Title:
"Harry Potter and Septanic Dueling" ( 4/? )Author name: NAPPA
Author email: imran_webjump@hotmail.com
Category: Action/Adventure, Humour, and Romance
Keywords: H/H, 5th year, Dueling, Animagi
Spoilers: All books
Rating: PG13
Summary:
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Chapter Number:
04Chapter Name: A New Bookworm & the Gifts
It didn't hit Harry until he had read the first twelve pages that the pages of
the book that the pages were turning by themselves, but then he also remembered
that Hermione had told her the book had auto page turning charm in it. The book
must be able to sense his presence when he AstralProjects, Hermione had told him
that's what Muggles call it on television, though in their one people can see and touch
them and vice versa. This is a muggle power and there was no Wizarding term for
it.
As Harry began to read, he did not notice how quickly he seemed to be reading
the pages, nor did he realise that his brain was actually picking up alot more
than it usually did.
It was at eight o'clock in the morning when Harry snapped the book. He had finished
reading the book, back to back several times, since it was the only book he had with
a self turning charm in it.
Harry wished himself to wake up and it usually took about ten minute delays to the
time he wished to enter his body again to waking up. This time Harry noticed the delay
was only two minutes.
Harry quickly leaped from his bed, quickly taking off his pyjamas and started
to collect clothes so that he could get into the shower. It was the last day of
the long weekend (Queen's Birthday), so the rest of the family was still in
bed. As Harry left the room, he collided with Paul. He looked suspiciously at
Harry.
Then Harry realised that he was wearing only his boxers so he quickly wrapped a
towel around his waist. Paul pleased with himself that he saved his daughter
from seeing a half-naked man running around the house quickly took off in the
direction of the kitchen, as it was his turn to cook breakfast that day.
Harry only took a few moments in the shower, as he didn't like to be wet for
too long. At breakfast all the Granger's had all wished him a Happy Birthday.
Then Hermione's parents told him they had a gift for him as they handed
something to him. It was a return ticket to Morocco.
Apparently the whole family was supposed to go, including one of Hermione's
cousins but at the last moment she had pulled out. So now Harry was bound for
Morocco. They told him, it was only going to be for a week and they would be
back a day before school. Harry was ecstatic. He had never travelled overseas
and now he was going to the mystical Morocco. This almost had him in tears.
Hermione joined in on the conversation and said she choose the location so they
could research some exotic magical creature for their Care of Magical
Creatures. Hermione was quick to remind him that in the next three weeks they
had the monumental task of doing homework essays excluding the one for care of
magical creatures. Not to mention, house chores, self-imposed extra studies and
flying lessons to get through.
At this point a swarm of package carrying birds invaded the Granger kitchen.
Though Mrs. Granger shrieked and ran away, Harry, Hermione and her father
(though he a little shaken) stayed. There was in total five owls carrying two
parcels and three letters.
Harry took the one that had been dropped on his bowl of serial. It had beautifully
penned writing on the envelop and he was surprised to see it was from Fleur.
To my sister's Saviour
Thank you again for saving my sisters life last year. I'm your Defence Against
Dark Arts teacher this year. I'm sending you this book about the marine-based
dark creatures. This book will help you next year and there is a section at the
back that will help you write your homework essay.
Many thanks from Fleur
After he finished reading, he looked over the book. It was called "So You need
to know about SeaMonsters by Ruben Psidong". The next one was from Professor
Dumboledore, and it was carried to Harry by one of the school's better regal
looking owls.
HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY
Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc. Chf. Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)
Dear Mr. Potter
This is not a birthday card, though it may have appeared at this time. Please
know that I have arranged for you and Ms. Granger to meet Mr. Ali Pasha. He
will be your guide to the Magical community in Morocco.
He was one of you father's dear fiends and that you have my blessings for the
trip. In times such as these it is important to keep international alliances.
Headmaster of Hogwarts
Professor A.Dumboledore
HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY
Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc. Chf. Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)
Ps: Happy birthday
Harry could not help but smile at the postscript. The next letter was from
Sirius, as always carries by tropical bird of many colours. Harry couldn't help
but think that using such birds will end in disaster for Sirius one of these
days.
Dear Harry
I hope you are Ok. Dumboledore told me that you are going out of the country.
I don't know whether it's a good idea or not, but since he has no objections
its fine with me. Keep your wand in your hand ALWAYS! The rules about under
aged wizards are not applicable over there.
You might want to look up one of my friends from my adventuring days. His name
is Ali Pasha. Last I heard of him, he was selling flying carpet. Just tell him
PADFOOT said hello.
Be safe. OWL me if you have a dream.
SNUFFLES
The next one was from Hagrid and an eagle brought it.
HARRY
Hi. Heard yer with Hermione. Well I'm somewhere I can't tell ye. But I'm with
Madam Maxime. I got good news. I'll write more when I can. I sent ye some of me
Rock cakes.
Bye
Hagrid
Harry loved Hagrid. He was the man who told him of his real life. He trusted
Hagrid with his life but he would not eat anything that man made. Mr. Granger
saw the cake and was about to take a piece (he loved cakes) when both Harry and
Hermione shouted, "NO!"
Paul Granger was shocked but put the piece down. To demonstrate why they
stopped him, Harry took his spoon and hit the cake hard making a loud clink
noise as if it had hit another metal. Mrs. Granger entered the room again when
she realised that only the snowy owl that belonged to Harry was left. She sat
herself down next to Hermione and started to quietly finish off the food.
The next one was a big parcel that Hedwig and Pig carried it together. It
contained sealed envelopes from most of the members and gifts of food and
clothes from Mrs. Weasley.
First letter picked out of the parcel was covered in little pink heart that
moved all over the envelop. Hermione saw it and snatched it away from him. She
quickly took out the letter and to Harry's embarrassment started to read it out
loud.
" ooh. Perfumed! Harry! I'm shocked. Why didn't you tell me about your
grrrlfriend" said Hermione trying intentionally to be annoying.
" It's because, SHE. IS. NOT. MY. GIRLFRIEND!" shouted Harry, surprising both
Mr & Mrs. Granger. Harry's face was red but he did not try to get the letter
back. Since it would only make Hermione more determined to nag him about Ginny.
" Lets see what says than...
Dear Sweet Harry
(**GIGLES ** from Hermione)On your birthday, I hope you are well and know that love from me (and my
family) is there with you. My present to you is in the parcel. See you soon...
Love
GINNY
While Hermione was reading the letter, Harry found and finished reading the
inscription (from Ginny to H.P.)and the instructions for his present from
Ginny. It was in a packet covered in similar sort of patterns as the envelop.
He thought it was a great way to get back at Hermione. He put on the watch. And
did as the instructions had asked him. He stood up from his chair, and turned
to look at Hermione. Then he pressed the glass on the watch and spoke.
"Hello. Bet you're sorry now!"
But it came put in not Harry's voice but a bit deeper, slightly booming voice
and to top it all off in another ancient language. Hermione jumped back twice
before hitting the wall behind her. Her parent fell out of their chair and
scrambled away to what they thought was a safe distance. There was another
effect that Harry did not see nor hear. His eyes were glowing. Satisfied that
Hermione was sufficiently and her parent unintentionally scared, he pressed the
glass on the watch. Once he did, his voice became normal and eyes lost some of
its glow.
" That's what you get for taking other peoples letter"
From the shocked look on her face it was obvious she did not get it as to how
Harry had scared her. He held up the watch and said, " the present from GINNY".
Hermione looked embarrassed for not noticing the silly toy. She mumbled
something about needing to go to the toilet, and headed out of the room with a
pink face.
Harry noticed that Mr. & Mrs. Granger had already recovered and were back to
eating their food. He looked apologetically at them, they both gave him a look
of sympathy at him. Paul Granger actually thought it was a really good joke. It
wasn't often that he saw his daughter with surprise written all over her face.
Harry decided he would quickly read the other two letters. First one was from
Fred & George.
Harry
Happy Birthday. We're both sorry, you couldn't spend your holidays with us.
But we hear you're with Hermione. We hope you have a good time there. We were
not allowed to send you our gift before because of Professor Dumbledore.
The gift is in the white packet. It looks like a ball with a switch on top.
When pressed it displays a memory that Ron had of you and your friends. When we
say you'll love it we mean, you'll laugh your head off.
Your buddies
Fred and George Weasley.
Harry was a little apprehensive about pressing the switch, but he decided that
the twins would not give him something really bad on his birthday. Harry held
the small spherical object as far from his body as humanly possible, before
pressing the button. A small rectangle appeared out of thin air and it showed
the event of the fateful day when Barty Crouch masquerading as Professor Moody
turned Malfoy into a ferret.
While Harry laughed he noticed that a slightly less coloured Hermione had
entered the room. She too joined in, as Draco Malfoy was her worst enemy.
Hermione started on her serial again, Harry took out the last letter. He could
tell by the messy penmanship he could tell it was from Ron.
HARRY
Did you hear they caught Lucious Malfoy for the using a Flying carpet, but he
was released by Cornelius Fudge after he donated a lot of money to the
hospital. Dad was furious and Percy had to be tied to his bed so he did not go
after Lucious for breaking one of the laws that he helped pass again in the
ministry.
I was disappointed when Dumbledore told us you couldn't visit us.
How did you know I was gonna ask about Hermione?- you aren't right I wasn't
gonna ask you about her at all. What do I care if she went Krum's or not? I'm
glad, I'm not in your shoes. I feel sorry for you- being told to study all day
long and doing nothing else. It must be awful.
Well see ya in a few weeks. By the way there is a present for you that I found
in Diagon Alley.
Yours
Ron Weasley
Harry put the letter down and started to look for what could be his present
from Ron. He found it inside one of the folds of the black sleeveless sweater
with the Griffindor emblem that Mrs. Weasley had knitted. It was a Chocolate
Frog card to be precise it was a Harry Potter Chocolate frog card. The picture
was of Harry getting the golden egg from the dragon. Harry was absentmindedly
looking at the picture when a loud shriek from Hermione interrupted him. Mr &
Mrs. Granger were scared once again.
" WHAT??... ...What does he think I am? Does he think I'm always studying? ...
Says he feels sorry for you... Wait till we're on the train...," said a fuming
Hermione who was reading the letter Harry had deposited on the table. Slightly
scared Harry slid his chair a back a bit. Hermione continued in a cold and
almost an evil voice "... yes. The tel'shia curse. That's it... a whole week of
itching his bottom would sort him out... yessss..."
* Great Merlin! She looks positively evil! * though Harry.
Harry thought of doing a "Hermione" and give her a lecture about reading other
people's mail but decided against it seeing as her eyes had glazed over and he
was not sure Hermione was Hermione anymore. Rest of the holidays until the day
of the trip was pretty uneventful, except for the fact that Hermione kept
getting messages from Krum, and she would spend half the day dreaming about
him.
Two days before the trip Harry was just plain fed up and told her to check his
essays for errors.
" You're just jealous that I have a boyfriend"
" Yeah... Whatever. So. Are you going to check my work or not?" though he was
a bit angry with Hermione for ignoring him for the last few days, he made puppy
dog eyes at her.
" Yes. Leave it on the desk, I'll do it tonight or in the morning."
Just before lunch Hermione burst out of her room, calling for Harry. Fearing
something was wrong Harry ran to where the yelling was coming from, wand ready.
(A/N: He's really paranoid... isn't he)
When he saw Hermione just standing at the entrance to her room he was confused.
He was going to ask what was wrong, but Hermione spoke first.
" Look, Who's here?" said Hermione with something in her voice that Harry could not
identify.
" What? I came as soon as I heard. Why did you call by the way?"
" I didn't have anytime last night to check your essays. So I sit down today to
find thirty odd scrolls on my desk. And to top it off it you did it! Now I say
..."
Harry was getting annoyed and could not help but say, " Get to the point!"
" Well.. Answer this. Did you write all those scrolls?"
" Yes! Of course I did. Unless there is another wizard in this house by the
same house I wrote the- wait one-minute... Is some thing wrong with my essays."
Harry panicked. "OH. Great Merlin! What am I gonna do... Oh... It's not long
till the start of the school. Oh... Maybe..." but Harry did not get to finish
his panic attack as Hermione rushed over and gave him a big hug.
" I'm so proud of you. You have any idea how surprised I was... The quality of
research, analogies, anecdotes and even the penmanship..." If Harry had been
confused before it was nothing compared to what he was feeling at that moment.
" What're you on about?"
" It's good... too good. Snape is gonna have a fit... he'll give points to
Griffindor... well... not really.... Not taking any off..." Harry was getting
more and more confused, so put his hands on her shoulder and shook her hard to
stop her from babbling.
" Calm down. What. Are. You. Saying?"
In response to Harry's questions, she dragged him into her room. She sat
herself down on the bed as she shoved Harry into the nearest chair facing her
bed.
Harry had been there quite a few times, though they spent most of their time
studying in his room. Her room had light pink wallpaper with slightly darker
floral print all over. It was well decorated and in one corner she stored all
her plush toys from when she was young. The room was always neat and tidy, but
her bed was a different story altogether. It was littered with Harry's scrolls
and her schoolbooks which where open in different places.
" There were only spelling mistakes that I had to fix other than that it was
all well above your usual quality. Look this one..." said Hermione as she
handed him the essay but did not pause. "... You potions essay was good. A tad
bit on the short side, but you covered all the points and some not mentioned...
And here...Your Transfiguration essay it was captivating, fully researched,
historical anecdotes and good layout. Oh look... there your Charms essay on
"Kitchen charms and possible dangers to young children" was really good. I
think you were the only 4th year to choose it. Personally I didn't think you
could pull it off but I was wrong"
* for someone saying they were wrong she was surprisingly happy * though Harry,
as he was amazed how confusing Hermione really was to him.
"...Hold these...Defence Against Dark Arts. You wrote twelve scrolls and you
only had to do six. It was well researched and I especially liked the detailed
comparison about some common misconception about some creatures. You even
listed some of the good creatures that are sometimes mistaken as evil. See...
You worked hard and now you will rip the benefits." Harry was so stunned that
he did not speak while she was talking. Several times he opened his mouth but
then closed it soon after. Harry knew he had done more work than usual, but did
not realise that he had really done quite so well.
Hermione was positively beaming at her accomplishment. She had done the
impossible task of make Harry like studying. She was well on her way to fix
"Harry Potter the boy who lived" to be her idea of what he should be -A high
achiever and someone that the Dark Lord would be afraid off.
The day of the trip approached very quickly and except for his Care of Magical Creatures
essay, he had nothing left to do, so he read up on Morocco and practised his
astral projection. Harry's skill at it actually had decreased from not using it
enough. He only used it at night to read "Hogwarts: A history." So Harry
basically had to go through all the pain and suffering he went through to
become proficient in it again.
Harry remembered to pack his schoolbooks. He wanted to put page-turning charms
on them as soon as he was in Morocco. Harry had an unexpected thought just
before they boarded the plane (the Grangers did not want to use Floo powder
even though it could have been faster and cost them nothing.)
* Wonder how the Dursley's vacation was? *
~~~
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