Chapter Six: Animagus Sending Level
When Harry walked into Transfiguration he found the class staring intently at the front of the room where Professor McGonagall had just appeared.
"As you may already know, you will be learning to apparate this year." At this several excited whispers broke out. "However, I doubt that you know what else we will be learning. Unlike previous years, we will be learning how to turn any object into a weapon, how to become an animagus, how to direct your power into -well, quite a few things- and how to and when it is acceptable to conjure objects that aren't yours or shouldn't be messed with -especially humans, elves, and similar creatures. We will start with how to become an animagus. First we'll have to find out what each of you can become. To do so you will enter one of these rooms." She motioned to some doors around her, "what each person encounters in there is different, but I can assure you that can hurt you while you are there. Everyone get behind a door and when I tell you, enter. Now!"
There was a rush to enter a room that Harry soon left behind as his door closed. He walked forward a bit into the blackness but stopped abruptly. It felt like water was all around him, but he could still breathe. Harry frowned but continued forward. There was a gold light in the distance and it seemed no time had passed at all when he arrived in front of the light. It enveloped him in its love and kindness in a way that seemed to say there would be no lies while there. A human figure approached from a place that seemed to be a brighter gold and Harry smiled at it.
"Hello Harry Potter!" the old woman said kindly, "Your trainers have spoken well of you, and from previous meetings I tend to agree. Now, relax and open your mind. You will experience what you can become- I can't say exactly what will happen as it is different for everyone. Ready?"
The second he nodded, Harry's mind was flooded with images, strange words, and mysterious sounds that all called to him in a peculiar way. In an instant it was over and Harry sat stunned.
"Did you understand it or shall I somehow find a way to explain the unexplainable?"
"I think I got most of it, I only have one or two questions. Some of the creatures' names were in their native language and others were in Elvish, Gnomish, Dwarvish, English, Spanish, and Phoenian. There were also some creatures I couldn't identify due to the fact that many creatures make that same noise. Why?"
"Ah, very good question. You received the animagus sending differently than is common; you should consider yourself very privileged. Most people only see the -well, it is too soon to get into that, how to start, how to start, how to -I have it! There are four levels of animagus sendings. The first level you see the creature. It is the only creature you may become unless you take the potion for another creature. The second level you see the written type of whatever you can become. The third level allows you to hear the noise that the creature you can become makes. The fourth level is all of the previous three combined and it takes away any chance of what was experienced being only potential -it means that anything shown, heard, or written is going to feel natural, not even as uncomfortable as a second skin. There can be tricks of course, but all can be caught. Suppose you saw a completely white wolf with green eyes, but heard howling and saw the words morna-narmo, it would mean that you could become any type of wolf with little effort, black wolves with less effort, and that particular white wolf with green eyes with no effort at all, mainly because you experienced all three. There are five levels within each of the four sending levels. These five levels are almost opposite of the four types in that they are classified differently. The fifth level is just enough power to be considered an animagus. The fourth level is a little more powerful, but the transformation will still take a very long time. Both level five and four have one animagus form, level three, which has nearly three times as much power as level four, can become up to five different creatures, but usually has an average of two they regularly become. Level two was thought to be the highest due to the amount of power involved to achieve it until Merlin became the first and only -until now- level one. In level one the power is enough to destroy Europe without using up a quarter of the person's power. You're probably wondering how all this fits together so here's an example or two. If someone is a 3.2, like your friends Ron and Hermione are, they saw the written form of a creature and are quite powerful. Merlin was a 3.1 and heard the animals he could become, I shouldn't have to say he was powerful. You are a 4.1, but I think that for safety you should say that you're a 2.2. That's rare enough to be believable but not so rare as to alert our dear friend Voldemort to anything strange. Stay after class and tell the professor that you're a 4.2, keep the little 4.1 to yourself until you have no choice- even the walls have ears. Don't reveal anything you can keep quiet for longer. You said you had another question?"
"Yes," Harry replied, absorbing as much of the information he had just been told as he could, "Should I suggest my training plan or let people continue with their false happiness for a while?"
"Suggest it. While you're at it convince the headmaster to teach the students to apparate as soon as he has the chance, preferably sooner. All of them too, not just the sixth years like he usually does. Oh, look at the time! Harry, as much as I'd like to talk more, you should probably get back to class."
"It's been nice visiting you again, Estrella."
"You too Harry. Remember when you go that everything has a reaction, everything has a price, it matters not if you can see what the effect or cost is. Goodbye and good luck young one."
There was a strange tingling sensation before the door appeared again. Harry walked out to the bored-looking Professor McGonagall.
"Need something to do, professor?" Harry asked idly, startling the professor out of her reverie.
"Back already? I suppose whoever you met was fast at explaining things." the professor replied, more to herself than Harry. "Welcome back Mr. Potter. If you wouldn't mind waiting, I'll explain the homework when the rest of the class returns."
"Ok. Professor?" Harry asked and when she looked up continued, "If you have time, I need to talk to you after class."
She nodded and Harry sat down to read a book about advanced magic, mainly spells created by Merlin himself. By the time he had finished a chapter, most of the class was back.
The professor sighed and started a lecture on the homework, which Harry tuned out until he heard, "You will put down your animagus sending level, the creatures you can become, and then do a separate report on each of them. Each person will do ten separate reports on possible animagus creatures, obviously no one can become that many, so choose as many extra as you have to. Class dismissed."
Harry told Ron and Hermione to go ahead and that he would meet them later, then walked to the professor's desk.
"Yes, Mr. Potter?"
"The person I met in wherever it was told me to tell you that I'm a 4.2, not a 2.2 like I'm saying for my reports."
"I've never -wow." Professor McGonagall started but stopped, "Tell Professor Dumbledore, please, I think he'd want to know." Harry nodded and as soon as he was out of the room the professor muttered, "4.2, good Merlin have mercy." and promptly fainted.
Thank you to all the reviewers!
Sorry I had to disappear for so long. I promise I was in Kentucky and wasn't around any computers! I would've posted if I had the chance, but oh well, I'M HOME!!! I POSTED!!! Be happy -or something. Anyways, starting chapter seven things are gonna get a little crazy and mess up all the lessons so be prepared. Harry has 1 more class for the day which will lead into the chaos. Sorry if you don't like me cutting it short and getting rid of- oops, wasn't supposed to say that. ah, sorry if you don't like what happens from chapter seven and forward, I promise I'll bring everything I get rid of back for Harry's seventh year (yes, I'll be writing that too, celebrate- a sequel! If you even like this that is.) Well, I think I've gone on long enough, even if it was an attempt to clear things that might be confusing up. Thanks for reading, reviewing, and listening to my pointless whatever this paragraph/authors note is. Tell me if you figure that sentence out, I'm having a bit of trouble with it. :P
When Harry walked into Transfiguration he found the class staring intently at the front of the room where Professor McGonagall had just appeared.
"As you may already know, you will be learning to apparate this year." At this several excited whispers broke out. "However, I doubt that you know what else we will be learning. Unlike previous years, we will be learning how to turn any object into a weapon, how to become an animagus, how to direct your power into -well, quite a few things- and how to and when it is acceptable to conjure objects that aren't yours or shouldn't be messed with -especially humans, elves, and similar creatures. We will start with how to become an animagus. First we'll have to find out what each of you can become. To do so you will enter one of these rooms." She motioned to some doors around her, "what each person encounters in there is different, but I can assure you that can hurt you while you are there. Everyone get behind a door and when I tell you, enter. Now!"
There was a rush to enter a room that Harry soon left behind as his door closed. He walked forward a bit into the blackness but stopped abruptly. It felt like water was all around him, but he could still breathe. Harry frowned but continued forward. There was a gold light in the distance and it seemed no time had passed at all when he arrived in front of the light. It enveloped him in its love and kindness in a way that seemed to say there would be no lies while there. A human figure approached from a place that seemed to be a brighter gold and Harry smiled at it.
"Hello Harry Potter!" the old woman said kindly, "Your trainers have spoken well of you, and from previous meetings I tend to agree. Now, relax and open your mind. You will experience what you can become- I can't say exactly what will happen as it is different for everyone. Ready?"
The second he nodded, Harry's mind was flooded with images, strange words, and mysterious sounds that all called to him in a peculiar way. In an instant it was over and Harry sat stunned.
"Did you understand it or shall I somehow find a way to explain the unexplainable?"
"I think I got most of it, I only have one or two questions. Some of the creatures' names were in their native language and others were in Elvish, Gnomish, Dwarvish, English, Spanish, and Phoenian. There were also some creatures I couldn't identify due to the fact that many creatures make that same noise. Why?"
"Ah, very good question. You received the animagus sending differently than is common; you should consider yourself very privileged. Most people only see the -well, it is too soon to get into that, how to start, how to start, how to -I have it! There are four levels of animagus sendings. The first level you see the creature. It is the only creature you may become unless you take the potion for another creature. The second level you see the written type of whatever you can become. The third level allows you to hear the noise that the creature you can become makes. The fourth level is all of the previous three combined and it takes away any chance of what was experienced being only potential -it means that anything shown, heard, or written is going to feel natural, not even as uncomfortable as a second skin. There can be tricks of course, but all can be caught. Suppose you saw a completely white wolf with green eyes, but heard howling and saw the words morna-narmo, it would mean that you could become any type of wolf with little effort, black wolves with less effort, and that particular white wolf with green eyes with no effort at all, mainly because you experienced all three. There are five levels within each of the four sending levels. These five levels are almost opposite of the four types in that they are classified differently. The fifth level is just enough power to be considered an animagus. The fourth level is a little more powerful, but the transformation will still take a very long time. Both level five and four have one animagus form, level three, which has nearly three times as much power as level four, can become up to five different creatures, but usually has an average of two they regularly become. Level two was thought to be the highest due to the amount of power involved to achieve it until Merlin became the first and only -until now- level one. In level one the power is enough to destroy Europe without using up a quarter of the person's power. You're probably wondering how all this fits together so here's an example or two. If someone is a 3.2, like your friends Ron and Hermione are, they saw the written form of a creature and are quite powerful. Merlin was a 3.1 and heard the animals he could become, I shouldn't have to say he was powerful. You are a 4.1, but I think that for safety you should say that you're a 2.2. That's rare enough to be believable but not so rare as to alert our dear friend Voldemort to anything strange. Stay after class and tell the professor that you're a 4.2, keep the little 4.1 to yourself until you have no choice- even the walls have ears. Don't reveal anything you can keep quiet for longer. You said you had another question?"
"Yes," Harry replied, absorbing as much of the information he had just been told as he could, "Should I suggest my training plan or let people continue with their false happiness for a while?"
"Suggest it. While you're at it convince the headmaster to teach the students to apparate as soon as he has the chance, preferably sooner. All of them too, not just the sixth years like he usually does. Oh, look at the time! Harry, as much as I'd like to talk more, you should probably get back to class."
"It's been nice visiting you again, Estrella."
"You too Harry. Remember when you go that everything has a reaction, everything has a price, it matters not if you can see what the effect or cost is. Goodbye and good luck young one."
There was a strange tingling sensation before the door appeared again. Harry walked out to the bored-looking Professor McGonagall.
"Need something to do, professor?" Harry asked idly, startling the professor out of her reverie.
"Back already? I suppose whoever you met was fast at explaining things." the professor replied, more to herself than Harry. "Welcome back Mr. Potter. If you wouldn't mind waiting, I'll explain the homework when the rest of the class returns."
"Ok. Professor?" Harry asked and when she looked up continued, "If you have time, I need to talk to you after class."
She nodded and Harry sat down to read a book about advanced magic, mainly spells created by Merlin himself. By the time he had finished a chapter, most of the class was back.
The professor sighed and started a lecture on the homework, which Harry tuned out until he heard, "You will put down your animagus sending level, the creatures you can become, and then do a separate report on each of them. Each person will do ten separate reports on possible animagus creatures, obviously no one can become that many, so choose as many extra as you have to. Class dismissed."
Harry told Ron and Hermione to go ahead and that he would meet them later, then walked to the professor's desk.
"Yes, Mr. Potter?"
"The person I met in wherever it was told me to tell you that I'm a 4.2, not a 2.2 like I'm saying for my reports."
"I've never -wow." Professor McGonagall started but stopped, "Tell Professor Dumbledore, please, I think he'd want to know." Harry nodded and as soon as he was out of the room the professor muttered, "4.2, good Merlin have mercy." and promptly fainted.
Thank you to all the reviewers!
Sorry I had to disappear for so long. I promise I was in Kentucky and wasn't around any computers! I would've posted if I had the chance, but oh well, I'M HOME!!! I POSTED!!! Be happy -or something. Anyways, starting chapter seven things are gonna get a little crazy and mess up all the lessons so be prepared. Harry has 1 more class for the day which will lead into the chaos. Sorry if you don't like me cutting it short and getting rid of- oops, wasn't supposed to say that. ah, sorry if you don't like what happens from chapter seven and forward, I promise I'll bring everything I get rid of back for Harry's seventh year (yes, I'll be writing that too, celebrate- a sequel! If you even like this that is.) Well, I think I've gone on long enough, even if it was an attempt to clear things that might be confusing up. Thanks for reading, reviewing, and listening to my pointless whatever this paragraph/authors note is. Tell me if you figure that sentence out, I'm having a bit of trouble with it. :P