CHAPTER : 63

After the immortal thought about it; he figured it was a good thing. The more inventions that were on the market, the sooner the magicals would start thinking for themselves. Since Frostwell mostly tinkered with small things such as book-readers and calculators, and Hydrus was selling large contraptions like the washing machines and tellies (which mostly sold to Muggle-born), they wouldn't really be competing.

Hydrus and Mr. Parker discussed the store and the profits and then Hydrus went to find Remus. He found him next to a dryer. The werewolf was reading the manual, trying to figure out what it was for.

"It's a dryer," Hydrus said, startling the other man. "It dries your clothes."

"This doesn't look like any machine I've ever seen. We magical folk usually use a drying charm."

"Yeah, but that leaves clothes stiff, this doesn't. I'll show you the one I have at the house."

"You have one? Of course you do, sorry, stupid question," Remus said as he put the manual down. "I have to say, you have a real good thing going here. Ready to go?"

"Yup, all done. Did you want to look around more? I have a lot of this at the house, I just thought you would like to see the things I don't have," he said. He then bent closer and whispered, "Mine stuff is better, didn't want to push too much advancement on the public."

Remus hadn't really looked over Hydrus's house, he had mostly been thinking about whether or not to move in. He still hadn't reached that decision. So, he nodded to the other man and they left the store.

Hydrus got a creepy feeling that someone was watching him and they didn't have good thoughts. He looked around, but didn't see anyone, so he shrugged it off for now and the two men left the Alley.

After they got back home, they found Sirius, as Padfoot, curled up on the floor and Harry sleeping on top of him, in that boneless way which only babies can do, drool pooling on the dogs fur. Hydrus called up a camera and the first pictures were taken. He then jerked his head to the kitchen and led the way, Remus following stifling his laughter.

"Come on, I'll show you the laundry room," Hydrus said when they were out of earshot. He showed the werewolf the marvels of non-magical technology. While Remus had spent some time in London, he always kept his house magical. So he had seen a lot of the machines, he just had no idea what they were for. After that they sat at the kitchen table and chatted over tea. They talked about the inventions in the shop and how they differed from the ones Hydrus had at the house.

An hour later they heard the other two awake and went to join them. "Good nap, Sirius?" Remus asked with a huge smile.

"Yes, it was actually," Sirius sniffed, nose in the air.

"Good, good."

They spent a good part of the afternoon trying to teach Harry how to build castles with his blocks, it was relaxing for everyone. A simple dinner of fish and chips was had and soon enough it was Harry's bedtime. Remus offered to do the honors. When he came back down a half an hour later, they settled in the living room, with tea and cakes.

"I sent another letter to Grandfather, asking him to tell Cissy to keep her money away from Death Eaters. Whether or not he will do so, I don't know," Sirius said, getting down to business.

Hydrus nodded, there was little they could do in that front, but if that didn't work he had no problem kidnapping the Death Eaters that got away, and putting them with their comrades. Judging from the reactions of the other two, he would have to do it alone. Oh, they would know it was him, but at least their hands would be clean.

"I still have a few people that need to disappear. They aren't Death Eaters, but the things they do cause a lot of misery for the public. Dolores Umbridge is the one who set up those Muggle-born camps. And Rita Skeeter was the reason for most of the populace turning on me. Her vicious quill caused many good people to fall," he said, ticking the two hated women off on his fingers.

The other two men exchanged worrying glances.

"Are you going to kill them?" Remus asked.

"Look, I know you guys think I'm unbalanced, but I truly only want what's best for magical Britain," Hydrus sighed, pinching his nose. "I really don't want to go down that path and if I can find a way not to kill, I will. The exception being Voldemort; however, if we get the horcruxes first that shouldn't be an issue."

"Unless he makes another one," Sirius said. "After all, he did before. This time you don't have a connection with him, so you won't know if he fades after we get the other two."

"When we get those, I'll make a trip to Albania, talk to the locals, listen to gossip," Hydrus said, already making plans; maybe he would use vengeful ghosts as spies. "Hey, Sirius, can you write to Marius and set up a meeting so we can talk to him. Also we need to get the Fidelius up soon."

"I can do that," Sirius said.

"Good, let him pick the place and time."

"Who do you want to make the Secret Keeper?" Remus asked.

"Remus, you cast the charm and I'll be the Keeper," Hydrus said. "Now that that's settled, let's play some video games. Remus hasn't tried it yet."

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