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Words in italic are thoughts

Chapter 11

Birds were chirping and the sun was shining through the window when Harry woke up the next day. Harry remained in bed, with his eyes closed, trying to recall the dream he was having. He was walking down a beach… just the sun, wind, sea and sand… and one girl who was walking some way in front… laughing and playing around with in the water… spraying water around… without a care in the world…

He opened his eyes, forcing himself to come out of the dream. It had been such a nice dream, a nice break from the nights of nightmares he was having before. He slowly got out of bed, wearing his glasses at the same time.

First thing he noticed is that he had strength. Yesterday he was even struggling to even hold his glasses, but now he had no trouble picking himself up. "The potion is sure some great stuff…"

But once he got onto his feet he discovered that he's not as strong as he thought he is - he almost fell back straight onto his bed. Although he already has the strength to move his body and hold things, his legs cant hold his whole body. Leaning gingerly on the end of the bed, he slowly stood up and with much difficulty, and slowly hobbled his way towards the door, leaning on walls for support.

He had succeeded in hobbling halfway to the door when a slight pop signaled the arrival of someone who apparated into his room. He whipped around to see who is it, only to immediately lose his support and fall forwards. He was however saved of a hard fall when the person rushed forward and caught him before he landed face-first on the floor.

"Really, I leave you for a night and you end up kissing the floor. You should know better then to force yourself to move Mr Potter."

Harry looked up to find himself looking at the pair of mesmerizing brown eyes. He remained in that position, gazing into those strangely beautiful eyes… "Cho…"

"Mr Potter, Do you mind? You're not as light as you think you are."

"Sorry." Harry blushed as he struggled back to his bed with the help of Cho.

"You know better then to walk around in your current state Mr Potter." Cho started again, with the tone a mother when talking to her disobedient son.

"Yes Mom." Harry smirked, playing along with her.

"Here wash your face." Cho stopped playing the mom, threw out her wand and conjured out a bowl before filling it with water coming out of her wand.

"Hey how do you do that?" Harry enquired.

"What?"

"Creating out water from your wand"

"Oh that. You don't know how to do that?" Cho smirked.

"…"

"I learnt it before I went into Hogwarts, it's very simple."

"Can't you teach me now?"

"Why do you want to know?" Cho smirked again. She's enjoying teasing Harry.

"I grew up in the muggle world, and I didn't have the chance to learn these fun little charms like you had…" Harry replied in a sad tone.

"Oh I'm sorry Harry." Cho immediately stopped her smirking. "Let me teach now. It's actually very simple; just think that you want clean, drinkable water. Then concentrate on your wand and the water will hopefully come out."

"Ok…" Harry replied. "So it's the same as conjuring…"

"Remember it's clean, drinkable water. In the beginning muddy water kept coming out of my wand."

"Oh" Harry replied, thinking about how it felt to wash your face or drink muddy water.

"While you are practicing, would you like some breakfast?"

"You have to get me downstairs to take my breakfast."

"I can get it for you."

"Huh?" Harry looked at Cho.

"Professor Dumbledore is currently at my house." Cho replied with a smile. "He's the one who allowed me to come every morning and help you until you can walk on your own. It seems that he had fixed up with your relatives that they cook for you and somebody will go to the kitchen to collect it for you."

"Oh." Harry replied. "I didn't know he did that. You may want to be careful Cho, my relatives don't really like magic folk and strangers."

"Don't worry. I want to see are the rumors about your relatives true too."

"Rumors?"

"Tell you later" Cho then turned and walked out of the door.

While Cho was downstairs, Harry succeeded in creating water out of his wand and even drank some of it from the bowl to ensure it was drinkable. He had fun conjuring out water sprouting from his wand and had even produced boiling water, which splashed onto his exposed skin, causing a slight burn. He vanished the water after awhile and thought about the spell. "Why is it so easy to conjure water? I spent at least a hour before I can conjure out a pillow."

Cho came back holding a tray of food a while later. Harry promptly conjured out a table write in front of his bed (Cho was shocked that Harry could do that) and Cho busied around setting the table. Harry couldn't resist the temptation and caused water to pour on Cho's head and drenching her whole body in the process when she ventured to near of him.  This resulted in Cho whipping out her wand and several pillows fell onto Harry again. A full-fledged pillow fight soon broke out.

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"Good day Harry, Miss Chang."

Harry jerked his head up to find the smiling face of Albus Dumbledore peering at him over his half-moon glasses.

"Hi Professor." Both of them replied. They were sitting on the floor eating through their lunch of a few mince pies that Aunt Petunia had made for his lunch. They were laughing at the way the Dursleys treated Cho in her two trips down into the kitchen. Uncle Veron had corrected concluded that she was a witch and thus treated her as an invisible person. Aunt Petunia had treated her as a normal girl and provided her with what was requested. However both Uncle Veron and Aunt Petunia freaked out when Cho use a hover charm to bring the food out of the kitchen. Dudley however, was ogling at her for some reason.

"Guess I'll go first then." Cho stood up and dusted herself. "See you tomorrow Harry."

"Ok. Bye." Harry replied, and with a crack, Cho was gone.

"How are you now Harry?" Dumbledore enquired.

"I'm fine, just that I'm still weak." Harry replied back with a smile, the happy mood from the morning remaining with him.

"You have been taking the potion?"

"Yes." Harry replied and turned to the table. "Scourgify"

Dumbledore look at Harry interestingly as Harry made the cleaned plates' stake up nicely on the floor with his wand, and with another wave, vanished the table. He then conjured out a small cane and using it, helped himself up from the floor.

"Impressive." Dumbledore started again. "It seems you have been really putting those books to good use."

Harry grinned sheepishly.

"I have nothing else to do anyway." Harry replied.

"Yes of course." Dumbledore walked towards him. "Do you mind conjuring out a chair for me?"

Harry thought this was a stupid request but complied anyway, conjuring out a squishy armchair for him.

"Now that we are both comfortable." Dumbledore started. "Let's go straight into the lessons."

Harry nodded.

"Now I'll not be teaching you any spells." Harry stared at Dumbledore. "I will instead, teach you several methods to duel."

"One of those ways is of course to throw whatever spells you know at opponent." He continued. "However, you find that most spells can be easily deflected or eluded. Therefore, it's logical that you use spells that are either unblock-able or use other things to attack." There was a pause, in which Harry took in what was said by his headmaster.

"What spells are unblock-able?" Harry enquired.

"Most curses are unblock-able, like the unforgivable curses." Dumbledore replied with a smile. "In addition, transfiguration spells are also unblock-able. That's why Alastor uses mostly curses in duels, while Minerva uses an array of transfiguration spells to aid her."

"You may want to learn the respective methods from them." He continued. "But I'm more interested to teach you what I normally would use in a duel; the uses of elements. One who is skilled it is normally called a Element Master."

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Here's another chapter. I know the Element Master thing sounds so… funny but I assure you it will sound very logical once I explain it in the next chapter. So any comments so far? How is the chapter? I seriously need more comments in order to improve. Tell me if you find the plot moving too slowly ok? Please review!!!!!!!!!!!!

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