Logic Runes:

Wednesday morning, Harry awoke and considered that he needed a safe place to experiment with Fiendfyre. Naturally, an idea came to him and as soon as he was finished with his morning run, he wrote to Bloodaxe.

Hello Bloodaxe,

Been making progress with my experiments. I would not mind showing you some of the particulars. And that is where I need your advice.

I need a safe place to test Fiendfyre. No, I am not kidding. I think I can stabilize the spell. I suspect that it creates its own chain reaction. You drip too much energy into it and suddenly it becomes uncontrollable. My reason for investigating it is that I believe that I can use it to join metals. I have some other creative ideas for the use of it. If you could recommend a place for me to experiment, let me know. I plan to only use minute amounts of energy. Probably a fraction of what those supercaps that I gave you guys for Christmas usually hold. I think finesse is the argument.

Of course, take a 10 per cent finder fee (personal) on the cost that Gringotts is charging. Thanks, as always. Your partner in crime and profit.

Regards,

Harry Potter.

Harry picked out one of his finest envelopes and packaged the letter.

"Grace, priority for Bloodaxe. If he decides that you should stay for a reply, do so. How is the flying going? I noticed you are flying faster. You should be concerned though if I develop the jetpack. We might have to race."

"Ewe!"

"I think I would love to fly next to you. Yes, some evenings you and I will go out and fly somewhere along the coastline. Snacks after." Harry told her while he scratched her head. Grace looked at him and nodded.

Harry attached the letter and she apparated away. Not too long after she came back with no reply and he contented himself to wait. In the meanwhile, Harry put in an Amazon order for some assorted hardshell carry cases. Those would arrive in three days. In case Bloodaxe found a spot, Harry would have cases for his equipment.

After he was finished with his Hogwarts studies, he began his GCSE studies. He read the material, watched several YouTube videos, and consulted online sources before attempting his practice questions. When he was finished, he apparated into London with Mipsy to a hidden location and then purchased lunch from his favourite fish and chips joint. He then apparated to classes and took his private GCSE classes from 1 pm to 4 pm.

Harry's private GCSE classes catered to people who were homeschooled. When Harry has started class almost a month ago, not too long after the teachers eventually met Priya. She then explained (leaving out the details) that Harry's biological mother was a top-class researcher who had been murdered, and Harry's need to push himself was in honour of his mother. She would also as a fellow educator share with Harry's teachers that he had not been doing too well until she noticed his talent at her school. Priya had shared how her role had changed from a teacher to an adoptive mother. She explained that if the challenge made Harry happy, then she would facilitate him. This only earned an approving nod from the teachers at the institution.

Soon enough the news had spread very quietly throughout the class. But the students, considering Harry's terrible circumstances came to realise that Harry's reserved nature was a personal affair – he wanted to honour his mother. The students never uttered a word about Harry's commitment or talents. As far as everyone was concerned, discussion about Harry's talents as a young man was off-limits. Harry, quite happy with the treatment he received soon expressed his gratitude with pizza and takeout from all the hotspots in London.

This was when Harry's classmates began to wonder how Harry could eat that much food. Some of them began to wonder if his brain needed that much extra energy.

Harry Potter quickly became "The Pizza Bloke".

Hermione arrived promptly at 5:30 that same evening. To Harry's surprise, she had a backpack and a travel suitcase. She had brought along the top-secret project that she had been teasing him about, for a while. Harry passed the B.L.T sandwiches he had made for the evening and motioned to her, after which he said,

"Well, Tell me everything."

"Well, this all started with me learning Mathematics. You might be disappointed – I know you are no slouch. But I am currently doing the Additional Mathematics along with the GCSE. I am neck-deep into Calculus." Hermione smiled, clearly probing for Harry's reaction.

"Well damn, I should have known, but you were always better with abstraction. Can't be jealous. You were the original geek, I merely had a freak accident and became intelligent?" Harry cautiously joked.

"True. As I said, I like activities with reasoning and logic. So, my brain ran back to an argument that you made. How does magic know how to build Muggle devices that even wizards don't understand the construction of? And what is the limit of what we can summon with transfiguration?

The million dollar question soon followed. Why are certain scripts magically powerful? It is just a writing system. At the time, I was investigating logic gates because it just seemed like a fun puzzle. Then, I had a genius accident no different to you." Hermione explained, her voice bubbling with enthusiasm.

"I get the feeling this is good, " said Harry, rubbing his hands.

"It is. I wondered if I could borrow accepted logic gate symbols and utilise the fact that millions of engineers around the world were already using them, to create my runic system. My runes would give definite, repeatable and mathematical control of magical systems. That day I told you I needed your rune engraving kit borrowed, and some of your copper-plated blank PCBs and a charged powercell? I got many of the symbols working about a week later."

"That is AMAZING!" Harry exclaimed, as he hopped across and hugged Hermione. Afterwards, when he settled down she showed Harry the prototypes. Hermione had essentially used a craft knife to scratch some symbols into the copper PCB and she had chained some basic logic gates together. Suddenly Harry became perplexed.

"Er Hermione – where is the power rail? The positive and the ground?" Harry asked.

So, her runes had a problem. When she had copied her textbook abstraction, she was not aware that the physical operation of the microchips required two terminals for a power supply. It was not unusual for textbooks to leave this detail out, as they were concerned with the logic states. Now the question was to figure out how the ground and positive power rail worked.

After much deliberation and an empty kettle, Harry was suddenly reminded of the Titanium and the copper wire experiment and it became absolutely crystal clear to him. Harry started to cackle like a madman. Hermione wondered if Harry had gone temporarily insane.

"Hermione this is the joke of the century. Magical energy uses the ground as the circuit ground. The positive comes from the copper material on the PCB." Harry laughed with tears in his eyes.

"What are you…oh….well that…makes sense. Historically Mother Earth in many cultures was a source of divinity and magical energy. Crap, those folks knew a lot of things I suppose." Hermione whispered in an awed voice.

"Well, I know what we are going to do for the rest of the time. It is only 6:30. Time for some mischief. Let us get to the bottom of the polarity problem."

One hour later, after investigating circuits and discussing possible ideas, the conversation had shifted to how magic from the earth travelled to the end of a wand:

"So let us assume we take the metaphysical route. Magic comes from the Earth. It might be some advanced type of scientific principle we don't understand but we call it magic. The energy goes where next?" Hermione questioned.

"Maybe into a person. What is the powerhouse of the cell?" Harry asked.

Without even blinking, Hermione answered, "That statement is almost its own meme now. The Mitochondria."

"Look at the benefit we have been getting with exercise. Suppose, the mitochondria or the magi-chlorians as my mother calls it, are essentially magical pumps? They pump passive planetary magical energy into cellular storage?" Harry commented, realising he had incidentally figured out a very advanced piece of magical theory.

"Well, crap. Those little guys are important. Now the wizard shoots off a spell. So based on the fact that we are aware of our magical cores, we emptied the cellular storage. The magic then diffuses into the air. Probably, the circuit is a cycle that restarts when a living body reuptakes the energy." Hermione commented.

"I think the human body passively does this and it explains what I saw with the Titanium behaviour. I am hoping that a deliberate connection might help things along? For now, let us make a little pad that we can throw on the ground and let us use the modified circuit. Should we wake gramps?" asked Harry.

"Harry, let him sleep. We will wake him up if we are successful. Some preliminary testing right inside the null-box should be interesting."

"Here hold these pliers let me get started on making this thing," Harry told Hermione.

The initial investigation produced an important discovery. Magic passively bled into the environment, and with the right connections, his power cells could be trickle charged rather slowly. Now the plan was to build such 'antenna collector' circuits so that they could be deployed at Hogwarts, a place known to have a ridiculous amount of energy.

"Even if the rather unrefined state, this thing can collect large amounts of energy. We should deploy one of the BMPs in Hogwarts and test how quickly it fills up. We could probably charge a whole set and have them for emergencies." Hermione commented.

"Well Mione, how about if we apply them to your runes before you go?: Harry suggested.

For the next half hour, Harry fabricated the other parts and Hermione worked on modifying her Logic gate runes, taking into consideration what they had discovered over the evening. After Harry finished the modifications, he tapped Hermione on her shoulder. Hermione leaned back from her cup of tea and rubbed her hands patiently.

As the magical power travelled through the circuits, Hermione was surprised as her 'Logic runes' were triggering at utterly blinding speeds. The arrangements seemed to produce logic instantaneously, instead of the previous half-second response times.

"Alright, let us call it an evening. I have to remind you not to get a severe cause of tunnel vision. Our job now is to advance the basic armour by making it mobile with the thruster pack. We want to tighten up the packaging and power supply, integrate the Protego emitters, build our torch for cutting steel and finally, build a magical gun."

Hermione proceed to hug Harry and promptly disappeared. Harry flopped down on the mattress to get his nightly sleep in. Harry did not bother to do any occlumency exercises as he curled up and slept the night away.