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review. Every opinion will be appreciated.
Thanks for my first reviews go to Orianne and Zaz. Hope that you like the modifications.
Spoilers: All the four books.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters and places used in this fic: they belong to J.K.R.
Chapter 2 - The start of the training
Harry heard his alarm clock and then opened his eyes, and looking at the display of the clock he saw that it was five in the morning. He tried to remember why he had set the clock to this ungodly hour and then remembered that he was starting his training today.
He got up from his bed and started to take off his pyjamas and put on something that he could use to do exercises. He picked his better shorts and his smaller T-shirt, put them on and then exited the Dursleys house.
The view of Privet Drive at this hour of the morning was wonderful. Almost no one was in the streets, the sun rising to start the day, a few of Arabella's cats wandering around like they were searching for something strange. The gardens looked beautiful. Then Harry saw the reason why he was awake at this hour. There, in front of Arabella's house, was Padfoot.
He ran the short distance and arrived there in a few instants. When he arrived there Padfoot had already vanished and in his place was Sirius Black. He smiled to his godson and then started to talk.
"Harry, first you will start running, but you can't just run without warming up before or you will have a lot of cramps this afternoon and tomorrow, so first you will do a few exercises to warm up your muscles. Just follow my routine." Then Sirius started to do a few exercises and Harry mimicked him.
Five minutes after, Sirius stopped, waited to Harry stop also, and become Padfoot. He gave a small nod towards the street and a short bark. Harry thought that he had to follow Padfoot and so he did. Padfoot was running at a great speed and Harry was trailing a little behind. Once in a while Padfoot stopped and waited to Harry to catch up and then resumed the running. After half an hour Padfoot stopped and started to return. Harry followed him and when they were back in front of Arabella's house she was waiting them at the door.
Padfoot followed her inside and a few moments later Harry also entered the house. He closed the door and heard some noises coming from the kitchen. He went to kitchen and what he saw was extremely embarrassing. Sirius was kissing Arabella with passion, his hands were starting to go up her skirt and she was starting to take off the bottoms of his robes. Harry, desperate to see nothing more, used the only way that he knew.
"Ahem! Ahem! What we will have for breakfast?" asked Harry, pretending that he hadn't seen anything. Arabella and Sirius went red and stopped what they were doing. A few minutes passed and Arabella started to give Harry and Sirius a huge breakfast. There was bacon, sausages, and several kinds of bread, cheese, ham, eggs and omelettes. They ate in silence and they ate a lot. Harry couldn't even remember the last time that he felt that hungry. Well, he thought, maybe this run was a good idea after all.
After breakfast, Sirius led Harry to a room that he never seen before, and Sirius explained that this room was added to the house so it could be used for practice. Once Harry got inside what he saw make his jaw fall drop. The room was bigger than the house. There were several apparatus to do exercises, a small pool to swim in, and an arena where he would practice his fighting skills.
Sirius explained to Harry how to use all the apparatus and what muscles would be used at those exercises. Then he taught Harry a series of exercises that he should do every day in case he couldn't be there to help. He also explained that all this was charmed so no harm could happen in this room. Harry then started to do the drill that Sirius had showed him while Sirius was watching. After another hour, when he had finished, Sirius explained that he probably was in a good shape because of Quidditch and the Tri-wizard Tournament.
Harry was resting and drinking some potion that Sirius had given him, while something crossed his mind.
"Sirius, creating this room just for me wasn't too much bother?" asked Harry, truly concerned, thinking that his fame had given him something this expensive.
"No. This room it isn't just for you. After the holidays are over this room will be enlarged and taken to Hogwarts so any student interested can use it. Brilliant isn't it?" asked Sirius, grinning like a madman.
"But as far as I know wizards don't like to do this kind of activity," said Harry.
"Well, the Quidditch maniacs like you, and a few smart or crazy students might want to use it. And there is, of course, the fact that all the people, like you, who are training to get into the Order, will have to do this kind of training. We are just giving you a head start," said Sirius, and this time he was very serious.
"Ok, I feel a little better knowing this. So what does this potion do?" asked Harry, eyeing the potion with curiosity.
"Oh, this potion is just a tonic so you can recover the energy that you used in exercises. Now it is time to you swim, Harry," said Sirius, throwing Harry at the pool.
Harry noted that he wasn't drowning, so he calmed himself and started to swim very clumsily. Sirius was laughing hard for a few minutes than he started to teach Harry how to swim properly. After Harry had done a few laps of the pool, Sirius showed Harry other kinds of swimming, saying that this other kind would help to develop his body and other muscles, like the shoulders. Harry did as Sirius told him, them Sirius taught him how to swim on his back and under water. Another hour had passed and Sirius said that it was time to practice self-defence.
Sirius performed a drying charm on Harry's clothes and then showed Harry the charm that would activate the doll for practice his fighting skills. Harry started to practice.
Harry was at to the doll's hands when he saw the punch coming, so he quickly dodged it and was preparing to throw a punch at the doll when his leg was taken from under him by a kick that he didn't see coming. The doll give another kick, this time aiming for Harry's head that was much lower then it should be. Harry, so he wouldn't get hit very hard, put his arm in the way to block the kick. It hurt like hell. Harry forgot that it was just training and jumped at the doll.
The doll was taken by surprise at first, but then reacted by putting her foot on Harry's torso, using his impulse to throw him to the other side of the arena. Only his reflexes and his skills at falling from years playing Quidditch prevented him falling badly. He quickly got up and charged at the doll. The doll got ready and when he got in range it punched Harry quickly on the stomach before he could react. But Harry had survived more things that most people even four times his age had experienced, so he took the hit but didn't feel too much, and reacted by hitting the doll hard on the head.
Harry was very angry and started to emanate the energy of his power. Sirius could feel the power emanating from his godson and was afraid. How could someone so young have this amount of power?
Harry them hit the doll in the stomach with his knee and the back of the doll's neck with his elbow. The doll stumbled. Harry raised his hand pointing to the doll's back and the red beam of energy came from his hand, hitting the doll with full strength and throwing it to the other side of the room. The doll hit the wall and then fell into the pool. Harry lowered his hand and gave a sigh.
"Harry, you have amazing instincts! I could feel a few of the blows that you gave to the doll. But you still have a few things that you need to improve. First, you can't look at the opponent's fist - you have to look into his eyes. His eyes always indicate where the next blow will be, or you must use a little telepathy to discover his next moves. Secondly, you don't have to dodge all the blows. You have to block a few, even if it hurts a little, or you can use its strength to throw the opponent away. You can even let the weak one's hit you," said Sirius, giving Harry a few tips to improve his skills.
Sirius summoned the doll back and reset it so Harry could resume the training. His reflexes were amazing but he still had the instinct of avoiding all the blows, so he lost some excellent opportunities for counter attack. He was getting better but after he was hit a few times he would lose control and use his power. The last time, he just exploded the doll's head.
"Well, Harry, now it is time for you to start your Animagus training. First I will teach you the potion that you have to make. It isn't simple but I believe that you can do it," said Sirius, looking at his godson with pride in his voice and his eyes.
"Hum. I'm not very good at potions," said Harry, very afraid that he was going to disappoint Sirius.
"You really believe what Snape says about your skills, Harry?" asked Sirius, laughing very hard. Harry realised that Sirius was right after all. Snape really hated Harry so why would he praise Harry even if his work were perfect?
"I should've known that he would do something like that. I'm way to daft," said Harry, looking defeated.
"Well, you are a bit, just like everyone else.you don't need to throw me to the other side of the room: I like where I'm!" said Sirius jokingly, but when he saw Harry had started to emanate power, he apologised quickly.
"Hum. A marauder a coward? I'm starting to be disappointed with them," said Harry while maintaining his aura. "New trick. Isn't it cool?"
"You've learned to emanate the aura already. It took your father months to do that trick," said Sirius, amazed with Harry's speed of learning. "Well, here is the recipe of the potion and we have the ingredients here. I will help you with the first doses but you will have to learn how to do it soon because I'll not be able to come here for a while," said Sirius. His voice was full of concern and regret that he couldn't spend more time with the two most important persons in his life.
"Don't worry with me. After all I did help 'Mione to do a Poly-juice Potion in our second year," said Harry, trying to comfort his godfather.
"You don't cease to amaze, me do you Harry?" asked, Sirius half-joking. He gave Harry a last hug. "Well, since you don't need me, I will resume my other mission. If you need anything, just call Arabella or use your phone to get in touch with me. Good luck. And I will see you sooner then you think." At this moment Sirius vanished with a pop.
Harry went to the kitchen and asked Arabella where he could prepare the potion and where the ingredients were. Arabella pointed where Harry was looking, and showed him where he should set up the cauldron. One hour later Harry had finished the first dose of the potion so he went to drink it. Arabella gave a nod that said that he should go on, and then he swallowed it. Instantly he fell to the floor. He heard a loud roar in his head followed by an ear-piercing shriek and the whistling of the wind as if he was flying at great speed.
When he awoke, Arabella was looking at him like nothing.
"Why did I pass out? Does this mean the potion didn't work? Do you know what happened? How much time I was unconscious for?" Harry asked very quickly.
"You fell unconscious because the potion worked. You were getting to know your inner beast. When the potion works and nothing happens it means that you can't be an Animagus. But Harry, you can! You were out for five minutes. Now you have to keep drinking this potion until you see your Animagus form. After that happens you will bound with the creature. Then you will practice the rituals for a week and finally you will practice the speed of your transformation," said Arabella, in a lecturing tone that reminded Harry of Hermione.
"Now we will have lunch. After that we will practice your telepathy and your wandless magic. Then I will teach you two new potions that will be very useful to you this year."
After a delicious lunch, Harry and Arabella started to play chess but they were concentrating so hard on trying to read the other minds and to stop the other from seeing through their mind shields that they forgot about the game. When they got thirsty or hungry, and just to try to distract Arabella, Harry just used his wandless magic to summon something or to banish it. After three hours of intense mental fighting both of them gave up and decided that this time there was a tie. However, they would resume the practice the following day.
After this practice Arabella taught Harry how to make to very useful potions. The first was the tonic that he was drinking that morning. Harry made ten doses of this potion and gave one to Arabella while he was drinking the other so they could recover the energy used at the telepathy practice.
The second potion made Harry very happy. It was a potion to make your sleep restful and was capable of stopping most nightmares - only very powerful curses could break this protection. This potion also doubled the effect of the time that you actually slept so he would only need four hours of sleep a night to be very well rested. This would be very useful for studying for the O.W.Ls. and to have more energy in everyday life.
The last thing that she taught Harry on the first day of training was a charm so he could do magic and not get caught. He asked if he could teach his friends this charm and Arabella said that there wasn't any problem with that. Harry became very happy because now he was going to really do magic to scare the Dursleys out of their wits.
When he was ready to leave, Arabella said that he had received some mail. He waited, thinking that she was going to give him a letter of one from his friends, but she thrust three letters, a quill and one backpack at him. He asked what was that and she answered saying that he received one letter from the Ministry of Magic (no Harry, dear, don't worry - they didn't catch you doing magic - it is about another thing), and the other two were from his friends. He asked about the backpack and the pen and she said that it was the first part of his presents.
The backpack had a charm so it could carry over 300 Kg but it would feel like was carrying just one. Another charm meant that he would be the only person able to take something out of it and could pick exactly what he wanted. It didn't matter if the thing that he wanted was at the bottom of the backpack: it just appeared in the top when he wanted it.
The quill was a quick notes quill. All the had to do was suck it like he did with a sugarquill and the pen would answer a letter, or do homework with Harry's style and knowledge so he could do two assignments at the same time, or answer the fan mail that was inside his backpack. When Arabella said that Harry looked inside of the backpack and saw that it was full of fan mail. Harry realised that this really would be a good use of the quick notes quill.
Next Chapter: Spoils
Thanks for my first reviews go to Orianne and Zaz. Hope that you like the modifications.
Spoilers: All the four books.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters and places used in this fic: they belong to J.K.R.
Chapter 2 - The start of the training
Harry heard his alarm clock and then opened his eyes, and looking at the display of the clock he saw that it was five in the morning. He tried to remember why he had set the clock to this ungodly hour and then remembered that he was starting his training today.
He got up from his bed and started to take off his pyjamas and put on something that he could use to do exercises. He picked his better shorts and his smaller T-shirt, put them on and then exited the Dursleys house.
The view of Privet Drive at this hour of the morning was wonderful. Almost no one was in the streets, the sun rising to start the day, a few of Arabella's cats wandering around like they were searching for something strange. The gardens looked beautiful. Then Harry saw the reason why he was awake at this hour. There, in front of Arabella's house, was Padfoot.
He ran the short distance and arrived there in a few instants. When he arrived there Padfoot had already vanished and in his place was Sirius Black. He smiled to his godson and then started to talk.
"Harry, first you will start running, but you can't just run without warming up before or you will have a lot of cramps this afternoon and tomorrow, so first you will do a few exercises to warm up your muscles. Just follow my routine." Then Sirius started to do a few exercises and Harry mimicked him.
Five minutes after, Sirius stopped, waited to Harry stop also, and become Padfoot. He gave a small nod towards the street and a short bark. Harry thought that he had to follow Padfoot and so he did. Padfoot was running at a great speed and Harry was trailing a little behind. Once in a while Padfoot stopped and waited to Harry to catch up and then resumed the running. After half an hour Padfoot stopped and started to return. Harry followed him and when they were back in front of Arabella's house she was waiting them at the door.
Padfoot followed her inside and a few moments later Harry also entered the house. He closed the door and heard some noises coming from the kitchen. He went to kitchen and what he saw was extremely embarrassing. Sirius was kissing Arabella with passion, his hands were starting to go up her skirt and she was starting to take off the bottoms of his robes. Harry, desperate to see nothing more, used the only way that he knew.
"Ahem! Ahem! What we will have for breakfast?" asked Harry, pretending that he hadn't seen anything. Arabella and Sirius went red and stopped what they were doing. A few minutes passed and Arabella started to give Harry and Sirius a huge breakfast. There was bacon, sausages, and several kinds of bread, cheese, ham, eggs and omelettes. They ate in silence and they ate a lot. Harry couldn't even remember the last time that he felt that hungry. Well, he thought, maybe this run was a good idea after all.
After breakfast, Sirius led Harry to a room that he never seen before, and Sirius explained that this room was added to the house so it could be used for practice. Once Harry got inside what he saw make his jaw fall drop. The room was bigger than the house. There were several apparatus to do exercises, a small pool to swim in, and an arena where he would practice his fighting skills.
Sirius explained to Harry how to use all the apparatus and what muscles would be used at those exercises. Then he taught Harry a series of exercises that he should do every day in case he couldn't be there to help. He also explained that all this was charmed so no harm could happen in this room. Harry then started to do the drill that Sirius had showed him while Sirius was watching. After another hour, when he had finished, Sirius explained that he probably was in a good shape because of Quidditch and the Tri-wizard Tournament.
Harry was resting and drinking some potion that Sirius had given him, while something crossed his mind.
"Sirius, creating this room just for me wasn't too much bother?" asked Harry, truly concerned, thinking that his fame had given him something this expensive.
"No. This room it isn't just for you. After the holidays are over this room will be enlarged and taken to Hogwarts so any student interested can use it. Brilliant isn't it?" asked Sirius, grinning like a madman.
"But as far as I know wizards don't like to do this kind of activity," said Harry.
"Well, the Quidditch maniacs like you, and a few smart or crazy students might want to use it. And there is, of course, the fact that all the people, like you, who are training to get into the Order, will have to do this kind of training. We are just giving you a head start," said Sirius, and this time he was very serious.
"Ok, I feel a little better knowing this. So what does this potion do?" asked Harry, eyeing the potion with curiosity.
"Oh, this potion is just a tonic so you can recover the energy that you used in exercises. Now it is time to you swim, Harry," said Sirius, throwing Harry at the pool.
Harry noted that he wasn't drowning, so he calmed himself and started to swim very clumsily. Sirius was laughing hard for a few minutes than he started to teach Harry how to swim properly. After Harry had done a few laps of the pool, Sirius showed Harry other kinds of swimming, saying that this other kind would help to develop his body and other muscles, like the shoulders. Harry did as Sirius told him, them Sirius taught him how to swim on his back and under water. Another hour had passed and Sirius said that it was time to practice self-defence.
Sirius performed a drying charm on Harry's clothes and then showed Harry the charm that would activate the doll for practice his fighting skills. Harry started to practice.
Harry was at to the doll's hands when he saw the punch coming, so he quickly dodged it and was preparing to throw a punch at the doll when his leg was taken from under him by a kick that he didn't see coming. The doll give another kick, this time aiming for Harry's head that was much lower then it should be. Harry, so he wouldn't get hit very hard, put his arm in the way to block the kick. It hurt like hell. Harry forgot that it was just training and jumped at the doll.
The doll was taken by surprise at first, but then reacted by putting her foot on Harry's torso, using his impulse to throw him to the other side of the arena. Only his reflexes and his skills at falling from years playing Quidditch prevented him falling badly. He quickly got up and charged at the doll. The doll got ready and when he got in range it punched Harry quickly on the stomach before he could react. But Harry had survived more things that most people even four times his age had experienced, so he took the hit but didn't feel too much, and reacted by hitting the doll hard on the head.
Harry was very angry and started to emanate the energy of his power. Sirius could feel the power emanating from his godson and was afraid. How could someone so young have this amount of power?
Harry them hit the doll in the stomach with his knee and the back of the doll's neck with his elbow. The doll stumbled. Harry raised his hand pointing to the doll's back and the red beam of energy came from his hand, hitting the doll with full strength and throwing it to the other side of the room. The doll hit the wall and then fell into the pool. Harry lowered his hand and gave a sigh.
"Harry, you have amazing instincts! I could feel a few of the blows that you gave to the doll. But you still have a few things that you need to improve. First, you can't look at the opponent's fist - you have to look into his eyes. His eyes always indicate where the next blow will be, or you must use a little telepathy to discover his next moves. Secondly, you don't have to dodge all the blows. You have to block a few, even if it hurts a little, or you can use its strength to throw the opponent away. You can even let the weak one's hit you," said Sirius, giving Harry a few tips to improve his skills.
Sirius summoned the doll back and reset it so Harry could resume the training. His reflexes were amazing but he still had the instinct of avoiding all the blows, so he lost some excellent opportunities for counter attack. He was getting better but after he was hit a few times he would lose control and use his power. The last time, he just exploded the doll's head.
"Well, Harry, now it is time for you to start your Animagus training. First I will teach you the potion that you have to make. It isn't simple but I believe that you can do it," said Sirius, looking at his godson with pride in his voice and his eyes.
"Hum. I'm not very good at potions," said Harry, very afraid that he was going to disappoint Sirius.
"You really believe what Snape says about your skills, Harry?" asked Sirius, laughing very hard. Harry realised that Sirius was right after all. Snape really hated Harry so why would he praise Harry even if his work were perfect?
"I should've known that he would do something like that. I'm way to daft," said Harry, looking defeated.
"Well, you are a bit, just like everyone else.you don't need to throw me to the other side of the room: I like where I'm!" said Sirius jokingly, but when he saw Harry had started to emanate power, he apologised quickly.
"Hum. A marauder a coward? I'm starting to be disappointed with them," said Harry while maintaining his aura. "New trick. Isn't it cool?"
"You've learned to emanate the aura already. It took your father months to do that trick," said Sirius, amazed with Harry's speed of learning. "Well, here is the recipe of the potion and we have the ingredients here. I will help you with the first doses but you will have to learn how to do it soon because I'll not be able to come here for a while," said Sirius. His voice was full of concern and regret that he couldn't spend more time with the two most important persons in his life.
"Don't worry with me. After all I did help 'Mione to do a Poly-juice Potion in our second year," said Harry, trying to comfort his godfather.
"You don't cease to amaze, me do you Harry?" asked, Sirius half-joking. He gave Harry a last hug. "Well, since you don't need me, I will resume my other mission. If you need anything, just call Arabella or use your phone to get in touch with me. Good luck. And I will see you sooner then you think." At this moment Sirius vanished with a pop.
Harry went to the kitchen and asked Arabella where he could prepare the potion and where the ingredients were. Arabella pointed where Harry was looking, and showed him where he should set up the cauldron. One hour later Harry had finished the first dose of the potion so he went to drink it. Arabella gave a nod that said that he should go on, and then he swallowed it. Instantly he fell to the floor. He heard a loud roar in his head followed by an ear-piercing shriek and the whistling of the wind as if he was flying at great speed.
When he awoke, Arabella was looking at him like nothing.
"Why did I pass out? Does this mean the potion didn't work? Do you know what happened? How much time I was unconscious for?" Harry asked very quickly.
"You fell unconscious because the potion worked. You were getting to know your inner beast. When the potion works and nothing happens it means that you can't be an Animagus. But Harry, you can! You were out for five minutes. Now you have to keep drinking this potion until you see your Animagus form. After that happens you will bound with the creature. Then you will practice the rituals for a week and finally you will practice the speed of your transformation," said Arabella, in a lecturing tone that reminded Harry of Hermione.
"Now we will have lunch. After that we will practice your telepathy and your wandless magic. Then I will teach you two new potions that will be very useful to you this year."
After a delicious lunch, Harry and Arabella started to play chess but they were concentrating so hard on trying to read the other minds and to stop the other from seeing through their mind shields that they forgot about the game. When they got thirsty or hungry, and just to try to distract Arabella, Harry just used his wandless magic to summon something or to banish it. After three hours of intense mental fighting both of them gave up and decided that this time there was a tie. However, they would resume the practice the following day.
After this practice Arabella taught Harry how to make to very useful potions. The first was the tonic that he was drinking that morning. Harry made ten doses of this potion and gave one to Arabella while he was drinking the other so they could recover the energy used at the telepathy practice.
The second potion made Harry very happy. It was a potion to make your sleep restful and was capable of stopping most nightmares - only very powerful curses could break this protection. This potion also doubled the effect of the time that you actually slept so he would only need four hours of sleep a night to be very well rested. This would be very useful for studying for the O.W.Ls. and to have more energy in everyday life.
The last thing that she taught Harry on the first day of training was a charm so he could do magic and not get caught. He asked if he could teach his friends this charm and Arabella said that there wasn't any problem with that. Harry became very happy because now he was going to really do magic to scare the Dursleys out of their wits.
When he was ready to leave, Arabella said that he had received some mail. He waited, thinking that she was going to give him a letter of one from his friends, but she thrust three letters, a quill and one backpack at him. He asked what was that and she answered saying that he received one letter from the Ministry of Magic (no Harry, dear, don't worry - they didn't catch you doing magic - it is about another thing), and the other two were from his friends. He asked about the backpack and the pen and she said that it was the first part of his presents.
The backpack had a charm so it could carry over 300 Kg but it would feel like was carrying just one. Another charm meant that he would be the only person able to take something out of it and could pick exactly what he wanted. It didn't matter if the thing that he wanted was at the bottom of the backpack: it just appeared in the top when he wanted it.
The quill was a quick notes quill. All the had to do was suck it like he did with a sugarquill and the pen would answer a letter, or do homework with Harry's style and knowledge so he could do two assignments at the same time, or answer the fan mail that was inside his backpack. When Arabella said that Harry looked inside of the backpack and saw that it was full of fan mail. Harry realised that this really would be a good use of the quick notes quill.
Next Chapter: Spoils