Chapter 10
Silent world
Harry went to place the dream enhancer back where it belongs so he could see Sirus, his Mom, and Remus, but Ginny wanted to do something else and he didn't argue with her. He wanted to escape for all of this abnormality and find some familiar ground. He at least knew how his dreams were and being there with Ginny had become normality in his life. They had shared their dreams for a little over a month now and it was comforting to go back to them. He would fall asleep and fool around with Ginny then everything would be back to normal. The only problem was that when Harry woke up the world around him was still stuck in time. Time had no motion and everything had been the same as when they went to sleep. Luna was still standing over the couch and Ron still had a look of trying to reason on his face. Hermione was sitting on the couch looking at the place that they had once stood. Time simply had not moved. Harry sat down expecting to see something happen, some movement but nothing happened. Ginny walked in and was just as shocked as Harry was. They had frozen time and didn't know when it would return to normal. What had they done, or more importantly how did they do what they did. Ginny sat down next to Harry and neither one of them said anything for a while. They would have to wait it out. The only problem was they where getting hungry and there wasn't anyway that they could see to get some food. Their minds were still connected and as silent as their mouths were being they were panicking in their heads. The only one who had answers to their questions was frozen in time. They sat there for a few more minutes and then decided that they could walk around the school a little bit. They had to force the portrait open but they still managed it.
They headed down to the Great Hall and realized that they must have forgotten that they left from dinner and froze time during it. They could actually get some food from the Great Hall feast. It was technically from the night before but since no time had actually passed it was not old at all. They ate what they could, there still being quite a bit of food left over. Once they were content enough to leave still feeling a bit disoriented they walked around the school looking for something to do until time flowed normally again. The school was a lot less enjoyable when it was quiet though and things to do outside of motion were very limited. Their nerves were a bit shaken and their stomachs a bit queasy. They walked down the corridors leading to the room of requirement only that door wouldn't show up for them so the idea of using that room was out. Some room of requirement it doesn't show up when they really needed it. The only thing for them to actually do was head up to the common room and grab their brooms. Once they got them they went down to the quidditch field and flew around for a while.
It was bliss not to have to think about anything. Flying just let their minds concentrate on the world around them. There was no wind and no anything at all. It would have been perfect weather to fly had there actually been some sort of weather. It was neither warm nor cold. It just felt like it was there. Harry spent most of his time chasing Ginny and having her chase him. He let her catch him most of the time because he knew that she couldn't touch his broom if he didn't want her to. They flew around the pitch and didn't have a worry in their minds. Free to do as they pleased. Harry dove down to the ground and Ginny followed after him. She was determined to catch him it was all that mattered at the moment. Her broom wasn't as fast as his was but she still caught up to him. They both knew that he was the better flier of the two and that he was going easy to let her stand some what of a chance. His broom was just to fast.
Ginny caught Harry but when she made a motion to tag him he grabbed her and they both slowed down. Ginny catching what he was thinking of doing tackled him off his broom. They fell the remaining few feet to the soft ground. She landed on Harry and began to kiss him before he could retaliate. Harry leaned into the kiss and moved his hands down towards her navel. She allowed him to sweep his hands across her belly but then jumped when he began to tickle her. She got up and started to run away but he caught her hand and pulled he back down to him. He began tickling her again and she squirmed trying to get free of his grip. It was really no use because half of her didn't want to get away from him. She was both pleasantly annoyed and turned on at the same time. She again leaned forward and kissed him. He stopped tickling her and moved his hands behind her head. She pressed into him forcing him to lay back.
"Harry," She started but he didn't have to go to far with what she was saying, Harry already knew what she wanted from him.
"I cant," He said and she didn't argue with him she knew that they were not ready to experience that outside of the dream world yet and besides the dreaming experience was really good at the moment. Ginny pressed herself into him and began kissing deeper. She still wanted to go through with it or at least her body did and it couldn't help ignore her mind. Harry pressed into her until there was no more room in between them. His hands followed down her to the small of her back where they rested. The curves of her body turned every part of him on. He was more than in the mood but he still knew that he wasn't ready to do that yet. This was as close as he had been to actual bliss as he could remember. He was in his sixth year and with a girl that he more than loved.
They finished up rather quickly and decided to head back to the castle. Time had still not returned to any part of normal. It still didn't move. The picture in front of the common room hung opened from when they left the first time. Harry could help but think how funny it was going to be when time did return. The picture was going to be very confused about what was going on and Ron was in the middle of a sentence. They were not going to be where they were when he started it. Luna was in the common room and she would be just as freaked out when time returned to normal. Harry ran up to his room to put up his broom and walked back down to see what Ginny was doing. She was humming in his head and he couldn't make out anymore than that in his head. When he returned to the common room he found her moving Luna closer to Ron. She really was as bad as the twins. It is a wonder that they made her prefect.
"Thanks Harry, good to know that you feel that way." She rolled her eyes at him and then started to laugh. He laughed a bit also because he knew that he probably did offend her a bit. He forgot about the link for a bit.
"Harry are you going to help me or not."
"Sure." Harry walked over to her and helped move Luna closer to Ron. They placed her hands on his side and straightened her legs out so she was standing. It was a bit harsh to do this to their friends but they didn't have anything else to do. Once they had moved everyone in the common room to a different position they sat down to wait until time would start again. They sat for what felt like an hour talking to each other about how weird it was to see this. About how weird it looked to see everyone petrified. Harry made a motion towards the door, looked back laughed with Ginny as he looked at Ron and Luna, then asked her if she would join him in the Great Hall. He was hungry and he knew that she must be as well. They entered the Great Hall and ate the same thing again. It still had no heat but at the same time it was not cold it was just there. They ate until they were full this time making sure they took food from different plates so they didn't interrupt anyone's meal. It's not that it wouldn't be funny its just that afterwards they would probably feel sorry for the people around the plates that they ate off of if there was nothing left in them.
The meal while still enjoyable was not great. The problem was that it was getting old eating the same thing over again. Hopefully this wont last that long. They left the Great Hall in search of something to do. When they could not think of anything else to do they decided on their homework. It would at least keep them busy. Harry started in on his astronomy paper. It wasn't as interesting to find the details on spatial matter but it still beat potions hands down. He found it rather easy to find the details of his astronomy paper that he needed. It was probably the fact that he rarely ever did his homework without a distraction. His paper was about how untangible matter revolves around the magical energy and its connection to tangible matter. He had to prove that magical energy had something to do with creating the universe. He finished his paper after what felt like hours. There was no way to tell how long they had actually spent but it felt like they had frozen time twenty-four hours ago. They decided to head down to the Great Hall and eat. Their private universe had actually become a private hall where they could see all of their friends but not interact with them.
They ate very small amounts of food trying to cope with the feeling of loneliness that they now experienced. They missed Ron, Hermione, Neville, and Luna. It's not that they hated being around each other they just needed other people to interact with. It just wasn't the same without other people. They finished their meals and walked slowly up the stairs through the open picture of the fat lady and up to Harry's bed. With everyone frozen they could actually sleep in the same bed. Had the circumstances been different they might have been a bit more excited about sleeping in the same bed. But they just missed people. Harry's mind wondered over to the dream enhancer. Would it still work in the absence of time? Or would it be frozen in time with everything else. The only way to find out was to try it. Harry positioned it to let their dreams enter the spiritual world. Ginny had already lied down in bed her mind wondering if she would ever see her mom and dad again. She didn't know exactly where they were. Harry laid down next to her not sure as to what to say to assure her that she would see them again because he honestly didn't know. She leaned up against his chest and he wrapped his arms around her. She allowed herself to drift asleep.
They found themselves in the white room thinking of Sirus, Lily, and Remus. They appeared just as fast as they thought of them. Before a hello was ever mentioned Harry and Ginny broke down in an explanation about what was going on the past few days. How they had broke through the Anti-disapparating jinx that was placed on Hogwarts. How they destroyed Dumbledores office. How they stopped time.
"How long has time been stopped," Lupin cut in.
"Its hard to tell about twenty-four hours maybe a bit more."
"This isn't good Remus do you know how they can reverse it."
"No Lily I don't."
"How is this happening."
"Well Sirus Dumbledore says that as our powers are growing our controls over them are weakening. We just don't know what to think anymore."
"No I expect not. Harry listen to me." What ever Sirus wanted them to listen to however would have to wait until next visit because Harry and Ginny woke up in bed. Had time been moving they would have guessed that only a couple of hours had passed but there was no real way to know that. They walked down to the common room and sat on the couch where Luna had been sitting before they had moved her.
"The thing about that is Ginny where did you go." Ron had started to talk. The whole common room had in fact started to talk. Harry and Ginny jumped up. Ron was looking at Luna who had not let go of her hold on his side. They walked over to Ron and Ginny hugged him.
"What's wrong with you Ginny you act like you haven't seen me for a while."
"We haven't."
"I'll explain later ok Ron." Ron looked at Harry and then nodded in agreement. Luna still had Ron's side and neither of them seemed to mind it. Harry grinned at Ginny and said in her head a comment about Luna's hand on Ron's side. The rest of the common room was confused because things had just moved and they were not in the same place that they had been before. Harry looked around the common room beaming that he didn't have to spend the rest off eternity like that. Harry and Ginny told the rest of the group that they needed to find Dumbledore and ask him some questions. They headed for the door and down to the Great Hall. The headmaster had been in there frozen in time just as everyone else had been. They walked through the now noisy Great Hall and up to the teacher's table.
"Professor Dumbledore, can we have a word with you."
"Mr. Potter, Ms. Weasley is everything alright."
"Yes professor McGonagall we just need a word with the head master."
"Well cant it wait until he is finished eating."
"I suppose it can professor."
"Very well then head up to his office and he will be with you shortly."
"Yes professor."
"Professor McGonagall will you accompany us to my office this might be better if you knew about it as well." Professor Dumbledore looked into Harry's eyes and he knew that it was probably for the best if she did know. They both put down their forks having only been holding them because their conversation had distracted them from remembering that they had them. They both got up and escorted Harry and Ginny to Dumbledore's office. They walked up the stairs in his office and through the door. Professor Dumbledore drew some chairs for Harry, Ginny, and Professor McGonagall to sit in. Harry sat down then immediately went into an explanation of how they stopped time for a little over twenty-four hours and that they seemed to be losing control. They broke through the Anti-disapparating charm on the school and landed at the ministry of magic blew apart this office and before they could explain to anyone what happened time froze and they spent the last day in it.
"Harry calm down there isn't anything that we can do right now I tried to have you two control this but it was unsuccessful. All we can do now is keep trying to get both of you two to gain control of this."
"Professor gain control of what and what does Ms. Weasley have to do with this."
"Professor McGonagall there will be time for explanation later on. Harry I am going to have to ask you both to stop in tomorrow after the D.A.'s meeting is that ok with the two of you."
"Yes professor we will be here."
"Good for now we will give you a dreamless potion and send you back to the common room. Please take the potion we have to control this before you two get stuck outside of time." Harry and Ginny left the room and went back to the common room. Luna was still there and she and Ron stopped them to ask questions. Hermione was buried in her books and looking kind of mad at something.
"What's Hermione's problem."
"Well she said that the only reason that I am dating Luna is because I am trying to make her jealous. Anyways what happened today. Why did you need to go see Dumbledore."
"Well we stopped Time for about a day and we broke the anti-disaaparating jinx on the castle."
"You what Harry that cant be done."
"Hermione I know that its not supposed to happen but we did it. When I left charms today Ginny and I apparated to the ministry of magic. Fudge questioned us then we came back here. Didn't you wonder what happened to me."
"Yeah but we just figured that you stopped time by accident and then talked to Dumbledore."
"Well we did stop time but not at that time. Do you guys mind if we get some sleep we are kind of tired we didn't have that much sleep and we have been up longer than you, technically." Harry kissed Ginny good night and walked up to his dorm. She went up to hers feeling just as exhausted as he did. He took the sleep potion and was asleep before he could bother changing and fell right to sleep.
Harry awoke the next morning to find a note from professor Dumbledore at his bedside table. He picked it up and read it.
Harry
You and Ginny need to see me and professor McGonagall in my office after breakfast.
Professor Dumbledore.
Harry changed his clothes and went to meet up with Ginny. Ron was still asleep seeing that it was still kind of early and he didn't need to be up for another hour. Harry knew that Ginny had got the same letter as he did. He could hear her reading it as he walked down the steps of the dormitory.
'Ginny come on lets go down and get something to eat. Then we can find out what they want with us. Hopefully they found out something that will help us control this.' Ginny was dressed and down in the common room under five minutes. They walked down to the Great Hall and ate a rather big breakfast feeling very thankful that it wasn't the same meal they had to eat the last four meals. The food tasted like it was suppose to. It didn't have a lack of temperature or a lack of flavor. It looked great and tasted great.
After they had finished their meal they went up to Dumbledore's office gave the password to get pass the Gargoyle Climbed the steps and knocked on the door.
"Enter." They walked through the door and sat in the chairs by his desk. They had already been made seeing as they were expecting Harry and Ginny to show up. Dumbledore looked up at Harry and smiled at him. Professor McGonagall was standing behind him looking rather concerned.
"So Harry, Ginny we think we might have a solution that will keep your power under your control. It is going to be hard on you both. We will be informing your teachers about this and they will do everything in their power to help us out. We need to keep you both actively casting difficult spells until you learn to control it. We will try and help you to feel what you are suppose to feel but we cant promise much. Right now its the only thing we can do."
"Professor I don't understand the last time we tried this we blew your office apart. How is this going to help us."
"Harry your just going to have to trust Professor McGonagall and I on this one."
"Yeah but we could cause some serious damage here."
"Yes that is a possibility but it wont be anything that I cant repair. My office is back to the way it was before and we will do every thing in our power to see to it that no harm comes to your fellow classmates."
"What do you mean we could hurt someone."
"Well yes that is a possibility that that could happen but."
"Professor McGonagall, we wont let that happen we will take extra precautions. They want practice anything that could hurt someone while their classmates are around. We will try our hardest to make sure that they are protected. Harry, Ginny you two may leave now." Harry and Ginny got up and walked out of the office. They were both scared what if there wasn't anything that Dumbledore could do. What if they did end up hurting someone in the castle. Could they live with that knowing that they hurt someone, possibly someone that they would know and care about like Ron or Hermione. They needed to control this because even if they didn't do what professor Dumbledore wanted them to do there was still a risk of them doing something that they couldn't control. What would happen when they studied more on the killing curse in Defense against the dark arts. Would they do that without knowing they did.
Class was about to start and Harry needed to get to his. They stopped outside of Ginny's class and he kissed her goodbye. He was risking being late for History of magic and he was actually starting to enjoy the lessons. They where not as boring as learning about goblin riots or other magical history that was so far back it really didn't have anything to do with him. He wasn't going to make the same mistakes that they made in the past. It wasn't that he needed to know what they had done wrong it was just that others didn't treat them with respect. However the lessons that they are studying now are interesting. The only bad thing that he has to deal with in the class so far is when professor Binns mentioned his name as the one who had stopped him before. How everyone would look at him with applause and hope. He knew that if anyone would be the one that would defeat him once and for all it would be him. The weight of the world was on his shoulders.
He ran to his next class and made it to his seat as the bell signaled the start of the lesson. Ron and Hermione gave him a weird look when he sat down. He was out of breath and they hadn't seen him since last night.
"Where have you been."
"Just got out of professor Dumbledore's office Hermione. He wanted to see Ginny and I this morning to discuss controlling our little problem. We think that it is a good idea to try to control it you know we don't want any accidents to happen around you two now do we."
"Good well I hope that there aren't any accidents around us because that would be very unfortunate." Harry glared at her trying to see weather she had been serious or just poking fun at him. He couldn't tell what her meaning was in this. She focused her attention on the lesson that had already started. Professor Binns wasn't one to make sure that everyone was listening while he started to teach. He didn't even seem to notice that they were not listening, as usual, to his lesson.
Professor Binns went on about how Voldemort had started to gain power describing the fear that he and his death eaters had produced throughout their run. They were building their army up to go to war against everyone that wasn't with him. He started to touch on Voldemort's childhood and how his father was a muggle and how he abandoned him and his mother when he found out. About how his mind portrayed the muggle existence through his father and how through a lack of love he seemed to over look its power and ultimately meet his downfall by it. He collected the assignment that was last given to them and assigned a new one. It was a much more involved essay about the death eaters and how they quickly gained power, and how the ministry of magic ignored them as a threat. Voldemort was no more than a leader of a weak group of followers to them nothing that would show much of a resistance to them. Harry wrote down the assignment and walked out of the room to lunch. Ginny was already there eating with Luna who was sitting at the Gryffindor table again.
"You know Luna you keep sitting over at this table and the school is going to think that you want to be in Gryffindor rather than Ravenclaw.
"Harry that wouldn't bother me you know. Just as long as they don't think that I am in Slytherin. That would be awful."
"Yeah well I suppose that you are just waiting for your boy-friend huh."
"Shut-up Ginny."
"Make me shut-up Luna. So you and my brother." Harry smiled at her attempts to make Ron and Luna blush but wouldn't smile about it because Hermione was looking a bit annoyed. Harry sat next to her and leaned close to ask her why she cared so much.
"I don't care its just that he is only dating her to make me jealous."
"And is it working."
"No."
"Obviously it isn't."
"What's that suppose to mean."
"Nothing." Harry grinned and looked away from her. Ginny started to laugh having heard everything that they had said and looked at Luna pretending to have been laughing at something that she said. Luna gave her a look and said something about how everyone calls her weird.
Lunch was over quickly and everyone seemed to be a bit more tense then when they showed up. Hermione and Harry walked to their next potions class. When they arrived there Hermione was told to sit in the front so she couldn't help out Harry. The next potion that they had to do was another truth serum. It was a bit more complicated then the last one but still not as bad as Veritaserum. He finished the potion and the liquid in the vile looked like it was supposed to. Luckily Ginny could communicate with him in the back of his head because he could talk to her when Snape would walk over and make rude comments about how he should not be in this class and how his potion lacked the qualities of a real truth serum. Snape's loathing for Harry while it normally increased through every year had reached an all time high. Every time Snape looked at Harry his lips would mouth silent curses towards him. Nothing happened to Harry though and this seemed to annoy him even more. When Harry brought up his potion to hand in Snape dropped it but Harry who had already had experience with him trying to get excuses to fail him had placed an unbreakable curse on all of his vile. Snape placed his vile with the rest of them setting it down really hard wanting it to break. It didn't. When Harry left the class he could have sworn he saw him trying to break the jar and then leaving it on his desk while putting the rest away.
"This isn't fair why doesn't he at least give me a chance in his class. I don't expect him to like me, I don't even want him to like me, but I do want him to treat me as fairly as everyone else in the class. He didn't even seem to want to grade my potion and I know that I did a better job than my usual standards." Harry and Ginny rushed through their meal and headed up to the common room to meet up with Tonks. They had to go through with the D.A. meeting tonight and they were not looking forward to it.
The met up with her and took her to the room of requirement. The room was set up for the meetings just like it always was. Tonks walked over to the bookshelf and picked up a book on protection spells. The knew the basic ones but she wanted them to learn a few harder ones that when learned properly could make their reaction times quicker for blocking.
"I don't expect very many of you to get these spell," she addressed the group noticing that they were now in the room. "Now what I want you to do is concentrate on the surrounding room and all of the noises in it. The incantation is counterago."
"Counterago," the room chimed back. Harry's wand vibrated.
"Now I am going to give you a demonstration, Harry if you will cast a curse at me and then move out of the way I will reflect it back."
"Expeliarmus." A flash of light flew from his wand but he didn't move.
"Counterago." The spell stopped in midair and reflected back at Harry. It hit him and he was sent backwards his wand flew out of his hands.
"Harry I said to move out of the way you know I didn't want you to get hit by the spell."
"That's ok I only used a disarming curse."
"Treat every curse like it is deadly."
"Ok."
"So now lets see what you can do with this curse."
"Ok I'll try it."
"Well I don't expect you to get it on your first try but I want to see some progress by the end of the lesson."
"Ok I am ready."
"Expeliarmus." A flash of light flew from her wand.
"Counterago." The spell headed backwards with such speed that Tonks couldn't do anything but let it hit her. Her wand flew from her hands and she landed on the floor.
"Harry that was amazing you shouldn't have been able to do that at all not to mention with that force behind it."
"Well its weird but I'll explain when we are done here."
"Alright everyone pair up with someone."
Harry and Ginny paired up and they were about to start when the door opened and Professor Krum walked in. He closed the door behind him and then apologized for being late.
"I didn't know you were going to show up professor."
"Well Harry I was told about these meetings by Hermione and I told her that I would show up tonight."
"Well that's alright I guess." Krum walked over to Hermione and partnered up with her before she could partner up with anyone else. Ginny and Harry started to practice the charm. The first curse that Harry sent at Ginny was reflected back at him and then he reflected it back at her until the light from the curse was standing still in the middle of the room. They had both executed the curse and where pouring energy into it trying to reflect it back but it wasn't moving. The room around them began to vibrate and everyone stopped what they were doing to watch Harry and Ginny. The room shook more violently until Harry and Ginny realized it and stopped. The curse stood where it was it didn't move. The shaking stopped and Tonks dismissed the class.
"Harry, Ginny come here for a second I need to speak with you." Tonks looked a bit frightened when she asked them that but still spoke very calmly.
"What is it Tonks." She asked them to explain what they wanted to wait until the end of the lesson. They began telling her how their magical abilities began to grow and how their control over them had weakened. They stopped time for a day and blew up Dumbledore's office and broke through the anti-disapparating jinx on the castle. Tonks seemed to be in shock. She had never heard of anyone doing half of the thing that they are doing now and she knew some powerful aurors.
"Harry, Ginny what's happening between you two. You seem a bit different then last year. You don't even feel like the same people."
"Well we don't know."
"Ok well are you ready for some more training." No one looked thrilled about it but everyone knew that it was coming. Everyone except Krum who had stuck around because of Hermione. Once they filled in Krum on the details he was all for it. He knew that it was going to hurt but he knew that the training would be a good thing to do.
"Are we ready Harry step up here your first." Harry walked up feeling both shaken and confident.
"Ok I am ready Tonks."
"Crucio." The red light climbed out of her wand and raced towards Harry. He made his body go limp and focused on forcing the counter curse he needed to reach into himself and pull out his courage. Once he found it he muttered the counter curse just as the spell hit his body. Nothing happened to him he didn't hurt or feel anything. His mind was focused and his body free to move. There were no knifes slashing his skin or white-hot pokers sinking into his body. He felt normal.
"You did it Harry I didn't think that you would have any difficulties with this spell. In fact if Ginny doesn't throw it off then I would be shocked." Her face showed no pleasure that he had thrown off the curse. She didn't even seem to care that he did. Ginny got up and he noticed the same expression when she threw it off the first time. She seemed like she just didn't care that the had done anything. After Harry and Ginny's quick demonstration of how to throw it off she moved on to Ron.
"Ready," she said.
"Yeah."
"Crucio." Harry could see Ron tense up at the last second but noticed that he still managed to throw most of it off. Unfortunately the curse didn't require much of it to hit you to hurt you. Luna and Neville had the same results as Ron did. They just seemed to be too scared of the curse to stop it completely. She called up Krum after Neville was done and asked if he was ready.
"Vell I Tink I am."
"Crucio." The light stretch out after him and he moved his arm. The movement wouldn't allow him to throw it of completely but he did manage to get it down to a slight tickling sensation. He told her that he had had previous practice on this curse but wasn't very good with wandless magic. Hermione was next.
"Ready."
"Yes."
"Crucio." The light moved towards her and just before it hit her she blinked. It caused the same effect that happened with Krum only it was a stronger tickling and she ended up tensing up from it. The spell, which had not completely passed through her, hit her with full force when she lost sight of what she was doing. The tickling turned into a burning and then Hermione passed out. Tonks let up and revived her. She was spasming and turned herself over to vomit.
"What happened."
"You let up on the counter curse you broke your concentration and got hit with the full force of the spell from within yourself. It was more powerful that way."
"I didn't know that that could happen."
"Yeah well be careful Hermione you don't want to get to hurt. But you did make progress you see that is where I expected Harry and Ginny to go to tonight but I changed my mind after I saw them with the blocking charm holding a disarming charm between them. I think we should call it a night and get you back to the common room."
"Tonks Harry and I need to get to Dumbledore's office."
"I'll escort you there and Krum can escort the others back to their common rooms." Harry and Ginny set off with Tonks to Dumbledore's office. No one said a word on the way there until Tonks said that she would tell them when there next meeting would be.
"Tonks have you heard anything from Remus."
"So you believe me now when I say he is alive."
"Well no not exactly but we saw him in our dream enhancer.
"Harry I just saw him a few hours ago he said he will be back shortly." Tonks said goodbye and turned to leave. Harry said the password to the Gargoyle and climbed the stairs. The knocked on the door and entered when they were told to.
"Come sit down we have much to learn tonight." Harry looked at Ginny and then took the nearest chair to the desk. Ginny sat down beside him.
"What are we going to learn professor."
"Well I thought that I should teach you to turn off your mind."
"Ok so how do we do that."
"Well you have to concentrate on it. It is kind of like Occlumency but it allows you to still keep your minds full of information without leaking anything out. Just concentrate on the energy that you feel flowing from each thought and stop it from flowing."
"Ok." Harry could feel the energy of each thought escaping his mind and fought to keep it there. He was successful and Ginny automatically knew how to do this. Their connection was deeper than the energy that they gave off when they were in deep thought.
"That's how you do it Harry. Very impressive."
"Ok well I was saving this until next lesson but since that was so quick I guess there is no harm to try it now. We are going to learn to open our minds and listen to the same energy that is given off. It is kind of like learning Legilimens but you don't need to use a wand and it works on anyone that hasn't closed of their minds. It is the principle that is behind your connection I am just going to teach you how to turn it on and off. I believe that this might help you control your energies a little more." Dumbledore showed them how to open their minds and feel and listen to the energies of others. The only problem with it was the school was full of people and they could instantly hear each of them. It was like being in the Great Hall during a feast. They couldn't make out a single voice just a bunch of white noise. Harry shut his mind off from the energy and Dumbledore looked at him with an odd expression. He knew that Harry had done it but Harry had done it with huge results. He was connected to every person in the castle including Dumbledore.
"Very well you two can go you seem to be able to do a lot in a short period of time I will send you two a note telling you when to meet me next and feel free to come and see me if anything else happens." Harry and Ginny got up and left his office. They walked back to there common room alone but had a note written by the headmaster giving them permission to be out of bounds.
"Harry did you notice how weird Tonks was tonight. She seemed to be disappointed that we threw off the curse. What is going on with her. You don't think that she is working for Voldemort do you."
"You already know that answer Ginny."
"I know but she seems to be a bit shady. I mean she is teaching us to defend ourselves but she isn't telling us something. I can sense it every time that we are near her and she still seems to think that Remus is alive. You know that he cant be alive. He just cant be alive we saw him in the spiritual world Harry."
"I know but I think that she is being tricked somehow I don't think that she is working for Voldemort." Harry stopped moving. They had both heard noises around the corner in front of the common room. They cautiously turned the corner to find Hermione and Viktor kissing. Viktor's hands were up Hermione's shirt and she had hers wrapped around him gripping his butt. Harry cleared his throat and they stopped.
"Don't let us intrude we just want to get into the common room." Hermione and Viktor had been on the wall that the painting was on but because of the paintings frame she couldn't see them. Harry and Ginny walked by and entered the common room after being yelled at by the painting. Apparently the fat lady thought that Harry and Ginny were making the kissing noises.
Ron greeted them and they sat down on the couch.
"You were kissing my sister in front of the fat lady."
"No it wasn't us it was Hermione and Krum." Ron's face screwed up into an unmistakable face of jealousy. Then he quickly tried to laugh it off like it was funny. 'Hermione was right Ginny,' Harry thought, 'He does seem to be only dating Luna because of her.'
'I know poor Luna.'
'We cant tell her Ginny Ron's our friend and we have to wait for him to come around. Besides what if we break it off between them and it turns out that Ron really likes Luna as well he just doesn't know who he really wants.'
'I know we wont say anything.'
"Harry, Ginny is everything ok." Ron pulled them out of their conversation and they told him that they were tired and sore. Ron who was sore as well believed them and forgot that they didn't actually get hit by any of the curse. They went up to their rooms and changed for bed. Harry laid down and adjusted the dream enhancer so it would turn on. The needed to talk to Remus. They needed to find out why Tonks still thought he was alive. Harry fell asleep and met up with Ginny in the white room.
as soon as they appeared in the white room they thought of Remus, Lily, and Sirus. They appeared at their sides and Harry began to tell them that time was back to normal and then went into asking Remus why Tonks would think he was still alive.
"Well Harry you see that is kind of difficult to answer."
"Remus we said that it was our place to answer these questions. He cannot know this stuff now."
"Harry listen to me we are going to force you out of this place right now and let you dream a normal dream. You can come back to see us but we have stuff to tend to and cant have you with us. I need to have you look into deflection spells. look into deflecting spells without your wand and then look into the magic that I left on you as a baby. Look into how to turn wandless magic into more powerful magic." Harry wasn't sure what his mom meant by what she had said but they had forced them out of the white room before they could ask her any questions.
Harry and Ginny where in a library looking through books about deflection spells. The words on the page kept changing into other words and showed them how each of his mom's clues went with one another. He needed to look into counter curses about blocking and deflecting spells. He needed to look into old magic about how the killing curse was deflected off of him as a baby. He needed to turn wandless magic into magic that could be used by a wand and come up with a way to block the killing curse.
Silent world
Harry went to place the dream enhancer back where it belongs so he could see Sirus, his Mom, and Remus, but Ginny wanted to do something else and he didn't argue with her. He wanted to escape for all of this abnormality and find some familiar ground. He at least knew how his dreams were and being there with Ginny had become normality in his life. They had shared their dreams for a little over a month now and it was comforting to go back to them. He would fall asleep and fool around with Ginny then everything would be back to normal. The only problem was that when Harry woke up the world around him was still stuck in time. Time had no motion and everything had been the same as when they went to sleep. Luna was still standing over the couch and Ron still had a look of trying to reason on his face. Hermione was sitting on the couch looking at the place that they had once stood. Time simply had not moved. Harry sat down expecting to see something happen, some movement but nothing happened. Ginny walked in and was just as shocked as Harry was. They had frozen time and didn't know when it would return to normal. What had they done, or more importantly how did they do what they did. Ginny sat down next to Harry and neither one of them said anything for a while. They would have to wait it out. The only problem was they where getting hungry and there wasn't anyway that they could see to get some food. Their minds were still connected and as silent as their mouths were being they were panicking in their heads. The only one who had answers to their questions was frozen in time. They sat there for a few more minutes and then decided that they could walk around the school a little bit. They had to force the portrait open but they still managed it.
They headed down to the Great Hall and realized that they must have forgotten that they left from dinner and froze time during it. They could actually get some food from the Great Hall feast. It was technically from the night before but since no time had actually passed it was not old at all. They ate what they could, there still being quite a bit of food left over. Once they were content enough to leave still feeling a bit disoriented they walked around the school looking for something to do until time flowed normally again. The school was a lot less enjoyable when it was quiet though and things to do outside of motion were very limited. Their nerves were a bit shaken and their stomachs a bit queasy. They walked down the corridors leading to the room of requirement only that door wouldn't show up for them so the idea of using that room was out. Some room of requirement it doesn't show up when they really needed it. The only thing for them to actually do was head up to the common room and grab their brooms. Once they got them they went down to the quidditch field and flew around for a while.
It was bliss not to have to think about anything. Flying just let their minds concentrate on the world around them. There was no wind and no anything at all. It would have been perfect weather to fly had there actually been some sort of weather. It was neither warm nor cold. It just felt like it was there. Harry spent most of his time chasing Ginny and having her chase him. He let her catch him most of the time because he knew that she couldn't touch his broom if he didn't want her to. They flew around the pitch and didn't have a worry in their minds. Free to do as they pleased. Harry dove down to the ground and Ginny followed after him. She was determined to catch him it was all that mattered at the moment. Her broom wasn't as fast as his was but she still caught up to him. They both knew that he was the better flier of the two and that he was going easy to let her stand some what of a chance. His broom was just to fast.
Ginny caught Harry but when she made a motion to tag him he grabbed her and they both slowed down. Ginny catching what he was thinking of doing tackled him off his broom. They fell the remaining few feet to the soft ground. She landed on Harry and began to kiss him before he could retaliate. Harry leaned into the kiss and moved his hands down towards her navel. She allowed him to sweep his hands across her belly but then jumped when he began to tickle her. She got up and started to run away but he caught her hand and pulled he back down to him. He began tickling her again and she squirmed trying to get free of his grip. It was really no use because half of her didn't want to get away from him. She was both pleasantly annoyed and turned on at the same time. She again leaned forward and kissed him. He stopped tickling her and moved his hands behind her head. She pressed into him forcing him to lay back.
"Harry," She started but he didn't have to go to far with what she was saying, Harry already knew what she wanted from him.
"I cant," He said and she didn't argue with him she knew that they were not ready to experience that outside of the dream world yet and besides the dreaming experience was really good at the moment. Ginny pressed herself into him and began kissing deeper. She still wanted to go through with it or at least her body did and it couldn't help ignore her mind. Harry pressed into her until there was no more room in between them. His hands followed down her to the small of her back where they rested. The curves of her body turned every part of him on. He was more than in the mood but he still knew that he wasn't ready to do that yet. This was as close as he had been to actual bliss as he could remember. He was in his sixth year and with a girl that he more than loved.
They finished up rather quickly and decided to head back to the castle. Time had still not returned to any part of normal. It still didn't move. The picture in front of the common room hung opened from when they left the first time. Harry could help but think how funny it was going to be when time did return. The picture was going to be very confused about what was going on and Ron was in the middle of a sentence. They were not going to be where they were when he started it. Luna was in the common room and she would be just as freaked out when time returned to normal. Harry ran up to his room to put up his broom and walked back down to see what Ginny was doing. She was humming in his head and he couldn't make out anymore than that in his head. When he returned to the common room he found her moving Luna closer to Ron. She really was as bad as the twins. It is a wonder that they made her prefect.
"Thanks Harry, good to know that you feel that way." She rolled her eyes at him and then started to laugh. He laughed a bit also because he knew that he probably did offend her a bit. He forgot about the link for a bit.
"Harry are you going to help me or not."
"Sure." Harry walked over to her and helped move Luna closer to Ron. They placed her hands on his side and straightened her legs out so she was standing. It was a bit harsh to do this to their friends but they didn't have anything else to do. Once they had moved everyone in the common room to a different position they sat down to wait until time would start again. They sat for what felt like an hour talking to each other about how weird it was to see this. About how weird it looked to see everyone petrified. Harry made a motion towards the door, looked back laughed with Ginny as he looked at Ron and Luna, then asked her if she would join him in the Great Hall. He was hungry and he knew that she must be as well. They entered the Great Hall and ate the same thing again. It still had no heat but at the same time it was not cold it was just there. They ate until they were full this time making sure they took food from different plates so they didn't interrupt anyone's meal. It's not that it wouldn't be funny its just that afterwards they would probably feel sorry for the people around the plates that they ate off of if there was nothing left in them.
The meal while still enjoyable was not great. The problem was that it was getting old eating the same thing over again. Hopefully this wont last that long. They left the Great Hall in search of something to do. When they could not think of anything else to do they decided on their homework. It would at least keep them busy. Harry started in on his astronomy paper. It wasn't as interesting to find the details on spatial matter but it still beat potions hands down. He found it rather easy to find the details of his astronomy paper that he needed. It was probably the fact that he rarely ever did his homework without a distraction. His paper was about how untangible matter revolves around the magical energy and its connection to tangible matter. He had to prove that magical energy had something to do with creating the universe. He finished his paper after what felt like hours. There was no way to tell how long they had actually spent but it felt like they had frozen time twenty-four hours ago. They decided to head down to the Great Hall and eat. Their private universe had actually become a private hall where they could see all of their friends but not interact with them.
They ate very small amounts of food trying to cope with the feeling of loneliness that they now experienced. They missed Ron, Hermione, Neville, and Luna. It's not that they hated being around each other they just needed other people to interact with. It just wasn't the same without other people. They finished their meals and walked slowly up the stairs through the open picture of the fat lady and up to Harry's bed. With everyone frozen they could actually sleep in the same bed. Had the circumstances been different they might have been a bit more excited about sleeping in the same bed. But they just missed people. Harry's mind wondered over to the dream enhancer. Would it still work in the absence of time? Or would it be frozen in time with everything else. The only way to find out was to try it. Harry positioned it to let their dreams enter the spiritual world. Ginny had already lied down in bed her mind wondering if she would ever see her mom and dad again. She didn't know exactly where they were. Harry laid down next to her not sure as to what to say to assure her that she would see them again because he honestly didn't know. She leaned up against his chest and he wrapped his arms around her. She allowed herself to drift asleep.
They found themselves in the white room thinking of Sirus, Lily, and Remus. They appeared just as fast as they thought of them. Before a hello was ever mentioned Harry and Ginny broke down in an explanation about what was going on the past few days. How they had broke through the Anti-disapparating jinx that was placed on Hogwarts. How they destroyed Dumbledores office. How they stopped time.
"How long has time been stopped," Lupin cut in.
"Its hard to tell about twenty-four hours maybe a bit more."
"This isn't good Remus do you know how they can reverse it."
"No Lily I don't."
"How is this happening."
"Well Sirus Dumbledore says that as our powers are growing our controls over them are weakening. We just don't know what to think anymore."
"No I expect not. Harry listen to me." What ever Sirus wanted them to listen to however would have to wait until next visit because Harry and Ginny woke up in bed. Had time been moving they would have guessed that only a couple of hours had passed but there was no real way to know that. They walked down to the common room and sat on the couch where Luna had been sitting before they had moved her.
"The thing about that is Ginny where did you go." Ron had started to talk. The whole common room had in fact started to talk. Harry and Ginny jumped up. Ron was looking at Luna who had not let go of her hold on his side. They walked over to Ron and Ginny hugged him.
"What's wrong with you Ginny you act like you haven't seen me for a while."
"We haven't."
"I'll explain later ok Ron." Ron looked at Harry and then nodded in agreement. Luna still had Ron's side and neither of them seemed to mind it. Harry grinned at Ginny and said in her head a comment about Luna's hand on Ron's side. The rest of the common room was confused because things had just moved and they were not in the same place that they had been before. Harry looked around the common room beaming that he didn't have to spend the rest off eternity like that. Harry and Ginny told the rest of the group that they needed to find Dumbledore and ask him some questions. They headed for the door and down to the Great Hall. The headmaster had been in there frozen in time just as everyone else had been. They walked through the now noisy Great Hall and up to the teacher's table.
"Professor Dumbledore, can we have a word with you."
"Mr. Potter, Ms. Weasley is everything alright."
"Yes professor McGonagall we just need a word with the head master."
"Well cant it wait until he is finished eating."
"I suppose it can professor."
"Very well then head up to his office and he will be with you shortly."
"Yes professor."
"Professor McGonagall will you accompany us to my office this might be better if you knew about it as well." Professor Dumbledore looked into Harry's eyes and he knew that it was probably for the best if she did know. They both put down their forks having only been holding them because their conversation had distracted them from remembering that they had them. They both got up and escorted Harry and Ginny to Dumbledore's office. They walked up the stairs in his office and through the door. Professor Dumbledore drew some chairs for Harry, Ginny, and Professor McGonagall to sit in. Harry sat down then immediately went into an explanation of how they stopped time for a little over twenty-four hours and that they seemed to be losing control. They broke through the Anti-disapparating charm on the school and landed at the ministry of magic blew apart this office and before they could explain to anyone what happened time froze and they spent the last day in it.
"Harry calm down there isn't anything that we can do right now I tried to have you two control this but it was unsuccessful. All we can do now is keep trying to get both of you two to gain control of this."
"Professor gain control of what and what does Ms. Weasley have to do with this."
"Professor McGonagall there will be time for explanation later on. Harry I am going to have to ask you both to stop in tomorrow after the D.A.'s meeting is that ok with the two of you."
"Yes professor we will be here."
"Good for now we will give you a dreamless potion and send you back to the common room. Please take the potion we have to control this before you two get stuck outside of time." Harry and Ginny left the room and went back to the common room. Luna was still there and she and Ron stopped them to ask questions. Hermione was buried in her books and looking kind of mad at something.
"What's Hermione's problem."
"Well she said that the only reason that I am dating Luna is because I am trying to make her jealous. Anyways what happened today. Why did you need to go see Dumbledore."
"Well we stopped Time for about a day and we broke the anti-disaaparating jinx on the castle."
"You what Harry that cant be done."
"Hermione I know that its not supposed to happen but we did it. When I left charms today Ginny and I apparated to the ministry of magic. Fudge questioned us then we came back here. Didn't you wonder what happened to me."
"Yeah but we just figured that you stopped time by accident and then talked to Dumbledore."
"Well we did stop time but not at that time. Do you guys mind if we get some sleep we are kind of tired we didn't have that much sleep and we have been up longer than you, technically." Harry kissed Ginny good night and walked up to his dorm. She went up to hers feeling just as exhausted as he did. He took the sleep potion and was asleep before he could bother changing and fell right to sleep.
Harry awoke the next morning to find a note from professor Dumbledore at his bedside table. He picked it up and read it.
Harry
You and Ginny need to see me and professor McGonagall in my office after breakfast.
Professor Dumbledore.
Harry changed his clothes and went to meet up with Ginny. Ron was still asleep seeing that it was still kind of early and he didn't need to be up for another hour. Harry knew that Ginny had got the same letter as he did. He could hear her reading it as he walked down the steps of the dormitory.
'Ginny come on lets go down and get something to eat. Then we can find out what they want with us. Hopefully they found out something that will help us control this.' Ginny was dressed and down in the common room under five minutes. They walked down to the Great Hall and ate a rather big breakfast feeling very thankful that it wasn't the same meal they had to eat the last four meals. The food tasted like it was suppose to. It didn't have a lack of temperature or a lack of flavor. It looked great and tasted great.
After they had finished their meal they went up to Dumbledore's office gave the password to get pass the Gargoyle Climbed the steps and knocked on the door.
"Enter." They walked through the door and sat in the chairs by his desk. They had already been made seeing as they were expecting Harry and Ginny to show up. Dumbledore looked up at Harry and smiled at him. Professor McGonagall was standing behind him looking rather concerned.
"So Harry, Ginny we think we might have a solution that will keep your power under your control. It is going to be hard on you both. We will be informing your teachers about this and they will do everything in their power to help us out. We need to keep you both actively casting difficult spells until you learn to control it. We will try and help you to feel what you are suppose to feel but we cant promise much. Right now its the only thing we can do."
"Professor I don't understand the last time we tried this we blew your office apart. How is this going to help us."
"Harry your just going to have to trust Professor McGonagall and I on this one."
"Yeah but we could cause some serious damage here."
"Yes that is a possibility but it wont be anything that I cant repair. My office is back to the way it was before and we will do every thing in our power to see to it that no harm comes to your fellow classmates."
"What do you mean we could hurt someone."
"Well yes that is a possibility that that could happen but."
"Professor McGonagall, we wont let that happen we will take extra precautions. They want practice anything that could hurt someone while their classmates are around. We will try our hardest to make sure that they are protected. Harry, Ginny you two may leave now." Harry and Ginny got up and walked out of the office. They were both scared what if there wasn't anything that Dumbledore could do. What if they did end up hurting someone in the castle. Could they live with that knowing that they hurt someone, possibly someone that they would know and care about like Ron or Hermione. They needed to control this because even if they didn't do what professor Dumbledore wanted them to do there was still a risk of them doing something that they couldn't control. What would happen when they studied more on the killing curse in Defense against the dark arts. Would they do that without knowing they did.
Class was about to start and Harry needed to get to his. They stopped outside of Ginny's class and he kissed her goodbye. He was risking being late for History of magic and he was actually starting to enjoy the lessons. They where not as boring as learning about goblin riots or other magical history that was so far back it really didn't have anything to do with him. He wasn't going to make the same mistakes that they made in the past. It wasn't that he needed to know what they had done wrong it was just that others didn't treat them with respect. However the lessons that they are studying now are interesting. The only bad thing that he has to deal with in the class so far is when professor Binns mentioned his name as the one who had stopped him before. How everyone would look at him with applause and hope. He knew that if anyone would be the one that would defeat him once and for all it would be him. The weight of the world was on his shoulders.
He ran to his next class and made it to his seat as the bell signaled the start of the lesson. Ron and Hermione gave him a weird look when he sat down. He was out of breath and they hadn't seen him since last night.
"Where have you been."
"Just got out of professor Dumbledore's office Hermione. He wanted to see Ginny and I this morning to discuss controlling our little problem. We think that it is a good idea to try to control it you know we don't want any accidents to happen around you two now do we."
"Good well I hope that there aren't any accidents around us because that would be very unfortunate." Harry glared at her trying to see weather she had been serious or just poking fun at him. He couldn't tell what her meaning was in this. She focused her attention on the lesson that had already started. Professor Binns wasn't one to make sure that everyone was listening while he started to teach. He didn't even seem to notice that they were not listening, as usual, to his lesson.
Professor Binns went on about how Voldemort had started to gain power describing the fear that he and his death eaters had produced throughout their run. They were building their army up to go to war against everyone that wasn't with him. He started to touch on Voldemort's childhood and how his father was a muggle and how he abandoned him and his mother when he found out. About how his mind portrayed the muggle existence through his father and how through a lack of love he seemed to over look its power and ultimately meet his downfall by it. He collected the assignment that was last given to them and assigned a new one. It was a much more involved essay about the death eaters and how they quickly gained power, and how the ministry of magic ignored them as a threat. Voldemort was no more than a leader of a weak group of followers to them nothing that would show much of a resistance to them. Harry wrote down the assignment and walked out of the room to lunch. Ginny was already there eating with Luna who was sitting at the Gryffindor table again.
"You know Luna you keep sitting over at this table and the school is going to think that you want to be in Gryffindor rather than Ravenclaw.
"Harry that wouldn't bother me you know. Just as long as they don't think that I am in Slytherin. That would be awful."
"Yeah well I suppose that you are just waiting for your boy-friend huh."
"Shut-up Ginny."
"Make me shut-up Luna. So you and my brother." Harry smiled at her attempts to make Ron and Luna blush but wouldn't smile about it because Hermione was looking a bit annoyed. Harry sat next to her and leaned close to ask her why she cared so much.
"I don't care its just that he is only dating her to make me jealous."
"And is it working."
"No."
"Obviously it isn't."
"What's that suppose to mean."
"Nothing." Harry grinned and looked away from her. Ginny started to laugh having heard everything that they had said and looked at Luna pretending to have been laughing at something that she said. Luna gave her a look and said something about how everyone calls her weird.
Lunch was over quickly and everyone seemed to be a bit more tense then when they showed up. Hermione and Harry walked to their next potions class. When they arrived there Hermione was told to sit in the front so she couldn't help out Harry. The next potion that they had to do was another truth serum. It was a bit more complicated then the last one but still not as bad as Veritaserum. He finished the potion and the liquid in the vile looked like it was supposed to. Luckily Ginny could communicate with him in the back of his head because he could talk to her when Snape would walk over and make rude comments about how he should not be in this class and how his potion lacked the qualities of a real truth serum. Snape's loathing for Harry while it normally increased through every year had reached an all time high. Every time Snape looked at Harry his lips would mouth silent curses towards him. Nothing happened to Harry though and this seemed to annoy him even more. When Harry brought up his potion to hand in Snape dropped it but Harry who had already had experience with him trying to get excuses to fail him had placed an unbreakable curse on all of his vile. Snape placed his vile with the rest of them setting it down really hard wanting it to break. It didn't. When Harry left the class he could have sworn he saw him trying to break the jar and then leaving it on his desk while putting the rest away.
"This isn't fair why doesn't he at least give me a chance in his class. I don't expect him to like me, I don't even want him to like me, but I do want him to treat me as fairly as everyone else in the class. He didn't even seem to want to grade my potion and I know that I did a better job than my usual standards." Harry and Ginny rushed through their meal and headed up to the common room to meet up with Tonks. They had to go through with the D.A. meeting tonight and they were not looking forward to it.
The met up with her and took her to the room of requirement. The room was set up for the meetings just like it always was. Tonks walked over to the bookshelf and picked up a book on protection spells. The knew the basic ones but she wanted them to learn a few harder ones that when learned properly could make their reaction times quicker for blocking.
"I don't expect very many of you to get these spell," she addressed the group noticing that they were now in the room. "Now what I want you to do is concentrate on the surrounding room and all of the noises in it. The incantation is counterago."
"Counterago," the room chimed back. Harry's wand vibrated.
"Now I am going to give you a demonstration, Harry if you will cast a curse at me and then move out of the way I will reflect it back."
"Expeliarmus." A flash of light flew from his wand but he didn't move.
"Counterago." The spell stopped in midair and reflected back at Harry. It hit him and he was sent backwards his wand flew out of his hands.
"Harry I said to move out of the way you know I didn't want you to get hit by the spell."
"That's ok I only used a disarming curse."
"Treat every curse like it is deadly."
"Ok."
"So now lets see what you can do with this curse."
"Ok I'll try it."
"Well I don't expect you to get it on your first try but I want to see some progress by the end of the lesson."
"Ok I am ready."
"Expeliarmus." A flash of light flew from her wand.
"Counterago." The spell headed backwards with such speed that Tonks couldn't do anything but let it hit her. Her wand flew from her hands and she landed on the floor.
"Harry that was amazing you shouldn't have been able to do that at all not to mention with that force behind it."
"Well its weird but I'll explain when we are done here."
"Alright everyone pair up with someone."
Harry and Ginny paired up and they were about to start when the door opened and Professor Krum walked in. He closed the door behind him and then apologized for being late.
"I didn't know you were going to show up professor."
"Well Harry I was told about these meetings by Hermione and I told her that I would show up tonight."
"Well that's alright I guess." Krum walked over to Hermione and partnered up with her before she could partner up with anyone else. Ginny and Harry started to practice the charm. The first curse that Harry sent at Ginny was reflected back at him and then he reflected it back at her until the light from the curse was standing still in the middle of the room. They had both executed the curse and where pouring energy into it trying to reflect it back but it wasn't moving. The room around them began to vibrate and everyone stopped what they were doing to watch Harry and Ginny. The room shook more violently until Harry and Ginny realized it and stopped. The curse stood where it was it didn't move. The shaking stopped and Tonks dismissed the class.
"Harry, Ginny come here for a second I need to speak with you." Tonks looked a bit frightened when she asked them that but still spoke very calmly.
"What is it Tonks." She asked them to explain what they wanted to wait until the end of the lesson. They began telling her how their magical abilities began to grow and how their control over them had weakened. They stopped time for a day and blew up Dumbledore's office and broke through the anti-disapparating jinx on the castle. Tonks seemed to be in shock. She had never heard of anyone doing half of the thing that they are doing now and she knew some powerful aurors.
"Harry, Ginny what's happening between you two. You seem a bit different then last year. You don't even feel like the same people."
"Well we don't know."
"Ok well are you ready for some more training." No one looked thrilled about it but everyone knew that it was coming. Everyone except Krum who had stuck around because of Hermione. Once they filled in Krum on the details he was all for it. He knew that it was going to hurt but he knew that the training would be a good thing to do.
"Are we ready Harry step up here your first." Harry walked up feeling both shaken and confident.
"Ok I am ready Tonks."
"Crucio." The red light climbed out of her wand and raced towards Harry. He made his body go limp and focused on forcing the counter curse he needed to reach into himself and pull out his courage. Once he found it he muttered the counter curse just as the spell hit his body. Nothing happened to him he didn't hurt or feel anything. His mind was focused and his body free to move. There were no knifes slashing his skin or white-hot pokers sinking into his body. He felt normal.
"You did it Harry I didn't think that you would have any difficulties with this spell. In fact if Ginny doesn't throw it off then I would be shocked." Her face showed no pleasure that he had thrown off the curse. She didn't even seem to care that he did. Ginny got up and he noticed the same expression when she threw it off the first time. She seemed like she just didn't care that the had done anything. After Harry and Ginny's quick demonstration of how to throw it off she moved on to Ron.
"Ready," she said.
"Yeah."
"Crucio." Harry could see Ron tense up at the last second but noticed that he still managed to throw most of it off. Unfortunately the curse didn't require much of it to hit you to hurt you. Luna and Neville had the same results as Ron did. They just seemed to be too scared of the curse to stop it completely. She called up Krum after Neville was done and asked if he was ready.
"Vell I Tink I am."
"Crucio." The light stretch out after him and he moved his arm. The movement wouldn't allow him to throw it of completely but he did manage to get it down to a slight tickling sensation. He told her that he had had previous practice on this curse but wasn't very good with wandless magic. Hermione was next.
"Ready."
"Yes."
"Crucio." The light moved towards her and just before it hit her she blinked. It caused the same effect that happened with Krum only it was a stronger tickling and she ended up tensing up from it. The spell, which had not completely passed through her, hit her with full force when she lost sight of what she was doing. The tickling turned into a burning and then Hermione passed out. Tonks let up and revived her. She was spasming and turned herself over to vomit.
"What happened."
"You let up on the counter curse you broke your concentration and got hit with the full force of the spell from within yourself. It was more powerful that way."
"I didn't know that that could happen."
"Yeah well be careful Hermione you don't want to get to hurt. But you did make progress you see that is where I expected Harry and Ginny to go to tonight but I changed my mind after I saw them with the blocking charm holding a disarming charm between them. I think we should call it a night and get you back to the common room."
"Tonks Harry and I need to get to Dumbledore's office."
"I'll escort you there and Krum can escort the others back to their common rooms." Harry and Ginny set off with Tonks to Dumbledore's office. No one said a word on the way there until Tonks said that she would tell them when there next meeting would be.
"Tonks have you heard anything from Remus."
"So you believe me now when I say he is alive."
"Well no not exactly but we saw him in our dream enhancer.
"Harry I just saw him a few hours ago he said he will be back shortly." Tonks said goodbye and turned to leave. Harry said the password to the Gargoyle and climbed the stairs. The knocked on the door and entered when they were told to.
"Come sit down we have much to learn tonight." Harry looked at Ginny and then took the nearest chair to the desk. Ginny sat down beside him.
"What are we going to learn professor."
"Well I thought that I should teach you to turn off your mind."
"Ok so how do we do that."
"Well you have to concentrate on it. It is kind of like Occlumency but it allows you to still keep your minds full of information without leaking anything out. Just concentrate on the energy that you feel flowing from each thought and stop it from flowing."
"Ok." Harry could feel the energy of each thought escaping his mind and fought to keep it there. He was successful and Ginny automatically knew how to do this. Their connection was deeper than the energy that they gave off when they were in deep thought.
"That's how you do it Harry. Very impressive."
"Ok well I was saving this until next lesson but since that was so quick I guess there is no harm to try it now. We are going to learn to open our minds and listen to the same energy that is given off. It is kind of like learning Legilimens but you don't need to use a wand and it works on anyone that hasn't closed of their minds. It is the principle that is behind your connection I am just going to teach you how to turn it on and off. I believe that this might help you control your energies a little more." Dumbledore showed them how to open their minds and feel and listen to the energies of others. The only problem with it was the school was full of people and they could instantly hear each of them. It was like being in the Great Hall during a feast. They couldn't make out a single voice just a bunch of white noise. Harry shut his mind off from the energy and Dumbledore looked at him with an odd expression. He knew that Harry had done it but Harry had done it with huge results. He was connected to every person in the castle including Dumbledore.
"Very well you two can go you seem to be able to do a lot in a short period of time I will send you two a note telling you when to meet me next and feel free to come and see me if anything else happens." Harry and Ginny got up and left his office. They walked back to there common room alone but had a note written by the headmaster giving them permission to be out of bounds.
"Harry did you notice how weird Tonks was tonight. She seemed to be disappointed that we threw off the curse. What is going on with her. You don't think that she is working for Voldemort do you."
"You already know that answer Ginny."
"I know but she seems to be a bit shady. I mean she is teaching us to defend ourselves but she isn't telling us something. I can sense it every time that we are near her and she still seems to think that Remus is alive. You know that he cant be alive. He just cant be alive we saw him in the spiritual world Harry."
"I know but I think that she is being tricked somehow I don't think that she is working for Voldemort." Harry stopped moving. They had both heard noises around the corner in front of the common room. They cautiously turned the corner to find Hermione and Viktor kissing. Viktor's hands were up Hermione's shirt and she had hers wrapped around him gripping his butt. Harry cleared his throat and they stopped.
"Don't let us intrude we just want to get into the common room." Hermione and Viktor had been on the wall that the painting was on but because of the paintings frame she couldn't see them. Harry and Ginny walked by and entered the common room after being yelled at by the painting. Apparently the fat lady thought that Harry and Ginny were making the kissing noises.
Ron greeted them and they sat down on the couch.
"You were kissing my sister in front of the fat lady."
"No it wasn't us it was Hermione and Krum." Ron's face screwed up into an unmistakable face of jealousy. Then he quickly tried to laugh it off like it was funny. 'Hermione was right Ginny,' Harry thought, 'He does seem to be only dating Luna because of her.'
'I know poor Luna.'
'We cant tell her Ginny Ron's our friend and we have to wait for him to come around. Besides what if we break it off between them and it turns out that Ron really likes Luna as well he just doesn't know who he really wants.'
'I know we wont say anything.'
"Harry, Ginny is everything ok." Ron pulled them out of their conversation and they told him that they were tired and sore. Ron who was sore as well believed them and forgot that they didn't actually get hit by any of the curse. They went up to their rooms and changed for bed. Harry laid down and adjusted the dream enhancer so it would turn on. The needed to talk to Remus. They needed to find out why Tonks still thought he was alive. Harry fell asleep and met up with Ginny in the white room.
as soon as they appeared in the white room they thought of Remus, Lily, and Sirus. They appeared at their sides and Harry began to tell them that time was back to normal and then went into asking Remus why Tonks would think he was still alive.
"Well Harry you see that is kind of difficult to answer."
"Remus we said that it was our place to answer these questions. He cannot know this stuff now."
"Harry listen to me we are going to force you out of this place right now and let you dream a normal dream. You can come back to see us but we have stuff to tend to and cant have you with us. I need to have you look into deflection spells. look into deflecting spells without your wand and then look into the magic that I left on you as a baby. Look into how to turn wandless magic into more powerful magic." Harry wasn't sure what his mom meant by what she had said but they had forced them out of the white room before they could ask her any questions.
Harry and Ginny where in a library looking through books about deflection spells. The words on the page kept changing into other words and showed them how each of his mom's clues went with one another. He needed to look into counter curses about blocking and deflecting spells. He needed to look into old magic about how the killing curse was deflected off of him as a baby. He needed to turn wandless magic into magic that could be used by a wand and come up with a way to block the killing curse.