Harry sat down in one of the headmasters chairs dreading all the punishments he would get for what he had done after five minuets of thinking about all the ways Dumbledore could kill him he got a feeling as if the stone phoenix was talking to him it told him that Dumbledore was coming up the stairs. O Merlin Harry thought as the door knob turned and the door opened "Sorry sir I didn't mean it I was just so angry then it tried to…….." he stopped when Dumbledore held up his hand and sat down Harry was too ashamed to look him in the face.
"imagine my surprise when I was walking down the corridor sucking one of my sherbet lemons and thinking of how I was going to get my sherbet lemons back from my brother before my spare pack runs out when I reach the gargoyle and say the password only to find that it is not a gargoyle but a phoenix and the password is changed" he said.
"I'm so sorry sir I didn't mean it" he said but stopped as he saw Dumbledore's eyes twinkling in amusement.
"What happened?" he asked mildly.
"well I was trying to guess the password but I couldn't guess so I erm lost my temper and offended it when it didn't move I kicked it and well it didn't work and I hurt my toe pretty bad so I sent a curse at it, it was only mild and then it attacked me it froze me then sent a fireball at me and my magic reacted and melted the fireball and I put my hands on the gargoyle and concentrated and well then I felt really tired and looked up and it changed into a phoenix and asked me for the password o I just said a random thing thinking it was a joke but the password changed to that and I am so sorry sir really I didn't mean it" he said and took a deep breath.
"Don't worry my boy I am quite happy with the replacement that gargoyle was ugly and I didn't know how to change it, and that phoenix is beautiful it looks just like Fawkes" he said smiling "although I am a little upset about the lemon drop that fell out o my mouth when I saw the change to my guardian of my office but I suppose it will be easier as the gargoyle, or should I say phoenix will move out the way for you without the password although please would you ask it to do the same for me for I am quite used to the gargoyle just moving out the way without me having to ask for the password and would you please tell it to alert me when someone is coming up for I also find that that is quite useful".
"So that's how you used to now who it was!" Harry exclaimed grinning.
"yes but you better not tell people I like the fact that people are freaked out by the way I know who it is" Dumbledore said winking.
"o don't worry sir your secret is safe with me" Harry said grinning back at the mad headmaster.
"It's a good piece of art" Dumbledore commented nodding at Harry "o and the password was sherbet lemon" Dumbledore added
Harry groaned and buried his head in his arms " I should have known I tried everything but that password, how stupid can you get potter?" he groaned more to himself then Dumbledore.
"Maybe you should go to bed" Dumbledore said grinning as he popped another sherbet lemon in his mouth.
"I think I will o and why does the door leading out of my room keep changing places" Harry asked "and how do I get into it apart from your office"
"I didn't tell you? Sorry if you think of a part of Hogwarts you want the door to let you out at then open the door you will find yourself there and all you have to do is go to a wall and think of your room to get in the phoenix on your bed cover should appear as a picture in front of you, you should set the password then and you will be able to go in when ever you want were ever you want" Dumbledore said smiling.
"Thank you sir" Harry said before going into his room and changing into his pyjamas and flopping onto his bed with his book. Harry read for a while before turning of the lights with his wand and going to sleep.
The next morning Harry was woken by water being poured onto his body "rise and shine sleepy head" a voice shouted in his ear groaning Harry turned around only to fall out of the bed with a thump "I expect you to be in the great hall in five minuets you will find some exercise robes in your wardrobe" the voice shouted before leaving the room grumbling Harry got up and went to his wardrobe and opened it. Dumbledore had bought him new clothes for the holidays which Harry was very grateful for.
Harry found some robes that must be his exercising robes and changed into them they were light and thin and had a spell to keep the bottom out of the way of feet so you could run easily they were extremely comfy and absorbed the water that was dripping of his hair shrugging Harry went to the door and thought about the great hall and went through the door opened right in front of his chair.
Harry looked up the table to find that only the person he supposed woke him up was there "Hi I'm Harry he said nervously sitting next to the man.
"Hello I'm Charles but call me James that's what all my friends call me" James said grinning "I hoped you liked your little wake up call?" he added grinning like a manic.
"O yes real funny" Harry said grumbling "what time is it anyway?" he asked.
"5:30!" James answered.
"5:30! Are you mental what the bloody hell are you getting me up at that time for" he shouted.
"have you finished come on lets go" he said ignoring Harry's outburst, reluctantly Harry made his way outside and followed James to the lake "right I want you to do one lap of the lake of you go" James said making himself comfy on the floor.
"You must be joking" Harry shouted James lifted up a finger and pointed at the lake grumbling Harry started to jog round the lake. Half way he was gasping for breath but every time he slowed down a spell was sent his way, nothing harmful just a tickling charm or something to keep him running. Finally after what seemed like hours Harry finished the lap and collapsed exhausted on the ground next to James who was laughing at him.
"Not funny" Harry grumbled taking a gulp of the drink Charles offered him "thanks" he added gruffly once he finished the drink, after a five minuet drink James jumped up and held out a stick of wood shaped like a sword to Harry. Harry stood up and took it unsure about what to do with it "what.." he said but never got to finish it as Charles brought the stick down and smashed the other stick out of Harry's hand before knocking Harry to the ground and put the stick to his neck.
"You're dead" James said before helping Harry up and handing him the stick again. Harry got the stick in his hand just as James attacked again Harry tried to block but once again found himself on the floor with the stick on his neck "good but your doing it wrong you hold the stick like this to block it" he said and showed Harry the right move "or you can do it like this" he showed Harry another move before standing back in a fighting stance and attacking.
Harry tried to block how James showed him to but the sword stick was knocked out of his hands and he was once again sent to the floor this carried on for half a hour and Harry knew that he would be black and blue the next day but he could now hold of James first attack without ending up on the floor finally it was time to go up to the castle Harry stumbled into the hall much to the amusement of the people sitting at the table.
"Had fun Harry" Dumbledore asked is eyes twinkling in laughter, Harry who was not in a good mood whipped his wand out and shot a handy curse he learned from the book he was reading at Dumbledore who hadn't expected that and got his and found himself with goat horns and when he tried to speak found himself bleating, everyone at the table first were silent in shock as Harry had just attacked the headmaster but then burst out laughing at Dumbledore.
Dumbledore tried to change himself back only to give himself hooves to add with his horns and voice and the worst was that the only thing he could eat was grass as his stomach had changed into a goats, after breakfast Harry waved his wand and Dumbledore was changed back to normal.
"Very funny Harry but please do not do that again grass does not taste that nice" Dumbledore said his eyes twinkling "now I have made you a schedule for your training" he said and passed Harry a piece of paper Harry opened it and read.
Monday
Physical defence 6:00 till 10:00
Breakfast 10:00 till 10:30
Auror training 10:30 till 12:30
Potions 12:35 till 3:00
Lunch 3:00 till 3:30
Spare time 3:30 till 4:00
Duelling lessons 4:00 till 6:30
Tuesday
Physical defence 6:00 till 10:00
Breakfast 10:00 till 10:30
Transfiguration 10:30 till 12:30
Stealth 12:35 till 3:00
Lunch 3:00 till 3:30
Animagus Training 3:30 till 6:00
Duelling lessons 6:05 till 9:00
Wednesday
Physical defence 6:00 till 10:00
Breakfast 10:00 till 10:30
Auror training 10:30 till 12:30
Charms 12:35 till 3:00
Lunch 3:00 till 3:30
Spare time 3:30 till 4:00
Elemental Magic 4:00 till 7:00
Duelling lessons 7:00 till 10:00
Thursday
Physical defence 6:00 till 10:00
Breakfast 10:00 till 10:30
Elemental Magic 10:30 till 12:30
Transfiguration 12:35 till 3:00
Lunch 3:00 till 3:30
Animal training 3:30 till 4:30
Animagus training 4:35 till 7:00
Duelling lessons 7:00 till 10:00
Friday
Physical defence 6:00 till 10:00
Breakfast 10:00 till 10:30
Potions 10:35 till 12:30
Stealth 12:35 till 3:00
Lunch 3:00 till 3:30
Duelling charms 3:30 till 4:30
Spare time 4:30 till 6:00
Duelling lessons 6:00 till 9:00
Saturday
Physical defence 6:00 till 10:00
Breakfast 10:00 till 10:30
Elemental Magic 10:30 till 12:30
Auror training 12:35 till 3:00
Lunch 3:00 till 3:30
Animal training 3:30 till 4:30
Duelling lessons 4:30 till 7:30
Sunday
Physical defence 6:00 till 10:00
Breakfast 10:00 till 10:30
Animagus training 10:30 till 3:00
Lunch 3:00 till 3:30
Spare time 3:30 till 6:00
Duelling lessons 6:00 till 9:00
"I know it is a lot Harry but you need to train" Dumbledore said gravely.
"Yes sir" Harry said before making his way to Tonks who was beckoning him over to her.
"Hi Harry we have decided to go outside as it is a nice sunny day" she said joyfully as Harry followed her and mad-eye outside.
"Right Potter were going to have a duel first to see what your level is before we teach you" he said getting into a duelling position while Tonks copied him, Harry nodded gulping slightly this was going to be hard.
"one, two three go" moody shouted and fired a stunner at Harry who dodged clumsily and sent his own stunner back which missed with out Moody dodging mean while Tonks shot a body binder at Harry who blocked it with a shield which shattered on impact growling Harry dodged another spell and shot one back before dodging another that was shot by moody.
The duel carried on like that for five minuets Harry was tiring fast and his spells were getting weaker while Tonks and moody were full of energy, Harry dodged two spells from each of his opponents only to be hit by a second spell of Moody's and to fall to the ground in a body bind.
Tonks walked over to release him and offered a hand Harry took it and was pulled up onto his feet.
"Well done Potter that was good but can be improved" Moody commented hobbling over to Tonks and Harry, the rest of the lesson was spent going over what he did wrong in the duel and how to make his sill better before going onto a Auror spell that makes someone see a elusion of there worst fear making the person distracted and easy to attack.
By the end of the lesson Harry had mastered the spell quite well and was quite pleased at himself as Moody had told him that most death eaters go down after two minuets of duelling them and Harry had stood for five minuets, as he walked back to the castle he had a smile on his face but it soon dropped as he saw what he had next, potions with Snape this was not going to be fun.
Harry made his way down to the potions classroom as slow as possible but he felt like he got there to fast taking a deep breath he knocked on the door and opened it when a voice shouted at him to come in.
"Potter, the instructions are on the bored and the ingredients are next to your caldron you can start now" Snape drawled from behind his desk the usual sneer on his face. Harry walked over to the caldron and looked at the bored the potion was called the stealth potion "if you make the potion correctly which I doubt you will you must take it to your next stealth lesson" Snape sneered at him before turning to his work.
Harry was determined to get the potion right just to prove Snape wrong so he checked all the instructions twice before following them through at the end of the lesson Snape stood up and walked over to Harry who was just taking the cauldron of the fire and placing a cooling charm on the potion.
"Hmmm its not very good is it potter, but it will do bottle it and take it to your next lesson" Snape snapped before turning round "I want a two foot essay explaining what the uses this potion has and how it was used in the first war against the dark lord" he added before sweeping from the room leaving Harry to pack up and make his way to lunch "its holidays and he's giving me homework!" Harry exclaimed to himself angrily "I know I have to train but a two foot essay about something I've never heard about? That means I have got to go to the library, I wish Hermione was here she would find what I need straight away" Harry grumbled to himself as he made his way t the hall.
He entered the great hall and made his way up to the head table he was met by a number of hi Harry how's your lessons after answering all of the questions he sat down in the only spare seat that was in between Dumbledore and Tonks.
"Wocher Harry how was your lesson with grumpy old Snape?" Tonks asked causing Harry to laugh.
"It was bad very boring and I got homework, a two foot essay about some potion I don't even know the name of" Harry groaned.
"Aw you poor person maybe I can help you what does the potion do?" Tonks asked smiling at Harry's moaning.
"Erm well I think I remember Snape saying something about it increasing the speed and strength of the body" Harry said trying to remember.
"Did it have hawthorn and crushed unicorn hair in?" Tonks asked her attention now fixed on Harry.
"yes! How did you know that?" Harry exclaimed.
"The parabola Potion was used a lot by Auror's in the first war, it would improve your strength, speed and stamina and give you a big power boost it lasts for about 12 hours." Tonks said seeming excited that she could help Harry with some work, or it could have been that she was ruining Snape's fun for Harry wouldn't need to be in the library for as long.
"Auror's used to take it when they were what we donned wake up call, this was when the Auror was on call all week without break and when we say all week I meant all week, we could be called anytime of the day or night because of the shortage of Auror's we used to go on about five raids in the night and eight in the day sometimes more sometimes less most Auror's took the potion before they went on the raid so they were the most alert and had the best reflexes it saved many good mans lives, but it also killed them to. For the after affects of the potions were bad, when the potion stopped working it lost effect immediately and sometimes while the Auror's were in battle there energy would go as fast as a click of a finger as the potion runs out of effect, but the potion also takes up some of the Auror's strength to work so the Auror would be more tired then before they took the potion." Moody cut in.
"Moody I was telling him the story not you, that's one of the only potions I remember you could at least let me give him some of my only knowledge in potions!" Tonks exclaimed in mock anger.
"why do you remember that one?" Harry asked in curiosity.
"The potion is one of those that interacts with your blood as it manipulates the blood to think that it is full of energy, but me having the skill in changing my body parts have slightly different blood than normal people as the DNA in my blood has to change slightly with all the transformations I have to do …" She said smiling as if happy that she remembered all this information.
"in other words she is allergic to it" Moody growled grinning in a haunted manner as Tonks glared at him, the grin soon slipped as she started raving about not being a proper gentlemen and being rude and unmanly.
"Harry my dear boy I hope you're having fun" Dumbledore said his yes twinkling.
"what?" Harry said snapping out of his daze as he tried to remember everything so he could write it down when he had time "O yes if that includes landing on my arse twenty four seven then being locked in a room with the greasy old git I'm fine" Harry said then put his hand other his mouth as he realised who he was talking to " Professor I'm sorry I was…"
"I am sorry I think I just went death for a minuet old age it does that to you sometimes" Dumbledore said his eyes twinkling.
Harry just lowered his head and started eating his ears going the colour of his best friend, Ron's hair.
"That's a good description of him young Harry but I think you missed a few words out, try greasy old grumpy, batty, evil git, you could add more to that but Albe is glaring at me so I better cut it short" Aberforth said leaning over to Harry and giving the grinning boy a wink.
"Aberforth that is enough you should know better than to insult my staff when your in front of me, especially in front of one o his students who knows what words our poor potions master would be called because of you" Dumbledore said sternly but his eyes were twinkling madly.
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Aberforth faked a pout making Harry laugh again "don't worry sir he is already called those names by every Gryffindor in the school, there nothing new" Harry said before paling again "woops" he said smiling innocently.
Aberforth laughed loudly "it seems your perfect students, are not so perfect after all" he chuckled
"So what are you going to in your spare time" Dumbledore asked changing the conversation whole mock frowning at Aberforth who was still trying to control his laughter.
"I will be in the room of requirements sir" Harry answered.
"Really what will you do in there?" everybody had stopped to there conversation to find out what Harry would do in his spare time."
"I will be practicing my spell strength, my aim and my duelling sir" Harry answered stuffing some bread in his mouth.
"very good, its nice to see that you really appreciate the fact that you need to train although I wish that you would not need to" Dumbledore smiled "well if you excuse me I will be going" he said before leaving the table Harry ate a bit more before he to left and headed to the room of requirements.
Once he was there he thought about what he wanted and walked past the tapestry three times before heading in to find the same place as last time as well as his notes on spells that he had left on the table.
He stepped in and walked over to the table and picked up his spell list, once he had read through it he walked over to the line that was on the floor and placed his hand on the pillar next to him "aim practice" he said.
The target bored on the wall multiplied and moved forwards till it was five metres close to Harry who shot a stunning at the bored it hit it but not in the middle concentrating Harry aimed his wand at the middle ark and shot a spell it hit the middle right on.
The bored moved back a metre and Harry aimed again and shot another stunner but it missed the middle by a few centimetres growling Harry aimed again concentrating on keeping his wand steady he shot a spell and the bored moved back as it hit the middle the next length Harry had to attempt it eight times before hitting the middle and the one after that he had to try thirteen, finally as he hit the bored he stopped and touched the pillar again muttering "moving target.
The target moved forwards before slowly moving side to side Harry shot a stunner that hit the bored making it move a bit faster he shot another making it increase its speed again he kept doing it sometimes missing the bored each time he hit it the bored would increase its speed in moving side to side.
Finally Harry couldn't hit the bored any more so he stopped the bored and went other to the book shelf and picked a random book before taking it to the table and looking what he got.
Duelling spells now forgotten the title read shrugging Harry opened the book and read for ten minuets jotting down some spells that looked interesting once he got bored of reading he stood up and tried the power crystal.
Average 20
Yours 25
Harry sat down and reread the meditation rules before sitting down cross legged and doing the same thing as he did yesterday once he was finished another spell was shot at the crystal and a piece of paper appeared.
Average 40
Yours 45
His had gone up 5 for the power boosting feeling quite happy with himself he looked around the room and spotted another crystal, it was small and purple Harry read the note next to it.
This crystal is a crystsal to show you if you have done new spells right.
Shoot a spell at the crystal, if the spell is performed correctly then the crystal should emit a light purple cloud if the spell if wrong then the cloud will be black.
Harry shrugged and tried one of the new spells that was on his notes and frowned when the crystal emitted a black cloud, frowning Harry looked at his wand the spell came out and looked correct and it looked right yesterday when he had tried t to. He then realised the usefulness of the stone for if he had tried that spell in a duel then he could be dead now as it wouldn't have worked.
Harry read over the instructions of the spell again and realised that he was holding it wrong, adjusting his grip he tried again and whooped when the crystal emitted a light purple cloud this time around. Harry continued trying the spells he had found in the books he read and his spirit lifted more as he got more and more right.
On chance Harry glanced at his watch as he performed his seventh right cure and cursed as he found that he was going to be late for his lesson with Dumbledore if he didn't hurry up grabbing his stuff he raced down to the great hall and opened the door "sorry I'm late lost track of time" he panted.
"Don't worry my dear boy you're here now and that's all that matters" Dumbledore said taking of he midnight blue robes he was wearing and stepping up onto the platform that had been raised in the middle of the floor closely followed by his brother.
Harry dropped his bag on the floor and scrambled onto the platform.
"First we are going to have a little duel just to see how good you are" Aberforth said holding his wand.
"Against both of you" Harry aid gulping.
"No don't worry you will just be facing old Abe today and I will be watching" Dumbledore said stepping back of the platform.
"You have five minuets to get ready for the duel" Abe said before turning to Dumbledore.
Harry sat cross legged on the floor and concentrated once again feeling his power rise until he knew he would have to stop or he would burn his core out like he had read in the book.
"Right times up Harry my boy wand out" Dumbledore shouted Harry took his wand out "bow and go"
"Stupefy" Harry whispered remembering the tip about not shouting the incantation out loud or the person would know what spell you were sending.
Abeforth dodged the curse and sent one back in one fluid motion; Harry didn't recognise the curse so he dodged it instead before sending a different curse back which was dodged easily.
Aberforth dodged again and sent three curses one after another; Harry blocked two curses knowing that if he hadn't boosted his power before they would have passed through his shield.
The two exchanged curses for a minuet before Abe sent a cure which Harry dodged but didn't have time to get over his shock as the curse turned round and headed towards him again.
Harry groaned as the darkness finally cleared from his eyes, the curse had been a blinding curse that made the victim blind for a number of minuets, depending how strong the caster was, in Aberforth case five minuets.
"Well done, well done Dumbledore clapped as he stepped onto the duelling platform. "Very good Harry my boy very good"
"I got to admit I didn't think you were that good although you could brush up on your curses but that's what we are here for" Abe said joy fully.
Harry groaned tiredly, the day had taken a lot out of him and he was still weak from the lack of good food for over his grief of Sirius he had neglected his health and had barley eaten anything.
"I think we should stop early and let this poor boy go to bed after
all he has to get up early in the morning" Dumbledore said kindly.
Harry went to his room and collapsed on his bed asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.