I was once again looking out my bedroom window, out onto the snow covered suburbs, Alice is currently out, along with Mrs. Gray.

  Both of them went out with the witch who's name, I still don't have any proof to be Hermione Granger, though I'm assuming she is.

  I think she was going to take Alice to Diagon alley, and Mrs. Gray, ever the responsible woman that she is would never allow a stranger to just take one of the kids for an outing, magic or not.

  So, right now I'm alone in my room, thinking back on my new life, I had always been kind of an introvert, but ever since regaining my previous life's memories, it's gotten worse.

  Not sure if it's a good or bad thing, I guess as long as it doesn't result in social anxiety. Ultimately there is no problem with preferring solitude, as long as it doesn't become a weakness.

  Thinking back to earlier today, I took another feel at my own magical aura. Now that I'm aware of what it is, and sensing it semi clearly, the control wasn't too difficult.

  While levitating a coin above my palm and sensing the muted background that I've named the Mana-field, I recalled my first ever encounter with another magical aura.

  The Harry Potter movies didn't really get into explaining the nature of magic. What it is, how it works, even simple things like, wether there is a resource like mana that wizards use for their charms.

  Hermione's aura now that I'm not blinded by awe, and paying attention to detail, when considering the whole picture, including the Mana-field and the aura, I guess the closest thing I can liken it to, would be a gravitational well.

  Feeling out my own aura, but of course things are never that simple. Because when I focus on the aura and tune out the Mana-field, it's like the nature of the aura changes. Instead of a gradually intensifying force towards the center on the Mana-field, it instead feels like matter, sort of like light, that behaves like wave or particle under different sercumstances. ' Actually, I think the light thing was solved a long time ago in my past life, to many degrees higher on the questions and answers pole even. Too bad it wasn't my area of research, having something to compare magic with would go a long way into helping me master it.'

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  Aura itself, or at least mine, feels like or rather felt like a chaotic current of liquid or air the first time I became aware of it, unlike Hermione's that felt more like a calm lake.

  Thank Goodness for fluid dynamics is what I would have liked to say but once again things weren't that simple, honestly by this time I wanted to cry. How are wizards in this world going to master magic, without knowledge of Advanced Special-Fluid Dynamics.

  So, that's how currently I'm easily levitating the coin above my hand. Even with those laws and equations though, it wasn't enough. Thankfully, my body seems to have a sort of instinctive reaction that when I brought the internal mana currents close enough to a stable phase, the final discrepancies were adjusted on their own.

  That is too say, Advanced Special-Fluid Dynamics wasn't the whole answer either. I'm not saying it was wrong, it's like using Newtonian gravitational laws and equations, they're not wrong, just not the whole picture.

  Putting that aside, then there was the casting of magic. Hermione wasn't exactly subtle in her attempt to prove the reality of magic, so I managed to observe a plethora of different spells, though I think they call them charms here.

  Again, depending on my focus of observation the way charms work differs. The levitation charm I'm current doing for example, by focusing on my own aura, it looks like I have divided a very small current and guided it to the coin, where I applied the same feeling I got out of Hermione's cast of the charm, where I suppose she would have used vocal or semantic components, to get the same result.

  On the other hand, by focusing on the Mana-field, it looks like an Omni directional gravitational pulse, however, whenever the pulse passes over the coin, in this case the object of my focus, the coin sends a pulse back though weaker. Also only for the duration of the charm, the coin appears on my magic sense in the shape of an incredibly weak gravitational body.

  I guess it's expected for magic to be complicated, though this brings to question how new spells and charms are created. Some instinctive magic like what I'm doing with the coin is understandable, like how someone throwing a ball into a basket, doesn't actually have to calculate the ball's trajectory and force needed, but from what I recall of the movies, there is no instinctive cast of magic aside from accidental magic done before the age of eleven, even then, that's not usually subject to control.

  'Hahhh.' I heave a long sigh, ' I can't just assume I'm in the world of Harry Potter and base everything on the movies I remember, I need to find actual books on how wizards normally interact with magic.'