(CHAPTER TWO)
Harry entered the meeting hall with Sheda beside him. The attendees were all sitting down on a long rectangular meeting table waiting for him, his Luminaires.
He stopped at the head of the table and gestured for Sheda to have a seat while he stood. After she sat down Harry surveyed the room. They were all there, the top men and women of the Luminaires, muggles and wizards, from his Beta to his Omega.
"Per Gratiam Luminis." His voice echoed down the hall.
They stood as one and spoke as one. "Clara Est Et Future."
"Sit." After they sat down, he straightened his green robe and started his speech. "Thank you all for coming at such short notice, may you all know the blessings of the light. I gathered you all here today because I bring great news. My powers are beginning to grow stronger."
The muggles looked excited, muttering to each other while the wizards almost looked bored. Perhaps they thought he was talking about his going to Hogwarts. Rowland and Sheda were the only ones looking at him with interest. Harry hadn't informed either of them what will be happening today.
"What exactly do you mean, my lord," asked Noah Westerly, a squib who owned a law firm that worked in both the mundane and magical worlds.
They were now all looking at Harry, some failing at hiding their curiosity. "I'm stating that in four years my powers shall mature. I shall, of course, become stronger after that but by that time there'd be little I won't be capable of."
Harry waited for his words to take effect. As he expected most of the muggles believed and the magicals looked doubtful. He decided to act before anyone else could speak.
Spreading out his arms he wandlessly cast a light spell around the midsection in his robes. It was so bright that if not of him now being able to alter his photoreceptors he would have been blinded for a while. Wandlessly again, Harry did something he took from Voldemort's memories, he soared. Finally, bringing his new shape-shifting power forth, pure and glorious white wings sprouted from his back.
Looking down he was not surprised to see even the magical looking up at him in awe. He made sure to meet each of their gazes. Smiling at them, he said, "The Future Is Bright."
~Break~
Leaving their secret headquarters later that day with Sheda and Rowling, Harry asked his female guardian: "There were some missing faces today."
"What do you mean, all the Luminaires were there," Rowland stated.
Harry was about to answer when Sheda did for him. "Yes," she said, "but the Inner Council members weren't."
Harry nodded. "I believe you know why."
She bit her lips nervously. "Caradoc and Manto were talking about Investigating what happened to Quirinus in Albania so they couldn't make it."
Harry sighed, he knew what happened in Albania and he knew it was going to happen weeks before it did but he didn't stop it because he had much to gain from it and he also know a way to save Quirinus. "What about the others?"
"Well, you told Xavier to use his vampires to search for homeless wizards and take them to our islands so he's doing that. Flume is handling Wizengamot and ministry business and Lockhart is at the training facility with the new recruits."
"I'll be meeting with them all later, we all have some important things to discuss before term begins. For now, Rowland get back to capturing those beasts. Sheda, you will be following me home to prepare for a ritual. The blood moon will soon begin," Harry said, giving his commands.
Rowland bowed and walked away. Sheda nodded and asked. "I thought you said you'll be doing your first during the Yule."
"There is someone I might be facing this year at Hogwarts so I need to be ready."
They got to the hallway of the house where dozens of fireplaces were built to the walls. Rowland flooed away first then Harry and Sheda used the fireplace to floo to Fluorescent Hall. Harry vanished the ash from himself and the Ancient Runes Professor.
"What will this ritual be about..." She didn't finish because Harry gestured for her to keep silent.
They walked quietly to his study. Getting there, he opened the door and let her step in before him. Once he shut the door, he began explaining, seeing the questioning look she had. "I detected residual traces of tracking and listening charms on some of the things I bought with Dumbledore and the Potters in Diagon Alley. That I didn't notice them at first led me to believe that it was Dumbledore's handwork and I probably couldn't sense them because they were on the potions ingredients that already had wild creatures' magic on them which clouded the signature of the spells. Though the charms became ineffective once they were under the wards of this house. Nevertheless, I have deemed it necessary that all sensitive discussions will be held here from now on. The wards here are near impregnable."
Sheda at first looked concerned but she was relaxed once he was done explaining. She began casting privacy and silencing charms. He even saw her use her wand to draw some luminescent runes on the air. When she was done she sat down on one of the cushioned chairs by the bookcase and Harry took a seat next to her.
"So what is this ritual of yours about?" Harry smiled ready to enter his scholar mode. Sheda noticed and laughed, not unkindly. "I know that face."
Harry faked a frown. "This face is why I'm a Doctor now, at age eleven. You know, Physics was not a simple subject."
Sheda smiled wickedly. "My apologies, Your Brightness."
Harry huffed. "I should have known that you were going to say that when you smiled like that. Do you want to know about this ritual or not?" His guardian nodded looking at him with a kind smile. "Well, you know I know plenty about biology and chemistry and mechanical engineering though I never got a degree for them but I might in the future. Anyway, I tried to use my biological skills to study one of the Boggarts Rowland's team brought and you'd be shocked that what I discovered had nothing to do with either chemistry or biology."
"Oh," was all she said.
Harry rolled his eyes. "A Boggart is pure energy. Most people have been known for calling magic sentient but it truly isn't, it just a chaotic energy that breaks the laws of the universe. The Boggart energy though is what magic is and isn't." Harry paused seeing that he finally had her undivided attention. "At first I thought Boggarts have a gene that grants them their powers, but no, Boggarts are beyond magical. it's not magic or chaotic energy that they are composed of. It's divine energy."
Sheda blinked in shock and he grinned. "Harry, are you certain about this? The mythological gods were just powerful wizards who tricked and enslaved the muggles until we both combined our mights to get rid of them."
Harry scoffed and gave her a look that showed how insulted he felt. "I'm not talking about Ra, Cronus, and those other stupid gods," he told her. "I'm not even talking about gods. I said divine energy."
"So what is this divine energy?" Sheda asked. He saw the curiosity burning in her blue eyes. This was one of the reasons that made both of them just click, they were both unrestrained scholars.
Sitting up on his chair, he began to explain. "Divine energy is the culmination of a particular frequency of the magical wavelength. Boggarts, for example, are the results of thousands of years of using a specific frequency of magic to affect the mind. Dementors are the same for death energy, the magic used in Necromancy. Should we use, say, reality altering frequency for about a thousand years, then the residual energy from all that reality warping we have done will coalesce, evolve and become something more, something sentient. Perhaps a genie."
The runes expert frowned and Harry waited for her to speak her mind. "So you are telling me that Boggarts and Dementors are divine due to magicals using mind arts magic and necromantic magic for millennia?" She asked and received a nod from him. "But what about the other magics eople have been using? Why don't they have divine representations too?"
Harry shrugged. "Well, there is lightening elemental magic and thunderbirds, but I understand your point. I know for one divination should have a representation, but the reasons for the lack of such being are many. It could be that they exist but are better at hiding than wizards are at discovering them. Also, it could be that they are not originating on this planet."
Sheda smirked. Having had a similar discussion to his second reason with her before, he knew what she was about to say.
"So you still believe there are aliens?" She asked, smiling amusedly at him.
Harry huffed. "It's pretty arrogant for humans to believe that we are the only race in the universe with trillions of planets if not more."
She looked thoughtful at that, but eventually returned to the topic at hand. "So... are dragons the divine representations of pyromancy, or fire elemental magic as some call it?"
Harry shook his head instantly. "Divine representations cannot be killed and they are immortal. You might doubt this in the case of Thunderbirds but it is well known in Africa that Thunderbirds are reborn whenever lightning strikes an environment with high concentration of magic. Frankly I believe phoenixes are the divine representations of fire elemental magic. They sure look divine but without a specimen to run tests on I can't be a positive percent certain. Hopefully Rowland's mission will acquire me a specimen. If it does we will surely know. Another divine energy you should know about is obscurial."
The Professor Babbling gaped at him in shock then she gained a confused look. "I thought you said divine representations are immortals? Don't obscurials die?" She asked.
"Obscurials are the divine representations of the raw magic of wizards and witches core which expell ambient energies all the time, our magical aura. Normally, obscurials should originate on their own like Boggarts and Dementors. But for reasons unknown to me they can only originate in a magical's core. The magical, though can be killed, and when that happens the obscurial dissipates back to energy form. It atoms are scattered until they converge upon a troubled soul again, reborn. If a person who is an obscurial can be protected to live for a few centuries then we will get to see the first fully fledged obscurial. And they might be fully sentient with human intelligence because there is a possibility that they may absorb their host."
"That's frightening," Sheda stated, seemingly holding back a shudder.
Harry grinned and stood up. "Fear of the unknown," he said, looking down at her.
"Whatever you say, Your Brightness," she teased. "Now, what does all this have to do with the ritual you are talking about?"
Harry sighed and started pacing. "At first, I thought I'd absorb the divine energy of a Boggart and become a true deity." Seeing her alarmed expression, he raised his hand before she could speak. "I realized that this could end up badly for me. I'd have divine energy but lack a divine vesel to store it in. My new Metamorph genes might be awesome at altering my physiology but it will never be able to act as a catalyst for my physiology's non-existent capability of hosting divine energy. Seeing that I can't become a god this way, I decided I'll try another route. I did a hard research on House Elves and their slave bond. Only goblins have records of how the ancient Fays came to be our slaves today, but I interviewed Vinny and discovered that the elves maintain a vocal historical culture in which history is passed down through tales in contrast to humans' ways of book, and lately among the muggles—digital videos. It took a lot of patience and brain work to entangle the particulars from the tale he gave me, but eventually I succeeded. The ritual I plan to do is a creation of mine, tweaked from the ritual used to enslave the Fays."
He saw an enlightened look appear on the face of him mentor and his grin attained more brilliance.
She gasped. "Harry don't tell me..."
He nodded as she spoke and cut her off with a declaration. "I have designed a ritual that I will use to enslave all divine representations to my person." He spread his hands apart, grinning and his eyes shone with great joy. "And I only need one specimen to subjugate its specie."