Shawn thought for a moment.
He had already given him photos, little cakes, and animated picture books. Shawn was hardly a romantic, and he really couldn't think of any better ideas.
Was he going to have to wrong Harry again?
Oh! A wonderfully devious idea suddenly occurred to Shawn.
Wasn't he taking Harry to visit Sirius in prison at Christmas?
He could bring a camera and tell Harry beforehand just how "evil" Sirius was, and how he had "betrayed" Harry's parents.
Once Harry saw Sirius, would they have a loving family reunion and start throwing punches?
Then he could snap away with his camera?
Snape would probably like those photos, wouldn't he?
The Borgin family certainly lived up to its reputation as an alchemical family with a long history.
When Shawn entered the laboratory, he had already seen videos of real, large-scale semiautomatic machine tools in his previous life.
Yet the sight of this first-generation Alchemy Machine Tool still stunned him.
A silver machine tool, ten meters long and three meters wide, lay in the center of the laboratory.
Two long metal plates, covered in intricate patterns and shimmering with flowing light, hovered above either side of the machine. Between them ran a red conveyor belt covered in flames.
Steaming cauldrons moved along it at a steady rhythm.
At the conveyor's entrance, a red cabinet hummed. Numerous long metal tubes extended from one side, feeding processed potion ingredients into the cauldrons one by one.
The cauldrons were no ordinary cauldrons either. Magical runes circuits were engraved on them as well, allowing them to infuse magical energy into potions that required a second magical treatment, in place of a wizard.
Countless red, articulated alchemical tentacles extended from the long metal plates, gripping stirrers and stirring the cauldrons according to preset