Chapter 2: Training
A/N: This chapter will be by far the worst organized it's basically just to get a feel for Harry's new powers.
20 minutes later Harry was sitting on his bed when Dumbledore and Tonks apperated directly into his room.
"Well Harry, Nymphadora here tells me you've made a startling discovery." he ignored Tonks' scowl at the use of her first name.
"Err…yeah."
"Well then we should take advantage of it, Nymphadora will be here everyday until you leave for Grimmauld place to train you."
"Well I'd best be off, make sure you get at least some training done." Dumbledore said with his twinkle in overdrive.
"Yes sir, goodbye sir."
Just before he walked through the door he turned to Harry and Tonks and said, "Oh, do let me know when your going to let Molly know of you relationship, I believe I will head out to America to avoid the explosion" with a mischievous grin on his face which oddly enough didn't look out of place.
For the next three weeks Tonks arrived at nine in the morning and didn't leave until ten at night, all was well until Harry's birthday when Tonks planned to take Harry shopping for new clothing. She apperated into his room to find Harry gone, no note and no signs of a struggle, for the next 2 and a half weeks there was no sign of the boy-who-lived.
Harry awoke in what appeared to be a makeshift hospital room, feeling around for his glasses he found them on his beside. After slipping them on he had a good look around and noticed there were potions on shelves.
A plump witch stuck her head in the door, "Oh, your awake dear, we were beginning to get concerned." The witch started bustling around the room, she grabbed a silver tray and began to pile potions onto it. she put the tray onto the bedside and instructed Harry to drink.
"Sorry, but I don't drink potions given to me by people I don't know."
"Oh but you do know me, my name is Helga Evans but most people know me as Helga Hufflepuff"
"Excuse me?"
"Well dear, Hufflepuff was a nickname give to me by Rowena, Godric, and Sal"
"OK…where the bloody hell am I?"
"Well nowhere really, this is a place that we created to train you. See time passes much slower here. We are going to train you to fight in your war."
"By 'we' I'm going to assume you mean the other founders"
"That I dear, and Merlin"
Harry nodded disbelievingly "So what do these potions do?"
"Overall there going to heal all of your injuries, fix you eyesight and fix any problems and growth factors that comes with being undernourished. The black one is going to put you to sleep for a week while the changes are made slowly."
"OK then," and with that Harry downed the potions
One week later Harry reawoke to the faces of all four of the Hogwarts founders
"Well hello there young Harry" a man that was clearly Gryffindor said in a very thick accent.
"Hello sir" he replied somewhat nervously.
"We will have less of the sir, you can call us all by our nicknames" Slytherin said with a slight flourish.
"Out of interest" Harry began, "what are your real names?"
"Well," Hufflepuff said, "I'm married to Slytherin so that makes us both Evans' and yes related to you mother and so, you" she said kindly.
Harry almost fainted but managed to get out "I'm related to two of the Hogwarts founders?"
"Well" Ravenclaw said, "I'm married to Godric and our real name is Potter."
Harry was gobsmacked.
"OK, so far this has been pretty eventful, may I just ask what I'm to be trained in?"
Ravenclaw handed over a list.
"We've come up with this so you know just what to expect and who is best suited to teaching it to you"
Gryffindor: sword, staff, dagger, and battle magic
Slytherin: parslemagic, potions, and battle tactics
Ravenclaw: occlumency, legilimency, various other mind arts and wandless magic
Hufflepuff: metamorphing, animagus transformation, healing, and beast speaking
As Harry looked up from the parchment there was a flash of light and a man looking very much like Dumbledore with a long white beard, immaculate white robes, and a staff in his hand walked up to Harry and waved his staff at the parchment and Harry looked down at the parchment again and saw materializing underneath the founders writing:
Merlin: staff creation, broom craft, rune magics, spell creation, magic crafting, and wandlore.
"OK this is too much, it would take years to learn all this," he said not even surprised that Merlin had appeared before him, in fact Harry didn't think he would ever be surprised again.
"This will take hundreds of years to learn and I will be long dead before I get a chance to kill Riddle."
"Actually Harry, you are only going to age up to 23 and you will stay at that age, you are semi-immortal, only one thing can kill you and that is Tom Marvolo Riddle" Merlin said.
"Well lets get this training started then" Slytherin said with an impatient hiss.
The potions that Hufflepuff made Harry drink were potions that restore his body to how it should have been if he hadn't suffered a lifetime of neglect, he now stood four inches taller, with broader shoulders and a really light muscled body. Harry's training begun with Gryffindor because magic worked better with a trained body.
"OK Harry first of all we are going to have to teach you to use the gift I am about to give you, its called battle magic."
Gryffindor took out his wand and muttered a few word and spinning a complex pattern with his wand, he then handed Harry a potion to drink.
After taking the potion he felt changes occurring at his core.
"Each of us is going to give you a gift physical or magical. Merlin I don't know about, he's a mystery, he appears from his time whenever he feels we need a little help and he obviously wants to help you so it's best to just to do your best with him."
With that Gryffindor started Harry running laps before showing him the basics of sword fighting.
After a few years when Harry was competent with each of the skill Gryffindor was teaching him Harry moved on to Ravenclaw, he still had to practice with Gryffindor twice a week and keep up his morning routine.
Ravenclaw started by giving Harry the ability he was to receive, after the ritual she explained:
"This gift will allow you to read an average size book, around 1000 pages, in approximately five seconds, she lay a book in front of Harry and told him to will his mind to read it, it took five minutes but he got a green ball of light to shot from he forehead into the book, five seconds later the light shot back into his head and he blacked out, for an hour later Harry came to.
"Every five seconds that the reader is out you will black out for an hour while your mind deciphers the information it received, now I'm going to teach you a mind art I invented, it allows your mind to learn quicker and store almost all of the information it receives."
Years later Harry had finished learning all he could from Ravenclaw, she still sprang legilimency attacks on him at completely random times, mostly when he was busy with something else.
After Ravenclaw he moved on to Hufflepuff who's gift made him a beast speaker, he could converse in any language not just Parseltongue.
"OK deary I'm going to start by teaching you to become an animagus, I believe Ravenclaw showed you how to meditate," Harry nodded "well then go into you meditate state and look for you inner animal."
Three hours later Harry came out of his stated.
"I have seven forms."
Hufflepuff stared at him in disbelief.
"Well, what are they dear?"
"Phoenix, panther, hippogriff, some blue dragon, a fire wolf, a stag and great white shark."
"We'll have to find out the breed of that dragon dear go and read all the books we have on dragons and come see me when you wake up" Harry trotted off towards the library but he could here Hufflepuff muttering about her only having four magical forms.
Harry found out that he was a blue ice dragon, a species with unbelievable powers that not many knew about, they were also thought to be extinct.
Many years later it was time to train with Slytherin, this was the founder Harry liked the least, but only because of the prejudices that he had brought from his time, Slytherin was a practical joker who could put the marauders to shame.
Slytherins gift to Harry was a basilisk egg, which Harry immediately refused only to have Slytherin insist that he would help Harry train it so that the eyes only killed if Harry ordered the basilisk to do so.
Parslemagic was created by Slytherin's father and was much the same as regular magic only its main purpose was to create wards and protections. Slytherin had also created a transport system around Hogwarts based on Parseltongue.
Merlin was the trainer Harry spent the most time with
Mainly because his time was still spread between the others as well as he still had to keep the skills he had learned sharp even with Ravenclaws mind arts.
After 250 years of training Harry was ready to be sent back to his own time.
"Harry" it was Merlin's voice that spoke "when you go back, you will come into some eggs, take good care of them keep them warm and on your person at all times, your pets from this time will be waiting in the forest for you when you go back to Hogwarts, as they are bonded to your soul they will live as long as you do, same will go for your soul mate, if you find one he said with a wink, I hear your lady friend is quite the looker, do hang onto her, goodbye Harry" and with that with a eerie white light Harry Potter arrived back on Privet Drive.
