71 70. Telling her everything

After Alfred returned, Harry went back to his home.

"So Harry, why are we here today?" Lily asked from her portrait.

These days she had been learning and increasing her knowledge base with Vorn's help. She just had to ask a question and if Harry knew the answer then Vorn wrote it for her on a large board hanging in front of her portrait.

"Didn't you say that you were getting bored looking at the board all the time. I thought you would like to watch me make cristmas gifts for my friends."

" Oh, what are you making then? "

" I have already made new protection rings for everyone. Now I'm going to make magical daggers like my own for them."

" Protection rings?? What are those? "

"It is an Occlumency rings with updates like detection for poison, Potions, traps like curses and hexes, location tracker, a portkey that will activate with a password, intent or on being gravely injured or losing consciousness. It took a lot of efforts and many sleepless nights to make these things." Harry said sighing.

" Harry, if you have truly made something like that then I hope you have countermeasures in case of betrayals and misuse." Lily looked at Harry sharply.

" You know me too well mom. Of course I have countermeasures." Harry smirked devilishly. Making Lily nod in satisfaction.

"Mom, what do you think I should get for their family members when I visit their homes?" Lily stopped to think about it for some time.

"You make the Daggers and let me think." Lily said not being able to think of something immediately.

Harry shrugged and started making daggers like his own for everyone who had signed a loyalty contract with him. That means Andy, Ted, Dora, Emma, Dan, Hermione, Daph, Penny, Jess(Jessica), Flitwick and Mcgonagall. After making these 11 daggers, he again asked Lily.

"Were you able to think of something mom?"

"Harry, you can weave a spell in an artifect, right? , Like you did with protection rings by weaving a portkey in it and made it detect intent.." Lily asked.

"Yes mom. I didn't expect you will catch that. Indeed the rings are made portkeys by different method than usual. I indeed weaved the spell in it giving it the capacity of detecting intents as well as overpowering normal anti-portkey wards.. But that is also a weakness, as once that spell is activated, the ring will break apart. After all I didn't use any precious material to make them thinking they are still not the final version." Harry praised Lily's sharpness that she was able to deduce that just from some subtle hints.

"Can you make bracelets with protego weaved into them. They must break after using once, activated by password, intent or when in danger." Lily asked. Harry thought about it and realised that in was indeed feasible.

So Harry selected a simple design that would look good on Men, women and children all and made one bracelet for each family.

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That evening Harry was in rituals chamber, naked as the day he was born with many complex runic diagrams and ritual circles drawn all over the floor. There were many materials placed at specific places.

"Everything seems good Harry. Don't be nervous and.. and" Lily said very nervously.

"Alright mom. Calm down. I'm confident that it will work. You have seen the steps and analysis, you don't need to worry." Harry said chuckling. He could understand the reason of her nervousness.

Harry had developed a set of 3 rituals for himself naming it the ritual of 3 senses. Now generally people don't risk going through rituals set as not only the calculations and diagrams become very complex but even the smallest of error in any one ritual would ruin the whole set alongside disasterous consequences. Moreover because it's calculation becomes complex, 99% of rituals set leads to some kind of side effects.

Harry too wouldn't have dared to perform this if not for his system. He was not worried about any negative side effects or infact any negative effects for that matter.

As Harry started going through the ritual of 3 senses to enhance his sense of vision, hearing and smell with extra focus on vision, the whole rituals chamber lit up in intense golden light.

Lily watched nervously from her portrait, praying to god that Harry would succeed.

For the next 2 and half hours, everything proceeded normally. Lily knew that the ritual would only take about 3 hours all together that means only the last 30 minutes or so remained for its successful completion.

Time passed minute by minute and as the last 5 minutes remained Harry suddenly started bleeding from his eyes. Lily's eyes went wide in horror as she watched from her portrait.

"NOOOO... HARRY... HARRY..." She started shouting hysterically, watching helplessly, without being able to do anything as Harry laid motionless.

She couldn't even call Alfred as Harry was still undergoing ritual and interrupting anything might have caused even more severe problems.

She stared at the clock unblinking as the last minute remained before the end of ritual. 30 seconds... 12 seconds.. 3.. 2.. 1.

She saw that Harry still didn't get up even after the ritual ended. "Harry.. Baby.. Are you alright..?" She tried again, her voice quivering.

Just as she was going to call Alfred and tell him to bring Andy there, she saw his fingers twitching. Her voice was caught in her throat as she watched with bated breath.

Harry slowly stood up and scrunched his nose in disgust as he scowled. He waved his hand to clean the blood in his eyes and face. Finally easing his expression.

"Harry...?" Lily asked carefully.

"Sorry for the scare mom. But I'm alright now." Harry said but what he didn't expect was that Lily started sobbing.

"I thought I lost you.. your eyes-they were bleeding heavily. And you, you laid there motionless no matter how much i called or screamed your name. I'm useless Harry. You have been suffering from the moment you were born because of my mistakes.

If I had been more firm,more determined I could have taken you away from this hellhole. Just because of Dumbledore, because of James-" The venom in her voice as she spat her dead husband's name caught Harry off guard." - because that fool didn't want to leave England and listen to Dumbledore.. Because he wanted to fight bravely, always saying something like ' Gryffindors don't run Lily'... you are still in this hellhole alone."

" And me.. I am no less to be blamed. I did listen to James.. because of my foolishness you have to take so many risk at such a young age." Lily's cries shook Harry to the core. She had always been calm, analysing everything and then executing it calmly but now she was crying like that.. He realised that she was crying for him, her fear of losing him made her cry against her usual behaviour.

" It's okay mom. It's no one's fault and definitely not yours. Please don't cry.." At that moment Harry understood how helpless Lily must have felt. As he could only speak but couldn't do anything else to comfort her just like she could only call for him and pray without being able to do anything.

Harry finally couldn't stop himself and told Lily everything. About his previous lives, meeting death, and god, and awakening memory at 11th birthday. He also told her the whole Harry Potter canon and how her being helped him.

They stayed like that for the whole night. They didn't discuss the affect of the ritual or anything else. They just spent time bonding and healing each other's emotional wounds.