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CHAPTER 7

Harry groaned as he lifted himself from the ground. He and Ginny had been practicing casting a shielding spell they found in a book that was fairly advanced. According to the book it was N.E.W.T. Level and they had been trying to master it for nearly a week, to various levels of success. Harry was able to bring the shield around himself but after only one or two seconds it would drop. Although it was better than Ginny's shield. Which only came up for a quick flash before dissipating.

"Do you have to use the bludgeoning hex Ginny?" Harry asked as he righted himself, rubbing his chest. "That bloody hurts. Cant you just use a light pinching hex, that's what I do for you." he finished sending her a glare.

"Maybe that's why your doing better than me. You are afraid of sending a stronger curse at me. And I am not trying as hard because I know your hex wont hurt me, like mine will to you." then she got into the dueling stance they had read about in 'Advanced Dueling; techniques and spells you need to know.'

"If you don't start to send something better I may just advance to a mild pain curse."

Harry gave Ginny a mild glare. In the last two years they had spent here she had lost her shyness around him. He knew she still liked him, as he could just say a couple little things about her being pretty or something, and she would blush and look away from him. But when it came to dueling and learning new things, she was a totally different person. She was downright viscous. And he couldn't help but wonder what kind of spells she would cast at somebody she didn't like...like Malfoy, if she was willing to cast a bludgeoning or a mild pain curse on her friends.

"Fine! But if you get hurt don't go complaining to me! You asked for it." Harry scolded her as he got into his own dueling stance. She wanted a stronger spell...fine! He remembered a spell he had just recently mastered in a book called Hellfire and Fury; the art of fire And without any warning he directed his wand "Furo sta whipiro" instantly a large whip of flame streamed from his wand. And he brought his hand back and around himself moving the stream of fire around his body before slashing his wand forward, directing the whip of fire to lash out at Ginny's feet.

Ginny paled as she saw Harry's fire whip. And quickly did a circle motion with her wand "Celestem Protectorem" A large blue shield appeared around her. But just as the whip of fire was about to make contact the shield flickered and fell. And she closed her eyes and tightened her muscles. Waiting for the pain she knew would.

When Harry saw her shield flicker and fall he pulled his hand back sharply and his whip gave a sharp CRACK just before it reached her, and he again pulled his arm around his body to direct his whip in a dance around his body. "Not good enough! This time I wont stop it. You have 10 seconds to get ready!" Harry hated the way he was talking to her..but..what if what she said was true...and her last shield had held at least a full second before it dropped...that was better than before. Deciding to try out what she said. He poured some of his magic into his veins and an instant later there where waves of energy crashing into the ground..he had never shown this to Ginny..so it most likely frightened her...but this is what she wanted...right?

Ginny opened her eyes at his words and gulped in fear. Harry was about ten feet away from her, his fire whip dancing around his body as waves of pure energy crashed to the ground around his body, and his eyes where literally glowing with magic. And for the first time in her life, she realized just how powerful he was...and it scared the hell out of her. With shaky hands she brought her wand up.

"I hope your ready!" And with that Harry brought his hand back one more time quickly before throwing his hand forward and slashing his wand at her.

With fear in her eyes at his words she quickly did her circle motion "Celestem Protectorem!" She cried with more force than ever before. And as Harry's whip came into contact with her shield she felt it strain as the force of Harry's magic battered her shield. And just when she knew her shield was going to break the fire whip disappeared, and she looked at Harry in wonder. "I did it!"

Harry ran to her and threw his arms around her and lifted her into the air as he span her in a circle. "That was amazing!" then he put her down and looked down sheepishly. "You where right. Knowing that you really NEED to block a spell helps with learning it...I am sorry..all this time I have been going easy on you..and it has been holding you back. I promise to do better."

"Of course I was right...I am always right...the sooner you learn that the better off you will be." she said cheekily.

Harry couldn't help but give a small smile in return. "Yes Mistress." He joked back.

Ginny gave a small giggle and blushed before turning away from him and heading to Dobby.

Harry stretched his limbs as he followed Ginny. It had been a great two year. They had really come a long way in their training. Without the need for sleep or getting tired or hungry or..well anything really. They had 24 hours a day to practice. And with so much time they where able to accomplish a lot. The first year they where here was spent practicing pulling up magic from their core and changing it to do what they want. And with Ginny here as well. It had gone much faster than with only Dobby. She had a lot of good idea's to make things go faster.

They had also worked on wand lore and wand crafting as well. And they all felt when they returned to the normal time. They would be able to make a wand for themselves. Granted it would not be anywhere near the craftsmanship of Ollivanders, but it would be something. They didn't get a chance to work on a ward to stop the ministry detectors, so they would not be able to cast spells again until they started the next school term. Unless of course they stopped time. But they had all agreed not to train anymore like this until the next year school term. So they would be stuck with magical theory. And going over any books they had.

Harry grinned at all the spells that he and Ginny could now use. Their arsenal of spells was easily over that of a fifth or sixth year, maybe even bordering on a seventh. And a few of the spells they had learned, where well above that. Take his flam whip for instance. They had found that book in Nockturn Alley in a shady shop and had spent the next six months learning every spell in the book.

He and Ginny had taken to casting most spells with ease after learning to tap into their core at will. Harry still had a few problems with his wand being sluggish as he cast spells. But he found if he funneled his magic into another source while casting it lowered his problems. So he had taken to letting some of his magic run through his veins as he cast spells. Ginny had told him that when he did it the air around him would get hazy, as if it was very hot, and the ground around him would shake slightly. And they had agreed that when they returned to school, he could not continue doing so. As his professors would start to question him.

The pair finally found Dobby sitting at a table reading the standard book of spells grade six. He had taken to reading all the school books he could so that he would be ready when he got a wand.

"Hey Dobby. We where thinking that its about time" Ginny started

"that we go back to normal time." Harry finished.

Dobby looked at them warily. After about a year and a half they started to finish each other sentences. He was not sure if they planned this out or they just knew each other that well. But it was certainly eery. "That sounds good. Do you want to go now?"

Harry closed the book in Dobby's hand and turned to Ginny. "Looser has to do whatever the other says first day of term."

Ginny gave a nod and a second later the book went flying into the air as Harry threw it. Ginny pulled her wand and leveled it at the book and whispered. "Reducto"

But just as her spell was about to hit the book another smashed into it showering the area with the remains.

Ginny growled and turned to Harry with a Glare. But Harry was just smirking at her in victory.

"Lets see...what shall I have you do for me..." Harry taunted her.

"Nothing if you know whats good for you. I'm sure your going to decide that you don't want me to do anything for you...RIGHT!" she growled at him.

"Oh I don't know...if you won I am pretty sure you would have me doing all sorts of really … embarrassingthings." Harry grinned at her evilly.

Ginny continued to glare at him. "You better sleep with your eyes open Potter! You may just wake up one day without any hair!"

Harry's smirk intensified. "Maybe that's what I'll have you do the first day..show up without any hair...that would be lovely."

Ginny paled as she stared at Harry. "You wouldn't!"

Harry just smirked at her as he turned to Dobby and held his hand out to him. "Time to go." as soon as Dobby had has hand he turned to Ginny 'who was still pale' and offered his other hand.

"I'm serious...you wont make me do that..right Harry? Come on...your my best friend...you...you wouldn't do that...please Harry."

Harry just smirked again and when she made no move to grab his hand he reached and took hers and walked them to an area that was totally clear and restarted time.

There was just one thing that he forgot about...after two years of intense training he had upped his magical core a lot. And learned a lot more than the last time he and Dobby had trained. And as soon as they where in the normal time, they all doubled over in pain. This pain was by far worse than the last time. He felt like he was being burned alive. Frozen, and sliced with cutting curses all at the same time. And it went on for three full minutes 'which felt more like a year' before the pain suddenly lifted. But unlike last time when they where fine after the burst of pain. This time their body's where shaking and twitching slightly

Harry stumbled to his feet and looked around. They had attracted a couple people attention, and one of them was hurrying in their direction.

"Are you ok dears? What happened?" asked an elderly lady.

"We're ok ma'am, we err tried to apparate and I think we messed up...we're ok though ma'am. See all here." he started turning and showing her that he was on one piece. "We need to get back to our parents, bye." and with that he grabbed Ginny's hand and turned to Dobby. "Go to my room Dobby. I will see you there." and without waiting for a response he started dragging Ginny towards the Leaky Cauldron.

Harry looked back a few times to make sure the lady, or anyone for that matter was following them. And was happy to see they where alone. "Ok, no more two years at a time, that hurt like hell. Are you ok?" He whispered.

Ginny gave a jerky nod. "That was much worse than last time."

When they reached the fireplace Harry enveloped her in a hug, and he didn't want to let her go. He was going to miss her so much. "You should go." he mumbled into her hair.

"I know we agreed to no more training...but..I can still come visit you right?" When she finished talking a small sob escaped and she tightened her arms around him.

"Of course, we already talked about this. You can apparate to the park and send Hedwig. Just remember I think Dumbledore may have people watching me, so you have to not be seen. And I will be at the park every day from ten to two."

Ginny gave him a quick peck on the cheek then dashed to the fireplace and threw the floo powder she took with her before coming here into the fire. And with a hurried "the Burrow." she was gone.

Harry sighed as he quickly made his way to the alley outside and stopped time, before gathering his destination in his mind and with a CRACK he apparated to his bedroom in number four privet drive.

Harry groaned as he let himself down onto his bed. His muscles where aching and he felt like his magical core was low. But he knew the truth. He had just enlarged his core so much, that when he resumed this time, his core and enlarged to his new amount, but the magic in the core did not go up with it, so it was fairly low.

Harry tossed and turned in his bed to get comfortable, and before he knew it he was asleep.