Exhausted from the day and late-night he barely made it into the shower that night. His mind was a whirl with the many things that had happened today. Luna saying she was going to marry him, suspected of discovering War Magic, fighting a Dragon, a champion dying and the other maimed severely. Luna saying she was going to marry him, his friends still being his friends, Luna saying she was going to marry him, Family Secrets, Luna saying she was going to marry him, Luna kissing him.

Yeah, that part was a big deal. Harry had never known anyone who wanted him like that. Ron was a great best mate, Hermione was a good friend, the boys in the dorm were always a good laugh. None of them was anything like Luna though, she was something different that he really liked.

Sitting on the sofa he was thinking when Luna arrived sitting down beside him. Just like that first time she turned laying her head on his thigh before pulling out a book.

"You're comfortable Harry, I like that."

He smiled at her simple statement, he enjoyed having her close to him. Unsure what to do with his left hand he just rested it across the back of the sofa.

He kept trying to focus on his runes. He needed to think of a rune scheme that would let him tell them secrets and keep them safe.

Well, he kept trying to but parts of him kept calling attention to the pretty blonde in his lap. Giving up he just laid his head back and tried to relax. Eventual he must have succeeded as he woke up on the sofa the next morning with Luna cuddled on him.

He realized two things right then, the first was he loved this moment and would easily make a Patronus right now. The second was he really had to pee right now.

Getting up carefully he made his way to the bathroom getting ready for the day.

Stepping out he woke up Luna so she could have time to get ready this morning as well. She had woke up when he got up and was just dozing still.

As she got ready for the day Harry sat down getting a list together. First, he needed a way for his friends to keep secrets. It had to be something they were unlikely to ever take off or lose.

Then he needed something that made them able to find him that only they could use.

After scratching around he came up with a bracelet idea. Making them hide secrets including themselves should work.

He was getting closer when Luna came over and started helping.

Secrets Known are Secrets Kept, even after I have left, Bracelet of Kept Secrets.

It wouldn't hide the bracelet but it would protect any secrets learned even if the bracelet is lost or taken.

He hoped to trade a pair of pendants he would rune for the goblins for at least five bracelets.

"Luna what do you think, will the goblins trade for five bracelets if I offer them a pair of pendants with this rune scheme."

"See the Disguise, Hear the Lies, Notice the Thief, Trust to Keep"

Luna laughed out loud and gave Harry a kiss on the cheek.

"Harry they will make as many bracelets as you want for a pair of these."

He smiled at the peck on his cheek and nodded. He had a pair of wooden pendants he had made up that he set the runes on.

After the night before the first task runes had been much easier. He had been right, working through such a difficult rune scheme had advanced his skills tremendously.

Luna wrote another letter asking her father to make the trade with the goblins.

They made their way to the great hall and sat with everyone. He had charmed a sickle to let friends interact with Luna and him. Passing the five of then he had made to his friends each was named only to work for the name on each. Fred and George could sort themselves out.

Breakfast was nice spending it with all his friends again. Though he could see a few strange looks sent his friends way when they spoke to Luna and Harry.

By the end of the day, Harry was feeling much better. Though there was an awkward moment when Ron had realized Harry wasn't sleeping in the dorm anymore.

He had understood that Harry had betrayed and moved out of Gryffindor. When he explained he literally couldn't tell them or show them where he was staying, it had taken some convincing.

Still after offering to make a study room next to the library just for them where they could relax Ron and Hermione relented.

He was interested to see that he couldn't even talk about it now. It had taken Luna also holding the hand of someone for them to even approach the door with them. Her name being on the door changed ownership to both of them so they both had to keep each others secrets.

He cleared out a smaller room next to his and got to setting it up. He had altered the secrecy portion having it be according to an access list. All seven of their names were on it with more protections on keeping it secret.

Everyone had been impressed Saturday morning when he dragged them there to show them. A few double desks again and far more sofas and chairs gave the room a comfy study feeling.

He was still waiting to hear back from Xeno on how the trade went. Hopefully, it would go well, Luna seemed sure of it.

They had decided to try and figure out the clue to the egg as no other champion had managed to even get their egg. This would help him greatly for sure or at least keep him from being disadvantaged.

When the horrible screeching started he had slammed it closed right away. When Luna opened it again they looked at the crazy girl is askance.

Closing it after a bit she nodded.

"Mermish, or some underwater language at least. They are all either really high pitched or to low for us to hear. No idea what they are saying though."

Everyone was agog at the girl, she had the most random knowledge of things sometimes. It was a start and that was something.

Out of reflex Harry sat down and started trying to write his runes only to find he couldn't actually write anything.

It took him a minute to realize what was happening. The secrecy runes were preventing him from accidentally sharing in front of others. Shrugging he got up, grabbed the egg and walked over to Luna.

"I can't write anything out with others around it seems. Going to the room, I have an idea I want to try."

Nodding Luna waved him off and started on her homework. He didn't look stressed and hadn't asked for help so she trusted him to be okay.

He had a random set of a man's and women's torque that had been among the extra the goblins had sent for the Mirror. It was worth far more it seems than the few unenchanted trinkets he had wanted.

Writing down ideas it took him only a few minutes to determine a workable solution.

" Hear the Words, Speak the Sounds, Your Gift of Languages are without Bounds"

Setting the rune scheme in the men's torque he put it on and opened the egg. It hurt his ears for a few seconds though it slowly started making sense. After a minute he was tracking what the words were. By the time he had listened to the full thing twice and written it down during a third time, he was fluent in the language.

Setting the enchantment down on the woman's torque for Luna he made his way to the study room.

Handing the torque to her she put it on without question. She trusted him and it was rather nice looking.

Once it was on he started talking to her in that screeching language for about a minute until she started replying. Soon they were chatting back and forth without pause.

Hermione was amused and really hoped Harry found a way to tell them safely soon. This secret was killing her to know, but she didn't want someone to kill her for it.

After Ron pushed his shoulder and told him to stop giving them a headache. Laughing Harry switched to English and handed over the parchment he had translated the word to.

They all agreed they had no idea what would be used. Regardless it seemed like a good idea for Harry to learn to swim.

Harry remembered the sunning pool room and then twins confirmed it saying they had come upon it in their explorations.

That could wait though as he had months to learn to swim. He quietly also knew he could come up with some runes that would handle the issue rather easily.

Sunday afternoon Hermione found Harry to let him know the Headmaster needed to speak to Harry. As the Headmaster could not find Harry he had approached Hermione after figuring out she was talking with the boy again.

Harry made his way up to the room, Luna following behind him for support. If no one could even know about her then no one could stop her.

They were slightly worried about the Headmaster's role as an ICW representative. Hopefully, it would all end easily enough.

Harry announcing himself to the gargoyle seemed to be enough for Dumbledore to see him again and he greeted Harry as he entered his office.

"Harry, it's great to see you again. You've given me a bit of a scare disappearing like that for so long. You are looking good so it seems to be okay."

Harry nodded and replied.

"Yes sir, doing fine. I just was getting ready for the task sir. Really only want to make it through this tournament alive and whole sir. I've been lucky so far, the others were not nearly so lucky."

"I understand, we will be holding a silent vigil tonight in the great hall for Cedric. That was truly regrettable, horrible tragedy."

Before Harry could reply Dumbledore's demeanor changed and Harry could feel the change. Gone was the kind headmaster, in his place was a powerful wizard who ensured order in the largest governing body of magic in the world.

Here was Supreme Mugwump Dumbledore and he had questions.

"It must be known, was the magic used during your task learned from another, a book or discovered by you."

Harry could feel the full weight of Dumbledore's magic pressing on the room. Luna was off to the side gulping but nodding encouragingly to Harry.

He sat up some and replied as much as he was willing to answer.

"I figured it out on my own after putting some things together."

Taking a deep breath he screwed up his courage and continued on.

"That's all I will say about it, it's now Potter Family Secrets and will stay that way."

Dumbledore was happy inside, if Harry could stand up to him even somewhat right now then Harry should get out of this with minimal restraints. If he had folded then he couldn't have been trusted with such powerful magic.

"Understood, yet the ICW must make itself clear here. No Nation or Army may gain access to this magic of yours. House Potter may not levy any armies using this magic as well without ICW permission."

Luna was thinking hard and realized this was a test for Harry. As the hopefully soon to be lady Potter she felt it was well in her right to help out Harry on the sly.

"Harry, agree but you have to ask for compensations of some kind. This is your magic they are trying to control, a fair deal needs to be struck."

While them not throwing Harry in prison seemed like a fair deal already, he trusted Luna.

"I can agree to that, but what do I get in return?"

Dumbledore was excited to hear the boy, no young man before him ask for what he could have in return. Harry would make it through this fine enough.

"The ICW will label you a protected ICW asset. This means you will be protected from national incidents. Any trials involving you must be under ICW jurisdiction and are required to be held fairly and honestly."

That seemed fair to Harry though Luna was telling him to ask if there was anything else.

"Is that all or is there anything else?"

Nodding he went for the last and most important test. First, he needed a few most answers from Harry.

"Yes Mr. Potter there is more, but we need to know if you have shared any of your new magic and if so, with whom."

Dumbledore watched as Harry started staring off focused on something. The young man seemed deep in thought until he startled and began talking to the air.

"What!? No, you don't have to do that?"

Recoiling after a few seconds he began talking quickly.

"No, of course, I care for you and it could work out fine. I just don't want you forced into marriage!"

Albus was sure somehow the boy was communicating with someone. Interesting, that should not be possible, his office was secured by some of the most powerful magic the ICW offered.

"Well yes I would be happy and if you are sure then yes. Still, we should be doing this proper like. Alright, I'll listen and stop talking."

After a minute Harry nodded and looked to Dumbledore.

Albus had a vague idea of what was going on and found it amusing. He struggled to keep it off his face as he maintained his stern visage. The poor boy was already learning the ropes for marriage before he was married.

"My fiancée Miss Luna Lovegood is also aware of the nature of my new magic and has been helping me discover more of it."

Albus started thinking, the Lovegood's were eccentric yet highly intelligent people. Everything he could remember of Luna, not much honestly, reinforced that her intelligence and eccentricity were in full force.

The Lovegood girl would be a good match to learn how to push his magic to the edge. They were also an old pureblood family well aware of how things worked. It helped they had friends in almost every country or ministry he could think of.

Yes, this could work well. If this War Magic of Harry's was powerful enough it could also easily count as a power Voldemort knows not. Not that Voldemort would be an issue if he could get Harry on board for the next bit.

"I assume somehow you are communicating with her despite the impressive security of my office."

Harry had the good nature to look embarrassed at least but he nodded to something and sat up again.

"If you can give your sworn word as Supreme Mugwump to keep my Family Secrets I can explain."

Excellent, he was right, the girl would be perfect for helping Harry swim the dangerous waters of politics.

Raising his wand and reaching out his hand he held Harry's as well. Tapping his wand to a ring hidden on his middle finger it showed itself, a glow surrounding their hands.

"Supreme Mugwump Albus Dumbledore calls the magic of the ICW to secure anything said in this room until all occupants leave."

A wash of magic spread outwards from the room bringing hundreds of runes into focus. The paintings froze and there was a stillness in the air.

"From this point forward anything told can only be shared by agreement of both of us."

Harry was in awe and looked over to Luna. She was fine it seemed, the magic had not known she existed so it could not affect her somehow.

"Alright well promise to not freak out please sir. Luna if you would."

Harry gestured to the side of the room and Dumbledore looked over just to drop his wand in astonishment. He was stunned as the Lovegood girl appeared in front of him.

That had not been invisibility, she has simply not existed there until just now. The feedback from the spells and runes made that clear, she was not there a second ago.

"Oh dear Harry, what have you stumbled in to?"

Harry and Luna had a short discussion deciding that Dumbledore's seal of secrets as Supreme Mugwump would be fairly good. Still, she handed him a knut and he added his room secret-keeping rune scheme to it.

Dumbledore raised an eyebrow at what he saw, not even sure what he had seen. The way Harry had accomplished it made it clear that it was an easy task, one likely practiced a few times as well.

"Sir it all started when I was trying to figure out how my name being put into the Goblet meant I had to compete."

It took almost three hours for the whole story to come out and for Harry to give a few examples.

To think he had put two and two together and instead of four, he had solved a mystery of magic few were aware even existed.

This was far bigger than he could have ever guessed. It took Harry coaching him for all of ten minutes before he had made a successful rune scheme with Harry's method.

"Harry I will be honest, you need to join the ICW War Council. I had planned to try and talk up your magic a bit, see if I could get you on it. Now I'm honestly afraid of what could happen if you don't join. Knowledge like this will change the landscape of magic."

He made sure both Luna understood how grave this was.

"I won't play any games here, this is far too important. We need you to join the War Council, likely we will leave tonight and you will be inducted no later than tomorrow morning."

"Your magic will easily be declared a World Threat Level Strategic Asset (WTLSA). As such you and Luna will be given your own personal security detail at all times. Your magic will be shared with the other WTLSA members. A magic contract protecting your knowledge will be signed by all and you will sign on to their contracts as well."

"If you pass without a designated heir, one of your choosing, then the magic knowledge will be locked away and unusable by the other members. This ensures they will each do their best to keep each other alive."

"You will have the most powerful and dangerous magical beings in the world looking out for you. As Voldemort has declared himself against you they will send in a mop-up team. He will be handled in weeks at most. Harry this is the best possible solution, better than anything I could have dreamed of."

Luna leaped across the chair arm and kissed Harry with a hug.

"Harry this is great, we can learn the limits of your runes even more. The best in the world will be helping us! We'll be safe and can live without fear of others coming after us for the secrets of your runes."

Luna broke down slightly at that and cried tears of joy. She hadn't said anything but she had been so worried about the secret getting out.

Albus knew the Prophecy was moot now, hell even the Tri-Wizard tournament was garbage. The ICW Fate Breakers were rarely used and only in the most serious of circumstances. The subverting prophecy was not something taken lightly. Harry's coming status as a WTLSA would qualify for them to be brought into this.

Breaking the enchantments on the Goblet would also be easily accomplished with an ICW team. He was willing to bet if he had thought of it, Harry could have done so easily as well.

He noticed the Lovegood girl had realized the potential danger they were in and that this was a refuge from that danger. Indeed he had been right, the girl was perfect for Harry's needs.

"Yes sir, that sounds good. I guess we're ready when you are."

Albus sent of a Patronus to Minerva stating an emergency had come up and he would be out for a few days.

Using the floo he led the two into ICW headquarters. It was going to be a busy few days, though he was honestly happy for the first time in what felt like decades.

Harry would have a safe and long life now well protected. Voldemort was no longer an issue, and the boy no longer had to die. The Fate Breakers would take care of any issues that popped up. Smiling with joy he led Harry and Luna down the ICW halls.

A/N

The first story is complete, once the muse comes along again for this story I will return and publish an epilogue. This story draws, and my next one as well, from my main story AU. I have been working on the main story AU for some time now. The Fate Breakers and a few other things mentioned throughout the story are from that AU. I enjoyed letting him hide his runes for as long as possible. Still, reasonable expectations should exist about something as powerful as that. PIcture the Armies of Grindelwald marching with scores of banners like those and worse. It makes sense the ICW, and various countries would keep a careful eye out for such magic.

I hope you all enjoyed my work and had a wonderful holiday!