Chapter 62 – A Hunting Spell! part-1

    {Library, Hogwarts}

    {4rd Sep 1991}

    {3rd Person POV}

    The spell description was enlightening and Rigel could see himself using it in the future, but it didn''t help him in his current scenario. The premise of Illusion magic was interesting though because sound was an integral part of an illusion to be real.

    He closed the book and looked at Hermione who was giving him a questioning look, Rigel read it as she was inquiring about the book and he nodded. "This should have what I''m looking for, hopefully..." Rigel responded and then he began walking back to the table that they were occupying.

    He sat down to read a book and after a brief moment of hesitation, Hermione sat down as well. A brief moment of awkward silence existed but as he got engrossed in reading the book he could sense that Hermione picked up the book that Daphne had left behind in a hurry and began reading.

    ...

    Romancing Hermione was bound to be slow, so instead he focused on the book in front of him. Illusion magic was a branch of magic that was never focused on in the book or movies. Why? He couldn''t answer because thinking about him being in a fictional world kind of nudged his existential crisis... slightly.

    Nevertheless, the number of spells mentioned in this book was pitifully low and all of them were niche charms that had no use case, at least none that he could think of. Some could be useful but any type of lingering magic could be detected by him and since he could do it, he was pretty sure that there would be things like magic sensors or something in the world. But they would work in high-speed combat so the field has some research purposes.

    ...

    He extended his wand in front of her and incanted, "Lumos~". A bright light appeared at the end of his wand.

    "Lumos, a very basic spell and it creates light out of nothing. Shouldn''t be possible but magic and bullshit so whatever. With just a spell, my wand acts like a lightbulb because I intend it to. This is like a magical law that supersedes the universal law that something like this shouldn''t be possible. But if you ignore how the light came into existence, the rest of the laws remain the same..." Rigel placed the tip of his wand on the table and then used his left hand to block the light that left his wand.

    "...See the light shadow that is formed on the table by my hand, and if you look at the edge of the shadow then you can see it doesn''t have a defined edge. So not only does the light travel in a straight line, it even bends slightly around the objects as you can see from the diffraction pattern." Rigel explained.

    "I''m sure you can conduct all the experiments we did with two sources of light and watch the light and dark rings form on a surface, but this simple experiment shows that not only is the light the same as any other source that we know and can scientifically create, but it also follows the same laws. That''s why I think magic and electricity should be able to interact. If magic doesn''t actually resist the fundamental laws of nature and energy." Rigel finished his rant and then whispered, "Nox~"

    The light at the end of his wand fizzled out and so did Hermione came out of his trance, the look in her eyes told him that she wanted to do the experiments he talked him about so he quickly dissuaded her, "I''m sorry but I didn''t notice the time, I do have to go for now, but hopefully we can meet again?"

    The brown-eyed girl nodded mutely as Rigel smiled at her, he waved his hand and said his farewell, "See ya later!"

    Rigel picked up the book on Illusion magic because he already knew that the spell he needed was here, now he needed to do some experiments to see if it was viable or not.

    ''Who knew a hunting spell would help me save my hide if worse comes to worse...''

    AN - Illusion magic would come back later in the fic.

    P.S.- 35+ Extra chapters on P.atreon!