AUROR
Chapter 7: Training
A/N: I know that I said that this is going to be a 8 chapter story, but to let you know that there is going to be a ninth chapter that I am having a friend write on a day in the life of Alastar Moody back from when he was first an Auror. ----Donald
The group of new recruits woke at 5 am as was there usual on what proved to be a beautiful summer day. They got up, and had a shower before getting dressed and going down for there morning run. They each ran 10 miles each morning after going through some warm up stretches and calisthenics. The run went through the English countryside surrounding there training center outside of London. It went through the woods, which were enchanted to throw random hexes at them to keep them on there toes. Then after the path through the woods, it ran along a winding river and across a rickety foot bridge. After that they ran up a hill to the top, where they turned around and made there way back along the same path. After there run and cool down period, they went and did 50 laps of the pool, and then to breakfast. After breakfast, they had practical and defense magic with there trainers, where they learned the many spells that they were to learn as Aurors til lunch. As soon as they got done with lunch, they had history of the Aurors, and the ministry for 2 hours, before they had the rest of the afternoon off before dinner. After dinner they were to go study up on stealth and the new spells that they were learning. They had a curfew of 9 pm during the week, and 11 on the weekends. They were to be in there dorms by no later than that time, unless they were with a trainer or on a training mission.
During the run that morning, Ginny Weasley was ahead of the pack doing a leisurely run through the woods, when she was hit with a tickling hex, and she turned to take out the target that she had to take out before the hex was lifted so she could go on. It took her a couple of tries because the curse had hit her good, and she was quite ticklish. When she hit it finally, you could here her mumbling to herself about how she agreed with everyones assesment of there trainers and why they called the head of the Aurors Mad Eyed. She was also smiling to herself about it was more like crazy old coot. "I wonder how many times Harry was caught by that same trap? I will have to ask him in my next letter to him." While she was musing, she set off another trap, but had been able to dodge it and send a disarming spell at the target easily as she ran along. Right behind her, she found her best friend in the class, Luna Lovegood catching up with her.
"Hey Gin, I see you got caught by the tickler again. Thinking about Harry as you were running?" Luna was a good person, that had decided to join the Aurors at the end of there 6th year after Harry had defeated Voldemort, and saved her life. She was happy that Ginny and Harry were finally together and getting married. She was seeing Neville Longbottom for a little while now, and they were also to be married shortly after there training was over. Neville was a skilled healer with St. Mungos, had been since he finished his training about 6 months ago.
"Yah, I got caught again. Darn it, I think that he had set that trap up just for me. Well shall we finish our run together? I see the end of the woods nearby, and then it's just a short sprint back to the training center." Ginny and Luna were running towards the end of the woods laughing like the friends that they were. When they got back to the center, they were cooling down when the rest of the class showed up. They all changed into there suits and jumped into the pool for there laps before breakfast.
"The pool was a fun place to hang out during there off times, but it was also big enough for the whole class to do there laps at the same time. When they jumped in they made it a race to see who would get it done first. As it turned out, they all were finished about the same time, and were in the locker rooms showering and changing within an hour. They met up with Harry and Neville as they were leaving the locker room, and they all walked off towards the dining hall together. It seems that Harry and Ron were just getting done with there run at the same time that the girls were getting done with the swim. They were a year ahead of them in there training, and had the swim before the run themselves.
Ginny gave Harry a kiss and held his hand as they were walking there. "Hey Ron, where's Hermoine? Wasn't she with you guys on your run?" Hermoine Granger was Ron's girlfriend of a few years, and also in there training group. She was also one of Ginny's best friends.
"Oh she had been done for a while now, she said she had something that she wanted to look up before breakfast, so she went off ahead of us. Don't worry, we will be seeing her at breakfast I'm sure." Ron gave his little sister one of his patented lop-sided grins.
"Ok, so how did your guys run go today? Harry dear, did you ever get caught by the tickling trap while running before? I keep getting caught by it, and I don't know why." Ginny didn't want to let him know that the reason that she keeps getting caught was because she keeps thinking about him at the time.
"Oh I get caught by it every once in awhile, but I haven't been in about two weeks." Harry didn't say that the reason that he was being caught was because of her being on his mind, but it changed when he changed his times so he was there at a different time. "Maybe if you went by that spot at a different time it won't bother you anymore. You never know, it might help." Harry gave her another kiss as they were walking into the dining hall.
Breakfast was a healthy and nutritious one. They all sat together to eat, and when they were done, they went to there morning classes. They went together, because while there morning workouts were separate, there morning magic classes were together. They learned different types of curses and hexes. There teacher was none other than Nymphadora Tonks. When they walked in that day, she said hello to the class, and told them that they were going to be working on concealment charms that day. The class was some of the brightest in the center, and were picking it up rather quickly. When the class was over, she had asked Harry, Ron, Hermoine and Ginny to stay after for a few minutes.
"Wotchers guys, you are really picking these things up quickly. I have something to discuss with you all. I have been talking with Moody about putting together a group that are kind of like the muggle SWAT teams for special situations in the magical world. Well I have gotten permission to put the team together, and I have found that you four are the best in your class at everything. Plus you four work the best together, and I had decided to have you four along with Remus Lupin and myself as the Auror part of the team. There will also be four Hit Wizards that are part of the team. You also have been chosen because of your special abilities. You four are all ani-magi, Remus is a werewolf. I'm a metamorphagus, and the four hit wizards consist of two more metamorphaguses, another werewolf, and another ani-magi. So do you four want to join the group? If you do, you will be doing extra training after you all get done with your training for Aurors, and be assigned to me personally." Tonks looked at them with a twinkle that would put Dumbledore to shame.
"Sounds like fun Tonks, of course we will join." The four of them said at the same time. They spent the rest of their afternoon off going through what they would be learning with Tonks and the others, and just enjoying the company.
After dinner that night, they were learning stealth with Moody and Lupin. They were going into the different styles of fighting and stealth that was used. After class the four of them walked up to Remus and talked to him about this new training until they had to go to bed that night. They were all smiling as they settled down for the night.
