Marcus had frowned at Harry when he saw him going through the books for fourth year. In general it was frowned on for the younger students to learn the spells for an older year. Most lacked both the power and the control to do the more advanced spells.
The reason why students were forbidden magic over the summer was they needed to not be working their magic so their connection would have a chance to grow. All magicals had magic to draw on. Children didn't come to school until they were eleven because their connection to their magic was sporadic at best until they turned ten or eleven. He had taught Harry the summoning charm on the train before first year, but when he'd done it he hadn't expected the younger boy to be able to do it. Because he'd expected Harry's connection to be too weak to sustain the spell. Usually after the ten months the students were at school they had worked the connection enough that it needed a chance to rest and strengthen. It wasn't to keep the children from doing anything so much as it was to strengthen their magic, something purebloods in general understood, but many muggleborn speculated was to hamper them. Which was a second reason for the no magic in the summer rule, youngsters didn't always have the best judgement of when magic was called for and when it wasn't. Normally the student's connection needed the time to strengthen before attempting the more advanced spells of the next year or the connection could be damaged or even snap. Most times if a spell was too demanding it simply wouldn't work. Marcus really didn't understand why they didn't teach this to the firsties, it would save so many problems.
"Potter, what are you doing?"
"Looking for a spell."
"What spell?"
"Something to prevent sound from entering or leaving my bed when I sleep at night."
Marcus instantly made assumptions about why Harry wanted such a spell. Malfoy was lucky he had a tolerant and smart roommate. Marcus had had to survive five years of a snoring roommate who after curfew when he wasn't snoring, was wanking, noisily . Marcus had woken more than once to his roommate's noises. It had been awful and embarrassing, and it had been with great relief that Marcus had learned the silencing spell in fifth year. "It's a fifth year spell. I don't know if I should do this but I'll teach it to you."
"Why do you say that, Marcus?"
"Well… It's kinda hard to explain purebloods all know this, but since you grew up with muggles I guess you wouldn't. See the teachers start with the small, barely requiring anything spells. Think of wingardium leviosa. You start levitating a feather. As the year progresses, you add deliberate movement and weight. At the end of the year most firsties can handle between half to a full stone of weight. Transfiguration is the same you start with a needle by the end of the year you're transfiguring things with the weight and volume of a mouse or a snuffbox…" Marcus went on to explain to Harry.
Harry's expression as he finished explaining was thoughtful.
"But what about family magics? I spent some of last summer learning those."
"Did you actually use your wand or were they ritual based?"
"Ritual."
"Ritual magic, especially family magics, work with your core differently. They really stem more from your blood which has a different connection to your core than your wand. You will probably learn more ritual magic during the summer than is ever taught at Hogwarts. By working wand during the school year and ritual in the summer, you get the best growth in your core. It's only after you reach your magical majority usually between sixteen and a half and seventeen that you'll get to learn wanded family magics."
"What about bindings on a person's magical core?"
"Those are taboo, because they act like a constant pull on the core one of my distant cousins had to have one for about a year as a child the healers had him under constant monitoring. They took it off because it was straining his core. He had to wear a bracelet that monitored it always and he had weekly visits to a healer. Like I said it's important not to strain the connection or it could damage it."
"That explains a few things; like why binding a persons magic so often fractures their magic and if it doesn't it makes them absurdly strong. Hmn… interesting. Now could you please teach me the silencing spell?"
That night Harry had the first truly solid sleep he'd had in what seemed like weeks. He forgot to bring his alarm clock inside his bed curtains, and he overslept. Sleeping through breakfast and Potions resulted in his being called into Professor Snape's office late that afternoon.
"Sir?"
"You were not in Potions this morning. Where were you?"
"I'm sorry sir. I overslept."
"School is so taxing that you can't be bothered to wake up for classes, Mr. Potter? Maybe your family spoils you…"
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