"Lucien, can I learn from you how to make those mechanical animals?"
Lucien turned around and looked at the red-haired boy.
"Ron, are you interested in alchemy?"
Ron scratched his head and replied uncertainly, "Alchemy... maybe. I've seen Fred and George use alchemy to make some little gadgets."
"Oh, Fred and George are my brothers. They're two years above us."
Lucien nodded. The Weasley Twins—they had brought pranks and laughter to Hogwarts.
They really were good at crafting magical items. It seemed they had quite a talent for alchemy.
"Ron, do you want to learn alchemy, or do you simply want to learn how to make those mechanical creations?"
If Ron said he wanted to learn alchemy, Lucien would refuse him, for the same reason he had tactfully turned down Hermione.
But if it was just mechanical creations, that was more an application of Transfiguration—turning inanimate objects into other inanimate objects, along with semi-permanent solidified transformations.
If Ron only wanted to learn mechanical creations that obeyed his commands, he would not even need to learn solidified transformations for now.
As for the potions required, Ron could not make them himself, but he could simply ask his good friend Harry to brew them for him.
Lucien did not mind teaching Ron how to make those alchemical machines. Just like Harry, Ron could borrow magical books from his family as payment.
No matter how impoverished the Weasley family was, they were still one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight pure-blood families. Their history was long and ancient, and they surely had magical knowledge passed down through the generations.
Well, he was not sure whether Ron's parents would agree to lend them out. He could have Ron ask first.
Once there were books to read, he could teach him.
"Uh, I'm actually just interested in