Chapter 40: invitation from Nicolas for Christmas dinner
There is mastery level above expert level but the improvement is hard to obtain. Right now the ritual has improved magic affinity which is related to his spirit rather than his physical body.
So it has permanent effect on his spirit. This led to the improvement of his skill related to spirit. Don't take 20 percent as little improvement because this 20 percent is letting the skill reaching to the mastery level which is very powerful.
Harry and Ron were also in the library but when they looked at Jack that is rummaging through the books related to alchemy at a speed like paper flipping they were shocked. They instinctively thought that Jack is mocking them.
Jack did not care about what they thought as he went through book after book. There is one more thing he specifically did with his gentle hand movements.
Even though he is flipping through the books at a faster pace his gentle hand movements did not cause any damage to the book. Also his care towards the book as if they are treasure has made madam Pince look up to Jack.
Jack held the books and handled them as if he was talking care of little children. This was also in his calculation where he would get good impression from her too. The point here is that she would not even let Dumbledore take a book out of the library.
Making good impression on her was also necessary to gain some benefits from her. After reading the books Jack started to make some notes.
This note has the list of questions that he can ask those professors and later get connected to Dumbledore because they cannot answer him. From Dumbledore he can talk to Nicolas Flamel.
The detailed plan would only require him till the end of the holidays and before the school opens. Even before that he can contact Nicolas through letters and cut the things from both sides.
By the time it was night that is around the dinner time his research is completed. First of all he went to pester professor Mcgonagall that is good with transfiguration and then he went to pester Snape that is good with potions.
But they could not answer him because their expertise is not in alchemy completely. On the other hand they suggested him to go to Dumbledore to ask these questions. Well Jack's enthusiasm has won over their thoughts.
At least he pestered them enough to through him away to Dumbledore. They cannot just say no to a student that is trying his best to learn. Jack went to meet with Dumbledore after dinner. Dumbledore was surprised to find that Jack came to visit him.
But after finding that Jack wanted to have clarifications to his doubts in some subjects Dumbledore acted like a qualified teacher. Jack started to shoot off his questions in alchemy that professor Mcgonagall and professor Snape failed to solve for him.
Dumbledore looked at the alchemy questions and he became interested. In the past few days he is having problems to solve that are related to Harry and Ron. So he was exhausted about the daily affairs.
On the other hand it was subject related problems which is easy to solve. It was actually human nature when they saw some big unsolvable problem which took all of their efforts and then made them do some small simple problem their attitude would change.
It is like using hard work to climb the stairs but when descending it made them feel very relaxed. This is the feeling Dumbledore has right now. The person that caused this feeling would naturally receive the positive response.
That night Jack wrote a letter to Nicolas Flamel about how he was a fan of his work and few other things. Jack did spoke to Dumbledore about alchemy and discussed many things giving a sense of pride and happiness to Dumbledore.
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On the next day Dumbledore received a letter from Nicolas Flamel that one of the students at Hogwarts wrote him a letter. Jack wrote the letter in a way that he did not admire Nicolas Flamel instead he admired the knowledge that Nicolas Flamel has.
This point was picked up by him and he became impressed. Now he wanted to meet Jack. But before that he wanted to ask Dumbledore to know more about Jack. Dumbledore was dumbfounded because Jack moved too fast.
But when he read through the letter and the enthusiasm of Jack made Dumbledore think that Jack has passion towards the alchemy. So he gave back a response to Nicolas about Jack and explained the situation of Jack to him.
Nicolas got the letter on that very day and started to think of various things related to the black family. But Jack was innocent in this matter. So he decided to test Jack first and see if he would be suited to carry his legacy.
He has already tested all of his descendents, disciples, talented people….. But he did not find a person that can carry his legacy in alchemy. So he did not have a successor till now. Also he is going to completely retire and get ready for his death.
Also he decided to end his life in a year or two as he already gave the philosopher stone to Dumbledore to destroy it. So he did not have much time to live and he gave up on the successor thing.
But now when reading the letter from Jack, his hope came back to life. With the reply from Dumbledore he became even more interested in Jack. Jack's family circumstances are complicated.
Also his life after the death of his grandmother is to stay in Malfoy's family. Dumbledore specifically mentioned the words of Draco to show the situation of Jack. Well these words took a strong root in the hearts of the listeners. It is an irrefutable fact that they cannot refuse.
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