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"Beneath the moonlight glints a tiny fragment of silver, a fraction of a line..."
This sounds like an alchemy circle, which has to be drawn "to the fineness of a child's hair." I guess it involves the creation of a philosopher's stone.
Or a horcrux? We still don't know what the ritual for that looks like.
We know from canon and Word of Rowling that it involves murder, and is so disgusting it almost made her editor vomit.
Nitpick: "felt like vomiting" is well short of being almost made to vomit.
And if Yudkowsky's going to make a Fullmetal Alchemist reference, we know how to make a philosopher's stone, or even crude approximations, but only using human scarifice.
Could be alchemy or related magic used to turn someone's blood into a fake burned body. (Free transmutation seems easy to recognize.) But I've been thinking of it as an event in the past, which now seems dubious.