Chapter 98 - 98- true blacksmithing

Harry's POV

Halloween, Samhain, the day of the dead, there are many names for the day, but in the magical world of J. K. Rowling this day is known as the day of misfortune for one Harry James Potter, but as you probably noticed, this isn't the story for him, this story is about Harry DJ peverel, and for him this day is a day of luck.

It's the day he came to the world, the day he separated himself from bad friends, and as of today, this is the day he started learning the magical part of blacksmithing.

Yes, it is a day of luck, so why every good thing that came in this day comes with bad news?

Flashback

"What?!" Harry exclaimed, hoping he heard right.

"Don't make me say it again, you have pass, it is time to start learning true blacksmithing." The goblin said, annoyed the boy is that excited.

Seeing the boy looking at him with wild eyes, Ragnok signed before starting his explanation, a bit of a greedy look is appearing on his face. "While forging can be done without the use of magic, true blacksmithing always was, and always will be about the infusion of magical properties to the object you forge, that means, that while everything you learned until now can be studied in the outside world, and therefore cheep, all your future studies in the subject are unique to the goblins, and much more expensive." The greedy look intensified by a lot.

"How much?" Harry asked, not really caring as it all going to be taken from the inheretence he would never get.

"900 galleons a week."

"No way." Harry said surprising the goblin. "It is a unique skill of the goblins, I won't take it for less then one thousand galleons!"

It was then that the goblin did something Harry has never seen any of the goblins he met do, he laughed, not an evil laugh, nor a greedy one, not even sarcastic one, it was a pure joyful laugh.

"You are right, what was I thinking, it is 1000 Galleons." He said after his laughter stoped. "But I have got to say, you are the first wizard I had the pleasure to beat who insist to pay more, which makes you someone I would help whenever you need, for a price of course."

"Of course, but now that we moved past the payment, can we start the class?"

"Yes, indeed. There are many ways magical beings can create magical objects. There is the centaurs who mimicked the magical properties of the forest and the stars in their bows and arrows, making them poisonous for their enemies yet regular arrows for their friends, simple artifacts for hunting and protecting.

There are the dwarfs who mimicked the magical energy of the deep underground to make their armors and weapons unbreakable, making artifacts unbending and unchanging, which brought their fall as they couldn't keep with the times.

And there are the humans, who use runes and ingredients from magical beasts and magical plants to mimic their spells and rituals in their artifacts, making cheep knockoffs of rap artifacts to cheep knockoff of real magic.

The thing that is common with all of their methods is that it's never original, it's always about mimicking, therefor making it impossible for it to be true magic, true artifacts.

The true artifacts of the goblins, in the other end, are about independence, about creating something new, and manipulating the properties of what there is to something else, the closest thing to this art in wizarding magic is transfiguration, conjunction and alchemy, only in blacksmithing you truly create something new, that can evolve on its own, instead of the dead thing wizards create.

You see, goblin's artifacts can be theoretically separated to unending amounts of levels, but we will focus on the first four.

The first one, is what you did until now, it's creating a regular weapons, armor and jewelry, Only where you are good enough in that level to move to the second can you call yourself an apprentice in the art of blacksmithing without shaming your teacher.

The second level is about mimicking the world, doing as all the other magical beings do, and only when your teachers think you are twice as good as any of the other magical beings can you call yourself a blacksmith.

The best creations at that level include the sword Gryffindor stole with the ability to assimilate everything, or the locket his friend Slytherin bought with the ability to detect ill intent to the wearer.

It is only on the third level that you make your first true artifact and you stop being dependent on mimicking the magical energy and instead work on the basis of the laws of the world, at that point you study the world, and create the objects based on your understanding of it.

For example, one of the first artifacts that were created was a diadem that was connected to the Library of Alexandria, a library that is the first forth level artifact ever created, made with the ability to copy every book to be made and preserve it, so knowledge would never disappear.

The diadem, made by the first goblin follower of the only artist-level blacksmithing who created the Library of Alexandria, was made with the ability to connect the wearer's mind with the library, letting him borrow the knowledge the library has for immediate use."

This blew Harry's mind, could it be that the diadem Ragnok was talking about is the same diadem that was in the room of requirements? Ravenclaw's Diadem? The one that became horcrux? If so, he has in hand's reach the biggest storage of knowledge in the world. But right now wasn't the time to think about that, as he was in the middle of hearing about the levels of blacksmithing.

The fourth level deals with souls, it can deal with the souls of people, that lets you bind an object to a person's life or a person's life to an object, it can be dealing with the soul of the world, letting you create an artifact that bounds some of the earth's rules to it, and it can be the creation of souls, that lets you create true living artifact, as for the only example I can give you is Library of Alexandria as it is the only true forth level artifact.

It is a living object, that bounds the world's knowledge to its rule, and it is said to be called the underworld of creators, as it is, according to the legends, trapping every soul in it after death as a shade, thus preserving the knowledge the soul carries with it."

As Harry heard it, he couldn't help but having goosebumps all over his body, as much as it sounds like a noble goal, the creation of a trapper of souls who trapped every soul for thousands of years sound extremely evil, especially with the way the word shade made him remember something.

"What was the name of the creator of the Library of Alexandria?" Harry really hoped he was wrong about this.

"We don't know his name, only that he is the creator of every magical creature, that wasn't created by defective rituals, yet even with his powers of creation, most magical beings only call him by one name in their stories, Death."