It was in Maine, about two days ago, I had received a letter in a
most peculiar fashion. A fashion I hadn't seen since my days in Europe, I
had received a letter by owl. Having realized the bird had a letter
attached to its leg I took the note and commenced in reading it.
Dear Amadeus, I regret to inform you, your great, great, great, great, etc. Grandson Mr. Harry Potter has caught himself up in a rather nasty vendetta with an evil wizard whose strengths I am afraid Harry may not me able to defeat more than once. You see, Harry managed to avoid a most certain death while bringing to death the most feared dark wizard in history to date. This wizard, by the name of Voldemort, has once again regained his power. I am writing to you as a last resort, I know you are not supposed to interfere, but you have to help the rest of the wizarding world. I am curious to know if you have learned to harness your inner strengths, as the first of the Potter line, not only are you invulnerable, but amongst other things, the ancient scripts say you were gifted with a certain power. I would appreciate it if you would inform me if you have unlocked this power. Please write back quickly, for time is of the essence.
Please hurry, Albus Dumbledore
Inner strengths..I hadn't heard that term in quite a long time. It must have been 998 B.C. when the rest of the group and I had an unexpected visitor. On a warm summer's eve in Greece, at the top of Mount Olympus we were greeted by an angel. It was truly a beautiful site. It spoke to us for what seemed to be an eternity, which was too short, about our tasks to come, it told me my future was unreadable. It told me however that my future would force God to give me the most power. It touched each of us at the top of the head and we all woke up in different places, I never saw any of them again.
I had gotten to thinking about this letter for about a day; I wasn't going to go through with it. I had no reason to interfere. The owl that sent the letter was lingering around my cabin. Finally after hours of thinking I picked up a pen instead of my old fashioned quill and some freshly imported parchment.
Dear Mr. Dumbledore,
I Accept, how do I get to you?.......
*
Harry awoke with a start when he heard Arthur Weasley yelling in delight at his children. Harry immediately ran down the stairs and Mrs. Weasley sat him down at the table and provided him with a plate of breakfast.
"Dumbledore just sent me an owl saying the Head of your name is coming to go to Hogwarts with you!" Mr. Weasley exclaimed.
"What does that mean?" Harry asked him slowly.
"Harry, every family has a Head to carry your family name; Dumbledore did some research and managed to find the first of your name. He dates back to so long ago, that he is in a matter of speaking, invincible. He has so much magic in his blood he doesn't require a wand." Said Mr. Weasley
"But, why haven't I heard or met him before?" Asked Harry in between bites.
"Well, if you do still have an existing first of name they're not supposed to have any contact at all." Mr. Weasley replied.
"So what's the good news?" asked Ron.
"Well, Dumbledore contacted him and he's agreed to come and join you, Ron, and Hermione at Hogwarts. He'll be staying here until you lot get on the Hogwarts Express."
Harry looked over at Ron and Hermione. They had been in a relationship since the beginning of the summer. Harry was very happy for them, yet noticed they seemed to bicker more.
"He should be here right about now." As he said it, there was a knock on the front door.
Harry exchanged glances at Ron and they listened to the mumbled conversation while Hermione and Ginny were talking amongst themselves. Ginny had changed, in Harry's eyes, she was a woman, surprisingly beautiful one. His train of thought was interrupted by Mrs. Weasley's voice.
"And this is Ron, and his sweetheart Hermione." She blushed. "This is my youngest Ginny, and Harry Potter."
Harry looked up at the stranger. He was dressed in black. He had a large thick vest Harry recognized to be a bullet proof vest. He looked as though he were only fourteen but his eyes seemed ageless, he stood a clear seven feet. His long leather coat was thin and showed how large his arms were. His face was as though it was carved of stone. He seemed so familiar but obviously wasn't. Harry saw at least three swords of different origins. Although he was covered in leather, his left arm was encrusted in gold. This wasn't a man; this was more like a God.
"So you're the one in need of my help. I see the scar, you must be a Potter." He held out his monstrous hand. "Amadeus Potter."
Hermione gasped at the sound of his name. "You're not that Amadeus are you?"
He smiled at her horror. "Do I look like him?"
She closed her gaping mouth. "No, I suppose not."
At that moment Mrs. Weasley started to speak. "I'm sorry I haven't a clue where you are to sleep. It seems all are rooms are booked until the end of the summer holiday."
"Its no problem really, when you're as old as I am you are happy with the outdoors as much as any other place. Just point me to the back exit so I can stretch my wings." At this point Ginny, Ron, Hermione, and Harry went outside to join Amadeus. He took off his jacket and vest, along with his 5 swords-Harry counted two more attached to his vest in an X shape-and then 2 gargantuan wings flowed out of his back and he spread them out. He definitely wasn't human, these dove white wings were at least 8 meters long each. Everybody awed at the site of them. The silence was broken my Hermione.
"You are an Archangel!" She squealed.
"It would seem that way wouldn't it? Shame I'm not, I could use some things, of course these wings aren't the only proof of my supposed Archangel.ness." He walked over to his longest sword and unsheathed it. For some strange reason, it was glowing red.
"As Hermione knows, Archangels have flaming swords, I received this sword in about 1890-"Hermione cut him off "That's pretty young then?" Amadeus continued his sentence "B.C." He said sternly.
"Now I've been flying for a long time, you think I can get something to eat?"
*
Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Hermione snuck upstairs while Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were deep in conversation with Amadeus.
"What is this guy? He's not human!" Ron asked.
"I really think he's an Archangel." Hermione answered.
"Well what in the ruddy hell is an Archangel!?" Ron hollered.
"Well you see, I found out in a book that Archangels are the guardians between Heaven, Hell, and Earth. They protect the Earth from the worst things of Earth and the creatures that escape from Hell. They're supposed to be the strongest beings in the mortal plane." Hermione answered.
"This sounds more like something Luna Lovegood would talk about." Harry added.
"No Harry, this has been confirmed. I have a picture in this book."
Hermione opened the book and showed them the picture. The Archangel was standing in the center of the picture flapping its wings at a slow steady pace. Harry tried to see its face but it was behind a gleaming black gold rimmed hood. The entire thing had armor that was like this, shiny black and rimmed with gold and filled with gold designs. It held in front of it a long flaming sword.
"By looking at his arm and sword, along with the wings I would definitely say he was, but without the rest of his armor it's impossible to know. Of course he does fit other criteria as well.." Hermione started to blush.
"Well?? What other criteria?" Ron asked. At that moment Ginny stepped in and pointed to a part of the passage.
"When they're not in full armor, they're extremely handsome. Yes, I would say he covers that pretty well." Ginny joined in Hermione's blushing and they both started giggling before Ron interrupted them.
"I don't see what's so good about him anyway. Right, Harry? He's not that good looking." Hermione and Ginny started giggling louder. "C'mon Hermione, you like him more than me?" Hermione took his hand.
"Not at all, but he is a little better looking than most people his age." Ron looked as though he was punched in the stomach. "Just how old is he?" Ron asked angrily.
"Honestly, do you two ever pay attention? He said it earlier." Hermione spat.
"He said he was exactly 23, 664 years old. And he still looks so handsome." Said Ginny.
"Well, forget him. I'm going to sleep. You two can go into Gin's room and fawn over him some more. Good night Harry." After the girls went into Ginny's room, Ron went to sleep and Harry wondered why he felt so close to this stranger. Someone who he had never met before, felt like his brother. After thinking for so long, he eventually drifted off into sleep.
* The rest of the summer seemed to go by quickly. Harry was usually weeding the garden while breaking for the occasional glance at Ginny. Although sweaty and dirty, in his eyes he thought she was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. He wondered what had brought up this sudden change in his perception of her, but just let nature take its course and continued to fall helplessly in love with her. Amadeus helped with everything he could. He showed Mrs. Weasley some very delicious recipes and spent some time near the river, just sitting down by the running water. It looked like he was happy to be with some people for once.
It wasn't long before September first was among them and they were all packed and at platform 9 ¾ 's sitting in a car on the Hogwarts express. Amadeus joined them in the car while Harry was waiting for Malfoy. He knew this would be a ride to remember. It didn't take long for him to show up.
"Hello Potty, ready for another year with your mud blood and your poor redheaded oaf?"
"As ready as I'll ever be Malfoy." Harry snarled.
"Well then, who's this ugly oaf over here? Some tough moron?" Before Malfoy realized it, he had a massive hand clutching the back of his neck.
"Lets see then, blonde hair, moronic laugh, you're a Malfoy. I've always wondered why God let your family procreate." Amadeus threw him to the ground. "You are to never insult a Potter or you will never eat solid foods, do I make myself clear?" Malfoy nodded nervously. "Okay, scurry off then, little rat." Harry smiled; this was going to be a good year.
The ride to Hogwarts was carried out in silence until the chubby lady who pushes the food cart came in.
"Oh hello dears, would you like something from the cart?" She said, before Harry had a chance to respond, Amadeus started to speak.
"We'll take 5 of everything." He said.
"That will be 28 galleons." She responded after handing out 5 of each product to everyone in the car. Amadeus looked confused for a second, before he pulled out two bars of what looked like solid gold.
"This should cover it." He handed the two bars to the to the still shocked food cart lady.
"Thank you so much!" She said as she proceeded to the next car. It wasn't long before Ron opened his mouth.
"Where did you get those?? I could use some." He wandered off into thought.
"Sorry Ronny boy, I have my own private storage. You see, this bag is bottomless, so it chose to keep it filled with gold bars. Here, I'll give you three." He handed the gold to Ron who sat and stared at it in amazement, finally a smile broke onto his face.
"Thanks, you know, you're not that bad after all." Ron said.
"Well, while we are at Hogwarts I am under the disguise of being a guest to Dumbledore. No one is to know I'm here to protect the school until October." Amadeus said.
"Why October?" Hermione asked.
"I found out from an old friend that they scheduled an attack on the school. Personally, I'm looking forward to it. I can cause some bloodshed; maybe reduce their control on things. I'm still not sure yet."
"Well we'll be there to help!" Added Ron.
"Sorry, I have all the help I need. Besides, you two need to keep an eye on the ones you care about." He said shortly, casting a glance at Harry, and to his dread, Ginny as well. She looked at him and blushed.
Soon after, there was silence. The Hogwarts express pulled into Hogsmeade station and Amadeus stood up and walked to the exit of the car.
"I'll see you lot at the feast, I'll be sitting at the staff table; I've been informed." He walked outside into the harsh rain and sleet that seemed to bounce off of him. He continued walking until he ran into a familiar face Harry recognized as Hagrid. Amadeus shook his equally large hand and continued walking toward the castle. Harry and the rest got off the train and after a quick hello to Hagrid; they ran into the carriages that took them to the castle. As they quickly ran up the stairs dripping wet the rest of the students took they're first look at Amadeus. He bent down quickly and kissed the cheek of Professor McGonagall. He saw her do something he had never seen before, she laughed. Amadeus continued through to the great hall. After getting dried Harry and the rest of the school arriving by carriage sat in the Great Hall and watched the sorting ceremony then the plates did their duties and thoroughly filled themselves with food. Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Hermione watched Amadeus at the table. After he quickly ate he started talking with the rest of staff. After about ten minutes he had the staff table roaring with laughter, even Snape was laughing. The entire table was in stitches. After about a half an hour of laughter, Dumbledore stood up and Harry watched the food vanished when he started to talk.
"To all the first years, the forbidden forest is called that for a reason. The third floor corridor is also off limits to students, not to those who appear as they are students." He flashed a quick glance at Amadeus. "This brings me to my next order of business; this is our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Professor Amadeus." Amadeus was shocked, but it was hard to see it. Harry could hear the mumbles of students around him. "How can he be a teacher, he's much too cute! I hear we're having another ball, I hope I can go with him!" Harry heard Parvati Patil talking to her sister.
Dumbledore raised his hand for silence. "Now I think it is time for you to go to sleep for a full day of classes." He said.
After filing out of the Great Hall, the Gryffindor's crawled through the portrait hole and were greeted by an unexpected visitor. Amadeus was standing in the middle of the Common room. All of them gasped.
"I thought I'd stop by and tell you I've taken a special liking to this house, so one hundred and fifty points to Gryffindor." With this, he left, making the Gryffindor house much happier to be around him.
*
The following day proved to be a boring one. Amadeus started with a brief history of Demon's and Angel's. Divination was boring as usual and ended with the usual death reading on Harry's part. The week went by as slowly as the first day, until Saturday came and Gryffindor got more than just a friend ship.
"Next for Chaser tryouts is...Amadeus!?" Ron said shockingly. Amadeus stood up and mounted his broom, a Firebolt.
"The headmaster said I could join a house team if I wanted to. Do you mind if I tryout for this one?" He shouted. A wicked grin shot across his face. He went over and whispered to the beaters something and replied. "Alright then, let's see what you got." Amadeus kicked off. Harry hadn't seen such great flying since his day at the Quidditch world cup. Ron evidently told the beaters to hit every buldger at Amadeus. They had no effect what so ever. They seemingly bounced off him, they kept hitting him harder and faster, but didn't do any damage, and he didn't even flinch. After his forty seventh straight quaffle in the goal, Ron gave up and gave him a spot on the team. The newly combined team had a practice and went back to school when it started to rain again. The whole team went back up to the Common Room and told the story of Amadeus' practice. After receiving praises from the rest of the house, most of the Gryffindor's went to sleep. There was no one left in the Common Room but Ginny, Harry, and Amadeus.
"So how long have you been working out?" Ginny asked Amadeus.
"Around ten thousand years." He replied smiling, Ginny smiled back. He lay back on the chair and Ginny laid her head on his shoulder and fell asleep. This sickened Harry to the depths of his soul.
"You just can't stand not being center of attention can you?!" Harry shouted, which woke up Ginny.
"It's not his fault he's older than even Dumbledore himself!" Ginny shouted.
"I think I should leave if Harry isn't himself." Amadeus said.
"No, you're staying right here!" Harry leapt to his feet. Ron came rushing downstairs.
"What's going on here?" He said
"Your sister is flaunting over Amadeus." Harry yelled. Ron walked over to Harry.
"What?!" Ron leapt at Amadeus and with a loud smack; Ron had hit Amadeus in the jaw. Amadeus simply turned his head and stared back at Ron. Ron looked shocked instantly. Amadeus' eyes had just appeared to have frozen over and turned an icy blue color. Amadeus simply chopped quickly at Ron's throat which left Ron gagging for air.
"If any of you decide to pull something so incredibly stupid, I will have no choice but to be less lenient on you. Understood?" He stormed out of the Common room leaving an icy chill in his wake. Ginny starred at Harry teary eyed and ran off to the dormitory.
"Best if we leave this for tomorrow." Harry said. Ron agreed by continuing to gag for air. Harry helped him to the dormitory and they both lay in bed until they fell asleep.
*
"Well I think we had better apologize." Hermione said at breakfast.
"How are we supposed to that, we don't even know where he is?" Ron spat.
"Actually, he told me. He said teenage boys can get a tad irritating, so when you did he said I'll always have someone as smart as I am to talk to. No offense." She said quietly.
"Fine then, whatever." Ron said angrily. Ginny leaned over.
"I'm going too, I need to know where to go when you lot get into a quarrel." She said
"No Gin! I won't allow it!" Ron yelled.
"I'm going with you, no matter what you say Ronald!" Ginny yelled back. Ron new better than to argue with his sister, it was a losing battle.
"Fine. Let's go." Harry and the rest finished with breakfast and walked what seemed to be an eternity until they finally reached a dark corridor and Hermione said "This is it." She pushed open the door and Harry saw his room. It was decorated with different weapons, staffs, and what looked like, wands. It was well lit and very large. They passed a large bed with a black bedspread and dark blue carpet. This seemed to be the most welcoming room Harry had ever seen.
"Hello Hermione, Ginny, others." Amadeus cast a cold look at Harry and Ron.
"We just wanted to say.." Ron started.
"Their sorry for being ignorant stupid gits." Ginny answered.
"Apology accepted, I remember how moronic teenagers get." He said sternly. He took off his jacket and hung it in a closet.
"This is a beautiful room, Amadeus." Hermione said.
"I decorated it myself; I also decorated for Professor McGonagall. She said she liked the carpeting." He started.
"I must admit it feels more homelike than most of the hard floors in Hogwarts." Ginny said.
"Yes indeed. Hermione, I have something that might interest you while you're here." He walked over to a glass case containing a long staff. "Do you what this is?" he asked her.
"Wow! That's a fourth century sorceress staff!"
"That's correct. Now since I'm a man I can only use some of its great potential." He handed her a book and she flipped through the pages. "I figured you might be able to control it." She opened her mouth in shock and immediately gave him a one handed hug and replied. "Thank you so much, I will start reading as quickly as I can." He smiled at her and walked by Harry and Ron and said silently "I wondered when I'd get rid of that." Harry and Ron smiled.
"As for Ginny, this is a two thousand B.C. armor chest plate made for the Amazonian women by the Goblins of Greece. I figured it would fit your figure well; it's magically imbued with some of my blood. It'll deflect any and all spells sent at you. Please, wear it during most of October." She smiled and kissed his cheek. "Thank you."
He turned to Harry and Ron "As for you two." He took two necklaces out of his drawer. "These are pretty great. These will send mental messages to whoever you think of. This means if you two are thinking of each other, you can have a conversation without opening your mouths." He was silent until Harry heard his voice when his mouth wasn't open, Ron heard it as well "You can also talk to me." A grin twisted on Ron's face. He knew this was going to help him during a lot of the semester. Amadeus escorted them to the door when they ran back to the common room.
The month flew by until it was the middle of October. Professor McGonagall took them to the kitchens for a lesson on simple house hold spells. The mood was jolly because people were already talking about the winter holiday. Then the worst that could happen did happen. A hundred dark hooded figures marched into the kitchen and created a circle and surrounded the class. Professor McGonagall stood up.
"Sit down children, throw over your wands and no one will get hurt. This castle is under siege." One of the hooded figures said. Professor McGonagall was about to command the student to run. Hermione was petrified, as was the rest of the class. For some strange reason, Harry's scar didn't burn. Voldemort wasn't there. Right before Professor McGonagall was going to give the command the rest of the class saw at least thirty brown hooded figures file into the kitchen. One of the Death Eaters smiled.
"Finally the reinforcements have arrived." He said.
A demonic voice said loudly "That's not entirely correct." The figures unsheathed their swords and started hacking into the thick cluster of black robes. With a harsh deep yell they started thinning the line of black that seemed to fill the kitchens. Harry recognized one of the swords, the one with the red glow.
"Avada Kedavra!" Shouted one of the Death eaters. The spell shot out of his wand at Amadeus. The spell bounced off of him, the rest of his body started to glimmer and gold appeared around his new armor. His sword spread into a sheet of flame, but his face remained uncovered and his wings hidden. He fought more valiantly than Harry had ever seen. There was blood on the floors and the hooded figures celebrated their victory. Harry watched the other swords clutch the flaming sword as they celebrated their victory. Harry saw Amadeus' black armor turn back into a brown cloak and his sword extinguish itself. Professor McGonagall smiled and said: "To the Great hall." As she lead the students out of the kitchen.
The class entered the Great hall alone. Harry figured something was wrong. Eventually each class arrived with a brown cloaked escort. This continued until the Great Hall was filled with all members of staff and most of the student body. Harry noticed a large amount of students were missing from the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, Harry saw the worry in Hermione's eyes as she scanned the hall for any sign of Amadeus. Harry knew he was alright but he couldn't stand being wrong. Eventually Dumbledore stood up, held up his hand for silence and spoke.
"It seems this most grim attack has shown us how weak our defenses really are. Thanks to our Defense against the Dark Arts teacher, and some of his comrades in arms we are still free and most of us alive" Dumbledore's eyes stopped twinkling. "We must think of the future to come and the defense we have now. Remember those we have lost and continue. Classes will be canceled until further notice." Dumbledore left the table where the rest of the staff followed him. Some of the students stood to leave when a voice was heard over the clatter.
"You were never given permission to leave. Please, sit down." Said a female voice. One of the hooded figures removed their mask. It was a woman, one of the most beautiful Harry had ever seen. Harry thought she had a small amount of Veela in her, but he changed his mind once he saw her smooth straight black hair. She had a rosy face and looked as if she had no worries at all in the world. Two more removed their hoods. The first, a portly man with a mustache and what looked like glimmering metal covering the right side of his face. The second, a very muscular man who was about as tall as Harry with a thin mustache, beady eyes, and a pointed nose. At that point a stray death eater burst through the doors to the great hall and slowly walked a few steps. He started talking.
"My lord, they have some sort of...What the Hell!?" He rose up his hand and as quickly as it was raised it was pinned to the wall with a small tomahawk shaped scythe.
"What were you intentions tonight?" A loud voice barked.
"October was always my favorite month." He started
"What were your intentions!?" The voice barked louder than before.
"No, what were your intentions?" He asked in a comical tone.
"Daimius, mefellos dihiman nespartoch." The voice growled.
"Gladly." Responded on of the hooded figures. He walked over to him and Harry watched the color seep out of the Death Eater's face.
"Let's try this again. What were your intentions?" there was a grim expression on the Death Eater's face; it was as though he was acting under viterasium.
"We thought we could storm the castle early, get it over with. It turns out you imbeciles were a force to be reckoned with." Most of the hooded figures laughed.
"Yes, it seems to be that way." Amadeus added while walking from the room where the staff is located.
"Amadeus, how are you, you old bag?" the man in front of the staff table asked.
"Just fine Amnus. Oh, well what do we have here? Valatifia, you're still as beautiful as I remembered you." Harry could see how he remembered her beauty. She was by far one of the most beautiful women Harry had ever seen.
"And of course I'm sure I've met the rest." The rest of the figures removed their hoods and smiled up and Amadeus. "It's very nice to be back together. The rest of the Professors and I agree the children should go back to their dormitories. If you will be kind enough to escort them and meet in the Gryffindor common room, we have much to discuss." He walked to the exit of the hall. "Gryffindor's, follow me." The rest of the Gryffindor's stood up and followed him closely. After what about a half an hour, the rest of the people started showing up one by one until the common room was full of black robed students and the occasionally mix of brown among it. Amadeus seemingly ran up the wall of the tower to the highest window.
"All students are to either stay in the common room whilst it's full or, if it has emptied, go to the dormitory of those who you feel safe with. No on is to leave the tower, all those who do will suffer the fate of the gargoyles. We shall return." He and the rest of the brown cloaked figures left and once the entrance was closed, and blinding light hit the door and the exit was turned into solid stone.
"I wonder what he meant about the gargoyles." Ron said.
"Well, you see, in ancient times gargoyles were creature people were scared of. At one time they were living. An old witch put a spell on them to turn them to stone at dawn; they would crumple to dust." Said Hermione with a look of disgust on her face
"Oh." Ron started
"I wonder whose missing from the student body?" Hermione asked. At that time Harry and Ron looked up at each other and said in horror "Ginny!"
*
At that exact time, Amadeus turned around to the people behind him and spoke.
"There is a student missing from the tower." His eyes turned blue and literally froze into two balls of ice. His voice sounded like a darker, deeper voice was over laden with his own. "She is in the dungeon." The rest of the group followed him, weapons at the ready, while they continued to walk deeper into the dungeon. In the last corridor, Ginny lay unconscious. A Death Eater stood over her, but not just any death eater, it was Lucious Malfoy.
"I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE! GIVE ME YOUR SWORD!" he calmed himself "and the girl shall live."
"If you truly knew what I was, then you wouldn't be so ignorant." The people behind him laughed and put away their weapons.
"Aren't you scared? I could kill the girl at any moment and you would be helpless."
Amadeus started laughing and simply said "The chains that bind you." When he said it and hundred long chains rapped around the Death Eater and hung him defenselessly in the air.
"Now what were you saying, something about someone helpless? I believe that would be you." Everyone laughed but Lucious.
"Goodbye for now." At that moment, Lucious vanished without a trace.
"Portkey. I'll get him some other time." He knelt over and picked up Ginny. "Let us be on our way now, we've much to discuss." He turned and proceeded walking with the rest following him. Valatifia walked by his side and whispered. "You're still as admirable as the day I met you." She said.
"I'm honored." He said grinning.
* The stone wall transformed back into its original state and Professor Dumbledore walked in.
"Professor, Ginny's missing!" Ron screamed.
"Calm yourself, all is well. Ginny is healthy and accounted for, Amadeus and the rest of his friends are taking care to her. Between you and I, I think they have more medical knowledge than all of St. Mungo's staff combined. I had figured you lot had guessed Ginny was missing, so I came to inform you she is alright. She will be staying in Amadeus' quarters for now. Goodbye." Dumbledore walked out and the door turned back into stone.
"Come on Ron, we've our prefect duties to perform. See you Harry." She and Ron walked off to do whatever they needed. Harry just sat and thought. "What if he took advantage of her? What if he tries to hurt her?" He thought. He wasn't sure why he didn't trust him, he trusted him with everything else. Maybe his feelings were getting the best of him. He didn't know, but he did know he was tired. After a long day, he fell asleep in the armchair by the fire, listening to the commotion of the Gryffindor common room.
* Ginny was awoken by 2 voices speaking softly to each other in the parallel room.
"What have you been doing all these years?" The Female voice asked.
"Living in the America's, I made a house in the forest up north. You know how I love the cold." A male voice responded.
"Well, you know how I love you." The woman said.
"It's been too long, hasn't it?" He said
"Every day is an eternity." She said, her voice quivering. "Can't we just- "She was cut off
"No, the girls awake." He said. Ginny didn't know what to think. How did he know? She heard their footsteps toward the door and saw Amadeus standing in the door way with his arms crossed. Next to him was a woman wearing a chest plate similar to the one she gave him and wasn't wearing pants. She put on a brown cloak and walked up to Ginny.
"Are you alright? You've been asleep for hours." She smiled. Ginny trusted her for some reason and smiled back.
"I gave her one of the chest plates I had left over. It fits her figure well. She has a muscular chest and a nice figure." He said
"Are you trying to make me jealous?" She said with a slight laugh in her voice.
"No, but she's built like an Amazonian. You might want a new apprentice." He said. She turned to Ginny.
"Would you like to be trained as an Amazonian?" She asked Ginny.
"I.err..I guess." She answered.
"It wont be too hard, don't worry. I will teach you how to defend yourself with a bow and arrow, or spear, and also unarmed combat. He's right you know, your built like my people were. You have a strong abdomen, large breasts; of course none of us have red hair." Ginny had hardly believed what she heard. Was this woman serious? Ginny thought she had a fairly normal body. But then again, the boys in Gryffindor had started staring at her more. Maybe she was right.
"Thank you both, very much." She said
"No problem at all. You must sleep now; we'll go out tomorrow and start training."
"I know a great open field in the forest; we won't be disturbed by the teachers or animals. You'll enjoy it, believe me." Amadeus said.
"Its true, Amadeus and I trained together with my father."
"So you're as old as he is?" Ginny asked. "No, he's older than me, but I am older than all the staff put together." She said smiling "Sleep now." She moved Ginny's hair out of her eyes. "We've an Amazon to sculpt out of you yet." She stood up and got to the door way. "And be prepared to wear less clothing." She said, sliding out of the brown robe.
* Ginny awoke early in the morning and got up to find Amadeus hanging upside down with chains wound around his arms, Ginny was terrified.
"Don't worry, it's his morning ritual." She heard a cool voice from behind her. Ginny turned and looked at the Amazonian woman.
"Strange.why does he look so tormented?" Ginny asked.
"He's been living so long. He's seen too many people die, its hard for him, but he makes the best out of it." She put her hand over his heart. "He's so strong; his heart beats like a bass drum." She said dazedly to herself. "Well, lets get you changed." She walked over a chest and pulled out Ginny's armor plate and fish net like stockings.
"What about the dress?" Ginny asked.
"No dress; first put on the stockings, then the one piece, then the armor. I'll be waiting." She closed the door and Ginny got dressed. To her surprise, she looked great. The stockings showed her muscular legs and her armor changed increased its size to fit her chest perfectly. Ginny blushed at herself in the mirror. She opened the door and stepped out.
"Maybe you have something to be jealous about, Valatifia." Amadeus said in a joking tone. "Come on, lets go" He said. They walked to the edge of the forest when Ginny spoke.
"Shouldn't we be inside after the castle got attacked?" She asked.
"You're with the two safest people to be around while tension's this high. We need to teach you how to defend yourself as well. We cant be having you getting hurt after all, you're like my daughter." Amadeus said.
"You're like a daughter to me as well, I suppose." Valatifia said. Ginny was astonished. She also felt like they were a family, like they belonged together. Ginny looked at both of them teary eyed. Amadeus wrapped an arm around both of them.
"Hang on." He said. He spread his wings and with a mighty flap, Ginny felt herself rise into the air and they flew. It was a few minutes before they arrived at the field. The dark forest kept them hidden from the school. "Alright, let's begin with pole arms." Said Valatifia. She tossed Ginny a wooden staff as tall as she was. She showed Ginny some basic positions, and how to attack depending on the size of the enemy. They started staff fighting slowly and progressed quickly. At around noon they made Ginny take a break.
"You're doing very good for a beginner. Soon you can you different staves like the ones Amadeus and I have." She showed Ginny her solid stone staff and Amadeus took out his.
"Soon you will have to fight quicker and imagine what you enemy will do before they do it." She started. She and Amadeus turned to each other and started staff combat. Their stone staves moved faster than her with a wooden staff. They moved swiftly and their staves collided with a loud crack every time they connected. After several minutes of fighting they stopped kissed briefly. Amadeus picked them both up and flew back to the grounds. They went back into Amadeus' quarters briefly. He appeared and threw them both towels and they walked to the prefect's bathroom.
Ginny noticed only one large and extravagant bath in the bathroom.
"How are we all going to take a bath? Will you transfigure two more?" She asked.
"No need, this bath is bigger than a swimming pool; you're just worried that we might see more of you than we want to." He said smiling at her. "Just stand over by that edge of the bath and turn on the faucets. I'll let you pick the bubbles and such." He said. Once the bath was full he started to talk.
"Just stand there and I will do my part." He raised both arms and held both palms out. Steam poured out of his palms until the steam was so thick that neither Ginny or Valatifia could see him. "Can you see me?" He shouted. "No." They both shouted back.
"Okay, you gals can stick to your side and I'll stay on my side." He shouted. The girls got undressed and slid into the bath and started talking.
"It's nice to have and elder around sometimes. Everything he does its smart and practical." Valatifia.
"I guess your right." Ginny said. "So Valatifia, do Amazonians stick together and fight, or do we need to go out separate way once I'm done learning?" Ginny asked.
"You can call me Valentine and no, we don't need to. You can follow me as long as your heart desires." She said. Ginny was about to ask another question when she flinched in pain.
"Are you alright?" Valentine asked.
"Yes, I just have a bruise on my torso."
"Let me see it." Valentine said. Ginny was stricken with embarrassment. If she showed her, her torso, she would see everything. "It's alright, we're both girls here." She stood up and Ginny saw her flat stomach and her large breasts. Ginny did the same. Valentine leaned over, touched the bruise and Ginny flinched with pain. "It'll be alright, I'll put something on it later." She cupped her hands with water and let the warm water trickle on Ginny's bruised torso. "You should have told me to stop sooner; you wouldn't be in this condition. Just lie in the water and let the water loosen your muscles. We're going to be in here for a while." Valentine lied back in the water with Ginny and Ginny listened to the silence of the water until.
"Myrtle! GET BACK HERE! I'LL BANISH YOU! DON'T YOU GO INTO THAT DRAIN! I'LL RESSURECT YOU THEN KILL YOU AGAIN!" Amadeus screamed. The girls giggled but where immediately shut up by the opening of the door. Amadeus moved close enough for them to hear him in a low voice and heard him speak in a whisper. "Just relax; I'll carry you up unnoticed." Ginny felt something under her entire body. It slowly lifted her out of the water, higher and higher until she was almost face to face with the ceiling of the prefect's bathroom. She heard Hermione's voice.
"Ron, you're crazy! There is no way I am going to take a bath with you. You go to the boy's bathroom and wash yourself. Honestly!" The door slammed shut and Ginny heard Hermione enter the bath. "He's a nice boy but he doesn't understand that I'm not ready! Harry is nice.but I feel bad for him."
"I'm going to lower you two down. Go make small talk. See you later." Amadeus said softly. Ginny felt the water take her body again.
"Hello Ms. Granger." Valentine said. Ginny felt the water splash. "No need to worry, I'm going to assist in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. I'm professor Sophitia."
"Wh-wh-what are you doing in here?" She stuttered
"Don't worry I just liked this bathroom more than the staff room. I'm sorry if I startled you. I have a friend of yours here as well." Valentine said
"Hello Hermione." Ginny said quietly from a distance.
"So, are we having boy problems Ms. Granger?" She asked jokingly.
"No, I suppose not." She said, her voice quivering,
"It's quite alright, we're all girls here." She said looking up while smiling.
"I'm just not used to bathing with other people, well, the bath is big enough." She tuned off.
"I guess my brother didn't see things the same way did he?" Ginny asked jokingly The conversation went on until Valentine told Ginny they should get going. They went back to Amadeus' Quarters where he was sitting with a new sword on the table.
"Ginny, I figured you should have a weapon to go with your armor." He held up a leather bound short sword. "It's light weight so only a girl of your stature can wield it. But, there's something strange about it." He unraveled it and gave it to her. "Just hold it a bit." Soon the blade started glowing red. "Like I said, its made for you. But just hold on, it'll be over soon." Ginny was about to ask when she fell into Amadeus' arms. She felt pain she had never experienced before in two long gashes in her back. She felt something coming out of the slits in her back. She passed out.
Ginny woke up in the bed she had slept the previous night with something different about her. She got out of bed and walked to the mirror. She looked at her new attachment. She had shimmering white wings.
"It seems you were destined for the same fate as I, well maybe not the same fate. You'll like the wings, they're no hassle at all, and they retract when you want them to and come out when you want them to. I'm so sorry; I didn't think protecting you would change you so much." Ginny ran up and hugged him.
"It's alright, I love having wings. Will you teach me how to use the sword?" She asked. "And I may need some instruction on flying."
"Of.of course I will help you in any way possible. Come on, you should go back to your dormitory. You have classes tomorrow." He said in a loving tone as he walked her back to Gryffindor tower. "Oh, and tell Hermione to invest in boyfriend repellent. It seems as if she may need it if their trips to the prefect's bathroom persist." He smiled down at her. They continued walking until they got to the fat lady's portrait. "Now just make your wings go back in, it won't hurt. Moving your wings is like moving your arms or legs; just think and they'll do." He said. Ginny tried it and it worked. She thanked Amadeus for everything and went back into the Common room to be greeted by Harry and Ron.
"Just what do you think you've been doing? The castle was attacked and we don't see you for days! Mum is going to go berserk!" Ron shouted.
"Yes, were have you been for the past two days?" Harry asked.
"I was staying with Amadeus for you information. He helped me with the wounds from the castle's attack, Ron!" She yelled.
"I don't care! First you're missing, and then bathing with staff! From now on you're never leaving my site!" Ron screamed. Ginny stormed up the stairs to the girl's dormitory while Hermione walked down.
"Really have done it this time, haven't you?" She said smoothly. "Shut up." He said angrily. Hermione and stormed back up to the girl's dormitory.
Classes started up again and Harry went back to his continuing loathing with Snape. Classes were unusually dull, even transfiguration with Neville was boring. The occasional glimmer of fun was present. Hagrid showed us a dog like animal which looked cute, until it got angered and it grew six feet and bit anything in site. Things continued to be dull until an unusual Defense against the Dark Arts lesson called for our class to be held outside, far off the grounds. Amadeus took us to a small old ruin castle without a roof or a wall on the left side. On the right was a wall lined with swords of different types.
"Today's lesson is on formal combat. I have my co-teacher Miss Sophitia and a student of mine is also here to join us. I believe you know Ginny Weasley?" Ron's mouth dropped and he turned to Harry.
"Did he just say-."
"Ginny Weasley" Harry said in awe. Ginny walked out and waved to Ron and Harry and turned to Amadeus.
"Shall we?" She said
"We shall." He tossed her a sword. "Let us dance." He held up his sword and so did Ginny. She lunged at him with the sword but he quickly blocked it and held his sword to her neck.
"As you can see, there is always some sort of dodge and evade technique, but you have to be ware of your opponents weapon." He looked down and so did everyone else, Ginny had her sword pointed into Amadeus' chest and was ready to thrust. He backed away and turned to Professor Sophitia.
"Care to tango?" He asked, raising one eyebrow.
"I'll lead." She smiled at him. She withdrew her sword and within an instant there were metal clangs and sparks flying through the air. They were moving inhumanly fast. Unexpectedly they stopped and Amadeus took off his jacket and tossed it to Harry.
"Would you mind holding this?" He went back to the sword fight. Sparks flew through the air and eventually the fighting came to a close when Professor Sophitia's sword flew through the air and landed in solid stone and she stood stiff against the wall with Amadeus's blade against her neck.
"I win." He whispered. He backed away and Harry tossed him his jacket and he whipped it back on.
"Now, it's your turn." He turned to the rest of the class. "The swords on the walls will be your new arm extensions. Use them well. Treat them with all the care in the world and honor them with your respect and they shall honor you with theirs. These swords have been charmed to not cut or kill. You will pair off and attempt to touch your partner with the tip. Simple enough, yes? Begin." Ron took a sword and gave it to Harry and took out a sword for himself. Ron kept jabbing at Harry, but he easily dodged, over and over. Eventually Amadeus stood up and escorted the class back to the hall for dinner. They headed back into the Common Room and commenced in their homework which had been steadily increasing for the past month. Hermione was busy with a game of chess with Ron. Ginny was showing Hermione where to move, so naturally she was winning. Ron was getting increasingly annoyed with every piece shattered.
"That's cheating! There no way one person can beat two. Especially you lot." Ron yelled. Harry walked over to join them.
"Oh great, now I have someone to come flaming down with me!" Hermione and Ginny laughed and Hermione said
"Checkmate." Ron stood up, walked over to the couch by the fire and plopped down on the couch and sulked. Hermione sat next to him and rested her head on his shoulder.
"It's ok, next time I'll give you Ginny." She whispered, putting her hand on his lap.
"No, that's quite all right." Ron rested his head on Hermione's and they both dozed off. Harry sat alone on a chair by the fire and watched the fire violently flicker. Ginny sat in a chair across from him.
"So, what's new?" Harry asked nervously.
"The usual loads of work." She said, gazing into the fire. "And you?"
"Same." Harry said, blushing.
"I'm going to sleep." Ginny stood up and walked upstairs to the girl's dormitory. Harry smiled to himself.
"Don't even think about it." Ron said with his eyes still closed.
Dear Amadeus, I regret to inform you, your great, great, great, great, etc. Grandson Mr. Harry Potter has caught himself up in a rather nasty vendetta with an evil wizard whose strengths I am afraid Harry may not me able to defeat more than once. You see, Harry managed to avoid a most certain death while bringing to death the most feared dark wizard in history to date. This wizard, by the name of Voldemort, has once again regained his power. I am writing to you as a last resort, I know you are not supposed to interfere, but you have to help the rest of the wizarding world. I am curious to know if you have learned to harness your inner strengths, as the first of the Potter line, not only are you invulnerable, but amongst other things, the ancient scripts say you were gifted with a certain power. I would appreciate it if you would inform me if you have unlocked this power. Please write back quickly, for time is of the essence.
Please hurry, Albus Dumbledore
Inner strengths..I hadn't heard that term in quite a long time. It must have been 998 B.C. when the rest of the group and I had an unexpected visitor. On a warm summer's eve in Greece, at the top of Mount Olympus we were greeted by an angel. It was truly a beautiful site. It spoke to us for what seemed to be an eternity, which was too short, about our tasks to come, it told me my future was unreadable. It told me however that my future would force God to give me the most power. It touched each of us at the top of the head and we all woke up in different places, I never saw any of them again.
I had gotten to thinking about this letter for about a day; I wasn't going to go through with it. I had no reason to interfere. The owl that sent the letter was lingering around my cabin. Finally after hours of thinking I picked up a pen instead of my old fashioned quill and some freshly imported parchment.
Dear Mr. Dumbledore,
I Accept, how do I get to you?.......
*
Harry awoke with a start when he heard Arthur Weasley yelling in delight at his children. Harry immediately ran down the stairs and Mrs. Weasley sat him down at the table and provided him with a plate of breakfast.
"Dumbledore just sent me an owl saying the Head of your name is coming to go to Hogwarts with you!" Mr. Weasley exclaimed.
"What does that mean?" Harry asked him slowly.
"Harry, every family has a Head to carry your family name; Dumbledore did some research and managed to find the first of your name. He dates back to so long ago, that he is in a matter of speaking, invincible. He has so much magic in his blood he doesn't require a wand." Said Mr. Weasley
"But, why haven't I heard or met him before?" Asked Harry in between bites.
"Well, if you do still have an existing first of name they're not supposed to have any contact at all." Mr. Weasley replied.
"So what's the good news?" asked Ron.
"Well, Dumbledore contacted him and he's agreed to come and join you, Ron, and Hermione at Hogwarts. He'll be staying here until you lot get on the Hogwarts Express."
Harry looked over at Ron and Hermione. They had been in a relationship since the beginning of the summer. Harry was very happy for them, yet noticed they seemed to bicker more.
"He should be here right about now." As he said it, there was a knock on the front door.
Harry exchanged glances at Ron and they listened to the mumbled conversation while Hermione and Ginny were talking amongst themselves. Ginny had changed, in Harry's eyes, she was a woman, surprisingly beautiful one. His train of thought was interrupted by Mrs. Weasley's voice.
"And this is Ron, and his sweetheart Hermione." She blushed. "This is my youngest Ginny, and Harry Potter."
Harry looked up at the stranger. He was dressed in black. He had a large thick vest Harry recognized to be a bullet proof vest. He looked as though he were only fourteen but his eyes seemed ageless, he stood a clear seven feet. His long leather coat was thin and showed how large his arms were. His face was as though it was carved of stone. He seemed so familiar but obviously wasn't. Harry saw at least three swords of different origins. Although he was covered in leather, his left arm was encrusted in gold. This wasn't a man; this was more like a God.
"So you're the one in need of my help. I see the scar, you must be a Potter." He held out his monstrous hand. "Amadeus Potter."
Hermione gasped at the sound of his name. "You're not that Amadeus are you?"
He smiled at her horror. "Do I look like him?"
She closed her gaping mouth. "No, I suppose not."
At that moment Mrs. Weasley started to speak. "I'm sorry I haven't a clue where you are to sleep. It seems all are rooms are booked until the end of the summer holiday."
"Its no problem really, when you're as old as I am you are happy with the outdoors as much as any other place. Just point me to the back exit so I can stretch my wings." At this point Ginny, Ron, Hermione, and Harry went outside to join Amadeus. He took off his jacket and vest, along with his 5 swords-Harry counted two more attached to his vest in an X shape-and then 2 gargantuan wings flowed out of his back and he spread them out. He definitely wasn't human, these dove white wings were at least 8 meters long each. Everybody awed at the site of them. The silence was broken my Hermione.
"You are an Archangel!" She squealed.
"It would seem that way wouldn't it? Shame I'm not, I could use some things, of course these wings aren't the only proof of my supposed Archangel.ness." He walked over to his longest sword and unsheathed it. For some strange reason, it was glowing red.
"As Hermione knows, Archangels have flaming swords, I received this sword in about 1890-"Hermione cut him off "That's pretty young then?" Amadeus continued his sentence "B.C." He said sternly.
"Now I've been flying for a long time, you think I can get something to eat?"
*
Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Hermione snuck upstairs while Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were deep in conversation with Amadeus.
"What is this guy? He's not human!" Ron asked.
"I really think he's an Archangel." Hermione answered.
"Well what in the ruddy hell is an Archangel!?" Ron hollered.
"Well you see, I found out in a book that Archangels are the guardians between Heaven, Hell, and Earth. They protect the Earth from the worst things of Earth and the creatures that escape from Hell. They're supposed to be the strongest beings in the mortal plane." Hermione answered.
"This sounds more like something Luna Lovegood would talk about." Harry added.
"No Harry, this has been confirmed. I have a picture in this book."
Hermione opened the book and showed them the picture. The Archangel was standing in the center of the picture flapping its wings at a slow steady pace. Harry tried to see its face but it was behind a gleaming black gold rimmed hood. The entire thing had armor that was like this, shiny black and rimmed with gold and filled with gold designs. It held in front of it a long flaming sword.
"By looking at his arm and sword, along with the wings I would definitely say he was, but without the rest of his armor it's impossible to know. Of course he does fit other criteria as well.." Hermione started to blush.
"Well?? What other criteria?" Ron asked. At that moment Ginny stepped in and pointed to a part of the passage.
"When they're not in full armor, they're extremely handsome. Yes, I would say he covers that pretty well." Ginny joined in Hermione's blushing and they both started giggling before Ron interrupted them.
"I don't see what's so good about him anyway. Right, Harry? He's not that good looking." Hermione and Ginny started giggling louder. "C'mon Hermione, you like him more than me?" Hermione took his hand.
"Not at all, but he is a little better looking than most people his age." Ron looked as though he was punched in the stomach. "Just how old is he?" Ron asked angrily.
"Honestly, do you two ever pay attention? He said it earlier." Hermione spat.
"He said he was exactly 23, 664 years old. And he still looks so handsome." Said Ginny.
"Well, forget him. I'm going to sleep. You two can go into Gin's room and fawn over him some more. Good night Harry." After the girls went into Ginny's room, Ron went to sleep and Harry wondered why he felt so close to this stranger. Someone who he had never met before, felt like his brother. After thinking for so long, he eventually drifted off into sleep.
* The rest of the summer seemed to go by quickly. Harry was usually weeding the garden while breaking for the occasional glance at Ginny. Although sweaty and dirty, in his eyes he thought she was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. He wondered what had brought up this sudden change in his perception of her, but just let nature take its course and continued to fall helplessly in love with her. Amadeus helped with everything he could. He showed Mrs. Weasley some very delicious recipes and spent some time near the river, just sitting down by the running water. It looked like he was happy to be with some people for once.
It wasn't long before September first was among them and they were all packed and at platform 9 ¾ 's sitting in a car on the Hogwarts express. Amadeus joined them in the car while Harry was waiting for Malfoy. He knew this would be a ride to remember. It didn't take long for him to show up.
"Hello Potty, ready for another year with your mud blood and your poor redheaded oaf?"
"As ready as I'll ever be Malfoy." Harry snarled.
"Well then, who's this ugly oaf over here? Some tough moron?" Before Malfoy realized it, he had a massive hand clutching the back of his neck.
"Lets see then, blonde hair, moronic laugh, you're a Malfoy. I've always wondered why God let your family procreate." Amadeus threw him to the ground. "You are to never insult a Potter or you will never eat solid foods, do I make myself clear?" Malfoy nodded nervously. "Okay, scurry off then, little rat." Harry smiled; this was going to be a good year.
The ride to Hogwarts was carried out in silence until the chubby lady who pushes the food cart came in.
"Oh hello dears, would you like something from the cart?" She said, before Harry had a chance to respond, Amadeus started to speak.
"We'll take 5 of everything." He said.
"That will be 28 galleons." She responded after handing out 5 of each product to everyone in the car. Amadeus looked confused for a second, before he pulled out two bars of what looked like solid gold.
"This should cover it." He handed the two bars to the to the still shocked food cart lady.
"Thank you so much!" She said as she proceeded to the next car. It wasn't long before Ron opened his mouth.
"Where did you get those?? I could use some." He wandered off into thought.
"Sorry Ronny boy, I have my own private storage. You see, this bag is bottomless, so it chose to keep it filled with gold bars. Here, I'll give you three." He handed the gold to Ron who sat and stared at it in amazement, finally a smile broke onto his face.
"Thanks, you know, you're not that bad after all." Ron said.
"Well, while we are at Hogwarts I am under the disguise of being a guest to Dumbledore. No one is to know I'm here to protect the school until October." Amadeus said.
"Why October?" Hermione asked.
"I found out from an old friend that they scheduled an attack on the school. Personally, I'm looking forward to it. I can cause some bloodshed; maybe reduce their control on things. I'm still not sure yet."
"Well we'll be there to help!" Added Ron.
"Sorry, I have all the help I need. Besides, you two need to keep an eye on the ones you care about." He said shortly, casting a glance at Harry, and to his dread, Ginny as well. She looked at him and blushed.
Soon after, there was silence. The Hogwarts express pulled into Hogsmeade station and Amadeus stood up and walked to the exit of the car.
"I'll see you lot at the feast, I'll be sitting at the staff table; I've been informed." He walked outside into the harsh rain and sleet that seemed to bounce off of him. He continued walking until he ran into a familiar face Harry recognized as Hagrid. Amadeus shook his equally large hand and continued walking toward the castle. Harry and the rest got off the train and after a quick hello to Hagrid; they ran into the carriages that took them to the castle. As they quickly ran up the stairs dripping wet the rest of the students took they're first look at Amadeus. He bent down quickly and kissed the cheek of Professor McGonagall. He saw her do something he had never seen before, she laughed. Amadeus continued through to the great hall. After getting dried Harry and the rest of the school arriving by carriage sat in the Great Hall and watched the sorting ceremony then the plates did their duties and thoroughly filled themselves with food. Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Hermione watched Amadeus at the table. After he quickly ate he started talking with the rest of staff. After about ten minutes he had the staff table roaring with laughter, even Snape was laughing. The entire table was in stitches. After about a half an hour of laughter, Dumbledore stood up and Harry watched the food vanished when he started to talk.
"To all the first years, the forbidden forest is called that for a reason. The third floor corridor is also off limits to students, not to those who appear as they are students." He flashed a quick glance at Amadeus. "This brings me to my next order of business; this is our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Professor Amadeus." Amadeus was shocked, but it was hard to see it. Harry could hear the mumbles of students around him. "How can he be a teacher, he's much too cute! I hear we're having another ball, I hope I can go with him!" Harry heard Parvati Patil talking to her sister.
Dumbledore raised his hand for silence. "Now I think it is time for you to go to sleep for a full day of classes." He said.
After filing out of the Great Hall, the Gryffindor's crawled through the portrait hole and were greeted by an unexpected visitor. Amadeus was standing in the middle of the Common room. All of them gasped.
"I thought I'd stop by and tell you I've taken a special liking to this house, so one hundred and fifty points to Gryffindor." With this, he left, making the Gryffindor house much happier to be around him.
*
The following day proved to be a boring one. Amadeus started with a brief history of Demon's and Angel's. Divination was boring as usual and ended with the usual death reading on Harry's part. The week went by as slowly as the first day, until Saturday came and Gryffindor got more than just a friend ship.
"Next for Chaser tryouts is...Amadeus!?" Ron said shockingly. Amadeus stood up and mounted his broom, a Firebolt.
"The headmaster said I could join a house team if I wanted to. Do you mind if I tryout for this one?" He shouted. A wicked grin shot across his face. He went over and whispered to the beaters something and replied. "Alright then, let's see what you got." Amadeus kicked off. Harry hadn't seen such great flying since his day at the Quidditch world cup. Ron evidently told the beaters to hit every buldger at Amadeus. They had no effect what so ever. They seemingly bounced off him, they kept hitting him harder and faster, but didn't do any damage, and he didn't even flinch. After his forty seventh straight quaffle in the goal, Ron gave up and gave him a spot on the team. The newly combined team had a practice and went back to school when it started to rain again. The whole team went back up to the Common Room and told the story of Amadeus' practice. After receiving praises from the rest of the house, most of the Gryffindor's went to sleep. There was no one left in the Common Room but Ginny, Harry, and Amadeus.
"So how long have you been working out?" Ginny asked Amadeus.
"Around ten thousand years." He replied smiling, Ginny smiled back. He lay back on the chair and Ginny laid her head on his shoulder and fell asleep. This sickened Harry to the depths of his soul.
"You just can't stand not being center of attention can you?!" Harry shouted, which woke up Ginny.
"It's not his fault he's older than even Dumbledore himself!" Ginny shouted.
"I think I should leave if Harry isn't himself." Amadeus said.
"No, you're staying right here!" Harry leapt to his feet. Ron came rushing downstairs.
"What's going on here?" He said
"Your sister is flaunting over Amadeus." Harry yelled. Ron walked over to Harry.
"What?!" Ron leapt at Amadeus and with a loud smack; Ron had hit Amadeus in the jaw. Amadeus simply turned his head and stared back at Ron. Ron looked shocked instantly. Amadeus' eyes had just appeared to have frozen over and turned an icy blue color. Amadeus simply chopped quickly at Ron's throat which left Ron gagging for air.
"If any of you decide to pull something so incredibly stupid, I will have no choice but to be less lenient on you. Understood?" He stormed out of the Common room leaving an icy chill in his wake. Ginny starred at Harry teary eyed and ran off to the dormitory.
"Best if we leave this for tomorrow." Harry said. Ron agreed by continuing to gag for air. Harry helped him to the dormitory and they both lay in bed until they fell asleep.
*
"Well I think we had better apologize." Hermione said at breakfast.
"How are we supposed to that, we don't even know where he is?" Ron spat.
"Actually, he told me. He said teenage boys can get a tad irritating, so when you did he said I'll always have someone as smart as I am to talk to. No offense." She said quietly.
"Fine then, whatever." Ron said angrily. Ginny leaned over.
"I'm going too, I need to know where to go when you lot get into a quarrel." She said
"No Gin! I won't allow it!" Ron yelled.
"I'm going with you, no matter what you say Ronald!" Ginny yelled back. Ron new better than to argue with his sister, it was a losing battle.
"Fine. Let's go." Harry and the rest finished with breakfast and walked what seemed to be an eternity until they finally reached a dark corridor and Hermione said "This is it." She pushed open the door and Harry saw his room. It was decorated with different weapons, staffs, and what looked like, wands. It was well lit and very large. They passed a large bed with a black bedspread and dark blue carpet. This seemed to be the most welcoming room Harry had ever seen.
"Hello Hermione, Ginny, others." Amadeus cast a cold look at Harry and Ron.
"We just wanted to say.." Ron started.
"Their sorry for being ignorant stupid gits." Ginny answered.
"Apology accepted, I remember how moronic teenagers get." He said sternly. He took off his jacket and hung it in a closet.
"This is a beautiful room, Amadeus." Hermione said.
"I decorated it myself; I also decorated for Professor McGonagall. She said she liked the carpeting." He started.
"I must admit it feels more homelike than most of the hard floors in Hogwarts." Ginny said.
"Yes indeed. Hermione, I have something that might interest you while you're here." He walked over to a glass case containing a long staff. "Do you what this is?" he asked her.
"Wow! That's a fourth century sorceress staff!"
"That's correct. Now since I'm a man I can only use some of its great potential." He handed her a book and she flipped through the pages. "I figured you might be able to control it." She opened her mouth in shock and immediately gave him a one handed hug and replied. "Thank you so much, I will start reading as quickly as I can." He smiled at her and walked by Harry and Ron and said silently "I wondered when I'd get rid of that." Harry and Ron smiled.
"As for Ginny, this is a two thousand B.C. armor chest plate made for the Amazonian women by the Goblins of Greece. I figured it would fit your figure well; it's magically imbued with some of my blood. It'll deflect any and all spells sent at you. Please, wear it during most of October." She smiled and kissed his cheek. "Thank you."
He turned to Harry and Ron "As for you two." He took two necklaces out of his drawer. "These are pretty great. These will send mental messages to whoever you think of. This means if you two are thinking of each other, you can have a conversation without opening your mouths." He was silent until Harry heard his voice when his mouth wasn't open, Ron heard it as well "You can also talk to me." A grin twisted on Ron's face. He knew this was going to help him during a lot of the semester. Amadeus escorted them to the door when they ran back to the common room.
The month flew by until it was the middle of October. Professor McGonagall took them to the kitchens for a lesson on simple house hold spells. The mood was jolly because people were already talking about the winter holiday. Then the worst that could happen did happen. A hundred dark hooded figures marched into the kitchen and created a circle and surrounded the class. Professor McGonagall stood up.
"Sit down children, throw over your wands and no one will get hurt. This castle is under siege." One of the hooded figures said. Professor McGonagall was about to command the student to run. Hermione was petrified, as was the rest of the class. For some strange reason, Harry's scar didn't burn. Voldemort wasn't there. Right before Professor McGonagall was going to give the command the rest of the class saw at least thirty brown hooded figures file into the kitchen. One of the Death Eaters smiled.
"Finally the reinforcements have arrived." He said.
A demonic voice said loudly "That's not entirely correct." The figures unsheathed their swords and started hacking into the thick cluster of black robes. With a harsh deep yell they started thinning the line of black that seemed to fill the kitchens. Harry recognized one of the swords, the one with the red glow.
"Avada Kedavra!" Shouted one of the Death eaters. The spell shot out of his wand at Amadeus. The spell bounced off of him, the rest of his body started to glimmer and gold appeared around his new armor. His sword spread into a sheet of flame, but his face remained uncovered and his wings hidden. He fought more valiantly than Harry had ever seen. There was blood on the floors and the hooded figures celebrated their victory. Harry watched the other swords clutch the flaming sword as they celebrated their victory. Harry saw Amadeus' black armor turn back into a brown cloak and his sword extinguish itself. Professor McGonagall smiled and said: "To the Great hall." As she lead the students out of the kitchen.
The class entered the Great hall alone. Harry figured something was wrong. Eventually each class arrived with a brown cloaked escort. This continued until the Great Hall was filled with all members of staff and most of the student body. Harry noticed a large amount of students were missing from the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, Harry saw the worry in Hermione's eyes as she scanned the hall for any sign of Amadeus. Harry knew he was alright but he couldn't stand being wrong. Eventually Dumbledore stood up, held up his hand for silence and spoke.
"It seems this most grim attack has shown us how weak our defenses really are. Thanks to our Defense against the Dark Arts teacher, and some of his comrades in arms we are still free and most of us alive" Dumbledore's eyes stopped twinkling. "We must think of the future to come and the defense we have now. Remember those we have lost and continue. Classes will be canceled until further notice." Dumbledore left the table where the rest of the staff followed him. Some of the students stood to leave when a voice was heard over the clatter.
"You were never given permission to leave. Please, sit down." Said a female voice. One of the hooded figures removed their mask. It was a woman, one of the most beautiful Harry had ever seen. Harry thought she had a small amount of Veela in her, but he changed his mind once he saw her smooth straight black hair. She had a rosy face and looked as if she had no worries at all in the world. Two more removed their hoods. The first, a portly man with a mustache and what looked like glimmering metal covering the right side of his face. The second, a very muscular man who was about as tall as Harry with a thin mustache, beady eyes, and a pointed nose. At that point a stray death eater burst through the doors to the great hall and slowly walked a few steps. He started talking.
"My lord, they have some sort of...What the Hell!?" He rose up his hand and as quickly as it was raised it was pinned to the wall with a small tomahawk shaped scythe.
"What were you intentions tonight?" A loud voice barked.
"October was always my favorite month." He started
"What were your intentions!?" The voice barked louder than before.
"No, what were your intentions?" He asked in a comical tone.
"Daimius, mefellos dihiman nespartoch." The voice growled.
"Gladly." Responded on of the hooded figures. He walked over to him and Harry watched the color seep out of the Death Eater's face.
"Let's try this again. What were your intentions?" there was a grim expression on the Death Eater's face; it was as though he was acting under viterasium.
"We thought we could storm the castle early, get it over with. It turns out you imbeciles were a force to be reckoned with." Most of the hooded figures laughed.
"Yes, it seems to be that way." Amadeus added while walking from the room where the staff is located.
"Amadeus, how are you, you old bag?" the man in front of the staff table asked.
"Just fine Amnus. Oh, well what do we have here? Valatifia, you're still as beautiful as I remembered you." Harry could see how he remembered her beauty. She was by far one of the most beautiful women Harry had ever seen.
"And of course I'm sure I've met the rest." The rest of the figures removed their hoods and smiled up and Amadeus. "It's very nice to be back together. The rest of the Professors and I agree the children should go back to their dormitories. If you will be kind enough to escort them and meet in the Gryffindor common room, we have much to discuss." He walked to the exit of the hall. "Gryffindor's, follow me." The rest of the Gryffindor's stood up and followed him closely. After what about a half an hour, the rest of the people started showing up one by one until the common room was full of black robed students and the occasionally mix of brown among it. Amadeus seemingly ran up the wall of the tower to the highest window.
"All students are to either stay in the common room whilst it's full or, if it has emptied, go to the dormitory of those who you feel safe with. No on is to leave the tower, all those who do will suffer the fate of the gargoyles. We shall return." He and the rest of the brown cloaked figures left and once the entrance was closed, and blinding light hit the door and the exit was turned into solid stone.
"I wonder what he meant about the gargoyles." Ron said.
"Well, you see, in ancient times gargoyles were creature people were scared of. At one time they were living. An old witch put a spell on them to turn them to stone at dawn; they would crumple to dust." Said Hermione with a look of disgust on her face
"Oh." Ron started
"I wonder whose missing from the student body?" Hermione asked. At that time Harry and Ron looked up at each other and said in horror "Ginny!"
*
At that exact time, Amadeus turned around to the people behind him and spoke.
"There is a student missing from the tower." His eyes turned blue and literally froze into two balls of ice. His voice sounded like a darker, deeper voice was over laden with his own. "She is in the dungeon." The rest of the group followed him, weapons at the ready, while they continued to walk deeper into the dungeon. In the last corridor, Ginny lay unconscious. A Death Eater stood over her, but not just any death eater, it was Lucious Malfoy.
"I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE! GIVE ME YOUR SWORD!" he calmed himself "and the girl shall live."
"If you truly knew what I was, then you wouldn't be so ignorant." The people behind him laughed and put away their weapons.
"Aren't you scared? I could kill the girl at any moment and you would be helpless."
Amadeus started laughing and simply said "The chains that bind you." When he said it and hundred long chains rapped around the Death Eater and hung him defenselessly in the air.
"Now what were you saying, something about someone helpless? I believe that would be you." Everyone laughed but Lucious.
"Goodbye for now." At that moment, Lucious vanished without a trace.
"Portkey. I'll get him some other time." He knelt over and picked up Ginny. "Let us be on our way now, we've much to discuss." He turned and proceeded walking with the rest following him. Valatifia walked by his side and whispered. "You're still as admirable as the day I met you." She said.
"I'm honored." He said grinning.
* The stone wall transformed back into its original state and Professor Dumbledore walked in.
"Professor, Ginny's missing!" Ron screamed.
"Calm yourself, all is well. Ginny is healthy and accounted for, Amadeus and the rest of his friends are taking care to her. Between you and I, I think they have more medical knowledge than all of St. Mungo's staff combined. I had figured you lot had guessed Ginny was missing, so I came to inform you she is alright. She will be staying in Amadeus' quarters for now. Goodbye." Dumbledore walked out and the door turned back into stone.
"Come on Ron, we've our prefect duties to perform. See you Harry." She and Ron walked off to do whatever they needed. Harry just sat and thought. "What if he took advantage of her? What if he tries to hurt her?" He thought. He wasn't sure why he didn't trust him, he trusted him with everything else. Maybe his feelings were getting the best of him. He didn't know, but he did know he was tired. After a long day, he fell asleep in the armchair by the fire, listening to the commotion of the Gryffindor common room.
* Ginny was awoken by 2 voices speaking softly to each other in the parallel room.
"What have you been doing all these years?" The Female voice asked.
"Living in the America's, I made a house in the forest up north. You know how I love the cold." A male voice responded.
"Well, you know how I love you." The woman said.
"It's been too long, hasn't it?" He said
"Every day is an eternity." She said, her voice quivering. "Can't we just- "She was cut off
"No, the girls awake." He said. Ginny didn't know what to think. How did he know? She heard their footsteps toward the door and saw Amadeus standing in the door way with his arms crossed. Next to him was a woman wearing a chest plate similar to the one she gave him and wasn't wearing pants. She put on a brown cloak and walked up to Ginny.
"Are you alright? You've been asleep for hours." She smiled. Ginny trusted her for some reason and smiled back.
"I gave her one of the chest plates I had left over. It fits her figure well. She has a muscular chest and a nice figure." He said
"Are you trying to make me jealous?" She said with a slight laugh in her voice.
"No, but she's built like an Amazonian. You might want a new apprentice." He said. She turned to Ginny.
"Would you like to be trained as an Amazonian?" She asked Ginny.
"I.err..I guess." She answered.
"It wont be too hard, don't worry. I will teach you how to defend yourself with a bow and arrow, or spear, and also unarmed combat. He's right you know, your built like my people were. You have a strong abdomen, large breasts; of course none of us have red hair." Ginny had hardly believed what she heard. Was this woman serious? Ginny thought she had a fairly normal body. But then again, the boys in Gryffindor had started staring at her more. Maybe she was right.
"Thank you both, very much." She said
"No problem at all. You must sleep now; we'll go out tomorrow and start training."
"I know a great open field in the forest; we won't be disturbed by the teachers or animals. You'll enjoy it, believe me." Amadeus said.
"Its true, Amadeus and I trained together with my father."
"So you're as old as he is?" Ginny asked. "No, he's older than me, but I am older than all the staff put together." She said smiling "Sleep now." She moved Ginny's hair out of her eyes. "We've an Amazon to sculpt out of you yet." She stood up and got to the door way. "And be prepared to wear less clothing." She said, sliding out of the brown robe.
* Ginny awoke early in the morning and got up to find Amadeus hanging upside down with chains wound around his arms, Ginny was terrified.
"Don't worry, it's his morning ritual." She heard a cool voice from behind her. Ginny turned and looked at the Amazonian woman.
"Strange.why does he look so tormented?" Ginny asked.
"He's been living so long. He's seen too many people die, its hard for him, but he makes the best out of it." She put her hand over his heart. "He's so strong; his heart beats like a bass drum." She said dazedly to herself. "Well, lets get you changed." She walked over a chest and pulled out Ginny's armor plate and fish net like stockings.
"What about the dress?" Ginny asked.
"No dress; first put on the stockings, then the one piece, then the armor. I'll be waiting." She closed the door and Ginny got dressed. To her surprise, she looked great. The stockings showed her muscular legs and her armor changed increased its size to fit her chest perfectly. Ginny blushed at herself in the mirror. She opened the door and stepped out.
"Maybe you have something to be jealous about, Valatifia." Amadeus said in a joking tone. "Come on, lets go" He said. They walked to the edge of the forest when Ginny spoke.
"Shouldn't we be inside after the castle got attacked?" She asked.
"You're with the two safest people to be around while tension's this high. We need to teach you how to defend yourself as well. We cant be having you getting hurt after all, you're like my daughter." Amadeus said.
"You're like a daughter to me as well, I suppose." Valatifia said. Ginny was astonished. She also felt like they were a family, like they belonged together. Ginny looked at both of them teary eyed. Amadeus wrapped an arm around both of them.
"Hang on." He said. He spread his wings and with a mighty flap, Ginny felt herself rise into the air and they flew. It was a few minutes before they arrived at the field. The dark forest kept them hidden from the school. "Alright, let's begin with pole arms." Said Valatifia. She tossed Ginny a wooden staff as tall as she was. She showed Ginny some basic positions, and how to attack depending on the size of the enemy. They started staff fighting slowly and progressed quickly. At around noon they made Ginny take a break.
"You're doing very good for a beginner. Soon you can you different staves like the ones Amadeus and I have." She showed Ginny her solid stone staff and Amadeus took out his.
"Soon you will have to fight quicker and imagine what you enemy will do before they do it." She started. She and Amadeus turned to each other and started staff combat. Their stone staves moved faster than her with a wooden staff. They moved swiftly and their staves collided with a loud crack every time they connected. After several minutes of fighting they stopped kissed briefly. Amadeus picked them both up and flew back to the grounds. They went back into Amadeus' quarters briefly. He appeared and threw them both towels and they walked to the prefect's bathroom.
Ginny noticed only one large and extravagant bath in the bathroom.
"How are we all going to take a bath? Will you transfigure two more?" She asked.
"No need, this bath is bigger than a swimming pool; you're just worried that we might see more of you than we want to." He said smiling at her. "Just stand over by that edge of the bath and turn on the faucets. I'll let you pick the bubbles and such." He said. Once the bath was full he started to talk.
"Just stand there and I will do my part." He raised both arms and held both palms out. Steam poured out of his palms until the steam was so thick that neither Ginny or Valatifia could see him. "Can you see me?" He shouted. "No." They both shouted back.
"Okay, you gals can stick to your side and I'll stay on my side." He shouted. The girls got undressed and slid into the bath and started talking.
"It's nice to have and elder around sometimes. Everything he does its smart and practical." Valatifia.
"I guess your right." Ginny said. "So Valatifia, do Amazonians stick together and fight, or do we need to go out separate way once I'm done learning?" Ginny asked.
"You can call me Valentine and no, we don't need to. You can follow me as long as your heart desires." She said. Ginny was about to ask another question when she flinched in pain.
"Are you alright?" Valentine asked.
"Yes, I just have a bruise on my torso."
"Let me see it." Valentine said. Ginny was stricken with embarrassment. If she showed her, her torso, she would see everything. "It's alright, we're both girls here." She stood up and Ginny saw her flat stomach and her large breasts. Ginny did the same. Valentine leaned over, touched the bruise and Ginny flinched with pain. "It'll be alright, I'll put something on it later." She cupped her hands with water and let the warm water trickle on Ginny's bruised torso. "You should have told me to stop sooner; you wouldn't be in this condition. Just lie in the water and let the water loosen your muscles. We're going to be in here for a while." Valentine lied back in the water with Ginny and Ginny listened to the silence of the water until.
"Myrtle! GET BACK HERE! I'LL BANISH YOU! DON'T YOU GO INTO THAT DRAIN! I'LL RESSURECT YOU THEN KILL YOU AGAIN!" Amadeus screamed. The girls giggled but where immediately shut up by the opening of the door. Amadeus moved close enough for them to hear him in a low voice and heard him speak in a whisper. "Just relax; I'll carry you up unnoticed." Ginny felt something under her entire body. It slowly lifted her out of the water, higher and higher until she was almost face to face with the ceiling of the prefect's bathroom. She heard Hermione's voice.
"Ron, you're crazy! There is no way I am going to take a bath with you. You go to the boy's bathroom and wash yourself. Honestly!" The door slammed shut and Ginny heard Hermione enter the bath. "He's a nice boy but he doesn't understand that I'm not ready! Harry is nice.but I feel bad for him."
"I'm going to lower you two down. Go make small talk. See you later." Amadeus said softly. Ginny felt the water take her body again.
"Hello Ms. Granger." Valentine said. Ginny felt the water splash. "No need to worry, I'm going to assist in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. I'm professor Sophitia."
"Wh-wh-what are you doing in here?" She stuttered
"Don't worry I just liked this bathroom more than the staff room. I'm sorry if I startled you. I have a friend of yours here as well." Valentine said
"Hello Hermione." Ginny said quietly from a distance.
"So, are we having boy problems Ms. Granger?" She asked jokingly.
"No, I suppose not." She said, her voice quivering,
"It's quite alright, we're all girls here." She said looking up while smiling.
"I'm just not used to bathing with other people, well, the bath is big enough." She tuned off.
"I guess my brother didn't see things the same way did he?" Ginny asked jokingly The conversation went on until Valentine told Ginny they should get going. They went back to Amadeus' Quarters where he was sitting with a new sword on the table.
"Ginny, I figured you should have a weapon to go with your armor." He held up a leather bound short sword. "It's light weight so only a girl of your stature can wield it. But, there's something strange about it." He unraveled it and gave it to her. "Just hold it a bit." Soon the blade started glowing red. "Like I said, its made for you. But just hold on, it'll be over soon." Ginny was about to ask when she fell into Amadeus' arms. She felt pain she had never experienced before in two long gashes in her back. She felt something coming out of the slits in her back. She passed out.
Ginny woke up in the bed she had slept the previous night with something different about her. She got out of bed and walked to the mirror. She looked at her new attachment. She had shimmering white wings.
"It seems you were destined for the same fate as I, well maybe not the same fate. You'll like the wings, they're no hassle at all, and they retract when you want them to and come out when you want them to. I'm so sorry; I didn't think protecting you would change you so much." Ginny ran up and hugged him.
"It's alright, I love having wings. Will you teach me how to use the sword?" She asked. "And I may need some instruction on flying."
"Of.of course I will help you in any way possible. Come on, you should go back to your dormitory. You have classes tomorrow." He said in a loving tone as he walked her back to Gryffindor tower. "Oh, and tell Hermione to invest in boyfriend repellent. It seems as if she may need it if their trips to the prefect's bathroom persist." He smiled down at her. They continued walking until they got to the fat lady's portrait. "Now just make your wings go back in, it won't hurt. Moving your wings is like moving your arms or legs; just think and they'll do." He said. Ginny tried it and it worked. She thanked Amadeus for everything and went back into the Common room to be greeted by Harry and Ron.
"Just what do you think you've been doing? The castle was attacked and we don't see you for days! Mum is going to go berserk!" Ron shouted.
"Yes, were have you been for the past two days?" Harry asked.
"I was staying with Amadeus for you information. He helped me with the wounds from the castle's attack, Ron!" She yelled.
"I don't care! First you're missing, and then bathing with staff! From now on you're never leaving my site!" Ron screamed. Ginny stormed up the stairs to the girl's dormitory while Hermione walked down.
"Really have done it this time, haven't you?" She said smoothly. "Shut up." He said angrily. Hermione and stormed back up to the girl's dormitory.
Classes started up again and Harry went back to his continuing loathing with Snape. Classes were unusually dull, even transfiguration with Neville was boring. The occasional glimmer of fun was present. Hagrid showed us a dog like animal which looked cute, until it got angered and it grew six feet and bit anything in site. Things continued to be dull until an unusual Defense against the Dark Arts lesson called for our class to be held outside, far off the grounds. Amadeus took us to a small old ruin castle without a roof or a wall on the left side. On the right was a wall lined with swords of different types.
"Today's lesson is on formal combat. I have my co-teacher Miss Sophitia and a student of mine is also here to join us. I believe you know Ginny Weasley?" Ron's mouth dropped and he turned to Harry.
"Did he just say-."
"Ginny Weasley" Harry said in awe. Ginny walked out and waved to Ron and Harry and turned to Amadeus.
"Shall we?" She said
"We shall." He tossed her a sword. "Let us dance." He held up his sword and so did Ginny. She lunged at him with the sword but he quickly blocked it and held his sword to her neck.
"As you can see, there is always some sort of dodge and evade technique, but you have to be ware of your opponents weapon." He looked down and so did everyone else, Ginny had her sword pointed into Amadeus' chest and was ready to thrust. He backed away and turned to Professor Sophitia.
"Care to tango?" He asked, raising one eyebrow.
"I'll lead." She smiled at him. She withdrew her sword and within an instant there were metal clangs and sparks flying through the air. They were moving inhumanly fast. Unexpectedly they stopped and Amadeus took off his jacket and tossed it to Harry.
"Would you mind holding this?" He went back to the sword fight. Sparks flew through the air and eventually the fighting came to a close when Professor Sophitia's sword flew through the air and landed in solid stone and she stood stiff against the wall with Amadeus's blade against her neck.
"I win." He whispered. He backed away and Harry tossed him his jacket and he whipped it back on.
"Now, it's your turn." He turned to the rest of the class. "The swords on the walls will be your new arm extensions. Use them well. Treat them with all the care in the world and honor them with your respect and they shall honor you with theirs. These swords have been charmed to not cut or kill. You will pair off and attempt to touch your partner with the tip. Simple enough, yes? Begin." Ron took a sword and gave it to Harry and took out a sword for himself. Ron kept jabbing at Harry, but he easily dodged, over and over. Eventually Amadeus stood up and escorted the class back to the hall for dinner. They headed back into the Common Room and commenced in their homework which had been steadily increasing for the past month. Hermione was busy with a game of chess with Ron. Ginny was showing Hermione where to move, so naturally she was winning. Ron was getting increasingly annoyed with every piece shattered.
"That's cheating! There no way one person can beat two. Especially you lot." Ron yelled. Harry walked over to join them.
"Oh great, now I have someone to come flaming down with me!" Hermione and Ginny laughed and Hermione said
"Checkmate." Ron stood up, walked over to the couch by the fire and plopped down on the couch and sulked. Hermione sat next to him and rested her head on his shoulder.
"It's ok, next time I'll give you Ginny." She whispered, putting her hand on his lap.
"No, that's quite all right." Ron rested his head on Hermione's and they both dozed off. Harry sat alone on a chair by the fire and watched the fire violently flicker. Ginny sat in a chair across from him.
"So, what's new?" Harry asked nervously.
"The usual loads of work." She said, gazing into the fire. "And you?"
"Same." Harry said, blushing.
"I'm going to sleep." Ginny stood up and walked upstairs to the girl's dormitory. Harry smiled to himself.
"Don't even think about it." Ron said with his eyes still closed.