Disclaimer. THIS IS YOUR MASTER SPEAKING. THOU HATH FORSAKEN THE RIGHTOUS PATH OF ILLUMINATION AND JOINED CHRONOS ON THE PATH OF STRANGENOUS AND ? AND WEIRD SPARKLY THINGS. THOU HATH BEEN WARNED. ALSO CHRONOS DOES NOT OWN HARRY POTTER. HE HATH DREAMS THOUGH. -
Harry snapped the book shut and produced a thoughtful expression. The book in its entirety wasn't that large. Usually it was two things on each page, the larger things taking one. So it was barely forty pages. And most of the things were actually quite pointless. Like Thing 43.
Sometimes a wizard has the desire for tea. There are multiple ways that a wizard can acquire tea. Some such ways are listed below.
It then went on to do exactly what it said. Also there were the ones like Thing 76.
When crossing into #^$( always remember to have an &^ *# or you will be *#&% with chocolate pudding.
Harry had been confused when he read that one, but after giving up, he just decided to nod sagely.
However, neither of these two Things caught his attention. Nor did Thing 12 which stated.
Sometimes, a large group of bumbling idiots gather together to write on a bunch of paper and inform each other that they are making a difference. This is called government. The wizardry worlds bumbling idiots are called Wizenmagot.
Neither did the final Thing, Thing 101.
Sometimes books lie and show less than what the title suggested.
And while he thought about showing Hermione that Thing, it seemed like something she'd get angry at.
Rather, Harry Potter was thinking about Thing 61. A rather unique Thing, this Thing 61. In the entirety of the book, it is one of three that is simply one line. The two others are Thing 101 and Thing 7, which says.
Seven is seen as highly magical number, though this author failed Arithmacy and has no idea why.
Thing 61. And while Harry didn't know it at the time, Thing 61 was the game changer. Thing 61 stated this.
Runes are incredibly powerful and in the hands of a skilled witch or wizard can be used to do anything, even permanently animate objects,A Master's Guide to Runic Animation by Hopp, Skip, and Jump, explains how.
Now, before we continue this story, several things need to be covered. Out of the three Things that are only written as one sentence, this Thing is the only one that needs expanding. It is vague, pointless and fails to point out an incredible about of things. Important things.
It fails to inform the reader that Runes is considered one of the most complex, difficult, and dauntingly scary classes to take. Or that if one wanted to permanently animate something, it would need something that is an inexhaustible source of energy, and currently the only thing that is inexhaustible is the Philosopher's Stone. Which was destroyed. Small, tiny objects can use runes to be animated for a long period of time, but there is no way currently to use runes to animate something permanently. The book that is offered is, not only meant for masters of the art, but lacks any possible way of doing so. It is simply based on theory.
Any attempt to permanently animate something over the size of a quaffle with runes usually ends in one of two ways, explosion or a vortex that sucks anything nearby in to another dimension where something that sounds like two turtles have sex can be heard. Hence, the art of runic animation for larger has been all but abandoned.
However, we shall cover one less thing before we continue with the story. A child's imagination. Where adults see a blank page, children see a world of possibility. Where adults see a solution and follow, children ask why. Where adults see a impossibility, children deny such things.
So, as Harry sits there recalling a certain memory of his, one must understand that often adults are limited by what they see as is. Where children often see what can be. And while Harry may be slightly older than your average child, he is limitless in his imagination.
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As Harry perused the bookshelves once more, he thinks back to his plan. He isn't stupid. Harry realizes his lack of understanding in runes and going straight to creating something large using runes is slightly above his skill level.
So, start small.
Harry grinned as he came upon the book that was mentioned in the first book, The Master's Guide. He smiled as he pulled it off. However, as he scanned the first few pages, he realized there were very few runes actually written down. Harry frowned. He'd need a list of runes to use for his work.
So Harry went back to perusing.
It should also be noted here of Harry's incredible skill at ignoring certain things. Like the names of several books he passed. Beginner's Runes. Rules When Starting Runes. Failures at Permanent Animation. Why Not To Study Runes: An Informative Novel of How Much This Class Sucks. Nope. Harry missed all of those books. Nope, Harry only saw one book.
A Complete List of All the Runes You Could Possibly Use With Their Definition and Explanation by T. L. Care.
Nodding to himself, Harry grabbed the book and was about to leave when another book in another section somehow caught his eye three aisles over. This is author is not entirely sure how he saw it, but regardless Harry walked over to this aisle and grabbed the book of the shelf.
How to Improve Your Vision By Becoming An Animagus by R. Ling Stones.
'Huh, well that seems useful,' Harry thought.
He piled his three books together and walked to the check out. The worker was a twenty year old who had stayed up way too late last night in hopes of hooking up with his date. Due to his hangover and dismal outlook at the day, it can be assumed that he failed. So as Harry piled his books on the counter, the assistant simply went through the motions of checking out the books. He failed to realize that one of the books was a masters and the other, on animagus, was reserved for Aurors.
Harry, a few galleons lighter and a few books heavier, proceeded to skip out of Florish and Blotts. Not actually skip, no Harry is much to manly to do that. As Harry headed back to The Leaky Cauldron in a slightly cheerful walk (that was in no way a skip), he thought over his purchases. While the animagus book was useful, the Runes books were preference in his mind. The way it seemed, to him, he would need to read the list of runes first then the guide. That way he new what runes to use in situations the guide described.
Harry frowned as he realized a flaw in his plan. The book of runes was huge. It had been extremely heavy and seemed to be more than a thousand pages. While he didn't understand why, the book was a complete list of multiple types of Runes. Old Norse, Egyptian, Sumerian, Chinese, Aztec, a bit of Elven, Mayan, a drop of Druid, and even held a small collection of South African. In essence, it was a cheat sheet. But due to its incredibly vast knowledge, it had a similar problem that Harry's first book held. It was completely vague. But regardless, the book was huge. And Harry's brain was in no way capable of holding all of that knowledge. A small fraction maybe, but not all of it.
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As Harry was reaching this unfortunate understanding, another being was reaching the same. Chaos stared into the disc frowning, this was not in her plans. She waved her hand and an image of Harry's brain popped up in front of her. She poked it in a couple places and observed what they were.
"...No not that one...he may need that...understanding of females? Nah much too small, might as well increase that a little while I'm here...Ah! Runes!"
Chaos looked at the tiny space for runes and frowned. She couldn't increase it with out getting rid of something else. But then a wicked grin appeared. She couldn't increase its size, but she could increase how much each part held. She waved her hand and she was suddenly surrounded by scroll's covered in numbers waiting for her command. She scowled as she looked around, this was Fate's area of expertise. She shrugged.
"Eh, just make his brain have enough depth to completely understand runes I guess."
The scrolls immediately changed from showing small numbers, to showing a sideways eight. And despite living forever, she had no idea what it meant. She shrugged again and hoped it worked.
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Back in Harry's dimension, Harry shrugged as well and figured he'd do the best he could.
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Harry looked at the closed book with both his hands clasped underneath his chin.
'Well that was...easy,' Harry thought.
He had read through it in two days. But, surprisingly, he remembered every runes and its meaning. Usually it would take several attempts of rereading before he understood what it meant. However this only took once, regardless if f its immense size.
Harry shrugged, 'Whatever, just makes my ideas easier.'
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Harry scowled and shoved the book away. The damn book was a complete waste. It started in the beginning talking about small animations, defenses, booby traps, even the Golden Snitch in Quidditch was permanent fly animated with runes. A small ball inside was inscribed along with the cell that it was placed in. As the ball rolls around in it cylinder room, energy is created which powers the snitch. And as it moves more, the ball creates more energy. It is a great example of perpetual energy. And the book even described how to make enchantment inscriptions.
And right as Harry was about to go forth with his ideas for enchantments, he read the last line in that section.
AND WHILE THIS BALL AND RUNES METHOD IS EFFECTIVE, IT IS UNUSABLE FOR LARGER ENCHANTMENT'S DUE TO THE MASS NEEDED. ONCE PAST A CERTAIN WEIGHT, THE BALL INSIDE WOULD NEED TO BE MORE THAN 1/2 THE WEIGHT OF THE ENCHANTED ITEM. WHICH LIMITS ITS ABILITY TO MOVE AN THEREFORE CREATE ENERGY.
Harry had not enjoyed that, but understood the limits of the ball. However, his understanding attitude lasted until he found out the snitch was practically as heavy as you could get. Once you pass 20 grams, the size of the ball needed to create the energy gets consecutively higher. The snitch for example weighs 18 grams, slightly less than a mouse. The ball used to power it is 10 grams of its weight. Children's snitches weigh the same, but the ball used is 8 grams. A switch in weight by two grams drastic change in speed and power.
So if Harry wanted to enchant something that weighed over 100 pounds, he would need over 50 of those pounds to be a runic inscribed ball inside that rolls around, which means a space inside that can hold that ball with room for it to move, but if an object is too heavy, it will not freely move across a surface. A marble would move much farther than a bowling ball pushed with same amount of force. So regardless of size. The larger ball wouldn't generate enough energy for the animation to move to make the ball create more energy.
So basically it was a never ending circle of not working.
That's when Harry started to get annoyed. Which proceeded to get worse as the book stated that it was impossible to use different language runes in the same enchantment due to "differences in energy". However Harry could already recall in the list of runes that several of them connected and were inscribed similarly. So that was completely stupid.
Quick note: The statement from the book is a fundamental law placed by Runic Masters who found when pushing magic into runes, different languages require different amounts of magic in the individual runes.
Regardless, Harry thought it was wrong.
It got even worse when it described Runic Inlay Circles. How they'd work, levels needed, what they would accomplish. And it was perfect. If dome correctly it could do large scale enchantments.
Then it said there was only one inlay circle that worked and it created a floating ball of light that last less than 30 seconds.
Needless to say, Harry was done with this book. It was a complete joke.
He was going to do all sorts of enchantments and totally prove this book wrong. -
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