Аннотация: Naruto is practicing levitating matches. Snape talks about the magic conductor.
Part 1. Chapter 7. What is magic?
August 9th, 1988
England, Cokworth, Spinners' Cul-de-sac, Severus Snape's house
Looking at the pile of matches, I wondered where to start. Experience has suggested that you should first clear your mind and meditate.
I sat down on the floor in front of the table and placed the matches one at a time on the surface of the tabletop. My toad teacher Fukasaku-san always told me to visualize all the processes and flows of energy flowing around. That's how I learned to absorb natural energy, mixing it with my chakra. And thanks to this, he became the youngest Shinobi to master the sage mode. Perhaps, it is more accurate to say, the only person who has truly mastered the sage's regime. Jiraiya could use it too, but Fukasaku-san said that his technique was not so perfect.
Well, yes, Naruto Uzumaki was cool... he was. But I decided that Harry Potter would also be worthy of his "being chosen."
Magic is also some kind of energy that a magician implements in some way. When I was here in my own body, I felt magical currents in the sennin mode, and thanks to this I could detect the presence of magicians in the area and sense the manifestations of magic. Then, according to the drawing of their power system, the wizards were associated with my storage fuin capacitors, although most of them are low-power, purely take-and-give, with almost no reserve of their own. Somehow they absorb some energy from the outside and transform it into magic. I could see it in sennin mode when I looked at Harry. And Sensei reminded me of all this. Still, it's very useful to meet an adult magician who has done magic in your presence. The fundamental difference between Shinobi and magicians is the presence of a reserve replenished by internal forces. In Shinobi, strength is tied to the volume of reserve, the capacity of chakrocannels, and the natural components of the body....
The advantages can be found in both. It turns out that a magician can conjure, theoretically, indefinitely, without regard to the reserve. The main thing is to be able to take and transform this magical energy of theirs from space. Practically, I think you can do magic as long as you have the physical strength. And the "instrument of witchcraft" has not yet been selected. Also, it seems to me that the power of a magician in this world is tied to his "throughput" of the magical flow. It's not for nothing that Harry used this very wand, probably a piece of wood for most - a way to focus and operate this flow through it. Sensei also used it when he cast those complicated locking spells. For a moment, it seemed to me that I saw the local magic thread. We need to work on perception. Maybe it's okay to see magic, but I'm just small?..
As for child magicians, it seems that their "bandwidth" is low due to their age, and the "absorption" of the magical flow occurs ... rather on emotions. Therefore, magic "jumps out" uncontrollably. It's like they took a sip of water and instead of swallowing it, using it for the needs of the body and then getting rid of it with a smart look, the child immediately sprays water from his mouth. Sometimes this is useful, but not always.
It is also interesting that the word "spontaneous" has two meanings. I understand it as both "natural" and "accidental". If you think about it, all the manifestations of my magic were related to nature: water, air, fire, earth, even the effects on the body... But about the "accident"... I took off because it felt easy for me and somewhere deep in my soul I felt relieved that the family I was in was becoming normal, and here it was - the very "message" that sensei had said. If I look at the situation with Uncle Vernon, then the thought flashed through my mind that he needed help, and I was calculating options for what I could do, before I had time to think about it, as magic "helped"... So, he manages it calmly. I would even say "casually." On the other hand, Gaara controls the sand with a single mental effort, giving an order. He starts waving his arms only if there is too much sand....
Yeah! I remembered one nuance in my friend's techniques! Gaara soaked his sand with chakra and could control it mentally, as if it were his own chakra, and by mixing "his sand" with the rest, less chakra-nourished, he could also control it, but a more precise adjustment was required - what the sand should do and where to fly. As a child, in order to make a "sand coffin" and crush the enemy, he made such a gesture with his palm - clenching his fist - and thereby controlled the force of sand compression....
I think I got it.... Let's try it.
I took a match in my palm and tried to imagine how my magic enveloped it. Visualization. I imagined my non-existent chakra stream. I felt the wooden structure, the size and volume of the object. And... that warmth in my chest.
"Freeze!" I gave a mental order and slowly lowered my palm, still looking at the match. She froze in the air.
I didn't even expect it to come out the first time! For a couple of minutes, I entertained myself by making the match fly from palm to palm. I think that my experience of giving mental orders to clones, which I did not doubt, also played a role here. Not the sand of Gaara, of course, but something nearby....
Yes, it seems that magic, like the chakra, brooks no doubt. It's important to believe that you can do it.... The message. Yes, I struggled with this very much at first. It is not enough to perform mudras perfectly to get the technique, you also need to apply the chakra in the palm of your hand and believe that everything will work out. Otherwise, you can make mistakes, get lost, falter, lose concentration.
And here, concentration is also extremely important: as soon as you get distracted, the match falls. I can hardly imagine what it's like for Suna's puppeteers. In theory, they control their dolls very similarly with the help of chakronite. What's wrong with levitation? How many subjects do they focus on? Even the simplest doll consists of dozens of elements, and so that it all works as a single organism.... Probably, if the same Sasori had been here, he would have been able to turn all the matches into a little man with completely reliable movements of a living being....
Therefore, it is extremely important to develop automatism. And maybe it doesn't work exactly the way I think it does? Maybe the puppeteers perceive their dolls as a single organism, and here this very message is more important?
Let's check it out.
I took away forty matches and pushed the rest away. In turn, he "imbued each of his mini-simulators with magic" in the same way as the first one, and laid out a large square with ten matches on each side, almost on the entire table. If I perceive a figure as a single and complete being, can I do something with it? For example, to rearrange into a triangle? The matches stirred tensely, bouncing slightly on the table. I began to imagine how a square turns into a triangle. As if he were running a column of clones. Reluctantly, my wooden soldiers scrambled on the tabletop, and the top side of the square "broke" and crawled up, pulling the others with it like a wedge. It turned out to be a long triangle with a base of ten matches and a length of each inclined side of fifteen. A circle? There is. A rectangle? There is. My name? The matches were tossed around, but they still gave out "HARRY POTI"* - they didn't have enough for more.
After that, I ordered the soldiers to get up, and the black heads lined up in a tight square. By the way, those matches that were lying in a separate pile were also shaking. I ordered them to line up in the next column, too, but it turns out I was distracted, and those first forty matches fell in a pile, and the remaining sixty jumped, but did not join the column.
However, when I concentrated on one match from that "untouched" and "unpowered" pile, it slowly and reluctantly, but still flew into my palm. Interesting. It turns out that you can affect any object, but the accuracy and speed of manipulation will depend on how much it is imbued with your chakra ... magic. Probably, a magic wand should literally jump into your hand, it's worth thinking about it. At least, I never noticed how it appeared in Sensei's hand. One time! - and there is, then - once! -and no." Therefore, the eggs flew much slower than the same books that were "chased" from the chair so that Aunt Petunia would sit down. Clearly.
"Not bad," Sensei's voice interrupted my thoughts and pampering with a slowly floating match. "I didn't expect you to be able to levitate so quickly."
I still haven't figured out how to take magic out of space yet, rather, I took advantage of the experience of a previous life and may have reinvented the kunai.
"Tell me, sir, what is the conductor of magic?" I'm not sure if he would understand or take my question seriously, but it was worth a try.
Snape-sensei thought for a moment, but answered anyway.
"It's a pretty complicated question, Harry, but I personally think that our blood is the source of magic. Otherwise, Ritual magic as such would not exist. As well as... various concepts that exist in the magical world."
"So the composition of a magician's blood is different from that of a Muggle?" I asked.
However, if we draw analogies with our world, it seems that magicians are people with kekkei genkai. "Blood restriction" or "improved genome" gives its bearers special abilities compared to ordinary Shinobi. For example, combining two elements into one. For example, Captain Yamato combined water and earth to create wood jutsu. And Haku used ice techniques, combining water and wind. Sasuke also had a genkai dojutsu kekkei from the Uchiha Sharingan clan. Special eyes that can... do a lot of things. Magicians, as an ability of the "improved genome", are able to transform some world energy into practical magic. And they create peculiar "miracles" that are inaccessible to most.
"Maybe," Sensei replied to my question about the line-up. But let's just say that such a study is almost impossible. To voluntarily receive the blood of a magician, it is necessary to try. Through almost any personal item, as well as hair, saliva, and even more so, blood, you can harm, cast a curse, and open some types of defenses. So you should be careful about scattering your... ingredients.
"I'll keep that in mind for the future, sir," I nodded.
I think I've found the most obvious ink ingredient.
"It's lunch time," Sensei explained and muttered. "You've been quiet for so long that I thought you'd fallen asleep."
And then I felt hungry again.
"Lunch is very good, sir," I replied, not trying to hide my joy. I hope Sensei isn't intimidated by gap-toothed smiles.
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With matches in English, it turned out like this http://s01.geekpic.net/dm-PRKK9L .jpeg
and yes, the author is aware that the name "Harry" is misspelled. Naruto has a bad command of written English, so his grammar will be lame.
And as it turned out, some readers had never seen the large household boxes of matches that were very common in the 90s. So, you should know that there were even such boxes in which there were 700 matches (and this is not only in Russia, but also abroad).