[HP] The magic thieves #17 (Patreon)

*Trigger warning for programmers: There's some coding in this chapter, it will be stupid for the programmers that could be reading this story but remember that magic is about intent and you can also take it as pseudo-coding.

Chapter #17: Last train from London.

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It’s been a few days since that experience with Snape happened, luckily for Dumbledore Snape has managed to somehow recover, the healers were worried he might be in the same state as Lockhart.

“Darkness…I’ve seen the true darkness, I’ve seen things no human should have seen…” Those were the words Snape was constantly sputtering.

It took many calming draughts to finally make the wizard behave more or less normally, it seems like the first thing he did was swear vengeance on Harry, and Dumbledore didn’t care when he heard that, he had his trusted spy by his side, he didn’t care about anything else, or at least that's what Harry thought.

On the other hand, the good news was that Arthur Weasley was finally back in Grimmauld Place too, he was successfully recovering but it was a shame that the vacations were over already, Hermione was able to meet her parents before she left for school and now she and Harry were about to board the express.

“You have a meeting with the other prefects, right? I’ll see you later,” Harry said with a weak smile before getting inside with his and Hermione’s belongings.

“I’m going to miss you, I’m not looking forward to doing this with Ron, trust me. I should have declined the position, now I won’t be able to spend time with you to work on our project,” Hermione said with a sad expression.

Harry couldn’t help but smirk, he was indeed a bit annoyed that Ron got the prefect position, however, Harry didn't want Hermione to be alone with Ron, the redhead's mood changes were annoying, so, he knew it was going to be difficult for Hermione to do this.

On the other hand, he was hoping that with this Ron might stop acting less like a jealous git and finally get his act together, but he knew that he was asking too much as he was still the same bitter person because when the Weasleys thanked him and Hermione for telling Sirius about what happened to Arthur, Ron wasn't part of that group.

He was feeling more and more distant from his first friend, however, he knew he shouldn’t feel too bad about this, after all, people grow and they distance themselves from each other sometimes when they have different priorities in life, that’s the consequence of having freewill, you can’t force anyone to be your friend and you can't force yourself to be friends with someone you don't feel connection any longer.

Hermione was the most angry about him not being a prefect and he was overwhelmed by that but at least he promised that he was going to use the time they weren't together to continue researching for their project, and now she was giving him a last hug and quick peck before she finally disappeared to the meeting.

Harry walked calmly until he finally found the right place to sit, he had a lot of things he wanted to out and the long journey to Hogwarts was a blessing, so, as soon as he arrived at the compartment he pulled a parchment with the title ‘Magical Coding’.

They were lucky to find this parchment, this document explained how to build a magical artifact and then turn it into a spell, it seems like modern spells were created using this method called ‘Magical coding,” on the parchment he found a code with a lot of things Harry had no idea what they were about but still, that doesn’t mean he wasn’t going to work on it.

“Okay, so the Lumos charm in magical code is…” Harry suddenly analyzed a diagram.

{

Lumos maxima.spl

  {

#Load <light.mag>

#Dimensions <x,y,z>

-spell name = a

-light = b

-user magic = c

-Hand movement = (hm) This is defined by a mathematical function that depends on time (t)

Note c will always be 100 which means that it represents the hundred percent of the user’s magic

'hm' = '2 * sine (t)' for 't[1,1.5]'

This means that the hand movement must be performed in a time range between 1 and 1.5 seconds, closer to that is acceptable but for the best performance of the spell this is the recommended time 

If 'a' = ‘Lumos’ then = 'b'

For ‘b[x,y,z], [n]’ n represents the light intensity and it will be defined by

For ‘n = %20c’ which means that the light will be as strong as twenty percent of the magic the user consumes while performing the spell

’variable[x,y,z], [n]’ must always be included in all codes

   }

End when n = 0

}

Harry was feeling like he was having a headache, this was too much to process, and this was just a simple spell, he couldn’t help but imagine how long the code for the Patronus charm would be, this was insane, he was so lost in his thoughts that he didn’t caught when Malfoy decided to enter into his compartment.

“Oh, look what we have here Pansy, looks like Scarhead has been ditched by the mud-blood and the blood traitor,” Draco said with a smirk.

However, Harry was so focused on what he was reading that he just glanced at Malfoy for a moment and then got back to what he was working on, he had no time to waste on stupid things like this.

“Hey I’m talking to you, you filthy half-blood, that’s one hundred points for Gryffindor for ignoring a prefect!” Malfoy said with a tone full of superiority.

“Shut up! You’re making me lose my concentration!” Harry complained. “So, we have these things called libraries, and these are basic magic forms, we have light, water, fire…” Harry murmured to himself.

Harry was now feeling a bit more confident, yes, this was complex, however, he couldn’t wait to tell Hermione what he had learned, maybe for once he was going to be able to impress her with something related to their academics.

“I know what you’re trying to do Potter…You’re just trying to pretend that nothing is going on, you want to believe that the world is still the place where you and the rest of the mud-bloods and blood traitors can roam freely as if you lot were one of us…That’s not true Potter…Soon you and your people will live in terror,” Pansy said with a mocking tone.

And this time she had earned herself a cold glare from Harry that made her shiver, he didn’t want to give them attention as Dumbledore had insisted that Draco and the rest of the Slytherins were nothing but immature kids who would eventually change at some point in their lives.

They say that you shouldn’t judge the children for the sins of their parents, however, Harry has a different philosophy, if blaming the kids makes a world safer for the majority then Harry is willing to sacrifice that minority of misjudged children that Dumbledore likes to defend so much.

“And who is going to make me fear? You two? Please, if the two of you faced one percentage of what I’ve been through you’d been shitting yourselves, you two and your house, alongside your head of house are nothing but cowards that hide behind the strong guy in turn, get the fuck out of here before I lose my composure and show you why I faced your master and came back alive!” Harry said before he got back to the parchment.

The two Slytherins were looking at him with anger.

“Oh, by the way, tell your fathers that I said to not kiss the dark lord’s feet too much, I'm sure they reek,” Harry said mockingly.

“That’s it!” Draco said angrily as he pulled his wand.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the train, Ron was looking at Hermione with anger.

“No Ron, I don’t like you like that!” Hermione said angrily before she ran away from her former best friend.

“I’m not giving up Hermione, tell Potter this is not over!” He shouted as Hermione ran as fast as she could she was looking for Harry and then she arrived at a certain compartment with a certain number, the moment she saw her trunk inside she couldn't help but sigh. “I hope he didn’t do that!” Hermione was fuming.

Soon, she entered compartment sixty-nine and she was going to scream at Harry for picking such a childish number when her eyes widened at the sight, Harry was on the floor and he was coughing blood.