Chapter 39: Secrets of the Darkest Art
Despite Charles’ terrifying mental strength, after forcibly rewriting Secrets of the Darkest Art and Moste Potente Potions, he couldn’t help but use a potion to help him sleep for a long time.
And from there, Charles copied the books almost religiously. The remaining books had been memorized and then copied, but unfortunately, his stock of Felix Felicis had nearly ran out after all of this. Charles had guessed that only enough for an hour remained.
As precious as it was, it could only be used so many times. Despite how heart wrenching the lost was, it was well worth it. Under the care of Felix Felicis, Charles had been able to do as he desired with the books under Dumbledore’s nose! All of these books would definitely be precious to his future research!
Secrets of the Darkest Arts it was then. The detailed introduction to this book spoke volumes of the terror of the dark arts, such as the Horcrux; the hidden trump card Lord Voldemort had in his hands to escape death. The information had been quite detailed. From the incantation, splitting the soul, and then creating a vessel strong enough to hold it, everything had been like Hermione had said in Book 7. Lord Voldemort had used the information from this book to create his Horcruxes.
Horcruxes were a type of magic used to shatter the soul into fragments before depositing it into a specific vessel. This way, when your physical body was broken apart, you would not die. This was because there was still a piece of your soul on the world that remained unharmed.
The perversity of this magic lied within the soul that had been fragmented away into a vessel. It wasn’t a basic foundation for having the main body reincarnate after death, but a restriction. It restricted your soul to the earth itself. In other words, if you have a Horcrux, even if you were hit by an Avada Kedavra, your soul would not be sent into the next life because of the Horcrux. It was for that reason that Lord Voldemort did not die even after his Killing Curse had rebounded.
Lord Voldemort had seven horcruxes (The 7th was accidental), but that did not mean he had seven lives, but rather, he had seven insurances against death. In the original works, Harry Potter who was as strong as Dumbledore had spent a large amount of time destroying all of Voldemort’s Horcruxes before going off to fight him in his main body. If the Horcrux did not die, the wizard would not die.
Even more perverse was the fact that after something was transformed into a Horcrux, it gained the ability of self-preservation and protection. It was also immune the magical effects of practically 99.99% of magic (Living Horcuxes were weaker in this aspect, but they still boasted a tremendous magical resistance). In the original works, only the venomous fang of a Basilisk and Fiendfyre had been capable of killing a Horcrux. (The Sword of Gryffindor had absorbed the venom of the Basilisk, thus giving it the ability to destroy Horcruxes).
But this aspect of magic had a tremendous shortcoming. In order to make a Horcrux, one would have to first split the souls into fragments. Splitting the soul was something that went against the natural order, and was basically done in defiance to it, so the requirements had to be just as great. It could influence the wizards’ psyche and emotions, turning him crazier, moody, and even violent. Lord Voldemort had done something in the original works to lessen the effects in the original works. Creating a Horcrux would also turn your soul unstable, and even more annoying, a Horcrux was even capable of becoming self-aware. But the soul fragment had only memories of the wizard until the point where the Horcrux was made and not of the entire life of the wizard past that part. The diary for example, had been an excellent point-study. Although his shrewdness surpassed any other 16 year old, his style of doing things was far more childish, arrogant, and impatient than the main soul.
There was only one way to split the soul–murder. And then a special spell was used to complete the process. And because everyone’s soul strength had a limit, the amount of time they could split their souls was also limited. At this, Charles could only sigh in admiration. Lord Voldemort’s soul in this aspect was by every means, an unparalleled master. Before him, there had been many people wishing to become the next great dark wizard, but not a single one was capable of creating two Horcruxes. Only he was able to create seven while maintaining his sanity. Even more amazing was the fact that none of his Horcruxes had failed. Charles in comparison was far weaker!
According to the Secrets of the Darkest Arts, there was a way for the broken souls to mend and form a whole again. This way was remorse. True remorse for what one did. However, the pain from this remorse was easily capable of destroying a person, and Voldemort wouldn’t so easily feel remorse.
To Charles, the most profitable thing that came as a result from this operation was a method on how to increase his already low reserves of magic.
In Charles eyes, the first generation of wizards and witches were born from muggles with supernatural powers. According to what was taught in biology class, these wizards weren’t all that different than the magical creatures who awoke to magic from the ordinary beasts.
But why was it that man differentiated between magical creatures and beast? Wisdom.
For it was wisdom that enabled for wizards to explore generation after generation into how to achieve a higher level of magic from their bodies. Because of wisdom, wizards were able of creating spells to perform magic rather than the brash instincts of the magical creatures. After generations of intermarrying with each other, the magic within the blood had been preserved, condensed, and stabilized. For example, for a wizard born from a muggle, his blood was similar to that of a first generation wizard. In comparison to that of a noble family of wizards, the muggleborn’s magic would be far more sparse and unstable, but the future generations would have a far better time than the former. For that reason, the children of a wizarding family would often have far more magical strength than that of a wizard born from a muggle family.
This was the superiority of wisdom left behind by the accumulation of wizards generation after generation. Such a thing like this was far more than enough to make a first generation wizard like Charles to be envious.
But, the wisdom of man was unlimited. Consequently, a person had later fashioned magic to transform the blood vessels–Transfiguration. Its original purpose was to transfer the blood vessels of a magical creature into a wizard so as to increase the magical strength. Naturally, if they were lucky, the wizard would be able to gain a tremendous windfall of power.
And directly proportional to profit was the high-risk of it. In 2015, even a junior high student would know that if you were to transplant stem cells into another body, the immune system would take it to be a virus and retaliate. Death would often times be a common response. So transplanting stem cells had to be carefully done in the past. At the very least, they had to transplant human cells instead of the dangerously risky animal cells.
However, in the wizarding world, if there was a way to break past the problem of magic, then someone has already done so. Lord Voldemort had for example, been a great man of profit from his studies.
Chapter 39: Secrets of the Darkest Art
Despite Charles’ terrifying mental strength, after forcibly rewriting Secrets of the Darkest Art and Moste Potente Potions, he couldn’t help but use a potion to help him sleep for a long time.
And from there, Charles copied the books almost religiously. The remaining books had been memorized and then copied, but unfortunately, his stock of Felix Felicis had nearly ran out after all of this. Charles had guessed that only enough for an hour remained.
As precious as it was, it could only be used so many times. Despite how heart wrenching the lost was, it was well worth it. Under the care of Felix Felicis, Charles had been able to do as he desired with the books under Dumbledore’s nose! All of these books would definitely be precious to his future research!
Secrets of the Darkest Arts it was then. The detailed introduction to this book spoke volumes of the terror of the dark arts, such as the Horcrux; the hidden trump card Lord Voldemort had in his hands to escape death. The information had been quite detailed. From the incantation, splitting the soul, and then creating a vessel strong enough to hold it, everything had been like Hermione had said in Book 7. Lord Voldemort had used the information from this book to create his Horcruxes.
Horcruxes were a type of magic used to shatter the soul into fragments before depositing it into a specific vessel. This way, when your physical body was broken apart, you would not die. This was because there was still a piece of your soul on the world that remained unharmed.
The perversity of this magic lied within the soul that had been fragmented away into a vessel. It wasn’t a basic foundation for having the main body reincarnate after death, but a restriction. It restricted your soul to the earth itself. In other words, if you have a Horcrux, even if you were hit by an Avada Kedavra, your soul would not be sent into the next life because of the Horcrux. It was for that reason that Lord Voldemort did not die even after his Killing Curse had rebounded.
Lord Voldemort had seven horcruxes (The 7th was accidental), but that did not mean he had seven lives, but rather, he had seven insurances against death. In the original works, Harry Potter who was as strong as Dumbledore had spent a large amount of time destroying all of Voldemort’s Horcruxes before going off to fight him in his main body. If the Horcrux did not die, the wizard would not die.
Even more perverse was the fact that after something was transformed into a Horcrux, it gained the ability of self-preservation and protection. It was also immune the magical effects of practically 99.99% of magic (Living Horcuxes were weaker in this aspect, but they still boasted a tremendous magical resistance). In the original works, only the venomous fang of a Basilisk and Fiendfyre had been capable of killing a Horcrux. (The Sword of Gryffindor had absorbed the venom of the Basilisk, thus giving it the ability to destroy Horcruxes).
But this aspect of magic had a tremendous shortcoming. In order to make a Horcrux, one would have to first split the souls into fragments. Splitting the soul was something that went against the natural order, and was basically done in defiance to it, so the requirements had to be just as great. It could influence the wizards’ psyche and emotions, turning him crazier, moody, and even violent. Lord Voldemort had done something in the original works to lessen the effects in the original works. Creating a Horcrux would also turn your soul unstable, and even more annoying, a Horcrux was even capable of becoming self-aware. But the soul fragment had only memories of the wizard until the point where the Horcrux was made and not of the entire life of the wizard past that part. The diary for example, had been an excellent point-study. Although his shrewdness surpassed any other 16 year old, his style of doing things was far more childish, arrogant, and impatient than the main soul.
There was only one way to split the soul–murder. And then a special spell was used to complete the process. And because everyone’s soul strength had a limit, the amount of time they could split their souls was also limited. At this, Charles could only sigh in admiration. Lord Voldemort’s soul in this aspect was by every means, an unparalleled master. Before him, there had been many people wishing to become the next great dark wizard, but not a single one was capable of creating two Horcruxes. Only he was able to create seven while maintaining his sanity. Even more amazing was the fact that none of his Horcruxes had failed. Charles in comparison was far weaker!
According to the Secrets of the Darkest Arts, there was a way for the broken souls to mend and form a whole again. This way was remorse. True remorse for what one did. However, the pain from this remorse was easily capable of destroying a person, and Voldemort wouldn’t so easily feel remorse.
To Charles, the most profitable thing that came as a result from this operation was a method on how to increase his already low reserves of magic.
In Charles eyes, the first generation of wizards and witches were born from muggles with supernatural powers. According to what was taught in biology class, these wizards weren’t all that different than the magical creatures who awoke to magic from the ordinary beasts.
But why was it that man differentiated between magical creatures and beast? Wisdom.
For it was wisdom that enabled for wizards to explore generation after generation into how to achieve a higher level of magic from their bodies. Because of wisdom, wizards were able of creating spells to perform magic rather than the brash instincts of the magical creatures. After generations of intermarrying with each other, the magic within the blood had been preserved, condensed, and stabilized. For example, for a wizard born from a muggle, his blood was similar to that of a first generation wizard. In comparison to that of a noble family of wizards, the muggleborn’s magic would be far more sparse and unstable, but the future generations would have a far better time than the former. For that reason, the children of a wizarding family would often have far more magical strength than that of a wizard born from a muggle family.
This was the superiority of wisdom left behind by the accumulation of wizards generation after generation. Such a thing like this was far more than enough to make a first generation wizard like Charles to be envious.
But, the wisdom of man was unlimited. Consequently, a person had later fashioned magic to transform the blood vessels–Transfiguration. Its original purpose was to transfer the blood vessels of a magical creature into a wizard so as to increase the magical strength. Naturally, if they were lucky, the wizard would be able to gain a tremendous windfall of power.
And directly proportional to profit was the high-risk of it. In 2015, even a junior high student would know that if you were to transplant stem cells into another body, the immune system would take it to be a virus and retaliate. Death would often times be a common response. So transplanting stem cells had to be carefully done in the past. At the very least, they had to transplant human cells instead of the dangerously risky animal cells.
However, in the wizarding world, if there was a way to break past the problem of magic, then someone has already done so. Lord Voldemort had for example, been a great man of profit from his studies.
