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Enjoy the 10th chapter of The Powers of the Abyss:

The Order of the Four

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Ten days Later

Harry woke up groggily when he heard the alarm clock besides him activate. He turned it off using his wand. He was in one of the many guest rooms in the Greengrass Manor. The room was, surprisingly, painted in Gryffindors colors.

He had to be prepared today as it was 'test' day. After this, he would be allowed to enter the Order of the Four. The Order of the Four was an order created to protect wizarding Britain from the menace of Dark Lords. It was a secret Order which consisted of four families who had united to protect against the first Dark Lord, Lord Gustavius Gaunt in the 1300s. The order was made up of the most Noble and Ancient families of Black, Potter, Greengrass and Longbottom.

Each Family used its own color with their cloaks and robes. The blacks used Black, The Potters used white, the Greengrasses used green and the Longbottoms used brown. The symbol of the Order of the Four was a hexagram enclosing the Ankh. The set-up of the Order of the Four was that all members of the families were sworn in at the age of 20 and when they married, their wives or husband were also sworn in. The order had never been revealed as all members were master Occlumens and moreover, there was a memory block that prevented any member to speak of, willingly or unwillingly, the Order to anyone else. Normally, there was a 'Leader' and three combatants along with the others acting as reverse. Harry was happy that due to the measures taken for each member, the Order could and would never be found out.

Each of the four families had been a descendant of powerful wizards, Blacks from a side branch of Slytherin and from Herpo the Foul; Potters from the direct line of Gryffindor and Peverells; Greengrass from the direct line of Slytherin; Longbottom from a branch line of Gryffindor and Hupplepuff. Each had its own 'special magic', stemming from a combination of research and natural talent. Potters had the magic of emotion, the 'Light' magic, Black had the ritualistic magic, the Soul magic, Greengrass had the magic of the mind and combat, the Warrior magic; Longbottom had the magic of plants and earth, the Protector Magic. Though other families also had some special magic, the grimoires of these Four were the most elaborate and advanced, allowing immense help in their crusade.

However, Seth had made tests on Harry's magic and had deduced that Harry was the descendant of both Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, much to the surprise of Harry himself. Seth theorized that Harry's mother may have been the descendant of the daughter of the Grey Lady, as the infant had been given to the care of a squib before the daughter of Ravenclaw was killed. The Ravenclaw ancestry provided Harry with another ability, the magic of motion, Puppet Magic. Almost no one knew about the puppet magic though there were old records in the Library. Seth himself only knew that puppet magic could be used to move objects.

Seth had trained Harry by teaching him some extremely rare curses, charms and rituals. Harry had learnt the spells in seven days and had been given three more to come up with his own techniques and combinations. Each day, after being taught a spell, Harry was forced to bite the dust when he had dueled Daphne using the spell. Daphne's style was creating combinations which defended and attacked, allowing her more versatility. Thus, she was extremely good in transfiguration, as it was fit for her style.

Over the ten days, Harry and Daphne had grown to become friends. Daphne was as or perhaps more knowledgeable as Hermione though she did not flaunt it. She was also a very good Quidditch player and had played a one-on-one seeker match against Harry and nearly managed to beat him. However, as all good things have their counterpart; Daphne had the habit of using sarcastic comments to drive her point home, much to the displeasure of both Harry and Seth.

Seth had also taught Harry two 'Light' spells which were not combat oriented but nevertheless very good for use in infiltrations. The first spell reduced the magical aura of a wizard to that of a small animal, preventing wards from denying entry. The other masked the features of a person and unless the persons own blood was rubbed on his eyelids while he chanted an incantation, it could not be broken.

Seth had also shown Harry some extremely good magical objects that could be used in a battle. The first was the pierce portkey that had been developed by Harry's Great Grandfather and which pierced any anti-portkey wards, effectively allowing it t be used anywhere. The second object was the Disguise hood which prevented anyone from seeing the face of the wearer. These two objects were extremely good for both raids and rescue operations.

Harry had also gotten two additional wands, both yew wands Harry. One of the Lord Greengrass of old had bought a wand shop and though he had salvaged all the wands, he had never sold the wands. So, Seth had brought him to the storage room to try on one of the wands as using another wand would better help mask his magic signature. The two wands had literally flown into Harry's hands. The first one was 12 inches with a basilisk Heart String while the other was 9 inches with a thestral tail hair as core. Seth had told him that both of the wands were supposed to be able to do extremely powerful magic, on par with a phoenix feather wand.

Seth had taught him Occlumency so as to prevent Legilimens attacks. Harry entered his mind to see if everything was in order. He first saw the web of memories that acted as a lure and then the Great wall which would prevent his opponents from directly entering his mind. Then, there were the twenty dragons he had created to act as a second barrier, there were four of each of the dragons there were in the task plus four additional Horntails. Then, he reached the maze that would lead to his 'real' memories. It was based on the maze of the Third Task but it was far more complex and was made of bricks and concrete. When he reached the center of the maze, he looked at his last trap. There were three doors, two labeled memories, while another was labeled basilisk. All of the doors would lead to his memories, provided that the intruder knew the password. The first memory door contained two basilisks while the 'basilisk' door contained hundreds of Aragog-sized acromantulas. The last door was the most terrifying as it contained an enraged giant squid along with a herd of mermen. The randomness of the doors' contents would allow Harry to expel the intruder before he realized that without the password, none of the doors would work. Harry hoped that it would be enough. After all, it was all he could manage in such a short time.

After the seven first days, Harry had seen that while he may be the best dueler in the DA, he could be easily beaten by a high tier Death Eater. This did not bode well with him. After all, he could not fulfill the prophecy if a mere servant of the Dark Lord could beat him. So, Harry poured over the spell grimoires in the Greengrass Library and had managed using the tips there to both improve his spell casting and develop new variations of the spells he used.

Normally, new members had to be at least 20 years of age to join the order but this time, Seth had allowed Harry to enter provided that he beat the three requirements for entry. The first of the requirements was to beat the weakest current member in a duel. The second was to cast the ritual of the masked soul and the third was to be able to withstand an active Legilimens attack for over 5 minutes.

Harry knew that for the fight they would be using non-lethal spells and this annoyed him greatly. Not because he wanted to hurt Daphne but because most of the variations he had developed were lethal. He would be forced to use stunners and bone breakers to attack and his shield and perhaps his other spells to defend himself. Those spells were the weakest ones in his combat magic arsenal. However, he had already seen many of Daphne's techniques and developed counter to them, he could not wait to try them.

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A while later, Harry was in the dining room, eating his breakfast. Daphne was sitting opposite to him. Both were concentrating on their food as they did not want to let the other know what they would use in the battle. After the breakfast, Seth fitted Harry and Daphne with goblin bracelets which limited their magical output to level 9. This had to be done else, Harry could simply use his Shield spell and not be touched as Daphne was magically weaker than him.

Both entered the dueling room and took their positions. Daphne was using her two untraceable wands and was in a regular dueling position. Harry also had his two new wands in his hands but he was not using any dueling position. He was standing casually with his two hands by his side.

"This is your first part of the entrance test, Harry. You need to beat Daphne in a duel. No dark arts or unforgivables to be used. Also, no aiming severing or cutting spells at your opponent." Said Seth from the observation room, his voice magically amplified.

"Okay, Three…..Two…..One…..Duel!" he shouted

Harry looked at Daphne. She had summoned a shield and was going to attack. He would not give her the chance.

"Bombarda Maxima!" he said, sending the blasting curse at the floor between himself and Daphne.

The floor exploded, causing shards of concrete to be projected everywhere. The dust was also propelled, forming a visual barrier between the two duelists. Harry summoned his shield, which took the form of a white dome before he sent out three more explosion curses in a circular pattern around Daphne. He then created an air bubble around his head and entered the dust.

Daphne on her side mentally cursed herself when she realized the technique that Harry was using. She should have predicted that! Using one of her wands, she casted the 'aeris adnoto' spell while she used the other to cast several stunners and bone breakers at the general direction of Harry. The dust cleared but she did not see Harry before her.

It was by pure instincts that she managed to dodge the incoming bone breaker. The boy had managed to sneak to her right under the dust. He had attacked her and then swiftly created his dome-shield. She summoned her shield and sent three spells at Harry. The boy grinned and his own dome shield was suddenly reduced to a frontal shield. The spells were reflected back on her. She realized that by concentrating all his shield's energy in a smaller area, he had managed to re-create the powers of his golden dome shield.

Then she saw harry start the movements for the ultimate area-wide bone breaker, Amplus Frangere. Daphne sent more stunners but they were still reflected. Harry sent the Bone Breaking curse at his enemy and it destroyed her shield allowing him to attack.

"Stupefy! Deprimo! Reducto! Petrificus Totalus" Shouted Harry, sending the hexes at Daphne, intent on knocking her out.

However Daphne had more experience and instead of summoning her shield, she used her special offensive/defensive combo attack.

"Avis! Avis! Avis! Avis! Oppugno!" She casted motionlessly.

A huge flock of sparrows was created and rushed at Harry. Four birds were destroyed but the remaining hundred or so took an inverted 'Vee' formation and quickly surrounded her opponent. Then on the mental command of Daphne, they all descended upon Harry…

A/N

First of all, sorry for the wait. I had to actually rewrite the chapter.

It all started when my Beta told me that my three upcoming chapters were not at all interesting and were a simple bunch of infor interspeced with inverted commas for direct speech along with some description. This horrified me and I set out to 'recreate' the chapters, condensing them into this one. This caused a big problem as at the same time I had to write for my other stories which I have recently posted. So, in the end, I finished it and passed it on to my beta earlier today and he just gave it back. So, well this is the earliest I can post it.

crazyjim87: Perhaps or Perhaps not? Definitely Harry will rebel but the problem you should ponder on, is when and how he will do it, as you already know why