Chapter 60 - 60- ‘Scientific way’

Harry's POV

Time waits to no one, and Harry was so busy he didn't have enough of it.

It took him till the start of the winter holidays, but with the help of the fast-reading glasses, he finally knew what he was missing for completing all his basic requirements for beginning to create spells- runes and advance computer programming.

He finished studying the microbiology books, and all of the arithmancy books while keeping his daily schedule, and after reading the arithmancy books he finally understood the idea behind wand waving.

You see, arithmancy in its basics isn't about calculating the future like what students are being taught in third year, nor is it spell creation where you calculate the way you need to move your wand to get the desired control for your intent - which you use wards for, it is much deeper then that.

Arithmancy is in fact the way to calculate the way you do rituals, just like if you want a software to run correctly you need to not only write it correctly but to create it you need lots of mathematics calculations, in rituals you need to write runes as the code but the arithmancy is needed to calculate how to write it.

As for spell creation? It is simply putting basic parameters into known arithmancy equations and then locate the right words, as the only thing it is used for is the control of magical power and the number of words to use in the spell as to make sure the intent is compacted just enough, as the wand does the rest.

while in rituals you need to calculate the space, time and a bunch of other things in addition to the magical control and words.

All of the above made Harry super confused how could he use magic without the nessesery calculations.

It took him a week of confusion and searching for answers in books with no help success till he went where he always went when he was stuck on a problem- professor Flitwick

Flashback

December 20th 1992

"Hey professor, may I come in?"

"Mr. peverel, I'm so happy you came, after last year I have been expecting to continue our meetings but you haven't came till now.

May I ask why?"

"Well Professor, after last year when my practicals left much to be desired, I decided to focus a little bit more on ways to improve on that, so I didn't have much time to read as I wish to, plus I started to learn a little bit about next year's electives so I can decide which class I want to go to."

"It is great idea, in fact I always advice to do exactly that to my house, even if I tell them that only after the middle of the school year. So what help do you need?"

"You see, I learned about the arithmancy's job in spell creation and couldn't help but remembering our conversations last year about accidental magic, wandless magic, point magic, and wordless magic, if you need all of those things to cast a spell how is it possible that in the past wizards did wandless magic? How is it possible that even people who didn't learn arithmancy to do wordless magic and even incstanteniusly? How can we do point magic?" And how can children do magic with no learning at all?"

"Wow, you came out with the big questions." Professor Flitwick chuckled "Let's take it from the easiest thing to explain to the impossible.

There are many ways to classify magic, there is our school's way of charms, transfigurations, potions dark charms and more.

There is our country's way of dark and light. There is the way the religious people in the Vatican and the churches will classify it, as miracle vs witchcraft, and much more ways.

But in our conversation we will divide magic to two parts, ritualistic magic and artistic magic.

ritualistic magic is almost the only way we use magic this days, it is a way of doing magic by following instructions, put the ingredients in the cauldron in a specific way to create the desired potion and move the wand and say the words in the exact way you were taught to create the exact spells you need, it is simple, sure way to do magic. As for the second way, it is as it's name, more of an artistic way of doing magic, it is more like painting or playing music, this is the way of alchemy and enchantment, and it is also the way of accidental magic.

it is an unclear way filled with experimentations and there isn't one way to get the desired affect, every person would have to go in a way of it's own. And while you can learn some of it in books or mentors, in the end, to get to your maximum potential you have to create your own path.

It is a way that has less control for more effect.

Those two ways while sounding contradicting, do in fact cross paths.

Wordless magic and point magic are two of them, wordless magic use the calculations you do for the control of your magical power while throwing away all the intent parts in them and in the words by using the caster's intent as a way to skip that part, while point magic take the intent part of the calculations and leave the magical control to either the caster's own ability or, as we discussed before, to the caster's connections to the spell.

All of the spells you are learning in school are ritualistic, while only in sixth year you would start learn to use a little bit of arts in the spells in ways of silent casting and sometimes basic alchemy.

As for wandless magic, there isn't any way to know which one of the ways is it based on as we have no one who can do it but most believe it is the artistic way to the extreme."

End flashback

It was three days later that he found the answer to the question.

While the intent part of the magic is extremely artistic and for charms it looks like it is entirely artistic, the wandless transfigurations need even better control then ritualistic magic, so it can't be defined in any of the ways the professor told him about, which meant it is a third way, but he didn't believe that his way of wandless magic is the same as the old one.

It is a new way.

A way that he discovered with the studies of all of those who came before him, muggle and wizards.

A way that combine the intent of the art with the systematic way of ritualistic learning.

A way that made bigger demands from its walkers then any other way.

A way that you can walk but can never end, as there is always things you don't know.

And as a way to honor all the things he had to learn to use it, Harry called it, the 'Scientific way'.