New Dawn – A Harry Potter Transmigration Fanfic - Chapter 98

Hermione was worried.

That was not something unusual as she was the type of person who got worried for just about everything. But this time she was so worried that she was not able to concentrate on her books.

And that meant a lot to her because she saw books as sacred things that were bestowed to mankind by the gods themselves.

Well, maybe not something that dramatic but the point stands that she respected her books very much and the fact that she was not able able to focus on her books meant that there was something drastically wrong with the world.

And this time, that something drastic had to do with her friendship with Harry. A friendship that meant the world to her.

A friendship that had been strained unnecessarily because of her foolish actions and her blind respect for the authority.

Yes, she had spent numerous hours in the chamber of secrets in order to seek his forgiveness and yes, he had forgiven her eventually.

But even after that bit of reconciliation, she could see that there friendship was not what it used to be once.

It was strained and there was always a sense of tenseness they Harry felt around her now.

As if he was simply waiting for her drop the shoe and betray him once again.

He was probably not even aware that he was doing it but being a girl, she was able to sense such subtle things.

And the worse part was that she only had herself to blame for all of this.

Oh how she wished that she had not been so foolish.

Well, at least Harry was allowing her to help him in his new projects.

And gods those projects excited her.

She could even understand why he would ditch every single one of his class. Working on those projects was just that exciting.

To know that you’re inventing something that would be used by many other witches and wizards in the future.

With those thoughts she reached their ‘Study room’… and was shocked to see Harry’s face submerged in one of the Pensieves that he had been recently been trying to repair.

Her heart hammered in her ċhėst and she almost ran to take him out of the pensieve before she remembered that it was exactly how the pensieves worked.

Only when she was sure that his heart was beating and that he lungs were still working perfectly did she let out a sigh of relief and plopped on the floor.

In hindsight, the fact that Harry would die by getting submerged into a dish of metal was completely ridiculous.

“You know. It’s rather rude to touch people like that without their permission.” She heard his voice and blushed at those words before looking up and meeting his bright green eyes. She felt her heart hammer in her ċhėst once again because of the devilish smirk in his expression before she controlled her emotions and huffed.

“I was not trying to… touch you.” She managed to say without blushing.

“I know.” He smiled and lifted her up from the ground “I was just teasing you.” He smiled and she huffed back.

2 months ago, he would have hugged her in greeting by this point but now, he just gave her a pat on her shoulders before getting back to his work.

The change in his behavior hurt her a little as she liked those hugs a lot as well. Not that she ever showed it. But then again, she only had herself to blame for her mistakes.

She shook such thoughts from her mind and went beside him to check on the Pensieve that was definitely damaged until a few days ago.

“You repaired it?” she asked. Not really sure if the Pensieve was working properly or not.

“Yup.” He said with a smile, looking rather proud over the fact that he managed to get the blasted thing to work “Took a lot of hard work and time but yes. I did. And it’s working perfectly now.”

“And how would you know if it was working properly or not?” she asked “How you ever used it before?”

Her question brought him up short and he opened his mouth to say something but then stopped and the said “Not really. But I’ve read about how it works in a book.”

She felt that he was lying to her but didn’t point it out.

If he wanted to keep a secret from her then she should not push him.

She would be surprised if he didn’t have a hundred other secrets already.

“Can I see it as well?” she asked curiously. She had never really used a pensieve before in her life and was curious as to how it worked.

“Yup. But not now.” He said with a smile “Because now, we have to do a little more research in Pensieves.”

“Research?” she asked “Is this a new project?”

“Nope.” He said with a feral grin that made her realize that he must be really excited about this project. Whatever it was.

“This is not a new project Mione.” She felt a little warm at the sudden use of her nickname. He had not do so in such a long time “In fact, this is the same one as the one that we’ve been working on for quite some time now.”

“Same one?” she asked and then her eyes widened “You couldn’t mean.”

“Yes.” He said with a smile “I’m thinking of making a miniature Pensieve and incorporating it in the Magical Phones. The miniature ones don’t have to give a 360 dimensional view of the memory but the memory should be clear enough that the viewer would still understand everything in the memory.”

“Think of it as a portable Pensieve. With this function, the possibilities are endless.”

Her eyes wide at his proclamation before she realized how hard this project was going to become.

Because if creating a miniature pensieve was so easy then someone would have already done it. Right?

Right?

Somehow she was not so sure considering how few innovative people there were in the wizarding world.

“Harry. This project. It’ll be…”

“Awesome. Right?”

“I was going to say hard. But I guess that if we succeed then it will be awesome as well.”

“I knew it.” He said with a large grin on his face that made her smile.

“But…” she said, bringing him back to the world “This new function of yours will spike the prices of the Magical Phones by at least 2-5 times.”

“Pensieves are not easy to make.” Or at least that’s what she thought. “If they were easy to make then everybody would have one. And even if you create a miniature version of it, it will still be a hard task to complete for the rune carvers and the enchanters.”

“So if you add this feature to the Magical Phones then selling them for anything less than 50 galleons would be a loss for your company.” She informed him and he frowned at her words, the earlier enthusiasm all gone.

She felt bad at delivering the bad news to him because she knew that he wanted the Magical Phones to be cheap and affordable enough to be bought by even the poorest wizarding family.

To tell him that this new function will increase the price to such a large extent must have been a blow to him.

He kept frowning for a few more moments before he shook his head and smiled at her.

“I guess you’re right. I’ll still think of some way to make my Magical Phones affordable to everyone.” He said “Maybe I’ll release two different versions of the Magical Phones. The simple ones and the ones with the miniature Pensieve function.”

“The first one for the poor and the lower middle class household and the second one for the rich people. What do you say?”

“The idea has merit.” She said and smiled at how easily he was able to solve this problem.

And she knew that even if they were not able to create two different versions of the Magical Phones, he would have thought of some other way to get across this problem.

He was just that good.

“I know right.” He said and a smile and then handed her the Notepad and the quill “Then let’s get ready. Because I know that this project would be one of the hardest ones we’ve worked on over the past few months.”

She nodded enthusiastically at his words and got ready for the project.

She knew that what Harry was doing would forever change the wizarding world.

And she wanted to be a part of that no matter what.