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Chapter 32 Owl Order.
2 Oct
"Hmm, it's been a little while since I checked, but I practice a lot in my free time so I think I'm a bit higher than normal." Harry shrugged as he poured his mana into the frame. Looking down at it for a moment Harry turned it around and showed the glowing '406'. "Anyway, now that you all know how it works I'll leave the Test Frame on the Head Table in front of the Headmaster. Just form a line and you can measure your mana today."
"I'll make sure the frame gets back to you Harry." Dumbledore smiled getting a nod of thanks from Harry. There was already a line of every student forming behind him and Harry quickly moved out of the way so that the readings could begin. He quickly made his way out of the Great Hall and was followed by Tonks and Penny.
"You did great, Harrikins!" Tonks smiled as she ruffled his hair. Harry groaned as he pulled away from her and tried to fix the even worse mess his hair had been made into.
"I believe you did well too, Harry. You've gotten a lot of interest in your product and that'll make them easier to sell when you're ready." Penny congratulated him as he made his way towards his hidden workshop.
"Thanks you two, but after standing in front of the whole school I'm a bit out of sorts. I'm just going to be in my quiet workshop making those four new Test Frames for the school." Harry stated as they walked through the corridors.
"What he means is that he's going to hide from everyone until he calms down." Tonks laughed making Harry grumble that he wasn't hiding.
"Tonks be nice, that was a situation a lot of people would be nervous in." Penny admonished as they made their way into Harry's workshop.
"I know what I said!" Tonks laughed as she hugged Harry from behind.
"Tonks!" Harry cried out as he flushed dark red.
The next day Harry received six letters from various Magical Scholars, Enchanters, and one from a company that sold Enchanted Objects. Not overly eager to have everyone in the Great Hall trying to read his mail over his shoulder, Harry stuffed the letters into his robe pocket and finished his breakfast. After classes Harry was on his way up to the Ravenclaw Tower when the moving stairs shifted and brought him to the right hand corridor on the third floor.
"Well this is inconvenient." Harry groused as he walked through the corridor to a set of stairs that didn't move. Halfway down the corridor a large door caught Harry's attention, it looked a bit different than the other doors in the corridor. "Ten to one odds that this is the forbidden part of the corridor." Harry mused to himself. He still reached out and tried to open it just out of sheer curiosity, but found it locked. With a wave of his hand and a wandless Alohomora the door actually unlocked. "Why wouldn't they place a stronger locking charm on the door? First years could open this." He wondered, after all he was a first year and he'd just opened the door. With his curiosity peaked Harry cracked the door open slightly and looked into the gloomy room. There in the middle was a massive dog with three heads snoozing on top of a wooden trapdoor. Harry, eyes wide, gently closed the door back and used the basic Colloportus Charm he'd gotten to work wandlessly a few days into November to re-lock it. "Well, now I know why it's forbidden." But did he really? His curious mind questioned. After all the trapdoor was clearly part of the forbidden corridor and who knew what lay beyond it? Trying to shelve his curiosity Harry quickly made his way up the stairs and into Ravenclaw Tower.
A few of his Housemates inquired about when the Test Frame for the Common Room would be ready but Harry gave them a vague time of the coming weekend. He quickly got to his dorm room and locked the door behind him. It was time to see who had written to him. The letter from the Enchanted Object Company was basically an offer to be the exclusive sellers of his products. Well they could forget that. Owl Order gave him much more freedom than signing any contract with a large company would. The next letter was from an Enchanter in Wales who'd asked about the Runic Language Harry had used for his device. Harry didn't see any harm in telling him, his runic sequence was merely a derivative of Elder and Younger Futhark linked together. But he'd only tell the man he used Futhark Runes so as to better protect his own secrets.
"Huh, this ones from the Netherlands." Harry mused as he opened the next letter and found a missive from another Enchanter. This one was asking whether or not Harry was sure of his Scouters' accuracy in measuring Magic. Harry would write to the man explaining how he'd designed his basic unit of measurement. That should encourage more understanding and faith in his Scouter as an accurate tool for measuring mana.
The fourth letter was from a Magical Scholar in France. Thankfully this, Madam Aveline according to the letter, had written in English as Harry couldn't read French. The Scholar was curious about his thoughts on Magic and his desire to quantify it. This seemed like a good intellectual pursuit so Harry would make sure to write back to the woman. Maybe he should learn some French? It couldn't be anything but beneficial to his future business endeavors. He did get a chuckle when the post script had asked if he would sell her a Scouter directly for the same ten Galleon price as through Owl Order. He really needed to either get his Transfiguration skills up to the strength and finesse required to shape metal or find a place to build a forge in Hogwarts. Though acquiring more metal might be far more expensive than he'd like.
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