Harry shook his head and said, "No. It was something I resolved by myself; with the goblins' help, of course. He no longer has any property that rightfully belongs to me, specifically, or House Potter, generally. At least, there's no evidence or knowledge of anything else he might have."
"But you're not sure?" she asked.
"No," he replied. "But, after the goblins went after him for what they had recorded as him having, I sent the Potter house elves in. They knew of a few books he'd taken from Potter Manor and recovered them from Dumbledore's possession."
"Anyway," said Hermione. "Research?"
Nodding, Harry rose and walked over to one of the bookcases. He thought hard about wanting to find books on magic relating to memory and saw a half dozen books appear on the shelves of the case. Picking them up he carried them back to the occasional table between the seats and placed them on top.
Picking up the first one he started speed reading.
Harry finally found a memory charm that could possibly help. However, it was considered quite an advanced charm. Though, when he read through it, he felt he was capable.
The charm required the caster to have advanced Occlumency skills in order to have clear memories. That was something not necessarily needed to use a pensieve. The memory also had to be entirely accurate almost to the smallest detail. And the witch or wizard casting the charm had to have sufficient power to maintain the charm, as they had to continue to pump magic into the cast for the entire duration of the memory. That was three strict requirements that Harry felt he met. And, even if he didn't have sufficient magical power within himself, he felt he could use the trick of drawing in power to compensate.
It was another two days before he finally managed to successfully perform the charm up in the Come and Go Room.
The Charm was called the Show Memory Charm, the incantation was 'Memoriae Meae' and the wand movement started with the tip of the wand at the temple of the caster and flicking the wand forward with a swirl continuing into a thrust out to arm's reach. The width of the twirl indicated how wide an area the memory would then display in the air above and away from the caster in the direction of the point of the wand.
Then the caster had to hold their wand steady while the memory played and continue to pump magic through the wand for the duration of the playing of the memory.
Harry started on a short memory covering a small area and slowly enlarged the area of air covered, and length of the time the memory took to play. He was playing the memory of Christmas Day when Astoria came in to wake him up.
"This is just like watching a 'three-dee' movie without the glasses," said Hermione from where she was watching on the couch once Harry felt he mastered the charm.
"A what?" asked Neville, thoroughly confused.
"Muggle entertainment medium," said Hermione. "They used to be called 'moving picture shows'. Now they've shortened that name to just 'movie'. At the moment, movies are just in 'two-dee' - meaning two dimensional - like a wizarding photograph. However, the muggle world is now trying to make the movies 'three-dee' - meaning three dimensional."
"In other words," said Harry. "Just like what I'm doing here."
"With sound, too," said Tracey, a little awed.
"A harpy?" exclaimed Hannah, when the memory played through. "You called your future sister-in-law a harpy?" si
"Hey! I had just woken up and this brunette-haired screeching beast attacked me in my own bed!" he replied. "What would you have done?"
Neville was grinning. "The look on your face when she used your stomach muscles to launch herself back off the bed..." And was chuckling away. "Well, at least we know it works for you," said Daphne.
"And it leaves me feeling quite pooped," said Harry.
"The book says you're not supposed to attempt this until you've gained sufficient power. In other words, as an adult," said Hermione.
Harry looked to see Hermione reading the book and quietly laughed.
When she looked up, he said, "We can 'pull' magic in now, remember? They didn't know they could do that, back then. And I have both an eidetic memory and advanced Occlumency skills. Clearly, I'm capable."
Hermione blushed and said, "I keep forgetting the rules of magic seem to be 'guides only' when it comes to you." Harry laughed much louder and said, "I like that. It's a good way of putting it."
"But why have this spell when pensieves are available and require very little power?" asked Hannah.
"This spell was what they used before pensieves were developed," said Hermione from where she was reading.
"Plus, you can't send a memory strand to someone else and have them use the spell like you can with a pensieve," said Harry.
"However," said Daphne. "Do you really want to use this spell now?"
"Huh?" asked Harry.
"There's my Harry," smirked Daphne. "Loquacious, as per usual."
"Hey!" he whined. Laughing a little she lightly brushed her fingers down his cheek before she said, "What I meant was, the charm is quite advanced. Dumbledore will probably recognise it and know it takes someone of considerable power to cast it. It will demonstrate to him just how powerful you actually are."
"But I'm not actually all that powerful," said Harry. "It's just a neat little trick I learned and have passed on to you lot."
"Oh, no, my future husband," she said. "You really arepowerful. At least, more powerful than the average witch or wizard. You're just able to enhance that power by pulling more power into yourself."
"Plus, there's all that extra training you do we do," said Hermione. "It was you who reminded us magic is like a muscle and needs to be exercised." "Nevertheless," said Daphne, getting things back on track. "It's still a very advanced charm. If Harry uses it for something as mediocre as slapping down rumours he's the Heir of Slytherin, it gives away knowledge he might not want known."
Harry sighed and said, "She's right. And the only reason I tried the Show Memory Charm is because it was our only choice."
"So, you're just going to have to put up with it, then," said Neville.
"I guess," replied Harry.
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