Harry potter : Forgotten Lord

So now he was walking the corridors, heading to the hospital wing; he needed some answers and he figured that that was the best place to find them.

Entering the room, he saw that all the hospital beds were empty with no sign of the medi-witch, so he made his way over to her office.

After greeting Poppy he explained his problem, about being restless with energy and having sleeping problems because of it.

Poppy did some complex wand movements before eyeing him carefully, then looking at his hand with the Potter ring on it, before sighing.

"Mr Potter, your restlessness is in part due to your house ring," indicating to his hand before continuing on in explanation "your house ring ties you magically to your family's ancestral home. These old homes were intentionally built on ley lines, and would power your house wards in times of crisis or siege, similar to the ones here at Hogwarts" gesturing to the walls around them.

"These lines would naturally provide more power for wards, effectively turning a manor into a small fortress, for a short period of time at least. As well as providing the owners of the wards with an increase in magical prowess for a short time, as long as they were inside the wards' area of effect" she said factually while looking him over before her features turned to a decidedly sad expression.

"These wards would be controlled by the magically acknowledged head of the family, while the heir" gesturing to his ring "would slowly be integrated into the wards' control scheme over several decades, before, in time, becoming the head of the family themselves.

Due to you having no living head of the family to control this flow of magical energy, the excess energies are flowing into you, effectively recharging you faster than you normally would, hence why you're restless and don't need as much sleep; it also explains how you were able to kill the troll" she said informally.

"What do you mean?" Harry replied with interest, this being a completely unknown topic to him.

"These old rings allow for a temporary boost in power while the bearer is in stressful or life threatening situations, overriding the safety features and effectively giving a short boost of magical power, allowing you to use additional magical energy for a short period of time. However, if sustained for long periods, this can actually damage one's magical core, making it unstable, resulting in death after your core explodes, hence the reason for the safety features in the ring" she answered.

"Oh" he replied, it was a lot of information to take in after all, before asking "are there any long-term dangers involved in this, gesturing to his ring, while silently thinking about the Peverell ring hanging round his neck. A family that magically he was already the head of.

"No, eventually your body will adapt, due to your young age and the fact that your core is still growing. Eventually this will allow you to return to normal sleeping levels; it probably will actually feed your core's growth beyond the norm, giving you a minor gain in permanent power over your lifetime." She said in a thinking tone, before her voice became heavy and serious.

"I must stress that you absolutely should not intentionally put yourself in dangerous situations thinking it will make you more powerful. It will most likely kill you if you're channelling such power before your body is capable of handling it" she said in a lecturing voice. "I can't tell you how it works beyond that though, you'd have to talk to a specialist if you want to know more. All I can tell you are the medical causes and effects" she said pointedly.

"However, I'm going to ask you to see me once a week for the remainder of the school year so that we can monitor your core for any early warning signs" the nurse said in a tone which made it clear that it wasn't a request, more like an order.

"Fine" he replied in a bored tone, before replying, there was no point arguing over it, she would just get his head of house involved, "any idea how much permanent additional growth this will cause?"

She looked him over carefully before answering "I would guess somewhere around 1-3% additional growth, as long you don't do anything overly stupid" she replied, "however, there has never been a study on this, since there are so few subjects to monitor with these circumstances" she said in a scholarly tone.

"What do you mean?" he said instinctively.

"Mr Potter, think about everything I said, this only happens when no blood family members are left alive. How many other individuals can you think of are in the same situation as you? You're the first underage heir of an old family, in a century with these circumstances. The Death Eaters didn't leave orphans by choice, they wiped out whole families, including their children" she said in an angry tone, "plus there are all the additional factors to consider."

Deciding to leave quickly, rather than risk a repeat of what had happened to Percy, he decided to leave her to her work, "Thank you madam, I'll see you next week" he replied in a grateful tone, rather than risking angering her further, before fleeing the office and hospital wing altogether.

Upon leaving the hospital wing he found a quiet, secluded spot and closely examined the ring hanging around his neck, wondering what was going to happen with the influence of two rings working upon him.

At least the nurse would be monitoring it. If it started getting serious, he would tell her about the Peverell ring rather than risk his health and development. Otherwise he would just have to be careful in his day-to-day life. So if the Peverell ring was affecting him the same way, he was looking at maybe an average 4% growth of his magical core in total, maybe 6% max.

Now he had to research ley lines to have some idea of what the nurse was talking about, plus he wanted to know himself. He was a raven after all, and knowledge was power. Almost literally in this case now that he had two distinct links with several ley lines or more.

Library

It had taken him several hours to find the necessary books, even with the librarian helping him to find some of the relevant reference books.

The books didn't go into much detail, but provided a rather simple explanation.

Ley lines are the natural pathways of the planet's magical energy, like a river or a stream flowing across the land, often resulting in magical life growing around these lines where natural magic is at its strongest. Stronger and fewer still are those places on the Earth where more than one ley line intersect, forming a focal point and more powerful source of combined magic to tap.

These lines and there stronger intersection points are often used for long-lasting, large-scale warding, or for magical settlements due to the natural magics availability to empower wards and support the growth and development of diverse magical life. An intersection of three or more ley lines are primarily used for powering a country's ward schemes, or key places. Key examples of these powerful and rare intersection points are the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts.

Historically, powerful magical families and Warlords used these intersection points to build their own magical strongholds. Few accessible locations intersecting more than one ley line are privately owned today. Most of these spots are now owned by national governments since the original old families who held them have entirely passed on to the next great adventure.

The wizard or witch channelling such energies from the wardstones that are keyed to such ley lines, may use them to increase their own magical energies for short-erm gain, often doubling or tripling their prowess. However, when used for extended periods of time, the magical core can often destabilize violently. The more power that is channelled, the faster this effect can happen.

It has been noted though that it often takes several years for a wizard or witch to integrate into a wardstone matrix tapping a single ley line or an intersection point, before he or she can use this ability fully.

Closing the book, it had answered his question; it also meant that most of the remaining old families, such as his own, had access to these ley lines and perhaps the rarer intersection points. Didn't matter much now, but it was good to know for the future.

It also meant that the Headmaster was far more powerful than most people believed if the old man could tap into the intersected ley lines found here in an emergency. It explained why Lord Voldemort never marched on Hogwarts, since the Headmaster's power could very well double or triple for a short period of a duel, giving him an unmistakable advantage.

It made him wonder just how much damage the headmaster could do if he wanted to; combined with his knowledge could he ever be beaten in his stronghold? Could he level dozens of wizards with a single spell? It really was mind blowing when he thought about it. He was grateful that he had no plans to ever fight the man directly; it also confirmed in his mind that if he ever had to fight the headmaster, it would have to be by hitting the man in the back or solely on the political battlefield.

However, his attention was drawn away from these thoughts as a shadow fell upon him, looking up he saw that it was Daphne. He had to admit that he liked the cold blonde, but he wouldn't say so to her.

"Hi Daphne," he said looking up.

"Harry" came the one word response, before sitting down quickly and looking over his choice in books. "Interesting choice in texts."

"Yes, they are" gesturing to the books arrayed in front of him. He made no point in hiding them, as it would only draw her attention to the fact that he had, and she would undoubtedly look up what he had just finished reading anyway. Plus he had nothing to hide. Looking across the table, he spoke "Want me to check your charm's essay?"

She replied straight away, this was their routine after all, "Same deal as before, you check my charms essay, I check your herbology one?"

"Of course," he replied and went about swapping assignments, before going about checking the essay. Looking up with one eye he could clearly see that Daphne was watching him, obviously having something she wanted to ask, "What's on your mind?"

"I was just wondering what you have been up to the last couple of days" she asked in a curious tone.

He decided to go with the truth, as he doubted his extra training would stay secret for long. "I am practising DADA in the evening, a couple hours a week. After the whole troll in the bathroom deal, and Penny in the hospital wing, I decided to get in some extra practical training, mainly target practise and dodging spells." He answered.

"Understandable, I would too after having to deal with an adult mountain troll. My father said there is still no official report about the troll; it seems the headmaster has managed to keep it out of ministry involvement" she replied.

"I expected as much since it wasn't in the paper" Harry responded, in a cold tone. It annoyed him that such an event could be overlooked by the papers.

Several minutes passed in comfortable silence, while they went about the task of checking the other person's essay.

"Harry, have you ever wondered why Penny is being so helpful towards you, besides being assigned to mentor you?" She asked.

"Yea a bit, but I just guessed that it was due to her being assigned to me, as well maybe Penny coming to see me as a little brother of sorts, but after the troll incident she may believe she owes me some kind of debt for saving her," he answered, in a puzzled tone. It really did puzzle him, he expected Daphne had a theory or something, since he doubted she would bring this up as a subject for small talk.

"You're correct to a point, what do you know of wizard debts?" Daphne asked, putting her quill down and watching him, waiting for him to respond.

"Not as much as I would like. I know a bit about the financial side, but I haven't really had a chance to look into it, after all I've only known about magic since this summer" he admitted to her.

She just nodded accepting this answer, before asking in a questioning tone, "What do you know about life debts?"

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