AN: Back with Chapter 4! I even got this one to 1,000+ words! Hopefully I can keep up the length, and maybe even get it longer...Anyways, on to the reviews!

Reinforce Eins: Thank you for sharing your ideas as to what's happening. Your opinions actually help me, since I end up reading the reviews before I get to writing the next chapter. You find out what is draining him this chapter, and in the closing AN I have more info on that. The tome has been created, since I am giving that as the reason the Belkan homeworld was destroyed, and we are in Sankt Kaiser Unification War era. The Guardian program isn't in the Tome yet, but the Defense program is. But anyways, you do have some really good points.

Thespurgin: I am updating quickly so far, but I will eventually slow down to an "once a week" schedule I think. But until then, enjoy the speed!

MMC: Thank you for the review!

Chapter 4: Destruction of a Home

DISCLAIMER: If I owned Harry Potter and Nanoha, this story could be cannon.

In a Black room, three people, wearing white lab coats, are observing a stick. But this is not any stick. This one is has been cut, to a length of 11 ¾ inches, shaped to look like a small rod, smoothed with many days' worth of painstaking effort, and in a hollow within, is a single feather. This is a phoenix feather, which seems to be glowing with an inner light. The three observers are discussing this object, the device brought by that strange young man, they think he was called Harrison or something, among themselves.

"What is the status on the analysis?"

"Nothing coming from the Passive Analysis device."

"Only the feather shows any visable sign of magic."

"No apparent intelligence from the Device."

"Ah! It seems to react to the Runic detector!"

"Report this at once!"

And so, one of the three researchers, the scruffiest looking of the lot, stands up and heads to the side of the room, far away from the device. On this wall, is what seems to be a bank of computers, each merrily preforming its task. He walks up to a series of buttons with no apparent use, and starts pressing them at a fast pace. A screen appears, showing an image of Taverny, irritated, and seemingly flustered.

"Hello, Master Taverny?"

"Yes? What is it?! I'm busy!"

"We have new information on the device! It seems to react to our runic detector!"

"Good. Any ideas what type of device it is then? That tells use it is a pre-fall device, but not much else."

"Unfortunately, no. It won't respond to our passive attempts at analysis. Requesting permission to perform an active analysis?"

"Permission Granted. Make certain you can put it back together again."

"Yes sir! We will report when we have more information."

At this, the screen disappears, and the researcher heads over to a different portion of the room, and grabs a series of tools, and returns to the others. They then take the devices, approach the wand, and seem to attempt to take it apart.

Now, the wizarding world never would take apart a wand. Whenever they snap a wand, it is in a special, heavily warded room within the Ministry. This is because, whenever a wand is made, it is then sealed completely, except for a small hole at the top, which is where the magic is expelled from the wand. However, a piece of the magic used for each spell cast with that wand is remains in the wand, stored in the magic focus. The focus will then slowly release the magic from the hole in the top of the wand. Whenever one is broken, the magic from that focus is released, all at once, in an explosive force. Even without a spell having been cast for years, enough magic remains to level a small house.

"Ahha! Found a crack, I think this is where it comes apart!"

*BOOOOOOOMM!*

Thus, the researchers have just released the pent-up magic from the entirety of the Tri-Wizard Tournament, into a castle that's wards only protect them from enemy attacks outside the castle. The only part of the castle that could withstand the explosion was the infirmary, where Harry and Shamal are currently residing. Even this was severely damaged, with quite a few levels of a castle collapsing on top of it.

-Inside the Infirmary, moments before-

Before the explosion however, Shamal is in this room, still attempting to trace the mysterious drain.

"Ah ha! I found you! Now, let's see how to get rid of you, shall we?" Shamal exclaimed.

Her focus seems to intensify, searching for roots of the parasite that has taken root in his linker core. For, to a healer, any magic that drains someone's Linker Core involuntarily, is evil, even more so if it does this continuously. Finding the root of it, she sees what looks to be a magic formula, unlike any she had ever seen. Once she sees it, she thinks, "It looked like a magic circle, but even the Mid-Childans don't use anything like this! It doesn't even have runes I can recognize! Wait, this looks like a… magic bind rune?!But those were banned years ago! And an draining rune? I guess that makes sense, if some of the magic was inaccessible, there would have to be some way to bleed it off. But I can't tell what any of the others are! Ah well, just have to do what I can…

She gathers some of her magic, and shapes it into the form of two small arrows. She then aims them, straight at the only two runes that are recognizable. The moment she fires them, an earthquake shakes the room, breaking her control over the arrow's shot. Parts of the wall crumble, raising copious amounts of dust. In this obscured vision, the arrows hit a different pair of runes, and the circle seems to writhe, and change. The dust settles, and Shamal instantly checks the circle. On seeing it, she now understands all of it! The entire thing seems to have shifted purposes, for, what had been a binding array, became a different type of array, a Belkan Triangle, in fact. Then she says to Harry, "Alright, we're done. Now, lets check what just happened." After forcing Harry to get up, they walk over to the door, open it, and see utter devastation everywhere. The entire castle looked like a bomb had hit it (Or Nanoha's Starlight Breaker, but wrong time period for that). And at the top of a pile of black rubble, was what seemed to be Taverny, holding the phoenix feather from Harry's Wand, and many fragments of wood nearby. He seems to be bloody, with most of his bones broken , and his voice wheezing heavily. "Shamal…take Harry…go to…go to Grand Fallen Valley…someone, should be able to…help you. I can't go on…"

"Master Taverny! Let me heal you! Please!"

"No… my time…my time is up. I guess I'll see you in the next…life."

With that, Taverny's body grows limp, and Shamal begins weeping.

"Why?! Why did you have to keep me from healing you! I wanted you to live! Please, come back!"

At this, Shamal's memories replay in her head, as she dissolves into voiceless sobs and tears.

-KotWH-

AN: This feels like the best place to leave the chapter off. So, as I promised, the circle show, was a originally a binding spell, to affect magic, that Voldemort had cast while Harry was paying no attention. As a matter of fact, I should probably go back and mention that in Chapter 1. That chapters too short anyways. But the modified ritual, cast with the same magic signature as the binding spell, modified the spell into an array, that only needed a release of magic that went through it, to modify the array. This is an example of Fate messing with his life. But since it turned into a Belkan Triangle, that means his magic will change to have an affinity to Belkan spells, instead of boosting his affinity to Earth magic.

Also! Poll time! If you have the time, I will be putting up a pole, asking what his Device should be. I will have the choice of: A staff (2-handed, will change size with more mana flowing through it, the standby form is a gem that becomes the top of the staff), a sword (Like Godric Griffindor's, but instead of his name, has a series of clear gems, with a small sword charm as the standby form) or a shield device (Giant shield, with the standby form being a mini-version of it.) The device chosen will affect his Belkan Magic. The poll will be up until June 13th, in my profile.

Thank you for reading! See you next time, where we find out just what Shamal's attachment to Taverny is!

EDIT: 6/5/14: Mentioned where poll was.