ClassicDrogn Wrote:On the subject of Harry's gizmos, I'd expect that if his vision hadn't been previously corrected (and really even if it had, for the purposes of keeping it hidden) his glasses would be replaced with identical-appearing super-sensor indexed-database heads-up scan-o-matics, possibly with integrated face-protection & anti-fume force field for lab use, and that incorporating the material from his schoolbooks into the database would be a reflex action as soon as he got them even if it wasn't a matter of importing this material to give Washuu a baseline and background for studying the newly revealed magical society of Earth. Whether the scan-specs have a live connection to Washuu's own computers and the degree of access Harry has to them if so would be another question, but if he's been acting as her lab assistant then giving him the ability to look up the procedures and properties of what she's working on would be of obvious benefit, and even if it's "just the basics" that's still "the basics" according to Washuu.This brings to mind an interesting point. What sorts of tools would her lab assistant need to use in there on a day-to-day basis?
Given the sheer SCIENCE! there, wouldn't basic Lab equipment and safety gear, with an inventive enough mind in charge of it, be enough to fight a battle on their own?
I'm picturing a teenage Harry nipping off to the Lab to borrow a few pieces of kit in DH, and fighting his way out of the Dursley house, for example.
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