Chapter 69 - True Magic

Sirius death had been… inconvenient.

And telling Hermione the truth behind his imprisonment and the reason behind his death was even more inconvenient.

But it had to be done, plus it helped in shaking her trust in the authority figures of the wizarding world so it was totally worth it.

Except now he had to console a crying Hermione.

Surprisingly, the task was not as hard as he had initially thought since all he had to do was hold the girl and let her cry it out.

Hmm… maybe he was not so bad in this 'dealing with girls' thing after all.

He looked outside the window at the passing scenery.

The ride from the train station to Hogwarts always calmed him down.

And as he calmed down a bit, he started to remember how different the things were in this life than in the movies.

In the movies, Sirius died at the end of Harry's 5th year which left Harry devastated.

He, on the other hand, didn't really feel anything at Sirius' death.

A stranger who might have helped him in the future by keeping Dumbledore off his back, but a stranger nonetheless.

So Sirius' death didn't meant much to him.

Still, someone had foiled his plans and he had a pretty good idea about who that someone was.

Sirius was most likely murdered by either Fudge or Lucius. Or maybe both of them as they were the people who would benefited the most from his death.

And he would take revenge for that.

He didn't care for Sirius but that man was still his godfather so his pride won't be sated until he killed those two men.

And he would do that.

When he was strong.

Which meant not anytime soon.

After all, he didn't want anyone to disturb the two of them during such an emotional moment.

Well, not so much emotional for him as it was for Hermione but still.

He liked hugging the girl and he would rather not be disturbed while he was doing that.

Truthfully, he had not even planned on riding the Hogwarts Express and had simply planned to apparate to the school. Such a decision would save his time and would allow him to remain inconspicuous.

But Hermione had asked him to meet him in the train station and he did not want to leave the girl all alone either in case she was bullied by her peers once again so he had decided to join her instead.

Of course, he had to ship his test subjects off to The Chamber of Secrets inside a trunk with of help of Bitty before he came to the express.

He had been seeing some rather spectacular results lately and didn't wanted anything to come between him and his research.

Of course, most of the research he'd been doing so far had been pretty simple.

Tweaking specific muscle groups and seeing their effect on day to day activities.

Nothing drastic or permanent so far.

But he knew that sooner or later he would have to go deeper into his research at which point, it was imperative that he knew what he was changing and what kind of results he wanted.

Magic was a tool. An amazing tool to be fair, but a tool nonetheless. And a tool can only show it's true potential in the hands of a master.

He was not a master but then again, there was no other practitioner of Human Transfiguration in the Magical Britain as far as he knew.

In essence, it was all an uncharted territory for him.

Which meant that sooner or later, he would have to read on the subject of human anatomy so that he could understand what he was actually doing at a deeper level.

That was one of the reasons why he had brought a microscope with him this time. He planned to learn as much about human transfiguration this term as he could.

A gentle nudge on his ċhėst reminded him of Hermione and he looked down and a gentle smile blossomed at his lips at the form of a sleeping Hermione.

Seriously. This girl needed to stop studying so late at night. It was never wise to give away your health for knowledge.

Hermione was perhaps the most hard working person he'd ever seen.

People see her raising her hands in class and judge her to be a know-it-all. They never see the hours upon hours that she spends in the Library studying the course material to make sure that she stayed the top in her class.

If only she would give up on the course related material like the History of magic and other such useless subjects and start studying other more important things like Ancient Runes and Human Transfiguration or Alchemy then that would help her a lot more in the long run.

He knew full well that the only reason he was able to study so much and still retain all that he read in his mind was because of Rowena Rawenclaw's Diadem, which was one of the reasons why he never showed it to her.

Because deep down, he had a feeling that if he ever gave it to her, then she would spend even more time studying and never give the diadem back to him.

It was just that amazing.

That didn't mean that he would not share the diadem with her in the future but for now, he wanted it to remain with him so that he could stay ahead of her in every thing.

After all, if a teacher starts to fall behind his student then is he still a teacher?

Still, there was something about Hermione that confused him very much.

For all her supposed hard work, Hermione always stayed behind him in the magic of will and intent.

He didn't understood why it was.

She definitely worked harder than him when he first started learning magic on his own and she had him for a teacher as well while he had no one.

But still, he had shown more progress in one month than she did in three.

Was this because she was less magically powerful then him.

But that wouldn't make sense because he was rather weak when he first started learning how to control his magic through will and intent.

But if not magic then why did it her so long to grasp this concept.

Was this because of age?

Was it possible that the younger you started learning this kind of magic, the easier it'll be for you to grasp it.

If that was the case, then that would explain why it took so long for Penelope to make such little progress.

Maybe people who have been too accustomed to using magic via a wand start to rely on it too much and lose their touch with the true magic.

To learn more about this subject, he would have to teach more people about this kind of magic and he was not ready to share this treasure with anyone else in case he lose his advantage.

So knowing why Hermione was so slow in making progress will have to wait.

And just because Hermione was not as good at wandless magic as him didn't meant that she was someone to be underestimated.

Because he knew very well that the day Hermione stops believing in the system of Hogwarts and starts learning on her own, she'll easily be able to contend with him on any subject that she chooses to focus on.

She was just that good.

'My own little prodigy.' He thought with a smirk and place a gentle kiss on her forehead, trying to ignore how cute she looked while sleeping upon his ċhėst.

Then he opened the bottomless purse and took out a medical book that he'd recently been studying to better understand the muscles on human body.

He had a feeling that he would have to go to Medical College to copy their books so that he could increase his knowledge on human body.

But that was a thing for the future when he gained better understanding of the subject.

For now, he would simply contend with a young Hermione and a simple Anatomy book.

Author's Note :-It always surprises me how little witches and wizards knew about human body but are able to use complex medical spells regardless of their ignorance.

It must mean that magic must help a lot when performing such spells.

Still, I believe that if you want to delve deeper into human transfiguration, then you need to have better understanding of human body as you can't just rely on magic to solve every problem for you.

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