Taking On The Magical World 32 Chapter 31: Spell Crafting 1

So here I am standing in front of my mother's study room right now, I knock lightly on the door after a bit my mother voice comes through from the other side telling me to come inside.

I grab the door handle and slowly turn it letting the door flew wide open with a slight push on my part. Inside the study with all sorts of strange books with a slight magical pulse on the shelves is my mother at her desk, right in the middle of the room.

I give my greetings to my mother than sit right across her.

My mother turns away from her parchments then looks at me with her eyebrows raised, "What are you doing here Caelum, I thought you would be inside your suitcase experimenting with your potions?"

"Yes, so did I but I wanted to ask if you could teach me more of the stuff we talked about yesterday," I said

My mother eyebrows come together into a scowl and she says, "You know Caelum, haste does not bring success, it will take a long time for you to even get to the meat and bone of those two professions and even before you can touch upon those two fields you need to learn much about Arithmancy, Alchemy, and Ancient Runes."

"I know mother but I just want to try it out, it is like putting a beautiful woman in front of somebody then you tell them it is yours but you cannot have her for years to come, if you want you can look at her just do not touch her, do you get what I am saying, that is me."

My mother lets out a loud laugh after she hears what I said, "My, how you have grown, already knowing about what goes on between the man and the woman and describing a woman like that, my little sweetie pie sure has grown, do you plan on bringing me a daughter-in-law already?"

My cheeks redden, and I think to myself why I have even decided to let my mouth go on and speak about that metaphor. "You know... that is not what I... mean."

My mother chuckle at the sight of me feeling shy and ashamed, "I know what you meant, I just wanted a good laugh from it. Anyways I can totally relate to what you feel right now, wanting to have mastery of all things, but like I said before haste makes waste."

I sigh and feel a bit down under after I hear what my mother says but she is correct, like always, even if I wanted to give a try at Spell Crafting or Magical Items I do not know a thing about Arithmancy, Alchemy, and Ancient Runes and those three need to be understood for you to have a go at those two fields.

As I see all hope is lost, I want to go back to my suitcase and get back to experimenting with my potions, but I hear my mother continue on talking, "Like I said I too was in your feet and I can relate with your plea, so I will teach you a bit of Spell Crafting that does not require a lot of Arithmancy."

My head shoots up after I hear what my mother said, and I shout in a barely concealed tone filled with excitement, "Really?"

My mother nods her head, "Yes, but it will not be much, and we have a few days as well since you will be going back to Hogwarts soon."

I agree with my mother says, "So what will we be doing?"

My mother smiles and says, "We will be doing what I am best at, building spells, I will show you a simple example and if you can before you go back to Hogwarts, you will build a simple spell."

My mother continues on talking, "First get some parchments, I know you can do muggle math, so you will be using it if you need. Second, let me demonstrate how Spell Crafting works."

My mother brings out her wand from seemingly out of nowhere, it is breath taking just every time I see it, her wand handle is a silver colored with a metallic sheen and small little dots of light roll move around on the handle then there is the focus crystal which is a beautiful blood-colored gem. I snap out of my reverence as I hear my mother speaks the word "Lumos" then the end of her wand lights up.

"What I just cast was the Wand-Lighting Charm, a simple spell that anyone could do, but here is where things get hard, what if I wanted to cast a blue light instead of a white light that always pops up when I cast the Wand-Lighting Charm."

My mother gets up from her chair and goes to the bookshelves and gets out a great big book t.i.tled 'Spell Models' then she comes back to her desk and puts the book in front of me.

"Open the book to the Wand-Lighting Charm," my mother says and I do as I am told, the spell is found right on the second page after the Levitation Charm.