Chapter 19: Everybody screams, in our town of Halloween
This morning, I think it's a good time to put in place one of my plans. I've been thinking about what I need most for a while now, and it's a stable source of money. And the thing that can get it for me in this world of wizards is an unprecedented magical creation on which I would have a monopoly.
Something I'm pretty sure I can sell very easily are phones that wizards can use. From what I understand, the wizard can't use electrical devices, but I think I remember seeing radios and other electrical devices in the movies. And Harry knew how to use electrical appliances in Dursleys' house.
I go to the seventh floor to gain access to the room of requirement. I find the painting of Barnabas the Barmy rather quickly and pass three times in front of it thinking that I need a room to do experiments on electricity and magic.
On the third passage, a door appears on the wall in front of the painting. I enter the room to find several tables on which radios, televisions, toasters, electronic alarm clocks, and so on are placed.
I find a generator with several cans of gasoline next to it. I fill it to the brim and start pulling the cable to turn on the engine by making several back and forth movements. After a few seconds, it starts to hum, filling the room with a deafening noise.
It's not very pleasant, but I guess I'm glad the school gave me an old generator. I plug in one of the alarm clocks and I see the LED turn on and 0am appears on the screen.
Well, now that I have a working device, I can start my tests. I take out my wand and use a lumos about thirty feet from the device, no reaction from it. I'm getting closer feet by feet until I finally get a reaction at fifteen feet. The alarm clock starts flashing for a second.
I start getting closer again and when I am less than three feet away from the device, it starts to flash frantically. So the distance between a spell used and an electrical device is a factor.
I then test the power of the spells while remaining fifteen feet from the device and I realize that an aquamenti makes the alarm screen bug much more than a lumos or a levitation spell. We must therefore take into account the power of spells.
The next experiment focuses on signals emitted by electronic devices. I'm plugging in a radio instead of the alarm clock and choose a frequency to get some music. I already have some interference, but I don't know if it's due to the distance to the nearest relay tower or because the magic of the school generates interference. I turn on my wand and slowly bring it closer to the radio. As I get closer, I can hear the music disappear to be replaced by stronger and stronger interference.
The most plausible explanation for this situation is that magic is a form of energy and when it is used, it saturates the electromagnetic spectrum with energy and creates interference with electronic equipment which may be more or less sensitive to this kind of interference. I could try to build a Faraday cage to isolate the electronic elements or use leather from some spell-resistant magic creatures. Um, that's not a bad idea, but it doesn't solve the problem of interference with transmissions
It will take me another eight days to get the first magical binary transmission by using two enchanted quartz crystals to act one as a transmitter and the other as a receiver. The principle is quite simple, if I touch the transmitter crystal and inject a little magic into it, I can turn on the other crystal at the end of the room. After verification, if I configure them at the same frequency, the signals of the electrical appliances and magic transmitters do not affect the receivers of the other. Muggle devices are unable to emit for magic devices, and magic devices are unable to emit for muggle devices.
It will take me a while, but I think I'll be able to use crystals to recreate a phone that would only work for wizards, I would have to do some more experiments.
Today is finally Halloween. I look forward to Quirrell's intervention to try and get into the three-headed dog room. In the meantime, we have Flitwick's charm class.
I see that the place next to Hermione is free. Harry and Ron are just behind her. I greet them with a gesture of my hand when their gaze are on me and I sit down.
Flitwick begins to teach the spell, but as usual, I take a book and I just read during the class. I raise my head when I hear the students begin to pronounce their incantations, and I make a demonstration to Flitwick. My feather slowly rises to fly prominently in the middle of the class.
"Well done, Mr. Bones, I would expect nothing less from you." After confirming my mastery of the charm, Flitwick continues to inspect the work of other students. That's when I hear Hermione trying to correct Ron.
"It is not levioza but leviosa."
"How about you keep your nose out of my business." Ron answers her before addressing Harry. "How can she be so annoying? That's why she doesn't have any friends." I didn't expect him to say that in the middle of class. Flitwick doesn't seem to have heard it because he's busy with other students. Well, if it can make me earn some points with Hermione, I'm not going to complain.
"I don't think correcting a classmate is something you have to be unpleasant about. She just wanted to help you. Plus, she probably has more real friends than you right now, starting with me." My intervention seems to surprise Ron.
Hermione, who was about to cry because of Ron's insult pull herself after I took her defense.
"Well, next time, I won't even try to help you. And when you fail miserably, know that I will be in the front row watching your tears while you repeat a year."
I'm glad she didn't let it get to her. I never understood how she ended up being friends with these two in the movies when they insulted her. I guess the damsel-in-distress syndrome hit her when they rescued her from the Troll.
During the evening meal, the large hall had been decorated on the theme of Halloween. The meal on the table consisted of an infinite flow of sweets. I really need to go find someone in the kitchen before I die of diabetes or a blockage in my arteries.
"You saw the faces of these two morons when they were shut up by the mudblood. It was to die of laughter." I turn my head to Draco. It's gonna take me a while to get this idiot to understand that there are some things you don't want to say in public. I'm looking at the tables of the other houses, but nobody seems to have picked up on the comment.
"Draco, don't say those kinds of words in public. People might misinterpret what you just said."
"It doesn't matter, it's just us here." A grin appears on his face. " Now that I think about it, you're a hybrid. What's going on? Do you have a thing for the muggle-born?"
I see red when I hear his comment. I put my face a few inches closer to his and look him straight in the eye. "I may not have the inbreeding rate of your family, Malfoy, but don't confuse that with weakness. I will always be a thousand times more powerful than the wizard you would dream of being." Styx who felt my anger comes out from under my sweater and is licking his tongue over Malfoy's neck, which becomes pale as a sheet. "Don't think I'm nice for no reason either. People are just more inclined to do what I ask them if I act friendly."
~Do I have to bite him? ~
~Not yet, I could still use that idiot and his father. ~
Styx goes back to hiding in my sweater and I take a piece of pie and put it in front of Draco with my best smile. "A piece of pie?" Draco remains silent, his gaze passing from my eyes to the slice of pie in front of him. Poor Draco, he is really not suited to maneuver in the troubled waters of politics.
Suddenly I hear the big door open and I see Quirrell coming, right on time.
"A troll... in the dungeons... I wanted to warn you." He collapses to the ground like a rag and pretends to be unconscious.
Now that I see him fall in real life, I wonder how no one ever thought he was acting. I've never seen anyone act this bad pretending to fall. Yet all the students panic at the teacher's announcement.
Seriously? We are about a thousand wizard in this room with only one door and they manage to panic. If we really wanted to, we would be enough to disintegrate a dozen dragons.
"Silence! Prefects, please escort the students to their common rooms. The teachers and I are going to capture this troll." Dumbledore magically raised his voice and it resonates in the room.
"Sonorus." The spell magically increases my voice in turn. I'll need at least that to get Dumbledore's attention. "Professor, wouldn't it be wiser to all stay in this room and protect the students while half the teachers go hunting the troll. In addition, Slytherin's common room is in the dungeons, which means a confrontation with the troll!"
Dumbledore, who did not really seem to have thought about the issue before shouting out his plan seems to realize the dangers of it.
"We'll follow your plan, Mr Bones. Twenty points for Slytherin."
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