As Harry had no lessons that morning he went back to his workshop with Hermione, once there he showed her the metal sculpture and then opened the letter from Dumbledore "By the time you have received this letter you will most likely have found my sculpture, you will note it has a levitation enchantment and a preservation enchantment, you will have at least two months to examine it before the magic will wear out, use the time well.

-Wulfric

P.S You should also know that when I placed the sculpture I had not opened the workshop door, should you wish to protect your secrets further you may wish to overcome this fault."

When he finished reading the letter he laughed and handed it to Hermione who asked "Who is Wulfric? I've never heard anyone here called anything close to that, is it a code or nickname?"

"Tell me Hermione, who would have the power to make a sculpture made of silver that is estimated to last two months, have the patience and skill to find this workshop but the respect to warn me about it? Finally what is Dumbledore's full name?"

"Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore… no you can't be suggesting this is from Dumbledore! That's preposterous, why would he do that?"

"Who knows, all that matters is he did, I mean we all know he has a sense of humour and people think he is a bit mad, what's important is that he has given us exactly what we wanted, it makes sense he would want us to figure out how to do it ourselves, also I would guess he used another name is so he can't be accused of favouritism."

Harry spent the rest of the free time trying to teach Hermione how to summon mithril, however she did not have the years of experience with magic that Harry had when he had first made mithril himself, however fortunately for her, she did not have to learn it from scratch and had a very good teacher, by the end of their free period she felt more in touch with her magic and had even managed to make her hand glow faintly, the day passed in a blur for Harry, for the most part because he already knew the subject materials, so far Harry considered transfiguration and charms the most boring lessons, Flitwick's notes helped somewhat but as he had taught himself most of the material years ago the lessons held no challenge for him.

Herbology was rather uninteresting to him, he enjoyed learning about the different plants and what they could do but found actually caring for them rather boring, he shared the lesson with the Gryffindors and often worked with Neville, their classmates often said that Neville was as good at herbology as Harry was good at charms. Astrology was also interesting in theory but sitting down and watching the stars for an hour at midnight was a boring and often cold affair, potions was the only subject that actually tested Harry and he enjoyed it immensely, Professor Snape often tested him on his knowledge every lesson, history of magic was dull both in theory and in practice, Harry suspected he would enjoy defense against the dark arts and from reading ahead he thought it looked cool and was disappointed he would have to wait a whole year.

Overall however the Hogwarts subjects were a bit of a let down, of course the school made up for it will the private tutoring he was receiving from Flitwick and the ability to practice magic safely without risk, Harry was most disappointed by the other students, most of whom seemed to either be in awe of him or hate him, with only a few ignoring him altogether, as such Harry ignored almost everyone which had resulted in him having few friends, he still worked with Justin in potions but rarely spoke to him outside of lessons, Justin had no trouble making friends and was extremely popular with both the other Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs, Justin once admitted to Harry that the sorting hat had considered placing him in Hufflepuff but his thirst for knowledge had won out, Harry was friends with Ron and Neville of course but his best friend would always be Hermione, he also considered Professors Dumbledore and Flitwick his friends despite the age differences, growing up Harry had no friends so was thrilled he had finally met people who could stand him and was determined to keep them at all costs.

In return for Neville helping him in herbology Harry regularly helped him in transfiguration and charms, under Harry's tutorage Neville's confidence had risen and more often than not he did actually manage to complete the task before the lesson ended, they also helped each other during their flying lessons, both were afraid of falling but together they learned how to relax and enjoy the experience of flying.

As the weeks drove on Harry and Hermione spent their free time trying to figure out how 'Wulfric's' preservation charm worked and how to apply it to the mithril, simply wishing for the mithril to start with a preservation did admittedly work however the mithril generated less power as a response so there was no magical 'gained' from doing so, Harry knew the preservation charm would need to be applied after the mithril had formed and theorised that it would have to be the mithril's creator that applied it, Hermione had found a reference in the library to a preservation charm that looked promising despite not being the enchantment they needed, Harry had started work on learning the charm however it was an OWL level charm and was exceedingly complex, Harry could have asked Flitwick to help him but two factors stopped him, the first reason was that he wanted to prove to himself that he could still learn magic without needing help like he had done at the Dursleys, the second was Flitwick would ask why he wanted to learn it and Harry doubted he could hide his use of mithril and even though he liked Flitwick he didn't trust him with that secret yet, as such he felt it would take all year to learn even the simplest preservation enchantment.

He had also spent a lot of time helping Hermione try and form mithril, she had come a long way from not even knowing she had magic to being able to guide it into a specific part of her body, in this case her hand, however once the magic reached her hand she struggled to get it to leave, she had once managed to get a wisp of magic to leave her palm but rather than solidify into mithril it turned an ash grey and evaporated into nothingness, Harry had been thrilled that his friend had managed so much even if it had failed, Harry suspected she did not truly believe she could do it meaning her will was lower, however Harry spent his time building Hermione's confidence and finally she had

managed to get a small mithril ring to form, Harry was so focused on that ring of magic he did not notice Hermione slumping over until she fell onto him and he realised she had fallen unconscious from the exertion, panicking he shook her and was relieved when she woke up, bleary eyed she looked at him and mumbled "What happened?"

"You managed to get some magic and made a mithril ring but you also lost consciousness temporarily, I assume from magical exhaustion."

"But that's never happened to you! Why do I fall unconscious from summoning a small ring when you can summon a giant, complicated tornado and get slightly peckish!"

"Keep in mind Hermione that when I first summoned mithril I fell asleep for about seven hours and I had been doing magic for years even before that, you have only had about two months actually doing magic and that's with a wand, magic is both easier and less personal with a wand meaning you don't become as familiar with your magic. Honestly I doubt I'd be able to even manage a small ring if I were in your position."

Harry placed Hermione's ring on the tabletop and told her to try to make a new one, meanwhile Harry was also experimented more on his own mithril inspired by Hermione's theories, this led him to the discovery that he could imbue the mithril with charms that would remain activated forever, he already knew from designing his defenses that he could wish for an action to happen with the mithril when he formed it however he had considered that just an extent of using mithril as a magical foci, what he was learning now was he could go beyond even that and imbue actual charms into the mithril that would apply themselves to either the mithril or anything the mithril touched.

Picking up the tornado sculpture he had made when he first showed Hermione his workshop he melted it back into magic while also forcing it to retain its shape, he then hollowed it out inside so it looked like a cup and then finally imbued it with aguamenti, this was a big test for him as he was nowhere near able to actually cast aguamenti for any stretch of time and wanted to see if he could cast it through the raw magic to keep it going indefinitely, nothing seemed to happen however so Harry let it turn back to a solid only for it to start shooting out powerful blasts of water in all directions, panicking Harry turned the mithril back to raw magic and was relieved when the water stopped, looking around he winced as he saw his workshop was now flooded and Hermione was giving him a death glare behind her soaked hair

"Sorry" He said sheepishly, seeing an opportunity for another test he commanded his magic into the water the same as when he pushed his magic into the air or dust, he then willed the magic to heat up and rise into the air, he was unable to pick up all of the water and puddles still remained but there was a noticeable difference, he lifted the water up to the roof then once it was safely overhead he made it spin around, faster and faster and as it spun he willed it to heat up and boil, as the water droplets evaporated his magic released it and moved back down to pick up more water to replace it.

Hermione was absolutely stunned at what she was watching, at first she was mildly annoyed at him for getting her soaked but then he just casually lifted the water straight into the air without any wand or incantation, as he taught her more about the wonders of magic she had started to believe she was catching up to him in terms of magical power only for him to then do something so unbelievable she doubted she would ever be able to replicate the feat, she did notice that Harry was sweating a fair bit although that could also have been the heat and the steam, deciding to use what she had been taught by Harry she looked within herself for her flow of magic and then forced it to divert a stream of magic into the very air around her, she knew it worked when she could suddenly feel the air around her as if it were a part of her, recalling her science lessons before Hogwarts she willed the air around her to slow and cool down, this resulted in more steam being made by as the cold air met boiling water however it also made it far more bearable as Harry worked to remove the water.

It was with a sense of joy as Harry and Hermione worked together, with the two friend's magic sharing a singular purpose of removing the water their magic joined and shared power, Hermione gained greater control over the air as her magic got a touch of Harry's raw power and required less planning while Harry was able to pick up much more water with Hermione's will guiding him, they worked together until all the water had been evaporated and all the steam had dissipated, flushed with success Hermione threw her arms around Harry and hugged him fiercely, she did not notice how he tensed up and not return the hug as she was far too overjoyed to have been able to control the air, she had been unable to get her magic to obey her in such a raw and primal manner before, by the time she pulled away she realised her clothes and hair were still a mess and said "I'll see you at dinner Harry, I'm going to go change" and left quickly after she had cast a basic notice me not on herself.

Harry stood staring at the door long after Hermione had left, he was thrilled she had learnt to control the air and feeling their magic join with a single purpose was the happiest he had ever felt, even the hug had been nice once he got over his initial shock, in the end he just shook his head to clear his thoughts and went back to his cup, luckily before he had let go of his magic on the cup he had subconsciously removed the aguamenti enchantment from the mithril because it had solidified again, picking it off the ground he actual planned through what he actually wanted it to do, he figured he wanted it to fill up to the rim and stop before it could overflow, he also only wanted the water to try and fill the cup from the inside rather than the outside, with his plan now clearly in mind he refocused on the mithril and turned it back to magic, he then applied the aguamenti charm on just the inside of the cup then a line of stasis along the rim of the cup with its trigger being water.

When the cup solidified the inside filled with water again until it reached the rim were it stopped, Harry then raised it to his mouth and took a drink and was upset when the cup didn't refill, looking at the rim he saw some water was still sticking to the rim, annoyed he turned the cup back into magic, the leftover water fell through the magic like it was not even there getting Harry's shoes even wetter, putting aside his annoyance he added a small stud of mithril in the bottom of the cup and made that hold the aguamenti charm instead of the walls of the cup then removed the stasis charm from the rim and added it to the stud with the trigger being a small electric signal, he made the cup itself an insulator to both electricity and heat and then gave the rim a tiny electrical charm.

Once that was done he solidified the cup, instantly it began filling itself with water but stopped once it reached the rim, he took a drink from it without issue as the electrical current within the water was far too small to be noticed and once the level of the water got below the rim it filled up again, happy with his success in making an actually practical mithril object Harry add a cap to the cup to make it into a flask while still keeping the tornado design, he also moved the electric charm to the neck of the flask, no matter how vigorously he shook the bottle no water escaped as the mithril was perfectly fitted to each other and removing the lid required only a minimal amount of force to pop it off allowing him to take a drink.

World building time, in case it was not clear yet mithril will hold a fairly important part of this story, which is funny as I had only come up with the idea of mithril when I wrote 'Pure Magic' and went with it… More Harry and Hermione bonding in this chapter, the next chapter will be the big payoff.

I have also changed the first two chapters of this story into one larger chapter and fixed some issues, next week I will be adding a small little thing to chapter one as I did not want to add it until the Halloween chapter is released, which I have been planning since day 1…