it, but then it couldn't work at all or accidents like a vanished ass could happen.

And because of those reasons, runes have fallen out of fashion for easier to use and less prone to fatal failures wand and potions magic.

But even with all of those cons, runes have one advantage that allows them to still be taught in every school, even if they are so difficult to inscribe, and that is, they are durable.

If you can inscribe a rune scheme almost perfectly, then it can last for hundreds if not thousands of years, an example would be Hogwarts, in its almost thousand years of history the rune scheme for it's heating needed to be repaired a total of 4 time, and that only because they were small errors when it was inscribed.

That was the only concrete example of how long-lasting runes can be, they did talk about how some ancient ruins with rune schemes were still functioning after two thousand years, but they did not write an example.

I have an idea, I don't know if it works, but I had that eureka moment the second that I read that no magic can be used while carving runes and that the rune carving knife can go through almost everything like a hot knife trough butter.

The idea is rather simple, put the rune knife on an Automatic computer controlled drilling machine, then instead of a drill or laser or whatever is used, attach the rune carving knife on it and then let it carve on the magical material on which you want the runes on.

I know that the idea is rather simple, but I think that it could work.

The only Problems that I could see are, if the magic from the material on which I want to inscribe the runes on would interfere with the machine, and what is more important, how do I get such a machine ?

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I don't think that acquiring something like that while in the 80s would be easy, especially as a private person.

I could probably build something like that myself in 40 or so years though the help of an online tutorial, but now?

Maybe on a big Workshop machine tool fabrication?

Or a company for Metalwork?

Of course, even if I could acquire it, how do I pay for it ?

Stealing it would be too risky for me, for something so big to suddenly disappear would be too suspicious.

Perhaps I don't even need to do that ? Using magic to confuse somebody in doing it would be possible, or and that is my favorite course of action, buying or creating a shop for custom commissions of metal works, it may sound ridiculous and for other people it could even seem overkill to buy such a machine and a shop, but that course of action seems for me to be the best for avoiding any suspicions from the magical or muggel kind.

Especially as I don't think that I would only use the drilling machine one or two times, no I would probably inscribe everything that I own with runes, from a simple fork with maybe something that can detect poisons in whatever it touches? Or to never rust and always be clean ?

Or a Spaceship, yes it sound random, but I don't think that I could make something that can get me safely out of this universe before the war starts, maybe before the muggel find out about magic, but not before the Dark Lord comes back.

In hindsight, it seems that I was too hasty with my decision to leave this universe, hasty but not wrong, I still think that the Harry Potter universe is a universe that is deadly, especially with all the Dark Lords running around every decade or so, I mean if I remember it right Grindelwald basically started WW2.

And that is without the muggels.

So I had the idea that I could create a spaceship, then inscribe it with runes for everything that I could think of, from runes for heat regulation, against friction, for invisibility so that it couldn't be spotted by satellite or a telescope, something against radiation and a shield against small debris, basically I want a fully functioning spaceship with which I can land on another planet and that I can remotely control:

I essentially want to create something that I can remotely fly to space and then on a planet or moon in our solar system.

Because I remembered something important, I ruled out that I'm in some universes that i know of.

But there are still universes like Stargate, where the "Plot" starts in the late 90 or so,

I tried to research for a book written by a Doctor Daniel Jackson, but I found nothing, it could mean that he didn't exist, but I can't be sure, especially without the internet, and even if I could search the net for him or the other character on the show, I would never do that, the Stargate program is not only Top Secret, but they probably have a program or something like that for the case that they are researched.

I could even be in the Mass Effect or Star Trek universe, even if I think that than there should have been a third world war or so by now.

So yes, while it unlikely that I'm in one of those universes, it would put my fears to rest if I have something with which i can escape Planet earth in the worst case scenario that I'm in Stargate or another Sci-FI universe and the "Good Guys" make a mistake that causes Aliens to destroy or occupies earth.

So I have decided to build myself a spaceship, a remote controlled spaceship with a Vanishing cabinet inside it.

But for all those fancy ideas of mine, I needed money and knowledge of magic and runes.

The books on Runes helped me a lot, even if I need far more books on the topic, I even played with the idea to go back to Diagon alley to purchase more books, but I ultimately decided to wait till I am at Hogwarts.

The other first year books were rather useless to me, I had no really problems with understanding the books, the only thing that I found annoying would be how the book were written!

The last time that I read a school book was 10 years ago, but I still remember that the books were structured, everything had an order, it's not like these magical books that jumped from topic to topic.

But because the books were for children, who among those who were raised with magic were muggelborn, they did not go in depth into the topic, you could say that they were an introduction book and a safety Manuel in one.

The Room of Requirement should help me a little with my money Problem.

I don't think that I will find one Million Galleons or something like that, rather I think that I will find only Knuts and sickles, especially because a Galleon is now worth 50 Pounds, but a Hundred years ago, it was probably worth something like tree hundred pounds.

I don't think somebody will have so much money inside a school and even if they have so much with then I don't think that they would lose it, or maybe I'm just overestimating their common sense.

Okay, my Plan for my first year at Hogwarts would be, to survive.

And learn everything that helps me in that goal, so learning something that can hide me, a disillusion charm or something like that.

Then finding the Room of Requirement, and looking for money and or other valuables that I could either repair and then sell or something that I could directly sell, preferably in the muggel world.

Oh, I almost forgot, I need to test if the RoR has any of the abilities that were described in fanfics, like time dilation, or to open a passage everywhere in the castle.

And I need a copy of the Marauder's Map, or manipulate the existing one so that it doesn't show me if I don't want it to.

I have my plate full for the first year.

Now it's 10 Pm, and tomorrow is September the first.

I need to sleep, tomorrow is the day that I find out if my Occlumency help's against the sorting hat.

I think that I should pry to whatever brought me here.

On second thought, I don't want to summon an eldritch abomination.