Chapter 9 : Private Lesson.
Harry woke the next morning, still happy from the day before. Today he felt that nothing could ruin his mood.
Harry got out of bed, got dressed and went downstairs to meet Hermione reading. He crept up behind her and scared her.
"HARRY, DON'T EVER DO THAT!" she snapped hands on her chest, breathing heavily.
"Sorry baby, can I still get a kiss?" he asked hopefully.
Hermione laughed and pulled Harry on top of her. They began to kiss passionately. They came up for air five minutes later.
Harry held Hermione in his arms whilst kissing her neck, then biting her ears gently.
"Harry you are really good at pleasuring a girl." said Hermione with her eyes closed.
Harry stopped and looked up at Hermione's now red face.
"Why thank you. I'll bare that in mind." said Harry softly.
Harry and Hermione kissed and hugged for about half an hour, before Ron came down and said they should be in the Hall for their timetables.
The trio joined Neville and Ginny walking down to the Great Hall. When they were on the marble staircase, he saw Draco. He looked depressed but when he saw Harry he smiled weakly. Harry smiled back, thinking of the previous nights conversations.
When they got into the Great Hall, they began eating breakfast. Ron like always was stuffing his mouth till it was bulging. Luna came over and sat next to Ron.
Ron swallowed heavily and smiled at Luna. Luna smiled back and began to snuggle into Ron's shoulder.
"So, what lessons we got today?" asked Ron grabbing a timetable from McGonagall who was passing them out.
"I got Herbology, Advanced Potions, Auror Training, Transfiguration and then Care of Magical Creatures." replied Harry looking down at his timetable. He was happy to see that this year, all of his lessons seemed to be enjoyable.
"How can you have Advanced Potions? That's not a lesson." asked Seamus with a smirk.
"I got an O+ in Potions. I have to have private Advanced Potions with Snape. I'm only the second person to ever get that sort of grade." replied Harry cleverly.
Hermione smiled and kissed Harry.
"What have you got babes?" he asked curiously.
"Herbology, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Advanced Runes, Transfiguration and Care of Magical Creatures." replied Hermione snuggling into Harry's chest.
Everyone spoke about their chosen subjects and discussed what they wanted to learn. After half an hour, Dumbledore stood up.
"Sixth years of Hogwarts, some of the staff have some issues to discuss. It involves lessons that we chose personally, for you." said Dumbledore calmly.
Everyone looked up and noticed that, Professor Sprout, Professor Snape, Professor Tonks, Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall had stood up. It was tiny Professor Flitwick that spoke first.
"All sixth years that have an O or above shall be learning Advanced Charms. If people have chosen this subject as one of their three extras, do not worry. What will be taught in Advanced Charms is completely different from what shall be taught in Master Charms. Advanced Charms is easier than Master Charms. All students shall share the same class, however will be learning different things." explained tiny Flitwick.
People muttered, most were interested. However a lot looked disappointed, they had obviously not received an O or above.
When Flitwick seated McGonagall spoke.
"My lesson shall be the same. Except people who received E or above shall learn harder work. This is also completely different from Master Transfiguration. All teachers here will say that if anyone has a high grade they shall be doing Advanced magic. All sixth years will have the five core subjects, all with higher grades will be more advanced." said McGonagall seriously.
After she sat down, Sprout also took a seat. Whilst Snape began to speak.
"I am not so happy to find that very few have gotten an O in my class. There is one record breaker in this year, Harry Potter, being the second person ever to get an O+ in Potions. This means I shall have private lessons with him and teach him potions all of you will never have the strength the brew. I believe that I have a very small class this year, the rest shall be doing basic potion making with Madame Pomfrey." sneered Snape with an evil smirk.
People whispered at this, they were either whispering on how Harry had gotten such good grades and that only a few people shall be able to take a real Potions class.
After silence had been gathered by the help of Dumbledore. Soon Tonks began to speak.
"My class shall be exactly like Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick and Professor Sprout's, however in my class, people who have O or above will have the opportunity to get an apprenticeship from the Ministry of Magic, for after school. The Auror Department is looking for more Aurors and will happily try to train and test students with the needed knowledge and talent. For more information on such things please come to my office, I will be more than happy to help." explained Tonks with a smile. She sat down and finished her breakfast.
People now began to mutter about the new lessons and wondered what the other opportunities were.
Harry and the rest of the sixth year all headed to Herbology. When they all entered Greenhouse three, they found all different plants lining the tables. All had students names attached to the plant.
Harry looked around and found that there was only four Devil Snare spread out. Harry walked around the room and noticed that his name was attached to one of the Devil Snare's. He smiled. He looked to his left and Hermione's name was also attached to a Devil Snare.
Hermione came over and smiled as she noticed that her and Harry will be working on the same thing.
When Professor Sprout came in, she beamed at the pupils and then got their attention.
"Quite please. There have only been four O or above students this year. Harry, Hermione, Neville and Susan. I would like the congratulate Miss Granger for getting an astonishing grade of O+. Now if you look at your plants, you will notice that some have easier than others. This is because of the different grades. Being the better the grade the more advanced. As you can see, the four students to get O or above have Devil Snare, one of the most difficult plants to control and care for." explained Professor Sprout.
After Professor Sprout had finished speaking, all the pupils had to draw the poison out of their plants. The Devil Snare had very little but very strong. Devil Snare can hold it's poison anywhere, so it's hard to extract with ease.
Hermione was the first to draw the poison, she used her wand to stop the plant from attacking her. Once she got the poison she handed it Professor Sprout who awarded Gryffindor twenty points and placed the poison in a special container.
Finally by the end of the class, everyone had extracted their poison and had been rewarded with house points.
Harry took five minutes to say goodbye to Hermione before heading to the dungeons for his private Potions class. When he arrived he found Snape sat at his desk.
"Come in Harry. This lesson is a theory I'm afraid. I will go through most Advanced Potions and how to brew them quicker than the books says. Firstly I would like to give you this book of Advanced Potions, in this you will be able to write the shortcuts on the blank pages." said Snape friendly, handing Harry a very thick book.
Harry opened and found descriptions of Advanced Potions. Ones that will do almost anything. There was two pages for each Potion, one with the description and then the other blank for notes.
Harry thanked Snape and then they both began going through one by one, all the Advanced Potions. Harry was shocked when Snape said that he knew a shortcut in making a Polyjuice Potion. He said that instead of it being made in a month, it can be made in a week.
After the lesson, Harry said bye to Snape and left the classroom. His brain was swimming with descriptions of Potions and how to make them easily.
Harry met up with Hermione, who had packed them a lunch so they could talk privately. She walked Harry over to the lake and sat down. They both ate together and then Hermione began to speak seriously but hopefully.
"Harry do you tend on staying with me for a long time?" asked Hermione hopefully. She didn't want them to split up, she wanted them to spend the rest of their lives together.
"Hermione, I intend on being with you forever." replied Harry staring her in the eyes. He cupped her cheeks and kissed her lips softly.
"Harry, do you think that we would get married and have a family of our own?" asked Hermione eagerly.
"After this war is ended, I promise you that we will get married and start a family. I want a child and I want to be married." said Harry seriously. "And I want it to be with you."
Hermione blushed and then jumped on Harry and began kissing him. They didn't realise that another couple were doing the exact thing on the other side of the lake.
"Luna how do you feel about marriage and kids?" asked Ron nervously.
Luna looked up from laying on Ron's chest and looked directly into his eyes. She looked happy at the thought.
"Ron I want kids, well only one I think. I also want to be married." replied Luna happily.
"How long do you hope our relationship will last?" asked Ron seriously.
"I would love more than anything for me to spend the rest of my life with you Ron. I fell in love with you the first time we met on the train. I was so nervous I couldn't help but laugh. I love you Ron." replied Luna softly.
"I ... I love you too." said Ron quietly. He leant down and kissed Luna softly.
"What you say that we start a family and life together, when Harry has saved the world again?" asked Ron with a smile.
Luna looked at Ron intently for a few minutes then she spoke.
"I would like that. Do you think Harry can defeat you-know-who?" asked Luna nervously.
"Luna you haven't seen how powerful he is. He's like a God. He has so many powers he doesn't know of. Dumbledore isn't even close to how powerful Harry is, and he knows it. Harry is the ultimate wizard, he is related to Merlin and is the heir of Gryffindor. You mustn't tell him about Merlin. He doesn't know yet. Dumbledore will tell him soon. Harry nearly blew up my house and would of killed about fifty people who was in it. It was my fault, I got him angry." said Ron quietly.
Luna for the first time ever, looked shocked. Her mouth was hanging open, as she thought about someone being that powerful. Then she smiled and felt hope that the world can be saved from evil. She had always doubted that it would happen, though now there was a person with the ability to do almost anything.
After lunch, everyone went to their lessons. Harry had Auror Training, Ron had Advanced Care of Magical Creatures and Hermione had Advanced Runes.
Auror Training wasn't what Harry had expected. The first lesson the few students had to listen to a big-headed Auror, who thought he knew everything. None of the students were able to have a say in anything, Harry could tell that their Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Tonks, was getting annoyed with the Auror.
The Auror began talking about Patronus' and he finally made a mistake.
"A Corporeal Patronus will take the form of a person's soul animal. Mine takes the shape of a fish. Patronus' can only be used when a Dementor has lowered it's hood." said the Auror.
"No a Patronus can be produced when ever needed. All is needed is a strong, happy memory or thought and the words, Expecto Patronum." said Harry smartly.
Harry noticed that Tonks was grinning at Harry putting the Auror in his place. The Auror looked extremely angry at being told his knowledge was incorrect.
"How would you know?" snapped the Auror. "Most people can't produce a Patronus, meaning a sixteen year old boy can't!"
"You are wrong there. You see Harry Potter here got such a high score on his O.W.L.'s that they nearly, ran out of grades to give him. He got an I+, I believe that he can do a lot more than yourself and many more people, including Dumbledore." said Tonks proudly.
The Aurors mouth was hanging open in shock. He quickly shut it to try and hide his surprise.
"As I said, Corporeal Patronus cannot be produced unless a Dementor has lowered it's hood." said the Auror firmly.
Harry got irritated by this and produced a Patronus, he directed his Stag formed Patronus around the room, before ending it.
"See and there is no Dementor. Nearly all sixth year and some other members of other years can produce a Corporeal Patronus." said Harry sternly.
The Auror looked amazed and furious. He looked at Harry then back at the place that Harry's Patronus had disappeared.
"Where did you learn it?" asked the Auror curiously.
"I taught everyone else, whilst I learnt from Professor Lupin." replied Harry who was saved from further explanation by the end of lesson bell.
He left the class laughing at the expression on the Aurors face. He headed straight to dinner, there was no Ron just Hermione.
"Hey babe, where's Ron?" asked Harry curiously, looking around the room for any sign of Ron.
"He is with Hagrid, helping him set up our lesson for this evening." replied Hermione simply, kissing Harry on the lips.
They both snuggled up with each other all through dinner. When the bell went, for the next lesson, they both walked to Transfiguration.
In Transfiguration, Professor McGonagall said that all sixth years will attempt to become an Animagus. Most of the sixth years headed down to Hagrid's hut to do their Care of Magical Creatures lesson.
Care of Magical Creatures went very well. There wasn't anything new to learn. They were introduced to a new Hippogriff. Hagrid said quietly to Harry and Hermione, that it was a female and that it was some company for Buckbeak.
When the lesson finished, everyone headed up to the castle and into the Great Hall for supper. Harry and Hermione once again began kissing and nibbling. Though he wasn't the only one. Ron and Luna was sharing their tongues, as were most of the older students.
"Harry I think we set a bad example." giggled Hermione kissing Harry.
After supper Harry tried to get Hermione to let him go to his private lesson, but she insisted that she wait for him.
"Hermione I don't know how long I will be. Why do you want to wait for me?" asked Harry holding Hermione by the waists.
"I can study outside. It's because I want to sleep in your bed tonight. I don't want to go in without you." replied Hermione blushing slightly.
Harry finally gave in and allowed Hermione wait for him, outside Dumbledore's office. When Harry faced the stone gargoyle that blocked the entrance to Dumbledore's office.
Some how Harry knew the password. It was as though someone had just told him and was still playing in his head.
"Liquorice Wands." said Harry uncertain.
The gargoyle moved aside and revealed a moving staircase, leading up to the office. Harry knocked and got asked to enter.
"Ah Harry so glad you could make it. Please take a seat." said Dumbledore pointing to a seat.
Harry looked to his left and noticed Snape sat in a chair.
"Hi Harry, my help is needed for the next two lessons." said Snape calmly.
"Yes, we thought that we could get you to be at the highest in Occlumency and Legilimency, before anything else. In two lessons we shall have you where you can enter and block anybody. This is also a first step to becoming able to control people." explained Dumbledore softly.
Harry nodded in agreement. He was going to learn how to read someone's mind and learn how to block anyone out.
"Now Harry, you need to concentrate on placing a thick steel wall around your head. This is what stops people from entering. You need to concentrate really hard on emptying your mind and clearing it of all thought." said Snape facing Harry.
"Sir I have a question. Once I have mastered Occlumency, will my mind automatically block out intruders?" asked Harry curiously.
Dumbledore nodded and smiled broadly. Then they continued. Snape was now giving regular tips and advice. Dumbledore had been stunned a few times from where Harry had blocked him out.
When the fourth hour of training came by, Harry looked at his watch and noticed it was eleven o'clock. Harry had been able to block Snape and Dumbledore from entering his mind several times.
"Harry we need to try without you knowing. To see if you have mastered it. Normally it would take an enormous amount of time to master Occlumency, however as it involves one of your powers, it will of been mastered by the end of tonight." said Dumbledore proudly.
Harry nodded he went to get his bag, as he thought it was end of their training session. As he sorted his bag out, he didn't know that Dumbledore and Snape had performed Legilimency on him. They did it without saying the words.
They tried three times and couldn't get into Harry's mind. They stopped as Harry turned around to say goodbye.
"I hope I've mastered it. You can try me in our next lesson. Will I be learning Legilimency?" asked Harry hopefully.
"Harry you have mastered Occlumency, me and Professor Snape have just tried Legilimency on you, we was pushed back out easily. Legilimency will be very easy for you. I daresay that Miss Granger will only have to wait half this time." chuckled Dumbledore happily.
Harry didn't know how Dumbledore knew about Hermione waiting, but he felt tired and worn out. So he said his goodbyes and left.
When he got outside he found Hermione asleep. He smiled as he looked at the peaceful girl sleeping soundlessly.
Harry tucked his arms underneath Hermione and carried her. She wrapped her arms around Harry and stayed sound asleep.
Harry had walked for a couple of minutes, in the direction of Gryffindor house. When he remembered that Dumbledore said that Harry was an advanced Apparator. He remembered that Dumbledore said Harry could apparate even in Hogwarts.
Harry tried and when he opened his eyes, he found himself standing in his dormitory. He placed Hermione on the bed and then got in himself.
Harry had the best night sleep he had ever had. He had no nightmare or burning scar. Just the feeling of Hermione snuggling up to him.
He smiled and fell asleep.
Another Chapter done. I will work on the next as soon as possible. Thanks.
