Hey everyone,
Okay, I will be honest, I don't really have a lot planned out in regards to this. Like with The Moving Of the Light, I have more of a wide-based plan than really a strong front of what I want for each and every chapter. Oh well, this is only a preview and it won't become a story unless it gets enough votes in the poll.
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Venquine1990
Preview #20
Welcome To Kingdom Hearts
7th of July 1995
Little Winging, Surrey
Harry's POV
"Good grief, you guys suck at recon, you know?" I suddenly hear a voice ask from across the street and this shocks me as I have only just found myself a good hiding place where I can listen to the news without enduring the complaints of my loving relatives and I sit up to look at where the voice is coming from as it says:
"Really, you're easier to spot than a Shadow amongst the Princesses of Heart." And while I wonder about this strange reference, do I look at the man who says it. The man in question is a few years older than me – maybe Bill's age – and has spiky red hair and sharp green eyes that are looking at the bush on the other side of the road.
"You wonder who I am? Oh, I'm Lea, got it memorized?" And then I spot it, a movement in one of the bushes on the other side of the road that moves even though it never catches any wind and I realize that someone must have been hidden in there, spying on me and my family this entire time, even though I didn't know it.
At this I slowly move my wand out of my pocket and glare at the bush, but then Lea says: "Ah, ah, ah, you're not allowed, remember?" And I look shocked, wondering how the man could be spotting both whoever this spy is in the bush as well as my movement all the way over here yet then the man smiles at me and says:
"However, if you're willing to trust me, I can help you learn a method of magic that can't be detected by that Ministry of yours and still give you a chance to defend yourself if necessary. And trust me, kid, we don't give that chance to just anyone. We may spot and approach students later than other schools, but we have good reason, trust me."
This confuses me, yet also excites me as it makes me feel as if I am finally getting the chance I have been waiting for since I arrived here for the summer, yet then someone actually jumps out of the supposedly unmoving bush, a woman with straight brown hair that is brushed to the back and who is glaring as she asks:
"What are you talking about? What undetectable magic? And what students? Potter is supposed to remain here so he can mourn and grieve over the Third Task in a relatively safe environment and we are to keep an eye on him until Albus thinks him ready to be moved." Yet this makes me glare at her in anger and I snarl:
"You mean, ignoring my hatred for this place, ignore that I am practically a stranger to these people and spying on me without either my knowledge or the acceptance of my guardians." Yet the woman waves me off and says: "Albus ordered us to." And I retort: "I don't recall saying Dumbledore, I said my guardian."
And the woman looks at me shocked and I say: "And what's this nonsense about mourning and grieving? I can't do either here! I'm too busy staying out of my family's hair, not getting annoyed by their nonsense, keeping an eye out for news from my world and waiting till I can go back to where – I – bloody – well – belong."
I snarl at the end, making sure to add more and more fury and power behind each of the last five words to emphasize how much I believe in them and the woman looks at me flabbergasted before she says: "But – but – but this is your family!" And I cross my arms at hearing this as I send her a disbelieving look and ask: "Says who?"
And the woman looks at me as if I just told her that Albus Dumbledore is a Dark Lord that killed her family before, apparently out of her shock, she twists on the spot and releases a loud popping noise, making me instantly dive back under the bushes and flower bushes while Lea seems to merge his form with the shadows.
And just in time too as aunt Petunia sticks her giraffe like neck out the window I was hiding under, me trying not to move the bushes under her or hiss as some thorns from her nearly dead rose bush are pricking through the utterly thin shirt I am wearing, the only thing keeping me from really feeling the pain is my years of experience.
The woman huffs and retreats her head back and I sigh in relief as she actually closes the window along with her and I carefully crawl out from under the bush, trying to avoid the rest of the thorns to ensure that I don't draw any blood and once I am crouching against the wall, do I risk another glance up to the window above me.
"Guess we'll be needing to get you a whole new wardrobe once you've passed the testing phase. Cloths like that just won't do for someone like you." I suddenly hear and I turn around, out of instinct reaching for my wand, only to see Lea standing a little bit away from the window and he shakes his head as he says:
"Another thing we need to help you with; stop relying on that wand. It's being traced and we have no interest in the Ministry, especially with the idiots running that joint right now. There are so many more ways someone like you can defend yourself, but you won't be able to learn those if you constantly depend on one weapon.
A useless one, at the moment." This makes me grind my teeth together, yet I can't deny that the man has a point and I ask: "You sure are talking a lot about teaching me and whatnot. What do you mean with that anyway? Where are you from? Who send you?" And Lea smirks at me, his whole form at ease as he says:
"Good, you definitely know how to be a good inquisitor. Well defensive and inquisitive. And you also know how to be direct, which is also good, though I would suggest you learn how to hide your curiosity in less-direct questions from time to time. If you have an enemy at your mercy, they won't always spill their beans so easily."
Yet I just glare at him and he says: "Okay, onto why I'm here. I was send to check out your potential one last time and give Master Terra a beacon to follow so he can see whether or not he can help you unleash the potential that our school and teachers are looking for. And trust me, we've been wanting you for some time now."
This lessens some of the anger and caution I feel and I ask: "Wait, you're – a teacher?" And the man nods as he taps off his fingers: "Fire magic, bonds of friendship, how to save your friends from either other dangers or themselves, how to give your full power but not kill yourself, how to keep promises and a few other classes."
This shocks me and Lea smirks as he says: "Our school doesn't just cover things like Changing objects and Spellwork. We cover everything that one can encounter in life, if they have the skill to live such a life, got it memorized? And we switch between who teaches what class too, to make sure we cover every aspect of the class."
"And they say Hogwarts is the best." I mutter to myself and Lea laughs as he says: "Maybe several decades ago, but that ridiculous castle has gotten stuck in the bleeding Dark Ages. I mean, parchment? Quills? Hello, 20th century here, anyone home? No, Hogwarts these days is just an example of what a good school can be."
"If it wasn't constantly turned into such a bleeding death trap all the time, that is." I can't help but think to myself and I ask: "So, you're going to test my potential?" But then another voice says: "No, he's not." And a man with strong muscles, spiky hair that is auburn brown and who wears a uniform says: "I am."
And just by looking at the man do I feel a sense of power overwhelm me that makes me feel as if I am engulfed in one of Mrs. Weasley's hugs, as if I am about to catch the Golden Snitch back when I was flying for the Gryffindor-Slytherin finale in my third and as if I am casting several Patroni, all these senses engulfing me.
"This man is Hagrid's strength, McGonagall's strictness and Mrs. Weasley's caring nature merged in one. If he's supposed to help me unleash this so-called potential within me, I am so ready to have that happen. Safe life, strong power and new levels of greatness, here I come." And this makes me smile at the man in question.
You go, Harry.
So like I said, this preview is based on some loose ideas I have, a few things I know for sure that I want to add to this one, but nothing really set in stone or really clear for every chapter that is yet to come. However, I do know, more or less, what I want out of this "school" and who I want to make sure to take into said "school".
Now, next preview is one that I do have planned out quite a bit as it starts at the end of Prisoner and I have it planned out at least until the end of that same summer – expect a lot of summer third-fourth chapters in that one – but I still think it will come out quite well and it will do one thing I love most; freeing Sirius.
I love these previews,
Venquine1990
Further story parts:
Kingdom Hearts is called a school like Hogwarts and has a similar great reputation, yet it teaches completely different classes and in very different ways
All main protagonists of the main KH series – and a rare few antagonists – are part of the staff and teach both core classes and electives, yet they always switch between who teaches what class in order to teach several classes from different perspectives
Kingdom Hearts writes up contracts for other companies to make use of the expertise use of several high-classed, well-trained students at the school for various chores, though mostly adventurous professions and security work
Students that have proven themselves several months/years after going to Kingdom Hearts get a Dream Eater to care for in order to prove their sense of responsibility
Kingdom Hearts has a secondary castle called Castle Oblivion that serves as a training hall for the older students as well as a Hospital for those that need long term medical care
Only if Yen Sid, Terra or Ansem the Wise can help a person unleash their hidden potential are they allowed at entering Kingdom Hearts, yet it's people like Lea, Roxas, Sora, Riku or others that scout out those with hidden potential
Ron, like Harry and others, does get accepted alongside unleashing his weapon, yet he gets himself expelled halfway through the year for abusing the privilege of being allowed at Kingdom Hearts, misusing his weapon of heart and ending up on the verge of dabbling into the dark side of his weapon's powers
