I Don't Own Harry Potter
My body was stiff at the moment so I was stretching as I walked up to where I'm pretty sure is the dormitory for the third year Gryffindors. Looking up at the entrance way, I leaned in and tilted my head in as I looked at the runic arrays carved into the sides. Now, I could spend the next five hours while everyone is asleep to try and find a way to crack the combination to the array to get by it, but that sounded like a lot of work that I would rather avoid.
After all, these runes are suppose to not allow anyone not in Gryffindor or no longer in Hogwarts to learn can pass through them. But Both Sirius and Wormtail can get by these runes, and both have something in common with both me and each other, so with that my form shifted as I trotted into the boys dorm as a fox. Walking into the large shared dorm, I looked around before shifting back and held back a small yawn as I pulled on my arms over my head trying to limber them up.
I got no idea as to why I'm so stiff at the moment but it probably has something to with the fact that I spent most of the last two days working on my earbuds and wasn't moving at all during that time. Eh, whatever, so with that I walked up to where I think Ron's bed was before shaking my head to myself before drawing out my wand and muttered very softly under my breath.
"Animalus Revelio"
Simple spell, one I had to make myself but because the spell was heavily based on the human revealing charm it wasn't all that difficult for work out. With that I felt a small mental shift, like I could suddenly feel out the things around me, only a few things though were pinging out in my mind. With that, I turned to my right as I noted the only animal here in the room that was with their owner.
Walking up to the curtains, I slowly pulled them away and looked down at the sleeping form of Ron. He seemed to shiver a small bit from the sudden cold air hitting him, but before he could wake up, I reach out and grabbed the small rat that was next to his head and closed the curtain back up. Said rat was squealing in surprise but before he could try something that he would regret, I, while walking out of the rooms, tapped him with my wand and stunned him. Well, that was easier than I thought it would be.
Wormtail was now stored in a safe location, now all I have to do is find Sirius at some point then I don't have to worry about plot and I can get back to my researching. Though those thoughts went out the window as Hermione plopped herself down in front of me as I was in the mild of reading a book that the Librarian refused to allow me to take out of the library itself for some reason. Looking up at her, I just raised an eyebrow and with that she huffed and said.
"Did you know about Sirius Black?" I looked at her for a long moment wondering what she was talking about before a faint memory sprang to mind. The last Hogsmeade trip before winter break, which means her, Harry, and Ron just heard some interesting things from the minister of magic, things I shouldn't be able to know, which means I have a feeling that she is asking about something different.
"About what? I've taken to figuring out a lot about the man as he seems to be trying to kill Harry" She didn't pick up on the fact that I said 'seems' and instead just continued on about whatever she was talking about.
"So you did, but you don't seem to be doing anything about it" I think I understand what's happening here, her stress at all the classes she's taking must be getting to her and she's taking that out on me because she doesn't have anything else to complain about so it's showing itself in her protective nature. At least I think so, I'm not exactly the best at understanding emotions like that, at least not to the level she is, though I do know something about stress myself.
"What makes you think I haven't been doing anything? I've been doing a lot of things, it's not like I'm incapable of multitasking" She seemed to be really annoyed at me at the moment, and with that she stood up and rushed anyway as I continued to read about the sixth discovered use of dragons blood. I think she really needs to figure out that the real reason she's angry with me is because I seem so unaffected by all these classes while she only has one more than me and is struggling.
It doesn't make sense to me, but then again, I'm not the one that's struggling so I wouldn't understand. Well whatever, so with that, I looked down at the book again and went back to reading it. I have no idea as to why this book out of all the questionable books here, is the one she's the most strict on but whatever.
I did it, after spending almost a full god damn week on it, literally, almost a full one hundred and sixty-eight hours of work and I have finally finished the beta phase of enchanting and they're finally almost completely done. The amount of books I've read before all this started could have filled a shelf in the bloody library. It took countless hours of research and then counted hours of enchanting but I've done it.
It was like trying to figure out how to program a super computer after only using analogue for my whole life. That was probably an understatement actually, but that doesn't matter when comparing the finished products. I made seven but two had exploded half way through the creation period, so I only had five left but that as the number I needed anyway. Each one was inscribed to only work for their chosen user, you would not believe the pain in the ass that enchantment was.
Anyway, I now have one keyed into each of my Brokers, Blaise, and myself, each one has two settings, broadcast: which sends out your voice to all those in range. And private messaging: which you can select to send you're voice to one other person. I still haven't figured out conference calls as it's all or just one person, no way yet to connect say three of the five only but still, I'm kind of revolutionizing communication so some slack has to be given.
These were the gifts I'm giving my Brokers this year, though for Blaise this is only an upgrade so I'll have to look into getting him something as he's staying this year during the break, something about both not wanting to be here because of the dementors and not wanting to be at his home because of his mother's latest Victim is still walking around at the moment and is kind of a massive ass.
He's taken this time to really bug me about learning the patronum charm, and I have to be honest, it's kind of funny to watch him struggle over it. Now he knows how I felt about it, though he was getting better because he's really started to crack down on learning it but I have a feeling that the very light based magic is a bit to complex for him. I've noted that some have an affinity for certain magic shades. I decided to say fuck you to that and made myself an expert in all three but that's just me.
Still, with all that said and done, at the rate he's going I think he'll have the spell down by, maybe, the end of the year. It was a bit late to be fair to learn the charm when he wouldn't need it anymore, but it's a good spell to have on hand at any rate. The Brokers are doing decent at the charm as well, in fact Tracey, the resistant specialist in charms out of the four of them practically has the spell down already. She just can't hold her patronus for any real period of time, a lack of power in my opinion, so all she has to do is continue to try until her body is adjusted to the use of high level magic.
Though the other two probably will master the complete version a little after Blaise, though Theo might figure it out a bit before that, as he is pretty good at enchanting and that's just a very different version of charms and the like so if he can find a way to compare the two, I'm sure he'd figure out how to finish the complex spell sooner rather than later. Daphne was the one that was struggling the most, but she had two friends that knew what they were doing, kind of, so she's getting plenty of tips on it.
Right now though my thoughts weren't really focusing on that as instead the high of joy I was running on was quickly draining from the sheer exhaustion in my system. So with that, I dropped my finished earbuds into one of my robe's many pockets and made my way out of the spare room I had taken to work in and began my climb back to my room which was across the school, well that's going to be a fun trek across the castle.
"Any reason why you're pacing? Because it's making me more paranoid than normal" Blaise grimace at the thought of me being even more paranoid, before sighing and sat back down on my bed before began to tap his fingers on the mattress. Turning to face away from him so I didn't have to watch the activity that made my mind realize I was being hypocritical as I often tap my fingers on stuff when I'm deep in thought. I wonder if he picked that habit up from me.
"You never answered my question, why are you being so antsy?" He seemed to instantly shoot down at question like he didn't think I would understand but after a long moment he let out a sigh before finally saying.
"I'm trying to figure out a way to get Daphne to go to Hogsmeade with me next time a visit comes up" I blinked at that before looking back over at him and decided that I some how forgot about the fact that he had a crush on her. I must have put that in my unimportant information area of my brain, I usually put stuff like that in that area as I didn't really care about crushes.
"Oh ok. I would recommend asking her" He shot me a look at that but I just looked away and focused back on the book of 'Guide to Modern Occlumency' It was my Christmas gift from Daphne, she complained that it took a lot of convincing to her family for her to take that book out of the Greengrass library and that it was actually on loan for me, it wasn't mine. But I didn't care, the book was worth its weight time fifty in gold.
"See, this is why I didn't ask you. I knew you'd just give some bland sarcastic advice because you don't understand what it's like" I snorted at that, like I didn't know, this is my second time through puberty, I know exactly how it's like to ask questions with a lot of build up emotions. Sure, this time around it didn't have to do with me working through the troubles Blaise is having but the bases of it all is the same, sort of, my questions and actions are a lot more on the shady side of things though.
"I'm not kidding, you should just ask her,the longer you wait the more nerve you build up and then you'll just make an ass out of yourself. So just say you want to not have to focus on the organization for a while, she'll agree to that I'm sure. Plus she seems to like you back so I don't see the problem" I could tell that Blaise was staring at my back as I continued to the read book in front of me while also questioning why my day had turned from researching mind magics to giving dating advice.
"That's actually decent advice" I looked back at him with a raised offended eyebrow before turning back and simply said.
"I don't know anything about relationships like that, but I do know how to interact with people" He huffed at that before saying with a strong hint of amusement in his voice.
"Of course, I should have figured as much. You're pants at knowing about relationships but you're an expert at manipulating them. Mate, that is so bloody backwards I hope you know that you don't make any sense at all" I just hummed like such a thing was just obvious to which I listened to him laugh at that. God, I'm glad that's out of the way, I helped Blaise out and I don't have to listen to him tapping his fingernails against stuff anymore, win-win.
My mental shields were much stronger than I figured, but that just meant that I had a lot of room to use the techniques I found in my books. Occlumency is a bit weird, the basics which I've done for a long time now is like grinding up points that I can put those points into Occlumency related skills, it's like a weird RPG game but a lot more focus driven.
I've spent the last three hours making a few adjustments to my shields themselves. now say if someone tries to get into my head, I can pull up a memory in front of them to get them out. From what I know, a master at this art has all their memories like that so they are in complete control of what a mind reader would see, no matter how good they are.
I, of course, am no master, but I still was able to make a few 'sliding memories' as the magic was called, most were just random, boring events to make someone fell as though they are just lost in my mind, but I had a memory that I used this magic on in case I wanted to get the mind reader out of my head. Here's a fun fact, using Legilimency isn't like using a pensive, you're not just by the memory taking place, you're in the person's shoes.
So, say if I made a memory trap of my worst memory and when someone tried to mind assault me I put them in there, well they would have to remember every single second of pain and terror until they could pull themself out of it. It was a horrible experience making that memory trap as I had to go back and relive it to put the magic into the memory so I could use it to defend myself.
I very nearly gave up on it a few times but I powered through and that's all there was to it. I have other bad memories but I chose that one because if I adjust myself to it then the dementors have to pick a new memory to use against me, and very few can compete with that one. But for right now that's all the progress I've managed to make of this piece of mind magic.
It took forever to get done with it all and my mental barriers were a bit thin now but a couple nights of building them up and I can get back to work on it all so it isn't that much of a problem. Now all I have to really focus on now that I've finally figured out how to mange that is to finally fucking get done with conjuration, if i can manage that before my plans on how to trap Sirius start then I'll be surprised but it would still be nice to not have to continue to work on it.
It's been months now and while I'm getting the hang of it, practically having to master nonverbal wandless transfiguration, which might I add is a very difficult task, to even get to the point that I'm at right now. And even then my conjuring only works on a one in thirty chance most of the time. It usually isn't this way when it comes to magic, it's usually like riding a bike, if you can do it once you can do it a thousand times more.
Which is normally how transfiguration works but conjuration is different because it takes away the before in the before and after of the spell, the base of transfiguration is always there so it takes a lot of variables out that I now have to focus on. Going back to the bike metaphor, it's like using training wheels until you're in your forties and because you're so use to it one way, doing it without seems impossible unless you just get lucky.
Of course it's not all luck, in the start I couldn't do anything so the little bits that I have managed shows that I'm getting better but not by the amounts that I would have preferred to be improving by. It's bloody both annoying and interesting to note the stark increase in skill needed in comparing the two arts that are basically the same with only one small key difference.
But I'll manage, I always do when it comes to this, this is like the patronum charm all over again, so if it's like that then all I have to do is find out a loophole to exploit the hell out of. But what could I use to exploit this time? These isn't the same, these spells don't need a happy memory. No they don't, but they do need the imagination don't they? I thought my problem was control, and it probably was, but I've very well fixed that problem now haven't I.
So what if my focus on control is now limiting my imagination of the spells as that is a very important part, it's the whole reason why transfiguration is my best subject at the moment, because my mind is so active that I'm always thinking and imagining things, that type of magic just takes what's already there. I never really had to try in that, so what if I did? What would the end result me in that case? I believe I just found my loophole.
Blaise and my Brokers were being annoying at the moment, of course they all seem to think I'm the odd one out. After all Slytherin had just won against Ravenclaw in a very decisive victory, honestly they enjoy Quidditch way to much to be normal, I really don't get it to be honest. Then again I've never been much of a sports fan and never much of a heights fan either so the two combined just makes my dislike grow.
So with that I was currently in my room with the door barred as everyone was celebrating into the night, honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that the school would riot, I would look into finding a way to cancel the sport so I didn't have to deal with this, after all night time is my time to be alone and not have to worry about people, but it's difficult when everyone is up to two in the morning still cheering about their win.
Right now I was fucking around with some runes on a piece of parchment. It was a bit of a complex array of them, but it wasn't as complex as I would like to messing around with, I only did the complex stuff, which basically means dangerous, in the sealed space of my experimentation room. Because while I know the theoretical knowledge of all this stuff, the practical is much more difficult and had a tendency of blowing up on me.
Still, I knew the basics pretty good for this, and this one was only a mix of a half dozen runes, nothing all that difficult. With that I tapped it on the transfigured desk I made a while back and watched as the runes glowed before sparking, after a long moment a small fire lit and began to shift through the color spectrum, it was a nice sight but it was a bit useless as far as magic goes on a practicality stand point.
But magic doesn't only have to be practical, it's the whole reason why I've taken to learning all I can, because even if I've become use to it all, magic is still fucking awesome even if I have submerged myself in the darker aspects on it. So with that, I traced my finger along the circle around the runes as the fire's shifting colors slowed down and the volume decreased until it was just a candle's amount of fire with a strong blue hue.
Twisting my finger along the ring again I watched as the fire sprang up into a massive torrent of purple flames. Messing around with the fire a bit more, I felt a small smile pull at my lips as I messed round with the runic array. This one was made for learning to control most types of runes which is very important when said runes are used in stuff like wards, as if one doesn't know how to control them then the wards can just do whatever they pleased which hardly ever ends well.
Here's a fun fact the bermuda triangle is one of the biggest sets of wards in the world and no one has ever been able to control them, so the magic just does whatever the fuck it wants and it leads to the stories of stuff disappearing in it's space. It's the ward makers fault of course, after all, I don't think anyone is powerful enough to control that large of a ward, no matter how simple it was on conception.
Still, as I messed around with the runic array in front of me, I let my thoughts drift off of that topic as it wasn't as interesting to me compared to the flames as I now hand both my hands on the ring around the rune and was watching as the tornado of fire bent inward like an hourglass with the colors being layered on top of each other in a fashion that took a lot of work to manage.
Though, compared to some of the things I've done with much more complex runic arrays, well this wasn't anything special, but it did look pretty cool. Still after a couple more moments I took my hands off and watched as it returned to it's default state. Looking at the item for a long moment, I then stood up and pulled out a small metal ring, I had a bunch of these for some reason some higher year thought they could trade a favor for a few, after some talking I got the whole lot and I never ended up doing anything with them.
Looking at the shifting fire rune for a long moment before looking back at the sliver ring in my hand, I then reach out and picked up a fine-point brush and started to write some runes across the width of the band, after all, I can't always use this stuff on stone ground or flat parchment, might as well try and figure out how difficult this would be, it's this or have to brave the common room to get a book to read as I had made the foolish decision to leave the book I was reading out there right before the party had started.
Hey look more chapters in bulk format, it's almost like this is the only way I know how to update this story. Weird right? Anyway, See Ya.
