Chapter 54: Forbidden

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In order to enter the room, a person had to answer a riddle asked by the eagle knocker; if they answered incorrectly, they had to wait for someone else to get it right.

The Ravenclaw common room was one of the airiest rooms at Hogwarts. It was a wide, circular room with a midnight blue carpet, arched windows hung with blue and bronze silks, and a domed ceiling painted with stars.

During the day, Ravenclaw students had an excellent view of the school grounds, including the lake, Forbidden Forest, Quidditch pitch, Herbology gardens and the surrounding mountains.

The room was furnished with tables, chairs, and bookcases; and by the door leading up to the dormitories stood a tall statue of Rowena Ravenclaw made of white marble in all her snooty glory.

According to Prefect Robert Hilliard, the sound of wind whistling around the windows of the tower was relaxing while going to sleep.

It wasn't. It really wasn't.

It sounded like the Grey Lady and Fat Friar, who was the Hufflepuff ghost, were getting frisky with each other just outside the window. It was stupid. It was distracting. And if not for the silencing charm, nothing would ever get done.

With absolutely nothing else to do, Harry started writing the last of the thank you letters to the people who had sent him gifts in the ten years he had been absent in the wizarding world. A lot of them had given him money, which was rather nice and practical.

He'd also, on Professor McGonagall's suggestion, written a letter thanking Amelia Bones, the director of DMLE, for getting some of her Aurors to sort through his mail and remove any malignant or cursed items.

She had written back, assuring him that the Aurors who did it were happy to do it, since their jobs had become much easier after that night. Apart from her, he hadn't received any replies, but knowing that most of those people were parents who had children to send off to Hogwarts, Harry didn't expect any replies until Hogwarts had started and the poor parents finally managed to scrounge together some free time.

He finished up the last letter with a smile. It was to a girl six years of age who had sent him her lucky teddy bear and a note that had a message written in a messy scrawl. ' Love you Harry Potter. - Jemma '.

Harry put away the fountain pen back into his inventory and put the letter in his book bag. He'd borrow Terry Boot's owl tomorrow to send it off. While he knew that practicing with quills were important as they were the only writing tool allowed in exams, fountain pens had an inimitable class of their own.

Besides, if his track record held true, he would soon manage to get a skill for penmanship. He could grind that and get better at it.

Ping!

And there it was, right on cue.

A new skill has been created due to writing a metric ton of letters.

Calligraphy, Lv-10

You can write with any writing instrument with your mastery of the art of script. This skill can make a significant difference in runes, arithmancy and other forms of written ritual magic.

Ping!

Due to getting to level 10 in a special skill, choose one of the following calligraphic techniques to learn .

-Single calligraphy technique: Marked up

A technique which uses beautiful writing to get your teachers to give you extra marks. Increases reputation and opinion of teachers.

Chance of success- 30+Level of Calligraphy

Cost- Cool down period of 10 seconds

-Runomancy attack: Runic Burst

An attack which upon activation unleashes a number of rune amplified spells on your foe. The spells are chosen randomly out of your combat spell arsenal. The number of spells is only limited by the amount of times you choose to attack your enemy or your mana pool.

Attack- (Number of spells x Wis)% damage + Dex

Cost- Cooldown period, +5 seconds for every spell

-Wandless Magic Mind Arts: Compulsion Script

A technique that uses both magic and mind to push the reader's opinion of what you write to be positive, making them more likely to do what you wish them to do. An extremely essential tool for many magical politicians.

Attack- Level of Wandless Magic + Level of Calligraphy

Cost- Cost of Wandless Magic

Harry looked at the options available to him and wondered which one he should choose. The first one was entirely useless to him. It was cool and would make sure that he would end up getting Os, but it would discourage Harry from hard work and that wasn't what he wanted.

The third one was very tempting. Harry had promised himself that he'd work for the betterment of werewolves after he'd learned of the difficult conditions they lived in, and that would require him going into politics eventually. This skill was obviously tailor-made for that. So he was torn between that one and Runic Burst.

Harry's Gamer Mind worked at speeds that wizards twice his age would have trouble comprehending. It quickly compared information he already knew, information he'd acquired by absorbing books, and his own personal knowledge archives trying to come up with a preference for one of them over the other.

The thing was, Harry deduced, his status as the Boy who Lived already gave him unprecedented popularity in the magical world, already giving him a boost of opinion with most people.

If he played it right and gave a few regular interviews and open letters, then his political career wouldn't even need the technique. Plus, the description implied that there were politicians who knew the technique already.

That meant it could be learned.

But Runic Burst was a unique and rare move, and Harry knew that the Ancient Runes class offered in Hogwarts only taught most basic written spells. Even better, its attack was limited only by Harry's stat points.

'Maybe I should take it,' he thought. He was no slouch in Dex with a solid 12 with his +3 bonus added. And he could always improve later in the future.

In fact, the plans of exploring the Forbidden Forest could be useful for that. Jumping across treetops had done a lot of good for his Dex so far.

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