Chapter 5

Conversation

"This is different" Harry mused as he sat down in the comfy chair that was provided for him in the small opening around the tree's in the forest. He turned to regard his mentor seated in a similar chair across from him.

"Today Harry we will begin to learn an advanced form of legamancy. It's a form of Telepathy in which you can communicate with one's allies over great distances with nothing but your mind."

The only reaction Harry displayed at this bold statement was a slight widening of the eyes. So fast that if you had blinked you would have missed it.

"He is learning to control his emotions better and better with each passing day" Arthurius remarked to himself before instructing Harry in what to do.

"Close your eyes and listen for my voice, I will be the receptor in the conversation. Through me we will be able to communicate, do you understand so far."

"I think so" Harry replied as he closed his eyes and stretched his "ears" waiting for Arthurius to begin.

"Har…" Harry squinted his eyes tighter.

"Harry can you…" Harry strained trying to grasp the sound in his mind. He pictured grabbing the words and forcing his mind to acknowledge them.

"Harry can you hear me?" Arthurius' voice flowed through his mind. It was like he was speaking to Harry yet he was surrounded in Arthurius' voice. It didn't come from just one direction it came from all around him.

"Arthurius are you there?" He thought with his internal voice, the voice you use when you are reading to yourself.

"Yes, Harry I am very impressed, no one that I know of has been able to respond the first time we talk like this."

"It is a bit disorienting" Harry replied with a small mental chuckle.

"Okay, I am going to cut the link." Arthurius responded.

"Harry how are you?" His voice coming from only one direction again.

"I am feeling fine, a little bewildered but otherwise okay."

"Yes, you show great potential, I wonder…are you ready to try and become the receiver in the conversation?" Arthurius asked with a twinkle in his eye.

"I'll give it a try, what do I need to do?" he asked with a timid voice not sure if he was completely ready to try and start the conversation within ones mind.

"First clear your mind, now picture who you wish to speak to. Now concentrate completely on that person, now repeat the charm "legimanithopy" within your mind while picturing the person in which you want to communicate. Okay, go ahead and try."

So closing his mind off to everything else and clearing it of any thoughts. He focused his mind on a picture of Arthurius, when the picture became solid within his mind. He chanted "legimanithopy", "legimanithopy", over and over within his mind. After a few minutes something started to take form within his mind, almost as if a warm presence was near. Curious he explored this new identity within his mind.

"Aruthurius is that you?" he questioned the presence.

"Yes, Harry well done indeed." Arthurius' voice drifted from the presence followed by what Harry could only describe as a chuckle.

"Harry, now I am very impressed, absolutely no one has…" Without warning the presence started to reseed from his mind. Quickly Harry tried to re-establish the link, "legimanithopy", "legimanithopy" he started to chant. Finally the presence started to solidify once again within his mind, this time it felt different. It felt warm yet very familiar, it brought comfort and almost pleasure with its presence inside of his mind. Curious with the change, Harry began trying to make contact with the presence.

"Hello Arthurius, is that you?" There was a pause then a slight whisper. Harry quickly tried to increase the sound by pulling the presence more into himself.

"Hello" He repeated.

"Ha…Harry." Came a voice Harry could never forget.

"Hermione?" Harry was astonished by the sound of her voice, it was as if all of the pain in his life, the loss he had endured just melted away with her words. No wonder the presence felt so right to him.

"Harry is that you?" Her voice flowed over the link, like honey to his ears.

"Hermione its me Harry." He responded not wanting to jeopardize the link with the emotions that were starting to bubble out from him.

"Harry how is this possible, am I dreaming?"

"No Mione, I am using an advanced form of legimancy with you."

"Harry where are you? Why did you leave? I have so many questions for you." She began with an almost desperate sound in her voice.

"I am fine Mione, I am being trained for the upcoming battle with Voldemort. As to where I am or when I will be home I am sorry I cant tell you." His last words laced with regret he hated keeping things from her.

"Why did you leave? Why didn't you tell me…tell us. Where you were going?" She pleaded begging for the answers to the millions of questions she had in her mind.

"Ron went completely spare when you left. It took weeks for him to calm down and stop throwing tantrums."

"How is he now?" Harry sheepishly asked afraid of the answers, the last thing he wanted when he started his training was to hurt Ron or her.

"He hasn't spoken to me in a couple of weeks." She chuckled nervously. "He kissed me about a month after you left, it felt so weird that we both just tried to ignore it, it was like kissing a close family member. Yet it somehow put an unspoken barrier between us, lately we have just pulled apart. Harry you were the third leg in our tripod, without you we have kind of just fallen apart. Why did you ever have to leave?" Her voice broke with the last words, he could feel her pain through the link, he could feel all her emotions making him feel like he was going to burst with sorrow.

Without thinking, he did the only that felt right. He sent all of his emotions towards her, relaying exactly how much he had missed her in no way words could comprehend. Slowly the feelings of remorse started to dissipate, feelings of happiness and what he could only describe as love emanated from her. She understood why he had left and that he had not forgotten about her. The link relayed how much he had missed her, how much he needed her still. After what seemed like eternity, he pulled some of his emotions back into himself not wanting to flood her mind with too much. He then waited trying to decipher if she had comprehended what he had relayed to her.

"Harry" Came her soft reply.

"Yes Mione" He said in the same soft tone.

"Will I ever see you again?" Hope filled his mind with her words.

"If it's the last thing I do, Mione. But I must stay where I am, I must be ready for him Mione. I wont let him hurt anyone else again. I don't know what I would do, if he hurt you." So many emotions passed through the link with those words, she found it hard to decipher them all. But what she felt was that they were all telling her how much he cared for her. How much he loved her for the lack of a better word.

"Nothing will happen to me while I still have you Harry. Finish your training so you can come back to me." She replied with what felt like a mental tear.

"Mione I have to go back now. But I promise I will try to keep in touch." He replied slowly pulling away from her mind.

"Be safe Harry." Her words echoed through his mind as reality came to focus around him. He stood there staring at Arthurius' worried face.

"Harry are you there?"

"Yes, Arthurius, yes I am here."

"Where the hell did you go boy? You blanked out for almost twenty minutes. I've been trying to communicate with you but your mind built a barrier from me. I have never experienced being blocked from ones mind like I did from yours. What were you doing?"

"I was talking to Hermione"

"You were what?" He asked in a shocked tone.

"Well I started talking to you, then you faded away, so I tried to re-establish the link but I got her instead."

"I see, Harry you have to concentrate on the person you wish to talk to. I am guessing when you tried to re-establish the link you were subconsciously thinking of her. That explains why you developed a link to her. What I don't understand is how you blocked my attempt to break the connection."

"I have slightly studied occlemency when I was at school with one of my professors. Could that have allowed me to stop your intrusion?"

"Yes and no. Occlemency by itself cant stop this advanced version of legimancy. Yet you seem to create magic to your wills content." He replied with a little chuckle. " Its like the old saying, give a man an inch and he will take a mile."

"I don't think I understand" Harry replied puzzled at the old Muggle saying.

"Well Harry you tend to take a little magic knowledge that is given to you and you change it. You create it to meet your specific needs. This might be you using a little bit of your higher power without knowing it." He replied with another chuckle.

" You will really need to tap into that power, if you expect to finish the task that has been given to you."

"I will try my hardest Arthurius, I have too much to fight for."