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Please enjoy the rewritten version of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Skill, Chapter Two: The Vanishing Glasses.
SERIESThe Time of a Sorcerer TITLEHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Skill CHAPTER 2The Vanishing Glasses
Looking over his list Harry decided that trying to repair things might be the best to do first. In theory it seemed to be the easiest possible thing, and if he would one day be able to be powerful enough to actually help people, repairing things should be useful. And if it turns out that he reaches his limits with that skill, to be able to repair stuff and appear out of nowhere from a different place entirely, was enough for him.
While he sat there thinking about what he could practice on, he remembered his glasses. Dudley had broken the damn things so many times. It was the perfect thing to try it on. If he could fix it, he could make it harder then before, right?
Over the next week, in his spare time, he would run his fingers along the many cracks of his glasses. And anytime that the glasses were fixed completely, Dudley would end up breaking them.
As the breaks soon became more serious, and Harry's prowess in telekinesis grew, Harry was able to mold the glasses back together by just concentrating on them. He would watch in wonder as the broken pieces began to seal themselves together.
It ended up coming to a point where the glasses were simply the magic holding the glasses together. It was then that Harry knew, he knew it was possible manipulate magic.
Harry studied the glasses as he sat there on his cot, he doubted that anyone else could tell or would be able to tell, but his glasses seemed to glow. Testing something, he removed the lenses from the glasses' frame. After that he tried to focus on absorbing all the magic from the glasses, leaving only the lenses untouched. The glasses then fell apart without it's magical adhesive, into a small pile of fine plastic dust. Apparently, the damage done to his glasses was far more extensive, then first was believed. It took Harry five more minutes of concentrating on the form of his glasses to get to a point were the lenses would fit in the glasses again. One more day of practice, and he managed to get his glasses looking like new again.
Firebolt, Healing, Town Portal, Stone Curse, Guardian, and Golem, were the techniques that still remained on the list.
The next week came and went with Harry's attempts to create golems. He thought that if he concentrated enough with his magic as he did with his glasses, he could change the structure of things and form it into the shape of a golem, he knew that the hardest part would be to make the creature sentient. Boy was he wrong. It was definately one of those things that was harder than it looked.
He concentrated hard on the basic shape of the Golem one more time in frustration. Pouring his magical essence into his mental image of the stone protector. His magic once more formed the shape in front of him, but he finally realized the problem. There was no substance that the magic was contorted with. He was trying to go from skipping over a stone, to leaping over a mountain.
Holding his hadn above the ground he looked deep inside of himself for the power that he was looking for. He pushed it out slowly, making sure that the type of golem that he wanted to created was created by making sure that the magic was as adhesive as possible. lifting his hand the golem would rise forming itsself, or at least that's what Harry wanted.
After one more week of study and practice, Harry had finally managed to get a decent sized golem 'summoned'. He even began to give it sentient thought patterns. He was using his gardening skills as a means to perfect it. While weeding, he could turn his concentration on the offending soil. The soil began to shape itself around Harry's magic, and walking away, dispelling itself once it was out of the way. It saved Harry the time it would normally take to shovel the deeper weed roots away, and the movement of the aged soil, kept it fresh and healthy. Just the way Aunt Petunia liked it. She didn't need to know the way it was kept healthy after all.
Studying his creation once more he began to think of the uses of his summoning skill. He could change the shape of the golem into something more universally appropraite like a skeleton. He could easily create equally temporary weapons, and other things as well.
Remembering the library at school he waited for that following Monday. Before he began the long walk home, he went to the library, looking through the fantasy novels there, there wasn't much in the ways of enlightening research, but he did see a picture on the cover of one book. There was a battle taking place, there was one wizard, orbs of light floating, surrounding him, lightning, fire and ice were seen in his defense. His enemy was a peculiar man. The man wasn't evil but he looked to be dark. His appearance was like that of a skeleton with skin, there were skeletons surrounding him, doing his bidding, protecting their master.
It was then that Harry knew what he would focus on with his summoning skills. He would become a master of magic, of both sides of the magical spectrum. Racing home, he completely forgot to borrow the book, and settled in his cupboard to train.
Over the course of time until his tenth birthday, he trained his summoning skills and the augmentations of the summons. He had a jar filled with soil in his cupboard that he used regularly for training. With it he would summon a skeleton, or a weapon. When he summoned a skeleton, he used his focus on it until he could flick the one foot tall wonder, with the back of it arm, and not shatter the creature. He found that the sentient skill of what he expected the skeletons and golems to be was progressing, as well as his skill to change the summons from fragile soil to metallic steel in durability. He even began to whittle away at the amount of magic needed to sustain the shape of the skeleton and the amount of soil needed to bring a life-size golem into being. The weapons he summoned were durable enough to be used in matches against his creations as well. So while he would be alone and expected to do work, he would create the best weapon he could, which would be a crude sword, and he would fight a skeleton with an equally crude weapon. His golem cycling would do the work expected.
Currently he could only summon a single skeleton, a golem, and a single weapon all at the same time. He knew that sooner or later that he might be able to bring that number up. And the durability of the summons had increased. The skeletons were strong enough to be assumed to be made from steel instead of bone. The golems that he made seemed to be made up more so of stones then dirt. And the weapons were currently under scrutiny. They were not of the best quality, but they did the job. He could however only create swords, scythes, and other crude weapons. he did realize that he would probably lose the battle or detail and skill here.
All in all he felt that his powers were reaching a barrier in the ways of summoning when he realized something. Bone was the easiest and most durable summon that he could manipulate, so while he knew that it would limit his imagination of use in the summon department, he began the next week concentrating his time into making a technique. He decided to make a spear like attack that would be similar to a bullet.
It was very easy to generate the Bone Spear technique. The Bone Spear attack consisted of Harry concentrating his magic into the form of a bone spinal cord spear that would shoot towards the enemy at high speeds, piercing the body, and impaling the enemy effectively.
It was a simple idea that was very effective. It was when this happened that Harry began to consider his powers. He realized that making the powers uniform in detail he could make his skills develop easier. Instead of variety in his training, he made every thing the same in each skill, improving it, yes, but making it simple and efficient nonetheless. The training in efficiency helped Harry to lower the amount of power he put into the spell, and with enough practice he could make a life sized golem or skeleton come to life with just a single pebble or cup of dirt.
Author's Notes
Not much was changed here, only some detailing.
Here is the list of things that Harry currently knows...
Harry knows...
Lumos lvl. 1
Lumos Solem Maximus lvl. 1
Telekinesis lvl. 5
Teleport / Apparition lvl. 2
Clay Golem lvl. 3
Golem Mastery lvl. 3
Raise Skeleton lvl. 1
Skelton Mastery lvl. 6
Bone Spear lvl. 1