Harry was pleased that his set up at Hogwarts was still in good condition so that he could continue his work on forging an Artifact Sword. He had started to compile Runic Sequences for various effects and now had to work out which ones would go together and result in a functional Runic Array. He had a general idea of what he wanted the Sword to be capable of and now it was down to him to find a combination of sequences that would work. Harry set to work writing out various Runic Sequences at his desk while Penny practiced her Wandless Magic. The pretty blonde was making good headway on getting her entire spell repertoire Wandless. That fact made both Harry and Tonks a bit jealous of the Prefect. Penny seemed to have a knack for getting spells to work for her and had easily left Tonks and Harry in the dust with how many Wandless spells she had under her belt.
A couple of hours later and Harry sighed as he looked over his work so far. Several of the sequences he'd hoped to incorporate together wouldn't work, even with Magical Circuits. The materials he had at his disposal simply couldn't hold several of these properties at the same time. With some more time he may be able to make a low-grade Alchemical Metal that could, theoretically, hold some of them in a single Array but that was still a long shot. He'd have to work slowly and make some Arrays that were successful combinations of the various sequences he wanted for his final Sword. Then he'd potentially find a way to transmute a metal capable of holding the finished Array while also finding out how to make said final Array in the process. This was going to be a very long project and Harry could only sigh that his classes were going to take up so much of his time.
"Harry can I borrow the Test Frame?" Penny asked as she walked over to his desk.
"You don't have to ask Penny." Harry reassured the blonde as he handed her the Test Frame after pulling it out of the drawer he kept it in.
"Maybe not, but it is still polite to ask." Penny smiled as she held the Talisman in her hands and fed her mana into it. When her reading popped up Penny grinned happily before turning to show Harry the '4762' displayed.
"Yeah, yeah, rub it in why don't you?" Harry huffed seeing how far he still had to go to even get close to Penny or Tonks' mana levels. Harry chose to place the even higher numbers like Dumbledore, or the insane number that Flamel had, on the back burner for now. He'd grow stronger as he practiced and so far he was striking a good balance between his Wandless Magic and his Enchanting. Again he lamented at all the time he'd have to devote to his classes. That was time he could add to his Enchanting or Wandless practice, but even he realized that most of his courses still offered him new knowledge. For now it wasn't wise or feasible to try and leave Hogwarts. 'Maybe in the coming years though? No one ever said you couldn't graduate early.' He mused to himself as he and Penny left the workshop together and headed for Ravenclaw Tower.
Harry was walking toward his hidden workshop after the end of classes. Today he would be attempting more Alchemy to try and create an Alchemical Metal capable of holding the first of his prototype Arrays. He was only half paying attention to his surroundings as he walked since the path was so familiar to him now. It came as a bit of a surprise to run into Luna Lovegood in the out of the way corridor that led to his workshop.
"Hello Harry, nice to see you again." Luna smiled with a lilting tone. Harry couldn't help but smile back at the 'moon-brained' blonde. He wondered if the rumors about the Lovegood Family having some Fae Ancestry might have some truth to them.
"Good afternoon Luna, how're you today?" Harry greeted and Luna's smile became more meaningful as he saw her gaze sharpen and focus on him completely.
"I'm doing well, thank you for asking." Luna chirped back happily.
"What brings you to this part of the castle, Luna?" Harry asked. This corridor was well off the beaten path for most anyone. It was one of the reason's he'd chosen it when looking for a place to practice.
"There are many secrets in Hogwarts." Luna stated before tilting her head slightly. "But I feel the one in this corridor isn't Hogwarts' secret, but someone else's."
"How do you know there is a secret here?" Harry asked trying to school his features. How Luna could have figured out where his hidden workshop was by herself greatly interested Harry.
"I told you, I feel it." Luna repeated before she giggled slightly. "Also you always head in this direction after classes and no one sees you for hours afterwards. So you have to be going somewhere."
"Right." Harry sighed before smiling fondly at the quirky blonde. In the month since term started Luna had become another friend of his, much like his study buddies, and Penny had taken a liking to her fellow blonde. "Ah, what the hell…do you want to see the secret Luna?" He asked and Luna nodded, still smiling gently.
"That's neat." Luna commented as Harry revealed the door to his workshop.
"Glad you like it." Harry chuckled as he opened the door and allowed Luna inside. The little blonde moved around the workshop inspecting everything with her eyes. She made small sounds of wonder every now and then and Harry followed her into the smithy so she could have a look.
"You've made yourself very comfortable here, Harry." Luna mentioned after the 'tour' of the workshop.
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