After some bargaining, Felix bought three sets of equipment each, and then he took Lupin and the twins through the streets of London, naming one muggle company after another and buying miscellaneous things.
Back at Future World in Diagon Alley, Felix piled the items in the lobby, stacking them into a small mountain, attracting a crowd of new employees who came over to see both the oddities and the company's boss, who they never had seen before.
Felix led them to sit around and held a brief small meeting.
"I'll be staying here for some time to work with everyone to get the company's first product made." Felix said, "And to modify some machines and make them adaptable to magic, by the way."
Penelope reminded him, "Professor Hap, oh sorry, boss-"
"It's okay, you can still call me Professor, or just Hap." Felix said with a smile.
"... Okay, Professor," Penelope said a little nervously, but she quickly went into the working mood, "We need to consider the attitude of the Ministry of Magic, especially the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office. "
"You mean the division headed by Arthur Weasley?" Felix said meaningfully.
Penelope's face reddened, and she pretended not to hear that "This division's duty is to prohibit the enchantment of muggle-made items for fear that they might return to muggle stores or homes."
Felix saw similar concerns on the faces of the others, he thought for a moment and replied seriously, "That is indeed a problem, but I have studied this part of the law carefully, and it will not affect us much, we just need to report those engraving machines to the Ministry of Magic."
"Going along with this, you will find that the entire law is for one purpose, to prevent the exposure of the wizarding community."
"To summarize, the prohibition of misuse of muggle artefacts has three key purposes." Felix swept his gaze around, looked at the crowd who showed confused expressions, so he twiddled his fingers as he said, "First, it is forbidden to maliciously enchant some items and trick muggles; second, it is forbidden to sell enchanted items that have the same form as muggle items, especially things that are unique to them, such as a toaster;" he smiled, " Of course, nothing is absolute, the Ministry of Magic does have a list of permits, and not all of them are not allowed."
"Third, the prohibition of private modification, adding other functions, the provisions of this type of law are rather vague, probably because, if you really want to pursue, many people will have prohibited items in their homes, and they may not even know about it themselves. So there's only one thing worth noting-" he said softly in a long-drawn-out voice, "and that is not to use magic-related or enchanted things in front of ordinary people."
The Weasley twins looked at each other and Fred snickered, "Dad's heart is being figured out." He is aware that this law was drafted by his own father, who was curious about everything in the Muggle world, and for this reason, he left himself many back doors.
Before Arthur Weasley, the relevant laws were blank in the Ministry of Magic, but with more and more examples of misuse of muggle items, the Ministry finally decided to create a law based on it, and it was in this setting that Mr. Weasley made the law, and became the head of this department.
Felix continued: "One of our purposes is improvement and transformation of muggle items, what does that mean? Not simply copying, but drawing on their exhibited knowledge and ideas rather than a specific thing;"
"For example, the magic lamp, its principle is completely different from the electric lamp used by ordinary people, the only similarity is - they both can illuminate."
The crowd laughed lowly, their hidden worries dispersed, most people actually do not have the courage to openly disobey the Ministry of Magic.
"In the process, you will find that we are using the concept of some item- a more convenient and practical way of lighting, we do not need to bother to learn how to use electricity, how to study the materials and principles of electric lights, but to consider how to use magic to achieve the effect we want. "
Felix looked at the crowd and said seriously, "I don't want to see prejudice against the non-magical world in the 'Future World'. Any specific person, specific group, as long as it possesses obvious external characteristics, there will always be someone who will dislike it. To put it bluntly, some people see the advantages, some people see the disadvantages ..."
"I do not want you to dwell on these boring things, hold an appreciative heart, you will find that in the past few hundred years, the outside world has achieved equally impressive achievements, and in the process, they have demonstrated the wisdom, ideas and achievements are worthy of learning."
In the days that followed, Felix stayed in the future world's vertical castle while Lupin, Penelope, and a few seventh-year graduates who had mastered the ancient magic of illumination completed the task of designing the magic lamp.
The most difficult part of this was how to store the magic sequence of ancient magic on a specific physical object. Felix went through the materials left by Nicolas Flamel and finally found an enchanted material like flowing mercury and shaped them with magic.
This process involves a lot of attempts, for which Snape deliberately ran over to protest because he detested the material consumed too quickly, then the results improved after Felix joined the research.
The basic chandeliers, candlesticks, and lantern-shaped magic lamps were successfully completed one after another, after which a Ravenclaw graduated witch proposed to use transfiguration to design a shape of an eagle, which, when used, only needed to pronounce a specific syllable, and the eagle would flutter its wings, fly into midair, and spit out a bright ball of light.
The idea was unanimously praised by the 17 Ravenclaw house graduate employees, and then more magic lamp forms were brought up, the powerful, with the function of waking lion; jumping badger that can follow the master around; as well as snake magic lamp inlaid with green gems also appeared one after another.
Felix added several dragon-shaped ones, when it morphs into dragon form, the light will be emitted in the shape of a breath.
The purchased engraving machine also came in handy, Felix did not expect to use it so soon, he simply modified it, so that employees in their free time can familiarize themselves with its operation, and try to improve it.
As a result, a male wizard named " Funk David" came up with an idea. When he was fiddling with the engraving machine, a flash of light came to him, and he suggested that he could make a batch of magic cards modelled after the chocolate frog cards, and the most basic engraving part would be done by the machine.
Felix was interested in this idea, and he perfected the idea on this basis - using the machine to complete the engraving part, and then coating the cards with a layer of enchanted material, and the wizards could hold the cards and practice the corresponding runes by tracing the marks on them with their fingers.
Felix felt that he would have an additional teaching tool in his ancient runes class this year, and he gladly made a batch to help the company with its first business.
Soon, the first batch with a total of one hundred rune cards was created, It can be considered as a simplified version of the runes that Hermione carved on the chestnut board with a rune carving knife, it can only be used for reference purposes, and it is a stable rune. Once you successfully managed to trace the card using magic, it will show the magic corresponding to the rune, such as a waterfall, a flame. Of course, this is only a vague image of magic.
The twins came up with a mischievous version, in which once the magic is interrupted, the card will emit an ear-piercing scream and loudly taunt the wizard who used it.
"It's what life has inspired us to do." Fred said with emotion.
Felix did not adopt it for fear that the young wizards would become collectively insecure. He valued the rune cards more as an aid to learning runes, while the twins enjoyed the idea, and tried adding a few fake cards to a stack of real cards, which would morph into a flock of rats that would scurry around if they tried to inject magic power.
George said with a smile, "We can give it to Harry as a birthday present."
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Early morning of July 31.
When Harry opened his presents, he was a little baffled, Professor Hap and the Weasley twins sent the exact same gift, both of them are a stack of cards, even the instructions are the same.
But the Weasley twins' instructions had an odd smiley face drawn on them, and he felt a little alarmed.
He curiously followed the instructions, trying to use his fingers to trace on the card, and injected magic, the moment of success, a green lush tree image popped up from the card, gently swaying, making a "rustling" sound.
Harry looked at it for a while, very interested in trying other different cards, he thus recognized a lot of unfamiliar runes. However, he finally discovered the difference between the two gifts.
After a failed attempt, the card made a "bang" sound, the purple smoke exploded, the card turned into five or six fat mice, in the narrow gaps in the room, it startled him, he tried to drive these little guys out from under the bed, and they squeaked even more.
When he heard Uncle Vernon's snoring, he did not try to make too excessive actions, and quietly waited for a while, the fat mice came out on their own, gathered together, with a cloud of purple smoke, they reverted back to a card.
Harry opened other gifts, Ron, Hermione, and Hagrid send him three large cakes, which made Dudley's weight loss program have no effect on him, in fact, except for breakfast, he usually slipped away to Sirius's rented house, where he stayed until late afternoon.
In addition to his desire for kinship being fulfilled, Harry discovered a benefit that he hadn't thought of before, which is that he could cast spells outside the school. In the next house of Mrs. Figg, Harry could use Sirius's spare wand - according to him, the wand he snatched from the dark wizard was not very comfortable, and he went to Ollivander to have another one matched.
The dragon heartstring wand was used by Harry, in fact, he is not used to it, always feeling it's inferior to his own wand, but the ability to cast spells already made him satisfied. He and Sirius practiced dueling in a house with a stable enchantment imposed on things, After that afternoon, Sirius and Harry were lying on the sofa, trying hard to watch the boring TV program, which made Sirius enthusiastic about dueling.
He taught Harry quite a few dueling skills, but he soon discovered that Harry had developed his own fighting style, which was still a bit tender, but it did present. And Harry is very good at it, which made the dueling game between them close to real fighting.
Sirius more than once called out Harry's father's name forgetfully, which made Harry heartbroken and touched.
There was an incident in which the Ministry of Magic sent him a letter warning him about the fact that he was casting spells outside of school, and then Sirius sent back a howler, and then the Ministry didn't follow up.
Harry was originally a little jittery until Sirius explained, "This law is for students of Muggle origin to prevent them from exposing themselves to Muggles, but do you think they can manage the children of wizarding families?"
Harry was delighted and convinced, and he also put the matter into a letter, and Hermione wrote back that she also wanted to learn from Sirius and send a howler letter to him, and Harry smiled a very big smile, but when he saw the back of the letter, Hermione mentioned that she is studying curses, he couldn't laugh anymore.
...
In his bedroom, Harry opened Sirius' gift box, which was only palm-sized and perfectly square in shape, and when he touched the lid, a rattling sound came from inside. Harry flinched, not worried about a curse, but worried about the odd gift Sirius had sent him.
Harry had long since discovered that his godfather is, in some ways, less mature than himself. For example, he wouldn't be able to cook for himself, and he used life magic so badly that if it weren't for Kreacher, he figured Sirius would have stayed with the Dursleys and started a fight with them that day.
He carefully opened the top, a golden, round object flew out, Harry instinctively reached out and caught it, his heart pounded, through the slit in his fingertips he saw a beautiful shiny golden snitch Harry's eyes lit up, the gift suited him so well.
Inside the box, there is also another note -
'Dear Harry
I've wanted to give you this gift for a long time, I found it in Felix's office when only one of its wings was intact, I asked Felix to fix it and make some interesting changes, but you have to discover it yourself, it's no fun to tell all the mysteries.
In addition, during school, James often used to steal golden snitch from the team for a while, playing cool to attract Lily's attention, highly recommended and you can give it a try too.
Your godfather Sirius.'
Harry grinned, he loosened his tight grip, the golden snitch slowly stretching wings, "whoosh", and disappeared in a flash. He scanned from side to side and quickly caught its trail, catching it steadily as it flew past Harry's left ear.
Harry gave it a strong shake, and the golden snitch honestly settled down in his hand. He seemed to hear a small, delicate sound, so he placed the golden snitch to his ear and shook it gently, and this time the sound became more obvious.
Harry pressed the surface of the snitch, its metal shell suddenly opened, Harry noticed that something is stuffed inside, he tilted the opening to the bed, "clatter!"
A pile of various snacks scattered across the bed and rolled everywhere - chocolate frogs, Cauldron Cakes, Cookies, Dragon's Milk Cheese, Chocoballs, and lots of things from the Honeydukes store.
"Wow!" Harry exclaimed in awe.
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