Chapter 6: Transmutation

Well, Kreacher was very happy to have a guest around. When the ancient grumpy elf heard that Pansy was a pure-blood from the Parkinson family, his face lit literally up and looked a few decades younger. Harry could have sworn he had heard the elf talking about finally having a proper pure-blood lady around to take care of the family. He wasn't sure what the confused elf was assuming, but this was a door he didn't want to open right now.

Kreacher was happy with the presence of Pansy, and she was beginning to get used to Grimmauld Place while still working at her small job. She was actually working at one of the restaurants in Diagon Alley.

Meanwhile, Harry was using his time until the delivery came to meditate on his occlumency, getting more order into his chaotic mind, which was still overflowing with a massive amount of information. Besides his occlumency practice, he also began to sketch down the necessary schematics for the sensor array he was creating soon, making sure to have a detailed design for each part of the device.

He was planning to use transmutation, an advanced form of transfiguration and alchemy that he found in the Black Library, to create the device. After all, he didn't really have the necessary tools to create advanced pieces of technology without trouble.

That had been the same problem for the Ancients when they returned from the Pegasus Galaxy to Earth ten thousand years ago. Back then, human civilization was still in the hunter-gatherer stage, without any proper tools for the Ancients to rebuild their civilization. Instead, a part of them chose to ascend, while another explored the galaxy before ascending, and some stayed behind to blend in with the humans, unwittingly creating the Wizard Race.

Now, Earth was advanced enough to create more advanced tools, but it would be a long process of creating tools to create even more advanced tools with them until he had the necessary equipment for his plans. Instead, he chose a shortcut the Ancients didn't have back then. His control over zero-point energy allows him to manipulate the world around him.

With transmutation, he would be able to directly create the necessary parts with proper visualization and control. Still, it not only required the raw materials since transmutation was different from transfiguration, but it would also require some practice for him. And that was what he was lastly doing besides practicing the mind arts and drawing the schematics for proper visualization.

"Harry, I put the delivery into the backyard," Pansy said as she came into the kitchen a few days after she moved into Grimmauld Place.

"And you did confound them properly and remove the memories of you levitating the goods?" Harry asked to make sure as he stood up from the kitchen table.

"Yes." Pansy nodded.

She had agreed to help him for free for now as a repayment that she could live here, but she kept her job. Once he had a company running with some income, she would become an employee under him. Although the position wasn't clear yet, Harry had only a rough idea about the business. It was one of his side plans to create some influence and income on Earth for himself. The real action wasn't on Earth, but out in the universe. He wasn't sure what he wanted to accomplish in detail yet. But one thing was sure: he wanted to reclaim the legacy of his ancestors, the Ancients, and make sure that Earth wouldn't be overrun by a random threat from space.

With the materials having arrived, Pansy let him do his work, as she couldn't really help him here since she had no idea what he was actually doing. Harry began to transmute, with the help of Alchemical Circles, the different parts that he would need for his sensor array. By putting the necessary ingredients into the alchemic circle and having the proper visualization, he was able to transmute even the smallest parts he needed.

Although the process was slower and required a lot of handiwork in comparison to the advanced production methods of the ancients, They had different advanced technologies for such tasks during their long history, from 3D printing, atomic forges, and nanite constructors to actual matter manipulation. But this was the best method Harry had right now.

This sensor array also wouldn't be anything too advanced. He simply didn't have the superconductive resources to create sensors that could sense detailed anything going from a whole planet to a solar system, or the long-range sensors gathering information covering half a galaxy, even being able to penetrate into hyperspace.

But it would be good enough to find any traces of advanced technology, their energy signatures, and even possible traces of Naquadah on the planet. Of course, only their location; nothing too detailed. It was simply the limit of the resources he had. Advanced sensors required superconductive materials to be able to penetrate subspace, allowing them to cover massive ranges in detail.

Once Harry transmuted the last piece of coal into another graphene circuit board, he controlled the pieces he created to make sure all of them were in the right shape. The most important piece of the device was a crystal that he reassembled out of different materials, whose component was quartz. A control crystal

With the help of transmutation, he managed to precisely create each part that he needed for the sensor array. All he had to do now was build it together. With the control crystal as the most central piece, he began to assemble the device piece by piece, each part fitting neatly together. Soon, all that was left was a small circular hole in the device; that piece he also had already ready, but it still needed a critical component. This was also a small experiment for something he needed to confirm.

That small hole was for the power source powering the device. Harry had already created the small, crystal-shaped power source that was able to contain many forms of energy. He could charge it over a power outlet with an adapter if he needed, since the amount of energy required to operate the sensor array wasn't too big; it was only a rudimentary one after all.

And he already had installed power outlets for his electric devices in Grimmauld Place; it was only a myth that electric devices weren't working around magic. In Hogwarts, wards were just placed by a previous headmaster unhappy with the progress of Muggles, which rendered all electronics useless. For some reason, a wrong rumor spread based on that ward that electronics weren't working around magic.

The biggest proof against it was Diagon Alley and the Ministry of Magic, which were in the center of London. And magic was nothing else but zero-point energy, which was all around them. So Harry took it upon himself to install a few power outlets all around Grimmauld Place by connecting them to his neighbors left and right and borrowing a bit of electricity from them without their knowledge. What else could he do? It wasn't like he could go to an electricity company and ask them to connect his magical home in 1998 to the power grid. This would just scream that something was wrong and get the wrong kind of attention.

But what he really wanted to try was to charge the power source with zero-point energy directly; instead of casting a spell, he wanted to channel it into the power source. It was an important experiment that he needed to perform to answer a few questions he had. Was it possible for him to charge a power source directly with magic? How efficient was it? Could he restore potentia that way?

Harry took the small power crystal he had created, and similar to casting a spell, he channeled the zero-point energy directly into the crystal. After a few minutes, the crystal began to glow. He was indeed able to charge it directly. Unfortunately, the charging rate was far too slow to be able to restore something like a potentia. It was fine for smaller devices like this sensor array, but it was not sustainable in the long term, even for them.

"Harry, I have some tea and lunch for you. It's been a few hours since you started working," Pansy said as she entered the backyard, seeing that the machine he was working on was complete. "Oh, you are done? So what is this thing supposed to do?"

"Thank you for the food, Pansy. You will see soon. Could you bring me my laptop? It's the flat silver box I brought home a few days ago and spent yesterday sitting all day at," Harry described as he took the tablet with food from her hands.

Pansy nodded, still looking at the sensor array. "Sure, I can do that. It was in your room, right?"

"Yes, thank you," Harry replied as he sat down on a chair in the yard.

"Okay, I will be back soon. Eat first, and once I am back, you can show me what this thing does," she said as she left the yard, returning to the building.

Of course, he could have asked Kreacher to bring his laptop. But he felt that Pansy didn't want to be useless and just leech off of him, so he would always look for something she could help him with. After all, he has no real task for her right now.

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