"Pretty good. The boss looked after me as much as ever and didn't give me too much work."
Gerald looked at the somewhat tired Charlie, a little puzzled.
"Charlie's been helping out at a potions shop in Diagon Alley. His knowledge from Potions Class is pretty good," Fred muttered quietly, seemingly noticing Gerald's confusion.
Gerald's expression stiffened slightly at that.
Well, would you look at that. Even the Wizarding World had summer jobs?
Chapter 128: Will we go down in history?
Gerald stayed with the Weasley family for three full days before leaving.
During those three days, he and the Weasley brothers spent almost every waking moment in the room with the "Keep out" sign on the door.
The bottles and jars on the workbench had been cleared aside, replaced with piles of Magical Crystal Boards and parchment covered in rune sketches.
At every mealtime, Mrs. Weasley came upstairs with a large platter of sandwiches and pumpkin juice and knocked on the door. Every time she pushed it open and saw the three of them hunched over the workbench carving runes, looking utterly disheveled,
she would mutter,
"What are you tinkering with this time? If Gerald weren't working on it too, I'd string you up and give you a thrashing."
By the evening of the third day, they had finally produced three twenty-page messaging notebooks.
Both the covers and the pages had been cut from parchment.
The Crystal Boards on the pages had been embedded in the parchment after being subjected to a Shrinking Charm. Opened up, the notebooks looked no different from ordinary ones, except for the exceedingly fine silver rune patterns faintly flowing across their pages.
Each page contained a blank crystal Master Board and a subsidiary board, engraved with Erasure Runes.
Gerald opened the first page and