Harry Potter: The Run Carver

Chapter 4: Life in the Room

All credit of Harry Potter goes to J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series.

Walking into the room that Daphne had created for him to do his runic rituals, took the chalk out of its place on the wall, and drew a large Berkano rune on the floor of the room. One of the things that Magic had taught him was that intention behind a rune is just as important as the rune itself. So when drawing Berkano, Harry thought about rebirth and healing.

After lying the card down out of the rune, Harry laid all of his clothing outside of the chalk outline. Harry picked up a knife to cut the end of his pointer finder to draw blood. With the blood, he drew Laguz rune near his heart with the intent of healing found through water. On the other side of his chest Harry drew Sowilo, for the purification that comes from fire.

The last rune for the ritual, Harry drew a Celtic Cross just above the location of the third eye on his forehead. The reason behind this rune was spiritual and magic purification rune. The combination of the three runes on his body was to result in the symbol of perfection. The result of this ritual was that Laguz would heal the body, Sowilo purify the body, the Celtic Cross purify the spirit and magic, and Berkano enhance and combine the runes.

Harry had spent the whole morning practicing one of the requirements of runes that was currently being blocked. The act of powering a rune by pushing magic though one's body into the rune. Harry could still power runes but it was very hard to push the magic out and into the runes. He had spent time to make sure that he would be able to power the runes in the ritual.

Laying down on his back with is his hands palm down on the Berkano rune, Harry pushed magic though his skin. All four runes start to glow and then Harry was covered in a white light as the runes kicked in. The Laguz rune caused all the improper healed bones, results of malnutrition, and corrected his vision. The pain from bones rebreaking to correct themselves, bones and body lengthening to what he should have been, and his eyes changed shape caused Harry to scream out from the agony.

At the same time Sowilo started to remove anything from him that was not part of body. Any toxins were in his body were dissolved and removed from the body by the magic of the rune. When the purification reached his scar, his screaming increased as a black mist rose from the scar. The black mist when came into interaction with white field of magic around Harry, the mist exploded in a flash of dim light. As the black mist rose from the scar, Harry realized that his scar was the rune of Sowilo and it was picking up the magic racing from his skin thus activated the rune. With the Sowilo rune just over his mind, the rune started purifying his mind. His mind became clear, thinking became easier, and Harry once more screamed when the rune came across memories that had been blocked due to memory charm.

Celtic Cross started to pulse its power though his magic and spirit. The anger laying in his heart from the treatment he had received became righteous anger, while the naive child in him became tempered by his experience. No more would his spirit be two extreme but an even and unified spirit. Things got interesting when the Celtic Cross worked on purifying his magic. The malnutrition of his youth had stunted his magic and the channel from his core to his body. The rune built up his magic and enlarged his channel.

It was when the rune started to work on his blood that carried part of his magic. The result of being bitten by a basilisk and then had the tears of a phoenix in his blood since the end of the second year was that kind of magic that was powerful but did not disappear. While those two substances had canceled each other in his blood and altered his blood even down to the bone marrow so that all blood created now had the poison and the tears. The runic magic saw the magic substances in his blood being created by the bone marrow and thought it was part of Harry. The rune made Harry created a blood that could be poisonous and heal at the desire of Harry.

All during this time the Berkano washed over him casting a light of rebirth and allowing the runes working in tandem to create Harry that was what he should have been if he had grown up in loving home with his abilities intact. One the ritual was over, Harry stood up he was now 6 ft where he was previously 5 ft and 5 in, and what was once out of focus now in focus. His scar was still there but now more faded then before. Harry felt sore and his clothing no longer fit, so Harry without thinking used wandless magic to enlarged his clothing to make them fit.

Walking out of the room and over to the garden where the rest of the group was relaxing while Harry tired his first ritual. Once he spotted them he said, "Man that hurt but I feel so much better than ever before."

"Are you ok? We heard a lot of screaming" asked a concern Daphne while she hugged him. Daphne noticed that she now could easily rest her head on his shoulder.

"I am ok. The ritual took a lot out of me as it correct and purified me. But now my magic seems easier and I have access to all my Runic abilities. " said Harry.

Luna looked at them and with a far off look said, "Time is at hand. The Lords of Light and Dark will need to fall before the Gray. The balance is at hand. Once more will the Carver need to balance magic. If the balance is not achieved then our world will be found and pillars of fire will rain down on us. The power he knows not has appeared. Beware those who stand in the way of the Carver."

Surprise showed on the faces of her friends and they realized that their friend had the gift of sight.

"I guess that is what you mean when magic speaks to you Luna?" asked Harry.

Lune smiles and says, "Besides the sight, magic shows me creatures that exist just outside of our realm. The Great One knew that I was lonely and provides companies."

"Was the reason that you came with Harry a result of your sight?" Susan asked.

"Yea. I saw that he was a Carver and the path that is in front of him. I saw that if I did not join that he would not able to bring the balance." Explained Luna. "So do you want to say why you followed Harry?"

Blushing a little and a quick look at Neville but unnoticed by the boys, Susan just shakes her head and says silent.

To keep Susan from blushing any more, Daphne stated her reason, "I followed Harry because I believed in him and did not want to follow the path set forth by my family which would have resulting in me being in a loveless marriage with a Death Eater."

"Death Eater?" questions Harry.

"You know about Voldemort but not his Death Eaters? They were his followers and soldiers. The ones who attacked my parents were Death Eaters. " explained Neville, "I joined Harry because for generations of Longbottoms have followed the Potters since they stand for justice and what is right."

"I appreciate each and everyone one of you for standing with me no matter what the reason is. Daphne, do you have that list we were working on the subjects we wanted to work on?" ask Harry.

Daphne reaches into her bag and brings out the list the group had been working on.

List:

Physical exercise

Speed and accuracy with spells

Offensive and Defensive Spells

Offensive and Defensive Runes

War Tactics and Guerrilla Tactics

Transfiguration

Charms

Potions

History of Magic

Herbology

Arithmancy

Study of Ancient Runes (for others besides Harry)

Care of Magical Creatures

Legilimency and Occlumency

Politics

Dance

After reading the list out loud, Daphne made a recommendation, "I think the we spend the next few weeks and just work on Legilimency and Occlumency. I believe that these two disciplines will help us master the rest of the items on our list."

"I agree. I had to learn Occlumency due to my seer ability. I can tell you it has not only help me not to lose my self completely to the future of possibilities but it has helped me make good grades in class." A rare clear eye Luna explains.

"I remember what my grandmother told me about them and what we mentioned when we wrote the list. But can you please explain in more detail on how we master these two disciplines?" Neville ask of Lune and Daphne.

"I suggest starting with Occlumency which is the protection of one's mind from Legilimency. One starts by clearing one's mind of emotions, which is done by concentrating on a object or location that puts your emotions in a neutral state. I use the fields near our house as my location. One you can keep that location for at least one hour with out emotions coming up then you go to the next step. That is sorting and hiding your memories inside the location or object. So example, I hide some of my memories in individual blades of grass for the less important ones and the more important in other locations. One you have done that, the next step is to hold your Occlumency without stopping for the day. Everything you do during the day will tax your Occlumency but if you can hold it then you can be ready for an attack at anytime. The last prep work is building traps to stop intruders, I have pit falls with blades for people to fall in. Once all that prep work is done then you have to have your shields tested. If they fail then rebuild them strong until you can keep people out." Daphne walks them step by step.

Susan turns to Luna and ask how she did her Occlumency. Luna responding said, "I use my seer ability to so the infinite path a leaf can take falling from a tree. If you get past one image then you go to the next. It is only past the infinite possible images do I hide my memories. I have never had some make it all the way. Usually after a few hundred possibilities they start to go crazy."

With the looks of surprise Luna explains some more, "I have only had my shield really tested twice. The first time was a ministry agent who was trying to shut my dad's newspaper down and thought me a easy target to find illegal information. He dove into my mind using Legilimency and trying to get past my left. After watching about a hundred possibilities he tried to get out and found himself watching them backwards. When he finally made it out of my mind he just stood there and mumbled leaf over and over. Last I heard was that he was still in the long-term ward at the hospital. Besides Dumbledore's surface skimming, the only other person was Snape and he stopped after just 5 possibilities and tried to force past them and resulting in a collapse my first potion class."

Everyone was upset but most of all Harry held rage at Snape. There was no point even thinking of the Ministry man if he was a vegetable at the hospital.

While everyone was getting over their anger at what happened to Luna, she snapped them out of it by suggesting that they start practicing.