"Take your time, no rush." Penny joked as she focused on keeping the metal molten hot. Harry chuckled as he carefully filled in the arrays on his tools one by one. He had to refill his Pen fourteen times to get all of the tools finished, including his anvil.
"Done! You can stop Penny!" Harry informed his girlfriend as he emptied the last of the molten Zeclatite from his Alchemic Pen back into the vessel with the remainder. He'd used most of his ingot for this. He doubted there was enough Zeclatite left in the bottom of the vessel to make anything more than a paper weight. He'd still keep it; of course, he'd gone through the trouble of making it!
"Woo~" Penny panted as she ended her spell. "I'm sweating. That took way more mana than I thought it would." She wiped her forehead of the droplets that were there.
"You were great, Love." Harry hugged her and Penny smiled happily as she returned the hug.
"I'm all sweaty though…" Penny mumbled into his ear.
"So am I, its fine." Harry assured her as he gave her a squeeze.
"We could both use a shower." Penny commented as they let go of each other.
"Feel free to use the one in the smithy." Harry offered with a smile. "I can do basic Cleaning Charms so I'll have your clothes clean by the time you're done."
"I'll take you up on that, boyfriend of mine." Penny kissed his cheek.
"I could help wash your back if you wanted too." Harry grinned and Penny giggled at him.
"Sorry, Harry, you're not getting that far just yet~" Penny shook her head. "Maybe next year~" She kissed his lips and the two enjoyed a soft lip lock for several moments.
"But you won't be here next year…" Harry reminded her with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh, you're right… Hmm, I guess that's too bad~" Penny chuckled as she sauntered towards the full bathroom. Harry internally cursed the Hogwarts Robes for covering so much of Penny's form right now!
"That's just evil…" Harry trailed off as Penny dropped her robe and then unbuttoned her shirt. The Head Girl placed the shirt in a chair near the bathroom door and then undid her skirt. Harry drank in the sight of Penny in nothing but her bra and panties as she removed her shoes and socks. She turned to face him and removed her bra with a lusty look in her eyes. Harry's gaze quickly focused on Penny's bountiful chest. His brown-eyed girlfriend was only slightly smaller than Fleur in the breast department. Harry enjoyed the sight of Penny's bare breasts very much indeed! With a teasing sway of her body she disappeared into the bathroom and closed the door. A second later the door opened a crack and Penny's arm emerged to add her panties to the pile of clothes to be cleaned.
"Thank you, Love~" Penny called out to him with a purr before the door closed entirely.
"Maybe I should offer to do the girls' laundry during the summer every now and then?" Harry pondered with a grin. If that was the kind of payment he'd get he could accept some menial chores! Harry set about cleaning Penny's sweaty clothes with spells. When he'd finished cleaning them he folded them up and set them in a neat pile on the chair that he moved directly in front of the door. As a little teasing of his own, Harry had made sure to set Penny's bra and panties on top of her other clothes. Just to remind her that he'd seen them up close for an extended period of time. He had to get his own teasing in when he could, otherwise the girls' might think they had free run; and Harry couldn't let that happen, it wouldn't be nearly as fun!
"Now I need to focus on something else to deal with this." Harry looked down at his waist. If it wasn't for the Hogwarts Robe his reaction to Penny's little show would be very visible! "I guess I'll just start drawing up the next plans."
Harry went over to his work table and pulled over a fresh sheet of parchment. With a grin he drew up the shape of his tools on it. Then he started noting down what he'd make them out of. He had plenty of Magical Iron, the Dwarves were mining plenty from the old mine, then making it Magical as they processed it for use. He also had a plethora of Basilisk Bones. Slytherin's Basilisk had been huge and Harry wasn't one to waste such a large cache of materials.
"Using my newly 'upgraded' Magic Tools, I'll forge myself a set of Tools from Basilisk Carbon Steel! With Magical Materials forged into Tools and then applied with my Runic Arrays on top of that, there's no telling how much this could improve my forging!" Harry couldn't stop the giddy chuckling he was letting out as he drew up his plans. As long as he didn't use the Basilisk's Fangs for material they shouldn't impart the lethality of the beast's venom into his Tools. It would be rather dumb to have a common blacksmith tool that poisoned a person with lethal venom with but a touch after all….
Harry hummed happily to himself as he looked over all of his new blacksmithing tools. He'd completed three sets of new tools over the last two weeks with Penny's help. He'd made more Zeclatite, and failed twice because Alchemy was a super-fickle Branch of Magic, before he'd finished. Aside from the two ingots of failed Zeclatite, which he'd stored away for future attempts at 'Breakdown and Separation' Alchemy, Harry had succeeded in his plans to forge new tools!
The first set was his old steel tools, newly enhanced with his Runic Array and Zeclatite. Harry was certain he'd have a much easier time transferring his mana into his creations with them now. Each strike of the hammer would impart more mana, more efficiently into his forged creations. It should at least help prevent Magical Exhaustion to an extent. Not to mention that the more of his mana he imbued into his forging the better his materials responded. His mana carried his Intent after all. With it flowing more efficiently it should help shape his creations the way he wanted them to be.
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