Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of his friends, Ms. Rowling
does.
Author's Note: Thanks to all my reviewers. You're Cool!
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Chapter 9: Secret Training
That night Harry was asked to meet Dumbledore after dinner.
Harry walked past the gargoyle statue and into the headmaster's office.
"Harry! How are you doing?" smiled Dumbledore.
"I am Ok Sir!" replied Harry.
"Harry! Insight of the recent attack, I want you to be more prepared. I want you to train harder and practice under supervision." Paused Dumbledore
Harry nodded.
"I asked Sirius, Remus, Severes and Arabella to train you. Please keep this a secret. Not even Ron and Hermione should know about this for now." Said Dumbledore.
Harry didn't like the idea of hiding things from Ron and Hermione. But couldn't argue with Dumbledore. He agreed and so the training started every other day in a week.
* * *
However hard he tried, Ron and Hermione got suspicious about his activities. Hermione in particular was grilling him with questions about his nighttime strolls. His training was very much exhaustive but coming along just fine. He learnt to be a Golden Gryffin animagus with Sirius, Learnt Dueling with Snape & Dumbledore, Wandless magic with Arabella. However, he practiced Elemental magic alone. He also learnt to wield a sword with Remus.
"Come on Potter! You're like a girl playing with her comb", yelled Snape. He wanted to push Harry's ability to handle defense. Snape, Remus, Arabella were yelling all curses possible at Harry together and Harry is holding a blue shield that might crumble anytime. It has bee a month and they thought it is time to train Harry for the worst.
Meanwhile, Harry felt the shields lowering, immediately muttered a spell under breath. Suddenly, he got an idea and muttered "Contego Inversio". His blue shield disappeared and another Red colored dome appeared all over the three aggressors making their curses ineffective. They were surprised and started to throw everything they can, but none of them escaped the Red shield encapsulating them. Harry smiled at them and shouted "Expelliarmus", disarming them.
All three were shocked at his magic. Harry waved his hand and the shield was gone.
"Harry! That was brilliant. How did you do that ancient shield spell?" asked a shocked Remus. Arabella was even more surprised. Snape peered at Harry without any expressions and said, "That was awesome Potter" and walked to drink some water.
After a small break, Dumbledore joined them and all four started attacking Harry.
Harry dodged most of the spells instead of wasting his energy. Though he could counter many of Remus, Arabella and Snape's spells, Dumbledore started hitting him with several spells. He couldn't even control Dumbledore with the ancient spells he learnt.
Finally, not being able to handle anymore, Harry summoned the air guardian, which lifted Dumbledore and threw him a good 10 feet away.
Everyone else was shocked.
'What was that? Did Harry do what I think he did?' everyone thought.
Dumbledore simply smiled.
"Harry! That was splendid. When did you learn elemental magic?" asked Dumbledore.
"Err! During the summer professor" replied Harry sheepishly. He felt guilty for not telling Arabella, Sirius and Remus.
Understanding Harry, Arabella simply smiled at him making Harry feel comfortable.
"That was Air guardian I believe?" asked Dumbledore getting a nod from Harry.
"What other elements did you master?" questioned interestingly.
"All of them Professor, though I didn't test the life element" replied Harry, shocking the rest of the people in the room.
Dumbledore thought for a while and he quickly summoned a spider from the corner.
"Harry! We have to test your capability with Element of Life NOW!" he ordered.
Dumbledore muttered "Avada Kedavra" under breath and the spider lay dead.
Harry walked forward and placed his wand at the spider and muttered "Liberio Diutinus" and a bright blue light passed from his wand that made the spider spring back to life. Everyone including Dumbledore gasped.
Harry felt really weak. He almost fell down when Remus caught him.
"Harry! Take rest tonight. Let us meet tomorrow after your training. I have something important to tell you", said Dumbledore before making Harry drink a potion that made him stronger.
"I think I can find my way Professor", said Harry before walking to his common room. Rain or shine, he did not want to stray from his schedule. He walked out towards the Shrieking Shack.
Before they can say anything, Dumbledore silenced them and asked for a meeting the next day with Harry.
Meanwhile, Hermione was very concerned. She found Harry coming back very tired, occasionally with some bruises and he would spend more time in the library researching odd books from the restricted section than spend time with her and Ron. Her feelings towards Harry are multiplying, day by day, but she doesn't have the strength to confront him. At the same time, she couldn't imagine Harry not reciprocating her feelings. So she kept them to herself.
Finally, Hermione decided to follow him one day. She took Harry's invisibility cloak (Ron and Herself has complete access to Harry's stuff) and walked along with Ron. After following him for a while, they found that he was going into the dungeons. He met Remus, Arabella and Severes and started fighting all three. Hermione and Ron were surprised to find Harry beat all of them with ease; sometimes using wand and sometimes not.
After a few minutes, he continued fighting with Dumbledore along with others and did incredible magic that threw Dumbledore away. Hermione saw the awesome display of bringing the spider back to life. Ron was shocked. Meanwhile Harry thanked them and walked out towards the shrieking shack. Ron and Hermione ran after him, in the cloak. Making sure that no one was around, he went inside very quickly. Ron and Hermione were not sure to follow him. They finally gave up and decided to wait outside. Ron slowly fell asleep while Hermione waited tired. After what seemed like an hour, Harry walked out visibly exhausted from his practice of elemental magic.
Hermione whispered Ron to wake him up. That noise caught Harry's attention.
"Hello! Is anyone here?" Harry called out.
Both Hermione and Ron were frightened that they would be caught. They slowly backed off into the forest as Harry tried to walk towards them to check out. Ron and Hermione ran into the forest thoughtlessly to avoid Harry and Harry tried to follow the sounds of their footsteps. Harry just walked a deeper into the forest to make sure there was no one suspicious around.
Ron and Hermione had no choice but to stay there rooted. Harry walked around aimlessly and a sudden noise made him alert while stopping Ron and Hermione dead on tracks.
There was a big wolf staring at Harry from the bushes. From the looks of it, the werewolf is very hungry. Ron and Hermione were terrified. Of Course, they are wizards, but they never faced a hungry animal, not to mention a werewolf till then.
Harry however was not even fazed. He just smiled at it and immediately changed into animagus form of golden Gryffin. An amazingly majestic lion stood there. The werewolf was terrified and ran away into the forest. Ron and Hermione were stunned.
'Harry is an Animagus?' they were both shocked to find that. Recovering from the shock both of them walked out of the forest and walked into their common room. Oblivious to the spying, Harry walked into the common room and found both Ron and Hermione glaring at him.
"What is it guys? You didn't go to bed yet?" asked Harry feeling uncomfortable.
"Why did you do it Harry? Why did you? We are your friends Harry. And you don't even care as much as we do for you. I thought we share everything. But unfortunately we are not as good as you. You don't trust us. You go do things and not even tell us", Hermione shouted, shocking both Harry and Ron.
"Hermione! Look if it is about the training, I am really sorry. I wanted to tell you guys from day one, but Dumbledore made me promise not to tell anyone. You don't know how bad I felt. Please.Ron.try to understand me" Harry pleaded.
"It's Ok mate! Even though I was mad at you, I understand why you did it. Don't bother about it. See you tomorrow" Ron gave a nod and walked away.
Harry turned towards Hermione, but she immediately punched him in the stomach and stormed into her dorm crying, leaving a perplexed Harry in the common room.
* * *
Far away in the Malfoy manor, Lucius Malfoy stood listening to another person draped in a cloak.
"Has it gone that far?" asked an angry Lucius.
The cloaked person simply nodded.
"Alright. Let me think over it. I will owl you soon about what you should do. Till then keep your 'good' mask up and stay friends with them.' Ordered Lucius.
* * * In Dumbledore's office, all the members of the Order of Phoenix were present.
"Albus! If what you are saying is true, then we must find them and train them to be ready for the events to come", said a tensed McGonagall.
"Minerva! Finding others is something he must do. But, yes, we shall train them." Said Dumbledore. He then looked at Snape.
"Severes! Any news that could be concern?"
"Albus! There is going to be a ceremony of induction tomorrow night. Another Slytherin is joining their ranks. Voldermort is keeping the identity secret. He is suspicious of his own death eaters." Said Snape without any expressions.
Dumbledore sighed.
"Another innocent soul sold to the dark side. Any news about further attacks?" asked Dumbledore.
"He is planning something. He doesn't trust me as much as he trusts Lucius. I am not yet aware of their plans. I will let you know, hopefully before something goes wrong", nodded Snape.
* * *
Next morning during the breakfast, McGonagall walked towards Harry.
"Mr. Potter! Please meet the headmaster after dinner tonight in his office" she told him. Harry nodded to her.
Harry looked at Ron, who was on talking terms with Harry and looked at Hermione. She is simply staring at her food.
Harry walked towards her to talk about it and Hermione stood and walked away. Ron patted Harry on his back as support and walked to go for his classes.
All during the classes, Harry was pre-occupied with his thoughts of Hermione.
'Why is she so mad at me? I did apologize didn't I? Oh! Break it Potter. Maybe she loves you and hates you for hiding such dangerous details.or maybe she doesn't care.' he didn't realize that the whole class is laughing at him.
Startled, he looked at McGonagall who was staring back at him.
"Mr. Potter! If you want to dream, please do so in your dorm. Not in my class" warned Professor. Harry mumbled an apology.
Hermione looked at him surprised. For a moment there was concern in her eyes. Soon her eyes became cold and she turned away. Harry sighed and looked back at the professor and started making notes.
During charms, he almost slept. Professor Flitwick is a kind one.
"Mr. Potter! Are you alright?" asked curiously.
"Um! Sorry professor! I was a little tired", mumbled Harry.
Other classes were similar. During Potions however, there were no mishaps, as Harry knew that Snape wouldn't let him live if something like that happened.
Ginny ran all the way to the common room to find Ron and Harry. She found them sitting in the corner doing some homework, a bit away from Hermione. She gasped for breath and handed the daily prophet to Ron and Harry.
Breaking News:
There was an attack on the Ministry of Magic and minister Fudge was killed!!!
Author's Note: Thanks to all my reviewers. You're Cool!
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~~*~*
Chapter 9: Secret Training
That night Harry was asked to meet Dumbledore after dinner.
Harry walked past the gargoyle statue and into the headmaster's office.
"Harry! How are you doing?" smiled Dumbledore.
"I am Ok Sir!" replied Harry.
"Harry! Insight of the recent attack, I want you to be more prepared. I want you to train harder and practice under supervision." Paused Dumbledore
Harry nodded.
"I asked Sirius, Remus, Severes and Arabella to train you. Please keep this a secret. Not even Ron and Hermione should know about this for now." Said Dumbledore.
Harry didn't like the idea of hiding things from Ron and Hermione. But couldn't argue with Dumbledore. He agreed and so the training started every other day in a week.
* * *
However hard he tried, Ron and Hermione got suspicious about his activities. Hermione in particular was grilling him with questions about his nighttime strolls. His training was very much exhaustive but coming along just fine. He learnt to be a Golden Gryffin animagus with Sirius, Learnt Dueling with Snape & Dumbledore, Wandless magic with Arabella. However, he practiced Elemental magic alone. He also learnt to wield a sword with Remus.
"Come on Potter! You're like a girl playing with her comb", yelled Snape. He wanted to push Harry's ability to handle defense. Snape, Remus, Arabella were yelling all curses possible at Harry together and Harry is holding a blue shield that might crumble anytime. It has bee a month and they thought it is time to train Harry for the worst.
Meanwhile, Harry felt the shields lowering, immediately muttered a spell under breath. Suddenly, he got an idea and muttered "Contego Inversio". His blue shield disappeared and another Red colored dome appeared all over the three aggressors making their curses ineffective. They were surprised and started to throw everything they can, but none of them escaped the Red shield encapsulating them. Harry smiled at them and shouted "Expelliarmus", disarming them.
All three were shocked at his magic. Harry waved his hand and the shield was gone.
"Harry! That was brilliant. How did you do that ancient shield spell?" asked a shocked Remus. Arabella was even more surprised. Snape peered at Harry without any expressions and said, "That was awesome Potter" and walked to drink some water.
After a small break, Dumbledore joined them and all four started attacking Harry.
Harry dodged most of the spells instead of wasting his energy. Though he could counter many of Remus, Arabella and Snape's spells, Dumbledore started hitting him with several spells. He couldn't even control Dumbledore with the ancient spells he learnt.
Finally, not being able to handle anymore, Harry summoned the air guardian, which lifted Dumbledore and threw him a good 10 feet away.
Everyone else was shocked.
'What was that? Did Harry do what I think he did?' everyone thought.
Dumbledore simply smiled.
"Harry! That was splendid. When did you learn elemental magic?" asked Dumbledore.
"Err! During the summer professor" replied Harry sheepishly. He felt guilty for not telling Arabella, Sirius and Remus.
Understanding Harry, Arabella simply smiled at him making Harry feel comfortable.
"That was Air guardian I believe?" asked Dumbledore getting a nod from Harry.
"What other elements did you master?" questioned interestingly.
"All of them Professor, though I didn't test the life element" replied Harry, shocking the rest of the people in the room.
Dumbledore thought for a while and he quickly summoned a spider from the corner.
"Harry! We have to test your capability with Element of Life NOW!" he ordered.
Dumbledore muttered "Avada Kedavra" under breath and the spider lay dead.
Harry walked forward and placed his wand at the spider and muttered "Liberio Diutinus" and a bright blue light passed from his wand that made the spider spring back to life. Everyone including Dumbledore gasped.
Harry felt really weak. He almost fell down when Remus caught him.
"Harry! Take rest tonight. Let us meet tomorrow after your training. I have something important to tell you", said Dumbledore before making Harry drink a potion that made him stronger.
"I think I can find my way Professor", said Harry before walking to his common room. Rain or shine, he did not want to stray from his schedule. He walked out towards the Shrieking Shack.
Before they can say anything, Dumbledore silenced them and asked for a meeting the next day with Harry.
Meanwhile, Hermione was very concerned. She found Harry coming back very tired, occasionally with some bruises and he would spend more time in the library researching odd books from the restricted section than spend time with her and Ron. Her feelings towards Harry are multiplying, day by day, but she doesn't have the strength to confront him. At the same time, she couldn't imagine Harry not reciprocating her feelings. So she kept them to herself.
Finally, Hermione decided to follow him one day. She took Harry's invisibility cloak (Ron and Herself has complete access to Harry's stuff) and walked along with Ron. After following him for a while, they found that he was going into the dungeons. He met Remus, Arabella and Severes and started fighting all three. Hermione and Ron were surprised to find Harry beat all of them with ease; sometimes using wand and sometimes not.
After a few minutes, he continued fighting with Dumbledore along with others and did incredible magic that threw Dumbledore away. Hermione saw the awesome display of bringing the spider back to life. Ron was shocked. Meanwhile Harry thanked them and walked out towards the shrieking shack. Ron and Hermione ran after him, in the cloak. Making sure that no one was around, he went inside very quickly. Ron and Hermione were not sure to follow him. They finally gave up and decided to wait outside. Ron slowly fell asleep while Hermione waited tired. After what seemed like an hour, Harry walked out visibly exhausted from his practice of elemental magic.
Hermione whispered Ron to wake him up. That noise caught Harry's attention.
"Hello! Is anyone here?" Harry called out.
Both Hermione and Ron were frightened that they would be caught. They slowly backed off into the forest as Harry tried to walk towards them to check out. Ron and Hermione ran into the forest thoughtlessly to avoid Harry and Harry tried to follow the sounds of their footsteps. Harry just walked a deeper into the forest to make sure there was no one suspicious around.
Ron and Hermione had no choice but to stay there rooted. Harry walked around aimlessly and a sudden noise made him alert while stopping Ron and Hermione dead on tracks.
There was a big wolf staring at Harry from the bushes. From the looks of it, the werewolf is very hungry. Ron and Hermione were terrified. Of Course, they are wizards, but they never faced a hungry animal, not to mention a werewolf till then.
Harry however was not even fazed. He just smiled at it and immediately changed into animagus form of golden Gryffin. An amazingly majestic lion stood there. The werewolf was terrified and ran away into the forest. Ron and Hermione were stunned.
'Harry is an Animagus?' they were both shocked to find that. Recovering from the shock both of them walked out of the forest and walked into their common room. Oblivious to the spying, Harry walked into the common room and found both Ron and Hermione glaring at him.
"What is it guys? You didn't go to bed yet?" asked Harry feeling uncomfortable.
"Why did you do it Harry? Why did you? We are your friends Harry. And you don't even care as much as we do for you. I thought we share everything. But unfortunately we are not as good as you. You don't trust us. You go do things and not even tell us", Hermione shouted, shocking both Harry and Ron.
"Hermione! Look if it is about the training, I am really sorry. I wanted to tell you guys from day one, but Dumbledore made me promise not to tell anyone. You don't know how bad I felt. Please.Ron.try to understand me" Harry pleaded.
"It's Ok mate! Even though I was mad at you, I understand why you did it. Don't bother about it. See you tomorrow" Ron gave a nod and walked away.
Harry turned towards Hermione, but she immediately punched him in the stomach and stormed into her dorm crying, leaving a perplexed Harry in the common room.
* * *
Far away in the Malfoy manor, Lucius Malfoy stood listening to another person draped in a cloak.
"Has it gone that far?" asked an angry Lucius.
The cloaked person simply nodded.
"Alright. Let me think over it. I will owl you soon about what you should do. Till then keep your 'good' mask up and stay friends with them.' Ordered Lucius.
* * * In Dumbledore's office, all the members of the Order of Phoenix were present.
"Albus! If what you are saying is true, then we must find them and train them to be ready for the events to come", said a tensed McGonagall.
"Minerva! Finding others is something he must do. But, yes, we shall train them." Said Dumbledore. He then looked at Snape.
"Severes! Any news that could be concern?"
"Albus! There is going to be a ceremony of induction tomorrow night. Another Slytherin is joining their ranks. Voldermort is keeping the identity secret. He is suspicious of his own death eaters." Said Snape without any expressions.
Dumbledore sighed.
"Another innocent soul sold to the dark side. Any news about further attacks?" asked Dumbledore.
"He is planning something. He doesn't trust me as much as he trusts Lucius. I am not yet aware of their plans. I will let you know, hopefully before something goes wrong", nodded Snape.
* * *
Next morning during the breakfast, McGonagall walked towards Harry.
"Mr. Potter! Please meet the headmaster after dinner tonight in his office" she told him. Harry nodded to her.
Harry looked at Ron, who was on talking terms with Harry and looked at Hermione. She is simply staring at her food.
Harry walked towards her to talk about it and Hermione stood and walked away. Ron patted Harry on his back as support and walked to go for his classes.
All during the classes, Harry was pre-occupied with his thoughts of Hermione.
'Why is she so mad at me? I did apologize didn't I? Oh! Break it Potter. Maybe she loves you and hates you for hiding such dangerous details.or maybe she doesn't care.' he didn't realize that the whole class is laughing at him.
Startled, he looked at McGonagall who was staring back at him.
"Mr. Potter! If you want to dream, please do so in your dorm. Not in my class" warned Professor. Harry mumbled an apology.
Hermione looked at him surprised. For a moment there was concern in her eyes. Soon her eyes became cold and she turned away. Harry sighed and looked back at the professor and started making notes.
During charms, he almost slept. Professor Flitwick is a kind one.
"Mr. Potter! Are you alright?" asked curiously.
"Um! Sorry professor! I was a little tired", mumbled Harry.
Other classes were similar. During Potions however, there were no mishaps, as Harry knew that Snape wouldn't let him live if something like that happened.
Ginny ran all the way to the common room to find Ron and Harry. She found them sitting in the corner doing some homework, a bit away from Hermione. She gasped for breath and handed the daily prophet to Ron and Harry.
Breaking News:
There was an attack on the Ministry of Magic and minister Fudge was killed!!!