Chapter 8 Magic

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It's been nearly four years since Harry woke up in this world. For that entire time, harry has been working tirelessly to train his magic.

The fanfictions that Richard read would have you believe that constantly exhausting your magic every day would make it grow stronger and increase your magic, but doing all of this will only lead to death.

They keep talking about how magic is like a muscle, by that logic doing this is like working out so hard that you tear every muscle in your body and somehow hope all of it will be healed by the next day so you can keep doing that over and over again.

Even an adult wizard with fully matured magic will collapse in a week due to such strain on their magic and body, it can also lead to fatal magical exhaustion. So if a child with still developing magic tries something like this, then it will literally suck the life out of the child.

Magic is an integral part of life that's why sacrificial rituals work at all. A child's magic is still developing along with their bodies, so messing with such magic without a vast amount of experience and knowledge will only cause damage and the child might also completely lose the ability to use magic. That is why wizards don't try to teach their children any magic before they attend Hogwarts or any other magic school.

When a magical child turns seven, he or she will experience their first magical maturity, a state where their magic grows exponentially over a period that lasts around three years. So around ten years old, their magic starts to stabilise and it is not as erratic as before. So after turning eleven they can finally start to learn magic.

Since his magic is still developing harry had to train his magic very carefully and cautiously for the last four years. Harry could only train two or three hours a day and had to let his magic recover for the rest of the day. Since they are living in Potter Manor, an area rich in magic and under powerful wards it helped his magic recovery. If he was living among muggles he would have had to train every other day instead.

All of this training clearly paid off, if he could get his holly wand back harry would have no trouble dealing with anyone who just graduated from Hogwarts.

To understand how harry trained his magic, you first have to understand what makes a powerful wizard or witch. Three essential differences separate an average wizard from extremely powerful wizards like Dumbledore and Voldemort.

The first is Power. Despite what you read from any sources, all wizards and witches have the same amount of magic at their disposal, no more no less. What separates an average wizard from Voldemort is not the amount of magic but their magic's power and potency.

An average wizard can perform a powerful spell-like ' bombarda maxima' ten times before exhausting themselves. While someone like Voldemort and Dumbledore can perform the same spell hundreds of times, even a thousand times due to their incredible control and vast experience with magic.

As for why these two have such powerful and potent magic? it is due to their strength of spirit and will. A wizard's body can only handle powerful magic flowing through it if their spirit is strong enough to control it.

So if a wizard wants to increase the power of his magic then he first has to increase his spirit to handle all that power. Natural ways to improve your spirit are overcoming obstacles, sticking to your own morals no matter the circumstances, understanding and improving the connection to your own magic, etc. Dumbledore is a good example of this, the headmaster was gifted with magic from birth but he never stopped improving himself and his skills, he fought two different wars and even gave his life for his beliefs, at least in the previous timeline.

Voldemort also made constant efforts to improve his magic but he also used many dark rituals to get power, like sacrificing magical creatures and even humans regardless of whether they were muggle or magical.

Harry never had any problems with the power of his magic, he was able to make a fully corporeal Patronus that can chase away more than a hundred dementors from his third year. Even while he was studying at Hogwarts his magical power could easily rival the likes of Voldemort and Dumbledore, his constant struggle to survive whatever life threw at him, trolls, dark lords, death eaters, even his relatives, etc saw to that he never lacked the strength of will. He is also sure that the prophecy also played a part in this.

After Power comes Control. While every wizard learns to control their magic it is especially difficult for powerful wizards. The more powerful your magic is the harder it is to control that magic, that's why Harry's performance was so average in Hogwarts. With such ridiculously powerful magic, he had a lot of trouble controlling it.

Power without proper control is meaningless, that's why with the same power as harry Voldemort and Dumbledore could wipe the floor with everyone else and were considered unstoppable by the rest of the wizarding world, all the while he still had trouble keeping up with his classes in Hogwarts.

Even though it is harder powerful wizards have such control over their magic that is beyond anything an average wizard could reach.

After the incident with dementors in his third year, Harry realised that he had the power but no control so he chose to focus on that, he improved his control on magic by practising basic spells like levitation, summoning, etc. He would use his magic to make things fly around his room, make them do tricks in the air, etc.

Harry improved his control to such a level that during the war he only used Transfiguration and basic spells to fight against death eaters and Voldemort. He didn't know any powerful offensive spells at that time, but it's not like he needed them anyway.

He would transfigure rocks on the ground into spears and launch them at his opponents at incredible speeds, he would summon objects in front of him to block incoming spells and curses, he even blocked some killing curses from Voldemort like this during their battle, he would summon large objects like boulders and debris from behind his opponents to crush them, etc all the while fighting multiple opponents at the same time.

The entire battlefield would become his greatest weapon and the strongest shield to Harry