Chapter 2: 2. Training.
By the time I was 1 year old they were already training me. It wasn't physically intensive as much as it was mentally. For one, they'd have me concentrate on 2 different images or drawings at once, then they would hide them and tell me to describe each one in detail.
With my brain being so young and malleable, this let my brain develop to think memorising multiple things at once is normal while also making sure I gain a habit of scrutinising the things that I see around me thoroughly, they also taught me to read properly, reading two lines at once instead of one which took QUITE a bit of getting used to, even with my above average adaptability, though the young and quickly developing brain definitely helped
Now, you might be wondering who 'they' are. Well, that would be my grandfather, mother and older cousin, along with my personal tutor, Mr White.
Our family is quite large with over 20 people in the manor alone, but for the most part, it was those 4 who 'trained' me over the last 7 years.
My grandfather was the one who guided me on meditation and my morals. Of course, it wasn't normal meditation, seeing as how he called it occlumency and that I had to develop my magic to learn it.
Yes, I was surprised too. Taking away the fact that I was reincarnated with presumably all of my previous lifes memories, I was quite surprised and almost disbelieving when I realised that magic was an integral part of our household.
From cleaning to healing broken bones, even rituals, magic was used everywhere. I was scanned for magic on the 7th day of my birth, which is the day you are able to verify if someone has the ability to use magic.
Luckily for me, the test came back positive and while you can't truly tell somebodys magical abilities from the scan, they confirmed that I held quite the capacity for magic inside of me which naturally had me thrilled.
'An entirely new concept that I had never explored before, not to mention one so versatile, powerful and confusing.'
I had always been a smart person, a genius one might say, and while it might sound all fine and dandy at first, it left me feeling quite bored with my life up until I was reincarnated here, and so when I heard that magic of all things was real, I made it my number one priority to understand and use this new 'energy' as much as I could.
Meditating as a 1 to 7 year old child naturally didn't yield many results, but it did help me clear my thoughts and emotions whenever I felt overwhelmed, which was a surprising amount considering how calm I usually was.
You see, while at first glance the training from my family wasn't all that bad, my families training methods were quite infuriating. Of course, I never responded to the insults and belittling, but I still felt some anger from it and while it wasn't enough to affect me individually, it did build up over the days and meditation helped me calm myself immensely.
My mother, who taught me etiquette along with the manner, posture and ideals that I must uphold as part of the Nightshade family, would strike me with a wooden stick so that I didn't slouch in posture or walk in a way that was considered unworthy of my station, which annoyed me quite a bit especially when for the most part, my walking was unstable or ungraceful due to being unaccustomed to my different body instead of not knowing how to.
I was frequently called names, from useless to pathetic, even unworthy of being a Nightshade, and while I knew they didn't truly mean it and were just motivating me, it was definitely something that I wasn't very, shall we say.. agreeable with.
Over the years, I was taught in multiple different aspects. My mother taught me everything to do with laws and etiquette along with acting.
She taught me certain mannerisms and what they mean, how to lie and act convincingly, I became well-versed in laws and noble etiquette while also being taught to never show weakness or disrespect. I spent a rather annoying amount of time learning to walk. I had to have perfect steps, making sure that I walked like a 'noble', make sure my facial expressions were always under control and how to make expressions realistic and convincing such as smiling politely to other 'noble' families.
She even had me learn to use makeup so that I could disguise myself when needed without magic, which probably would have embarrassed a lesser man who had too much pride, luckily I never saw the use in being prideful and was just mildly irritated at the use of makeup.
My grandfather, as stated before, taught me occlumency, guiding me along the way. Whenever I encountered a problem or found a certain aspect of meditation difficult, he would easily explain a countermeasure or solution to my problem, which with my comprehension ability of being not only a genius but having lived 17 years previously, my progress was a lot faster than a child, though even now at 7, I can't enter my own mind, or 'Mind Palace' if you will.
The morals that were repeatedly engrained into me were basically that I shouldn't allow an innocent to be harmed unless necessary, should never allow personal feelings or thoughts affect me during a contract or mission, and most importantly, my family rules over all and that betraying the Nightshade family is completely unforgivable.
Oh.. did I not mention that my family are assassins? Yes, everyone of us, whether its age, gender, skin color, looks, even if we don't have magic, we are trained since birth to be perfect assassins.
I am from the main branch of the family with the 'purest Nightshade blood'. Yes, I learned fairly early that the world I was in wasn't entirely unfamiliar to me.
It was the world of Harry Potter. Well, Harry Potter is a single person and therefore this world is not the world of Harry Potter, it is called Earth, and I am part of the wizarding world.
My family takes blood purity fairly seriously, I am not sure where I am in the world, despite having been taught geography and every other subject by my personal tutor, Mr White, but I do know that our family isn't British.
As for Blood Purity, while we do not stick to the foolish logic of most British purebloods who think they are obviously superior to mundane-born or 'muggle-borns' as they call them and that they might as well be killed, we do place ourselves above most common or non-magical families, though we do not forbid marrying and copulating with mundanes or mundane-born, they will be looked down upon by the family.
In fact, our family has the blood of many different species. In our impressive 1500 year history, we've had humans and veela, sirens and werewolves, even the occasional vampire marry into our family, not to mention the mundanes and mundane-born. We hold no disdain for ones species.. well, apart from house elves and goblins, but veela, vampires, sirens, even werewolves aren't discriminated against.. it's mainly just the non-magical and weak families.
In these 7 years, my older cousin, Zachary, or Zach for short, taught me all about combat including magical combat. This is why he's my favorite teacher. It also helps that he's nice to me and doesn't belittle or insult me all that often, instead calling me talented and a genius.
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