Chapter 48 - Magic Project

Outside Dumbledore's cottage, a black hair teen could be seen working on a picnic table. At first glance it appeared he was studying with the amount of books and papers on the table. If one looked more closely however they would see vials with skulls, smoking or blood red liquid.

The teen in question was Harry Potter, famous throughout the world for surviving the killing curse. He was currently in the middle of an important and not done on a whim experiment that may or may not explode.

"Add a touch of dragon blood and a drop of mine." Harry whispered as he dropped them into a smoking vial. The smoke seemed to form a skull and a pair of cross bones.

Moments laters a loud hiss and squealing could be heard like someone letting air out of a balloon.

"Oops."

Boom!

Waving the dust of the front of his face, Harry coughed a few times. His once clean clothes and slightly messy hair was now covered in black dust and spiked towards the sky. The grass in the general surrounding also began to rapidly wither away.

"Luckily I casted a few protective charms on the books and table." Harry laughed not at all fazed by the explosion. Truthfully a bit of soreness and some scratches was all he got from the explosion.

"Harry? Are you ok?" Dumbledore called from the cottage.

"Yeah, I'm fine just a small miscalculation."

'Did I add a drop or two more of dragon blood than needed?' Harry thought.

Dragon blood tends to react badly to others and has a slight corrosion effect to metal. Luckily however it tends to be non-reactant to human skin.

'Or was it the Moon Leaf?' a frown appeared as he was getting low on and couldn't get more until the new moon.

While recording down the latest explosion and the entire process. Harry felt like banging his head on the table for a simple fact. Of course his blood would react badly to the Moon Leaf and Dragon Blood. While the two blood seem to be fighting, the Moon Leaf wasn't enough to mellow them out.

'However I can���t simply add more Moon Leaf or the entire material amount is unbalanced.' Harry rubbed his chin in thought.

"What happens if I remove my blood from the formula?" Harry suddenly thought and went to work calculating.

At a fairly decent rate, he finished and found it can be done, but has a high chance of not working properly. In the end though, Harry decided to try it and fine tune it at a later date.

"Well here goes nothing."

Relighting the flame, he got to work mixing, cutting and stirring his ingredients. Once again making it to the last step, without a violently looking potion this time. Harry carefully added the dragon blood before pulling out a metal cast. Pouring it in, he carefully placed it into a nearby cooler.

"In an hour it should be ready." Harry said before stretching. "Now time to grab the other part of my project."

Entering into the cabin, Harry glanced at Dumbledore who was napping in his chair that faced out towards where he was working. Shaking his head, Harry just smiled before looking for a small dragon model.

Finding it on the coffee table, a silverish blue two foot high dragon appeared. He modeled it after the Ukrainian Ironbelly in the vault mines. Only it didn't turn out to be a copy as he wasn't skilled enough so it only looked like the breed. In the center of its chest however was a long thin diamond shape hole.

Picking up the dragon model, Harry went back outside before cleaning up. He had an hour to wait before he could see if his idea worked or not. If it worked badly however, he doesn't want his research or books he borrowed to be destroyed.

Soon an hour came and went allowing Harry to pull the metal cast from the box of ice. Pulling open the cold box, Harry looked at the red diamond shape rod. Carefully picking it up with a pair of tongs, he slowly inserted it into the model.

The two parts began rapidly shaking as the two merged with a glowing diamond appeared on the dragon chest. Its eyes turned to a red hue as the tail slowly began moving alongside its body. A small chirp was heard as creaking from its joints moved for the first time.

"It's alive!"

Harry shouted as he fist pumped the air. He had done it and built his own automaton dragon. While the robot was only a couple feet tall and didn't have much attacking power. He felt proud at making it as this type of magic won't become popular for another twenty or so decades.

Something about golems and autonomous being too muggle or mundane. So most magicians hesitate or refuse to research them. Besides with magic and house elves basically able to make everyday life easy. This old project has made small progress over the centuries.

"Impressive." Harry heard Dumbledore voice from behind him. "Does it do anything?"

"It can bite, but it will be like a small dog. There is a slight problem of not being able to fly. I originally had plans to use my blood as a medium to give it a boost of magic to fly." Harry explained. "The issue is the core exploded and its current magic will only keep it moving for a year at most before it needs a recharge."

"Impressive none the less. Harry."

The two watched as Hedwig swooped down and began taunting the mechanical dragon. They got a slight chuckle as she basically taunted the new born with being able to fly.

"Well I got a while to think of how to fix the issue. By then I might also add some fire breaths or other abilities. It should be a slowish year for me this coming school year."

"I can't wait to see it." Dumbledore nodded.

"Me too."