A few days later,
"How many more batteries do you want Ragnar?" Magnus asked.
Currently, they were in the Room of Requirements, where they had set up a full production line and had brought real materials from outside to manufacture the items.
"About 100 more. The more there will be, the more helpful it will be for dad." Ragnar replied.
All of them had very dirty clothes right now. The batteries were also inflammable until fully made so they had to work very hard. Still, the Solid State Battery, although still a Lithium Iron battery, was very safe. Much safer than the liquid Lithium-Ion Battery. In this, even if you were to slice it with a knife, it won't explode, while the other one would.
"Rag, have you filed for patents?" Magnus inquired,
Ragnar shrugged, "Why would I do that? That's for dad to do. His name should be on the patent and the invention before mine. I just helped him in completing the research, he started and pushed it for the most part."
"We still have 1 week, so why are we in such a hurry to make these anyway?" Severus voiced.
"Because of Magnus here, his life is so unpredictable, who knows what might happen at any time. So it's better to do it now." Ragnar reasoned.
Magnus just rolled his eyes and continued to work, he was dissatisfied but couldn't really refute what Ragnar said.
"What are you going to be doing this winter, Severus? How is your mum?" Magnus asked him.
"She's good, she has come out of her depressed persona, now she does work and is decently enjoying her life. And I have planned to spend time with her. She probably gets lonely at home, being by herself for many months." Severus planned.
Magnus and Ragnar smiled. They would have never expected something like this to come out of Severus' mouth before, but now he was a changed boy. Not being depressed and gloomy had done wonders for him.
"Well, that's good. If you want you can also come to my house anytime. But I think this is going to be a very busy winter, with Dad coming out as the Crown Prince all of a sudden." Magnus supposed, already guessing the chaos that was going to come into his life soon.
...
They made batteries till afternoon, after which Magnus headed to Dumbledore, as the old man had asked him to visit. Magnus didn't know why though.
*Knock Knock*
He entered after knocking on the door. "Good evening, professor."
The old man was sipping some tea and Magnus wondered in his head if Dumbledore even works. "Have a seat and have some mint tea. It's very tasty."
Magnus didn't act reserved and happily took a cup and asked, "So, what did you want to talk about?"
"Can't this old man have a normal talk with his great grand grand... nephew?" Dumbledore replied.
Magnus nearly choked on the tea, "Haha... You never talk to someone if you don't need to, professor. I know that. You must have a reason for asking me to come here."
There was a pause of silence from Dumbledore. "I wanted to talk to you about your school life. I have seen that you are constantly involved in things no child should. You are constantly fighting, planning and plotting.
"This is not something any child should be going through. You are a young boy, you should play, make friends and laugh. Leave all these problems to me."
Dumbledore, although seems like a good for nothing Headmaster, did care for the well-being of the students.
Deep inside, he also feels guilty because he has to focus on Voldemort and the order. Due to this, he isn't able to completely focus on school.
Magnus didn't know this. Nor did he know what was in the old man's mind. But he had his own reasons to not be sitting like a normal kid.
~The day I start acting like a kid will be the day they'll kill me.~ he thought to himself.
So he answered, "Professor, you know more than anyone the complexities of my life. If I was just the next king of Britain it wouldn't have been much of a problem. But I am also related to Merlin. And that makes many people seeth in rage, even more as I am against them.
"What will happen if they try to kill me and you are not around me to protect me? What will happen if they come to harm my family and your people not around them?
"And about having fun, I do try to play around whenever I get the opportunity. "
Dumbledore looked sadly at him. ~What was I doing when I was 12 and in Hogwarts? Dreaming... of greatness. Of power. And he has achieved all those already...~
But he was afraid that Magnus would also fall into that depression pit he had not long ago. And he had still not come out of it.
"Magnus... You can't save everyone. In the end, Voldemort will lose, because he's a man who lives in dreams. He rules with fear, and humans have a tolerance to how much fear they can feel, beyond that, their survival instincts emerge. But, in that whole process, some lives will be lost, including mine. So don't try to save everyone. Because I tried and failed." Dumbledore gave his words of wisdom.
There was silence, the atmosphere turned gloomy. The ambient noise of the room was the only thing keeping them calm. Fawkes was sleeping with his eyes closed, as were some previous headmasters in various portraits. While some were listening to them talk.
Magnus got up, proceeding to leave. But he stopped at the door and replied, "Yes, he will lose, but I'm afraid of the cost? Your life? My life? How many lives?
"I can at least work to reduce that cost."
*Door Shuts*
"I have failed as the headmaster. But I feel, I will only retire with my body in a casket." Dumbledore said to himself dejectedly, alone in his office.
...
10th December 1972
"Let's go, Rag. I have this suitcase from Newt, he told me I can keep it. Put all the batteries in it. Hell, you can even live inside it." Magnus helped his friends pack their bags.
Ragnar nodded and started stacking the 200 batteries in the case. Severus didn't have much luggage so he was also helping them.
"Oh, what is this letter for?" Severus suddenly found one on Magnus' table.
Magnus chuckled, "Hehe, you're gonna love it. I used my girlish voice and made this voice letter. Sirius will get it, it's a love letter for him. We're gonna have a lot of fun when we return to school, boys."
Ragnar laughed and Severus smiled in agreement. Indeed if this prank was successful, and they can make Sirius serious enough to start writing letters back, it'll be very fun.
"Summer, get inside your cage. Chad, you too... no, don't show me those eyes, they don't work on me. See, Summer's already in, learn something from her." Magnus packed his pets. Well, they were as good as a family now.
Once they were done packing, Magnus flicked his wand and immediately their room got cleaned and the windows got closed. All ready for them when they'd return.
They once again got on the Thestral pulled carriages and were taken to the Hogsmeade station.
The first thing Magnus did after reaching there was to secretly drop the letter in the letterbox. Then he ran to hog a cabin in the train for himself and his friends.
"Magnus, will you be coming to my home this winter?" Emma asked him.
He denied, "I will be very busy these holidays, Emma. Something big will happen, you should read the muggle newspaper every now and then. In fact, you should come to my house someday. We can play there."
This meant the world to the girl, "REALLY? It's decided then, I will come to your home. I wonder if aunty and uncle will like me."
Black lines appeared on Magnus' forehead. ~Did I just drop an axe on my foot?~
"Aye... look who it is, the great Slytherin boy." Sirius and James arrived. They were not sitting with them this time. Sirius was also going to James' home this time.
"And who is this... the detention dwellers. I knew I made the right decision to keep a distance from you or I'd always be in detention." Magnus taunted them.
James scoffed, "Huh, teachers are just biassed for you. Why is it that you got to defeat the basilisk by breaking rules in the night and still didn't get points deducted?"
Magnus smirked, "Huh, you won't understand. That's because of my charm."
"Do you mean to say Professor Slughorn or Professor McGonagall have fallen in your charm? Hahaha... fine, I guess you can only charm those old bones." Sirius barked back and laughed.
Magnus just smiled, it was his loss for now, but he'd have the last laugh soon. He just needed to wait for the letter to reach him. Oh, he just looked at James and thought about sending him one too.
~Hehe, let's see if these two so-called best friends can stand this test of a love triangle?~
*TRAIN WHISTLE*
And with that, the train moved, to send them back home.
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"Severus, come to my home later, I have a potion book I took from Merlin's vault earlier. It had some kind of a plan for making a magic enhancing potion, which makes one's magic more potent. It was based on the fact that some wizards' magic release a stronger intensity for the same spells as performed by others. It said that the reason behind this was the potency of one's magic. Let's study it together later." Magnus suggested to his friend. He also wanted to make himself and his Round Table stronger... now Emma was there too. She was not a part of the Round Table but she was in danger as she stayed around them.
Severus glanced at Ragnar first and asked, "Why not ask him? He's a slightly better potioneer than me."
Ragnar didn't reply and just scoffed. Of course, angry for a reason.
Magnus scoffed, "Huh, he's careless. He might burn down the house if I let him experiment on such a dangerous potion."
Severus chuckled, "Yes, he might do that. I will come to your home later then."
Later, Hogwarts Express slowly stopped at platform 9¾. The platform was filled with parents waiting for their children.
But Magnus had noticed one thing. That the parents who came to get their children mostly included Muggle-born or half-blood parents. The pureblood parents rarely came.
He guessed that the family system of the pureblood side was too broken and less importance was given to bonds, love and relationship and more to power, money and influence.
But, his family was different. As soon as Magnus was out of his train, he saw his Dad waiting for him there. But there was no Grace.
"Where is mum?" He asked him.
Adam ruffled his hair and hugged him first, as well as Ragnar, "She had an important surgery so she couldn't come. Come, the car is waiting for us."
As soon as they went out of the train station, Magnus saw a Rolls Royce waiting there. What was even strange was that there were two black Range Rovers, one in the front of the Rolls Royce and one back, both had 3 men in suits inside.
"What's this?" Ragnar asked.
Adam scratched his head, "Even I don't know. They just showed up a few days ago, with orders from Buckingham Palace. They are meant to be my security."
Ragnar excitedly jumped in the car, "Woaaah... I feel so important... So pampered. Feed me some fruits now."
But Magnus wondered, ~I hope I don't get this worthless security, or else I'll have to save my security team in case of a wizard attack.~
"Granny Liz sure seems excited," Magnus muttered.
"How was your time at school? I heard from George that you caught some kind of a snake?" Adam asked.
Magnus sweated, "Hehe... Yes, it was just a snake. Not harmful at all. He's very friendly."
Ragnar agreed, "Yes, even his name is Cuddles."
"What a cute and terrifying name for a snake. Well, on my part, I've built the full prototype of the new car. The fuel engine works well, now only Battery one is left. I'm very close to developing a liquid lithium-ion battery." Adam revealed.
Magnus and Ragnar didn't reply, they were just waiting to shock him now.
Later, as soon as they reached home, Summer and Chad started making noises in their cages. As if saying, "Let us out and inspect our territory." So they let them roam free.
"Grace left food for you two. George went with her today, so Abe should be around. He's into gardening these days. Go and freshen up now." Adam told them.
Magnus and Ragnar went to their rooms and bathed. After that, they regrouped and planned when to give the batteries.
"Mag, what are you going to do about all the people following us later? We are wizards, we can't be photographed continuously." Ragnar asked him as he remembered what had happened today.
The guards to escort their vehicle were just the beginning. They were present even outside their house, securing the gate.
Magnus, too, was having a headache, "I don't know. Most of the news channels can be tamed and told not to record us, but I don't know about the Paparazzi. I think I need to create a charming item that somehow makes photographs blurry."
"Hmm, it's gonna be hard to not interfere with normal electronics. Anyway, let's go and surprise dad." Ragnar put on a sweater and headed out.
Magnus took the suitcase from his room and arrived at the underground workshop. It was beaming with activity and a lot of instrument noises were coming.
"DAD!" Magnus shouted, to make Adam stop working.
Soon the noise stopped and Adam lifted his Welding Shield and looked at them.
"Come here, don't you wanna see the car your dad made? I'm going to be honest, I'm proud of how it turned out to be." Adam proudly said and took them to another part of the workshop, it looked clean and there was a car, covered with a sheet.
From the shape of it, it looked decently big. But the design was still a mystery.
Ragnar was also excited, he had started to like cars, since he hated brooms, "Show us, dad."
"Okay, behold, my prototype. I have named this Ultron Alpha. Ultron being the company name."
*Woosh* He lifted the sheets.
*WHISTLE*
"WOAH!" Magnus' eyes shined. He felt his body shake, his heart beat faster. Was it love at first sight?
"This looks so futuristic and outright cool, dad. How did you even make this?" Magnus blurted the questions.
"Easy... I made it by taking the frame of an old muscle car. It needed a lot of work but Abe and George were great help with their magic. The end result was this. I have even fitted the engine motor in it. It works on Petrol, for now, the place for batteries has also been made. I just need to make them and put them here." Adam started to enthusiastically explain everything about the car. He also blurted many technical details that Ragnar and Magnus did not understand but they just nodded.
Because no matter what, this was one hell of a beauty. Just then, they decided to drop the bomb... the gift. They couldn't bring themselves to look at the tired face of Adam, with dark circles under his eyes. He must have been working a lot for the battery.
"Dad, I want you to come here and take a seat. Then close your eyes, Ragnar has a gift for you." Magnus dragged him to the side.
Adam stopped speaking and looked at his sons confusedly. He chuckled and asked, "What gift? My birthday was months ago."
"Just take a seat and don't peek." He pushed him on the seat.
Ragnar quickly took out a battery from the case and placed it in front of Adam. It was not small, at least the size of a floor tile.
"Dad, remember I wasn't able to help you last time?" Ragnar said.
Adam replied with eyes closed, "That's okay, son. Life is full of failures, instead of getting depressed, you should learn from them and work harder."
Ragnar smiled, "Hehe, I did just that. Open your eyes."
Adam did and noticed a thin black cuboid item. It was black in colour, covered with some substance. There were two wires coming out of one end.
His heart beat faster, as the idea of a possibility rose in his mind. "I-Is this... Lithium-ion battery?"
Magnus nodded and said, "Even better, dad. Ragnar is a genius. He went one step further and created a Solid-State Battery. This thing is so safe and effective that no one can say anything bad about it."
Adam felt so proud of Ragnar. The boy was indeed a genius of the highest order. ~I'm so blessed to have these two as my sons.~
He went to Ragnar and lifted him with a hug, "Haha... Marvellous, son. As a Wizard, you might not know but you have changed the whole world with this invention.
This is the future of mankind."
Ragnar felt embarrassed, he was not as well-built as Magnus and weighed very little.
Magnus felt he needed to save his brother from embarrassment so he asked, "Dad, has mom seen the car yet?"
He denied, "No, I was planning on surprising her."
"Then let's attach the batteries and go to pick her up from the hospital," Magnus suggested.
"Yes! Let's eat dinner outside." Ragnar added.
Adam nodded and looked at the car, "Yeah... It's time to take this beauty outside on real roads. Let me test the batteries first."
[A/N: A solid-state battery has a higher energy density than a Li-ion battery that uses a liquid electrolyte solution. A solid-state battery doesn't have a risk of explosion or fire, so there is no need to have components for safety, thus saving more space.]
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