Chapter 140 - 140- slowly and quickly

Harry's POV

The next few weeks moved both slowly and quickly.

They moved slowly as with the twins having to help their friends with basic Occlumency they became so busy they were unable to find time to practice music together, something Harry truly missed.

They moved as fast as they did because Harry once more used every second of his days to do things, and since he finally knew about the belief part of magic, his progress in the magical parts of his studies accelerated.

In transfigurations, what used to be only about control and knowledge became easier once he started noticing the world's belief fighting against his magic, which was the main reason his transfigurations didn't move past the middle of seventh year's, as to do the magic while unknowingly resisting the world belief needed much greater control.

That's not to say he stopped practicing control, yet, instead of doing it for transfigurations he did it for his runes, in which he managed to make another 18 runes, making it a total of 22 runes he created, most of them being for the broom he and his friends were creating or the disk duels, yet he started to work on more efficient magical container for the philosopher's stone.

One thing he noticed about runes in general now that he started creating them is that the way people perceive them change the way they work.

For example, Egyptian hieroglyphs, who are known for their trapping abilities but not for ritual purposes, are like that when he thinks about them in that way, but have smaller difference from Gallic runes when aren't thought about that way.

While he can't know for sure, Harry believes that the world's belief affects those runes to give them specialty, which was the reason Harry decided to let his runes be unknown, as to not let it be as affected by the world as other runes are.

Another thing he started to progressing fast in was his medical studies, with no need to listen in more and more classes, Harry instead turned to listen to GAI in his ear, reading to him books, something that made it possible for him to finish year five of his studies and move into year six.

As for his research, it made some big steps.

While he still didn't have any of the blood samples he asked the Greengrass family to acquire, he did have two samples of blood that helped him.

He meant of course, the blood of Remus Lupin, before and after transformation.

After compering the samples with the samples of two different animagi, changed and not, and of a regular wolf, Harry found that lycanthropy is just a different kind blood malediction, which made sense, considering a bite is needed for lycanthropy to take place.

While regular blood malediction seem to pass from ancestors who became animagus in a ritual instead of potion to children by birth, just like different magical abilities and gifts, only wrong, lycanthropy is like someone tried to super charge his animagus form making it's instincts also super charged and able to over power the infected's mind, the only three things he couldn't explain is why the change happen only on full moon, why is the bite infectious, and why Wolfsbane and silver and harmful.

The one who did find the answer was actually Luna.

As someone who used to sit near her mother as she studied rituals, Luna had a lot of knowledge of esoteric knowledge on the subject.

She brought up a ritual from ancient Greece that make your body immune to harm except from a small location that becomes your mortal point- the Styx ritual.

The thing is that rituals don't mix well, if someone did the animagus ritual after doing the Styx ritual it could cause the two to crush on one another creating all sorts of magical affects, including super charging the animagus form, and changing the weakness from one place to two things.

As for the bite and the full moon, knowing lycanthropy came from the same source of ritual as the blood malediction, it shouldn't be passed on by bite instead of birth, something that bothered him until Thursday night before last, the first full moon of the year.

Harry let Remus stay caged while knocking him out as usual before letting Luna look at him.

According to Luna, while during the month the aura of Remus was a lot like Professor McGonagall and the twins, regular with a hint of animalistic vibe, during the full moon it changes closer to how Dumbledore's aura is, it fades into the world in some locations.

Yet while Dumbledore's aura is like a little kid trying to look old, Remus' aura is like an a.d.u.l.t trying to connect to a child.

That's when it hit him.

The werewolf curse isn't only physical, it is also spiritual, and like all things spirituals, the world's beliefs changes the way it works.

The world is filled with stories about werewolf since Ancient Greece at least, it is one of the things that has little to no difference about between the magical and the ordinary world, someone created the beliefs that werewolves only change on a full moon, that their bite is infectious and that there is no cure, Harry wasn't sure who or why, and it spread so much it became the truth.

After learning that he knew that to cure lycanthropy he needs to not only find a way to reverse both rituals, but find a way to make the world forget its beliefs, which is why, a year after he took a break from studying charms, Harry once more started studying one he already knew how to cast, which he now need to know more then just its basics, Harry started staying the Fidelius charm.