Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of Harry potter nor do I own any of the common set ups of the stories plot and setting.
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In the bedroom- Ron and Hermione were playing a very non-competitive game of wizard's chess, for Ron was clearly a higher skilled wizard chess player then any of them. They both greeted Harry and returned to the game. Harry lied down on his bed pondering the events that happened during the day, among other things. [The prophecy about me and Voldemort, "Neither shall live...While the other survives." Harry pondered this, he would either be murdered or become a murder, he had to pass unknown tests or he could face death, and the crazy old portrait thought he was a powerful dark lord...] Harry's eye lids drew heavier and he was soon sound asleep.
Morning came quicker then he wanted, some reason everyone in the house was in a droopy mood. Everyone that is except Mrs. Weasly of course, who was always full of energy. The table was filled with sausage, bacon, eggs, toast, and a variety of different juices. The table was surrounded by the younger Weasels, Harry, Hermione, Tonks and Mr. and Mrs. Weasly. It would be a full moon tonight, so that explained Lumpins absent, Snape rarely showed up for meals any more, but Mad-eye Moony and Dumbledor hadn't been seen all week.
As usual Errol arrived with the post for the Weaslys, Pig brought Hermione's quibbler and Tonks mail was brought by a brown barn owl, but another owl came in, a small black owl carrying a large green box. The black owl dropped the unmarked box on the table and left with out even a sip of water. The green package was addressed to no one; everyone stared with curious eyes at the box. Then George and Fred piped up, "Oh, we know what that is." They both exchanged grins before telling the eager eyes that they were getting. "That's from the ministry, it's the results of the fifth year O.W.L.S. (Ordinary wizarding levels) (A test that all fifth years take to allow/ narrow down job opportunities into N.E.W.T.S. standard classes at Hogwarts.)
Mrs. Weasly finally spoke to the three frozen students that sat staring at the box. "Well aren't you going to open it?" Hermione grabbed the package and quickly passed it to Ron who passed it to Harry. Harry looked at it for a moment before removing the top reveling three black envelopes with gold printed names on the front. Harry took his envelope and passed the other two back to Ron. Ron took his with a gulp and passed Hermione's hers. They opened them at the same time. Harry had outstanding (Highest you can get) on all of them except two. He received an E (second to best) in Potions and an A (third to best, final passing grade) in History of Magic. (Due to the fact he had connected with Voldemort during the exam, so he didn't finish the last half of it.) Surprisingly Harry achieved 15 owls. (I don't know how many owls there actually are, I don't recall them saying the most you can get so lets just pretend that 15 is really good)
Hermione let out a whimper; Fred quickly swiped her letter out of her hands and read it. "Geez Hermione, why are you upset you got all outstanding owls." Hermione looked up with a tear in her eye. "Except in History of Muggles, I got an E (second best)" Ron, who still had an ill look to him, looked down glumly at his paper. Which was also soon swiped up by George, who handed it to Mrs. Weasly. "Well, well done Ron, 11 owls, that's better than Fred and George here who only got three apiece and so what if Charley and Bill got thirteen, they never got an O in Defense against the Dark arts. Well Done."
Ron was slightly relieved at the praise. Harry congratulated both of them while placing his letter slyly back into its envelope. But Fred and George were too quick, they soon had Harry's letter. "What did you get there Harry?" Harry tried to grab it back but was to slow. George joined Fred's side as they read the letter. "Gees, you're as bad as Hermione, getting 15 owls." Ron looked at Harry with an unbelievable expression and looked glumly at his own paper. Harry quickly recovered his paper from the twins and changed the conversation with Ron to the Irish Quittage team. Even though Harry had never had a chance to keep up with the international teams, he loved Quittage and it brightened up Ron's mood. "Well done all three of you, the school should be sending the N.E.W.T.S. class lists that they are eligible to take soon." Mrs. Weasly concluded the breakfast.
Harry finished his piece of toast and grabbed another one for Hedgwig and followed Ron and Hermione up stairs. When they entered the room Hedgwig was sitting on the windowsill next to Pig. Harry broke the piece of toast in half and gave them each a piece. Since Pig was a very small owl the piece of toast out weighed him and caused him to topple onto the ground. Ron swept him up into his hands and sat him back on the windowsill. Just then a large colorful bird flew in threw the open window. The bird swooped down by Harry and released a piece of parchment into Harry's hands before flying back out the window. They quickly ran over to Harry as he unrolled the parchment.
Harry turned it over and over in his hands, it was blank. Ron had a terrible confused look on his face, but Hermione piped up. "Maybe it's encode?" Hermione took the paper and taped it with her wand saying all the encrypting spells she could think of. Nothing happened, she handed it back to Harry with an unsatisfied expression. Harry held it and a word flashed on it's surface, "Concentrate." it was there for no more then a split second. He looked up at Ron and Hermione to see if they had seen it, but by there vague expressions they had missed it. Harry placed his hand on the parchment and concentrated, he opened his mind to the paper and then it happened, he herd Esmerelda's voice. (Apparently only in his mind for Hermione and Ron hadn't noticed)
{Harry, well done you have received your first mind mail, only the person's brain wave patterns it is sent to can receive the message. You merely have to have some sort of skin contact and then open your mind to the paper, but be warned, do not open your mind to every thing else in the process. Anyway, I wanted to inform you that, as you have already figured out, you can communicate to animals, thus if you every need to send me a mind mail send it with your wonderful bird Hedgwig, but communicate telepathically to him my name. For we do not know who is listening. Mind mail is as easy as receiving it, merely open your mind to it and your thoughts are put into the parchment. Keep in touch -Esmerelda.}
Harry folded the piece of paper and stuffed it in his back pocket. Ron was halfway done setting up his wizards chess set and Hermione was looking threw a book entitled "Cracking Secrets: 1,052 ways to encode secret parchments." Harry thought she was probably trying to figure out the blank parchment, so Harry quickly said. "It a, was probably a practical joke, either that or Neville Longbottom wanted to write a letter but forgot to write it." All three of them laughed because Neville was a very forgetful person.
Harry sat down and began playing wizards chess against Ron. Of course Ron won every game, Harry didn't dare read Ron's mind to see what his next moves were, because Ron had to be better at something then everyone else because he grew up with seven siblings and he needed something for him to stand out. Ron was one of if not the best wizards chess player at Hogwarts, Harry didn't want to ruin it for him, so he put up a few good games.
Dinner came and went, Besides Fred and George making the chicken get up and dance around it was uneventful. Harry, Ron and Hermione quickly retired to there room so not to get caught in Mrs. Weasly's screaming at George and Fred for ruining dinner. Once the three of them were in the room with the door shut they busted into laughter. Hermione tried to hold back laughter and say that it was really rude of them but she was laughing so hard she couldn't finish it.
Soon the laughter died out and Ron sat at a desk doing his summer homework, while Hermione sat on her bed reading, "Arithmatics and your future" Harry sat on his bed polishing his firebolt. "You know Harry." Hermione said "You really ought to be reading your school books" Harry was about to say that he could absorb all the information quit easily, due to the memory enhancer he got, but he couldn't tell them that so he came up with another come back. "How do you know what books to read, we don't even know what classes were taking" "Well I'm sure I'll get into the courses I want." Hermione responded and left the subject were it was and dug her nose deeper in her book. Harry put his broom away and packed up the polishing kit, before falling asleep.
Next morning- Since Fred and George were leaving tonight to reopen there joke shop in Diagon Alley, (They took a week off to visit with the family before busy season) the breakfast, Mrs. Weasly made was a feast with in it's self. The mail owls came, same as usual except four extra birds came. Each of the three barn owls dropped an extremely thick Hogwarts letter in front of Ron, Hermione, and Harry. The Fourth owl was a dark eagle owl; it dropped a small piece of parchment tied with twine on top of Harry's Hogwarts letter, before flying out. Harry unrolled the parchment, it was blank. He quickly shoved in into his pocket and opened his Hogwarts letter.
Dear Mr. Harry Potter,
The following is a list of N.E.W.T. level courses; you are able to take this year at Hogwarts, school of Witch craft and Wizardry. If something you would like is not on this list, we regret to inform you that you are not eligible for any courses not listed below. The courses you are eligible to attend are as followed:
N.E.W.T.s level Defense against the dark arts N.E.W.T.s level Transfiguration
N.E.W.T.s level Herbology N.E.W.T.s level Charms
N.E.W.T.s level Care of Magical Creatures N.E.W.T.s level Divination
N.E.W.T.s level Muggle studies N.E.W.T.s level History of Magic
N.E.W.T.s level Dueling N.E.W.T.s level Potions
N.E.W.T.s level Stealth N.E.W.T.s level Arithmatics
N.E.W.T.s level Occulamacey (Sp?) N.E.W.T.s level Magical Medicines
N.E.W.T.s level Magical Objects N.E.W.T.s level Quittage History
N.E.W.T.s level N.E.W.T.s level Apparate/Disapate: This course is mandatory for anyone planning on attempting to get there license.
-Hogwarts Headmaster
Dumbledor (signed)
Harry, Ron and Hermione quickly compared there lists. Harry's and Hermione's were exactly the same, Ron was a little different. It was the same except it did not include Arithmatics, Occulamocey, Magical Medicines, and Potions. All three of them were discussing which courses they wanted to take. Breakfast was soon over and the three of them went up to visit Buckbeak. Touching the paper in Harry's pocket he opened his mind to it.
{Harry Potter, I know you are existed about choosing your courses, but if you wish to become an Aura you shall need to take the following courses: Defense Against the Dark arts, Stealth, Magical Medicines, Dueling, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions (Don't worry you will still get in even though you didn't get an O), Magical Objects, Care of Magical Creatures, and Apparate/Dissapate. I Know you already know how to Apparate but, they wont let you get you license if you do not attend the course. I am in the process of getting you out of school for a week and during the holidays to send you to the Ministry. So you can study and be tested to become an Aura sooner. Remember the sooner you are stronger, the better to defeat Lord Voldemort. I know what your thinking, Why can't we stop him? Because we sorcerors and sorceresses took an oath long ago, not to interfere with politics of lesser beings. Yes that's right you and Dumbledor are equal in more ways than you think with us. Don't tell anyone about the Aura studies just to be on the safe side. Well, have a good day. -Esmerelda}
Harry was a mix between angry and existed. He was angry because he wanted to choose his own courses but existed because he was getting a chance to become an Aura. Harry decided he would choose the courses Esmerelda told him to. Harry checked the boxes beside the ten courses he would take and looked up at Hermione and Ron who were brushing Buckbeak. Harry handed his completed letter to them and they questioned his choices. "Are you sure, this is a lot of work, it says up to 10 courses, but most don't take more than five. Why are you taking potions? You hate Potions, besides he won't even let you in... Duels would be fun, though remember when we dueled with Lockhart's club.." Ron decided to take the same as Harry except Potions he took Quittage History, Hermione took the same as Harry except Dueling she took Arithmatics, and instead of stealth she took Muggle studies. All three sent there completed letters with Hedgwig and went down the stairs.
Fred and George were all packed and were saying there good byes as Mrs. Weasly shoved more hot cakes in there trunks. They left with a crack. The days sort of slipped by, it wasn't till a week before the return to Hogwarts that there letters returned. They had gotten the courses that they had chosen and had a list of the supplies they needed. By flew powder they all set off for Diagon Alley.
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Grrrr I type slow, I'm not even 25 pages into the story. **sigh** I'm getting there hope you enjoy it so far, yet I'm still apologizing for the spelling and grammar mistakes. Hope you've enjoyed it so far.
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In the bedroom- Ron and Hermione were playing a very non-competitive game of wizard's chess, for Ron was clearly a higher skilled wizard chess player then any of them. They both greeted Harry and returned to the game. Harry lied down on his bed pondering the events that happened during the day, among other things. [The prophecy about me and Voldemort, "Neither shall live...While the other survives." Harry pondered this, he would either be murdered or become a murder, he had to pass unknown tests or he could face death, and the crazy old portrait thought he was a powerful dark lord...] Harry's eye lids drew heavier and he was soon sound asleep.
Morning came quicker then he wanted, some reason everyone in the house was in a droopy mood. Everyone that is except Mrs. Weasly of course, who was always full of energy. The table was filled with sausage, bacon, eggs, toast, and a variety of different juices. The table was surrounded by the younger Weasels, Harry, Hermione, Tonks and Mr. and Mrs. Weasly. It would be a full moon tonight, so that explained Lumpins absent, Snape rarely showed up for meals any more, but Mad-eye Moony and Dumbledor hadn't been seen all week.
As usual Errol arrived with the post for the Weaslys, Pig brought Hermione's quibbler and Tonks mail was brought by a brown barn owl, but another owl came in, a small black owl carrying a large green box. The black owl dropped the unmarked box on the table and left with out even a sip of water. The green package was addressed to no one; everyone stared with curious eyes at the box. Then George and Fred piped up, "Oh, we know what that is." They both exchanged grins before telling the eager eyes that they were getting. "That's from the ministry, it's the results of the fifth year O.W.L.S. (Ordinary wizarding levels) (A test that all fifth years take to allow/ narrow down job opportunities into N.E.W.T.S. standard classes at Hogwarts.)
Mrs. Weasly finally spoke to the three frozen students that sat staring at the box. "Well aren't you going to open it?" Hermione grabbed the package and quickly passed it to Ron who passed it to Harry. Harry looked at it for a moment before removing the top reveling three black envelopes with gold printed names on the front. Harry took his envelope and passed the other two back to Ron. Ron took his with a gulp and passed Hermione's hers. They opened them at the same time. Harry had outstanding (Highest you can get) on all of them except two. He received an E (second to best) in Potions and an A (third to best, final passing grade) in History of Magic. (Due to the fact he had connected with Voldemort during the exam, so he didn't finish the last half of it.) Surprisingly Harry achieved 15 owls. (I don't know how many owls there actually are, I don't recall them saying the most you can get so lets just pretend that 15 is really good)
Hermione let out a whimper; Fred quickly swiped her letter out of her hands and read it. "Geez Hermione, why are you upset you got all outstanding owls." Hermione looked up with a tear in her eye. "Except in History of Muggles, I got an E (second best)" Ron, who still had an ill look to him, looked down glumly at his paper. Which was also soon swiped up by George, who handed it to Mrs. Weasly. "Well, well done Ron, 11 owls, that's better than Fred and George here who only got three apiece and so what if Charley and Bill got thirteen, they never got an O in Defense against the Dark arts. Well Done."
Ron was slightly relieved at the praise. Harry congratulated both of them while placing his letter slyly back into its envelope. But Fred and George were too quick, they soon had Harry's letter. "What did you get there Harry?" Harry tried to grab it back but was to slow. George joined Fred's side as they read the letter. "Gees, you're as bad as Hermione, getting 15 owls." Ron looked at Harry with an unbelievable expression and looked glumly at his own paper. Harry quickly recovered his paper from the twins and changed the conversation with Ron to the Irish Quittage team. Even though Harry had never had a chance to keep up with the international teams, he loved Quittage and it brightened up Ron's mood. "Well done all three of you, the school should be sending the N.E.W.T.S. class lists that they are eligible to take soon." Mrs. Weasly concluded the breakfast.
Harry finished his piece of toast and grabbed another one for Hedgwig and followed Ron and Hermione up stairs. When they entered the room Hedgwig was sitting on the windowsill next to Pig. Harry broke the piece of toast in half and gave them each a piece. Since Pig was a very small owl the piece of toast out weighed him and caused him to topple onto the ground. Ron swept him up into his hands and sat him back on the windowsill. Just then a large colorful bird flew in threw the open window. The bird swooped down by Harry and released a piece of parchment into Harry's hands before flying back out the window. They quickly ran over to Harry as he unrolled the parchment.
Harry turned it over and over in his hands, it was blank. Ron had a terrible confused look on his face, but Hermione piped up. "Maybe it's encode?" Hermione took the paper and taped it with her wand saying all the encrypting spells she could think of. Nothing happened, she handed it back to Harry with an unsatisfied expression. Harry held it and a word flashed on it's surface, "Concentrate." it was there for no more then a split second. He looked up at Ron and Hermione to see if they had seen it, but by there vague expressions they had missed it. Harry placed his hand on the parchment and concentrated, he opened his mind to the paper and then it happened, he herd Esmerelda's voice. (Apparently only in his mind for Hermione and Ron hadn't noticed)
{Harry, well done you have received your first mind mail, only the person's brain wave patterns it is sent to can receive the message. You merely have to have some sort of skin contact and then open your mind to the paper, but be warned, do not open your mind to every thing else in the process. Anyway, I wanted to inform you that, as you have already figured out, you can communicate to animals, thus if you every need to send me a mind mail send it with your wonderful bird Hedgwig, but communicate telepathically to him my name. For we do not know who is listening. Mind mail is as easy as receiving it, merely open your mind to it and your thoughts are put into the parchment. Keep in touch -Esmerelda.}
Harry folded the piece of paper and stuffed it in his back pocket. Ron was halfway done setting up his wizards chess set and Hermione was looking threw a book entitled "Cracking Secrets: 1,052 ways to encode secret parchments." Harry thought she was probably trying to figure out the blank parchment, so Harry quickly said. "It a, was probably a practical joke, either that or Neville Longbottom wanted to write a letter but forgot to write it." All three of them laughed because Neville was a very forgetful person.
Harry sat down and began playing wizards chess against Ron. Of course Ron won every game, Harry didn't dare read Ron's mind to see what his next moves were, because Ron had to be better at something then everyone else because he grew up with seven siblings and he needed something for him to stand out. Ron was one of if not the best wizards chess player at Hogwarts, Harry didn't want to ruin it for him, so he put up a few good games.
Dinner came and went, Besides Fred and George making the chicken get up and dance around it was uneventful. Harry, Ron and Hermione quickly retired to there room so not to get caught in Mrs. Weasly's screaming at George and Fred for ruining dinner. Once the three of them were in the room with the door shut they busted into laughter. Hermione tried to hold back laughter and say that it was really rude of them but she was laughing so hard she couldn't finish it.
Soon the laughter died out and Ron sat at a desk doing his summer homework, while Hermione sat on her bed reading, "Arithmatics and your future" Harry sat on his bed polishing his firebolt. "You know Harry." Hermione said "You really ought to be reading your school books" Harry was about to say that he could absorb all the information quit easily, due to the memory enhancer he got, but he couldn't tell them that so he came up with another come back. "How do you know what books to read, we don't even know what classes were taking" "Well I'm sure I'll get into the courses I want." Hermione responded and left the subject were it was and dug her nose deeper in her book. Harry put his broom away and packed up the polishing kit, before falling asleep.
Next morning- Since Fred and George were leaving tonight to reopen there joke shop in Diagon Alley, (They took a week off to visit with the family before busy season) the breakfast, Mrs. Weasly made was a feast with in it's self. The mail owls came, same as usual except four extra birds came. Each of the three barn owls dropped an extremely thick Hogwarts letter in front of Ron, Hermione, and Harry. The Fourth owl was a dark eagle owl; it dropped a small piece of parchment tied with twine on top of Harry's Hogwarts letter, before flying out. Harry unrolled the parchment, it was blank. He quickly shoved in into his pocket and opened his Hogwarts letter.
Dear Mr. Harry Potter,
The following is a list of N.E.W.T. level courses; you are able to take this year at Hogwarts, school of Witch craft and Wizardry. If something you would like is not on this list, we regret to inform you that you are not eligible for any courses not listed below. The courses you are eligible to attend are as followed:
N.E.W.T.s level Defense against the dark arts N.E.W.T.s level Transfiguration
N.E.W.T.s level Herbology N.E.W.T.s level Charms
N.E.W.T.s level Care of Magical Creatures N.E.W.T.s level Divination
N.E.W.T.s level Muggle studies N.E.W.T.s level History of Magic
N.E.W.T.s level Dueling N.E.W.T.s level Potions
N.E.W.T.s level Stealth N.E.W.T.s level Arithmatics
N.E.W.T.s level Occulamacey (Sp?) N.E.W.T.s level Magical Medicines
N.E.W.T.s level Magical Objects N.E.W.T.s level Quittage History
N.E.W.T.s level N.E.W.T.s level Apparate/Disapate: This course is mandatory for anyone planning on attempting to get there license.
-Hogwarts Headmaster
Dumbledor (signed)
Harry, Ron and Hermione quickly compared there lists. Harry's and Hermione's were exactly the same, Ron was a little different. It was the same except it did not include Arithmatics, Occulamocey, Magical Medicines, and Potions. All three of them were discussing which courses they wanted to take. Breakfast was soon over and the three of them went up to visit Buckbeak. Touching the paper in Harry's pocket he opened his mind to it.
{Harry Potter, I know you are existed about choosing your courses, but if you wish to become an Aura you shall need to take the following courses: Defense Against the Dark arts, Stealth, Magical Medicines, Dueling, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions (Don't worry you will still get in even though you didn't get an O), Magical Objects, Care of Magical Creatures, and Apparate/Dissapate. I Know you already know how to Apparate but, they wont let you get you license if you do not attend the course. I am in the process of getting you out of school for a week and during the holidays to send you to the Ministry. So you can study and be tested to become an Aura sooner. Remember the sooner you are stronger, the better to defeat Lord Voldemort. I know what your thinking, Why can't we stop him? Because we sorcerors and sorceresses took an oath long ago, not to interfere with politics of lesser beings. Yes that's right you and Dumbledor are equal in more ways than you think with us. Don't tell anyone about the Aura studies just to be on the safe side. Well, have a good day. -Esmerelda}
Harry was a mix between angry and existed. He was angry because he wanted to choose his own courses but existed because he was getting a chance to become an Aura. Harry decided he would choose the courses Esmerelda told him to. Harry checked the boxes beside the ten courses he would take and looked up at Hermione and Ron who were brushing Buckbeak. Harry handed his completed letter to them and they questioned his choices. "Are you sure, this is a lot of work, it says up to 10 courses, but most don't take more than five. Why are you taking potions? You hate Potions, besides he won't even let you in... Duels would be fun, though remember when we dueled with Lockhart's club.." Ron decided to take the same as Harry except Potions he took Quittage History, Hermione took the same as Harry except Dueling she took Arithmatics, and instead of stealth she took Muggle studies. All three sent there completed letters with Hedgwig and went down the stairs.
Fred and George were all packed and were saying there good byes as Mrs. Weasly shoved more hot cakes in there trunks. They left with a crack. The days sort of slipped by, it wasn't till a week before the return to Hogwarts that there letters returned. They had gotten the courses that they had chosen and had a list of the supplies they needed. By flew powder they all set off for Diagon Alley.
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Grrrr I type slow, I'm not even 25 pages into the story. **sigh** I'm getting there hope you enjoy it so far, yet I'm still apologizing for the spelling and grammar mistakes. Hope you've enjoyed it so far.
