Chapter 109: Water Visions, Magic Of Water, Reactions (2/2)
But at the same time, there was a duality to water.
'It can give life, but it can also destroy it at the same time.'
While rain brought life to the earth, storms uprooted the same life that it nurtured.
If water was life, then the absence of it was death. Without water, drought and famine would overrun the earth.
Tornados, hurricanes, tsunamis, tidal waves could wipe out all life in its path with no regard. They were the destructive phenomenon of nature that harnessed the power of the thing that covered seventy-one percent of all earth.
No matter how much any species on earth tried to avoid it, they wouldn't be able to come out of it unscathed. Even humans, who built structures that tried to stand up to these agents of destruction, couldn't come out of it without suffering massive losses.
In many mythologies across the world, floods were seen as divine retribution from higher powers sent to destroy the corrupt civilizations so that rebirth could start from those waters.
Water was the driving force of all nature, good or bad.
Quinn had been looking at water from the perspective of magic. He thought about how it could be manipulated, how he could use it for his advantage. To Quinn, it was just something he could use magic on.
The visions he had seen inside the vault made Quinn realize how small his view of water was.
The visions had caused him to gain enlightenment of sorts.
And from the bottom of his heart, Quinn wanted to showcase that enlightenment.
Quinn deeply desired to show what he had experienced. For him, magic was the best way in which he could display his understanding, and the Great Lake was the best canvas, on which the brush of magic would showcase its charm.
He knew that what he was about to do would garner a lot of attention, and if he was found out, it would be a giant pain in the future.
But Quinn couldn't hold it back. Quinn could feel his magic demanded that he do it now; his ego desired it more than anything in the world; every cell inside Quinn's body urged him to do it.
His mind, body, and soul wished for it.
So Quinn let his restraints go.
For this one time, Quinn let desire trump logic and let his ego overtake his identity.
Quinn's eyes opened, and instead of the stone-grey, two orbs of glowing purple greeted the world.
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Ivy, Harry, and Lily Potter walked together through a corridor to Lily's private quarter in Hogwarts.
”How are your studies going?” asked Lily as they walked.
Harry, looking at the chocolate card of Flavius Belby and trying to remember why it seemed familiar, shrugged in response.
”Except potions with Snape, everything is fine.”
Lily furrowed her brows before sighing, ”I have tried to talk to him, but he doesn't seem to want to listen. And Harry, it's Professor Snape.”
Harry rolled his eyes in response and shook the card in his hand, hoping that would jog his memory, but he drew a blank.
”What about you, Ivy, dear?” smiled Lily, looking at her daughter. While her son took after his father, her daughter took after her.
Ivy had better grades than Harry, and Lily liked to think it was because of her.
”Everything is fine. Hermione and I are already on revision,” answered Ivy smoothly.
The redhead Potter twin took her studies seriously. Unlike Hermione, who seemed to have made books of her daily sustenance, she liked to learn by doing; she enjoyed the practical experience rather than the extensive reading that her best friend enjoyed. That didn't mean that she didn't read; Ivy still read much more than the average person; she just enjoyed casting magic more.
”Bookworms,” muttered Harry at the mention of revision.
”Whatever, four eyes,” retorted Ivy at the quip.
Lily smiled at her two children's antics before asking, ”On the subject of revision, did any of you two buy Quinn West's notes this year? If you haven't, I'll give you the money to buy them; they are quite a good buy.”
The Potter twins stilled for a second and didn't reply. Both thought about their interaction with Quinn.
Harry still hadn't talked about Peter Pettigrew with anyone other than Ivy. The twins had decided to research Peter on their own and to simply wait for the day their parents would talk to them about Peter on their own.
Ivy, on the other hand, thought about the time travel events. It didn't help when the events had taken place just a few days ago. She still couldn't wrap her head around what happened that day. Not to mention when she found that Quinn was the one to save her and Harry from the Chamber of Secrets.
As Lily didn't hear a response from her twins she assumed that the two hadn't bought the guides. ”If you two want to buy it, I highly recommend them. Come to me for the money if you decide to buy them.”
”Yes,” replied the Potter twins at the same time.
Ivy sighed and decided to look out at the scenery to distract her from her thoughts, but lo-and-behold, she saw the Great Lake in full view.
'Lovely,' sighed Ivy, but then she stopped in her tracks when she saw ripples on the surface of the lake.
Lily and Harry also slowed when they saw Ivy suddenly stop.
”What is it, Ivy?” asked Lily and walked towards her daughter.
”There are ripples in the lake,” replied Ivy and pointed at the Great Lake in the distance.
The mother and son followed Ivy's directions and saw rapid ripples on the surface of the lake.
But the situation changed very quickly when they saw some very drastic changes in the lake.
Their eyes widened to the limit when they saw a drain right in the middle of the lake. It started with a narrow point, but then, the water sank down in a line, and in a few seconds, the water started to split in the middle.
”... The lake is splitting?” spoke Harry, trying to put the scene in front of him in words.
The girls didn't say anything and just stared at the bizarre scene in front of them, and within a minute, the entire lake was split into two parts, and they could see the lakebed path in the middle of the lake.
Lily finally snapped out of it and realized that she had to do something. ”I-I have to alert the other professors.” She turned to her children and ordered, ”You two go to your common room.”
Immediately after saying that, she ran off to alert the other faculty.
Ivy and Harry, of course, didn't listen to their mother; they stepped closer to the edge of the corridor and stared at the lake.
Ivy thought about who was causing this, and only one person came to her mind. The person who had come out of the Great Lake, heavily injured.
But just like her previous many suspicions and conjectures about the person, she had no proof that he was the one causing this.
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Friar, the Hufflepuff ghost, was gliding his merry way through the walls of Hogwarts. It was just another day of his ghostly life, but that changed when he got out a wall, and right in front of him was the view of the Great Lake.
”In the name of Helga herself! What...” exclaimed Friar as his belly jiggled in shock.
He stared at the spit that was right in the middle of the Great Lake.
The single body of water was turned into two with a clear and visible divide in the middle as the water tried to come back together but couldn't because something was stopping it.
And just when he thought that his ghostly self couldn't be more shocked today, another change happened in the Great Lake, and two whirlpools appeared in the lake, one on each side.
Anyone who could see this would assume that it was because of magic, and Friar was no different. So his next thought was that whose work was this.
Then the answer struck, and he uttered the name.
”Quinn... Is this because of the cursed vault down below?”
At first, he thought it couldn't be Quinn, this feat of magic was too much for a child of Quinn's age, but when he thought about it more, the more the possibility of it being Quinn got stronger.
'If it's indeed Quinn, then how is that child capable of splitting the lake? How strong is that child,' such thoughts revolved in the mind of the ghostly being.
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Albus Dumbledore stared out of his window in his office, which was located on the headmaster's tower, and at a height only second to the Astronomy tower.
The headmaster with a long beard, who was over a hundred years old, stared at the Great Lake with his aged eyes full of wisdom.
He had just returned from the ministry after handling some business, and when he was passing by his window with a bowl full of sour candy in his hand, he saw the Great Lake divided into two with a whirlpool on each side.
And now, as Dumbledore continued to stare at the strange and out of the place phenomenon, he saw two massive masses of water come out of the center of whirlpools, floating up into the air.
”Oh my, that's some impressive magic,” chuckled Dumbledore in an impressed tone, but his eyes weren't portraying the same emotions.
The blue eyes shined in a calculative and analytical light as Dumbledore stared at the Great Lake.
The holder of the Elder Wand thought about who was doing this and where did they come from.
Dumbledore first eliminated the possibility of the person being a student because the reserves and knowledge of water magic required was something he believed a student couldn't achieve. He knew of a few smart students in the castle, but even the smartest of them couldn't possibly achieve this.
Dumbledore was so sure of it because the brightest student he had seen Hogwarts produce was the one named Tom Riddle, and even he couldn't do this while he was in his school years.
So the remaining options were a professor, a resident of the Great Lake, or an unknown outsider.
He eliminated the Great Lake resident because only merpeople in there could manipulate water, and he was sure that none of them was this capable.
The remaining options were professors or an outsider, and he was leaning towards intruders because none of his professors were this powerful.
”It's an outsider, then. I have to make sure the students are safe,” said Dumbledore, and the bowl in his hand levitated to the nearby table as he walked out of the office with the Death Stick in his hand.
But it turned out that by the time he got to the Great Lake, the waters had gone back to normal. Even after investigating, he didn't find anything but rich and heavy traces of advanced water magic.
He talked to the merpeople inside, and the only unusual thing they told him was that the recent upheavals in the lake had been caused by the Giant Squid.
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Quinn West - MC - Moses!
Ivy Potter - Girl twin - '... This is him, isn't it?'
Harry Potter - Boy twin - Rapidly blinking in confusion.
Lily Potter - Professor - Fan/promoter of the A.I.D. guides.
Friar - Hufflepuff ghost - His belly shakes like a bowl full of jelly.
Albus Dumbledore - Headmaster - Going through a sour candy phase.
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