123 Chapter 123- personalities and belief (progress part 2)
Harry's POV
Creating a second personality is one of the most terrifying things a person can do to themselves, as not only whoever did it went insane, but there is always the risk the new personality would take control, as it would gain its own emotions and won't want to die, which, in case it succeed would mean the original personality death.
Harry new very well about that as the first time he created another personality the only reason he managed to 'destroy' the second personality is because it was young and they merged, which led to him acquiring a normal's persons level of EQ.
This time, Harry was unwilling to even consider let the second personality to grow, preferring to destroy it and creating new ones once a month if it must, thinking he would find out his worries about science wrong and that magic is a not yet understood science that follows the rules of the universe, and as merging a personality with someone whose entire disposition is that magic is miracle would destroy his entire personality, he wouldn't let this personality in.
On the other hand, if he finds out it is real, that he was mistaken until now, he might have to consider splitting his needed memories, his core ones, and planting them in a new personality with its disposition toward magic is belief before destroying the original personality, himself.
He truly hoped he didn't have to, but he won't be able to live with himself with the idea that his magic is limited because of small mindedness.
From now on he would live every day twice, one as Harry, when he would continue his studies, and once as DJ, his new personality, when he would stay in the chamber of secrets and study magic without any knowledge about science or magic itself, not including magical energy control.
As he used his Occlumency to program DJ's mind, he won't be aware of Harry, nor about the out side world, the only thing that would be on his mind are his tasks, which Harry would put every day in his mind, and the way to do them- trough the power of belief.
One month later
Harry's POV
Controlling a desperate conscience is extremely troublesome, for the last month Harry had to prevent eight accidents where the second personality would develop more then it wanted it to, five of them were because of the two soul shreds he had in his mind that seemed, while weak, able to influence pure minds.
The other three were because of one thing Harry hadn't considered before starting the experiment, the need to create.
Throughout history, and whether it's magical didn't matter, the reason ideas were made was because of need, they were cold- created fire, hungry- created food, bored- created games, every creation was driven by need, and by having no need, Harry made sure DJ had no idea what to create, so it could only play with the magic It has, which led to the second personality's first discovery, lumos is in fact pure magic.
While not the biggest revelation, and something a lot of people speculated about, being able to see the inner mind of someone with no knowledge with the exception about how to control its magic bring pure magic to the surface was fascinating, especially, as it brought out another revelation - magical energy goes through both the circulatory system and the nervous system.
When you have to control your magic, control your intent, and think about the knowledge needed to create magic, you can't focus about the path in which the magic goes in your body, especially with its speed and that he didn't know where to begin, and while he still don't, since he had his focus freed, he managed to understand how it comes to your hands.
Anyway, once Harry understood he can't expect the personality to have ideas of its own he started putting concepts in its mind, and the results were interesting.
While physical things like the creation of fire and water, transfigurations and charms worked, they demanded more energy, making the speculation that magic can be used without knowledge yet it need more power correct, it is only when it came to the magic that demanded and needed belief like runes that something changed, runes, or the paintings he created as runes, worked perfectly, able to perform whatever DJ wanted them to do, and not only that, but with less energy then Harry could do with proved runes, confirming the thought that belief does have impact on the performance of magic, making Harry even more confused than before he started the experiment.
Is it belief or knowledge that magic use to work? Is it science or miracles?
As Harry hasn't managed to find the answer he destroyed the second personality, promising himself to keep thinking of solutions to his problems.
Meanwhile he did the experiment, his other studies progressed.
His medicine was nearing the sixth year material, in transfiguration he finally managed to change a part of body without destroying it and his rituals were progressing to more and more advance stuff, yet there were four things he was the most proud of.
1) his control- as he learned how magic moves inside the body, Harry has taken on himself to make sure he can use magic from every part of his body as good as he can do it from the hands, right now he can already use his right leg to cast as good and started working on his left.
2) blacksmithing- after Halloween when he started working on true blacksmithing he finally understood the difference between goblins' artifacts and regular artifacts, while regular artifacts need you to actively put your magic in it, the goblins' artifacts do it passively, meaning that by holding the artifact your magic is automatically being drown in and activates the magical properties of the artifact, making it possible to use it while using your own magic at the same time.
Right now he can only put small meaning into the metal and only to one the side of a bracelet.
3) potions- after six months of erratic hours, Harry managed to help professor Snape to create the Felix Felicis, and while he hasn't done much, only stirring it when needed, and once adding a sprig of Lavender when needed, the exposure to the making of this potion made Harry's understanding of potions raise to a level where he felt he can create a fifth year potion with only knowing its name and affects, without stirring it ones.
4) brooms- after the second tournament, when the need of creating new cards and duel disks was put onto Gai, who can use the magic stored in the magical energy container to create them, Harry, Luna and the twins moved on to a new project- creating their own brooms.
With a few stolen school brooms, Harry's firebolt, and the book called 'basic enchant your own broom' Harry bought with his father, they started their creations (He might have cried a little when he opened it for the first time and saw his father's notes of cool ideas and stuff that can be better by using technology.) by the time the end of the year test was near they had a basic prototype of the broom they wanted to create.
Harry felt it was an extremely productive year, with the only true down side was that he had to see the Potters everyday.
