"Six weeks. That's all we have left." Ron whispered as if he had only just taken the time to think about it.
"I can't come with you, like Elias, Derek, Daphne, and Neville, and Hermione, I would like to stay here and continue my education." Draco paused to hold Ron's hand. "I will not hold you back though, if you wish to go and fight then I support your decision to do so."
"I understand, don't worry about it." Harry responded to Draco. "With the six of you at Hogwarts you can keep an eye on things, and run the Elemental sessions in my absence, as well as studying anything that we are unable to obtain any additional information on with our resources."
"Shall we get back to the task at hand?" Draco responded with a smile. "We should get to the bottom of your newly acquired ability to control fire. Though as neither Ron nor I have any Elemental training, I have arranged for Elias and Blaise to meet us here in a few minutes, it should be much easier to figure out with five heads.'
"Five heads… that's it." Harry exclaimed in excitement, reaching into his bag for the Diadem. " I know of a way to combine the mental abilities of everyone present, as well as Blaise and Elias, and then one of us would be able to use the collective knowledge of the group as well as having the other four to bounce ideas off and increase the brain power."
"I take it that this fancy crown is in some way related to your plan." Ron remarked as Harry held it in front of himself.
"Is that the Diadem of Ravenclaw?" The newly arrived Elias exclaimed upon seeing Harry with it. "This must be serious."
"Your older brother has seemingly developed the ability to control fire, we would very much like to understand what he can do with it." Draco informed him. "I thought you would be interested in helping us figure this out."
"I would definitely be interested in helping to figure this out. What do you know so far?"
"I threatened you, an empty threat I assure you, and Harry immediately brought fire around his hands. I was trying to help him to understand wandless magic." Draco added at Elias' confused look before continuing. "I don't think any of us expected that to happen."
"So… anger is your trigger… I know how to anger you enough to summon fire." Elias responded, becoming quiet towards the end.
"Oh? What is that?"
"I may have accidentally broken the broom you gave me… I promise I didn't mean to."
"That's not a problem. I can get you another one or something."
"Oh… I didn't expect that to unphase you."
"We don't want to use anger as the trigger anyway, I want to be able to keep my temper under control and be able to use my power with a greater degree of finesse."
"This is going to be a long day." Draco said quietly.
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Harry hadn't made much progress prior to the study session, he had no new exceptional escalation on obtaining control over his emotions and the power those emotions gave him. To that end, Harry made his way to Professor Flitwick's classroom.
He opened with a comment about his difficulties with wandless casting, following it up by asking how the small Charms master was able to remain calm all the time and still draw his power.
"Calm all the time? I assure you Mr Potter that I am not calm all of the time, in fact it was losing my temper that cost me my last duelling championship. To help reduce the likelihood of your anger bursting out at the wrong time you should find a healthy way to release that tension."
"I train and spar daily, sometimes more than once a day, and practice my magic and Elemental powers, as well as my physical combat skills. If they aren't good ways to vent then I don't know what is."
"Ah, but are you venting anger specifically?"
"No, it's usually more general than that."
"Try just feeling anger, then joy, and then whatever other emotions you want. You should be able to draw out anything within you in any mindset. A good exercise for your mind is to levitate an object while desiring that it remains on the floor, really focusing on just how much you want the item to remain on the floor while funneling your power to lifting it."
"Thank you Professor, you have always been nothing but supportive. I regret to have to inform you that I will not be returning for my seventh year."
"Why ever not? You can't deny me my protégé."
"I am sorry Professor, however I do not wish to exclude you entirely. For the entirety of my time at Hogwarts I have communicated via rings that I have created from scratch, unfortunately recent events have shown me how unsecured those rings were and so I have created some new rings, the process of which drained me of more than just magical energy. The end result was sixteen unique rings, most of which have been delivered to the people I knew would need the upgrade, I didn't know who the other rings would go to, perhaps they won't all be claimed…" Harry trailed off, diving deep into thought as he often did when the thought of the ring bearers came to his mind.
"Are you offering me a ring?"
"I am Professor."
"I accept the gift and wish you luck in your fight."
"Thank you Professor. Maybe when this is all over we could see about that Charms mastery."
"I would like that Mr Potter, I really would." He Charms Professor responded, walking up to Harry and shaking his hand, his eyes shimmering with tears.
"Goodbye Professor."
"Goodbye Harry."
When Harry had left, Filius placed the ring on his finger and his family crest appeared on the ring. He smiled sadly at the boy who had just left, wondering if he would ever see him again.