Chapter 8 More Rescues Then Expected
The dark manor known as the House of Avery was a couple of meters away from where Harry landed. The Disillusion Charms had worn off on the three of them while they were flying up the southern slope of Ben Nevis. As soon as Ron and Hermione climbed off of him Harry changed back to hus regular form and turned to his friends.
"Keep you eyes and ears open and your mouths shut. Only use your wand when you have to and remember shouting a spell doesn't make it any more powerful then whispering it" Harry told them. "And just remember be careful and try not to make to much noise"
Harry turned around and took a step forward when an arrow flew out of a thicket to the left of them. It was going to hit Harry right in the chest and for a second Harry thought it might of too. A tingly feeling surged through Harry and the arrow aimed down instead, piercing Harry's shoe.
"OW!" Harry was about to scream. Then he remembered he had to be quiet. "Fuck!" he hissed instead.
"Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" Hermione kept saying over and over again panicking. "I knew this wasn't a good idea!"
"Then why did you insist on coming!" Ron snapped.
"To keep you two out of trouble." Hermione snapped back.
"News flash Hermione! We aren't stupid eleven year olds. We can keep our selves out of trouble if we want to!" Ron exclaimed.
"Quiet you two!" Harry hissed. "Who ever shot the damn arrow didn't just run away. It is still out there"
Hermione paled even more and started to look around nervously. Harry sat down on the ground and with a look of pain on his face pulled the arrow out of his foot. As soon as Harry sat down Ron immediately rushed to his side, dragging Hermione with him.
"Vegg!" Ron said. A transparent purple dome enveloped them.
"I never heard of that spell" Hermione said sounding curious and disappointed.
"It is in 'The 20 Most Useful Magical Shields' It is a spell that blocks physical objects" Ron told her.
"I never heard of that book either!" Hermione cried out.
"Well we can discuss this later, after we figure out how to either capture or escape evil arrow shooting thingy thing" Harry stated.
"Well we can rule out a wizard or witch" Hermione said. "They would of used their wand not a cross bow or bow"
"It is a centaur" Ron said.
"And how do you know?" Hermione asked, her eyes narrowing.
"The fact that about ten centaurs are surrounding us with spears and bow and arrows might have had something to do with that" Ron uttered. Harry looked around him and noticed that Ron was right about twenty centaurs were surrounding them.
"Um...we come peace" Harry said slowly.
"Your kind is not welcomed here!" one of the centaurs growled.
"Are you guys by any chance related to the centaurs at Hogwarts?" Ron asked curiously.
"Um...not that the forest isn't lovely" Harry started to say uncertainly. "But we don't want to be here...we want to be there" here he pointed to the dark manor that loomed behind a tree line.
"Yes we know where you want to go" another centaur said, angrily. "But we can not allow it. Wizards are not allowed to enter these forest or suffer the penalty"
"And that penalty would be?" Ron asked.
"Death" was the reply.
"Well that's pleasant" Harry said sarcastically.
"Harry shield draining energy...can't hold it much longer" Ron whispered.
"Listen Mr...centaur, we have no clue why we wizards are not wanted here. For you see we are not from around here. We come from farther south and we just came here to rescue a prisoner of those idiots over there" Harry jerked his head to the manor.
"Taken someone from you?" a female centaur asked. Harry looked at the female centaur closely. You rarely saw the females for they stayed where ever the centaurs made home while the men went out and did their things. Her hair was a dark brownish-red color that flowed down her back. She had a pretty face and her breast were not covered and Harry being a 16 year old found it hard not to stare at them.
"Yes they haven taken my...parental figure from me" Harry explained. "We were going to get him back"
Two centaurs, who appeared to be the older ones discussed something with each other privately.
The shield around them vanished and Harry heard Ron panted quietly behind him.
"The men of that place have taken our Chief captive. We will allow you to go if you bring him back" the older of the two centaurs said.
"We will bring him back I promise" Harry stated.
"Good, in order to make sure you do though, we will keep one of you here. Pick one to stay" the other told them.
"What?" Hermione screeched. "You can't make one of us stay here...the outrage of it..." Hermione continued ranting.
Harry and Ron looked at each other. "She'll stay" they said simultaneously. Hermione gave them looks of loathing.
"Very well then" Harry and Ron nodded to the centaurs before walking off towards the manor. Harry took his invisibility cloak out of one of the inside pockets of his robe. He enlarged the cloak, cast a silencing spell on it so no one would hear them and threw it over him and Ron. The one he had was only made for one grown person and since the two of them were nearing adult hood the both could not fit under there like they use to.
They approached the house cautiously. Harry felt himself pass through some kind of magical force as he got closer to the house.
"I forgot about wards?" Harry whispered, slapping himself on the forehead. "We could of just passed through a trip ward or something"
Harry was proven right when they only took a couple more steps and the doors of the manor opened and several Death Eaters stormed out, their wands held high. They stopped several steps in front of where Harry and Ron were located.
"Go around them. They left the door open so lets try to get there before it is closed" Harry uttered. Ron nodded his head and they both walked as quicky as they could to the door.
They managed to slip inside before the Death Eaters gave up their small search and came back inside, closing the door behind them.
It took Harry a while to find the hallway that lead to the library. All he had to go by was where he went in his weird vision thing he had earlier that night. It was over a half an hour before they found the library and walked to the last shelf in the room.
"We need to find a way to open it" Harry said. "Maybe a secret lever in one of the books or something" Harry remembered the Scooby Doo shows he saw with the revolving bookcases.
"Harry this is the wizard world" Ron said shaking his head at his friends muggle antics. "Alohamora" the spell worked and the book case disappeared from their view.
"The muggle way is a lot funner though" Harry mumbled. Ron gave him a weird look before the two of them walked down the steps. They came upon the cells Harry saw however the cells weren't as empty as Harry remembered. Which meant the Death Eaters were busy earlier tonight.
"Ron we can't leave all of these people here to rot" Harry said. There were eighteen more people and one centaur sitting in the cells than when Harry first saw here. All of them were sleeping.
"How are we going to get them out though? I doubt any of them have their wands and we can't fit everyone under this invisibility cloak." Ron explained.
"Well I can enlarge it more, not much but it should be enough to cover maybe five or six of them. How about right now we look for their wands and try to get them out, but first I'm going to put a trip ward on the top of the stairs." Harry walked up the stairs and made a rune in the air while saying a spell in German. A green looking web spread itself until it hit the walls, floor and ceiling where it stuck and soon disappeared from view.
When Harry went back down the stairs, Ron was looking for wands, the invisibility cloak laid on the floor.
"Oi all you people in the cells. Get your arses up!" Harry said loudly. "This is your one way ticket to get the hell out of here"
Many of the people jerked awake and stared at Harry. They stared at him for a few minutes before they all started speaking at once.
"Shut it!" Harry hissed. "Death Eaters don't know we are here. How do you expect us to sneak you out if you won't shut up?"
"Harry?" a man croaked.
"Sirius!" Harry ran over to his godfather and embraced him the best he could through the bars. The man looked weak and frail and Harry could see several bruises and everything over the mans body. It was a struggle just for the man to stand up. Harry handed him a vial of the Restituo potion he took with him. He forgot about it up until now and made a note to give some to Ron as well. "I'll get you out of here Sirius. Don't you worry" Harry promised. Harry then walked over to the centaur. "You're tribesmen have told us you were hear as well. May it be alright if we were to use out magic upon you so we could sneak you out of here?" Harry asked the centaur, bowing his head.
The centaur gazed at him for many minutes. "Very well" he finally said. Harry grinned at him.
"Harry I found some!" Ron said triumphantly. He held up five wands.
"If one of these is your wand please go and get it after I let you out of your cell. Alohamora!" Harry shouted the spell a couple more times and soon everyone was free. Sirius was the first to get his wand. A teenage girl around Harry's age also stepped forward and took hers. She spoke with a slight German accent and thanked Harry and Ron profusely. A woman and a man both who looked like they could barely walk took their wands. Finally a man who was around Mr. Weasley's age stepped forward to take his wand.
Harry took out the vials he had off the Restituo potion. He handed one to Ron and popped the cork on one of them. He downed the small potion, Ron following his example.
"Now here is the plan. Since you two can barely walk" here he pointed at the man and woman who claimed their wands, "you are going to give your wands to two other people. We are going to fit as many as the wounded as we can under my cloak, along with you" Harry pointed to a little girl around 8. "The rest will have Disillusionment Charms on you. I will put a Tracking Charm on me and link them to you guys so you know where I am going. All also do the other way around just incase any of you get lost. Just following me and if we run into any trouble then try to stay out of fire"
Harry and Ron walked around, doing everything Harry just said he would. The six wounded people and the little girl were able to squeeze under the invisibility cloak. Everyone else, including a man whose arms looked mutated and wasn't able to fit under the invisibility cloak was placed under a Disillusionment Charm. Silencing Charms were placed on everyone's feet as well.
"Alright!" Harry said clearly. "Can everyone tell where I am right now?" he asked.
"Yes!" rang around the room.
"Alright move out!" Harry said. He started up the stairs but came to a sudden halt when the wall disappeared a Death Eater came walking down.
One of the woman let out a panicked scream and the Death Eater stopped in his tracks and looked around, his eyes narrowed.
Harry rushed at the man quickly, and met him with a right hook to the man's chin. He heard a light crack and the man fell to the floor.
"If you scream again, I'm leaving you behind" Harry hissed behind him. "I'm not getting this far only to have it ruined by you because you can't keep your mouth shut" Harry continued forward.
The library was empty of all life. He approached the doors and cautiously opened them, peaking into the hallway. Several Death Eaters were hanging out down the hallway. They were blocking the way they needed to go in order to get to the front door of the house. Since that was the only way Harry knew out, that was the way they had to go.
He pulled his head back into the library and looked at them. "A group of Death Eaters are blocking the only way I know out. Now we could take them on seeing as there is seven of us with wands and around nine of them but the noise could alert others, complicating the matter." Harry explained to the group.
Fearful whispers reached Harry's ears as the people panicked.
"Quiet!" he could hear Ron hiss. "Everyone stay in the library until me and Harry come to get you" Harry shrugged his shoulders before opening the door as wide as it could be so that he could fit between it and the door frame. The door moved open a little more as Ron probably squeezed out behind him.
Harry walked quickly up to the Death Eaters.
"You shouldn't question him so much you fool" one of them snapped.
"Well it isn't my fault! Sometimes I just don't think I'm good enough for the jobs he assigns me! And most of the time I'm right. I just fail and get tortured" another sneered.
"Well learn to keep your mouth shut and maybe you might do some good around here" the first one said. The second one made growled before storming off in the direction of the library. Harry went after him and he was pretty sure Ron followed to. Sometimes being hidden like this were so damn confusing. It seemed the man was actually going to turn into the library.
The man opened the door to the library and was about to step inside when he was tackled from behind by two people. They all landed painfully on the floor, the man opened his mouth to scream but Harry covered the man's mouth with his hand.
"Stupefy" was whispered above him and the spell hit the Death Eater, who slumped unconscious. Harry stood up, dusted himself off and turned to where he thought the people were. The invisible teen glanced at the Death Eater below him and formed an idea in his head.
He took the robe and the mask off the man and donned the outfit.
"Everyone with wands, follow me but don't do anything until you see me do something" He walked out of the library towards the other groups of Death Eaters.
They were talking about the Dark Lords plans that supposedly was going to be happening in two weeks. Harry made special note to remember everything they were talking about.
"Back from your walk so soon?" the first man Harry heard speak sneered. Harry just ignored the man and leaned back against the wall watching the eight men in front of him. He was surprised they didn't notice that the person under the robe was actually invisible but hey, they were Death Eaters.
One of the Death Eaters kept their wand hidden under their huge sleeve. Harry was able to catch glimpses of it in a wand holster, as the man moved his arms around, telling his story of muggle baiting. Another Death Eater, the one to Harry's immediate left kept his wand in his hands at all times. Harry couldn't tell where the rest of them kept their wands but he was positive they were in easy to reach places.
'I hope this works' he thought as he cracked his knuckles. In a quick movement he pulled the guy who kept his wand in his sleeve towards him with his left hand. As the guy was coming at him he reached forward with his right hand went up the guys sleeve and took the wand out of the holster. He let go of the man with his left hand and punched him as hard as he could in the face. Then turning he muttered "Stupefy" and watched as the red light flew out of the other mans wand, which he held and hit another Death Eater.
A bunch of red lights flew towards the group and Harry ducked just in time as twelve lights zoomed over his head, colliding with various Death Eaters.
Harry stood up, cracked his neck and dropped the and he held. "Someone get the others. I want to get out of here quickly" Harry demanded. He waited a minute until he was sure everyone was there.
He started slowly down the hallway, still wearing the Death Eater outfit. He led them to the entrance hall where a group of Death Eaters could be seen walking into a room with two big oka doors.
The "Death Eater" opened the front door and held it open until he felt all of the rescued prisoners and Ron brush against him as they walked past him to the outside.
Harry was about to close the door when an alarm went blaring around the house. "THE PRISONERS HAVE ESCAPED! SEVERAL DEATH EATERS HAVE BEEN FOUND KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS! INTRUDER IS WEARING DEATH EATERS ROBES!" a voice shouted.
Harry's eyes went wide as dozens of Death Eaters came running into the hall only to see him about to run out.
"Stop him!" someone shouted. Harry slammed the door shut.
"Colloportus!" Harry shouted. An odd squelching sound could be heard as the door sealed itself shut. "Get to the trees as quick as you can!" he shouted.
He turned around and threw the Death Eaters robes and mask off of himself. He faced the door with both of his wands ready. The door was blown of its hinges and many Death Eaters came piling out of the house.
"Stupefy! Impedimenta! Expello! Inflatus!" Harry shouted. Four jets of light flew at the Death Eaters. Shields were erected and the spells were deflected in different directions.
Harry threw several more spells as quickly as he could at the Death Eaters. He was moving around a lot so the Death Eaters had no clue where the person was or how many there actually was. However this problem was solved when the Disillusionment Charm on Harry started to wear off and he became visible again. After casting the spell on about twelve people and then on himself it made sense the spell wasn't as strong as it could be.
"It's Potter!" a Death Eater shouted.
"The Lord wants him alive!" another shouted. Harry did the only thing he could do in that situation. He turned tail and ran as fast as he could to the tree line. He shot spells over his shoulder as much as he could. Spells were also being shot from the tree line he was running to, meaning Ron, Sirius and the others were trying to help him.
He was only a couple of feet away from the tree line when a spell collided with his back.
"Argh!" Harry screamed loudly as he fell to the ground. The Death Eaters were approaching him. The spells being shot at them from the others were barely slowing the mass of Death Eaters down.
Harry turned over and watched as his soon to be capturers got closer and closer to him. They were a few meters away from him and were closing the distance quickly. And just when Harry thought all hope was lost, arrows came flying from the trees, right at the group of Death Eaters.
Harry watch fascinated as several of the Death Eaters fell as the arrows collided with their bodies. The other Death Eaters stopped their run and look closely at the forest. More spells started to fly from the tree line and Harry tried crawling the couple of feet it took to get to the woods.
He felt hands wrap around his body and drag him to the safety of the woods. The Death Eaters were going forward again shooting of all forms of spells. Their lord would not be happy if Potter escaped. However their spells only hit and splinted the trees. All the spells flying at them were slowing them down and they were weary of another attack of arrows.
Harry looked and saw the Centaur tribe of the Chief he rescued were standing there with their bows in their hands, loading another quiver in them.
"Fire!" the Chief, who was visible again, said. The centaurs released their holds on the arrows and watched as they flew into the Death Eater.
The last barrage of arrows seemed to drain what ever was left of the Death Eaters courage because they all turned around and ran back to the safety of the house, leaving their wounded behind.
"Thank you" Harry said to the centaurs.
"It was the least I could do since you rescued me" the Chief of the centaurs said, nodding his head slightly and then turning his head to the sky. "Jupiter looks bright tonight but Mars gets brighter"
"Uh yeah...thanks." Harry stuttered. "You might want to think about leaving these woods for now. The Death Eaters will want revenge on their comrades. These woods will no longer be safe for you" Harry advised.
"Thank you for your concern we just might leave for the forest by Hogwarts. My cousin is the chief their" the Chief responded. With that the centaurs galloped off into the woods.
"Um...I don't know how to get everyone home or anything." Harry said sheepishly. "Anyone know how to create portkeys or something?"
"No" was the answer from everyone.
"Well those off you who can apparate and have the energy to do it then...I guess apparate out of here" Harry said. "We are definitely pass the wards around the manor" Several cracks were heard as most of the people apparated away. The only ones left was the couple who could barely stand and carry their wands, the girl their age, a man with brown hair and the little girl.
"Harry James Potter and Ronald Oswald Weasley! How dare you leave me with Centaurs!" Hermione shrieked as she came storming over to the two semi-frightened boys.
"Well you see Hermione, the only way we could live and rescue them was if we left one behind and me and Ron both agreed that you should be left behind because...you know more about centaurs then we do seeing as how you read a book on it" Harry didn't actually know if she read a book on it but he knew she most likely did. After all this is Hermione he is talking about.
Hermione crossed her arms over her chest and glared at him.
"Any who, we should get moving while we think about how to get home quickly. No clue how long it will take the Death Eaters or even Voldemort to come after us. Harry took his invisibility cloak back from the little girl and placed it in his robe pocket.
"Well how did you guys get here?" Sirius asked.
"I used my animagus form" Harry informed him.
"Oh yeah your animagus form. Wait a minute, you're an animagus?" Sirius asked shocked.
"Yeah. But my form wouldn't be able to handle all of us" Harry explained.
"What is it?" Sirius asked, excited
"A royal eagle" Harry explained.
"Harry that is fricking wicked!" Sirius exclaimed happily. "Those things are awesome. Your form is even rarer then getting a phoenix as an animagus form!"
"Yeah but phoenixes are better because of their ability to just go anywhere in the blink of an eye." Harry stated. "Wait a minute! Fawkes! Fawkes!"
"Harry what are you doing?" Ron asked.
"Fawkes!" Harry shouted again.
Ron leaned over to Sirius. "It is official. Your godson has lost his bloody mind. We'll have to get him a room at St. Mungo's."
"Fawkes! Get your ugly ass over here!" Harry yelled. He was answered by a burst of flames as Dumbledore's phoenix appeared on his shoulder and gave an indignant shriek. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean the ugly part. Listen, we need to contact Dumbledore" Harry explained.
The black haired teen waved one of his wands around and conjured a piece of parchment. He waved his wand again and conjured a quill and ink.
"When did you learn to conjure silently?" Sirius asked.
"This summer" Harry responded as he wrote on the parchment.
"Oh..that is nice" Sirius said.
Harry handed the red and gold bird the letter. "Don't burn it on your trip" he reminded the bird. The bird made a face at him before disappearing in a burst of flames.
"Now what do we do?" Hermione asked.
"Now we hide out and wait for the old man and his order of overly large chickens" Harry explained. "So everyone up in the foliage. I would do Disillusionment Charms but they can probably detect that magic has been done in this area and come right to us. You never know what tools and spells they have at their disposal." Harry had to help the couple into the trees seeing as how they barely do it themselves. He also had to give a hand to the little girl and help her reach a branch to far out of her reach.
They waited for several minutes until a burst of flames was seen in the clearing below them and Fawkes appeared. Soon after the bird appeared Dumbledore along with Moody, Kingsley, Remus and Tonks appeared.
"Harry I got your letter!" Dumbledore said. "You know you shouldn't of run off like that, especially to a place so close to a known Death Eater's home. Which leads me to wonder, how you got here in the first place"
Harry jumped down from the trees, with Ron right behind him.
"Mr. Weasley?" Dumbledore asked shocked. "Molly will definitely not like this"
"Remember in the letter I said I have to tell you something?" Harry asked. The Headmaster nodded his head.
"Well...I disobeyed your order and went to rescue Sirius, with Ron and Hermione..." Harry started his story. "...and when I went to the cells I saw 18 people, a centaur and Sirius!"
"S-Sirius is alive?" Remus almost whispered.
"You miss me Moony?" Sirius asked as he jumped down from the tree.
"Padfoot!" Remus cried, emotionally. The two old friends embraced each other in a hug.
"He isn't all that is up there. Some of the prisoners couldn't get home on their own so they are up there too. But we have to hurry, just incase the Death Eater sent out scouting parties." Harry stated.
"Right you are Harry" Dumbledore levitated everyone down from the trees. "Everyone grab onto this portkey" He handed them a box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. Everyone placed a finger on it. Harry looked in the direction of the Manor and noticed several things moving towards their position in the darkness.
He was just about to worry when the portkey activated and everyone there was swept away from the woods. They landed in the entrance hall of Grimmauld Place. All the prisoners were herded into rooms where Madame Pomfrey would go to take care of their wounds, including Sirius. Harry and Ron, who were starting to feel the after effects of the Restituo potion, passed out on the couch.
When Harry awoke in the morning an angry Mrs. Weasley was standing over him. Ron was sitting next to him, looking as if Quidditch has been cancelled.
"WHAT MADE YOU THINK YOU COULD JUST GO GALLIVANTING OFF LIKE THAT?" she shouted. "RUSHING OFF INTO A DEATH EATER STRONGHOLD LIKE A BUNCH OF IDIOTS! RONALD WEASLEY AND HAROLD POTTER YOU ARE BOTH GROUNDED FOR THE REST OF THE SUMMER!" Then Mrs. Weasley broke down into sobs and ran out of the room.
"Bloody hell" Ron muttered.
"I'm not even her son and I was grounded" Harry mumbled.
"Harry" Remus walked into the room. "Um we have a problem. I told Sirius everything that happened this summer and uh...he kind of disappeared" Remus was worried.
Harry sat up quickly. "Where are you guys keeping Bellatrix?" he asked.
"The cellar" Remus replied. Harry bolted out of the room, with Ron and Remus right behind him. He threw open the basement door and ran down the stairs. The cellar was below the baseent. He found the stair case that led to it and saw Sirius was walking down them. He flew down the stairs and tackled Sirius to the ground.
"Let me go Harry!" Sirius shouted, struggling from Harry's grasp. He broke free and started to run to the small cell that Bellatrix was in.
"Sirius stop!" Harry got up and chased after him again. He tackled Sirius again, Ron and Remus helping to pull him back. Lestrange was glaring at Sirius from where she stood behind the bars.
"Looks like you got your mutt back" she muttered.
"Hey bitch if I wanted you to talk I'd let you know" Harry snapped as he struggled to pull Sirius up the stairs. "Just stay there like a good little bitch and shut up!"
They managed to get Sirius up the stairs.
"What are you doing! I'll kill her! I'll rip out her guts and strangle her with them! Then I'll piss on her grave!" Sirius shouted.
"Sirius! I am the last of the Potter line! If I die then the Potter line is broken. Though I loath to admit it she carries my baby. That child will keep on my family line. Now we have been having trouble keeping Kreacher away from the cellar. Since you are the master of this house you must command him to never go anywhere near the cellar" Harry nodded at Sirius before walking off. He didn't like to be reminded off what happened his first night back form his 5th year at Hogwarts.
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"Good evening Harry, Sirius, Remus" Dumbledore said, as he walked into the living room.
The three of them were sittign in the living room of Grimmuald Place talking about the Marauders. Hermione went home after breakfast that morning, still upset with Harry and Ron. Ron was in the library cleaning the room up. It was his bargain with his mom. He would clean the Black Family Library if he didn't get grounded for the whole summer. It took a lot of convincingfor Mrs. Weasley to accept.
"Good evening" they all replied. Sirius was about to say something but stopped himself when he saw who entered behind Dumbledore.
"Hello Sniv" Sirius breathed.
"Mutt" Snape said, his eyes narrowed.
"Sirius, Severus. Remember you both agreed to act civil" Dumbledore reprimanded. Dumbledore sat down in one of the available arm chairs, Snape opted to stand. "I brought Severus so he can give us information on the potion Bellatrix gave Harry" Everyone looked at Snape expectantly.
"The potion was called Festinatio Pubes. It makes the body hit puberty and then increases the speed of time on the body so every hour is a week." Snape said.
"How long does the potion last?" Remus asked.
"24 hours" Snape responded.
"24 hours!" Harry shouted. "My body is six months older then it is suppose to be? You have to be shitting me!"
"Watch your language!" Remus said half heartedly.
"I shit you not Potter" Snape snapped. "It is a potion that was invented during Ancient Egypt. Since wizards only lived to around 51 years back then they invented this potion so the children can have babies earlier then their body would on its own. The wizarding population was about a eighth the size then it is now back then. As you can tell we have made a great improvement in medicine and hygiene and everything else because now the average wizarding age is 103."
"Well that explains the shooting up from five feet four inches to five feet eleven inches." Harry said to himself.
"Well if that is all" Dumbledore said, rising from his seat.
"Wait Professor, I have a question" Harry directed this at Professor Dumbledore. "The colors of my magical core have been changing lately. Like the red is changing to different shades of red and more colors are popping up now"
"Hem, hem" Dumbledore cleared his throat. "Well Harry at the time of puberty one hits a magical puberty called Pubes Hecate, when one hits it their magic becomes stronger and their abilities in certain fields of magic grow. Your father was a Transfiguration Master, his magical core had a good amount of red in it. Now there are several fields of Transfiguration as you should know. Conjuring, animagi, animal transfiguration, object transfiguration and unanimated/animated. Each one is a different shade of red. Burgundy is the color for conjuring, and Gryffindor red is the color for animagus abilities, a trait most of Gryffindors descendants have. Your father had a good amount of burgundy and maroon, the color of object transfiguration, in his core, he was what is known as a Crafter"
"Wait, what is a Crafter?" Harry asked. "I haven't read it in any of the Transfigurations book I've read"
"A Crafter is someone who is so good at Conjuring and Object Transfiguration that the objects they conjure or change, if they put enough power behind it, do not go away or change back into the original object, forever." Sirius said.
"Do you mind if we look at your core Harry?" Dumbledore asked. "There is a spell that will allow us to do so"
"I guess...I mean it doesn't hurt or anything?" Harry asked.
"No not at all!" Dumbledore responded. "Commonstro Accingo" An orange beam of light flew out of Dumbledore's wand and hit Harry. His body seemed to absorb the spell and for several seconds Harry's body glowed orange.
The orange glowed disappeared and Harry looked at Dumbledore. "Now what happens?" His question was answered though when the orange light shot out of his body and into the air. It started to morph into the shape of a ball about the size of a bludger. Then the orange started to be replaced by other colors. Various shades of red and blue, along with gold, silver, green, black, and white.
"Holy moses!" Sirius shouted. "Look at the size of his core! It is almost twice the size of my own!"
"That is because Harry is very powerful, even at the age of 16" Dumbledore said. "Look Harry. You have good amounts of all the shades of red, possible in the magical core. You might even be a crafter and it seems you have the animagi ability" Harry forgot he didn't tell Dumbledore about his three forms. "The gold in your core is for Battle Magic. You should be thankful you have that in your core. Battle Magic is very powerful magic."
Dumbledore walked around the core. "It seems you can learn Dark Magic, if you so chose, not the real powerful ones of course, mostly the basics. The white in your core is huge. All forms of Light Magic, even ancient forms, you could probably master. You seem to be fairly good at Charms too, judging by the amount of blue."
Snape looked closely at the silver. "It seems you have mental abilities like Occlumency, Legilimency and Telepathy. Though I don't see how seeing as you couldn't defend your mind if your life depended on it." Snape looked at the green also. "It also appears that you will be able to do Healing Magic. You might even have enough, that you would be able to heal yourself on your bodies own accord"
"Look at that Harry!" Sirius said. "Powerful! Just like the rest of your family!"
"Yippee" Professor Snape said sarcastically.
"Well now that you gave us the information we needed maybe you could leave Snape" It wasn't a question.
"Like I would want to stay in this hell hole any longer Black" Snape spat before twirling around and leaving the room, his robe billowing out behind him.
"I'm afraid I have to get going as well" Dumbledore said. He nodded his head to each of them and walked out of the room.
"So Bambi, what else has happened since I was gone?" Sirius asked.
"Did you just call me Bambi?" Harry asked mortified.
"It is what Lily use to call you when you were younger" Remus said.
"Well don't call me it ever again! Grown men should not be calling young adults things like that. That is only reserved to mothers and motherly figures" Harry stated.
Sirius and Remus each grinned at him. "Bambi! Bambi! Bambi!" they chanted. Harry growled before tackling Sirius and Remus to the ground. An all out wrestling match followed, with Remus being the victor. He may look a little thin but thanks to him being a werewolf he was still stronger then Harry and Sirius. Harry guessed Remus could probably bench 400 pounds if the man tried. Harry spent the rest of the day laughing and having a good time with Sirius, Remus and Ron. But soon the day came to an end and Harry was sent back to the Dursley's.
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The next morning anyone who received the Daily Prophet came in for quite a shock when they saw that an extra subscription came with the newspaper as well. 'Fourth Side' was written in neat, readable, curvy hand writing. The subscription was only one page. Three pictures showed on the page. One of Dumbledore, one of Minister Fudge and one of a Death Eater.
'A war approaches the wizarding world. The 2nd reign of Voldemort, one that is going to be more terrible then the last. Now here is the big question...what side are you on?
Of course we all know the sides. Voldemort and his Death Eaters, Dumbledore and his followers and the Ministry. This war is basically going to be one thing and one thing only. A power struggle between the three. First let us just go over the sides will we.
Voldemort and his Death Eaters are basically trying to conquer the world. His ranks are filled with mostly pureblood wizards and his main campaign is to kill muggles, muggle-borns and muggle lovers. He tries to recruit other beings like goblins, werewolves, giants, etc. I find this kind of ironic seeing as most purebloods see werewolves as filthy half breeds and that goblins are nasty little creatures.
The Ministry isn't only fulled of Ministry workers. The Ministry of Magic has people who side with Dumbledore and Voldemort in it as well. People outside the Ministry side with them over the other two also. Now the few people I know who are for the Ministry are idiots. They are mostly greedy, arseholes who only do what they can to gain and keep power.
I use to be a follower of Dumbledore, actually. I followed him blindly, did what ever he said and why not? He is a wise, powerful wizard. There are several important things I just don't see eye to eye with Dumbledore on. Dumbledore's side tries to recruit other beings promising them a better way of life, but that won't work with the current ministry. But you can usually trust Dumbledore to keep his promises. Though I have known a few times where you can't fully trust the man.
Voldemort has the larger side, at least that I know of. However the Ministry and Dumbledore, even though they still have their fights, would both join forces and take on Voldemort first. The question still is though which side are you on?
Me, I'm on my own side. The Fourth Side. I think the Ministries is full of power hungry gits who would turn their back on you if it kept them in power. Voldemort's side is full of filthy prats, who don't realise that none of them are important to Voldemort. Once your worth runs out Voldemort will kill you. Dumbledore is easily trusting sometimes, and they can be too naive when it comes to important matters.'
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Sorry it took way long. My computer got a nasty virus over a month ago and I coudln't even go on it. I got it back a little over a week ago but the internet wasn't working but yesterday I was able to fix it. Chapter 9 should be up Wednesday or Thursday.