Ch 10 - Making Spells

Sprout: "Welcome to Hufflepuff House. I will be your head of house and you can always come to me if you need help or have any questions. I will also be your herbology teacher this year. I hope you all can get along and treat this house as your family. So introduce yourselves and get to know each other. I will now hand out your school schedules"

I was only half listening but I really wasn't too excited for herbology.

My mana sense tells me the basic properties of magical materials as long as I am close to one.

I am excited to see what kinds of potions I can make with different materials.

I walked over to Nymphadora Tonks who was off to the side during the introduction.

"Hi my names Harry Potter I was wondering if you knew where the kitchen is"

Tonks: "Hello, call me Tonks, and I'll show you in the morning just meet me in the hallway."

"Thanks, I like to get up pretty early and I want to see if the elves can make certain foods"

Tonks: "Your welcome and welcome to Hogwarts"

Everyone finished talking and went to there rooms.

I went inside my trunk so that I could work on a spell to sneak around the castle.

I needed to make sure that the wards couldn't find me and that no one could sense me.

I started to manipulate my mana to create a film over me to try and make myself invisible first.

I also tried to make the film filter out smell and even sounds such as reaching and my footsteps.

With my connection to mana and my spell making talent this is a lot easier than wand waving.

For me the wand only boosts my magic and helps with specific types of spells depending on the wood and core.

My favorite use of mana is boosting my body to move quickly and make myself stronger.

I can even enhance my senses a little but I still haven't figured out how to change my perception yet.

I think I got a spell that can now hide my body completely but not my mana signature and even if I do it will be suspicious if I disappear from the wards.

I think I should be able to cast a spell to temporarily shift my mana signature to something else.

This way I can go explore while the wards will only track the object I put the spell on.

I started trying to shift my presence or aura onto the chair I had in my trunk apartment.

Eventually I ended up doing it but that's all it did.

I just duplicated my aura onto the chair instead of shifting it.

With that in mind I continued to practice duplicating my aura onto other objects and realized that it didn't last very long.

I can also reign in my own mana signature to hide but I can't get rid of it completely which means I will need to use runes and enchant a special object to hold my aura for a longer period and to hide my own aura.

With that in mind I figured I should use silver and gold for such a thing as I can't get materials like goblin silver or other rarer metals.

"Minney"

Inside my trunk are some runes to hide what happens inside so it should be fine to call her here

Minney: "Yes young master"

"I want you to go the muggle world and find a those gangs that you were stealing money from and see if you can find any fancy jewelry. If you can't steal some from several different pawn shops without being seen but don't take all of it."

Ok I'll wait to hear back from Minney.

Its getting late and I should go to sleep for classes tomorrow.

Next morning.

"Good mornin' Tonks"

Tonks: "Good morning Harry are you ready"

As she said that I saw her hair change colors a bit.

"Are you a metamorphmagas Tonks"

Tonks: "Yes I am, watch"

She proceeds to change her hair and eyes and even grows a beak at one point.

I laughed and then made myself slightly taller to match her height and changed into her.

Tonks: "No way, you are one too. Your the first one I've met besides me"

"Yeah but don't tell anyone, I'm keeping it as a trump card for now just in case. In my position I have a lot of enemies and this will help me escape if I ever need too."

She nodded and her hair changed to light blue.

Tonks: "I understand. I won't tell anyone but how do you control it so well. I haven't seen you accidently change at all"

"This is also a secret of mine but my occlumency is very advanced. I did change accidently from emotions when I was young but I got good enough at occlumency where I could separate my emotions from the ability. I also practiced turning into as many different people as possible to practice my control. I think the greatest help actually was I learned a bunch of different martial arts from different dojos."

Tonks: "Oh I didn't even think of that. I also practice occlumency but you have a point about practicing changing into different people. Are you sure martial arts help. Isn't it just muggle fighting."

"The main point of martial arts is to have a healthy body and to control your body. Muggles who master it can even harden there skin or increase there metabolism because they have very good control of there bodies. So for us who can change our bodies at will, body control is very important."

Tonks: "That makes sense. My dad is a muggleborn so I should be able to ask him to take me for lessons. Anyway here we are. You just tickle the pear on this painting and go through to find the kitchen. I'll talk to you later Harry."

With that I talked to the elves for a bit and had them make me some breakfast burritos then went out to exercise around the black lake.

Now it is time for my first classes.