Chapter 23: Ability

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Glad that he'd checked his mana before trying to apparate or something, Harry quickly took out the hotcakes from breakfast that he had stored away and ate them up.

A couple of hotcakes later, Harry's MP was full and much to his pleasant surprise, the cuts and scrapes he received from the scuffle were fully healed.

Not even a scar remained.

Harry sighed with relief, but he didn't dare rest. He had to clean up this mess before anyone else, especially the Dursleys noticed it.

Dragging the steaming hot Carrow over to where the unconscious Ms. Roemmele lay, Harry placed a hand on both their bodies and with a prayer to the heavens that his Apparition ability could carry more than one person, he visualized the only teacher's office he knew well enough to have memorized and twisted on the spot.

It was just as much, if not more painful than the first time he'd apparated, to carry two extra people, but he did do it, and a brief moment later, the three of them appeared in the dimly lit office of Ms. Roemmele at Harry's school.

"I did it!" Harry said joyously before he turned to look at his passengers and his jaw dropped. As it turned out, that it wasn't the case.

Ms. Roemmele's entire head of hair was missing.

Harry paused for a moment to stare at the sight of his most frightening teacher, knocked out and bald, before bursting out into hysteric laughter. Perhaps it was the adrenaline in his veins or just the sheer absurdity of his situation, but he just couldn't hold it in anymore.

The school grounds echoed with the wild laughter of a small boy that night, that eventually broke down into hiccups and sobs. If anyone heard it, they never spoke of it again.

He had been worried about leaving her with the Death Eater, but it was doubtful that the man was going to wake up anytime soon. When Harry had finally seen Miss Roemmele moving about, clearly close to waking up, he had apparated back to the Dursley house, where he had been repeatedly questioned by the adult Dursleys about why he had been late and had then been promptly locked in his cupboard for the night.

Still, he'd managed to get a Lying level out of it.

Lying, Lv-3 (40%)

This is your ability to lie to people, the higher the level the better the lie and less chance of discovery!

15% chance of success, less based on how extreme the lie is.

Besides, getting grounded was perfectly fine with him, since he had to look over his spoils of war from his fight with Carrow to look over.

The first, and probably the most interesting, was the magic stick that he had dropped when Harry had first burned him. He'd found it lying on the ground in front of the house.

When Harry had reached out to touch it, he'd gasped with shock when his hand had touched an invisible hard surface that seemed to cover the wand spherically.

It didn't allow him to touch it, so Harry just used a shovel, which it seemed perfectly fine with, to scoop it and put it into his school bag and carry it into his cupboard, where he was now trying every way he could think of to get through the barrier.

Finally, after an hour of experimentation, he impatiently threw half his MP towards the surface and winced when with a spike of pain, his HP dropped by 50 and a new window popped up.

New skill created!

Runic Burnout Lv-1 (60%)

A precise sucking of magic from a ward by using it to refill one's own core. It starts causing damage to HP when magic continues to be sucked after the MP is full. A common way to get around it is to use up mana as fast as it comes in.

Harry nodded to himself as he read over the skill, noting that he'd have to careful with the next wards he encountered. They seemed to have a knack for knocking him out. Besides, this skill was by and in itself dangerous, even without any MP cost.

Putting all of that out of his mind, he used Observe on the wand.

The Riddler's Wand

This wand is made out of yew and has a phoenix feather core, a rare and powerful combination yew retains a particularly dark and fearsome reputation in the spheres of dueling and all curses.

However, it is untrue to say that those who use yew wands are more likely to be attracted to the Dark Arts than another. The witch or wizard best suited to a yew wand might equally prove a fierce protector of other.

This wand that is very effective when used for curses and jinxes. It owes its loyalty to both Harry and its former master. It has been used by one Tom Riddle.

50% attack when used against wizards.

100% when used by an owner it is loyal to.

He picked up the wand. Its hilt was bone and it seemed to glow when in contact with his hand. Harry held it tight as he got a good grip on the handle, before giving it a swish.

Nothing happened, so he ended up putting it back into his inventory and once again looking at his statistics.

Eyeing his STR, he frowned. It was far too little for the kind of threats that Carrow had presented. And if this fight was any indication, strength could be a weakness of wizards that Harry could exploit. So Harry opened his status and put in an extra four points raising it to 6. His use of magic in battle had also boosted his INT by 3, which he hadn't noticed earlier.

He then finally turned to his last reward from fighting Amycus, a trinket he had found in the Death eater's pockets… a small rock with some strange symbols engraved on it. The Observe on it had been interesting, so he had decided to hold onto it.

The Astral Network Portkey

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