The next morning they both slept in quite late, it wasn't until the furious pecking of an owl woke Harry, he woke up and walked over towards the muggle side window. He opened the curtains and saw Hedwig, perched on the windowsill, Harry noticed that a lot of people were looking at Hedwig, muttering to each other about 'unusual owl tendencies and the owner will be furious'. Harry opened a window allowing the snow-white owl to hop in.
Immediately the owl glared at Harry angrily, she flew over to the sink, Hedwig stood on the side waiting for water. Harry went over and filled a bowl and laid it next to Hedwig, she drank some of the water, but looked up at Harry expectantly for food.
'Hang on Hedwig, I'll go get you your food' grumbled Harry sleepily. Harry pulled on a top and some combats and went in the elevator. When it opened Harry went over to the bar and ordered a coffee, to go. He placed 2 sickles on the counter and entered Diagon Alley. Harry ran over to the Owl Emporium and grabbed a bag of food, Harry realized that he also needed a cage, Harry went over and got the most expensive cage, it was big and refilled it's own water and food. Saves me the hassle, thought Harry. He went over and paid the shopkeeper and piping hot coffee still in hand went back up to his place.
Harry entered into a very different situation than what he left, Hedwig was screeching at something and Liz was trying to hold Hedwig of from attacking…
Oh the shape shifter! Thought Harry.
'Hedwig stop!' yelled Harry, Hedwig immediately stopped screeching and flapping her wings. He told the shape shifter to change shape into an owl so that she can communicate with Hedwig.
'Sorry Liz, I forgot about … , I should name her shouldn't I' said Harry
'Yes I think you should' replied Liz in a tired voice, she continued;
'I'm having a shower ok Harry?'
'Yes, sure, I'll take one in a minute in the ensuite…' To late Liz had already ran to the ensuite and climbed in, Harry groaned and turned to the two owls.
'Is everything alright now?' asked Harry to both of them, they both turned hooted in a positive fashion.
'Right then well, err shape shifter I'm going to name you Lily alright?' asked Harry. The owl turned its head to Harry and seemed to nod so Harry took it as acceptance, he went over to the bathroom. After a shower, Harry dressed casually, black combats, red top, white trainers and went to the fridge and pulled out sausages, bacon, beans, chips. He fried up an English breakfast and set it out so that it would be ready when Liz got out the shower, minutes later Liz exited the bathroom wearing the same clothes as yesterday.
'Alex is on the tills today I can't wait to see his face' giggled Liz. They ate their breakfast and told Hedwig and Lily to stay in the kitchen and not to do anything disgusting in the apartment, they went into the Leaky Cauldron ordered to lattes to go and exited into muggle London. The y chattered on the way to Liz's works about what she was going to get, how Alex would be annoyed and shocked, what colours she was going to wear this summer, until finally they reached the store.
'Liz, your three hours late! It's a good job we're so close that my mum doesn't want to sack you' smirked Alex.
'Actually, Alex. I've come here to quit and get a new wardrobe' Liz glanced a cold look at Alex and entered the shop, Harry following.
'Who's he? What are you doing with her' sneered Alex he walked in front of both of them so that they could nor get past him. Before Liz could stop him Harry talked in a dangerously low voice directly looking at Alex,
'I'm Harry, and what I'm doing with her is none of you business, now get out of the way so that I can get my girlfriend a new wardrobe. Alex did not move, instead looked at Harry angrily and then at Liz.
'How could you back stab me like that you little…' Alex was interrupted by Harry's hands, which pinned him against the wall. Alex struggled but Harry held him tightly and whispered.
'Finish that sentence, and you'll regret it' Alex looked at him appalled that he had been handled in such a rough way. He didn't dare reply and instead went to the back to get something to drink, Harry and Liz walked through to women-wear were they spent three hours picking out clothes putting them back until finally she had picked out everything she needed. They went to the till, another boy came out to scan everything and was shocked when he saw Liz, he did not ask any questions. Obviously this mornings events had spread round the staff, Harry paid the bill and exited the store.
Weighed down with so many bags, it took them a long time to reach the Leaky Cauldron, finally getting there; they went upstairs and lay all the bags on the bed.
'Well I'm going to put all these away now, it will probably take me most of the day. What are you doing now?' asked Liz
'Well Liz, these last days have been great but now I need to seriously train and prepare myself, that means I'm going in the trunk and probably will be in their for a while. It will be along time for me, but for you it will only be a couple of weeks. Plus I can come out whenever I want, and you can come in whenever you want, so it's not that bad.' Liz nodded understandably. She wasn't upset; anyway she could visit him whenever she wanted. Liz went into the bedroom and Harry thought of being in the time room.
Harry opened his eyes and found himself their, he thought of what he needed, with and with an audible 'pop' it all came into view. A fridge that would refill it self with all of Harry's food prepared for immediate consumption, A lot of weight training machinery, a large stack of parchment and a quill that wrote everything he said down, a copy of all the books he had bought yesterday and a calendar, to count the days he had been in and the amount of time until he had to see Mr. Ollivander.
After two weeks inside the room, improvement was very clear; Harry had discovered that, theory was not a good approach, especially reading out entire passages to the quill. So in the third day was so frustrated of reading out wand movements he yelled,
'God surely there is a better way of reading out entire passages for a quill!'
There was a pop and Harry turned round to see a magnificent Sapphire coloured quill, with a note attached to it. The note said,
This quill will be beneficial to you. Produce copies of all your books and the quill will by itself open the books and the quill will leave you only the things you need to know(the spell name, wand movement, what it does, pronunciation). At the end of each book the quill will use a blank roll of parchment to copy all keynotes and produce a much smaller book for you to use. Enjoy!(Say activate to start)Once finished the quill will produced a high tone until you say 'Deactivate'.
Harry was stunned at the amazing practicality of the quill, he already had the copy of his books and so placed the quill down and placed his books neatly down, he then placed all his parchment down and shakily said,'Activate' at once the quill went into action, crossing out unimportant bits at phenomenal speed; Harry decided to leave the quill until it had finished. So Harry chose to work on his muscles.
After an entire week of working out (with intervals of food and drink) Harry still felt alert and decided to go swimming, after a couple of hours Harry still had not heard the sound and so decided to train non-stop furiously to build up his strength. Harry spent the next three weeks eating, drinking and physically training. He would take a four-hour run, followed by four hours a weights for arms, then four hours for his legs. He would stop to eat but then repeated the entire cycle, however it was not tedious as the room found new ways of helping him to train whilst having lots of fun.
Harry was having the time of his life; he was building up himself very quickly, with all the continuous training, he didn't miss Liz because she visited him. Harry did not want to leave the room yet. Harry's thoughts were interrupted by a noise. Oh it's the noise thought Harry, with only ten minutes left of his leg training Harry finished and went over to the quill. Yelling deactivate the noise stopped. Harry looked at the keynote books, the books were thin, but Harry knew that the essentials were in there.
Harry knew that he had to make a timetable to balance physical and magical training out. So Harry came up with daily allowances, magical training was sixteen hours, physical eight hours. Magical however included learning t'ai chi, yoga and kung fu, as well as an ancient martial art that, according to a book Godric Gryffindor himself used. Harry's true training began.
Meanwhile at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place;
'Well everyone Harry is perfectly fine, he's moved into the magical world, bought a place however Gringotts would not tell us the whereabouts of his new residence. However we do know that he is safe so how's your training going on?'
Mundungus Fletcher had entered the kitchen and informed The Weasley's (except Percy), Hermione, Remus and Tonks. The last question directed at Ron, Hermione and Ginny.
They had been training their N.E.W.T.s for three days now with Tonks, Remus and Kingsley as well as some spells used at Auror, however they only used the least difficult spells and all of them could not even perform them. They were trying there hardest yet not producing the results, they knew it was because they had only just started and would soon be able to cast them. Ron was trying the hardest yet producing the same results as everyone else, he couldn't wait to see Harry's face when he performed advanced spells perfectly that Harry could not even cast. Hermione was also eager for the extra training so she could pass her N.E.W.T. and Ginny was just eager to impress. They were also excited because they were also going to be animagus; all of them had been tested to see which animal they would be. Ron was a small dog, Hermione a cat like Crookshanks and Ginny was an owl. They were all training their hardest however they had no idea that Harry was training more than all of them together multiplied by twenty.
Harry had now been in the room for twenty six weeks, He had read all the books and perfected nearly half of his books, the first thing Harry knew he needed to do was master Occlumency and Legilimency. He found the books he had bought on it including two from Godric Gryffindor, Harry read all of them and instantly felt angry. How could Snape make something so obvious into something so hard? Clear your mind! Harry now knew clearing your mind did nothing according to 'Your Mind' By Godric Gryffindor – Clearing your mind in not essential, this method is for wizards who do not know true Occlumency or the ignorant'
Instead, you had to structure your mind however to do this apparently you needed to meditate so that you yourself would structure a physical and mental defence within you mind. Harry spent an hour meditating when he found himself looking at his mind, a mass of swirling images and thoughts, jumbled up. Harry spent two hours collecting them an ordering them, then he had to seal them in individual proportions. After this Harry remembered that he had yet to build a mental barrier, Harry spent another couple of hours constructing a mental barrier, using his own will power to concentrate on building a physical force between himself and his mind, Harry constructed a design that even the most accomplished masters of Legilimency could not penetrate, focusing his metal energy so that it would combine the physical materials and mental barrier forming an obstacle that would not allow anyone in.
After these efforts Harry was sure that if he had not been in the room he would be exhausted. Luckily the room kept him alert and at full strength. Harry then had to master Legilimency, 'to penetrate a mind, is nothing, but to sort through the memories to find the victims most disturbing is most difficult. To find specific memories means that you must focus your magic within the mind, you do not have to know what you are looking for, penetrating an organised mind makes it easier, the caster can sort through whatever memories he wants and can choose to glance, view and for the accomplished extract the memory, this method is more effective than a memory spell as the person will have no memory of the past.' This was memorised by Harry as he had to comprehend the theory behind Legilimency, and to apply it in a practical base. It took Harry almost a week of non stop practicing, reading and control for Harry to reach a very advanced level. However throughout the book Godric Gryffindor highlighted the fact that if this skill is learnt before a person comes of age, then it would increase under specific circumstances. Harry realised that he had perfected everything in the book and moved on, it was his skill of Occlumency that kept him from frantically wondering about how his skill will increase under circumstances.
Harry had mastered Occlumency and Legilimency to his current full potential within two and a half weeks. Harry then practiced every single spell in his key notes book collection, he mastered many however others he struggled with but attempted them until he perfected them. With physical training keep Harry fit, and three separate martial arts being studied Harry was agile and his reactions were very quick. Harry had studied all the topics evenly, Harry could now brew potions much more easily, he studied the Dark Arts extremely carefully, he wanted to know spells that were likely to be attempted, however Harry was certain that even the most highly accomplished Death Eaters knowledge would not compare to his, after closely studying 'Dark Matters' By Salazar Slytherin he had an extreme extensive knowledge on the most gruesome of spells.
Harry had also made an ancient potion; it required many ingredients that Harry had never heard of. He correctly made it the first time, and added some of his blood. The purpose was to see what type of animagus you would be, green was for magical animagus, red for non-magical animagus and blue symbolized multi animagus. The potion however did not have any of these colours instead a shining gold with streaks of silver in, Harry studied his transfiguration books for alternative methods to test animagus, the only other option for Harry was to explore himself, somehow he had to find his 'inner animal/animals'. However it was not exploring his mind, it was exploring himself; somehow Harry accomplished the task after three hours meditating.
The sight before him startled himself somewhat, not only was he a magical animagus, which was very rare as the last recorded magical animagus was the four founders. Harry noticed that he had eight forms, four magical and four non-magical, he was- a basilisk, snake, griffin, eagle, phoenix, nundu, owl and stag. All forms had features of Harry, luckily it was the owl that had the least noticeable characteristic of a white line on the right wing, supposedly the form of 'I must not tell lies', however the line was not that clear through the feathers. He could change into all shapes yet it was still a bit difficult. Also Harry had mastered Advanced Human Transfiguration, like Metamorphmagus he could change his appearance at will, however in reality it would apparently be exhausting, he could change any feature, height, weight, eye colour, hair colour even conceal his scar.
Harry had become very proficient at casting nearly all of the spells. However he had also mastered 'other' qualities, he could talk to most animal forms through telepathy, learn whilst sleeping, mild wandless magic (which he would practice on until he could perfect all spells without a wand, and also an alternate way of apparation called 'teleport'. When Harry mastered this skill he would be able to apparate into anti apparation zones, move through wards and be silent as well.
All this taken Harry's perception of time and before he knew it it was the day before his birth day and that day Liz had come into the room with some shocking news.