"That's still pretty neat Harry. I can think of a few times I would've wanted something like this. Plus you made it before even coming to Hogwarts, so that's doubly impressive." Tonks grinned getting an adorable blush out of the First Year. "So what's this other one do?"
"That's my current best work. I call it a Scouter, it's short for Spell Crafted Ocular Unit Total Energy Reader, and it reads a person's total amount of mana." Harry explained.
"That name would've been way too long if you hadn't shortened it." Tonks chuckled getting a bashful grin from Harry. "One question though?"
"Sure, what is it?" Harry asked.
"What's mana?" Tonks asked confused.
"Right, I borrowed the term from Muggle fiction. I guess most Magically-raised people wouldn't have heard of it." Harry stated as he scratched the side of his head. "Mana is what I call Magical Energy. My Scouter uses a base unit of measurement to calculate a Magical's total Magical strength." He explained.
"Wait, wait, and wait! You've made something that can tell you a person's Magical strength?! No one has ever agreed on a way to truly measure Magic! How the bloody hell did you do it?!" Tonks asked shocked. This was considered impossible for as long as anyone could remember! How had Harry done it before even coming to Hogwarts?!
"I used the Lumos Charm as the base." Harry spat out quickly shocked by Tonks' reaction. "I just kept using less and less mana to cast it until I found out the absolute minimum amount required to get the spell to work."
"So how does it work?" Tonks asked once she'd calmed down slightly. "I see a lens so I'm assuming you look through that."
"Correct, here I'll scan you as a demonstration." Harry offered getting an enthusiastic nod from Tonks.
"Scan away, nerd." Tonks grinned, getting a sigh from Harry at her teasing. Harry held the Scouter up to his eye and added the small amount of mana to activate it. The numbers climbed rapidly before settling on '4460'.
"Wow, you've got quite a bit of mana, Tonks. You rate in at a '4460' on the Scouter, that's stronger than a few of the Witches and Wizards I've seen so far. Tonks looked pleased with herself before turning to face him.
"What's the average so far? I don't know how many you've been able to get readings on but the more people involved the more accurate the average right?" Tonks asked getting Harry to sigh.
"I've only been able to get the readings of eleven people so far so it isn't very accurate yet. But the current average is close to thirty five hundred." Harry informed her.
"Well that means I'm still above average so I'm good!" Tonks smirked in triumph. Harry chuckled at her energetic personality. "You want to walk the train after we depart and try and get some more readings? It would only be of school age children but you could get an average for our age range at least." She offered and Harry nodded happily, the chance to collect more data was always welcome.
Before long the train departed and the two started planning their walk up and down the train. Harry was a bit confused about something and felt like he could ask Tonks about it.
"Hey, Tonks?" Harry asked.
"What's up, Harry?" Tonks questioned.
"Why did you decide to sit with me? You're fun to be around so I figured you'd have a bunch of friends to sit with." Harry wondered getting a grin from Tonks.
"Most of my closer friends graduated last year, so poor old Tonksie got left behind with only a couple of her underclassman friends. But they're already crammed four deep into their compartment and I like room to stretch my legs." Tonks explained as she stretched her legs out until they touched the seat beside Harry's.
"Oh that makes sense. It would be horrible to be uncomfortable for the entire six hour ride." Harry nodded. There was a knock on their compartment door and Harry brought his Scouter up to his eye to get a reading of the person's mana. The door opened and a bushy haired girl and a nervous looking boy stood in the doorway. Harry scanned the girl first getting a reading of '104' before quickly scanning the nervous boy and getting a '116'.
"Have either of you seen a toad? Neville here has lost his." The bushy haired girl asked.
"Nope, no toads here, though if you want to find it quickly I'd suggest getting a Prefect to try Summoning it with the Accio Charm." Tonks replied getting the girl's eyes to light up.
"That's an excellent idea. Come on, Neville, let's go find a Prefect." With that the two left without even introducing themselves properly.
"Bit of a headlong running type, right Harry?" Tonks grinned getting a nod back from Harry. Without any more interruptions Tonks and Harry started their trek up and down the Hogwarts Express. Stopping in on various people Tonks knew and only introducing him as 'Harry the Firstie' that Tonks was showing around. By the end of the walk and return to their compartment Harry had scanned what must have been half of the students on board. He had so many new readings to compile to get an average for the students that he immediately pulled out a ballpoint pen and a piece of parchment and began writing.
"Going to be done soon, Harry?" Tonks asked with some mirth several minutes later having taken out a 'Teen Witch Weekly' magazine from her trunk to amuse herself as she waited.
"Almost done." Harry replied not looking up from his parchment. Another minute or so passed before Harry looked up and spoke. "Alright, I've got the average for at least close to half of the students."
"Well, don't keep me in suspense, what is it?" Tonks asked eagerly wanting to know where she stood, Magical strength-wise, among the students.
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