Chapter 12 - Time-skip and Progress - II

The castle contained rooms which were arranged in an efficient way. I made use of Library management and Computer memory management architecture to design the hallways, rooms and its contents. Each room was a library of memories. There were two important rooms deep in the dungeons of the castle. These two rooms were given even more protection and the entrance to the dungeon was hidden with another complex illusion. One room contained memories of my past life and another contained a backup of important memories of present life.

The front entrance of the castle led to different hallways. Each hallway had various number of rooms in which similar memories were stored. The different hallways were one for daily life memories, one for martial arts knowledge, one for non-magical life knowledge, one for magical knowledge and another for miscellaneous knowledge. The hallways led to rooms and the rooms contained bookshelves in which the memories were stored. Like the daily life memories hallway led to rooms labelled with a year. Inside the rooms the bookshelves were labelled with month and it stored the memories. Similarly, the magical knowledge hallways led to rooms labelled with different subjects like Charms and inside the room the knowledge of these subject was stored.

The mindscape was also linked with my magical core. So even if I am unconscious the defences will be active. It truly was a masterpiece. An added advantage of hiding my true mindscape it that when a person memory charms me, the memories removed will be the untrained balls of memories outside without affecting my original memories.

My Legilimency ability has also improved but not as much as Occlumency due to lack of wizard targets. I can now scan and look through an untrained min very quickly and without their knowledge. I could surface scan their memories with passive eye contact or I could wandlessly cast on the people without their knowledge and look through their memories deeply. Both actions did not bring attentions to myself. Now all I needed to practice is going through shielded mind without getting detected. It needed Hogwarts and the free Guinea pigs it provided for my practice.

My magic has grown quite strong by now with the daily practise and my nightly exercise of depleting and replenishing it. I can do fifth year spells wandlessly so I can guess I now have magical reserves equal to average 17-year-old wizards. It reached this level due to the aid of the ritual otherwise I expected my reserves to be equal to a 15-year-old wizard only at this point.

I had completed my higher secondary schooling just a few days back and had given my A-levels. My school life was spent with attending a year with a batch and skipping a grade every year. So I started with year 7 at the age of 7. At the yearend I was given an option to write year 8 exams too as the teachers had seen than I was more than able to write them. So next year I attended year 9 at the age of 8 and so on until this year I finished year 13, the final grade of higher secondary school. Results were expected in a month's time and I was sure that I aced all my subjects. Due to my years being so, I did not make any friends in high school. Others also avoided me because of their jealousy. No bullying though as everyone knew I was physically strong too as some unlucky bullies found out on the first day of my high school.

Coming to my magical studies, I completed my magical studies till OWL level in all subjects that are taught at Hogwarts. The books for the other subjects were not present in my library and as I was not in a rush to study them, I did not buy the books. I could wait for Hogwarts and its library. I could all the spells with wand and wandlessly. I had memorised the etiquette book. I had also practised potions after converting the room I used for the ritual as a potion room. I had practised all potions till OWL level until I could perfectly make them without any errors.

I also spent time practising writing with a quill. There were many self-inking quills available in house which were used by parents. I felt it was a waste of time but still practised writing with it. My plan is to use quills in classes while writing ȧssignments with the proper fountain pen as it was much simpler to use. The quill was too thin to even hold properly.

I can now control my mage sight flawlessly. I can activate and deactivate the sight instantaneously without any concentration required. I also found out that I can see if a person had done dark magic. This I found out after I observed many random wizards walking along the streets of London. I don't know much about dark magic but after it is done, it leaves dark black spots in your magical core as that's what I could see. I need to read up more on the subject to find out about the reasons, effects and the ways to remove the dark black spots in the magic core.

I also had opened an account in Barclays Bank. It had a lot of money which I gained through scholarships and wining various competitions. It contained 2500 pounds and I was proud of it as it was money I earned with my own efforts and not inherited.