Chapter 83 - 83- Alchemy

Harry's POV

It took Harry two days of talking to his university professors and their contacts to manage to get the cameras and order the MRI, super computer and microscope.

After doing that he switched his focus to two things- alchemy and programming, and while he was just a beginner in alchemy, and was walking on the basics, his programming was going great.

It took him 5 days to finish creating the basic artificial intelligence he worked on for the last year, and while it can't be considered a genuine artificial intelligence as it can't self improve itself, and can only work with the setter parameters it have, but Harry felt that it might need a little bit of magic for the final push.

Right now it can only be used for mathematical calculations but Harry was planing on giving it knowledge about arithmancy and have it create the spells Harry wanted to help him waist less time.

But that would be later, when exactly?

After he create a program that combine all photographs, whether it is regular, videos or MRI, with biological knowledge and a little bit of magic to create a virtual body that can interact with the changes Harry does in the DNA hologram, just like he told Basitill.

September 1st 1993

It took him two weeks, where he read all the books that Hogwarts had to offer about alchemy and the little bit of exotic alchemy books the Greengrass gathered in Basitill's search for a cure, but he finally had basic understanding of alchemy, and it made him both happy and sad.

Alchemy can be divided into two ways, western and eastern, and as of right now his understanding is only of western alchemy as he only had three books about eastern alchemy that made it look like potions to him.

All the western alchemy books keep talking about two ways of seeing the world - the four elements- air, water, fire, earth, or as states of water.

This was the thing he was stuck on, after all he knew the best out of all wizards that both theories - of the four elements and of the entire world is water are wrong, as it was proven that the world is made of atoms, so how could those two be true?

It was only the day before, when he was focusing on his daily magic infusions into his ice barrier occlumency, that an epiphany hit him, helping him figuring out an explanation.

When the books explained about the four elements or the states of water they weren't talking about the world at all, but about magical energy!

magical energy has levels, just like the body, and when you get to the peak of one, the next level is a change of states in it.

First of all there is air/vapor- the magical energy in that state is enough for regular spells, just like the ones you learn at Hgwarts but can't be used for more.

It is a state where it is super easy to control the energy with your wand or other magical conducts as the magic keep on going where ever it can, and when the pressure is enough it can burst with accidental magic.

When there is enough magic in the body, the magical energy changes into it second state- water/liquid water state. This state is enough, as far as Harry can tell, for almost all spells.

It is a state that highly depends on your personality the moment you achieve it, if your personality is of heightened emotions- happiness, rage or desperation this state would be like a river, making it even easier to work with the magical conduct, but harder to use without.

If you are with a calm personality, it will become like a lake or sea, static and harder to point but easier to flood- which means that while the calm person's magic won't be as potent as the emotional person, he would have potential in wandless magic.

That's where it gets tricky, as powerful and talented people usually get to the second level no later then the age of 14, calmness is usually just a pipe dream, which means that the earlier you become a second level magical person, the harder it is to do wandless magic.

As for people with average talent, they usually get to the second level by the age of 17 and have a chance in wandless magic, but as they are stuck with the idea it is impossible, they don't try.

The reason why Harry managed to get a lake like liquid energy is because of his curse about being born with an a.d.u.l.t mind, this was what made him happy, as it meant he was for the first time lucky.

The next levels are yet to be understood by him as he didn't experienced them, he only knew that the next is fire/boiled water- where you can start see the future, rituals and so, and the one after that is earth/ice.

and while Harry believed there were levels after that, he didn't know what they were.

The thing that made him sad is that it explained what is the philosopher's stone and the 'Elixir of life', even if it didn't explain what it did to a person's body to let him live longer then should be possible- Yes longer, not forever.

The stone is in fact magical energy in its solid state, most likely one that wasn't taken out of a person's body, as for the 'Elixir of life'? Changing of the solid state to liquid one, just like how the magic inside your body can let you live longer by slowing your aging the moment you reach the ideal state, and the more magically powerful you are the longer you live, by drinking an external magic you slow it even more.

Harry believed the reason you slow aging is that magic fix as much of the damaged DNA a person has as possible and maybe even mutating certain stands of DNA to expend the life span.

This explanation make it all easier to understand, why the Flamels look so old, even if they drank the Elixir of life? - because it only slowed aging not stopped it.

How does the stone change lead to gold? - Transfiguration with anchoring it to the magic of the stone.

Why were the Flamels willing to give up the stone? - they reached the end of their life span anyway.

Why did Voldemort went after the stone? - with so much pure magic even a dumb first year could think of ways to get Voldemort another body.

As much interesting as it is, it won't help him in his search for the right body for him- which means he can only think of a different approach.

As Harry went on the train he thought about the biggest question:

How did the Flamels get the stone? And how did it last that long?

The only explanation Harry could think of at the moment was talking a powerful magical person's magical energy out of them, and adding the magical energy of other magical being into it when ever it weakend, which means the Flamels were probably one of the few, and maybe the only dark wizards who managed to fulfill their ambition.

As Harry thought of this, and how Dumbledore was their apprentice, he couldn't help but shiver.