"Knowing Moony, probably?" Sirius nodded with a small shrug. "He's a meticulous note keeper. He probably still has them stashed away with his old school things."
"Can you ask him to send me a copy of them?" Harry requested as he looked the mirror over. "This sounds like a worthwhile challenge." The young Artificer grinned as he had several thoughts and theories already flying around his head.
"Sure thing, Harry." Sirius laughed at the look on his Godson's face. That gleam in his eyes was always followed by some kind of creation of Harry's. Though even Sirius was curious if his Godson could crack the mystery of the Communication Mirrors. Sirius took back one mirror and told Harry to keep the other, in case of emergency. Should anything else happen; Harry was to contact Sirius with the mirror and inform him of it. If Sirius was called he'd make sure to come to Hogwarts and retrieve Harry with all haste. Regardless of whether or not Hogwarts was closing. Several minutes later and the adults had left while Harry and Penny went to practice their Wandless Magic in the hidden workshop.
Many students were rounded up and punished when the Aurors' search turned up items that were banned in the school. Only two were Dark Items, from two Seventh Year Slytherins, the rest mostly being alcohol like Fire Whiskey. Other than that nothing else was uncovered and classes resumed as normal for the most part. Aurors patrolled the halls at night instead of Prefects and the red robed Wizards and Witches were stationed around the castle at strategic positions. There hadn't been another attack since Colin Creevey; the First Year had been treated with a Mandrake Draught that had been brought in from St. Mungos. When questioned about what he'd seen, the boy had only been able to recall seeing a large pair of yellow eyes through his camera and then waking up in the Hospital Wing.
"Yellow eyes don't help narrow it down much." Penny groaned as she was looking through multiple tomes about Magical Creatures. A petrifying gaze was a rare trait even among the multitudes of Magical Beasts in the world. But Penny couldn't find any creature capable of living a thousand years or breeding successfully in isolation for the same length of time that also had said gaze.
"Maybe it's a hybrid?" Harry mused as he was waiting for the Circuit Base lines to cool on his second prototype knife. "Slytherin doesn't come off as entirely sane to me from what I've read."
"That means it could be almost anything though." Penny almost whined. "Magical Creature breeding can happen between species that have no relation to each other at all; as long as very specific conditions are met at least."
"Maybe we should ask Hagrid?" Harry pondered; the gentle giant was a fount of knowledge when it came to Magical Creatures after all.
"It couldn't hurt." Penny agreed as she watched Harry pick up his new knife.
"Just let me run a few tests with this first." Harry grinned as he produced a Lumos Charm. A second later and the Artificer swiped the blade of the knife through the ball of light. The light noticeably shrank and got dimmer, but still remained. "Progress!" Harry cheered as he looked at the light.
"Congratulations, Harry!" Penny clapped for him.
"Let's try it again, how many swings until the Lumos Charm is extinguished?" Harry wondered as he passed the blade through the light again. This time though, nothing changed about the Charm. "What?" Harry asked confused. He swiped through the light a few more times with no results. "Why isn't it working?" He muttered to himself before looking over the knife.
"Something wrong, Harry?" Penny asked.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" Harry shouted and Penny started and almost fell out of her chair.
"What? What happened?!" Penny asked a second later as she tried to calm her heart rate.
"It's inert! Completely inert!" Harry stated loudly a look of confusion on his face.
"What do you mean?" Penny asked as she stood from her chair and walked over to him.
"The knife, it's not Magical anymore, it's just a chunk of inert metal alloy in the shape of a knife." Harry replied as he showed her the prototype. Even to Penny's untrained eyes the knife just looked…dull, for lack of a better term.
"What happened to it?" Penny questioned curiously. Harry shook his head before he started looking over it more thoroughly.
"It burned out." Harry spoke up a minute later. "The Array and the Circuit Base lines, all of them are blackened."
"So it just…broke?" Penny asked and got a nod from Harry.
"That's basically it." Harry sighed heavily. "The Array was too much for the material. One use and it burned out the Oulm. It didn't even disperse the Lumos Charm and it still burned out."
"But it weakened it…that's still progress right?" Penny encouraged and Harry smiled at the blonde.
"Yeah, it's still progress. Just need a better Magical Metal as the base. What I wouldn't do for some Orichalcum. But Alchemists are very rarely willing to part with any they make. The stuff that's on the market costs way too much because of it. Not to mention the stories you hear about low-grade Orichalcum. It's almost like fool's gold. It looks like what you want, but in the end it's pretty much worthless." Harry sighed as he thought about it.
"Maybe take a break and work on something else?" Penny suggested. "You said the first prototype might have another use if you can work it out. Plus that new Trinket you've been working on seems interesting." Harry nodded as he turned to the first 'failed' prototype and the host of small metal discs that were strewn across another table in the workshop. Walking over Harry looked through the papers on the discs while Penny looked over the Trinkets.
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