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A/N: Thanks for the reviews so far. Writing during the work week is hard but I'm gonna keep trying b/c of all the nice reviews.
A/N: Lady Game brings up an interesting point about Lilly --- and I will certainly address it if I'm wrong but I never thought we knew for sure Lilly's parents were muggles. Petunia says that her parents were proud to have a witch in the family but maybe her dad was a wizard (gender specific) or maybe she had several older siblings that were muggles and they were only referring to the kids.. Let me know what y'all think.
Chapter 16 Wandless Ways
\\Why do these things keep happening to me?// Harry was really curious as to what life would be like if he was an ordinary wizard. He shook off the thought realizing that these thoughts weren't going to help him get back to school.
He briefly wondered if Hogwarts had a telephone number but then he remembered the countless number of times that Hermione had told him that those types of things didn't work at their school. He smiled to himself as he started considering other options.
He knew he wasn't in Hogsmeade. He also knew that this wasn't the same place he accidentally went to last time. Unfortunately this still left quite a few places that he could be. Time to try another tactic.
He decided to walk around some until he found a witch or wizard to tell him where he was. Harry broke into a wide grin. He had to admit that his good luck often made up for his bad luck. Harry was grinning because the first person he saw was ---
"MRS WEASLEY!"
"Harry, what are you doing here? Are you hungry? Do I need to summon Arthur? Are you ok? Are my kids ok? Can I get you something to drink? --- " As she continued questioning Harry, he finally realized how he sounded all those times he rapid fired questions in Dumbledore's office.
"I'm fine," he assured her.
"Harry dear, I'm always glad to see you but how did you get here?"
He told her about how sometime his apparating lessons went a little astray.
"APPARATING! They're teaching you, Ron and Hermione how to apparate? But you're only fifteen years old --- some grown wizards can't do that. What are they thinking? Take my hand Harry, I'm taking you back personally and maybe I'll just watch some of these lessons myself."
At first Harry wondered why Ron hadn't told her about these new lessons at school. But now he though he could see Ron's point of view.
POP
The next few minutes reminded Harry very much of the last time he came back with Lupin. McGonagall chastised him for getting lost and then sent him back to Hogwarts with Mrs Weasley. Apparently the rest of the students needed to stay and get more practice and Mrs Weasley wanted to go and see Dumbledore anyway. Harry looked for Ron and Hermione before walking away but they must have been at the other site.
Professor McGonagall must have owled ahead because the headmaster seemed to be expecting them. "Harry if I didn't know better, I would start to think that you were trying to run away from school." Dumbledore was chuckling. "Harry I'm afraid I must ask you to go practice your lessons for a while in your common room. You may join Molly and your friends in the Great Hall for dinner."
Both adults smiled as they watched Harry leave the room. He'd practice his lesson because he told Dumbledore he would but he didn't see how he would be able to concentrate. He wasn't too concerned about apparating to the Burrow on a monthly basis but what he really wanted to know was where Sirius and Lupin kept going. He knew Dumbledore had left for a few days because he had had to practice some lessons alone. He also knew that some of the other teachers had covered classes for each other. What he didn't know was where all of these adult wizards were going.
Maybe all of this was nothing for him to worry about but he did find himself thinking some more about these mysteries while he while he was sitting in his common room. He needed to relax for a little while. He summoned Ron's quidditch book and was on page eight before he realized he SUMMONED RON'S QUIDDITCH BOOK.
\\Was it a fluke? Nope, here comes my bottle of ink. UUUUGGGGHHHHH --- I guess I should remember to keep the cap on it.//
While he has cleaning himself up he figured that he had probably just been trying too hard before. He was a summoning fool. He summoned pets, papers, and even things from his bedroom. He got so carried away that he summoned a large chair just to prove to himself that he could do it.
While he was picking himself up off the floor he resolved to try to think things through a little bit more before acting --- apparently summoning large furniture was not always a good idea.
Dinner that night was great. Dumbledore got in touch with Mr Weasley and invited him to come have dinner in the Great Hall. It was great. Fred and George had their parents near tears as they re-enacted the 5th years grand scheme before their first quidditch game. Harry guessed from the sniggering at the staff table that other people were watching Fred and George. All the professors except one were smiling. The two visitors stayed and talked long after everyone else had left the Hall. Eventually Mr and Mrs Weasley said their good-byes. "Behave" was the last thing she said before leaving.
"Mum! --- That really hurts," Fred said. "We're always on our best behavior aren't we George?"
As George was nodding his head, Mrs Weasley left while shaking hers.
Harry couldn't know yet that today wouldn't hold a candle to two other days he was going to have this week.
Potions on Friday proved to be a very interesting experience for everyone. Snape was still reeling from these Gryffindors making a fool out of him in front of the entire school. The rest of the Slytherins didn't feel any better towards them. Every time Snape turned his back some Slytherin would cast a small hex at Neville.
Harry couldn't take it any more after Snape saw Malfoy hex Neville and then turned his back pretending not to have seen anything. Harry cast a rebounding shield spell on Neville.
Crabbe tried to hex Neville but ended up having the fingers on his own hands turn bright pink with purple stripes.
"Sir," Malfoy whined to get Snape's attention.
"Yes?"
"Sir, one of the Gryffindor's hexed Crabbe. Look."
"Who did that to young Mr Crabbe?" When no one answered he continued as if he wasn't really expecting anyone to answer him. "Very well then, all Gryffindor students will put their wands on their desks. If I see any of these wands touched before the end of my class I will confiscate all your wands and you'll be taking your OWLs while waving toothpicks around because I can assure you that you won't have your wands back before then."
Since there could be no way that any member of the Gryffindor house could touch their wand without Snape seeing them, the Slytherins were extremely confused when Goyle's head literally swelled to three times it natural size.
Harry whispered to the Gryffindors that he "didn't believe it possible for such an ugly person to become so much uglier".
Fortunately all of the commotion caused from Goyle's new head covered up all the sniggering from the Gryffindor's side of the room. Harry supposed you couldn't really blame the Slytherins for making a commotion --- his new head was a pretty ugly sight and it was just lolling from side to side because it was too heavy for Goyle to properly lift.
Harry decided the opportunity provided by distraction was too great not to use it to practice his new ability. He could summon anything he wanted without touching his wand. Snape would never know. For his first trick he summoned some toadskin from a table at the back of the room.
SPLAT
Oh how unfortunate that Goyle's giant head was in between Harry and the toadskin.
"AAAACCCCKKKK!!!!!" shouted a Slytherin girl after a vial containing some bears' blood burst open and spilling onto her robes.
WHAM
Harry had managed to find a particularly thick book to summon. Ron cackled as he watched it fly into the back of Malfoy's head.
"UUUUGGGHHHH" shouted someone from the back row as she came face to face with a centaur's liver.
SMACK
Apparently the coil of snakeskin he summoned had found a target.
"EEEEEEEKKKKKKK!!!!!" Someone else in the back row should not have had their mouth open as Harry decided to summon a pile of dead flies.
"GET OUT. Everyone get out of my dungeon this very second!" The Gryffindors didn't need to be told twice. Most of them still hadn't controlled their laughter by the time they reached the Hall for lunch. Harry wasn't ready yet to tell anyone about his new abilities; he was content to just join in the laughter with his classmates.
Only Hermione could feel badly for the Slytherins. "I hope Snape was able to get everything under control. We were lucky more serious injuries didn't occur."
"HERMIONE!" Ron shouted. "Why do you keep insisting on trying to ruin all of my favorite memories? First Malfoy the fuzzy ferret and now this. Do you remember how many points Snape took off us last week for no reason at all? Did you see how he turned his back when the Slytherins were hexing Neville? Let it go!"
Harry was sure Ron hadn't convinced her but for the sake of their friendship she was apparently going to let the matter drop. Harry was relieved. He didn't want Hermione making him feel guilty for everything he had just done. He couldn't wait to tell someone who would appreciate his efforts even more than his classmates --- someone like Lupin or Sirius.
However interesting this day was for him, tomorrow would prove to be even more so.
What no one knew was that there were two people planning sinister deeds in the Gryffindor common room at that very minute. They would not be deterred.
A/N - Please R/R - share your thoughts. It's tough trying to write during the work week but I'm trying.
A/N: Thanks for the reviews so far. Writing during the work week is hard but I'm gonna keep trying b/c of all the nice reviews.
A/N: Lady Game brings up an interesting point about Lilly --- and I will certainly address it if I'm wrong but I never thought we knew for sure Lilly's parents were muggles. Petunia says that her parents were proud to have a witch in the family but maybe her dad was a wizard (gender specific) or maybe she had several older siblings that were muggles and they were only referring to the kids.. Let me know what y'all think.
Chapter 16 Wandless Ways
\\Why do these things keep happening to me?// Harry was really curious as to what life would be like if he was an ordinary wizard. He shook off the thought realizing that these thoughts weren't going to help him get back to school.
He briefly wondered if Hogwarts had a telephone number but then he remembered the countless number of times that Hermione had told him that those types of things didn't work at their school. He smiled to himself as he started considering other options.
He knew he wasn't in Hogsmeade. He also knew that this wasn't the same place he accidentally went to last time. Unfortunately this still left quite a few places that he could be. Time to try another tactic.
He decided to walk around some until he found a witch or wizard to tell him where he was. Harry broke into a wide grin. He had to admit that his good luck often made up for his bad luck. Harry was grinning because the first person he saw was ---
"MRS WEASLEY!"
"Harry, what are you doing here? Are you hungry? Do I need to summon Arthur? Are you ok? Are my kids ok? Can I get you something to drink? --- " As she continued questioning Harry, he finally realized how he sounded all those times he rapid fired questions in Dumbledore's office.
"I'm fine," he assured her.
"Harry dear, I'm always glad to see you but how did you get here?"
He told her about how sometime his apparating lessons went a little astray.
"APPARATING! They're teaching you, Ron and Hermione how to apparate? But you're only fifteen years old --- some grown wizards can't do that. What are they thinking? Take my hand Harry, I'm taking you back personally and maybe I'll just watch some of these lessons myself."
At first Harry wondered why Ron hadn't told her about these new lessons at school. But now he though he could see Ron's point of view.
POP
The next few minutes reminded Harry very much of the last time he came back with Lupin. McGonagall chastised him for getting lost and then sent him back to Hogwarts with Mrs Weasley. Apparently the rest of the students needed to stay and get more practice and Mrs Weasley wanted to go and see Dumbledore anyway. Harry looked for Ron and Hermione before walking away but they must have been at the other site.
Professor McGonagall must have owled ahead because the headmaster seemed to be expecting them. "Harry if I didn't know better, I would start to think that you were trying to run away from school." Dumbledore was chuckling. "Harry I'm afraid I must ask you to go practice your lessons for a while in your common room. You may join Molly and your friends in the Great Hall for dinner."
Both adults smiled as they watched Harry leave the room. He'd practice his lesson because he told Dumbledore he would but he didn't see how he would be able to concentrate. He wasn't too concerned about apparating to the Burrow on a monthly basis but what he really wanted to know was where Sirius and Lupin kept going. He knew Dumbledore had left for a few days because he had had to practice some lessons alone. He also knew that some of the other teachers had covered classes for each other. What he didn't know was where all of these adult wizards were going.
Maybe all of this was nothing for him to worry about but he did find himself thinking some more about these mysteries while he while he was sitting in his common room. He needed to relax for a little while. He summoned Ron's quidditch book and was on page eight before he realized he SUMMONED RON'S QUIDDITCH BOOK.
\\Was it a fluke? Nope, here comes my bottle of ink. UUUUGGGGHHHHH --- I guess I should remember to keep the cap on it.//
While he has cleaning himself up he figured that he had probably just been trying too hard before. He was a summoning fool. He summoned pets, papers, and even things from his bedroom. He got so carried away that he summoned a large chair just to prove to himself that he could do it.
While he was picking himself up off the floor he resolved to try to think things through a little bit more before acting --- apparently summoning large furniture was not always a good idea.
Dinner that night was great. Dumbledore got in touch with Mr Weasley and invited him to come have dinner in the Great Hall. It was great. Fred and George had their parents near tears as they re-enacted the 5th years grand scheme before their first quidditch game. Harry guessed from the sniggering at the staff table that other people were watching Fred and George. All the professors except one were smiling. The two visitors stayed and talked long after everyone else had left the Hall. Eventually Mr and Mrs Weasley said their good-byes. "Behave" was the last thing she said before leaving.
"Mum! --- That really hurts," Fred said. "We're always on our best behavior aren't we George?"
As George was nodding his head, Mrs Weasley left while shaking hers.
Harry couldn't know yet that today wouldn't hold a candle to two other days he was going to have this week.
Potions on Friday proved to be a very interesting experience for everyone. Snape was still reeling from these Gryffindors making a fool out of him in front of the entire school. The rest of the Slytherins didn't feel any better towards them. Every time Snape turned his back some Slytherin would cast a small hex at Neville.
Harry couldn't take it any more after Snape saw Malfoy hex Neville and then turned his back pretending not to have seen anything. Harry cast a rebounding shield spell on Neville.
Crabbe tried to hex Neville but ended up having the fingers on his own hands turn bright pink with purple stripes.
"Sir," Malfoy whined to get Snape's attention.
"Yes?"
"Sir, one of the Gryffindor's hexed Crabbe. Look."
"Who did that to young Mr Crabbe?" When no one answered he continued as if he wasn't really expecting anyone to answer him. "Very well then, all Gryffindor students will put their wands on their desks. If I see any of these wands touched before the end of my class I will confiscate all your wands and you'll be taking your OWLs while waving toothpicks around because I can assure you that you won't have your wands back before then."
Since there could be no way that any member of the Gryffindor house could touch their wand without Snape seeing them, the Slytherins were extremely confused when Goyle's head literally swelled to three times it natural size.
Harry whispered to the Gryffindors that he "didn't believe it possible for such an ugly person to become so much uglier".
Fortunately all of the commotion caused from Goyle's new head covered up all the sniggering from the Gryffindor's side of the room. Harry supposed you couldn't really blame the Slytherins for making a commotion --- his new head was a pretty ugly sight and it was just lolling from side to side because it was too heavy for Goyle to properly lift.
Harry decided the opportunity provided by distraction was too great not to use it to practice his new ability. He could summon anything he wanted without touching his wand. Snape would never know. For his first trick he summoned some toadskin from a table at the back of the room.
SPLAT
Oh how unfortunate that Goyle's giant head was in between Harry and the toadskin.
"AAAACCCCKKKK!!!!!" shouted a Slytherin girl after a vial containing some bears' blood burst open and spilling onto her robes.
WHAM
Harry had managed to find a particularly thick book to summon. Ron cackled as he watched it fly into the back of Malfoy's head.
"UUUUGGGHHHH" shouted someone from the back row as she came face to face with a centaur's liver.
SMACK
Apparently the coil of snakeskin he summoned had found a target.
"EEEEEEEKKKKKKK!!!!!" Someone else in the back row should not have had their mouth open as Harry decided to summon a pile of dead flies.
"GET OUT. Everyone get out of my dungeon this very second!" The Gryffindors didn't need to be told twice. Most of them still hadn't controlled their laughter by the time they reached the Hall for lunch. Harry wasn't ready yet to tell anyone about his new abilities; he was content to just join in the laughter with his classmates.
Only Hermione could feel badly for the Slytherins. "I hope Snape was able to get everything under control. We were lucky more serious injuries didn't occur."
"HERMIONE!" Ron shouted. "Why do you keep insisting on trying to ruin all of my favorite memories? First Malfoy the fuzzy ferret and now this. Do you remember how many points Snape took off us last week for no reason at all? Did you see how he turned his back when the Slytherins were hexing Neville? Let it go!"
Harry was sure Ron hadn't convinced her but for the sake of their friendship she was apparently going to let the matter drop. Harry was relieved. He didn't want Hermione making him feel guilty for everything he had just done. He couldn't wait to tell someone who would appreciate his efforts even more than his classmates --- someone like Lupin or Sirius.
However interesting this day was for him, tomorrow would prove to be even more so.
What no one knew was that there were two people planning sinister deeds in the Gryffindor common room at that very minute. They would not be deterred.
A/N - Please R/R - share your thoughts. It's tough trying to write during the work week but I'm trying.