Bab 128: Book for muggle parents
Harry looked at the multiple runic circles and arrays he had drawn on the wall with a frown before he took out his wand and took a few steps away from it.
Then he pointed his wand at the wall and said "Titillando" the incantation of the tickling hex and a small purple ball came out of his wand, struck the wall and got absorbed by the wall.
He waited for the wall to release the spell back at him once again but when it didn't work for half a minute, he let out a sigh and put his wand back in it's holster before walking up to the runes once again.
He was working on runes that would capture and release the spells thrown at them so that he could put them on his robes but so far, he had not met with any success.
Well, he knew from the very start that this was going to be a hard project so he was not very disheartened. He also knew that he would not be able to reflect back all the spells but that was alright.
He would eventually make his robes immune to all the spells one way or another. If he was able to reflect back some of the spells thrown at him, then that would just an additional benefit.
He gave one last look at the wall before he sat down on the desk, taking out the quill and parchment and trying to create a new runic system from the scratch before Selena came out from under his sleeves and said "Someone is coming."
He put the quill down and looked at her "Who?"
The Horned Serpent waited for a few moments, probably sensing the magic that was coming in their direction before she turned to him and replied "It's Hermione."
He nodded at her and she went back under his sleeves.
He wondered if he should make some clothes for her that would keep her safe if he ever got into a fight.
He remembered from the movies that Voldemort had put a ton of charms on his pet snake Nagini which had the effect of making her almost immune to spells. Perhaps he would be able to do something like that for Selena as well.
As he thought about that, the door opened at an excited Hermione Granger entered the room with a huge smile and he instantly became wary of her.
An excited Hermione Granger usually meant trouble for him and he could only hope that she had not she had not started some form of campaign for the welfare of the Cornish Pixies or something equally foolish like that.
His wary expression only seemed to further excite her as her smile turned wider and she came up to his desk and dropped a whole bunch of paper in front of him.
"Hello Hermione." He said, his eyes looking warily at the large bundle of papers, wondering if it was what he thought it was "Can you tell me what this is?"
"Harry. This is the manuscript of the book that you told me to write." She said happily and he almost groaned. Almost.
But he knew that showing such a negative reaction to her hard work would seriously put a dent on her growing confidence so he would never do such a thing.
Instead, he smiled and patted her cheeks affectionately "Good job Hermione. I knew you would be able to do it within the time frame."
Then he looked at the bundle of 1500 or so pages and inwardly frowned.
At the start of this holiday, he had asked Hermione to write a book for the muggle parents of the muggleborns.
It did not need to be very well written or very entertaining. It just needed to be written with the facts about the magical world that is generally not told to the muggle population by the Hogwarts teachers.
It also needed to be filled with tips on what they could do to help their magical children and what not.
In essence, it would be the first book in history written by a magical person that would help the muggle parents understand the magical world to a greater degree so that they would be able to provide their children with better support.
When he had tasked Hermione to finished this job within the time limit, he had known that she would pull through for him even if she had to pull all nighters and had even allowed her to use the time turner with him.
And she had pulled through for him.
He could guess that writing these 1500 pages must have taken her a lot of hard work and time.
But he could not really sell a 1500 pages long book to the muggle parents now could he?
So with a heavy heart he told her "Hermione. Thank you for the hard work and effort you put behind writing this thing. But we cannot publish a book with so many pages."
"Can you cut down the size of this book so that it could be about 300-500 pages long? That way even the poor muggle parents would easily be able to afford our book."
He said 'our' book because he was going to put his name as the co-author of this book even though it was Hermione who had actually written it all on her own.
He had two very important reasons to do so.
1. If the book was sold by Hermione's name, then very few people would buy it. After all, she was just a 12 year old girl so what would she know about writing the book. He had a feeling that if the book was released with just her as the author, then she would get a lot of hate from the press and that would not be good for her fragile self confidence.
2. The idea of the book was essentially his and he was also the one who had given her the topics to write and research. Plus once she cuts the book down to about 300-500 pages, he would be the one who would make the final changes along with the editing part so he was essentially the co-author of the book whether he wanted or not.
Hermione looked a little crestfallen at his words and he grimaced at that. He had not wanted the girl to feel so down.
Cutting the book to 1/3rd of it's original size was like telling her that 2/3rd of the things that she wrote were not important. That 2/3rd of her hard work and time were not important. Such a thing would hurt any person.
It was essentially his fault that such a mistake was made. When he had told her to write a book for him, he had not told her the exact amount of pages that she needed to write and had forgotten how over-the-top Hermione could be sometimes.
He stood up in order to console her but before he could do that, her expression brightened up on her own and he gave him a firm nod.
"I'll do that Harry. I'm happy as long as we could sell the book to all the non magical parents and inform them about the magical world in more detail."
And before he could even say anything else, she took the bundle of papers from his desk and left.
And he had not even read the manuscript at all.
Oh well, it looked he'll just have to believe that she would do a good job in writing the book and not just fill it with boring facts.
Hopefully her parents would be able to help her with that.
And if the book turned out to be a disaster, then they could just write a better one during their second year and publish it next year.
With that, he put such thoughts out of his mind and picked up the carving quill once again.
It was time to get back to work.
Author's Note:- I always felt that the wizards should have wrote at least a few books about the magical world for the muggles so that muggle parents would be able to understand more about the world they were sending their child into. But such a book was never shown in the movie and it was clear that there was a huge divide between the people living the magical world and the people living in the muggle world.
So if I was wizard, then I would definitely write a book for the muggle parents and I have no doubt that such a book would definitely be bought by almost every muggle parents who cared about their children.
Just my two cents :)
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