CHAPTER 4
Harry Potter and The Truth Unveiled
"Ron, Hermonie, even though we are not at Hogwarts. I expect you to give the professors and I the same amount of respect as you would if we were in Hogwarts. If we that we're to about to give you will be hard on you, both mentally and physically. It will exhaust you, but towards the end, you will be faster and stronger then most if not every student at Hogwarts. "This training is an insurance and as a protection to you and Harry. Harry. will need all the help that we can give him, if he is to help in this war and not go dark. Tell no one about what we are doing here, not to Harry or the rest of your friends. That would also included your sister Ron." Your schedule is the following: Every morning, you will wake up and be ready for physical training. PT starts at 9:00 every morning and take at least one hour. You will eat a light breakfast and then go to Defense Against The Dark Arts / Dueling from 10:30 to 1:30. Lunch until two, then two hours of Transfiguration and then two hours of Charms. From 6:00 until 7:30, Dinner, 7:30 till 8:00 homework and free time till 10:00, at which time you will go to bed. Is that understood? asked Professor Dumbledore. Ron and Hermonie both nodded and said Yes Headmaster" "Good. Since it is 10:00 already, why don't we skip the Physical training for now and start with your training. Professor Snape will be your instructor along with Remus Lupin for DADA. They are waiting for you outside in the back yard. Please go find them and start. Good luck and make me proud.
Ron was ecstatic. "The Headmaster, the most powerful wizard alive, was giving him training. Training that Harry would not be receiving. It must mean that the Headmaster trusts him and believes that Ron is more powerful then Harry. "Hell, Harry has money and fame. Shouldn't it be only fair that he," Ron, "get the power, extra training, and the girl too?" That was another thing that pissed Ron off. He always saw Hermonie and Harry glancing at each other. "If I hurry up and ask her out," Ron thought, "I will have her and that is one thing more that I am better then Harry for. I will do it tonight."
Hermonie was thinking along the same lines. "I can not believe that Ron and I are more powerful then He-Who-Lived, and that I can read any book here in Grimauld Place and Hogwarts with no restrictions. Think of all the knowledge that I can obtain. Between Ron, the Headmaster, the Order and I, we can take down Voldermort and be heroes. Everyone will ask me for my knowledge and I can write books and everyone will know that not only did I fight against Voldermort but that I am truly the smartest witch of my age."
Ron and Hermonie walked outside and up to Professor Snape. "Sir, we are here to start our training" began Hermonie. She was interrupted by Ron yelling "Ugh!" before she saw him fall to the ground from a muttered "STUPEFY", and then she heard a disembodied voice yell "Accio wands!" and her wand and Ron's flew to someone that was hidden under an invisibility cloak.
"Pathetic" exclaimed Professor Snape, "I expected better from two members of Potter's secret DA class, but with him teaching you, I guess that is the most that could be expected."
"But Professor, we were not ready" said Hermonie.
"Ha, do you think that the Deatheaters or the Dark Lord himself would wait for you to be ready? Do you think that he will send you an invitation to a duel? I think not. Eneverate."
Ron sat up and looked around dazed. "Where am I? What happened?" he asked.
"Mr. Weasley, you and Ms. Granger just shown to me and Lupin on how ignorant, stupid, and slow the two of you are. After you were knocked out, she just stood there, with "a deer in the headlights look". She did not even try to draw her wand to protect her self and her injured 'friend'. Actions like what you two displayed just now will not only get you two killed but what ever unfortunate soul has to rely on you. Here are two copies of a book that I think you both would benefit from reading." With that Professor Snape handed them a book each entitled, "Spells and dueling tactics for dummies." "Read the first four chapters and give me 18 inches of Parchment on what you did wrong today. Do not help each other. It is due on the desk in the Black Library before 8:00 tomorrow morning. You are pitiful. I think that Longbottom could have done better. Now get out of my sight, you have 10 minuets till your next class. GO!"
Ron and Hermonie walked back inside, and went to eat,feeling depressed and humiliated. Molly was just setting their lunch on the table when she saw their looks and told them not to be discouraged about it being their first day. That everyone knew how unfair Professor Snape was. The rest of the lunch was spent talking about Hermonie's family and where they went on holiday, what was going on at the Burrow, and general things when Ron looked at Hermonie and said, "Hermie, I um, have, um likedyouforsometimenow, willyoubemygirlfriend? Well will you?
Hermonie was surprised. She liked Harry a lot, but she had a feeling that maybe he was gay and could never return her feelings. The only one that she heard of Harry dating was Cho and everyone knows that they only went on one date, and that Cho said that Harry was the worst kisser that she ever kissed. She thought to herself "If you can't have the one you want, have the one you are with". "Yes Ron, I will. On a couple of conditions. We let everyone know but Harry and that you please stop talking with your mouthful!"
Ron, surprised that he asked her was even more shocked when she did not hesitate and said yes. Today was the best day of his life. He will actually get to kiss a girl, and he would get her before Harry got to kiss her. Hermonie was his and his alone. Harry would never get her and this just proves that he was better then Harry would ever be.
The rest of the classes went and repeated the same pattern as DADA did. The professors were upset that they had to basically go back to year one in everything for Ron while helping to help Hermonie perfect everything in the time waiting for Ron to catch up. The homework that each Professor assigned was on top of what they still had to do for the upcoming year. It went on like this for everyday for the next month. Sunday's were the only day off they received. Ron and Hermonie never even wrote to Harry.
FLASHBACK
Tired and exhausted from the ritual of bonding with Hogwarts, Harry raised his bloodied palm to the last suit of armor and finished the ritual. As soon as Harry was done with the ritual, all the suits of Armor stood at attention and saluted him. Hogwarts, glowed golden, then Harry could hear the singing of a Phoenix, before he disappeared. Harry reappeared in a room that he never saw before. There was a bed twice as big as the one that was in his dorm and much more comfortable, and at the foot of the bed was all of Harry's worldly belongings. Harry looked around the room. Feeling the hairs on his neck raise he spun around.
"Mr. Potter, My name is Merlin. I was chosen by lottery to welcome you into the Hogwarts Inner-sanctum. This is where all the founders have written down their knowledge. Spells, Charms, Potions, Rituals, and knowledge of different magics are all here from my time to the present. There are books covering all forms of magic, like Transportation to Animagus to Household spells. To read and understand all the books, it would take you about, 3 lifetimes, for all that is contained in here. Located to my right side, is a table with a several potions on them. Please drink the f0ollowing potions. Speed reading, Knowledge retention, reflex booster, Magical Core expander, Magical Sight. There is also two potions that is for Occlumecy and Legellimens. The Animagus potion is the one that I tells me what animal or animals you have the ability to change in to. I do not think that you would need it. The only reason that I am asking you to take it, is to help block the connection you have to Voldermort and to keep Dumbledore from 'accidentally' reading your mind…the added bonus is that by drinking the potion you will not be effected by the Impervious curse, truth potions, spells or other compulsions. If you choose to drink that one, please drink it first as it will help with the others and allow you to master you powers that much quicker.
The surrounding 7 chambers including this one is under a time spell which, I activated prior to you coming here. Every week you spend here is equivalent to 1 year in your world. Within the first week of real time that you spend here, you will also go through your magical puberty. There is a library here, kitchen, potions lab that is stocked with every ingredient known to the world, extinct or illegal does not matter and they are self replenishing. There is a room that is like the room of requirement and will give you what you need to train. The final two rooms are a prison with 50 cells including an interrogation chamber that inhibit the use of magic and Animagus forms, and the last room is one with a mirror in it that will allow you to see what is going on in the outside world, where ever the person that you wish to observe is. Your owl has just arrived and is in the last room that is similar to the forbidden forest with the exception that none of the animals are able to harm you. Go to bed when you have finished drinking the potions that you wish to drink. You will awake after four hours. You will rarely ever need to sleep more then that, ever. Good night my Heir. One last thing, any mail that you must see will appear on your desk. Please be guarded with any replies that you may make."
Harry walked up to the potions that he was told about and drank all the ones that Merlin told him to. He barely made it to the bed before sleep over took him.
END OF FLASHBACK
Meanwhile in the Headmasters office end of June:
"Tonks, Remus, Serveus, Mad-eye, Mineverra, Fillius, what is the status of the students?" asked Albus.
"Albus, if these are the best two that you could find to keep tabs on Potter, then he will either be dead almost as quick as these two nincompoops, or never be found. Either way they are pathetic, and full of themselves." claimed Professor Snape. The other professors all made similar claims and stated that they all felt that their powers were that much more then when they began training. "Mr. Weasley seems to think that he is going to be the one to take on and vanquish the Dark Lord. He is strutting around like a "Cock on the Walk." We are wasting our time and I think that we would be better served spending those two hours or so looking for the Potter boy" exclaimed Tonks. All the professors told the Headmaster that although the students were at an average of the end of their seventh year, they were shaky. Hermonie had the book smarts and wand movements but not the speed reflex or gusto to do more them barley protect herself; especially against full grown wizards.
"Fine we will continue with the training until the end of the third week of August, or until Mr. Potter shows up," started the Headmaster "If you would rather give them book work instead of hands on that is fine. I was also recently made aware that the children will be receiving their OWL results. As recognition for a job well done, we will send Ron and Hermonie to town and put them up at the Leaky Cauldron for three days and have them observe and follow selected targets around to see if any have a clue as to Harry's where about or if any of them have been in contact with him. Serveus, is Voldermort aware of the fact that Harry is missing?"
"No professor, although he does have someone from the inner circle watching his relatives house, I am not aware of who it is. He is also suspicious of the fact that I have nothing to offer him in the way of what Harry is doing over the summer or of what you and the Order are up to. I think that he may suspect me of spying but do not know." Sneered Snape.
Harry had just come from the outdoor room panting slightly. He had just run through a set distance and an obstacle course. The distance that he had run today was equivalent to a marathon (26 miles, 385 yards, or 42.195 Km if you wish) and the obstacle course layout was similar to the one the Rangers and SEALS in the United States were trained on. His time on the run was an average 2h 15m. It would give people that ran the famous Boston, Mass. Marathon a run for their money. He walked with a cat like grace that resembled that of a fine tuned instrument of destruction. He carried himself with poise and and an awareness that made Mad-eye look like he was lacking in the constant vigilance department. Harry's training had been intense. He had the muscular build of someone that compete in the Iron man competitions. He had a basic grounding of no less then NEWT level or beyond in Ancient Runes, Arithmacy, COMC, Will magic, Wandless, Silent Casting, Transfiguration, Wards, DADA, Alchemy Potions, and Charms. If Harry was to test out right now, he would have a MASTERS in Potions, DADA, Transfigurations, and Charms. He was just starting on spell creation, Wand and Broom making, and Illusions.
The recent ability that was highlight is that he had a power that he was not known to have possessed. He was a Metamorphagus. The other high point he had was the fact that he could take the form of a Phoenix, and any other member of the bird family. He was also a Kodiak Grizzly Bear, Black Mamba, and also that of a Warrior Griffin, an animal that had not been seen in a millennium. One that no one has been able to change into. Little was known about their powers or strengths.
Harry was just leaving the bathroom after taking a shower when he noticed that there were letters sitting on the desk for him.
Mr. Potter,
I would like to let you know that a letter was left in care of Gringotts for you from WWW. Also included are your OWL results which came here since you could not be found per Ministry Regulations.
Griphook
Mr. Potter,
It is my pleasure to announce that the OWL results are in. Enclosed you will find a listing of your OWLS and the results. Due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, the Examinations were interrupted. If you received a grade that you do not think that you should have received, or would like to retake the OWL test for a certain subject please feel free to write me care of the Wizard Exam Boards and I will set up an appointment for you.
Sincerely,
Francine Alfreddo
Wizarding Exam Board, MOM, DOE
Results for: Harry James Potter
School : Hogwarts
Examinations: OWLS
The following is your overall score for each subject.
History of Magic:D
Care of Magical Creatures:O
Defense Against The Dark Arts:A
Charms:O
Transfigurations:O
Astronomy:E
Diviation:A
You are allowed to choose from the following NEWT level subjects the minimum amount of subjects to remain in Hogwarts is four.
Mr. Potter,
Enclosed are the classes that the Headmaster and I have chosen for you, due to the fact that we are unable to find you. It is with regret, that I inform you that your Quidditch ban has been not been lifted, and since you are not allowed to play, the spot of Captain is given to Mr. Ron Weasley. It is also with regret that I inform you that since you do not have your parents okay, you will not be allowed to go into town on the days that have been set aside for visits to Hogsmeade, but rather will attend mandatory classes with Professor Dumbledore at his discretion. If you are not in a class with him you will be doing what ever Mr. Filch sees as proper training for a wizard. Also due to the fact that you are prone to violence, you are to give your wand to me or the Headmaster upon arrival at the Hogwarts express, or upon seeing us upon entering the school, to hold when you are not in a class which you will need to use it.
M. McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
Head of Gryffindor House
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizarding
Course selections for Mr. Potter, Harry James
NEWT LEVEL:
COMC
CHARMS
DADA
TRANSFIGURATIONS
ELECTIVES CHOSEN:
OCCLEMENCY LESSONS – Professor Snape -
DIVIATION
PRIVATE LESSONS – Headmaster Dumbledore-
Due to your actions at the end of the last school year you are to attend 4 hours of detention nightly Monday – Saturday. All detentions are to be served making the castle a cleaner and better environment. There will be no magic allowed during these sessions and they will be split between myself, Mr. Filch and Professor Snape and will continue until at least Christmas break.
Headmaster Dumbledore
Mate,
I know what you feel. Even though you led Sirius to his untimely demise, try not to feel bad, he was nothing more then a mean spirted git. After the way he treated everyone you should not even feel bad. Are the muggles treating you okay? The Order and your friends know that you are not at your Aunt and Uncles and think that it would be best if you go back there straight away. You know that you are not safe unless you are there or with the headmaster. Hermonie is going sparse. The Order is trying to keep everyone out of the loop (us kids) so please come see us at the Burrow. Mom is going crazy saying that you will either be killed by You-Know-Who, and that you probably haven't been fed enough. Owl us and we will come get you.
Ron
Harry,
Where are you Harry? The Order is looking everywhere for you. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-named is probably looking after you. I know that you are depressed. Sirius was killed because he was trying to save you after you dragged your friends to the Department of Mysteries, and got killed in the course of helping keep you safe. The Headmaster said that it is for your own good that you go to him right now and ask him for his help. Go Harry, it is for the best you know…after all who knows better then Professor Dumbledore on how You-Know-Who thinks. He can keep you safe! After all the Headmaster is the only one that You-Know-Who is afraid of.
My family and I are going to be out of Country for a while, so please do not send Hedwig as she will not be able to make it across the pond. I will let you know what America is like when I get back and see you.
Your best friend,
Hermonie
Harry mate,
The shop is going great but there are some matters that we wish to speak to you face to face about. It concerns your friends at school and those that are adults. Also we have some ideas that we would like to bounce off you for the upcoming school year. Please contact us as soon as possible.
Your mates,
Gred and Forge
Harry was pissed at the letters that his head of house, the Headmaster, and his two best friends sent to him. The thing that he was curious about was the fact that Ginny did not send a letter and the Twins had left him a letter via Gringotts. Hmmm….They would have owled him like the rest, so they must know something……they were also Order members…should he trust them? He was not sure.
Harry walked into his dining room thinking about all the questions that the letter the twins sent him had brought up. He made up his mind and wandlessly summoned a quill, bottle of ink, and some parchment. Mentally he went over what he wanted to write to the twins and set to writing Griphook.
Griphook,
I have received your letter from my business partners and would like to see what it is that they have to say that is so important to me. They have always treated me well and I do not get the feeling that they are trying to trap me. Is there anyway that you could set up a totally secure conference room for us to talk in. I would also like you present in case something comes up. Please deduct the cost of the meeting room from my vaults. The meeting should be set up for tomorrow if at all possible. Noon time would be great.
HP
When Harry was done writing to Griphook, he composed the following letter.
To the owners of WWW:
12:00 Gringotts, tomorrow, Griphook
The lost one
The letter was straight to the point and did not give any hint as to who sent it or why. He was hoping that he was not wasting his time.
Harry walked into his main room and looked around. He had been living here for 7 weeks. That was almost 7 years in the time flux. His birthday was at the end of the week (He thought back to the magic puberty that he went through the second day that he was here. Since he was in a time flux he aged as he grew physically and mentally. He felt the core for his magic expand greatly…..actually he knew that his core was his body. It was not just a little ball like 99 percent of the other wizards had.) He new that he would need a lot of help getting ready, being that the start of the school year was quickly approaching. He shook his head not believing that he was about to do what he was contemplating. Harry blinked and then called in a steady but demanding voice "Dobby!"
There was a loud 'crack' and Harry was nearly bowled over.
"Harry Potter SIR, the greatest wizard ever, sir, How can Dobby assist you sir? Are you feeling alright Harry Potter, Sir?"
"Dobby, please calm yourself. Okay? I have a couple questions that I need to ask you okay?"
"Master Potter sir, ask me and I will do what ever it is that you need" replied Dobby blinking his tennis ball sized and colored eyes at Harry.
"Dobby, are you still a free elf, or are you in some way bound to the castle or the Headmaster?"
"Dobby is a free elf, Harry Potter, Sir. He likes being a free elf. Dobby does not like the bumblebee. Tells Dobby that he must tell on Harry Potter sir when sirs be doing wrong. Even told Dobby that he must alert Headmaster if Dobby be talking to Harry potter sir!" Dobby then process to wack himself over the head for having to tell on the great Harry Potter.
"Dobby, stop hurting yourself, is it true that your magic slowly slips away from the house elf if they are not bound? I read it in a book and was wondering if it was true." Asked Harry.
"Yes it is true Harry Potter Sir, but Dobby would rather weaker magic then be bound to someone who hate Dobby, sir" squeaked Dobby.
"Dobby, You know that I treat you as a friend. Always have and always will. IS there anyway to help you retain your magic or make it stronger?" inquired Harry Potter.
"Harry Potter, If I is willing and wanting to bind to a wizard after being a free elf, I's be getting my magics back and some of that of the wizard or witch that I be bonded to. The stronger Dobby feel for wizard and the stronger the wizard, the stronger the Dobby!" was the squeaked reply.
"Is there a wizard or witch that you would like to bond too?" asked Harry. "Great Harry Potter Sir, are you asking Dobby if he wants to be Harry Potters elf sir? I have already swore to protect you and to bond to you…Dobby is not worthy sir."
"Yes Dobby I am asking if you would be bound to me and the Potter estate." said the smiling Harry.
"Yes, Mr. Harry sir, Dobby would like that very much. I's hoped for years that some day the great Harry Potter would take Dobby but would never ask such a thing of the great Harry Potter after what he'd did for Dobby with the sock and mean Malfoy" was the whispered reply. With that the magic in the air swirled around Harry and Dobby. It was electrically charged and felt different then what Harry grew accustomed to. The floor under Harry's feet quivered and they were both filled with feelings of love and contentment. All four founders appeared in the chamber and Rowenna Ravenclaw spoke.
"Harry, by being the heir of all four of us and freely and willingly accepting the bond this elf has offered and wanted you have not only gained acceptance from Hogwarts her self but also the respect of some of the most powerful 'relatives' of the elves, including the goblins. This will suit you well in the future. Being the owner of this castle you are not in charge of her in as much one can be. She will do everything in her power to help you. She will allow you to manipulate the wards, the portraits, the stairwells and access to all her secrets. Do not be fooled. She is alive, and she knows your needs. The Headmaster will hold the wards to the castle but they will no longer be under his control although she will allow him to believe otherwise. Relax your Occlumecy shields and let her touch your mind. After you are familiar with her feel, you will be able to re-erect your walls and always have a link to her. If she has a need of you or something to relate to you she will. All the entities in the castle are at your command." The Four Founders all smiled at Harry and smiled at them before disappearing."
Harry relaxed the shields around his mind and felt as though he was truly home. For the first time in his life he knew that he was home. He felt a tickling at his mind and knew that he could apperated in and out of Hogwarts regardless of what the book Hogwarts: A History, claimed.
"Dobby, as you know by being bonded this is between you and I" said Harry. Harry then proceeded to tell Dobby everything that had happened so far that summer. "So Dobby, what I need you to do is work here at Hogwarts as if nothing is different. I want you to let me know of everything that you see or hear. If you need me but can not make it here, Hogwarts has told me that all you have to do is place a hand on her walls and asked her to tell me what ever it is that you need. Okay. Now I have some things that I need to do."
With that Harry changed his appearance so that he resembled that of a wizard that was 60 years old and apperated to the apparition point next to Gringotts.
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