Occlumency
"I can't believe that you weren't there to see his face!" Shouted Ron to all of the Griffyndor's who were listening. He was telling them all of Malfoy's expression towards the news of Harry becoming Quidditch captain.
"OH MAN I CAN'T BELIEVE I MISSED IT!" Cried Lee, for he was the one who wanted to see Malfoy's face the most.
"Yeah well Hermione could've seen it, but her study's are just so much more important than hanging out with her best friends…"
"Ron you know that's not entirely true!" Hermione backfired. "Oh no! We're going to be late for Care of Magical Creatures!" She picked up her books and got up to leave and Harry and Ron followed. They started to make their way out of the castle when,
"Where do you think you're going?" Came the Bloody Baron's voice.
"We have Care of Magical Creatures class now." Hermione answered.
"Schedules please." And she handed her schedule over to him.
"Alright you may continue." And all three turned around and started to head towards Hagrid's hut.
"Wait just there you two."
Harry and Ron turned around.
"I said she could go, not you two, let me see your schedules." They too handed their schedules over to him and let him check them. "Alright you can go, but next time no funny business."
"Yeah you heard the Bloody Barren!" Screamed Peeves after them.
"Oh shutup Peeves." Screamed Ron back as they ran to catch up with Hermione.
"What was that all about?" She asked them.
"Oh, your schedule wasn't good enough for them so we had to show our schedules too." Ron replied.
"Hello Hagrid!" Screamed Harry now seeing his old friend.
"Well hello there, nice ter sees ya."
"Me and Ron tried to visit you this morning but with the ghosts guarding the doors we can't even get through with an invisibility cloak." Harry answered.
"Oh that's quite alrigh', I'd rather ya's be safe in ta castle than riskin' seein me." Hagrid answered them. "Alrigh' class, we tar goin' ter be doin' grindylows as a bit of a review. Now follow me, we're goin' ter be goin' to ta lake."
So the class followed Hagrid down to the lake where Harry had stayed in for one hour a couple years ago.
"Alrigh' look for somethin' with a face of a hag, with long green hair, green skin, pointy green fangs, and a gaping mouth."
They all started to search the lake with their eyes for this creature that Hagrid had just described. Harry had remembered what one of these looked like for they had grabbed onto his leg while he was trying to find Ron underwater in the Triwizard Tournament.
Harry's eyes scanned the surface of the lake when he started to say to Hagrid,
"You know Hagrid, these Grindylows are more towards the bottom of the lake, I don't think that we are going to be able to see them from just looking at the surface."
"Well Harry, how would ya have known dat?" Hagrid asked for he had not known about his acquaintance with a Grindylow in his fourth year.
"Well Hagrid, during the Triwizard Tournament, as I was in search for Ron, one of these Grindylows had grabbed my leg and I remember being close to the bottom." Harry answered.
"Oh, well, sorry class, but we tar going to have ter wait to do Grindylows then, I remember em being towards the surface last time I checked, but I guess times have changed. We'll be doin Grindylows on Friday then. I'll be prepared next class. Well, lets go back ter me hut." Hagrid told his class as though he were ashamed of himself.
Harry felt horrible now for telling Hagrid about where Grindylows resided in.
"That fat giant should know what the hell he is doing, its bad enough we have the big lug as a teacher!" Harry heard Malfoy telling Crabbe and Goyal.
"Why don't you shut your face Malfoy?" Harry yelled at Malfoy in defense toward his friend. Malfoy just snitched his face at Harry and turned into the other direction.
"Well Harry, he still must be a little sore at you for getting Quidditch captain. Wonder if good old daddy has heard about this one?" Ron commented.
"What Lucius is still in the Ministry of Magic?" Harry wondered.
"Well actually I don't know anything. Dad doesn't let me know anything that's going on with the Ministry, or Voldemort."
"Ron I can't believe that you are actually using his name!" Harry screamed surprised.
"Well I have been used to hearing it by now, and I started to use it over the summer remember? After you told me about the "Prophecy?" Ron responded.
"Oh yeah… Hey Hagrid?" Said Harry now running up to catch up with the half-giant. "Hagrid how's your brother doing?"
"Oh GRAWP? He's doin' mighty fine. Misses Hermy, keeps wanting ter see her." Hagrid explained to Harry.
"Yeah HERMY you should go visit Grawp." Harry nudged to Hermione who also caught up with him and Hagrid. The whole class had to jog behind Hagrid for each step he took equaled three paces of the students.
"Well Harry it's quite impossible with all of the safety percussions this year, and with the ghost guards." She answered Harry.
"Hey I don't want any of yers to try an' visit me! I'm not worth dat!" Hagrid yelled towards Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Uh… Hagrid, what exactly are we going to be doing now that our Grindylows lesson is postponed?" Hermione wondered.
"We tar just going ter be reviewing terms and such in which we learned last year." Hagrid answered.
"Great…" Ron mumbled to himself.
"Oh wait, we's don have any time ter do anything. Well class, see yer on Friday. Bye Ron, Harry, and Hermione."
"Bye Hagrid." The three said together in unison.
"Well quite a class that was, walking down to the lake and then the lug making us turn back around and by the time we get back we just go on to our next class!" Malfoy said in anger.
"Well Malfoy I think that you should shut your ugly slicked back haired face!" Harry yelled at him.
"What was that Potter?"
"I said shut your ugly slicked back haired face!"
"Oh that's it! SERPENT SORTIER!" Malfoy screamed and out from the tip of his wand emerged a small snake. "Come on Potter, let's here your Parsle-Tongue."
"Not for your ears! Come on guys, I have to plan MY teams Quidditch tryouts." And Harry Ron and Hermione all turned toward the closest entry to the castle.
"Oh Potter, I wouldn't be too mean to me if I were you, I mean my father is acquainted with VERY high statured wizards. If you know what I mean!" Malfoy yelled after them.
"Harry just ignore them and keep walking." Hermione tried to calm Harry.
They trio made their way back toward the castle and past the guarding ghosts and made their way to their common room.
"What's Malfoy's problem? Did you hear what he threatened you with? 'Oh Potter, I wouldn't be too mean to me if I were you, I mean my father is acquainted with VERY high statured wizards. If you know what I mean!' I mean what's that supposed to mean?" Ron wondered.
"Oh Ron well isn't it obvious? He's referring to his father's acquaintance with Voldemort. And everyone knows that Voldemort wants Harry dead. No offense Harry."
"Yeah…" Harry responded.
"Oh no! I'm going to be missing Arithmacy! Bye!" And with that Hermione was off.
"I wonder how many classes she is going to end up dropping." Ron thought.
"Yeah, well knowing Hermione she's not going to be dropping any. Do you have any more classes today?"
"Nope. What about you?"
"Oh I've just got Occumlecy. Speaking of which, I need to finish reading that book. You can go hang out with Neville or Seamus and Dean. I'll find you when I need a break." Harry told Ron.
"Alright, but hurry up and read, I don't know how long I'm going to be able to stand Neville." And Harry cracked a smile before heading up into his room to get his Occumlecy book. Harry looked out of his window to see that the sun was out and there weren't too many people around the lake. Deciding that he would rather be reading by the lake at a tree then reading in the common room, he grabbed his book and started heading outside. He made his way out of the castle, by going past the Griffyndor ghost Sir Nearly Headless Nick. He was very nice about letting all of the students enjoy the fresh air so he let anyone out who wanted to.
Harry made his way to the lake and sat down at one of the trees. Harry had felt that he had been here before. Not with Ron and Hermione, but with… who was he with? Then he remembered Snape's worst memory that he had gotten into. This was the same tree that his father and his three companions had sat at, including Sirius. Man did Harry miss Sirius's voice, and panicky letters. He missed looking at Sirius and feeling so much adore for this man. He just wished that he could have said goodbye. Maybe tonight I can have Dumbledore let me visit one of my own memories with Sirius, maybe that will make me feel better. Hoping that this was going to be true, Harry smiled to himself and started to open to the last page that he had read. He still had seven hundred pages left. He left off with ways to free the mind.
As he sat there and read, with the light breeze brushing against his face, he was feeling his mind being set free. The book was helping Harry become relaxed. The next thing Harry knew was that he was being shaken awake.
"Harry, Harry are you alright?"
"Wh-what?"
"You just collapsed, and I thought that, oh never mind. But you're alright?"
"Yea-Yeah," said Harry yawning himself awake. "How long did I pass out fo—?" He started to ask to the person who had shaken him awake, but when he opened his eyes he saw that no one was around. The sky wasn't too much darker, but when Harry checked his watch he saw that it read seven-thirty. Harry quickly jumped up and started back for the castle.
"How was your first day Harry?" Sir Nicholas asked him.
"Oh it was fine, sorry Nicholas, I can't talk now, I'm going to be late for my next class."
"Oh well then I'll see you tomorrow." Then he turned to others passing through his entrance and saying "Good Evening." To them all.
Harry ran up four flights of stairs and walked through the hallway that led to Dumbledore's office. He came to the two Gargoyles guarding the entrance. Harry realized that he didn't have the password.
"Uh… can you guys let me up, I have a class with Dumbledore."
"A class with Dumbledore? Dumbledore doesn't give classes anymore. That was about forty years ago when he gave his last class of Transfiguration ey?" One Gargoyle told the other.
"Well this isn't a Transfiguration class, it's a special one." Harry tried to explain to them.
"Oh a special class is it? For only one person? Never heard of a special class for a single special person have you?" The second Gargoyle asked the first.
"Oh come on! Just let me through!"
"Password?"
"I told you I don't have it!"
"No password, no Dumbledore."
"Err sherbet lemon… lemon drop… Bernie Botts… err…chocolate frog! Err… cockroach cluster? Oh come on what is it!"
"No password, no Dumbl—" But the Gargoyle was cut off for they both had to leap aside on behalf of Dumbledore was coming out of his office.
"Harry, right on time, come on in." Harry gave both of the Gargoyle's dirty looks as if saying, I told you so, before walking into the spiral staircase.
"Peppermint." Said Dumbledore and then the two were brought up to Dumbledore's office. Oh it was Peppermint! The one word that I hadn't thought of! Thought Harry to himself.
"Welcome Harry. I would have told you the password earlier, but I didn't want anyone else to hear it. Lemon Drop?" Dumbledore offered Harry. Harry took one feeling a little hungry himself.
"I've been reading the book you had me get." Harry told Dumbledore.
"As I assumed you would."
"Professor, I was wondering if I could visit one of my memories of Sirius before starting, I miss him so much and maybe seeing him will help me clear my mind." Harry asked Dumbledore.
"Harry, it is not yet time. You must be able to fully clear your mind before you are ready to see Sirius again." Dumbledore responded. "Now which brings us to Occlumency. Take out your wand. And stand over there." Said Dumbledore pointing over to behind one of his red couches. "Now Harry I want you to do you're best to clear your mind, and let go of all emotion."
Harry remembered what he had just finished reading about clearing the mind, but before Harry was ready Dumbledore already hit him with the spell.
"Legilimens."
Harry was two when he asked his aunt of his parents. "They died in a car crash now don't talk about them anymore… Harry was four when Dudley got his first play station and wouldn't let Harry use it, oh how he wanted to… He was eleven and the sorting hat was telling him how well he would do in Slytherin… Cedric's dead, Sirius is dead, black ooze…
"Harry? You've got to try just a bit more. Here how much have you read in the book?" Dumbledore wondered.
"I have about seven hundred pages left." Harry told him.
"Well then you have read the part about releasing your energy?"
"Actually that was the next section of reading."
"Oh well then Harry a way to release your energy is to first concentrate on all of the good things that have been happening to you, then transfer yourself into thinking about something blank, with no meaning. Then I want you to concentrate on the beating of your heart, and your pulse. Take slow deep breaths. Ok you ready? Legilimens!"
And Harry tried as hard as he could to just concentrate on his beating heart and his deep breaths. Breathe in, and out, in, and out. Harry was now starting to feel weak. The spell was taking over him. He couldn't concentrate on his breathing and heart anymore. A stronger voice was pulling through. His parents…. Take Harry and run… laughing… no take me instead! Move out of the way you silly girl! Take me not Harry! NOT HARRY!!! … Green light…laughing… another green light… deadly scream…
Then Harry collapsed. He was too weak to continue.
"Harry? Harry take this." And Dumbledore gave Harry an antidote, which made him be able to sit up. Then Dumbledore handed Harry a chunk of chocolate.
"Harry, you were doing really well in the beginning. You were able to do just as I told you to. You were then fighting off easy memories to keep off. But the one of your parents is too strong for a beginner to keep off. In time you will be able to. I think that we've done enough today. Here take more chocolate, it'll make you feel better. Read the rest of the book. And before you go to sleep I want you clear your mind like we just did now. It will hopefully make you less vulnerable to Voldemort's command to get through to you. Goodnight Harry. I'll see you every other day for you need time to recuperate yourself."
"Goodnight sir." Harry responded and started to make his way to the exit.
"Oh and Harry, the Order has asked for me to tell you that Sirius's funeral is going to take place two weeks from now."
Harry nodded and went back to the common room. He checked his watch and saw that it was only nine o'clock. Feeling exhausted even after eating that last bit of chocolate he went right up to his four-poster. Ron wasn't anywhere in sight, although Harry didn't even bother to search for him.
Harry tried to concentrate on something happy, Jenna, and then he started to think about his hair, something blank. After he concentrated on his heartbeat and then his breathing. In and out, in and out…
Blackness, running, fire, all up to him, he can't do it, breathe, breathe, taking over, clips of a dream, breathe in, breathe out, heartbeat, too strong, no Harry you can do it, breath in, breath out, blackness.
Author's note: Hey!! Sorry I can't really do Hagrid's accent but I'm trying! Next chapter has some very interesting things coming up for Harry. But people I really wont post the next chapter because im not really getting any reviews! Lets bring it up ten more people! O yes and Dom has made me my own website for my story! THANX DOM!! And if you want the site then go into my sub profile and you will get it. I hope you're enjoying my chappies! REVIEW!