Chapter 80: Resizing

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Amateur Prankster- With the genes of James Potter, you have a natural skill for the mischievous and the devious.

This perk grants you a permanent +5 level boost to Sneaking, Blackmailing, Lying, Theatrics, and Bullshitting, and a further +5 level boost when out pranking.

'Nice!' Harry thought with a grin as he let the flow of the guests around him direct him towards the room where the floo fireplace was there.

Wading through the crowd, Harry found Lockhart almost near the front of the impromptu line near the Floo.

"Not quite the night we expected eh Harry?" Lockhart said with a garish grin, "Although I did get to tell the minister the tale of the infamous Tyrannosaurus Deer I had fought in Australia, so the night wasn't a complete failure."

Harry made himself simply stay quiet and not snap off a comeback, forcing himself to remember that he was trying to make this walking talking infomercial of a man look good. If he wanted to call a kangaroo a Tyrannosaurus Deer, then he was free to do so.

Soon afterward, they Flooed back to Hogwarts, leaving the party behind them in a complete mess.

Throughout the next few days, Harry learned that Lucius Malfoy was very good at covering fuck ups. Nothing about the party had made to any of the newspapers, and no one was actually talking about it except the occasional Slytherin in the halls.

But Harry was far from disheartened. Most of the powerful politicians in the country had been in that room, and even if the public didn't know about what happened in there, those politicians did, and that almost definitely meant that Lucius's reputation with most of them would have fallen a lot.

The morning of January a few days later found Harry, Dean and Professor Vector in the Project Room, working on a magical contraption that could identify animals.

It had all started when Dean had pulled out a Self Spelling quill and started using it for his homework.

It had then occurred to Harry that the Quill must need to check the spellings of the words somewhere to correct them.

'Observe' he had cast on the quill, and had found what he had needed.

Self Spelling Quill

It is a type of quill which corrects the writer's spelling automatically. It does so by using a Protean Charm to link the quill to a Source dictionary and a Quarean Charm to scan for the word in question.

After explaining to Dean and Hermione how this could prove to be the key to building something to identify a creature and looking through a bunch of books in the library looking for the two charms, it had been Dean who had found what it was in a book in the Sixth Year reference section.

The Quarean and Protean charms, also called the Looking and Linking charms, were sixth year charms well beyond the capability and understanding of any second year student, even Harry.

Thankfully, they had one full-grown Arithmancy teacher at their disposal who did know how to cast the charms.

"Careful," Harry whispered to Professor Vector as she used a sharp knife to carve the rune Ehwaz, the rune for Partnership onto the thick metal wristband that lay on the table. Dean shushed him with a finger, keeping his own eyes stuck on the bracelet.

"The list," the Professor sharply said, and Dean quickly handed over the notebook which contained the entire compiled list of all the magical creatures that they could find any information upon. They had been working on it for three months now, and it was finally paying off.

The Professor quickly and with a deft hand carved Ehwaz 's partner rune Wazhe on the spine of the notebook.

It was important, the Professor had told them, that there be some sort of runes to help keep the spells permanently going, and keep the list and the band permanently linked.

With the runes carved and ready to go, the Professor pulled her wand out and pointed it at the list.

" Proteus, " she incanted, tapping the notebook once. Her wand tip started glowing with a vibrant green light. With the glowing tip, she tapped the metal band.

Both the objects were infused with a glowing green light, which subsided in a few seconds, after which she repeated the spellcasting process for Quareus, enchanting the golden bracelet with the Looking charm.

"Hedwig!" Harry called, and Hedwig fluttered down from her perch onto the desk they were working on, brought her head close to the metal band, and dropped a single tear onto the rune, before doing the same for the rune on the notebook.

The runes flashed once and then started glowing a very dim blue. A gentle, almost inaudible hum started emanating from the band, showing that the charms were active.

And it was done.

The first actual result that had come out of this project of theirs, was done.

The Professor took a step back, watching the two unmoving boys with a small smile, clearly happy for them.

Meanwhile, Harry didn't know whether he wanted to touch it or not, held back by an almost infantile fear that it would perhaps break the moment he touch it. Instead, he used an Observe on it.

The Identifier Band

A magical device capable of identifying any magical creature whose existence has been recorded in its Source Book. Just put on the Band and point your index finger at the creature, say 'Identify' and the name of the creature will carve itself on the band.

"Go on. Test it," Professor Vector said with a grin.

Dean looked at Harry, who nodded at him before he picked the Identifier up gingerly and slipped it onto his arm. It immediately resized itself to fit Dean's wrist, who shot Harry a grin.

Poor Hermione had spent all of last night working on the Resizing spell and putting it onto the band and was now passed out in her dorms, tired out of her mind.

Harry looked over Dean's shoulder to get a better look at the band as he pointed his index finger at Hedwig, who was sitting on the desk, his hands shivering with anticipation. As clearly as he could, he said, "Identify"

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