Funny thing scrying, he mused. For some reason it never worked if he tried to use it to predict what would happen to him or anyone he knew. There were people who could do that but Harry had never been able to see as much as a glimmer of his own future. Oddly enough, it worked spectacularly well if he used it to predict things like the stock market, which was really ridiculously lucky for him.
Harry had never bothered to take Divination in summer camp or at college as Trelawney had ruined the subject for him permanently, but he had still learned dozens of scrying techniques along the way from books, friends and by auditing the occasional lecture. Using these methods he had spent the first few years post college day trading with a vengeance. He had amassed quite a fortune during that time.
He did get bored with that eventually though and for the last few months had been looking for something else to do. He had performed a scrying ritual, looking specifically for a stock in which he could park his money safely for the next few years. He had received a vision of a fruit orchard in which instead of fruit, there were shining gadgets growing on the trees. A vast crop of shining rectangles with tiny pictures on them.
Well, he thought, only one real way to interpret that. It looked like Apple would be getting into the smartphone market at some point. He had heard rumours about it but now he had absolutely no reservations about investing most of his money there. He had gotten the sense that the crop would take at least a few more years to ripen and that after that...well; he would probably end up making a ton of money.
In the meantime, he needed to find something to keep him busy. Getting a regular nine to five office job did not interest him at all. Dobby was running his furniture store just fine all on his own and while Harry would help out there from time to time, Dobby really did not need him there.
In the past he had also gone with Luna and her father on their trips and helped them research various articles for their paper but that also was not really his forte.
Warding on the other hand was something he was exceptionally skilled at and also something in which he had managed to build up something of a reputation in. A set of Dobbins' wards while not quite there yet would eventually be known as the ultimate in security. Unfortunately, while he did undertake warding projects from time to time, it again was something that was not in very high demand. Very few people required the type of ultra-high security wards that Harry specialised in. He could probably have all the business he could handle and more if he was willing to handle jobs which required the standard security wards but Harry found that type of work much to boring to contemplate doing on a full time basis.
He sighed, and prepared to get up and face the day. For some reason he felt a bit off this morning. As if something had happened...but for the life of him, he could not think what it could be. Was it just the hangover? Maybe the potion had been a bit off? He had no idea. All he knew was that he felt...different.
He had a quick shower and walked back into the bedroom to get dressed. Luna was stirring and would probably awake any moment, so he should probably get some coffee on.
That was the moment that Luna awoke and sat up in bed. She rubbed her eyes before turning to him with her usual beaming smile.
Then she screamed.
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Harry grabbed his wand off the dresser and spun around wildly trying to see whatever it was that had made Luna scream like that. "What happened?" he cried.
She was looking at him as if she had never seen him before in her life.
"You...You...You're not Jim...How?...Why?...Harry Potter," she said.
Harry's legs collapsed from under him and he had to grab the back of a chair to steady himself. His fidelius...how...what...bloody hell! Somehow, his Fidelius Charm had broken. As far as he knew, the only way that would happen would be if the Secret Keeper gave up the secret...but he had made sure that the secret keeper would never be able to do that. So what had happened?
Even if the Secret Keeper died then whoever they had made privy to the secret would become the new secret keepers. Which meant that he and Dobby should be the new secret keepers. But...
Okay, he was the secret as well. So perhaps he could not be the secret keeper as well, but Dobby...Dobby was an elf and... Yes, the book he had found the Fidelius Charm in had said it had to be hidden inside a human soul...so what happens to a Fidelius Charm when the Secret Keeper dies and there is nobody who is capable of becoming the Secret Keeper in his stead.
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