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"Harry Potter and Septanic Dueling" ( 14/? )Author name: NAPPA
Author email: imran_webjump@hotmail.com
Category: Action/Adventure, Humour, and Romance
Keywords: H/H, 5th year, Dueling, Animagi
Spoilers: All books
Rating: PG13
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14Chapter Name: Carpet Ride and Griffin Watching
The next morning Harry awoke to gentle nudges and a soft voice that belonged to Hermione.
" Harry..." more nudges before, "Harry. Cummon. Wake up"
" I'm up. I'm up." Yelled Harry despite himself.
" Hurry up. It's seven already. We need to get ready."
" Ready for what? WAR!"
Harry didn't realise why they needed to be up so early.
" Oh, nothing really...unless you don't want to learn how to ride on a flying carpet."
" Did you say 'Flying Carpet'?" when she nodded, Harry literally jumped off the bed and flew into the shower facilities. It took less than five minutes to go through the morning ritual. He brushed his teeth while he was in the shower. Harry quickly got dressed in his best muggle clothes and left the shower.
When he came out wearing his new glasses he had been using his old ones still since the new ones didn't feel quite right yet) and wet hair almost shocked her to fall backward.
* That can't be Harry... WOW! He looks good... * Just the thought made her blush. Hermione quickly turned away so that Harry wouldn't see her face. By the time Harry had put on cloak his hair had lost most of its moisture and Hermione had recovered herself.
(A/N: If you thought this story was going to head to H/H direction this soon. I'm sorry. This is more like a physical attraction, and lets face it Hermione might get attracted to a guy because of it, but she hardly is the type fall madly in love with someone because they looked really handsome.)
After breakfast Mr. Pasha took both teenagers to a storeroom, which had been unnoticeable until then (enchanted to be only seen when the person looking for the door knew exactly where it is). The whole room was full of shelves and there was only one wall in the room that didn't have anything in it and when Mr. Pasha murmured something pointing his wand, it simply vanished in front of them.
Harry and Hermione had never seen a wall disappear before, though they had seen some other amazing things happen to them before. Mr. Pasha murmured something and a large red and pale yellow coloured rolled carpet dropped to the floor. It unrolled itself and waited to be boarded.
Mr. Pasha explained that the carpets themselves are not magic and as such can not do anything unless there is a witch or a wizard on the carpet. Harry got on board the carpet as soon as Mr. Pasha told them to do so, but Hermione needed convincing that they weren't going to go too high. Even after that she only sat down on the carpet as opposed her male counterpart who decided that he would stand.
The three were shown the basics before Mr. Pasha asked Harry to head for the west.
" Rise." Said Harry making the carpet even more rigid then it was before.
" Mr. Pasha... What about muggles? Won't they see us going out?..." asked
Hermione in her adoring voice reserved for teachers.
" I'll come to that Hermione..." asked Hermione.
As soon as the carpet went outside, through the wall that had disappeared, the wall reappeared with a small flash of white light. Once outside the carpet rose to the height of six feet and then there was three flickers a three different charms automatically came to being. Mr. Pasha explained that there was one to hold the riders to the carpet, one to repel other carpets from colliding with each other and one to make them visible only to people on other carpets.
Mr. Pasha spent good part of next five hours giving the two students practical flying lessons. Hermione, who was less confident in a broom. Turned out to be very good at riding on the carpet. Harry thought it was kind of like the situation where some people found it really easy to ride on a motorcycle, but people who were afraid of them were a lot better on cars.
" Hermione..." said Harry, who was standing next to Hermione at the front while a patient Mr. Pasha sat at the back letting the two teenager in front of him.
" What?" she said, getting nervous because they were very close to their destination, and she really didn't want Harry to get mad at her, because she had ulterior motives.
" You're really good at this. You should consider moving here when you finish school. I bet you can get a job as anything you want"
Hermione turned the brightest shade of red possible for a human being upon receiving the complements. She just hoped that Harry would feel the same way when they go to their destination.
" The reason that we're here is to observe the Griffins." Said Mr. Pasha pointing at two giant creatures that looked like a cross between a lion and an eagle. Just when they said it they hears a loud screech.
Mr. Pasha explained that the Griffins live in a 'nest' and are very protective of their cubs. That is why one of the parents stays behind, while the other is out hunting. The screech is only a signal that one of the partners is going hunting.
He also told them that since the Griffins are very sensitive to magic they should stay as far as possible. He told them that if they wanted to spend more time observing griffins they were quite welcome to do so, but he had to go home and await the arrival of messages from Professor Dumbledore.
He left the pair with food for dinner and emergency port keys that'll take them right into the house. Harry and Hermione observed the behaviour of the Griffins as they both took notes for the Care of Magical Creatures class.
Hermione was furiously writing her notes down, it was mostly to avoid talking with Harry. She thought because she had partly lied to Harry he was upset with her. On the contrary, Harry was totally fascinated by the Griffins and his silence only reinforced her belief that Harry was indeed upset with her. When Hermione thought that she couldn't stand Harry's silent treatment anymore, she started to speak to him...well actually apologise to him for getting him up in the morning.
Harry explained that the reason he wasn't talking was because the Griffins were so very interesting. Even when they did nothing, they had a mixture of nobility and savageness that really interested him. Hermione was just glad that he wasn't upset with her.
Even the most interesting of the creature becomes boring after a while. Having had enough of the Griffins, herself Hermione agreed to go back. As they approached the city, Hermione, who was the driving the carpet, performed more and more astounding feats in the air. Harry wondered, where she got the sudden urge to perform, neither noticed a big leopard beast that saw them head towards the general direction of the city. (The beast was powerful enough to see right through the invisibility charm)
When they got back they practices duelling...err... No they practised 'pick on Potter', as Harry it seemed had actually grown worse, than he was at the beginning. Hermione took full advantage and for the next hour and a half Harry was thrown around the room like a small but hot potato.
Harry was actually trying to find a weakness in the method that they fought, unfortunately for Harry she had none that he could find until they finished. Hermione showed Harry some of the moves that she remembered from her karate days and he had to admit she was exceptionally good.
* I wonder why she never hit Malfoy back for teasing her *, thought Harry, but decided it was probably because she thought that would be lowering herself to Malfoy's level.
The next day was spent fully on Dueling.
The day after was more interesting. That day started out in a similar fashion as to the one before, but they did duelling practise before Mr. Pasha would let the pair take the Magic Carpet out for a spin. Hermione was severely disappointed and didn't hide it. She liked the freedom the carpet gave her, but more over she liked her adventurous self on the carpet.
When she was on a broom, it always made her feel a little uneasy but now that she was good at flying, and being able to do all fancy moves she wanted to, she wanted to be out doing it.
So they quickly went through the lesson. Hermione paid for her lack of attention, as she spent almost all of the first hour on the floor. But after a while her proper personality kicked in and Harry was again falling victim of Hermione's skill.
* Ouch! Man I was having fun throwing her around for a change and now she's beating the living day lights out of me.... OW!* though Harry as he reacted to the knee in the groin.
" Awhhh! What the f**king hell was that for." Asked Harry as he was still using his two hands to protect his groin from further attack.
" ... Did it hurt?" asked Hermione tentatively.
" No!..." said Harry as he jumped, pinning her to the ground, before he continued "... I was just acting... Well not really... it hurt but not as much as this."
With that Harry hit her on the face with his elbow making her bleed from her lips. She was pissed, but she couldn't move as Harry had pinned her using one of the moves, she had shown him the day before.
" Get off me..." said a thoroughly pissed Hermione.
" No..." replied Harry with a tone full of mischief.
" Get off me... please. This is embarrassing."
" So what?... You kneed my groin! That hurts! Do you have any idea... OOPS!" blushed Harry.
Hermione felt the grip loosen a little and took her chance at freedom then. She threw him off her fairly easily, then pinned him to the ground and repeated what Harry did on her face. Four times.
" How does it feel now?... HUH" asked a cocky Hermione.
" Pretty good actually... See when the cuts are repaired I get these funny sensations on my face and I love those. Did you really think I couldn't get out of the hold?..." said Harry as he not only threw her off him but also almost making her fly.
It had taken him all of last night to practise in his Astral form.
" ... oof" moaned Hermione in pain as she landed right on her butt.
It took half a second for Hermione to recover and she was pissed. She literally was in the process of lunging on top of Harry when both of them froze where they were.
" Okay you two... Break it off. You need to remember you can't get angry. No matter what!" said Mr. Pasha. " So.. I'll leave you two alone and you can either fight for a while or you can go observe those Griffins. I'll leave it up to you to get the details sorted."
Hermione, who was in mid air when Mr. Pasha had stopped their bodies from moving, fell to the floor with a loud thud when he made their bodies unfreeze. Harry couldn't stop himself from laughing and when she came up to him after she had recovered from the abrupt fall she punched the laughing Harry in the stomach knocking the wind right out of him.
" oof." Cried out Harry as he grabbed on to his stomach with one hand and with the other he grabbed one of Hermione's legs as he doubled over and pulled them out from under her. Harry took his wand and pointed at her face....
* What curse is he gonna do now * wondered Hermione in a panic.
But to her surprise Harry didn't curse her. He put one end at the edge of her lip where the blood was still coming out of and started to mutter something under his breath. She felt the tingling start at her lips and then slowly resonating thought her body. As she felt it at different places in her body, she had to use all her mental control to not scream out in pleasure.
* Oh God! I never felt like that before.... WOW! Talk about intense...What's he saying? I have to know the spell.... Awhhh *
" Hermione are you ok?"
" What was that spell?" asked Hermione who couldn't wait to find out the source of the spell.
" OH! It was the one that Rowena used on Goderic...." Harry saw the confused look on Hermione's face so he ventured more information, " ...after the final battle with Salazar."
" I know when they used it... but that's a very powerful spell. I mean... It takes years to master. That's why school nurses have to do three year apprenticeships after they finish school."
" Well. I didn't do it right now did I. Your cheeks weren't supposed to turn pink now are they."
" er...no. But you came very close." Hermione couldn't bring herself to tell him the way the spell made her feel. " Hey! I need a shower and after that we'll take the carpet for a spin. What do say, Harry?"
" I'm game." Came the reply from her back as Hermione made her way across the room still feeling a little light headed.
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