Hunter DuttonPage 68/14/2006

Turn of the Tide

I'm back! Well, technically since I posted these at the same time I never left but I don't think you care about that. This is my second chapter ever of fanfiction—don't worry I'll get bored of this soon—so I'm still hyper, even if this story is kind of morbid in a funny way, or at least I hope so.

Anyway, moving on, I do not own anything here except the stuff I own, original characters, plot, new items—Avada bullets for example—and so on. I am not making any money off of this or anything else for that matter really, but that would be my problem

Well thanks for reading this, if indeed you are reading this, and let the story commence!

Whoops, I was just reminded that I should include a warning and a welcome, there very well may be a slash or two in this story, as with any relationship in this story—or at least any that my muse doesn't run away with—with be an aside to the overall plot, and as far as I know the slash won't be with any of the main main characters, but then again what do I know. So a fair warning, oh and as for the welcome, well I just thought I should let you know that I love flames just as much as I love reviews, they are just so entertaining. So no matter what you have to say about my story, or even me if you must, go right ahead at the very least I will get a good laugh. While I promise not to get mad I can not promise not to get even, after all you all know the saying about people who play with flame Now back to the reason were all here…

Chapter 2: Special Ops Team Seven

Harry, Draco and Hermione entered the official dining room—meaning the nicer one which is used primarily to impress new recruits rather than actually eating in it. Special Ops teams were the smallest groups of men who lived in the same hallway, ate at the same time, and basically new each other better than anyone else alive. The Special Ops Team Seven was actually the first team ever created but since they officially had seven people they decided to be called Team Seven. The three unofficial members of Team Seven were Harry, Draco, and Hermione, making the actual number of people ten, one less than all the other Special Ops Teams in the group. The rest of the team were sitting in the chairs in a row facing the three unofficial members. It would be a mild understatement to say that they were a little perturbed to find out that their mates had been holding out on them. The Team—minus the unofficial members—are as follows right to left; Neville Longbottum, Blaise Zabini, Dean Thomas, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Bill Weasley, and oddly enough Luna Lovegood. All of them had various reactions on their faces, Luna and Neville being the hardest to read and the Weasley's the easiest, but the emotion was the same, that of being highly annoyed. Harry decided to speak before the torrent of outbursts could spew forth.

"I know all of you are rather annoyed at the three of us," Here Harry paused as he received nods and even a "damn right" from the twins "So I will take a quick moment to explain to you why the people who I consider family were left out of a mere scientific achievement." Seeing that they were at least willing to listen Harry continued.

"There are several reasons why I didn't tell you, one being that your genuine surprise only lent credibility to the notion that you are just a normal Special Ops team. The second, and most important reason was that until today we did not know weather any of this would work, and we did not want to give you false hopes, we have had enough of those already." The rest of the team sans Hermione and Draco—who had helped him develop the weapons—seemed to except, if grudgingly his explanation.

"Now if you are all up for it I would like to retire to our training room where I will tell you about the actual technical makeup of the spell bullets, and do a show and tell on the other weapon. Oh and in case your wondering I was planning of showing off our newest weapon to the whole group but Draco was smart enough to point out that while we did catch one spy, that did not me we caught the only spy." The rest of the group nodded and they got up and left the dining hall.

The training room was a fairly simple room, it was about the size of a muggle American Football field, and the ceiling was about as high as a muggle basket ball court would have. The genius of the room was that it was spelled to regenerate any destroyed surfaces as soon as safely possible—this rule is broken when in dueling to make it more realistic, meaning that the damage is repaired after the duel is done. As the group walked in Harry walked to the middle of the room, and 'told' the room—which had been charmed to act similar to the now nonexistent room of requirement—(A/N in this story at least the room of requirement can only summon existing items it placed in storage, or create items using the magic of the person who is trying to create something; hence the reason why he couldn't just tell the room to give him the ultimate weapon. Unless of course he created the ultimate weapon and told the room to hold on to it for a little bit.) to summon some chairs and the new weapon. As the group sat down Harry began,

"I'll start with the tech specs of the spell bullets as that is a little easier to explain. The guns themselves are normal muggle guns—if a slight upgrade—that we have been using for the past six years The powder in the bullets and the firing mechanism of the bullets is also the same, however in the tips of the spell bullets we have put crystals, which is the best know holder for magic. After we got that far the rest was pretty easy, or at least doing the rest was easy once we could actually figure out what needed to be done. The Reducto curse was actually the easiest because it could release it's spell on the first object it hit and do the desired purpose. However the killing curse was difficult."

"You could say that again." Interrupted Draco,

"I know I could, any way since the crystals broke on impact we needed to find a way so that the curse would go through the shield, instead of trying to kill it, which is impossible in case you are wondering. Thanks to Hermione who suggested charming the rest of the bullet with a separate Avada which would be weaker—as we cast it on a metal instead of crystal—we stumbled upon the answer. Before the firing of the gun activates the spell the Avada curse is dormant inside the crystal, however once it is fired the spell moves to the out side of the crystal, thus making the curse not the crystal the first thing that hits the shield and anything else. This was the perfect solution and it saved unfortunate accidents of handling the bullets while still performing the desired function. Well I think that covered all, unless anyone has questions or anything to add?" At this Hermione, some things never do change, spoke up,

"For the record you can put pretty much any spell in the blank bullets just by firing at it, but remember that only a curse that will already go through a shield and is modified to move to the outside on firing, will bypass the protego and protego maxima shields." Hermione put in, bypassing the need to breath as she spoke calmly but quickly.

"Oh and as you all know a spell not only takes magic but it can be dodged, while I have yet to see any of our friends dodge bullets." Added Draco with a smile a Great White would be proud of."

"Right so moving on I'm sure you are all wondering why I am holding a wooden spear, well the truth is I'm not. Our second and best weapon we created was born to fruit in the discovery that you can transfer the powers of wand cores into other objects without loosing any power. A being, say a Phoenix has an incredible amount of magic in it that makes it actually able to amplify most curses that pass through their power. Hence the reason that Phoenix cores are generally the best in the are of raw power. However by moving the magic from the Phoenix tale to say a metal sword you can keep all the properties of the channel without actually having to build a wooden enclave around your core. So to make a long story short we have put multiple cores in three weapons so far. So getting back to the wooden spear, I took a radical—"

"And dangerous" interrupted Hermione, to which Harry shrugged and continued,

"Step in creating a sword with three cores—phoenix feather, dragon heartstring, and basilisk tooth—and sheathed it in an amplifying holly wood sheath with a wooden spear point, creating what I hope is the most powerful weapon in existence. To give you an example I tried to cast a tickling charm on a prisoner with it and it fried all of his nerves killing him instantly."

Draco smirked

Hermione frowned

Fred and George stared at each other in amazement

Bill gasped

Neville grinned

Blaise and Dean's eyes widened so much they looked like saucers

Luna, well Luna was busy looking at the ceiling

With a grin similar to Neville's Harry continued, "This in itself is actually fairly useless as I don't want to cast a reducto curse and kill everyone—myself included—in the resulting explosion, or at least it will be useless until the next time I see Tom. Now I know that the question on your minds is did we do anything besides create a larger strong wand, well let me show you the perks of using a sword instead of a wand." With a wave of his hand three practice dummies appeared behind Harry. Harry turned the short spear so that he was holding the butt of the spear with his right hand, and his left was placed a little higher than that. With a spin and a jerk Harry drew a thin, slightly curved—magic can do wonders after all—katana and swept it in a horizontal arc. However as he was doing the arc with the katana another thin red arc emitted from the blade and flew straight and the practice dummies. The red arc passed through the dummies and continued for another seven or eight feet before it disappeared. The group, minus Harry, Draco, and Hermione, stared at the three dummies as their heads fell of.

"Holy shit" said Blaise

"Awesome!" chorused the twins

"Useful" added Neville, while Bill and Dean were too dumbfounded to comment and nothing could surprise Luna.

"Well unless Harry wants to keep showing off, I think that is about it. Hermione and I already have our weapons so what we need you to do is go to the armory in Harry's closet at some point before we meet again tomorrow and pick out a weapon that you think best suits you. After some training we will do our best to help you build your perfect weapon and put in up to three wand cores in aforementioned weapon. Oh and don't expect to master this right away, with three wand cores it took both me and Hermione over a week to get to the point were we could regulate the power level of the curse at will." With nods and congratulations the members of Special Ops Seven started to leave the room for one place or another.

"Dean?" said Harry, causing Dean to look at him, "Could you hang back for a bit I want a word with you." Dean nodded and the rest of the group left. (A/N so tempted to leave a cliffy, but I'll be kind, it is only chapter two after all) As soon as everyone was gone and the door closed Dean started broadcasting his feelings of betrayal and rage when he found out Seamus was the traitor. He tried to broadcast how he and Seamus had drifted apart when Dean had joined the Special Ops Seven three years ago, but how he had never suspected anything. Harry was just beginning to feel Dean's shame and guilt for not seeing the treachery himself when Harry held up his hand.

"Stop," Harry half commanded, causing the broadcasting to suddenly cease, "I never did nor will I ever blame you for that, as loathe as I am to admit it he was good at his job and no one saw it coming. I didn't see Ron's, so don't berate yourself for not seeing his. You are family, and we have all made mistakes, if anything I have made the most, so go and let today only strengthen your resolve to rid the world of cowards such as Seamus." With that Harry left, not looking back, after all Harry had never been good at comforting people when they needed it…

Well there is chapter two, a little bit longer than the first. Next chapter there will be some more action as well as an explanation of Ron's treachery. Well thank you to those who reviewed the first chapter, I will post my comments on reviews—if I get any—next chapter as I posted these two at once I haven't gotten any reviews on this one so far.

Well good bye, good luck, review if you can, and this pyromaniac enjoys flames just in case you didn't read the first part so for those who wish to flame the little I have posted, well I'm ready and waiting .

Created on 8/12/2006 12:50:00 a8/p8