Harry Potter and the Charm of San Francisco
By Charming Marauders
Chapter Two - The Hand Book
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, Charmed or any related syndicates and settings. However the plot is mine as are any characters and settings you do not recognise.
A.N.: Italics are what is read in the handbook, or thoughts. This is the same content as before but I figured out how to do breaks.
Harry woke up the next morning at about 11 and remembered the events of the previous day and felt more alive than ever.
Then the thoughts hit him: He was dead. It felt weird to be here now. Was all that a dream? Could I really have died and come back as one of these Whitelighters?
He walked through to his sitting room and saw his wand lying on the coffee table next to a book he didn't recognise.
It can't've been a dream then he thought as he saw the title of the book - The Whitelighter's Handbook; a Guide for Whitelighters Everywhere.
"Well," Harry said to himself. "This must be real. I'll go and get some food and start to read this."
Harry poured out some Quidditch Crunch and tipped on some milk, ate them, changed his clothes and started to read.
The Whitelighter's Handbook; a Guide for Whitelighters Everywhere.
Introduction: Basic Whitelighter Facts
The pacifistic Whitelighter is a force of good magic and is governed by the Elders.
A person becomes a Whitelighter when they die because of all the good they've done in their life.
A Whitelighter is normally a human with no special powers; they could be a doctor, a student, a lawyer. In very rare circumstances a wizard will become a Whitelighter. A wizard Whitelighter is allowed to carry and use their wand; however they are not allowed to use unforgivable curses or jinx anyone, even a demon, you may stun them if there is no other option.
It is not common for a Whitelighter to become an Elder however, if you do extreme good under dire circumstances with no regard for your self then it is possible that the only way forward is up.
Chapter 1 - Orbing
As you know you have the ability to Orb try these 4 steps to learn how.
Step 1:
Stand up and close your eyes (so Harry did but had to open them again to read the next step!)
Step 2:
Think of the place you want to be such as another room of your flat.
Step 3:
Let all feelings drift out of you and to that place.
Step 4:
You should now be standing in that place.
Harry closed the book, put it back on the coffee table and thought he'd try it.
He closed his eyes, thought about his bedroom and let everything flow through the wall to his room. He felt as if all the particles that made him had been broken away from each other and moved through the air and he felt his feet land on the bed and his knees buckled with the strange experience. He tried again Orbing into his sitting room and managing to keep his balance as he landed.
Harry sat on the sofa and picked up the book again. His hand had brushed his wand but he could not quite bring himself to use it yet, so he opened the book and read the second chapter.
Chapter 2 - The Art of Sensing
As a Whitelighter you have the ability to sense your charge(s).
Sensing can be as easy as all of your other senses but harder the further away the charge is.
If your charge is in the underworld (see chapter 5) you can only sense them if you are also "under ground" and vice versa if you are "underground" you cannot hear them when they call you (see chapter 4) from "above ground."
To sense you must first close your eyes and the focus you mind on the signal given out by your charge's DNA. This is a bit like tuning a radio to the correct station or finding a blip on a radar. Once you have found your charge you can Orb to them.
Sensing can be used at any time and is most useful in demon attacks as you are able to sense if they are being held captive in the underworld or how near to dying they are.
Harry closed the book and wondered if he should try sensing. He decided to but as he didn't have a charge he would try to find his son James as his DNA was partly the same as Harry's own.
Harry closed his eyes and thought of little James. He could feel a part of him moving away towards James's body and he felt like he was connected to James, like he was a muggle radar scanning for the small blip that was his son so far away in what he now felt sure was number 12 Grimmauld Place, which he had inherited from Sirius ten years ago, now his and Ginny's home, filled with many memories of good and bed Good, His and Ginny's first kiss that summer after Sirius went through the veil. "Sirius," Harry said suddenly coming out of that trance of his son's blip that had brought the memories. Can I see him? That was the one thing that made me not afraid of dying, he thought. Well, that and seeing my parents properly for the first time. Talking to them and Sirius was the one thing he wanted to do when he died and now it seemed as if he would never do that.
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