THE PRIDE
Chapter Four: Training In Healing
-Regular Thought-
-"Speech"-
-"Parseltongue"-
-'Mind Speak'-
~Harry's POV~
Two weeks after the second meeting at Gringotts, Ginny and I had a solid base in both of the elemental powers and had contacted Tonks for help with the partial-Metamorph ability. We learned that Ginny was able to use my abilities and I was able to use hers. We also learned that she is an empath, so she can sense and control emotions.
We had learned a lot about our trainers. Cecilia was a healer at the American Wizarding Hospital in New York. The entrance to the American version of Diagon Alley is in New York and another Alley is in Los Angeles. There are several small wizarding communities with at least one small area in each state. She was twenty-nine and still had not married yet.
Marina was a Potions Mistress and worked for a company called GT, Greater Things, where she helped create new potions and improve existing ones. She was thirty-five and married to Steven Donsen. They had a daughter named Elizabeth and a son named Jace. Elizabeth started Beauxbatons last year.
Richard was fifty-four and was a Herbologist. He married his wife, Daphne, almost twenty-one years ago and they have four children: Andi, Lucy, Kaelin, and Robert. Robert was nineteen and played Quidditch for a lesser known Bulgarian team. Kaelin was sixteen and would graduate Saga Witches Academy next year, where she planned to become a Healer. Andi and Lucy were both in fourth year at Saga due to Andi having been born in September and Lucy in the next August.
Currently we were training with Cecilia to control our powers. She was teaching us to meditate and clear our minds much better than Snape did last year. She was also a Level Three Master Occlumens, and was teaching us to master that. Richard spent some time of our lessons with him teaching us to master Legilimency. Marina was fairly decent with Occlumency, and, while she was no master, it at least took some effort to break past her shields. Marina was also a Level Five Potions Mistress and helped teach us some things that Snape hadn't.
On Mondays, we practiced control, Healing, and Occlumency with Cecilia. Tuesdays and Thursdays were air and potions with Marina. Wednesday and Friday was earth and Legilimency with Richard. On Saturdays, we spent the morning with Tonks working on Metamorphing, and the afternoon with Remus reviewing what we had learned in school so far, except potions. Sundays were days for a break and for us to train physically and the occasional duel with one of our five teachers.
It was on Monday while practicing Healing the second time that Ginny had an idea about what we could do with the DA.
"Cecilia, do you think that you could teach a group of maybe thirty eleven to thirteen year olds about Healing?"
"I suppose I could if they were willing to learn and work really hard at it. It would be harder for them to learn since they didn't have as much experience with magic as you do."
"Right. Would you be willing, though?" I ask.
"I suppose so. Why?"
"Well, remember what we said about the DA? We're going to expand and make an actual army."
"That is an interesting idea, but how will you pull it off?"
"That's what we're working out right now," Ginny said.
"That's what you work on in those Muggle notebooks, isn't it?" Cecilia asked.
"Yes," I said.
"We're working out how to get some things done. We almost have a complete plan," Ginny says.
"You have really worked hard at this, haven't you?"
"Yes, we don't want anyone to be hurt or killed because we aren't prepared to fight and defend ourselves from DEs. That's the reason we are doing this. We want to learn all we can and teach it to the others. We are going to use everything we can to help take Voldemort down," I say.
"You really are a very remarkable person, Harry Potter. Most people your age would shrink away from a fight and responsibilities like this, but from what you've told us about yourself, you go straight to it so no one else has to," Cecilia said.
"That's just Harry. He's too noble for his own good. It'll get him killed one of these days, but I doubt it'll be before Voldemort is gone," Ginny teased me.
"That's not true! Okay maybe it is..." I said.
"See, what did I tell you Celi? He'll end up getting himself killed."
"Traitor," I hissed in Parseltongue.
"I'm just telling it like it is," she replied and gave and innocent look and shrug that was not that much better than Fred and George's.
"Yeah, yeah. We'll talk later," I promised.
"Now, can I get back to teaching the two of you Healing? Mr. Longbottom is coming in an hour, just like you asked him to. You'll need time to explain everything to him," Cecilia interrupted, not even bothered by the hissing we had been doing by communication in Parseltongue.
AN: Here I am! Back from DC! It was amazing! I have to tell you all something amazing! I saw the actual robes that Daniel Radcliffe wore in the first movie! I have a picture! Now, here's the next chapter, it's a two-week time-skip to a Healing lesson. If you want to get technical, it's been four weeks for Harry and Ginny. It ends a little roughly, but the next chapter is very informational and this one is a bit of a filler with some plans for the DA brought to light. Next chapter may include some flashbacks again. Sorry about how short this one is, I went to the eye doctor today and we determined that I need glasses for long distance, and they put that stuff in my eyes, so I can barely stand to look at the computer, but I wanted to get this up for you guys.