Potter Programmer

Part 4

I cast a privacy bubble around us via my BMP.

"Know who else I know who uses that excuse to eat constantly? Dudley! And he's wider than he is tall! And you remind me of him and Malfoy half the time with how rude you are about Slytherins! Not all Slytherins are evil Ron!"

He explodes.

"I'm nothing like Malfoy! He's a slimy Slytherin! Every Slytherin is evil Harry! They're all Dark Wizards and Witches! I'm a Gryffindor! I'm a Hero! I'm nothing like those slimy snakes!" He roared at me, turning puce.

His words echo in my ears as I stare at him, realising how much he looked like Uncle Vernon in this moment.

"Consider... Our friendship over Ronald. Don't speak to Hermione or I till you've gotten your act together" I turn away from him calmly and drop the spell, casting a silencing charm at him instead.

He continues screaming at me, no that anyone could figure out what he was saying since nothing he said made noise.

After dessert I guided Hermione up to the seventh floor.

"Where are we going Harry? It's getting late"

"Well I figured you would want to see my Workshop" I stop at the entrance and pace, making the door appear, I open it and hold it wide. "You first milady"

She giggled and stepped through.

"Welcome... To the Room of Requirement. Pace thrice and think of anything or anywhere you desire, and it will accommodate your desires"

It opens to my Workshop the half constructed bike was lifted off the ground where I'd last left it.

"Harry... What is this? It's Muggle!" She exclaimed in shock. "I thought electricity didn't work in Hogwarts!"

"It doesn't. I remade the various tools with Runes mentally, and the Room crafted them. So long as you can imagine an object it should appear. But it won't exist outside of the room unless if it was already in the room. I could call on Galleons, Sickles, Gold Bars. And they would come, because someone at some point lost them in the castle, and the House Elves put it in here, or they put it in here looking for a place to hide the stuff. The last week I've been working on automating the creation of the Holophone Gauntlet and the add-on Energized Electron Shield, got it to work as well"

I walk her over to the conveyor belt system where a set of arms, prototypes for the mechanics of my bike run up the sides.

Unlike Muggle ones where each arm would add a single part to the device each arm can lift and self transfigured themselves into over a dozen different forms to work on one artefact each.

Because technically my Holophone Gauntlet and Energizing Electron Shield are considered Artefacts by Law.

The Potter Brand is hidden in a small hidden part of each one, which tanks to the brand passively marks them as Potter Property.

I activate one and the conveyor belt begins rolling.

A hard casing with many parts around it slides past the arm and suddenly it whirred into action, lifting the gauntlet and parts up in a field before rapidly heating it and stamping Runes into it.

It connected every part quickly as efficiently to the main piece before spraying it with a nice Matt black coating.

It put the Gauntlet back onto the belt and it rolled to the end, falling into a box of other completed HGs from my tests.

"You've... Automated Magic... To make Artefacts" Hermione stared in disbelief.

"Correct. I made these by hand of course, but then after the first few were done I worked on automating it for mass production. Do you know how badly the Aurors would need these? No more stand still shields! No more ducking and hiding, they can just raise their arm and a shield will appear anchored not two inches from their skin" I pick up the one that was just done. "Of course... These are all missing the one final component to truely... Come to life"

I pull a glass social from my pocket full of white powder and carefully pulled a grain out.

"Merlin Stone. A piece no bigger than a sand grain can power these, and with a drop of blood, bind it to the user till it runs out of Magic. These are all weak compared to the ones I gave you and Sirius, which have a rice grain. But these have a life span of roughly... Five years?" I chuckle. "Hermione... Give a Firstie one and it'll last till Fifth Year where they'll be able to get a new one with more features. At the end of Seventh Year they unlock everything still locked and have the option of getting a new add-on. Those I'll need your help designing"

I put the vial back in my pocket before looking up and freezing.

Hermione had a look I didn't recognise.

"Harry... This is amazing..." She stepped towards me. "But let's stop talking about this and have some... Fun"

She kissed me hard.

"I've liked you since the Troll, and the ride of Buckbeak transformed it into love" She kissed me again.