When breakfast was over they disguised themselves and headed to the Australian ministry for the trip to England. By noon they were in the castle with the Longbottom's and Weasley's. Again Harry and Ginny were surrounded with the white light like when they had hugged for the first time at Christmas.
Harry stepped back and thought, "Ginny if we are going to hide our bonding to keep you safe we won't be able to hug in public after a long absence."
She nodded and thought back, "When I'm strong enough to protect myself we won't have to hide it. Teach me."
"What are you two talking about?" Ron asked.
"If we wanted you to know we would have said it out loud." Ginny said.
"Fair enough." Ron laughed, "It's weird how you can do that though. Is it because you're bonded?"
"Ginny, we need to tell everyone about it." Harry said.
She nodded and Harry walked up to Albus, "Professor, I need to tell everyone something but I don't want it to get out beyond just us. Can you set up a room for all of us, kids included?"
"So eighteen of you then?" Albus asked.
"No twenty." Harry corrected, "You and Professor McGonagall too. If she's to be my head of house I want her to know."
"But what if you get placed in Ravenclaw?" Albus smiled with his question.
"I won't." Harry said, "But just to humor you with the what if, I would tell them when it became necessary."
Albus chuckled, "When do you want to do this?"
"As soon as possible." Harry said.
Albus summoned everyone into the Great Hall, closed the doors and set up extra protections, "Is that enough Harry?"
Harry nodded and stood on the teacher's dais, "Ginny and I have been discussing something and we need some input. I think we should hide our bonding from everyone outside this family until Voldemort is stopped. She thinks we only need to do it until she is strong enough to protect herself. She may be right about that, but in order for either of these to work none of the rest of you can talk about it either."
"That's a good point Harry." Arthur said, "Has anyone said anything to someone outside the people in this room."
"Telly and her family know but they are our family as well and will protect the secret." No one else had said anything so Harry felt they were safe.
"No offense Professors." Bill said, "But Harry why are you including them?"
"Granddad Al and Aunt Minnie are part of the family too." Harry said, "Besides they already know about the bonding."
Bill, Charlie and Sirius were working very hard not to laugh at the nicknames Harry had given the Professors. James and Lily both looked shocked while everyone else just smiled at Harry. In fact Albus was beaming with pride at his new nickname. Minerva, while glad Harry liked her, didn't exactly like the nickname and was plotting several mean things to do to Sirius, whom she was sure instigated it.
"Harry when did you start calling them that?" Remus asked the question no one else could word.
"Just now." Harry said, "I didn't think Professor McGonagall would like to be called a Grandmum because she's too young. And Professor Dumbledore just looks like a Granddad to me. Besides family is supposed to give each other nicknames with meanings right Moony?"
"Right you are Flash." Remus said.
"Did you think of those names on your own?" Minerva asked.
"Yes but if you don't like it we could still call you something else like Aunty M." Harry offered, "I got to pick my nickname."
"When did you pick Flash?" James asked.
"Last night after we found his base animal." Remus said.
"How can you know?" Sirius said.
"He can't change its appearance." Remus said, "He tried several other brand new animals and could change them but not this one."
"Makes sense, so Harry what is your base animal?" Albus asked.
"Dad, can I just show you?" James nodded and Harry changed into a black Phoenix with green eyes. He then lifted his wings and flashed to the other side of the room.
"Ok, Flash it is." Sirius chuckled.
Neville, and the Weasley boy's were astounded, Ron was the first to speak, "You're an animagus? Cool, can I be one too?"
"Sorry Dad, I forgot they didn't know." Harry said.
"It's ok." James said, "I think now is a good time to talk about everything. How has the training been going?"
"Alice and I have completed the reading Neville is working on it." Frank said, "We have all been doing the exercises since the first of the year and I have to say my Auror physical tests results have improved."
"Molly, Bill, Charlie and I have completed the reading." Arthur said, "The others are working on it, Ginny is the furthest. We have also been doing the exercises. I've lost ten pounds and feel better than I have for a long time."
"Excellent, ok first we are going to run Harry through his paces." James said.
Later that evening James went to Albus' office. He knocked on the door, entered and said, "Remember when we talked last and you said if there are any new developments you want to know?"
"Yes what do you have?" Albus gave him his full attention.
"Harry has been having trouble sleeping." James said, "He said he wasn't tired enough and he thought we had pulled back on his training, we hadn't. Night before last something woke me up around four in the morning. Remus came in a few minutes later saying something was happening in our training area. We snuck to the door and we saw Harry practicing his magic."
"I thought you didn't allow him to practice without an adult around." Albus said.
"I said the same thing to Harry." James said, "And he reminded me that he couldn't use a wand without an adult around but since Sirius was there he thought he was ok."
Albus was confused but patiently waited to hear what James was building up to.
"He knew exactly where Sirius was and who it was even though he couldn't see him." James raised his hands in a helpless gesture, "When I asked him about it he said that he has always been able to detect people that way."
"I thought there may be something along that line." Albus said, "He seems to know exactly how much power to use to keep from hurting anyone."
"That's true, but that is only part of it." James said, "When he was practicing magic it was wandless magic with silent casting."
"Any idea how he got started?" Albus asked.
"Like I said he wasn't sleeping well so he was getting up around 3:00 every morning and practicing his stances." James said, "After a while of this he decided to work on his movements. We have practice dummies and he would pretend they were shooting spells and he would dodge and pretend he had his wand and shoot spells at them. About four weeks ago he stumbled as he was doing that and instead of pretending he had a wand he opened his hand to catch himself and the spell came out."
"Impressive; the spells are a bit weaker am I right?" he asked.
"They were but when we caught him, he ended the practice session by shooting a double stunner at a dummy and making it explode." James huffed, "He has also been using a silencing spell to keep from waking us up. We heard nothing from the exploding dummy. Then he repaired the dummy and summoned a towel to dry his face on. All wandless, all silent."
"I don't think you'll have anything to worry about when he gets to school." Albus said.
"Right now that's the least of my worries." James sagged in his chair, "I wonder if we started this by starting him in training so early."
Albus thought for a moment, "I don't think so. Lily is a powerful witch, you are a powerful wizard. The two of you produced someone with incredible power. Not that big of a stretch. If you do have more children they may be powerful too. Or you could just as easily have a squib. We don't understand how these things come about."