Catcher
A/N; Sorry for the delay, and I promise I am trying to make the story more interesting. This chapter jumps between Hogwarts and Atlanta, as I want to keep both up to date. I will use {} brackets to show when it switches probably more to stop me getting confused.
Chapter 6; Warrants and Muggles
{Hogwarts}
"I don't believe it, how is that possible, how could they do that to him." Hermione shrieked and it would have drawn all the attention in the Great Hall had everyone not been too engrossed in reading his or her copy of the 'Daily Prophet.'
Ron, who never got the Daily Prophet, looked up from his drink of coffee, something he couldn't live without this early in the morning. "What is it, Herm?" The look on her face and the shriek that had come told him it wasn't anything good.
"I can't believe it, why, what did he ever do?" She muttered to herself.
"Lets have a look then Hermione!" Ron called but Hermione just gripped the paper in her hands crumpling it slightly. Ron gave up, reached to his right and grabbed the Prophet out of Neville's unsuspecting hands. He mumbled a sorry to the smaller boy but went silent and paled as he read the text.
'The inquiry into the death of late Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge has stumbled across disturbing and very worrying results. This reporter feels it is his duty to inform the Magical community of Great Britain that evidence has been released to the Daily Prophet detailing Mr. Harry Potter's involvement in the death of our beloved Minister. Mr. Potter or the boy-who-lived is a sixth year student at Hogwarts and reports came in under a month ago detailing his disappearance. No trace has yet come up with results to the whereabouts of our young Hero. Evidence, seen by the Heads of Departments and myself, concludes that Mr. H Potter wasn't just involved in the murder but planned and instigated it as well. That he is no longer a hero to our great nation. It seems that since the Third task of the Tri-Wizards competition Harry Potter has been threatening the Minister of Magic with death from torture.'
Ron couldn't read anymore, it was too much. For once silence covered the hall and the headmaster wasn't present to start it with a speech. Just as Ron thought this, the doors opened and the Headmaster with Professor McGonagall at his side walked into the hall, but stopped just inside the doors. Two figures walked in behind them as if for protection.
"Can I please have your attention Students," he already had it but he seemed unfazed, "Please listen carefully to Mr. Sandrews." He said very tonelessly, but allowed the man to take over.
"Good morning students, I am Mr. Sandrews, I am the head of the magical law enforcement department. This is General Mactos, the general of the Aurors. I have an announcement to make." He pulled out a scroll and opened it like a court announcement.
"By the decree of the joint council of law, the highest ruling Ministry council and the Wizengamont, the highest league of law in times of war. Mr. Harry James Potter is hereby charged with murder and attempts to become a Dark Lord and to rule the Wizarding State of Great Britain. He is hereby punished upon his capture to death by the killing curse."
Ron looked in shock at Hermione to see tears falling unchecked down her cheeks. The man continued.
"By decree of the bodies above, anyone found helping Mr. Potter will be subjected to the same punishment."
An outcry rose from all those present and even the headmaster was shocked. The man seemed unperturbed.
"By decree of the Wizengamont martial law is in operation from the hour of six this morning, and anyone with information about the whereabouts of Mr. Potter must come forward, failure to do so will lead to the punishment above for helping him. Due to the need to capture Harry Potter his state as an underage wizard is declared null and his opponents are authorized the use of all spells including unforgivables."
He took a breath and paused as Ron and Hermione paled further. He pulled out another scroll and handed it to the General. His voice was gruff but carried easily through the silence.
"By decree of the Wizengamont the Magical and Non-Magical States of Great Britain are now at war. Martial law allows the killing curse as punishment for murder. Preparation for war is underway to combat the presence of a Dark Lord, whether it is Harry Potter or not. The Aurors second Division will be hereafter stationed at Hogwarts."
With that Hermione collapsed onto the floor and the others around her spared a glance in her direction but were otherwise too stunned to help her.
* * *
{Headmaster's office}
"Welcome to Hogwarts Minister Blockestina!" The headmaster smiled warmly as the new Minister stepped through his office fireplace. She took the seat that Albus motioned her to and thanked him for the welcome and expressed her delight at being back before continuing.
"Professor Dumbledore, as you most likely know, this Potter situation has done something not done since before the creation of Hogwarts and the time of Merlin. The Non-magical community is being informed by their government of our presence in Britain. The Non-Magical world will once again combine with the Magical. I don't know what sort of effect this will have on the Magical world, that is why I have advised that all hidden Wizarding communities stay hidden, this includes Hogwarts, Hogsmead, and the Ministry buildings. However Diagon alleys wards against muggles will come down, so that muggles can enter it."
"Is that wise?"
"I don't know, however it is over my head, as is many things like the decree of execution to Mr. Potter. We will have to make do, the fact remains, Hogwarts needs protection against Potter and Voldemort as even if the councils don't believe you, I do, but that must not leave this room. I would lose my position, and I can do more help there then if Malcolm Popstry replaced me."
"I understand, and I am glad for your covert help."
"The councils propose the positioning of one of The British Army's regiments around Hogwarts as well as building a magically protected Air force and Army base. They will need access to see Hogwarts and Hogsmead but we will put a ward against the transfer of the knowledge of our whereabouts. Do you agree to this?"
"I think it would do the children good for the protection. Especially if the war escalates and Muggle weaponry starts flying, even I cant protect myself from some of that."
"It is agreed then, the work will start in a week and hopefully the personnel should be moved in by the end of the month." She smiled. "Has your work to find Potter come up with any results?"
"No, not really, apart from the magical signature left at the Ministers house. It seems he has yet again disappeared."
"Off the record, the ministry has had no response to tracking spells, but the councils insist that we publish reports of sightings and tracking results in order to keep the public calm."
"What do you expect of the staff here if he returns?"
"Is this office secure?" She waited for his nod before continuing, with a smirk she replied. "I will pretend I didn't hear that. What you do is up to you and your staff, however if his magical signature appears the Aurors will appear all over the place and try to kill him, they won't try to capture him and anyone seen helping him will also be killed. I don't like it much. The Army will also respond. Which reminds me, be sure to warn the students of the arrival of the Muggles Forces as the Air force will start fly-unders, or whatever they call them, tomorrow morning."
Dumbledore took over, "I will get the Defence teacher to teach defense against muggle technology, and cross my fingers that it wont be needed as I doubt anyone will be able to defend against some of their weaponry."
"I am stationing Arthur Weasley here as a go between. For you to communicate with the Muggles. I know he will love the chance to see the 'shiny toys.' I would make sure none of your students wander into the bases, it could turn very nasty, if the muggles see them as a threat." She finished as she headed to the fire once more to leave and after quick good byes she stepped in and disappeared with a green flame and a shout for the Ministry.
* * *
{Atlanta}
"Ouch that hurt you git!"
"Harry! Its supposed to, it's combat, you know, I hit you, you hit me and so on!" Valice replied with a laugh. He had just done a flip off of Harry's knee and turning it into a kick to his chin, sending Harry onto the floor behind him.
Harry blurred as he ran forward and tackled his instructor. Alandria burst into laughter so hard that tears dripped down from her eyes as the shape of her partner flew across ten foot of floor and bounced as he hit the special muggle plymometric flooring.
"Don't patronize me!" Harry yelled, "I'll take you both on, if you keep on like that, an win!" He said the last bit with a smirk.
"I would like to see you try, young Harry!" Valice chuckled, Alandria saw the look on his face and knew it meant trouble but stepped forward at the challenge. The members of the Order never turned down a challenge no matter how subtle it was.
"No magic, enhancemental, attack or defence." Alandria set up the rules, basically they wanted a completely muggle fight. "Weapons or other unnatural things. And definitely no animagi! Last one conscious or in the area wins."
"Done," Harry and Valice agreed at the same time.
They all settled into a fighting stance. All different. Harry, facing his teachers, went into a stance that let him move in any direction without delay, normally used when fighting multiple targets. The two teachers went into stances, obviously they made a good team, Valice took on a purely attack stance that didn't leave him much room to defend off the boy, but Alandria moved into a purely defensive stance that she would have to shift in order to attack Harry.
Harry saw the quiver in Alandria's leg muscles as she braced so she could attack giving Harry a split second warning, all he needed. He had turned into a natural at this game and could pick up the smallest movement and adapt without thinking too much on it. His warning soon led him to flip backwards a couple of metres as Valice and Alandria flipped forward to stand where Harry had occupied, Valice tried a front kick and Alandria a sidekick before noticing that Harry no longer was there.
"Damn!" Muttered Alandria under her breathe as she realised her mistake, being older then the others didn't make her gentler, she was faster at the game then her partner, but Harry always seemed to work out what she was doing. She like Harry had the same gift at fighting and at that moment her instincts screamed at her as Harry reversed his flipped and jumped at her, she dodged it but only through instincts, she leapt back to her starting place.
Valice wasn't so fast. Harry spun to him and delivered a sidekick to his face before he noticed the boy was there. Valice retaliated with a fast jab with his left hand that flew millimetres from Harry's ear as the boy ducked in a crouch. Harry turned the crouch into a jump as he tensed the muscles in his legs. Alandria saw this but Valice was too slow and missed the tell tale signs that allowed Alandria to know what was coming next.
The tornado kick to Valice's head knocked the man back many feet to his right and Harry jumped other him to get to Alandria while he stood. Alandria had a match in Harry and may punches and kicks were thrown as Valice returned to a fighting stance. Harry smirked as he felt more then saw Valice silently come from behind him. He confirmed it by looking Alandria straight in the eyes and seeing Valice's form. Harry jumped five feet straight up and did a split kick, his right heel hitting Alandria in the stomach as his left clipped Valice's chin. He landed to follow up with a 360 kick to Valice in his stunned form and another tornado kick to his chest to send him flying backward out of the ring.
He turned back to Alandria. "One down one to go!"
"My compliments, young man!" Alandria smiled widely, even she would enjoy this if she lost, it was only a game and she loved the thrill of it.
They threw more moves at each other, slowly increasing the intensity of flips and kicks, until Harry got in a nasty punch to her left calf, followed it with a jump and a back flip off her knee and delivered a kick to her chest. He landed risking a glance at her as she recovered quicker then most. Harry did a 540 kick. He did a 360 spin brought his left leg round, his right over the top to deliver the knock out kick to her head, before spinning to land on his right foot again.
"I give," she spoke as she stood from her place on the floor, then she did something she never did normally, she hugged the boy before beckoning Valice back into the ring. "What was that move, I have never seen it before?"
"What the 540?"
"Yeah, I am not familiar with it, I am sure Valice doesn't have a clue either."
Valice nodded his agreement. "It just felt natural, so I did it," Harry replied with a smile, "It worked though didn't it?"
"I'd say so."
The next hour of the combat class passed quickly as Harry showed them the new move. But Harry didn't really pay attention. He was confused, he didn't know how he knew that move. Thoughts of the last two weeks of training came back to him as they walked to lunch. He had known lots of stuff on sword fighting, star throwing, and lots of other martial arts. It was as though he had the information in his memory all along.
He was broken from his reverie as Alandria spoke kindly to him. "Since we don't seem to need many more lessons on muggle martial arts and fighting. We'll go over to the magic room later and play with wands."
This is what he was waiting for, he knew martial arts was useful but he knew that in a proper battle, he needed magic.
* * *
{Hogwarts}
Ron and Hermione had decided the day before that even if Tonks had told them that the order of the phoenix were stopping their search for Harry they would keep trying. They had spent the first two weeks searching the books in the library for every tracking spell they could. From tracking his soul to tracking his clothing. They had had no success whatsoever when they tried the spells. They sat together in the library trying to come up with a solution to the problem. Staring at the table they seemed to hope that the solution would present itself.
"Hang on," said Hermione as something tugged on the corners of her brain, "they said that as far as they knew he was nowhere on the planet, right?"
"So?" Ron replied.
"I don't know, I am trying to think about it, it just refuses to go away."
Ron decided to try and help by repeating the information aloud as well, "If someone's not on the planet, they're not on the planet." He said with triumph but instantly deflated as he realised that what he had said made no sense. Hermione didn't agree wit it being stupid as she flung herself across the table and caught him in a hug.
"That's it!" She screamed before hushing as she got an evil glare from the library matron, "Ron that's it, he must be not on the planet."
"Hermione that makes no sense, how could he not be on the planet?"
"I don't know," a thoughtful expression took over her face as she thought for a while, "Ron go into the history section and grab any books that might detail other realities or worlds. Quick, I think we're onto something."
With that they ran in search of the books.
* * *
{Atlanta}
"It seems your friends are quite the clever ones," Alandria looked up from the letter that had been handed to her from a base communicator.
"What do you mean?" Harry lost his smile at the mention of his friends.
"We have a system here that monitors activity in the worlds that we protect. It tells us if anyone gets close to discovering us, but especially monitors friends of those initiated for signs of working out where you are." Valice explained knowing more on the subject.
"It seems," continued Alandria, "that your friends, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger are the closest on Earth to discovering the inter world base."
"How close?" Harry was excited by the chance of his friends working it out, as he wasn't allowed to send messages to anyone.
"I believe so far they know that you are not on the planet," Alandria smiled, "I doubt they will ever work out you are in Atlanta."
"Come on, its magic time." Valice chimed in and they headed from lunch to the training room once more to practice spells and see if Harry had a talent for this like everything else.
After four hours the only description for Harry's ability was, unexpected. He held no real promise whatsoever and this surprised everyone. They had met up with some other members of the order, younger ones, some not more then five or six years in the order, all from other worlds that they protected. He couldn't get the idea of the training like the others. He was better then the others in his year at Hogwarts but way below what he should be by looking at his other talents. He also couldn't seem to get a response through wandless, something that the crystal had said he had a knack for, it was as if he was being locked out from his powers.
After he finished he headed back to his room somewhat less cheery. With thoughts that they might kick him out of the order. It was a ridiculous thought, once you were in you were in, a lifetime contact so to speak.
He cheered up as he thought of the next day, Valice had told him that they would start by researching his other abilities and try to train him in them. He had been looking forward to this for a while, especially the working on his Crysti ability that had intrigued him since the Maesters had mentioned it. So with that thought he passed into sleep, what he didn't realise was that Ron and Hermione also fell asleep on the books they were still reading. A connection was formed.
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Another chapter and the plot moves on slowly, I think next chapter will be more interesting, we'll see. Thanks go to Harry17, Ashione and Yana5. Thanks to anyone else who has read, please leave a review even just to say you read it. If you are not registered send an email to my email address. Till next time!
A/N; Sorry for the delay, and I promise I am trying to make the story more interesting. This chapter jumps between Hogwarts and Atlanta, as I want to keep both up to date. I will use {} brackets to show when it switches probably more to stop me getting confused.
Chapter 6; Warrants and Muggles
{Hogwarts}
"I don't believe it, how is that possible, how could they do that to him." Hermione shrieked and it would have drawn all the attention in the Great Hall had everyone not been too engrossed in reading his or her copy of the 'Daily Prophet.'
Ron, who never got the Daily Prophet, looked up from his drink of coffee, something he couldn't live without this early in the morning. "What is it, Herm?" The look on her face and the shriek that had come told him it wasn't anything good.
"I can't believe it, why, what did he ever do?" She muttered to herself.
"Lets have a look then Hermione!" Ron called but Hermione just gripped the paper in her hands crumpling it slightly. Ron gave up, reached to his right and grabbed the Prophet out of Neville's unsuspecting hands. He mumbled a sorry to the smaller boy but went silent and paled as he read the text.
'The inquiry into the death of late Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge has stumbled across disturbing and very worrying results. This reporter feels it is his duty to inform the Magical community of Great Britain that evidence has been released to the Daily Prophet detailing Mr. Harry Potter's involvement in the death of our beloved Minister. Mr. Potter or the boy-who-lived is a sixth year student at Hogwarts and reports came in under a month ago detailing his disappearance. No trace has yet come up with results to the whereabouts of our young Hero. Evidence, seen by the Heads of Departments and myself, concludes that Mr. H Potter wasn't just involved in the murder but planned and instigated it as well. That he is no longer a hero to our great nation. It seems that since the Third task of the Tri-Wizards competition Harry Potter has been threatening the Minister of Magic with death from torture.'
Ron couldn't read anymore, it was too much. For once silence covered the hall and the headmaster wasn't present to start it with a speech. Just as Ron thought this, the doors opened and the Headmaster with Professor McGonagall at his side walked into the hall, but stopped just inside the doors. Two figures walked in behind them as if for protection.
"Can I please have your attention Students," he already had it but he seemed unfazed, "Please listen carefully to Mr. Sandrews." He said very tonelessly, but allowed the man to take over.
"Good morning students, I am Mr. Sandrews, I am the head of the magical law enforcement department. This is General Mactos, the general of the Aurors. I have an announcement to make." He pulled out a scroll and opened it like a court announcement.
"By the decree of the joint council of law, the highest ruling Ministry council and the Wizengamont, the highest league of law in times of war. Mr. Harry James Potter is hereby charged with murder and attempts to become a Dark Lord and to rule the Wizarding State of Great Britain. He is hereby punished upon his capture to death by the killing curse."
Ron looked in shock at Hermione to see tears falling unchecked down her cheeks. The man continued.
"By decree of the bodies above, anyone found helping Mr. Potter will be subjected to the same punishment."
An outcry rose from all those present and even the headmaster was shocked. The man seemed unperturbed.
"By decree of the Wizengamont martial law is in operation from the hour of six this morning, and anyone with information about the whereabouts of Mr. Potter must come forward, failure to do so will lead to the punishment above for helping him. Due to the need to capture Harry Potter his state as an underage wizard is declared null and his opponents are authorized the use of all spells including unforgivables."
He took a breath and paused as Ron and Hermione paled further. He pulled out another scroll and handed it to the General. His voice was gruff but carried easily through the silence.
"By decree of the Wizengamont the Magical and Non-Magical States of Great Britain are now at war. Martial law allows the killing curse as punishment for murder. Preparation for war is underway to combat the presence of a Dark Lord, whether it is Harry Potter or not. The Aurors second Division will be hereafter stationed at Hogwarts."
With that Hermione collapsed onto the floor and the others around her spared a glance in her direction but were otherwise too stunned to help her.
* * *
{Headmaster's office}
"Welcome to Hogwarts Minister Blockestina!" The headmaster smiled warmly as the new Minister stepped through his office fireplace. She took the seat that Albus motioned her to and thanked him for the welcome and expressed her delight at being back before continuing.
"Professor Dumbledore, as you most likely know, this Potter situation has done something not done since before the creation of Hogwarts and the time of Merlin. The Non-magical community is being informed by their government of our presence in Britain. The Non-Magical world will once again combine with the Magical. I don't know what sort of effect this will have on the Magical world, that is why I have advised that all hidden Wizarding communities stay hidden, this includes Hogwarts, Hogsmead, and the Ministry buildings. However Diagon alleys wards against muggles will come down, so that muggles can enter it."
"Is that wise?"
"I don't know, however it is over my head, as is many things like the decree of execution to Mr. Potter. We will have to make do, the fact remains, Hogwarts needs protection against Potter and Voldemort as even if the councils don't believe you, I do, but that must not leave this room. I would lose my position, and I can do more help there then if Malcolm Popstry replaced me."
"I understand, and I am glad for your covert help."
"The councils propose the positioning of one of The British Army's regiments around Hogwarts as well as building a magically protected Air force and Army base. They will need access to see Hogwarts and Hogsmead but we will put a ward against the transfer of the knowledge of our whereabouts. Do you agree to this?"
"I think it would do the children good for the protection. Especially if the war escalates and Muggle weaponry starts flying, even I cant protect myself from some of that."
"It is agreed then, the work will start in a week and hopefully the personnel should be moved in by the end of the month." She smiled. "Has your work to find Potter come up with any results?"
"No, not really, apart from the magical signature left at the Ministers house. It seems he has yet again disappeared."
"Off the record, the ministry has had no response to tracking spells, but the councils insist that we publish reports of sightings and tracking results in order to keep the public calm."
"What do you expect of the staff here if he returns?"
"Is this office secure?" She waited for his nod before continuing, with a smirk she replied. "I will pretend I didn't hear that. What you do is up to you and your staff, however if his magical signature appears the Aurors will appear all over the place and try to kill him, they won't try to capture him and anyone seen helping him will also be killed. I don't like it much. The Army will also respond. Which reminds me, be sure to warn the students of the arrival of the Muggles Forces as the Air force will start fly-unders, or whatever they call them, tomorrow morning."
Dumbledore took over, "I will get the Defence teacher to teach defense against muggle technology, and cross my fingers that it wont be needed as I doubt anyone will be able to defend against some of their weaponry."
"I am stationing Arthur Weasley here as a go between. For you to communicate with the Muggles. I know he will love the chance to see the 'shiny toys.' I would make sure none of your students wander into the bases, it could turn very nasty, if the muggles see them as a threat." She finished as she headed to the fire once more to leave and after quick good byes she stepped in and disappeared with a green flame and a shout for the Ministry.
* * *
{Atlanta}
"Ouch that hurt you git!"
"Harry! Its supposed to, it's combat, you know, I hit you, you hit me and so on!" Valice replied with a laugh. He had just done a flip off of Harry's knee and turning it into a kick to his chin, sending Harry onto the floor behind him.
Harry blurred as he ran forward and tackled his instructor. Alandria burst into laughter so hard that tears dripped down from her eyes as the shape of her partner flew across ten foot of floor and bounced as he hit the special muggle plymometric flooring.
"Don't patronize me!" Harry yelled, "I'll take you both on, if you keep on like that, an win!" He said the last bit with a smirk.
"I would like to see you try, young Harry!" Valice chuckled, Alandria saw the look on his face and knew it meant trouble but stepped forward at the challenge. The members of the Order never turned down a challenge no matter how subtle it was.
"No magic, enhancemental, attack or defence." Alandria set up the rules, basically they wanted a completely muggle fight. "Weapons or other unnatural things. And definitely no animagi! Last one conscious or in the area wins."
"Done," Harry and Valice agreed at the same time.
They all settled into a fighting stance. All different. Harry, facing his teachers, went into a stance that let him move in any direction without delay, normally used when fighting multiple targets. The two teachers went into stances, obviously they made a good team, Valice took on a purely attack stance that didn't leave him much room to defend off the boy, but Alandria moved into a purely defensive stance that she would have to shift in order to attack Harry.
Harry saw the quiver in Alandria's leg muscles as she braced so she could attack giving Harry a split second warning, all he needed. He had turned into a natural at this game and could pick up the smallest movement and adapt without thinking too much on it. His warning soon led him to flip backwards a couple of metres as Valice and Alandria flipped forward to stand where Harry had occupied, Valice tried a front kick and Alandria a sidekick before noticing that Harry no longer was there.
"Damn!" Muttered Alandria under her breathe as she realised her mistake, being older then the others didn't make her gentler, she was faster at the game then her partner, but Harry always seemed to work out what she was doing. She like Harry had the same gift at fighting and at that moment her instincts screamed at her as Harry reversed his flipped and jumped at her, she dodged it but only through instincts, she leapt back to her starting place.
Valice wasn't so fast. Harry spun to him and delivered a sidekick to his face before he noticed the boy was there. Valice retaliated with a fast jab with his left hand that flew millimetres from Harry's ear as the boy ducked in a crouch. Harry turned the crouch into a jump as he tensed the muscles in his legs. Alandria saw this but Valice was too slow and missed the tell tale signs that allowed Alandria to know what was coming next.
The tornado kick to Valice's head knocked the man back many feet to his right and Harry jumped other him to get to Alandria while he stood. Alandria had a match in Harry and may punches and kicks were thrown as Valice returned to a fighting stance. Harry smirked as he felt more then saw Valice silently come from behind him. He confirmed it by looking Alandria straight in the eyes and seeing Valice's form. Harry jumped five feet straight up and did a split kick, his right heel hitting Alandria in the stomach as his left clipped Valice's chin. He landed to follow up with a 360 kick to Valice in his stunned form and another tornado kick to his chest to send him flying backward out of the ring.
He turned back to Alandria. "One down one to go!"
"My compliments, young man!" Alandria smiled widely, even she would enjoy this if she lost, it was only a game and she loved the thrill of it.
They threw more moves at each other, slowly increasing the intensity of flips and kicks, until Harry got in a nasty punch to her left calf, followed it with a jump and a back flip off her knee and delivered a kick to her chest. He landed risking a glance at her as she recovered quicker then most. Harry did a 540 kick. He did a 360 spin brought his left leg round, his right over the top to deliver the knock out kick to her head, before spinning to land on his right foot again.
"I give," she spoke as she stood from her place on the floor, then she did something she never did normally, she hugged the boy before beckoning Valice back into the ring. "What was that move, I have never seen it before?"
"What the 540?"
"Yeah, I am not familiar with it, I am sure Valice doesn't have a clue either."
Valice nodded his agreement. "It just felt natural, so I did it," Harry replied with a smile, "It worked though didn't it?"
"I'd say so."
The next hour of the combat class passed quickly as Harry showed them the new move. But Harry didn't really pay attention. He was confused, he didn't know how he knew that move. Thoughts of the last two weeks of training came back to him as they walked to lunch. He had known lots of stuff on sword fighting, star throwing, and lots of other martial arts. It was as though he had the information in his memory all along.
He was broken from his reverie as Alandria spoke kindly to him. "Since we don't seem to need many more lessons on muggle martial arts and fighting. We'll go over to the magic room later and play with wands."
This is what he was waiting for, he knew martial arts was useful but he knew that in a proper battle, he needed magic.
* * *
{Hogwarts}
Ron and Hermione had decided the day before that even if Tonks had told them that the order of the phoenix were stopping their search for Harry they would keep trying. They had spent the first two weeks searching the books in the library for every tracking spell they could. From tracking his soul to tracking his clothing. They had had no success whatsoever when they tried the spells. They sat together in the library trying to come up with a solution to the problem. Staring at the table they seemed to hope that the solution would present itself.
"Hang on," said Hermione as something tugged on the corners of her brain, "they said that as far as they knew he was nowhere on the planet, right?"
"So?" Ron replied.
"I don't know, I am trying to think about it, it just refuses to go away."
Ron decided to try and help by repeating the information aloud as well, "If someone's not on the planet, they're not on the planet." He said with triumph but instantly deflated as he realised that what he had said made no sense. Hermione didn't agree wit it being stupid as she flung herself across the table and caught him in a hug.
"That's it!" She screamed before hushing as she got an evil glare from the library matron, "Ron that's it, he must be not on the planet."
"Hermione that makes no sense, how could he not be on the planet?"
"I don't know," a thoughtful expression took over her face as she thought for a while, "Ron go into the history section and grab any books that might detail other realities or worlds. Quick, I think we're onto something."
With that they ran in search of the books.
* * *
{Atlanta}
"It seems your friends are quite the clever ones," Alandria looked up from the letter that had been handed to her from a base communicator.
"What do you mean?" Harry lost his smile at the mention of his friends.
"We have a system here that monitors activity in the worlds that we protect. It tells us if anyone gets close to discovering us, but especially monitors friends of those initiated for signs of working out where you are." Valice explained knowing more on the subject.
"It seems," continued Alandria, "that your friends, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger are the closest on Earth to discovering the inter world base."
"How close?" Harry was excited by the chance of his friends working it out, as he wasn't allowed to send messages to anyone.
"I believe so far they know that you are not on the planet," Alandria smiled, "I doubt they will ever work out you are in Atlanta."
"Come on, its magic time." Valice chimed in and they headed from lunch to the training room once more to practice spells and see if Harry had a talent for this like everything else.
After four hours the only description for Harry's ability was, unexpected. He held no real promise whatsoever and this surprised everyone. They had met up with some other members of the order, younger ones, some not more then five or six years in the order, all from other worlds that they protected. He couldn't get the idea of the training like the others. He was better then the others in his year at Hogwarts but way below what he should be by looking at his other talents. He also couldn't seem to get a response through wandless, something that the crystal had said he had a knack for, it was as if he was being locked out from his powers.
After he finished he headed back to his room somewhat less cheery. With thoughts that they might kick him out of the order. It was a ridiculous thought, once you were in you were in, a lifetime contact so to speak.
He cheered up as he thought of the next day, Valice had told him that they would start by researching his other abilities and try to train him in them. He had been looking forward to this for a while, especially the working on his Crysti ability that had intrigued him since the Maesters had mentioned it. So with that thought he passed into sleep, what he didn't realise was that Ron and Hermione also fell asleep on the books they were still reading. A connection was formed.
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Another chapter and the plot moves on slowly, I think next chapter will be more interesting, we'll see. Thanks go to Harry17, Ashione and Yana5. Thanks to anyone else who has read, please leave a review even just to say you read it. If you are not registered send an email to my email address. Till next time!