The fifth letter was from another Scholar, this one in Ireland; that wanted to hear about Harry's process of Enchanting. More specifically the man was asking how Harry had learned his Enchanting or who from as he'd been absent from the Magical World for so long. It seemed the man believed Harry had either been taught by someone or had somehow created a new form of Enchanting altogether. Harry knew his spell-forging method that he'd taken from a Muggle fantasy novel and tweaked until it worked was a bit different than the standard Enchanting that was in use today. Though he wasn't about to spill the beans on his little secret. He'd just explain that he picked it up from a book and made his own trial and error attempts before getting better at it. That should satisfy the curious Irishman.
The sixth and final letter was from an unknown sender who'd praised Harry for being such a 'smart young Enchanter' and encouraged him to 'keep his curiosity alive and constantly exploring'. From the missive Harry was made aware that this person had been one of the people that purchased one of the four Scouters he'd sold through Owl Order. Whoever had written him had also hinted that they'd keep an eye on his future developments and hoped to one day see Harry as a Master Artificer. Though the person had signed the end of the letter oddly, it was simply a drawing of a circle with symbols and geometric shapes that Harry couldn't make heads or tails of.
"That was a bit odd, but at least they seem supportive of my Enchanting. But do they understand that to be a Master Artificer I'd have to craft seven true Artifacts? There hasn't been a Master Artificer in almost nine hundred years and that was a Chinese mystic that was supported by the ruling dynasty of the time. I somehow doubt I'm going to suddenly be given support by a ruling family so wealthy I'll be able to have any material in the world to work with." Harry mused over the letter and the title of Master Artificer. Making even a single true Artifact could take years or even decades depending on its function. Making seven could easily take a lifetime! With a sigh Harry decided to get his homework assignments out of the way before writing replies to the letters he'd received. Afterwards he'd start his first draft of designs for his personal Runic Safe. He'd prefer to keep his money himself since the Goblins were apparently in the business of extorting their vault holders.
In the third week of November Harry had finished all four Test Frames for Hogwarts. He'd even made sure to make the wood surrounding the stone frame match the House colors of whichever House it belonged to. Professor Flitwick had charmed a spot on the wall for the Test Frame to stick on so that nobody tried to take it. Now Harry watched a few of his Housemates check their mana amounts throughout the week. He'd noticed that there was a marked increase in overall mana levels since he'd unveiled the Test Frames. But if a numerical reading helped Witches and Wizards improve themselves then Harry thought he'd done some good.
Currently Harry was practicing his spells in the practice area of his hidden workshop. He was trying to conjure lightning like he did fire and water. He'd found a base spell to get the theory from and was now working on doing it his way and making it wandless. The Thunderbolt Curse or Fulmen Curse was a fairly powerful spell that took a good amount of control to cast so that the user didn't end up harming themselves with it. The theory was there but Harry was having a difficult time finding just the right amount of mana to use. Too little and he either got nothing or only a small spark. Too much and arcs of electricity jumped everywhere. Not to mention it was rather draining on his mana. Casting it with his wand lightened the load but he could still only cast it about six times at most before he just didn't have enough mana left. Casting it wandlessly reduced his casting down to two of the uncontrollable bursts. A knock on the door got his attention and Harry, knowing it could only be Tonks or Penny, went over to open the door.
"Wotcher, Harry!" Tonks grinned as she walked into the room with a smile.
"Afternoon, Harry, I hope we aren't intruding." Penny greeted as Harry shook his head to let her know he didn't mind them being there.
"Smells like it just rained in here, what are practicing now, air freshening charms?" Tonks asked only for Harry to smile deviously.
"Nope." Harry grinned before holding his hand out and facing away from the two girls. Both witches started as an electric buzz was heard and sparks of lightning danced off of Harry's bare palm for a few seconds. Harry turned back to look at his friends only to crack up at the shocked looks on their faces. "That's why it smells like it just rained."
"Harry, you just…you just…" Penny trailed off in shock.
"You just used wandless magic!" Tonks shouted near hysteric as she gazed on her First Year friend as if she'd never seen him before.
"Well yeah, I don't plan to be restricted to a wand to cast spells." Harry stated matter of factly. "It takes a bit of time to get it right but I've managed a few spells so far."
"But…you…I…how?" Penny was still stuck in her shocked state.
"I have more than ten times the mana you had when you showed your mana amount to everyone and I can't use Wandless Magic. So how can you? All the books I've ever read say that only really powerful Witches and Wizards can use Wandless Magic." Tonks laid out her confusion while Penny nodded along.
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