Born from the Ashes (A Harry Potter Fanfic)

Chapter 2

Heiress Alya Claire Black was the pride of the most Ancient and Noble house of Black. 

Her connection to magic was astounding to all who knew her. She excelled in transfiguration, runes, potions, wandless spells, and Legilimency.  She was fluent in several languages, her favorites being French and Latin.

She was mature, beautiful, and brilliant. She held the grace of a dancer and the intimidating power of a queen. 

This was of course all by Alya's design. Even in her past life, she had been a genius, memorizing the extensive Black library took years, but simple regurgitation of information is not what made her brilliant. The true genius came from understanding and applying what she knew. 

Ancient rituals lost to time, druid practices and how they could affect magic now, the true difference between light and dark magic. 

Alya Black had studied the topics extensively. 

By the age of eight, the Heiress black had published four books that shook the wizarding world to its core. 

The first she published with the help of Walburga at age six, titled, "Modern Druid: Re-discovering magic roots". The book detailed how one could strengthen their connection to magic by understanding the magic of the world around them. Magic was in everything, in the very air, but Wizards had become so reliant on solely using their magical cores and ancestral magic that they had forgotten the rituals of nature that were first used. 

The book sparked many debates as well as many other essays about the changes in magic over the centuries and, more significantly the enormous decrease in magic ability since the days of old. 

The second book by Alya Black was, "The Importance of Magic Culture". She published this at seven years old. The book detailed forgotten Magic holidays and cultural practices that have been forgotten by the mugglefication of the wizarding world. Practices of Yule and Samhain that had been expunged for the purpose of making muggle-borns more comfortable. The purpose of the book was to call for re-education. It walked the controversial line of declaring the importance of wizarding culture as well as serving as a fundamental education for muggle-borns. 

She phrased everything perfectly as if to say, "They are entering a culture that is not known to them, we must help them adjust to our culture, not adjust our culture to suit them." 

It was a dangerous balancing act so as not to mark her as a blood traitor or a death eater. But her silver tongue served her well, stitching together the perfect words that, to the light side, would sound as if she was pro-helping the muggle-borns and, to the dark side, would sound as if she was pro-tradition.

It was met with surprising support from both sides, calling for the re-establishment of many traditions within the society. 

This uproar of support was actually what led to Alya's third book that same year titled, "An Introduction to Magic Culture." 

The book used muggle terms to explain everything about Magic society including proper greetings, holidays, the meaning behind clothes and hairstyles, the noble system of the sacred twenty-eight, how to get into the wizarding world, modes of magical transportation, and the creatures that they will most likely experience first (ie. House-elves, the goblins at Gringotts, etc.).

It was simplified and easy to understand. It serves as a warning about what they would encounter as well as how to navigate the wizarding world properly. 

The book was so well received that the Minister of Magic was quick to pass a law that upon receiving their Hogwarts letter, muggle-borns would also receive a copy of the book to help ease the transition.