Chapter 8
Animagi
Harry and Neville continued to practice every day, until the day they decided to become animagi. To no ones surprise, Hermione strongly fought against them but their minds were made up. Not to mention that Harry wanted a new challenge, even though Ron was much weaker, magically, he decided that he would do it with them anyways.
Even though Hermione refused at first at becoming an animagi, she gave in, in the end. Hermione figured, 'if I get caught, I can turn Skeeter and get off' and not to mention she didn't want to miss out on the possible adventures that could happen.
The quartet went to the hidden room all very excited, all of them trying as hard as they could to not run and stay composed. Only when Neville stumbled and ran to catch himself, did the whole group start to run. Each with an ear to ear grin on their faces they reached the hidden room entrance behind a square statue of nothing.
When they reached the inside of the room, they were in a dead sprint to Hermione's area. When they reached the inside of her room, stacked with books as high as the eye could see, Harry called out, between gasping breaths for air, "I need every book on how to become animagi!" then, all around them, books of every size, shape, and color, flew down. They all landed softly on the large tables.
Each person ran off to a different table and went to work. Harry stopped them to perform a memory enhancement charm on them, though the charm only works for twenty four hours, the information that is learned will remain in their memory.
Harry and Hermione flew through the books while Ron and Neville were reading just slightly slower. When Harry finished his books first, he looked around, then to his watch that said 1:30 am. He realized that his birthday was the next night, Hermione finished her books, a few short minutes later, then walked over to Harry and said in a whisper "Harry, thank you."
Harry replied "For what?"
She continued "For all that you have done for me, I mean I didn't realize it until today but you really are a great person, your memory charm sorted out all those things in my mind and now I know. Harry I would trust you with all the magical world because you are a good person."
Harry felt now like he had actually been given his powers for a reason, and now he had someone to protect, someone he loved. But he knew that until Voldemorte was destroyed for good, he could never have anyone that was closer to him than a friend.
Harry, trying to sway her from getting too close said "Hermione, it is very late, Neville and Ron are almost finished with their books and we will need our rest for tomorrow. We will begin the tough part of our animagi training."
Harry looked over to Ron and Neville, who were deeply immersed in their books and left a note with his wand in the air that said 'Went to my room for some rest, Harry' and Hermione, who didn't have any idea how Harry did this just wrote on a piece of parchment 'Going to sleep in my room, don't wake me up, Hermione.'
About an hour later Ron and Neville finished their books, went out of the trance they had been in when they were studying, saw the notes and went to sleep in their own rooms.
The sleep was good for everyone, Hermione woke up first and went into the main room of the hideout, lit up a fire in the fireplace, conjured up a coffee cup, then poured some coffee from the tip of her wand into it. She sat in front of the fire peacefully, as she grew bored she walked into her room and asked for a spell book with practical spells in it. Realizing the memory enhancement charm was still on, she went back to her spot back on the couch in front of the fire, set a spell on the book so that it would float in front of her and turn the pages whenever she finished the one she was on.
Harry woke up about an hour after Hermione, he did a spell that would clean himself up, clean his hair, wash his face, etc. Harry walked into the main room to see Hermione deeply into a book. Harry watched her for a minute then decided that he would interrupt her.
Harry said "Hermione, as soon as Ron and Neville are up we should start."
She replied "Good idea, this book has taught me more in the hour I have been reading than all four years that Flitwick has been teaching us. I know that I can do these spells because I remember everything about them."
Harry replied "I think that sometime, I will do this spell on you so you can become better at magic, and with some hard work, you should be able to be as powerful as Ron"
Ron and Neville woke up an hour later, and they started the training. The first step was to recognize the traits each person had and have that person accept them. Harry cast a truth spell on everyone and they had to describe each person truthfully, Ron got angry when Neville said that Ron has a habit to overreact to small things. But everyone was in tears with laughter when Neville was described as clumsy... three times in a row.
As soon as everyone took their turn, the second step was finished, It was to recognize the traits that were described and find the type animals that completed the person. Since everyone had the books memorized they recognized that Hermione had the traits of a fox, she was smart and clever. Neville, being clumsy but very strong magically, matched a bear. Ron who was brave but always a free spirit was a perfect match of an eagle. Harry was tough to match but everyone eventually agreed on him being brave, cunning, and trustworthy hence him being a tiger.
The next step was to literally transform into the animal for a day to see what it was like, Dumbledore was gone for the day and the ghosts were at a death day party somewhere else around the wizarding world.
The next day they all woke up at six o'clock in the morning, the quartet went to the grounds only a few hundred yards away from Hagrid's cabin. Harry explained that they would be able to switch from the animal to human whenever they wanted for the next twenty four hours. Harry first transformed Ron into an eagle, Ron had red plumage all around his head that made everyone laugh and he quickly transformed into a human again.
Next was Hermione, she was laughing when she was transformed into a fox, she had no distinct markings besides the two streaks of grey that ran down the side of her brown fox body. She looked up at the sky in her fox head then turned back into a human.
Neville was next, Harry backed away from him a bit then cast the spell. Neville grew and grew until he was taller than Hagrid, his deep brown fur was only interrupted by the face on the enormous bear that matched Neville to a tea. Neville changed back to his human form and laughed.
Harry was last, he turned himself into a tiger and found himself being able to smell things that are very far away and fond he could jump very high, higher than he could in his human form anyway.
The day went by quickly as everyone got used to their new bodies. Ron would fly around the grounds, in and out of the quidditch hoops, Harry explored the dark forest with Neville and Hermione. After about an hour Ron joined them in their exploration and rode on Neville's bear shoulder. The day was fun for the group of them but they still needed to finish the training.
AN: I have decided that unless I get a whole lot more reviews, im not going to continue to write this story, right now I have more chapters than reveiws. I would like to thank Nappa, and those people who did reveiw.
Animagi
Harry and Neville continued to practice every day, until the day they decided to become animagi. To no ones surprise, Hermione strongly fought against them but their minds were made up. Not to mention that Harry wanted a new challenge, even though Ron was much weaker, magically, he decided that he would do it with them anyways.
Even though Hermione refused at first at becoming an animagi, she gave in, in the end. Hermione figured, 'if I get caught, I can turn Skeeter and get off' and not to mention she didn't want to miss out on the possible adventures that could happen.
The quartet went to the hidden room all very excited, all of them trying as hard as they could to not run and stay composed. Only when Neville stumbled and ran to catch himself, did the whole group start to run. Each with an ear to ear grin on their faces they reached the hidden room entrance behind a square statue of nothing.
When they reached the inside of the room, they were in a dead sprint to Hermione's area. When they reached the inside of her room, stacked with books as high as the eye could see, Harry called out, between gasping breaths for air, "I need every book on how to become animagi!" then, all around them, books of every size, shape, and color, flew down. They all landed softly on the large tables.
Each person ran off to a different table and went to work. Harry stopped them to perform a memory enhancement charm on them, though the charm only works for twenty four hours, the information that is learned will remain in their memory.
Harry and Hermione flew through the books while Ron and Neville were reading just slightly slower. When Harry finished his books first, he looked around, then to his watch that said 1:30 am. He realized that his birthday was the next night, Hermione finished her books, a few short minutes later, then walked over to Harry and said in a whisper "Harry, thank you."
Harry replied "For what?"
She continued "For all that you have done for me, I mean I didn't realize it until today but you really are a great person, your memory charm sorted out all those things in my mind and now I know. Harry I would trust you with all the magical world because you are a good person."
Harry felt now like he had actually been given his powers for a reason, and now he had someone to protect, someone he loved. But he knew that until Voldemorte was destroyed for good, he could never have anyone that was closer to him than a friend.
Harry, trying to sway her from getting too close said "Hermione, it is very late, Neville and Ron are almost finished with their books and we will need our rest for tomorrow. We will begin the tough part of our animagi training."
Harry looked over to Ron and Neville, who were deeply immersed in their books and left a note with his wand in the air that said 'Went to my room for some rest, Harry' and Hermione, who didn't have any idea how Harry did this just wrote on a piece of parchment 'Going to sleep in my room, don't wake me up, Hermione.'
About an hour later Ron and Neville finished their books, went out of the trance they had been in when they were studying, saw the notes and went to sleep in their own rooms.
The sleep was good for everyone, Hermione woke up first and went into the main room of the hideout, lit up a fire in the fireplace, conjured up a coffee cup, then poured some coffee from the tip of her wand into it. She sat in front of the fire peacefully, as she grew bored she walked into her room and asked for a spell book with practical spells in it. Realizing the memory enhancement charm was still on, she went back to her spot back on the couch in front of the fire, set a spell on the book so that it would float in front of her and turn the pages whenever she finished the one she was on.
Harry woke up about an hour after Hermione, he did a spell that would clean himself up, clean his hair, wash his face, etc. Harry walked into the main room to see Hermione deeply into a book. Harry watched her for a minute then decided that he would interrupt her.
Harry said "Hermione, as soon as Ron and Neville are up we should start."
She replied "Good idea, this book has taught me more in the hour I have been reading than all four years that Flitwick has been teaching us. I know that I can do these spells because I remember everything about them."
Harry replied "I think that sometime, I will do this spell on you so you can become better at magic, and with some hard work, you should be able to be as powerful as Ron"
Ron and Neville woke up an hour later, and they started the training. The first step was to recognize the traits each person had and have that person accept them. Harry cast a truth spell on everyone and they had to describe each person truthfully, Ron got angry when Neville said that Ron has a habit to overreact to small things. But everyone was in tears with laughter when Neville was described as clumsy... three times in a row.
As soon as everyone took their turn, the second step was finished, It was to recognize the traits that were described and find the type animals that completed the person. Since everyone had the books memorized they recognized that Hermione had the traits of a fox, she was smart and clever. Neville, being clumsy but very strong magically, matched a bear. Ron who was brave but always a free spirit was a perfect match of an eagle. Harry was tough to match but everyone eventually agreed on him being brave, cunning, and trustworthy hence him being a tiger.
The next step was to literally transform into the animal for a day to see what it was like, Dumbledore was gone for the day and the ghosts were at a death day party somewhere else around the wizarding world.
The next day they all woke up at six o'clock in the morning, the quartet went to the grounds only a few hundred yards away from Hagrid's cabin. Harry explained that they would be able to switch from the animal to human whenever they wanted for the next twenty four hours. Harry first transformed Ron into an eagle, Ron had red plumage all around his head that made everyone laugh and he quickly transformed into a human again.
Next was Hermione, she was laughing when she was transformed into a fox, she had no distinct markings besides the two streaks of grey that ran down the side of her brown fox body. She looked up at the sky in her fox head then turned back into a human.
Neville was next, Harry backed away from him a bit then cast the spell. Neville grew and grew until he was taller than Hagrid, his deep brown fur was only interrupted by the face on the enormous bear that matched Neville to a tea. Neville changed back to his human form and laughed.
Harry was last, he turned himself into a tiger and found himself being able to smell things that are very far away and fond he could jump very high, higher than he could in his human form anyway.
The day went by quickly as everyone got used to their new bodies. Ron would fly around the grounds, in and out of the quidditch hoops, Harry explored the dark forest with Neville and Hermione. After about an hour Ron joined them in their exploration and rode on Neville's bear shoulder. The day was fun for the group of them but they still needed to finish the training.
AN: I have decided that unless I get a whole lot more reviews, im not going to continue to write this story, right now I have more chapters than reveiws. I would like to thank Nappa, and those people who did reveiw.