章節 5: Ch 5: Proud Mother

~1989 October 16 - Samantha Pov~

It's been about two years since Ghoul has started learning magic and he has a talent for ritual and magic circles and it's like he's a fish in water when it comes to learning about them.

Ritual magic now mostly considered as black magic and most rituals are banned in England so him being very talented in it and being able to perform all kinds of rituals has to be kept a secret.

I can understand why it's considered as black magic seeing what evil wizards use it for and the problem that arises if you are untalented or don't follow the instructions correctly but banning it is a little uncalled for as it's old magic and an important part of the wizarding world even now.

The rituals he likes to perform are summoning and timeline seeing. Summoning rituals can summon other world monsters, demons, souls, and people while timeline seeing lets you see the past, present, and future but you never know what you are looking into is the right past, present, or future.

He's doing quite dangerous stuff if he messes up the rituals so we need to look after him when he does them to not let him harm himself. To make sure of it we only allow him to summon souls of harmless animals that turn into his ghost pets like his ghost cat Casper and for timeline seeing he can only look at the present Muggle world so too not cost that much problems. He even found out the uses of rubber duckies and much more stuff about the Muggle world.

Magic circles is an arcane art and now are barely used. Magic circles were known to be used in everything that involves magic back in the day but were difficult to learn and they are different to use in general. Also, thanks to the use of wands and combined together with new ways of learning magic have made the use of magic circles invade and unnecessary, they also barely still keep teaching ancient runes that help make up magic circles. It's a shame as magic involving magic circles are known to be superior and more powerful.

Ghoul has been doing lots of his magic by using magic circles to cast spells as they don't require a wand because he only learn low tier spells and he can do most of the stuff that Hogwarts is teaching up to the first half of the second year. He has also been doing some of the spells in the family grimoire like Spiritification that can make parts to all of his body that of a ghost, this was the first spell he learns from the grimoire as it lets him to finally touch us. He had also dream invasion by letting out an astral body to invade dreams by trying it wondering animals that fell asleep near our house.

He can't do anything else as the rest of the spells be it in the grimoire or in the Hogwarts learning requirements entire of higher learning spells complete as he needs proper instructions to learn them or he doesn't have enough magical power in him to perform them.

So Ghoul who is in stuck in a bottleneck in his progress of learning is just reading spell theory and playing with his pets.

These years are really peaceful, letting us see him play and grow up like this, I wish I could make these moments last forever.