Chapter three hundred and twenty eight gifts
After a bargaining, Felix each purchased three sets of equipment. Then he took Luping and the twins to travel through the streets and alleys of London, and reported the names of Muggle companies, and bought a batch of miscellaneous things.
Back at the Future World Company in Diagon Alley, Felix piled these items in the hall and stacked them into a hill, attracting crowds of attention. New employees of the company came over to see both these strange things and the company's boss who had never appeared.
Felix led them to sit together and had a brief meeting.
"I'll live here for a while and work hard with everyone to make the company's first product," Felix said, "by the way, I'll transform some magical machinery."
Krivat reminded him: "Professor Heip, oh sorry, boss--"
"It's okay, you can still call me professor, or Hepp." Felix said with a smile.
"...Okay, professor," Penelo said nervously, but she quickly got into work, "we need to consider the attitude of the Ministry of Magic, especially the prohibition of abuse of Muggle Items."
"You mean the department in charge of Arthur Weasley?" Felix said meaningfully.
Penelo's face turned red and pretended not to hear, "The duty of this department is to prohibit the use of magic on the things Muggles, fearing that they will return to the Muggles' shops or homes."
Felix saw that others had similar concerns. He thought about it and replied seriously: "This is indeed a problem, but I have carefully studied this part of the law and it has little impact on us. I just need to report those engraving machines to the Ministry of Magic."
"Along with this topic, you will find that the whole law is for one purpose, which is to prevent the exposure of the magic world."
"To sum up, it is prohibited to abuse Muggle items, which mainly has three meanings." Felix glanced around, looked at the people with confused expressions, and said with his fingers, "First, malicious casting and teasing Muggle are prohibited; Second, the sale of enchantments in the form of Muggle items, especially their unique things, such as a toaster;" he smiled, "Of course, everything is absolutely absolutely true. The Ministry of Magic has a license list, and not all of them are allowed."
"Third, it is prohibited to modify privately and add other functions. The terms of this type of law are relatively vague. Maybe it is because if you really want to pursue it, many people have contraband in their homes, and they may not even know it themselves. So there is only one thing worth noting-" He pulled the long voice and said softly: "That is not to use it in front of ordinary people."
The Weasley twins looked at each other, and Fred sneered and said, "Dad's mind is clearly touched." But he knew that this law was drafted by his father, and he was curious about everything in the Muggle world, so he left many backdoors for himself.
Before Arthur Weasley, the relevant laws of the Ministry of Magic were blank, but as there were more and more examples of abuse of Muggle items, the Ministry of Magic finally remembered to make a law around it. It was in this context that Mr. Weasley made the laws and served as the head of this department.
Felix continued: "One of our purpose is to improve and transform Muggle items, what does that mean? It is not a simple copy, but a reference to the wisdom they show, not something specific;"
"For example, the magic lamp has a completely different principle than the electric lamps used by ordinary people. The only similarity is that they can all shine."
Everyone laughed softly, and the hidden worries in their hearts dissipated. Most of them actually didn't have the courage to openly disobey the Ministry of Magic.
"In this process, you will find that we are using a conceptual thing - a more convenient and practical way of lighting. We don't have to work hard to learn how to use electricity, how to study the materials and principles of electric lamps, but consider how to use magic to achieve the effect we want."
Felix looked at everyone and said seriously: "I don't want to see everyone's prejudice against the non-magical world in the 'future world'. Any specific person and specific group, as long as it has obvious external characteristics, will never be liked by everyone. To put it bluntly, if someone sees the advantages, someone sees the disadvantages..."
"I don't want you to be entangled in these boring things, holding an appreciation heart, and you will find that over the past few hundred years, the outside world has also achieved remarkable achievements. In this process, the wisdom, thoughts and achievements they have shown are worth learning from."
In the following days, Felix stayed in the upright castle of the Future World. Lupin, Penelo and several seventh-grade graduates who mastered the ancient magic of lighting, completed the design task of magic lamps.
The most difficult part here is how to store the magical sequences of ancient magic in specific objects. Felix searched through the information left by Nick Lemay, and finally found a kind of enchantment material like flowing mercury, shaping them with magic.
This process was indispensable for a lot of attempts, so Snape came to protest because he disliked the material consumed too quickly, and he was also pulled by Felix to join the research.
The basic chandeliers, candlesticks, and magic lamps with lantern shapes were successfully completed one after another. After that, a witch who graduated from Lavenclaw proposed to use transforming techniques to design the shape of an eagle. When using it, you only need to read a specific syllable, and the eagle will flap its wings, fly into the air, and spit out a bright ball of light.
This idea was unanimously praised by 17 employees who graduated from Ravenclaw College. Later, more magic lamp forms were raised. The majestic lion with awakening function, badgers that jumped and could follow their owners around, and snake-shaped magic lamps inlaid with green gems appeared one after another.
Felix added several fire dragon shapes and used deformation techniques to turn the emitted light into a breath shape.
The engraving machine I purchased came in handy, and Felix didn't expect to use it so soon. He just made a simple transformation to let employees familiarize themselves with its operations when they were free and tried to make suggestions for improvement.
As a result, a male witch named "Fink David" came up with an idea. When he was fiddling with the engraving machine, an inspiration flashed by. He suggested that he could make a batch of magic cards imitated by chocolate frog cards, and the most basic engraving part was handed over to the machine to complete.
Felix was very interested in this idea. On this basis, he improved the idea - using a machine to complete the engraving part, and then apply a layer of enchanting material on the card. The wizards can hold the card and follow the marks on it with their fingers to practice the corresponding magic text.
Felix felt that he would have a new teaching tool in the ancient magical text classroom this year. He happily ordered a batch, which gave the company its first business.
Soon, the first batch of 100 magic cards were finalized. It can be regarded as a simplified version of Hermione's magic script using a magic script carving knife to portray magic script on a chestnut board. It has only one angle of reference, which is the stability of magic power. Once successful, it will show the magic symbols corresponding to the magic script, such as a waterfall and a ball of flame. Of course, this is just a phantom of magic.
The twins proposed a prank version, which, once the magic breaks, will scream harshly and loudly mock the wizard who uses his own.
"This is the inspiration given to us by life." Fred said with emotion.
Felix was afraid that the little wizards would be autistic together and did not use it. He valued the auxiliary effect of magical text cards in learning magical texts. However, the twins were happy. They also tried to add a few fake cards to a stack of real cards. If they tried to inject magic power, the cards would turn into a nest of mice and run around.
George smiled and said, "We can give it to Harry as a birthday gift."
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Early in the morning of July 31.
When Harry opened the gift, he was a little confused. Professor Hepp and Weasley twins gave the same gift, both of which were a stack of cards, and even the instructions were the same.
However, a strange smile on the instructions of the Weasley twins made him feel a little nervous.
He curiously followed the instructions of the instructions, tried to zip the card with his fingers and inject magic into it. At the moment of success, a phantom of a green magic wand tree popped out of the card, swaying gently, making a "rustling" sound.
Harry stared at it for a while and tried other different cards with interest. He got to know many strange magical texts. However, he finally discovered the difference between these two gifts.
After a failed attempt, the card made a "bang" sound, and the purple smoke exploded, and the card turned into five or six fat mice, running around in the narrow gaps in the room, which scared him. He tried to drive the little guys out of the bed, but they squeaked even more happily.
When he heard Uncle Feinong's snoring, he did not try to do anything extreme. After waiting quietly for a while, the fat mice ran out by themselves and gathered together. After a ball of purple smoke, they returned to a card.
Harry opened up other gifts, and Ron, Hermione, and Hager gave him three super cakes, which made Dudley's weight loss plan completely unaffected. In fact, except for breakfast, he usually slipped into the house rented by Sirius and stayed there until the evening before returning.
In addition to satisfying his desire for family affection, Harry discovered an advantage that he had never expected before, that was that he could cast spells outside the school. Next door to Mrs. Feige, Harry could use Sirius' spare wand - according to him, the wand he snatched from the dark wizard was not very easy, so he went to Ollivand to re-equip him.
The dragon heartstring wand was used by Harry. In fact, he couldn't use it. He always felt that it was not as useful as his wand, but being able to cast spells had already satisfied him. He and Sirius practiced duels in the house where the spells were cast. This was originally just one afternoon when Sirius and Harry were slumped on the sofa and protested against boring TV shows. As a result, Sirius was unexpectedly keen on this game.
He taught Harry a lot of duel skills, but he soon discovered that Harry had formed his own fighting style. Although he was a little immature, he did exist. Moreover, Harry's level was very high, which made the duel game between them closer to the real battle.
Sirius shouted Harry's father's name more than once, which made Harry both sad and moved.
An episode happened in the middle. The Ministry of Magic sent him a letter warning him about the fact that spells were cast outside the school. Later, Sirius sent a roar letter back, and then the Ministry of Magic had no further information.
Harry was a little worried, Sirius explained: "This law is aimed at students from Muggle origins to prevent them from exposing themselves in front of Muggles, but do you think they will take care of the children of the wizard family?"
Harry was happily convinced, and he wrote the matter into the letter. Hermione said in her reply that she wanted to learn from Sirius, and sent him a roaring letter. Harry laughed very brightly, but when he saw the back of the letter, Hermione mentioned that he was studying the curse, he couldn't laugh.
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In the bedroom, Harry opened Sirius' gift box, which was only the size of a palm and square. When he touched the lid, a sound came from it. Harry was stunned for a moment. He was not worried about a curse, but worried that Sirius would send him a strange gift.
Harry had long discovered that his godfather was not as mature as himself in some aspects. For example, he would not cook by himself and used housework magic badly. If Clicher hadn't been there, he would have probably lived in the Dursleys and fought with them that day.
He carefully opened the lid, and a golden, round thing flew out. Harry instinctively reached out and grabbed it. His heart was pounding. Through the gaps in his fingertips, he saw a beautiful shining golden thief. Harry's eyes shone. This gift was so suitable for his heart.
There is also a note in the box—
‘Dear Harry
I had long wanted to give you this gift, I found it from Felix's office, and it had only one wing intact. I asked Felix to fix it and made some interesting changes, but if you want to discover it yourself, it would be boring to tell all the secrets.
In addition, when he was in school, James often stole the golden thief from the team for a while, pretending to be cool to attract Lily's attention. He strongly recommends that you give it a try.
Your godfather Sirius.’
Harry grinned, he let go of his tight hand, and the golden snitch slowly stretched his wings, and with a "swoosh", he disappeared. He glanced left and right, quickly capturing its traces, and grabbed it steadily as it flew past Harry's left ear.
Harry shook hard, and the golden thief came down honestly and stopped in his hand obediently. He seemed to hear a small and trivial sound, and put the golden thief in his ear and shook it gently, and this time the sound became more obvious.
Harry pressed the surface of the snitch, and its metal shell suddenly opened. Harry noticed something was stuffed inside. He leaned the opening towards the bed, "Crash!"
A bunch of snacks scattered on the bed, rolling everywhere—chocolate frogs, cauldron cakes, ginger and salamander biscuits, dragon cheese, and a candy gift pack from the Honey Duke’s store.
Chapter completed!