Harry’s Vision

"Mal, my friend you're confusing the evidence of your eyes with the reality that is Harry. He's the offspring of two of the most brilliant minds I've ever met and he takes after his mum, the more brilliant of the two. Mind you I'm not just talking about book smarts. His parents had it where the rubber meets the road so to speak.

Yeah he's almost nine but if he focused on academics alone in his education he would probably already have his diploma sorry NEWTs but he enjoys sports, music, and photography too much. I started teaching him early, and we're talking about a kid that was fluently multi-lingual by five. If he comes up with ideas their worth listening to."

After that ringing endorsement Malcom shut up, a week and a half later Harry proposed a community meeting so he could present some ideas. Mal agreed, interested in what Harry had come up with.

When the entire community had gathered together they had dinner first then Harry started. Sirius hit him with a sonorus spell so everyone could hear him. "Okay can everyone hear me. I want to start by thanking all of you I have learned so much in my time here.

 I want to start with where I got my ideas in the non magical world biologists have come to realize you can't study a species in isolation that you have to have a balanced ecosystem healthy soil, plants primary consumers and secondary consumers and so on until you get to apex predators and the de-composers . You have the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle and all of these work in concert. Now here you have your community that wants to pull potion ingredients out from what ever source and most the energy for the system comes from you. You use magic to heat the green houses and the animal enclosures, you spend energy keeping pests away from the plants in the green houses and on keeping the animals reasonably stimulated.

You are trying to balance the needs of the animals with the costs involved in their care. The community is in a mode of trying to meet its needs without a clear analysis of those needs there is quite a bit of overlap in some places and insuffiecient coverage in others. I have noticed there are some places where talents could be used to develop whole new areas for income that are being over looked.

"Mr. Stavros, as a beast speaker you can talk to the unicorns right? Do they know that without money to pay the taxes pay for food and pay for the people who work here that their home where they are pretty pampered goes away? No right? What about if you told them, don't you think they would want to contribute?

"Xing what does a vial of willingly given unicorn blood bring on the potion ingredient market? You sell hairs that have been shed, why not donated blood?What I propose is this the intelligent magical animals the unicorns, the pegasi, the griffins, the ki-lin they are smart enough to contribute I've learned that while the beast speakers here can mostly mostly understand the dragons it takes a parseltongue to actually speak to them I'm willing to get them cooperating with their keepers before we leave.

"The greenhouses are warmed what would happen if you took the non aggressive non primary consumers in the green houses to eat the primary consumers like bugs that get in the green houses you would have them in a stimulating healthy environment and they would be there to excrete directly where the plants get the most benefit sort of like zoos do. Their enclosures could then be added to the enclosure space of the aggressive species-"

"Allowing them to be happier and more likely to produce what we need for potions." One of the Beast handlers said.

Suddenly everyone in the community was breaking into groups where the species both of plants and animals of similar needs were gathering and tearing into Harry's notes consulting one another on the problems they could foresee. It turned into a brainstorming session free for all. Harry calmly stepped back and let it happen.

Malcom grabbed the pile of notes that everyone was discarding as not applying and started to look through them. They were suggestions on how to make the community more self supporting using muggle means as well as magical and suggesting that Tristan Stavros the community's sole squib be sent to get schooling in muggle electricity and plumbing so that they could convert some of the community's power needs to muggle geothermal, wind and solar power.

Right now Tristan was just a common laborer whose gifts of being of mechanical mindset and handyman skills were under utilized. A little schooling and he would be an asset not a drain. He looked for Sirius and Harry only to find they had left the hall.

The next day the community was filled with faces that showed that they had had little sleep but there was a new hope and energy to everyone. Harry had gone with Mai to go speak with the Dragons, before Mal finally found Sirius.

"You were right Sirius."

"Glad we could help."

"Can you help me? I need help to set up the plans and I figure out the best way to implement everything in stages so it's done right."

"Of course."

In the days that followed Harry spent most of the time with the oldest and youngest members of the enclave listening to the myths surrounding the various creatures of the preserve. His favorite bit of lore was told to him by Mai's Chinese grandfather. And it happened when they were with the phoenixes collecting some tears that the phoenixes willingly shed.

"The Phoenix is one of the most revered magical creatures Harry. They are born of magic herself and light. They sometimes choose to bond themselves to wizarding kind. Most of the time this is to our benefit but in China there is a legend of a phoenix that lost it's link to the light. When it first bonded to it's wizard, the wizard had high ideals and lofty intentions. But there is a saying here in America the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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