Wands and Warframes

Interview

Kitty decides to humour the old man and hold the glass orb. Sure enough it starts to glow, a tiny pinprick of light in the centre.

"Absolutely fascinating. You score 2, which is below average for a muggle."

Kitty smirks and void jumps to the other side of the office, "Just because you can't detect it, doesn't mean I don't have magic of my own."

"Absolutely fascinating. That would also explain how you were able to walk around the castle. I will write you a note for today, but if you are visiting again in the future, would you please turn up at breakfast, or find myself or Hagrid so that I can notify the relevant staff that you're here."

"Sure. Hey, one question. How comes Harry's disappearance was never noticed?"

Albus sighs, "It was, by myself. I was the only one that could notice. You have to understand that Harry's parents were dear friends of mine, and I would have raised him myself if I wasn't such a public person. Death eater attacks were still happening for a year after and the trials didn't conclude till 1984, though we advertised the end of them in 82. I have devices linked to his health and wellbeing, and when I couldn't find him within 6 months of searching I concluded that as he was healthy and mostly happy, he'd probably found himself in a better place than his aunts house would have been. Sadly, I'd have left him at his aunts even if it wasn't the perfect location. As the only other places that would have been hidden enough to keep him safe would have been a workhouse or orphanage, and I've already seen the results of growing up in one of those places."

"Well, I'm going to be around for the rest of the week, and probably next week too which I think leads up to. Oh what did Hermione call it, that was it, Christmas Holidays."

Albus sighs and conjures another sheet of parchment before writing the note again, "You may want to visit the village of Hogsmeade rather than just sticking to the school. It probably won't be that interesting walking around on your own all day."

"Oh, don't worry, I've got plenty of things to do on the Moon. I've just been coming down when I need to stretch my legs and relax my brain."

"I see. Have a nice day Miss Kitty, if you're on the third floor. Please try to avoid opening any locked doors. There are some things there that would be dangerous for students to just stumble across."

Kitty pulls her Warframe around her so that the old man won't see her shock, before taking the note and walking out.

Once she's left, Albus leans back in his chair and considers what he saw in her mind. A laughing wall wasn't expected in any way. Then there was the fact she just disappeared from the wards and his own monitoring enchantments when she demonstrated her own magic. Maybe that's the secret of the new magic that Minerva has found.

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The last few weeks before Christmas passed quickly, and in the Orokin system Amelia and Danjell's main chassis's grew in perfectly much to Natah's immense joy. The fact that they are not magical means that Xeno and Pandora weren't flukes assisted by their own magic.

Pandora's and Natah's experiments in transplanting Oro's hits a minor snag in that the natural born sentients on earth don't have them. This doesn't slow them down for too long, as they are able to implant artificial Oro's in Kubrow's and Kavats without any side effects. With carefully controlled, humane testing, they find that the Oro's are working as expected.

"Pandora, I think we're ready to try transplanting now."

"Indeed, Sofa and Plush?"

Natah thinks for a moment, "Because they have such different personality traits?"