Harry Potter and The Power Within
AN: Well I'm going to see if I can beat my record of 5000 words, if I don't I don't but it wont be any less than 3000 words, that's my new standard I must keep at all times , so chapters are going to slowly get longer and longer till it takes three days just to read one chapter…it will never happen but it could lol .
Chapter Nine - Confrontations and Home Base
Albus was sitting in his office at Hogwarts sorting some things out for the order when an alarm started ringing round his office making him nearly jump a foot in the air out of shock. The alarm going off meant that Harry had just been killed. Albus was very scared now because it meant that if Harry really was dead everyone was doomed to die.
He quickly rummaged around in his desk for some blank parchment and started writing a letter to Lupin as fast as he could to go and check up on Harry when the alarms suddenly went off.
'What the hell is going on' thought Albus tom himself.
He re-wrote the letter for Lupin to go check on Harry in the morning to make sure he was all right. The alarm going off had really spooked Albus and he didn't know what to think about it. He started pacing his office trying to think of what to do when it occurred to him to just go for himself and see if Harry was OK.
He sat behind his desk and started rummaging around for some floo powder when there was a slight buzzing noise followed by a massive burst of power. Albus sat up in his chair and nearly fell out of it when he saw a tall, muscular man standing in front of him with power falling from him in waves. The man slowly turned around and fixed Albus with an emerald stare that forced him to look the man in the eye.
"Hello Albus, its time we had a little chat I think"
In a blur of motion Albus had has wand in his hand and pointed it at the man's head.
"Who are you and how did you get in here?"
"I am myself and I Jumped here, you also need to get yourself some manners"
"I will show manners when you tell me who you are!"
"Lets play 20 questions, I'll only answer with yes or no"
"Play 20 questions?"
"Yes, 19 questions left"
"Hmmm, OK, do I know you?"
"Yes, 18 questions"
"Were you once a student here?"
"Yes, 17 questions"
"Were you in Slytherin House?"
"No, 16 Questions"
"Hmmmmmm" Albus started debating in his head on what to say so he didn't get caught out by this man.
"Do you work for Voldemort?"
"NO!, 15 questions" Harry's eyes flashed with power and Albus stepped back slightly and the hate and power hidden behind those eyes, 'There is no way he's a death eater'. Suddenly Albus was struck with an idea on how to find out who the man was.
"Do you still go to school here?"
"Yes, 14 questions"
"Are you in Gryffindor House?"
"Yes, 13 questions" said Harry with a slight smirk forming his lips.
Albus stared into the green jewels of Harry's eyes for a long time until it all came together in his mind.
"Are you Harry Potter?"
"Well done and you did it with 12 questions left" and Harry started clapping.
"Stupefy!" Albus sent a stunner at the man that was standing in front of him, there was no way that this man was Harry Potter, he only resembled him by the green eyes, otherwise they were nothing alike. This man was confident, strong and big. Harry was small, shy and physically weak.
Harry clicked his fingers and the spell fizzled out in mid air. Albus stood there shock, this man had just nullified his spell without lifting a wand or even tapping into his magic like most other that do wandless magic.
"PEELSOTOG" Albus roared, throwing the strongest stunning spell he knew at the man and pushed as much magic as he could behind it and watched the grey orb fly towards him. Again the man didn't move or flinch and he lifted his hand up which had a golden orb in it which absorbed the orb as if it was nothing but a simple disarming spell.
"Albus, relax, its me Harry, stop trying to attack me, your going to give yourself a hernia"
"You aren't Harry, you don't even look anything like him!"
"Ah, but I am, go get some trust potion if you don't believe me"
"No need, I can read minds"
"Not mine you cant"
"Do not kid yourself young man, only Voldemort has the power to keep me out of his mind" Harry just sighed and nodded.
."Legilimens" Albus cried and pointed his wand at Harry's head.
A small silver bean erupted from Albus' wand and connected with Harry's head. Harry just sat there watching the beam come slowly closer and at the last possible moment he threw up his mental shields and forcibly threw Albus from his mind at the same instant Albus was in.
When Albus came to, he found himself lying down on a sofa that he was sure wasn't there a moment ago.
"I did tell you to use a truth potion, next time you might listen to me when I say you cant enter my mind"
"OK,OK, there is some in the top draw in my desk, would you go get it for me please?" Harry raised his eye brow at the question, "if you are who you say you are I don't have anything to worry about that involves you tampering with the potion"
"Fair enough, gimme a sec" Harry walked over to Albus' desk and rummaged through looking for the vial which didn't take long as it was near the front. "like to keep it handy I see" Harry said with a slight chuckle and Albus simply shrugged. "You can never be too careful, these are dark days again"
Harry handed over the vial to Dumbledore who told Harry to sit down and open his mouth. Harry did as he was told and Albus put three drops of the watery substance on Harry's tongue. He waited for the glazed expression to come over his eyes before starting his questioning. It didn't take long before Harry was sitting with a blank look which slightly un-nerved the headmaster but he continued anyway.
"What is you full name?"
"King Harry James Potter, Lord Drake"
"Why are you a king?"
"Because I own and wield Excalibur"
"May I see it?
"No"
"Why not?"
"I do not wish to take my throne yet"
"Ok, why do you look so different?"
"I have been in training"
"How did you change so much in a few weeks?"
"I was in a different dimension where time has no meaning so it appeared that I was only gone for ten minuets" that explained why the alarms went off.
"What have you been training in?"
"Everything"
"What did you mean earlier by being Lord Drake?"
"I do not wish to tell you"
That shocked Albus, no one had ever managed to refuse questions before. It couldn't be done, this was the strongest truth potion ever made. Albus decided to cut his losses and stopped the questioning there, no matter how much he was dieing to know what Harry had been up to, it could wait till Harry was willing to tell him.
"I am now going to give you the antidote, it will take a few moments to work though"
"No need, I can turn the effects off when I choose" and just as Harry had finished talking his eyes began to focus and he looked intently at Albus.
"You are immune to it?"
"Only when I choose to be, and I decided to allow it to work so you wouldn't keep trying to stun me"
"Ah, good point, so what are you here for then?"
"I've come to ask if I can take my NEWTs early as there is nothing this school can teach me anymore"
"That can be arranged, I will see what I can do for when you come back"
"That brings me to the other thing I came here for, I was wondering if the Defence Against the Dark Arts job is still open?"
"Alas it isn't, as soon as the year finished I had a nice man come ask me for it then, and he is more than capable, why do you ask?"
"I wanted to teach it, well never mind then"
"Hang on there, there is still one more position open, but I was going to give it to one of the Order members"
"What job?"
"Duelling teacher" Harry's eyes lit up, DUELLING! That would be easy to teach!.
"Any chance I can convince you to let me take that job?"
"Indeed there is, you can duel me and if I think you are good enough I will let you each the class"
"So your saying if I beat you I can teach it?"
"I doubt you can beat me, but I'll let you teach it if I think you did good by my standards"
"Ok, what ever, tell me where and when and ill be there"
"Tomorrow night in the Great Hall, that good for you? I will be having some of the staff watching too"
"That's fine by me, and just to let you know, I wont be at the Dursleys ever again, I'm going to my own home.
"Where is tha…" Albus never got a chance to finish it because at that moment Harry fazed out and disappeared from his office. Albus moved over to his desk and sat down heavily in his chair. He rummaged around for some parchment and starting writing letters to Minerva, Remus, Tonks and Severus. And stacked them up ready for when Fawks came back.
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Harry Jumped to the opposite side of the Forbidden Forest where there was some nice green hills and plenty of land for Harry to build a house and have room to expand and make long distance wards.
Harry set about summoning stone and started his nights work of making the house, bit by bit, and charming each bit of stone or brick to be resistant to curses and never fall apart, this would make the house a lot stronger than just placing a ward over the entire house, which he would be doing as well.
It was a long night but by 7a.m. the next day Harry had finished making his house, the wonders of magic never ceased to amaze him. It was an average two floor house from the outside with four windows on all sides, but on the inside it had five rooms downstairs and seven rooms upstairs and was charmed to add an extra bedroom in case there wasn't enough room for anyone to sleep already.
Harry was totally drained after the night of labouring but he was pleased with himself non the less. He now had a Kitchen, Gym, TV room, Living room, Dining room on the bottom floor all fully furnished and on the top floor he had; The master bedroom, bathroom (similar to Forge's), Another Gym and four spare bedrooms.
Harry slowly unpacked all his belongings into his bedroom but when he came to the Phoenix egg, he gently placed it beside his bed so that when it started hatching Harry would be the first to know. And with that Harry collapsed in bed and had a dream about playing a game of Quidditch.
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Harry woke up suddenly ten hours later with his whole right side feeling like it was being burned, and when he became fully awake he was shocked to see that it was. He leapt out of bed and started staring around looking for the source of the heat.
His eyes landed on the Phoenix egg that was floating a few inches from its box and glowing brightly. It was going to hatch any minuet and Harry would soon have the only pet Phoenix Lord is known existence, because they were so rare, they were also very intrusting of people so they never bonded with anyone.
Harry sat just out of the burning range and watched the egg with rapt attention. After hours of sitting there he could slowly start to hear a Phoenix song that seemed the same as the same one that Fawks used to sing but in a much more beautiful note and slightly deeper, making the sound wash over Harry making him relax and feel happy.
The egg suddenly burst into flames and when they died down Harry could see a small, bald, pink little bird squawking indignantly.
Harry quickly rushed over and looked the bird over, it seemed no different than Fawks after his burning day except that its eyes were a bright blue instead of black.
"Mearas" Harry whispered, "I'll name you Mearas"
Harry picked the bird up gently and placed it on his bed and sat and watched it hobble around squawking its head off.
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AN: Sorry this chapter isn't as good as the next one but I'm in a bit of a rut on what to do, I mean I know what I want to do, but I'm not sure how to take it there, so chapters may be short and not very exciting, or short and full of fighting, I dunno but meh, more tomoz hopefully!
Landroval The name of a myth eagle that lived in the mountains and was brother to the wind lord.