A/N: here is chapter 2, hope you enjoy, i will answer review questions at the bottom.

Italics – 'Thought'

Bold – "Spells"

The Guardian of Hogwarts

Chapter 2: To be a Wizard

Two days after Harry's fifth birthday, he was woken at 5 am. By Godric with a very large war drum.

"ugh dad... what are you doing, im sleeping" harry said half asleep.

"rise and shine son, the best way to expand your magical core and help you to become a better fighter is to exercise regularly and vigorously" Godric said way to energized this early in the morning.

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Ten minutes later harry was standing in an open field still half asleep.

"now son, we will start off easy, but by the time your 10 years old, you will be in top shape, so lets begin. First off give me 20 pushups and 20 situps along with some other exercise to put some muscles on your body, then we will run some small laps to build up your endurance, then some easy dodging to increase your mobility and reflexes, these are very important in battles, especially if it drags on, the longer you can last the higher your chances of survival become, so lets begin."

With that, harry went through the exercise and was very tired by the end.

"i have to do these everyday?" harry asked panting lightly.

"yes son, after a week or so, you will no longer be tired from this routine, so when we get to where you are no longer tired, we will add a set of 20 to each exercise, following this pattern, you will slowly build up lean muscles, being a battle-mage like me, you don't want bulky muscles, but lean fast moving and flexible muscles. bulky powerful muscles are good for standard warriors, but we need to maneuver and dodge spells as well as weapons." Godric explained

"you mean I will have to keep doing more and more exercises? When I get older, I will be exercising all the time, I wont be able to learn magic or anything." harry said sadly

"yes harry the more you do the stronger and faster you will get, but I didn't say you would have to keep doing these yourself, when your old enough, I will show you my own personal and secret exercise spells, you can cast them on yourself and your muscles will exercise themselves just till they are fully worked, without overworking them, and it can do all of that in less than 5 minutes, amazing huh?" Godric said with proud look.

"wow when can I learn that spell?" harry asked happy that he wouldn't always have to exercise.

"when you have the magical capabilities son, maybe a few years, but bear in mind, this only works the muscles, you still need keep up your agility, maneuverability, and dodging, but when you have the magical capability to cast the "Muscular Endurance" spell, you will be able to cast the advanced dummy warriors, they will try and attack you with wooden sword's and fire stinging hexes at you, best of all, they will always be your your current level, so your always being challenged against them, no matter what, great for training." Godric added.

"so how does this help me be a better wizard?"

"well not many know that, but magical AND physical exercise is the best way to expand your magical core. Focusing on just magical will only get you so far, how do you think im so powerful harry?"

"well... I just thought you were born that way."

"no way, I was actually pretty weak as just a wizard, so I started to train with a sword and I realized that my magic was getting stronger too, and here I am now, one of the best battle-mage's of all time, I planned on teaching and training you from early on to help you claim the same title as I have."

"do you really think I can be stronger than you?" harry asked a little surprised.

"yes. With my training, and the others help with magic that I cant teach, I believe you can be even more powerful than Myrddin himself, and that's saying something."

"you mean that old guy that visits every now and then?" harry asked.

"old yes, but hes is the most powerful man on this planet. When your older, maybe he can teach you a few things as well."

"is he really that strong?" harry asked not convinced of the old man.

"yes harry, he could take on all 4 of Hogwarts founders and win without breaking a sweat."

"wow" was all harry could say.

"now, enough of that, time for you to get to your next lesson, your mom will be teaching you how to use your magic, then your uncle will help you with your occulemency, then your aunt will teach you potions. You harry" he said, "are Hogwarts first student, I hope you can be a shining example to future generations of students, now run along, you have a busy day."

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Harry ran towards Hogwarts. Arriving 10 minutes later in the completed part of the castle harry walked into his first class, standing in front of the room was his mom writing on the board.

"hello harry how was your morning" Rowena said with a chuckle.

"it was tiring, he made me do all kinds of running and other exercises."

"well, his teaching is very well founded, exercise is very good for your magical core, BUT, that is the only time you will have to do it, in our classes, we will work with our subjects only, unless it requires another. Now since Hogwarts will be teaching 11 year old with well formed cores, I had to make a lesson guide that formed around your unformed core and the fact that you have no wand, but don't worry, I will be teaching you wandless magic first to get your core more formed and stable than you would get by starting with a wand. Now, lets start, first I want you take this focus crystal and try to focus your magic into it, if you do this correctly, it will glow, you will try and hold the glow for as long as you can." Rowena explained.

Harry held the crystal and tried to focus his magic into it, but nothing happened. "mom, I don't understand, its not glowing."

"well, this is your first lesson, so don't worry about it if you cant do it right away, just relax, and think about your magic flowing from your body through your arm into your hand, then into the crystal, it will feel like energy moving throughout your body."

"ok ill try but I don't know." harry said as he held his hand back out while closing his eyes.

Still nothing, he opened his eyes to no glow, looking saddened, he wondered if there was something in is mind that would help him. As he went into his mind, he noticed a few new floating memories, so he quickly stored them in his library. He went back out side and noticed his lake was a little more full, not by much, but a bit, then It stuck him ' I wonder... what if that fog was my magic... if it was, then maybe if its in my lake I cant use it, but why not? Its the same right? I wonder, if I try and take water from my lake and use it as magic, would it work? I guess I will have to try' he thought as he came back to reality. Quickly bringing his arm back up, he imagined that his lake was flowing from his mind through his arm and into the crystal, he felt a water like sensation flow through his arm and then the crystal began to glow a bright green color.

"i did it mom, look its glowing!" harry said excited.

"very good harry, and only after three tries, and its so bright, what did you do?" she asked amazed at how bright it was for a first time magic user.

"well when I was organizing my mind yesterday, the only way to get rid of the fog in my mind was to turn it into water and fill the great lake in my mind, to use it, I simply imagined using the water as magic, I don't really know how to explain it, it just worked."

"harry what your talking about should be impossible for anyone to do,i have never heard of anyone being able to changing the presence in their mind, mine is the presence of a floating dust in my library, no matter what I do, I cant change that, you might be the first person to be able to do such things, but back to your lake, how full was it at first?" she asked in amazement

"well it was not as full as the great lake, it was more like a small pond, but after my physical training, it was a little more full."

"that was the improvement in the small physical training you did, if you continue, it will fill more and more, but how full is it now?" she asked

Harry looked confused and then entered his mind, as he looked at his pond, he saw that it was going down, very slowly, but it was, quickly exiting to reality, he looked at Rowena a little scared.

"mom its draining, why?" he asked quickly

"that's what will happen when you use magic, its called your magical reserve, or basically how much magic you can use, if it drains, you wont be able to use magic will it refills, you will also feel tired and weak, its best if you don't use it all as that's bad on your core." she said.

"but I don't understand, it was still draining when I went in there, why?"

"look at your hand Hun"

as he looked at his hand, he noticed the crystal still in his hand, still glowing brightly, he quickly stopped the flow and returned to his mind, the pond was very slowly refilling, exiting out, he looked at his mom.

"its starting to refill now" he stated.

"and it will continue until it fills all the way, but it will do it very slowly if you are awake, if you sleep a good nights sleep, it will fill all the way full by the time you wake up.

Now, my class is almost over, I want you to take that crystal with you, I want you to continue this lesson in your free time, try making it glow as brightly as you can, then make it glow as low as you can,then, try and push your magic into without making it glow at all, and repeat that process, that will help your magical focus greatly, it will also infuse your magic into that crystal,making it only useable by you, later on, you can use part of that crystal as a focus in your wand, you will only need a small sliver of it, but it will make your wand far more powerful, you can now go to your next class, your aunt and uncle are in the dungeons."

"thanks mom, your a good teacher, ill see you at diner" he said as he walked out the room.

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As harry entered the class room, he was looking down the wand of his uncle Salazar, before he could blink, "Legilimens", memories flashed in front of his minds eye and then suddenly nothing, blinking a few time he noticed his uncle moving "your mind is well formed harry, but its wide open to attack, as ive just showed you, occulemency is the art of the mind and how to organize and protect it, legitimacy is the opposite, basically the art of mind reading, I will teach you that in due time, but for now, I want your to enter your mind, I will meet you there." "Legilimens".

As harry entered his mind, true to his word, Salazar was waiting for him. "harry your mind is very impressive in an artistic way, but you have no defenses, I will help you change that. A master Legilimens like myself, can simply walk in here and learn anything about you, but if you have defenses, you can trick a Legilimens into not being able to read your mind or reading fake memories, against me, you will have the strongest mind ever, lets get started, the first step will be to set up magical protections similar to wards, but inside your mind, instead of in the real world, after many layers of similar protections, you can get fancy, I myself have a large magical metal alloy all around my mind, you can see out, but not in, its damn near impenetrable, I dear say Merlin himself is the only man alive to be able to breach such a defense, but you shouldn't rely on 1 defense, as many as you can ever think of you should use, constantly adding to it and making it stronger, always changing them around so no Legilimens will ever hit the same set of defenses twice, and if they get through them, make them stronger and more resilient, fake memories, traps, ways to obscure the information in your head using things as keys to understand them, there are really no limitations, its all in your head, so go wild and invent, mask your mind and protect it." Salazar spoke loudly and confident "when you believe you have a strong set of barriers, I will test them, I want you to get used to it, I also want you to try with all your might to get me out, I am your teacher, but im in your head, where no one but you should be and-" Salazar started to say, but was quickly and effectively booted from Harry's mind.

"very impressive" was all Salazar said.

"thanks" was all harry said.

"what did you do?" Salazar asked

Harry went quiet as he entered his mind then exited.

"well as I just changed it, I made an anti-intruder ward all around my mind"

"very smart to change it then tell me, but you will not tell me or anyone else your defenses, understood?"

"yes uncle Sal" harry stated.

"good, now take these books on occulemency, and work on your mind, also, don't forget to sort and organize your mind regularly, this will keep your mind clear and fresh, I also noticed you have a library book setup like your mom, very good setup if I do say so myself, but can be tiring to find a memory or any random bit of information, I would suggest setting up a magic index of some kind, where you simply think of what you need, and it will find any and all relative information on that, that's a little idea I had awhile ago, but your mom and I are not natural master occulemens like yourself, so you should have no problem, if you booting me out of your mind was any inclination, one last thing, try and enter your mind while still in reality, sort of like a day dream, this will help you in many ways, but I will let you find that out." he said with a knowing smirk.

"thanks uncle Sal, I will, and I will have the most impenetrable mind the world will ever see" harry said with a confident voice.

"oh harry, one last thing, your magical lake.. altho ive never seen mind manipulation to such a degree, keep it like that, but make it look like the great lake, master legilimens can, to a certain degree, cause your magic to do things they wouldn't normally do, and some can be dangerous to you and your core, but with yours hidden, you won't have to worry about that, now run along to your next class." said as he watched harry walk out of his class.

'ive never seen such detail in a mind, and he has just started, and the way he ejected me from his mind, I didn't feel any push or anything whats so ever, maybe I can learn a few things from him' Salazar thought to himself with a chuckle.

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Harry entered the potions lab about 5 minutes later, and immediately noticed all the vials and cauldrons set around the room.

"ah hello harry, did you enjoy your other classes?" Helga asked looking up from her brewing potion.

"yes aunty, ive learned so much, and its only the first day" he said with enthusiasm.

Pouring the brewing potion into a vial and sealing it with a stasis charm, she sat it down.

"good, well first of all, welcome to potions, I will be teaching you all about potions, from gathering ingredients, to preparing them, then how to properly prepare your work area and then how to sustain a potion until it is done." she stated in a teacher kind of voice.

"yes professor Hufflepuff " harry sarcastically said.

"hmm.. I like the sound of that, maybe that's how all the teachers will be announced."

"are you sure aunty?" harry asked a little surprised.

"that's professor when we are in school."

"yes professor." harry said kicking himself.

"good, now come here and start to gather the ingredients from this book, we will be brewing a simple healing potion"

Harry went on to successfully prepare, brew, and store, his first potion.

"good harry, very good, ill make you a potions master in no time, now take these book's and study them, ill quiz you tomorrow on the basics and we will continue from there."

"yes professor" harry said gathering the books.

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Later that night, harry had just finished the potions book, s he took out his crystal and began pushing magic trying not to make it glow, and once he had it down, he entered his mind, quickly sorting his new information, he placed it all in his library.

'hmm I wonder if I should put my memories and emotions in such an obvious place... maybe I should make a secret room somewhere, maybe just under this library' he thought to himself as he set out on his new task, he quickly make a new room right under the current library and set all his books in that room, he then went back to his old library and fill all sorts of books with gibberish, to anybody else it would look encrypted and useless, but harry knew otherwise, once done with the useless books, he covered up his hidden library and placed as many wards and protections he could think of on it, after he was sure it was hidden well, he set out to make an index book, as his uncle said, he imagined a book that would only be readable by him, would automatically update with any new information, and would find any relevant data on the thing he was thinking of, he opened his eye to find a very plain book in front of him, he set it on a pedestal by the door, he put up just as many protections on it with anti-intruders, wards to make it invisible to anyone but him, a ward that would send anyone but him to the dungeons if they touched it, and many more, he was amazed at how easily he could do all of this, he then went out of the castle, and began setting up all the same wards and protections around his castle, then around his mind as well, he set up traps at different spots and if they so much as entered his mind, he could trap them in never ending torture sessions, till he was done with them or they went insane, feeling well protected, he left his mind.

Back in reality, he was tired, but focused , he continued pulsing his crystal, at the same time as adding more magic to it, and he noticed that the crystal was a very light shade of green, and it felt warm, he continued this for another hour before being too tired to continue, so he left to his room and quickly fell asleep.

END CHAPTER.

A/N: well chapter 2 done, ill be writing more and quickening the plot of the story soon, this is just to show how his training got started, im no good in the "potions" subject, so ill just wing it, and not spend too much time there, he will be a potions master, but you probably wont see him brewing anything, just the end product, unless its plot driven. i will be going on a week long vacation from 7/21 to 7/27, i have chapter 3 done, but i will post it then, to give myself a buffer for chapter 4, which i am starting right now.

review questions:

CunningSlytherin- yes and no, in the cannon era, hes looked at as an evil man who hated muggles/muggleborns, in my story, he mostly just hates muggles, and passes that hate to muggleborns because they act like them, he wants the school to be pure bloods only but his mind changes when harry comes into the picture, he left the basilisk in his chamber to destroy his "enemies", voldie reads his journals on his hate towards muggleborns, and makes a line between them, hes still cunning, and passes that trait to harry, he is more or less a "good guy" just with pure blood mindset. little lengthy, but that's how i and "harry" sees him.