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A/N: Hmm sorry for the lack of updates, my laptop died…it was very sad but I managed to revive it after much difficultly and fiddling…this update is probably very bad and boring but it is long..ish

Previously…

The classes we took at Beauxbatons were well complicated and exceedingly different than classes anywhere in the world, well anywhere that openly described what they were doing, and I like most people loved every minute of it.

Chapter IV

We did of course have regular openly tested classes such as potions, transfiguration, charms and such, routinely we obeyed the international curriculum and submitted ourselves to organised testing, we did however learn different, more difficult, and slightly unorthodox skills and simply forgot to tell about it.

Our other courses were designed and mixed to suit our individual skills and desires in conjunction with our blood of course.

By the fifth year of Beauxbatons regular classes, the ones the rest of the world studied were limited in numbers to those who would actually pass, and thus give the school a good record, cunning and cruel but it achieved its purpose.

Our lessons, hmm how to explain, we had so called core classes which everyone took we where streamed in a sense only those who would pass sat the exams, all of us studied though. The core subjects we undertook ourselves to learn were transfiguration, charms, potions, defence against the dark arts, astronomy, and herbology like the rest of the European wizarding world. However we also learnt duelling and the so called dark arts well, except for the truly light sided purebloods those who swore oaths in blood to never touch dark magic, ironic really as swearing oaths in blood is now considered dark, but no matter.

Now the duelling and dark arts, well as I said they were core subjects however duelling to a pureblood was very different to duelling class as a mudblood.

Dumbledore knew Beauxbatons had this segregation in our classes and dearly tried to change it, however it is a fact, purebloods and mudbloods are different and purebloods are generally more powerful. Even he recognises it he just doesn't express it in obvious ways, if you don't catch my meaning my precious imbecilic reader think about comments such as "With parents like yours how could you not be a great wizard" and "my family has been in Gryffindor for generations", these simple statements hide a hidden meaning of sorts expectations of power and nature follow those of your parents.

Of course you can have a powerful mudblood but if you have two powerful purebloods they will have a powerful child because magic is not just an anomaly, it flows along bloodlines, its hereditary, it doesn't randomly appear, now power doesn't always follow from power it's like intelligence in a sense two intelligent people are expected and normally have an intelligent child, however sometimes the child is a fool.

Duelling for mudbloods included spells, etiquette, which most purebloods and half-bloods learned in their youth, such as when a challenge could be made, who you could challenge, if it had to be accepted to save face and whatnot and in advanced levels the introduction of weapons and potions.

Purebloods learnt duelling with wands, usually duelling wands, they learnt fencing, how to use daggers, and casting blades, the uses of poison and generally how to cheat subtly, and yet at the same time fight with so called honour, confusing really.

Dark arts where just general dark arts. Spells deemed dangerous and illegal in certain ministries, there was a perfectly logical reason for the division of classes here, most purebloods who studied dark arts had been taught them since their youth, mudbloods had not.

Other than the core classes Beauxbatons 5th years had a choice, if I did not explain this before those younger than fifth years simply learnt the core curriculum of the world, the same as England with the choice of more classes in 3rd year such as ancient runes. At fifth year the choice was extensive, the core subjects then a choice of Runes, Arithmancy, Divination, real divination mind you not the nonsensical crystal ball and palmistry nonsense, necromancy and pyromancy and such, well so I'm told I never studied it turned of by my experience at Hogwarts in the past or future depending on how I looked at it, Ritual Magic, Healing, Blood Magic, Ancient Magic, Nethermancy, Care of Magical Creatures, Muggle Studies, Muggle History, History of Magic, Etiquette, Laws, Stealth and concealment and a variety of independent study choices, generally things like occlumency, legilimancy, wandless magic or a study of a particular skill you had, like psionicist, those who could control dreams and nightmares and pass easily into Morpheas' realm.

Generally, the choice of one class limited other choices those who studies blood magic took simple healing because of its usefulness. Mudbloods usually took a combination of laws, etiquette, history of magic and such to fit into the magical world as much as possible, a few attempted to delve into blood and ritual magic, although it was far more dangerous for them to do so. It is bad enough for a pureblood or half-blood even though their blood is charged by hereditary magic, that enhances healing and control.

Lower half-bloods took muggle studies and history and laws and etiquette and so on and so forth endeavouring to make themselves valuable to purebloods, who even though they viewed themselves above muggles did acknowledge their own sort of power and saw the value ion understanding them, well some purebloods did others were far too much like Malfoy for my liking.

I myself studied all the core classes along with Ancient Magic, Blood Magic, Healing, Nethermancy and Ritual Magic. My favourite class, I have to admit was Blood Magic, blood it immensely powerful, and those of you who have never studied blood magic probably assume it is evil, dark and all it can do is enhance your own power through rituals. Although rituals using blood is a form of blood magic, it is also ritual magic; blood can do so much more.

Blood magic is a mysterious and ancient art, favoured of some magical being such as Vampires, Dark or Blood Elves and Demons, the simple aspects include runic enhancements. Blood oaths that were once considered an almost ordinary reaction when dealing with spies, criminals and interrogations and are presently considered dark and 'evil' are also among the simple form of blood magic. I am afraid I studied blood magic long into the future after I left school, so I cannot really remember what was learnt at Beauxbatons and what wasn't but I shall venture to educate you nonetheless.

The main thing which must be remembered about blood magic is that the power is unpredictable at best and disastrous at worst, only unspeakables and powerful born witches and wizards can harness the energy properly and as it happens most unspeakables are born witches or wizards. For the record a born witch is a magical human with can directly access the flow of magic on earth, their connection is less tenuous than normal and usually they can easily bend the magic to their will, whereas normal wizards need incantations and wands to manipulate it to the slightest degree.

There are many different levels of blood magic, but all blood magic requires the expenditure of blood whether the practitioners, a donor's, a victim of circumstance or the users warrant. Each different form of sacrifice powers different spells and rituals.

Blood magic can be used to enhance your own senses, or skills or items such as the creation of casting blades, binding your wand so only those with your blood or permission can use it and so on, this usually involves a ritual which consequently involves engraving runes on your body with special knives, and if you are charming an item then painting the same runes on said item with the blood from the corresponding rune on your body. This form of blood magic along with oaths it relatively common, and well known, in certain circles at any rate.

Oaths aren't just to ensure you tell the truth of course, that is merely one use of them, you can swear a variety of things in blood, such as renouncing the use of dark magic or banishing or disowning family members, a skill the Black family is famous for.

However this blood magic is relatively simple and boring, concealment charms are fun but they are permanent, I used one when I changed my appearance, in a way it is similar to blood adoption you simply use another blood and force the body and mind to accept it as your own and change your physical structure to fit. Come to think of it, this was probably the only blood magic I learnt at school, but I might as well tell you more, it's intriguing, perhaps you can find someone to teach you my treasured acolyte, one could even seek me out depending on when it is my journal has been found of course. I myself have long been called a blood mage, as I told you before I have the power of a mage and I choose to master in blood magic, like potions masters I suppose.

Now, the most useful blood magic, I my mind at any rate, is binding. I assume you could bind something using your own blood but it would be rather redundant as the most common use of binding is to bind magic, some old families bind their children's on occasion. Rumours are that dear Dumbles does it to his pawns, only to release the magic when they need it. Binding magic has to be the most common binding, but binding the will is more entertaining.

5 drops of blood allow you to create an adsecula, like the muggle concept of a voodoo puppet I suppose, you can control the victims every thought, everything they do and want. Naturally there are different levels of all this, you can limit you own control and those skilled in occlumency can occasionally recognise what is controlling them and throw them off. It is similar to the imperious curse however, no wand is needed nor an incantation, blood can be collected from anywhere, it works better, when it is fresh but old blood will do. The control of an adsecula is much harder to throw off than the imperious and consequently if it were revealed to the general populace would incur a greater punishment, probably death in England.

The logic of blood magic is the same as alchemy you believe in the higher potential of things, thus tap into the life force, and channel it to give you more power of bend it to your will.

Complicated blood magic is split into two categories, well some of it is, Life Magic and Death Magic.

Life Magic is relatively boring and even though it is called light magic is in my adult life considered dark and dangerous. All it is is oaths, as I explained before, amulets for protection.

Bonding with familiars, who consequently allow you to possess them. Some spells, enchantments and talents are boosted by blood, an energy rush when your own blood is spilled, and the removal of oppressive feelings at least for a time.

Really, the only other use of Life Magic is to enhance spells so the cant be removed with simple counters such as 'finite' and what not. In addition, things like magical tattoos, temporary blessings, armour and cloaking abilities; you can hide in unseen for a short period from anyone who doesn't share your blood. The other Life Magic is cosmetics magic, not like I previously stated which involves another's blood this is simple a sacrifice of your own to temporarily change you, give you fangs, glowing skin, serpentine eyes, medusa hair and so on. You can also eternally attach yourself with small obsidian chips that drain small amounts of power off you and store it until you are tired and weak when they release said power and later recharge, sort of like batteries.

Life magic is simple blood magic, which involves sacrifice you purely your own blood, in fact most runic rituals also fall in this category.

Death Magic on the other hand is merely blood magic that involves the blood of another, usually forcibly taken, and in fact doesn't actually involve death all that often, well not all of it involves death.

The most common use of death magic is the drawing of someone else's life force to power yourself, commonly used by some of the nastier assassins, they will ritualistically kill their victims so they can harness their power and add it to there level of stealth or agility.

With the blood of someone recently dead you can do one of two things, either summon their spirit to do your bidding until the blood runs out or you can go and visit them and find out why they died, who killed them etc it ancient times it was used by healers and those who studied necromancy as an aspect of divination.

The sacrifice of blood can allow astral projection into other realms for a short period of time, except for Morpheas' realm and the demon realm. The only living people allowed in Morpheas' realm are psionicists, a person who harnesses the power of the mind as an offence and defence, nothing can block a psionicist, they access peoples heads and can remove thoughts, memories and control senses and to an extent the mind, like the imperious curse. Dreams can be manipulated by nightmares controlled by a psionicist who has entered Morpheas' realm., andViatoris' who possess the ability to travel by portals instantaneously around the human realm, and have access to all other realms with a guarantee of not being stranded or attacked, such as the faerie realm, Morpheas' realm, the realm of the dead etc. They also usually possess abilities of telekinesis, they can move and summon things at will, wandlessly, and those truly powerful can summon people or beings from other dimensions. One of my best friends at Beauxbatons, Raphäel Papin, was a Viatoris and constantly used to mock us for our efforts to travel realms, probably because he was sick of saving us, well specifically a girl called Alienor who somehow became obsessed with the faerie realm, which would be fine if the faeries actually liked her, sadly they didn't, but this is irrelevant.

Naturally, some death magic does actually involve the death of one or more participants, either before the casting, as a result of the casting or the participant's death will trigger the dormant magic.

A spell of this class I would have suggested my dear parent use is the lateo spell where a pact is made to keep someone or something hidden, not unlike the fidelis, however this spell is bound in blood, any who betrays the secret suffers and burns for all eternity.

The final sort of blood magic is sacrificial magic, which can be split into three sectors, a dying Act, a dying curse and a dying legacy.

A Dying Act is where the caster focuses everything into a single final action, whether the act succeeds or fails the caster dies.

A Dying Curse is similar to a dying act, a final curse is uttered with all of the body's strength, and the power of the sacrifice empowers the curse, this results in the curse lingering in places and objects for years to come, like Chernobyl

Finally a Dying Legacy is a sacrifice of oneself in an attempt to make a deal with fate, your legacy will live on if you die, usually reserved for the arrogant, who sole purpose in life it their family legacy.

There are of course consequences of using blood magic, a minor consequence, when forcibly taken blood is used in blood magic a bond is formed between the two participants. However most blood magic is addictive as even minor spells give a sort of rush thus a major consequence of blood magic is that excessive use of blood magic without purifying or purging rituals can lead to do heart attacks, spontaneous combustion and even melting or implosion, therefore my valued minion I caution you, learn what you're doing before you foolishly try anything I explain.

One has to wonder why I am explaining so much forbidden secret knowledge, as I recall I am meant to be explaining my life at Beauxbatons, I told you before what classes I took so I shall refrain from explaining the other arts until later perhaps.

Now I entered my fifth year, chose my classes, and met dear dear Amelia.

My first term, was well normal really I went to class, met friends and studied endlessly, and was only beginning to overcome the prejudice foisted on me by the English, especially Dumbledore. Mainly that purebloods were evil and dark and only light magic was good, everything else was well EVIL;...I really was a naïve child, but one can hardly blame me, the wizarding world was new to me, admittedly I never tried to discover anything for myself and always relied on what I was told by, well by Dumbledore and Ron and the rest of the Weasleys, everything else I dismissed as, well wrong, Snape was evil, all Slytherins were evil, in fact pretty much everything against dear Dumbles' and the Weasley's ( probably the most zealous and close minded light pure-blooded family) was wrong and evil.

It took me the better part of a year to even begin to realise that Dumbledore was wrong, even after he abandoned me I still foolishly believed him omniscient and omnipotent, thankfully as time progressed I did change. That is for another day, for now I must bid you adieu as the light is failing and in times such as these flares of magical energy are commonly investigated or attacked, neither of which I wish to happen, as I happen to like my privacy and my life.