Outside the common room, rumors swirled like an ever-heavier snowfall.
Su Er stayed in the warm dormitory, quietly soaking up knowledge like a sponge.
"Wrong. When you get to this point, turn your wrist outward a little." Cedric tirelessly corrected Su Er's wand movements.
"And the incantation, too. Your pitch should rise a little in the middle, something like..." To illustrate it more clearly, Cedric tapped the desk twice, once hard and once lightly.
"Got it, got it." Su Er nodded obediently.
It had to be said that Cedric was very well suited to being a teacher. His explanations were extremely thorough.
And just as he had said, this spell was actually quite simple. With the right gestures and incantation, it could be cast successfully, but it also put the amount of magic within a wizard to the test.
Unfortunately, the wizarding world did not seem to have any practices such as meditation that could help increase the magic within the body.
Cedric had lived in the magical world all his life, and his father was also a Ministry of Magic official. All that exposure meant he knew far more than Su Er.
At least, when Su Er asked Cedric whether he had heard of any such training methods, he said he had not. Cedric did, however, name quite a few potions that could help wizards increase their magic, though most had side effects or could only increase the magic in their bodies temporarily rather than permanently.
After waving his wand all afternoon, Su Er could only manage to make his arm invisible. No, camouflage was a better word for it.
The sensation was wonderful, as though his arm had been wrapped in a layer of cool silk, a silk that could change along with its surroundings.
When he stayed