Chương 8: Chapter 8: Lessons and Training
Walburga in this world is less about blood superiority and more about family superiority, she still believes that muggle-borns and half-bloods are beneath her but doesn't overly express these views especially out in public since it will tarnish the family's reputation. In this world she didn't rally to Voldemort's side, she didn't give copious amounts of gold to his faction and she didn't sell her daughters to Malfoy and Lestrange. This along with her nice personality has caused me to come to like her as if she were part of my close family.
She started the potions lesson off with general safety procedures, ingredient handling and cutting techniques as well as the correct way to clean and prepare cauldrons. With that over we started with a simple cure for boils we first talked through the steps and why the ingredients were prepared in each way as well as why they were added when and how they were. She kept the lessons informative but didn't stuff them with too much information that would make them overly boring, allowing me to understand and remember the things she taught me.
In her next lesson on herbology, she started in the same way, with safety first followed by the correct way to use the tools and look after the plant, we started simply with dittany being the plant being tended to it is a plant used in most curative draughts as well as the essence of dittany being used to heal most flesh wounds, scratches and cuts. The lessons ended before I knew it and we both made our way to dinner. "Did you enjoy your first lessons with me? You looked like you understood the work so we can continue at a faster pace next time." Walburga said with a small proud smile on her face while I nodded my affirmation.
The dinner was a simple affair and there was barely any talking, after finishing dinner I waited for Lord Black to do the same so that his lesson on Dark arts could start. "Today I will start with the ritual of cleansing the corruption from you from casting dark magic, this is used to remove the ill effects which can slowly taint your soul and mind." Lord Black said while leading me to the ritual room, inside I saw a small bowl, some white chalk and a knife. "You will sit outside the circle and watch carefully." Lord Black then took the chalk and gently crushed it into a fine white powered allowing it to fall into the bowl, grabbed the knife and slit his wrist allowing his blood to likewise flow into the bowl. After a few seconds, the wound on his wrist healed and he stated "The knife has an auto-healing enchantment so only the required amount of blood is given." Mixing the blood chalk mixture with a brush he started to draw with it on the ground.
The ritual circle was completed in a few moments and all the chalky blood was used, he then started to chant as magic turned turbulent in the room. it started to beat like a heart as dark foul magic was sucked out of lord black's body and pure magic was pushed into its place. The ritual didn't take long to finish either but Lord Black was out of breath because of the process, "Remember... It is better to do this every time... you do dark magic then... let the darkness taint you... Do you remember... the circle?" He said between deep breaths. "Yes, I remember Lord Black."
The rest of his lesson was me replicating what he did however when I felt my magic being expelled and replenished I noticed something, I could control the magic that was pushed into me more easily than the magic I had before. "Lord Black, does this ritual increase the control of your magic too by a small margin?" Lord Black shook his head and said "No as far as I am aware the only benefit this ritual has is the expelling of the taint."
After the lessons, I went to the duelling room and started to do stretches to allow me to be more flexible in the future, I then went into yoga to continue my flexibility training. From the door, a gruff voice said: "Oi pipsqueak I have been asked by my mother to do some exercise training with you to increase your dodging capabilities and agility." I looked towards the voice to see a woman with wild eyes and black hair. "My name is Bellatrix, you may call me Bellatrix is that understood."
The next 2 hours were me doing various running and stretching sets until Bellatrix was satisfied with how many I had done, at the end of it I was exhausted. "You should go have a shower and then rest for the night, I shall be back at the same time every day. I will make you into a person fit to lead the Bodewig and the Black family, I also would like you to look after my little girl when you both go off to Hogwarts." With a small nod, I left the room and headed upstairs, after a much-needed shower I got into some nightwear and then did my magic routine while chatting to my ring which I needed to come up with a name for.
In the morning the routine continued this time with transfiguration and charms being first then DADA. just like this several years past until I was about to turn 10 years of age. This upcoming birthday was the first event where I would be introduced to the world of politics and intrigue that is the world of lords and heirs of England, I was officially being labelled as heir Black to the people of Britain. The party that was going to be my 10th had a guest list that included most of the ministry staff and lords, ladies and heirs of most families of high standing.
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