Wands and Warframes

Teaching

Teaching?

"Xeno, if this is another of your hairbrained snipe hunts I am going to be very angry with you."

"I promise Dora, this is going to be a story to be remembered."

"I've got a promising contract for a new spell that is bringing in enough money to keep the family afloat for the next year."

"I promise it will be worth it, we're meeting Harry at Hogwarts tomorrow."

"I will meet him, but if I think you're having a Xeno moment, I'm vetoing the trip."

"Yes dear."

"Also, you get to tell Luna that her play date with Ginny is cancelled."

Xenophilus gulps, "Yes, dear."

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"So your name is Ironclaw it is not a description?"

"That is correct Mr Potter."

"That makes more sense. How was the process with the nanites?"

"Uncomfortable, I was under the healers tender care."

"I see. I can't say I can understand that, but it is what it is. Anyway, this is a Corpus Data-slate. They don't require any special implants to use, and they also require a minimal level of education to activate too. If you can read and touch things, you're pretty much fine. A side effect of this is that they use special awareness puzzles to unlock their devices. To turn it on press this button here, and if it runs out of power just leave it in sunlight, or a strong light for a few hours and it will recharge. As you can see, it generates a hexagonal grid and you need to make all the lines match up into one continuous shape. You generally only have around 10 seconds to complete this. Which is more than enough time when you're not under fire and trying to turn the alarms off."

Harry watches as his Account Manger unlocks the device for the first time.

"Now you're in, if you see this symbol here you can change the security settings, including the complexity, the amount of time available, and even if there is an alarm and what volume it should go off at. There is also an automatic wipe facility, but I suggest you don't activate that as this is your only Data-slate and you won't be able to restore it afterwards."

"What about my claws?"

"It's designed for people with metal bodies to work with, I think your claws will be fine. Anyway, I've already linked this scanner to the device, so if you pick up the scanner, you'll see that there's a glowing spot on the handle and a viewscreen. The scanner will highlight things that it can scan in either red or green. Red means that it doesn't have a match on the data-slate, and green means that it's similar to something it's already scanned. If there is a close enough match to something else, it will also display the name attached to it. Mine is linked to a database of known armaments, so I can quickly identify what sort of troop I'm facing, then have a rough idea of the type of training they'll have. I haven't set up any categories like that so until you do you won't see those labels. If you hold down that glowing spot it will initiate a scan, or it will tell you if that particular item has already been scanned."

"What's this number that keeps changing?"

"It's the exact distance to whatever is under that dot in the centre. Let's go out onto the floor and scan a few people, I can then show you the next aspect of scanning."

"So, as you can see we have the complete scan of 20 people that were in the bank. At the moment there's not enough data in your system to enable automatic tagging, so we're going to have to do that manually. If we apply the human tag to all of these, and the goblin tag to all of these, it will start to build up a profile. We can then apply a male tag to these ones and a female tag to these. A witch tag to these ones and a wizard tag to these ones."