If I owned Harry Potter, would I really be using fanfiction instead of making millions of $$? Honestly!

A.N. Fleur DeLacour will not make an appearance in this fic, as I do not know much about her and do not feel comfortable writing her character. I know that she IS Bill's wife in the Deathly Hallows, but I don't want to tackle that sort of thing. So, those of you who like her will not find her here.

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Bill and Charlie stayed the night, and, like the twins, became interested in Harry's sign language. Therefore the rest of the night was spent by the twins teaching their older brothers the BSL alphabet while Harry studied silent magic.

The subject was very interesting. Apparently saying a spell helped to force magic towards achieving a specific purpose. It was not, however, necessary to get the magic to accomplish that purpose. It was mainly a focusing tool, both for the magic itself and for the spell caster.

Saying a spell helped to focus a wizard's mind on the thing he wanted the magic to do. Knowing an incantation helped to link the wizard's mind to the purpose he wanted to achieve, so, in theory, focusing on the purpose the magic was to have should be adequate to cast a spell. The incantation was completely unnecessary. This was how accidental magic worked. If a wizard wanted something badly enough and was so focused on that want, his magic would bend to that want.

But, most wizards became so dependent on the relatively easy method of verbally saying a spell that they were unused to focusing their minds to the degree where they could cast silently. True, quite a few wizards could cast a simple charm, such as allo homora, silently. But these charms were first-year material and did not require much magic, and consequently not as much focusing power.

Because, the more magic a spell took, the more focus the spell caster had to have. This was why powerful spells were the hardest to learn, while weak spells were easier. Certain spells could require different amounts of focus depending on their use, however. Take, for example, the summoning charm, accio. If a wizard wanted to summon something like a coin, little magic would be required to lift the coin and direct it to the wizard. But, if the wizard summoned something like a heavily packed trunk, much more magic would be required to lift and move the large, heavy object.

But, another twist existed. If the heavy trunk had had a featherweight or shrinking charm cast on it before it was summoned, less magic was required for the summoning charm to work. Spell casting worked a lot like physical strength. The heavier or larger the object - or the more difficult the task - the more effort was required.

Because spells relied on focus, the more focus a wizard had, the more "powerful" he was. True, wizards had varying levels of renewable magic stored in them, in their magical core. But the variations were minimal. What really determined a wizard''s power was his ability to focus his mind.

Which, Harry realized, was why quite a few powerful wizards he knew of were also master Leglimens and/or Occlumens. After all, Leglimency and Occlumency were considered the Mind Arts, were they not? From what Occlumency he had studied under Snape, he knew that it required a vast amount of concentration. It stood to reason that if one had the ability to master the mind arts, the more able he was to focus his mind, and therefore cast more powerful spells.

So, mastering Occlumency would help him to learn silent magic. Suddenly, Harry was upset that he had taken the study so trivially. If he had made any progress with Snape his life would be so much simpler right then.

Nevertheless, Harry was excited by his findings. If he truly mastered silent magic, which was required of him unless he wanted to be equal to a squib, he wouldn't even need to know incantations! There wouldn't even have to be a spell in existence for what he had in mind in order to bend his magic to his wishes. He would be able to do whatever he pleased with his magic, without being restricted to what "spells" he had learned in Hogwarts.

That would be a major advantage. To be able to do whatever wished in a battle with a simple thought would not only accelerate his casting speed, but it would also remove every restriction except his imagination.

The other thing Harry found interesting from his book was the origin of incantations. The first wizards, when they figured out what their abilities were, realized how they created active magic: with their minds. They also realized that their children had the capability to perform magic, because of the common accidental magic of youth. But, how could one teach mind focus to a child?

So, the ancient wizards had created an easier road. They used certain words in their language to represent what they wanted their young to learn. Because the children heard and said what they wanted to happen, they were unconsciously focusing on that purpose, causing controlled "accidental" magic to occur.

It was also important for Harry that the earliest wizards did not have wands. Their magic tended to be wild and hard to control, so they created a sort of aiming device that modern wizards called magical wands. A wand was merely a way to channel a wizard's magic to a specific target and to maintain control over the magic. In other words, another way to make wielding magic easier.

Again, control over magic involved focus. But it was doubly hard for a wizard to use wandless magic than it was for him to use silent magic, causing most of the current wizard population to be totally unable to use magic without a wand. As well as controlling the purpose the magic was to have, the wizard also had to concentrate on where the magic should be directed and how much magic should be used. Many wizards before the invention of wands used their arms, fingers, or even a mere tilt of the head to help them aim their magic. A true master of that time would have been able to cast magic without saying (or, for that matter, thinking) and incantation or moving a single muscle. He would have been able to stand stock still and conduct an entire battle.

It was because of the invention of incantations and wands that more "wizards" began to appear, creating the evident "rise" in magical population during the Dark Ages. In reality, all that happened was that wizards who had previously been unable to control their magic in order to use it now had an easy way to do so, and so more active wizards were created.

A master of silent and wandless magic could reach such degrees of focus that he could cast different spells simultaneously. Two, maybe even three spells at a time, all of different purposes. Such power quite honestly scared Harry. Not even Dumbledore had been that powerful, and neither was Voldemort. There wasn't a wizard alive that would be able to even lift a finger against such power. Voldemort wouldn't have stood a chance against such a master.

The most simultaneously casted spells of different purposes had been achieved by Merlin. His record was four. He had managed five, once, but that didn't count because three of the spells had been meant to achieve the same end.

No wonder there was an Order of Merlin. He could have taken on Dumbledore and Voldemort both and come out without a scrape.

Harry figured that after he had learned silent magic he would tackle wandless magic as well. He didn't know how good at it he would become, but he could try. It would take years, probably, but it would be worth it if he succeeded.

And if he did accomplish it, he would feel as if he was actually ready to take on Voldemort.