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Reviewers:
Wytil: I was originally going to have the sword play a big part in this, but one thing lead to another, now it'll probably only have a part as a sword, and then only towards the end…though I have got something planned for the second focus plus cc weapon at same time.
Jon: I've seen that done, unconvincingly. It could be made to work, but I doubt anything short of a nuke would down Voldie unless it was magically modified. And other things can be countered to easily (tear/sleep gas can be blocked with a bubblehead charm, etc). Besides, I've got a few modified muggle ideas that I'm going to put in.
Anonyme: it will soon.
Chapter 22: Bonds and Training Begins.
Harry was sat on his bed in the room of requirement, with his good arm wrapped around tight around Blaise, his 'bonded', as he contemplated how annoying the world was.
It had taken three days for the spell on Blaise to wear off, and after it had, she immediately leapt into Harry's arms, sobbing on his shoulder. When he calmed her down enough (two hours later) to talk about it, he discovered that she was hit just after his arm was removed, and had had that image rolling around her head for the last three days.
That night had been the best night in his life, with it ending in Blaise giving her purity to him, that was a week ago, and he still couldn't get the memory away from his thoughts.
Unfortunately for his thoughts, there was something about that memory that he wasn't sure if he wanted to remember…until today.
He'd been confused about an eerie glow that had surrounded them, after which Blaise had been able to sense his emotions, and he could sense hers even more clearly than before.
It had taken them awhile, but they found out what it was today, through sheer luck, in the diary of Rowena Ravenclaw, that Harry had removed from his family vault the day of the attack.
Harry could recall the entry clearly:
It's two weeks since I last wrote in here, but not much has happened until today.
Salazar was being a git again, insulting one of my muggleborns, honestly, why can't he see that the problems in the muggle world make it more important to teach muggleborns? How many less muggleborns would be killed if they knew how cast flame-freezers? Or how to defend themselves from the witch hunters?
But that's not anything new, just today it was my student, not Godrics…that reminds me of the thing I wanted to put in, in the first place, I just discovered an unusual magical affect, well I didn't find it, but the guy who did gave me the theory behind it and the option to name it, since he couldn't think of one anyway.
The effect creates a bond between two people, allowing a sharing of thoughts, emotions, and abilities.
It requires two people who are, totally in love with each other, and still virgins. Upon the first time they have sex, their magic moulds and reacts together, thus bonding them. Again I must stress that both must be completely in love, and totally loyal to each other for it to work properly, as well as virgins (your magic only interacts with someone else's like this when you lose your virginity).
Though, that does annoy me slightly, as me and Godric would now be bonded if not for the fact he slept with Helga about three hours after he met her, which was a year before he even met me!
Men!
Harry had to smirk at the way life can change so much, but the sordid affairs of Hogwarts and women's views on men don't change at all.
Rowena had gone off on a rant about men, before getting very 'mushy' about Godric, completely forgetting about what she was meant to be doing, which was writing about the bonding.
Harry was just glad that she hadn't described what her Godric was like in bed; that would have made him puke.
Thinking about the contents of his stomach reminded him of why he was so annoyed at the world, he couldn't feed himself, Blaise had to feed him. It was so embarrassing being fed by someone else; he'd only eaten in the great hall once, taking the rest of his meals in his and Blaise's room.
He'd only eaten in the great hall once due to Malfoys taunts…who had woken up, battered and bruised, in the hospital wing the next day with no recollection of what happened to him, when he was checked for memory charms, it was discovered that there were none. His memory had just…vanished.
Harry was grateful to Rose (the only person he knew could totally remove a memory) and whoever had helped her to protect his honour, but there was no need to go that far.
The first compression time of the new DA would have been three days ago, but Blaise had postponed it as she made him let a few people down for a 'special' research project.
He was still curious to what that was, but since none the researchers were as powerful as him, they had to go for four separate hours at a week each. Meaning that there wasn't enough time for a full group compression time.
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Harry, with Blaise, was heading for the girls toilet on the second floor, to start the first true compression time for the DA, when two things happened, one was he saw a pug dog down a corridor…a pug giving off human emotions, and two, was an excited Padma, Hermione and Rose coming running up to him and Blaise.
Quickly communicating with Blaise sent her off to…'deal' with the pug, while rose asked him to see the stump. After nervously unwrapping his arm, he showed them the mangled scaring stump.
Padma stepped forwards with a tape measure and told him that they might have found a way to replace his arm, but they would need to measure how long it would have to be so that they could make a replacement.
Nervously Harry let them measure the length of his right arm compared to the length of the stump, while diverting his eyes away from the scarred flesh.
"We'll make it during compression." Rose said as a panting Blaise ran up to them.
"Done…it's…stunned. In, 'High Q'." she breathed out.
"Great, lets head down to the chamber and get this started then."
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The chamber had been totally transformed, where there had once been slimy rock, there was shiny black marble, where the statue of Salazar Slytherin had looked over they chamber, now stood a five feet high stage about forty feet across and twenty feet deep, looking up, everyone saw that the ceiling, as high as it was, was providing more than enough light to make the chamber glow.
The glow was being provided by natural looking (meaning they were obviously man-made) crystal threads that weaved together in a random pattern, like tendrils of ivy. The crystal was, unknown to those not involved in the chambers modification, channelling the power of mother earth herself, creating a glow that powerful that it reached right down to the floor, giving it an ethereal glow.
The Basilisk had been cut up for it's various parts, the skin to make special wand holsters (the skin lost a lot of it's protection in the few years since it died, making it very easily to mould into shape and enchant), the venom to be refined into the primary ingredient in a very powerful (and experimental) energy elixir. Various other parts were refined down to make as many sellable products as possible; the money made would go towards the DA's equipment.
The snake statues had been removed to make space, and the chamber as a whole was massively enlarged, meaning that many; four feet thick support pillars were required.
In all, the chamber was around three hundred meters long, by one hundred and fifty meters across, and ninety meters high.
Needless to say, the makers, Hermione, Padma, Blaise, Ginny, Neville, Susan, Ron and Harry, were immensely pleased with the effect, and surprised that Harry had enough power to force most of the transformations to work, though they didn't let him know that he had done the impossible.
Gathering the full DA group, both new and old, in front of the stage, Harry got up on the stage (pushed on by Blaise), and addressed the entire group.
"Okay, since the runes have already been powered, Padma's about to activate the time compression field. While she does that, I thought, I would tell you all a bit about what we're doing down here."
"This used to be the chamber of secrets. AND!" he had to shout over the panicked gasp that shot through the group.
"It's been altered," he continued after causing a bang with his wand to shut every one up. "Specifically for one purpose; to operate as a training ground for our group. For that, it's been transformed, completely, on either side of this stage, you will notice a door, the one on the left goes to the dorms, the one on the right goes to the equipment and potion areas."
"Now, I'm sure your wondering why me and Blaise went around getting everyone's measurements," he said while making a mental note to thank the twins for picking everything up for him. "In your dorm, which is clearly marked, you will find several sets of clothing in your size, along with a wand holster and muggle army boots."
"You will also find a belt, if you can't work out how to put it on, then come to see me, I want everyone to go get changed into your uniforms then come back here, you have ten minutes! Starting…NOW!" Harry immediately turned around and headed into his and Blaise's room, which was straight off the back of the stage.
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"Fifteen minutes! Not good enough, you should be able to dress in seconds! I thought switching spells were taught in first year, I gave you eight minutes just to find your rooms, thirty seconds to think of switching spells, thirty seconds to do it, and a minute to get back!"
"If we were under attack, you'd have less than two minutes warning before death eaters are swarming through the doors! Another five minutes and you, along with everyone else in the castle are all DEAD!"
Blaise just smirked at Harry, who'd of thought that the boy who lived could act so well? Of course it had taken a lot of convincing from Rose for him to agree to act like a drill sergeant, what ever that was.
"Now, in the outside world two hours will pass, but you'll be in here for two months! By the end of today, you'll curse my name, by the end of the first month, you'll all hate my guts! Just remember, you all volunteered for this."
"Now then, your schedule, you all wake up at six every morning, and at 6:15, run around the edge of this room for ten minutes, then the background healers leave to do other things, while the rest of you run for another five minutes."
"Once you've done that, you'll give me fifty push-ups, and a hundred sit-ups. Now, I understand that you pure-bloods don't know what a push-up or a sit–up is? I guess that means a demonstration."
Harry said before walking to the front of the stage and started doing push-ups, followed by sit-ups, explaining what he was doing all the time. Once he had done that, he got to his feet and asked if anyone had any complaints about what he'd told them to do so far.
No one noticed the smirk on his face.
"Yeah, I want to know what all the running and exercise is for? I thought you were going to teach us how to fight, not run from one." Daphne said after a few moments.
"How long can you duel for without stopping?"
"About ten minutes, why?"
"Why do you have to stop?"
"I get tired."
"So you have no problems with how much power you have?"
"No, I don't." she said icily.
"I can duel for half an hour before I become physically tired. So I can beat you three times over simply because I am in better physical shape than you are." He replied. "if you where in better physical shape, you would stand a far better chance against me or Death Eaters."
"THAT is why we are doing this exercising stuff. Any other objections? No? good. Once you have done all your exercises, you can go to breakfast, which ends at 7:30. after that…"