Taking On The Magical World 31 Chapter 30: The Three Professions

I grabbed the handle and open the door, inside was my mother sitting at her desk with piles and piles of parchments and on those parchments were equations and formula that I have no clue what they mean.

I sit down across from my mother who is focused on the parchments before her, I clear my throat to try to get my mother's attention and it works.

My mother looks away from her parchments, then her eyes settle down on me and she says, "Give me one moment sweetie and then we shall begin our lessons."

I nod my head and my mother gets back to the parchments in front of her, as she is working I try to understand what she is doing by looking at all those weird formula and equations on the parchments, I keep on looking and it kind of looks like Muggle math but somehow different.

After a while my mother finishes up her work and I look away from it since I started to get a headache from looking at it.

My mother organizes her parchments then turn to me and says, "Thanks for being patient for me."

I look at my mother then ask the burning question I had, "What were you doing and what were those equations and formula?"

My mother raises her eyebrow, "Oh these are just how you craft spells and this quote on quote equations and formula are Arithmancy."

I nod my head in understanding but there is still some stuff I am confused about, and I guess my mother saw that, so she continued talking, "What you must understand is that in the wizarding world there are 7 types of spells, I know that you already know but just humor me."

I start listing of the types of spells I learned so far, "There are Jinxes, Hexes, and Curses, those 3 fall under the dark arts then there is the other 4 which are Transfiguration, Charms, Counter-spells, and Healing spells.

My mother nods her head with a smile on her face, "Good, here is a tricky question, what does potion fall under?"

I scratch my head, now that is a tricky question.

After a while of silents, my mother speaks up, "I know it's a tough question but with a bit of thinking on your part, you can get but I do not want to waste any time so I will tell you, Potions will fall under the profession category because you can make a career out of it. What else do you think will fall under the profession category, Caelum?"

I think for a while upon the question my mother put forward to me, then my mind wanders for a bit thinking about how my mother teaches me, she always wants me to figure it out and not tell me.

My mind snaps back and I have an answer at the top of my head, "Does Spell Crafting fall under the profession category?"

My mother nods her head and you can see the smile on her face, she pinches my cheek then says, "My little sweetie pie is becoming more and more intelligent."

I complain a bit of being treated like a baby but if you look at the smile on my face you would think that I feel the opposite.

"There is one more profession you are missing it is the making of magical items. So, all in all, there is 3 types of profession and they focus on making, Potions, Spell Crafting, and Magical Items. To work with these three you must the components that come with it, meaning in Potions you must understand the properties and uses of magical plants and magical creatures. For Spell Crafting you must understand Arithmancy. For Magical Items you have to understand Ancient Runes and Alchemy."

I nod my head along as my mother gives me a ma.s.sive info dump.

My mother continues on talking, "Since your Christmas Holiday is very short I will teach you the basic, during the summer we can go more into depth."

"First thing is Potions, Magical Plants, and Magical Creatures which you already know about, then there is Spell Crafting and Arithmancy, so first thing first, what is Arithmancy?"

"Those formulas and equations must be Arithmancy," I say.

My mother shakes her head, "You are not getting the full picture but looking at things from small very small perspective, Arithmancy is a method that helps you divines numbers and equations, what I was working on is a very advanced form of Arithmancy, one that you will not touch for years to come. It can help you divine the future but it very sloppy and sometimes incorrect, it would be much better if you used the stars to divine the future. Anyways as I was saying Arithmancy is very helpful when it comes to Spell Crafting since you can pop in the equation you need."

I muse to myself, so Arithmancy is basically a magical calculator.

My mother goes on talking, "Then there is how to make magical items, which takes Alchemy and Ancient Runes to do. Ancient Runes is the study of magical languages, Ancient Runes are magically powers syllables and they are what make magical items work. Alchemy on the other hand work with magical minerals and gems, it is the study of producing objects of power with Ancient Runes you can purpose those objects. One example I can give that comes to the top of my head is the Gryffindor Sword, a well known magical item that was made my the goblins, who are masters at making magical items, the sword was made from pure silver and rubies then it was powered by the goblins' Ancient Runes."

Again I notice another similarity, Alchemy is like making the computer and Ancient Runes is programming it to work.