«…a huge summer pavilion, the roof of which is supported by gentle columns located along its perimeter. A light, almost airy decoration consisting of light fabrics and flowers that show the delicateness of forged railings and doors located between the columns.

From dynamics invisible to the eye, enchanting soft music is flowing that didn't prevent people present in the hall from communicating.

«These are my memories from some movie I watched while studying the 3D effect. »

The movement of a finger and the playback stop; people freeze; music stops.

«You’ve seen everything that I made then, » says Harry, not taking his eyes off the pavilion with people freezing in different postures.

«I didn’t understand, » with confusion in his voice, Alrus says.

«That’s all I managed to achieve. As you see, it’s impossible to get out of the protection field without causing physical harm to your health in order to see the memories near. And also because of the fact that during the magethinker’s creation, somewhere in the calculations there was an error; that’s why it was impossible to zoom in and enlarge the picture in order to see the desired thing near the platform. »

« It's not really convenient to look at the memories from a distance, right? But you’ve said it was, so it means now everything is ok? » somehow uncertainly Alrus asks.

«Yes, to both questions. But in the beginning, I tried to correct this defect with additional artefacts, but then I suffered a complete fiasco in this matter. I already decided to declare the project failed and to start dismantling it when you returned from the wanderings and presented me with books on various directions of magic development in OTHER worlds. »

When he looks at his son's face, which, with all its appearance, radiates complete incomprehension, he grins and says.

« Yes, yes, I quickly understood that the books you gave me were written in other worlds because many of the concepts are based on magical approaches unknown on Earth; that’s why don’t pretend you don’t understand me. »

Though for some reasons you don't want or can't tell me how and where you managed to get them, I can handle this, » Harry says with irritation, pursing his lips.

«Actually, no! » he immediately exclaims and again becomes quiet for a moment, and then, with anger, mutters.

«To say the condition that was said at which I could know the details about the appearance of these books to you didn't suit me. I've told you that, and nothing has changed since then.»

I can’t see what’s wrong. Why does a threat come to my life from Harry's words?

Irrational fear comes over Ree, and his thoughts begin to dart back and forth like frightened rabbits, but he can’t find and understand the reason for such a reaction. In the meantime, having vented his accumulated anger at his son, Harry calms down a little bit and continues more or less calmly:

«What I can't understand is, why simply not accept that the books given by you contain discoveries made in other worlds? When you gave them, didn't you assume that I would be able to understand it according to the information they contained? Explain to me why you take me for an idiot who cannot understand basic things. »

After a short pause that is filled with grutch and misunderstanding eliminating from Harry Alrus, with remorseful remarks in his voice, says.

«Yes, you're right, father. I'm sorry! It seems I became keen on secretness and had gone beyond the realm of acceptable. Indeed, the books I gave you were translated by me into English, and they belong to magicians who lived in five different worlds. »

« And why couldn't you admit this at the beginning? »

Harry exclaims, but without waiting for an answer to his question, staring at his son fiercely for a while, he calms down, deciding that now isn’t a good time to sort things out, and so when he speaks, it’s like nothing has happened.

« As I immersed myself in the study of the books you gave me, I realised that my life wouldn’t be enough to comprehend everything they contained. That's why I decided to create a complex composite artefact, the volume of which corresponds to several non-mages’ servers, to merge all the information from the books, not only from those you brought to me but from all the books available to me, and, above all, all this I hoped to systematise by analogy with the scheme accepted by non-mages.

   Another reason for making this decision was that I had a workpiece for this project, » Harry says, stroking the magethinker gently.

«For the realisation of the project, I needed to make many different changes to increase the power of the magethinker, as well as I needed to solve many other problems. And the most difficult was to create and embed a magescanner. Such as it could scan not only simple magical books but also grimoires and dangerously aggressive books with increased magical protection. »

Harry has stopped in order to pour himself some wine. Having drunk it up, he continues.

«As a result, having overcome all the obstacles and difficulties that occurred during the mage thinker’s creation, I was able to finally start the process of loading all the books I had

Every day I tried to allocate a few hours to upload information from books to magethinker and for the creation of different mage programmes for book sorting. Thankfully, the scanning of simple books is fast. It takes only a few minutes to work with one book, but grimoires and protected magical books take half an hour to two. »

Having soaked the throat, Harry continues a little bit pathetic:

«One day, while working with a mage thinker, I came across a book that somehow caught my attention. Having taken it in my hands, I did not notice how I immersed myself in the study of it. I was delighted because it was entirely devoted to the creation of animate artefacts, from the simplest to the most complex. »

There’s a theatrical pause. Having looked at the father, who is assuming a dignified air, Alrus smiles subtly and decides to cheer him up.

«And what, did you manage to create an animated artefact? Don’t keep me in suspense; tell me!»

«I managed, » for some reason, sadly says Harry. «Let me introduce you to the mage thinker named Sirius.»

«Sirius? Are you serious? »

«He himself chose such a name, and I couldn't do anything about it. At first, it was very painful, but gradually, addressing him by his name, I did not notice how the pain went. After fifteen years already, I’m grateful that he chose that name, because through him I was finally able to forgive myself for my godfather's death and let him go.»

They keep quiet for some time, allowing themselves to plunge into memories. Having noticed that he and his father are enveloped by gloom and sadness, Alrus has shaken his head, thus banishing a delusion, and deliberately loud asks a question:

«Did I understand you right that something went wrong during the creation of the Sirius’s mage thinker? »

Taken out of his melancholy, Harry doesn’t at once understand the meaning of the question. But when he does, he shakes his head sadly, and it’s unclear whether he agrees with his son's suggestion or rejects it.

«The book contained clear instructions on how to prepare the artefact for the ritual as well as a description of the ritual itself.

Before animating the mage thinker, I performed several rituals to animate artefacts of different sizes and complexity. This provided me with data that helped me make calculations and adjustments to the original ritual due to the fact that the mage thinker was a complex artefact with a large mass. This was the first complex task.

The second most difficult task was to determine and calculate everything so that the mage thinker gained maximal abilities. It was also not an easy choice for me to choose abilities for him and their number. The third most difficult task was to calculate everything in such a way that the abilities I chose for the mage thinker wouldn’t interfere with each other during operation. »