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Hey friends and fans! Kairomaru is bringing you another chapter of Harry Potter and the Artificer Legacy! The Dueling Club takes place. Harry makes a bit more progress. Another attack? 

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Chapter 15 – Dueling Club, More Prototypes

“This is so stupid.” Harry sighed as he watched the blonde peacock make a spectacle of himself.

“It’s a bit much.” Penny agreed as she watched Lockhart on top of the Dueling Platform. The Defense Professor was going on about his skills and accomplishments before having Professor Snape of all people join him on the platform for a demonstration.

“A Galleon says that Snape wins.” Harry offered dully and Penny turned her head slightly to look at him out of the corner of her eye.

“Sucker’s bet.” Penny flatly replied and Harry shrugged before they both refocused on the ‘Duel’ that was about to start. It was over in a single spell, ‘Expelliarmus’, from Snape. Lockhart lost his wand and was sent tumbling onto the platform. Harry rolled his eyes as the pompous blonde picked himself up and then tried to act like he’d ‘let’ Snape disarm him.

“Now, let’s have our first student pair try Dueling.” Lockhart announced before he quickly locked onto Harry. “Mr. Potter, please come up to the platform!”

“Do I have to?” Harry muttered to Penny who gave him a commiserating look before nudging him gently. “Fine…” He huffed as he made his way up to the platform and took his place. Snape, for some reason, had chosen Draco to be Harry’s opponent. The two Second Years met in the middle of the platform, as per tradition, to exchange a pre-duel dialogue. Or, in Harry’s view, a traditional excuse for ‘talking shite’.

“Scared Potter?” Draco asked with a self-assured smirk.

“Bored actually.” Harry replied and was mildly amused to see Draco’s face turn red. The two then turned from each other and walked to their respective ends of the platform.

“I’ll count down from three; when I get to one you may begin!” Lockhart announced, though the man seemed to be enjoying the attention he was receiving more than he was paying attention to the ‘duel’. “Three…two…one!”

“Everte Statum!” Draco called as he cast a wave of white magic towards Harry. The spell harmlessly splashed against the Protego that was suddenly in front of Harry. The young Artificer looked the very picture of bored while everyone there, except for a few that had seen his Wandless Magic in person before, stared wide eyed and with jaws dropped.

“Simple enough.” Harry stated before Draco found his wand wrenched from his grip and flying into Harry’s hand. “I believe I win.” Snape looked like he’d swallowed a lemon while everyone else just stared for a bit. It wasn’t until Penny started clapping that the moment was broken and all the students, barring a few Slytherins, started to clap and cheer.

“But…how?” Draco muttered as he looked at his wand in Harry’s hand.

“Wandless Summoning Charm.” Harry informed the blonde before handing the wand back to the other boy. Harry was about to step off the platform when Penny stepped onto Draco’s vacated spot. “Penny?”

“I kind of want to show off since you got to.” Penny smiled and Harry nodded. Internally the Artificer was already grumbling though. Penny wanted to show everyone a copy of their practice sessions, which usually involved a defeated Harry sitting or lying on the floor trying to catch his breath. All the while Penny would be only moderately winded and would have a grin on her face.

“I get the feeling this has an ulterior motive.” Harry stated as the two met in the middle of the platform.

“Can’t have you getting a big head now, can we?” Penny smiled pleasantly as the two turned and made their way to the designated positions. Harry rolled his eyes with a sigh before turning to face Penny.

“Right then, uh, three…two…one!” Lockhart counted down again, startled at losing control of the course of the Club. Harry instantly fired off a Flipendo at Penny and the blonde only covered her hand in what looked like a localized Protego, before she smacked the Jinx away into the ceiling.

“Are you even trying?” Penny asked with a flat look at Harry. The boy was given no time to respond before four fireballs materialized around Penny and were sent screaming down the platform towards him. Harry snapped into the full-focus he’d developed in the many practice sessions he’d had with Penny and Tonks. Water formed around Harry, a Wandless Aguamenti Charm, before rapidly swirling around into a thick wall in front of him. The fireballs snuffed out when they came in contact with the water, each releasing small gouts of steam. Harry lashed his conjured water forward like a whip towards Penny. The Prefect smiled brightly; apparently glad to see he was taking this more seriously now, before using Finite on the conjured water.

“Well that wasn’t nice.” Harry snarked at her when his water vanished.

“Neither is this!” Penny retorted as six fireballs materialized and went rocketing towards Harry. A Protego appeared in front of Harry taking all six fireballs before being dispersed and Harry grinned at Penny, he couldn’t help but start getting into this a bit. It was so much like their regular practice sessions that he’d already tuned out the gawking crowd. Though a small part of Harry’s brain noted that Lockhart seemed to be the biggest gawker of them all.

“This straight platform is kind of ridiculous, traditional though it may be.” Harry commented as he built up a spell.

“Dueling is an art as well as a dispute settler, Harry.” Penny replied. “It’s not truly the same as a Magical Battle between Spellcasters.”

“True enough, I guess.” Harry shrugged before inhaling deeply. Nobody in the Great Hall was expecting what Harry did next. It would actually be talked about for years to come at Hogwarts. The Second Year threw his head forward and exhaled a blast of fire not unlike a Dragon towards Penny. Lockhart literally threw himself from the platform and landed in a heap on the stone floor of the Hall. Penny, in contrast, appeared only slightly surprised before grinning and raising both her arms high above her head. The dueling platform cracked and a large section of it came up and turned ninety degrees to act as a shield for Penny.

“Careful Harry, I might think you’re actually trying to harm me!” Penny playfully accused her friend. The fire died down quickly enough and Penny let the platform drop back into place. It was still charred and broken, of course, but it was at least back in the area it had come from.

“Says the girl that was lobbing fireballs at me not even a minute ago?” Harry questioned. “I thought you just wanted to play with fire?”

“Try some of my new Spellcraft, Harry.” Penny grinned before swinging her right arm upwards towards the ceiling. A sudden, powerful wind began to blow and dust was picked up from the stone of the Great Hall floor. Students shrieked or yelled as their robes billowed about in the gale. Harry quickly saw the point of this particular spell.

“Did you just make a miniature pseudo-sandstorm?!” Harry exclaimed as he performed the ‘Impervious’ Charm on his own face. Difficult to do to be sure, but still possible if one understood the spell and how to apply it.

“I call it ‘Sand Veils All’, do you like it?” Penny asked through the wind and the dust.

“Wait a minute, are you saying this is an Original Spell?!” Harry asked in surprise. He didn’t know Penny was that far into Arithmancy!

“Yes, though it is based off of two other Charms.” Penny was grinning, though no one could actually see it through her spell.

“Very impressive Penny!” Harry praised her genuinely. “Maybe you can teach me sometime?” He questioned with a laugh of his own.

“If you’re good.” Penny teased and Harry felt his eye twitch at the ‘mothering’ tone. “Catch.”

“Catch?” Harry repeated before he threw up two Protego shields at the same time, his eyes wide as small balls of compact sand pelted the double-layered shield. Did she just…? ‘You’re truly amazing Penny.’ Harry thought to himself as he analyzed what his friend had just done. Her ‘Sand Veils All’ was a spell that could, itself, be used as a medium to cast other spells! That took not only great focus and considerable power, but the very ability to use it that way had to be worked into the original spell to begin with.

“You can’t keep your Protego up forever, Harry!” Penny chimed as she continued to pelt his shields with ‘Sand Bullets’.

“STOP!” Harry exclaimed as he released the widest ranged ‘Immobulus’ Charm he could. The sand in the air between him and Penny instantly froze in the air. Harry dropped his double Protego and slammed his hands together in a loud clap. All the static dust in the air was drawn into one point in space and began to pile up and compress. In less than five seconds a large rock of compressed particulates was floating a few meters in front of Harry. “Now you catch!” He laughed as he launched the hefty stone at Penny.

“Sure.” Penny smiled at the oncoming stone, before said stone stopped midair and then smashed into the ground. A small flame appeared above Penny’s upturned palm and quickly grew into a beach ball sized fireball.

“Are you trying to be some kind of Elementalist, or just a Pyromancer that dabbles in other spells?” Harry teased the blonde as he conjured water again and had it flow in before him in a whirling shield.

“I believe that’s enough.” Professor Flitwick intoned vanishing both Penny’s fireball and Harry’s water shield with a simple flick of his wand. The two finally realized that the rest of the ‘Dueling Club’ had backed away from the platform and were now closer to the walls of the Great Hall. Quickly coming to the understanding that they’d gotten a bit out of hand the two apologized to their Head of House.

“Sorry Professor.” Penny and Harry apologized as they gave short bows to their Professor.

“Quite alright students.” Flitwick nodded back before beaming at the both of them. “I must say though; bravo Ms. Clearwater and Mr. Potter! I haven’t seen Dueling like that in years! I’ve never seen it done Wandlessly and Silently as well; especially not when both participants haven’t even graduated yet! Bravo, bravo! Good show both of you!” The Charms Master applauded and Penny and Harry both accepted his praise, it was saying a lot coming from such a respected Professional Duelist after all.

With a few flicks of his wand Flitwick had repaired the dueling platform and seamlessly taken control of the Dueling Club. Lockhart had tried to interject but all of the students had seen the man throw himself off the platform and land in an undignified heap. Platform repaired Flitwick took over instruction of the Club and set up pairs of students to practice with each other. Harry had to admit, with a competent instructor like Flitwick, the Dueling Club was actually interesting. As the students were waiting their turns to duel Harry and Penny became the center of attention for many of their peers.

“Harry!” Hermione called out as she stood before the two. “You really can use Wandless Magic! I thought people were just exaggerating!”

“That was awesome!” Mandy cheered as she looked between her two Housemates.

“I thought your original spell was amazing, Penny!” Padma gushed to the Prefect.

“It was fun!” Luna smiled at them both, a look of excitement on her face.

“Thank you.” Penny smiled at the younger girls. Harry nodded to them as well with a small smile.

“Can you teach me how to use Wandless Magic Harry?” Hermione asked her eyes gleaming with the desire for new knowledge. Nobody seemed to notice the twitch on Penny’s face when she heard Hermione ask that.

“Sorry, Hermione, Potter Family Secret.” Harry replied as he held his hands up.

“What does that mean?” Hermione inquired looking genuinely confused.

“It means only members of the Potter Family will be taught how to perform Wandless Magic, you dumb Mudblood.” Draco snarked at Hermione from outside of their group’s little ‘huddle’. It didn’t escape Harry’s notice that the blonde was close enough to be able to overhear if Harry had actually started explaining it. Too bad for him that Harry’s pronouncement of it as a Family Secret meant it would be seen as Theft of Magic in the eyes of the Law. No Magical House wanted to even be accused of that crime, much less actually charged or convicted. You’d be run out of the Magical Community faster than you could say ‘Nox’.

“Malfoy! Get out of here you bigoted ponce!” Mandy yelled at the Slytherin. Draco scoffed at them all as he walked away and went to mingle with his own Housemates. “He’s such a prat!” 

“Wait…” Hermione started; her face in its ‘thinking’ look. “If it’s a Potter Family Secret…then why does Penny know how to do it?” All of the girls turned to look at the Prefect and the older girl looked between all of them with a neutral expression.

“Because I taught her how.” Harry spoke up diverting all attention from Penny and onto him. “I wanted to be able to teach it to any potential future children. Tonks and Penny wanted to learn and they’re my oldest friends and they’ve both promised not to teach it to anyone. That’s how they know.”

“Are you two Betrothed?” Luna asked innocently curious. Penny’s and Harry’s eyes went wide at the question. Mandy saw their reactions and a teasing smile made its way onto her face.

“Mandy…don’t.” Padma placed her hand on her friend’s shoulder before she could speak. Padma was very familiar with Mandy’s playful nature.

“Aww, spoilsport!” Mandy pouted at Padma, but the Indian Witch wouldn’t be swayed.

“Oh…oh my…” Hermione uttered as she quickly put the ‘pieces’ together. “I-I see, to learn you have to be or ‘become’ a member of the Potter Family. Please forgive my rudeness, Harry.” Hermione’s face was a luminous red at the moment.

“Hermione…it isn’t like…‘that’.” Harry tried to explain. Penny wasn’t much help as she was almost refusing to make eye contact with anyone at the moment. The rest of the first Dueling Club meeting passed with few comments, but there was a lot of ‘knowing’ looks from Mandy and Luna simply smiled serenely at Harry and Penny. If Luna wasn’t such a sweetheart, Harry would almost think she was doing it on purpose.

-The Next Weekend-

“Ok…let’s go down the list.” Harry muttered to himself as he prepared to take his Alchemy just a bit further. “Silver, check. Powdered Dragon Bone, check. Iron, check. Cobalt, check. Powdered Quartz, check. That’s everything I need.”

It was time to try and transmute Sylvuan. This Alchemic Metal was a step up from Oulm and a bit harder to make. Not to mention the cost of using Silver as a base material. But Sirius was all for supporting Harry’s Enchanting and so a small fraction of the Black Family Fortune was set aside for Harry by his Godfather. Harry vowed he’d make Sirius’ ‘investment’ worth the man’s while someday.

“Okay, second Transmutation Circle plate, set up. Now measure out the materials, I need five hundred grams of each metal and three hundred seventy five grams each of both powdered dragon bone and powdered quartz crystal. Harry was going to attempt multiple transmutations today in hopes of getting more samples of viable Sylvuan to try and forge with. After measuring out his ingredients Harry placed the first set onto the Transmutation Circle plate and poured his mana into the Alchemic Array. The Transmutation Circle began to glow a bright blue as Harry’s mana filled it. After a few seconds the materials all began to glow and slowly merge together. Small sparks of magical discharge came from the materials as they were transmuted into a new combined state and when the process finished Harry pulled his hands away from the plate. The newly transmuted metal was giving off small bits of light that floated about like dust particles. All in all the process seemed to be the same as it was for Oulm, just with more material, and a good amount more mana from Harry’s end. At least three times more mana went into transmuting Sylvuan than Oulm.

After the glowing of the metal stopped Harry removed the silvery-blue metal and looked it over. It had the color the book mentioned so that was already a good sign. The true test would be its reaction to mana. Harry poured a bit of his mana into the ingot of ‘hopefully’ Sylvuan and kept it up for several seconds. The moment the metal glowed, making the blueish silver metal shine even more, Harry beamed at the success of his transmutation.

“Yeah!” Harry cheered as he held up the ingot of Sylvuan. “I did it!” After he calmed down a minute later he was very glad no one had been in the workshop with him to see that. It would’ve somehow found its way back to Tonks and he’d be teased about it for who knows how long. Having had one success the young Artificer prepared to transmute the rest of his materials. After that he would test out two different ideas with his next prototypes. 

It had become clear to Harry that Circuit Base wasn’t going to cut it for the Runic Array he wanted his Artifact Sword to hold. So now he had two different paths to consider. One involved moving up the Circuit formula and creating something both more ‘powerful’ and much more expensive. Vitris Auri was a much better Runic Circuit material than Circuit Base. The only problem was making it and the cost of materials. Vitris Auri just so happened to have Gold as its base material. So the cost was going to be high for a potential failure. His other idea was to use Oulm as the Circuit Material and use the Magical Metal’s transference properties while leaving the actual ‘handling’ of the Runic Array to the much stronger Sylvuan. Both had their own merits and ‘theoretically’ both had a chance at success.

“Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained.” Harry mused as he set about transmuting more Sylvuan ingots. He only had a few days left before he went back to Wood End Cottage for Yule Break. He wanted to have the prototypes at least made, even if not tested, before then. Seven more transmutations left Harry with eight viable ingots of Sylvuan. He was happy that he hadn’t messed any of them up since you couldn’t get the Silver back from Sylvuan without a very specific form of Alchemy that dealt with the ‘Breakdown and Separation’ of Magical Compounds. Harry didn’t have access to such specific, and complex, Alchemy so the simple fact he hadn’t screwed up was a relief.

“Now to the forge.” Harry thought aloud as he gathered up the ingots and moved into the smithy. Getting the fire going Harry waited until the heat was at the right temperature and placed the first ingot within the forge. Once the metal was a yellowish-red he used metal tongs to pull it out and take it over to his anvil. Harry poured his mana into the hammer with every swing. The ping of metal striking metal became the only sound in the hidden workshop for the next several hours. Harry would later be reprimanded for missing lunch and almost being late for dinner by Penny; after said Prefect almost beat down the door to the workshop to get Harry’s attention.

-The Next Day-

“I’m just making sure you don’t stay in here all day and miss meals.” Penny informed Harry as she sat down at the ‘Study Area’ of the hidden workshop.

“I said it was an accident.” Harry huffed as he pulled out his Alchemy supplies. The eight ingots of Sylvuan had all been forged into knives, or the shape of knives at least since none of them had an edge yet, and were waiting to be etched with Runic Arrays and Circuit Lines. Etching only took about an hour thanks to the Alchemic Rune Kit Tonks had gifted to him last Christmas. The etching tool was actually made of Adamantite! There was no Magical Metal stronger in the entire world, so it easily etched other metals including Magical ones. Pulling his Alchemy Book closer Harry went over the steps of making Vitris Auri again and set about attempting to make the Magical Material. 

“One hundred grams of Gold, eighty grams of powdered Quartz, twenty grams of dried Ugi Grass stabilizer. Melt the Gold first; pour mana into the liquefied metal as you add the Quartz and the stabilizer. Continue to supply mana as you stir the compound. After stirring for three minutes to even out the contents then you transmute it with Transmutation Circle plate number three.” Harry spoke out the directions as he slowly performed them. Penny smiled fondly at him from where she was sitting and going over her homework. She’d bet that he didn’t even realize he started speaking when he got wrapped up in his Enchanting. She found it rather adorable to be honest.

The blue glow of the Transmutation Circle lit up part of the workshop for just under a minute before Harry finished the final step of making Vitris Auri. The new Circuit Compound was still liquid in its vessel and Harry left it on the magical equivalent of a Bunsen burner he’d found in a supply closet in an abandoned classroom to keep it warm. Filling his Alchemic Pen with the golden material Harry carefully and precisely set about filling in the Runic Array and Circuit Lines of the first Sylvuan prototype. Almost thirty minutes later Harry finished and emptied his Alchemic Pen of the remaining Vitris Auri. Now it was time to try his next idea.

Harry still had some Oulm left over from his first prototypes so he quickly set about getting it hot enough in the forge to liquefy it. He had to carefully watch the Oulm so that he didn’t ‘melt’ the Magic out of the low-grade Magical Metal. Extracting it too late would leave him with inert metal that was useless to Enchanting. Once he had the Oulm liquefied he filled his Alchemic Pen and set to work filling in the Runic Array and Circuit Lines of the next Sylvuan knife. A half hour later and Harry was sitting back and letting the Oulm cool and solidify into the knife.

“Harry, it’s time for lunch.” Penny spoke up as she stood up from the table she was sitting at.

“Alright, I need a break anyway.” Harry agreed and the two left to the Great Hall to fill their stomachs. Luna sat with them at lunch and proceeded to tell them about Christmas at the Rookery, the Lovegood Family ancestral home. Apparently Luna lived near the Weasley Family and the two Families often got together during the Holidays. Harry thought the traditions of the Magical World would be either normal-ish or completely odd. There didn’t seem to be much in-between in the Magical World. But it seemed certain traditions were practiced by some Families while others weren’t and vice versa depending on the Family in question. It also seemed that the vast majority of students were heading home this year. Harry would bet money that it was because of the whole ‘Heir of Slytherin’ investigation currently still in-progress.

As of now there hadn’t been another attack. Harry suspected that was because of the Auror presence within Hogwarts. It was hard to hide a monster moving through the school when all the portraits and ghosts, plus the Aurors were watching as much of the school as possible. Hopefully this ‘Heir’ would wise up and just leave everyone alone, or get caught soon, Harry wasn’t particular about which. After lunch Harry and Penny returned to the hidden workshop. Harry quickly set about testing his new prototypes.

“First up, the Vitris Auri and Sylvuan knife.” Harry stated as he created a Lumos Charm. A pass through the light with the blade and the Charm flickered and lost two thirds of its size and brightness. “Yes! Progress!” Harry cheered and Penny clapped for him from her table. “I better check the Array.” Harry thought aloud as he started inspecting the prototype.

“Is it still working, Harry?” Penny asked a couple of minutes later.

“It appears to be.” Harry replied. “I didn’t find any evidence of damage. Let’s see how many swings it takes to snuff out an average Lumos Charm.” A ball of light appeared next to Harry and he swung the prototype through the spell. The Charm flickered and shrank to only a third of its original size and brightness. A second pass through the Charm dispersed it entirely. “Just a quick check…” Harry mumbled to himself as he inspected the prototype for damage. A minute later saw Harry whooping with joy. “No damage! It works! It works!”

“Congratulations Harry!” Penny cheered for him as well.

“I’ll have to put it through some durability tests, see just how much it can take, but if it holds up I’ll try combining two of the ‘Base Arrays’ into one functional Array and applying it to the next Sylvuan prototype.” The young Artificer was practically glowing with glee at his progress.

“What about the other prototype?” Penny asked pointing at the Oulm Circuit Sylvuan knife.

“Right, right, almost forgot in the excitement.” Harry shook his head to refocus. “Let’s test this one out.” Another Lumos Charm was conjured and Harry passed the Oulm Circuit knife through the spell. The Charm wavered when the blade was in contact with it, but it settled after the blade cleared the space. Neither size nor brightness had diminished.

“It did something at least?” Penny offered and Harry looked over the Array to check for any damage. Not seeing any after a few minutes Harry stabbed the Lumos Charm and watched it waver with the blade occupying the same space. Even as it wavered the Charm never went out, even after a solid minute of exposure to the prototype.

“How odd.” Harry mused as he looked the knife over. Same Runic Array, but different materials have gotten different reactions. Fascinating.” The Artificer was smiling just as brightly as when his other prototype had succeeded. Penny could only smile fondly at Harry. Even when his work didn’t quite ‘work’ he still found it interesting and was left with more things to try out and test. He didn’t let failure stop him; in fact it seemed to spur him on, like he was taking it as a challenge. She had to admit, that work ethic was rather attractive.

“So what now?” Penny asked breaking Harry from his staring at the prototype. Harry thought about it for a moment and his eyes fell onto his prototype Oulm knife that had ‘failed’. But the knife did have the interesting effect of leaving his fingers with the ‘pins and needles’ feeling when they were tapped by the edge of the blade.

“I’m going to test something else.” Harry grinned as he brought the edge of the Oulm Circuit knife to his left pinky finger. He tapped the digit with the blade and instantly lost feeling in the finger. “Interesting.” He grinned as he looked between his finger and the prototype.

“What did you do, Harry?” Penny questioned him and Harry turned to her with a smile.

“I believe I’ve just temporarily removed feeling from my left pinky.” Harry informed the Prefect. He did not expect her to suddenly be at his side and looking over the digit with a critical eye.

“What do you mean ‘removed feeling’?” Penny demanded as she tried to find anything wrong with the finger.

“Nothing serious, Penny, I just can’t feel it right now.” Harry tried to placate the older girl but she just looked at him incredulously.

“You might have just magically severed your nerves!” Penny raised her voice to express her worry for him. “This could be VERY serious! We’re going to the Hospital Wing!”

“I’m sure it’ll wear off in…” Harry tried to say but Penny was having none of it. She latched her hand around his left wrist and proceeded to drag him out of the hidden workshop.

“We’re going and that’s final!” Penny stated with finality as Harry stopped resisting and let her lead him along. He supposed it was nice knowing how much Penny cared about him. But he also didn’t much care for having the school Mediwitch, Madam Pomfrey, fussing over him as she was want to do for the students. Oh well, if it helped Penny stop worrying he’d go. There wasn’t much he wouldn’t do for her and Tonks if it helped them out, now that he thought about it.

‘It’s good to have such great friends.’ Harry thought to himself as he followed along with Penny. ‘Though I hope she releases the death grip on my wrist soon, since I’m coming along willingly.’

She didn’t.

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Progress! Technically double ‘progress’, maybe, if you squint? So Harry and Penny had a nice little duel, Tom’s plans are being shafted by the presence of Aurors in the castle, and now it’s time for Christmas! How will our Artificer’s Yule Break turn out? Keep reading to find out!

Until I get your reviews, later!

Comments

Christian Jeffress

Another fantastically, fun and enjoyable chapter, thank you very much.

Christian Jeffress

Also, with all this forging, he’s a eventually going to be a rather ripped individual lol

Sith_Paladin

Another amazing chapter can't wait for the next one. Some of the applications that can be used for new knives is going to be awesome.

mark geier

Enjoyable chapter. Should be interesting to see what he does with the knives. And then there is the work for the Aurors. And of course the frames. and....well, he's a busy boy! Too bad there was no Tonks or Fleur, but can't get everyone, especially the ones that aren't at the castle makes it harder.

Kairomaru

There's going to be an enjoyable summer trip between second and third year, one guess where to!

Anonymous

A great new chapter, glad we get both Harry's progress with his inventing, and story progress. I also am enjoying seeing Penelope have depth and character, she is so often overlooked.

Kairomaru

Thanks for the praise, I'll accept it humbly. I'm glad you're enjoying the story! Yeah, Penny is almost always overlooked, or remembered for dating Percy for like a year. Nothing else is ever written about her beyond that in either Canon or Fanfiction, most of the time.

John Balman

Love, I think the "failed" knife is removing magic from his pinky.... may making cutting in to magically enforced hide of a creature more doable.... either way I'm sure it will be epic!

NTLuck

Nice chapter. I would advice against abusing the finite charm as it's clearly meant to only disable minor hexes and joke charms. It's not supposed to stop a transfiguration or conjuration. Also, are you never going to have Harry and co use wands ever again? Because while l like the whole wandless aspect of magic, it's quite unbalanced at the moment if it completely makes wands obsolete. A good theory is that wandless magic was how the ancestors of wizards first discovered magic but they later opted to use conduits for magic (like staves) for more powerful spells or wands for those spells that require more finesse. What I'm trying to say is, wandless magic is like throwing a stone with your own hand. Deadly at times but if you use a slingshot it will be even deadlier. Finally can you please give some hints in scenes on the appearance of some of the characters? I keep forgetting what they look like. For example describe Penny as "flicking her *insert hair color* hair while she stared at Harry with her *insert eye color* eyes" then telling him to take better care of himself before giving him a hug and putting her chin on the top of his head to empathize how much taller she is than him.

Kairomaru

Wands are foci that excel in versatility, therefore they lack any significant power increase. Foci that only have one purpose/effect output that singular ability with much greater power than any other focus would. I usually refer to characters with their hair color, title(Prefect for Penny), and by their age sometimes. But I could try and mention eyes color a bit, a description of their height differences was mostly left out to allow the reader to picture it how they wanted. Mostly since Penelope isn't actually seen in the movies to my knowledge and she's barely described in Book Two except for a short sentence. By JKR's writing Penelope's most defining feature was that she dated Percy for like a year.

NTLuck

Well I always felt it funny when authors and characters teased Harry for his short stature. We know his father was the same, both being late bloomers. Harry was always described as a shorty in the books until 5th year. Besides i personally like it best to imagine the characters as how you the author sees them. So if you see Penny as a beautiful buxom blonde that is a head taller than Harry (for example) then please go ahead and show us. Subtely :)

Kairomaru

I might be able to work in a full body description for Penny next chapter actually. Tonks is up to her tricks again during Christmas!

Thomas E Nellis

Well I am kind of sad that that Harry has complete disregard for personal safety. Hopefully Pomfrey can fix him... I loved the duel scene and the rest of teh chapter and I am glad that Harry has moved on to silver and gold. The successes are awesome!

Kairomaru

He has safety in mind, that's why he used his left, non-dominate hand, and only the pinky at that. Better than just going up to some random person and being like *tap* thanks for helping me test my creation! Also, yes the effect is only temporary. It wears off in a few minutes. Glad you liked the chapter! The duel was fun, Penny has advanced too! Success will come, some maybe too fast for Harry to control? Lessons will be learned, sometimes the hard way.

Aeonstorm

Great chapter can’t wait for more. I am curious if harry is going to learn and study more alchemy apart from just doing metallurgy. Also I am curious if he will end up making a automaton/construct/golem or something similar as a sort of lab assistant.

Kairomaru

Glad you enjoyed the chapter! As for the questions...well you'll have to wait and see!

KristofferXxXxX

I really liked the chapter, as it focused on Harry’s and Penelope’s bonding and growing friendship. It is not there yet, but it is easy to see Penelope is surely but slowly developing romantic feelings for Harry. No surprise there, Nymphadora Tonks, Penelope Clearwater and Fleur Delacour ARE the three love interests and future wives of Harry :3

Kairomaru

Got to work up to a real relationship! Things that happen way too fast aren't really romance, the writer is usually just trying to get to the naughty stuff faster! Glad you liked the chapter! Hope you enjoyed the duel as well! Penny has advanced herself! It isn't only Harry that will shine in this story!

KristofferXxXxX

Hopefully Tonks and Fleur will also shine in the story :3

Kairomaru

Of course they will! Their family will be some of the most powerful Magicals in the world by the time this Epic ends!

Aeonstorm

I can just see harry at some point accidentally making a philosophers stone and telling the girls.

Kairomaru

I don't plan for him to hit the zenith of Alchemy, but a few things, besides metals, will be made from Alchemy in the future.

Anonymous

I'm really loving this story and I can't wait until you update further. Btw did Ginny hide the diary of tom riddle or whoever you have as the one being possessed or does it not show as anything other than a regular diary to scans? Anyway thanks for a great story and chapter, hope you stay safe and healthy.

Kairomaru

More the second one. In Canon only a very select few people even knew what a Horcrux was. Dumbledore wasn't even sure about how Voldemort survived '81 until after he'd had time to study the destroyed Diary. So a Horcrux wouldn't show up on the Standard scans the Auror force was using. It might have read as Enchanted, but I firmly believe a lot of things in the Magical World, like private Diaries, would have been Enchanted with basic security Charms to keep out nosy siblings or dormmates. So a Diary that was Enchanted wouldn't seem suspicious.

Aeonstorm

Is harry going to learn to transmute on his own or will he continue using premade alchemy circles

Kairomaru

He'll write out his own once he goes past the stage were pre-made stops. If it is a Transmutation Circle that he'll use often he'll most likely carve it into stone or etch it into a large metal sheet of his own.