Title: Harry Potter and the Fighting Spirit
Author: Demonkillr
Summary: In the summer after the death of Sirius, Harry is plagued by terrible dreams and visions of Voldemort's second rise to power. Crossovers included. RR.
Feedback: It's the coin of the realm.
Harry Potter sat in the compartment on the Hogwart's Express alone; Ron and Hermione were in a prefect's meeting. "Guess that I won't be getting that letter after all." As soon as he said this the door opened and the figure from his dream walked in the door.
"Well Mr. Potter when visited your dream I told you that a letter would be delivered to you. However, my boss decided that delivering the letter would be a big thing. Before you tell me your answer of whether or not you will be going bear this in mind. Once you leave you will not be able to return here until your training will be done. The best estimate I can give you would be that you would be gone at least six months if not more. Second, the training will be extremely difficult. If you do choose to go after all that this watch will take you there after the welcoming feast this evening. Regardless of your decision you can't tell any of your friends about what has been offered to you."
"What do I have to do to activate the watch tonight? Just who is your boss?"
"All you would have to do to activate the watch is wear it tonight. As for my boss do you know who I am?"
"Yeah, Sirius called you the Metatron."
"Well for a short explanation of who I am. The Metatron acts as the voice of God. Any documented occasion when some yahoo claims God has spoken to them, they're speaking to me. Or they're talking to themselves." (A/N this is a quote from the Movie Dogma.)
"So you're telling me that you're the voice of God. You have any proof of that?"
"Other than the fact that your parents and godfather were able to visit your dreams over the summer when they are all dead. How about the wingspan." While he was speaking Metatron spread his wings behind him. "So do you believe me now?"
"Yeah, I do. Guess I would be crazy if that didn't prove it to me. So where am I going to be going tonight? Who or what am I going to be training under? " Harry really wanted to know where he would end up that night.
"That will be taken care of when you get to where you are going. Now since you have agreed make sure your wearing the watch tonight at nine o'clock. At nine you will be taken to your place of training. Also, make sure that no one else is brought along with you, as they will be stuck with you through the training. Good luck Mr. Potter." Metatron walked out the door and vanished.
A minute later Ron and Hermione returned from their prefects meeting. The three were joined by Ginny, Neville, and Luna soon after. The six young people talked about their summers the remainder of the trip to Hogwarts.
After the great feast Harry returned to Gryffindor Tower to make sure that his things were in order for his journey. As the time neared nine o'clock Harry claimed he remembered something that he needed to talk to Dumbledore about. As he walked down through the common room and exited through the portrait of the fat lady he bumped into Ginny who was coming just entering the doorway.
Ron had followed Harry down to the common room for a game of wizard's chess with his sister Ginny. The pair had a best of seven series going which was tied at three games apiece. Tonight would be the final match between them. As Ginny walked into the common room she bumped into Harry. Unfortunately for her the watch had been set for that exact instant in time. In a flash of light the pair disappeared before his eyes. "Bloody Hell!"
Dumbledore's Office
Albus Dumbledore felt a disturbance in the wards. While he could not know exactly what happened he knew that the results would not be pleasant for him or his students. Getting out of his chair he headed towards the area that the disturbance was located. As he neared Gryffindor Tower his sense of dread increased. Had something happened to his weapon against Riddle? Best find out for himself now rather than later.
At the entrance to the Tower he was nearly ran over by Ronald Weasley. "Ron what has you in such a hurry?"
"Headmaster, I was just heading towards your office. Harry and Ginny just disappeared in a flash of light. We've got to find them."
Hurrying back into the common room Dumbledore attempted nearly every measure to find out what had happened just a short while ago. All his attempts however told him nothing. Fearing the worst he asked Ron to head up to the sixth year dorms to see if Harry's stuff was still there. Nearly five minutes later Ron came down with a pale face and a bunch of envelopes in his hands. "His trunk was gone and these were left on his bed sir." Handing the one with his name on it Ron went to find Hermione, Neville, and Luna so he could give them their letters.
Opening the envelope Albus took out the letter from Harry.
Dear Headmaster
While I still don't trust you I feel it is important to know that I will be away for training. I have no idea how long I will be gone and I have no idea what I will learn other than it will help me get rid of Tom. On the night of my birthday I had a dream in which my parents and Sirius visited me from beyond the grave. Now before you ask this was not one of Tom's tricks. While in this dream someone else informed me that if I continued on at Hogwarts the best I could do was end up taking down Riddle at the end of next year. While this may sound like an ideal solution to you it isn't to me. In other words Riddle would die, but so would I.
As I have a healthy desire to continue living after this is done I was given the option of staying here and dieing next July or go somewhere else for a while to train myself for it. Now ask yourself, which option would you choose? You don't need to guess my answer I'm gone and will be until I'm through here. It might be a while so I ask you to attempt to hold things together until I do.
Now, as I said earlier I don't trust you any more. You kept something that shouldn't have been kept. If you had told me in my first year I could have been training since then to avoid having to take the measures I have to ensure my own survival. Another reason is your choice of teacher for my Occlumency lessons. I did some reading over the summer and found that all of the aurors are trained in it. You have a couple of them as allies, I could have been trained under one of them. Instead you choose the person that has hated me since I walked into the doors of Hogwarts. Did you know that the only lessons he gave were to "Clear my mind" followed by him using Legilimens on me. That's all they were no instructions on how to clear it. Well a couple books that I purchased over the summer taught me more than he ever did.
Once again until I get back to clear up your mistakes with Tom hold the wizarding world together and I'll be back soon as I can.
Harry James Potter
Unknown place
Harry and Ginny landed in roughly on the ground. Ginny because she had been taking a step up the stairs and Harry because he had been going down the same stairs. Both were instantly looking around them. Ginny had no idea were she was and was slightly frightened. Harry was just curious about were he had been sent. From what he could tell they were in on top a hill in the middle of nowhere. He knew that since Ginny was here he would have a lot of explaining to do shortly. Deciding to wait until she asked anything he calmly stood up and helped her to her feet.
Ginny had finished checking out the surroundings when she realized how calm Harry was acting. Deciding to be blunt with him for once in her life she said the first thing that came to mind. "Harry James Potter where in the hell are we and why the hell are you so calm about it."
Go down on the volume Ginny, I think they heard you a hundred miles away. Anyway as for where we are I don't know however I'm calm about it for several reasons one I knew it was going to happen. Two, I know that for a while we are safe. Three we might be here for a while, since I came here to get some training. Other that that it's a very long story but we have time." And so Harry told the story of exactly how his summer had been and what had happened.
In the end Ginny had only a couple questions. "How did you know that you could trust this Metatron person? If he was truthful than how long will we be gone from Home?"
"I knew I could trust him because he works directly for God and he proved that for me earlier today. As for how long we will be gone I don't know. I want to make sure that I know enough to be able to stop Tom. Besides think of it this way since you're here with me you'll know something that Hermione won't know. That way you can teach her while I take care of teaching Ron." Harry paused a second. "On second thought might want to be strong enough to survive him and your other brothers first."