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Chapter 12: Now Powers

The next morning found Ron Weasley in the Gryffindor common room arguing with Pyrites when his sister Ginny walked up. "What are you doing, Ron?"

"Trying to get up and see how Harry and Hermione are this morning, but Pyrites won't let me in to their room." he answered without looking at her.

"But Ron, that painting is just that - a painting, not some door." Ginny said.

"That is where you are wrong Ginny. This 'painting' leads to a private common room and bedroom, but this damn dragon will not let me in."

Pyrites was, at that moment, resting his head in one claw while the other was moving coins around his feet. "Look, Mr Weasley, I will open up if you can get one of three things. A note from Liriel to say you can enter, or a note from McGonagall saying the same thing, or the PASSWORD for the last time!" A cloud of golden gas came out of his mouth at the last words.

Ron backed up at this. "But... "

"NO BUTS. They are still asleep anyway, so go away or you'll find out what I can do NOW!" Ron was by the fireplace before he finished saying this. Ginny looked at Ron then Pyrites who looked back at her "Do you what to try getting in to?"

"No, no just that you didn't move before now. You just slept all the time before."

Pyrites smiled, showing white teeth. "Because the old owner would stay up all night taking to me about how the school was going after it was built, and after he died I started to catch up on my sleep. Oh, I watched the students come and go, but I liked being left alone so I keep quiet. Only the headmaster knows about me and the other three dragons that are guarding now."

"The other's?" Ginny asked as she pulled up a chair nearby.

"Yes, the others. "he paused as he moved his wings to a more comfortable place then continued to tell Ginny about the other guardians. "You know that Hogwarts was built by the four most powerful wizards and witches of the time right?" Ginny nodded. "Ok, each founder had a favoured dragon. I was Godric Gryffindor's. Salazar Slytherin's dragon is a shadow dragon called Natha Jabbuk, Rowena Ravenclaw's is a Silver dragon called Silvernestree and Helg Hufflepuff's dragon is a Bronze called Zhaunil. We all guard the old quarters of the founders."

"So all the common rooms have a dragon in a cave full of treasure but no one can get by with out Dumbledore's ok, right?"

"Yes and no. You see McGonagall can as well and I am the only one in a cave. Silvernestree is in a forest, Zhaunil is on a hill and Natha Jabbuk is in a old temple but we all have a horde of gold and gems with us. You see I was painted years before Hogwarts was built, when my true body died my spirit was placed here and since then I have been the guardian of this chamber."

Ginny looked at Pyrites for a while then Neville walked up to her. "Ginny, time for breakfast and what are you doing over here anyway?"

"I'm talking to Pyrites here and he just told me that each house has a dragon painting in their common room that is the house guardian."

"Oh. Well time to go, other wise you will be late for class."

"Ok. Bye, Pyrites and say hi to Harry and Hermione for me."

"Good-bye, Miss Weasley, and do visit again sometime." Pyrites said then went to counting his coins.

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Outside Hogwarts was Drizzt in full chain mail armour and both swords out as he did his morning warm up. He stopped when he was facing the lake in mid swing as a cracking noise came from behind him.

"You must be the next wave to attack the school. What is it this time, more skeleton or are you going to attack me yourself?" Drizzt said without turning around.

Bellatrix Lestrange's threw the old boot she carried to the ground next to Drizzt. "Way waste magic power on a Muggle like you."

Drizzt looked over his shoulder at her. "A Muggle you say, and what makes you say I am a Muggle?"

"You have used no magic at all and all you use are those swords. I can kill you now and in fact I think I will do that. Avada Kedavra!" she yelled, and a green light headed for Drizzt.

Drizzt reached into his base abilities that all Drow have and cast a 20' globe of darkness around himself and rolled to one side as he felt the curse miss him.

"So you can us magic, freak. That will not save you." Bellatrix snarled as she cast a light spell from her wand thinking that the globe was solid, but when it hit the globe all it did was pass through and land in the lake.

"Is that all you have got witch, because if my hearing is right one pissed off lover of mine is right behind you." Drizzt called out of his darkness.

Bellatrix turned around in time for one of Liriel's dagger's to hit her wand arm. "NO one attacks what is mine!" Liriel yelled and a bolt of lightning hit Bellatrix right after.

Bellatrix, surprised at the attack from behind, rolled with the lightning bolt and came up with a old newspaper in hand. "You win this time, freaks, but I'll get you." the last word echoing on the wind as she vanished.

Drizzt walked out of the globe and smiled. "'What is mine', Liriel? We need to talk about that, but not now."

Liriel smiled as well. "But you are mine now, Do'Urden, and nothing is going to change that." kissing him then she walked back into the castle leaving Drizzt to finish his morning training.

Liriel, still needing to let off some steam was walking up to her room when she ran into Ron, knocking him over, but her Drow Reflexes kept her on her feet.

Ron was walking down to Breakfast with Ginny and Neville.

"Professor Baenre, are you all right?" Ginny asked as Neville helped Ron up.

"I'm fine, Miss Weasley, and you?" looking at Ron at this.

"I'm fine, Professor. Where are you off to anyway in such a huff?"

"Oh, nothing much, just another Death Eater attack. This one got away as well, so I'm going to blow off some steam before classes start, so if you will excuse me I will be going." walking by them she left the frightened teens to get to breakfast

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Harry woke up to see Hermione still asleep, her face formed into a picture of peace and serenity. Looking at the clock to see that Charms started 30 minutes ago, Harry rolled out of bed and decided to have a bath seeing that Hermione was not getting up soon. When Harry got back from his bath Hermione was up and looking through her drawers, finding her robes and did not hear Harry enter the room. Harry walked up to her without making a sound.

'Drizzt would be pleased with this.' Harry thought, when Hermione spun around and looked Harry in the eye.

"Harry did you say something just now?"

"No, in fact I was just going to give you a good morning kiss when you came around just now."

Hermione placed her hands on her hips at this and said. "That's weird. I could of sworn I hear you say 'Drizzt would be pleased with this.' And by the way, you made a noise on the way over from the door."

Harry gave a guilty look. "Hermione I was thinking that on the way over, seeing that I was nearly quiet all the way over, so how did you hear my thoughts? "

Hermione looked at her left hand and the new scar that was there now. "Harry, last night before you woke up from the nightmare, I placed my hand on your scar and it burned me, leaving this scar. Liriel wanted to take a look at it with you there as well, as so as possible today."

Harry took Hermione's hand. "Hermione whatever this has giving you, I hope the dreams are not it, now take a shower and then we will go to the kitchen for breakfast. Sound good?"

Hermione looked at Harry and smiled "That sounds divine to me. Just give me a few minutes, ok?"

Harry nodded and then, after kissing her, went down to the common room to wait for her.

It was 9:15 by the time Harry and Hermione finished in the kitchen. Seeing that they still had 45 minutes left before potions, they went in search of Liriel to find out what the scar of Hermione's was capable of.

Harry and Hermione found Liriel in the DADA room, teaching Ginny and the other fourth year student's in the same way she had been teaching all of the other years student.

Liriel was standing on the table, but unlike last time she looked off centre, like she was to the left and right and back to front, all at once. Ginny was at the moment the one facing her.

Liriel saw them at the door and waved them in. "Class, you all know Harry and Hermione, so keep trying to hit me, ok." looking back at them and then pointing to her office door.

Harry and Hermione walked by and then into her office, which had undergone the same transformation as the classroom, accept for still having the same colour walls and floor. The table was smaller than the one outside and the chairs in front of the desk were the same as all of the student chairs outside, but the chair behind the desk was made of stone with a purple colour padding, and large diamonds on the end of each arm of the chair.

Harry and Hermione took the two chairs on the far side of the desk and waited for Liriel to get to them. It was half an hour later before Liriel joined them.

Hermione was looking, or trying to look through one of the books that was on the self in the room, while Harry was cleaning his nails with his dagger. "Hermione, I would give up on that book if I were you. That is advanced magic from my world. If you like, I can get you some of the base books."

Hermione looked at her and replied "That would be nice, Liriel, but to why Harry and I are here."

"Yes, the scar. I have the next class off so if you like I can take a look at it now?"

"But we have potions in 15 minutes, Liriel. We have to go." Harry said.

Liriel smiled "Give me a minute, ok?"

Harry and Hermione nodded their heads.

Liriel walked over to the fireplace in the back corner of the room and taking some floo powder from a bag next to the fire and threw it in the hearth, then called out a name. "Snape! I need to talk with you now." she said.

Snape's head appeared in the fire that was now raging in the fireplace. "What is it Professor? I have a class in 10 minutes, so make it quick."

"Snape, I will need to borrow two of your student from this next class for the length of the lesson, just so that you know."

Snape's head looked around Liriel's hips to see Harry sitting in a chair and Hermione standing next to him. "I will let them off this time, but they are to hand me a three foot long scroll on all of the uses of Nymph Hair in potions. Got it you two?"

Harry and Hermione nodded their heads and Snape's head vanished from the fireplace.

Liriel looked at them and pointed to the other chairs as she sat down in the large stone chair. "Now I have some thoughts on that scar and would like to test them, if that is ok with you." Liriel said.

Harry looked at Hermione before saying "Liriel, we have made a discovery about this scar already. We can hear each others thoughts, so if that was one of the tests then you do not have to do it now."

"Well, that was one of the tests, but there is one more to do with that that I would like to find out." she paused for a second then contued "I want you two to try to talk to each other with you minds, then we try something else, ok?"

Harry and Hermione nodded before looking at each other. 'Hermione can you hear me right now?' Harry thought to her.

'Yes, loud and clear.' out loud she said "Liriel, we can but we have no idea what the range is, so who knows?"

"Well range we can test another time. Right now I want you, Hermione, to come here for this. Harry, you stay right where you are." Hermione did this and Liriel took her hand, "Now Hermione, this will hurt you but I need to find out if Harry will feel it to. I will not do it if you do not want me to. The choice is yours."

Hermione nodded her head to go ahead.

Liriel reached into a pouch without Harry seeing this and placed the dagger she pulled out next to her hand. "Now, Hermione, are you sure about this? I will heal the wound immediately after."

Hermione nodded then thought to Harry. 'Harry do not blame Liriel for what is to happen, ok?'

Harry looked at her then nodded.

Liriel looked at Hermione and pushed the dagger into her forearm.

Hermione cried out at this and Harry grabbed his arm, right where Liriel's dagger was in Hermione's.

Liriel quickly pulled the dagger out of Hermione's arm and started to mutter under her breath and placed a hand on the wound, which closed and stopped bleeding all at once. "I am sorry about that, but we needed to find out. Harry, are you aright?"

Harry nodded his head and pulled his hand away from his arm to see no damage at all.

Liriel walked over to a shelf on her wall and pulled down an old tome with strange symbols on the cover. "This is a tome on Psionic powers on creatures of my world called Mind Flayers. I will get it translated into English as soon as I can and then I want you two to read it and find out what powers you have that the book describes and get back to me, ok?"

They both nodded their heads.

"Good. Now for one last test. Harry, I am sorry, but I have to put you and Hermione to sleep and find out if you will share dreams as well as pain. I will bring you both out of it as soon as we find out, ok?"

Harry nodded his head after a minute to think.

Liriel smiled and said "Thank you for trusting me. Now I will put you both to sleep and Harry, I will try to trigger the dream as soon as I can, ok?" Harry nodded as Liriel said the spell to put both Harry and Hermione to sleep.