6 Chapter-6: Magic Practice

On an open field at the back of the villa, Blake and Theo are standing in front of a table.

Looking at the table there are stones of different kinds, sizes, and shapes.

All of this was brought by the house elves before they got here. Because the last time Theo came here, it was empty.

After looking at the table once, Blake started teaching Theo magic,

"Theo, before we begin you must remember one thing.

The power that we call magic is everywhere. As it is a natural thing, it has its own law. Those who can harness it, use it, and understand its law are called witches or wizards.

This ability makes them different from regular people. But it doesn't mean that regulars can't do magic.

But the magic inside them is so little that it's useless, or they simply don't have the ability to harness it.

Only when they put a lot of time and effort to harness it, they can cast magic.

But even then the magic won't be potent enough which isn't worthwhile. So, they simply leave it.

A person can become magical if one has enough latent magic inside of him to harness or use. That's why many mundane families over the years give birth to a magical child.

Besides that, a child will be magical if he or she is born from a magical parent or a child born from a parent where one of them is magical."

He paused here for a moment, then continued,

"Now you know how a person can be magical but to use magic, one has to have control over his owns magic power as well as the quantity of magic.

A good magician not only has a full understanding of it but also has full control over his magic power's quality and quantity.

So, your first lesson is to feel the magic power. Magic is all around us including inside of us. The more you know or feel magic around you the more you can tap on it.

So, to feel magic power close your eyes and concentrate. Concentrate inside your body to feel that magic power."

Theo as per instruction closed his eyes concentrated on his body. One moment passed, two moments passed soon he began to feel something. Something warm and fuzzy thing inside his body. At that moment he knew what this was.

So he opened his eyes excited. Yes, he finally felt that magical power and it didn't even take a lot of time.

Seeing this Blake raised his eyebrows in surprise.

It is quite common that it is not easy to feel magic inside one's body. It takes a lot of time and concentration. Even he took a day to feel it. Some don't even feel it before their fifth or sixth year in Hogwarts.

Because learning this step helps one to cast magic more smoothly and efficiently. And it is also one of the crucial steps required before learning chant-less and wandless magic.

"Well done boy… ha…ha…ha… boy you are really something," said Blake laughing and patting Theo's back.

Theo gave a bitter smile. He really got hurt from that patting, his back is aching because of that.

After that Blake took out his wand flicked.

"Watch closely Theo, Wingardium Leviosa"

After chanting the name the all the stones on the table started to float and after those reached some height in the air, they started moving and dancing.

After moving them for some time, Blake made another flick and muttered,

"coniunctio".

After that chant, the Stones joined each other like chine and started dancing in the air like a snake flying in the sky or an eastern dragon flying.

Seeing this Theo totally became amazed.

"Theo this one is called a levitation charm and later one is a charm to join something.

This type of spell is the perfect way to have proper control over one magical power. And to have a proper understanding of one's quantity of magical power," said Blake with a smile.

Then he became serious and said,

"Your morning practice, as well as your first task is to levitates a stone of the smallest size and do a complex movement with it.

The more complex you make, the better. Do it for a minimum of ten minutes.

If the time has passed, then increase the number of stones and repeat the process until ten minutes again. Repeat this step until you can move all ten stones.

If you have successfully done so, then go for the stone which is bigger than the previous one and repeat the step.

Do it for each size until the largest.

Then after achieving it, take two stones of different sizes in ascending order and repeat the step.

Do it until you can move all the stones of all shapes and sizes in the air and do a complex movement as I deed." said Blake with an instructing tone.

Theo haring the task became serious. He then looked at the table in front of him and took his wand in his hand and said,

"Understood."

He then went in front of the table and uttered the chant.

Since he brought the books, he has already read about this charm and understood its theory.

In fact, he already finished all the books of the first year of Hogwarts with proper understanding, all left is to practice.

After all, he has a perfect photographic memory with astonishing reasoning ability.

After uttering the chant he successfully levitated a stone for the first time and made a complex movement in the air.

But after a series of complex movements the charm cutoff and the stone fall on the ground before reaching the ten-minute timeline.

Seeing this Blake was once again surprised but he became more delighted.

"He is indeed a little genius." thought Blake.

"Ha…ha…ha…well done. You did great for a first-timer.

But remember to concentrate on your magic power and its movement. Try to concentrate on moving the magic power instead of the object."

Hearing Blake Theo nodded. He got ready to do it again. But suddenly remembering something Blake warned Theo.

"Remember don't exhaust all your magical power. If you do, you will get unconscious or worse death can happen.

And you don't want to get unconscious in a battle do you. So always be aware of your upper limit and lower limit.

A smart wizard knows this and plans accordingly to gain any advantage on the battlefield.

If you reach your lower-limit take a rest to recover your magical power. Normally a wizard knows when he reached his lower limit by feeling mental exhaustion or fatigue. In some cases, you will fill you're going to pass out.

If that happens stop. Don't go below your lower limit. if you do then you're overexerting yourself. Overexerting will make you go unconscious or worse dead.

Taking rest and recovering your magic helps your upper-limit to grow. It also helps your recovery rate to become faster each time.

Because of this, you will be more efficient in casting magic. Magic normally recovers naturally.

It is done either by your body absorbing magic from the surroundings or producing it inside of your body, as long as you don't cast magic.

Although it takes time. But, there is a process to speed it up.

When you are taking a rest try to sense the magic around you and inside of you.

Feel them, observe them, understand them to see how they are interacting, how they are flowing.

Then interact with them, try to connect them. if you can connect with the magic surrounding you, will it to be absorbed by your body.

Or if you have established a connection with the magic inside you, will it produce faster. Or do both.

If you do it all the time, then you will reach a certain stage where it will happen so naturally that you don't need to actively do it."

After being thought how to do it, Theo started his morning practice, it continued until lunch.

He has made a few progress in his control of magic and in using levitation spell as well as the joining spell.

After lunch, Theo practiced a few Hexes, jinxes, and transfiguration spells he studied in the academic books and showed by Blake.

He has also done a few experiments in a new magic that he got inspired by today's morning practice.

Although it was a failure, his understanding reached by few leaps and bounds. So this was his routine until evening.

During the evening, Theo studied potions and magic item creations as well as alchemy.

Blake gave him resources and Theo practiced with them.

It's said that potions making or alchemy is one of the hardest parts of wizardry so, Theo initially made some failures but still has gone through a lot of progress.

He practiced and studied until dinner. And after dinner, Theo would spend time gathering knowledge or doing research in the library.

He would research, learn or understand spells, potions, magical items, alchemy, and magical theory or law behind them.

Not only that, he would research the magical world in general. Like this, he started spending time in Augustus' villa.