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19th March 1995, Hogwarts
(Jasmine POV)
Well, I have to say it's been an eventful couple of days. I didn't expect Dumbledore to go this far when he lost the allegiance of the elder wand. I guess losing most of his magic would freak anyone's mind. I didn't realize he used the elder wand this much; he had barely more magic than a regular seventh year student at Hogwarts. I expected him to do sothing rash like attacking in public or sothing but damn, I didn't expect him to actually break a natural law.
Natural laws are different because they either involve cosmic entities or cause imbalance in the delicate balance of powers. Sothing that could easily break an entire section of the multiverse. My job, being death's hunter, is to hunt those who break the natural laws. What Albus Dumbledore did was try to absorb the essence of a phoenix. Phoenixes are not just so immortal magical creatures. They are part of the Phoenix force themselves and serve as anchors to the avatar of the phoenix. Believe it or not, a mortal no matter how powerful, cannot host even a shard of a cosmic entity.
The phoenixes filter the cosmic energy, purifying it to make it compatible with the host. Each phoenix is an aspect of the phoenix. My phoenix, Erebus represents the destruction aspect of the cosmic entity, the darkness. Fawkes represented its fire aspect. There are many other, each one with a different elent, Erebus is currently with his mate, the light phoenix Sol, that represents creation.
What Dumbledore accidentally did was disperse the energy inside Fawkes. The exposure to the energy turned him into his pri condition, magic included and supercharged his natural healing factor and longevity, which every wizard or witch possess, making him essentially immortal. He didn't really absorb Fawkes, he killed him. It will take decades for a new fire phoenix to be born and now any phoenix avatar would be very unstable. Shit, I guess I'll have to monitor Jean Grey, in case she goes crazy and turns into the dark phoenix. Jean is still a toddler, so I'll have ti to set sothing up.
Damn, this is very bad. Why was I so blind to this? The phoenix force should have warned if sothing like this was going to happen. I should have felt its effects. What happened was even hidden from Hogwarts itself and it happened inside the castle. The only explanation I have is that the phoenix force itself wanted this to happen for so reason, but that doesn't make any sense, cosmic forces revel in stability.
What Dumbledore did, caused an imbalance, so I was given the go ahead to kill him. Now, I don't want to just kill him, I want him to suffer. So, I marked him and told Nicholas to warn him. Let him live with a countdown. Give him hope with the bogus story with the hallows, it will make him desperate, and I will take advantage of that.
Now, let's ignore the old goat and go along with my day. I have a special lesson planned with Rose. I go to our eting place and find her waiting for as usual.
"Hey, Rose." I greet her.
"Good morning, Jasmine.", she responds, "So what are we doing today, I have been trying to use this illusion, but it becos unstable when I try to make my illusions move."
"It's alright, you only need to learn to control your magic a little better. It's sothing that cos with practice. Today, I'm teaching you sothing new. I'm going to teach you light magic."
"Light magic, is it like the opposite of dark magic?" Rose questioned.
"Yes and No. It depends on your definition of Dark magic. What do you think is Dark Magic?"
"It's the magic that hurts people, isn't it? You get corrupted when you use it and turn into monsters"
"No, my dear. Dark magic doesn't corrupt. Darkness is an elent."
"I don't understand, you an like fire or my ice."
"Exactly!" At her confusion, I explain it more clearly. "Tell , how does casting a spell work. Like how would you go about casting a spell?"
My sister frowned for a mont then answered, "I learn the incantation, then the wand movent and then the spell happens."
"If that was all there is to it then why does your magic do the spell. It's not like magic likes Latin for so reason. I can tell you that there are spells in other languages. Then why are incantations and wand movents important?"
Rose shrugged, "I don't know, they just are."
I shake my head, "That's not how magic works. Everything happens for a reason. Do you want the answer to my question?" She nods, "Alright then, Magic nowadays is based on Arithmancy, aning a precise artificial control over magic. You see, what truly sets wands apart from other kinds of focus, and yes there are other types of artifacts used to channel magic and cast spells, is the fact that their creator discovered that moving the wand a certain way allows them to shape their magic in a precise manner. What was revolutionary was the fact that a wand user's magic would be shaped exactly the sa way every ti they do the sa movent. There was no need to learn to control magic, like the old sorcerers do. If one person creates a spell, anyone can cast it if he learns the wand movents and has enough magic to power the spell. After shaping their magic using wand movents, the wizard or witch only has to channel their magic through a wand. The wand will then channel a burst or a pulse of magic which is what we call spells. Now, Rose can you tell the advantages and disadvantages of casting this way?"
My sister stayed quiet for a few monts and then answered, "Anyone can use spells this way and there's less of a risk for the people who use them."
I beam at her "Very good, Rose. Yes, this was one of the main advantages to using a wand. It was seen in Ro actually; the wand is a Roman invention and they used it to teach their legions combat magic very quickly. They were a fearso empire back in the day and the invention of the wand allowed them to conquer most of Europe and a great part of Northern Africa. The wand existed before hand of course but it was seen as a poor replacent to other focuses, like staves and rings. It was only after a wand maker called Tiberius Ollivanneder who showcased his findings in Ro in an effort to attract attention to his wand shop. A na that slowly evolved into Ollivander's that you know now. The sign wasn't kidding when it said that they were wandmakers since 300 BC. Now what you can tell about the negatives?"
Again, she spent a couple of minutes thinking and told , "I don't know. It seems better, isn't it?"
I sighed, "On paper, maybe. But not in reality. And it centers on the invention of spells. Wands focus on arithmancy to create spells but arithmancy is difficult. To create a spell from scratch takes years or even decades of research which is why a lot of wizards are known for just a handful of spells not unlike the Ancient Greek that had a vast repertoire. It's easier to build upon an already created spell. Modifying it and turning it into your own. This killed magical innovation. The spells we use today are modified versions of the spells used when Hogwarts was founded which are in turn modified spells of the ones used by the Romans. Furthermore, another great disadvantage is the fact that a spell cannot be modified once cast, except of course if it's designed this way, like in an animation charm but even then, it can only be a slight change not an impressive one."
"I don't understand, what do you an by modifying a spell?"
I open my hand and summon fire that I throw at the ceiling. The fire ball rises and suddenly turns into a badger that starts running in the air around us.
"The original fire was a simple fire ball and I animated it. You can't do that with a wand. Well, you can, but you have to learn how to control your magic first and not let the wand control it for you." I answer.
"What about people that cast without wand movents?"
"An excellent question. It's people who has cast the spell so many tis are so familiar to it that it becos like muscle mory to shape their magic this way. So, they do not need wand movents. As for incantations, they have two purpose one is to rember the spell, another is to help with the wand movents. If you noticed there is a symtry between wand movents and the incantation. A longer wand movent ans a longer incantation. For example, in the Lumos spell, there are two quick wand movents, to jabs to be exact. You do the first during the "Lu" syllable and the "Mos" in the second one. The incantations help synchronize the wand movents properly, timing matters when casting with a wand. What I'm teaching you with your ice is different, what I'm teaching you is proper elental magic not elentally charged spells."
"What's the difference between elental magic and elentally charged spells?"
"Elental magic is the conscient control over an elent. Taking your ice as an example, a true master of the ice elent can conjure snowstorms, turn ice into snow with nary a thought, shape any ice to his liking and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Each elent has its own characteristics. Water is flexible, fire is passionate, air is quick and sharp. Your ice, for example, is characterized by control. There is an entire classification of elents, so it's not just the base elents like water and fire. I once t a Steam elental. It was terrifying; he could inflict the sa damage as a fire elental but had the control of a water elental. You can have up to two elental affinities. You have ice and light, hence your illusions. It takes a lot less magic to shape anything using your elents but being an elental can make it harder to control certain other elents. A fire elental will have trouble shaping water, for example.
Elentally charged spells are different. It's like a simple spell used by a wand that has an elent attached to it. Rember the ice cutter spell you cast at when we trained your dueling. This is a normal cutting spell that added the elent ice. It's a shade of true elental magic. Spells like incendio, aguanti and ventus are just very weakened versions of elental magic."
"That's very interesting and everything but what does that have to do with dark magic."
I chuckled, "Well everything dear. Darkness and Light are elents. Like water, air, and earth. The Light is characterized by creation and Darkness by destruction. There is nothing evil about any of them. Everything is born and everything dies. Most of what you call dark spell are just Light spells that have their elent changed from light to darkness. The blood boiling curse is a dark modified of a Finnish spell that healers used to save patients from hypothermia. There is nothing truly horrific about Dark magic. Yes, there is so people that use negative emotions to amplify the darkness elent in a spell and get used to feeling these emotions whenever they cast any magic, but this is not the magic corrupting them it's them corrupting themselves."
"What about the killing curse?"
"The killing curse isn't Dark magic, Rose. It's a bastardized version of soul magic. Never use this spell, for its users never understand the price they pay for each ti they cast that spell. It chips away their souls. Changing the essence of their being. Every ti they cast that spell; they lose a portion of their being, of their very self. They feel less and love less. They might not notice it, but they slowly lose what makes them human. In the end, they beco a pale shadow of what they could be, with no compassion or empathy, living their lives with no aning."
Neither one of us talk for a good minute.
"Now onto a lighter topic, what I'm teaching you today is sothing very few people actually think it exists. It was the way healers fought in ancient tis. It was the reason no one ever wanted to anger a healer, a master of a light elent. I have taught you how to control your ice elent, the only thing left is for you to practice. Now, it's ti for you to learn how to control your light elent. Ti for you to learn how to use Hard light."
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