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"Talk"

'Think'

"Parseltongue"

Chapter 20 - Learning From The Founders

It took a week for Ginny to go back to a sense of normal. She never asked what happened to the book and Harry never volunteered the information to anyone. He did tell the Pack a summary about what happened down in the chamber but he never did add detail on how Tom was 'defeated'. After Harry glared at Draco, his eyes glowing, for asking three days in a row how he did it, no one asked again. Ginny jumped back into her studies and the rest helped in any way they could. They had three months before school let out.

"Children." The Pack all turned to look at Rowena. "As everything is back to how it should be, the others and I have decided that tonight we are going to start your training in the forgotten arts. For tonight our lesson will be about what the forgotten arts consist of and how you have come to process the ability to use them."

"Right let's start with elemental magic. You all share the ability to use shadow magic. This ability has been traced back to the first recorded magic users. It is a gift given by Lady Fate to her favorites. No one knows who Lady Fate's favorites are unless they uncover this ability, so there is no way to know how many there are. To be one of Lady Fate's favorite simply means that the Lady had taken a special liking to the soul when she drew up that soul's life paths. This ability isn't hard to find inside yourself or control. Moving on to the others; Fire, air, earth, and water elemental magic has also been traced back to the first magic users. It is passed on in the bloodline and can manifest in any member of the blood as long as their magic is strong enough." Helga paused to let the information she was telling them sink in. "I myself am an earth elemental magic user like Neville."

"That's because the Longbottom's is the brother family to the Smiths who are of your blood." Neville told her. She looked surprised but happy at the information of her bloodline.

"Moving on. Blood magic is a forgotten art, as are seers, creature magic, and battle magic. All of these manifested later on in magical history and are not dictated by bloodline. Now Harry is going to have to learn on his own with his blood magic. Luna no one can instruct you how to decipher what you see. None of you have the ability of creature magic but Battle magic isn't something that needs to be gifted or born with. Battle magic is subject we will teach you all in a couple of years, that is if you all don't learn it on your own like I am sure three of you are doing." Rowena smiled knowingly at the group.

Godric took over. "We have made a schedule. Elemental magic will be done on Mondays and Tuesdays. Animagus training will be on Thursdays and Fridays. Ginny during that time you will be trying to unlock you metamophmagus abilities. If you never knew about them that means they are dormant and you need to bring them out." Ginny nodded. "This schedule will allow you Wednesdays and the weekends as free days. We start tomorrow."

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After the founders told them what was going to be happening Harry got down to business. "Pack who is on the list of students you think will swear loyalty without much fuss or who will not back out?"

Hermione pulled out a muggle spiral notebook. "Starting from the oldest to the second years, We have Samuel Carter who we put on the list at Yule but now has your mark. Gemma Farley a Slytherin, Yatin Bhagat a Slytherin, and Marcus Flint a Slytherin, are the seventh years. Oliver Wood a Gryffindor is our sixth year. Marklin Hacher a Ravenclaw, Kindra County a Ravenclaw, and Penelope Clearwater a Ravenclaw, is on the list for fifth year. Cedric Diggory a Hufflepuff, Angelina Johnson a Gryffindor, Lee Jordan a Gryffindor, Katie Bell a Gryffindor, Miles Bletchley a Slytherin are our fourth years. Adrian Pucey a Slytherin, Terence Higgs a Slytherin, Zacharias Smith a Hufflepuff, Cho Change a Ravenclaw, and Marietta Edgecombe a Ravenclaw are our third years. Now for our year we have a number of students."

"Just list them quickly." Harry cut in before she could start putting names and houses together in a long winded fashion again.

"Luthin Hathaway – Raven, Padma Patil – Raven, Michael Corner – Raven, Terry Boot – Raven, Justin Finch-Fletchley – Badger, Susan Bones – Badger, Hannah Abbot – Badger, Ernie Macmillan – Badger, Blaise Zabini – Snake, Theodore Nott – Snake, Pansy Parkinson – Snake, Millicent Bulstrode – Snake, Daphne Greengrass – Snake, and Parvati Patil – Lion. Each one of the names I just listed are willing to meet and most will give the vow." Hermione checked off the last name.

"Good have a meet set up for tomorrow. Might as well get them early on." Draco told her. "I can get the Snakes. Hermione, twins get the Lions, Neville you get the badgers. Luna you get the Ravens."

"Have them all meet the seventh floor in the left corridor by the tapestry depicting the attempt of Barnabas the Barmy to teach trolls ballet. I finally got Godric to tell me where the entrance of the room of requirements was. The meet with be right after dinner. That gives us two hours." Harry instructed. The others nodded, all but Ginny.

"What am I going to do? Everyone else is doing something." Ginny tried to act mad at being left out but the Pack could see she was more hurt than anything. Was she being punished for the chamber?

"No Ginny. You're coming with me. I need someone to set up the protection wards while I do the anti-spy and secrecy wards. Your wards take a longer time to put up. We need all three done by the time the others show up." Harry explained. Ginny nodded relieved. "Okay 10 Ravens, 11 Snakes, 6 Badgers, and 5 Lions. 32 people, not a bad number to start with. Now there is one Raven in the Ministry right now, who of the seventh years are doing something for the Ministry after school?"

"All three seventh years, Snakes, are going into family politics but Gemma Farley wants to work in Department of Mysteries as an unspeakable. " She paused to consult her notes again. "That is good. He could give us the heads up if a law we don't like is going to be presented."

"That department is a good way to learn the ins and outs of the Ministry. He will have access to the whole place and no one would think to look for a spy in the unspeakable." Neville liked this. He liked that they could change the wizarding world for the better.

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Harry felt the secrecy ward fall into place around the room. Ginny had just finished the protection wards a minute before and was now sitting on one of the chairs the room provided for the meet. "They should be here any minute. You ready?"

"Always my Alpha." Ginny straightened up from her slouched position just as the door opened to show the rest of the Pack.

"Okay all thirty one students are out there. How do you want to do this? Let them all in at once?" Fred flopped into the chair on Ginny's right.

"No, have them come in by year, seventh first." Harry took his own seat. Draco went to get the first batch of students while the rest of the pack found their seats.

Draco came back in leading the three seventh years. He left them standing to take his seat on Harry's left. They made an impressive picture. The whole was Pack sitting in a line, Harry in the middle with Draco to his left and Hermione to his right. The twins and Neville all sat to Draco's left while Luna and Ginny sat to Hermione's right. All of them wore new semi-formal black robes, with the males having a cut in the arms to show their arm bands with pride. The seventh years felt inadequate in front of such a display, even if the Pack was only made up of younger years.

"Gemma Farley, Yatin Bhagat, and Marcus Flint you three were asked here because you all showed promise. I am looking for people to help change the Wizarding world back to the way it was always meant to be." Harry made his voice commanding but soft. It held a dangerous edge.

"You're only a second year. What can you do?" Marcus asked with a sneer. He wasn't going to bow down to someone unworthy.

Draco chuckled. "Harrison is the king to two houses, heir to Potter, Black, Peverell, Ravenclaw, and Gryffindor. He is the boy-who-lived, the only survivor of the killing curse."

Neville took over making the three seventh years to turn their attention to him. "He has plans to bring Britain's Ministry of Magic and the people back in glory. Plans, that have already been set into motion. You can be part of that change or not. It is your choice."

"What are these plans?" Gemma asked. "What makes you think that your plans will succeed?"

"Let me first warn you that this room has wards in place that will pervent you from speaking of what you learn here and if you deside not to join us this meeting and all you lerned will be wiped from your memories." Harry warned them before he continued. "I can feel the mgic in the world. I can feel how weak it is compared to the past. The Wizarding world had thrown the balance off course and in doing to it had hurt magic, slowly killing her. I plan to change it by fixing the goverment but if that doesn't work I will just destroy the ministry and start over. Laws will be changed and restrictions on magic abolished. That is the beginning of what I have planned. be part of it or don't"

Yatin was the first to concede, "What do you want?"

"An oath of loyalty. I will not be betrayed or double crossed. My plans are too important to involve anyone who is not loyal." Harry didn't sugarcoat what he wanted. He needed them to swear with a clear picture of how deep of a decision this was going to be.

"Alright. I will give an oath." Yatin looked to the other two. Gemma nodded also. Marcus looked reluctant, but after some thought agreed. All three got on their knees. Yatin was the first to go. Harry stood from his seat and placed a hand on Yatin's neck. "I, Yatin Yomas Bhagat, do so declare my loyalty to one, Harrison James Evans Potter; sound of mind and of my own free will. I do so swear to be loyal to Harrison, never to betray him by word or action, willing or unwilling. By my magic and life, so mote it be." Magic accepted the oath and Harry let his magic out into Yatin's neck to form his mark and accept the oath to its fullest. These actions were soon repeated with Gemma and Marcus when they both gave the oath. When it was done they moved to the back of the room to stand in silence and watch others.

Group after group was brought in and soon all but two had sworn an oath of loyalty to Harry. The only two who refused were Pansy Parkinson and Millicent Bulstrode. Both girls were obliviated and sent back to their dorm. Harry gave the order to keep all that happened silent, even when he knew they couldn't tell about what happened to anyone already, and sent them on their way. When was all said and done, with the last student leaving, Hermione turned to Harry with a grin. "30 followers. Harry if I didn't know you so well I would say you were gathering a following to become a Dark Lord."

"In a way he is. He's taking over the Ministry. He has a following, and isn't concerned by the laws limiting magic. I say he is a Dark Lord now. He just hasn't been introduced to the public." Draco was grinning just as much as Hermione and the others.

"No, I am not a Dark Lord. Nor do I wish to be… How does Grey Lord sound?" Harry joked. He felt buzzed, he was one step closer to his goal.

"Shadow Lord sounds better, Milord." Luna chimed in. The Pack broke out in laughs.

"I am now forever addressing you as Milord Alpha." Fred nodded like it finalized what he was saying.

"Same here!" George high fived his brother. Neville sat beside them shaking his head in amusement. Ginny giggled at her brother's antics. The first step down the long path of change has been taken and it felt good.

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"Harry, what do you think the first step to unlocking our elemental abilities will be?" Draco asked over breakfast the next morning.

"Most likely meditation. Through meditation you should be able to find the heart of your magic." Harry absent mindedly answered drinking his peppermint tea.

"You don't have a core, so what is your heart? Your magic is one with you." Fred asked from his spot across the Hufflepuff table.

"I may not have a core but I do have a heart as any living thing. You know the organ that pumps your blood? It beats. Ring any bells?" Harry gave them a 'duh' look.

"What? When you say heart, you truly mean you heart? How is that the same?" Ginny looked confused.

"The heart is what keeps a soul in the body. If the heart stops the soul leaves. In that way my heart is my core, it is the thing that pumps my blood and magic through my whole body. Does that made any sense?" Harry didn't really know how to describe it.

"I guess you'll be the first to find your power then. You'll help me find it second right? As I am your favorite." Draco fluttered his eye lashes at Harry, who looked on in amusement.

"You're one of my favorites. The girls might have you beat though." Harry sent a smirk and wink to the giggling girls.

George, wanting in on the fun, pinned Harry with a kicked puppy look. "Milord Alpha, is that true? Do you not love your loyal twins anymore? We no longer have your favor?"

A presence behind the twins had the rest of the Pack to try and laugh. "I will ignore that you just addressed one of my godsons as 'Milord', Mr. Weasley." George froze in his seat, all joking and playfulness gone. Ginny giggled at her brother's misfortune. Snape stood behind him with an unimpressed look on his face. "Harrison, Pomfrey wants to give you check up when you are finished eating. If you are up to her standards you can stop taking the nutrient potion."

Harry smiled, holding in a cheer. He hated the taste of that potion. "Thanks Uncle Sev. I'll head there now so I'm not late to your class."

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"Alright young man, drop all the concealment charms." Harry smiled in amusement that Pomfrey was the only one who could figure out that he was hiding his true image. He let his magic pull back making the image of the underweight, small boy he was last year dissolve. He stood slim in built but with sleek muscles. His hair was healthy, laying three inches past his shoulders. His skin had a healthy tan look to it and many of his scars had faded from angry red to pale, though they didn't fade completely.

"Okay hold still while I check you height and weight." She casted a couple spells before jotting down the results on a paper. "Your height is 4 feet '8' inches, under average but much better than last year. Your weight 94 pounds, right in your weight range. Good that means you can stop taking the nutrient potions. I would also like you to stop wearing that concealment but I know you will just ignore me."

Harry gave her a smile, pulling himself up onto a bed as she started muttering to herself. When he had started seeing changes to his body he had hid it. He knew that Dumbledore wanted his body weak, as a weak body weakened the person's magic. His Pack didn't even know that he had changed, well Luna most likely did but that's because she's Luna. He would release it during the summer, after his birthday and emancipation. Harry was pulled out of his thoughts as Pomfrey started her scans of his bones and muscles.

"All done. Go on to class." Pomfrey finished writing the results of her scans down. Harry pushed himself off of the bed and applied his concealment charms.

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"I can't believe that your brother was stupid enough to say that in front of Severus, let alone us or the whole school." Neville growled finding his place on the couch in their common room.

"You?" Fred plopped himself on the floor by Harrison's chair, George right beside him. "He's lucky Snape got to him first. I swear I am going to kill him before he graduates."

"I want a piece of him." Hermione was vivid, just like the other two girls who came in behind her. They all found a seat on the couch across from Neville.

"Fred get up from the floor, you are sparring with me. I won't be able to concentrate on the lesson if I am this pissed off." Draco stomped in with Harry calmly walking in behind him. Draco didn't wait for Fred to say or do a thing. He grabbed the boy and pulled him into the training room.

Harry ignored his Pack as he took his seat. They had every right to be mad but he had better things to do them then listen to them rant. He pulled out his Blood magic book from an inner pocket of his robe.

'When you feel you are comfortable with a single drop of someone else's blood in the mirror, do the exercise with three drops. This will give you more control of what you see but also lets you hear what is going on around that person. As time passes and you practice more, add two more drops. Do not go over five drops though. You want to be a bystander, not control the person.'

"I can't believe that-that Neanderthal had the galls to call Harrison a whore." Harry was pulled out of his reading by Hermione ranting to the founders. She was pacing back and forth in front of the fire. "He said that Harrison must be a good one for having so many people around him. That Ronald Weasley said all that Harrison will ever be good for is pleasuring people with his body, freely given or not! He said this right after dinner, in the hall where everyone could hear!"

"He won't get away with it. The Ravens and Snakes will get Ron, and that's not counting Harry's marked. We'll wait until things calm down before the Pack gets him. Ron will regret ever even glancing in our Alpha's direction." Ginny promised her, pulling Hermione down next to her and Luna on the couch.

Harry sighed. He needed to get their minds off what happen for now. "Hermione I have a project for you."

Hermione snapped out of angry mood at Harry's words. "What type of project?" A project was the best thing to get her mind on something esle.

"I was going to look into the matter myself but you are more detailed when it comes to subjects even if they don't interest you." Harry pulled out a notebook from his bag. "I want you to look up any and everything you can about placing feelings, memories, or parts of personality into an object, sediment or not." Hermione stood to retrieve the notebook before sitting down again, looking through the small amount of information he put in there.

The note book was his first impression of the diary. Nowhere in the information does it say where it is from or what the object is so this will give her a very basic base to explore and expand on her own. It lets her follow any path she may find, putting no restrictions on her research. This project will keep her buzzy for a long while. He got her off her memory of Ron and he got the information he wants. It was a win-win situation.

"Neville I have a project for you too." Harry caught Neville's attention.

"What do you need me to do?" Neville straightened up in his seat under Harry's attention.

"You are going to tell Hogwarts the dimensions and style of room you want to be added to our ever expanding room system. This room will be a greenhouse. It will be your job to decide what plants to put in and to take care of them. Please try to make many of the plants potion ingredients too. Can you do this?" Harry smiled in amusement as Neville's eyes sparkled in delight with every word he said.

"Yes!" Neville nodded his head so quick Harry feared he would whiplash. "Yes I can do that."

"Good. Just tell me what plants you need but don't already have access to and I'll get them." Harry laughed as Neville almost tripped over himself to get to the door Hogwarts added beside the potion lab door. Neville paused in front of the door, telling what he wanted the room to look like and the size. With that taken care of Harry turned his attention to Luna.

"Luna, I found a few books in the founder's library on seers for you to read. They might not be much but they could help you control your gift." Luna nodded happy at Harry's words. He turned his eyes to Ginny. "You Ginny will be practicing with your daggers and spell work more to make up for the time you missed. We will have you and Luna up to third year spell work before this year is out."

"George, you, your brother and Draco are in charge of making any potions the Pack might need. So minor pain potions, healing salves, Blood-Replenishing Potion, Bruise removal paste that you and your brother made and any others you all think might be needed." Harry told him. George looked excited. "Now why don't you go get your brother and Draco? Our lessons will start soon."

"I'll go get Neville." Luna volunteered. She scampered off the couch and to the doorway Neville went through. Harry sat waiting patiently with Ginny and Hermione for the others to get back. Neville and Luna were out within a minute but the twins and Draco took five minutes.

"Now that you are all here, we can start." Rowena drew the Pack's attention to her. "Find a place on the floor. You will be meditating. Now some of you might find it easy to find your core and some might find it hard. It differs from person to person. Truth be told I don't expect more than one or two of you to find it today. Just close your eyes and listen to your heart. Find yourself in a peaceful place like you did when finding your abilities."

The Pack did as they were told. Harry was the first to fall into his calm. He had done this so many times growing up that he never had trouble. It was the small grove hidden by a group of trees at the park. The only light to be seen was from the starry sky with no moon in sight. The grass a foot high, letting the breeze play through it and the stone bench gleamed, polished to shine in even the dimmest of lights. This was his dark world. He felt his magic wrap around him in an embrace. This was his heart.

Luna fell into her calm with little effort. She had made her's when she was a child and her visions got too much for her. Her midnight forest protected her from the images that assaulted her in her waking and sleeping hours. The trees were old and strong, reaching up the sky, trying to embrace the full moon glowing in all her glory, bathing the world in a soft light. She watched the light dance around the trees like wisp of smoke. This was her sanctuary.

Draco was the next to find his calm. His mother had taken up meditation when he was a young child and he had wanted to learn with her. He had only gotten as far as finding his calm before he had quit. He now found himself in his calm again. It took the shape of a Quidditch patch. It was still early morning as the rising sun turned the sky red and orange in splashes of color. This was his core.

Hermione's mind wouldn't quiet. Every time she thought she was finding her core, questions and thoughts filled her mind pushing back to the beginning. Neville listened to his heartbeat but thoughts of what his parents would think of him or all the doubts his grandmother put into his head held him back. Ginny just sat listening to her heart, slowly falling asleep. George could only think of how sore his shoulder was from where Draco hit him with a stinging hex for interrupting his duel. He couldn't concentrate on becoming calm or finding his core. Fred had too many formulas he wanted to try to make flying through his mind faster than light. Every time he tried to listen to his heart beat his thoughts would drown it out.

An hour passed before the founders called for them to 'wake'. Harry, Luna, Draco slowly pulled themselves from their minds while the others were able to just open their eyes to reality. "Now, until you can all find your cores, we will repeat this every day. The only way to advance is for you to have access to your cores. Now I believe you all have more plotting to do before bed." Salazar told them. The Pack took his dismissal with grace, all of them finding their seats once again.

"Now I do not want to hear one thing about Ronald." Harry gave them all a hard stare. "What needs attention tonight?"

Hermione was the first on deck. "The marked Lions want to know what to call themselves. They know they are yours but they want to know what to call themselves as a whole."

"Yeah," Draco joined in. "The Snakes are the same. They are thinking along the same lines. You are their leader, their Lord. They want to know what their name is. The last Dark Lord named his followers death-eater, and from what father has told me even Dumbledore named his followers phoenixes."

"A name?" Harry mutter to himself in thought. What were they as a whole? They were his followers. They were his eyes and ears, his trackers. He paused in his thoughts when a thought came to him. "Tell them their names are Venatores; Hunters."

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Harry and the Pack continued with their normal routine with the founder teachings added in as the last few months of the school year passed on. Every day the Pack would sit together and meditate. Hermione was the next to find her calm in meditation. She found it in the form of a library, where all her thoughts and knowledge could be stored but a calming silence could reach her. Neville unsurpisingly found his calm in the form of a green house, where he could connect to the plants and feel free from all the doubts that washed over him when he was alone. Ginny, full of anger and doubt after the chamber of secrets, found her calm in the form of the Silver sommon rooms. In the common rooms she was protected, she was accepted. The twins had the hardest time finding their calm until one day Harry told them to sit back to back with eachother, that their connection might help them. It did. They found their calm togther in the form of their potioin lab. The place they can freely invent and experiment to their hearts' content.

Ron had been in and out of the med wing since he called Harry a whore in front of the school. Most of the teachers turned a blind eye to the abuse. Dumbledore didn't. Anytime he caught the abuse points and detentions were given out like candy, which meant a lot coming from the candy obsessed man. That had caused many of the students to lose respect for the old man and a few of the more daring to prank the headmaster whenever they could too. Dumbledore was not happy.

The Pack had gotten Ron back also. The twins had invented a potion that made Ron feel like his insides were on fire and slipped it into his drink. That potion was quickly filed as a dark arts potions by the Ministry of Magic when they were called to investigate, though they never found out who made it.

The girls teamed up, doing a three part punishment. The first part was done by Luna, who cast a spell that made him feel like he was always hungry. The second part was done by Ginny, who casted a spell to make it so he was sick when he ate more than a half a plate of food every three hours, and Hermione did the last part, a rune based hex that made Ron feel aroused when in close proclivity with anything living, so classes and meals were most unpleasant for him.

Neville had Herbology with the Gryffindors so he was able to get his revenge the same day the girls did. Neville cast a tripping hex on him, making Ron fall into a tentacle plant that acted on the emotions of its prey. It took Madam Sprout an hour to get the plant to let the crying, petrified boy go and to not do anything to permanently scar the boy. Ron was never able to go into the greenhouse after that.

Draco took a different approach. He had sent untraceable, anonymous letters to all the major newsletter and Ron's parents about how a jealous Ron slandered and verbally assaulted the honorable, virtuous boy-who-lived. Ron was flooded by hate mail and howlers, one from his own mothers telling all to hear how disappointed and ashamed she was of Ron's actions.

The year ended on a high note for the Pack. When the last day came they stayed up all night discussing plans to meet up and what plans they could set into motion over the summer. They fell asleep on each other in the middle of the common room floor on a pile of pillow pallets with the founders looking on in fondness.

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