Harry Potter and the Impossible Mission

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Summary:

Harry is reflecting on the things that happened last year at the Department of Mysteries when he gets an unexpected visitor. He learns about his family and moves on after the death of Sirius. A new event begins at Hogwarts and Harry learns he must participate if he wants to help the Order. Harry begins working harder than ever to accomplish the task when one of the only people he feels understands him is taken by Voldemort. He deals with the contents of the prophecy and all the pressures that normal teens have, growing stronger to do what's asked of him all the time.

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Chapter 7: Extra Lessons

Harry woke up the next morning in his bed in the dormitory. It's nice to be back, he thought as he climbed out of bed, and began getting dressed for the day. Ron was still sleeping in the bed next to his. Harry knew he would hate to miss breakfast so went over to wake him up.

"Wake up, Ron or we'll miss breakfast," Harry told him, shaking the boy slightly. Ron just groaned and rolled over. Harry sighed, wondering how his friend had made it through the first day of classes without him. He pushed Ron out of bed and walked out of the dormitory.

"Hey! What was that for?" Ron yelled from the room. Harry just laughed and continued on his way down the stairs. Hermione was already down there and waiting for them. She was currently sitting on one of the couches, reading a book.

"Ready for breakfast?" Harry asked her as she closed her book. She nodded. Ron soon came down the stairs and the three headed out of the common room and down to the Great Hall. Once they reached the Great Hall, they sat down at Gryffindor table. Ron immediately started piling food on his plate. Hermione just shook her head before putting some eggs on her own plate.

"Here's your schedule Mr. Potter," Professor McGonagall said handing Harry a piece of parchment before walking up to her seat at the Head table. Harry looked down at his schedule for the day and sighed. He had potions first thing in the morning and an extra potions lesson in the afternoon.

"What's wrong?" Hermione asked him.

"Potions twice today," Harry exclaimed. "It's the worst thing that could have happened!" He put his head down on the table barely missing his plate of food. This is a great way to welcome me back, Harry thought as he looked up and started eating. Soon, too soon for Harry, it was time to go to their first class of the day. The three friends headed out of the Great Hall and down towards the dungeons where Snape's classroom was.

"This is the NEWT Potions class," Snape said as soon as the bell rang. "It will not be easy and those who fail will not stay with us long. The first potion we will be making is on the board. Copy it down and take some notes on it from your books. We will not be making it today." Harry sighed and pulled out his book, ink, and quill. This was going to be a long year.

When the class ended, Harry and his friends left with fifty points less than they had that morning before they came in. Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked up the stairs and headed to charms.

"He's still evil," Ron finally said. Harry laughed slightly and Hermione glared at Ron.

"I really thought that this year-"

"You thought that he would be nice just because he's on our side?" Ron questioned, interrupting Hermione. "We all know he's evil. Who knows if he really even truly is on our side."

"Ron, you know he's on our side," Hermione said. "Dumbledore trusts him." And so the next fight began. Harry was suprised there hadn't been one at breakfast, but you could always count on one to happen after potions. They argued the whole way to class and Harry was forced to sit between the two during class. The two refused to speak to each other, but sent glares at each other often.

All too soon Harry had to leave his friends and make his way down to the dungeons where Professor Snape's office was. Something gave him the feeling this would be worse than the Occlumency lessons from last year. He sighed and knocked on the door.

"Come in," Snape said. Harry closed his eyes for a moment then pushed open the door and walked inside.

"Sit," Snape said. Harry sat in the chair his professor pointed to and waited for the man to speak. He was regretting coming down here already and wanted to do nothing more than run back out the door and go up to his comfortable seat in the Gryffindor common room. Sadly, that wasn't a choice if he wanted to be of any help to the Order so he stayed in his seat.

"Now the Headmaster has asked that I teach you extra potions lessons once a week," Snape started. "Why I'm not quite sure since you are so terrible at it in my class, but we will try to improve that here." Harry glared at his teacher, but refrained from saying anything back to that comment. It was Snape's fault that he was so horrible at potions in the first place thought Harry.

"For today I just want you to make a simple potion that we made last year," Snape said handing him a sheet of parchment. He conjured up a table that appeared in front of Harry. "Those are the directions. I have something I need to go check on so I expect you to work on it without touching anything in my office like last time." Harry nodded and took the parchment from him.

He set up his cauldron on the table and began to get out his supplies. Just like he had discovered during his OWLS, making a potion without Snape in the room was actually quite easy. He was able to concentrate more. He finished just as Snape walked in the door and leaned back in his chair.

"Have you finished?" Snape asked. Harry nodded. Snape put down some papers on his desk. He then walked back over to the table where Harry had his potion on and then sat down in the chair beside Harry to examine it. Harry didn't seem to notice that the whole time Snape was looking at it he was holding his breath.

"It seems you have managed to make a decent potion for once Potter," Snape said. He bottled the potion and placed it on his desk. "You are free to go for the night. Be back here the same time next week." Harry nodded and left the office.

He reached Gryffindor tower quickly and entered to find Ron and Hermione working on their homework. He pulled out his, deciding to start on potions. He didn't want to, but potions was already on his mind so he might as well do it now.

"How did it go?" Hermione asked as she looked up from the essay she was writing. Ron looked up as well.

"Not too bad actually," Harry replied. When neither of them replied he looked up to see shocked faces.

"You're kidding, right?" Ron asked him. Harry shook his head.

"Really guys, it wasn't that bad," Harry said. "Snape had to leave to go do something so I spent the time by myself working on a simple potion we did last year. Without Snape in the room, making the potion is a lot easier."

"Whatever you say," Ron said, returning to his work. Hermione however smiled at him.

"Did he say you did a good job?" she asked.

"In a strange Snape way yea," Harry said. Hermione smiled knowingly over at Ron.

"Fine, fine, so Snape isn't totally evil," Ron grumbled. Hermione and Harry both laughed before returning to their homework.

The next day Harry had transfiguration and that night had transfiguration. He was beginning to see how Dumbledore was scheduling these extra classes. The class that day was rather boring as Professor McGonagall was spending more time explaining the spells they performed. She said that the spells from now on would be much more complicated and she would prefer that they spent a day on the theory before actually performing the spell.

The bell soon rang though. Harry prodded Ron who had fallen asleep during the class and he woke up. Hermione glared at Ron. Harry was sure that an argument would break out between the two as soon as they reached the hallway. Sure enough, it did.

"Ron, how could you have fallen asleep in class?" Hermione asked angrily.

"I was tired from doing potions last night," Ron complained angrily.

"But Professor McGonagall was explaining everything we will need to know to perform the spell next class," Hermione said. "She will be so mad at you if you mess up because you slept instead of taking notes." Harry sighed.

"Hey you two, if we don't hurry we'll be late for our next class," Harry said. Ron and Hermione sent one last glare to each other before walking quickly and silently beside Harry.

Classes went by quickly that day. Harry found himself wondering what Professor McGonagall would be teaching him in her extra classes. He was more excited about this class than he was for Potions yesterday. He soon noticed his teacher leaving and glanced down to his watch. It was almost time. After waving to his friends, he headed out of the Great Hall. Soon, he arrived at her office door.

"Come in," McGonagall said when he knocked. Harry opened the door and stepped inside. The office looked the same as it had last year when he had been in here. He turned back to his professor and waited for her to speak.

"You may sit down," McGonagall said as she took a seat behind her desk. Harry sat in one of the chairs.

"Now in these extra lessons with me you will be learning some advanced transfiguration spells past the level for school, but we will go through some sixth and seventh year ones that you aren't doing in class currently," she said. Harry nodded his head when she looked up. She picked up a book that had been sitting on her desk and passed it over to Harry.

Harry took it and looked down at the cover. It was the book that they were using this year. He wondered what he would be doing with it.

"Today I would like for you to read up on a few of the spells for the first part of this lesson and then we will be working on acutally doing them," McGonagall said as she flipped open the book with her wand. Harry looked down at the page.

"Read the information on the following two spells and tell me when you have finished," McGonagall finished before busying herself with papers to grade while she waited. Harry nodded and began reading.

Adiverso Spell

This spell will transform any small animal you come across into an object of your choosing. You must decide what object you would like it to be. Then think of only that object while saying the spell.

It went on into more description of the spell. Harry then read through the other one which was one to transform larger animals into a different object. He looked up after he finished reading the two and set the book on Professor McGonagall's desk. She looked up from what she was doing and set it aside.

"Well Potter, are you ready to try?" McGonagall asked.

"Yes," Harry replied, nodding his head. McGonagall stood up and went over to a box she had in the corner of her office. She pulled out a small rat and set it on her desk. She then looked back to Harry.

"Okay, let's see if you can do it," she said. "Go on ahead and get your wand out." Harry did as he was told and quickly pulled it from his pocket.

"Now remember the incantation and picture what you want the rat to turn into," McGonagall said. Harry nodded and closed his eyes as he began thinking of what he wanted it to turn into.

"You may cast the spell whenever you are ready," she told Harry. Harry sighed and thought a few more seconds before he decided to try.

"Adiverso," Harry said quietly while pointing his wand at the rat. A bright light blue jet of light flew out of the end of his wand and went straight for the rat. Harry held his breath when it collided with the creature, hoping it had worked. It had and turned into a quill. Not the most creative choice, but at least it worked. Harry left McGonagall's office fifteen minutes later after mastering the spell.

Harry woke up the next morning to see Ron still asleep in his bed. "Not again," Harry said shaking his head.

"Ron wake up," Harry said. Ron was still sleeping soundly. Harry shook him a little harder, and Ron rolled onto the floor. Ron woke up startled.

Harry then got dressed and went down to the Great Hall to eat breakfast. When he arrived at the Great Hall Hermione was already there.

Harry decided to greet her, "Hi Hermione,"

"Where's Ron?" asked Hermione questionably even though she already knew the answer.

"He'll be coming," said Harry casually. Minutes later Ron came down looking extremely exhausted. He sat down beside Harry and immediately started eating.

After the three were finished they left to go to their defense against arts class together. When they arrived at the door, he saw a man standing in the doorway looking oddly familiar. He then remembered that he saw him that night at the order meeting. The Trio started walking into the classroom when he came face to face with Draco and his friends.

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