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== Student of Magic ==

Harry's teenage adventures also taught him that magical talent and magical knowledge were very different things.

Wonderos possessed enormous raw ability, but his education was chaotic. He could accomplish feats that experienced magicians found difficult while remaining ignorant of principles they considered elementary.

That combination nearly killed him more than once.

As he grew older, Harry became a serious occult scholar. He traveled, studied ancient and forgotten languages, corresponded with magical authorities, investigated supernatural sites and accumulated a formidable library of his own.

He gradually came to understand magic not as a collection of spells, but as a vast and often contradictory body of knowledge governed by innumerable rules, traditions and exceptions.

Harry once compared magical scholarship to owning every book in the world's largest library without possessing a card catalog.

The information is there.

Finding the correct piece before something eats you is another matter.