20. Cashing favour

After talking with mom about many other things, I felt much more relaxed, and from her expression, I could tell that she was also happy. At last remembering something I asked.

"Mom, You said you divided your soul into 3 unequal parts. How did you do it? Isn't it the same as Horcrux? "

"God no.. Harry, soul magic is one of the most dangerous and also one of the least known magic in the world.

Horcrux is fracturing your soul forcefully by doing the most heinous acts. Like you said, Voldemort killed, tortured many innocents and he enjoyed doing that.

On the other hand, I used a mother's love and her unwavering will to protect her child, to gently separate my soul into 3 pieces.

Moreover, As I had some prior knowledge about soul magic, my soul was much stronger than an average person. In fact In these eleven years, I have been healing my soul by meditation."

I nodded listening to her explanation. Looking at the time I saw it was close to midnight.

"Alfred, please give me something to eat. I'm starving."

"Yes sir, right away." He bowed and served me a sumptuous meal after some minutes.

"By the way mom, can you think of any ritual that would be beneficial for me? in fact I have a muggle born friend, she is also a first year like me.

Is there any ritual you think is suitable for us? " I asked while devouring the food.

"Hmm.. first tell me what you have in mind? " mom asked instead of answering directly.

"For my friend, Hermione, I was thinking about some ritual boosting mental defenses. She is practicing Occlumency but It has been some 20-25 days. I also enquired about it from goblins, they said they do have such items but each one will only stop 10 attacks from any mast legilimens and they are expensive as fuck."

"Ignoring your use of words, Exactly how much do they cost? "

"12600 Galleons for two and it is already after making only 10% of usual profit."

"Son, it really is very cheap. I remember James, sirius and others from important families carrying those items. I remember James saying he got that one for 18000 Galleons."

"Shit! thost greedy fuckers... It's good that I secured a nice deal with them.. Now I don't think they are too expensive.

but mom, I still want her to undergo the ritual if there is any for this."

"okay and what about you.. What results do you want from the ritual?"

"I was thinking about something to make me mature a little faster. " I answered.

"Oh!!.. How mature are we talking about? "

"Umm.. That... Alright, I want to pass my puberty as fast as I can. "

"Hahaha, that's so cute of you.." Mom laughed with a bit of schadenfreude.

"Alright baby.. Let me ponder some more about this. I'll tell you tomorrow. Right now you should go to sleep." mom said after calming down.

"Yeah, mom.. Goodnight." and so I made my way towards the bedroom in the trunk.

After sleeping for an hour, I practiced meditation for 1 hour. Now that my Occlumency is at least Dumbledore level strong, I have decided to only give it 1 hour daily. Looking at the time, there was still 2.5 hours left to 6am which I utilised by reading books on rituals.

Today after my battle training and my self practice of wandless and wand based magic, I used the cleaning charm on myself instead of going home and taking a shower. I went to Bogrod's office where he was busy working on some documents.

"Hey Bogrod!"

"Lord Potter.. I was just about to contact you."

"Oh, tell me what the issue is. "

"We recently received news about a dragon egg."

'Is it the one I think it is... if so, then things will be very interesting.'

"When can you get it for me? " I asked him.

"Right now there are only some rumors flying around. This is the regular modus operandi of illegal dealers in the black market. It will take around 6 months."

"Okay. keep an eye on it. By the way, I'm here today to cash out my monthly favour." I said causing him to sit straight.

"Please wait a minute, I need to call manager Rognuk for this matter." I didn't need to wait long, before Rognuk arrived.

"Please tell us Lord Potter, what do you want from us." He said nervously.

"Relax, I just want to borrow your smithing room for the next few days."

"That's good.. I mean yes, sure.. Bogrod will show you the place. You can go there directly." Rognuk sighed in relief hearing my request.

"Also get me all the items on this list." Leaving Gringotts I directly went to teach Hermione..