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The Greatest Mystery	By : LadyLaran Category: Harry Potter Crossovers > Slash - Male/Male Views: 15225 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 8
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Author’s Note - Wow, it took longer than expected to get this going. I had some bad bouts with health issues as well as some real life drama. Add to that, I ran into issues creatively. This chapter simply didn’t want to emerge for a while, and the muses were sluggish at best. I hate it when that happens. I can’t thank my readers enough for the thoughtful reviews left. You guys are absolutely brilliant!
Disclaimer - I do not own Harry Potter or Death Note. The series in question belong to different people, and my name is certainly not on either of them. I just own the plot wombat that spawned this tale!
Chapter Ten - A Lesson in Perspective
Computers were evil.
Emerald eyes glowered at the green and silver monstrosity in front of him, the owner of said eyes grinding his teeth as the machine rebooted itself again. Harry swore up and down it was doing it on purpose, and the wizard was ready to draw his wand and blast the damned thing into oblivion. It was the more logical choice to destroy the abomination as his teacher was somewhat needed due to having to solve this case and all. It was extremely tempting to hex the other as he just knew the man was having a great deal of fun watching him suffer through this, and that just irked the wizard to an extreme amount.
The detective was having a grand time watching his teammate as he struggled to learn how to use the piece of technology in front of him. He had heard very colorful phrases blister the air in Latin and what sounded like a form of Gaelic as well. L had no idea that the young man was so well educated in the older forms of languages and was suitably impressed.
To be honest, the wizard was extremely open right now and it was fun reading the emotions and thoughts as they played on his face. That was a major part of the genius’s enjoyment, not that he’d tell anyone that. The last thing L wanted was to have his amusement taken away.
“Seriously, it isn’t that difficult,” he told him, dark eyes watching the other’s expressions as he made the comment to him. Much to his delight, the long haired male gave a frustrated growl as he glared heatedly at the machine before looking at L.
“Easy for you to say! You’ve been around the bloody contraptions all your life! I haven’t been near a computer since primary school!”
“And they’ve become simpler for users over the years to the point where an idiot can use one if properly motivated.”
At that comment, Harry gave L a glare, fingers twitching as if ready to pull out a wand or something to do something dreadful to him.
“I’m not an idiot.”
L gave him a small smirk before responding. He was goading the other and knew it, but it was so much fun!
“Really? You’re having quite a few problems with something that most children are able to do quite easily.”
Harry stared at him for a moment, then turned as he drew his wand. When in doubt, time to call for help. He knew a friend that wouldn’t let him down, especially considering she would understand his frustrations about his issues with learning the subject matter at hand.
“Accio communications mirror!”
Dark eyes watched as a small mirror flew from the wizard’s room to land into the outstretched hand. He shook his head, imagining what all could be done with such abilities before abandoning that train of thought to see what his companion was about to do.
“Hermione Granger,” the wizard called as he stared into the silvered surface of the looking glass.
L angled himself to see the mirror better without being seen when he heard a soft female’s voice answer after waiting a few moments.
“Harry? I hadn’t expected to hear from you so soon. Is everything all right?”
“If you count engaging in exercises of frustration and futility as being not fine, then no, I’m not. Otherwise, yes, I will be if I can master this Merlin be damned contraption I have been cursed with.”
Hermione’s eyes widened at the signs of Harry’s temper. Whatever it was that was going on had her best friend seriously frustrated.
“What can I do to help?”
“Apparently, writing my notes about my research and ideas isn’t enough for my employer,” he seethed. “I have to be able to type them up on this abomination that has the audacity to call itself a machine.”
To her credit, the witch didn’t laugh, though L had the feeling that she was getting very close to doing so. Her eyes sparkled with hidden mirth as she answered the frustrated wizard that was asking for help.
“So you need books on basic computer operations as well as word processing? Anything else?”
Harry looked up at L, who shook his head. The detective could handle the upload to the House or have Watari do the task after the end of each day.
“No, I think that’ll do for now, ‘Mione, unless you can think of other things regarding technology that I may run into?”
“Okay, I’ll give it some thought and call for your hyper-active friend when I have the books together for you. Also, the potions requested should be ready before long. He’s been working nonstop again.”
The Master of Death nodded, looking concerned. He hated it when he heard that, knowing the man in question was trying to keep himself busy so he wouldn’t have to face his worst memories again.
“Might want to send Neville to look in on him again,” he murmured. “We don’t want another relapse.”
“Agreed,” she answered. “All right, you get back to work and let me get your books together. By the way, Luna sends her love and requests reports on any unusual creature you might come across.”
Harry chuckled at that, watching the slightly exasperated look on Hermione’s face.
“Right, I’ll do so. Give her a kiss for me, and thanks a bunch. You’ve pretty much saved me from having to undo a lot of hexes.”
“Not a problem,” she said, giggling as the mirror went back to its normal silvery appearance.
“Prat,” he said softly towards the mirror, affection in his voice as he addressed his friend. Hermione was having a good laugh at this, he knew it.
“So you’re giving up?”
Green eyes stared at the detective for a moment before the wizard shrugged carelessly, trying to blow off his frustration.
“Going to have to,” he answered. “It’s either stopping now or having to replace the bloody thing because I’ve hexed it to oblivion. Don’t really want to do that.”
L gave a soft chuckle at that, acknowledging that the man was definitely out of patience for now. His fun was done for the moment, but it had been rather amusing to watch the other struggle to learn all of this.
“I suppose you could write it up for now and put it into the system once you read the books your friend sends you,” he said with a soft smirk.
“Great, more work,” Harry snarked back. “It’s a bloody nuisance if you ask me. Why do we have to send it to that place anyway?”
“In case we’re hacked and the information is compromised, we have placed in a secure location that we can access. Also, my heirs can look over the investigation and point out anything we might have overlooked. It also saves time if I give them a task associated with the case as they can look over the information for themselves instead of me having to brief them on it,” he answered.
“I see,” the smaller one murmured. “Question, what’s hacked?”
L explained the term in a simple way, helping the other understand what hacking meant. Harry got the idea and realized that it was probably a great deal more complicated but certainly was a nasty method of getting information.
“Why would you keep it this way if it can be stolen?”
“Well, the servers we back the data on are kept up to date and monitored by the computer experts. One of my heirs is, without a doubt, the top hacker in the world right now. He can keep it safe by testing it against his own skills.”
The wizard leaned back in his seat, thinking on what L had told him. It was pretty mind boggling that people had skills like this.
“He sounds like a wonderful asset to your team. Do all places have people like him to protect their own servers?”
“Sometimes,” he answered. “Some will just hire a company to keep things protected. It’s not always the best way to do it, but it’s some protection at least.”
Harry nodded, thinking for a moment.
“Does the police department write everything down and put the information on the server like you do?”
L froze for a moment, mind working overtime.
“Yes, they do,” he murmured. “Which means it’s possible that there will be hack if Kira wishes to find out what is known about the case.
“Can you use that?”
The detective smirked and nodded, reaching for his cell phone while he answered the other’s question. “I certainly can and will.”
The call was placed to Matt and the two talked for a short while, discussing the monitoring of the police network regarding the Kira case and any references to criminals that should be in the database. The hacker suggested keeping tabs on forced entrances into the server as well as flagging legitimate ones for scrutiny. It was an idea the international detective agreed with and after consulting a bit more, the heir agreed to bring the other two in on this for extra help.
When the call ended, L was very pleased with how it had gone. He was also happy with how Harry seemed able to bring possible issues up simply by asking questions that the taller male would have overlooked due to knowing this already.
“Harry, I have to thank you.”
The green eyed male looked up from his book with a confused expression on his face.
“For what?”
“By explaining things to you, it helped reveal potential risks to the investigation that I would have overlooked.”
Harry flashed him a playful grin.
“So keep asking questions then?”
“Yes,” L said, looking soberly at his companion. “It has been very fruitful thus far, and I wish to continue on the forward momentum we have been building.”
“Not a problem then,” the wizard told him. “I’m glad I could help even though I hadn’t realized that my questions helped out.
Slender fingers picked up a chocolate panda cookie before the owner of them looked at the man sitting next to him.
“As I said, continue asking them. There may be times that I may be unapproachable but do not stop asking them.”
“Consider it done then,” he promised. He’d had no idea that his not being familiar with things would be such a help but was glad that he was able to help in some way as the research would take time to yield any sort of fruit for his efforts.
L paused in taking a bite, giving him a light smile. So far, he was pleased that he’d followed the advice in bringing Harry onto the team. If things continued to be so promising, the detective would definitely consider offering him a position in the network.
The two focused on their work for a while, not moving much except to take a sip of tea or nibble at a snack while keeping their eyes focused on the information in front of them. The silence was broken sometime later by a distinct popping sound as Dobby entered the room and set a stack of books.
“Hermione,” the wizard roared when he saw the titles. L looked over and couldn’t help it as he broke into full laughter.
The witch had sent Harry a series of books, one of which was entitled ‘Computers for Dummies.’

Author’s End Note - Okay, a bit slow but helps push a bit more plot issues forward. Hopefully, this will help get me out of my rut as well. On top of muse issues, I had a computer problem spring up as well. I added more RAM to my computer only to have the network card die. Finally, I have that fixed and am able to be online more often. I hope everyone enjoyed this and please let me know what you think!
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