Chapter 7 : Unleashed Shadows
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**Author's Notes: HEY! Well, it's chapter 7 and I HAVE to thank my reviewers. . . It means so much to know what you think.
Okay, thanks to: Setsuri, WhiteLion, kat, Iniysa, Smart Ash, izean, LaMuerta, Lirael, Kitala, asellus, t.a.g, firefox, Lady Lightning and Fallen Dragon. These are people reviewed from chapter 2 onwards. I think I thanked the others in earlier chapters. I forget. But, if I forgot you, tell me and I'll thank you in a future chapter. Thanks for reading everyone, and reviewing!!
And so, now that I've thanked all the people who cared enough to review, I have to clear a few things up.
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"Grindelwald's" name has been fixed throughout chapter 6. Although I don't think anyone noticed, or they did and didn't tell me.. :'(, Grindelwald had been spelt with an 'r' instead of an 'l'. But, no matter now, it's all better. =D
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If you didn't understand the previous chapter, I hope this helps:
I don't know for sure, but maybe Grindelwald's Mark (chapter 6) was slightly confusing. So here's an explanation that I hope is a little bit simpler. . .
*Grindelwald's Mark was the equivalent to what The Dark Mark of Voldermort is now, a way the Dark Lord called his followers to him. But for Grindelwald, the lightning-shaped scar known as Grindelwald's Mark, allowed him to spy on his followers, making betrayal almost impossible. Imagine bring able to see through another's eyes, literally. You would be able to see what they could see, hear what they could hear and feel what they could feel. The only disadvantage was that you couldn't decide what you saw, as you had no control over what you saw, heard or felt. But the person you are spying on has no idea you are doing so, meaning it would very, VERY hard to hide anything from you, or in this case, Grindelwald.*
If this still doesn't help, tell me and I'll try again.
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So . . .read on! And REVIEW! (eheh)
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Hermione swallowed slowly. Harry had switched gears extremely quickly and it scared her more than a little. Her best friend's gaze was intense and his lips were set in a thin determined line as he scanned the page for the fourth time. Even Ron seemed more suddenly more serious.
"Advantage?' Hermione echoed softly, "there's not much you can do, except show Professors Dumbledore and Lupin this. Maybe they can tell you if it's worth working on."
Harry's eyes narrowed ever-so-slightly. "You know?"
Hermione snapped her mouth shut, and took to biting her bottom lip. She nodded.
Now it was Ron's turn. "How?"
Hermione looked uncomfortable, "I followed you."
Harry raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything. He debated it over his head, and finally decided that Hermione had a right to know anyway.
Hermione kept her head slightly lowered, knowing that any other outburst would probably worsen the matter. See, the thing was, Hermione had discovered that every Wednesday night Harry and Ron would take extra lessons in Defence of Dark Arts with Dumbledore, Lupin, Snape and the HeadBoy and Girl [Damien Loen (Ravenclaw) and Katie Bell (Gryffindor.)] And these lessons were far from the things they learnt in class.
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"POTTER!"
"Sorry Professor," Harry had sent a blue burst of light flying. . . from the end of his wand to the mirror in the corner to the black cloak on Snape's shoulders.
Usually Snape would've probably come back at him with a sneer and a contemptuous remark, but this time he didn't. Perhaps it was because Professor Dumbledore was also in the room.
"Back to the green square!" The Headmaster said suddenly, a little more cheerful than one would expect.
Harry dusted himself off and walked slowly to the corner with the mirror in it. The ground there was marked with a glowing green square mark. Hermione noticed the other three corners of the square room had different coloured markings in different shapes.
"Get ready."
Hermione tightened Harry's cloak around her and turned a little to her left. Lined up along the wall were Ron, Katie and Damien who were watching intently. Lupin stood with them, a quill dancing across a floating piece of parchment in front of him.
"Go." Dumbledore's words were crisp and short. His eyes watched Harry carefully as he dodged the spells being thrown at him by Snape.
A flash of blue, a flash of yellow, a flash of red. Harry managed to avoid about nine and even deflected two back at Snape before a dark violet streak of light knocked him to the ground and sent his wand flying o his right. Harry knelt, panting for a minute and finally leaned over to pick up his wand.
"Much better, Potter."
Harry almost raised his eyebrows. A compliment from Snape? That was a first in two months of training.
"Ron Weasley," Dumbledore said slowly, and Harry went to stand alongside Katie and Damien. Both gave him identical grins.
"Eleven, Harry," Katie whispered. "That's a record."
Harry grinned back and leaned against the dark, cool wall.
"Red Triangle," Dumbledore said, and Ron crossed the room to the corner opposite the one Harry had stood on. On this wall, too, was a mirror.
"Begin."
Ron went through the same process as Harry, but failed to block the faint blue light that came third.
"Start again, Weasley."
Ron groaned softly and started again. This time he managed to reach eight evaded and diverted spells before being hit.
Snape nodded ever-so-slightly and Damien was called forward by Dumbledore as Ron stumbled over to the wall.
"That was better, you know." Harry encouraged.
Ron didn't answer except to give Harry a skeptical look. Then they both were silent as they watched Damien approach the yellow cross in the corner left of Ron's.
Hermione left after Ron's turn finished. She knew she had seen too much already.
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This is a bit short, I know. But not really compared to my other chapters. Hehe.
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