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Chapter: 131131 summer vacation part 1
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Harry's POV
Traveling to the top of Badaling Mountain took two days, yet it was only a week after the start of summer vacation that Harry was truly able to reach his goal at coming to Fenghuang, the library.
The reason was simple.
While as an 'apprentice' of a student in this school he didn't need to climb the mountain to get accepted to this school, the school faculty didn't like white people, in fact, the only reason they excepted Remus was that he passed their tests, and tradition demanded that whoever pass the tests be excepted to school.
Luckily, excepting apprentices are also part of tradition, so they excepting him.
The problem begun when they told him to come at the start of next year, and when Harry told them he only came for the summer.
That didn't sit well with them.
While there was no rule that students must stay at school, and many students came to this school for a year, and as a.d.u.l.ts, the students who were still children were supposed to stay at school for a long period, and they always started at the beginning of a term.
Thus started the greatest argument about a student in the last 50 years.
The first group wanted to deny him a place at school saying he spits on everything the school was standing for.
The other group wanted to treat him like an a.d.u.l.t student, making him pretty much like Remus, with the ability to use the library and nothing else.
At the end a vote was made and he was granted access to the library.
Looking around the library took him an entire day!
While people say the Hogwarts library was the greatest in Britain, Harry could tell you this library was the greatest in Asia, and if the legend of the library of Alexandria was a lie, maybe the entire world.
The library was a huge building, divided to two parts, old and new.
The new part of the library was about the western magic system, filled with magical books from all over the world.
This part was divided to smaller parts, each with its own sub-subjects- charms,Dark arts, transfigurations, alchemy...
The older part of the library was about the eastern magic system, filled with scrolls and old books, magically protected against damage.
This part was also to smaller parts, each with its own sub-subjects- physical enhancements, spiritual workout, magical talisman creations, eastern alchemy...
As Harry looked at the books and scrolls he couldn't help but swallow his spit, so many books, so little time.
Taking SCAMER out, Harry charged him with magic to last an entire day before putting him at the older parts of the library.
Going to the newer parts, Harry found the section about potions, found a book he hasn't read before and started reading.
The reason he hasn't read any of the older books was that as much as he wanted to, Harry hasn't managed to find the time to learn any of the eastern languages, so he didn't have the ability to study them yet.
Right now he will only copy them to the server, in the future he will learn them all!
Two weeks later
While Harry learned a lot from the western side of the library, strengthening his understanding about charms, potions and dark arts, SCAMER worked non stop, copying everything it could, returning to Harry only once a day, where Harry quickly returned to the room they gave him, took out the vanishing cabinet from his bag and 'vanished' to Hogwarts to download the information into GAI, who made sure to translate and arrange it, and finally, after two weeks he had basic explanation of the eastern magic system.
While the west works only with the idea of wands and rituals, eastern are about talismans and alchemy, and at the core of them, both magic systems are about using outside help.
No matter if it's wands or talismans, they are about using magical creatures body parts to channel your own magic.
Talismans of the east are the magical artifacts of the west, and wands are just an advance, more versatile artifacts.
In fact, while learning the eastern way of artifact creation might be incredibly helpful for his learning of blacksmithing, especially the Japanese way, western magic is in fact superior to eastern magic in that department, which is probably why most people use it.
As for rituals and eastern alchemy, it is about reaching your goal by using the magical energy of outside.
Rituals are about achieving magical effects one person cannot do alone by taking parts of magical creatures or the magic of other people, and eastern alchemy is the same, the only difference is that rituals need a lot of preparations and people, while alchemy is about refining the needed materials.
When the western people wanted to make alchemy as part of their culture they created potions, which is basically small size, time limited rituals.
The difference between rituals and alchemy is about the end results.
While rituals add something that wasn't there to the person or the object, alchemy is about using what was already there.
So while rituals with tears of Phoenix can give a person immunity to poison.
Alchemy product with the same ingredient will heal the person better.
The other thing is that rituals can create unknown side affects latter on, while the affects of alchemy products are instantaneous.
With Harry's knowledge of ingredients, he started focusing on alchemy techniques as he made sure SCAMER moved on to the magical theories of the eastern system.
Harry truly needed to understand the idea of belief vs knowledge
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Chapter: 132132 summer vacation part 2
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Harry's POV
It was at the end of the third week into his stay in Fenghuang Harry finally got his answer to the problem of belief vs knowledge, it was also when he finally figured out why he is the only one to do wandless magic.
As always, he had GAI organize and translate the knowledge SCAMER brought, and had it read to him as he did his daily work out.
The book that has been read to him at that point was talking about the reason schools (the book said sects but same thing) only start teaching at the ages of 10-12.
The reason the book gave was simple, it was the age in which most children lost most of their whimsical, dangerous beliefs, yet hadn't lost all of their beliefs, and became able to understand knowledge, and not just retain it.
The thing the book explained was that magic works on two main plains of existence.
The first is the physical, which works with the universe rules (once again it said heavenly dao, but same thing).
And the second which is the spiritual, which works around or even against the universal rules.
When children are younger, with less prejudice and knowledge their ability to connect to their spiritual side of magic is infinitely stronger, making it possible for their wishing to become reality- creating the so called accidental magic.
The thing is, no matter what kind of magic you use, magical energy is always needed, making their wishes dangerous, because, whether it's by wishing too hard and having not enough magic or using too much magic and not wanting too much, all kinds of accidents happen, most of them deadly.
The good thing is that as they grow, no matter what they learn or how innocent you try to make the child, reality weakens the child connection to the spiritual side of magic and connects them to the physical, making wishing extremely hard.
Yet, if a person lose his connection to the spiritual side he loses his ability to do magic entirely, therefore at the ages of 10-12, even spiritual magic weakens enough to control your magic is when's the best time to start learning magic.
Now, when you learn magic, the most important thing in the beginning is strengthen your connection to the spiritual side of magic as you learn control, so you won't lose one for the other, which can be done in two ways-
1) learning purely or almost purely spiritual magics, using them to make yourself closer to the spiritual side, this is the hard way, because your rational side, the physical side of magic would try to convince you to use the physical side of magic to achieve the same results, yet by learning to use it you would be able to perform miracles with enough magic.
2) use an object that connects you to the spiritual side of magic thus maneuvering around the need this connection.
When Harry heard GAI reading this line, he finally connected the dots about the most extraordinary magical feat he can perform- wandless magic.
The full reason as to why he is able to perform wandless magic is connected to two things.
The first thing is the memory wipe in his rebirth.
As a probably a.d.u.l.t, most likely non-magical being in his past life, his connection to the spiritual realm was probably non-existent, the only way to reconnect it is to delete his connection to the physical realm a.k.a memory wipe, yet without any memory he would most likely become, personality wise, close to the original Harry.
Yet, the memories of the original books and fanfictions changed everything.
With only the books in his head, Harry would have most likely lose the connection to the spiritual realm, as the story and rules in it would have take place of the memories, yet the fan fictions made the difference, with the way each fan fiction has its own way to describe magic, some of which defies the original work, and all of which slammed together, Harry's way of seeing magic became just like that of a baby- anything is possible, yet it was the physical side that said that, not the spiritual.
The second thing was his Occlumency.
Because the fact that he created a defense that closed his mind to interference at the age of 3 years old, at a time he wasn't let out of under the stars much and didn't open that closed mind since, let him keep his connection to the spiritual realm as it was at that point of time, something that probably saved his life by now as with his previous look on the world, the one he had till that book explained the two parts of magic, would have most likely cut all of his connection to the spiritual realm.
By having knowledge about magic and connection to the spiritual realm it made it possible for him to use magic without a conduct.
It took the next two weeks, in which Harry continued to listen to books GAI read to him and read western books on his own about the same subject for him to be satisfied.
The explanation in them was mostly the same with a few additions.
1) Magical feats, with the exception of few, always had the two kinds of realms in them. The few that didn't were either beginner level magical body strengthening and beginner level mind magics or high level Magics like soul manipulations or time manipulations.
2) Each person depends more on one of the two realms for their magic, thus making them better or worse in some.
Those two were the biggest ones he found, except the last one, the one that enlarged his worry about the path ahead of him in his magical studies.
3) Magical people progression.
Just as both body and magical energy has a few states of evolution, the connection to realms also has it.
While in body the stages are: 1) natural strengthening. 2) Magical strengthening. 3) transformation. 4) metamorphing.
And in magical energy the stages are: 1) gas 2)liquid 3) plasma 4) solid
Both of those ways work on the basis that the first two stages are natural progression, with workouts helping them reach it before the end of their life, the third stage in both of them works by forcefully evolving them in a direction that suits the magical being and the forth stage is about perfecting the direction before once again expanding your abilities.
The connection to the realms work in a different way, the first two stages are about maintaining the connection to the two realms in equal amounts, the third stage is perfecting your connection to one realm and forth is about perfecting your other realm.
In here lays the biggest difference in western and eastern magical paths.
The east went with the idea of physical realm first, creating the so called Dao, they understood that there was no need to understand everything in the world, instead they focused on one thing, and while it took a lot of time, some reached the forth stage, in which they used their connection to their object of knowledge to connect spiritually to the world slowly, thus perfecting their connection to the spiritual realm and becoming part of their object of study, becoming immortals.
The west, which is all about the belief in magic for it to work, starts with the spiritual realm, making it about perfecting spiritual connection, and spiritual connection, specifically belief, is the strongest in children, so, people in the west who don't have as king of life as the people of the east when it comes to the spiritual realm strengthening stage (as western start in the third while eastern start on the fourth) has invented, thousands of years ago, a way to overcome the problem of lack of connection to the spiritual realm- make people connect you to it forcefully.
By creating miracles, by telling stories about yourself, creating gods in your image, you can connect yourself to the spiritual realm, therefore, western who reached the forth stage are called Demi-gods, and those who perfected the forth stage, who even moved passed out to the legendary fifth stage are called gods.
Harry didn't want to leave behind some of his studies, he didn't want to become a god or immortal, he wanted to become something else, Harry wanted to become free
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Chapter: 133133 summer vacation part 3
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Harry's POV
The fifth week in Fenghuang was also his last one.
While SCAMER was copying the rest of the books he needed from this place, Harry was looking at the last main difference between the western magical system and the eastern magical system, the only one that even till today is being a major difference- the body strengthening.
While there big any differences in the first two stages, with the only difference is that the east used their alchemy to speed their workout, while the west doesn't have anything like that, as body modification rituals are only done in the third state, the later states are where the difference truly start to show.
In the west, you move into the third stage in two ways- you either do a ritual to strengthen a specific trait of your body- stranghth, agility etc... or you use a ritual to gain a special ability- animagus, Parseltongue etc...
In the east on the other hand, you have only one way to move forward- create meridians in your body.
The idea is simple, you create pathways in your body, and by being able to move your magic in them with no interference you are able to strengthen your body to a higher degree.
The third level of strengthening, whether it's in the east or the west is about breaking through the limitation of your body, and it's only when there are no more limitations when the forth stage is passed.
After the week was over and SCAMER finished copying over 70% of the books in the library and the other less 30% are either books he already read at Hogwarts or books that he can find in different locations, and him finding the answers he has been looking for, he truly didn't have a need to stay at this place, so, thanking the school faculty for their generosity, Harry and Remus left the school, returning to Britain.
Fred's POV
This summer was supposed to by relaxing!
After actually studying for the tests in the past years, both Fred and George were done with seriousness, and ready to have some fun.
So, when Harry asked on the last day of school school if they want to start a band called Tommy and his eaters they were like- 'Oh god yes! Let's freak some wizards'
So of course that instead of leading the band he just said: 'ok cool, so I play the guitar, and have a piano, and a drum, so we need a pianist, a drummer and a lead singer, which one you want to be?' And when both wanted to be a drummer it started the greatest prank war the twins ever had against one another, ending only when Luna came one day to their house and, as Harry told them the muggle say 'rocked the house' after which Fred took the piano and George became their lead singer. Meanwhile, Harry sent them a song he wrote and had them practice till a week into August (by that time they became extremely good in the song with the help of a few potions they made), when he returned from his trip and joined them.
It was only 5 days before the quidditch cup when Harry breached the subject of a live performance.
Flashback
"So... I was thinking," Harry said as they finished playing for the day.
"Oh Merlin, just not that." George said making Fred and Luna snicker.
"How would you like to have a live preformance?" Harry ignored their laughter entirely.
"Are you sure?" Luna asked. "We only have one song, we need much more for a show."
"Sure, if we go for a full show." Harry shrugged "But what if we only do a small one, of one that is only a preview to the real show?"
"What do you have in mind?" Fred asked
"How about the quidditch cup?"
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Fred has no idea how he did it, but here they were, five days later, on the field where the quidditch cup is about to start in a few minutes, under a disillusion spell, hearing Bagman say "Ladies and gentlemen. . . welcome! Welcome to the final of the four hundred and twenty-second Quidditch World Cup!" The crazy screaming and clapping just made it real.
"We have a special surprise to everyone, before the game begin we have a show for you- please welcome Tommy and his eaters!"
'Show time'
Ron' POV
Ron was thrilled, only he, the youngest son in the Weasley clan got to go to the World Cup and it was because his best friend Marcus Potter- the boy who lived.
His family got five tickets for the cup and he decided to take his friends, Ron couldn't be happier.
Well, he could, if only he would have been the one with fame and riches, the one who has everything he could have wanted.
But still, he got to be the only one to go to the World Cup and see Krum, and now there is even a show before- Fred, George and Ginny are going to be so jealous.
Though he had to wander, why did Marcus' face paled so much.
Lucius' POV
He hated quidditch!
He always have, and probably always will.
It was a game with no reasonable rules and zero sense.
If he could he would never have come to this game, yet he could not for three reasons.
1) He had to keep making good impression on the minister.
2) His son, Draco, whined for weeks to go to the World Cup until he gave up.
3) His long time ׳friends׳, a.k.a His fellow Death Eaters decided that it would be great to show their devotion to their 'master', Ho how he hated this word, by creating chaos.
He now felt the world was laughing at him.
"... Tommy and his eaters!" The band was four people, and even from a far he could tell who they were trying to look like, after all, each of them were his partners in crime.
The pianist was someone with black greasy hair and long nose, the drummer was a woman with crazy hair and look, the lead singer had the looks of a man he saw in his nightmares, and the guitarist had the face he saw in the mirror everyday.
It was a band of Severus, Bellatrix, himself, and of course, the dark lord.
From the shock of it he almost missed the song.
If the dark lord would ever come back the band will die.
Marcus' POV
He once heard his mother say 'seeing is believing', well he couldn't believe it.
Someone is dressing up as Voldemort!
As he was still looking as the band, they started playing:
Going fast makes me feel alive
My heart beats in hyper drive
Do you think you can win?
Only if I lose
Just let destiny choose
I can hear you breathin'
I can see you comin'
I can feel the wind
It's blowing me around
Take a shot at me runnin' side by side
It's a blur... as I go by
I can hear you breathin'
I can see you comin'
I can feel the wind
It's blowing me around
See the sun arising
Fire in the sky
Greatness thrusts itself into our lives
Well he didn't know who were the people dressed as Voldemort and his Death Eaters, but the song was great.
Sorting hat's POV
Being the sorting hat was sometimes monotonous, with the exception of sorting the children and singing a song his life had no purpose.
So you can understand how having a friend by the name of Fawkes who can help him travel made his life much better.
And today he saw something new, he saw a new possibility for music, a band.
"Fawkes, I need you to take us back to the castle!" The bird cried unwilling to miss the game.
"Just take me there and come back alone, I need to gather the ghosts, I'm about to change the songs of sorting forever
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George's POV
As they finished the song there was this silence, a special one he usually hears in Professor McGonagall class, not in a field of quidditch with tens of thousands of people looking at them, and then shouts, clapping and whistling.
"I guess they really liked that." George could barely hear his twin say as the rash came over him.
Grinning he looked at his friends as each of them grinned back at him as he heard Bagman say "while Tommy and his eaters are in disguise they wanted everybody to know that as they are still students at Hogwarts they will do, throughout the year, more shows at school, so, students, teachers, and other magical people who will be there for whatever reason, have fun."
As Harry used used magic to miniaturize their musical instruments and leave the stage (He still can't believe this barely 14 years old can do both wandless magic and master level charms), George noted how Bagman seemed to do what his father and older brothers do- hint about something happening at school this year."
"Seriously Harry," Fred said as they walked to the entry points of the field and took the Omnioculars each of them bought for the occasion. "How did you convince Bagman to let us play?"
"Wasn't that hard, just gave him some money." Harry shrugged like it wasn't a big deal.
"Wait, you gave him money?" George asked, now concerned, while he loved Harry like a brother since the moment he invested in them the money to open their shop, with a few subtle questions he and Fred did he knew he wasn't getting much from the Potters. "Harry, you shouldn't do that, with the money you spent already I fear you won't have enough."
The young boy looked in confusion for a second before realization coming into his eyes. "Ho, you think I get my money from the Potters? That's rich, no, I invested in a few companies just like I did with your's, well muggle companies, and got some spending Galleons."
George was still worried, he didn't want his friend to spend so much, especially on a hobby, even if it was more fun then expected.
"Ju-Just don't spend too much."
"Sure mom." His eyes roll was so strong in his voice that George didn't to take his eyes off the Omnioculars and didn't miss the Wronski Feint Krum did.
"When should we do our next performance?" Luna asked "And how would we hide it is us if every time Tommy and his eaters preform we disappear?"
"Let's do it one the first day back!" His twin said in excitement.
"I'm not sure it is so good," George answered "we don't have enough time to both write another song and practice, not to mention I don't want to miss the sorting hat's song, the last two were amazing."
"Yeah, plus the song I have is more for one of our cards tournaments." Harry said "as for how to make sure people doesn't realize it's us, I have an idea..."
As both Fred and George heard this, they gave each other a wary smile, it was just like Harry to not say anything until he had everything prepared.
Luna's POV
By the time the game was over Luna wanted to escape this place, without even talking about how boring the game itself is- the Bulgarians didn't do anything with the exception of Krum.
Just the headache she got from the aura of the Veela was enough to make her wish to kill herself.
It was like feeling of colorful fire, it makes you want to come closer before burning you.
Yet she still enjoyed the night.
They played together, laughed together, and bonded, more then they ever did.
Luna was sure about one thing, this band is here to stay.
Harry's POV
Harry had to admit, while he loves research and studying, there was something highly addictive in the fun he had with his friends, not just playing together, whether it's making the cards or the broom, he just has more fun doing those things with his friends and he never felt more refreshed then after his time together with them.
"Guys," he said as they walked together toward the exit making all three of his friends turn to look at him.
"Thank you for going through with that."
The smile on Luna's face said all that was needed to be said, as for Fred and George...
"Ha have you seen the look on Lucius Malfoy's face during the game? I found him at the audience during the game and it looked like his face was stuck in between shock, horror and rage." "Never mind that, have you seen our brother when the Veela danced? He was about to jump." They just joked around, making sure he doesn't feel uncomfortable.
"Really, thank you." This party He whispered So non of them will hear.
Albus' POV
Waking up late in the summer was the only part Albus loved in the summer.
Yes, Albus hated the summer, as it was the time of year when he didn't have the chance to shape the minds of children.
On the other hand, he woke up today at 10 AM, something his body thanked him for.
Taking the Daily Prophet in one hand Albus sat for breakfast one of the elves brought him and was about to eat as he read the headline.
'THE DARK MARK REAPPEARS!
DEATH EATERS ATTACK RUINS THE QUIDDITCH CUP"
By Rita Skeeter.
And just like that, breakfast was forgotten.
Reading about the damage Tom's servants caused was bad enough, but the dark mark being cast? The panic it should have caused will be enough to strengthen Tom to the point of not needing Peter to feed him Nagini's venom for weeks.
As he calmed down, knowing there was nothing to be done, Albus continued to eat his breakfast as he read the second article about the Romanian win of the quidditch World Cup even as they lost the snitch.
As he was halfway through breakfast he moved on to the third article.
'"TOMMY AND HIS EATERS, THE BAND WHO WILL SWEEP THE MAGICAL WORLD, WHO ARE THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE DISGUISES."
By Betty Braithwaite.'
(Dumbledore wasn't hungry anymore)
'For those who weren't in the World Cup last night they missed more then just the epic game and the fight between the Veelas and Leprechauns, they also missed the new band that performed before the game- Tommy and his Eaters.
The band, who had their first show that night, created a sensation with their song hyperdrive, and more importantly, the talk about their identities.
Each member of the band with the exception of the lead singer wore a disguise that looked like one of the known Death Eaters - the drummer as Bellatrix Lestrange who serves her time in Azkaban, the pianist as Severus Snape who is a known spy for Dumbledore and the guitarist as Lucius Malfoy, an upstanding member for our society who was cursed to with imperius during the war.
As for this Tommy, no one seem to recognize him, though this reporter is about to try to find out.
Yet the main question is who are the people behind the masks?
The only thing we know about them is that they are Hogwarts students and that they are about to make Hogwarts much more fan to be in.'
Albus was never a man to curse, after all, how can you be seen as the paragon of light if you say foul words?
In fact only twice in his life since the age of 27 has he cursed, the day Tom became Voldemort and the day he heard THE prophecy.
Yet right now only one word came out of his mouth "Fu*k"
All his plans! 70 years of planning, leaving his lover in prison, creating an image of the purest, strongest, wisest wizard in the world, he was on his way to become the first demigod in centuries!
All of it was destroyed the day Tom started creating fear in Britain.
The belief in him lost its strength as Tom's power rose.
In fact, the reason he kept being able to contest against the man was the elder wand.
It was then that Albus changed his passive approach.
Creating a fighting force of his own, making sure the rumor about Tom fearing him spreads, Albus returned to his peak and knew he only need to defeat Tom to breakthrough.
So of course that was the point the prophecy was made, making Albus literally unable to defeat Tom, once more making him change his plans.
This time, he decided to become a Merlin like persona, something close to his original plan, yet more of a mentor to the chosen one.
And when it was found that Tom created two chosen ones? He chose to support the one the mother love, with the reasonable idea to keep the other one away as a back up.
And even if he was fine with the way things had proceed, he still felt his power growing weaker as faith went to Marcus Potter.
And now this?
If anyone finds out Voldemort is Tom Riddle the battle of Good vs Evil won't have as much impact on the population, and he will never become a demigod!
Albus didn't know who the band are, but he will find out, and he will make sure this knowledge disappear from their mind
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Harry's POV
The rest of the summer passed quickly.
Harry divided his time between practicing music and making cards and upgrading the duel disks with his friends and studying the books GAI compiled.
As the subject Harry knew he had to go to the third stage first in, Harry focused on books about the body, where he found the explanation why while the west has many ways to change the body the east only uses meridians creation in one of the books.
'The reason why when we pass to the third stage in our body, we create meridians is that the meridians are letting magic flow freely in our body, making it connect to the spiritual realm.
With our minds and magic is focused on the physical realm and our personal Dao, if our body isn't connected to the spiritual realm we will become unable to use magic at all, becoming squibs.
It made Harry feel grateful he studied this before turning into a shapeshifter, it is obvious that while the easterners' body comes closer to the spiritual realm, the westerns' body come closer to the physical realm, and of he changes his body only to become a squib and die, he won't know where to bury himself.
The good news is that at least in the body department he has a simple solution- shapeshifter while including the meridians, and it only means he has to become knowledgeable about not only western medical studies, but eastern too.
He also had Remus bring SCAMER into the different libraries at London and in universities to copy their books.
At the end of the summer he couldn't wait for the year to start once more, If only for the time turner to return to him.
Eduard's POV
Eduard has done many things he regretted doing throughout his life and afterlife.
He his biggest regret was killing Helena of course, but smaller regrets included becoming a ghost as it is incredibly boring, dying with blood on his hands, as it stayed on him forever, and, of course, making everyone call him the bloody baron.
He wasn't proud of it, but one of the few students he talked with, a muggleborn just like him (what you thought a baron was just a nickname? His father was a baron and he inherit it) who graduated four years ago explained to him that what he went through when he thought the name is cool was called 'Chūnibyō phase.'
Yes, Eduard has many regrets, yet he couldn't help but feel another one is about to come.
He is supposed to be the ghost everyone feared, even after he moved past his 'Chūnibyō phase' he didn't want to become like Sir Nicholas and have children call him insulting nicknames like Nearly Headless Nick, but how is he supposed to be as fearsome as he is right now after singing a song?
But while he has no problem to say no to the sorting hat, repeatedly, he just can't say no to Helena.
So here he is, in the middle of the grand hall, standing behind the hat as the song begun.
[sorting hat]
What's a hat to do when it's put on your head?
It means it's time to do the job for which I was made
But wait, it just occurred to me
Some of you don't know what it means sorting
Well, songs can help this sitchywation untangle
Students, professors, listen to me
It's time for me to sort the kids.
Yay, time for houses facts!
[The Fat Friar]
A Hufflepuff is a loyal friend
Who will always have your back
Who will listen in class, and work hard
To find success in everything he tries his hand
[sorting hat]
Ah ha, it sounds great and all but as you already heard
Facts of three more houses are need to be made!
The house of Gryffindor
Isn't hard to get
[Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington]
Gryffindor are warriors,
Always charging up ahead
[sorting hat]
Yes, the house of Gryffindor
Is as simple as can be
Just being brave and have some nerve
The house will be home for all those kids!
[The Bloody Baron]
Actually each house could be home for you all...
This kid is Slytherin
[sorting hat]
That's for sure
So he has cunning and is really mature
[Helena Ravenclaw]
Here's Ravenclaw student
[sorting hat]
Are you confident?
If not all the studies will make his head hurt
[sorting hat]
Neither ghost is choosing
I'm the only one
'Cause the center of the sorting
Is lil' old
Handsome little hat
Me!
The shame! Just like the blood on him it will never wash away! He could already see the first year students not fearing him like their counterparts the years before.
This was the first and the last time he would ever sing, even for Helena!
Luna's POV
As the sorting begun Luna whispered to the boy who sat next to her. "Harry, how about next year we play next to the hat, make the song even better!"
"Luna," the sound of his voice next to her east made her shiver. "You are a genius
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Harry's POV
"So!" said Dumbledore, smiling around yet as usual focusing on the Gryffindor table "Now that we are all fed and watered, I must once more ask for your attention, while I give out a few notices."
As the headmaster continued to tell the rules and news for this year as usual, Harry prepared for an announcement of his own.
"...in announcing that this year at Hogwarts -"
As he was about to announce about the Triwizards tournament, there was a deafening rumble of thunder and the doors of the Great Hall banged open.
Even though he knew who was about to come in through the door, Harry couldn't help but shiver, this man was probably the most dangerous man in the Death Eaters as not only he is as crazy as Bellatrix and knock out the strongest auror in Britain who has an all seeing glass eye, he is also one who can pretend to be the said auror for a year without getting caught- Barty Crouch Jr.
As the in disguise Death Eater walked toward the professor's table Harry once more thought how dangerous would it be this year, not the Triwizard tournament, he had no plan to participate in this game, and even if he was forced to, he had plans to each of the challenges, no, the real danger would be managing to steal the Al seeing eye to see what makes it work.
"Professor Moody." The headmaster introduced the man, and instead of applause there was just quiet, Something that disappeared quickly as chatter took it place
"He has a strange aura on him." Luna whispered to him. "It's like he put another man's skin on top of his own, it is similar to the cannery candies the twins make!"
"Keep your distance from him, I know something is wrong about him." Harry answered
"We should tell the twins also."
"We will."
Dumbledore cleared his throat.
"As I was saying," he said, smiling at the sea of students before him, all of whom were still gazing transfixed at Mad-Eye Moody, "we are to have the honor of hosting a very exciting event over the coming months, an event that has not been held for over a century. It is my very great pleasure to inform you that the Triwizard Tournament will be taking place at Hogwarts this year."
"You're JOKING!" said Fred loudly making Harry snicker as this was the sentence for which Harry hasn't told his friends about it.
"I am not joking, Mr. Weasley," Dumbledore said, "though now that you mention it, I did hear an excellent one over the summer about a troll, a hag, and a leprechaun who all go into a bar."
Professor McGonagall cleared her throat loudly.
"Er - but maybe this is not the time.. . no. . ." said Dumbledore, "where was I? Ah yes, the Triwizard Tournament. . . well, some of you will not know what this tournament involves, so I hope those who do know will forgive me for giving a short explanation, and allow their attention to wander freely."
As the headmaster explain the tournament's history and prizes Harry made the final preparation for his preformence
"The delegations from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will be arriving in October and remaining with us for the greater part of this year. I know that you will all extend every courtesy to our foreign guests while they are with us, and will give your whole-hearted support to the Hogwarts champion when he or she is selected. And now, it is late, and I know how important it is to you all to be alert and rested as you enter your lessons tomorrow morning. Bedtime! Chop chop!"
Before anyone could rise from his chaire Harry told GAI to activate the spell.
"JUST A SECOND." A loud voice was heard from the door as the headmaster finished talking, making everybody look to see four ghost-like illusions.
"We have one more announcement." The smile on their leader was charming, even as Ginny Weasley screamed "TOM!" Before fainting.
"For those who don't know us, we are Tommy and his Eaters," the four illusions made their way toward the center, letting the students pass their hands in them as they moved.
"As students who have been here for a couple of years, our group has a few problems with this school," the entire audience seemed focused on the illusions, most looked intrigued, yet he could see a couple that had different expressions on them, number one was the headmaster who looked amused yet had coldness in his eyes.
"We could talk about the defense against the dark teachers, the stuttering fool who had a parasite on his head, the werewolf, the one who had to have a student teach in his place, and of course, the worse of them all, Gilderoy Lockhart."
At that point the illusion of Lucius Malfoy started talking
"Now, we weren't only disappointed about that, the potions class where only Slytherin are taught right, the stupid rivalry between houses, history classes and more."
The illusion of Bellatrix took charge.
"We didn't know what to do, and at some point we stopped caring, until the Weasley twins made their game.
Seeing the school change with one game made us want to change it too!"
It was now that the illusion of Snape took place. "We created those illusions and this band to make a change in this school."
Tommy took charge. "We aren't saying we would cause trouble, we would just, once in a while have a song here to wake this school!
Someone of the songs would be just for fun, and some would be to point specific problems."
The illusion smiled at that point an even bigger smile.
"The next song would be tomorrow evening, don't miss it."
And the illusions vanished.
The conversations people started having made the entire hall be filled with noise, and as he and Luna made sure to converse between each other as to not make it suspicious Daphne came to them.
"I know it's you." She said with a voice filled with anger.
"Me what?" He asked innocently.
"Don't play native, I know you are Tommy."
"Me? I can't sing." That caused her to roll her eyes.
"Just remember we hired you, don't waist time." The questioning look on Luna's face made him remember he didn't tell her about his deal with the Greengrass.
"I have no idea why would you think I am Tommy, but even if I were, it won't hurt the research, especially as you haven't found the two types of blood I need to push forward, nor have you given me the ritual needed to be tinkered with." The look of confusion, now mixed with worry, grew on Luna's face, which meant for Harry that he need to talk to Luna about this.
"You will get one of the bloods soon, as for the other two, it's a little more complicated then this."
"I know." He said grimly, making Harry add another thing to his checklist of this year- capture Nagini or kill her and take her corpse.
By the time they finished their talk the students also finished whispering.
"For our musicians, please come to my office so we can scaduale your performances, good night." After saying his final words the headmaster left quickly, a fuming Snape and Barty Crouch Jr. going with him.
While Harry felt sorry about making Snape part of the band, this was the twins' choice.
Getting up from his chair together with Luna, they quickly left to the room of requirements, where he would explain to her his deal with the Greengrass family
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Luna's POV
Understanding Harry's explanation about his research would have been easy if Luna was a regular Hogwarts student.
He would have say the bare minimum to make sure she understand and they would have moved on.
The problem was that Luna weren't a regular Hogwarts student.
Luna was someone whose mother used to have experiments near, someone who could see magic and auras, someone who learned a lot from Harry and his books for the last two years, enough to pass 10th grade science class.
Yes, Luna wasn't someone who would leave explanations like- "so I am trying to find a way to change her body so she won't die nor become an animal" be. Luna wanted an explanation and she wanted it now!
"Explain better, I know you can."
"Fine, fine, you are a scary lady when you want knowledge you know that?"
And this started Harry's long explanation about what he did until now- the DNA testing, what he found out- the real reason for the curse, and his plans for the future about the subject- fixing the DNA by adding the needed chromosomes.
By the time he finished Luna has one question
"Are you a moron?" She hissed, scaring Harry as she never talked like that. "Have you learned nothing from my story about my mother? You don't mess with anyone's body, ever!" She couldn't believe it, it was like he is a child who sees a fire, no matter what he heard about it, until he gets burned he won't learn.
"Luna," he said softly, something that would have made her heart stop if she wasn't so damn angry. "I will take precautions, many of them, but I have to do it, not only for Astoria, the little girl who will die if I won't help her, but for science."
She knew it, she knew what he was about to say the second she told him not to, as much as she prided herself in talking after her mother she knew that in the matters of the heart she took after her father and as he once told her 'the Lovegoods always fall for those whose pursue for knowledge know no bounds, not even their own life.'
Luna's angry look changed into a determined one.
"Fine, but from now on I will help you in this research."
"Well if you do," Harry said "then you must know about how I have time for it, you see, I have something called a time turner."
For years into the future, if Luna were to be asked what was the point in time that truly changed her life, she would have said it was that moment.
Harry's POV
The next day was mostly uneventful until the evening.
He got his time turner back from Professor Snape with the condition that he would help make the potions for the infirmary, had a few classes he didn't listen to, in which he studied books GAI read to him, traveled back in time and worked on the final touches of the song the band prepared for tonight.
Making the illusion was not only a way to avoid being revealed, but also a way to improve his ability with runes.
You see, after learning about the spiritual part of magic, Harry finally had the final part he was missing about runes, arithmancy and their rules.
If enough people believe about something being true for enough time it becomes true, especially in magic rules.
Runes and old languages weren't magical until weren't magical until enough people made them so and the ways to write rune scames and say spells didn't come to be until people made them so.
That wasn't to say there aren't basic rules to magic that are true even without belief, it is just that as magic is divided to spiritual and physical, and each of the kinds of magic works in contradiction to the other, as long as you have enough magical energy you can do anything you want.
There are only two problems.
The first is the belief of other people, if their belief contradicts yours it becomes a fight between beliefs, and the stronger you get the more you need to fight the beliefs of the world, so while a weak wizard need to fight the beliefs of 0.1% a strong one would need to fight 3% and someone at the level of Dumbledore would have to fight 10%, something that explained most of today's magical people's problems and Harry's fast progress.
You see, while in the past most of the world population believed in miracles and magic, today most believe in science, so when wizards fight the beliefs that changing one thing to another by saying some words is impossible, and that magic isn't real, Harry only needed to fight the second part, as he transfigure by using science at the core.
Not to mention that by using knowledge about the physical world, his need to use spiritual magic became smaller and his available will to fight the belief of the world was larger, the only problem that is left is training his will, belief and connection to the spiritual realm, something non of the western magical people do, as they let their spells, which are almost entirely spiritual connect them to it, and eastern people only start after the third stage, by using their connection with the chosen physical aspect of the world as their connection, which meant Harry had to find his own way to straighten his connection to the spiritual part of magic.
It took some thinking and some history book reading, but eventually Harry found a way.
While it is true that most western people who move past the second stage use the method of belief gathering to become Demi-gods, there are some that use a method closer to the eastern, in a few of the eastern books there were some mentions of a western group that tried to use the eastern method to progress yet took it too far by instead of trying to study one thing about the physical world, they were trying to study everything, even the spiritual world- they were called philosophers
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Harry's POV
Harry's hasn't found much about the group except their name, but he did know about major philosophers in Ancient Greek - Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, etc... each of them was a person who influenced the world of both science and philosophy.
In the eastern books they are mocked for their unwillingness to choose one direction to walk in as they never progressed much, and while Harry understood why they are mocked, he had one advantage the ancient philosophers didn't- he was in the far away future, when science and philosophy progressed far beyond their wildest dreams.
Knowing that, Harry decided to do it like them, not to choose a specific subject of magic, not to choose a specific realm of magic, Harry would train his belief by connecting to the spiritual world by learning philosophy and about belief, and in addition he would create his own rules in magic, as to check his own progress in magic, and this is the thing that made him create the band illusions.
The illusions, which were created by using a basic language he had GAI create by using the parameters he wanted, the main one being that it should be a picture based language in which each picture is a word, and that each word is made out of equations that confirm to math, physics and arithmancy, and then added for the last week of the summer the will for the words that meant following, instruction, illusions and voice his magic, will and his belief in them working until he managed to create his illusionary band.
While it sounds easy, the amount of magic needed to create it made him exhausted, and if you add the other needs, not to mention magical control, which was needed to seep the exact amount of magical energy, even Harry who in addition of being at the peak of the second stage and could do a seventh year transfigurations wandlessly was barely able to create four runes.
After doing that, it felt easy to create the show, he only had to take a video of the band play, a video of Fred and Luna dance, scan Draco and Granger, and have GAI do the rest.
Seriously, Harry didn't know what he would have done without GAI.
George's POV
Everybody were excited for the performance of new song their band created, Fred and him included.
After all, not only was the new song entirely different then the last one, it was extremely funny for them.
But even without those two reasons they would be excited, if only because of Harry telling them that if this worked, their next phase in the monster card dueling would be ready.
"HELLO EVERYBODY." the changed voice of Fred was heard as the illusion of Tommy and his eaters showed upfront.
"For all the muggleborn first year who are confused, this song will explain the blood wars in school." Tommy said in a calm voice as everybody looked at him.
Please welcome the two most condescending pure blood and Muggle born in school- Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger.
Up front appeared illusions of the two fourth year as the illusions of Bella and Tommy disappeared, a smile was growing even farther on George's face as the two started to dance.
(Draco sings)
Anything you can do,
I can do better
I can do anything
Better than you.
No, you can't.
Yes, I can. No, you can't.
Yes, I can. No, you can't.
Yes, I can,
Yes, I can!
(Hermione sings)
Anything you can be
I can be greater.
Sooner or later,
I'm greater than you.
No, you're not. Yes, I am.
No, you're not. Yes, I am.
No, you're NOT!. Yes, I am.
Yes, I am!
(Draco sings)
I can cast a spell
With a single swish.
I can transfigure
With only a wish.
I know astronomy like my back hand.
Astronomy?
Yes.
So can a muggle!
(Hermione sings)
Any charm you can cast
I can cast better.
I can can cast
Charms better than you.
No, you can't. (High)
Yes, I can. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, I can. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, I can. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, I can. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, I CAN! (Highest)
(Draco sings)
Any curse you can do
I can do faster.
I can cast anything
Faster than you.
In a sec?
Half of that! quarter?
In a eighth! No, you can't!
Yes, I can,
Yes, I can!
(Hermione sings)
Any potion you can make
I can make better.
I can make potions
Better than you.
No, you can't. (Softly)
Yes, I can. (Softer) No, you can't. (Softer)
Yes, I can. (Softer) No, you can't. (Softer)
Yes, I can. (Softer)
YES, I CAN! (Full volume)
While George could see interested looks in some of the students faces and angry looks on a few others, the smile he saw on most was the best thing he saw in a while, especially as he saw Harry's smile, which meant it worked, broom dueling passed to the next stage.
Albus' POV
They didn't come to him! He gave them the chance and they threw it away, does it mean they don't trust him?
Well, it doesn't matter, the band had the chance to just have their memories about Tom erased, now, when he finds them it would be about their entire life that gets deleted, Albus won't let any danger near his plan
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HARRY'S POV
Harry was extremely satisfied with the performance of the illusions.
Having a proof that his own runes work meant the next is to make more people use them even if they don't know they did, as while he works on strengthening his beliefs and make more runes work, the magic needed to power more of them them was beyond him for now.
As he continued to eat his second dinner for the day (the first was right about now before in the ROR) he saw the twins raise.
"Hello everyone," one of them said "what a great song, am I right?" The clapping of the school was the answer he got.
"Anyway, a new year has come, and with it new upgrades for our game."
The other twin started talking "first of all we now have the option of selling you the duel disks and new cards to play with." The idea was simple to execute, Harry had GAI change two small runes into the new runes he created on each of the disks, and because those runes are made of small equations, they can't be copied, so he doesn't fear a copy cat would steal their invention.
"Secondly, we have a starter's pack for all the icky little first years, gave them to our dear charm's Professor and last year's second place in our championship- Professor Flitwick."
The professor rose only to bow dramatically, earning giggling from some of the younger students.
"And lastly," the first twin said "after seeing and hearing the song we have one request," he stoped for a dramatic pose "make a song for card dueling! If the band does it we will make a spacial cards for you!" The last bit was to take suspicion off the twins when the song about dueling came out.
THE NEXT DAY
Seeing fake Moody changing Malfoy into a ferret, Harry understood why Professor McGonagall is so upset.
As he was in the middle of learning changing a man into an animal, even if he does it differently and wandlessly, Harry knew the amount of control one needed to do something like that is much higher then other kinds of magics, doing that while angry? It's a recipe for disaster, which only made the man even more impressive and scary to deal with, especially as the man was in Azkaban before becoming a prisoner in his own mind for years.
Leaving quickly after making sure the man was as talented and scary as he thought of him as.
Reaching the ROR, Harry came in.
"I'm sorry I'm late."
"We are very disappointed in you Harrikin." A twin he said to him with a serious expression "I think my less handsome twin was a bad influence on you."
"You are mistaken my less funny brother, it is you who had influenced badly on our young friend."
"Actually the one who caused me to be late was our DADA Professor and the rumors about him."
"Really? Do tell!"
"Well, according to what I have heard, the Professor is about to teach the upper years about the unforgivables and especially about the Imperius, including how to resist them by casting them on the students.
Harry's three friends become deathly pale from hearing that.
"We-Well, it's important to know how to resist it, and it's better to experience it in class, right?" One of the twins asked, yet it wasn't Harry that answered, it was Luna.
"No, it's worse." She whispered.
"What? why?!" The other twin asked freaking out.
"While it is better to a select few, mostly students who has at least a minor skill in mind defense to experience it for the first time against someone who doesn't try his best, those who do give in to the curse will have it harder to defend against it on the next occasion, while those who didn't experience it might be able to refuse orders."
"You mean, if the Professor curse the class and someone who couldn't resist is ever cursed again..."
"They would be unable to defend themselves."
"SO WHY DO IT?"
"I don't know why, but as he got the headmaster's permission it doesn't matter." Harry said "What does matter is to prevent it from affecting our friends negatively, and for that I need to know, do good are you in Occlumency?"
Since Harry and them became close, Harry has given the twins his book about Occlumency making them study the subject.
"We can stop Snape's intrusions and create simple mind traps."
"Great, you need to teach the first step, the one about cleaning your mind to all of your friends, it is the basic way to defend yourself."
In fact, while Harry was glad more people would come out of this class unharmed, he didn't really want more people learning about Occlumency, he felt that having more knowing about that kind of magic them there already are can create more trouble then it's worth, as obliviating people would become harder, yet he also hoped to level the field between muggleborns and purebloods.
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Harry's POV
The next few weeks moved both slowly and quickly.
They moved slowly as with the twins having to help their friends with basic Occlumency they became so busy they were unable to find time to practice music together, something Harry truly missed.
They moved as fast as they did because Harry once more used every second of his days to do things, and since he finally knew about the belief part of magic, his progress in the magical parts of his studies accelerated.
In transfigurations, what used to be only about control and knowledge became easier once he started noticing the world's belief fighting against his magic, which was the main reason his transfigurations didn't move past the middle of seventh year's, as to do the magic while unknowingly resisting the world belief needed much greater control.
That's not to say he stopped practicing control, yet, instead of doing it for transfigurations he did it for his runes, in which he managed to make another 18 runes, making it a total of 22 runes he created, most of them being for the broom he and his friends were creating or the disk duels, yet he started to work on more efficient magical container for the philosopher's stone.
One thing he noticed about runes in general now that he started creating them is that the way people perceive them change the way they work.
For example, Egyptian hieroglyphs, who are known for their trapping abilities but not for ritual purposes, are like that when he thinks about them in that way, but have smaller difference from Gallic runes when aren't thought about that way.
While he can't know for sure, Harry believes that the world's belief affects those runes to give them specialty, which was the reason Harry decided to let his runes be unknown, as to not let it be as affected by the world as other runes are.
Another thing he started to progressing fast in was his medical studies, with no need to listen in more and more classes, Harry instead turned to listen to GAI in his ear, reading to him books, something that made it possible for him to finish year five of his studies and move into year six.
As for his research, it made some big steps.
While he still didn't have any of the blood samples he asked the Greengrass family to acquire, he did have two samples of blood that helped him.
He meant of course, the blood of Remus Lupin, before and after transformation.
After compering the samples with the samples of two different animagi, changed and not, and of a regular wolf, Harry found that lycanthropy is just a different kind blood malediction, which made sense, considering a bite is needed for lycanthropy to take place.
While regular blood malediction seem to pass from ancestors who became animagus in a ritual instead of potion to children by birth, just like different magical abilities and gifts, only wrong, lycanthropy is like someone tried to super charge his animagus form making it's instincts also super charged and able to over power the infected's mind, the only three things he couldn't explain is why the change happen only on full moon, why is the bite infectious, and why Wolfsbane and silver and harmful.
The one who did find the answer was actually Luna.
As someone who used to sit near her mother as she studied rituals, Luna had a lot of knowledge of esoteric knowledge on the subject.
She brought up a ritual from ancient Greece that make your body immune to harm except from a small location that becomes your mortal point- the Styx ritual.
The thing is that rituals don't mix well, if someone did the animagus ritual after doing the Styx ritual it could cause the two to crush on one another creating all sorts of magical affects, including super charging the animagus form, and changing the weakness from one place to two things.
As for the bite and the full moon, knowing lycanthropy came from the same source of ritual as the blood malediction, it shouldn't be passed on by bite instead of birth, something that bothered him until Thursday night before last, the first full moon of the year.
Harry let Remus stay caged while knocking him out as usual before letting Luna look at him.
According to Luna, while during the month the aura of Remus was a lot like Professor McGonagall and the twins, regular with a hint of animalistic vibe, during the full moon it changes closer to how Dumbledore's aura is, it fades into the world in some locations.
Yet while Dumbledore's aura is like a little kid trying to look old, Remus' aura is like an a.d.u.l.t trying to connect to a child.
That's when it hit him.
The werewolf curse isn't only physical, it is also spiritual, and like all things spirituals, the world's beliefs changes the way it works.
The world is filled with stories about werewolf since Ancient Greece at least, it is one of the things that has little to no difference about between the magical and the ordinary world, someone created the beliefs that werewolves only change on a full moon, that their bite is infectious and that there is no cure, Harry wasn't sure who or why, and it spread so much it became the truth.
After learning that he knew that to cure lycanthropy he needs to not only find a way to reverse both rituals, but find a way to make the world forget its beliefs, which is why, a year after he took a break from studying charms, Harry once more started studying one he already knew how to cast, which he now need to know more then just its basics, Harry started staying the Fidelius charm
