Harry Potter and the Magical Wands
A/N I'm not sure how but somehow FF.net manages to change the format of my stories, so you'll have to read it like it is now. Since I'm only writing I can't predict how will this one look, hopefully how I want. But returning to the fic, I decided to make this chapter longer in order to, but trying to get it posted fast. Since I couldn't upload because of 'familiar' problems, I spent all my free time writing. I always appreciate fast up-loading authors, and I can't claim for anything if I wasn't doing the same.
Disclaimer: The books, the movies, history, situations, objects, spells, creatures, and the characters images, voices and personalities belongs to J.K. Rowling, Warner Brothers and any other unnamed partner.
The characters, concepts and ideas that do not belong to Harry Potter and are not original belong to their legal owners.
Chapter 3: The Battle/ A tale of an endless war
"Is....Arabella Figg!"
Excepting for the Slytherins, who were a little "shy", all the Great Hall exploded in applauses and cheering to their new teacher. But Harry remembered what he was told on the sub-dimension: Arabella was a teacher a long time ago, and probably taught to a lot of the parents of those who are in Hogwarts, so they must know her from before, well, the one's with at least one magical parent.
"Cool, Arabella Figg is teaching us DADA!" said excited Hermione.
"Why is that so cool?" asked Harry.
"She is the best female auror of the last…"
Dumbledore, who have not finished yet, interrupted Hermione.
"Your new Duels Instructor will arrive after Halloween, when that class will start. And to let you eat your breakfast, I'll be short in this. We have two female transfer students from Beauxbatons, that will start their classes near Christmas"
While the conversations started once again in the Great Hall, Harry remembered what Fleur told him back then in the place, "part of my last year will be at Hogwarts and I've been sorted for Gryffindor", was she one of the Beauxbatons transfer girls that will arrive? , Well, he couldn't tell about it to his friends, cause it would be to difficult to explain how did Fleur spoke to him if he wasn't there, so he decided to wait and see if one of the student that comes Hogwarts was her or not. And, Harry changed the direction of his thoughts, still couldn't believe that Arabella Figg was a famous auror, he looked at the table and saw the teacher. She was indeed old, but she looked younger than he remembered her. Mrs. Figg suddenly turned and gave Harry a warm smile, that after hesitating for a second he returned.
"Harry?, have you been listening to me?" said Hermione.
"Oh, what?, sorry, not, I was thinking if this is the same Mrs. Figg that lives in Privet Drive"
"Arabella Figg lives in your road?, dam!, I'm so jealous" said Ron, well jealous.
"She looks like the Arabella that lives in Privet Drive, but some years younger"
"I know the answer" said Hermione "she uses the polyjuice potion, and once she saved Nicolas Flamel from the Dark Lord, so he gave her an amount of the Philosophers Stone Elixir{A/N I can't recall if it have a name}, and since she have been using the liquid she looks young enough to live some more time"
"Wow Hermione!, you probably know her life better than she herself does"
"Shut up, but speaking of that you two should start preparing your OWLs, I studied a little before I went to the Burrow and you should catch up"
Ron didn't liked Hermione's early attempt to get them to study that early in the year, so he decided to change the topic quickly.
"Harry, you, the one who should know her, you can imagine what can she teach us in her class?"
"Well, when I was in her house she only showed me images of her cats, and her house had a funny smell, and it was like that every time I went"
"Went were Harry?" asked George, one of the Weasly twins.
"Oh, nothing, just a silly question from Ron"
"That's not from family" said Fred.
"Shut up, Fred"
"Maybe it started with Percy, our family must have been cursed with silliness, but lucky us that we escaped"
"Shut up George"
"Ok, Ronnie, now we won't put a bomb on your bed tonight"
"What?!"
"But maybe we drop one on the Slytherin table" said George laughing.
Suddenly the something exploded in the Slytherin table, to say more in Malfoy's soup, so he and his gorillas were drenched with soup from head to toe, fact that made all the other houses to laugh at them.
Hermione tried to look serious, but she couldn't. That one was good.
"You guys must not get in trouble that fast" said Hermione with a voice that didn't convinced a domestic elf.
"Hey, guys," said Shinji " I got to do a little research for the game, I'll see you in Charms"
Shinji quickly left the table, but an annoying Slytherin replaced him.
"Potter, Weasel, Mudbloods, what are you doing without the other mudblood?" at this point Ron heard a small anger in his voice " is that you only could face me with his help?, well I understand it from a boy who still cries for his parents, but you Weasly?"
"Go away Malfoy, or you'll wish you never born" said Harry angrily.
"You think that Potter can scare me?"
"Look Malfoy, I dare you to fight one on one, in front of Hagrid's Hut at midnight tomorrow. No wands, no magic, just us. Will you come? Or you simply are too much of a coward to go there in the night" Said Harry, somehow extracting every emotion from his voice.
Malfoy looked pale for a moment, but he regained his composure and answered.
"Ok Potter, I suggest you to take somebody else, to pick your pieces"
"That's my ferret Malfoy, now go away" said Mana.
Malfoy turned around and went away with an offended air.
"Now what will you do Harry?, you are not going, are you?" said Hikari, using Hermione's patented you-shouldn't-do-that-guys-or-or-you'll-get-in-trouble voice.
"Of course I'll go, and I chose Hagrid's Hut, so we can hide, if there are any troubles, and besides that Hagrid can help us if we need to, he is also a teacher, so if things go horribly wrong, then at least we can get a detention without losing the points that we'd lose if for example Snape catches us"
"Wait a sec, you have planed that from some time 'till now, don't you?" said Hermione.
"Yeah, since I awoke from Shinji's life, we both knew Karate, so the idea came to my mind. And Hagrid already knows"
"Well, you should tell Hagrid that it's tomorrow, and get an excuse to stay there at night"
"Don't worry, that's not the problem"
"What is it then?" asked Mana, equally worried"
"Snape"
Mana understood perfectly, it was almost sure that Malfoy would tell his favorite teacher that Potter threatened him, so he would gladly take points away from Gryffindor.
"But, how could you ignore that simple fact Harry?" Hikari asked Shinji.
"Well…" Harry let out a wicked smirk "I got a detention on Hagrid's class, and I got to cut down some plants around his house on midnight"
"You must really hate Malfoy to do that to him"
"No, well Malfoy is not stupid, and he knows that if I tell him that it will be near Hagrid's Hut then I got a reason to be there, and can realize that if I dared him to fight like that I must know to fight"
"So what will you do if he doesn't come" asked Ron, a little surprised of how well planed Harry had this.
"No, Malfoy has a pride, and he will come, but he would probably use a potion, or cast a spell to make himself faster and stronger. He perfectly knows that I got eye witnesses of when I dared him, and if he does not come we will make fun of that the next two years"
"So, what will you do if he increases his strength then?" asked Hikari.
"I got a spell that I found in the book Hermione gave me, that raises my physical capabilities to match my opponents strength and speed, it only works on wizards, and it only increases, it doesn't decrease your strength, but it's really difficult to perform, so I'll only try it as the back-up plan if he uses something"
"Well, I think that Malfoy must be fairly good, or he would try to change that into a magical duel"
"Yeah, well, I guess that tomorrow we'll see"
"You should prepare yourself for what Malfoy could do, Harry, you know Slytherins don't stop for anything"
"Yeah, Ok"
The classes went quickly those two days, and before Harry noticed, he was heading to Hagrid's, with Shinji and Ron. The girls stayed in the common room, 'to stay out of trouble' as Hikari said, but the real reason was the lack of space in Harry's invisible cloak.
When they were near, they got out of his cloak, and walked to the settled place where they found Malfoy, with his two gorillas by his side, and an arrogant grin on his face.
"So you came, Malfoy. It's a pity your friends will be useless to you tonight "
"I don't need them, the are here to make sure that your friends won't interfere"
"Ok, then all of you stand by" ordered Harry and Draco. Crabbe, Goyle, Shinji and Ron walked away a few meters, while Harry and Draco walked to be two meters from each other.
"Fight!" yelled someone, Harry didn't recognized the voice, because it wasn't necessary anymore. He was now concentrated in beating the crap out of his enemy, that he barely remembered as Malfoy.
Malfoy threw a fist to Harry's jaw, Harry blocked it, turned around and tried to kick his head. Draco dodged it, jumping to the floor, and then trying to kick Harry's feet to make him fall, but Harry jumped and almost stepped on Draco, who rolled to his side and stood up.
"You are not bad, Potter"
"Shut up, Malfoy"
Malfoy crouched and kicked Harry's side, making him lost his balance, so he immediately stood up and punched his face. But when he did that Harry elbowed him hard in the stomach, gave him an uppercut and kicked his chest. Injured as he was, Draco let himself get lost in the battle's momentum, starting to punch Harry's face as fast and hard as the spell made him, but it seemed that Potter made the same spell, because he blocked almost all of them, gracefully attacking Malfoy, making him lost his balance, but also getting some damage himself.
Ron watched as the fight went by, and asked Shinji "Do you really can do that?"
"Yes, not so fast, both of them increased their speed and strength, so they are in this moment beyond my powers, unless I make the same spell"
"They are fast anyways, and they must have good reflexes to be fighting at that speed"
"The spell won't let you be that fast without having quick enough reflexes"
"Well, it seems obvious, but is strange, anyways"
The fight in front of their eyes continued for a while, without any of the enemies winning or losing something, but after ten minutes the fight suddenly started to slow down.
"The spell must have worn out" said Ron.
"Then Harry will win"
"Sure?" asked Ron, a little scared for his friend.
"Yeah, I would win and Harry is almost as good in everything as me, sometimes he's better, and sometimes I am better" remembering that when Harry dared Malfoy to fight he became pale, but he regained his composure as he thought in a plan.
"I thought that you were the same in everything"
"No, for example, if we, Harry and me, try to make a seekers contest, Harry certainly would defeat me. He is natural in that, while I my state was the one of a guy who simply worked hard to get there, it's that, you know, living somebody else's life can help you with innate gifts, for example, I can speak and understand Parsel, like somebody could understand another language, in our case understand Spanish, but I am as familiar with French as Harry is"
"Harry know French?"
"Yes, he learned last year"
"Yeah?, but returning to the point, tell me how many time will Harry need to beat up Malfoy?, I'm sleepy, you know, humans need to sleep to recover strength"
"This will last no more than another two minutes"
"Oh, sure, I believe you"
"Hey!, trust me!, I'm telling the truth!"
"Then why did Harry never told us about that?"
"Well, you never asked, and it was useless to him in the moment, and he was tensed enough that he forgot about it"
The fight slowed down from the speed it had before, but the contenders were fighting with the same hate that they started with. But as Shinji predicted, Harry moved swiftly and touched a pressure spot behind Draco's neck, and Malfoy was immediately unconscious in the floor.
"Don't worry, Crabbe, he'll wake up tomorrow or in an hour"
With a full hatred glance Crabbe and Goyle picked Malfoy from the ground and left almost running to the castle.
"Harry, are you Ok?"
"Yeah, I think Hermione will have a healing potion when we get to the picture of the fat lady"
"Oh, Harry?" said Ron.
"What?" said a tired Harry.
"Do you know where is the Marauders Map?"
"I'll use the summoning spell, it was in Barty Crouch JR possession, so I think that it didn't even left the school grounds"
"Ok"
They took their time to reach the common room, because Harry fought too hard with Malfoy, and was barely able to walk, so twenty minutes after the group was sitting in the couches in Gryffindor.
Harry was right, the girls received them preoccupied, and Hikari was surprised the Harry could came walking in the state he was. Mana was a little worried if the guys interfere and that the fight became a battle camp.
"Here Harry, take this" said Hermione, worried for her friend.
"Thanks"
The Wiggenweld potion that Hermione gave him tasted like the lemon pulp, but once inside it made him felt comfortable.
After that night the gang focused only in studying and researching, and the rumor that Harry beat the crap out of Malfoy in a wand-less duel was changed into a new when Malfoy got out of the Slytherin common room with several bruises and randomly placed cuts. Malfoy stopped to evade the gang, and made a tactic similar to the Dursleys: to ignore Harry like he didn't existed, just that it was extended to those who hanged around with Harry.
In exchange, Harry's Potions and Care of Magical Creatures when they have it, the classes he had with the Slytherins, now will be much better, Snape continued his classes like always, just that taking points from Slytherin also. They weren't much, but they were something compared with the zero points per class that the Slytherins lost before.
Friday they had COMC (Care of Magical Creatures), Charms and then DADA, so they were very exited of how will Arabella teach her lessons. So they went near Hagrid's Hut still talking about it. When all the students were seated, Hagrid spoke:
"Students, as I promised the last class, we will have practical classes next week. The first term we will study friendly creatures, mostly the kilisab, among others. This creatures will help you with they strong healing magic if you have their trust, but if you gain their hate, you'll receive a course that will make you have bad luck in the little things; losing your socks, never winning the lottery, finding mostly boring jobs, an annoying boss, always losing in rock-paper-scissors, meeting annoying people that you are unable to escape from, making it harder to find girlfriend, making the wrong bets, making you a slower student, to summarize, it can make your life a almost a purgatory. Fortunately there's a counter course to that. We'll study counter courses for protecting yourself from magical creatures after we finish with this creatures. In the last term we will study ways of gaining the trust of violent creatures. Do somebody have a question?"
Malfoy and a few more people raised their hands.
"Yes miss Patil?"
"Will we be able to keep the kilisab?"
"No, the fourth years will have to study the kilisabs too, and they are not easy to find. Mister Malfoy?"
"Can those things live in houses?" several people returned to take notes.
"Kilisabs need fresh air, so you can have one if you live in a house with a fairly big backyard. Mister Finnigan?"
"Can you use a spell to win the kilisab trust?"
"No, unless for example you save the kilisab from a predator. Horaki?"
At this point, more people raised their hands.
"Can the kilisab save from illnesses, like cancer, or AIDS?"
"Yes, it can. Any kind of illness you have disappears in the moment a kilisab starts to trust you, but if you get infected after that, and the illness is serious enough, you will get sick, but the moment that you are supposed to die, you completely recover. Potter"
"Can this kilisabs save from curses?" Hagrid smiled.
"Sometimes, but not always, and for example, people with kilisabs died during Voldemort's {all the class, excepting Harry and Draco trembles} first power period, because, even if they survived the first curse, the Death Eater or the Dark Lord simply repeated it. Ikari?"
"How can you get rid of a kilisab's hate?"
"By undoing what you did wrong to it, like healing the wounds you caused to it, or like apologizing to the person that the kilisabs likes. Yes mister…?"
Hagrid's class was really interesting, and even the Slytherins accepted that Hagrid was an expert in that point. Hagrid answered all the questions, and it looked that Hagrid could know what was a kilisab thinking in a moment. Harry never knew that Hagrid was such an expert on creatures. The Gryffindors even forgot about DADA and her teacher when they were heading outside.
"How do you think that he'll explain us the counter-courses if he can't do magic?" asked Hermione, the most exited of all, because now she had another challenging class.
"He probably will have an assistant" said Shinji, bored of Hermione's attitude.
"But you must remember that tonight is the big day…or…err…night, so you must be prepared" asked Ron
"Roger" said Harry.
"What do we have now, Mana?"
"Charms, lunch and then Defense Against Dark Arts" said Mana reminding herself, of what she was thinking in the morning.
The time of Professor Flitwik's class was longer than usual, and like Moody's first class, the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws were waiting for the teacher in front of the Dark Arts classroom before Mrs. Figg even walked around the corner. And, to Harry's surprise, she looked even younger than he remembered. Instead of the seventy she had on Privet Drive, or the fifty she had on the Great Hall on Monday, she was looking in her medium thirties, like the age {I think} that Moony and Padfoot had at the moment, but he noticed that he was not the only one who noticed the decreasing age of the teacher. As they were in their seats, Arabella spoke:
"As your headmaster gladly communicated me, you are pretty advanced in creatures and curses, but apparently you lost all the time before then. Quirrel and Lockhart didn't really taught you anything, as I was told," Hermione's hand raised in the eerie silence that the teacher's presence created. "Yes miss Granger?" even thought startled by the fact that a complete stranger knew her name she spoke. "Why did you came Hogwarts to teach?"
Arabella sighed before answering. " I was protecting someone from the remaining Death Eaters that may attack him, but since the rise of Voldemort {the class trembles again, but a little less than before. They were getting used to all the teachers saying the name} my job ended, and I resumed teaching at Hogwarts"
"Returning to the class, we will see defense spells this term, since you will learn offensive magic in Duels. Today we will learn the basic shield charm. It's called oigeloc. So, does somebody knows this spell?"
Harry and Shinji raised their hands. "Excellent, eight points for Gryffindor. Potter, can you please show it to the class?"
Harry stood up, walked to the front, and performed the spell.
Mrs. Figg made a simple curse and it bounced, hitting the wall.
"As you can see, the spell protects you from weak curses, but if the spell is enough powerful, it can easily go overpower the barrier, Vermilius!"
An amount of magic went out of the teacher's wand in the form of green serpent-like strings, the strings disappeared a second after afterwards and a bomb like something 'exploded' near Harry's chest, sending him to the wall.
"Take this Potter," the teacher handed Harry a tin "drink it, you'll fell better, and for helping me in the demonstration seven points for Gryffindor," Then returning to the class: "As you can see, a well casted curse, of fair power can get through the barrier easily. Can somebody explain the spell I just made?"
Hermione's and the hand of a few Ravenclaws Hufflepuffs raised. The teacher signaled a blond haired Ravenclaw.
"The curse is made of light and if it's not blocked, it always hits the target, it also can be casted with different intensities, with the practice"
"Excellent miss, six points for Ravenclaw"
When they got out of Arabella's Classroom, the class knew that she knew what she was talking about. In theory and in practice, and the best part was that she left little homework, and most of it was practical, so they have little to study, to Hermione's dismay. However Ron, Hermione, Mana and Hikari still had no ideas for the Halloween Ball, and Harry, along with Shinji were saying nothing about their costumes.
It was two weeks to Halloween, and the gang was in their first Hogsmeade visit, that consisted in four hours, instead of all the day that it was in past years. After going for a second to the pub, the group separated themselves in boys and girls, because they needed different kinds of costumes. The boys went to the north while the girls went to the west, but it wasn't only the now increased 'Dream Team', since the costume shops for the different genders were in the before written directions and excepting for a few outsiders, the school was completely separated in the two different sexes. While Ron, thanks in part to Harry and Shinji found his outfit for the Ball after half an hour, and left for a butterbeer. The girls, however, barely had enough time to return to Hogwarts, just like all the female population, but fortunately for the boys reputation.
All the boys got to their common rooms with enough time to prepare themselves to ask the girl out, if you ask.
Ron was not telling anyone who will be his date in the Ball, but everyone knew it too well to bother in asking, so, they didn't bother with asking.
Harry was something completely different, last year he asked Pavarti, but things went quite wrong and he thought that neither her nor Lavender would accept to go with him, so that left him Hermione, who was surely going with Ron, and unless him and Ron have been impossibly blind, he had run out of Gryffindors girls his age, and of his year, so that left him with somebody younger, or somebody older that him, he knew nobody younger that him, excepting for Ginny Weasly, but he didn't liked the idea of dating a girl who liked him almost before they met.
That left him with elder girls, which have had more time to develop their bodies. Unfortunately for Harry, they also had been grown up for enough time for their classmates to notice them. That left most of the cute girls over his age out of the list.
He could always go with other houses girls, but the Hufflepuffs were still a little unkind to Harry, because of all the junk that happened last year.
Ravenclaws were a more interesting and opened group, but with the rumors that Harry was almost sure that Padma, Pavarti's twin, gave birth to, Harry would be an known as a bad date.
And, the last house, Slytherin, should probably hate him because being a Gryffindor, being the Slytherin's Quidditch team nightmare and because, once again, the rumors that Malfoy had spread in his house damaging Harry's reputation in this single house.
So, once again he could only use somebody older and in his house, or decide between the girls that, just like last year, would be waiting {he hoped} to ask him out.
Shinji asked Mana, who said yes in the same moment he asked. Their relationship did not ended before, and it only needed a little push to be.
Kensuke acted fast and asked Susan Bones, a shy girl from Hufflepuff. Asuka and Rei had no problem finding a date and could pick up one of the pool. Hikari went with Seamus Finnigan. Everybody he knew already had a date or were simply out of the question, like Cho Chang. Harry didn't had the courage to ask a girl that probably hates him.
Neville had been watching Harry for a while, wondering who will be the lucky girl who will date the famous 'Boy-Who-Lived'.
Mostly because Neville knew that Ron Weasly got an excellent date in the Yule Ball thanks to Harry. He would see who was Harry dating and if that someone had a cute friend eager to go with a blind date, he would ask Harry to fix the details.
But he needed to know, and his face wore a smile when Harry stood up with a determined look on his face and almost ran out of the common room, but to the boys room, Neville sighed when he saw that, but he smiled again when Harry ran down the stairs again, and left the room.
Neville followed him closely, but he lost him somewhere in the stairs of the fifth's floor hallway. Since he could not see who was Harry asking he returned slowly to the common room, wondering if Ginny Weasly would say yes again this year.
Harry ran down the stairs, and felt that somebody was following him. He used a secret passage in the fifth floor and continued to look for his objective. He saw her going out from the Great Hall, and luckily for Harry, on her own.
"Do you have a second?" asked Harry, starting to feel nervous.
"Yes. What do you want?"
"Would you like to go with me to the ball?" asked Harry, looking at the floor to hide the blood coming to his cheeks. When he looked up he saw that she was blushing, as well.
"Of course Harry!, I'd love to!" she said, managing to hide her blush and to smile.
Harry's face lit up, and he recovered the smile on his face. "Thanks!, then…see you here, an hour before the ball?"
"Sure"
Blessing his luck, and grinning from ear to ear, Harry returned walking to the Gryffindor common room, were he found Ron and Shinji talking about something. He was heading to his room, when Ron stopped him with a question.
"Hey! Harry!, did you invited somebody to the Ball yet?"
"Yeah"
"Who is her?"
"She is……"
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A/N Sorry if I made you wait but this week I've been going to several parties of my parents friends, {that were boring, by the way} leaving me away from my PC. I am not going to write how the side-pairs, like Ron/Hermione. If you want to write it, tell me.
Does somebody knows how to accept anonymous reviews? I've tried to find, but I'm to lazy to really find it.
Oh! And thanks the reviews.
Pegeuk signing off.
