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Chapter twenty-nine – The Entrance Exam

Harry didn't talk about what he had said to James's parents at all. He talked as normal as ever with them. And they tried hard to do the same, but in Harry's opinion they didn't do it too well. But James did not seem to notice.

The next day Harry woke up at half past six and did not eat too much breakfast. He was not really nervous, not even when they arrived at the large house in London. As Harry and James entered, they went to the reception desk and the woman there said in a bored tone,

"Entrance exam?" They both nodded and she said, "Go through those rooms." She simply said and pointed at a wooded door. Harry and James went through the door and found themselves in a small room. And when they were both inside, the door slammed shut magically.

"A trap." Harry said. And then, out of a corner, they heard something rattle. As they looked closer, they just saw an open cupboard, "Oh no, James, it's a boggart."

"What?! And that's everything?"

"Well, for this room it is..." And then the room went cold. Out of the open cupboard, a dementor came gliding towards Harry and he heard, once again his mother's cries. But this time Harry simply said,

"Riddikulus." Crack And then there was a dead Lily Potter lying on the floor. James swallowed and said,

"R-Riddikulus!" Crack Another dementor,

"Ah, this is boring. Riddikulus!" And after at least ten Cracks another dementor vanished in a puff of smoke and then they went through the door, which too slammed shut after they had gone through. And to Harry's horror he found the next room with a Thestral in it.

"Oh shit."

"What is it? An empty room—is that so bad?"

"It's not empty. Here's a Thestral."

"A what?"

"Don't you know what Thestrals are? They are pulling the carriages to Hogwarts. You can only see them if you have seen death. They are very, very dangerous if they are not trained. And I am pretty sure that this one is not trained." He said, his eyes never leaving the Thestral, which was looking at them dangerously angry.

"Oh. Great. What can I do now? How can we—"

"I have no clue how to kill it. Better be trying. What about fire?" And Harry did what Remus had done in his third year. He held a handful of flames and shot it at the Thestral. But the Thestral went out of the way. So Harry did it some more times until he finally hit the animal. It fell to the floor and then Harry had an idea—He threw a handful of ice at the Thestral and it stopped moving,

"I think it's dead... Let's go on." When they entered the next door, they were greeted by a horrible coldness. But the door slammed shut behind them.

"W-What o-on earth..." But then the room went dark and Harry knew what was coming,

"Dementors. Lumos!" And Harry and James saw at least ten dementors gliding towards them. Harry counted them,

"Phew, they're only twelve, James." But Harry didn't hear James's reply. He heard his mother crying,

"Leave him, please, go away! Kill me, but let Harry live! Please, Voldemort." And that was new. Harry listened,

"Mudblood, go out of the way! You don't have to die! You could live, if you just let me kill him!" But then Harry noticed what he was doing and opened his eyes. He was lying on the floor and James was saying very silently,

"H-Harry? Are you o-okay?!" And Harry noticed that one of the dementors was slowly gliding down to him. It was going to kiss him. And then Harry tried to get his wand, which was lying a few feet away. He stretched out his hand and the dementor came nearer and nearer. Harry could feel the dementor's breathing when he had just got his wand. And then he shouted,

"Expecto Patronum!" And the silvery stag came out of the tip of Harry's wand. It galloped towards all the dementors until they had all backed into a corner. "Hold them there!" Harry told his stag and then he went to James,

"Are you okay? Sorry that I needed so long, but I wanted to hear more..." He helped James up,

"Hear more of what?" James mumbled and Harry conjured up chocolate for them.

"My mother." James looked confused at him and he added, swallowing the last bit of chocolate "I hear my mother's last words before dying, every time a dementor comes near me." And then Harry walked towards the next door. After a moment James came after him. And then they entered the fourth room. And as the door slammed shut behind them, they found themselves in a room with at least fifty men and women in it.

"James, I bet I'll get more than you..." Harry smirked,

"Oh, you think so? Let's bet! I'll get more!"

"Okay." And Harry and James began to shoot curses and hexes at the people in the room. They fought themselves through the room gracefully. In the end, Harry stunned the one James was duelling,

"Hey, that's not fair! That was mine!"

"I won anyway! I got twenty-nine!"

"And I got twenty-two! The last one was mine!"

"Okay, then I knocked out twenty-eight of them! You-LOST!!" James stuck out his tongue and they went through the next door. But to their great surprise they only found a man sitting at a desk in an office.

"Didn't I say I don't want to be disturbed?!" The man said, not looking up,

"I don't even remember to have ever seen you. We were told to go through the rooms and so we did..." Harry smirked as the man looked up at them.

"What? Who are you two?"

"We were invited to the Auror-test. This is James Potter and I am Harry Daniels." Harry explained,

"Are you trying to tell me, that you got through every room??" The man said in pure disbelief,

"Yeah. You can look at them..." The man got up and looked into the last room where some of the people were just beginning to stir,

"How on earth did you do that?" Harry frowned,

"It wasn't that hard. Why, who are they?"

"Most of them are already trained Aurors! And all the others are Aurors in training!" Harry and James looked at each other and then said,

"That's a joke!" The man shook his head and both Harry and James began to laugh. When Harry had caught himself he asked,

"So we are accepted at the Auror training?!"

"Naturally, you'll be in the advanced auror training. You'll be aurors in six months at the latest! You could even be ready earlier! What were your names again?"

"This is James Potter..." The man wrote it down, so Harry paused "And my name is Harry Daniels." And at Harry's name the man's head jerked up,

"Really? You're the one who faced You-Know-Whom?! No wonder you got through!"

"But that has nothing to do with me facing Voldy!" Harry frowned and at Voldemort's nickname, the man snorted,

"What did you call him?!"

"Hm? You mean Voldemort? I called him Voldy 'cause it's shorter and people don't flinch." Harry smiled and at Voldemort's name the man flinched "See? Like that."

"You-You're calling him by his name?!"

"Yeah, naturally. That should be trained here, too. Because to fear a name increases the fear of the thing itself, and that is what Voldy wants—people who fear him. Tom may be stupid, but he can be a genius too!"

"Who is Tom?"

"Volemort." Now the man was completely lost "Come on, you did not really think that Voldemort is his real name, did you!? How idiotic must his mother have been to call him Voldemort, hm? No, that's not his real name... It's just Tom. But let's talk about the training now. When can we start?!" When the man had caught himself he said,

"Everyday except Sundays from eight am to four PM at this place. You'll need to buy these books..." He gave them each a booklist "Your first lesson will be on Monday, in three days."

"Okay, thanks. Goodbye! And greet those Aurors and Aurors in training from us! They'll remember us...!"

"Yeah, goodbye!"

"Okay! Goodbye." And Harry and James went through another door back into the entrance hall where the woman was staring at them,

"How many rooms did you manage?" She asked curiously.

"Every. The boggart, the Thestral the dementors and those people. Wouldn't have thought that, would you?!" Harry smirked as she gaped at them,

"No one ever got through every room... Well done there...!"

"Thanks!" And they went outside from where they apparated back to the Potter's house.

Author's note: Hey you all! Here's the new chapter! I started correcting the first chapters, that's why I didn't update new chapters. I hope the first chapters are worth reading now! And I changed the story's title. I know the new one is not any better at all, but I'll do my best to think of a better one. If you've got ideas don't hesitate to tell me!! Byebye,
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