{Library, Hogwarts}
{4rd Sep 1991}
{3rd Person POV}
"Hey, you have already scoured the library a lot right? Did you find any spell that can copy and repeat certain sounds?" Rigel asked. He needed to copy roosters crowing before whoever had the diary began his murder spree.
"A spell to echo sounds?" Hermione questioned, she turned her head toward the bookshelves as she went through the books she had read in the last 3 days in her head. There was nothing that exactly matched what Rigel was asking about but there indeed was a book on illusion magic that dealt with auditory illusions.
"I don't remember any spell that does exactly what you are asking, but there was a spell I read about in a book that can make copies of books, maybe there was something like what you want in there," Hermione spoke and upon seeing Rigel nod in interest, she motioned for him to follow her.
"Follow me, it was right here in that section over there... is this your first time coming to the Library?" Hermione asked.
"Well yeah... being labeled as the dark lord kind of makes it difficult to move about in the castle," Rigel shrugged and Hermione turned around to look at Rigel only to notice that his eyes were looking down at her ass.
She turned back around and blushed as she tried not to sway her hips too much. Hermione knew she was quite beautiful, back in the muggle world she had many suitors because of her intelligence after being bullied in her teenage years. Her confidence actually took a hit when realized she was lacking only after coming to the Wizarding world and comparing herself to the witches like Daphne.
The freckles on her face were quite pronounced and her chest was flatter than most witches her age, still, the fact that her chest would grow if she practiced more magic gave her some comfort. Even before coming to the wizarding world, she had heard some whispers about comments made by boys about how her breasts were rather small.
She shoved the indecent thoughts from her mind and focused on the situation she found herself in. Rigel was smart, that much she could conclude based on his insights into magic and the way he approached learning. He was open-minded about her blood status although she was aware that the rest of her house was not too friendly with her fellow muggle-borns. A couple of days ago, Dean Thomas, another muggle-born from Gryffindor, had already faced some bullying at the hands of some Slytherin second years.
'But is it worth it to interact with him and bring trouble for both of us in the long run?' Hermione questioned. For the first time even though the answer was particularly clear, it logically being a resounding NO, she felt herself reluctant to actually follow through with her reasoning.
Was it because she could empathize with the situation that Rigel was in, probably? Was it because she found him a little attractive...
'Who am I kidding,' Hermione berated herself for lying to herself and admitted that the boy was attractive. He was lean with a hint of muscle, his dark locks curled slightly as his hair was on the longer side. He may not be the most handsome guy she had ever seen but he felt more real.
There were slight bags under his eyes that were likely the result of late-night studies. A picture of Rigel working hard in a small room in an Orphanage sprung to her mind and she wouldn't lie that she found that image a little attractive. And above all else, she knew the reason she was reluctant to walk away from this small interaction she was having with him.
He walked away from that gorgeous blond simply because he could see that she was nervous. It was a simple gesture and one he did unknowingly perhaps but she couldn't help but feel a little grateful toward him.
Her train of thought came to a stop as she suddenly came to a stop. Maybe it was too sudden as she felt Rigel barely stop himself from colliding with her, his attention likely focused on her swaying ass which she unknowingly had begun doing again. She felt his strong hands wrap around her tender waist for just a second as he stooped himself from colliding with her.... the second was agonizingly long before he backed away.
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"Sorry about that... err I was looking at the title of the books and didn't notice you stop," Rigel immediately fired an excuse.
Hermione gave him a look that he couldn't decipher but she was blushing slightly as she nodded. Rigel was relieved when he saw no negative emotions filter onto her face as she reached up and picked out a book from the shelves. He read the title of the tome.
'''Illusion Magic: The Realm of Lies'''
He gave Hermione an inquiring look with his eyebrows leaning upward, her choice of reading material was quite unique.
"It seemed interesting..." Hermione defended herself with a lame shrug to which Rigel nodded. At the very least the author knew what he was doing as he extended his hand and Hermione placed the book in his grasp. In a swift motion, he took the book from her and opened it. His focus shifted from the beautiful brunette to getting a piece of the puzzle that might be his biggest trump card against the danger that he might end up facing this year.
The first few pages of the book were rather simple with the author rambling about the usefulness of his magical art that Rigel somehow doubted, still the first spell did surprise him.
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'''...Take for example the Fire writing spell, more commonly known as the Flagrate spell. Flagrate is the incantation of a charm that allows one to write or draw in midair with fiery lines. The shape lingers for some time. But have you ever noticed if you can actually get burnt by these floating lines of firey words? The answer to that question is No because even though the incantation of the Fire writing spell is very close to that of the Burning Touch Curse (It's incantation being Flagrante), this spell had nothing to do with the rest of the fire-conjuring charms.
The incantation closely resembles most family commonly known fire spells because Fire is already linked to the Latin words in your mind so it makes focusing on the effects a little easier. In addition, since this spell doesn't require wand movements except the slight twisting of your wand, it is easy to mistakenly classify the Flagrate spell with the Flagrante curse and the rest of the Fire conjuring spells.
So what is the Flagrate Charm, the charm works by conjuring a small mist that magically alters the light that touches it giving it the appearance of fire to anyone who sees the spell, another interesting fact you would notice is if you try to use the spell in complete darkness it doesn't work and you couldn't see your writing floating in front of your. Illusion magic is a branch of magic that combines charm and Transfiguration, so even though it might look like a simple spell, beware that the difficulties of these spells might be greater than most 3rd year spells...'''
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AN - Had a rough day, feeling a little under the weather today so the chap is a few minutes late. Slept a little too much!
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{Library, Hogwarts}
{4rd Sep 1991}
{3rd Person POV}
The spell description was enlightening and Rigel could see himself using it in the future, but it didn't help him in his current scenario. The premise of Illusion magic was interesting though because sound was an integral part of an illusion to be real.
He closed the book and looked at Hermione who was giving him a questioning look, Rigel read it as she was inquiring about the book and he nodded. "This should have what I'm looking for, hopefully..." Rigel responded and then he began walking back to the table that they were occupying.
He sat down to read a book and after a brief moment of hesitation, Hermione sat down as well. A brief moment of awkward silence existed but as he got engrossed in reading the book he could sense that Hermione picked up the book that Daphne had left behind in a hurry and began reading.
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Romancing Hermione was bound to be slow, so instead he focused on the book in front of him. Illusion magic was a branch of magic that was never focused on in the book or movies. Why? He couldn't answer because thinking about him being in a fictional world kind of nudged his existential crisis... slightly.
Nevertheless, the number of spells mentioned in this book was pitifully low and all of them were niche charms that had no use case, at least none that he could think of. Some could be useful but any type of lingering magic could be detected by him and since he could do it, he was pretty sure that there would be things like magic sensors or something in the world. But they would work in high-speed combat so the field has some research purposes.
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'What would I even do with a spell that hides a door into the surroundings? This branch of utility magic kind of reminds me of Genjutsu from Naruto. They both seem powerful on paper, trapping the mind and visual senses but in reality, they are bad against powerful individuals. They would work well on unprotected minds but not against real threats... Then again I should learn the spells just in case and theorize after.' Rigel concluded.
The only good thing in the visual section of the spell was the Glamour charms, sure someone might be able to detect their existence but no one would be rude enough to point it out or try to dispel them. These spells would make it increasingly easy for him to venture into the muggle world when he needed it later because although the movies and the books kind of ignored the biggest pothole in the wizarding world, he wasn't going to.
'For a seemingly smart witch, I never could reason why Hermione never suggested using guns. One click from far away with a nice scope and Voldemort would have a nice hole in the middle of his forehead...' Rigel thought. A nice gun... smuggled, or stolen from one of the gangs and he would have it stored in his inventory. For emergency purposes.
Unless there were some magical bullshit like gunpowder doesn't work in the presence of magic, he was going to get a gun at the end of the year. Yeah, it was pretty easy to stop projectiles with a simple shield, but you have to be fast enough to get the shield in the first place.
"You okay Rigel?" Hermione asked as she nudged him slightly, he had been staring into thin air while silently shaking his head.
"What?... oh yeah, I was just thinking about the spells in the book," Rigel responded.
"So what do you think?" Hermione asked, she was curious to see what insight he might have.
"Well, I kind of don't understand the author's dismay about Illusion magic being an almost extinct branch of magic. Because truthfully this type of magic is quite cheap and unless the illusions could affect the mind of the targets, it is simply an Optical Artifact which is kind of useless. I have more hopes for the auditory illusions because audio, being a byproduct of the vibrations could more realistically be faked... or maybe the author doesn't have access to actual illusions which work by manipulating the nerve impulses in the brain..." Rigel spoke.
Hermione's eyes brightened at Rigel's insight into physics and basic biology, she liked how he analyzed magic which completely, which completely defied the laws of the universe she was familiar with with logic and reasoning the after-effects with the same laws that magic defies. She couldn't help but question, "You are applying physics to Magic, isn't that kind of redundant?"
"Not particularly if you just break magic into two phases. I simply substitute magic as a variable law that is capable of superseding any universal law depending upon the spell cast. You see take the Lumos as an example..." Riogel spoke as he fished out his wand from the inventory.
He extended his wand in front of her and incanted, "Lumos~". A bright light appeared at the end of his wand.
"Lumos, a very basic spell and it creates light out of nothing. Shouldn't be possible but magic and bullshit so whatever. With just a spell, my wand acts like a lightbulb because I intend it to. This is like a magical law that supersedes the universal law that something like this shouldn't be possible. But if you ignore how the light came into existence, the rest of the laws remain the same..." Rigel placed the tip of his wand on the table and then used his left hand to block the light that left his wand.
"...See the light shadow that is formed on the table by my hand, and if you look at the edge of the shadow then you can see it doesn't have a defined edge. So not only does the light travel in a straight line, it even bends slightly around the objects as you can see from the diffraction pattern." Rigel explained.
"I'm sure you can conduct all the experiments we did with two sources of light and watch the light and dark rings form on a surface, but this simple experiment shows that not only is the light the same as any other source that we know and can scientifically create, but it also follows the same laws. That's why I think magic and electricity should be able to interact. If magic doesn't actually resist the fundamental laws of nature and energy." Rigel finished his rant and then whispered, "Nox~"
The light at the end of his wand fizzled out and so did Hermione came out of his trance, the look in her eyes told him that she wanted to do the experiments he talked him about so he quickly dissuaded her, "I'm sorry but I didn't notice the time, I do have to go for now, but hopefully we can meet again?"
The brown-eyed girl nodded mutely as Rigel smiled at her, he waved his hand and said his farewell, "See ya later!"
Rigel picked up the book on Illusion magic because he already knew that the spell he needed was here, now he needed to do some experiments to see if it was viable or not.
'Who knew a hunting spell would help me save my hide if worse comes to worse...'
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AN - Illusion magic would come back later in the fic.
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