Misc Snips
Until it wasnt.
Leslie knew, and suspected Harry knew, that his hips were a bit too narrow to birth a full sized baby. Not over-sized but one well within the percentage of average.
Also, even fully dilated, Harry was still a centimeter too small. Her choices were limited outside of a hospital.
"Harry. Harry are you with me?"
"Y-yes Hea-Doctor Thomkins."
"You are at max dilation but its still too small for the baby to get through. Aside from that, your pelvis is also too narrow. I'm limited in what I can do here unless you consent for me to take you to the hospital-"
"No hospitals."
"So here are your choices then. I have to either use forceps that will forcibly widen "
-- Hello Again, cut because a man magically having a baby doesn't have to be medically accurate.
"Also do you think we could replicate this at the manor?"
"What I did the last time I did this- 'I need to see the place where things are hidden' and as for a replication...I don't think the founders of Hogwarts made this like they did the ceiling of the Great Hall. The castle made this over time. If Wayne manor ever got saturated in magic over time, it could generate one of its own but I doubt it would in our lifetime. Its more likely gotham would generate its own room or building of requirement than Wayne manor."
-- Across the Universe chapter 2, cut because it veers off of the speed of the story. Might include this in Not The Hero Wanted
"Talia."
"Potter."
"This whole thing stinks of Ra's plan. You know how this won't get him what he wants." Harry said casually, drawing a sword from an extensible pocket.
"It is the will of the Demon Head. That child will become his Heir." Talia also drew her sword.
"Heir or vessal for his bid for immortality? Oh, he didn't tell you I knew or what his endgame is." He made a pitying noise. "Poor Talia, made a blinded dog for her own father. Tell you what, you say you failed the mission and don't touch my son and I don't annihilate all of your family and everything you bloody stand for, hm?"
-- Deja Vu, holding up the plot honestly. Also doesnt make sense Harry knows that much.
"I kinda always wondered why none of the weasley family doesn't have house elves. Not all of my cousins are poor. A few have some if they need it like crazy old and their magic is fading but if they can afford it, they switch to human caretakers or take on a cousin to help them." Ron said thoughtfully, actually not eating.
"I don't know if House Longbottom has cursed or bred house elves. We are a newer family but still a part of the Sacred 28 so its difficult to tell." Neville ran his fingers through his hair, looking distressed. He may not had been an active member of S.P.E.W. but he didn't wish cruelty upon any creature...except Bellatrix. She can go fuck herself.
"Well there are two ways we can go about this." Harry said with a sigh.
"And they are?" Neville asked.
"Hermione's original plan was to become Minister of Magic and just pass laws that improve the welfare of the house elves. There will be pushback because the main houses that have house elves would reject the monitoring and reporting and declare that Hermione, as a muggleborn, doesn't understand Wizarding Culture and is messing with their traditions." Harry said calmly.
"That would go over as well as warm sick." Ron remarked, dodging Hermione's smack with practiced ease. "What's the other way?"
"Seek out other families that have Domestic Elves and let them become known. Attach a stigma to house elves that to have house elves is a low brow new money way for doing things. Pretty much shame them out of keeping house elves and then when they inevitably get rid of their elves, we snatch them up with an actual S.P.E.W office and hire them while we rehabilitate the ones we can." Harry said.
"And you came up with that on the spot." Hermione gaped at him. Harry grinned.
"Well, if I am going to be a vigilante, I need to think faster than normal. Detective, politician and fighter rolled into one."
"Hold on! You're going to be a vigilante?" Neville asked, bewildered.
"Yeah, Harry fell for a fit bloke with sad eyes and said he'll jump around the city punching crime with him." Ron laughed. Neville raised an eyebrow.
"Joining the auror force in Gotham wasn't an option?"
"Technically I am. The GDMLE does endorse me so they can free up a bit of manpower. Gotham is crazy crime ridden and the GDMLE works with GCPD because there is so much spill over. So I will be handling mostly magical crimes and where it crosses with the mundane world while Bruce will be handling mundane crimes." Harry shrugs, taking a sip of tea. "I had to get permission from ICW but apparently I am not the only wix to try this. This has been a thing for centuries. There is even a form for it and everything."
"Really? I know Wizarding Britain is a bit behind but for that long..." Hermione perked up.
"For America at least, its usually native tribes. A good amount of cowboys were also vigilantes. The form is just giving permission to have the vigilante free to use magic in front of muggles in select circumstances. Pretty much like being an auror but with a more localized jusristiection. Like if there was an auror corps just for London that handles only London and things that affect London business." Harry explained.
"Like Scotland Yard?" Tom pipes up. He had been listening and watching the whole discussion from the Domestic Elves to vigilantism.
"Yes but I have to keep a secret identity. If I am outed to the muggles, then the ICW revokes any claims or protections on me."
-Very detracting from the point of this story, The Soul Set Free (Is Free Indeed). Maybe make another story about all the paperwork harry has to do to be a vigilante. Or maybe toss in in the OVA???