Chapter 6: Body and Soul
Summer 1967. Regulus was six years old.
Six, in the Black household, meant being granted one's own study space. And so the topmost attic of 12 Grimmauld Place received its new master.
Regulus wanted to work out a few questions. Wizards could heal injuries and illness with such ease — why, then, did the body remain so fragile?
If magic could repair the body, could it also strengthen it?
Why had no one systematically investigated this in over a thousand years?
Regulus sat cross-legged on a cushion, eyes closed, sensing inward.
He could feel magic circulating through his body along certain predetermined pathways.
The books said that magic originated in the soul and was released through the body as a medium.
That was it — that simple. As for how the body itself influenced the process, nobody had looked deeper.