His eyes seemed to gaze into the distance. "I would love to find spells that let us move books directly into our mind worlds so we can read them later. Or that could transform sound and visuals into text." He looked around the table. There was a real level of interest in their eyes. Well, except for Hermione who looked like someone had given her the keys to a giant chocolate car filled with cute kittens.
She seemed almost to be in a trance. "Of course... Library spells..." Hermione focused. "We need stuff for spell checking, editing text, and sorting books based on criteria like subject, name, author or whatever."
Terry seemed to be heavily burdened by the world. "That sounds like SO much work."
Susan patted his shoulder. "Well imagine how much time you will save. More time to fly if you don't have to remember what book has the topics you need for your essays, right?"
More time for Quidditch? Terry stood. "What are you guys waiting for? To the books!"
A few hours later, their table was covered in indexes, massive books that gave descriptions of types of magic, and so forth. Harry placed a fairly heavy green tomb and took a seat, seeing his friends settle.
The librarian, Madam Pince, was much nicer when quietly asked questions... Maybe it was because their group hadn't made any annoyingly loud noises since her first warning. She had provided a copy of the books she used when she first became a librarian, although she had pointed out that certain details (Like the restricted section security and stuff) was not going to be in them.
Harry was ecstatic. Well, honestly Wisdom was the one flipping out and giggling over all the new spells and abilities he was collecting, but he felt that if one part of you was doing a happy dance with ducks than on the whole you were ALSO happy... right?
He once again held his wand in his right hand, pointed at the palm of his left. Harry had found that his wand was much more precise depending on which core he used. The older dragon heartstring provided a more powerful and thick rope of power, but the young one was much more precise and easy to manipulate.
Using the young core, he found that all the spells being cast could be done on a much smaller scale. Holding the spell in his left palm while he wrote it made everything easier. Right now he was practicing the sorting spell, watching the green thread curl into interesting shapes.
The sorting and search spells were brilliant, especially when Hermione found an older text that had been misshelved. It was a really old copy of Madam Pince's book, "The book within: A Librarian's Guide". The older versions of the search and sorting stuff could handle sorting almost anything, including stone tablets and scrolls and stuff. The older spell was much more complicated of course, but that wasn't why Harry was casting.
The same spell LOOKED different.
Susan glanced at Harry again. He had been casting the two sorting spells for over an hour now, and didn't even seem tired. Seeing Hannah's raised eyebrow she blushed slightly and went back to the books. They had each chosen a different topic to research cool spells.
Harry was focusing on information related spells, while Hannah decided to look up food creation and preservation. Hermione of course loved the ideas of copying books into the mind, so was going through anything on Occlumency about different methods of absorbing data. Susan was supposed to be helping Padma and Terry collect books about OTHER Books about spells, so they could find stuff faster.
It would be easier to watch Harry if Hannah would stop looking this way.
Hannah was having a lot more fun than she had expected. Class had almost been too easy, since her connection to her wand was so strong now. True she hadn't completed the matchstick thing, but she had made more progress than many classmates.
She looked up from a section about different types of food preservation. Seeing Susan blush and look away from Harry made her grin. Susan never was outgoing enough for Hannah, but she loved teasing her.
Turning back to the book, Hannah made some more notes. So far she had found some interesting stuff. The dehydration charm would preserve powders pretty well, there was a very strong cooling charm that preserved ice and milk and stuff. A warming charm for keeping food warm while cooking.
She frowned. Wasn't there something... "Hey Harry, isn't there a preservation charm that you can used in potions class? To keep potions from being messed up when you had to do other stuff?"
Harry flexed his hand, releasing the spell. While watching three books resort themselves on the table, he looked up. "Wisdom says there are two, but they are mentioned in the seventh year spell book. They may not be hard to use if we are lucky."
He thought for a second. "I assume you want to test if it works on food as well?"
Hannah shrugged. "Depends on how it works. Does it prevent potions from heating or cooling? It would have to, right? I mean, if you mix a potion the wrong way it can blow up and stuff." She waved a hand while looking in her book. "I think the potion spell might be better than half of these since it wouldn't care if the food was hot, cold, or whatever. We would only have to learn one spell."
Susan had an odd look in her eye. "How would that work though? I mean, potions are mostly goo and stuff. If you just kept the temperature the same, the stirs wouldn't work right... and some potions need to stay at the same temperature for an exact amount of time anyway."
Harry looked up, eyes wide. "Time... Well, maybe it slows time down." He grinned. "I think it is time we try some of these search charms out." He scribbled in his hand with his wand, and then waved. Three books flew to the table.
Lifting the first book up and checking the title, he grinned. "Here Hannah, Wisdom thinks this covers the potion spell you mentioned. It seems to be mostly for master level brewers." He shrugged. "Makes sense if it is a time spell. The other spell is much simpler, and basically slows the potion down just slightly to make really complicated spells easier to brew. The other two books are mentioned as having more high level brewing and ingredient preparation spells... bet some of those would work great for food as well."
Susan looked thoughtful. "If we could get that really hard one working, maybe it would work on more than just potions or food. I mean, imagine stopping a person, right? It would be like a stronger version of a stunner, and they wouldn't even know they were stunned. Or that binding spell, petrif... what was it again Hermione?"
The brown haired brown eyed girl waved a hand absently. "Petrificus Totalus, the full body-bind curse, the full body bind. Target is unable to move and is forced either to remain still or stand at attention." Terry blinked. "I don't think she is actually paying attention. Hermione, how tall is Hogwarts?"
Again she barely moved. "It varies based on the number of students, classes offered, temperature, and number of unicorns in a 38 mile radius. Currently it averages around 700 feet tall."
Padma leaned in. "How many times do you think about horses per day?"
Hermione paused. "What? Wait, were you guys talking to me?"
Everyone shook their heads, although one or two may have been smiling.
She hesitated. "Um. Anyway, I think I found something. It is an advance copy spell that allows you to duplicate a single book many times if you have raw paper and ink." She buried her nose back in the book. "I am pretty sure that a fully copy of the book is temporarily stored in your mind for about 10 minutes after casting so you can cast the secondary spell. If we grab it before the second spell, then we should have a mental copy of the book... if my research is right..." Her words fell back into mumbling as she checked two other books.
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