Summer end, journal and Lockedheart

Too quickly summer came to an end and the trio had to prepare for the second school year. Konrad waited for the day Lockhart would be in Flourish and Blots where he knew the journal horcrux would be at that time. when this day came, Konrad easily grabbed it from the cauldron of unsuspecting Ginny Weasley, and escaped back out still under disillusionment, to meet his girls.

Luna bought her school supplies then and a wand that suited her. Olivander didn't have another wand like Konrad's so Luna got the strongest wand he could find. He really wondered how could there be another person so much compatible with wands in such a short amount of time.

after returning to their respective houses, they met again in the Lab to purify a horcrux. but they didn't purify the journal but the Locket. they left him in case they needed to locate Voldemort and the horcruxes manually, but now they had the journal which didn't have any other use than being a horcrux. They locked the journal and purified the locket. It would be another project for them to learn about it enchantment.

as for their other projects? The LEGO Runes and formations are almost completes, and a special formation that Konrad came up with was in the proces of last corrections before creating and putting the pieces together and processing with the test run. Konrad estimated that with the school distraction it would be around three months before the test can be performed due to the said formation taking over half of a 30 meter long and wide chamber they had to make specially for the formation. it needed a whopping 420 different runes and 69 formation pieces where two of them were some big-ass two meter long pentagrams. they needed to create lots additional 'LEGOs' specially for this single formation, but if it worked, it would be simply awesome!

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Three young kids from eleven to almost thirteen years old walked shoulder to shoulder draging their suitcases behind them through the crowded station. no one bet an eye when them or their parents disappeared in a wall between the platforms number nine and ten. Konrad was really glad Dobby answered his call and promised to leave them alone after seeing the journal safely contained. He didn't want to have problems because of his tries to protect him.

"Wow! The train is bigger than I thought!" said Luna.

"Haha Don't be silly Luna. it's rather normal if a little outdated." Konrad said.

"Exactly! The Hogwarts Express is a 4-6-0 Hall Class steam locomotive model number GWR 5900! this is a train from before the 1830! It's not a little outdated. It's ancient!" Hermione supplied.

"Yeah. Thanks Hermione for this spot on yet completely unnecessary explanation." Said Luna in a mocking yet joking voice.

Hermione blushed.

" I read it in a history book... I just wanted to be precise." She tried to explain herself.

"Haha don't worry were joking Mione, we know your love for knowledge, were just like you. well I might be more into practical knowledge but any knowledge is good knowledge right? People say knowledge is Power." Konrad said reasurring Hermione.

soon after they said their goodbyes to their families the trio boarded the train and found an empty compartment. they sat on one side of the compartment and snuggled together Konrad in the middle. it didn't took long before Luna's head landed on Konrad's lap facing upward while Hermione got wraped in a hug by Konrad's Right arm. He used his left one to cares the little blond girl while kissing the other every once in a while. a light feeling of weight on his shoulder indicated the invisible Cristal landing to join the cuddle, while a puffy white owl hooted with an orange half kneazel while he meowed back in return. Konrad enjoyed the moment of peaceful bliss, feeling blessed with the new life he got from that god this 12 years ago. He hoped that it would just stay like this forever.

Luna and Hermione, thought the same the wanted to just stay like this with konrad. All this training and researches are a lot of fun but they knew that without the others it wouldn't even measure to a tenth of how happy they are doing it together.

The trio was woken from their thought when the doors to the compartment opened and Nevile came in with Hannah and Padma.

"Hey, we were looking for you through the entire train." said Neville.

Konrad and the girls didn't move because they enjoyed this position to much but they smiled and exchanged their greetings verbally. Konrad kept caressing Luna's hair because she was too fluffy to stop.

Neville watched the trios antics in amusement and in a little jealousy. he got closer to his own girlfriend this summer since they visited each other many times but he was yet to reach the level of intimacy that practically emanated from his three friends.

His girlfriends must have had similar thoughts because before he realized they sat in the same position as Konras's girls with Hanna taking over Neville's lap and Padma hugging him from the side. They didn't want to be worse it seems. Neville would never complain and he thoroughly enjoyed the sensation of Hannah and Padma so close while they chatted and exchanged stories from the summer.

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After arriving the trio had to split with Luna so she could take the boat, and they went towards the carriages. Konrad patted the Thestrals guiding Hermione's hand because she couldn't see them and then they departed towards the castle.

The sorting went without any surprises.Luna got sorted to Gryffindor instead of Ravenclaw like in the canon. The one thing worth noting was when after sorting she instantly went to sit with Konrad and Hermione making one redhead extremely jealous. Other interesting thing was the sight of Ron and Draco sitting among the Hufflepuffs as if they always belonged there. It was quiet weird Konrad thought, because he could swear the last time he spare them a glance they were still the outsiders out there. Then he focused his eidetic memory and remembered all the feasts in the last year, and there it was. He remembered how every day Ron and Draco would look worse and worse as if they were tortured or something, each time joining the Puffs in their conversation a little more yet Konrad could now tell that they were forcing themselves, until they started looking more and more relaxed and soon both boys looked as if they were one of them from the very beginning! '...what? I think I don't won't to know what this house did to them... yeah let's never mention this two ever again...' thought Konrad, trying to focus his attention on the muffin in front of him, while holding Luna's hand under the table because why not? He quickly forgot about the house that brainwashed people with too much kindness.

The rest of the day was uneventful. Konrad and the girls did their daily magic training routine and went to sleep.

The next day started with a morning kiss down in the common room like it used to be in the last school year, but this time Konrad got double the kiss because he had both his girls close by, instead of one. People still didn't know about the trio's relationship thanks to Konrad keeping it concealed. He didn't want people to call them to young or frown at their double relationship. The girls actually told him that they would not mind but Konrad wanted to let them escape the stares of people. He remembered how people looked the first time they saw the Boy Who Lived and he didn't like this kind of attention, if it wasn't his achievement that make him famous but his mother's. He wanted to achieve something himself to really call it his own and look proudly when people stared.

Konrad and Hermione left for their lesson after guiding Luna to her class and arrived at the first lesson of this school year. The cursed DADA with Lockhart the fraud.

When the guy tried to free the pixies, Konrad simply encased both him and the creatures in an invisible barrier forcing the pixies to focus solely on Lockhart who couldn't do anything and all the students watched the gold haired fraud being tormented by the weak pixies. 'Well maybe it won't be so bad...hehe' Konrad thought.

The next few days were a pure torture for Lockhart. The fraud teacher got tormented wherever he went slowly loosing his image. At the end of the first week Lockhart started having a nervous tick and he couldn't stop scratching his crotch. Everything he tried turned against him, he was tripping all the time or walking into invisible walls. His clothes turned into hagrid's once or his hair fell off while eating dinner. His face became wrinkled and he started burping every time he tried to boast of his fake achievements.

In the end Lockhart resigned after the first two weeks when he suddenly started uncontrollably shouting his misdeeds in the great hall when hermione dosed his drink with a modified veritaserum. Suffice to say. The Prophet quickly learned about everything from an anonymous contact and Lockhart run from the country. And the best part was, Konrad had nothing to do with it! After the girls learned about what he did, they told Konrad to leave Lockhart to them. In the end Konrad had to admit that his girls can be really scary if they don't like someone. He swore to himself once again to never anger them.

The position of DADA professor became vacant and for the first few days the lessons were conducted by none other than the headmaster himself.

Finally a week later a new teacher arrived at school and Konrad was surprised when he heard his name yet at the same time should have expected him.