Chapter Four: Training and Mindscapes
A/N: I apologize for the late update, it has been a very trying few weeks my summer started out great and is not progressing all that great, here is chapter four enjoy.
The following morning after Pernelle and Nicholas attempted to delve deeper into the prophecy's meaning, they spoke with the Weasley's and the Potters.
"We feel that the soulbond between Harry and Ginny is in correlation to the prophecy. Bound to the Seventh and all that. She is the seventh child. Linked to his twin refers to the twin bond. But we can tell you one thing. The bond between Ginny and Harry will be exponentially stronger than the twin bond between Harry and Hermione. Due to this, your training will continue but will be intensified. That means that you will learn occlumency which is the defense of the mind against external magical penetration, as well as legilimency which can be a great help in situations that require you to break into ones mind. This is not mind reading so much as it will allow you to predict what your opponent will do in certain situations if you are in a duel. Legilimency is illegal to use against minors and if used in such a way is an imprisonable offense. You will also step up the amount of spells you will be studying both in charms and in defense. Lily and I will continue to teach those areas while James and my Nicholas will do the legilimency and occlumency. I cannot stress to every one of you how important it is that you learn those two skills for they can and will come in handy during the upcoming war. That is all I have to say on the subject. OH! Before I forget, there is one other thing, Sirius will be teaching you the transfiguration, you will be well rounded when you go to school. There will be none of this lazy layabout business while we are training you. I will not have it. I expect each of you to do your utmost best." Pernelle explained.
All of the Children nodded. They each knew that Voldemort was after Harry and they had to be ready. Though it left them wondering if they were going to have a normal childhood at all. All this training was going to take it away from them.
Over the next few weeks, Pernelle was true to her word. Each day the children had lessons. It had been decided that the Defense and Charms would be directly after the occlumency which they had to learn prior to being able to learn legilimency, Tranfiguration would be on Wednesday and Friday as the rest of the time was devoted to the mind arts, Defense, Charms and potions which was also taught by Harry and Hermione's Mum.
Nicholas and Penrnelle watched the children closely, especially the bonded pair Harry and Ginny. What they saw impressed them and frightened them . The bond mates were far beyond their friends when it came to their training. The bond allowed them to share information between them, and gave them both perfect idetic memories. The soaked up the information for Occlumency and Legilimency like a sponge and so far were the only two of the friends that could successfully perform every spell they were taught.
A month after the training intensified, Pernelle and Nicholas decided to test the Occlumency shields of Harry and Ginny. Pulling the bond mates into a separate room one morning in the fifth week of their training, Pernelle began with Ginny, while Harry sat there and watched.
When she entered Ginny's mind, Ginny did not bother trying to push her out. What Pernelle entered astounded her. What Ginny had in place were not normal Occlumency Shields. It was a bloody mindscape. Ginny had created such a complicated maze within her mind, that Pernelle immediately got lost. She saw none of Ginny's thoughts and none of her memories. The second she ventured into the young girls mind, she was trapped within a fifty mile maze, with hedgerows at least and hundred and fifty feet high. She could not escape and was completely at Ginny's mercy.
Smiling, Ginny released Pernelle from her mazed prison, and just sat there as Pernelle, came back to her own mind and looked at Ginny stunned.
"Nicholas it is your turn to do Harry's shields, trust me when I say that Ginny's are perfect and that anyone who tries to breach the defenses of her mind will be in for a huge surprise." Pernelle said smiling.
Nicholas nodded and turned to Harry. When he tried to enter Harry's mind, he too was met with a mindscape instead of normal occlumency shields. The only difference was that Harry's mindscape was not organized per say. Harry's mind was complete and utter chaos. There were swirling patterns of color and bright lights, there was a jail cell from the old western muggle movies that his father loved. There was the Red Queen's maze from Ginny's favorite movie Alice in Wonderland. And to top it all off there was a huge pod of orcas swimming as the most private part of Harry's mind contained a huge mindscape of the bloody Atlantic ocean. Nicholas gasped as he was released from the order brought about by choas.
"These two have mastered occlumency in a way that I have not seen in over a hundred years." Nicholas said.
Pernelle nodded. "I think it is time to teach these two the Patronus charm, they already mastered almost every other spell that we could have to teach them and are well on their way to becoming animagi. There will be little that the school can teach them." She said.
Nicholas nodded thoughtfully stroking his chin as he did so. "Albus was much the same way, but there is still much that these two can learn. While there has not been an apprentice taken by anyone since I took on Albus I suggest that you take Ginny and I take Harry. There is precious little they can learn from their parents and teachers anymore." he said.
Pernelle once again nodded agreeing. "They will still have to go to Hogwarts though. I was thinking about talking to Albus and taking the Defense Position myself. While you could take the potions position. I do not agree with Severus Snape being the potions master, not with his history of favoring his own house. I am not entirely sure why Albus hired him to begin with. Voldemort is still out there and there is not any reason to believe that Severus has turned from the errors of his ways, he still dabbles in the Dark Arts." She said.
Silently agreeing the Flamels, went and told Harry and Ginny's Parents what they had talked about. James and Lily agreed. Molly was a bit apprehensive though Arthur fully agreed with it. It took some talking from her husband, but finally Molly agreed. As the Flamels left the sitting room of Potter Manor, James and Lily smiled.
The next few years were going to be very interesting for the bonded couple…...