Chapter 10: Limit Break - Barriers Shattered
As everyone sat down in a circle, Ron started to tell his story about training with Dumbledore. There were "ooh's" and "ahh's" from the so called "crowd". As Ron started talking, more and more people began to sit down and listen to what he had to say. In the meantime, people watched his arms as they still were showing the marks of burns, bruises, and scars. He decided to amaze the crowd even more by standing up and moving around. Which was a very bad idea on his part. As he stood, he nearly buckled under his own weight, and fell sideways into the wall.
At that instant Harry and Hermione came to help him up. They looked at with deep concern as his face turned a deep crimson red. They could now tell that he was not feeling well. Harry helped to carry Ron over to the couch and set him down. As he did, Hermione pushed all of the audience away so that she could draw her attention back to Ron, he looked at her with great apperation and started talking to them about the events of his long day.
He slowly started to speak to him in a frail voice.
"Well the lessons are going good, I wanted him to be a little harder on me for better protection
for Harry. I guess I wanted it hard, But he gave it to me a little too hard. I took it all like a man though." Said Ron with a slight grin.
"You know that's it's dangerious to training with Dumbledore, I know he won't hurt you but of course Ron everyone knows he is extremely powerful." Said Hermione with a look of worry on her face.
Harry looked at Ron with the same look of worry but with another expression coming out of his face. He had a look of "thank you" and appeartion. Harry was now wondering how much pain Ron endured to become stronger for "him". All of this work was for him, he is the main worry of everyone's problem. As if he was reading his thoughts, Ron looked right into Harry's eye and started to speak.
"This isn't your fault Harry, like you had said countless times, you didn't chose this life, it was chosen for you. Hermione and I are your friends, we are sticking by you no matter what to help you make a better life for yourself." Said Ron with a look of deperision on his face.
"Ron is right Harry, we will be there always. I didn't know Ron could be so open minded, even though I sometimes think he has no mind at all." Said Hermione while smiling at both Harry and Ron.
Ron looked taken back at this comment, but seeing the smile on Hermione made him smile and kiss her. He now removed his attention from Hermione towards Harry once again. Ron had a sneaky smirk on his face and procedded to talk in a low voice to Harry.
"So what about you and Cho, there buddy?" Questioned Ron.
"Well...I really don't know, I haven't had the guts to go up to her and have a REAL conversation to her yet." Expressed Harry while blushing uncontrolably.
"Well you better get to it Harry, you don't want her to get away do you?" Ron said with a wink.
"If you don't worry she will walk away with a snap, I am glad me and Hermione got together, even though I was stupid my first 4 years. Harry you need to go right up and Cho and ask her to have a talk "alone" so you can get right down to the subject and don't forget to ask her how she feels first." Said Ron with a brotherly look upon his face.
"Ron that is the best advice I have heard you give ever in my years of knowing you, I am truly proud of you." Hermione accounced with her arm resting on his shoulder.
Ron started blushing right away. Ron continued his story about training and started asking Hermione and Harry questions about their training.
"When are you going to come with me to train with Dumbledore? Are you two training yourself's everyday while I am away?" Asked a rather now worried Ron.
"Yes we have off and on, but your right Ron we should be up there with you training hard with Dumbledore, we need the training." Hermione replied, speaking for Harry and herself.
Harry felt rather sad, he knew that he wasn't practicing nearly as much as he should have been. He now realized what mistake he had made my not practicing, he was putting more stress on Ron to focus and make his powers stronger. His head was now down into his chest and he was starting to give off a sence of sadness in his expressions. As Ron was telling the crowd about his battle wounds, he looked over to the now sad Harry and halted on his story telling and called it for.
"That will be all for today people, I have to do something right now...I will tell you more tomorrow." Ron said with a smile.
As the crowd disipated Ron turned his body towards Harry and grabbed his hair so that his eyes would meet Harry's. He could see the sadness and now the anger in his eyes from what Ron had just done. Ron lets go of Harry's hair and stood up, Ron now had a look of anger and discipline in his eyes and voice as he spoke to Harry.
"Harry I see the anger in your eyes, but I also see the sadness. I know you haven't been training as much as you should, but I do not need to tell you something that you already know. We are doing this for you, the most important thing is that you need to do this for yourself. Everyone knows from one stand point what kind of life you have had to endure from you telling us. You need to come with me right now up to Dumbledore's office because I need you to experence something first hand..." Ron announced as he trailed off.
Harry did not speak, he stood up and followed Ron outside of the common room with the onlookers just staring at him as he walked past them. Hermione attemped to follow but Ron just gave a stern look and she stopped were she stood. As they walked up to the 5th floor, Harry started to wonder what Ron ment when he said "experence something first hand" Harry started thinking about what that meant.
Harry started getting more and more worried as Ron and himself traveled up the moving stairs towards Dumbledore's office. Harry's worry reached a peak as he looked over and saw complete anger on Ron's face as they reached the stone creatures on the sides of the office.
"ButterBeer, and Beans." Said Ron.
As he said those words the creatures leapt aside and Ron procedded to walk up the stair well towards the inner sentium of Dumbledore's office. As he walked in. Dumbledore stood there as if he was waiting for their arrival. He looked at Harry with an expression that said "get ready to rumble". Ron turned towards Harry and stepped aside. Dumbledore walked up to Harry and started speaking through his half mood glasses.
"Well Harry, I want you to tell me straight foreward. Have you been training yourself as much as were suppose to?" Asked Dumbledore with concern.
"No I haven't Prof. I am sorry, but I haven't, I have made progress but seeing you train with Ron as made me sorry that I haven't been doing the training correctly. Ever since that meeting with Voldermort I have felt that he has the power of the Prophets within him as well. I thought that couldn't stand up to him because he is much more powerful then me. I hope that this can be corrected...I wish to train with you and Ron also." Harry replied with a tear in his eye.
With this now put out into the open, Ron and Dumbledore looked at each other and smiled. Harry knew that they would drive him crazy with training everyday. They started right away with Harry facing Ron in a power battle, Ron won of course the first time. Harry flipped two times and landed on his butt and looked surprised at Ron.
"Do you think all that training I have been doing, didn't make me stronger? Get up Harry lets try this again" Said Ron in a drill instructor voice.
Ron looked like a stern teacher that would never stop until his student completed the task. He would never give up on himself but most importantly, Ron would never give up on Harry, he had to make him stronger and show him, this isn't just about him being in danger, this is about him fighting for himself...Standing up to evil, not being shielded away from it.
Harry got angry because he didn't stand a chance of facing Voldermort if he couldn't at least compete with Ron. He rose from the ground, his anger at it's peak, he started glowing bright gold that could like up the whole castle. Ron started smiling, he knew this was it. Even though Harry hadn't training a lot, he was blazing with energy and rage. Ron's power became so extreme he blasted a hole in the ground when his energy started raising. He was littery floating above the hole and signaled for Harry to attack him. Harry's energy pushed him from the ground as if he was flying and he speeded towards Ron with all his might...He blasted a "Dracos Inflmare" spell at Ron. As he conjured the spell, it formed into a real dragon and shot straight towards Ron with the heat of the sun.
Ron killed the dragon with a spear through the head. He stepped back down to the ground and charged towards harry with ice serpent for back up, Ron went down and rolled under Harry as the ice serpent rammed into Harry's chest and blow him back. At this point Dumbledore created an area so that his personal items wouldn't be ruined. The magical area protected aginst every magic the power the boy's could conjure up. As the ice creature disappeared, Hermione came rushing into the office with a look of totally horror that rested upon her face.
She ran over to Dumbledore for an sign of explination. He looked at her with a smile on his face and turned back to watch the training that still raged on within his office. Hermione gazed at the battlefield with worry, she saw her two best friends creating and conjuring spells that she had never seen before, Harry of course was doing it because of his power taking over, which allowed the acient magic to be brought forth. Ron accually knew some spells and was trying his hardest, not to beat Harry but to bring his power out in a short amount of time.
Ron's power was not at the peak because of his recent training with Dumbledore, but he gave it his all and never stopped pushing Harry to his limits. This was for his own good, to make him realize that it is time, he will make a stand right here and now, this was the turning point...To show people that he could really fight and not have them under estimate him at all.
Ron stood up right behind Harry and turned around as quick as lighting. Harry caught Ron off guard with a kick to the head that sent him back to the ground. Ron jumped up and backed away from Harry, this was it, this was the turning point of Harry and his power, Ron was standing back doing something that Harry had never seen before, He was putting his plam's straight out into the air while magical energy seemed to spiral around them. Plants started to grow right out of the ground and spin faster and faster around Ron. The roots and vines started glowing darker and brighter...on and on for what seemed like a hour. The roots started to form together to resemple a wall...All of the magical energy become fused with the wall, the wall changed form into a cannon like structure and fired right at Harry's heart.
Harry looked like he had seen Voldermort right in front of him with his wand in Harry's face. Harry froze for moments before he finally looked right up at Ron and took a defensive stance. His hands where in front of his chest, as he was doing so, his whole body started to glow a fiery gold. His shield was up, his legs strong, he was ready to face Ron's amazing attack head on, he wanted to test the power within himself and see what his limits really are.
"I will never give up, if I can't stand up aginst Ron's attack, how will I be able to stand a chance aginst Voldermort? I will never give up.....Never!" Harry yelled as the giant green light blazed toward him at amazing speed.
As he yelled, something snapped inside of his and his glow expaned to greater heights and focused itself towards to blast to meet it head on and half way towards Harry. The two lights met each other and battled it out until there was a winner. Harry's power overwhelmed Ron's blast and shot straight towards Ron. Ron looked scared and put his hands up for resistance, his strength wasn't enough and flew back into the protective shield that Dumbledore created.
Ron stood up and looked at Dumbledore, they smiled at each other and looked at Harry. He walked towards Harry and put a hand on his shoulder and smiled. He began to speak and Dumbledore's shield become to disappear.
"That was good Harry, I knew if I pushed you far enough that you would bring out the power within yourself to the fullest extent. You didn't want to give up and that anger and will boosted your power up enough to break through it's "power barrier" that held it back." Ron said with a weakening smile.
"What is this "power barrier" and I always want to thank you for the "tough love" I didn't know that you gained that much power is such a short amount of time." Said Harry with a smile of appearation.
"It is a balance of magical power and what your body can withstand...Your power limit has been shattered, this means that your body and energy have fused together so they are apart of each other." Ron said.
"So, how will this training work? we will have to include Hermione in this, she is and will always be an important part of this." Ron asked looking out for Hermione's welfare.
"Well, when you train, you will show an extreme amount of effort and she will be there to help heal both of you and Ron will train with her once in a while, however not putting out as much power as he has shown Harry today of course. We don't want her to get hurt." Dumbledore explained
"Well everything is explained and now we just have to work this extra hard training into our classes...Maybe after school if we don't have Quidditch practice...That reminds me of something Prof. When are the Qudditch games starting up again? You never really said anything about canceling them." Asked Ron.
"Well we have just been canceling the practices because of the Voldermort sighting, people still belieave that Voldermort hasn't returned and we don't want to throw around ideas of what people saw on the pitch on that day. Even if people did belieave what they saw...No one would belieave them in the first place if they decided to tell them. We would have to form a plan on how to into introuduce him to the public so to say." Dumbledore explained.
"Your right, we wouldn't want chaos going around the school." Ron replied
"We better get back to training, we only have 20 minutes before you have to go to Double Potions if I am correct. I will start in a formation, it will be a 4 way training session. Hermione will defend herself aginst spells using her regular knowledge of defensive spells and lets see how we do, we will do this for everyone." Dumbledore announced
Everyone agreed and then began practicing...One at a time spells started flying towards Hermione with lighting speed...One after another..she started yelling spells to defend herself. She saw the looks in Ron's and Harry's eyes and decided to run for it for a little bit. As the spells flew she closed her eyes and yelled "Expelliarmus!"
Harry and Ron's wands flew from their hands on to the floor, while Dumbeldore's wand mirely wiggled as he gained complete control of it and procedded to mutter something towards Hermione while smiling. As bright white spell blasted towards Hermione as she yelled a spell.
"Stupefy!" Bellowed Hermione.
Her spelled was not aimed at Dumbledore but his spell. Dumbledore only looked upon his spell being forced away, he turned to Hermione (who was ready for any spells that came her way) and smiled. Harry and Ron looked upon the "magi battle" with a gaze of amazment, they yelled Accio! and their wands came flying back into their hands and they were once again ready for battle.
"This training Ms. Granger to study how you hand multipul threats, there could be mutlipul death eaters around you, you have to focus on all so that you can defend yourself on equal grounds for all of them, no matter how power they might be, unless it was Voldermort himself." Dumbledore explained.
The two boys rushed at Hermione with wands above their heads, ready to strike. Hermione looked at them with anger, she did a little swish and flick with her wand and formed a circle object that seemed to be a very powerful shield charm. As they rushed she yelled a disarming charm but it missed them both and they began blasting spells at her, one by one.
"Locomotor Mortis!, Petrificus Totalus!, Reducio!" Harry yelled as he blasted 3 spells at Hermione.
The spelled did have an effect, but only weakning the charm. The charm can become weaker as the glow fades away from it. Ron had a go at battling Hermione with little to no effect, be blasted the same spells which only weakened the shield. It was amazing, Hermione was really practicing her spells and she was very powerful for a 5th year student. Dumbledore stepped up the the plate *so to say*. Hermione gave a big swish and the shield began to glow brighter and brighter. Dumbledore gave a poke of his wand and stated a incantation.
"Barrious Explaious!" He yelled.
A red blast came out of his wand and headed towards Hermione's shield...The blast consumed the shield and then popped away with the shield, now leaving Hermione to rely on her real skills. At this point Dumbledore stopped the training and began to speak to all of them.
"Very good training today, those spells you threw at Hermione were good but Hermione put more force into her spell then you did into both of your spells, concentrate on the tips of your wands more then the spells themselves, the tip is were the spells come into life, that is where they need to be the strongest. Shoot a spell at me then shoot it at me focusing on your tip of your wand..Ron." Dumbledore asked.
Dumbledore put up a basic shield and jestured for Ron to fire. Ron fired a regular disarming charm at the shield, which only lowered the low a slight bit. Ron then tried to focus his mind upon the tip of his wand and tried the same spell again. The spell was emnormus and shot straight across the room. The shield burst into flames and Dumbledore was swept 3 feet backwards from the spell. Ron stood there looking amazed at what he had just done.
"Well we are done with the training today, just like I have told you and Ron has shown you, anything is possible if you have the courage to try and fail. Remember, the greatest victories are made by first having the grestest mistakes." Dumbledore explained as he showed them out the door and down to the common room.
As they walked out, they thanked Dumbledore and prepaired for more training by themselves and with Dumbledore...
*Fade to Black*
As everyone sat down in a circle, Ron started to tell his story about training with Dumbledore. There were "ooh's" and "ahh's" from the so called "crowd". As Ron started talking, more and more people began to sit down and listen to what he had to say. In the meantime, people watched his arms as they still were showing the marks of burns, bruises, and scars. He decided to amaze the crowd even more by standing up and moving around. Which was a very bad idea on his part. As he stood, he nearly buckled under his own weight, and fell sideways into the wall.
At that instant Harry and Hermione came to help him up. They looked at with deep concern as his face turned a deep crimson red. They could now tell that he was not feeling well. Harry helped to carry Ron over to the couch and set him down. As he did, Hermione pushed all of the audience away so that she could draw her attention back to Ron, he looked at her with great apperation and started talking to them about the events of his long day.
He slowly started to speak to him in a frail voice.
"Well the lessons are going good, I wanted him to be a little harder on me for better protection
for Harry. I guess I wanted it hard, But he gave it to me a little too hard. I took it all like a man though." Said Ron with a slight grin.
"You know that's it's dangerious to training with Dumbledore, I know he won't hurt you but of course Ron everyone knows he is extremely powerful." Said Hermione with a look of worry on her face.
Harry looked at Ron with the same look of worry but with another expression coming out of his face. He had a look of "thank you" and appeartion. Harry was now wondering how much pain Ron endured to become stronger for "him". All of this work was for him, he is the main worry of everyone's problem. As if he was reading his thoughts, Ron looked right into Harry's eye and started to speak.
"This isn't your fault Harry, like you had said countless times, you didn't chose this life, it was chosen for you. Hermione and I are your friends, we are sticking by you no matter what to help you make a better life for yourself." Said Ron with a look of deperision on his face.
"Ron is right Harry, we will be there always. I didn't know Ron could be so open minded, even though I sometimes think he has no mind at all." Said Hermione while smiling at both Harry and Ron.
Ron looked taken back at this comment, but seeing the smile on Hermione made him smile and kiss her. He now removed his attention from Hermione towards Harry once again. Ron had a sneaky smirk on his face and procedded to talk in a low voice to Harry.
"So what about you and Cho, there buddy?" Questioned Ron.
"Well...I really don't know, I haven't had the guts to go up to her and have a REAL conversation to her yet." Expressed Harry while blushing uncontrolably.
"Well you better get to it Harry, you don't want her to get away do you?" Ron said with a wink.
"If you don't worry she will walk away with a snap, I am glad me and Hermione got together, even though I was stupid my first 4 years. Harry you need to go right up and Cho and ask her to have a talk "alone" so you can get right down to the subject and don't forget to ask her how she feels first." Said Ron with a brotherly look upon his face.
"Ron that is the best advice I have heard you give ever in my years of knowing you, I am truly proud of you." Hermione accounced with her arm resting on his shoulder.
Ron started blushing right away. Ron continued his story about training and started asking Hermione and Harry questions about their training.
"When are you going to come with me to train with Dumbledore? Are you two training yourself's everyday while I am away?" Asked a rather now worried Ron.
"Yes we have off and on, but your right Ron we should be up there with you training hard with Dumbledore, we need the training." Hermione replied, speaking for Harry and herself.
Harry felt rather sad, he knew that he wasn't practicing nearly as much as he should have been. He now realized what mistake he had made my not practicing, he was putting more stress on Ron to focus and make his powers stronger. His head was now down into his chest and he was starting to give off a sence of sadness in his expressions. As Ron was telling the crowd about his battle wounds, he looked over to the now sad Harry and halted on his story telling and called it for.
"That will be all for today people, I have to do something right now...I will tell you more tomorrow." Ron said with a smile.
As the crowd disipated Ron turned his body towards Harry and grabbed his hair so that his eyes would meet Harry's. He could see the sadness and now the anger in his eyes from what Ron had just done. Ron lets go of Harry's hair and stood up, Ron now had a look of anger and discipline in his eyes and voice as he spoke to Harry.
"Harry I see the anger in your eyes, but I also see the sadness. I know you haven't been training as much as you should, but I do not need to tell you something that you already know. We are doing this for you, the most important thing is that you need to do this for yourself. Everyone knows from one stand point what kind of life you have had to endure from you telling us. You need to come with me right now up to Dumbledore's office because I need you to experence something first hand..." Ron announced as he trailed off.
Harry did not speak, he stood up and followed Ron outside of the common room with the onlookers just staring at him as he walked past them. Hermione attemped to follow but Ron just gave a stern look and she stopped were she stood. As they walked up to the 5th floor, Harry started to wonder what Ron ment when he said "experence something first hand" Harry started thinking about what that meant.
Harry started getting more and more worried as Ron and himself traveled up the moving stairs towards Dumbledore's office. Harry's worry reached a peak as he looked over and saw complete anger on Ron's face as they reached the stone creatures on the sides of the office.
"ButterBeer, and Beans." Said Ron.
As he said those words the creatures leapt aside and Ron procedded to walk up the stair well towards the inner sentium of Dumbledore's office. As he walked in. Dumbledore stood there as if he was waiting for their arrival. He looked at Harry with an expression that said "get ready to rumble". Ron turned towards Harry and stepped aside. Dumbledore walked up to Harry and started speaking through his half mood glasses.
"Well Harry, I want you to tell me straight foreward. Have you been training yourself as much as were suppose to?" Asked Dumbledore with concern.
"No I haven't Prof. I am sorry, but I haven't, I have made progress but seeing you train with Ron as made me sorry that I haven't been doing the training correctly. Ever since that meeting with Voldermort I have felt that he has the power of the Prophets within him as well. I thought that couldn't stand up to him because he is much more powerful then me. I hope that this can be corrected...I wish to train with you and Ron also." Harry replied with a tear in his eye.
With this now put out into the open, Ron and Dumbledore looked at each other and smiled. Harry knew that they would drive him crazy with training everyday. They started right away with Harry facing Ron in a power battle, Ron won of course the first time. Harry flipped two times and landed on his butt and looked surprised at Ron.
"Do you think all that training I have been doing, didn't make me stronger? Get up Harry lets try this again" Said Ron in a drill instructor voice.
Ron looked like a stern teacher that would never stop until his student completed the task. He would never give up on himself but most importantly, Ron would never give up on Harry, he had to make him stronger and show him, this isn't just about him being in danger, this is about him fighting for himself...Standing up to evil, not being shielded away from it.
Harry got angry because he didn't stand a chance of facing Voldermort if he couldn't at least compete with Ron. He rose from the ground, his anger at it's peak, he started glowing bright gold that could like up the whole castle. Ron started smiling, he knew this was it. Even though Harry hadn't training a lot, he was blazing with energy and rage. Ron's power became so extreme he blasted a hole in the ground when his energy started raising. He was littery floating above the hole and signaled for Harry to attack him. Harry's energy pushed him from the ground as if he was flying and he speeded towards Ron with all his might...He blasted a "Dracos Inflmare" spell at Ron. As he conjured the spell, it formed into a real dragon and shot straight towards Ron with the heat of the sun.
Ron killed the dragon with a spear through the head. He stepped back down to the ground and charged towards harry with ice serpent for back up, Ron went down and rolled under Harry as the ice serpent rammed into Harry's chest and blow him back. At this point Dumbledore created an area so that his personal items wouldn't be ruined. The magical area protected aginst every magic the power the boy's could conjure up. As the ice creature disappeared, Hermione came rushing into the office with a look of totally horror that rested upon her face.
She ran over to Dumbledore for an sign of explination. He looked at her with a smile on his face and turned back to watch the training that still raged on within his office. Hermione gazed at the battlefield with worry, she saw her two best friends creating and conjuring spells that she had never seen before, Harry of course was doing it because of his power taking over, which allowed the acient magic to be brought forth. Ron accually knew some spells and was trying his hardest, not to beat Harry but to bring his power out in a short amount of time.
Ron's power was not at the peak because of his recent training with Dumbledore, but he gave it his all and never stopped pushing Harry to his limits. This was for his own good, to make him realize that it is time, he will make a stand right here and now, this was the turning point...To show people that he could really fight and not have them under estimate him at all.
Ron stood up right behind Harry and turned around as quick as lighting. Harry caught Ron off guard with a kick to the head that sent him back to the ground. Ron jumped up and backed away from Harry, this was it, this was the turning point of Harry and his power, Ron was standing back doing something that Harry had never seen before, He was putting his plam's straight out into the air while magical energy seemed to spiral around them. Plants started to grow right out of the ground and spin faster and faster around Ron. The roots and vines started glowing darker and brighter...on and on for what seemed like a hour. The roots started to form together to resemple a wall...All of the magical energy become fused with the wall, the wall changed form into a cannon like structure and fired right at Harry's heart.
Harry looked like he had seen Voldermort right in front of him with his wand in Harry's face. Harry froze for moments before he finally looked right up at Ron and took a defensive stance. His hands where in front of his chest, as he was doing so, his whole body started to glow a fiery gold. His shield was up, his legs strong, he was ready to face Ron's amazing attack head on, he wanted to test the power within himself and see what his limits really are.
"I will never give up, if I can't stand up aginst Ron's attack, how will I be able to stand a chance aginst Voldermort? I will never give up.....Never!" Harry yelled as the giant green light blazed toward him at amazing speed.
As he yelled, something snapped inside of his and his glow expaned to greater heights and focused itself towards to blast to meet it head on and half way towards Harry. The two lights met each other and battled it out until there was a winner. Harry's power overwhelmed Ron's blast and shot straight towards Ron. Ron looked scared and put his hands up for resistance, his strength wasn't enough and flew back into the protective shield that Dumbledore created.
Ron stood up and looked at Dumbledore, they smiled at each other and looked at Harry. He walked towards Harry and put a hand on his shoulder and smiled. He began to speak and Dumbledore's shield become to disappear.
"That was good Harry, I knew if I pushed you far enough that you would bring out the power within yourself to the fullest extent. You didn't want to give up and that anger and will boosted your power up enough to break through it's "power barrier" that held it back." Ron said with a weakening smile.
"What is this "power barrier" and I always want to thank you for the "tough love" I didn't know that you gained that much power is such a short amount of time." Said Harry with a smile of appearation.
"It is a balance of magical power and what your body can withstand...Your power limit has been shattered, this means that your body and energy have fused together so they are apart of each other." Ron said.
"So, how will this training work? we will have to include Hermione in this, she is and will always be an important part of this." Ron asked looking out for Hermione's welfare.
"Well, when you train, you will show an extreme amount of effort and she will be there to help heal both of you and Ron will train with her once in a while, however not putting out as much power as he has shown Harry today of course. We don't want her to get hurt." Dumbledore explained
"Well everything is explained and now we just have to work this extra hard training into our classes...Maybe after school if we don't have Quidditch practice...That reminds me of something Prof. When are the Qudditch games starting up again? You never really said anything about canceling them." Asked Ron.
"Well we have just been canceling the practices because of the Voldermort sighting, people still belieave that Voldermort hasn't returned and we don't want to throw around ideas of what people saw on the pitch on that day. Even if people did belieave what they saw...No one would belieave them in the first place if they decided to tell them. We would have to form a plan on how to into introuduce him to the public so to say." Dumbledore explained.
"Your right, we wouldn't want chaos going around the school." Ron replied
"We better get back to training, we only have 20 minutes before you have to go to Double Potions if I am correct. I will start in a formation, it will be a 4 way training session. Hermione will defend herself aginst spells using her regular knowledge of defensive spells and lets see how we do, we will do this for everyone." Dumbledore announced
Everyone agreed and then began practicing...One at a time spells started flying towards Hermione with lighting speed...One after another..she started yelling spells to defend herself. She saw the looks in Ron's and Harry's eyes and decided to run for it for a little bit. As the spells flew she closed her eyes and yelled "Expelliarmus!"
Harry and Ron's wands flew from their hands on to the floor, while Dumbeldore's wand mirely wiggled as he gained complete control of it and procedded to mutter something towards Hermione while smiling. As bright white spell blasted towards Hermione as she yelled a spell.
"Stupefy!" Bellowed Hermione.
Her spelled was not aimed at Dumbledore but his spell. Dumbledore only looked upon his spell being forced away, he turned to Hermione (who was ready for any spells that came her way) and smiled. Harry and Ron looked upon the "magi battle" with a gaze of amazment, they yelled Accio! and their wands came flying back into their hands and they were once again ready for battle.
"This training Ms. Granger to study how you hand multipul threats, there could be mutlipul death eaters around you, you have to focus on all so that you can defend yourself on equal grounds for all of them, no matter how power they might be, unless it was Voldermort himself." Dumbledore explained.
The two boys rushed at Hermione with wands above their heads, ready to strike. Hermione looked at them with anger, she did a little swish and flick with her wand and formed a circle object that seemed to be a very powerful shield charm. As they rushed she yelled a disarming charm but it missed them both and they began blasting spells at her, one by one.
"Locomotor Mortis!, Petrificus Totalus!, Reducio!" Harry yelled as he blasted 3 spells at Hermione.
The spelled did have an effect, but only weakning the charm. The charm can become weaker as the glow fades away from it. Ron had a go at battling Hermione with little to no effect, be blasted the same spells which only weakened the shield. It was amazing, Hermione was really practicing her spells and she was very powerful for a 5th year student. Dumbledore stepped up the the plate *so to say*. Hermione gave a big swish and the shield began to glow brighter and brighter. Dumbledore gave a poke of his wand and stated a incantation.
"Barrious Explaious!" He yelled.
A red blast came out of his wand and headed towards Hermione's shield...The blast consumed the shield and then popped away with the shield, now leaving Hermione to rely on her real skills. At this point Dumbledore stopped the training and began to speak to all of them.
"Very good training today, those spells you threw at Hermione were good but Hermione put more force into her spell then you did into both of your spells, concentrate on the tips of your wands more then the spells themselves, the tip is were the spells come into life, that is where they need to be the strongest. Shoot a spell at me then shoot it at me focusing on your tip of your wand..Ron." Dumbledore asked.
Dumbledore put up a basic shield and jestured for Ron to fire. Ron fired a regular disarming charm at the shield, which only lowered the low a slight bit. Ron then tried to focus his mind upon the tip of his wand and tried the same spell again. The spell was emnormus and shot straight across the room. The shield burst into flames and Dumbledore was swept 3 feet backwards from the spell. Ron stood there looking amazed at what he had just done.
"Well we are done with the training today, just like I have told you and Ron has shown you, anything is possible if you have the courage to try and fail. Remember, the greatest victories are made by first having the grestest mistakes." Dumbledore explained as he showed them out the door and down to the common room.
As they walked out, they thanked Dumbledore and prepaired for more training by themselves and with Dumbledore...
*Fade to Black*
