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"How did it go yesterday?" Harry asked from the kitchen as Tonks sat impatiently at the table. He been wondering all night about how it had gone at No.12, he guessed that Hermione had talked with Kingsley given what the Prophet's headlines had been.
Rita Skeeter Arrested By Ministry Aurors!!
Yesterday evening Rita Skeeter former Prophet Reporter was arrested by ministry Auror's on the grounds of being an illegal animagus, selling government secrets to the press and espionage. We at the Prophet only discovered Skeeter was an illegal animagus (form of an insect) when the Auror arrived to arrest her, she has apparently been using her form to spy on my highly placed and important people including the Boy-Who-Lived Lord Harry Potter, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Albus Dumbledore, Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge, and others.
We later learned that the information was supplied to the Aurors by one Hermione Granger, one of the heroines of DOM and friend of the Boy-Who-Lived. Because of her spying on political figure Miss. Skeeter is being charged with espionage and because she took the stories to us her at the Prophet (with out our knowledge of were they came from) the charges of selling government secrets.
But is there a darker side to all of this? Miss Skeeter was relentless in her pursuit and repeated attempts and stories designed to sway public option against the Boy-Who-Lived and Headmaster Dumbledore, could it be that she knew all along about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's return as was in fact working with him against are modern day heroes? Public figure such as Lucius Malfoy, Thanaos Avery, Maleagant Goyle and Agro Crabbe were immune from Skeeter's writings all of whom are now convicted death eater escaping sentence in Azkaban at the end of the last war through less than honest means, as days after (according to Gringott's) Minister Fudge's accounts had heavy additions made to them in the form of gold ingots and a number of valuable artefacts, none of which are monitored by the Ministry so the transaction were not noticed and seized by Aurors in relation to trials that had ended. The Goblins released this information in accordance with Ministry Lawful Activity Degree 3285b, stating that all dealing of convicted death eater and other threats to the Ministry and the general Wizarding population are to be public knowledge for the uses of the Ministry against said threats.
This in light of how Minister Fudge treated Lord Potter and Headmaster Dumbledore we can only question his true motives for the way the Ministry has been run as well as wizarding Britain at large.
Here at the Prophet we have been going over all Miss Skeeter's stories and publication and believe that to be the only conclusion unless she has some person vendetta against the heroes, but we can find no evidence of her meeting the Boy-Who-Lived before the Tri-Wizard tournament in which she reported such ludicrous claims as; Boy-Who-Lived Uses Dark Magic To Enter Tournament, Boy-Who-Lived Using Status As Tournament Champion To Get Girls. These articles which we printed with good faith turned out to be nothing more than the product of a twisted mind.
Chuckling quietly to him self, 'it's amazing what being friends with the person who owns a large proportion of the Prophet can due for a persons image', reminding him self of the shocked look on Tonks face when she found out that she now owned a little over twenty percent of the Prophet.
Walking into the dinning room with breakfast for himself and Tonks putting the food on the table they began eating. Nearly half way through their breakfast Tonks looks up at Harry. "Not a lot, Hermione kept trying to get me to say were you are, Molly was blaming me for how your acting now, Snivellus went on one of his rants about you, so the twins stunned him. Ginny didn't say much but was upset about something, Remus is worried about you but trusts you, Ron from what the twins told me was being a jealous prat again...I don't know why they said 'again' though."
"Four year, Tri-Wizard tournament. Ron thought I entered it my self, something about me always being famous and having everything he wants, didn't talk to me until after the first task." replied Harry without even looking up from or breaking from his breakfast.
"Right. Well Dumbledore wanted to know what 'spells' you were using yesterday as well as where you got your 'magical sword' from and where you are, wouldn't take a hint so I may have laid into him a bit. Molly didn't take too kindly to that nor the fact that we left with 'Bill's girlfriend' yesterday."
At this Harry snorted "Well Dumbledore can keep on wondering where I am, I think we should bring Moony here and let him know everything, seeing as how he saw mum do some of the Jedi stuff. The twins are alright as well but I don't want them to know about me being a Jedi just yet, Hermione I think needs to realise that not all authority figures are to be trusted but then again after five years of Snivellus and last year with Umbridge I'm not sure if she will. The others that you mentioned just leave them for now, what did Bill say to you when he said about Fleur being his girlfriend?"
"It was Molly who said it and when I said that it was Bill not being able to take no, he stormed out. Speaking of Fleur where is she?"
"She went home to France last night." Seeing that Tonks wanted more of an explanation. "We were talking about it yesterday while you were at No. 12, oh she knows I'm a Jedi as well. She said she should talk to her parents about the Prophet's claims, ensure them that I am nothing but a friend and then get interrogated by her sister about me."
Standing up now and collecting all of the plates and cutlery from the table taking them to the kitchen to be washed.
"You know you don't have to cook all our meals?"
"I know but its become habit after all these years." Looking at her with a hint of a smile on his face. " Besides, who else will...you?"
This time it was Tonks who snorted "I can't cook. But I know someone who would be happy to."
The smile on Tonks' face was beginning to scare Harry "Who?" the caution was clearing his voice.
"Oh, just some one I bumped into at No.12. They were really...enthusiastic to help." her smile growing.
Harry quickly worked through his head who it could be. 'Mrs. Weasley won't do this because she doesn't like me not doing what she believes is best for me. Hermione can't cook to save her life. Ron...I doubt he will want to be near me for a while. That leaves only...' "Tonks I don't think that Mrs. Weasley will let Ginny stay her and cook for us."
Wondering how on earth he had gotten to that conclusion she decided on a more direct approach. "Dobby"
Harry swung around so fast that he would have tripped over on the floor if at the same moment a small blur hadn't collided with his mid section pushing him against the counter.
"Master Harry Potter Sir! Please let Dobby be Master Harry Potter's Family elf. Please Master Harry Potter Sir, Dobby is very wanting this, and Winky toos sir she is nedding a family to be bounded to sir." Dobby all but shouted as he clung to Harry's mid section as Harry tried to get his breath back.
Tonks was trying not to laugh as she watched the wind get knocked out of Harry by a house elf who then proceeded to beg Harry to as Hermione put it enslave him and another elf. Watching Harry try to handle the elf was too much however and she cracked, laughing at the scene before her with Harry trying to convince Dobby without hurting his feelings that he doesn't need a house elf let alone two, she could see by the look on Harry's face that he knew he was fighting a loosing battle with the elf and after ten minutes finally relented and agreed that both Dobby and Winky would now be house elves for the Potter family.
"You do realise that when Hermione finds out I won't hear the end of it." Tonks had stopped laughing to see Harry looked exhausted..
"Yeah but it was worth it to see the look on your face when Dobby arrived...Besides this way we won't have clean all the properties."
"And house elves have their own kind of magic so they can hopefully put up some wards we can't." Harry now brightening up to the prospect of having Dobby and Winky bound to him.
"Come on." With that Tonks left the room.
"Where are we going?" Harry called after her.
"I've got to teach you too apparate remember, plus might as well work on your magic now that your emancipated."
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Hermione was now sitting at the table in No.12 after flooing there to talk to Remus about some of the thing that Tonks had let slip about Harry, Molly had decided to cook them all lunch, and now she was sat at the table with Remus, Ron, Ginny, Dumbledore, Arthur who had gotten so time of work. When all of a sudden Dobby and Winky apparated next to Dumbledore bowed and then.
"Dumblesdoor, Winky and I'ss is not working at Hogwarts now. We'ss be bound to Master Potter now." and with that they both snapped their fingers and apparated away.
Ron and Ginny were looking at Hermione waiting for to go on one of her rants about S.P.E.W.
Remus after a moment had turned to see what they were looking at and saw Hermione her face completely still except for the noticeable grinding of her teeth and the twitch of her right eye. Smiling widely, sitting back in his seat and waiting for her to start he couldn't help but see Lily in her face after Sirius had done something stupid again.
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France, Delacour Home. Spoken In French
"I know that Papa but the Prophet was lying. I didn't sleep with Arry, nor did I sleep with Tonks." Fleur was getting frustrated now having the same conversation again with her father.
"Well then why did they print it?"
"Did you read today's Prophet?" Seeing that he hadn't she filled him in. "Skeeter was arrested for a number of crimes and the Prophet say that she had little evidence for a lot of what she printed and is against Arry for some reason."
Her father Leodegrance Delacour a tall man, dignified and graceful with a lean build, greying hair only added to the dignified image had the good grace to look abashed.
Right then there was a large squeal, a blond blur and then Fleur was knocked back onto the sofa, a high pitched voice speaking to fast to understand and then two wide and unblinking blue eyes were looking at her as if waiting for answer.
"Slower this time Gabrielle. None of us understood what you said." This came from Alyssandra Delacour, Fleur's mother with a similar build to Fleur due to the Veela heritage often led to Fleur finding her past boyfriends starring and drooling over her mother like that idiot red head was following her during the tournament.
"How is Arry? Does he have a girlfriend? Are you his girlfriend? Is that woman from the papers her girlfriend? Is she your girlfriend? How can she be Arry's and your girlfriend at the same time? Where is Arry? How did he do the things they say he did? What does he look like with his shirt off?" not even out of breath at the end Gabrielle looked up at her sister expectantly.
Looking at Gaberielle for a second trying to process all that she had just said. "Arry is fine, no he doesn't have a girlfriend, Tonks is not my girlfriend, I can't tell you how he does them or where he is and you know what he looks like with his shirt off." Smirking slightly at the end when her sister blushed.
"Yeah but that was over a year ago." As though that explained everything, 'although it did look like he had some more muscles'.
"How about I send a letter asking if it is ok for you to visit with me?" Already knowing the answer she would get from Gaberielle. And she was right a second later when two arms around he neck started to cut off her air, but only for a few seconds before she skipped off to her room speaking rapidly to herself.
Mr. Delacour was looking at her and letting her knew with that singe look that he didn't agree with her going to see Harry let alone taking Gaberielle with her.
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"God that feels awful!"
"You get used to it after a while, besides it's faster than taking the night bus." Having decided that she needed to teach Harry to apparate first Tonks had began with the theory which bored both her and Harry to no end. Finally moving onto the practical and it had taken Harry twenty minutes to do his first, but it wasn't where he had meant to be. Over the next three hours he had gotten more accurate and faster, but still complained about the feeling after everyone.
"Can't we move onto spells or hand to hand yet?" already knowing the answer Harry couldn't help but ask.
"No. I want you good enough to pass your test by the end of the day then we can move onto your spell work and hand to hand. Besides this way it means that you won't have to work on multiple things at once, when its out of the way we can concentrate on the others." Smiling at him knowing he can't argue with that. Harry across the flower bed the Dobby had done a few hours ago, closed his eyes concentrated and with a crack that was as quiet as a door closing appeared next to Tonks. Then another crack and he was over by the fountain, another and he was over by one of the hedge bushes that Dobby had decided to shape as a Basilisk being stabbed through the mouth, another and he was back opposite Tonks.
"Well?" Tiredness seeping into his voice.
"Again, I want you to be able to do it with your eyes open, little sound. You've got the speed fine but closing your eyes could be fatal."
Smiling "When I'm good enough I won't need my eyes open when fighting with a lightsaber I imagine I could do the same with magic by using the force to guide me."
"Regardless, you will continue till you can with your eyes open and little sound."
Not able to help himself Harry's smile widened at Tonks being commanding.
"What are you smiling about?"
"Ma'am! Nothing Ma'am!" And with that he set about attempting to apparate with his eyes open.
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"You know it's a bit freaky."
"What is?"
"How fast your learning all of this. I mean from what Hermione and others have said your not that smart."
"Thanks...Well someone or something trying to kill me yearly tends to distract me, then there's how I tend to learn better when it can be used in duels. On top of that, I've never been too good with the theory at least not as good as I am with practical."
They finished working on Harry's ability to apparate, he could now do it with his eyes open, rather fast but to Harry's disappointment there was still a slight noise when he did. Having moved onto magic spells that Tonks was teaching him, it was a little frightening, he had worked right through fifth, sixth and seventh year DADA and was now doing Auror level stuff. Tonks wanted to move onto Charms and then Transfiguration seeing as it was his hardest they had decided to do it last.
"How come the Auror don't use any of these spells when fighting Death Eaters?" asked Harry after he had managed to do a rather destructive and explosive spell his first time.
"Madame Bones is trying to get us authorised to but Fudge and Dumbledore keep stopping her. Dumbledore says that we should use as little force as possible, that every one deservers a second chance and Fudge is just a complete idiot." Anger, irritation and sarcasm very clear in her voice.
Shaking his head at their incompetence he carried on working his way through the spells. "It could also be a Jedi thing." After a while he spoke again.
"What could be?" Not knowing what he was talking by Tonks had to ask.
Smiling "My freaky learning ability, with all the mediating I've been doing I have less thoughts bouncing around, I'm more focused. That could be part of it." All the while Harry was still practicing the spells. "Speaking of which, I haven't been learning from the holocron since we were in the vault. Do you mind if we continue this tomorrow?"
"Shit, I'm sorry Harry. I got all rapped up in teaching you. And I was..." Trying to hide the grin on his face as she continued to babble and after a couple of minutes to interrupt.
"Tonks..." She was still babbling so he walked up to her and put his hand over her mouth. "It's ok, I forgot about it too. Is it ok if I go inside and continue with the holocron?" His hand still over her mouth she just nodded. Smile lighting up his face. "Thanks." And with that he went inside and up to his room. He didn't see Tonks touch her lips where his hand had covered them or the small smile on her face.
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Walking into his bedroom where the two holocrons lay on the small coffee table in the centre of his room. The two chairs beside the coffee table Harry moved expecting he would need the room. Once he had made a large enough space Harry turned the holocron which he used last time and activated it.
The image once again appeared of Jedi Master Vrook the gatekeeper of this particular holocron.
"Why have you only just returned?"
""What do you mean only just?"
"Part of my construction allows me to measure the passage of time for training purposes even when deactivated. Jedi training is not something to be taken lightly."
Sighing 'I knew this was going to happen, just my luck for him to be a milder version of Snape'. "I had to deal with the fall out from when we left Gringott's. We were attacked by Aurors." Pausing to see if he needed to explain either term, seeing that he didn't Harry continued. "I defended us from them until we could get away. Then we had to deal with the press and a sort of vigilante group who are trying to find me."
"The attack at Gringott's, describe it for me." Was all Vrook said.
"Dumbledore tried to stop me from leaving, I did something...I think it was the force...I pushed him back without touching him. One of the Aurors thought I was attacking Dumbledore and started firing at me, I used the lightsaber to deflect all the shots that would have hit back at them as the other Aurors started firing as well. Not a single stunner got through and I cut off one Auror's hand when he tried to sneak up on me, but I did it with out having to look at him...I just knew he was there and what he was going to do...just like I knew where each of the stunners were going and where to be to intercept or avoid them." At this point Harry stopped and had a thoughtful look on his face as he went over the entire thing in his head, finding it clearer that his memories used to be. 'Must be the meditation'.
"You did 'push' Dumbledore, one of he basic abilities that all Jedi learn is to move objects using the force. By concentrating and seeing the connection the object has with the force and pushing or pulling on those connections one can move the object it self. A Jedi is only limited by their perceptions in this, the wisest of masters can move great objects while younglings can only to begin with move small items. As they beginning to 'believe' that they can do it then they can. As to you 'knowing' where the shots and attacks were coming from before they did, this is another common Jedi ability, there is an advanced form of this called 'Battle Precognition' where Jedi can dangers before they occur and sometime see the out come of an entire war. But we will focus on the basics for now."
All the way through Master Vrook's explanation Harry had sat on the floor with rapt attention and continued to as Vrook explained the basics of how to use the more telekinetic aspects of the force.
Standing now, right arm outstretched towards one of the chairs, eyes half closed concentrating on lifting the chair while he stood on the other side of the room. After fifteen minutes and still nothing Harry tried to figure out what was wrong. 'Master Vrook said it would be easy...well not easy just that it was one of the basic abilities that all Jedi learn...although not necessarily good at. So what am I doing wrong...when I did it to Dumbledore I wasn't even thinking about it...maybe I'm over thinking this...relax...feel it...feel it's connection to the force' with that the chair rose about to feet into the air. Seeing that he had done it Harry smiled but the chair started to wobble so Harry concentrated hard.
Two hours later and Harry didn't need to close his eyes to do it, but he still needed to be looking at the object and use hand movement.
"Demonstrating the force without even realising he is." The hologram muttered to it self somewhat proud.
"Excuse me Master?"
Looking up and seeing Harry looking at it the hologram decided to continue with other aspects but not before Harry answered a question.
"Have you been learning other subjects faster than you normally would?"
"I found it easier to learn spells and stuff when Tonks was teaching me earlier. According to her I'm a few years ahead of what I would normally be able to do now." Harry deciding that it would be best to be honest, though somewhat fearful of what Vrook would say in response to him forgetting about the holocron in favour of learning spells with Tonks.
"Another force ability, some of the Padawans call it 'Force Comprehension' were through the force greater quantities of information can be absorbed, in almost all instances this is done unconsciously on the user's part. For this ability the user requires a basic level of understanding of the subject as the what is learned after is built upon that. For now we will continue with your lightsaber instructions. The next is Makashi, usually used in combat against another opponent who is armed with a lightsaber, while you may be the only force sensitive that we are aware of it does not mean that you are he only one so it is best that you learn this. Makashi emphasises elegance and precision, the fluid movements the body, a one handed grip on the lightsaber to give a greater range of movements..."
Over the next few hours Harry worked at learning Makashi as best he could, he knew that he would one day have to teach others, of course he would use the holocrons but some people will respond better to him rather than Vrook's style of teaching. This meant that he would have to have lightsaber duels with them and so he needed to master Makashi.
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"We will finish here. While you can do he basic moves of Makashi you are by no means a master at it, we will have to go over to again tomorrow. For now I suggest you rest we have a lot to do tomorrow." With that Vrook deactivated himself and Harry turned of his lightsaber.
Looking at his alarm clock and seeing it was a little after midnight Harry decided to turn in. 'When did I get an alarm clock?...Dobby or Tonks must have got it.' While moving the chairs back into place using the force 'I'm only doing this for practice and not because it's so cool', Harry accidentally activated the second holocron to see a few inches tall hologram of his mother spring to life and look up at him with a smile.
"Mu...Mum." Harry's voice cracking with emotion.
"Yes dear. Harry I know this is going to be difficult for you to absorb so I'll go slow." Harry just nodded dumbly in response. Taking a deep breath which she didn't being a hologram. "I'm the new gatekeeper for this holocron, the old one was my mum I switched it when you your father and I went into hiding in case I didn't survive there would be a part of me for you." She paused for a second to watch the tears travel down Harry's face. "Gatekeepers for holocrons work a bit like the magical paintings, so while it's not me it's me as I was when this program was made if that makes sense. Your probably wondering were I learned or where your grandmother learn seeing as how I don't have to explain the basics of the force and the Jedi." pointing to the deactivated lightsaber in Harry's hand. "Although that particular lightsaber I will explain later. Your grandmother was one of the greatest Jedi to date, she led a number of Jedi into a war and turned the tide of it, a master of a lot of the different aspects as well as lightsaber combat. Her name was Revan Onasi. I will explain the rest in detail later because of how late it is but not long after I was born mum went into the unknown regions a section of the galaxy as the name implies that not a lot is known about, dad said that she was trying to stop something before it threatened the Republic. When I was five Jedi started being killed across the galaxy or disappearing outright. After a year of that dad asked Aunt Bastila to take me somewhere I would be safe, so Aunt Bastila brought me to a back water planet where access was restricted because of a sociological experiment a few centuries ago but had ended. She brought me here and altered the memories of the Evans family to make them think I was Petunia's younger sister."
Harry's was trying to comprehend what he had been told, his mother was an alien, his grandmother was a great leader in a war and was off fighting some unknown enemy, the Republic was a space empire.
"Harry I know this is all difficult to believe, James, Sirius and Remus thought I was trying to prank them when I told them." Smiling to herself at the memory of what she had to do to prove to them she was telling the truth. "Now I said I would explain that lightsaber, Aunt Bastila told me this when I asked about it. She said that mum had made it with a unique crystal that resonates with the force, that the crystal was called 'Mantel of the Force'. She also said that mum saw a man with jet black hair wielding it to great effect, I thought that that man was your father when I met him and stopped ignoring him." Chuckling to herself at another memory. "I guess that since you are using it now that it was meant for you. Harry you should go to bed soon but first I want to teach you something."
Harry just remembered the time and he started to feel the exhaustion but concentrated on the hologram of his mother any way.
"This holocron is different to that one in more ways than just the fact that I am gatekeeper. What it will teach you the other holocron will call the dark side, now the actual dark side I wouldn't teach you nor will anything in this holocron...it's just that I disagree with the Jedi on some points and so they label it as dark side or Sith or what ever else that means evil but it's not. Now the Jedi teach that a Jedi should be separate from their emotions that's they should control them, and that a Jedi has no attachments so no wives or husbands, children or family, the Jedi actually take the children away from their parents around the age of two...the parents agree but that's because being a Jedi is such a rare thing. Now what I'm going to tell you is that your emotions are ok that you can become close to people it gives you something to fight for...people to fight for, just don't give into or use your anger or hate, that will led to the dark side and make you every bit as evil as Voldemort is."
At this Harry smiled, his mum wasn't afraid to say Voldemort's name.
"Harry, what have you learned some far from the other holocron?"
"Jedi code, meditation, Shii-Cho and Soresu I actually had a chance to use them when Aurors attacked me coming out of Gringott's, a bit of Makashi but I'm not very good at it. I've got the basics for some of the telekinesis as well." The others that had mean mentioned by the other holocron Harry had be doing without thinking so he didn't them from it just of them.
"When I teach you some stuff Harry you have to know that its coming from the databanks in the holocron, because I wasn't very good at the force or at least my use of it, I guess my heart wasn't in it after I was sent here." Taking another not needed deep breath. "This can be used to stop your opponent in their tracks, distract them, kill them or just as a warning, many Jedi consider this to be a Sith technique but it depends on your intent how you use it. Focus on the leg of one of the chairs the same way you would when do something telekinetic, now pinch your thumb and forefinger together and picture the air compressing around the leg. When using this on a person use a lot less force no pin intended and target the neck it will chock them, some Sith have used it in the past to crush a person's body but I don' want you doing that." Looking sternly at him to let him know that she was serious.
Harry now concentrating on the chair leg, picturing the air compress around it as he pinched his finger and thumb together a moment later there was a snap. Harry looked up to she that he had broken clean through, the pressure had made it sort of slope to the point of break but he had done it. Turning back to face his mother she was smiling.
"Force Comprehension?" She asked with a raised eyebrow to which Harry nodded. "Good especially on your first try but remember to use less power when you do it to a person. Now off to bed with you, will talk in the morning over breakfast, which only you'll be having but it doesn't mean can't talk to you during."
As she was babbling to last part of her sentence Harry just collapsed onto the bed not bothering to change. "Night mum" He whispered softly just before falling to sleep.
"Night sweetie." Replied Lily as she deactivated herself.
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The description of how to use push or pull or similar comes from one of the star wars novels, where Luke is teaching one of his first students to use he force in such a way. It's a little different because I can't remember the exact wording, I may change it at a later date when I find the exact wording. The layout for the Prophet stories are going to change slightly as the wizarding world doesn't have TV and therefore the news the Prophet is sort of going to become more like that in how they are written.
I'm still in need of a beta if some one would like to volunteer.