HP & Knight of The Light
Disclaimer: Okay people you know the drill I own next to nothing in this fic.
Chapter 9; Dueling Club
Harry woke up refreshed. It was Saturday and today was a fine day indeed. The sun was shining brightly in the morning and the birds were chirping. Harry took a shower and changed into his wizarding robe. His robe having the front unbuttoned to make his shirt and all that in the middle show. This was unusual style of robe wearing amongst the school, only a few wizards chose to dress like this, even fewer amongst the witches. He went downstairs to the great hall from the common room to eat breakfast.
When Harry got there he immediately grabbed a large consumption of food from the trays and loaded his dish. He was one of the earliest to the great hall. Harry was glad that Harry and Draco agreed on canceling all weekend practices because of the strain it was putting on their body from schoolwork, animagus training, prefect duties, quidditch practice, and training every morning. Obviously they couldn't cut off schoolwork, they refused to quit on animagus lesson after having to put through so much by Mcgonnagol and being close to finishing their transformation wasn't helping the matter in that decision either, they were too proud to cast off their prefect roles, quidditch was a must, but training 7 days strait a week was just too brutal for them. So that was how Harry was sitting at the Gryffindor table without having baggy eyes from lack of sleep.
Soon most of the great hall was filled with people eating and chatting with friends. The daily owl arrival took place, and the Daily Prophet landed on Harry's plate. He had subscribed over the summer because he was sick of learning everything from Hermione. He looked at the front page and saw something interesting.
"YOU-KNOW-WHO RETURNS?" By Fredrick Lucstein
Over the past week the number of dark activities have increased by 90%. The deatheaters of the past have became wildly active again. Numbers of kidnapping and deaths have increased compared to the peaceful past 14 years after You-Know-Who was destroyed by the Boy-Who-Lived. Many believe that the Dark Lord is back, Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts certainly thought so. He said that he knew he was back by the beginning of July. However the Minister of Magic, Cornelieus Fudge, denied the return of the Dark Lord, saying that it is "Unbelievable, the Dark Lord could NOT come back!!! That old fool Dumbledore is making it a host to help that insane Potter!" Who is true questions this reporter. Is the well respected Headmaster of Hogwarts true and the Dark Lord is back, and the Ministry in need of a new Minister? Or is the Minister of Magic right, the claim is a hoax, the Headmaster a liar, and the Boy-Who-Lived insane? All will be known in due time, until then fellow readers.
Harry couldn't believe it. That moron still denied his return. He understood how spreading the word of the Dark Lords return will spread panic, but ignorance is not any better. With a huff Harry went back to eating amongst the commotion the article brought amongst the Great Hall. Soon he was done with his breakfast and went to the meeting spot for the prefect meeting that was supposed to take place today, Sept. 23. He was one of the first to arrive for the meeting seeing as it wasn't supposed to start for another 30 minutes or so. The only other person was Cho Chang. She was currently in deep thought sitting at the Prefects Table in the meeting room, obviously not hearing Harry arrive because of his stealth- like walk he learned from his training.
Cho was looking at her hands which was laid on the table. She didn't seem to be anywhere near the present world, so Harry decided to leave her be and watch her. This Cho was different from the one that he seen with her friends. She must have been putting up a front so that nobody would be pitying her anymore then they did. He could see a lone tear fall from her eyes falling into her cupped hands. It was a while before Cho noticed anyone else in the room. When she did she was incredibly startled, embarrassed, and mad at his observing her.
"What are you doing here?" asked a flustered Cho.
"I came here early because I didn't feel like staying in the Great Hall, and to my surprise you were already in here deep in thought. Cho.. you know that if you ever need it I'll lend an ear." Spoke Harry with compassion and sadness for the witch.
"Thanks for your worry, and I might just take you up on your offer.. someday, but right now I would want to be left alone, please." Added the Asian young woman.
"Alright I'll respect you wishes, but do remember I'm always available if you need to talk." Spoke Harry softly before exiting the room, he sat on the ground outside not really wanting to leave and go anywhere far away from the room since the prefects meeting was bound to start in 20 minutes.
After 10 minutes when a few prefects were starting to arrive he asked them to wait for 5 more minutes before entering, thinking that at least by then Cho would be done doing whatever by then. By the 5 minutes many more prefect came and Harry finally allowed them in. They all sat in their chosen seats, arranged by house then by year. The Prefects Table was just a really long table where the table's side was divided into 4 quarters. Each head sat at the ends of the table. 5 minutes later the last of the prefects and the Head Boy and Head Girl entered the room.
"Is everyone here?" Asked Alicia.
Nobody said that anyone was missing so the Head Boy spoke up. "Then the first Prefects Meeting shall officially start. First on the topic is the Dueling Club that is to take place today basically from around 4:45 to 5:45. Is anyone from amongst you prefect interested in trying out." Quite a number of people raised their including the Head Girl, Hermione, Draco, and Harry. "That is very good, then we could have at least a half of the prefects keeping the dueling club in order. The rest who will not take place in the club shall sometimes have to attend the club not as participants but as helpers of the teachers and keepers of order. Okay then on to the next subject the increase of public snogging.."
From then on Harry ignored the rest. From the looks of things many other prefects had the same idea. Soon the meeting was over and Harry was one of the first ones to exit the room. He was craving to go flying today, and nobody would be able to stop him.
Draco's PoV
'Man Harry is leaving the room fast. I know that this meeting was boring but not that harsh. Better follow him to see what's up.'
With that Draco hurried out and followed Harry. Unknown to them both Alicia was also on their tail.
Normal PoV
'Finally! Sure is a long walk from the meeting room to the Common room. Now I can get my broom and go.' "Courage and Honor" Harry spoke to the painting. 'Someone sure is over-gryffindorish.' With that Harry went into the common room.
Draco was at the common room but didn't go inside, a Slytherin in the Gryffindor common room would not look good. So he waited outside and saw Alicia approach the common room a few seconds after him. He pointed in the common room and Alicia understood. They leaned against the side of the portrait to wait for Harry.
They didn't have to wait long, that was for sure. The portrait opened soon and a near blur rush out of the portrait. Draco barely made out that it was Harry carrying a broom.
"What was that?" questioned Alicia.
"Harry and if I am right he went to the quidditch pitch to fly." Replied Draco
"Oh" was all Alicia said.
They jogged at a leasurely pace making it to the field where Harry was already flying at a lazy yet graceful pace. 'Damn that kid just can't get enough of flying can he?' thought Draco. 'I swear he's more at home on a broom then on his feet.'
Draco crossed his arms and smirked at the thought of Harry being born with a broom in his hand. While Draco was thinking of Harry's humiliation, Alicia was observing how calm Harry was in the air.
'He must really like flying. I mean flying was fun for me nothing really to help me relax.' Thought Alicia. "Well I know what he's doing and knowing him he won't be down for quite a while, so I'm going to catch up with my friends." Spoke Alicia after just watching him flying for 5 minutes.
"Wait," spoke Draco while not taking his eyes off Harry nose diving at a extreme speed, "why did you come with me to the pitch?"
"I just wanted to make sure you guys weren't going to pull a prank or anything to anyone, after all I am Head Girl." Replied Alicia with pride in her voice, just as Harry rose a couple of feet from the ground.
"Right I'm sure you make sure the Weasley twins get the same treatment too huh? Let face it you like him don't you. After all why else would you possibly be here. I mean you hardly had a real conversation with him before this year. You spend a lot of time with us or more precisely Harry then is normal for someone you haven't hardly noticed for 4 years. After all I'm sure you don't follow your friends to the pitch just to watch them fly doing nothing while you just stand on the ground." Inquired Draco.
"Th-That's not true. I mean I have responsibility to uphold as Head Girl and I do watch the twins too. I mean I do try and stop them from pulling pranks. Also I do too go to the pitch and watch my friends fly for leasure." Spoke Alicia with a bit of nerviousness at first but having her voice calm after.
"Yeah you just keep telling yourself that. See ya later Alicia and don't worry I won't tell Harry I want the dense git to find out on his own." Replied Draco.
With that Alicia left after taking a long look at Harry. It was 10 minutes before Harry saw Draco and finally descended.
'About time' thought Draco, 'and he calls himself seeker the blind bat.'
"Hey what's up Drake?" Replied Harry.
"Nothing Heron. Why don't you come down I gotta talk to you. Why else would I want to see your most sloppy flying style." Added a sarcastic Draco.
"Sure Drake." With that Harry landed.
"Well I have this desire for someone, I think it's a crush but I don't know."
"Wooh about time. So who's the lucky guy?" Harry said with a laugh.
"Shut it Heron, for the last time stop joking about that, 'I AM NOT GAY!' anyways I like this GIRL and well I haven't done anything to make her even remotely like me as a friend."
"Okay so who is it. Maybe I could finally see how much of a shit hole your in if I know who you like." Joked Harry.
Completely ignoring Harry's humorous manner Draco mumbled. "Ginny Weasley."
"What was that the high and proud Malfoy mumbling, come on speak up."
"I said Ginny Weasley."
"Holy shit. Hahaha I'm gonna have a good laugh over this for a long time you liking a Weasley. The only thing that could be more funny then this is if you told me you liked one of the male Weasleys."
"Damnit I'm not gay Harry!"
"Okay okay didn't know you were this serious. Okay so maybe you could kiss up to her occasionally by say polite hi's and all that shit to show her that you changed. Hehe, still it's hard to imagine you liking Ginny. Oh wow I wonder what her brothers will do. For sure Weasels gonna try and kill you. The twins will disown you from their collection of prank items, the rest will prob. send you a howler. Gee sad to be you. Anyways is that why you wanted me to come down because you suddenly discovered you had a crush on Ginny?"
"Yeah."
"Okay then see ya." With that Harry flew up again doing tricks and all that to calm him.
Draco left and only met up with Harry at the dueling arena that was to take place within the extra large dueling arena by the DADA room. The dueling arena was gigantic. It was the size of the Great Hall and the Entrance Hall combined. Obviously the founders thought that the importance of teaching people how to duel was primary.
Harry even spotted Padma Patil. His study session went well but it seemed that Harry didn't need as much help as Mcgonnagol overexaggerated seeing as Harry picked the stuff up pretty easily. He had a good laugh when he was with Padma, she was nothing like Parvati. She actually cared more then just clothes and gossip. Padma was more deep and thought about peoples inner strength. Harry thought that she was nice and interesting but a bit too much like Hermione, a bookworm to get used to hanging around just with her most of his day. He had the tutoring just once a week whenever Padma and Harry could find available time a challenge considering what Harry's schedule was like.
"Hey Heron what did you do today?"
"Flying."
"Yeah and.."
"Animagus training."
"Those I already know I was there remember, what else?"
"Quidditch practice."
"That is flying you dumbass, come on Heron I know you couldn't have flew all day on your free time."
"Shows what you know, I have a sore ass to prove it too."
"Bloody fanatic."
"Well can't wait to kick your ass in dueling."
"Yeah I can't wait to beat in that ego of yours."
"Hey theres Alicia." Stated Harry while waving his arm like an idiot to get her attention."
"About time." Finally stopping seeing as she saw him.
"Hey guys what's up." Stated Alicia.
"Nothing'" Replied the boys.
"Figures you two would be like old farts and have no life."
"Hey I resent that, what you said may be true about Drake here, but you should get your facts straight about me." Harry replied indignantly while pointing to Draco.
"Shut up Heron."
"OH nice comeback Drake now I know why you always got the last word in when we fought." Replied a sarcastic Harry.
"Oh shut it you two, I swear you two act like old married couple." Spoke Alicia.
"Heh your wrong about me but Drake here's gay so you made a compliment to him."
"For the last time I'm not GAY!" yelled Draco causing quite a number of kids to look.
"Gee Drake no need to go into denial." Added Alicia; ganging up on poor Draco.
"You two are impossible." Muttered Draco; crossing his arms and pouting.
"Oh get laid Drake, it was just a joke." Spoke Harry.
"Yeah Drake we both know your not gay, I mean if you were Harry there would be hitting on you." Added a smirking Alicia.
"Hey I resent that statement." Replied Harry.
"Sure Harry, you don't have to worry we won't make it public, after all how would my image look if I was hanging with a gay guy. Harry Potter no less." Spoke Draco.
"Shut it Malfoy." Spoke Harry.
"You sure can dish it but can't take it." Taunted Draco.
Then all of a sudden Harry's scowling face lit up. 'Oh oh' was all Draco thought.
"Oh why Draco sweety I'm sorry, can you forgive me." Harry spoke in a sickening seducing tone while walking closer to Draco.
"What are you doing?" Asked a bewildered Draco.
"Oh did I make you mad Drakey honey, wanna rump in the sack to releave you of your stress."
"Okay shut it Harry your freaking me out." A sick looking Draco yelled while pushing Harry away.
"Gotcha. Now you know not to try and gang up on me with jokes again." Was all Harry said while starting a pointless conversation with Alicia.
He was soon interrupted as Dumbledore spoke in a loud yet calm voice to all the people within the room.
'Gee where the hell did he come from' was the main thoughts of the trio.
"Hogwarts first Dueling Class of the year is now officially beginning. This class shall be a mostly learning through experience class. So for those that want to get better must learn from mistakes and look up the necessary spells you need from the library or get it from a teacher, the latter of which shall most likely not happen. Now in this dueling it will not just be wand dueling it will consist of what in the past was considered the proper way to duel, with a wand, sword, and whatever your own body could do. The latter meaning that you will fight hand to hand combat. The winner shall not be of who can make the other lose the wand first, It will be by if the other is unconscious or if they surrender. No "dark" magic allowed" He added with a bit of force behind the word dark while looking pointedly at Harry and Draco.
Over the summer Harry and Draco looked at magic and life itself as not White and Black, Good and Dark. They looked at magic as a tool, for a person with harmful intention to made the magic evil. After all a dark wizard could just use a simple levitating charm with enough force to lift the victim so high into the air that when they dropped him he would surely die. Or if the "Contrudo" ,a very powerful form of a Reducto Charm that is illegal and considered dark, was used to get rid of an object that was blocking ones path to save someone, surely that couldn't be considered "Dark" magic. Also Harry and Draco did not think that the "Light side" was a side that did all good never making a mistake and all the members or supporters of that side to wear white to symbolize the purity of the organization. The "Light side" was a just a group trying to stop Voldemort and try their best to help people. Sometimes they had to sacrifice many lives often times innocent if they had to as an example in the past to get to their one true achievement. To destroy, murder, kill, torture, Voldemort and kill or disband his set of followers.
True Harry did look up at Dumbledore. He admired how the old wizard held up even with all the weight on his shoulder. The whole of the wizarding world who feared Voldemort looked up to Dumbledore, because he was well respected, wise, powerful, and intimidating. Also the Minister of Magic being an idiot didn't help the matter. Also many believed that Harry, the boy-who-lived, was too young to be so much a threat compared to Dumbledore. However Harry did know that Dumbledore wasn't perfect and that he made mistakes.
So Dumbledore then trained Harry and Draco. They were now one of the elites of Dumbledores new generation warriors. They both knew that the old wizard was reassembling the dueling class again to spawn more warriors amongst the school. The old guy was pretty manipulative when he thought it was needed. Harry had to give his mentor that.
".. now we shall have two demonstratives to show what you will have learned the basics of by the end of the school year if not earlier. Harry, Draco will you do the honors." 'I knew the old wizard was gonna pick us I should have never joined this "club" ' thought Harry
Harry and Draco bother nodded and stepped up the arena which was shaped differently then the previous dueling arena which was just of strait platform face each other. This one was a large circular mat placed on the floor. That was it. Harry understood why this was placed here, it was to cushion the falls you were gonna take when you went hand to hand or got thrown back by a spell.
Harry and Draco both faced each other they had their wands in hand their blunted sword in the other hand. They crossed the sword and wand making it an X and bowed briefly. Then they fought. Both started off with a wand duel, they turned and dodged often rarely using magic to block the others attack seeing as it tired you out. They sent highly dangerous but legal spells at each other. They both had burnt marks on their robes. Draco had his pants mostly ripped thanks to a shredder curse sent at him. He blocked the blunt of the attack with his sword seeing as it was too late to move. Draco was never so glad to have magical swords right now seeing as they were able to block a certain degree of the spells shot at you, or else he wouldn't even be in his boxers right now.
Harry was in better condition but only slightly. He had his sleeves cut off seeing as they were frozen and the only way to get his arms to move were if he broke them off. This left him with no more sleeves allowing others to see his arm. Nobody noticed it before but he had a large griffin tattoo on his left bicep. They also noticed that he had a large blacksmail dragon tattoo on the other bicep. They both were in a roaring position.
Harry and Draco was thinking the same thing, 'Gotta get his wand.' They both used the bulk of there magical reserve(1) into the disarming spell. "EXPELLIARMAS!!!!" they both cried. The spell hit each other and they both were at a stand-off. The winner of the stand-off would be decided on who the more willful and powerful. They both dropped their sword to grip both their hand own their wand. They both kept this up for 20 minutes straight, until Draco's beam from his wand suddenly gave way. Harry immediately got Draco's wand and yelled "Stupify!" but nothing happened. "UHHH, SHIT!!!" With that Harry threw both wands onto the floor and dove for his dropped sword. He only barely grabbed it to reflect Draco's oncoming blow. It seemed that Draco had already reached for his sword when he lost his wand and grabbed his sword to try and block what he knew Harry was gonna try and do. When he noticed Harry couldn't cast a spell Draco charged right away. Harry and Draco both had a long haul at trying to mark the other but they both were too evenly matched. This kept up until Harry lost his footing and tripped, he was fought well since he was on his back, but he lost his sword as Draco smacked it out of his hand. Harry tried the last desperate thing that came to mind. He put his hand forward and hoped beyond hope that enough time passed and shouted "Reducto!!" The spell blew Draco backwards and made him drop his sword. They both got up and charged. They now went into hand-to-hand combat. Draco got hit the majority of the time, but landed a few good punches and elbows to his stomach and head. They both sprawled back and got ready for another charge. They were catching up on a lot of lost breaths so they paused for a couple of seconds. They waited for the other to start the charge, until Harry finally snapped and led the attack causing Draco to also charge. However before they reached each other they both fell and laid there to tired to get up.
"I'm too tired I call for a draw how about you Drake?" asked a huffing Gryffindor.
"First smart thing you said for a long time Heron." Replied a tired Slytherin.
"And I agree with you two, Mr Malfoy and Mr Potter has gotten a draw. However this was just gonna be a tiny demonstration but seeing as you went all out there is no more time now for anything else. Please understand that the majority of you will never if not taking a long time of dedicated and strict training to get where these two are at on the physical fighting styles they know. Have a good lunch all of you and Ms. Spinnet would you and your friends help escort these two to the hospital wing or maybe the Great Hall I think it would be wise for them to decide." With that Dumbledore and the majority of the class left leaving Alicia and her friends Katie and Angelina to stay behind. They conjured a stretcher and rolled them onto it. Being careful not to overly touch them seeing as they were layed with sweat. They then exited the room and bombarded them with questions.
"Howed you do all that?!"
"That was fantastic!!"
"Who taught you all that?!"
"You two were great!!"
"Was it hard to learn?!"
"How long do you think it would take for us to learn?!"
"Oh guys thanks for the help but could you leave me and the guys alone?" Asked Alicia.
"Oh, okay then see ya later." Sounded a bit disappointed Katie. The two girls then headed for the Great Hall for dinner.
"So where do you wanna go Heron and Drake, the Hospital Wing" Harry snorted at this " okay how about the Great Hall" "yeah right like you three weren't bad enough" Draco mumbled. "Well I'm just trying to help!" Yelled Alicia.
"Fine fine, I told you not to bother her during this time of the month." The last part Harry whispered not too quietly. Suddenly they fell to the floor as the stretcher conjured by Alicia was uncast.
"OUF!"
"Ow, I advise you to not take a future as a medi-witch." Moaned Draco.
"Oh shut it your gonna walk I know you practice enough to not be that tired."
"Like I said to Draco 'shows what you know' we never go all out on each other because were afraid that we wouldn't be able to do anything for the rest of the day and seeing as we mainly practice weekday mornings that wouldn't be a good thing if any of the teachers just had a surprise spell casting quiz." Moaned Harry.
"Yeah what Heron said." Mumbled Draco.
"Well you could at least show a little bit of gratitude for me helping you." Snapped Alicia.
"Were really really-"
"-really really-"
"-sorry we cannot-"
"-express how wrong-"
"-we feel for mocking-"
"-your most prestigious-"
"-graceful, beautiful-"
"-elegant, stunning-"
"-lady such as yourself." Spoke Harry and Draco trying their best George and Fred imitation.
"Oh fine I can't stand to see you beg like pathetic idiots, well actually I can, but I'll take pity on you two." She then cast the stretcher charm and helped roll them onto the two stretchers. "So where to?" asked Alicia
"To the Kitchen" was all Harry said.
Thanks all you reviewers I guess I'm back but sorry folks I might just make a slower update. Sorry about my laziness but I'm out of ideas I had this idea for a long time just didn't know how to post it. But right now I don't even know where to start.
PS. I'm sorry for upsetting you "Unfair Judgement" I can't do anything about my sad jokes however.
(1)Magic is found within the user if they had magical abilities. The user had unlimited source of magic, but the magic took time to recharge. If the user were to over exert his magical quantity, the reserve, he would be left not being able to do magic until the reserve refilled. Some of the wizards and witches had more reserve space then others letting them have a greater limit on their magical use, some had less. The mind normally calculates how large the reserve is and equalizes it out so that the person would have sufficient amount of magicleft. That is why near squibs wiht less magical magical reserve seemed to have a weaker spell, but if they needed they could get the same power in their spells as other they just couldn't keep up the spell casting as long others. The more larger the reserve the mind lets more power behind the spell naturally. Currently Dumbledore and Voldemort held one of the largest reserves, that was why they were so powerful. Voldemort however unnaturally expanded his reserve which had side- effects, his physical change for one whoever the red slit eyes weren't natural. Just another addition to his fake self to make himself look more intimidating. Also the other side-effects were physical weakness, temporary insanity from time to time(of course we know it's not temporary), and others.
Disclaimer: Okay people you know the drill I own next to nothing in this fic.
Chapter 9; Dueling Club
Harry woke up refreshed. It was Saturday and today was a fine day indeed. The sun was shining brightly in the morning and the birds were chirping. Harry took a shower and changed into his wizarding robe. His robe having the front unbuttoned to make his shirt and all that in the middle show. This was unusual style of robe wearing amongst the school, only a few wizards chose to dress like this, even fewer amongst the witches. He went downstairs to the great hall from the common room to eat breakfast.
When Harry got there he immediately grabbed a large consumption of food from the trays and loaded his dish. He was one of the earliest to the great hall. Harry was glad that Harry and Draco agreed on canceling all weekend practices because of the strain it was putting on their body from schoolwork, animagus training, prefect duties, quidditch practice, and training every morning. Obviously they couldn't cut off schoolwork, they refused to quit on animagus lesson after having to put through so much by Mcgonnagol and being close to finishing their transformation wasn't helping the matter in that decision either, they were too proud to cast off their prefect roles, quidditch was a must, but training 7 days strait a week was just too brutal for them. So that was how Harry was sitting at the Gryffindor table without having baggy eyes from lack of sleep.
Soon most of the great hall was filled with people eating and chatting with friends. The daily owl arrival took place, and the Daily Prophet landed on Harry's plate. He had subscribed over the summer because he was sick of learning everything from Hermione. He looked at the front page and saw something interesting.
"YOU-KNOW-WHO RETURNS?" By Fredrick Lucstein
Over the past week the number of dark activities have increased by 90%. The deatheaters of the past have became wildly active again. Numbers of kidnapping and deaths have increased compared to the peaceful past 14 years after You-Know-Who was destroyed by the Boy-Who-Lived. Many believe that the Dark Lord is back, Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts certainly thought so. He said that he knew he was back by the beginning of July. However the Minister of Magic, Cornelieus Fudge, denied the return of the Dark Lord, saying that it is "Unbelievable, the Dark Lord could NOT come back!!! That old fool Dumbledore is making it a host to help that insane Potter!" Who is true questions this reporter. Is the well respected Headmaster of Hogwarts true and the Dark Lord is back, and the Ministry in need of a new Minister? Or is the Minister of Magic right, the claim is a hoax, the Headmaster a liar, and the Boy-Who-Lived insane? All will be known in due time, until then fellow readers.
Harry couldn't believe it. That moron still denied his return. He understood how spreading the word of the Dark Lords return will spread panic, but ignorance is not any better. With a huff Harry went back to eating amongst the commotion the article brought amongst the Great Hall. Soon he was done with his breakfast and went to the meeting spot for the prefect meeting that was supposed to take place today, Sept. 23. He was one of the first to arrive for the meeting seeing as it wasn't supposed to start for another 30 minutes or so. The only other person was Cho Chang. She was currently in deep thought sitting at the Prefects Table in the meeting room, obviously not hearing Harry arrive because of his stealth- like walk he learned from his training.
Cho was looking at her hands which was laid on the table. She didn't seem to be anywhere near the present world, so Harry decided to leave her be and watch her. This Cho was different from the one that he seen with her friends. She must have been putting up a front so that nobody would be pitying her anymore then they did. He could see a lone tear fall from her eyes falling into her cupped hands. It was a while before Cho noticed anyone else in the room. When she did she was incredibly startled, embarrassed, and mad at his observing her.
"What are you doing here?" asked a flustered Cho.
"I came here early because I didn't feel like staying in the Great Hall, and to my surprise you were already in here deep in thought. Cho.. you know that if you ever need it I'll lend an ear." Spoke Harry with compassion and sadness for the witch.
"Thanks for your worry, and I might just take you up on your offer.. someday, but right now I would want to be left alone, please." Added the Asian young woman.
"Alright I'll respect you wishes, but do remember I'm always available if you need to talk." Spoke Harry softly before exiting the room, he sat on the ground outside not really wanting to leave and go anywhere far away from the room since the prefects meeting was bound to start in 20 minutes.
After 10 minutes when a few prefects were starting to arrive he asked them to wait for 5 more minutes before entering, thinking that at least by then Cho would be done doing whatever by then. By the 5 minutes many more prefect came and Harry finally allowed them in. They all sat in their chosen seats, arranged by house then by year. The Prefects Table was just a really long table where the table's side was divided into 4 quarters. Each head sat at the ends of the table. 5 minutes later the last of the prefects and the Head Boy and Head Girl entered the room.
"Is everyone here?" Asked Alicia.
Nobody said that anyone was missing so the Head Boy spoke up. "Then the first Prefects Meeting shall officially start. First on the topic is the Dueling Club that is to take place today basically from around 4:45 to 5:45. Is anyone from amongst you prefect interested in trying out." Quite a number of people raised their including the Head Girl, Hermione, Draco, and Harry. "That is very good, then we could have at least a half of the prefects keeping the dueling club in order. The rest who will not take place in the club shall sometimes have to attend the club not as participants but as helpers of the teachers and keepers of order. Okay then on to the next subject the increase of public snogging.."
From then on Harry ignored the rest. From the looks of things many other prefects had the same idea. Soon the meeting was over and Harry was one of the first ones to exit the room. He was craving to go flying today, and nobody would be able to stop him.
Draco's PoV
'Man Harry is leaving the room fast. I know that this meeting was boring but not that harsh. Better follow him to see what's up.'
With that Draco hurried out and followed Harry. Unknown to them both Alicia was also on their tail.
Normal PoV
'Finally! Sure is a long walk from the meeting room to the Common room. Now I can get my broom and go.' "Courage and Honor" Harry spoke to the painting. 'Someone sure is over-gryffindorish.' With that Harry went into the common room.
Draco was at the common room but didn't go inside, a Slytherin in the Gryffindor common room would not look good. So he waited outside and saw Alicia approach the common room a few seconds after him. He pointed in the common room and Alicia understood. They leaned against the side of the portrait to wait for Harry.
They didn't have to wait long, that was for sure. The portrait opened soon and a near blur rush out of the portrait. Draco barely made out that it was Harry carrying a broom.
"What was that?" questioned Alicia.
"Harry and if I am right he went to the quidditch pitch to fly." Replied Draco
"Oh" was all Alicia said.
They jogged at a leasurely pace making it to the field where Harry was already flying at a lazy yet graceful pace. 'Damn that kid just can't get enough of flying can he?' thought Draco. 'I swear he's more at home on a broom then on his feet.'
Draco crossed his arms and smirked at the thought of Harry being born with a broom in his hand. While Draco was thinking of Harry's humiliation, Alicia was observing how calm Harry was in the air.
'He must really like flying. I mean flying was fun for me nothing really to help me relax.' Thought Alicia. "Well I know what he's doing and knowing him he won't be down for quite a while, so I'm going to catch up with my friends." Spoke Alicia after just watching him flying for 5 minutes.
"Wait," spoke Draco while not taking his eyes off Harry nose diving at a extreme speed, "why did you come with me to the pitch?"
"I just wanted to make sure you guys weren't going to pull a prank or anything to anyone, after all I am Head Girl." Replied Alicia with pride in her voice, just as Harry rose a couple of feet from the ground.
"Right I'm sure you make sure the Weasley twins get the same treatment too huh? Let face it you like him don't you. After all why else would you possibly be here. I mean you hardly had a real conversation with him before this year. You spend a lot of time with us or more precisely Harry then is normal for someone you haven't hardly noticed for 4 years. After all I'm sure you don't follow your friends to the pitch just to watch them fly doing nothing while you just stand on the ground." Inquired Draco.
"Th-That's not true. I mean I have responsibility to uphold as Head Girl and I do watch the twins too. I mean I do try and stop them from pulling pranks. Also I do too go to the pitch and watch my friends fly for leasure." Spoke Alicia with a bit of nerviousness at first but having her voice calm after.
"Yeah you just keep telling yourself that. See ya later Alicia and don't worry I won't tell Harry I want the dense git to find out on his own." Replied Draco.
With that Alicia left after taking a long look at Harry. It was 10 minutes before Harry saw Draco and finally descended.
'About time' thought Draco, 'and he calls himself seeker the blind bat.'
"Hey what's up Drake?" Replied Harry.
"Nothing Heron. Why don't you come down I gotta talk to you. Why else would I want to see your most sloppy flying style." Added a sarcastic Draco.
"Sure Drake." With that Harry landed.
"Well I have this desire for someone, I think it's a crush but I don't know."
"Wooh about time. So who's the lucky guy?" Harry said with a laugh.
"Shut it Heron, for the last time stop joking about that, 'I AM NOT GAY!' anyways I like this GIRL and well I haven't done anything to make her even remotely like me as a friend."
"Okay so who is it. Maybe I could finally see how much of a shit hole your in if I know who you like." Joked Harry.
Completely ignoring Harry's humorous manner Draco mumbled. "Ginny Weasley."
"What was that the high and proud Malfoy mumbling, come on speak up."
"I said Ginny Weasley."
"Holy shit. Hahaha I'm gonna have a good laugh over this for a long time you liking a Weasley. The only thing that could be more funny then this is if you told me you liked one of the male Weasleys."
"Damnit I'm not gay Harry!"
"Okay okay didn't know you were this serious. Okay so maybe you could kiss up to her occasionally by say polite hi's and all that shit to show her that you changed. Hehe, still it's hard to imagine you liking Ginny. Oh wow I wonder what her brothers will do. For sure Weasels gonna try and kill you. The twins will disown you from their collection of prank items, the rest will prob. send you a howler. Gee sad to be you. Anyways is that why you wanted me to come down because you suddenly discovered you had a crush on Ginny?"
"Yeah."
"Okay then see ya." With that Harry flew up again doing tricks and all that to calm him.
Draco left and only met up with Harry at the dueling arena that was to take place within the extra large dueling arena by the DADA room. The dueling arena was gigantic. It was the size of the Great Hall and the Entrance Hall combined. Obviously the founders thought that the importance of teaching people how to duel was primary.
Harry even spotted Padma Patil. His study session went well but it seemed that Harry didn't need as much help as Mcgonnagol overexaggerated seeing as Harry picked the stuff up pretty easily. He had a good laugh when he was with Padma, she was nothing like Parvati. She actually cared more then just clothes and gossip. Padma was more deep and thought about peoples inner strength. Harry thought that she was nice and interesting but a bit too much like Hermione, a bookworm to get used to hanging around just with her most of his day. He had the tutoring just once a week whenever Padma and Harry could find available time a challenge considering what Harry's schedule was like.
"Hey Heron what did you do today?"
"Flying."
"Yeah and.."
"Animagus training."
"Those I already know I was there remember, what else?"
"Quidditch practice."
"That is flying you dumbass, come on Heron I know you couldn't have flew all day on your free time."
"Shows what you know, I have a sore ass to prove it too."
"Bloody fanatic."
"Well can't wait to kick your ass in dueling."
"Yeah I can't wait to beat in that ego of yours."
"Hey theres Alicia." Stated Harry while waving his arm like an idiot to get her attention."
"About time." Finally stopping seeing as she saw him.
"Hey guys what's up." Stated Alicia.
"Nothing'" Replied the boys.
"Figures you two would be like old farts and have no life."
"Hey I resent that, what you said may be true about Drake here, but you should get your facts straight about me." Harry replied indignantly while pointing to Draco.
"Shut up Heron."
"OH nice comeback Drake now I know why you always got the last word in when we fought." Replied a sarcastic Harry.
"Oh shut it you two, I swear you two act like old married couple." Spoke Alicia.
"Heh your wrong about me but Drake here's gay so you made a compliment to him."
"For the last time I'm not GAY!" yelled Draco causing quite a number of kids to look.
"Gee Drake no need to go into denial." Added Alicia; ganging up on poor Draco.
"You two are impossible." Muttered Draco; crossing his arms and pouting.
"Oh get laid Drake, it was just a joke." Spoke Harry.
"Yeah Drake we both know your not gay, I mean if you were Harry there would be hitting on you." Added a smirking Alicia.
"Hey I resent that statement." Replied Harry.
"Sure Harry, you don't have to worry we won't make it public, after all how would my image look if I was hanging with a gay guy. Harry Potter no less." Spoke Draco.
"Shut it Malfoy." Spoke Harry.
"You sure can dish it but can't take it." Taunted Draco.
Then all of a sudden Harry's scowling face lit up. 'Oh oh' was all Draco thought.
"Oh why Draco sweety I'm sorry, can you forgive me." Harry spoke in a sickening seducing tone while walking closer to Draco.
"What are you doing?" Asked a bewildered Draco.
"Oh did I make you mad Drakey honey, wanna rump in the sack to releave you of your stress."
"Okay shut it Harry your freaking me out." A sick looking Draco yelled while pushing Harry away.
"Gotcha. Now you know not to try and gang up on me with jokes again." Was all Harry said while starting a pointless conversation with Alicia.
He was soon interrupted as Dumbledore spoke in a loud yet calm voice to all the people within the room.
'Gee where the hell did he come from' was the main thoughts of the trio.
"Hogwarts first Dueling Class of the year is now officially beginning. This class shall be a mostly learning through experience class. So for those that want to get better must learn from mistakes and look up the necessary spells you need from the library or get it from a teacher, the latter of which shall most likely not happen. Now in this dueling it will not just be wand dueling it will consist of what in the past was considered the proper way to duel, with a wand, sword, and whatever your own body could do. The latter meaning that you will fight hand to hand combat. The winner shall not be of who can make the other lose the wand first, It will be by if the other is unconscious or if they surrender. No "dark" magic allowed" He added with a bit of force behind the word dark while looking pointedly at Harry and Draco.
Over the summer Harry and Draco looked at magic and life itself as not White and Black, Good and Dark. They looked at magic as a tool, for a person with harmful intention to made the magic evil. After all a dark wizard could just use a simple levitating charm with enough force to lift the victim so high into the air that when they dropped him he would surely die. Or if the "Contrudo" ,a very powerful form of a Reducto Charm that is illegal and considered dark, was used to get rid of an object that was blocking ones path to save someone, surely that couldn't be considered "Dark" magic. Also Harry and Draco did not think that the "Light side" was a side that did all good never making a mistake and all the members or supporters of that side to wear white to symbolize the purity of the organization. The "Light side" was a just a group trying to stop Voldemort and try their best to help people. Sometimes they had to sacrifice many lives often times innocent if they had to as an example in the past to get to their one true achievement. To destroy, murder, kill, torture, Voldemort and kill or disband his set of followers.
True Harry did look up at Dumbledore. He admired how the old wizard held up even with all the weight on his shoulder. The whole of the wizarding world who feared Voldemort looked up to Dumbledore, because he was well respected, wise, powerful, and intimidating. Also the Minister of Magic being an idiot didn't help the matter. Also many believed that Harry, the boy-who-lived, was too young to be so much a threat compared to Dumbledore. However Harry did know that Dumbledore wasn't perfect and that he made mistakes.
So Dumbledore then trained Harry and Draco. They were now one of the elites of Dumbledores new generation warriors. They both knew that the old wizard was reassembling the dueling class again to spawn more warriors amongst the school. The old guy was pretty manipulative when he thought it was needed. Harry had to give his mentor that.
".. now we shall have two demonstratives to show what you will have learned the basics of by the end of the school year if not earlier. Harry, Draco will you do the honors." 'I knew the old wizard was gonna pick us I should have never joined this "club" ' thought Harry
Harry and Draco bother nodded and stepped up the arena which was shaped differently then the previous dueling arena which was just of strait platform face each other. This one was a large circular mat placed on the floor. That was it. Harry understood why this was placed here, it was to cushion the falls you were gonna take when you went hand to hand or got thrown back by a spell.
Harry and Draco both faced each other they had their wands in hand their blunted sword in the other hand. They crossed the sword and wand making it an X and bowed briefly. Then they fought. Both started off with a wand duel, they turned and dodged often rarely using magic to block the others attack seeing as it tired you out. They sent highly dangerous but legal spells at each other. They both had burnt marks on their robes. Draco had his pants mostly ripped thanks to a shredder curse sent at him. He blocked the blunt of the attack with his sword seeing as it was too late to move. Draco was never so glad to have magical swords right now seeing as they were able to block a certain degree of the spells shot at you, or else he wouldn't even be in his boxers right now.
Harry was in better condition but only slightly. He had his sleeves cut off seeing as they were frozen and the only way to get his arms to move were if he broke them off. This left him with no more sleeves allowing others to see his arm. Nobody noticed it before but he had a large griffin tattoo on his left bicep. They also noticed that he had a large blacksmail dragon tattoo on the other bicep. They both were in a roaring position.
Harry and Draco was thinking the same thing, 'Gotta get his wand.' They both used the bulk of there magical reserve(1) into the disarming spell. "EXPELLIARMAS!!!!" they both cried. The spell hit each other and they both were at a stand-off. The winner of the stand-off would be decided on who the more willful and powerful. They both dropped their sword to grip both their hand own their wand. They both kept this up for 20 minutes straight, until Draco's beam from his wand suddenly gave way. Harry immediately got Draco's wand and yelled "Stupify!" but nothing happened. "UHHH, SHIT!!!" With that Harry threw both wands onto the floor and dove for his dropped sword. He only barely grabbed it to reflect Draco's oncoming blow. It seemed that Draco had already reached for his sword when he lost his wand and grabbed his sword to try and block what he knew Harry was gonna try and do. When he noticed Harry couldn't cast a spell Draco charged right away. Harry and Draco both had a long haul at trying to mark the other but they both were too evenly matched. This kept up until Harry lost his footing and tripped, he was fought well since he was on his back, but he lost his sword as Draco smacked it out of his hand. Harry tried the last desperate thing that came to mind. He put his hand forward and hoped beyond hope that enough time passed and shouted "Reducto!!" The spell blew Draco backwards and made him drop his sword. They both got up and charged. They now went into hand-to-hand combat. Draco got hit the majority of the time, but landed a few good punches and elbows to his stomach and head. They both sprawled back and got ready for another charge. They were catching up on a lot of lost breaths so they paused for a couple of seconds. They waited for the other to start the charge, until Harry finally snapped and led the attack causing Draco to also charge. However before they reached each other they both fell and laid there to tired to get up.
"I'm too tired I call for a draw how about you Drake?" asked a huffing Gryffindor.
"First smart thing you said for a long time Heron." Replied a tired Slytherin.
"And I agree with you two, Mr Malfoy and Mr Potter has gotten a draw. However this was just gonna be a tiny demonstration but seeing as you went all out there is no more time now for anything else. Please understand that the majority of you will never if not taking a long time of dedicated and strict training to get where these two are at on the physical fighting styles they know. Have a good lunch all of you and Ms. Spinnet would you and your friends help escort these two to the hospital wing or maybe the Great Hall I think it would be wise for them to decide." With that Dumbledore and the majority of the class left leaving Alicia and her friends Katie and Angelina to stay behind. They conjured a stretcher and rolled them onto it. Being careful not to overly touch them seeing as they were layed with sweat. They then exited the room and bombarded them with questions.
"Howed you do all that?!"
"That was fantastic!!"
"Who taught you all that?!"
"You two were great!!"
"Was it hard to learn?!"
"How long do you think it would take for us to learn?!"
"Oh guys thanks for the help but could you leave me and the guys alone?" Asked Alicia.
"Oh, okay then see ya later." Sounded a bit disappointed Katie. The two girls then headed for the Great Hall for dinner.
"So where do you wanna go Heron and Drake, the Hospital Wing" Harry snorted at this " okay how about the Great Hall" "yeah right like you three weren't bad enough" Draco mumbled. "Well I'm just trying to help!" Yelled Alicia.
"Fine fine, I told you not to bother her during this time of the month." The last part Harry whispered not too quietly. Suddenly they fell to the floor as the stretcher conjured by Alicia was uncast.
"OUF!"
"Ow, I advise you to not take a future as a medi-witch." Moaned Draco.
"Oh shut it your gonna walk I know you practice enough to not be that tired."
"Like I said to Draco 'shows what you know' we never go all out on each other because were afraid that we wouldn't be able to do anything for the rest of the day and seeing as we mainly practice weekday mornings that wouldn't be a good thing if any of the teachers just had a surprise spell casting quiz." Moaned Harry.
"Yeah what Heron said." Mumbled Draco.
"Well you could at least show a little bit of gratitude for me helping you." Snapped Alicia.
"Were really really-"
"-really really-"
"-sorry we cannot-"
"-express how wrong-"
"-we feel for mocking-"
"-your most prestigious-"
"-graceful, beautiful-"
"-elegant, stunning-"
"-lady such as yourself." Spoke Harry and Draco trying their best George and Fred imitation.
"Oh fine I can't stand to see you beg like pathetic idiots, well actually I can, but I'll take pity on you two." She then cast the stretcher charm and helped roll them onto the two stretchers. "So where to?" asked Alicia
"To the Kitchen" was all Harry said.
Thanks all you reviewers I guess I'm back but sorry folks I might just make a slower update. Sorry about my laziness but I'm out of ideas I had this idea for a long time just didn't know how to post it. But right now I don't even know where to start.
PS. I'm sorry for upsetting you "Unfair Judgement" I can't do anything about my sad jokes however.
(1)Magic is found within the user if they had magical abilities. The user had unlimited source of magic, but the magic took time to recharge. If the user were to over exert his magical quantity, the reserve, he would be left not being able to do magic until the reserve refilled. Some of the wizards and witches had more reserve space then others letting them have a greater limit on their magical use, some had less. The mind normally calculates how large the reserve is and equalizes it out so that the person would have sufficient amount of magicleft. That is why near squibs wiht less magical magical reserve seemed to have a weaker spell, but if they needed they could get the same power in their spells as other they just couldn't keep up the spell casting as long others. The more larger the reserve the mind lets more power behind the spell naturally. Currently Dumbledore and Voldemort held one of the largest reserves, that was why they were so powerful. Voldemort however unnaturally expanded his reserve which had side- effects, his physical change for one whoever the red slit eyes weren't natural. Just another addition to his fake self to make himself look more intimidating. Also the other side-effects were physical weakness, temporary insanity from time to time(of course we know it's not temporary), and others.