Harry Potter and the Amulet of Power
Chapter 3: Neville Arrives
Dumbledore was right, it was easy to find the hidden room. Harry found it very easily, all he had to do was concentrate on a room that only Dumbledore, Neville and himself could enter and all he had to do was get there and that only took a few minutes with the help of some old hidden passageways that he suspected not even the Marauders had found. When he got there a few minutes later he found that it was only about a ten second walk to it from the Gryffindor common room. Harry walked into the room and was surprised to find that Dumbledore hadn't decorated it for him.
Harry started to decorate the room when he realized that Neville might not like it as Harry had decorated it. Harry cleared the room of everything with a swish of his wand then did an expanding charm on the room so it grew to about twice the size of what is was before, then started decorating the further end of the room with quidditch posters and Gryffindor colors. Harry thought it was funny that of all the people in the world, Neville would be more powerful than Dumbledore.
The room looked odd with one half decked out with colors. Chairs and couches of every color and book cases that had charms on them so that Harry could reach for a certain book, that didn't have a title on it and it would give him the book that he most desired, as long as it was in the school library (Dumbledore's idea so it wouldn't look suspicious having Harry going into the restricted section all the time). Harry even had the idea of making the first ever mood chair that changed colors and textures depending on how the person who was sitting on it felt. Neville's side of the room looked strange with it's completely blank walls and concrete floor. The only thing on the side of the room was a small pile of books that were this years course books.
Harry slept on the golden colored couch comfortably dreaming about how his life and how ideal it had gotten since this morning. He no longer had to be afraid of Dudley, or his aunt and uncle. Harry no longer was thinking about Voldemorte or the death eaters. All he dreamed about that whole night was how good his life was and quidditch.
The next morning Harry woke up fully charged and ready to do some magic. He realized that Neville would be there soon so Harry decided to track his ride in by using his new powers. Harry concentrated on Neville when he saw him. It wasn't like with Dumbledore when he only got directions how to get there. He actually saw Neville in his mind's eye. He was riding the train to Hogwarts all alone, Harry could tell that he was lonely and scared. Harry had the sudden idea to apparate to him. He wrote a quick note to Dumbledore that he would be back at Hogwarts with Neville. Harry reached out his hand and his wand floated across the room into his hand. He thought "I would like to be with Neville now." But he realized too late that it wasn't possible to apparate out of Hogwarts. Harry felt a hard bump, like having a fist sized stone on his head then he fell to the ground in his room. His face turned red even though no one was around. He felt very stupid and decided not to do something that stupid again, or at least for a while.
About an hour later, Neville showed up at the school looking as confused and lost as he was on the train. But Harry and Dumbledore greeted him warmly to their small family of Hogwarts most powerful. Dumbledore told Harry to do a spell to take off the old disillusionment charm on Neville but forgot to tell Neville to put his wand down because he could accidentally do some magic. Harry did the spell without any trouble and Neville dropped to the ground on his knee cringing under the pain for a few seconds but then he stood up and his wand started to shoot of a spell, but it didn't do anything.
Meanwhile Snape was walking around his small house brewing up a potion of some kind when he suddenly was engulfed in smoke, when the smoke cleared Severus Snape was wearing green robes, a fox fur scarf, a hat that was topped with a vulture, and a large red handbag.
Dumbledore talked to Neville for over an hour with Harry sitting silently next to Neville saying nothing. Neville already knew almost all of what Dumbledore told him but he didn't know that he had memory charms put on him all through his early childhood to make him forget his parents torture and he didn't know the Potter's story. Neville found out that his parents had cast a very powerful spell on him that only one person with enormous powers would be able to cast so that with his parents death Neville would get all of their powers as an inheritance from the family since they didn't have much money. The same was with Harry's parents except that his parents had been very rich and slightly more powerful than Neville's parents. The powers were to be hidden from him until he was old enough to protect himself and the same was with Harry but the spell to keep them hidden was messed up in Neville and he lost much of the power he already had and messed up his memory (the memory charms didn't help) until it could be fixed by someone powerful enough. And if the spell wasn't ever fixed, he would never get his powers back or his parents powers as his inheritance.
Neville took most of the information in stride and asked Harry to show him where the room was, Harry took Neville through the secret passageway, Neville tripped over two rugs and fell down four times during their trip to the secret room. Harry realized that it must have been a curse put on him to make him trip everywhere and Harry countered the curse that made the trip a bit faster but still Neville tripped one more time.
Neville was in awe of the area that Harry had set up for himself. Neville asked if Harry could do that for his half but Harry stretched out on his mood couch that turned from stone to a soft orange leather. Neville looked confused when Harry watched him sit down on the ground and say "I can't do this, I'm not powerful like you, Harry, there is no way I'm as strong as my dad" Harry said while sighing "just flick your wand and think what you want your half of the room to look like, its easy now that you have strong powers, you will find that everything comes a lot easier than it did before" after Harry said this he flicked his wand and a dish of fresh ham and cheese sandwiches appeared in his lap. Neville looked at him enviously then concentrated on Harry's half of the room, flicked his wand and it all appeared, exactly like Harry's half, in fact, a mirror image of it. "WOW Neville, I never thought of just making it all in one piece, I made all of mine stuff with a different spell. Neville, try to i personalize /i your half now so it doesn't look just like mine." Neville replied "all right, first I will get some of these quidditch posters off of my walls and put up some of my own" Neville closed his eyes and concentrated on what kind of pictures he wanted on his walls but never thought of a specific one, and flicked his wand. Harry laughed and said "I don't think that Dumbledore will let you keep those up" then Neville opened his eyes, he had pictures of scantily dressed women on his walls, he blushed then changed them to old posters of his face in an Arnold Schwartzenggar muscled body with a couple of girls hanging from his arms. Harry laughed for ten minutes straight, he started crying he was laughing so hard. There were some other posters but they weren't as funny as the "Arnold one."
Neville started feeling more comfortable around Harry compared to how he felt when he first met him. Neville had grown up hearing his gram telling him about how he should become friends with the great Harry Potter but luck would have it that he would turn out to be almost as strong as him.
As a joke, Neville cast a spell on himself to look like the poster. The tan on his body was much darker than his face, but he still looked kind of buff. Harry conjured up a pin and poked Neville's arm and fell into a heap of plastic around his ankles. Harry started laughing as Neville stood there in his boxer shorts that had little fish printed on it. Neville blushed again then conjured some clothes on himself.
They spent the rest of the day playing tricks on each other like making it sound like someone was following the other person through the hallways, which made Neville very suspicious of Harry (who was flying overhead wearing his invisibility cloak) , who watched him walk through the corridors and turn around quickly with his wand, pointing it at nothing. Harry eventually took the curse off and lowered in front of him taking his invisibility cloak off and scaring the hell out of Neville.
Chapter 3: Neville Arrives
Dumbledore was right, it was easy to find the hidden room. Harry found it very easily, all he had to do was concentrate on a room that only Dumbledore, Neville and himself could enter and all he had to do was get there and that only took a few minutes with the help of some old hidden passageways that he suspected not even the Marauders had found. When he got there a few minutes later he found that it was only about a ten second walk to it from the Gryffindor common room. Harry walked into the room and was surprised to find that Dumbledore hadn't decorated it for him.
Harry started to decorate the room when he realized that Neville might not like it as Harry had decorated it. Harry cleared the room of everything with a swish of his wand then did an expanding charm on the room so it grew to about twice the size of what is was before, then started decorating the further end of the room with quidditch posters and Gryffindor colors. Harry thought it was funny that of all the people in the world, Neville would be more powerful than Dumbledore.
The room looked odd with one half decked out with colors. Chairs and couches of every color and book cases that had charms on them so that Harry could reach for a certain book, that didn't have a title on it and it would give him the book that he most desired, as long as it was in the school library (Dumbledore's idea so it wouldn't look suspicious having Harry going into the restricted section all the time). Harry even had the idea of making the first ever mood chair that changed colors and textures depending on how the person who was sitting on it felt. Neville's side of the room looked strange with it's completely blank walls and concrete floor. The only thing on the side of the room was a small pile of books that were this years course books.
Harry slept on the golden colored couch comfortably dreaming about how his life and how ideal it had gotten since this morning. He no longer had to be afraid of Dudley, or his aunt and uncle. Harry no longer was thinking about Voldemorte or the death eaters. All he dreamed about that whole night was how good his life was and quidditch.
The next morning Harry woke up fully charged and ready to do some magic. He realized that Neville would be there soon so Harry decided to track his ride in by using his new powers. Harry concentrated on Neville when he saw him. It wasn't like with Dumbledore when he only got directions how to get there. He actually saw Neville in his mind's eye. He was riding the train to Hogwarts all alone, Harry could tell that he was lonely and scared. Harry had the sudden idea to apparate to him. He wrote a quick note to Dumbledore that he would be back at Hogwarts with Neville. Harry reached out his hand and his wand floated across the room into his hand. He thought "I would like to be with Neville now." But he realized too late that it wasn't possible to apparate out of Hogwarts. Harry felt a hard bump, like having a fist sized stone on his head then he fell to the ground in his room. His face turned red even though no one was around. He felt very stupid and decided not to do something that stupid again, or at least for a while.
About an hour later, Neville showed up at the school looking as confused and lost as he was on the train. But Harry and Dumbledore greeted him warmly to their small family of Hogwarts most powerful. Dumbledore told Harry to do a spell to take off the old disillusionment charm on Neville but forgot to tell Neville to put his wand down because he could accidentally do some magic. Harry did the spell without any trouble and Neville dropped to the ground on his knee cringing under the pain for a few seconds but then he stood up and his wand started to shoot of a spell, but it didn't do anything.
Meanwhile Snape was walking around his small house brewing up a potion of some kind when he suddenly was engulfed in smoke, when the smoke cleared Severus Snape was wearing green robes, a fox fur scarf, a hat that was topped with a vulture, and a large red handbag.
Dumbledore talked to Neville for over an hour with Harry sitting silently next to Neville saying nothing. Neville already knew almost all of what Dumbledore told him but he didn't know that he had memory charms put on him all through his early childhood to make him forget his parents torture and he didn't know the Potter's story. Neville found out that his parents had cast a very powerful spell on him that only one person with enormous powers would be able to cast so that with his parents death Neville would get all of their powers as an inheritance from the family since they didn't have much money. The same was with Harry's parents except that his parents had been very rich and slightly more powerful than Neville's parents. The powers were to be hidden from him until he was old enough to protect himself and the same was with Harry but the spell to keep them hidden was messed up in Neville and he lost much of the power he already had and messed up his memory (the memory charms didn't help) until it could be fixed by someone powerful enough. And if the spell wasn't ever fixed, he would never get his powers back or his parents powers as his inheritance.
Neville took most of the information in stride and asked Harry to show him where the room was, Harry took Neville through the secret passageway, Neville tripped over two rugs and fell down four times during their trip to the secret room. Harry realized that it must have been a curse put on him to make him trip everywhere and Harry countered the curse that made the trip a bit faster but still Neville tripped one more time.
Neville was in awe of the area that Harry had set up for himself. Neville asked if Harry could do that for his half but Harry stretched out on his mood couch that turned from stone to a soft orange leather. Neville looked confused when Harry watched him sit down on the ground and say "I can't do this, I'm not powerful like you, Harry, there is no way I'm as strong as my dad" Harry said while sighing "just flick your wand and think what you want your half of the room to look like, its easy now that you have strong powers, you will find that everything comes a lot easier than it did before" after Harry said this he flicked his wand and a dish of fresh ham and cheese sandwiches appeared in his lap. Neville looked at him enviously then concentrated on Harry's half of the room, flicked his wand and it all appeared, exactly like Harry's half, in fact, a mirror image of it. "WOW Neville, I never thought of just making it all in one piece, I made all of mine stuff with a different spell. Neville, try to i personalize /i your half now so it doesn't look just like mine." Neville replied "all right, first I will get some of these quidditch posters off of my walls and put up some of my own" Neville closed his eyes and concentrated on what kind of pictures he wanted on his walls but never thought of a specific one, and flicked his wand. Harry laughed and said "I don't think that Dumbledore will let you keep those up" then Neville opened his eyes, he had pictures of scantily dressed women on his walls, he blushed then changed them to old posters of his face in an Arnold Schwartzenggar muscled body with a couple of girls hanging from his arms. Harry laughed for ten minutes straight, he started crying he was laughing so hard. There were some other posters but they weren't as funny as the "Arnold one."
Neville started feeling more comfortable around Harry compared to how he felt when he first met him. Neville had grown up hearing his gram telling him about how he should become friends with the great Harry Potter but luck would have it that he would turn out to be almost as strong as him.
As a joke, Neville cast a spell on himself to look like the poster. The tan on his body was much darker than his face, but he still looked kind of buff. Harry conjured up a pin and poked Neville's arm and fell into a heap of plastic around his ankles. Harry started laughing as Neville stood there in his boxer shorts that had little fish printed on it. Neville blushed again then conjured some clothes on himself.
They spent the rest of the day playing tricks on each other like making it sound like someone was following the other person through the hallways, which made Neville very suspicious of Harry (who was flying overhead wearing his invisibility cloak) , who watched him walk through the corridors and turn around quickly with his wand, pointing it at nothing. Harry eventually took the curse off and lowered in front of him taking his invisibility cloak off and scaring the hell out of Neville.