Chapter Four- Tuition classes begin
Harry's heart was heavy as he walked down the corridor. It had been a week since the DA meeting and the Ministry and Harry had pulled himself into a lonely movement of learning and preparation.
Over the last week Harry had more often than not been in his trunk, practicing spells and tactics to train himself for what was coming. Harry had found a spell to enchant items with courses or different spells and had decided to go to the room of requirement to get some items to test the spell on.
He walked past the room three times and then opened the door. The room was full of coin size disks made of a chrome colored metal. He looked around thinking 'I need a bag' and saw one appear on the ground next to him. He stuffed a heap of the disks into the bag before walking out the door.
He put the bag over his shoulder and began to walk back to the common room. Everyone else had gone to dinner and he didn't think anyone would be in the hallways, that's why he had chosen this time to visit the room of requirement. Harry rounded a corner but quickly ducked back around it when he saw the backs off Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle conversing in the hall.
"Mother told me that the Weasleys are in for a rude shock, she wouldn't tell me why though. She said that very few knew that information and if she told me she would be punished. But if you ask me it serves them right, the inbred Weasels need to be shown that Potter's side is the losing side of this war. But come on we better get back to dinner before the teachers realize we're not there." Malfoy and his cronies walked off down the corridor and Harry glared at their backs. 'It looks like I've just found my Guinea pig.' He thought to himself.
After what he heard from Malfoy Harry ran back to the tower. He opened his empty box with the password and climbed in before throwing the bag of disks onto the floor. Ripping the bag open he took a disk and placed his wand onto it before firmly saying "Enchantio, Illusio Draconus." He then left his wand on the disk and closed his eyes to concentrate on the image of a dragon and felt the disk grow warm before he looked down and saw a picture of a Hungarian Horntail burnt into the disk.
He looked at the coin and smiled to himself before he heard a banging on the top of the box. Harry put the coin into his pocket before climbing the ladder and opening the lid of the box. Ron sat on his bed with a letter in his hand and his eyes wide. Harry walked over and asked him what was wrong. Ron looked up at him quietly and handed him the letter.
Dear Ron, We have gone to the place where we have spent our summers. The burrow was attacked by the deatheaters and they took things off Percy's things as well as many of the families belongings. It seems we have someone on the inside that w trust working for the Deatheaters because they were able to pass through Dumbledore's barriers and enter the Burrow. We have sent a letter to Ginny as well so don't worry bout informing her.
We know that this must be hard for you but please try to act as though you are not affected by this. If we do not they have already won.
Love,
Mum and Dad
Harry looked at Ron and realized what Malfoy must have been thinking of. He stormed out of the dorm and into the common room and saw Ginny reading her letter with sad eyes. They are going to pay.
Harry walked out of the portrait hole and ran to the gargoyle that guarded Dumbledore's office. He shouted 'Sour Snitch' at the statue and stormed up the stairs. He threw open the doors to Dumbledore's office and found the headmaster sitting with members of the order.
"Harry what's wrong?" Dumbledore asked calmly. Harry stared at the man. This was the man that had hidden so much from him, had lied to him and had made him go back year after year to the Dursleys.
"Ron and Ginny just received letters from their parents. Apparently a deatheater was able to enter the Burrow. I don't know how it happened or why but what I want to know is why the hell wasn't the Burrow protected from the infiltration of deatheaters and if it was, why didn't it work?" The order looked at Harry with wide eyes. Dumbledore just sighed and looked Harry in the eye.
"Harry, this incident is very complicated and some things still are not clear. I will try to explain it to you Harry but you must bear with me, for I am an old man and you know as well as I do that I make mistakes." He looked Harry in the eyes for a few more seconds before waving a wand and offering him a seat. "The Burrow was guarded heavily. No one could get in unless a family member knows they are coming that is at the burrow at the time of their arrival. Molly and Arthur were visiting the twins, Bill was reporting to me and Charlie was in Romania when this happened. Ron and Ginny were here at the school. So that leaves only one person." Harry's eyes opened as he realized what was being said. "Yes Harry, Percy has become a Deatheater. I have to ask you not to tell Ron and Ginny. It is their parents wishes." Harry nodded again and looked at the headmaster.
'Sir is there anything I can do?" Dumbledore nodded and looked at him sternly. "You can act like this is nothing and begin your training on the weekend. Use your whole weekend for the beginning of your training and do not push your friends away. Now I think you had better go up to the common room and comfort your friends. I daresay they are worried at the moment that they may be in danger. Goodnight Harry." Harry nodded and walked out of the office and back toward Gryffindor tower.
He would protect them. Even if no one else could.
He walked back into the common room and saw Ron and Ginny being comforted by Hermione. She looked up at him with a look of despair. He strode across the room and sat next to Ginny and took her in his arms. He felt her shudder and begin to cry again as she clung to him. He looked over at Hermione and Ron began to talk to them.
"Before we got these letters we ran into Malfoy, he told us to just wait, that it wouldn't be long till our family gets ours. Then he sneered and walked off before calling watch your back over his shoulder." Harry looked him in the eye and tried to sound as strong as he could at this given moment.
"Don't worry about Malfoy. Just watch him in our Care of Magical Creatures class tomorrow." Hermione and Ron looked at him with an air of surprise whilst Ginny looked at him in surprise.
"Don't worry Ginny ill tell you tomorrow. And if this works the Marauders will live again." He grinned in a way that could not be mistaken for anything but mischief.
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Harry, Ron and Hermione walked down to Care of Magical Creatures class the next morning. Ron and Hermione were nervous and with no reason not to be as Harry looked more mischievous than both the twins combined.
They arrived at the paddock where class was to be held and began to talk to Hagrid. 'hi Hagrid, what are we doing today?" Hagrid beamed at the three of them and laughed loudly.
"Now I can' tell ya' that! It'd ruin the surprise." Hermione and Ron looked nervously at each but Harry looked calm as normal.
After the rest of the class arrived Hagrid looked around at them beaming. "Today we will be studying something truly great. It's a little temperamental but all you gotta do is be nice and treat it with respect. Today we will be studying the Majestic tawny Lion. These are not your normal lions. They are very magical.."
Harry pulled a disk out of his pocket and placed his wand against it Muttering "Illusio errupto." Before banishing it in front of Malfoy. As soon as the disk landed in front of Malfoy a solid Illusion appeared before him with wand raised. A gasp went across the class as the Malfoy with the wand eyed down the one without a wand. To say Malfoy was surprised would be an understatement.
The Malfoy with a wand began to throw curses at the real Malfoy. The real Malfoy dived to the side and drew his wand trying to hit the illusion with hex's as Hagrid stood awestruck watching his student dueling an exact double but not knowing which was real. Curses flew back and forth and students began to run to the castle to avoid being hit. Malfoy was hit by a hex that winded him and he fell back before Harry waved his wand where it could not be seen and muttered "dissaparto Illusio"
The illusion Malfoy disappeared and left a puff of smoke that spelt out the words, 'Watch your back Malfoy' before disappearing. What was left of the class looked around at each other as Hagrid stared wide eyed at where the message had been and Malfoy paled where he sat.
After a few minutes Hagrid came around and sent Malfoy to see his head of house. Harry smirked at Ron and Hermione who were looking at him in amazement before he put his finger to his lips and walked up to Hagrid. "What will we do now Hagrid?" Hagrid shook his head.
"Can't teach anything now. Might as well go up to the castle for lunch. Class dismissed." Harry walked back up to the castle and entered the Great Hall. they sat in silence as they ate lunch and after the bell rang Ginny came running up with a look of amazement on her face.
"Harry what did you do? Everyone is saying that in Care of Magical Creatures He dueled himself and is now in the hospital wing." Harry snickered and said. "Ginny grab something to eat and follow me."
They followed Harry out of the great hall and ran towards Gryffindor tower. When they arrived there Harry led them up into his dorm and into his trunk.
'Now you know where I got the trunk from right?" they all nodded. "Well I have another one over there in the corner full of Weasley wheezes." They all looked over at the box and Harry continued. "When they were given to me the twins said something along the lines of keep the Marauder legacy going and I thought why not? I could make weapons I could use if needed in the form of pranks. That way I could have a bit of fun whilst doing it." They all looked at him amazed but Hermione's amazement soon turned to anger.
"Harry you cant go around pranking people. Its not right. Look how much trouble the twins got into doing it!" Harry laughed. "Hermione I am not the twins. Besides I need some fun and happiness in my life. And if you remember the Marauders fought for the Order so in saying im going to follow in their footsteps I mean fighting for the good as well."
They all looked at him before Ginny said "So how did you do it?" Harry smiled at her before talking again. "Promise you wont tell anybody?" They all nodded vigorously. "Well the time I have spent in here lately I have been studying illusion and enchantment magic." He waved his wand and said "Illusio Persona" an exact copy of Ginny stood before Harry's three surprised friends. He waved his wand again and said "Dissipato illusio" the illusion of Ginny disappeared and Harry walked across the room and picking up a disk off the ground he placed his wand against it and said "Enchanto Illusio Persona" Then he burned a face on the disk. He handed it to Ron who looked at it surprised and passed it around. When it returned to Harry he placed it in the palm of his hand before he continued to explain.
"This disk is now enchanted. The reason I did it like this is because it is an easier was to divert attention or make an attack. These illusions seem real, they are solid in fact the only thing they cant do that the real thing could is kill. They can hurt and mame if told to, but not kill. The one I used on Draco was wand activated. I can make them activated by a word or by being thrown or a time release after one or both of those." He waved his wand over the disk and handed it to Ginny.
"Now hold it tight in your palm and say 'activate' then throw it over to the corner." Ginny done as she was told and a man erupted from the disk before turning into a stag and running around the room. "I thought the picture was of you Harry." He shook his head.
"As long as you know what they look like you can create an illusion. Furthermore the illusion will do whatever the person who released them says and the disk will disappear after use." Harry looked around before saying "So what do you three think?" they all said they were wonder full before Harry started again. "I will make some for all of you in case of an emergency. I will expect you to carry them on you at all times. I will also have give some to Neville and Luna."
They all nodded before they left the room to go to their afternoon classes.
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On Friday night Harry had informed of the others that the training would start on the weekend.
The five of them met early on Saturday morning for breakfast before Harry led them toward the second floor girls toilets for the lesson. "Um Harry, why are we at Moaning Myrtles?" Hermione asked politely.
Harry smiled at her then said "Because I had our teachers turn the chamber of secrets into a training arena." They all looked surprised at this and as they entered saw the door to the chamber was open waiting for them.
Harry let the others walk down before him. Ron and Hermione went first but when Ginny was meant to go in she began to shudder and paled noticeably. Harry walked up and stood next to her.
"What's wrong Ginny?" She looked up at him then quickly at the ground.
"This place still haunts my Dreams." Harry nodded and took her hand in his. "Come on Ginny lets go. Nothing down there will hurt you while im around." She nodded and walked down with her hand in his.
When they arrived at the bottom of the stairs they received a curious look from Ron and Hermione before they realized they were still holding hands. They released each others hand and moved forward to find themselves in a dueling arena.
"Today I will be testing you all to find out what you can do." Moody said as he limped out of the shadows. "You will be dueling against me one by one. I want to see what you can do so don't hold back. Mr. Weasley, your first." Ron noticeably paled as he stepped forward to face Moody.
Ron did not last long though he put up a good fight deflecting many curses before being caught by a full body bind. Hermione was next and didn't last as long as Ron because she spent to long thinking and not acting on reflex.
Ginny lasted a surprising length of time as did Neville, the new wand that he had got in the summer really made a huge difference. The most surprising though was Luna. She dueled just as well as Ron if not better. The dazed look on her face made it impossible to guess what they are thinking.
"Potter your up." Moody's voice broke Harry out of his thoughts as he began to walk up onto the dueling platform. "When your ready Potter." Harry nodded as he lowered himself into the pouncing stance of the gryffin. Harry flung his wand in a jab like motion, sending a stunner at Moody.
Moody retaliated and Harry dodged Muttering "Protego" a shield before him shimmered blue as he started throwing curses at Moody. The Duel went on and Harry and Moody were both pushing harder and harder.
Moody threw a cutting curse at Harry that cut his leg open. Harry raised his wand and yelled "Illusio Draconus" A large Chinese Dragon leapt from his wand and circled around Moody cutting him off from Harry's sight. Harry ripped the sleeve off his robe and used it to bind the cut on his leg before pointing his wand up causing the dragon to follow. "Stupefy!" Harry shouted and hit Moody square on the chest.
"Dissipato illusio, Accio wand, Ennervate." Harry said the spells in quick succession to effectively banish the dragon, disarm Moody and wake him up.
"Potter, how the hell did you do that?" Moody said as he snatched his wand back from Harry.
Harry shrugged "I've never made one that big before. Usually they are only small and I can only keep them for a few moments." Harry said this with a warning glance to the others. They didn't need to know that he could summon illusions quite well. It was better kept a secret. Moody excepted this and just nodded. "Good show Potter, you caught me off my guard. Surprise is always an advantage in battle remember that." With that he turned and limped out of the bathroom.
Harry sat to the side thinking as the others talked about the duels against Moody. Surprise is the greatest advantage. If he could use surprise as his advantage in a battle against Voldemort or his deatheaters it could give them a fighting chance.
He began thinking of ways to get an edge and came out with one idea. Information. If they could somehow get information on what was going on in the outside world as well as in the order and Hogwarts they would have an upper hand. Harry decided he would talk to the others about it later.
Harry rose and walked over to his friends just as Kingsley Shaklebolt walked in. They all walked over to greet him as he smiled around at them. "Hello everyone, im here to teach you Apparition and the way it is used in the Auror industry."
He walked toward the sink that had covered the staircase when Moody had left before placing his wand on the tap and saying "Apparition." The sink that had moved into place over the staircase Moved back and sunk into the ground revealing a different staircase than before. The students followed him down into the chamber. Upon entrance they noticed that the room had been changed into a muggle area. It was like a large area in London with alleys and main streets as well as shops and parks.
"In this class I will teach you all how to apparate and how to do it in a crowded area without being noticed. You will all have to master this as the ministry do not know what we are teaching you therefore you must be very careful of who see' you in both the muggle and the wizarding world." He walked over a street and beckoned the students to follow him.
They walked around a corner and stood before a park and next an alley. Kingsley turned to the students and looked them over before asking simply. "Park or Alley, what's most inconspicuous?" The students looked at each other in confusion "Let me refrase it, are you more likely to be noticed disappearing in a park or an alley?"
"An alley because there's only a few ways out but in a park its open space. You could have disappeared to anywhere." Hermione said matter of factly. Kingsley nodded his head.
"Very good Hermione. You are more likely to been seen slipping off into an alley and disappearing than being noticed in an open space doing it in a crowd. Now these books," He waved his wand and five books appeared before him. "need to be read before you can even start trying to apparate." They all nodded as he handed them out and explained the importance of knowledge in apparition.
They walked around for a while with Kingsley pointing out many things of interest in Appiration. He explained the theory behind avoiding obstacles and not landing in walls or objects and splinching yourselves before they climbed back up the stairs and went to lunch.
Harry told the others to go on ahead and he headed to the hospital wing to get his arm healed where Moody had cut it. He began to walk to the hospital wing but turned when he heard someone fall into step with him.
Ginny smiled at him and stopped when he turned.
"Ginny, what are you doing?" Harry asked skeptically.
"Im coming to the hospital wing with you." Harry looked her up and down before saying. "But Ginny your not injured." She laughed and grabbing his hand began to drag him towards the hospital wing. "I was worried about you silly. You've been quiet since the dueling. Come on lets get that arm fixed up."
Harry followed as she dragged him along to the hospital wing. When they arrived Harry told Madam Pomfrey what had happened and after she had smeared some pasty looking goo onto Harry's cut she said he could go and have lunch.
Harry walked out of the hospital wing with Ginny in tow. After a moment he realized she was looking at him with a worried look on her face.
She kept making glances at him all the way to the entrance hall until he stopped and turned to her. "Ginny, what's wrong."
She looked him in the eye and simply said "Your planning something."
'How the hell did she know that?' Harry thought to himself before talking. "Yes I am. But don't worry its nothing bad. Ill tell you all tonight."
She looked at him for a few moments before nodding and the two of them walked into the great hall together.
*** The afternoon had flown by with the five students being given a list of books that they would have to read for their disguise training with Tonks and Animigus and Transfiguration with McGonagall.
It was just after dinner and having been studying the books between the end of the lessons and the beginning of dinner they decided they could have a break before bed. They all sat around the table in the common room Harry decided it was time to tell them about his plan.
"Hey everyone come with me I need to talk to you all about something." Harry walked up the stairs and into his dorm with Ron, Neville, Hermione and Ginny in tow. He led them into his box and they all sat down on the floor before he began.
"Today when Moody said 'surprise is always an advantage in battle' it got me thinking. With the war as it is we are all targets, you because you're my friends and me because of who I am. If we are going to survive this war we are going to need an edge in battle, we need a way to catch them off guard and the only way I can think of gaining that edge is through information." Harry stopped a moment to let his words sink in with the others.
"What are you suggesting Harry?" Hermione asked with a worried expression spread across her face.
"Well Hermione I told you all earlier that if my plan with Malfoy worked the Marauders would live again?" They all nodded before he started again "Well I thought we can use the way of being the Marauders to hide what we are really doing."
Everyone looked confused at each other and Ron was the first to talk asking "And what are we really doing?"
Harry smiled and said simply "Running our own group like the order of the Phoenix."
Everyone in the room gasped and it took a few moments for Hermione to stand up before she started on him.
"Harry we cant do that, its to dangerous. We need to leave the fighting to Dumbledore and the order. And as for the Marauder thing, we cant do it Ron, Ginny and I are prefects."
"So my dad was one of the Marauders and he was Head Boy." Harry smiled as he saw Hermione open her mouth and then close it again. This was the first time he had ever seen Hermione have nothing to say.
"Besides we wont be fighting and taking off into dangerous situations, we will be gathering information and spying on known contacts with deatheaters whilst we prepare ourselves for whatever is to come. We will just use pranks to cover up our exploits of stealing information from people." Harry watched as the four others thought about what he had said.
"Im in." Ginny stood up and smiled at Harry. He smiled back before looking at the others. One by one they nodded and stood by Ginny.
"Okay well someone will have to talk to Luna about it and I think we should get the twins involved as well. Well I better go to bed I've got Occlumency tomorrow and ill draft a letter for the twins afterwards."
Harry let them out of the box and they all went to bed.
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The next day Harry found himself standing before the stone gargoyle after breakfast. He said the password and walked up the staircase and into the office. Dumbledore stood over his pensieve extracting thoughts before looking up at Harry and said "Good morning Harry."
"Sir." He looked Dumbledore in the eye and the headmaster sighed.
"Harry we are here to teach you ocllumency. I understand that professor Snape last year did not take it very seriously and constantly was making you relive bad memories. I will only search for things you don't mind if I know. Other than that I will see nothing." Harry nodded and Dumbledore began again. "In occlumency you will learn how to effectively cut off the intrusion of your mind and with practice will be able to do it subconsciously. Now lets begin, to effectively practice occlumency you must know how to concentrate and clear your mind as to make a blank wall for the intruder to see until you can shut them completely off."
Harry spent the day learning off Dumbledore effective techniques to blank the mind and throw off intrusion.
Once he was done he headed back up to Gryffindor tower to write a letter to Fred and George asking them to meet him at the next Hogsmeade weekend so he could talk to them about the Marauder group.
He walked up to the owlery and sent the letter off with Hedwig before watching her fly off over the horizon.
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Harry's heart was heavy as he walked down the corridor. It had been a week since the DA meeting and the Ministry and Harry had pulled himself into a lonely movement of learning and preparation.
Over the last week Harry had more often than not been in his trunk, practicing spells and tactics to train himself for what was coming. Harry had found a spell to enchant items with courses or different spells and had decided to go to the room of requirement to get some items to test the spell on.
He walked past the room three times and then opened the door. The room was full of coin size disks made of a chrome colored metal. He looked around thinking 'I need a bag' and saw one appear on the ground next to him. He stuffed a heap of the disks into the bag before walking out the door.
He put the bag over his shoulder and began to walk back to the common room. Everyone else had gone to dinner and he didn't think anyone would be in the hallways, that's why he had chosen this time to visit the room of requirement. Harry rounded a corner but quickly ducked back around it when he saw the backs off Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle conversing in the hall.
"Mother told me that the Weasleys are in for a rude shock, she wouldn't tell me why though. She said that very few knew that information and if she told me she would be punished. But if you ask me it serves them right, the inbred Weasels need to be shown that Potter's side is the losing side of this war. But come on we better get back to dinner before the teachers realize we're not there." Malfoy and his cronies walked off down the corridor and Harry glared at their backs. 'It looks like I've just found my Guinea pig.' He thought to himself.
After what he heard from Malfoy Harry ran back to the tower. He opened his empty box with the password and climbed in before throwing the bag of disks onto the floor. Ripping the bag open he took a disk and placed his wand onto it before firmly saying "Enchantio, Illusio Draconus." He then left his wand on the disk and closed his eyes to concentrate on the image of a dragon and felt the disk grow warm before he looked down and saw a picture of a Hungarian Horntail burnt into the disk.
He looked at the coin and smiled to himself before he heard a banging on the top of the box. Harry put the coin into his pocket before climbing the ladder and opening the lid of the box. Ron sat on his bed with a letter in his hand and his eyes wide. Harry walked over and asked him what was wrong. Ron looked up at him quietly and handed him the letter.
Dear Ron, We have gone to the place where we have spent our summers. The burrow was attacked by the deatheaters and they took things off Percy's things as well as many of the families belongings. It seems we have someone on the inside that w trust working for the Deatheaters because they were able to pass through Dumbledore's barriers and enter the Burrow. We have sent a letter to Ginny as well so don't worry bout informing her.
We know that this must be hard for you but please try to act as though you are not affected by this. If we do not they have already won.
Love,
Mum and Dad
Harry looked at Ron and realized what Malfoy must have been thinking of. He stormed out of the dorm and into the common room and saw Ginny reading her letter with sad eyes. They are going to pay.
Harry walked out of the portrait hole and ran to the gargoyle that guarded Dumbledore's office. He shouted 'Sour Snitch' at the statue and stormed up the stairs. He threw open the doors to Dumbledore's office and found the headmaster sitting with members of the order.
"Harry what's wrong?" Dumbledore asked calmly. Harry stared at the man. This was the man that had hidden so much from him, had lied to him and had made him go back year after year to the Dursleys.
"Ron and Ginny just received letters from their parents. Apparently a deatheater was able to enter the Burrow. I don't know how it happened or why but what I want to know is why the hell wasn't the Burrow protected from the infiltration of deatheaters and if it was, why didn't it work?" The order looked at Harry with wide eyes. Dumbledore just sighed and looked Harry in the eye.
"Harry, this incident is very complicated and some things still are not clear. I will try to explain it to you Harry but you must bear with me, for I am an old man and you know as well as I do that I make mistakes." He looked Harry in the eyes for a few more seconds before waving a wand and offering him a seat. "The Burrow was guarded heavily. No one could get in unless a family member knows they are coming that is at the burrow at the time of their arrival. Molly and Arthur were visiting the twins, Bill was reporting to me and Charlie was in Romania when this happened. Ron and Ginny were here at the school. So that leaves only one person." Harry's eyes opened as he realized what was being said. "Yes Harry, Percy has become a Deatheater. I have to ask you not to tell Ron and Ginny. It is their parents wishes." Harry nodded again and looked at the headmaster.
'Sir is there anything I can do?" Dumbledore nodded and looked at him sternly. "You can act like this is nothing and begin your training on the weekend. Use your whole weekend for the beginning of your training and do not push your friends away. Now I think you had better go up to the common room and comfort your friends. I daresay they are worried at the moment that they may be in danger. Goodnight Harry." Harry nodded and walked out of the office and back toward Gryffindor tower.
He would protect them. Even if no one else could.
He walked back into the common room and saw Ron and Ginny being comforted by Hermione. She looked up at him with a look of despair. He strode across the room and sat next to Ginny and took her in his arms. He felt her shudder and begin to cry again as she clung to him. He looked over at Hermione and Ron began to talk to them.
"Before we got these letters we ran into Malfoy, he told us to just wait, that it wouldn't be long till our family gets ours. Then he sneered and walked off before calling watch your back over his shoulder." Harry looked him in the eye and tried to sound as strong as he could at this given moment.
"Don't worry about Malfoy. Just watch him in our Care of Magical Creatures class tomorrow." Hermione and Ron looked at him with an air of surprise whilst Ginny looked at him in surprise.
"Don't worry Ginny ill tell you tomorrow. And if this works the Marauders will live again." He grinned in a way that could not be mistaken for anything but mischief.
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Harry, Ron and Hermione walked down to Care of Magical Creatures class the next morning. Ron and Hermione were nervous and with no reason not to be as Harry looked more mischievous than both the twins combined.
They arrived at the paddock where class was to be held and began to talk to Hagrid. 'hi Hagrid, what are we doing today?" Hagrid beamed at the three of them and laughed loudly.
"Now I can' tell ya' that! It'd ruin the surprise." Hermione and Ron looked nervously at each but Harry looked calm as normal.
After the rest of the class arrived Hagrid looked around at them beaming. "Today we will be studying something truly great. It's a little temperamental but all you gotta do is be nice and treat it with respect. Today we will be studying the Majestic tawny Lion. These are not your normal lions. They are very magical.."
Harry pulled a disk out of his pocket and placed his wand against it Muttering "Illusio errupto." Before banishing it in front of Malfoy. As soon as the disk landed in front of Malfoy a solid Illusion appeared before him with wand raised. A gasp went across the class as the Malfoy with the wand eyed down the one without a wand. To say Malfoy was surprised would be an understatement.
The Malfoy with a wand began to throw curses at the real Malfoy. The real Malfoy dived to the side and drew his wand trying to hit the illusion with hex's as Hagrid stood awestruck watching his student dueling an exact double but not knowing which was real. Curses flew back and forth and students began to run to the castle to avoid being hit. Malfoy was hit by a hex that winded him and he fell back before Harry waved his wand where it could not be seen and muttered "dissaparto Illusio"
The illusion Malfoy disappeared and left a puff of smoke that spelt out the words, 'Watch your back Malfoy' before disappearing. What was left of the class looked around at each other as Hagrid stared wide eyed at where the message had been and Malfoy paled where he sat.
After a few minutes Hagrid came around and sent Malfoy to see his head of house. Harry smirked at Ron and Hermione who were looking at him in amazement before he put his finger to his lips and walked up to Hagrid. "What will we do now Hagrid?" Hagrid shook his head.
"Can't teach anything now. Might as well go up to the castle for lunch. Class dismissed." Harry walked back up to the castle and entered the Great Hall. they sat in silence as they ate lunch and after the bell rang Ginny came running up with a look of amazement on her face.
"Harry what did you do? Everyone is saying that in Care of Magical Creatures He dueled himself and is now in the hospital wing." Harry snickered and said. "Ginny grab something to eat and follow me."
They followed Harry out of the great hall and ran towards Gryffindor tower. When they arrived there Harry led them up into his dorm and into his trunk.
'Now you know where I got the trunk from right?" they all nodded. "Well I have another one over there in the corner full of Weasley wheezes." They all looked over at the box and Harry continued. "When they were given to me the twins said something along the lines of keep the Marauder legacy going and I thought why not? I could make weapons I could use if needed in the form of pranks. That way I could have a bit of fun whilst doing it." They all looked at him amazed but Hermione's amazement soon turned to anger.
"Harry you cant go around pranking people. Its not right. Look how much trouble the twins got into doing it!" Harry laughed. "Hermione I am not the twins. Besides I need some fun and happiness in my life. And if you remember the Marauders fought for the Order so in saying im going to follow in their footsteps I mean fighting for the good as well."
They all looked at him before Ginny said "So how did you do it?" Harry smiled at her before talking again. "Promise you wont tell anybody?" They all nodded vigorously. "Well the time I have spent in here lately I have been studying illusion and enchantment magic." He waved his wand and said "Illusio Persona" an exact copy of Ginny stood before Harry's three surprised friends. He waved his wand again and said "Dissipato illusio" the illusion of Ginny disappeared and Harry walked across the room and picking up a disk off the ground he placed his wand against it and said "Enchanto Illusio Persona" Then he burned a face on the disk. He handed it to Ron who looked at it surprised and passed it around. When it returned to Harry he placed it in the palm of his hand before he continued to explain.
"This disk is now enchanted. The reason I did it like this is because it is an easier was to divert attention or make an attack. These illusions seem real, they are solid in fact the only thing they cant do that the real thing could is kill. They can hurt and mame if told to, but not kill. The one I used on Draco was wand activated. I can make them activated by a word or by being thrown or a time release after one or both of those." He waved his wand over the disk and handed it to Ginny.
"Now hold it tight in your palm and say 'activate' then throw it over to the corner." Ginny done as she was told and a man erupted from the disk before turning into a stag and running around the room. "I thought the picture was of you Harry." He shook his head.
"As long as you know what they look like you can create an illusion. Furthermore the illusion will do whatever the person who released them says and the disk will disappear after use." Harry looked around before saying "So what do you three think?" they all said they were wonder full before Harry started again. "I will make some for all of you in case of an emergency. I will expect you to carry them on you at all times. I will also have give some to Neville and Luna."
They all nodded before they left the room to go to their afternoon classes.
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On Friday night Harry had informed of the others that the training would start on the weekend.
The five of them met early on Saturday morning for breakfast before Harry led them toward the second floor girls toilets for the lesson. "Um Harry, why are we at Moaning Myrtles?" Hermione asked politely.
Harry smiled at her then said "Because I had our teachers turn the chamber of secrets into a training arena." They all looked surprised at this and as they entered saw the door to the chamber was open waiting for them.
Harry let the others walk down before him. Ron and Hermione went first but when Ginny was meant to go in she began to shudder and paled noticeably. Harry walked up and stood next to her.
"What's wrong Ginny?" She looked up at him then quickly at the ground.
"This place still haunts my Dreams." Harry nodded and took her hand in his. "Come on Ginny lets go. Nothing down there will hurt you while im around." She nodded and walked down with her hand in his.
When they arrived at the bottom of the stairs they received a curious look from Ron and Hermione before they realized they were still holding hands. They released each others hand and moved forward to find themselves in a dueling arena.
"Today I will be testing you all to find out what you can do." Moody said as he limped out of the shadows. "You will be dueling against me one by one. I want to see what you can do so don't hold back. Mr. Weasley, your first." Ron noticeably paled as he stepped forward to face Moody.
Ron did not last long though he put up a good fight deflecting many curses before being caught by a full body bind. Hermione was next and didn't last as long as Ron because she spent to long thinking and not acting on reflex.
Ginny lasted a surprising length of time as did Neville, the new wand that he had got in the summer really made a huge difference. The most surprising though was Luna. She dueled just as well as Ron if not better. The dazed look on her face made it impossible to guess what they are thinking.
"Potter your up." Moody's voice broke Harry out of his thoughts as he began to walk up onto the dueling platform. "When your ready Potter." Harry nodded as he lowered himself into the pouncing stance of the gryffin. Harry flung his wand in a jab like motion, sending a stunner at Moody.
Moody retaliated and Harry dodged Muttering "Protego" a shield before him shimmered blue as he started throwing curses at Moody. The Duel went on and Harry and Moody were both pushing harder and harder.
Moody threw a cutting curse at Harry that cut his leg open. Harry raised his wand and yelled "Illusio Draconus" A large Chinese Dragon leapt from his wand and circled around Moody cutting him off from Harry's sight. Harry ripped the sleeve off his robe and used it to bind the cut on his leg before pointing his wand up causing the dragon to follow. "Stupefy!" Harry shouted and hit Moody square on the chest.
"Dissipato illusio, Accio wand, Ennervate." Harry said the spells in quick succession to effectively banish the dragon, disarm Moody and wake him up.
"Potter, how the hell did you do that?" Moody said as he snatched his wand back from Harry.
Harry shrugged "I've never made one that big before. Usually they are only small and I can only keep them for a few moments." Harry said this with a warning glance to the others. They didn't need to know that he could summon illusions quite well. It was better kept a secret. Moody excepted this and just nodded. "Good show Potter, you caught me off my guard. Surprise is always an advantage in battle remember that." With that he turned and limped out of the bathroom.
Harry sat to the side thinking as the others talked about the duels against Moody. Surprise is the greatest advantage. If he could use surprise as his advantage in a battle against Voldemort or his deatheaters it could give them a fighting chance.
He began thinking of ways to get an edge and came out with one idea. Information. If they could somehow get information on what was going on in the outside world as well as in the order and Hogwarts they would have an upper hand. Harry decided he would talk to the others about it later.
Harry rose and walked over to his friends just as Kingsley Shaklebolt walked in. They all walked over to greet him as he smiled around at them. "Hello everyone, im here to teach you Apparition and the way it is used in the Auror industry."
He walked toward the sink that had covered the staircase when Moody had left before placing his wand on the tap and saying "Apparition." The sink that had moved into place over the staircase Moved back and sunk into the ground revealing a different staircase than before. The students followed him down into the chamber. Upon entrance they noticed that the room had been changed into a muggle area. It was like a large area in London with alleys and main streets as well as shops and parks.
"In this class I will teach you all how to apparate and how to do it in a crowded area without being noticed. You will all have to master this as the ministry do not know what we are teaching you therefore you must be very careful of who see' you in both the muggle and the wizarding world." He walked over a street and beckoned the students to follow him.
They walked around a corner and stood before a park and next an alley. Kingsley turned to the students and looked them over before asking simply. "Park or Alley, what's most inconspicuous?" The students looked at each other in confusion "Let me refrase it, are you more likely to be noticed disappearing in a park or an alley?"
"An alley because there's only a few ways out but in a park its open space. You could have disappeared to anywhere." Hermione said matter of factly. Kingsley nodded his head.
"Very good Hermione. You are more likely to been seen slipping off into an alley and disappearing than being noticed in an open space doing it in a crowd. Now these books," He waved his wand and five books appeared before him. "need to be read before you can even start trying to apparate." They all nodded as he handed them out and explained the importance of knowledge in apparition.
They walked around for a while with Kingsley pointing out many things of interest in Appiration. He explained the theory behind avoiding obstacles and not landing in walls or objects and splinching yourselves before they climbed back up the stairs and went to lunch.
Harry told the others to go on ahead and he headed to the hospital wing to get his arm healed where Moody had cut it. He began to walk to the hospital wing but turned when he heard someone fall into step with him.
Ginny smiled at him and stopped when he turned.
"Ginny, what are you doing?" Harry asked skeptically.
"Im coming to the hospital wing with you." Harry looked her up and down before saying. "But Ginny your not injured." She laughed and grabbing his hand began to drag him towards the hospital wing. "I was worried about you silly. You've been quiet since the dueling. Come on lets get that arm fixed up."
Harry followed as she dragged him along to the hospital wing. When they arrived Harry told Madam Pomfrey what had happened and after she had smeared some pasty looking goo onto Harry's cut she said he could go and have lunch.
Harry walked out of the hospital wing with Ginny in tow. After a moment he realized she was looking at him with a worried look on her face.
She kept making glances at him all the way to the entrance hall until he stopped and turned to her. "Ginny, what's wrong."
She looked him in the eye and simply said "Your planning something."
'How the hell did she know that?' Harry thought to himself before talking. "Yes I am. But don't worry its nothing bad. Ill tell you all tonight."
She looked at him for a few moments before nodding and the two of them walked into the great hall together.
*** The afternoon had flown by with the five students being given a list of books that they would have to read for their disguise training with Tonks and Animigus and Transfiguration with McGonagall.
It was just after dinner and having been studying the books between the end of the lessons and the beginning of dinner they decided they could have a break before bed. They all sat around the table in the common room Harry decided it was time to tell them about his plan.
"Hey everyone come with me I need to talk to you all about something." Harry walked up the stairs and into his dorm with Ron, Neville, Hermione and Ginny in tow. He led them into his box and they all sat down on the floor before he began.
"Today when Moody said 'surprise is always an advantage in battle' it got me thinking. With the war as it is we are all targets, you because you're my friends and me because of who I am. If we are going to survive this war we are going to need an edge in battle, we need a way to catch them off guard and the only way I can think of gaining that edge is through information." Harry stopped a moment to let his words sink in with the others.
"What are you suggesting Harry?" Hermione asked with a worried expression spread across her face.
"Well Hermione I told you all earlier that if my plan with Malfoy worked the Marauders would live again?" They all nodded before he started again "Well I thought we can use the way of being the Marauders to hide what we are really doing."
Everyone looked confused at each other and Ron was the first to talk asking "And what are we really doing?"
Harry smiled and said simply "Running our own group like the order of the Phoenix."
Everyone in the room gasped and it took a few moments for Hermione to stand up before she started on him.
"Harry we cant do that, its to dangerous. We need to leave the fighting to Dumbledore and the order. And as for the Marauder thing, we cant do it Ron, Ginny and I are prefects."
"So my dad was one of the Marauders and he was Head Boy." Harry smiled as he saw Hermione open her mouth and then close it again. This was the first time he had ever seen Hermione have nothing to say.
"Besides we wont be fighting and taking off into dangerous situations, we will be gathering information and spying on known contacts with deatheaters whilst we prepare ourselves for whatever is to come. We will just use pranks to cover up our exploits of stealing information from people." Harry watched as the four others thought about what he had said.
"Im in." Ginny stood up and smiled at Harry. He smiled back before looking at the others. One by one they nodded and stood by Ginny.
"Okay well someone will have to talk to Luna about it and I think we should get the twins involved as well. Well I better go to bed I've got Occlumency tomorrow and ill draft a letter for the twins afterwards."
Harry let them out of the box and they all went to bed.
***
The next day Harry found himself standing before the stone gargoyle after breakfast. He said the password and walked up the staircase and into the office. Dumbledore stood over his pensieve extracting thoughts before looking up at Harry and said "Good morning Harry."
"Sir." He looked Dumbledore in the eye and the headmaster sighed.
"Harry we are here to teach you ocllumency. I understand that professor Snape last year did not take it very seriously and constantly was making you relive bad memories. I will only search for things you don't mind if I know. Other than that I will see nothing." Harry nodded and Dumbledore began again. "In occlumency you will learn how to effectively cut off the intrusion of your mind and with practice will be able to do it subconsciously. Now lets begin, to effectively practice occlumency you must know how to concentrate and clear your mind as to make a blank wall for the intruder to see until you can shut them completely off."
Harry spent the day learning off Dumbledore effective techniques to blank the mind and throw off intrusion.
Once he was done he headed back up to Gryffindor tower to write a letter to Fred and George asking them to meet him at the next Hogsmeade weekend so he could talk to them about the Marauder group.
He walked up to the owlery and sent the letter off with Hedwig before watching her fly off over the horizon.
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