Chapter 129 - 129- Fenghuang

Harry's POV

After fusing future Lupin's memories with his past self and completing the circle by freeing the werewolf and giving him tasks, Harry went back to the ROR as he found something interesting in the fake memories and wanted to see them in the original.

Putting the memories in the pensive, Harry tipped his hand in.

Remus Lupin's memories

'Remus, looking 5 years younger then he is right now was climbing a mountain.

Reaching the top, he looks around, seeing a magnificent palace, one that seem to be towering the sky themselves.

Looking in wonder, he seemed to miss a man coming from behind him, at least until a sword is being held on his neck.

"Stranger, what have you come to Fenghuang for?"

"I have come for for the same reason everybody come to school, knowledge."

"And what do you seek to learn?"

"Self control."

The two people continued to converse as one hand the second with a sword yet Harry already moved to the next important memory for him.

This time Remus and a different man were sitting on the floor in a simple looking house.

The man, who looked much older then the first was denying Remus to teach him.

"I don't understand" Remus said, "why? I passed your climbing test, so why won't someone guide me?" "It's not that we won't," the man said, it's that we can't give you what you want, we lost the knowledge on how to access our souls."

Stuperflied, Remus said "but, I read in a book about how the eastern magic is much deeper! How could you lose it?"

The man signed "Fenghuang has some similarity with the western schools, yet, even as You westerns like to call Hogwarts the first magical school, we in China know it's a lie.

There were many sects, or schools in China, Japan, India, and the other eastern countries way before the mere idea of wand came to the mind of your people, yet the sects fought between themselves, weakening one another, and by the time the western magical people attacked a lot of knowledge was lost.

We fought, the East with its magical fighting techniques vs the west and its diverse spells, and we began to lose.

Spells, cast with a wand, could be learned much faster then techniques that need years to study.

For every fire techniques the east made, the west had ten, for every talisman the east made, the west casted three cutting charm."

The man looked sharply into Remus.

"That not to say the techniques didn't have their own benefits. While the west had more powerful opening and peaking stage people, in the purifying stage the east was much more powerful, and the core stage equals, with your demigods and our immortals,

It reached a stalemate in the end, where each group started learning each other's knowledge.

Where our children took upon themselves wand as a quick way to become powerful enough as they were sent to war, your people learned about lay lines from us, creating the floo network, brooms, and even the moving painting.

In the end, it took 200 years to reach a peace agreement and by the time it was done all the sects merged into one- Fenghuang.

Yet not all was good about it, while having the sects merge stopped the needless wars, and combined the knowledge of all of the remaining sects, most of the older generation passed away, and the younger generation became used to wands and easy magic." The man spat easy magic like it was a curse.

"So, while we do have the knowledge in the library, we have no one proficient enough who is willing to teach you, especially, that while this magic is unique, it is in no way useful enough."

"Can I, can I read the books?" Remus desperation was clear on his face, something the older man recognized too, as could be seen on his face.

"Knowledge is free, as long as you pay enough."

Another memory was shown,

Remus sitting in the library reading a book.

'Magic has two components for it to work not including the energy itself, there were many names for them throughout history- physical and mental, yin and yang, mind and body, but in the end, after schoolers of our school came together, they changed the exact terms into knowledge and belief.

Knowledge, the physical component of magic, whether it's how to make flames, runes or wand movements, something is needed to ground our magic.

Belief- the mental component of magic, making sure the only limitations are ones you put on your self.

In most cases, more you have of one, the less you need of the other, but both are needed.'

End memories

Harry was thrilled.

Those memories showed him his future path, one in which he need to go learn a different system of magic.

Harry couldn't wait for the last days of school to be over.

It is time to travel to China