Sorry it has been a while, it is the holidays over here in the UK and i have been away from an internet connection till now. Here is chapter 14.
Hermione was just exiting the restricted section when Harry spotted her. He and Peter ran over to her.
"Hey Harry what's up?" she asked noticing a mixture of excitement, worry and fear across his face.
"You will never guess what has happened!"
"What?" Hermione asked impatiently.
"I seem to have gained some of Peter's powers."
"You what?!" Hermione shrieked. People's heads began to turn towards the three of them.
"Yeah we were having a little fight, you could say and I hit Peter and he went flying across the room."
"Why were you fighting?"
"I was trying to knock some sense into him and make him realise that what happened isn't his fault. It is our fault because we led him into doing the magic."
"We need to get to your room," Hermione said to Peter. "We need to check this out."
They headed out of the library and along the corridors back to the portrait of the fat lady. Speaking the password, they were soon thought the entrance and into the Gryffindor common room.
The common room was full of people all talking and having fun playing games of exploding snaps and Wizard's Chess. Ignoring some of the stares at Peter, the group swerved through the collections of Gryffindor's and stood once more in front of the portrait covering Peter's room. Speaking the password, they pulled open the door and bundled inside.
Once they were in, they made sure the portrait was pulled too and went to go and sit on Peter's bed.
"Right," Hermione said. "We need to establish what exactly has happened. You say you discovered this while you were fighting when Harry slapped you." she said to Peter.
"Correct," Peter replied, while Harry nodded in agreement.
"I must admit, I have been feeling a little strange since the accident, which includes feeling a little stronger than normal and I feel a lot fitter than I was," Harry commented.
"When I found out about my powers, I saw the first change when I looked into the mirror, have you done that?"
"No, I don't tend to look in the mirror that often," Harry replied.
"And don't we know it," Hermione said laughing and pointing at Harry's hair.
"Yeah, well I like it messy."
"Lift up your shirt", Peter said.
"Whoah there, what are you doing?"
"As I said the biggest change for me was what I saw in the mirror. I just want to check if the same has happened to you. All you need to do is lift up your shirt and I will do nothing but look briefly and then you can drop your shirt, ok?"
"Okay..." Harry said hesitantly.
Standing up, Harry reached down and un-tucked his shirt from within his trousers. Lifting it up, he presented his bare stomach towards Peter and Hermione. Hermione let out and audible gasp and Peter sat there nodding.
"Just as I thought," he commented.
"What?" Harry asked.
"You are wonderful," Hermione said in a daze. She reached out her hand and stroked Harry's stomach.
Harry felt a weird sensation as she did so, it was as though his skin was no longer flat, but there were lumps in it. Looking down and pulling his shirt a bit further back, he saw what the other two were looking at, how had he missed this? He had an 8 pack. Whoah and Whoah again. He had muscle. Brining up his right hand to his left arm he felt the muscle with his hands. Yes there was definitely more muscle there than there ever had been. He was buff!
"What...?" he managed to say out loud.
"The powers you have gained, home in on all the bad stuff in your body like fat and then improve your fitness and increase your muscle mass. Your reaction time has improved and you have new skills you never thought you could have before," Peter explained.
"What else do I need to know?" Harry asked.
"Well there aren't many more things. I have something I call Spider Sense, where I am able to get an advanced warning of danger. Depending on what level of danger it is, depends on the severity of the warning. Small danger is a small buzz in the back of the head and really bad danger is a really big buzz all over the head."
"Ok spider sense, sounds good for defeating Voldemort," Harry said, smiling with relief.
"Just one more thing. I am able to shoot organic webbing from my wrists, allowing me to fly around tall buildings quickly."
"It's really organic; I thought you made the fluid, that's what the papers say!" Hermione said in wonder.
"I admit I did tell the press a little lie, I didn't want to make myself to be anymore wondrous to scientists than I already am. I don't fancy being cut up to see how I work."
"Absolutely not!" Hermione said agreeing with him.
"I thought you had only seen be in the press a couple of times, you didn't seem to remember who I was when we had that chat. (Authors note: This was back in chapter 5)"
"That was what I was doing in the library when you found me. We have a large stock of muggle newspapers that I was looking over."
"How do you get the webs?" Harry inquired, interrupting them.
Peter stood up and walked over towards him.
"Stretch your hand out. Now bend your two middle fingers in towards the palm. Good that's it. Now very slightly push down on the palm and at the same time give your hand a little flick down and then back up to stop the web."
Harry followed Peter's instructions and soon was shooting web out of his wrists.
"This is amazing," he cried out jumping around in excitement.
"Absolutely brilliant," Hermione said quietly. In a louder voice she let out a question which stopped everyone in their tracks. "What do we tell Ron?"
"Oh yeah," Harry said.
"I know how close you three are, but you have to understand that as few people as possible can know about this. I let too many people find out about me and many of those were hurt or turned against me. Ron can't know, I am reluctant to even tell your headmaster, but I know I will find out anyway, he seemed to read me like a book on the first meeting we had."
As he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door. Hermione leapt up and ran towards it. Reaching into her robes she pulled out her wand. Pointing it at the back of the portrait, she muttered a spell under her breath and brought her wand across the door as she spoke. In a second, the portrait became like a window, allowing Hermione, Harry and Peter to see out. Waiting outside was Ron.
"Can he see us?" Harry asked.
"No, it's one way, we can see out, but to him it looks just the same."
"A bit like the lenses on my mask," Peter commented.
"We can't let him see this mess," Hermione said brandishing her arm out showing the webs strewn over the place. I will have to distract him."
"How? We can't get out of here unless we go through there," Harry said.
"Actually, there is another way out, a back door if you would," Peter said. "I discovered it when I was hiding from you all. It leads to a portrait upstairs and you can easily get back in there without people knowing you were actually in here."
"Show me," Hermione said.
Leading her over to a section of wall, Peter pushed against a stone and the hidden door swung open. Behind was a short corridor which led to a spiral staircase heading upwards.
"Right, I'll go and distract him while you two clean up in here, then we will come and meet you," Hermione said.
With that, she walked into the hidden corridor, lit her wand and headed to meet Ron.