章 20: Testing the wand and new spells

'moonlight seems about right for the werewolf King' I thought with a smile on my face, looking at the light that basked the room, it faded as soon as it came after grabbing my wand. Feeling the connection between us, I was satisfied, it felt like a part of me which it was in a sense, an arm attached to my hand in both directions.

I continued to stay at the Ollivander household and had an interesting debate with Geraint about magic, his theory was that magic had a will of its own and magical folk channelled that will with words and wand movements and it would morph their desires in the shape of spells or curses.

I thought that was stupid, what about wandless magic? And their own personal magic energy inside them? When casting spells before, I exercised my will and power and forged it to work how I planned to. A wand movement might help focus your will and chants the same, but it was really about controlling your own magic and the result you wanted to achieve by enforcing your will power.

He had said that people didn't have magic inside their bodies in a core, because it couldn't be located. Which I kind of understood but I could clearly feel and see his core and my own. Which lead me to believe that the soul must hold the core, there wasn't a physical core but an incorporeal one.

His theories did, nonetheless, help me understand the worlds natural magic. It obviously had a will of its own or how would oaths and vows be upheld? Magic was sentient to some degree and you could have a vow between parties that if broken, you would die or swear upon your magic if that is broken you become a squib.

So to utilize the world's magic you either needed to bend its will to your own or have it align with your intended purposes. Fascinating indeed. Also when we discussed rituals and I asked about invoking a deity for there power in aid of the results, he was baffled and couldn't come up with an answer, he'd never heard of anything like that at all. He just talked about Mother Magic, I did, however, tell him of the Norse gods of magic.

So I'll have to test my hypothesis out with channelling a deities power, maybe I'll use Thor's name while channelling lightning? Anyway, I had tried using my wand and the results were acceptable, as I expected a wand was just a focus, it made spells easier to cast and faster but nothing else, the power was affected by the amount of magic channelled to the spell.

We also talked about spell language, he used Latin and I used Norse, his spells were more easily distinguishable, whereas the Norse language had many words for multiple objects or phrases. Whereas Latin was similar but had different words for similar things for example lightning was "fulgur" but a lightning bolt was "fulmen" but in Norse, there wasn't a word for lightning it was thunder, just like the God of thunder who could utilize lightning they were the same thing. I started to understand why Latin was the main origin of spell incantations, it was for the variety of the meanings, not that you needed to actually use speech for a spell to work.

Transfiguration showed this in the Harry Potter films, professor McGonagall turned her desk into a pig nonverbally. But some spells needed the incantations like "Evanesco" which is Latin for disappear, the incantation for vanishing to make something go into non-being.

We also talked about the different types of magical people from house elves to wizards. He was knowledgeable about seers, apparently, his uncle was a seer but his visions of future events were always different from the actual situations. like the roles of people would be reversed or the time of day it happened to be opposite. His family also didn't have any house-elves apparently his grandfather had used an unbreakable vow with a woman to never enslave them. I did ask him if I could find some somewhere and he said most have been abducted by the dark wizards of Ireland, I asked about the goblin country as well but has never been there and doesn't know where it is.

After the insights, I gained into magic I left the Ollivander house to go and experiment. As I was using my wand I began experimenting with spells and the Norse language. I wasn't using Latin at all, I was focused on runes and charms. I have created a few new spells though

"Brenna loga sókn" is a fire spell that spews blue flames and is extremely offensive.

"Hepta" is a binding spell that causes a victim to be bound by my magic encasing them in a shroud of pressure stopping their movements.

"bjóða Leiptr" is to summon lightning this fires a bolt of purple lightning from the wand, I did try it wandless but it left my hand feeling numb for a few hours.

And my favourite so far "veðr spjót" this creates a blast of a storm, lightning to burn and immobilize, wind to cut and push back, and rain as a conductor and pressure, blasting at an enemy at breakneck speeds truly a spell I'm proud of, it tore up trees and cut through them like a knife in butter.

When I cast "Þórr veðr spjót" using Thor's name with a spell he had a divinity with amplified the effects tenfold, the bolts of lightning were white and as thick as my legs, the wind howled angrily and the rain had become hail.

My theory was right you can use deities to empower spells, I'm not sure about rituals and such I'd have to experiment with those as well later.

I also started something I should have done when I discovered my magic, telekinesis using magic to move stuff at will was surprisingly easier then I thought it would be, I could now push and pull multiple objects at the same time in separate directions was harder not impossible though, I just had to concentrate a lot on it.

Also transfiguration, I remember in Harry Potter they start with a transforming a match to a needle, its never really explained how just that it was more scientific than other subjects. So with my knowledge of future science, I began attempting it turning a small stick into a metal post with the composition of iron.

Iron had an atomic number of 26, its symbol was Fe with an atomic weight 55.845 each shell had 2-8-14-2 electrons. Knowing this and actually applying it were completely different, and a lot harder than it looked on a tv screen. As I pushed my magic into the stick willing it to change composition it started but very gradually, watching wood slowly change its carbon and oxygen atoms and become iron is extraordinary. While knowing that wood is made from two different cells and is a living thing but iron is an element is a mind-boggling experience to watch. It took over an hour to fully change the stick, it was the same size and weight as before which was odd cause it should be heavier, must be the space between the atoms have stayed the same or something.

After that experiment, I went on to change it back which was even harder, wood was a compound of elements not just a single one, and each different type of wood had varying elements in a small percentage. Honestly, it was a failure when I tried changing the iron into oxygen it just became rust, iron oxide, I oxidised the iron, instead of changing it's the elemental structure I created a chemical compound. Transfiguration magic was difficult and I'm glad I didn't try transfiguration on myself, I might have ruined my whole body.

Looks like I'll need to go get a little elf, I want to employ the little gremlins to help me with my goal in Pangaea. Building a magic community from scratch won't be easy and the goblins could help with that, but I have no idea where to find them.

Anyway, next stop Stone Henge.