Fire of the Phoenix
Chapter 9 A lesson in defense
Disclaimer; I do not own Harry Potter
Authors note; Sorry I haven't updated in a little while thanks to everyone for the reviews If anyone gets any ideas just let me know Thank you. Dolphingirl79
The next morning Harry Potter woke up feeling refreshed. He realized he didn't have any nightmares, and he actually had a whole nights sleep.
He felt a warm body shift next to himself. He looked over and he saw bright red hair next to him. He was trying to figure out what happened. He realized he fell asleep while they talking and holding each other.
He put his arms around her and realized he had to wake her up before everyone woke up and came down and found them. He wished he could let her sleep. She looked like a sleeping angel. He hated to wake her up, but he had to. "Gin, Ginny time to wake my angel." Ginny slowly opened her eyes she looked at Harry and started blushing.
"Nothing happened did it," she asked?
"No we just fell asleep on the couch," Harry said quietly.
"Oh, ok well I guess we better get up before anyone comes out and sees us." She gave him a quick kiss and went up into the girl's dorm.
Ron came to the common room looking half asleep still. He went to sit down on the chair; instead he missed and fell on the floor. He quickly woke up after that. Harry looked at him and started to laugh. Ron just turned red. Harry walked over and helped him up.
" It wasn't that bloody funny," retorted Ron.
"Yeah it was if you could see the look on your face you would be laughing too". Ron grudgingly let Harry help him up.
"C'mon lets get our robes and get some breakfast," Harry said.
Ron and Harry met Ginny and Hermione at the great hall. They all sat down together and ate breakfast.
"What class do we have first today Mione," asked Ron in a sad puppy dog voice.
"We have History of magic first. Then we have defense against the dark arts. After lunch I'll have arithmancy, and you will have divination."
Harry and Ron both groaned in unison at the prospect of divination.
Then they all ate in silence for a few minutes. Then Ginny asked, "Do I have to try out to be a chaser even though I was on the team as an emergency seeker."
Harry looked at her and said, "of course not, you're already on the team, but make sure you show up for tryouts and practice Miss Weasley."
"Ok I'll make sure I don't get detention or anything else Mr. Potter."
Harry blushed guiltily at the memory of him not being at practices, due to being in detention.
"We better get going before we're late for professor Binn's class,"Hermione said cutting into his thoughts.
Ron looked at Harry mischievously; "at least we can catch up on our sleep." Hermione playfully swatted him in the back of the head. Ron caught her hand and started to kiss it instead. Hermione blushed furiously and pretended to look mad but she was failing miserably. Harry reached over to Ginny and gave her arm a squeeze and mouthed to her I love you. She smiled and mouthed back you too.
With that Harry stood up and looked at Hermione and Ron and just simply said," are you coming?"
Later on history of Magic class, professor Binns seemed to just go on and on about goblin revolution dates. Harry looked around, he saw Hermione sitting straight up taking notes he noticed her parchment was almost full, while his only had the words the goblin revolution 1775 on it. He wondered how she could stay awake when the rest of the class was all dozing off, and struggling to stay awake.
He jabbed his quill at Ron woke up with a start and he had a big red mark on his face .He shot Harry a dirty look and put his head back down again. Harry snickered at Ron and jabbed him again. Ron just ignored him. Finally it was time to leave.
They arrived in the defense against the dark arts room professor Dumbledore was standing in the front of the class, waiting for everyone to arrive. Finally everyone was there and seated Professor Dumbledore looked at him or her all with his piercing but twinkling blue eyes. "Today we are going to be studying on how to reflect spells and curses "."The more magical energy you have the stronger the curse you can reflect. Nobody has ever tried to reflect the unforgivable curses, so I don't know if it works against the unforgivables. I need a volunteer, Mr. Longbottom if you please come up here"
. Neville nervously went up to the front of the class.
"Now I'll say my curse and you focus your energy into reflecting it back at me again and say Reflectus Protego."
Neville looked nervous, but resolute at the same time.
"Locomotor Mortis," Dumbledore bellowed out the legg locker curse.
Neville quickly yelled out" Reflectus Protego". Neville was instantly glowing a soft yellow color. They saw Dumbledore's curse hit Neville and reflect back to him.
They saw Dumbledore stiffen up as well as Neville. He quickly performed the counter curse, and told Neville very good for your first time. "You reflected part of the curse back to me, but you still got hit with half of the curse 10 points to Gryffindor. You can sit back down, any more volunteers?"
Dumbledore looked directly at Harry. Harry slowly put his hand up. "Harry comes up here," Dumbledore said brightly. "Now just stand over there, remember concentrate at reflecting the spell back at me again."
"Petrificus Totalus" was all Harry heard as he quickly bellowed out "Reflectus Protego" and was concentrated with all his might to reflect the spell.
Suddenly he was glowing gold and he looked over and Dumbledore who went all rigid and fell over. Harry quickly said the counter curse.
Dumbledore got up and smiled at Harry, and said "well done. 15 points to gryffindor, and you can sit down. For the rest of the class I'm going to have you pair off and take turns reflecting spells."
Harry got paired with Neville, Ron got paired with Hermione they all were practicing reflecting the curses Harry reflected all the curses he got thrown, but Neville only reflected a couple. Harry kept working with Neville until he could fully reflect most spells. He noticed Hermione had Ron in the tickling curse. Seamus had Dean two stepping. Pavarti had Lavender-belching slugs.
Harry quickly went back to second year when Ron was a belching slug because his wand backfired how long ago that seemed.
"Attention class", they all stopped and looked at Dumbledore. "For homework I want you to do an essay 2 rolls of parchment long about the theory of the Reflect spell, class dismised."
"That was a great lesson didn't you think so" Harry asked Hermione?
"It was very useful spell to learn. It could help out a lot with the war with Voldemort."
"Yeah that's if you could do it", grumbled Ron.
They hurriedly ate their lunch of roast beef sandwiches. Ginny came storming in, her eyes were flashing with anger. She threw her bag down and sat at the table. "Gin what is wrong "asked Harry?
"It's that insufferable prick, Snape." Ginny answered irritably. "He said I need to take remedial potions .He said I was worse than potter. It was all because Collin Creevey put in the wrong ingredient and exploded my potion everywhere. He didn't blame Collin, but he blamed me."
"Gin doesn't worry about Snape he is nothing but a bloody prat." Harry said to her soothingly. He found her hand and gave it a squeeze. She looked at him gratefully; at least she had someone to complain to. She grabbed herself a sandwich and started eating.
When they were done eating Harry looked at Ginny "sorry I have to run I got go to divination", he made a face as he said that. Ginny just laughed at him. With the look he gave her she just couldn't help it. He gave her a kiss, and broke apart quickly because of the wolf calls they were getting. "I'll see you later" he told that with that he was gone. '
Divination was becoming a really interesting class with Trewlawney and Firenze battling out who is and what is the most accurate way to predict the future. At least they aren't predicting my death anymore he felt greatly relieved by this. He was even more grateful when it was time to go.
Then Firenze called out "homework is to make a star chart and how it will affect you." Ron just groaned at that. Then Trewlawney called out, "don't forget to do your own horoscopes for the week."
Harry looked at Ron and said; "at least we can make that up." With that they went to the library to do their homework.
Chapter 9 A lesson in defense
Disclaimer; I do not own Harry Potter
Authors note; Sorry I haven't updated in a little while thanks to everyone for the reviews If anyone gets any ideas just let me know Thank you. Dolphingirl79
The next morning Harry Potter woke up feeling refreshed. He realized he didn't have any nightmares, and he actually had a whole nights sleep.
He felt a warm body shift next to himself. He looked over and he saw bright red hair next to him. He was trying to figure out what happened. He realized he fell asleep while they talking and holding each other.
He put his arms around her and realized he had to wake her up before everyone woke up and came down and found them. He wished he could let her sleep. She looked like a sleeping angel. He hated to wake her up, but he had to. "Gin, Ginny time to wake my angel." Ginny slowly opened her eyes she looked at Harry and started blushing.
"Nothing happened did it," she asked?
"No we just fell asleep on the couch," Harry said quietly.
"Oh, ok well I guess we better get up before anyone comes out and sees us." She gave him a quick kiss and went up into the girl's dorm.
Ron came to the common room looking half asleep still. He went to sit down on the chair; instead he missed and fell on the floor. He quickly woke up after that. Harry looked at him and started to laugh. Ron just turned red. Harry walked over and helped him up.
" It wasn't that bloody funny," retorted Ron.
"Yeah it was if you could see the look on your face you would be laughing too". Ron grudgingly let Harry help him up.
"C'mon lets get our robes and get some breakfast," Harry said.
Ron and Harry met Ginny and Hermione at the great hall. They all sat down together and ate breakfast.
"What class do we have first today Mione," asked Ron in a sad puppy dog voice.
"We have History of magic first. Then we have defense against the dark arts. After lunch I'll have arithmancy, and you will have divination."
Harry and Ron both groaned in unison at the prospect of divination.
Then they all ate in silence for a few minutes. Then Ginny asked, "Do I have to try out to be a chaser even though I was on the team as an emergency seeker."
Harry looked at her and said, "of course not, you're already on the team, but make sure you show up for tryouts and practice Miss Weasley."
"Ok I'll make sure I don't get detention or anything else Mr. Potter."
Harry blushed guiltily at the memory of him not being at practices, due to being in detention.
"We better get going before we're late for professor Binn's class,"Hermione said cutting into his thoughts.
Ron looked at Harry mischievously; "at least we can catch up on our sleep." Hermione playfully swatted him in the back of the head. Ron caught her hand and started to kiss it instead. Hermione blushed furiously and pretended to look mad but she was failing miserably. Harry reached over to Ginny and gave her arm a squeeze and mouthed to her I love you. She smiled and mouthed back you too.
With that Harry stood up and looked at Hermione and Ron and just simply said," are you coming?"
Later on history of Magic class, professor Binns seemed to just go on and on about goblin revolution dates. Harry looked around, he saw Hermione sitting straight up taking notes he noticed her parchment was almost full, while his only had the words the goblin revolution 1775 on it. He wondered how she could stay awake when the rest of the class was all dozing off, and struggling to stay awake.
He jabbed his quill at Ron woke up with a start and he had a big red mark on his face .He shot Harry a dirty look and put his head back down again. Harry snickered at Ron and jabbed him again. Ron just ignored him. Finally it was time to leave.
They arrived in the defense against the dark arts room professor Dumbledore was standing in the front of the class, waiting for everyone to arrive. Finally everyone was there and seated Professor Dumbledore looked at him or her all with his piercing but twinkling blue eyes. "Today we are going to be studying on how to reflect spells and curses "."The more magical energy you have the stronger the curse you can reflect. Nobody has ever tried to reflect the unforgivable curses, so I don't know if it works against the unforgivables. I need a volunteer, Mr. Longbottom if you please come up here"
. Neville nervously went up to the front of the class.
"Now I'll say my curse and you focus your energy into reflecting it back at me again and say Reflectus Protego."
Neville looked nervous, but resolute at the same time.
"Locomotor Mortis," Dumbledore bellowed out the legg locker curse.
Neville quickly yelled out" Reflectus Protego". Neville was instantly glowing a soft yellow color. They saw Dumbledore's curse hit Neville and reflect back to him.
They saw Dumbledore stiffen up as well as Neville. He quickly performed the counter curse, and told Neville very good for your first time. "You reflected part of the curse back to me, but you still got hit with half of the curse 10 points to Gryffindor. You can sit back down, any more volunteers?"
Dumbledore looked directly at Harry. Harry slowly put his hand up. "Harry comes up here," Dumbledore said brightly. "Now just stand over there, remember concentrate at reflecting the spell back at me again."
"Petrificus Totalus" was all Harry heard as he quickly bellowed out "Reflectus Protego" and was concentrated with all his might to reflect the spell.
Suddenly he was glowing gold and he looked over and Dumbledore who went all rigid and fell over. Harry quickly said the counter curse.
Dumbledore got up and smiled at Harry, and said "well done. 15 points to gryffindor, and you can sit down. For the rest of the class I'm going to have you pair off and take turns reflecting spells."
Harry got paired with Neville, Ron got paired with Hermione they all were practicing reflecting the curses Harry reflected all the curses he got thrown, but Neville only reflected a couple. Harry kept working with Neville until he could fully reflect most spells. He noticed Hermione had Ron in the tickling curse. Seamus had Dean two stepping. Pavarti had Lavender-belching slugs.
Harry quickly went back to second year when Ron was a belching slug because his wand backfired how long ago that seemed.
"Attention class", they all stopped and looked at Dumbledore. "For homework I want you to do an essay 2 rolls of parchment long about the theory of the Reflect spell, class dismised."
"That was a great lesson didn't you think so" Harry asked Hermione?
"It was very useful spell to learn. It could help out a lot with the war with Voldemort."
"Yeah that's if you could do it", grumbled Ron.
They hurriedly ate their lunch of roast beef sandwiches. Ginny came storming in, her eyes were flashing with anger. She threw her bag down and sat at the table. "Gin what is wrong "asked Harry?
"It's that insufferable prick, Snape." Ginny answered irritably. "He said I need to take remedial potions .He said I was worse than potter. It was all because Collin Creevey put in the wrong ingredient and exploded my potion everywhere. He didn't blame Collin, but he blamed me."
"Gin doesn't worry about Snape he is nothing but a bloody prat." Harry said to her soothingly. He found her hand and gave it a squeeze. She looked at him gratefully; at least she had someone to complain to. She grabbed herself a sandwich and started eating.
When they were done eating Harry looked at Ginny "sorry I have to run I got go to divination", he made a face as he said that. Ginny just laughed at him. With the look he gave her she just couldn't help it. He gave her a kiss, and broke apart quickly because of the wolf calls they were getting. "I'll see you later" he told that with that he was gone. '
Divination was becoming a really interesting class with Trewlawney and Firenze battling out who is and what is the most accurate way to predict the future. At least they aren't predicting my death anymore he felt greatly relieved by this. He was even more grateful when it was time to go.
Then Firenze called out "homework is to make a star chart and how it will affect you." Ron just groaned at that. Then Trewlawney called out, "don't forget to do your own horoscopes for the week."
Harry looked at Ron and said; "at least we can make that up." With that they went to the library to do their homework.