A/N: It's been a while, but I've been hard pressed for free time lately.
There's going to be a lot of flashbacks, just to warn you.

"Speech"

Thoughts

Chapter 8- Hogwarts

The platform was a buzz with excited chatter, nervous mumblings from first years and raucous laughter from the seventh years.

Harry grinned from beneath his hood, he doubted he would be widely recognized even if he didn't have it on; he had changed a lot on a short time.

>>>>>>>Flashback- Day after his birthday.

"Drake and I are starting training again from today, serious training, you guys don't have to join in if you don't want to" Harry said looking between Ron and Hermione.

"Of course we're going to help train, aren't we Ron" Hermione said as Ron nodded in agreement, "besides Drake told us about his plan to get you more confident and we want to help, can't have the world's savior being shy now can we?" Ron said grinning, Harry turned and glared at Drake and muttered something under his breath.

Harry sighed and continued, "Anyway, Drake and I teach what we already know and then we go into weapons. I'll have to find some suitable weapons for each of you" As each of them protested having weapons given to them for free, Harry held up his hand. "I'm not going to take no for an answer, do you really think I would have my inner circle with anything but the best?" Harry joked, as the frowns turned upside down and they all cheered.

>>>>>>>>>>End flashback

Harry chuckled, they had really come far in everything really: spell work, inner fighting, mind techniques (occulmency) and magical power building, and ordinary muggle fighting.

Harry grinned, he had become very adept at wielding his twin daggers. They presently rested on his back in a x shape, they were concealed so only he could see them.

Harry came true to his word and got each of his friends a weapon, he got Drake twin scimitars which he absolutely adored, Harry got Ron, who had turned into a strong young man, a large broadsword which was almost feather light. And he had gotten Hermione slick katana which she handled with ease.

They were all skilled at their chosen weapons and others, but they all still had much to learn…there next challenge though was to become animagus.

Harry looked around again as he ran a hand through his hair and over his now glasses-less eyes, he was adamant to have them fixed after a fateful duel where his major disadvantage was showed.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>Flashback

Harry rolled and launched himself back onto his feet already firing a stunner as he stood.

He spied Drake to left of him and launched him self right, firing disarmer followed by a stunner.

He hadn't hit Drake but he had succeeded in making him fall over, Harry smirked thinking this duel was over as he aimed his wand at Drake to deliver the final spell, when Drake rolled to the left and shouted "accio glasses" and Harry's glasses flew right into Drake's hand, the next thing Harry knew he was waking up on the floor with his glasses being handed to him.

After that day, Harry had been pestering Dumbledore to come up with some way to remove his eye-sight disadvantage.

He finally caved and had Snape make a long forgotten potion that Dumbledore had kept secret for the reason that he didn't want people to use it just to 'changed they way they looked'.

>>>>>>>>>>>End flashback

Harry grinned, he seemed to be doing a lot of that lately, as he recalled one stage in many of 'confidence tests' as Drake had called them.

>>>>>>>>>>Flashback

"I don't know what to do!" Harry protested as he was pushed towards fireplace.

"Just throw some floo powder on the fire and say this" Drake grinned as he showed Harry the card Martha had given him.

Witter residence, Diagon Alley

Harry looked at his friends faces and sighed, before moving over to the fireplace and kneeling in front of it, Harry took some floo powder out of the jar next to the fire place and threw it into the awaiting flames which turned green as the powder came into contact with them.

Harry motioned for his friends to give him some privacy which they did.

"Oh and Harry remember to say 'Floo call' before you say the address unless of course you want to see her in person" Ron smirked as he shut the door behind himself.

Harry steeled himself, "Floo call, Witter Residence", at first nothing happened and Harry turned away from the fire and was standing up to leave when a voice came out of the flames.

"Witter Residence" Harry turned to see Martha beaming at him albeit a bit confusedly but beaming none the less.

"And who might you be…Harry Potter!" Martha's eyes widened.

Harry sighed and nodded, "but you have no glasses! And look at your body, in the pictures you were never like that, and your hair is longer". Harry raised his eyebrows as the list went on.

"Okay, Martha, can I call you Martha?" Harry asked before continuing, at her nod he continued.

"Do you remember a boy came into your store, blonde hair, blue eyes…I think" Harry paused to think.

"Yeah, he complimented me and I gave him my Floo address…" Martha trailed off looking at Harry who was smilling.

"That…that was me, I was under disguise" Harry started bluntly.

Martha laughed, "You're not serious are you…? Holy Merlin you are!"

Harry winked or what he what he hoped was a wink.

"So…Harry"

>>>>>>>>>End Flashback

"Harry, let's get on the train already" Hermione said to him rousing him out of his thoughts, Harry nodded and followed her onto the train.

"We got a compartment to ourselves" Hermione explained as they sat down with Ron and Ginny.

Harry nodded, and slipped into Katasmuri, an Inner fighting meditative technique which Harry had yet to master completely, it opened up your senses to everything especially magic, and you could view things through your third eye area, Dumbledore had suggested to Harry as he said it would help him master his elemental abilities.

After several minutes of deep breathing and relaxation techniques, Harry opened what he had come to know as his third eye.

Harry had trouble maintaining his control, he could see the energy of everything…the train it self was magic, but what greatly interested Harry the most was the threads that ran from his body out of the train.

Harry investigated further and tried to draw energy along the thread as he drew energy from himself.

Harry gasped inaudibly as he felt the power behind the threads, and almost at once, the power came rolling up the strings of power making them larger and wider, filling Harry up with so much energy that Harry thought he could probably fly then and there.

The just kept pouring into his body, Harry was suddenly gripped with panic as he had no control over what was happening.

A hand touched his shoulder in real life, which made him jump and lose his Katasmuri state.

"Merlin's Balls Harry, what did you do to your eyes!" Harry heard Ron exclaim.

Harry shook himself and looked back at Ron, "what happened?"

Everyone in the compartment was a little spooked, he could see that clearly.

Harry listened intently as Ron, with input from everyone, told him what happened.

Firstly he went into a deep meditative trance, they weren't that worried about that, they knew about the Katasmuri state, but then he started to shake and they said that he bit his bottom lip. And after a few moments, his eyelids flickered open and his eyes glowed with an 'ethereal' light, as Hermione told him. It was then Harry had 'woken' up of sorts.

"Well…………….that was interesting" Harry finally commented.

"So what actually happened" Drake asked interested.

Harry stroked his chin in thought, "I…think I may have…ah…unlocked my elemental abilities" Harry paused for a second. "But, I may need to…tweak…the power I draw into myself".

"What do you mean" Ginny asked confused.

"After I was relaxed in Katasmuri, I saw…what I though was energy, power, pure magic" Harry leant forward and rested his elbows on his knees to get and looked at everyone's face in turn.

"I saw threads leading away from me to…somewhere…I don't know where, but when I drew some power from one of the lines, a huge wave of power crashed into my body, that would explain the shakes, and then I think my body was adjusting to the power that was coursing through my body and it opened channels or something in body that wasn't there before".

There was silence for a moment before… "Wicked!" Ron almost yelled, a sentiment copied by Drake.

Harry grinned, and settled back down in his chair and was about to slip back into Katasmuri when he was interrupted.

"Harry, you do it again now, what if something bad happens?" Hermione asked worriedly.

"Don't worry Hermione, I'm not going to draw on any power I'm just going to take a look around and see what's different now" Harry assured her and slipped into Katasmuri.

It took a moment for him to relax enough.

The lines trailing out of his body were now stronger and a wider, more powerful.

Okay…lets FIDDLE Harry thought enthusiastically.

Harry tried moving in his present state, when something happened, something Harry had hoped would happen but he was still surprised none the less.

He had left his physical body behind and had assumed a spirit form.

This is extremely cool

He traveled around the train, but he soon got bored, all he could see was energy.

Harry made his way back to his body, not really caring that he was actually passing through walls and people.

The only thing visible was his body.

I want to be able to see physical things…

Almost as if it was answering his command, the physical world appeared around him.

Harry saw Hermione reading, Ron and Drake playing chess, Ginny staring out the window and he saw himself, looking relaxed and content.

Is this just the result of my elemental abilities or just Katasmuri technique working?

Or maybe both

Harry sat down and watched Ron's and Drake's chess game for a while until he felt a strange feeling coming from the train.

What was that?

Harry absently floated upwards and out of the train, he saw that they were stopping

Magic! The feeling magic being used…

Harry dropped back into his compartment and stepped into his body.

"The train's stopping, let's get ready" Harry said suddenly surprising everyone.

"How do you know? We aren't slowing yet" Hermione asked, brows furrowed.

Harry winked at her, "trust me…the announcement will come in 5…4…3…2…1" and as if by magic.

"We are now approaching the station, students please prepare for departure" a magical voice told them.

"See?" Harry said his eyes sparkling with mischief.

Drake smirked as Ron, Hermione and Ginny stood there with their jaws hanging open.

"I'll explain later" Harry said getting up and stretching.

Harry breathed in deeply, grinning; it was good to be back.

Harry remembered when he had first been here.

"First yea's over 'ere first yea's over here" Hagrid's voice boomed across the platform.

Harry grinned and made his way over to the half-giant.

"Harry, how are ya doin'?" Hagrid asked smiling.

"Pretty good Hagrid, how are you doing?" Harry said grinning.

A yell distracted Harry and he looked over his shoulder for its source and found Malfoy, his usual goons and a few Slytherins taunting a miniature first year.

"Be right back Hagrid" Harry muttered darkly and pushed through the crowd towards Malfoy and his friends.

"You don't belong here!" Draco taunted, the first year, eyes filled with tears, glared right back. "I have as much right to be here as you do".

"Don't talk your better like that you dirty mudblood" Nott, one of Malfoy's associates, said and raised a hand to hit her. The first year winced in anticipation, but the hit never came.

"It's not very polite to hit people, Nott" Harry spat.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the famous Harry Potter" Malfoy said smirking.

"We were just telling this mudblood, that she doesn't belong here…and that reminds, Wasn't your mother a mudblood Potter" Malfoy said smirking evilly.

Harry took a deep breath, power was once again filling his body, a strong wind had picked around the group.

The Slytherins took a step back when they saw Harry's eyes, "If I ever hear talking about my mother like that again, I WILL TAKE YOU APART PIECE BY PIECE!" Harry yelled the last part.

"What…what are you going to do Potter" Malfoy said attempted a sneer and failing.

A fire of rage was burning him up. He grabbed Malfoy by his robes and lifted him clear of the ground, "If not for the crowd here, I would make sure you never see the light of day again" Harry hissed so only Malfoy could hear.

Crabbe finally came to his senses and swung a punch at Harry's head, but Harry without taking his eyes off Malfoy nor letting him down, blocked the punch and lashed out with his leg, scoring Crabbe in the stomach making him double over then hit him in face.

Goyle tried his luck and met with the same fate as his companion.

When Nott, slightly more intelligent then the two morons on the ground came forward and aimed a kick at Harry's lower back, but was blocked by Drake.

"Who are you?" Nott sneered.

Drake smirked "your worst nightmare" and with that Drake punched Nott in the face knocking him out.

Harry dropped Malfoy, and sneered "Watch yourself Malfoy".

Malfoy scurried away leaving his goons behind.

Harry's shoulders shook with suppressed laughter, until finally he cracked and let out gales of laughter.

"That was hilarious, 'your worst nightmare', with lines like that you should be an action hero" Harry laughed, wiping tears of mirth away from his eyes.

Harry turned his attention back to the first year.

He crouched down to be level with her, "Are you alright?" Harry asked kindly.

She nodded scared, then launched herself at Harry, who caught her effortlessly.

He rose to his feet with her clutching him, Harry noticed the crowd still gathered around them, he gestured with his eyes to Drake and Drake nodded.

"Well that's all for today folks, come back later for more Malfoy humiliation" Drake proclaimed to the crowd who laughed and dispersed towards the carriages.

"Let's get you to the boats" Harry said heading to the lake.

"What's your name?" Harry asked "Lila Jenkins" came the muffled reply from his chest.

"My name is" Harry's introduction was cut short by another muffled reply, "Harry Potter I know who you are, you are in a number of books" Harry smiled, knowing this girl would become an intelligent witch.

"Hagrid, wait up!" Harry called, lengthening his stride to catch up to large man.

"Right there 'arry, Malfoy didn't give ya too much trouble?" Harry smirked, "this is Lila Jenkins and she is yet to be sorted" Harry said attempting to disentangle the little girl from his body.

"You're going for a ride in the boats Lila, I'll see you at the feast" Harry said as he heard someone call his name.

"Okay, bye Harry" Lila said, as Harry ran to the carriages, waving back at them over his shoulder.

"Hey Harry" Ron called out to him, with probably the largest grin he had ever seen on his red-headed friend.

"I heard about you fight with Malfoy, brilliant mate brilliant, wish I was there, and when Drake said there was more to come…" Ron trailed off, a dreamy expression on his face, Harry grinned as well. "Well, let's get to the feast then" Harry said hopping into one of the remaining carriages.

"I'm sooo hungry" Ron moaned, holding his stomach.

Harry nodded absently; Lila was up to be sorted next.

"Jenkins, Lila" Lila nervously made her way to the stool.

The hat was silent, for almost a minute before… "Gryffindor!".

Gryffindor cheered, none louder than Harry, Lila smiled and ran over to Gryffindor table and sat next to Harry.

"There are a lot of pretty girls here" Drake commented, Harry grinned.

"That there is my friend, that there is"

A/N: I know its been a while, but…yeah.

Tell me what you thought, was it good? Was it bad? Does it need improvement?