Okay, he is in too good a mood to care. Part of him kinda wants to tell his mom the wall was like this already, but nah. He will just explain the situation to her.

Well, without anything better to do he will compare the multiple results and the things he figured out. Assuming the whole thing is some kind of video-gamey power reverse, Temple makes a conservative estimation of how many "mana points" he should have and how many he can recharge in an hour.

He browses the internet for magic, can he find anything that resembles his experiments?

There's nothing that screams "legitimate magical experiments on magic that requires you to ask" at him.

Oh, well. Temple can continue this.

I guess he won't find anything that points to "actual magicians community site"?

Well, Temple doesn't think he needs to wait exactly one hour until he can cast again, it is just safe (even if takes an eternity).

After 58 minutes and 30 seconds since he first looked at the clock on his newly colored wall, Temple repeats the second part of the precision test. "Wind, come forth and blow between North and East."

Then he does a test he was setting up during that hour.

They don't have an Ouija board, but Temple copies a design from the internet on a large piece of paper and finds a tiny crystal that he ties to a string (he considered a pebble, but he likes doing this with style, and maybe it will help.)

They have a dice cup and dices, for this test he uses a single die.

"Wind, I call the element of the sky for your speed and vision. Earth, I call the element of the ground for your stability and wisdom. Water, I call the element of the sea for your strength and determination. Answer this to me, safe and true! Tell me the result of the hidden dice!"

The wind does indeed come forth and blows between North and East.

And his divination attempt fails utterly.

Temple tries it again, but instead of the pseudo-Ouija board he writes down the numbers in a circle.

Nada.

Temple notes this.

Uh, what if he tries to have the crystal point north instead?

"Wind, I call the element of the sky for your speed and vision. Earth, I call the element of the ground for your stability and wisdom. Water, I call the element of the sea for your strength and determination. Answer this to me, safe and true! Show me north!"

The crystal turns to point North.

Ok, so maybe the crystal didn't interfere or anything. He will think of some new spell variations later.

Now that he thinks about it, maybe magic can't read?

He was going to do this later, but now that the question popped up in his mind... what if he writes "Wind, come forth, flow and fly as my will commands it!" and wills it to do magic?

The paper... shimmers a little.

But not even a little breeze happens.

Temple writes it again, also focusing. Does the shimmer happen again?

Nope.

Okay, shimmer is a new thing, so Temple is going to be distracted by the shiny.

He writes a third time on a second piece of paper, while also speaking the spell.

This time it shimmers and then starts being consumed by a cool cold invisible fire effect, and his spell becomes significantly stronger and more controllable.

"Eureka! More power!" Temple screams happily.

He takes the paper he wrote twice on and speaks the spell.

It's exactly as powerful and controllable as the previous one.

New spontaneous tests!

First, he writes the spell and recites the words a minute later.

Second, he wills the magic in the paper for a minute then he writes the magic words.

Third, he writes the spell without willing the magic in it, then he tries to will the magic into the words.

First test works just like the previous two, second and third test don't do anything to the paper.

He repeats the first test, but waits five minutes then, ten minutes, to see if the magic gets less effective.

What if he creates two different pieces of paper and recites the spell while willing for both of them to work?

What if he does the regular spell casting plus paper but puts the paper a meter away?

What if instead of repeating the written words he just says "Wind, obey these magical words."

It doesn't get any less effective the first time he repeats the first test, but the second time causes that weird feeling again, and a very strong gust of wind that messes his room up, and then he can't do magic anymore.

Okay... back on waiting. Maybe he will clean the mess.

Without magic.

Sigh.

He waits... ten minutes. And tries the test with two papers.

Only one of them works, and this time it catches actual fire after it does.

Temple puts the fire out.

Okay, he is going to...wait.

He reads the book some more, browses the internet some more. Paces around his room some more. Decides to write more spell ideas, but after being too tempted to give power to the words he decides to stop.

Instead he goes out and walks so he isn't tempted to cast any spells by being in public.

After walking aimlessly Temple finds a bakery that he hadn't visited much and eats a new kind of cake. It tastes good, but not as good as magic.

His mom is back home and it has been little more than an hour.

Temple considers explaining things to her, but he isn't in the mood, right now, maybe on the weekend.

He continues testing, at intervals that his observations deemed safe.

He cannot consume two different pieces of paper with the same sentence on the same spell. Putting the paper a meter away works, if he's focusing on that specific paper. The wind cannot obey magical words not spoken by him at the time of casting.

What if he tries to do this with a paper whose location he knows, but can't see?