Chapter 60: Prefix

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"Take this to Alastor Moody."

She eyed the envelope before taking it and putting it into her pocket. She nodded at her old professor and turned to leave.

"And do be careful Nymphadora."

Tonks gave him a small smile and closed the door behind her.

You have slept in your own bed, HP and MP have been restored 100% each. All ailments and negative status effects have been cured.

The message greeted Harry as he was woken up by his alarm clock ringing loudly beside him.

Thankfully, his magically silencing bed hangings were closed, and the clock was inside the hangings on the bed, so his early alarm didn't end up waking up the entire dormitory.

Rubbing his eyes, Harry groped for his glasses, putting them on once he found them. The sight in front him focused in his eyes.

Harry stared.

There, on his stomach, sleeping with her head tucked under her wing, was Hedwig the chick. Except that she wasn't Hedwig the chick anymore.

In what looked like a few hours, she had grown into Hedwig the prepubescent flaming albino turkey.

It was almost as if somebody had unloaded a vat-full of growth hormones into the phoenix's feed.

Her beak was longer, her pale tail feathers had gained a golden sheen towards their tips, her wings and tail were more proportional to her body, and her overall size had almost doubled.

She looked a bit lanky like her body had suddenly grown a lot in length while forgetting to compensate in breadth.

Harry, a bit worried about his new friend's health, cast an Observe on her.

Hedwig

Lv-30

HP- ∞ / ∞

MP- ∞ / ∞

Race- Caucasian Phoenix

Str-89

Vit-56

Dex-33

Int-20

Wis-15

Luc-24

Hedwig is an immortal phoenix. She has the ability to regenerate. She will undergo a full life cycle at the end of which she will burst into flames & rise from the ashes as a newborn chick.

This Burning Day will happen less and less as she will start to age slower and slower in her life cycles. The first burning day usually occurs a few days after the birth of the Phoenix.

She also has unrestricted teleportation to places she has seen before and boasts magical tears and song.

She thinks Harry is pretty cool but she is currently asleep and will rip his hair out one by one if he tries to dump water on her.

"Well," Harry muttered under his breath, deciding that the irony of dumping water on a phoenix to wake her up was not worth his hair.

Scrapping the ideas he'd started cooking up, he gently lay her down back on the bed. Covering her up with a blanket, Harry went and freshened up. None of the others were up yet, so he had free reign over the showers.

After taking his time to freshen up, he went off to the to the common room bookshelf to look up some spells.

After first using the ID books, he'd soon realized that he could only learn a skill from a book once. For instance, from absorbing his reference Potions book, he'd gotten a respectable Lv3 in the new skill to start with, but that meant that any further leveling up could only be done by hard work. It took him hours of studying his school books to get up to Lv4.

Theoretically, he'd mused, there were books out there that, had he absorbed to create the Potions skill, would have started him out at Lv10 or even more.

Added to that, there were only a precious few books that were old enough to have gained magic of their own, allowing them to be absorbed. Unfortunately, that meant that freshly printed books could only be learned entirely by hard work.

Harry sighed. 'Guess it isn't fair to get cheats for everything,' he thought, 'besides, reading was fun.'

One of the first thoughts Harry had after getting Hedwig was about how he would carry Hedwig around with himself since she was too young to actually fly around in the forbidden forest by herself when Harry was in class and too noticeable to leave in the dorms unguarded.

Furthermore, her burning day was close. Even after thinking all night, he'd failed to come up with a concrete idea. Surrounded by the one-sided reflective windows of the Ravenclaw boys bathroom, however, he had a rather interesting thought.

There were windows in the office buildings of Muggle London that let in light from the outside, but didn't let light from the inside go outside… maybe something like that…

Harry, with this seed of an idea, went over to the Common Room bookshelves and located and pulled out three books.

Looking through the ' Construction Magics by Colin Furze', Harry went on to the windows section and looked up the spells for the glass panes that went into tinting windows.

The spell was simple enough, and there were little to no wand movements involved. He quickly memorized the charm, thankful that it was an easy one.

Ping!

Spell learned!

Speculo lateres

This spell is used in the construction of mirrored glass out of plain glass.

-20 MP per use

He opened up the ' Beginner's Guide to Spell Modification and Creation by Griselda Marchbanks' and skimmed through the first few pages reading about how the most common examples were Protego Duo and Protego Maxima .

He was quite surprised when he read that Wingardium Leviosa was actually a spell just called Leviosa and it only had Wingardium as a prefix to focus the magic of the user on only the feather since the youngsters that were mostly taught the spell as an introduction to Charms had incredibly volatile magic.

That way, if their dangerous and sometimes explosive magic was focused entirely on the feather, no bystanders would be hurt.

He quickly turned over to the prefix and suffix glossary on the back that showed which suffix to add to a spell to add what property to it. Running a finger down the list, he quickly matched the word vestimentus to cloth.

Jotting down a couple of quick notes from the "How-To" section of the book, he removed lateres from the original spell and converted the text into the appropriate tense before adding vestimenta to it.

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