#he tweaks it specifically to look thru sirius’ clothes (w his blessing + help of course)

[padfootastic]

I don’t know if anyone else has had this thought (wouldn’t surprise me) but I’ve never seen anyone talk about it.

You can not convince me that James Potter didn’t enchanted his glass to do cool shit. Perhaps he got them to function kinda like the map but for anywhere and everywhere he is. Maybe they can show the entire lay out of the building or area he’s in, let him see through stuff, show him what people are thinking, replay memories not just his own but those of others (sorta like a pensive) maybe they can identify dark wizards or something I don’t know! But there is NO way James and Sirius didn’t come with this ✨brilliant✨ idea. The possibility are astounding.

I don’t think he’d enchant them to cheat in school he didn’t need the help nor do I think he’d use them in that stereotypical way of seeing through peoples clothes or anything of that sort. That’s stuff kinda lame in my opinion.

anon be honest, did u see my answer to another ask comparing james to tony stark a while ago? *squints suspiciously*

lol i’m kidding but u cannot tell me that isn’t ridiculously futuristic innovator of him. and i love it. j&s’ troublemaking was always breaking rules & pushing the boundaries of magic (for me) and this fits perfectly for them. i bet they had so many half-discarded genius ideas for how to make things around them different or better.

lol @ james potter fucking around and accidentally inventing not just muggle television but *portable* muggle televisions. very on brand.

#james potter #sirius black #ok fully agree that our boy won’t engage in that kind of sleazy behaviour #BUT. one caveat. pls. #he tweaks it specifically to look thru sirius’ clothes (w his blessing + help of course) #(only if sirius gets a matching pair) #look my prongsfoot + exhibitionist heart couldn’t help it ok? #(now i’m wondering about the poor soul who accidentally picks up the glasses and gets an eyeful lol) #back to ur idea tho. imagine if they knew about the dark mark in the first war #and make like an x ray thing that detects specially that under clothes/charms bc it’s connected to the dark magic in it #or there’s like a detector that picks up traces of magic so u can see if it was cast in the vicinity #like i just imagine him fucking around with runes one day #(i fully hc these dumb boys w no regard for their life were playing around w those carelessly) #and just stumbles upon these revolutionary uses #but also. u know those casual geniuses who don’t realise they’re doing something groundbreaking? just throw it in random conversations #like that. he’ll just mention over breakfast one day ‘yeah i managed to see bone through the human body yesterday. it was weird.’ #everyone’s like ??? and he’s just snacking on an apple like ‘moony did u know u have minute cracks going up yours?’ #anon look at the pandora’s box you’ve opened here #i cannot stop thinking of oblivious genius james now lol #i’m also kind of obsessed with magical + muggle overlap in inventions like the *potential* #pen’s asks