Goblin Training
So this way the week passed by with the news of the press conference dying down. Arthur Weasley was chosen as the new minister of magic. People in the wizarding world were now taking steps against Voldemort and his deatheaters. Harry had passed the week playing quidditch and enjoying himself at the Weasleys. The day Mr. Weasley became the minister they all had a party. Harry was now looking forward to his goblin training with Griphook. He was also awaiting the trunk the goblins were going to gift him.
The night when Griphook was to arrive, Harry was talking to Ginny.
"So Harry you are happy with all the results at the ministry?" asked Ginny.
"Yeah I am quite happy with the results. Especially now that your father has been made the minister I can now expect the ministry to take some steps against Voldemort." said Harry.
"Harry I know that you always try to pay by one way or other what you consider as a debt on us for taking care of you all these years. But I think that if you have supported my father as the minister to pay that debt then I don't think you have done the right thing." said Ginny.
"Ginny I haven't done any favor on your family. Your father is the best person to be the minister. He is the only one person who understands the wizards and the non wizards completely. Yes I do feel indebted to your family but I have not done this to return that debt, I only did this because I felt it to be right." said Harry.
"I wasn't complaining about it. I was just stating that you don't have to do anything for our family. You have saved our lives so many times, helped Fred and George setup their shop. You have done so much for us." said Ginny.
"Whatever I do for you would be always less compared to what you have done for me. I never knew what a family felt like, but I understood that when I came to live with you." said Harry.
"You are a part of our family Harry." said Ginny.
"And I am thankful to you for that." said Harry.
So the day passed by and the night commenced. Harry was waiting for Griphook. At midnight Harry felt a nudge on his backside. In a moment he was up pointing his wand to the person.
"Oh hell Griphook don't do this kind of thing again. I could have harmed you." said Harry.
"Don't worry Harry I was ready if you had attacked Me." said Griphook.
"But how did you come inside bypassing all the wards that have been kept on the Burrow. I was waiting for you at the window so if you came I could let you in." said Harry.
"Harry bypassing the wards is one of the things Goblins do very well. We will get onto it when I start training you. Right now have a look at the trunk we have developed for you." said Griphook handling Harry the trunk.
"Harry as you can see this trunk is made up of seven compartments. The first compartment is that of your any regular trunk. The second compartment as you told us had been converted into a nice apartment as the muggles call, complete with three bedrooms, kitchen, hall, living room, recreation room, and much more with all the luxuries. The third compartment is the library and the fourth compartment has been made a into a potions lab, the fifth compartment has been made into a training room, the sixth has been made into an apothecary centre and the last compartment has been made into a vault sort of thing as you mentioned. Now if anybody wants to enter this trunk they have give their finger impression and his DNA sample as muggle recognition techniques and then give their blood sample and then have to go on to give their magical signature and aura sample as the magical recognition techniques. If you want a person to enter this trunk you have to create a kind of new profile for them, stating to which compartments they can have access to. If you want to go from one compartment to another you have to go to the transport section and say the compartment number, if that person is authorized to enter that compartment then he will be transported there." said Griphook.
"Whoa that was one hell of description." said Harry.
"Now let us get into the training room and start your training." said Griphook.
So they then entered the training room. Harry then went and put a periodic spell by which for every hour passing outside will be equal to one day in the trunk.
"The goblins are a warrior race. We do not depend upon the brute strength to fight our enemies. Instead we rely on stealth and agility to fight our opponents. As for example why we fight in this way just think about if you come face to face with a giant or a troll your strength will not count but how fast you are will count. So first of all I will teach you how to increase your stealth and agility." said Griphook.
"That is right what next." said Harry.
"The next thing I will teach you is how to increase the intensity of your senses. We goblins can see through all the hidden concealments like charms, invisibility cloaks and even polyjuice potion. The only thing we cannot see through is a metamorphmagus disguise but still I will teach you its theory as you being a metamorphmagus can also see through each others disguises. I will also enhance your hearing and breathing abilities." said Griphook.
"That will be very useful to me in identifying any spies in my ranks." said Harry.
"The final thing that I will be teaching you will be bypassing all types of wards and curses kept around." said Griphook.
"These all things you are going to teach me are just great." said Harry.
"But Harry you will have to make sure that this knowledge I would be giving you should not fall into wrong hands." said Griphook.
"I promise that this knowledge will not fall into wrong hands." said Harry.
"Then let's begin our training. You will not be learning like you learn at Hogwarts as if in periods but I will teach you a certain aspect of training the whole day. So today I will teach you to enhance your senses, namely eyes, nose and ears. Before we begin Harry why don't you tell me you abilities, as that may help me induce them in your training making it more effective." said Griphook.
Harry thought about that for a minute and seeing as Griphook wasn't going to tell anybody, he told Griphook about all his abilities.
"Out of your different abilities I think the aura reading and the metamorphmagi skills will help to enhance your training. Now moving on to the training, as you are not a goblin you will have to take the 'tendo voluntas' potion which will heighten your senses for a day. After which we will practice on your senses and slowly you will be able to regain that type of senses even if you don't take the potion." said Griphook and gave Harry the potion.
Harry took the potion and was subjected to pain for some seconds and then when he regained his composure he could feel his heightened senses.
"It is a completely new feeling, I mean I am hearing all sorts of noises, smelling all types of things." said Harry.
"Don't worry Harry, I will teach you to control your senses." said Griphook.
"First of all we will move onto to enhance your sight, specifically your range of sight and seeing through darkness." said Griphook,
"So moving onto spotting through darkness. I have already darkened the training room. I have put a muggle dart board kind of an object. You will have to keep on shooting at that object until you hit the bull's eye consecutively ten times. After you do that you will have to keep on doing that by moving ten feet behind until you reach four hundred feet. This will improve your sight in darkness and will also increase your range of sight and also it will help you gain control over your heightened sight. So now begin." said Griphook.
Harry started his shooting practice, at starting he was not getting it as he was doing it in dark, but he got used it and he was exhausted by the end of his training, but he felt that he could now see better in darkness and he now had some control over his sight.
"Excellent Harry, you finished the practice quiet earlier then I had expected." said Griphook.
"Thank you for the compliment." said Harry.
"Now moving onto the next practice. The next task is that I have animated some dummies to cast spells on you through the dark, for the first phase of the task you will just defend the spells and in the second half you will have to destroy the all the dummies. So now start." said Griphook.
Harry started his task, the dummies were firing from all the directions. He was rolling and dodging and shielding the curses thrown at him. In the second half he started destroying the dummies. He finished this task also.
"Again you have surprised me with your quick learning Harry. So we now move on to heightening your hearing. In this task I will have you blind folded and then I will attack you with a sword, you will have to try and block that attacks. Don't worry Harry it will not be anything that might hurt you. This can gain you much advantage when you are chasing a person. Your eye sight will only help you to counter in the one direction you are looking, but your hearing capability will help you counter anything from any direction." said Griphook and then the training began.
First of all he was not able to counter the attacks Griphook was making on him as he was coming from all random directions and his movements were very silent. But little by little Harry tried to hear Griphook's movements and then started dodging and blocking his attacks.
"Harry that was nice, you will progress as the days go on. Now for the second part I have again animated some dummies to fire of all sorts of curses which require shielding, avoiding or conjuring something to avoid them. You will be again blind folded and you will have to hear the movements of the dummies and sense the direction. They will speak the incantation of the spell so that you can make out the spell they are firing and act accordingly." said Griphook.
So again Harry went through the training and not surprisingly finished the task quite early.
"Now Harry moving onto the smelling part. All the species whether magical or non magical, they have a specific scent which they emit. I have brought the blood of different species. First of all you I will give you to smell them and then I will tell which species it is, after you have gone through all of them, then I will give you random samples and you will have to tell which species it is. This will help you to realize what kind of thing you are up against. After you done with that, I will focus on a certain species and I will bring samples of the different individuals of that species and I will number them. You will then have to differentiate in them and tell me the number." said Griphook.
So like this the training went on for eight days and the first night ended.
"Harry you have done really well and I think you will never again need the potion again to heighten his senses. Tomorrow night we will be focusing on your stealth abilities." said Griphook.
"Thank you Griphook, we will meet tomorrow night." said Harry.
So then the next night commenced and Griphook arrived.
"So Harry ready for another night?" asked Griphook.
"Yes I am ready." said Harry.
"Before beginning the tasks, I will like to teach you some spells which will help you to cover your tracks. You might already know the disillusionment charm, which is quite useful when you are hiding." said Griphook.
"The next spell is the spell which will make all your body movements completely silent. Its incantation is 'facio somes tractus silens' ." said Griphook.
"The next spell will completely alter your magical signature and assume a different signature you like. Its incantation is 'muto veneficus subcriptio'." said Griphook.
"The next spell will clean an area of your choice from all the different muggle identifications of your like fingerprints, DNA samples, foot prints etc. The incantation is 'tersus somes subcriptio'.
"Now moving on to the real training. All the above spells will help you in your silent approaching, but what happens if you do not have a wand and you have to perform a stealth operation, just imagine that your wandless abilities are also not working. At that time you will have to depend on your non magical abilities. So this training will help you to approach really silently. In the first task you will have to destroy the dummies with a sword, you will not use magic. The dummies are animated such that if they hear a sound then they will start firing curses in the direction of sound. So you have to be really silent as you have to go near them and destroy them."
"The second task will be to remain a certain time in the training room and only defend without using magic same sound animated dummies will be kept. Also you will do similar tasks where the dummies will act on the objects they see and smell. You will be again using potions in order to gain the abilities." said Griphook.
So in similar manner Harry trained for another eight days on his stealth and was advancing very quickly. So again the night ended and Griphook departed to arrive next night.
So the third night arrived and Griphook was conversing with Harry about his next training.
"Tonight I will teach you how to see through different charms, walls, invisibility cloaks etc. Mainly we will be working on seeing through different kinds of magic, and as you are a metamorphmagus I would like to teach you how to see through a metamorphmagus also. And the second thing will be to sense and see different types of magical residues which will help you to see what kind of wards or curses are setup and also to identify a person's magical signature through magical residue." said Griphook.
"First of all in order to see through the different charms, walls and invisibility cloaks you will have take a potion and then you will see through everything, after that you will have to practice seeing through the everything I have setup to gain control and mastery, also this potion will correct your eyesight." said Griphook.
"Next regarding the metamorphmagi seeing technique, you will have to just take a potion which will unlock the abilities hold by you to see a real form of a metamorphmagus." explained Griphook.
"And lastly to know the magical signature and what type of wards or curses are attached you will have to just memorize all the different magical residue left by the magic performed in it after taking a potion again." said Griphook.
So again the next eight days came to end.
The next night Griphook taught Harry agility, which he had just to practice after Griphook gave him the potion. He had to be silent and much faster.
The next night was focused on Griphook teaching how to cast different wards and curses and how to neutralize them.
The next night Griphook first taught Harry how to sense through his aura sight a person's characteristics, power level, his special abilities like animagus, metamorphmagus, vampire, werewolf etc. Then he brought another goblin who was a specialist on metamorphmagi and he taught Harry to turn into someone identical to his fingerprints.
And so the last night of Harry's training arrived.
"Tonight I will not be teaching you anything as I have got nothing more to teach you, instead I will perform some rituals on to gain some special abilities. These rituals will take up most of the time of tonight. The first ritual will help you to increase your reading abilities, second ritual will help you to increase your grasping power, remembering instantly after reading. The third ritual will help you in order to recall everything you have memorized very quickly and the fourth ritual will expand your memory capacity, the capacity of remembering more. These rituals are only possible as you have the ability of mind arts." said Griphook.
"The second set of rituals is as follows. By the first ritual we will help you to become invisible on will. After the ritual you will just have to say 'effluo' to become invisible. The next ritual will help you see through fidelius charm and also its counterpart the 'occulto monumentum' which hides some of your memories of your brain even from veritaserum. Don't look surprised Harry how do you think we run our bank against those who take loans from us and then when they don't want to pay back the amount they just hide by casting the fidelius charm. The last ritual will give you immunity towards all truth serums including veritaserum. But the problem is that we require basilisk venom, phoenix tears and dragon blood fused into your blood to finish this ritual but unfortunately all these things are very rare to come by and we are searching them." said Griphook.
"Don't worry Griphook I already have basilisk venom and phoenix tears already running in my blood and I can give you dragon blood through my animagus form." said Harry
"That will be fantastic Harry." replied Griphook.
So again the night went as all the rituals were done on Harry.
"Now the rituals have completed. The last thing I am going to teach you is how to remain emotionless are morphing fake emotions in order to confuse your opponents. Sometimes if your opponent can read you through your emotions and so you have to remain emotionless and sometimes you have to fake emotions to confuse others. The best example for the first case is your potions professor and the examples for second case are Dumbledore and Luna Lovegood, the first one acts eccentric and a bit crazy and the second one acts as a bit loony and dreamy for the other people to drop guard in front of them. I have deduced these things as I have seen them go through our bank many times." said Griphook.
"So I would like you to create four fake profiles for yourself, create a body, a magical signature, some fake memories and remember them and only use them when you want to use different aliases." said Griphook.
So this way Harry's practice progressed rapidly at nights and in days he kept on researching new things and enjoying himself. So this way the time for Harry to return to Hogwarts came near. Harry was facing Griphook at the last night of his training.
"Harry given all of your abilities I am not surprised that you have learnt everything I had to teach you. I am impressed as I can say that your abilities have reached a level that you may be just behind some of the goblins in terms of skill and knowledge. But you have to understand that you have finished all these things early as you were using potions, if you would not have used them then it would have taken years for you to complete your training." said Griphook.
"Thank you Griphook for all you have taught me. I will now try my best as a goblin representative. Also I have a question, you are master in whatever you have taught me, then why do you have a simple desk job? "Said Harry.
"You are right Harry, I just don't do desk job only. As I am one of the best in my field I keep an eye all the people that enter the banks for all types of disguises and traps etc." said Griphook.
"Ok bye then Harry." said Griphook.
"Bye Griphook." said Harry.
So then Harry went to sleep as the next day he was going back to Hogwarts and then it will be his perfect test as he would put forward all his plans to fight in bringing Dumbledore down.
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