I Know Your Secret

Secrets in Creativity

It was late the next morning when Hope made it to her offices and saw Hermione in her office doing something, and she suspected up to no good. She entered to start in surprise as her friend had her two-way mirror and a few books; she was using magic on it for some reason that likely broke one thousand and one stupid ministry laws that were extremely racist but pretended to be for magical people protection.

"What are you doing?" she asked making Hermione jump and she almost fell out off Hope's chair.

"Damn Hope!" she complained with a playful glare. "Knock next time! I'm too young to die of a heart attack!"

"This is my office," she replied, amused which got a sheepish look from her friend. "What exactly are you doing?" she asked again getting a better look at what was on her desk and noticed the cell phone in pieces.

"Umm... well," she said nervously. "When I saw this mirror Sirius gave you it got me to thinking, which is why I have this too," she said showing the folded piece of parchment Hope hadn't really noticed. "If the map can in theory be improved to recognize a person even under all of your illusions then maybe I could make an improved one in a cell phone. Then I got to wondering when I saw a bat in the dungeons... sonar? So what if I could add a magical sonar that could map out a place while you walk, and if magic and stuff is in the air it could tell us everybody's names, and would remember everything it mapped and record its mapped data to recognize people by their magic. Then I realised the likes of Dumbledore could hide their signature.

"However, if I could get it to scan DNA as well as magic, proportions, fingerprints, blood type, and even whether you have muggle or mage family, and with that span out a family registry more complete than anything ever tried as purebloods have always wanted, everything. This could help with terrorist profiling and everything-and DNA is the one thing that is impossible to change without complex, long, and dangerous blood rituals, which is extremely overkill dark magic that well-it could kill the recipient. This means we could have the ultimate map and detective scanner like something out of a sci-fi detective movie but better. But not only that... magic knows a person's real name and even past names if they've been changed so it will pick up them too.

"If I could scan the dark mark like with any magical artefact or magical types we could have an early warning against unknown Death Eaters. Then I figured the mirror Sirius gave you was quite clever, and I found myself wondering why wizards and witches don't use them, and since I wanted to make the map into phone software, why not?

"The mirrors aren't used simply because we can easily cross connections, so this makes them useless, especially for privacy, which is why the books on them are restricted. But I got this one from Sirius with all his, your dads, and Remus' notes on the map and several books with needed spells, and some more I thought of.

"This is why I realised that with the map being able to recognise people I could use that system as a code to get rid of the cross connection problem because it would encrypt to a person and not a phone. I even figured I would leave the sim card part so muggleborn's could phone home zeroing in on the phone numbers but with that it would cost money like a muggle phone, and though I can enhance the signal calling muggles would still rely on satellites."

Hope had collapsed into a seat opposite her friend with her mouth hanging open before she let a huge grin stretch her pretty lips. "Hermione... that is simply brilliant, but don't forget it needs to video calling to gain more interest with mage," she said while Hermione nodded while looking offended that she wouldn't have thought of that. "I'm in. If you can finish your work and get this mass produced, well omitting the maps of course we can make a lot of prophet out of this and-."