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    Quinn started the first weekend of his fourth year at Hogwarts by visiting the Room of Requirements to begin the first motive of the year.


    "Oh boy, it''s been a while," Quinn rubbed his hands together as he looked around the Room of Requirement with delight in his eyes. "Haa~, now, let''s start immediately."


    He took out a small ss pane from his robes and gently set it down on the floor before walking a few strides away from it. As soon as Quinn was at an appropriate distance away from the ss, the ss expanded till it was back to full size.


    The ss pane lying on the floor was the ss wall from the A.I.D office. He had brought it to the Room of Requirements to make some changes to it.


    One of the main objectives for his fourth year was to fortify the A.I.D workshop, and the first step to achieving that was to strengthen the ss wall that separated the office from the workshop.


    "Okay, let''s create tempered ss," Quinn said as he squatted at the edge of the ss pane and looked at the surface and the thickness of the ss. "First, I have to thicken the ss. This one is a bit thin, I think."


    Quinn took out a cloth pouch bag from his robes. He opened the string binding the bag and scattered shards of ss all over the ss pane, expanding the ss shards back to their original size.


    Wisps of wavy magic flowed from Quinn to the ss, and the ss turned into a state of transformation and then a liquid. All the liquid ss mixed with each other to form a giant blob of liquid ss. Quinn applied transmutation magic to reform the ss into one uniform pane of ss and molded it to appropriate shapes and dimensions.


    Tempered or toughened ss was a type of safety ss processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strengthpared with traditional ss. Tempering sets the outer surfaces intopression and the interior into tension. Tempered ss was about four times stronger than conventional ss. The higher contraction of the inneryer during manufacturing inducedpressive stresses in the ss''s surface bnced by tensile stresses in the ss''s body.


    The result of tempering the ss was that it had four times the strength and durability of the previous one.


    "I have to make cuts and mold the ss into shape," Quinn said as a tape measure came out of his robes and started to measure the ss. A felt-tip pen also came out from his robes and made markings and shapes to help the cutting that would be done afterwards.


    The tempered ss had to be cut to the appropriate size or pressed to shape prior to tempering. Besides, it couldn''t be re-worked once tempered. Polishing the edges or drilling holes in the ss had to be carried out before the tempering process started. Due to the bnced stresses in the tempered ss, damage to any portion would eventually result in the ss shattering into thumbnail-sized pieces.


    Of course, magic could ovee that problem, but Quinn wanted to do it the traditional way and prepare the shape andyout of the ss wall before tempering the ss. He hadn''t done this before, so Quinn wanted to do the tried and tested way.


    "Okay, let''s do this," Quinn put on his trusty leather gloves and levitated the ss that had been cut, polished, frosted, and molded in a uniform shape.


    "First step of tempering a ss. Heat it to a temperature of six hundred and eighty-three degrees Celsius," read Quinn from the small notepad in his hand.


    Quinn''s approach for tempering the ss was the thermal approach. He would heat the ss topress it and form an inteyer of tension between twopressions.


    The only good thing that hade out of the sin curse was the time Quinn had spent in the library. He spent hours every day voraciously reading books, and a topic of study that he had covered during his readings was fire, or more specifically, the concept of heat.


    Taking a deep breath, Quinn channeled his magic into the ss and flooded the entire thick pane of ss. Closing his eyes, Quinn triggered a change in his magic and heated up the ss. Quinn needed a fast, uniform thermal temperature throughout the ss.


    After the temperature reached six hundred and eighty-three degrees Celsius, Quinn opened his eyes and immediately changed the magic from hot to cold.


    The ss immediately went from molten to frozen... but it promptly shattered.


    Quinn didn''t look discouraged and walked to the shattered ss, which was still levitating in the air, and observed what had happened. After a minute of studying the failed result, Quinn judged,


    "I need to heat it faster. Again!"


    The shattered ss returned to its unbroken state through transmutation, and the process repeated over again.


    This time, Quinn raised the temperature of the ss faster. He channeled magic and used a different heating spell design to increase the heat more quickly and with higher efficiency for heating ss.


    "Shifting to cold," Quinn murmured. The heat switched off, and cold reigned supreme in the ss, quenching the ss uniformly.


    *Crunch!!*


    The ss cracked into rough shards, and countless ss pieces floated in the air.


    "I can try to keep the same heat and cool it slower," spected Quinn and hypothesized, before saying, "Again!"


    There was a smile on Quinn''s face the entire time as he heated the ss and cooled it down. The smile even remained when the ss deformed, shattered, or didn''te out tempered.


    ''Ah, this feels nice,'' that thought epassed Quinn''s state of mind.


    Doing magic that he foundpelling felt nice to Quinn. It didn''t have the exhrating feeling of sting objects with destructive magic that he feltst year.


    This was different.


    Watching how the wisps of me danced on the ss''s surface or when the ice rxed down the ss and sizzled brought joy to Quinn. Changing the temperatures, heat, cold, the timing of heating and cooling, small changes that just made sense.


    All of it was mesmerizing to Quinn.


    It was fun, it was calm... It was magic.


    After an hour and a half of shattering ss, making changes to the process, and trying dozens of times, Quinn finally produced a perfect pane of tempered ss.


    "Done," Quinn raised his hands and admired his new ss wall that would be in his office.


    He shrunk the ss wall down to a pocket-sized version, put it inside his robes, and exited the Room of Requirements to have lunch before going to the A.I.D ssroom and set up the wall.


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    A well-fed Quinn entered the empty A.I.D ssroom with his suitcase in hand. He turned the key twice in the keyhole and opened the door.


    The ssroom was bare and empty. Not a sign of the room being ever upied.


    Afterst year, he had taken every single thing inside the office and the workshop. After losing control of his magic, Quinn wasn''t in any shape to fortify his workshop, so he just packed up everything home with him.


    Tables, workstations, desks, cupboards, cabs, raw material, tools, and everything there was in the ssroom went home with Quinn.


    Quinn set down the suitcase on the floor, and opened it with a couple of clicks. The owner descended into the expanded suitcase and entered the room with all the stuff from the A.I.D ssroom.


    A powerful wave of magic mmed into every single object in the room, and the entire inventory shrunk down for Quinn to levitate and bring out of the suitcase. After thoroughly cleaning the room, Quinn set up everything where it belonged and got back to setting up the wall.


    First, Quinn widened the wall to wall indent in the roof and floor to amodate the increased thickness of the ss wall. He then pulled out the shrunken ss wall and expanded it slowly so he could line it into the indents that were on the top and at the bottom.


    The wall fitted snugly into the indents at its regr size. A momentter, the wall and the floor were transmuted to grip the surface of the ss wall, and the building material Quinn had taken out to increase the size of the indents also went to the roof and floor to create more support for the ss wall.


    Quinn stepped back and admired the ss wall and double-checked if it was firmly in its ce before making a beckoning gesture and pulling a barstool for him to sit on.


    He touched the wall with his right hand, resting his palm and fingers snug against the cool ss. After eyeing the wall for a moment, Quinn injected magic into the ss wall.


    Purple waves of magic went through the ss every few seconds, reaching every corner of the wall. The purple waves of magic were the unbreakable charms being imbibed into the ss.


    Unbreakable charm wasn''t the correct name for the spell because it didn''t make an object unbreakable. No, it only strengthened objects so that they would be more resilient to external forces.


    Quinn was increasing the resilience of the ss so that it would be difficult to break.


    Why not do this to a regr pane of ss instead of a tempered pane of ss? Well, the stronger the base material, the stronger result after cing the unbreakable charm. Tempered ss was naturally tougher than regr ss. So if you put unbreakable charms on it, the result would be much better.


    Quinn sat there for five minutes channeling magic into the ss before the charm saturated the ss and could no longer make it any stronger.


    The next step of fortifying the ss wall was to make it resistant to transfiguration and transmutation. The strengthened ss would be useless if you could just create a hole in it through transfiguration and pass through it.


    There wasn''t a way to fully disable transfiguration and transmutation as it was not feasible to iste every single spell type and individually disable them one by one. So the next best thing Quinn could do was to make it resistant to magical changes.


    The concept behind achieving something like that was easy.


    ''Using transfiguration and transmutation to defend against transfiguration and transmutation,'' smiled Quinn, in thought.


    Pushing more magic into the wall, Quinnmanded his magic to transfigure the ss that made up the wall to stay the same. Quinn was forcing ss matter to stay as ss. He was making his magic to freeze/jam the state of matter so that when someone tried magic against the ss, it would be difficult to budge as Quinn''s magic was forcing the ss to stay the way it was currently.


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    After the wall was done came the turn for the door.


    The thing about doors in walls was that people went for the door when trying to break in. No one tried to break the actual wall when you had a door in it.


    The doors were thinner than the walls they were fitted in and were made from a rtively weaker material. Quinn''s wooden door was no different, and it clearly showed when Ivy Potter kicked the door down to enter the workshop.


    So to make sure his door wouldn''t be the hole in his defense, Quinn decided to make sure it would be a hassle to break.


    Quinn started with the door''s wood. He used the hardest wood avable to him and bought a few logs of Australian Buloke wood. This wood had a very strength-toughness level on a pound-force scale.


    "I have to stain it in a hardening solution," uttered Quinn as he took out a bucket of a red potion solution that he had finished brewing yesterday. He looked at the viscous red liquid and chuckled, "This baby took three days to brew. Oh, this is going to be good~."


    The red solution would strengthen the wood fibers when absorbed into the material.


    "Plus, it will give the wood a nice red sheen."


    Quinn looked at the Australian Buloke wood logs and levitated them over the center ind. Slowly, he turned the wood into sawdust by breaking down the wooden logs into a coarse powder. He made sure that the wood powder didn''t fly over the room.


    He separated the sawdust into multiple trays and poured the red hardening solution into the trays. As he poured the liquid over the sawdust, the sawdust started to move and mix with the red potion liquid.


    Quinn had converted the wood into sawdust so that every fiber would get exposed to the potion, strengthening the wood at a deeper level.


    "Okay, done." Quinn finished pouring the liquid over the multiple trays. Now, he just needed to give it time for the solution to get mixed and getpletely absorbed into the wood. Quinn continued mixing the wood using magic and moved along.


    "Now, where is that high-carbon steel te," Quinn looked around the workshop and found a sheet of high-carbon steel. "Alright, this will do. This will do very well."


    Quinnid the metal sheet on the floor and punched ten holes in the sheet; two rows of four holes and one row of two holes. The metal sheet was going inside the door, and the holes were there so the wood could go through them and really bind the metal with the wood.


    The next part of the door was the lock. Quinn used the same high-carbon steel to craft a lock system with a regr lock opened with a key.


    The other part of the lock was a system of thirteen steel cylinders that would enter the door from the frame around the door. And these cylinders couldn''t be released from the door with the key. They had to be released by magic, and if no one knew about the cylinders, no one would figure out how to disable the cylinder system.


    Ten minutes of unbreakable charms into the metal finally saturated the metal with magic. It couldn''t be made any stronger by the use of the unbreakable charm.


    By the time Quinn was done, the wood was prepared. It was ready to be turned into a wooden door with a metal te inside.


    The punched high-carbon steel sheet along with the lock system floated in the air as Quinn directed it with his left hand. He pointed his right hand towards sawdust trays, and around three-quarters of treated sawdust flew towards the metal sheet.


    The wood fibers gathered around the metal and formed a red door made from treated Australian Buloke wood and a high-carbon steel core and locks. Thepleted door also went through the same treatment of transfiguration and transmutation resistance.


    The remaining quarter of the treated sawdust flew towards the rectangr opening in the ss wall and formed a wooden frame for the door to fit in. The rectangr opening in the ss wall had notches around it for the wooden frame to fit on the ss wall.


    Quinn fitted the door in the frame and entered the thirteen cylinders into the wooden frame, five on both lengths of the door and three on the top breath of the door.


    "Done," celebrated Quinn as he opened the door and went back and forth. When he closed the door, the steel cylinders were inserted into the door in such a way that the cylinders were door and frame at the same time, jamming the door with the frame.


    "Now, let''s put some charms to punish anyone who touches the door." Quinn shot spells at the door that would shock and burn anyone who would touch the door and an anti-unlocking charm on the regr lock.


    "Yeah, try to break this door, Ivy Potter," smirked Quinn.


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    Quinn West - MC - Fortifying the A.I.D ssroom.


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