Inventing Magical Phones

It was not difficult to find and study the charms, runes and enchantments applied in the two-way mirror with the help of Selena who was able to see and tell him precisely where all the magical signature in the mirror existed.

And truly, the mirrors were a work of art.

Whoever had created them must have been some kind of genius or it must have created by a group effort or it must have taken a single person very long time to invent it. That much was clear to him.

But because of his knowledge, the words and symbols that would seem like complex arithmetic equations to someone else, seemed like normal addition and subtraction to him.

Especially when he wore the Diadem which enhanced his brain functions by a fair amount.

And by the time he was done with the mirrors, he had learned everything there was to know about them.

How they worked.

Why they worked.

Why it was that these mirrors only worked in pairs.

Why were they so damn expensive.

And last but not the least, how he could change the mirror and add new charms of his own.

Because he would have to make some more changes to the mirror if he was to create a magical mobile phone with it.

But for that, he would have to study the charms and runes carved inside a fire place or floo as people call it.

Because just like how it is with a mobile phone, you can contact anyone of your acquaintance from the floo if they have given your their floo address.

It was quite similar to a large and old telephone in the manner that a floo cannot be moved and whenever you had to talk with someone else, you had to get on your knees and put your head in the fire.

Quite uncomfortable. But the wizards and witches have been using it for a long time and they don't know any better.

The problem was that the muggles didn't knew any better because mobile phones were a kind of luxury at this point in time and very few people ever used it.

So in essence, if he was able to create a magical mobile phone at this point in time, then he was confident that it would instantly go viral and everybody would be clamoring up to buy it.

After all, why would anyone want to sit on his knees and put his face in the fire if he could just pick up his magical mobile phone and contact the person he wanted to talk with.

And he was confident that he would be able to invent such a thing if he was able to combine both the two-way mirror and the floo.

So all that remained now was to study the floo system and how it worked.

Problem was that there was no floo in the Chamber of Secrets.

And there was no floo in the Room of Requirements.

Which meant that he had three choices.

He could either go to the Headmaster ask the old man to study his floo. Or he could go to Professor Flitwick and do the same thing. Or he could just waltz into the Ravenclaw house and use the floo there.

The third option seemed the bes to him out of everything else, so that's what he did.

The next morning, the students of the Ravenclaw house would see the very strange sight of their Fire place being dismantled and studied by a disgruntled looking boy-who-lived who was also covered in soot and ashes.

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Harry prided himself for his cold heart. Because it was the main reason why he was able to make rational and logical decisions most of the time.

But when a girl waits three whole weeks for your forgiveness then it's hard for even him to remain angry at the girl any longer.

So after the 22nd day, when Hermione was still sitting beside Besalla in order to get his forgiveness, he finally decided to make his presence known to the girl so that they could finally have a 'talk'.

The 'talk' started with Hermione apologizing to him profusely and him telling her that he forgave her and that he was willing to talk with her once again.

But he also told her that if she expecting the both of them to go to being best friends that they were before this incident then she was sorely mistaken.

She would still be his friend if she wanted to earn his trust then she would have to work for it.

And so the talk went well.

Or at least that's what he thought.

Until she started sobbing all the while promising him that she would anything to earn his trust and at that moment, he realized that no matter how much he tried to distance himself from this girl, she would always have a soft spot in his heart.

And wasn't that fucked up.

He wondered if the affection he felt for the girl made him a pedophile.

The thought made him sick until he remembered that a Pedophile was a person who was sexually attracted to children and he was not sexually attracted to Hermione.

In fact, he was not sexually attracted to anyone. What with the severe lack of hormones in his young 11 year old body and all that.

Hell, he was not even a teenager at this point.

So with the conformation that he was not in fact someone who needed a trip to a psychiatrist, he pulled the little girl in a hug as and her sobbing turned into full time crying as she wailed in his embrace.

~Sigh~ This whole plan of 'gaining a minion' had really gone off the tracks, hasn't it.

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"So what are things that you need to work on to make a successful Magical Phone?" Hermione asked.

"The main point is that it should be capable of calling anyone's magical phone if you have their phone number. Just like how you're able to talk with anyone in the floo if your have their floo address. If you're only capable of talking with a few selected people with the magical phone then it's not that different then a two-way mirror." He replied as he walked around in the spacious and bright room.

He had been cooped up in the labs down in the Chamber for the past three weeks and coming back to this lab that was situated at the 6th floor was a good change for him.

In fact, this was the room where both Daphne and Penelope came to study most of the time and by now he should have probably given this room a name or something.

Oh well, better late then never.

He would call this room the 'Study Room' from now on. A place where all of them came to study and where he performed his smaller and harmless experiments.

But back to the topic at hand.

"And what the secondary points that we should keep in mind when making this 'Magical Phone'?" Hermione asked while tapping the quill on the notepad.

"It should be affordable." He said "If it's too expensive like the two-way mirror then no one would buy it. If no one would buy it then it's a failed invention." He said.

Hermione scrunched up her eyebrows and said "But Harry. If what you've told me so far about these Magical Phone is true, then I can already guess that it will be one of the most sophisticated artifacts created in the magical world. So in practice, it should be even more expensive than the two-way mirror and the floo." She said.

"No." He replied instantly "I won't sell the Magical Phone for more than 20 galleons."

"But Harry. If you sold those Phones at such a cheap price, then how will you pay for the rune carvers and the enchanters who mass produce those phones for you. And how will you pay for the shop in which you sell those phones?" she asked worriedly.

Oh… she was not thinking that I was doing this for the good of the wizarding world was she.

Wow…

As if I would ever do such a thing.

"We'll earn money in a similar way to how the telephone companies make their profits."

"You'll charge them for calling each other?" Hermione asked.

"Yes." He replied with a smile.

"I don't think the wizards would like that very much Harry." Hermione said.

"Oh it won't be that expensive." He said with a negligent wave of his hand.

"If you say so." She said and noted it down on the paper.

"What else?" she asked.

"It should be light. And small. Small enough to carry in your pocket everywhere." He said as he remembered the mobile phones being used in this world right now that were the size of a large calculator.

"Alright. Light and small enough to carry." She said "What else?"

"Add an Unbreakable charm to it as well." He said "My company would never sell something that would break easily. I want my brand to be known for it's high quality."

"Company?" Hermione asked.

"Yes. I'll create the first magical Company in this world." He said with a feral grin and she gave a smile back before jotting it down in the notepad.

"Have you thought about the name of the company, it's logo and all other things?" she asked and he nodded.

"You do know how a company works?" she asked and he shook his head.

"But don't worry. I know the perfect man for this job." He said with mysterious smile and she huffed before shaking her head at his childishness.

"Okay then. Let's get back to the track. What other things do you want in that Magical Phone of yours?"

And he spent the next hour explaining what he wanted in his Magical Phone.

He knew that it would take some time for him to create a prototype and even more time to launch the product in the magical world but he knew that in the end, all of his hard work will be worth it.