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Ch 17. Back to normal.
"Alright, alright!" Professor Said quieted everyone. "Enough noise!"
At once everyone became silent, waiting for the Professor to begin the lesson.
"Now, I am well aware that many of you are over excited, and some of you are over wrought due to the arrival of your OWL results." She began. "Which is why, with emotions running wild, we will revisit a lesson from your third year. Dementors."
"Why?" Dean asked, waving his hand in the air.
"Because Azkaban has already been liberated once." Professor Said answered him. "However, I am aware that in this class there are already several students who are already able to conjure their own Patronus. Therefore, for those of you, I propose this task. When you feel ready, you may conjure your Patronus for the class to see, then if time permits you have my permission to begin researching other spells which you feel would aid you if you were attacked."
"Attacked by Dementors?" Harry asked, raising his hand.
"Attacked by anything." She smiled. "And be creative. You don't have to look at the conventional ways of repelling attackers."
"Okay," Harry began, looking up at Hermione and Ron from where he was lying in front of the fire on his stomach. "How about this one. Engorgement Jinx." He read out, glancing down at the page.
"How could you stop people from attacking you with that?" Neville asked.
"Curse someone your attacker likes." Harry began, "Or you could just jinx them, and then be a little more creative while they're swelling up, or escape. Plus it worked on my cousin Dudley summer before last. And it only takes a second to Floo, or Apparate."
"Very good." Professor Said nodded, as she listened in. "Listen up, ten minutes before the end of class we'll stop, and if you have thought of a creative, or an original way to defend yourself, or others, you can share it, and the most original ones will earn house points."
"How many?" Seamus asked.
"Well that depends on how creative they are."
Hermione smiled. "Come on you two, we can come up with something for this. We need something really different."
"Stabbing them with a Basilisk fang?" Harry suggested.
"And just where are you going to get one of those from?" Hermione asked.
"I've got one upstairs in my trunk." He answered innocently. "Souvenir from second year."
Ron began to laugh. "Offer them a Canary Cream, or a Levitating Licorice Wand."
"Not very original." Harry grimaced.
"What about..." Ron began.
"Well let's think about this." Hermione interrupted. "The objective is to stop someone attacking you."
"So if you're thinking outside the square," Harry began, inserting a Muggle term, "Then all you really need to do is get them to leave you alone..."
"Or buy yourself enough time to get away." Ron added.
"Illusion Jinx." Harry said promptly. "You could cast it so that your attacker would whatever they wanted to see."
Hermione nodded. "That's a little better. What about something to change yourself? But then I suppose that would be advanced Transfiguration." She frowned, puzzled.
"What about if you..." Harry began, then gestured for Ron and Hermione to lean towards him. "What if you used a cross between Transfiguration, and an Illusion Jinx?"
"Huh?" Ron looked bewildered.
"What if you could make your attacker see something that isn't really there?" Harry whispered.
"Something that they fear, or a bigger prize than you."
"How would you do that?" Hermione asked, looking genuinely interested.
"Well, there were a couple of spells I was looking at the other night. One of them was a spell that allows you to cast an image, like an echo of something else, you have to picture it in your mind, kind of like a patronus, except that it looks real, alive."
"And you can make it whatever you want?" Ron asked.
"From what I read, if you can picture it, you can project it." Harry shrugged.
"Imagine being able to project Dumbledore around the school wherever you needed him, or..."
"Dementors around?" Harry suggested. "A Hippogriff maybe, Acromantulas."
"Is the spell hard to perform?" Hermione asked.
"I've been working on it, and I haven't found it too hard." Harry shrugged. "I was thinking of teaching it in DA."
"So you can do it?" Ron asked, wide eyed.
"I've been practicing for a while." Harry admitted. "But remember when we all tackled the Boggart back in second year? How we had to think about what we feared, what the Boggart would turn into when it looked at us, and then make it funny? It's kind of like that. But you have to sort of picture it, and push the image out of your mind as well, make it real. It's hard to explain... you have to 'make' the image be seen."
So how did you practice?" Hermione asked. "You always practice alone."
"Dobby's been with me a whole lot lately. We head up to the Room of Requirement at night to practice, and I've been projecting for Dobby to see. I started out pretty small. A bug, then a bird, a cat, moving on to bigger things."
"So what are you projecting now?" Ron asked.
"And how have you been doing this without your body guards knowing?" Hermione stared at him disapprovingly.
"Sneakily." Harry admitted. "It's not a whole lot of fun, having someone, or several someone's following your every move. It's a way of me having time out. I take the Marauder's Map with me, and I have Dobby for protection."
"Can you show us this spell?" Ron asked. "And teach us?"
Harry raised his hand and Professor Said moved over to them. "Professor, can Ron, Hermione and I leave the room for a little while? We want to work on a spell for creative defense,and I think we'll need a little more room."
She glanced to the side of the room, where Tonks and Kingsley sat both watching, and reading alternately.
"You will have to take your body guards with you Harry." Professor Said warned. "But I don't see any harm in it, as long as you have some idea of what you're going to do."
Ten minutes before the end of class Harry, Hermione and Ron, along with Tonks and Kingsley, both of whom looked very impressed re-entered the room.
"Just in time." Professor Said greeted them, gesturing for them all to sit down. "We're about to begin."
In the next few minutes the entire room laughed hysterically as Jelly-Legs Jinxes were paired with Bat-Bogey Hexes, and Stink Charms were cast, along with a backfired Explosion charm that made Seamus look as though he'd up- ended a bucket of charcoal and ash all over himself.
"All right you three," Professor Said turned to them. "You're up. We're all dying to know what you've managed to concoct."
Harry, Hermione and Ron all moved to the center of the room.
"So what's the spell?" Professor Said asked.
"Well," Hermione began. "From what was said, we gathered that the objective was to stop someone from attacking you, so Harry came up with... I don't actually know what it's called, but... we'll show you."
"Echo Projectorum." As Harry spoke the words a large black dog appeared in front of him, moving and making the noises of a normal dog. At once everyone sat up and stared.
"What..?" Lavender began.
"Don't worry." Harry told her as the dog began to growl, hackles up and teeth bared in a very frightening manner. "He's not real." He passed a hand through the dog, and then spoke again. "Finite Incantatem." The dog disappeared into wisps of smoke.
"Very good." Professor Said nodded. "But how do you propose to engineer the spell to our purpose?"
"Any way you like." Hermione began. "If you can picture an image, then you can create an echo of it."
"Animals, things, even people." Ron added.
"But how do you propose to work it in with our task?" Professor Said prodded them, though she thought she had an idea of what they meant.
Harry nodded and gestured for Kingsley to come towards him. "Echo Projectorum!" Almost everyone in the room cowered as a Dementor took shape, bearing down on Kingsley, until Harry spoke the words to end the spell.
"With the demonstration before we were hoping that would calm people a little before Harry did the real part we wanted to show." Hermione said quietly.
"Here, I've got some chocolate here." Tonks told the Professor. "We thought we'd be prepared just in case some of the other students got upset."
"Good." Professor Said nodded then addressed the class. "Now that we are all calm again, we should award points to the best. Now I think everyone who participated, and there were some very original means of defense, deserves five points. Make that ten for Seamus, for effort, Neville, Hermione, Ron and Harry. Class dismissed."
At her words everyone began to pack their books up and leave the room.
"Harry, a moment please." Professor Said gestured to him, then waved Hermione and Ron, as well as Kingsley and Tonks out of the room.
"Professor, I..." Harry began.
"You show an amazing talent." She interrupted. "Where did you learn that spell?"
"Out of a book." He said quietly. "I've been practicing it for a while now, my house elf Dobby, he's been helping me, been my 'attacker'."
"You learned that out of a book?" Professor Said looked shocked.
"It's something I'm thinking about trying with the DA." Harry answered. "I try to learn the spells first myself before I start to teach the others. I started out pretty small, just bugs, then birds, that sort of thing."
"And now?"
"Now I can create people."
"People?" She looked a little surprised. "Can you show me?"
Harry nodded. "Echo Projectorum." At once an echo of Professor Dumbledore appeared in the middle of the room. "I've been able to echo a lot of people." He confided in her.
"Like who?" Professor Said asked gently. "Harry, you can talk to me."
"My parents, Sirus, Cedric Diggory, Dumbledore, some of the other teachers, even myself."
"And you can animate them?"
"I can make them do whatever I want them too." Harry confirmed. "I figured what better way to avert an attacker than to present them with something else to draw their attention. If you can create a Dementor that's going to distract most people."
"You're not wrong there." She smiled. "Well done, but in future, try not to create Dementors in my classroom."
Harry nodded. "Sorry about that." He gathered his things together and moved towards the door.
"Harry," Professor Said spoke his name, making him turn around. "Snuffles was a good dog, wasn't he?"
"The best." Harry nodded. "Thank you Professor."
Thanks to everyone who reviewed, your comments were like chocolate, sweet and smooth and very thoughtful, anyway, enjoy the next chapter, and if you think it's good, bad or even crap, let me know.
Samantha
Ch 17. Back to normal.
"Alright, alright!" Professor Said quieted everyone. "Enough noise!"
At once everyone became silent, waiting for the Professor to begin the lesson.
"Now, I am well aware that many of you are over excited, and some of you are over wrought due to the arrival of your OWL results." She began. "Which is why, with emotions running wild, we will revisit a lesson from your third year. Dementors."
"Why?" Dean asked, waving his hand in the air.
"Because Azkaban has already been liberated once." Professor Said answered him. "However, I am aware that in this class there are already several students who are already able to conjure their own Patronus. Therefore, for those of you, I propose this task. When you feel ready, you may conjure your Patronus for the class to see, then if time permits you have my permission to begin researching other spells which you feel would aid you if you were attacked."
"Attacked by Dementors?" Harry asked, raising his hand.
"Attacked by anything." She smiled. "And be creative. You don't have to look at the conventional ways of repelling attackers."
"Okay," Harry began, looking up at Hermione and Ron from where he was lying in front of the fire on his stomach. "How about this one. Engorgement Jinx." He read out, glancing down at the page.
"How could you stop people from attacking you with that?" Neville asked.
"Curse someone your attacker likes." Harry began, "Or you could just jinx them, and then be a little more creative while they're swelling up, or escape. Plus it worked on my cousin Dudley summer before last. And it only takes a second to Floo, or Apparate."
"Very good." Professor Said nodded, as she listened in. "Listen up, ten minutes before the end of class we'll stop, and if you have thought of a creative, or an original way to defend yourself, or others, you can share it, and the most original ones will earn house points."
"How many?" Seamus asked.
"Well that depends on how creative they are."
Hermione smiled. "Come on you two, we can come up with something for this. We need something really different."
"Stabbing them with a Basilisk fang?" Harry suggested.
"And just where are you going to get one of those from?" Hermione asked.
"I've got one upstairs in my trunk." He answered innocently. "Souvenir from second year."
Ron began to laugh. "Offer them a Canary Cream, or a Levitating Licorice Wand."
"Not very original." Harry grimaced.
"What about..." Ron began.
"Well let's think about this." Hermione interrupted. "The objective is to stop someone attacking you."
"So if you're thinking outside the square," Harry began, inserting a Muggle term, "Then all you really need to do is get them to leave you alone..."
"Or buy yourself enough time to get away." Ron added.
"Illusion Jinx." Harry said promptly. "You could cast it so that your attacker would whatever they wanted to see."
Hermione nodded. "That's a little better. What about something to change yourself? But then I suppose that would be advanced Transfiguration." She frowned, puzzled.
"What about if you..." Harry began, then gestured for Ron and Hermione to lean towards him. "What if you used a cross between Transfiguration, and an Illusion Jinx?"
"Huh?" Ron looked bewildered.
"What if you could make your attacker see something that isn't really there?" Harry whispered.
"Something that they fear, or a bigger prize than you."
"How would you do that?" Hermione asked, looking genuinely interested.
"Well, there were a couple of spells I was looking at the other night. One of them was a spell that allows you to cast an image, like an echo of something else, you have to picture it in your mind, kind of like a patronus, except that it looks real, alive."
"And you can make it whatever you want?" Ron asked.
"From what I read, if you can picture it, you can project it." Harry shrugged.
"Imagine being able to project Dumbledore around the school wherever you needed him, or..."
"Dementors around?" Harry suggested. "A Hippogriff maybe, Acromantulas."
"Is the spell hard to perform?" Hermione asked.
"I've been working on it, and I haven't found it too hard." Harry shrugged. "I was thinking of teaching it in DA."
"So you can do it?" Ron asked, wide eyed.
"I've been practicing for a while." Harry admitted. "But remember when we all tackled the Boggart back in second year? How we had to think about what we feared, what the Boggart would turn into when it looked at us, and then make it funny? It's kind of like that. But you have to sort of picture it, and push the image out of your mind as well, make it real. It's hard to explain... you have to 'make' the image be seen."
So how did you practice?" Hermione asked. "You always practice alone."
"Dobby's been with me a whole lot lately. We head up to the Room of Requirement at night to practice, and I've been projecting for Dobby to see. I started out pretty small. A bug, then a bird, a cat, moving on to bigger things."
"So what are you projecting now?" Ron asked.
"And how have you been doing this without your body guards knowing?" Hermione stared at him disapprovingly.
"Sneakily." Harry admitted. "It's not a whole lot of fun, having someone, or several someone's following your every move. It's a way of me having time out. I take the Marauder's Map with me, and I have Dobby for protection."
"Can you show us this spell?" Ron asked. "And teach us?"
Harry raised his hand and Professor Said moved over to them. "Professor, can Ron, Hermione and I leave the room for a little while? We want to work on a spell for creative defense,and I think we'll need a little more room."
She glanced to the side of the room, where Tonks and Kingsley sat both watching, and reading alternately.
"You will have to take your body guards with you Harry." Professor Said warned. "But I don't see any harm in it, as long as you have some idea of what you're going to do."
Ten minutes before the end of class Harry, Hermione and Ron, along with Tonks and Kingsley, both of whom looked very impressed re-entered the room.
"Just in time." Professor Said greeted them, gesturing for them all to sit down. "We're about to begin."
In the next few minutes the entire room laughed hysterically as Jelly-Legs Jinxes were paired with Bat-Bogey Hexes, and Stink Charms were cast, along with a backfired Explosion charm that made Seamus look as though he'd up- ended a bucket of charcoal and ash all over himself.
"All right you three," Professor Said turned to them. "You're up. We're all dying to know what you've managed to concoct."
Harry, Hermione and Ron all moved to the center of the room.
"So what's the spell?" Professor Said asked.
"Well," Hermione began. "From what was said, we gathered that the objective was to stop someone from attacking you, so Harry came up with... I don't actually know what it's called, but... we'll show you."
"Echo Projectorum." As Harry spoke the words a large black dog appeared in front of him, moving and making the noises of a normal dog. At once everyone sat up and stared.
"What..?" Lavender began.
"Don't worry." Harry told her as the dog began to growl, hackles up and teeth bared in a very frightening manner. "He's not real." He passed a hand through the dog, and then spoke again. "Finite Incantatem." The dog disappeared into wisps of smoke.
"Very good." Professor Said nodded. "But how do you propose to engineer the spell to our purpose?"
"Any way you like." Hermione began. "If you can picture an image, then you can create an echo of it."
"Animals, things, even people." Ron added.
"But how do you propose to work it in with our task?" Professor Said prodded them, though she thought she had an idea of what they meant.
Harry nodded and gestured for Kingsley to come towards him. "Echo Projectorum!" Almost everyone in the room cowered as a Dementor took shape, bearing down on Kingsley, until Harry spoke the words to end the spell.
"With the demonstration before we were hoping that would calm people a little before Harry did the real part we wanted to show." Hermione said quietly.
"Here, I've got some chocolate here." Tonks told the Professor. "We thought we'd be prepared just in case some of the other students got upset."
"Good." Professor Said nodded then addressed the class. "Now that we are all calm again, we should award points to the best. Now I think everyone who participated, and there were some very original means of defense, deserves five points. Make that ten for Seamus, for effort, Neville, Hermione, Ron and Harry. Class dismissed."
At her words everyone began to pack their books up and leave the room.
"Harry, a moment please." Professor Said gestured to him, then waved Hermione and Ron, as well as Kingsley and Tonks out of the room.
"Professor, I..." Harry began.
"You show an amazing talent." She interrupted. "Where did you learn that spell?"
"Out of a book." He said quietly. "I've been practicing it for a while now, my house elf Dobby, he's been helping me, been my 'attacker'."
"You learned that out of a book?" Professor Said looked shocked.
"It's something I'm thinking about trying with the DA." Harry answered. "I try to learn the spells first myself before I start to teach the others. I started out pretty small, just bugs, then birds, that sort of thing."
"And now?"
"Now I can create people."
"People?" She looked a little surprised. "Can you show me?"
Harry nodded. "Echo Projectorum." At once an echo of Professor Dumbledore appeared in the middle of the room. "I've been able to echo a lot of people." He confided in her.
"Like who?" Professor Said asked gently. "Harry, you can talk to me."
"My parents, Sirus, Cedric Diggory, Dumbledore, some of the other teachers, even myself."
"And you can animate them?"
"I can make them do whatever I want them too." Harry confirmed. "I figured what better way to avert an attacker than to present them with something else to draw their attention. If you can create a Dementor that's going to distract most people."
"You're not wrong there." She smiled. "Well done, but in future, try not to create Dementors in my classroom."
Harry nodded. "Sorry about that." He gathered his things together and moved towards the door.
"Harry," Professor Said spoke his name, making him turn around. "Snuffles was a good dog, wasn't he?"
"The best." Harry nodded. "Thank you Professor."