HP & Knight of The Light
Chapter XI: Animagus Training Finale
Disclaimer: Okay you guys know the drill I own nothing on the Harry Potter world except for few characters. Note: For those that want to know other H/Al or H/and the three chasers or whatever. I'm sorry but the only one I remember is "Harry Potter and Septanic Dueling," however the story is not a solid H/Al more like a might be H/Al. All you have to do is read the fics you like and search the others. The list they have on their favorites probably have the fics you want to read. After all they write what they write, usually anyways. So good luck in your search for a H/Al fic. Sorry I can't be of more help, but I read some of the stories and just keep just bits and pieces of the fics in my head, but the H/Al fics I usually read is just like a one chapter things so I don't keep it on my favorites list and I forget the who the writer and the names of the story.
Now back to the story.
Alicia found Harry in the Great Hall at a Saturday morning, he was sitting at the end of the table quite alone. Harry was eating however, he didn't seem to be all that awake. It was as if he was following his own motions out of habit then out of his own will. She noticed that ever since the trip to Hogsmeade, which was a week ago, he was constantly zombie-like in the mornings. She suspected that Harry was up reading the books he rented from the library all night. He was deeply entranced in the information the book gave. She didn't get the chance to see what the titles were, but she saw that he got a few of his books from the restricted part of the library.
She also noticed that Harry disappeared from time to time. She thought nothing of it before, when she found him gone from somewhere between 3-5 time to time. However now that she took a closer observation, she could found that he was missing always from 3:30 to 4:30 everyday on the weekdays. She, several times, tried to spy on him to find out what he was doing, nevertheless he always seemed to disappear around a corner when she trailed him. She went to Draco to see if he knew where Harry went, but he too was never around when she tried to find him during that time.
During these thoughts she was gazing at Harry with a hawk's gaze. He now seemed to have eaten a bit off of his plate. Still he seemed to mostly be picking at his food. Sensing a gaze upon him he looked up from his plate, and found Alicia staring intently on him. Such that Harry felt that he did something wrong. After a few seconds, she broke the gaze and went back to her food.
Harry looked back down to his food and felt a bit nauseating. He didn't have an appetite today because he was all nerves. He was jittery, because today would be the last day for his Animagus Training. At least that was what Mcgonnagol said yesterday. She said that it was estimated that today would be when Draco and he completed the training needed.
He looked up to see if Draco was feeling the same thing. He searched the Slytherin table, namely the ends of the table first because of his unpopularity now. He found Draco at the end of the table farthest away from the staff table. He was calm and cool, with his usual Malfoy arrogance in his pose. Harry smirked now. He wasn't the only one to be nervous. He knew Draco well enough to know that he only put that façade up when he was unsure. He didn't know if he always had this front or if it was just a recent mental defence he built around himself.
He looked at his watch and saw that it was 7:55. Only about two hours he noted until that start of the hopefully last lesson. He got up and exited the Great Hall. He went up the stairs intending to go to the common room. He walked up the stair halfway to his destination thinking how cool his animagus form was. He was imagining it on how it paled in comparison to Draco's Horntail in size, but it was still intimidating to say the least. His "voice" in the head told him to turn around. Then he was reminded for no reason of the mysterious voice.
Ever since he read in his books about how every ability one has should be found out and known how to control. He even was practicing his Parselmouth skill, trying to be able to use it without having to look at a snake so that he would be able to say it at will. Now he was trying to will the voice into talking to him. He instantly spun around to find no one there. However his thought wasn't on what the voice said, just the fact that it "told" him something when he willed it too.
Excited, he skipped the way up to the common room. He shouted the password from a distance the words "Nobility and Courage" echoing off of the walls. The painting opened and he rushed up to his prefects room. He opened the door and grabbed the book "The Trait of The Assassin." And began reading what the pages had to offer eagerly. He looked up at his watch and found that he had 30 minutes left until his training started. He put the book down and began heading out of his door. He skipped down the stairs and ended up in the common room. He exited the common room and headed down to where the animagus training was supposed to take place.
He headed to the third floor and went into the room where Fluffy was previously located. For they had to move where the training was to take place because of the size of their animagus forms. Harry was now standing in the middle of the gigantic room. He starting recollecting memories of the past again. Thinking back to his first year. How he, Ron, and Hermione stopped Voldemort from getting the Sorcerer's Stone. Every year he was at Hogwarts, that bastard fucked it up one way or the other.
Harry shook his head. Now was not the time for self pity. Maybe after that ass hole was dead he could start, but now was definitely not the time. He started twirling his wand between his finger out of bordness. Harry had a distinct feeling of being watched so the twirling also helped him keep his nerves down. He was looking around the room trying to figure out what was making him so on the edge. However there was nothing he could see that could be the reason of his alertness. Soon 20 minutes of waiting was brought to a stop when he saw Draco enter also.
"Hey Drake." Said Harry.
"Hey Heron, you're here early." Replied Draco.
"Had nothing to do Drake."
"K, is it just me or do you feel.. I don't know how to best word this "stalked?" "
"You mean watched?" Asked Harry.
"Yeah you could say that also."
"Not just you, maybe old Mcgonnagol already here under a invisibility charm." Joked Harry.
"Yeah maybe, I read those were really hard to do, so how could our thin lipped Transfiguration teacher do it?" Draco joked back.
"Well she ain't our Deputy Headmistress for nothing, she must be powerful or wise, that latter I doubt." Spoke Harry.
"Well I do not know about the last part Mr. Potter, but I do have some power behind me." Spoke a swift and harsh voice startling the teens.
They both looked to the origin of the voice and found that Mcgonnagol was standing where just earlier only air was there.
"Hehe, just a joke Prof. No hard feelings right?" Spoke a slightly embarrassed Draco. Truthfully he was more scared what the harsh Prod. might do to him then anything else.
"I suspected that." Was the swift reply of the Prof.
Both boys looked at each other and gulped afraid that they weren't gonna be able to finish their lessons now that Mcgonnagol seemed to be pissed off.
"Well better hurry this lesson up. I don't know what I'll if I have to stay any longer then I have to with you two boys." Said Mcgonnagol with a sigh.
"Now the only things you two have to do is transform to the best of your ability and I'll try to see what is the problem. Then I'll tell you how to fix it. You first Mr. Potter."
Harry then concentrated on his Blacksmail Dragon in his minds. He imagined his body deforming and slowly it turning into the Blacksmail form. He heard bones popping, but they didn't hurt. They just made loud hurting noises. He was soon done with his transformation in his head and opened his eyes. He saw the Prof. looking a bit flabbergasted, but he took that as a slightly good sign. He looked at her intently and took note that she was extremely smaller then he was used to seeing her in his animagus form. She then transfigured the wall the turn into a mirror, making a huge mirror be placed in front of Harry. Harry looked in his reflection and gave a whoop of joy that came out as a roar and a bit of sparks from his nose.
He saw himself in the mirror, or at least he saw his form in the mirror. Most of his body was jet black. He had a stripe of silver on his face and mostly on his underbelly but was mostly black. He had a good fiercesome looking form. (Think about the male in the reign of fire just mostly black, a bit smaller just about the size of fluffy from the HP 1st movie, and a bit more deadly looking) His most noticeable feature was his eyes. It was bright green and it shone against the darkness of his black.. skin? His scar, which was also on the middle of his forehead, (in the movie it was above his left eye I think, but in the cover of the fourth book it's in the center let's just say it's in the center also.) wasn't even noticeable because of the blackness. He grinned making the dragon look sinister. He then pictured his dragon form melting to his normal human form. He was now standing looking at his normal figure.
"Very good Mr. Potter, however you took to long transforming. You must practice it often to make it a second nature habit. Something you could do in a blink of an eye. Now it's your turn Mr. Malfoy." Spoke Mcgonnagol.
Draco nodded and headed for the middle of the room. Harry saw him close his eyes and concentrate. Seconds later a Horntail was there. He seemed a bit crammed because the room was just barely large enough for him. Harry was glad that his form was about .75 of his forms size. His form had a yellow almost golden colored skin. Also his eyes were steely silver like his normal eyes were. He had spikes on his tail that looked like a barbed club. Draco looked at himself and transformed back as if he'd seen his form many times to not even care. He walked back to Mcgonnagol with a bit of a proud stance. He looked up to Mcgonnagol to see her beeming.
"Mr. Malfoy that was fabulous. You did your transformation very quickly and your form was flawless. I suspect my job is done. All you have to do is practice more if your two want to transform even faster. Also you must learn to stay in your form as if it is a self conscious thought. That is something I cannot help you with, it must be on how strong you will and desire to complete your animagus transformation is. Good day to you gentlemen." Mcgonnagol coughed a bit at the last part. With that she exited the door.
"Well who would have thought that she would have a sense of humor, even if it is very thin." Spoke Draco.
"Yeah who would have thought. Well what are you gonna do now? We finished an hour early too isn't that great?" Asked Harry.
"Well I'm gonna go.. well I don't really know. I was so excited about today's lesson that I didn't even think about what the rest of the day might hold." Draco said.
"Yeah same here, I think I'm gonna read again."
"Oh you can't be serious are you turning into Granger now or something. Come on live a little will ya. It's the weekend let's celebrate the end of our training at Hogmeade. We could sneak out, it's not like anyone will notice." Said Draco.
"No I'm serious, I'll read." Said Harry.
"Fine suit yourself spoilsport." With that Draco left, with Harry on his tail. They went their separate ways at the hallway of Hogwarts. Harry went left and started heading up to the Gryffindor common room, while Draco went down and headed down to the Slytherin common room.
Harry still had the feeling of being watched and tried to be on extra alert senses. He heard soft footsteps every once in a while and tried to play it cool until he would make his move. Halfway up his destination he turned a corner and drew his wand. He turned around so that he was facing the corner in which he just turned, and waited. His wand was pointed to the corner waiting for his stalker to show his face. The footsteps were getting louder alerting Harry of the stalkers closeness. Out of the corner came Alicia Spinnet trying to be very quiet.
She was shocked when she turned a corner and was facing the tip of a drawn wand. She stepped backwards in fright until seeing who it was. Then anger replaced her shock and she started advancing at a shocked Harry.
"What are you doing?!!" Yelled Alicia.
"I could be asking the same for you!!" Yelled Harry in surprise.
"I was just walking and here I turned a corner and faced your wand, what's up with that picture huh?" Retorted Alicia.
"What were you doing following me and stop denying it." Spoke Harry who finally calmed down. "You gave me the frights, I thought I was being followed by Volde- You-Know-Who's supporters."
"Well I'm obviously not, but what are you meeting up with Draco and Prof. Mcgonnagol?" Asked Alicia dropping her act.
"What were you doing stalking me?"
"I was just worried about you. Your so quiet now, I haven't heard anyone scream or laught because of a prank in days, and your stuck up in your room just reading. So I followed you to see if you were in some sort of trouble and I found you having secret lessons from Mcgonnagol with Draco." Said Alicia.
"Yeah and what's wrong with a getting a special tutoring lesson from Mcgonnagol, Draco and I are entitled for lessons if we ask for one and she agrees. So were getting a bit of a push with our magical abilities, but it's no different then when your parents gave you heads up on lesson when you were young. You learned magic, when you were forbidden by law to know those things, before Hogwarts."
"That's different, anyhow I told you about that didn't I? However you kept your lessons a secret from me. You and Draco too." Said Alicia.
"It doesn't matter, I'm entitled to have my secrets along with Draco. You probably still have secrets that you never told me or Malfoy. More likely then not. ..Look.. ok I understand how you are mad because we didn't tell you about our lessons, but somethings in life are personal and not meant to be shared until ready."
"How come Draco was trained also?" Asked Alicia.
"Oh for Christ sake! He found about my training and demanded his too, to Mcgonnagol. Mcgonnagol bent seeing as Draco blackmailed her into exposing Harry lessons if she didn't. Obviously Mcgonnagol thought it easier if we got trained together so there we go. He found out about my training and got to train with me. It's not like I told him about it." Said Harry with exhaustion in his voice.
"That doesn't mean I forgive you. You should learn to open up and spill stuff to your friends more. After all how could they be your friends if you don't trust them with your secrets?" With that Alicia stormed up the stairs to the Gryffindor common room.
'She leaves in a huff and puff as if I did the wrong doing. When it was her that was spying on me.' Harry mumbled. "I'll be sure to spill more "stuff" on you."
"What was that?" Was Alicia's reply obviously hearing some parts of his mumbling.
"Nothing that concerns you." Spoke Harry.
"It better not be." Was all Alicia said.
They both entered the common room. Alicia went to her friends that were sitting by fireplace playing chess. However Harry went up to his room to read his books. This time he started where he left off yesterday on "363 Deadly Curses." By the time he looked up again which was an hour later, he read through 40 pages, a quarter of the book being illustrations on the wand movement and the after affect of the curse. He was revolted on most of the curses after effect but kept on reading. He was now halfway through the book and was deeply engorged in the contents of it. More often then not he had a wild gleam in his jade eyes, when reading over some of the curses. After 20 more pages about 10 minutes later he stopped reading the book and picked up "101 Deadly Potions." The book was by the same author as "363 Deadly Curses" and had written the book in the same style he wrote the other.
The only difference was that the illustrations were a bit more defined. The pictures had labels on step to step on what the color should be like, it had a legend by each of the pictures telling of each of the ingredients needed, and also gave what the tranquility of the potion should be (boiling or not kind of thing). Also it showed the after effects also and some of these made the pictures of WWII look mild. This book was much more interesting for Harry and it had only a 10th of the book being words. He read through a 100 pages before noticing that 20 minutes had passed and lunch had already started. He gave a groan and rushed down to the great hall.
He made it there with 20 minutes to spare till lunch was over. He sat himself and started picking up bread, cheese, meat, and lettuce, making a sandwich. He did this 3 times making 3 extra sandwich. He chomped these down in no time, and grabbed 20 buffalo wings off of a nearby platter and chomped these down quickly. Lastly he poured himself a large glass of water drank the whole thing in one chug. He saw many people around him look at him in amazement or disgust. Mostly the latter, he looked to the Slytherin table and saw that Draco was smirking at him, while he shook his head at Harry's antic. He grinned back at him and got up from his seat and was about to exit the Great Hall when Dumbledore's voice stopped him.
"May I have everyone' attention please. I am pleased to announce that there will be a New Year's Eve Ball. Only 3rd years and up may come and dress robes are required. The ball shall start from 7 till 1 AM. Note that this is the only time unless stated that the curfew time is delayed. Happy Halloween." Dumbledore then sat back down and started talking to Mcgonnagol and Flitwick about something.
Harry grumbled and looked towards Draco. Obviously he got the hint and followed Harry out the door. They walked out of Hogwarts in silence and didn't talk that much. The setting outside was quite different from last week. There were only brief traces of snow, and the lake had thin pieces of ice here and there. The air was cool and refreshing, and it did wonders for Harry drowsiness. Finally Draco seemed to brake him out of his thoughts.
"Well Heron what's up?" Asked Draco.
"What's up? Oh nothing, I just thought that you might wanna come to Hogsmeade. After all didn't you wan't to sneak out before?" Asked Harry.
"Sure, where to?"
"We could go to The Three Broomstick, or go to The Pub. I know they sell alcohol to anyone that has the money."
"How would Gryffindor's Golden Boy know that?" Asked Draco smirking.
"Wouldn't you like to know." Harry slyly responded.
"Haha! you crack me up, lets just get a regular butterbeer, after all I want to be sober." Answered Draco.
"Why? Halloween has nothing special except for a feast." Asked Harry.
"Yeah, but I want to be sober so that I don't make a fool out of myself."
"You don't need to be drunk to do that." Harry said with a laugh.
"Shut it Heron." Smirked Draco.
"Okay okay The Three Broomstick it is. And I guess I'm paying." Spoke Harry.
"Yeah it is your turn to pay." Said Draco.
"I still don't see the point in going to Hogsmeade I mean it's not like were hungry, need to get prank items, and we just went last week." Wondered Harry outload.
"We are here to celebrate our transforming accomplishment, Anyhow, since when did we need a reason to go to Hogsmeade?" Asked Draco.
"Yeah I guess your right, but at least I don't have to pay that much since you just ate." Harry smirked.
"You're a cheap skate." Draco retorted.
"So?" And with that the boys entered The Three Broomstick celebrating their accomplishment on finishing the ability, which few wizards and witches were said to have been able to achieve.
I'm sorry for the delay in the update. I'll try to update soon.
Chapter XI: Animagus Training Finale
Disclaimer: Okay you guys know the drill I own nothing on the Harry Potter world except for few characters. Note: For those that want to know other H/Al or H/and the three chasers or whatever. I'm sorry but the only one I remember is "Harry Potter and Septanic Dueling," however the story is not a solid H/Al more like a might be H/Al. All you have to do is read the fics you like and search the others. The list they have on their favorites probably have the fics you want to read. After all they write what they write, usually anyways. So good luck in your search for a H/Al fic. Sorry I can't be of more help, but I read some of the stories and just keep just bits and pieces of the fics in my head, but the H/Al fics I usually read is just like a one chapter things so I don't keep it on my favorites list and I forget the who the writer and the names of the story.
Now back to the story.
Alicia found Harry in the Great Hall at a Saturday morning, he was sitting at the end of the table quite alone. Harry was eating however, he didn't seem to be all that awake. It was as if he was following his own motions out of habit then out of his own will. She noticed that ever since the trip to Hogsmeade, which was a week ago, he was constantly zombie-like in the mornings. She suspected that Harry was up reading the books he rented from the library all night. He was deeply entranced in the information the book gave. She didn't get the chance to see what the titles were, but she saw that he got a few of his books from the restricted part of the library.
She also noticed that Harry disappeared from time to time. She thought nothing of it before, when she found him gone from somewhere between 3-5 time to time. However now that she took a closer observation, she could found that he was missing always from 3:30 to 4:30 everyday on the weekdays. She, several times, tried to spy on him to find out what he was doing, nevertheless he always seemed to disappear around a corner when she trailed him. She went to Draco to see if he knew where Harry went, but he too was never around when she tried to find him during that time.
During these thoughts she was gazing at Harry with a hawk's gaze. He now seemed to have eaten a bit off of his plate. Still he seemed to mostly be picking at his food. Sensing a gaze upon him he looked up from his plate, and found Alicia staring intently on him. Such that Harry felt that he did something wrong. After a few seconds, she broke the gaze and went back to her food.
Harry looked back down to his food and felt a bit nauseating. He didn't have an appetite today because he was all nerves. He was jittery, because today would be the last day for his Animagus Training. At least that was what Mcgonnagol said yesterday. She said that it was estimated that today would be when Draco and he completed the training needed.
He looked up to see if Draco was feeling the same thing. He searched the Slytherin table, namely the ends of the table first because of his unpopularity now. He found Draco at the end of the table farthest away from the staff table. He was calm and cool, with his usual Malfoy arrogance in his pose. Harry smirked now. He wasn't the only one to be nervous. He knew Draco well enough to know that he only put that façade up when he was unsure. He didn't know if he always had this front or if it was just a recent mental defence he built around himself.
He looked at his watch and saw that it was 7:55. Only about two hours he noted until that start of the hopefully last lesson. He got up and exited the Great Hall. He went up the stairs intending to go to the common room. He walked up the stair halfway to his destination thinking how cool his animagus form was. He was imagining it on how it paled in comparison to Draco's Horntail in size, but it was still intimidating to say the least. His "voice" in the head told him to turn around. Then he was reminded for no reason of the mysterious voice.
Ever since he read in his books about how every ability one has should be found out and known how to control. He even was practicing his Parselmouth skill, trying to be able to use it without having to look at a snake so that he would be able to say it at will. Now he was trying to will the voice into talking to him. He instantly spun around to find no one there. However his thought wasn't on what the voice said, just the fact that it "told" him something when he willed it too.
Excited, he skipped the way up to the common room. He shouted the password from a distance the words "Nobility and Courage" echoing off of the walls. The painting opened and he rushed up to his prefects room. He opened the door and grabbed the book "The Trait of The Assassin." And began reading what the pages had to offer eagerly. He looked up at his watch and found that he had 30 minutes left until his training started. He put the book down and began heading out of his door. He skipped down the stairs and ended up in the common room. He exited the common room and headed down to where the animagus training was supposed to take place.
He headed to the third floor and went into the room where Fluffy was previously located. For they had to move where the training was to take place because of the size of their animagus forms. Harry was now standing in the middle of the gigantic room. He starting recollecting memories of the past again. Thinking back to his first year. How he, Ron, and Hermione stopped Voldemort from getting the Sorcerer's Stone. Every year he was at Hogwarts, that bastard fucked it up one way or the other.
Harry shook his head. Now was not the time for self pity. Maybe after that ass hole was dead he could start, but now was definitely not the time. He started twirling his wand between his finger out of bordness. Harry had a distinct feeling of being watched so the twirling also helped him keep his nerves down. He was looking around the room trying to figure out what was making him so on the edge. However there was nothing he could see that could be the reason of his alertness. Soon 20 minutes of waiting was brought to a stop when he saw Draco enter also.
"Hey Drake." Said Harry.
"Hey Heron, you're here early." Replied Draco.
"Had nothing to do Drake."
"K, is it just me or do you feel.. I don't know how to best word this "stalked?" "
"You mean watched?" Asked Harry.
"Yeah you could say that also."
"Not just you, maybe old Mcgonnagol already here under a invisibility charm." Joked Harry.
"Yeah maybe, I read those were really hard to do, so how could our thin lipped Transfiguration teacher do it?" Draco joked back.
"Well she ain't our Deputy Headmistress for nothing, she must be powerful or wise, that latter I doubt." Spoke Harry.
"Well I do not know about the last part Mr. Potter, but I do have some power behind me." Spoke a swift and harsh voice startling the teens.
They both looked to the origin of the voice and found that Mcgonnagol was standing where just earlier only air was there.
"Hehe, just a joke Prof. No hard feelings right?" Spoke a slightly embarrassed Draco. Truthfully he was more scared what the harsh Prod. might do to him then anything else.
"I suspected that." Was the swift reply of the Prof.
Both boys looked at each other and gulped afraid that they weren't gonna be able to finish their lessons now that Mcgonnagol seemed to be pissed off.
"Well better hurry this lesson up. I don't know what I'll if I have to stay any longer then I have to with you two boys." Said Mcgonnagol with a sigh.
"Now the only things you two have to do is transform to the best of your ability and I'll try to see what is the problem. Then I'll tell you how to fix it. You first Mr. Potter."
Harry then concentrated on his Blacksmail Dragon in his minds. He imagined his body deforming and slowly it turning into the Blacksmail form. He heard bones popping, but they didn't hurt. They just made loud hurting noises. He was soon done with his transformation in his head and opened his eyes. He saw the Prof. looking a bit flabbergasted, but he took that as a slightly good sign. He looked at her intently and took note that she was extremely smaller then he was used to seeing her in his animagus form. She then transfigured the wall the turn into a mirror, making a huge mirror be placed in front of Harry. Harry looked in his reflection and gave a whoop of joy that came out as a roar and a bit of sparks from his nose.
He saw himself in the mirror, or at least he saw his form in the mirror. Most of his body was jet black. He had a stripe of silver on his face and mostly on his underbelly but was mostly black. He had a good fiercesome looking form. (Think about the male in the reign of fire just mostly black, a bit smaller just about the size of fluffy from the HP 1st movie, and a bit more deadly looking) His most noticeable feature was his eyes. It was bright green and it shone against the darkness of his black.. skin? His scar, which was also on the middle of his forehead, (in the movie it was above his left eye I think, but in the cover of the fourth book it's in the center let's just say it's in the center also.) wasn't even noticeable because of the blackness. He grinned making the dragon look sinister. He then pictured his dragon form melting to his normal human form. He was now standing looking at his normal figure.
"Very good Mr. Potter, however you took to long transforming. You must practice it often to make it a second nature habit. Something you could do in a blink of an eye. Now it's your turn Mr. Malfoy." Spoke Mcgonnagol.
Draco nodded and headed for the middle of the room. Harry saw him close his eyes and concentrate. Seconds later a Horntail was there. He seemed a bit crammed because the room was just barely large enough for him. Harry was glad that his form was about .75 of his forms size. His form had a yellow almost golden colored skin. Also his eyes were steely silver like his normal eyes were. He had spikes on his tail that looked like a barbed club. Draco looked at himself and transformed back as if he'd seen his form many times to not even care. He walked back to Mcgonnagol with a bit of a proud stance. He looked up to Mcgonnagol to see her beeming.
"Mr. Malfoy that was fabulous. You did your transformation very quickly and your form was flawless. I suspect my job is done. All you have to do is practice more if your two want to transform even faster. Also you must learn to stay in your form as if it is a self conscious thought. That is something I cannot help you with, it must be on how strong you will and desire to complete your animagus transformation is. Good day to you gentlemen." Mcgonnagol coughed a bit at the last part. With that she exited the door.
"Well who would have thought that she would have a sense of humor, even if it is very thin." Spoke Draco.
"Yeah who would have thought. Well what are you gonna do now? We finished an hour early too isn't that great?" Asked Harry.
"Well I'm gonna go.. well I don't really know. I was so excited about today's lesson that I didn't even think about what the rest of the day might hold." Draco said.
"Yeah same here, I think I'm gonna read again."
"Oh you can't be serious are you turning into Granger now or something. Come on live a little will ya. It's the weekend let's celebrate the end of our training at Hogmeade. We could sneak out, it's not like anyone will notice." Said Draco.
"No I'm serious, I'll read." Said Harry.
"Fine suit yourself spoilsport." With that Draco left, with Harry on his tail. They went their separate ways at the hallway of Hogwarts. Harry went left and started heading up to the Gryffindor common room, while Draco went down and headed down to the Slytherin common room.
Harry still had the feeling of being watched and tried to be on extra alert senses. He heard soft footsteps every once in a while and tried to play it cool until he would make his move. Halfway up his destination he turned a corner and drew his wand. He turned around so that he was facing the corner in which he just turned, and waited. His wand was pointed to the corner waiting for his stalker to show his face. The footsteps were getting louder alerting Harry of the stalkers closeness. Out of the corner came Alicia Spinnet trying to be very quiet.
She was shocked when she turned a corner and was facing the tip of a drawn wand. She stepped backwards in fright until seeing who it was. Then anger replaced her shock and she started advancing at a shocked Harry.
"What are you doing?!!" Yelled Alicia.
"I could be asking the same for you!!" Yelled Harry in surprise.
"I was just walking and here I turned a corner and faced your wand, what's up with that picture huh?" Retorted Alicia.
"What were you doing following me and stop denying it." Spoke Harry who finally calmed down. "You gave me the frights, I thought I was being followed by Volde- You-Know-Who's supporters."
"Well I'm obviously not, but what are you meeting up with Draco and Prof. Mcgonnagol?" Asked Alicia dropping her act.
"What were you doing stalking me?"
"I was just worried about you. Your so quiet now, I haven't heard anyone scream or laught because of a prank in days, and your stuck up in your room just reading. So I followed you to see if you were in some sort of trouble and I found you having secret lessons from Mcgonnagol with Draco." Said Alicia.
"Yeah and what's wrong with a getting a special tutoring lesson from Mcgonnagol, Draco and I are entitled for lessons if we ask for one and she agrees. So were getting a bit of a push with our magical abilities, but it's no different then when your parents gave you heads up on lesson when you were young. You learned magic, when you were forbidden by law to know those things, before Hogwarts."
"That's different, anyhow I told you about that didn't I? However you kept your lessons a secret from me. You and Draco too." Said Alicia.
"It doesn't matter, I'm entitled to have my secrets along with Draco. You probably still have secrets that you never told me or Malfoy. More likely then not. ..Look.. ok I understand how you are mad because we didn't tell you about our lessons, but somethings in life are personal and not meant to be shared until ready."
"How come Draco was trained also?" Asked Alicia.
"Oh for Christ sake! He found about my training and demanded his too, to Mcgonnagol. Mcgonnagol bent seeing as Draco blackmailed her into exposing Harry lessons if she didn't. Obviously Mcgonnagol thought it easier if we got trained together so there we go. He found out about my training and got to train with me. It's not like I told him about it." Said Harry with exhaustion in his voice.
"That doesn't mean I forgive you. You should learn to open up and spill stuff to your friends more. After all how could they be your friends if you don't trust them with your secrets?" With that Alicia stormed up the stairs to the Gryffindor common room.
'She leaves in a huff and puff as if I did the wrong doing. When it was her that was spying on me.' Harry mumbled. "I'll be sure to spill more "stuff" on you."
"What was that?" Was Alicia's reply obviously hearing some parts of his mumbling.
"Nothing that concerns you." Spoke Harry.
"It better not be." Was all Alicia said.
They both entered the common room. Alicia went to her friends that were sitting by fireplace playing chess. However Harry went up to his room to read his books. This time he started where he left off yesterday on "363 Deadly Curses." By the time he looked up again which was an hour later, he read through 40 pages, a quarter of the book being illustrations on the wand movement and the after affect of the curse. He was revolted on most of the curses after effect but kept on reading. He was now halfway through the book and was deeply engorged in the contents of it. More often then not he had a wild gleam in his jade eyes, when reading over some of the curses. After 20 more pages about 10 minutes later he stopped reading the book and picked up "101 Deadly Potions." The book was by the same author as "363 Deadly Curses" and had written the book in the same style he wrote the other.
The only difference was that the illustrations were a bit more defined. The pictures had labels on step to step on what the color should be like, it had a legend by each of the pictures telling of each of the ingredients needed, and also gave what the tranquility of the potion should be (boiling or not kind of thing). Also it showed the after effects also and some of these made the pictures of WWII look mild. This book was much more interesting for Harry and it had only a 10th of the book being words. He read through a 100 pages before noticing that 20 minutes had passed and lunch had already started. He gave a groan and rushed down to the great hall.
He made it there with 20 minutes to spare till lunch was over. He sat himself and started picking up bread, cheese, meat, and lettuce, making a sandwich. He did this 3 times making 3 extra sandwich. He chomped these down in no time, and grabbed 20 buffalo wings off of a nearby platter and chomped these down quickly. Lastly he poured himself a large glass of water drank the whole thing in one chug. He saw many people around him look at him in amazement or disgust. Mostly the latter, he looked to the Slytherin table and saw that Draco was smirking at him, while he shook his head at Harry's antic. He grinned back at him and got up from his seat and was about to exit the Great Hall when Dumbledore's voice stopped him.
"May I have everyone' attention please. I am pleased to announce that there will be a New Year's Eve Ball. Only 3rd years and up may come and dress robes are required. The ball shall start from 7 till 1 AM. Note that this is the only time unless stated that the curfew time is delayed. Happy Halloween." Dumbledore then sat back down and started talking to Mcgonnagol and Flitwick about something.
Harry grumbled and looked towards Draco. Obviously he got the hint and followed Harry out the door. They walked out of Hogwarts in silence and didn't talk that much. The setting outside was quite different from last week. There were only brief traces of snow, and the lake had thin pieces of ice here and there. The air was cool and refreshing, and it did wonders for Harry drowsiness. Finally Draco seemed to brake him out of his thoughts.
"Well Heron what's up?" Asked Draco.
"What's up? Oh nothing, I just thought that you might wanna come to Hogsmeade. After all didn't you wan't to sneak out before?" Asked Harry.
"Sure, where to?"
"We could go to The Three Broomstick, or go to The Pub. I know they sell alcohol to anyone that has the money."
"How would Gryffindor's Golden Boy know that?" Asked Draco smirking.
"Wouldn't you like to know." Harry slyly responded.
"Haha! you crack me up, lets just get a regular butterbeer, after all I want to be sober." Answered Draco.
"Why? Halloween has nothing special except for a feast." Asked Harry.
"Yeah, but I want to be sober so that I don't make a fool out of myself."
"You don't need to be drunk to do that." Harry said with a laugh.
"Shut it Heron." Smirked Draco.
"Okay okay The Three Broomstick it is. And I guess I'm paying." Spoke Harry.
"Yeah it is your turn to pay." Said Draco.
"I still don't see the point in going to Hogsmeade I mean it's not like were hungry, need to get prank items, and we just went last week." Wondered Harry outload.
"We are here to celebrate our transforming accomplishment, Anyhow, since when did we need a reason to go to Hogsmeade?" Asked Draco.
"Yeah I guess your right, but at least I don't have to pay that much since you just ate." Harry smirked.
"You're a cheap skate." Draco retorted.
"So?" And with that the boys entered The Three Broomstick celebrating their accomplishment on finishing the ability, which few wizards and witches were said to have been able to achieve.
I'm sorry for the delay in the update. I'll try to update soon.