Catlyn's Journal Vol.1, Mana Notes Entry One

The latest chapter is 32 when writing this. This Journal may contain spoilers from before chapter 32, you have been warned.

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My brain's starting to get confused with all the complexities of mana so I've decided to start taking notes. As Dumbledore said, each individual magical being gives off a mana color. Most humans tend to have an orange color but there are some exceptions.

Dumbledore's mana is a light blue color which is similar to the color weak Charms are. Oh, I forgot to mention that. The types of spells each have their own color, with a mix of the caster's color. Charms are blue, Transfiguration and transformations are purple, Healing is green, and dark magic is unknown to me. The darker the shade of the color, the more powerful and more refined the spell and mana are.

Mana created by a magical being follows a different set of rules I don't entirely understand yet. Is it their personality? The magic they're good at? I suspect those two are factors but not all of them. I think this because although Anne is a Metamorphmagus her mana has no hint of purple.

And even if it was as simple as their personality, that's not even the hard part. Which meaning of the color is the mana? Is it the psychological meaning of the color? The personal meaning? Color theory? It could even have an entirely different set of meanings.

My mana, what little I create, is a purple color. I would have thought it would be the color dark magic is because of my nature but that color could have only been because my body was awakening to its mana need. This could mean that purple is not my true mana color or I could be entirely wrong.

Anne's mana is bright gold and she creates enough to blind me if I'm not careful. Cedric's is a light shade of Orange but it feels more integral to his personality than most. Penny's is Purple witch I have no clue what to make of it.

I've encountered a few other colors like red and grey but I've noticed that no two shades of mana are the same. Well, that isn't true exactly. Wands also have their own mana and their mana gets influenced by their owner.

Based on the difference between Cedric and his wand, me and my wand, and Dumbledore and his wand I've estimated that a wand takes three years before it starts to noticeably reflect its owner. I can't explain where the weird unnatural feelings I get from some of them come from. It's as if the mana has a direct effect on my emotions. I really should open up to mana more during classes or breakfast to gather more data.

That's it for now, I'll doodle in here once in a while about other theories, Ideas, or maybe even just random stream of consciousness.