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The History of Banned Magic
Chapter 1: Black Magic
It has been five years, five long years of doing research. Harry Potter has been on a quest to find out why the wizarding world has become so messed up. He steps out of the floo and walks down the atrium of the International Confederation of Wizards in Genève. He was relieved that they would even listen to him. "That damh fame was finally useful for a change," Harry thought. He thought back to those five years as he walks down a hallway. After the Hogwarts battle, and the media frenzy afterwards, he had married Ginny and taken his family seat on the Wizangamot. His dream of becoming an auror ended at the first meeting of that body.
That first meeting was a disaster. The Wizangamot had divided into two camps with the odd Deatheater survivor sprinkled in. The Deatheaters weren't the problem; there were so few left that they tried not to pull any attention onto themselves. Certainly after Rita Skeeter published that book on Tom Marvolo Riddle. "The best investment I made in these 5 years" harry thought back. Harry had somehow become the leader of the 'Young Crowd'. The other camp was stonewalling every change they were trying to make. Somehow, their leader was still Albus Dumbeldore, even if he's dead. He didn't know how all these ancient people were still alive, even after all those wars this century."I have to do something about that massive reputation of Albus. Poor Albus would be rolling in his grave at these people using his reputation for such things. Even Albus himself would be disappointed at the mockery that government had become," he had thought.
Luckily Albus had foreseen this scenario, and had left behind a journal at his second will reading, after Voldemort's death. The journal he had left behind, had a lot of different outcomes of the war he had foreseen. They also had their corresponding solutions. The solution to this event was vague and required a lot of labor. This week he was going to present all of the work he had done. He stepped into the courtroom of the ICW. He looked around and saw that he was the last to arrive. There's also a lot of media present in the public gallery, much to his chagrin. Luckily, the ICW had set up silencing and null- magic wards in that area back during the post-Grindelwald tribunals. He set his briefcase on the table located in the middle of the room, and pulled out a whiteboard and a stack of books. He looked at the Supreme Mugwump and nodded his head. The Mugwump nodded back and hammered his gavel.
"This is the 2nd session of the summer. The date is the 2nd of July 2003. Grounds for the session: a petition to 'address an issue' by Harry James Potter of Greater Britannia. The petitioner may begin." Harry took out his wand and cast a couple of little known spells upon himself, to help with the presentation. One was to steady his nerves, one was to speak and recollect clearly, one was to speak loudly and a spell that Hermione invented to help in her classroom. That last spell will be the key to his success. it showed a projected image above his head of what Harry was currently thinking. Luckily he had improved his occlumentcy shields over the intervening years. He used the illustration so provided to keep the attention of the always flighty wizard kind. Harry then walked to the white board, enlarged and levitated it, and waved his wand at it. On the board appeared a bold heading: 'BANNED MAGIC'. And so Harry started to speak.
"The topic of this petition is for the reconsideration of banned magic, and to have them become more specialized." Harry said calmly. There was a lot of fidgeting in the stands. The Mugwump said sternly, "explain!"
"Well, the definition on the books for 'banned magic' dates back to first sitting of the then only international body in Europe, and a pre-runner of the ICW, the 'Unified European magical school board'. Which was a gathering of headmasters of the leading European schools in 1270. Those were: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland, Beauxbatons Academy of Magic in France, Drumstrang Institute in Scandinavia, Byzantine Imperial Institute of Magic in modern day Greece , Islam Magical Mosque in Modern day Egypt, Holy Roman Seminary of Sorcery in modern day Italy and the Hungarian Lyceum for the Magical Arts in Hungary. Now you have to understand that this was way before the Statute of Secrecy, and the only magicals that had limited self rule, were the British. This was due to a proviso in the Magna Carta. All the others schools still were part of their muggle infrastructures. This meeting came about due to an incident that happened the year before in Hogwarts. This incident quickly escalated until a pest killed the king of France in modern day Tunisia; this happened during a Crusade. I will explain the incident later in more detail but here is the definition they eventually agreed upon:
'Banned magic is a category of magic that we may not teach, sell, trade, copy, practice, publish, share and use in Public.'
This did nothing against doing it in private or learning it on your own, but if you can't do anything with it, you generally don't teach or use it. Banned magic is also not to be confused with restricted magic, like time and portkey magic" harry explained. "Now there are 14 magic's on this list, 13 of these magic's were recommended to be placed on it due to events happening in the British isles". The tribunal looked interested in this little piece of old history.
Harry waved his wand at the whiteboard, and on it appeared 14 rows and 4 columns. "I have before me a stack of journals and books from different ancient families of the British isles; they are of the relevant time periods. Now, ancient families are family names, that are older than 500 years. I will be reading certain passages of these for you. These passages are official translations, and are verified by the Goblin nation. I also have permissions from the owners to read them for this petition," Harry explained. "I thought you were banned from the Goblin nation for stealing from them?" a representative asks to Harry." Yeah... that didn't happen. Myself, Ron Weasley and Hermione Weasley, didn't actually steal anything or even broke into Gringotts England. We were there when it was broken into, and 'borrowed' a dragon to escape; but that was it!" Harry said sheepishly.
"What happened was: Our group made an agreement with a goblin by the name of Griphook. We did this in the dungeons of the then occupied Malfoy Manor. Griphook then broke us into Gringotts, and helped us cleanse an item in the old Lestrange Vault. After we left the vault, he promptly called the guard upon us. We escaped upon the old dragon that was guarding that vault. Afterwards we had to pay for the goblin construction crew that fixed the roof of Gringotts, and the loan of one of their dragons, plus penalties. We also had to return the dragons carcass, that had died of old age in Scotland. It was surprisingly little. Not the penalties for late dues though, those were horrific. Now Griphook had a much worse fate. What we didn't know at the time was that Griphook was staying at Malfoy Manor willingly, and his room was, like for every goblin, in the dungeons. He was an envoi from a rebel faction for the dark lord Voldemort. We didn't know this, and took him with us when we escaped. We made a bargain with him; when the bargain was completed, he called the guard on us. It was that simple for him. After we escaped, he summoned Voldemort to Gringotts and let him in. After he explained what happened to Voldemort, he threw a hissy fit, and killed all of the rebel faction and a good deal of the goblin tellers. That was why we didn't get banned. We indirectly stopped a rebel faction within Gringotts, and Voldemort had a bounty on his head, because of the deaths of those goblin tellers." The crowd looked shocked at the extraordinary circumstances that the young man before them had lived through.
Harry let the moment of shocked silence pass before he continued. "Now like I said before, these journals and books are verified with goblin records of that time, this had cost a pretty penny let me tell you," Harry said conspiratorially. Harry picked up the first book and magnified it. On the cover it said: 'A Novice guide to Demonology, by Pegasus Black'. "This book was publish 1050, it was a translation of a scroll form 213 AD. Harry waved his wand at the board and there appeared in the first row:
1270 _Demonology _Black Family Specialty
I will read the summary and a bit of history of this magic.
"Demonology is the art of summoning emotional based magical constructs. These constructs come from a place called: the Twisting Nether. This is a magical dimension, where the obsidian portals we occasionally discover leads to. These magical constructs have a base of emotionally powered magic, with a consciousness from that realm. This consciousness gives the entity sapient and form. The body is therefore temporary and harvest-able, if you so desire. What you do need to know is that the consciousness does not die with the body, and returns to the Twisting Nether. The art of this magic lies in knowing how a particular situation needs to be answered. The question you then have to ask yourself is: is it better for you to bind, deal, trade, or harvest with the entity? There are many subcategories to these answers, which we will explain further in this book. There are different power levels and classes for every category of entities. You can re-summon a particular entity with its name. An example of the process is: You summoned an entity of lust, a succubus, for some reason; the succubus is of your personal preference. You now have the option to preform different actions. You can 'bind' it, and you'll have a temporary minion. If you 'deal' with it, you will have to preform a certain action for the entity; for example carnal pleasure. You'll get an 'enchantment' on a item after it; In this case an enchantment of attraction. These enchantments have differing strengths depending on: your magical strength, the entity's strength and your skill in preforming the task. If you 'trade' with the entity, you can get certain 'freely given' body parts. These are usually in return for corresponding body parts of yours. for example: a hair for a hair, a toe for a hoof, etc... If you' harvest' the entity, you get 'forcibly taken' body parts. These items can then be used in different potion- and alchemical solutions, or base structures for items/weapons/focuses. Another example of an entity is an entity of love, which are the cherubs. ... "
"As you can hear this was an ancient way of gathering reagents and other stuff." Harry said, and took another book and continued.
"The history of Demonology is closely linked with the Black family. It all started with a shepherd in modern day Israel around 1000 BC; this shepherds name was David. David had a talent, he could summon emotional based entities. He called the positive ones 'Angels', and the negative ones 'Demons'. He had managed this, when he was trying to locate a lost black lam, with a small ritual. David had failed the ritual, but in the progress had summoned the first 'Demon'; a hellhound pup (looked like a black red Irish sheepdog). He achieved this due to an incorrectly drawn ritual circle in the sand, and a focus on the feeling of 'trying to find something' while casting. After he found the lam he continued experimenting with the entities. By the time he was 15, he had invented the basis of Demonology, the act of dealing and trading with entities. In this way he had gained the enchantment of accuracy on his sling. He had also learned how to increase the impact damage of a stone out of his sling.
Around this time the local king Saul conscripted him into his army. They were being invaded by the armies of Philistine and their king Goliath. Goliath was a giant of a man and the last of the Gilgamesh. When Goliath came forth in the valley between the camps, Goliath yelled so loudly it could be heard throughout the hills: "Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me. If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us." Then the Philistine said, "This day I defy the armies of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other. On hearing the Philistine's words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified. For four days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening, and took his stand. David had heard the Israelites saying, "Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage". David was the sevend son of his father, and didn't have much prospects, other than shepherding. His father was old and was taken care of. He saw this as an opportunity, and stepped forth.
He took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd's bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine. Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him. He said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David."Come here," he said, "and I'll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals!" David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. On this day, I'll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day, I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals. "As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell face down onto the ground.
So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him. David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine's sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. David took the Philistine's head and brought it to Jerusalem; he put the Philistine's weapons in his own tent. As Saul watched David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner, commander of the army, "Abner, who is that young man?" Abner replied, "As surely as you live, Your Majesty, I don't know." The king said, "Find out who this young man is." As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with David still holding the Philistine's head."Who are you, young man?" Saul asked him. David thought back to how this all started, with the search of a black lamb. David said, "I am your servant, David Black." (A/N: almost a literal quote from the bible)
And so David married the daughter of the king and in time became the king of Israel and Philistine. His rule was not easy, and he had to eventually teach and expand his knowledge of Demonology. He discovered the third basis of Demonology this way, the act of binding an entity. David had a son named Solomon, he taught him everything he knew. The boy was a prodigy of the art and soon eclipsed his father. On the day his son became an officer, he presented his son with the enchanted sword of Gilgamesh. Eventually war came again, and Solomon was the commander of his father's army. The enemy had a superior forces, and Solomon had to do something. He invented the last of the basics in these days, the act of harvesting. He forged his sword anew in the blood of a war entity, a wrath guard, with a hair and heartstring core, and a handle of horn and bone. The sword eventually became a legend, and was renamed: 'The Black Sword'. The army of Solomon was victorious, and King David abdicated for his son, King Solomon the Great. Solomon eventually created several powerful artifacts, like: a focus ring for Demonology that became known as the 'Seal of Solomon', the first self updating grimoire that was called 'the key' and a lot of others. Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. All of his offspring eventually began to spread the knowledge of the art far and wide. When they settled, they began to take local variations of their name; namely 'Black', 'Dark', 'Shadow', 'Dusk' or 'Shade'.
He lay the book down and looked around, and saw some people come to a realization. "I can see some of you have come to a realization, this was only a short summary of the history in the official Black grimoire. All of his offspring had such a grimoire, and you can open the section of Demonology and family history, when you state the black family motto to it in your language: 'Always Pure', and then in silence after it to yourself, 'of Soul'. "He saw a couple of representative and people in the public gallery nod to him. "I will say this now, I do not know were those stated artifacts are. Most I found out was that the sword was last seen in the hands of Blackbeard the pirate, and the ring was never heard from again."
He took a journal from the pile and said: "This is the journal of Sagittarii Black, the British Black clan head of the period in question. The following extract is about the 'incident' that led to the banning of demonology .
"DAMH that fool! Who in their right mind made that Bumblebee a professor? Why in the name of Morgana's hairy cunt, did he give a workshop on demonology to second years? You need the emotional control you only get when you're out of puberty to correctly summon. You only get that in the last two years of Hogwards. Even if he did that; why in Merlin's soggy scrotum, didn't he put a standard containment circle for beginners in the room. Even if he's a master and only needs those circles for high level summons, even my pubescent daughter knows, that beginners need those to control the summons. Or why even let them all summon, all 453 students, summon at the same time! The result: some imps, succubae, cherubs, angels and hellhounds running loose, those were easily de-summoned. But the whole lot of overpowered emotional based MISCHIEF entities that are the gremlins, are a whole other story. At the start those creatures are pretty docile, but give them food after midnight, and it becomes and whole other game. Of course the class was in the winter in Scotland, the first class, before the sun came up! And breakfast was still being served in the great hall, at the other side of the hallway with, all the doors in-between open! Those blyters couldn't leave fast enough, while Bumblebee was de-summoning the more dangerous entities. Those blyters then started stuffing themselves, and transformed in that hyperactive type of mischief makers, and of course started causing havoc and mayhem. The upper years chased them to the outside, right into the snow. But of course snow is made of water, and the blyters started multiplying. By the time the sun came up, there were THOUSANDS. The whole school went outside, and started de-summoning them where they were sleeping. Of course they missed some, and by the time midnight came around again, the whole cycle repeated itself. If I didn't know the professor better, I would have thought he did it deliberately, but that guy is waaaaay too enthusiastic, and has his head in the clouds."...
Entry, 1 month later: "UGGH those blyters left the isles. After the whole Black clan started chasing the gremlins through the snow for a whole month. We can't follow them to France. Let's hope they don't do too much damage. Luckily there is a limit to how much they can multiply:7*7*7= 343 each, from the base gremlin"
Entry, 3 month later: "Those fucking bastards! That's the thanks we get from cursing those Gremlins, a BAN! A BAN! How could I have know those blyters could carry the pest. After all that traveling I had to do. In the end I had to use a binding curse to change them. Well I did get a new servant race from it, and the bans list will forevermore be named after our clan. I think I'll call them House-elves; I like to see those Fays hear about that, ha, ha. But still now the Black clan has to find a different way to get money. Mmmhhh... I'll see if I can't scale those containment circles up; that way we can breed some of those more dangerous creatures."
Harry Potter closed the journal to silence, and pointed his wand to the board again.
1270_ Demonology_Black Family Specialty _Banned due to gremlin infestation
The whole ICW were stunt into silence. "This is where the house elves came from, which I can personally attest to," Harry said with a deadpan, while thinking back to Dobby and Kreature. "The prison and containment wards were eventually based of this work," Harry explained. "This ban was put into place, because the then French king died of pest; after the gremlins ran havoc in their camp in the night. The French got a vote from Hogwarts, because it originated from there; a vote from the Islamite's, because it happened there; and two votes from the roman schools, because it happened during a Crusade. That resulted in a 5 for and 2 against vote for the ban. I have here a folder with the transcript of that meeting. Most were forced to vote that way by their muggle superiors. This is pure diplomacy at his highest, a war with words and backdoor deals. And so we lost a bit of magic...because of politics" Harry said mournfully. "Let's take a break and reconvene in 10 min" the Mugwump said.
A/N: This is a work of fiction. So don't get offended if your religion is being portrayed wrongly. I'll try to stay as close to the facts as I can, but I'm claiming creative license if it's not so.