Chapter 10 Its Time to train

Taking a moment to catch his breath, and calming his nerves, Harry went and lay down on his bed. It proved to be quite uncomfortable with the number of items in his robes. So deciding it would be better if he took them out and put them in the proper places, Harry got up from his bed.

The first thing he took out was the pensieve that Sirius had given him, thinking it would be better if he had a chat with him later Harry placed it on his table on the side.

Next to come out were the daggers in his robes, but he didn't take out the daggers from his boots, thinking it would be better to have them with him all the time.

Then he took out his bottomless bag, don't know how I would have been able to shop today without this.

He carefully took out the items from the bag and placed them in piles on his bed, the books, which he wanted to read, first were put in a pile right next to his bed on the floor, the rest in the cabinet in his table. The potions were to be kept in the drawer, the dragon hide jacket in his cupboard, he kept the eyesight fixing potion on his table so he wouldn't forget to take it before he slept.

He left the fire whisky and butter beers in the bag and after shrinking the bag put it under the loose board in the floor.

After that he also put his robes in his cupboard, and checked whether he left anything else he had to do, finding nothing else he took out his new wand and starting redecorating and fixing his room.

He cast a quick Reparo charm here and there, enlarged his bed, cleaned Hedwig's cage, fixed up Dudley's broken stuff lying in his room, used a few painting spells on the walls. The end result was an old room looking like a new one; if one of the Dursley's were to enter his room right now they wouldn't be able to recognize this as a part of their normal house.

He sat down and started to admire his new wand, whenever he used spells from it, it felt like water flowing down a stream, he even noticed that he didn't need to finish the incantations for some simpler spells, must look into it someday.

He picked up the ritual book and started to read through it till very late at night, he marked certain rituals which he thought could help him in the long run, like increasing ones speed of reading and retaining knowledge, improving ones reflexes, allowing one to have a eyesight like a hawk i.e. can see far away objects closely.

With everything put away, Harry cast the strongest silencing spell he knew, and gulped the potion in one go. The potion was not that bad to taste, but after about ten seconds, Harry dropped the vile on the floor, and let out a ear shattering scream, when Boris said it would hurt, he hadn't clearly stated that it would extremely hurt. It felt like hot pokers had been inserted in his eyes, and instead of pulling them out they were forced in bit by bit, at least the cruciatus wasn't isolated to one part of his body, this only hurt the area around his eyes.

Soon Harry blacked out with the pain.

When Harry got up in the morning, he first noticed that his neck and back hurt and the next thing he realized the reason for the body pain was that he had fallen asleep on the floor.

His eyes were unfocused and blurry, and he was thinking, Why the heck did I sleep on the floor and where are my glasses.

He tried to look around for his glasses, but decided that for more fruitful results, he better go wash his face and then try to find them without the morning grogginess.

Slowly and slowly he somehow reached the bathroom, and turned on the tap on the sink, and after collecting some water on his hands, threw it on his face hoping that it would somehow improve his vision a little, but the water never reached his eyes.

Wondering what was obstructing the water, Harry searched his face for the obstruction, his hands landed on a pair of plastic glasses, his glasses.

Hello what the hell are they doing on my face? thought a bewildered Harry

Thinking they required to be cleaned he pulled them off his face, but the moment he did that his eyesight became crystal clear.

For the first time in his life Harry James Potter could see himself in the mirror without his glasses, then the events of yesterday came back to him, and he remembered the potion that he took. He noticed his eyes had a sparkle of life in them, he realized he was happy, truly happy; for once in his life everything was going smoothly.

Later when he was finished with his bathroom activities, Harry returned to his room, and got down to studying his new books.

He set up a schedule for himself, two hours of reading followed by four hours of practicing his old and new spells, then a break where he would relax or eat something, then repeat the process again, he set aside one hour for either brewing potions simple healing potions or doing the rituals that he read.

He followed the schedule for a week, where he did the three rituals he had marked and also some rituals, which would increase his bodies healing abilities, and increase his strength, though some were not as painful as others, the strength and the eyesight ones were quite painful because they physically changed him, the knowledge one required a sacrifice so he had to burn a photo that he had of his parents, luckily Remus had an extra copy, so it didn't matter if he cheated, he had still fulfilled the requirements of the ritual. The Healing one was the easiest, you had to include your blood in the ritual, mix it with the potion at the end, and drink it, and the only problem was that the potion was horrible.

He went through his sixth and seventh year books as well, and was currently trying to read one on Ancient and Forgotten Magic.

It was a lovely Tuesday morning, that Harry got two letters, one from Madam Malkins indicating that his order was complete and ready to pick up, and one from Mr. Edwards the trunk man, also asking Harry to pick up his trunk.

Wow that's nice now I will have to only sneak once out of this house without Dumbledore realizing

He was just about to leave the house, when his family ring started glowing from some reason, that's strange, thought Harry while he was examining the strange behavior of his ring.

Suddenly a holographic image of Titus came out of the ring, it only showed his face, Harry was soo shocked that he tripped on his feet, Titus gave a growling laugh and spoke

"Greeting young master, I am sorry to disturb you like this, but the ring can read your thoughts, and it told me that you were visiting Diagon Alley today, your ancestors have asked for your presence, your godfather has updated them on the current events, and according to master godric it is imperative, that you come at the earliest and visit them. You need not go through the lobby to get to the vault, when you have completed you task, whisper to the ring, Master needs to visit his vault, and try and project the image of the ancestor room to the ring. I will talk to you when you reach there to explain the various properties of the ring."

Harry was too shocked to say anything so he nodded.

"Very well I will tell your ancestors that you would be arriving today. Farewell young master."

With that the image faded, and Harry's ring returned to normal.

He had many questions in his mind, but he knew they would all be answered in his vault, and thus he set out to of Privet Drive under his cloak, towards an empty alley where he would call the knight bus.

Authors Note: Sorry took me a day extra to complete the chapter, but I was kinda out partying the end of my college term ;)

SeekerTLK: Thanks for the complement, and ya I am quite proud of the watch myself

Icy Tears: You have read my mind; I will be including them a little later

Athena Kitty: Since Harry is now a legal adult wizard, the ministry charms will not work for him, but otherwise, the wand was made in China, so ministry charms?

Sorry if I haven't included my other reviewers, I am kinda in a hurry to start and finish the next chapter A.S.A.P ;)