Overnight Christmas Concessions:
For the next half hour, every time Harry fell into the trance, he would see the same thing. Harry was aware to a certain extent from his YouTube jaunts that he was looking at a sheet of graphene. His ring on his hand buzzed and it reminded him very much of the House Magic. Invictus who had been observing Harry decided to question him.
"Something wrong grandson?"
"I can't seem to fall into my mindscape. I have no idea why I am seeing a sheet of graphene in my head."
"Ah-I don't know about that one. Explain?"
The Internet did not function within the null-box so Harry stepped outside. He quickly went on Google as he downloaded a picture of the atomic structure to his phone. Harry then returned inside and began to explain the significance of carbon and then graphene as he displayed the picture. Invictus looked at the pattern and found it familiar – however, he did not have access to all his knowledge, as all of it could not fit in his portrait. His portrait had only been set up with crucial information. To add to the possible problems, his Portrait had degraded over five centuries and he sometimes took a while to summon some of his older memories. Invictus got to work, as he tried to remember where he had seen a mention of the material. After ten minutes had passed, he remembered something in Glaucon's notes about some type of material being 'one primary unit thick and shaped like a honeycomb'.
"Grandson, check in volume sixteen of Glaucon's notes. First ten pages. First notebook."
As Harry looked through the book, he realised that Glaucon had discovered a rudimentary periodic table minus the transition elements and the other heavier radioactive elements. As Harry skimmed the pages, he saw something that flabbergasted him.
"Well – now I understand why Glaucon was so ahead of his time. Glaucon had discovered Graphene such a long time ago! This is amazing. He had a basic idea of the periodic table. He was eight centuries ahead of the modern scientific community. Brilliant!"
While Harry had been scratching his head, the ink that had been on his fingers made a long but light mark on his right temple and then Invictus put the entire affair together.
"I can't believe it – the family magic of the Peverell line allows us to transfigure and mould materials to our liking. Because of the accidental ink on your fingers, you are seeing the structure of it. Any chance the House ring is buzzing?"
"The ring has been kind of pinging me but I had no idea what it meant."
"This means that you are already ready to begin using our personal brand of wandless magic to shape small items. I was only capable of this at approaching forty years old. I think the common knowledge of today has opened your mind to things only master-level artificers understood well into the prime of their research! Where might a person obtain the raw materials to manufacture this graphene?"
"I think a pencil. It has graphite along with other bits in it?"
"What could you make that requires graphene?"
"I have an idea…."
It was now approaching Christmas morning and Harry was pleased with what he had built, after working the whole of Christmas eve, after making some emergency purchases at the Hardware (Harry had begged the owner to bring him some small items, even though they were closed) and scavenging other bits from around the house.
He had built a magical supercapacitor by somewhat imitating a standard design with some small magical swaps. Grace had taken at least two minutes to charge the larger design and about three seconds to charge the smaller sized versions.
Five of the small supercapacitors would be a present for his mother. They would clip around the existing power stone in her Medi-Bracelet and offer ridiculous but stable power delivery. As far as Harry was concerned, standard Runic power stones were just rocks now. In the process of analysing the Wizarding ink, it seemed that there were many complex organic molecules that all seemed to have some elementary carbon nanoflakes present in them. Most of them were pigments, as they emitted colours when he focused on them in his mind.
Harry wondered if he could meet the requirement for the magical conductivity ink with pure graphene flakes suspended in water along with a single pigment. He decided after Christmas, he would prepare a sample and ask Lorna to carry the ink to known Wizarding stores and get their opinion.
However, while Harry thought about this, he considered that he had manufactured Graphene in his null-box. Harry out of curiosity, closed the null-box as he sat outside as he Googled around the internet. He soon found out people were willing to pay big bucks for Graphene nanoflakes as a powder or Graphene sheets on Copper Substrate. Only a couple of companies were offering the product.
Hardly any competition, eh?
An evil but ambitious plan began to form in Harry's head. Harry knew exactly what he was going to do, to replenish his savings and make extra pocket money so he could buy expensive lab equipment and feed himself expensive takeout regularly.
He was going to become the 'Neighbourhood friendly Graphene dealer'.