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One month into training

About an hour after dinner Harry walked over to Hermione's door and since it was open knocked on the door frame. Hermione startled then looked up at him and said "Harry how many times I have to tell you that you don't have to knock if the door is open just come one in. I don't mind if you do."
"It's just this past month I have felt that we have been getting closer as friends and I don't want to ruin that but have you thought about maybe wanting to be something more?" Harry asked her with a hint of desperation in his voice.
"I have but you never seem to show any interest in me. So I was thinking that you had put my in the friends only section in your mind and if you had I didn't want to ruin our friendship with my feelings if you didn't return them." Hermione said with an inquiring look on her face.

maybeyouwouldwanttoeatdinnerwithmealoneonenight." Harry finished talking really fast,
"What was that? I didn't get all of it." Hermione asked playfully catching on to what Harry was asking her.
"I asked if you wanted to have dinner one night this week alone with me maybe over candlelight." Harry asked with a hope full face.
"I would love to. Was there else that you want" Hermione asked Harry as she stood and walked over to him stopping right in front of him.
"Yes this" he replied as he lowered his head down to hers for a small kiss.

Three months into training

"Why do I have these memories" shouted Harry angrily one day when he was working on his Occlumency. He was sorting through his memories and found a lot of them that couldn't possibly be his.
"What's wrong baby?" Hermione asked from her position next to him. They had to devote two hours everyday to sorting through their memories until they were done then they could start working on the shields.
"I was working on sorting through my memories when I found one of Dumbledore was teaching and I know that I have never had a class where that old goat has taught anything let alone a whole class and it was an advance transfiguration class on the topic of living to nonliving transfiguration. I know that we haven't covered that in class yet. So why do I have these memories?" Harry asked the world at large.

"I don't know Harry maybe we should go and ask one of your parents they may know something about It." Hermione replied with a puzzled look on her face why everything has to happen to my Harry. 'Let him have a little rest' said her thoughts as they set off to find his parents.

They manage to find them in one of the makeshift classroom that they had created out of some of the larger spare bedrooms. "Mom we may have a problem I have memories in my head and their not mine."
"Ok honey there is two things that it could be either someone placed some memories in your head for some reason or when Voldemort attacked he placed a horcrux in you. This would also explain the reason you had the visions that he sent you." Lily told him after a moment of thought
"Lily is there anything that we can do to destroy the horcrux in Harry? I like having him around and it just sounds nasty." Hermione asked with a tremor of fear in her voice.
"Sure all we would have to do is transfer it to another object. The scar is probably the physical form of it right now so in a day or two on the night of the new moon we will move it into another object like a fork or a spoon something simple to destroy and finish the job."

Nine months into training

"I managed to find the place I have two forms one is a Black Panther looking cat and the other is a huge dragon black dragon." Harry yelled as he ran into the sitting room were everyone else was.
"That's great Harry with us both being Big cats that means we can go run together after you get you panther form done and I finish my own jaguar form. I wish I could just take a potion or say a spell but no I have to take the hard way and accept the animal inside of me and then work on bringing it out." Hermione said with a wishful look on her face.

"Another good thing about it to remember is we can get a lot of practice running in our forms chasing after dad." Harry told her in a low voice that everyone was able to hear.
" I want to know why he has two forms and one of them is a bloody dragon you are not suppose to be able to become a magical creature." Sirius said with a look of fear on his face.
"It's simple really Padfoot the heir to the throne has always had to Animagus forms the dragon which is from being the head of the Pendragon line and his own personal form.
"that's great son that was the part that took us the longest just over a year and a half but we hadn't had any training in Occlumency so it made your job that much easier now all you have to be worried about is controlling the animal when you bring it out which should be pretty easy for you with that iron will of yours."

Twelve months into training

My trial is tomorrow, so we need to head out to Gringotts today and make the claims on the lordships of Slytherin and of the cadet lines that Tom Riddle was Heir to. After that I can try and subject the Hufflepuff Vault so it will declare me head of that line since there are no family members left to claim it someone needs to so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

A/N next chapter the trial that everyone is waiting for is finally here.