I own nothing, J K Rowling IS Harry Potter. All my 'ideas' are basically ripped from stuff I enjoy; Harry Potter (duh!), Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek, Dragonball, The Matrix, The Lion King, 24, and anything else that even remotely looks far too creative for me to just make up! Don't say I didn't warn you alright!

Hmm, I did mention I liked Star Wars. I think it's rather appropriate, particularly about Harry's anger. Remember, this is just my ideas of what book 6 should be like. I know I will be WAY off the mark (heck we've already been told the title haven't we!). I'm hoping to crunch out both books before JKR releases hers.

As for Harry apparating when he was 7, Snape did tell him that he would find it easy (chapter…3 I think). He will learn more about it (apparition) soon enough, trust me!

Hmm, I just noticed that I am not listed anywhere when you search. Wonder how that happened? Answers on a postcard to...

Chapter 14 – Tis The Season To Be Training

"Yes, Mr Harry Potter sir. Dobby is pleased to be seeing you again" squeaked the excitable house elf.

"We're being taught by a house elf?"

"Yes, Mr Finch-Fletchley. House elves are fantastic at wandless magic, and Professor Dumbledore decided not to burden me with another subject to teach. After all, I am taking all the Defence and Duelling classes. Not to mention the two month course on Apparition. If anyone has a problem with this arrangement, by all means leave. No one is stopping you."

Everyone sat in stunned silence, before Trent continued "fair enough then. If that's all Professor Dobby, then I shall let you begin teaching."

"Thanking you Mr Professor sir. Dobby is be honoured to teach."

Trent walked to the door before facing the class for the last time.

"Remember, he has the same powers a normal Professor has. That includes giving and taking house points and handing out detentions. Give him the respect all Professors deserve."

With that, Trent walked out of the class, leaving Dobby to get on with his lessons.

"Ok. The first spell I is teaching you is the Immobilisation charm. The talking for it is 'Majoro Statisio'. Mr Harry Potter sir, would be you so kind to come up here?"

Harry got up and walked up to Dobby. He remembered this was the spell Trent used on Remus the first time Harry saw them sparring. Harry was anxious to learn this spell, and if Dobby was the one to teach him, who was he to argue?

Dobby then demonstrated the spell on Harry, before saying that there was no counter spell for it. He then gave them a list of spells and their incantations that Trent had written for Dobby to give the class. For the remainder of the lesson, Harry and the rest of the class practiced the spells. No one was able to reproduce any of the spells, and Harry had felt they must have looked like fools standing around pointing their arms, and shouting words which had no effect at all. As the class ended, Harry heard a few whispers saying how this class would be a waste of time, and so far, Harry had to agree.

Sunday dawned, and with it came Harry's first taste of what it would be like to be Quidditch captain. Professor McGonagall had booked the pitch for three hours, starting at nine o'clock. Harry and Ron both had a quick breakfast (a first for Ron), before they grabbed their brooms and headed down to the Quidditch pitch for practice.

As soon as Harry spotted the familiar site, he smiled. He always felt relaxed whenever he was in the air. Hermione had tried to get him to explain what he felt, but words couldn't do it justice. He felt free and alive. He glanced at Ron before mounting his Firebolt and doing a few lazy laps of the field before practising some steep dives. He noticed a crowd gathering, so he dropped back down and landed before walking over to the group.

"Right. Listen up. Those of you here to try out, head out onto the field. If you're here to watch, go up to the stands."

The crowd divided, and Harry spotted Hermione and Neville heading off to the stands to watch. He turned his attention back to the group of hopefuls before addressing them again.

"Ok, so all of you are here to try out for the two vacant chaser positions?"

The group nodded their approval before Harry continued.

"Alright then, the first part of the exercise is to see how good you are at working in a team. You'll be going up with Katie. Myself and the rest of the team will see how well you interact with some basic chaser formations. There are twelve of you here, so break up into pairs. All teams will have ten minutes in the air each. That'll take up an hour. The rest of the time will be spent to see how good you are at scoring goals one on one against Ron. Right, split up and let's go."

Harry, Ron, Jack Sloper and Andrew Kirke watched as Katie proceeded to take up each pairing and put them through their paces. Once Katie had landed the candidates had started taking penalty shots against Ron. Two people stood out and both scored with twelve of their fifteen shot attempts; Ginny was one, the other being a third year by the name of Rick Symonds.

Once Ron had come back down, Harry asked if Katie felt comfortable with anyone in particular. Katie told him that Ginny was the easiest to work with, and the rest were pretty much on a par, but still some way behind Ginny. Harry then asked Ron how relaxed Ginny and Rick looked when he was facing them. Ron shrugged, and said that they both looked quite relaxed, and it was hard to read were their shots were going, and that's why he only managed to save three from each of them.

Harry then broke out of the team huddle before addressing those who tried out.

"Thank you everyone for being here. I know ten of you will feel disappointed, but you needn't be. You all gave your best, and besides, you'll get another chance next year after Katie leaves. I'll post the successful people in the common room. The rest of the team and me will discuss who we think will be best suited. Enjoy your day."

With that Harry and his friends separated from the group and headed back to the common room to get started on their homework. They all pulled out some parchment and began to compile their list of spells and uses in battle situation for Defence.

Harry had just started on his third foot of parchment when he noticed Ron, Ginny and Hermione giving him funny looks.

"What?" Harry asked innocently

"You aren't listing reasons, Harry. You've just listed the spells."

"I know that, Hermione. I'm listing all the spells I know first. Then I'll go back and figure out battle situations for them, don't worry about it."

Ron looked at Harry's list

"Carpe Retractum? What possible use could that be?"

"Simple Ron. It's used to pull you towards something right. So you could use it as a means of escape."

Hermione looked impressed and asked "What about the Glacius charm, Harry?"

Ron answered "That's easy, Hermione, even I can come up with something for that. You'd just freeze someone's feet to the ground."

Harry nodded before adding "or you could use it so they'd slip on it."

Ginny got a wicked glint in her eye and turned towards Hermione and casually remarked

"You know, Hermione. If I didn't know better, I'd say these two are catching up with you."

Hermione glared at the red head before muttering something along the lines of "we'll see who's catching up to whom later when exams are here."

Harry then said "hey Hermione, I just remembered something. You'll have to include that Protean charm you used last year. I can't think of a reason though."

Hermione's eyes widened and she said "you're right. I'd totally forgotten about that. Thanks Harry!"

Harry then excused himself as he needed to find the rest of the Quidditch team to discuss the new chasers. He found Jack, Andrew and Katie before telling them to meet him after dinner in the common room.

He then informed Ron, before settling back down to continue his Defence homework until it was time for dinner. He met up with the rest of the team afterwards, and all agreed that Ginny and Rick would be the new chasers. Harry them put up the notice in the common room to let everyone know. Nobody was too surprised at this, as those two were the most impressive of all the people who tried out. Harry then informed the new look team that their first training run would be next weekend.