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Key:
"Blah" – speaking
Blah – Mindspeaking
Blah – Beastspeaking/ Parsletongue
"Blah" – Spells
Blah - Thoughts
Chapter 4 – Training
I know most wizarding homes are expanded inside, but this is really pushing it Harry thought to himself upon entering the cottage.
The room he had stepped into was a perfect replica of the great hall at Hogwarts, minus the house flags and tables. Instead there was a long empty space leading up to the table that replicated the one the teachers used at Hogwarts. There were also many doors at the sides of the halls. Sitting at the 'teachers table' were three people, two men and a women.
They must be Dante, Rakesh, and Celine. Harry thought to himself.
Looking at them, Harry felt a little intimidated. Celine looked a lot like Eleria, with hair that was even more blonde, and the same creamy skin and white eyes the main difference was height, as Celine seemed to be several inches taller. Dante and Rakesh, however were a very different story. While Celine and Eleria had white eyes, the two men had black. They both had dark complexions and long dark hair. The only difference between the two men was their height. Dante was several inches taller. Beyond that, they could have been twins, as could Celine and Eleria. All four of them radiated a huge amount of power. It was truly a sight to behold.
Harry new that first impressions are important, so he pushed aside his intimidation and strode forward confidently. "Hello, I'm Harry."
"No, really." Joked Dante, and introductions were made. Harry was surprised to learn that Dante, though he looked intimidating, was sort of a joker, and that Rakesh was much nicer than his glinting black eyes suggested. He realized he would get along well with these people.
The next few months passed by in a blur. He relearned all of his previous Hogwarts education, minus the wand. During this time he was surprised to find how much he had missed during his education. Reading the textbooks and actually listening to the lectures given by his new teachers really opened his eyes. Before he had never really paid attention to magical theory and now he was amazed by it. Understanding the theory behind a spell made it so much simpler. Instead of just learning incantation, wand movement, and general affects, he now knew why each and every spell worked and how it did so. At the end of these first months, his shaky education became a strong foundation for all that he was about to learn.
And learn he did. He began by learning all general magic (transfiguration, charms, etc.) up to and beyond NEWT level. He then spent years with Celine learning ALL of what was left of light magic. In short, he learned every spell in existence. It was during this time that he noticed something odd. He wasn't aging. When he asked Celine, she simply told him that he was aging as he would on earth and that a year on this plane was less than a month on earth. This made harry feel a bit better, as he had been worried about how much was happening during his absence and he now knew that his absence wasn't as long.
When Celine had finished teaching him about light magic, he was transferred into the capable hands of Dante. With Dante he learned goblin, elven, vampiric and druidic magic. He also learned another form of magic created solely by the candles. This magic involved gathering the magical energy in the air around you and literally turning the air into a spell. You could use stupefy and make the air stupefy anything that touched it. Goblin magic was, of course based on gold, and involved a kind of wandless conjuration that worked in proportion to the amount of greed in those around you. Vampiric blood magic was also interesting, but what was by far harry's favorite was elven magic. He learned to pop like an elf does and now could apparate regardless of wards. All of this learning took up a lot of time.
While learning dark magic, Rakesh started him on a physical training program. He was terribly out of shape, so at first he only ran around the cottage five times and did 5 pushups. By the time Dante was finished with Harry, he could sprint for 5 miles without tiring and could do sittups and pushups until you got bored of watching him. Which might take a while for some of you out there, as Harry had grown to about 6 feet in height and had filled out considerably. His hair had grown to past his shoulders and now fell in waves. When Dante was finally finished and Rakesh had him in perfect shape he began with the elemental magics. He learned to completely control the element of lightning. He was able to use fire and air to a lesser extent. He also had slight ability with the water element, which mostly delt with ice. He had no ability with liquid water . He was also completely unable to grasp the last element, earth. (A/N, don't hate me, I know that earth, air, fire and water are technically the only elements, but the scar on his forehead is in the shape of a lightning bolt……) He also gained the oddest abilities from the lightning element. He could apparate in a flash of lightning and he could turn himself invisible.
By the time he finished with elemental magic, he was getting very tired of studying. Sure, it was really cool to be able to set things on fire and pretend to be Zeus with the whole lightning act, but his thirst for knowledge had ended up in a more healthy hatred of text books like that of the normal human being. So rakesh began to train him in the martial arts. He learned aikido (a/n sorry if the spellings wrong but I'm not exactly a martial arts expert…), jujitsu and kung fu (or wushu if you prefer). Unsuprisingly, this took longer than his magical training, and he stopped bothering to count time.
By the time he was finished with all of this he was ready to learn from textbooks and lectures again. And so he learned his animagus form, that of a fluffy white kitten, which everyone found hilarious. He then learned parslemagic and the healing arts. It was found however that he was not able to shapeshift at all, which Harry thought totally sucked 'cause he couldn't hide his scar. He also had no ability with beastspeaking other than with snakes. This annoyed harry because he'd always wanted to know what the hell was wrong with crookshanks...
In the end his training took nearly around 15 years! Lucky for him that was only a year and a half on earth and he only aged a year and a half. During this time he had acquired tons of knowledge, power and attitude. That's right, he was sarcastic and he cursed much worse that a sailor. Dante had that effect on people.
It was time to go, but the author didn't feel like writing about it. Or having the Dumbledore discussion that would be included so we'll save that for the next chapter, as well as possibly the details of a prank war from his trainging days. Possibly.
A/N – Well that's all for now. I'm on vacation from the 3rd – the 18th and won't be writing. School starts on the 22nd, so it might be a while until my next chapter especially because
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-all of my annoyance, I mean love,
Kallia
p.s. I'm rewriting the prologue and I swear it'll be better…. I wrote it like six months before I wrote everything else…. I kinda forgot how bad it was…..