Harry Potter's sister ~~~ Fanfiction

discovering lupins a werewolf part 63

Time passed and September ended and October began. Harry's ability to understand Winston Lawrence's research on the Patronus Charm was limited but not without progress.

From what Harry could tell, Lawrence had concluded that current instruction on the charm was flawed and that the universal understanding of it was flawed. But Harry had difficulty understanding what was flawed.

It didn't help Harry that the Patronus Charm in of itself was hard to understand. According to all the books Harry read, it could only be incanted using positive emotions. However texts disagreed on what emotions actually power the charm. Some argued that it was any basic happy memory, others argued that it was memories of love, a third argued that it was powered by… more dirty-minded thoughts bordering on deviant, but that was largely denounced by academics in Defensive Magic.

Lawrence seemed to think that the Charm was powered by a caster's magic with the aid of an Elemental Trigger, which made no sense to Harry.

Despite what Lawrence thought though, Harry had made progress. Using other advice, he'd focused on his happy memories and had managed to produce a cloud of smoke, but there was no sign of a shield or, what he truly hoped for, a Corporeal Patronus.

"Expecto Patronum!" said Harry again. This time, a shield emerged from the tip of his wand and lasted less than a second before it fluttered out of existence.

Harry felt exhausted. He collapsed into a nice comfy chair graciously provided for him by the Room of Requirement. There was no way he could do anymore magic today.

He once more picked up Lawrence's notes and looked through them, but they made even less sense to him now than they had two hours ago when he last looked at them.

"The notion that happy memories power the Patronus Charm is at its basis flawed." Harry read from the text.

Harry once more looked at the front of the book.

"1935?" he said "The man's probably dead by now, pity I can't ask him. I wonder what sort of person he was like?"

Harry looked at his watch, it was getting on in the day. It was a Sunday so, per tradition, Harry had locked himself away to learn more about Defensive Magic. The only difference these days was, Harry used the Room of Requirement and his friends and sister used the Practice Room for their own purposes, mainly doing homework and playing games.

Harry decided to try and see what he could find out about Winston Lawrence. That meant a trip to the Library.

Time passed and September ended and October began. Harry's ability to understand Winston Lawrence's research on the Patronus Charm was limited but not without progress.

From what Harry could tell, Lawrence had concluded that current instruction on the charm was flawed and that the universal understanding of it was flawed. But Harry had difficulty understanding what was flawed.

It didn't help Harry that the Patronus Charm in of itself was hard to understand. According to all the books Harry read, it could only be incanted using positive emotions. However texts disagreed on what emotions actually power the charm. Some argued that it was any basic happy memory, others argued that it was memories of love, a third argued that it was powered by… more dirty-minded thoughts bordering on deviant, but that was largely denounced by academics in Defensive Magic.