Disclaimer: It's my plot and Rowling's Character and everything. No money is being made (everyone knows that). And thanks to Doublepea() for the review. I changed milfoil to Malfoy, that was a typing error. And I got 'dint' to be change to 'didn't' in auto correct. Thanks again. I'm writing that here because I could not reply to anonymous review.
Harry Potter and The Prophecy As It Was
Chapter 7: Will he pass or not.
It was the morning of 24th day of July. The day on which Ron had his second and final shot at getting an apparition license. Naturally, Hermione was hysterical.
"Calm down Hermione, no point worrying. And I remember everything I need to. Its just three words after all. Destination, determination and deliberation." Ron said.
The previous day they had all visited Olivander's to get their wands. Once Hermione got her wand Olivander had asked her to seal the frozen surface and then they all had returned back home. Hermione had gone to the library to look up details on how to make a pensieve. Ron had been thankful that she had occupied herself with something else. She had made him go over the steps of apparition so many times that he had forgotten the count. Arthur Weasley arrived at the floo to take Ron to the ministry for his testing.
"Morning kids" Arthur greeted "Are you ready to go Ron?"
"Good morning Mr. Weasley" Harry and Hermione greeted him.
Ron got his robes. Shouted his bye to Ginny and Molly who were in the kitchen, and they shouted back to him.
"Good luck mate" Harry patted on his back.
"Thanks" Ron replied, and then stepped into the floo after Mr. Weasley.
Harry joined Molly and Ginny in the kitchen. "Molly could you teach me some of these house keeping spells" Harry asked.
"Of course dear. There are a few that you should perfect. First is pack, for packing your luggage. The spell itself is quite simple but you need to concentrate on all the things that must be put into the container in exactly the order that it must go in and arrange" she said "and don't think just because you can do all your spells perfectly you'll get this one. Take Tonks for example, even she can't get it straight and she's one of the best aurors there is. Then there is the healing charm, very useful. Episky to cure minor cuts and burns. There is consecio for chopping, the size of the chopped part depends on the decibel level when you say chant the spell. Here you can practice a bit on these onions" Molly said.
After several attempts at consecio and even a few Episky, Harry asked her "Molly how did you learn all these spells. Those which are not taught at Hogwarts" Harry asked.
"Harry dear, Hogwarts teaches you how to learn. When ever I needed anything I have been able to learn it. But what helped me a bit more is that my grandmother taught me Latin. I don't know much, but enough to understand spells." Molly replied.
"She worked as a spell creator in the ministry of magic you know" Ginny chipped in.
"Then why did you not teach it Ron and Ginny?" Harry asked.
"Oh I just never found time for it, I did teach bill but after that the house was always crowded with kids. May I should have" Molly sighed.
"Could you teach us now? Please!!" Harry pleaded "it would be very useful".
"Please mum" Ginny added.
"Oh alright" Molly said "it'll only take a few minutes from me, the rest you'll have to read up, but I could get you started."
By the time the three finished cooking the lunch, it was twelve. They set the table and had some tea while waiting for Ron and Arthur to return. Hermione came in through the floo carrying a stack of books taller than her and parchment tucked under her arm.
Harry rushed to take the load off her.
"Is there any book left in the library mione or did you carry the entire lot" Harry asked sarcastically. "Isn't there any restriction on the number of books one can borrow?"
"Not for newt level students but they have to returned within two days."
"So you are telling me that I spent an entire year worrying about issuing more than what is on my slot and pay fine, when I could have borrowed the library itself" Harry asked exasperated.
"Yes, that's what I'm telling you" Hermione replied "I would have told you about it, if you had not been stuck with your prince for more than half of the year"
"That is plain evil mione" Harry said "you have learned well from us".
"What did you research on" Ginny asked.
"I think we can make a pensieve, I will need more time though. Still a pensieve of our own is better than a borrowed one. People will be able to get the shadows of the memories we viewed out of the pensieve." Hermione answered "what's even more interesting was that in every text I read about pensieve making, the Ayer rock of Australia was mentioned. The Uluru as its called in its native tongue, is a magnetic mound located on a major planetary grid point. The Aborigines believe that there is hollow below the rock, and that there is an energy source that they call Tjukurpa, which means the dream time. So I can only deduce that they start viewing the memories and think they are dreaming. If we can study and replicate that place here we would be able to view memories. Ron would be able to rise a scaled down version of the rock and" Hermione stopped talking mid way through and noticed Harry signaling her and then realized that Molly was right there besides Ginny. In her excitement to explain the working of a pensieve she had forgotten that Molly had no idea about their elemental powers.
"Excuse us for a moment" Hermione pulled Harry to the kitchen. "I have been testing it out Harry, and it has worked, I don't know if I should try it on Molly for ethical reasons."
"Mione, stop fidgeting, what are you talking about." Harry asked Hermione.
"I can obliviate her. I don't know if I should, but if we don't then she is sworn to tell about it to the order, and we don't want that happening" Hermione was loosing her nerve again.
"What do you mean obliviate her, they don't teach it in school, I searched for it in the library last year, it wasn't there, how did you learn" Harry was getting agitated to.
"I'll tell you that later, it's amazing how we can control the body using our powers, but do we obliviate her now. When will Ron be back, we need to ask him and Ginny. We just can't tell her. It was different with Fred and George, they are not sworn to give every detail. I just told them that whatever it is must not reach the order and they dropped it off. How dumb am I, going on blabbering like that" Hermione was now pacing up and down the kitchen.
"Let's just go there and wait for Ron to come back and then we'll talk to him. Ok. And you took Fred and George's word. Just calm down. Everything will be fine" Harry led her out of the kitchen
A few minutes later Ron came in through the floo and Hermione pounced on him. She started dragging him into the kitchen. Molly was still wondering what all the fuss was about.
"Mione! It was just an apparition license test" Ron was protesting even though he was quite overjoyed about being dragged into the kitchen.
"Good Ron! But it's not that, I made a huge mistake" and then she related the entire story to him.
"It's not that bad" Ron said "if you can fix it, then its good"
"But it's unethical Ron" Hermione said.
"I know Mione, but the situation calls for us to take appropriate action, would you rather have a spy in the order hear of it or the order using us for their small planned night strolls" Ron argued.
"Well when you put it that way" Hermione started.
"Listen Mione, we are trying to protect her, let's do this before dad comes back from office." Ron said and they both returned to the living room where Molly was continuing to read witch weekly.
"Molly, I'm sorry I'm having to do this, but it's for your own good" Hermione said, but Molly did not answer back.
"What's wrong with her" Ginny cried.
They all stood in shock for some time when Harry moved near Molly and sensed the air around her. "It's my fault, I did not want her to move from her position till we came to a conclusion, I think in the excitement about everything I just did not realize that I put her into an induced sleep. I can't understand how I did it though, the air around her ears and mouth feel light, it's not the air we breathe. But I suggest that you modify her memory before we wake her up again." Harry said.
Soon Molly was up and Ron had to pretend like he just entered in through the floo, Ginny guided the flames to look like the green flames in the floo network. Once all the celebration on Ron's license was over they went up to Ron's room and Hermione continued the theory behind pensieve making. She concluded saying "between the four of us, I don't think there will be much of a trouble. I'll research it when I go there over the next week."
"What's wrong Mione, are you alright? What is it that is bothering you, don't you want to go with your parents" Ginny asked.
Hermione sighed "we have been having such a wonderful time for the past one week that we have forgotten the real situation. When I go to Australia with them, I am not going for a tour, I am going there so that I can get them settled there. I don't want them here until the war is over. I am going to obliviate them, so that they don't remember me at all. That way they will be safe. I'll be able to reverse it when it's all over, but till then will be very painful." She had tears in her eyes.
Harry put a hand around her shoulder and held her firmly. "It will be over soon Mione."
"Yes, I know" she answered "Now to answer your question Harry, while I was trying to get hold of the memory charm, I flipped through our book and it said that elementals had ways to work on living beings. Memory is basically the communication between different sections of the brain cells."
"Do you mean we have cells in our brain to keep memories in captured" Ginny asked.
"No Ginny, not those cells, we'll have to study a lot about Human body to master this. Maybe we could ask someone to get us a healer's manual. But anyways, when I alter the flow of water in the brain, the person losses the contact to a certain portions of the brain in which the memory was stored. Similarly, Ron can control the flow of salts to alter memories and perception, Harry like he demonstrated a while back controls the body movement, and can cause hallucination, meaning a feeling of a false surrounding and from what I gathered from the text, it was very obscure" she added "Ginny can control life. The statement in the book was that she controls the spark of life. Most philosophers believe fire to be the element that is closest to having a life of it's own. It's born, it grows, it feeds, and it dies. The soul in sentinel beings is made of the spark of life. You can control that"
"Then our work is really simple isn't it? Ginny can take the life out of every horcrux and Voldemort. Everything will be over, we just need to find the horcrux." Harry asked excitedly.
"I don't think so Harry, every action of ours has consequences. Why do you think we got these powers?" Hermione asked.
"To defeat Voldemort" Harry answered.
"Partially that is true. We have been given these powers to keep the elements in balance. Voldemort has been destroying the balance, therefore it's our responsibility to stop him" she said.
"So where's the problem in it" Ron asked.
"Every time we use our powers an imbalance is created which takes a long time to come to equilibrium. When I summoned the rain storms, I did not realize that some other part of the world had an instant desertification. When Harry summoned the winds, there were blizzards and twisters elsewhere to cover up for the depressions in pressure. When Ginny calls on the fire, the core of the earth goes cold for some time, she require the heat generated by 2 burning willow tree to be summoned to light a match, because it takes that much energy for the fire to reach her from the earth's core and when Ron creates a mountain here an equal sized depression is formed somewhere. Thankfully it was in the ocean last time you caused a tremor" Hermione said. "I think we better stick to usual magic to fight Voldemort until the last moment at least" she concluded.
"So that effectively brings down all our adventures to a stop" Ginny said "Let's go down, mom promised to teach us spell creation."
"Wow, I've heard a lot about it from bill, apparently she taught him everything that he knows today and he still consults her over a lot of stuff" Ron added.
Soon they were all gathered around Molly for their lesson. She brought out her old Latin books and spell grammar book.
"Is that all mom" Ron asked.
"There is never an end to learning languages, but this should be sufficient enough for you to understand all existing spells. Once you are done with these you can come to me I'll give you more. Now, Lets start" she said "the good part about spell creation is that you have to learn only nouns and verbs. There are four types of spells. Those which are unique that is a single word spells for example Nox, Alohomaora, Colloportus which don't need any suffix to along with the verb. The noun in it is implicit. Most of the spells fall into this category. The second kind is where two words are used, at least one of the words has to be a verb. The second word can be used to either direct the spell at an object for example Scarpin's Revelaspell, Specialis Revelio it's function is to reveal, specialis directs the spells at only those objects which are hidden from the spell caster. Then there are spells like Wingardium Leviosa. Wingardium is the verb, which means fly high, leviosa is the means to achieve the desired result. That is, how should the object fly high? By becoming lighter than the air. Then there are spells like avada kedavra, which comes from abracadabraoriginally from Aramaic meaning let the thing be destroyed, originally used as a means of healing, it's still used by healers, under dire circumstance. It depends on the intention of the caster. That is why you need hatred toward the person you are casting it on. And the last is when a verb is used along with an adverb, like lumos maximus, where maximus is to increase the intensity, similarly heat control spells you use in the potions lab." She paused for Hermione to finish taking the notes.
"The next are the spells with three, four or sometimes even five words. Generally there are two nouns in both these types. But it can also be maximus or minima. Like Peskipiksi Pesternomi which is a conjunction of five words. Pesky meaning annoying, pixie meaning the being itself, pester meaning to annoy, no for negative and me for the first person pronoun. And the last are the most complicated because they are enchantments derived from elfish language and we still don't understand their language, they have kept it a close secret. Those are verses that very few understood. Dumbledore and Flitwick understood it. Like the fidelius charm. Lily was very good at it. She had befriended all the Potter house elves and learnt a lot from them. They had extracted a promise from her to not reveal the structure of their language. She was an auror for a year before she joined the department of mysteries." Molly concluded "Well that's about all. Come to me if you have doubts"
"Did you know my mother" Harry asked her,
"Not well dear, she was the head girl when Bill was in his first year and I got to hear a lot about her from him. She really had to look after him I guess. What with your dad wanting to rag the first years. And then we ran into each other when I went to the ministry for spell detection or creation. She was very good at charms work, she didn't fancy curses much which is why she resigned from DMLE. But she was good at that too, she was one of the few who had openly challenged you-know-who" she looked at Harry for a moment and then added "Don't look at me like that, fine, Voldemort" she said hesitantly. The day you got that scar your parents were greatly outnumbered. Seven to two. I think your parents had planned it that way, that your father will hold them back till your mother is able to transfer the blood protection. It was a series of spells she had been working on ever since she heard the prophecy. No one else knew about it, she did not want Voldemort to get to know anything about it. These are the only type of spells that Voldemort is unaware of because no being would share such knowledge with him. We know that from Severus, even though his death eaters are competent enough. They either torture their elves to teach them or the elves themselves are so committed to the families that they are unable to refuse" She answered.
"Then we must learn that too" Hermione said.
"It's not that easy" Molly answered "elfish enchantments vary from person to person. The spell used by me to cast fidelius charm would be different from the one that any other would cast, even though the effect would be the same. One needs to be trained by elves to be able to cast it." Molly answered.
"What other enchantments fall into this category" Hermione asked.
"There a few that you may have heard of. The supersensory charm, Taboo, Fiendfyre." Molly was listing out.
"What was that last one" Ginny asked.
"The fiendfyre curse dear, the curse causes to animate the fire to grow into a beast and destroy the enemy of the caster. The fame chases the enemy consuming everything on its way and growing in heat and size until the enemy is dead or if a barrier is created through which not even air can pass." Molly answered "I better get back to the kitchen and start preparing the supper, I am sure you'll all feel hungry after clamming up so much at once. Feel free to ask me if you have any doubts, I'll try to help as much as I can"
It was 7 when Molly called them for dinner.
While having their dinner, Ron suddenly remembered his apparition license test.
"No one even asked me about the test. You remember I had gone to the ministry to take the test" Ron asked a bit sarcastically.
"There's not much that you can't do Ron, we knew you would pass. I'm sure the dust helped you out." Harry said as he winked at him.
"Well, I passed. There is no need to congratulate me" he said with a huff "and no, the dust did not help me" he whispered into Ginny's ears "It only brought my left ear back to me. That's all, don't tell Mione"
Soon they finished dinner and Harry and Hermione portkeyed back to Harry's room.
A/N:
Hello people!!
I am going to strive to keep each chapter's length around 3000. I realized chapters longer than that get a bit boring. I'll skip to 31st July in the next chapter. Lots will happen in it and the 9th chapter. Please let me know if I missed out any spell type. Sorry about the spelling issues, I try my best to be careful but I am not able to see my own mistakes.
Please review. Flames are ok too, I will learn from it (sounds desperate doesn't it).
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