The Rebirth of the Viper Order
by
Damien Tinsley
Chapter Two: Start of School
The next morning Mrs. Weasley woke up the teens at seven a clock to get ready to leave at ten for the trip to Kings Cross train station. Once everyone had eaten and had gathered there trunks and pets up Mrs. Weasley had them line up at the fire place to floo to the Leaky Cauldron where a Ministry car would be waiting. Since Harry was proven right about the return of Voldemort. The Ministry wanted to make sure he was safe.
For the first time in Weasley history they got to Kings Cross on time with ten minutes to spare. Mrs. Weasley gave each teen a bare hug and said her tearful goodbyes. Ron and Hermione had to go to the prefect meeting. So Ginny and Harry went to find an empty compartment. When they found a compartment a few minutes later Neville and Luna joined them.
The four teens talked for twenty minutes when Hermione came in with her trunk and her pet Crookshanks in his cage. Hermione put her stuff down and sat down next to Harry. Neville asked "Hermione where is Ron is he coming?" Hermiones face turn from a smile to a very sour look and said "Ron does not want to be in the same room as me." Hermione would not say any more on the topic. The conversation turn to if Harry would start Dumbledores Army again and Harry answered "No I don't think so, not this year anyway maybe next year." Neville, Ginny and Luna looked disappointed.
A little later Hermione said "I need to go on one of my prefect rounds. Harry would you mined keeping me company?" Harry answered "No problem." and got up and followed Hermione. While slowly walking down the train Hermione whispered to Harry "Last year you told me my hats to free the house elves did not work and Dobby had to cleaned the tower by him self. Tonight after the feast I want you to tell Dobby that I will be making those hats again. Have him promise to not tell anyone about are nightly prowls in the castle. I hate to do this but it needs to be done. After ten a clock everyone should be in bed tonight. At ten sneak down to the common room with your cloak and map."
Harry was about to respond to Hermione request when he saw Draco Malfoy. Malfoy drawled "I see it Potty with his little mud-blood whore." Hermione whispered to Harry "Use him for practice; do not get angry, do your meditations." Malfoy asked "What was that mud-blood I could not hear you." Hermione replied in a sweet voice "Oh I was just telling Harry here how sad it is that your family is so inbreed where your own mother is also your great aunt, it's just sad really."
With that Hermione took Harry by his arm and led him away form a spluttering Malfoy heir. Once Malfoy was out of hearing distances Hermione asked "So will you talk to Dobby and meet me in the common room after ten?" Harry nodded his head yes and Hermione said "good, let's get back to our compartment.
As the sky was becoming dark the Hogwarts Express was pulling in to Hogsmeade train station. The teens got off the train and went to find an empty carriage that was pulled by Thestrals. After a ten minute ride the teens got out and headed in side the castle and in to the Great Hall. Luna walked over to the Ravenclaw table, while the rest took there seats at the Gryffindor table.
Twenty minutes later the sorting hat had sung its yearly song and had sorted all the new first year students. All the students where now eating the feast that was laid before them. After about an hour the noise in the great hall was picking up and Professor Dumbledore stood up and spoke "This year there are a few changes to be noted, Professor Snape will be the Defense teacher this year. While replacing Professor Snape as potions master will be Professor Furmage. Please give him a warm welcome. The forbidden forest is most currently forbidden. No magic in the corridors is allowed and all Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes are forbidden in the school. Now then have a good night. Prefects!"
Everyone got up and was heading up to there common rooms. Hermione walked up next to Harry and said "The password is Alihotsy then she walked way to lead the first year students. Harry quickly made his way to the painting of the bowl of fruit and tickled the pair and made his way to the Kitchen. Harry called for Dobby. When Dobby headed who had called his name he ran up to Harry and hugged his legs tightly.
Harry took Dobby to the side and said "Dobby it is great to see you again. I wanted to let you know that Hermione will be making the hats again. You should warn the other house elves" Dobby just nodded and said "Yes sir I will be doing that, I will be cleaning the tower my self for now on." Harry felt sad about this but Hermione was right if one of the house elves reported to any of the Professors that Harry and Hermione where awake and out of bed late at night there would be problems.
Harry asked "Dobby would you do me a favor?" Dobby replied "Dobby would do anything for the great and noble Harry Potter. Harry lowered his voice even more and said "Dobby me and Hermione do not need as much sleep as we used to. We will be studying late at night so one day I can defeat Voldemort" Dobby gasped at this. "Can you keep this fact to your self and tell no one." Harry hated to lie to Dobby this was not a total lie but it was not the whole truth either. Dobby said "Yes sir I will keep your secrets it would be an honor." Harry thanked Dobby and took a few cakes from the other house elves and walked back to the Gryffindor common room.
Most of the older students went to bed by nine a clock Harry did the same and went up to his dorm room and laid down on his bed and closed his bed hangings. Then he read the mind arts book. At ten a clock Harry carefully got up and walked over to his trunk and carefully pulling out his invisibility cloak, putting it on he grabbed the Marauder's Map and quietly made his way out of the dorm room and down to the common room where Hermione was waiting for him.
Hermione took out her wand and gave it a few flicks and then said "I cast a temporary silencing ward. Now before we go to the chamber I need to teach you the basic area effect sleeping charm. The incantation is "Dormio". You simply visualize the area you want it to affect in this case the whole dorm room. With the mind strengthen ritual this should be easy. This charm only works when a person or persons are lying down for sleep. Once the spell takes hold the person that is under spell will not wake up for at least ten hours or is shaken a wake or when the spell is cancelled with finite they will wake up at there normal time. Why don't you try it down here a few times first?"
Harry took out his wand and visualized the common room and said "Dormio" a soft silver glow came out of his wand filling up the room in less then a second and disappearing. Hermione said "wow that was perfect and on your first try. Go to your dorm and cast it and then come back down here." Harry quietly went up to his dorm and cast the spell. Harry some how could tell that his dorm mates where sleeping even deeper now that the spell was cast.
Harry slowly made his way back to the common room. Harry and Hermione put the invisibility cloak on and Harry turn on the Marauder's Map to see if the coast was clear. Hermione took out her wand and gave it a flick and then a second flick which open the porthole to the seventh floor. Hermione whispered "I froze the portrait the pink lady will never no she was frozen or that she was opened. The two teens walked out of the porthole and close the portrait. Hermione gave her wand another flick and the pink lady's snores could be herd again.
Harry and Hermione navigated there way down to the second floor bathroom which was haunted by Moaning Myrtle. Harry asked what are we going to do about Myrtle." Hermione said "You are going to sweet talk her into keeping this a secret." Harry sighted and slowly opened the door to her bathroom. As the two walked in side of the bathroom Hermione cast a silencing spell on the door.
Harry and Hermione took off the cloak and saw Myrtle floating in the middle of the bathroom crying. Harry asked "Are you ok Myrtle?" Myrtle looked up in shock and replied "No I am not ok, I am feeling lonely no one wants to talk to poor old Moaning Myrtle." Harry said "We would be willing to talk to you, for a few minutes each night." Myrtle asked "You would do this for poor old me?" Harry replied "Yes we would but you can't tell anyone that we where ever here." Myrtle agreed and Harry and Hermione talk to her until she left crying a few minutes later.
Harry turned to Hermione and asked "Do you think she will tell anyone?" Hermione replied "No I don't think so she will want to continue talking to us." Harry then asked "Are you sure you want to use the chamber there is one spot that is caved in and there is a huge dead snake down there." Hermione answered "We can clean up and repair the chamber. We have no choice but to use the chamber there are no portraits or house elf's to report to Dumbledore or the other Professor's. Now before you open it up let me do a few scans."
Hermione flicked her wand a few times and was muttering different charms. Finally Hermione said "It is clean, Dumbledore has not put any wards or alert charms up so we don't have to worry about that." Harry walked over to the sink and looked at the snake engraving and hissed "Open" the sink opened up to reveal a huge pipe hole. Harry asked "How are we going to get back up here, the last time Fawkes had to carry us back up here." Hermione said "Try saying stairs in Parseltongue. Harry nodded and looked at the snake engraving on the sink and hissed "Stairs" and to his and Hermiones surprise a set of circular stairs appeared.
Hermione said "Wow I can't believe that worked I guess that plan B is not needed. Come on Harry. Oh and on the way down start casting cleaning charms. After a five minute climb and thirty cleaning charms later they had made it to the bottom. Hermione started to vanish the rat's skeletons and Harry started to do the same. About five minutes later the two had finished vanishing the dead skeletons and moved on to where part of the tunnel caved in.
Hermione pointed her wand at the pile of rocks and closed her eyes and said in a commanding voice "Reconcilio Cilicis" slowly the fallen rocks floated up in the air and up to the ceiling of the tunnel. The rocks started to come together like a jig saw puzzle and fuse together until the ceiling was like new. Once the spell was finished Hermione gasped and said "That took a bit out of me. Give me a minute."
Hermione then showed Harry how to fix any cracks that where in the tunnel and the two with wand light slowly check every inch of the tunnel and repaired any cracks that was found, finally making the tunnel safe again up to the heavy vault door that led to the main chamber. Hermione decided to do there Occlumency and Legilimency practice in the tunnel when she saw it was one in the morning.
Hermione said "Before we can go any further with Occlumency we will have to start learning Legilimency. Have you read the first four chapter of the mind arts book?" Harry nodded his head yes. Hermione replied "Good for the rest of this week at night we continue to clean up and repair the chamber and work on the Legilimens spell. I will go first and try the spell. For now don't fight it, until we have at lease have gain a sufficient ability to cast the spell correctly.
Hermione pointed her wand at Harry and said "Legilimens" at first nothing happen then Harry saw a few flashes in his mind and then the spell stopped. Hermione again said "Legilimens" and this time the flashes in his mind started quicker then before. He could not tell what the flashes where they where moving so fast. Hermione tried the spell ten more times and she could start the spell but had no control what so ever and was not able to tell what she was seeing in his mind.
Hermione said "I am going to borrow the mind arts book from you tomorrow and read the chapter about the Legilimens spell again. When you cast the spell try and focus on creating a connection to my mind when you cast the spell. Harry cast "Legilimens" and suddenly Harry was reading a Muggle history book when three girls kicked the book out of his hands. A blond girl asked "What are you reading Granger? Oh it's a school book you are such a stupid book worm." A brown haired girl picked up the book and started to rip the page out. The three girls laughed and he started to cry.
As another memory started to come to view Harry pulled out, and the tunnel came back in to focus and he found Hermione on the ground crying. Harry went over to Hermione and gave her a hug and whispered "It is ok Hermione it was just a memory it is all in the past." Hermione hugged Harry back. Harry said "Hermione we can stop doing thi--" Hermione interrupted him and said "No Harry we need to master this. We will work on this again tomorrow night. It seems you are a natural Legilimens."
The two teens grabbed the Marauder's map and invisibility cloak and walked up the longs steps back to Moaning Myrtle bathroom. Once in the girl's bathroom Harry hissed "closed" the stair disappeared and the sink sealed itself up again. Harry checked the map and saw the coast was clear. The two teens put on the invisibility cloak and made there way back to the seventh floor. Once at the painting of the pink lady Hermione silently froze her and unlock the porthole. The two teens entered the common room and Hermione close the portrait and unfroze the pink lady.
Harry bid Hermione a goodnight and silently made his way up to his dorm putting his map and cloak away in his trunk and laying down on his bed. He then cast a quick area effect finite canceling the forced sleep charm on his dorm mates and went to sleep.
The next morning Harry woke up at five a clock in the morning. Harry decided to get up and use the room of requirement for his exercise meditation. Harry put on a pair of running shorts that he made the Dursleys buy for him and a cloak to cover him self and went down to the common room. As Harry was about to leave the common room Harry saw Hermione coming down the stairs in her morning robe. Hermione asked "Harry where are you going?" Harry answered "The room of requirements for my exercise meditation." Hermione said "Harry wait here I will be back in a couple of minutes and I will join you.
Hermione ran up the stairs and a few minutes later she came back down to the common room. She followed Harry to the room of requirements. Once in front of the blank wall Harry wished for a sunny place that had everything they needed for there workout meditation walking back and forth three times. Once the door appeared the two teens walked in the room and saw a nice sunny park with exercise equipment around the park.
Harry and Hermione took off there cloaks and started to do there stretches. While stretching Harry notice that Hermione was wearing a very short pair of running shorts and very tight fitting tube top. Hermione had a very nice summer tan, her abs where nice and tight and her arms and legs where well toned. Hermione was no longer the plain looking girl that she once was. She was now pretty sexy. Harry told himself to stop thinking about Hermione his best friend like that. When Harry was not looking Hermione was eying him over and she liked what she saw.
After an hour of doing there exercise meditation the two walked back up to Gryffindor tower to take a shower and get dressed for the day. On the way back to the tower the two teens decided that they would go to the room of requirements every morning for an hour a day. An hour later Harry, Hermione, Neville and Ginny where sitting at the Gryffindor table. Ron was sitting by Dean and Seamus giving Hermione the evil eye.
Professor McGonagall was passing out time tables and asking the sixth years what NEWT classes they would be taking. Half way threw breakfast Professor McGonagall walked next to Harry and said "Let's see Mr. Potter you will be taking Defense, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions." At Harry look she said "yes Potter potions. Professor Furmage only requires an Exceed Expectations and what would you say about taking Herbology." Harry answered "Herbology is fine Professor." McGonagall handed Harry his time table and moved on to Hermione. Hermione had the same classes as Harry except she had an extra class which was Arithmancy.
The first class of the day was double Transfiguration. Newt classes where with all four houses. Professor McGonagall spent the whole lesson having the class take notes on conjuring items. By the time class was over, all the students hands where sore. The next class was double potions with Professor Furmage who was a calm and quit person. He had the class start there own potions reference book. He believed that NEWT students should have easy access to the most important potion laws so that the students could make a potion with out any directions.
Harry was going to need a lot of help from Hermione. Hermione seemed eager to start the potion reference project. After lunch the last two periods of the day where study time. Hermione dragged Harry to the library to start on the potions project and too write an essay about eating conjured food for Professor McGonagall. After three long hours of writing Hermione went to check out a few books and took Harry to an empty class room.
Once the two teens found an empty class room Hermione said "When I was reading this year's charms course book I found a chapter on silent casting of spells. I tried to cast a few spells silently and found that I was quite good at it. Now I want you to learn how to cast spells silently."
Hermione spent the next ten minutes lecturing and teaching how to cast spells silently then she had Harry try. It took Harry an hour of trying before he had gotten any results at all. He found he had to visualize not the incantation but the result and will his magic threw his wand and to do what ever task he wanted. Hermione told Harry he would have to keep working on this until he had mastered it. Hermione had already mastered this skill partly in thanks to the mind enhancing ritual.
After dinner Harry and Hermione worked on there homework for another few hours. Ron came up to Hermione and said "Hermione I am sorry about what I said to you a few days ago. I was wondering if I could copy your transfiguration notes I lost mine." As Ron was talking Hermione started to smile but when he got to the part about copying her notes. Hermione smile vanished. Hermione said "Ron I will not forgive you with that lame apology the only reason you apologized to me is because you wanted my notes."
Ron yelled "Fine miss prefect Granger, be that way" and Ron stormed away. The whole common room was looking at Hermione. Harry asked loudly "What is everyone looking at? Go back to what ever you where doing." Everyone turned away and started talking to each other again. Hermione turned to Harry and whispered to Harry "meet me here at eleven tonight and every school night and at midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Oh and can you go get me the mind arts book for me." Harry nodded and ran up to his dorm room and saw Ron had his bed hangings closed.
Harry opened his trunk and grabbed the mind arts book and went back to the common room. Harry handed Hermione the book. Harry noticed she had packed up her stuff. Hermione left for her dorm room. Harry decided to read his potion book and then head up to his dorm room around ten.
At eleven a clock Harry quietly cast Dormio making sure his dorm mates stayed a sleep. Harry then got out of bed and opened his trunk to grab his invisibility cloak and the Marauder's map. Ten minutes later Harry and Hermione where in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. Myrtle was crying in one of the bathroom stalls. Myrtle told the two teens that a few first year girls screamed when they saw her and that the three evil girls where probably spreading rumors about her.
After ten minutes of listening to Myrtle whine about her life, Harry was finally able to open the sink and call for the stairs. The two teens walked down the long circular stair case. That night Hermione had Harry open the main chamber up. When the vault door opened a horrible smell meet there nose Hermione cast some sort of wind spell and the smell vanished. The two teens moved the large snake to one side of the chamber.
Hermione said "Tomorrow I will read up on how to harvest the Basilisk. I can't believe you fought that thing and lived." Hermione lit up the chamber and the two teens two started to cast lots of cleaning charms till about one in the morning. The chamber would need a lot more work before it could become there base of operations.
At one a clock in the morning Hermione decided it was time to start practicing the Legilimens spell. Hermione took out her wand and pointed it at Harry and said "Legilimens" Harry's vision change to when Harry was in the hospital wing holding Hermiones petrified hand. Then the vision changed to Harry and Hermione ridding Buckbeak to free Sirius, Then the vision changed to the first time Harry meet Hermione on the Hogwarts Express.
Then the visions stop and the chamber came back in to view. Hermione said "I think I have figured how the spell works you not only have to will a connection to me but you also have to will the memory's you are after. Why don't you give it a try?" Harry took out his wand and said "Legilimens" while thinking about the night Hermione spent teaching him the summoning charm.
Harry was watching as he was showing Harry the right way to hold the wand while trying to summon a object. Then the vision turned to the day of the first task. He felt scared for Harry and hoped that he would be able to summon his broom and when Harry summoned the broom he felt proud of Harry. Harry pulled out of the vision to seeing a smiling Hermione. The two teens practice the Legilimens spell on each other for about a half hour. Hermione said "Tomorrow we will try and resist the others probe." Then the two went back to Gryffindor tower and to bed.
The following day Hermione had double Arithmancy first thing in the morning. Harry practiced his silent casting in the common room until he had to go to double Herbology. Harry was now able to cast most first and second year spell silently. Harry did not get any homework in Herbology thanks to being in Nevilles group. After lunch Harry and Hermione worked on there potion project for bit until Hermione had Harry help her find a few books on harvesting a Basilisk.
They found out that the Basilisk skin was a silky material and very good for absorbing a high level of magic, but had very little magic resistant. The Basilisk would feed magic in to its skin and that would make it resistant to magic and physical force. There skin is highly prized and was used in advance enchanting. The Basilisk skin was most famously used by the Egyptian Viper Order. The Viper Order found a way to use a small amount of skin because of how rare Basilisk skin is and the hot weather.
The skin would be cut in to a short skirt for both male and female members or a dress for the head priest and priestess. The material would be enchanted with parcelmagic. If a person was wearing the garment an invisible shield would cover them from head to toe protecting them from any physical force and most magical attacks. The book also talked about using Basilisk skin to tie down very powerful wards. Hogwarts is the only known place that use Basilisk skin for its wards. Hermione found that the rest of the Basilisk could be used in many different potions and a few rituals. It would take a few weeks to properly harvest the Basilisk.
That night in the Chamber of secrets the two teens continued to clean. Hermione had transfigured some dead rat bones in to chairs and a work table. She transfigured up a potion work area and a few cauldrons and storage area for the soon to be harvested Basilisk. A few more days and the chamber would be clean. Then the two teen practiced using the Legilimens spell.
But this time the castey would try and clear there mind and stop the probing in there mind. Both Harry and Hermione could easily stop the probing in there mind so they decided to go back to not fighting it. That way they could get better at casting the Legilimens spell. Before the two teens went back to the Gryffindor tower Hermione spoke to Harry and said "Harry tomorrow we have Professor Snape for defense. Do not make eye contact with him but don't make it obvious. I would also stay in a meditative trance like you do when you exercise in the mornings and that should hopefully work to keep him out of your mind. Oh and do not let him get to you."
The following day started off well Professor McGonagall made Harry the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. He now had to organize tryouts in about a weeks time. Charms with Professor Flitwick was fun but difficult, Professor Flitwick was starting to teach the sixth years how to make a charm permanent on an object, which was called enchanting. With the help of Hermione, Harry was able to make his rock glow when you tap it with a wand and stop glowing when you tapped it again.
Defense went surprisingly well; before Harry walked in to the class room. He visualized the flame in his mind. Keeping all stray thoughts out of his mind which had a few unforeseen befits. One was when Professor Snape started taunting Harry about his defenses skills. He did not rice to the bait. Two he was able to easily remember what Professor Snape was lecturing about. Number there was when Professor Snape had the class try casting spells silently Harry was easily able to cast any spell he tried silently. During class Professor Snape tried to enter his mind twice. Harry was able to push him out easily. Hermione plans and ideas where started to work. Just maybe just maybe Harry might be able to get threw this war alive.
A/N I am looking for a good beta reader if anyone want the job edit both posted chapters and email it to me at dtinsley (AT) gmail (DOT) com.
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Thanks Damien
