Published at 30th of November 2019 10:41 pm

Chapter 96: Body modifications

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"Tap on the Phone." He spoke in Parseltongue "Just tap on it with your tail when I cross the finish line. Okay." He said to Selena who looked at him with droopy eyes and he wondered if waking her up for this was really such a great idea.

Maybe he should have just run with the phone on his hand but then he would not have been able to give his best shot at the 100 meter sprint that he was going to perform pretty soon.

The Stop watch he had added in the Phone, along with the calculator, the clock, the alarm bell, the calendar and Message were one of the few new functions that he had added in the Phone recently.

Adding these new functions in the Phone had been surprisingly easy for him. And Hermione had said that just the alarm bell function ought to rise the cost of the Phone by at least two dollars. Not to mention all the other functions that he had added or might add in the future.

But Harry had remained firm in his stance of selling the Phone for 20 dollars. After all, he wanted every household to have one such phone.

And he wanted to make it so that even someone as poor as the Weasleys would be able to buy it.

But he was not standing here in order to check the function of the Phone.

In fact, he was had come to this empty field in the middle of the night in order to check his new Transfiguration changes.

Experimenting extensively on numerous rats had provided him with immense knowledge in regards to Human Transfiguration.

Knowledge that he was now about to put to test.

He gaze at the other end of the field where he had planted a flag and instantly apparated to their side and looked back at the other flag on the other end of the field.

The distance between the two flags was of course 100 meters.

With a wave of his wand, the muscles in his thighs, calves, feet, abdomen and lower back started to go through a huge change.

After a few seconds, the change was complete. And even though he didn't look any different now then he did before the changes, if someone looked closely, then they could see the slight budge in the muscles of the areas where he had just used transfiguration.

And indeed, after the changes, he felt more power in his legs and abdomen.

Power that should not normally exist in human legs.

After moving around for a few more seconds and making sure that the muscles were working properly, he got ready in the sprint and stood at the ready position.

He sent a signal to Selena and waited for a few seconds, before a loud 'Bang' put him into motion and he started running to the other end of the field like there was a Cerberus on his tail.

And while running, he realized that he was running far faster than a human should be able to run.

Good.

It meant that all his knowledge and study of the muscles of various different animals, birds, fishes and insects did not go to waste.

He reached the end of the flag and ran for a good few dozen meters before he was able to stop himself.

He could feel his heart hammering inside his chest and his body temperature had risen to a unnerving degree.

With another wave of his hand, the transfiguration was removed and without the additional power, he almost fell down on the ground.

The might have studied the muscles but he had not studied heart and other organs so using those enhances muscles still exhausted him to a great degree.

He placed a cooling charm on himself to lower the temperature of his body before going back to Flag where he had left Selena and his Mobile Phone.

He could only hope that Selena had not fallen asleep while on her duty.

Thankfully, she hadn't.

He put the girl back on his shoulders before picking up the phone and checking the number written on it.

6.13 sec

Hmm… about 3 seconds faster than a world class Olympic Athlete.

Not bad.

But not very good either.

Any other person might be satisfied with these results but he wasn't.

But at the same time, he also knew that until he found a way to reinforce his heart, he would not be able to enhance his muscles anymore. Otherwise his heart would simply rupture under the immense pressure and that was not something that he wanted.

After his breathing became normal and his heartbeat calmed down, he turned both the flags back into the dirt before going to the forest nearby.

Now that he was done with the Speed, he needed to test other aspects of his body.

Like how much weight was he able to lift from the ground.

How high he was able to jump?

What kind of power his punches and kicks held?

And these were just the basis tests.

The night was young and he had a feeling that he would spend a lot of time in this forest this one night.

With such thoughts, he took a deep breath and started with the tests.

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Harry usually thought that he was one of the most brilliant mind in Hogwarts.

And that statement, while sounding narcissistic, also held a grain of truth in it.

And that was why he was so appalled by himself for making such an elementary mistake.

His company was going to open in a few months. But that didn't change the fact that he already had employees working for him under himself.

Well, he might have seen Penelope and Hermione as more of a friend then an employee and that was something that would never change.

But it also didn't change that they were giving away hours and hours of their life to help him with his invention.

And they were doing it for free.

Well, not any longer.

The problem was that he had never given a wage to anyone.

And he in a situation where he realized that if he paid too much to his employees, then his company might sink before it was even launched.

And if he paid too little, then, well… that would be embarrassing and simply humiliating.

So he did something that he did whenever he faced a problem that he couldn't solve on his own.

He went to Hermione and enlisted her help.

And the end of the day, he had received a list of the amount of money that people made in the magical world.

And he was shocked by how much the amount fluctuated.

Well, he guessed that that is what happens in an economy which doesn't has the concept of minimum wage and in which the people in the higher ladder of the society discriminate openly against the people in the lower ladder of the society.

Frankly, how the hell had their economy not collapsed upon it self until now.

He could guess that the interference of the goblins must have paid a huge role in ensuring that the wizards are not able to fuck up the economy but still, this only made it even more clear to him about how pathetic the Wizards were.

After all, half bloods and muggleborns create the massive bulk of their society and the purebloods discriminate against them.

The house elves were one of the most loyal servant one could ever ask for and the purebloods treat them like sh*t instead of being grateful for them.

The goblins are the only one who are keeping their economy afloat and the purebloods hate them as well.

Really, how has the wizarding society not destroyed itself until now was something that he would never understand.

Even more disturbing was the fact that there had never been any muggleborn rebellion against the stupidity of the inbred purebloods.

Especially when groups like Death Eaters were activally prowling around a few years ago, trying to find and kill any muggleborn they could get their hands on simply because they wanted to show how their blood was superior to everyone else.

All Harry saw was a child throwing a tantrum because his mother didn't love him as much as she used to do anymore.

He took a deep breath and looked at the statistics that Hermione had brought in front of him.

Well, if there was anything regular in the whole chart, it was the wages of the teachers in Hogwarts.

Which was about a 200 galleon give or take. Of course, head of houses earn more than that and the Deputy Mistress Minerva Mcgonagall earns even more than that but he was talking about average so a 200 galleon a month.

Which would be about 1200 dollars a month and 14,400 dollars in a year.

Well, this was a time when the minimum wage in USA was about 5$ for an hour of work and he guessed that according to 2019, this much money should be about 50-70,000 $ in a year.

It was surprising to him how the average of the salary came so close to the average salary earned by an average American citizen.

That was something that he couldn't allow to happen.

Because from his perspective, Wizards should earn at least 4 times more because of the things they could do and the simply because of how rare they were.

Yes, Hermione had taken out a ratio of Muggle to Wizard for him and it was about 1:1200 people.

So yeah, wizards were rare. Magic was rarer.

And rarer things get paid more.

So when he opens a company, he would pay triple the amount of wage to his employees.

And that plan of his created even more problems than it solved.

Because he also wanted his products to be cheaper so every wizard and witch could buy it.

And he realized that he could not have it both ways.

Either he would have to decrease the wage of his employees or he would have to increase the cost of his products.

This whole situation made his head hurt.

He was never much of an accountant and at this point, he realized that he would have to take the help of a professional who could actually help him.

Hmm… perhaps it was time to pay a visit to the Finance Minister of Birtain.

If there was any such post in their government.

Regardless, all of that was for later, for now, he would simply pay Hermione and Penelope in the same scale as the Hogwarts teachers.

Except that they didn't work for him all day long.

And in essence were just part time workers who spent more time studying their own stuff.

So in the end, he paid Penelope and Hermione 500 galleons for the month as salary for their part time job.

They of course refused to accept it but he did not want to take advantage of their hard work and made them accept the pay.

And gave Hermione a badge of Assistant Researcher and Personal Secretory.

While the badge of Ancient Runes Decipherer went to Penelope Clearwater.

All in all, by the end of the day, he was a wiser and happier man.

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