Chapter 25
When Harry and company reached the house; they sat in the library and discussed the day's events.
"Do you really want to work with Fudge" asked Remus. "I know you don't like him."
"Fudge is an idiot," said Harry. "As long as he works with us and doesn't do anything stupid, I won't have him replaced."
"I was watching him during the meeting" said Alfred. " He was truly shocked by what you showed him. I don't think he realized how bad things had gotten. When he first became minister, he did a good job. Everyone makes mistakes. His biggest mistake was surrounding himself with bad advisers. Lucius Malfoy is a death eater and Madame Umbridge is a small minded racist. The only good advice he gets is from Madame Bones and I think he'll listen to her now."
"I really hope he can keep his mouth shut," said Remus. "If he can't then he will be killed."
"No offence to the aurors but I don't think they will last long if the death eaters show up" said Harry.
Later that evening Harry met with the guards that were going to train him.
"We have spoken with Zora and a couple of your R&D companies and we came up with a couple of things to help you train," said Mikah. "We were wondering if you wanted your friends to train with you? You said yourself that they are in danger, so we thought we'd help them also."
"Why don't we ask them?" said Harry. They called Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred and George down and asked them about the training. They all agreed and discussed what would happen.
"We have a few things that will help us cut down on training time. If we see that more time is needed for training, we will deal with that too" said Jarrod. " First off, we have a potion for you to take. It will help you to retain and organize information in your mind. Second, we have a ring that you wear to bed. The ring allows you to absorb knowledge while you sleep. You just place a book under your pillow and you absorb the knowledge in the book while you sleep."
"Third, we have a charm that will duplicate you," said Mikah. "There will be three of each of you. One of the duplicates will be in the library reading a list of books that we will give you. I know you will be using the rings but they can only do one book a night and there are many more books that can help you. The second duplicate will be training in non-magical combat and getting in shape. The third duplicate will be learning about government and politics. You will need this knowledge. Then, there are you guys. Several of us will be training you for battle. Now, every night before you go to bed, your duplicates will merge with you and you will gain the knowledge from them. Every morning it starts again."
"We also think you need to train in Occlumency" said Jarrod. "We want to keep your minds private. Other people won't think twice about using Legitimacy to go through your mind and use what they find against you. We have a potion for that also. It will occlude your mind for a few hours. That way you will see what your mind should be like and it will help you get there quicker. We also have special lessons for each of you. We will build on all of your individual strengths. Harry will have to wait until after his inheritance on his birthday to find out all his abilities but we will test the rest of you for yours. Are there any questions?"
They discussed the training for a while and were then given their first potion. By the morning, their minds should be organized. They would be given the second potion in the morning and would start working on their Occlumency.
Harry had owled Dumbledore and requested a meeting for noon the next day. He would be going early with his guards to look over the house. He was meeting a designer that would be refurbishing 12 Grimmauld Pl.
Before going to bed that evening Harry practiced his Occlumency. He was going to take the potion before his meeting tomorrow just in case Dumbledore tried anything but he felt good about his walls.
Later as he was sleeping, the golden light surrounded him again. It pulsed several times before fading away. Harry had received more of his inheritance and there would be more changes coming.