Professor Fox reached into his box and pulled out a small 9 inch triangular mirror and showed it to the students (though it was visible from the angled mirror over his desk). "Now then, why don't we simply get started, since this is supposed to be interesting and fun for everyone. I thought we might start by constructing a rather simple, yet novel, magical device. Now, I'm sure some of the older students have heard of 'foe-finders', well we will be making a few adjustments to instead construct 'friend-finders'. These are mirrors which show the position of your friends relative to you." He showed his own mirror which had a number of fuzzy light objects mingling around inside it, with one in particular almost a simple speck in the very back.
"Now, to show the basic design concepts this will not show you all of your friends, rather we will be inputting the specific friends by hand. So, everyone should only pick about five or so friends and family members, house elves, pets, teachers, etcetera in. To do this, everyone needs to first remember what Prof. Bree taught you and write the birth number, and personality number of the people you will be including. Also write down your own. It is generally easiest if everyone simply writes down their family members or other people in the class. When everyone is done, we will move to the next topic." Professor Fox himself pulled out some parchment and began writing numbers down.
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