Chapter 33: Three Parts!
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I had been given a quote and a timescale on how long it would take to fix all that was wrong with the house, which wasn't all that much.
Aside from a complete re-carpeting and re-flooring of most of the rooms, with new wallpaper or paint put on and updating the furniture and some décor it didn't take that long at all.
Well, it would have had I went about organising it all myself, but through Gringotts, Ironclaw had everything managed for me with each group that came to the manor sworn to secrecy as to who they were doing work for.
As soon as one group was done with one task the next group came in to do the next with no downtime.
It took a grand total of five days but after those five days, the manor was looking by far more like the manor that it was when I first moved in and with the two new elves I had purchased the manor was kept spotless.
During the renovation, I even discovered there was a back garden that Aunt Andy had shown me.
I had taken to calling her that give that it didn't really seem right calling an older woman my cousin when I was in the body of an eleven-year-old.
Aunt Andy had taken to renovating the garden when she was here with the aid of one of the elves, and it now had various fruits and vegetables growing in one area and magical herbs and other plants growing in the other.
She has even offered to give me potion lessons during the summer using the ingredients grown in the garden.
Saying that she understands from having to give Tonks potion lessons in the summer during her time at Hogwarts.
That apparently the current potions professor at Hogwarts was sub-par than expected, something that I didn't doubt as I knew it was Snape and while.
I respected the man for his achievement of becoming a recognised potions master at such a young age, even if that was because of Dumbledore's manipulations.
I don't like the man on a whole for his character.
But I hadn't been ideal the past month and just studied occlumency, not when I had the whole Black library at my disposal and both my grandparents to give me advice on what to learn.
I had spent my days in three parts.
The first was on my Hogwarts books, going over everything in them, and practising the spells, with Aunty Andy or Tonks here to give me some pointers on things I didn't understand.
Which wasn't much given that the books were written for eleven-year-olds to understand.
When Tonks was here we went over various lessons on how to develop my skills as a Metamorphmagus, things were going… well in a word, great, surprisingly.
Tonks turned out to be a reasonable teacher on the subject and was able to break everything down for me on how it all worked, and in the endend....
....it came down to practising, which I had been getting plenty of during my other lessons
The second third of my day was spent on my heir lessons, spend going over everything an heir or a lord would have to know, and that was a lot.
Those lessons were split in half as well, half with Walburga on manners, etiquette and the more delicate matters, while the second half would be with Orion going over the laws and matters of importance involving politics.
In the second week of it all I had a joint lesson with them both on the importance on controlling my emotions.
This had led to the progression of emotional control in occlumency and the development of what I termed my ice mask where I clamp down my occlumency barriers and lock away my emotions.
I truthfully didn't like the feeling of it, it left me feeling cold and hard to the world hence why the term for the mask, but I had no doubt it would be necessary at times in the future.
And the final third of my day, well that was when I had the most fun. I spent the first half of it learning about spells that most would consider dark magic, curses and hexes of the most brutal kind, and questionable forms of other magics and the more combat orientated versions of some magics.
Like battle transfiguration or conjuration, now those two were some of my favourites after looking over several spells.
But some of the curses were more particularly brutal, and after spending the first half of that time learning about them.
I started to practice them using the training room in my trunk, which I had added a lot to. Given the amount of space I had available in it.
I had made a lot of improvements.
On the non-magical side, I had gotten a number of exercise and weightlifting equipment set up so I had basically the equivalent of a fully working gym in my trunk.
And while I know that It will be a year or so before I was able to start using them, it made me feel good to know I had them ready in advance.
On the magical side of things though I was set up as well, on the recommendations of my grandparents I had gone to Gringotts at the end of the first week and gotten a hold of a number of enchanted training dummies, but these weren't for punching oh no.
These things were magical and mechanical, made from goblin steel and enchanted near indestructible with a magic core of their own, that were enchanted to respond to different phrases used for target dummies as well as duelling opponents.
I had seven of them ordered and I spent at least three hours a day flinging spell and dodging the returns from one of them as I grew accustomed to my smaller body in the midst of combat.
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