'Harry, Mr. Ollivander has asked for you' said Liz. She had been visiting throughout Harry's training and been helping with physical training. They had built up a very close relationship over the last twenty-nine days; they would talk throughout Harry's training and eat together. Harry had told her the contents of the prophecy; she understood and was very encouraging and influential, not negative like some of his friends. However it was this news that made Harry come out of the room.
Harry came out the room and instantly felt the effect of the last twenty-eight days. He picked up Lily (who was in the shape of a little puppy) and although feeling rather weary stood up and walked over to Ollivanders with Liz and entered.
'Ah Mr. Potter, you have arrived and remembered to bring your shape shifter.' said Ollivander.
'Yes, Mr. Ollivander what is it that is so important?' inquired Harry.
'You look a lot different than last time Mr. Potter, time room was it? Please both of you follow me' replied Ollivander. They followed Mr. Ollivander through a narrow cupboard with stacks of wands in dusty narrow boxes on either side. They then entered a side door into a very large room, with a comfy looking bed, leather couch, chairs, a cauldron. In a corner was obviously Ollivanders workshop, sawdust, split wood, open boxes with unicorn hair, dragon heart strings and phoenix feathers.
'Mr. Potter, you are to turn seventeen tonight?' asked Mr. Ollivander.
'Yes, yes tonight 12.00pm' replied Harry.
'Mr. Potter, I am going to tell you something that may astonish you, you may not believe it but it will be better you do, Mr. Potter you are the son of James and Lily Potter. Now The Potter name is an ancient and very powerful magical name, only they can live in Godrics Hollow, Godrics Hollow is a very ancient magical place, created by Godric Hollow so his family could live there. Yes you are an ancestor of Sir Godric Gryffindor, however that is not all. Godric Gryffindor was married to Rowena Ravenclaw; Godric Gryffindor's sister was Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw's brother was Salazar Slytherin. Each named themselves at Hogwart's to so that there would be four separate schoolhouses. The founders were all inter-related meaning that you are one of two heirs of Hogwart's, the other family line is now dead, Grindelwald was the last of them and he was defeated by Albus Dumbledore. Meaning you are the only heir of Hogwart's, however the founders parents were ancestors of Merlin and Lucinda. Which also means that you are the heir of Merlin as well. So you are destined to be an extremely powerful wizard once you come of age' Ollivander ended the speech with a smile. It took Harry a few minutes to comprehend what Mr. Ollivander had said. However Harry believed him and explained to Mr. Ollivander about what some of his books from the founders said about increasing the power once he was of age.
'Yes Mr. Potter however, the moment you turn seventeen your magical strength shall multiply, how much is unknown without an outsider and yourself traveling into your inner mind to see how many doors you have. The doors represent blockages of your full magical extent; most wizards and witches have none, which is why the process of coming of age is not considered as a magical boost however to you it is clear you have doors. Are you willing?' asked Mr. Ollivander. Harry knew that he must know how many doors he has so agreed.
Harry let his Occlumeny shield down so that Mr. Ollivander could penetrate it, However Mr. Ollivander said that there were other, quicker and safer ways. Apparently Harry had to relax his mentality and allow another mind to share his own so together they could explore. Harry had read this as Mind Sharing, Mr. Ollivander nodded and told Harry to relax.
Within minutes Harry had, with the help of yoga and t'ai chi his meditation had helped him a lot to relax and not build up anger and tension. Harry felt Mr. Ollivander attempt to join Harry, however Harry's mental block was unlike normal Occlumency; it was an adapted format that was a hundred fold stronger than normal Occlumency. Harry told himself to allow the penetration, moments later Mr. Ollivander joined him, luckily the process allowed Harry and Mr. Ollivander to communicate with each other. After seventeen minutes Harry and Mr. Ollivander found the Inner Mind, it appeared to be impenetrable; it looked to have solid metal doors, sealed tightly with a sharp exterior and the height seeming never-ending. Harry knew that even his adapted style of Legilimency would not breakthrough so Harry told himself to allow them through. After a minute or so they were through.
Harry and Mr. Ollivander entered a room that had four doors Harry asked Mr. Ollivander,
'Are these my doors?'
'No, see the inscriptions on the doors' replied Mr. Ollivander. Indeed the doors had inscriptions, Magical Core, Memories, Moments, Emotions. Mr. Ollivander told Harry that the Inner Mind was the key moments in a person's life; everyone had these in his or hers Inner Mind. He indicated that the should go into Magical Core. Once through the door Mr. Ollivander gasped at what he saw and informed Harry why. Apparently people had one door to see their magical doors, Harry however had an additional three. The doors were labeled Magic Doors, Multi Magical/Non-Magical Forms, Mind Informants and Elementals. Mr. Ollivander told Harry he would tell him about these doors later. The entered the Magic Doors and both of them stopped astounded at the sight.
Mr. Ollivander and Harry gasped; Mr. Ollivander told Harry previously that the most he expected Harry to have was four maybe even five. However they were in a circular room, doors surrounded them; also there were two levels. Harry counted them all and so did Mr. Ollivander, then they recounted. Suddenly Mr. Ollivander told Harry they needed to talk about this outside his mind. They both came out of his mind and back into reality stunned what they had seen.
'What is it what did you see, how many doors?' asked Liz hurriedly.
'Twenty-four' they both said.
'Mr. Potter did you notice the colours of them? Four were gold, they were your set of doors, however there were a set of red doors, a set of green, a set of blue and a set of yellow. All in fours. Also a black door lined with white, a white door lined with black and two stone doors. Mr. Potter you have twenty four doors. A phenomenal amount however do you recall the three other doors. I am not really surprised you are an animagus, however you had Mind Informants and Elementals. This means that at the moment you turn seventeen then inside your mind the founders will be able to communicate and also you can control elements, which ones however I do not know, it is extremely rare for even one however I think that you may have potential to more than one.' Said Mr. Ollivander. Harry stood astonished, however was soon interrupted by Mr. Ollivander who told him that he had to prepare for coming of age. Apparently the process would force him to lose his consciousness so that Harry's body would adjust to his new power and abilities.
'Ready Harry?' asked Mr. Ollivander. It was 11.58PM. Harry nodded and had relaxed on the bed. Liz was still struggling to realize how powerful Harry would become, she wasn't scared, really she was glad Harry would be so powerful, their was more of a chance that he would not get hurt. The clock turned 11.59PM.
'Harry, you will lose conscience straight away however, I feel your body may produce powerful magical tendencies, you will not feel any pain, also I have a surprise for you when you wake up.' said Ollivander, smiling Harry counted down the seconds, 3…2…1…Hap- Harry's mind was cut of by the loss of consciousness.
'Where do you think he is?' asked Hermione to Ron and Ginny.
'Now Hermione dear, I'm sure he's fine if he was in any danger then Professor Dumbledore would know and tell us' Molly Weasley had walked in the kitchen.
'Anyway, I'm sure he'll turn up soon, it's his birthday after all, anyway he'll be really impressed with what you've learnt I'm sure. You'll be able to help him catch up, everything will sort it self out' Molly said cheerfully. Ron smiled, help Harry catch up, oh, he couldn't wait.
They had learnt all of the N.E.W.T spells, they had not perfected all of them, but mastered the most powerful and impressive, they had all managed to turn into their animals, and over the last week had been able to cast some of the auror level spells. Plus they had the rest of August to study yet; Harry might just be able to catch up, thought Ron. However he won't be anywhere near our level. Ron laughed in his head at this and went up to bed. Once Ron had left the room Ginny and Hermione started talking.
'So does Harry know about you and Ron?' asked Ginny smiling.
'No, I hope Harry doesn't mind' replied Hermione anyway she continued;
'Does Harry know about you and Dean' asked Hermione
'No he doesn't, I can't believe Harry though not even writing to me, so I'm not feeling that guilty, anyway we weren't properly going out' replied Ginny
They stayed up for another hour talking about boys, magic, what school was going to be like however they always kept going back to Harry Was he alright? Would he be able to catch up in their lessons? Where was he? They both went to sleep wondering if tomorrow he would come in The Burrow and celebrate his 17th, they both fell asleep wondering if tomorrow he would be found.
Harry slowly opened his eyes, as his eyes focused he realized that he did not recognize this place. He was in a stonewalled room, velvet carpet and a chair. There was no escape. Thought Harry, he sat in the chair and what happened next, nearly shocked him back into unconsciousness.
'Ah, he's finally woke up!' said a voice cheerfully
'At last, I was starting to wonder if he would ever wake up' droned another.
'Now Salazar you cow that's not true!' said a female voice sternly.
'Of course he was going to come back, silly. Now be quiet!' added another femle voice.
'Err, hello? Who's that?' asked Harry aloud
'Oh yes we should explain, Harry darling we are the founders, Godric, Helga, Rowena and Salazar, we are not physical by the way we're in your mind, we're here to help you learn the forgotten magic, teach you what was thought to be gone and just generally help you out.' Replied a female voice.
'Oh so you my mind informants! Am I really a descendant, or heir of you all?' asked Harry.
'Yes dear that's right, you are the Heir of Hogwarts and Heir of Merlin. Here he is' replied the same cheerful female voice.
'Harry Potter, hello! Now this must all seem very strange to you but do not worry I will explain everything' said a very wise sounding voice. Merlin explained that, the room they were in is a secret chamber in the library. Behind a picture of the school crest, to enter all he had to do was press his had hand on a stone on the right, he would be transported into it and it will be here where everything is taught. An hour in there was a minute outside. They would be able to communicate to Harry anytime, Merlin went onto inform him that they were all going to teach him.
'Now go to sleep and you will wake up in Mr. Ollivander who has a surprising surprise for you.' Said Merlin. Harry went to sleep and before he knew it woke up and sat bolt upright.
'Oh, he's awake' gasped Liz, she wrapped in a fierce hug.
'Who's that' asked Godric inside his head.
'My girlfriend, Liz' thought Harry back.
'Ohhhh!!!' they all went,
'Sorry we'll be quiet now, tell Liz and Mr. Ollivander about us' Harry chuckled.
'Liz, Mr. Ollivander, you know those Mind Informants, well their the founders and Merlin' said Harry quickly. Mr. Ollivander and Liz did not looked surprised. Harry had been asleep for eight hours, so Mr. Ollivander told Liz who the Mind Informants were likely to be.
'Anyway Harry, try to use you wand, any spell.' Said Mr. Ollivander. Harry summoned his wand using wandless magic and was about to perform a spell when Mr. Ollivander said,
'Harry was that wandless magic?'
'Oh, yes it was, funny, I thought I would be out of breath' replied Harry.
'Yes well you are twenty four times more powerful than you were before Mr. Potter it will take a lot more than that to get you even a little bit tired now.' replied Ollivander. Harry smiled an then waved his wand using a simple spell when…
'Argh! What happened?' asked Harry indignantly. But Mr. Ollivander was smiling.
'I thought that would happen, your magical core is now so powerful Mr. Potter that you cannot use a wand. You must have a staff. I never thought I would get to make a staff. Mr. Potter you remember the day I was found, what was in The Daily Prophet about me hunting a chimera, well that was true. I had been traveling all the way across the world for magical animal parts so that I could form a staff for you. However now that we have a shape-shifter in our midst we do not have to go around the world searching for animals. Can you ask your shape-shifter to turn into these animals.' Mr Ollivander handed him a list of animals. The list was-
Basilisk
Demiguise
Dragon
Erupment
Dementor
Giant
Graphorn
Griffin
Lethifold
Manticore
Nundu
Phoenix
Re'em
Runespoor
Sphinx
Unicorn
'Mr. Ollivander, I can transform into some of these animals' said Harry.
'Yes but you are the 24th core item, other pieces of you will counteract the balance now if you please' Mr. Ollivander tilted his head to the dog.
Using mild telepathy with the dog, Harry told Lily about the animals he needed her to change into. Lily agreed and understood that it will be painful however she will be fine.
Lily turned into a basilisk, Harry hissed softly telling her to not open her eyes and to not bite anyone. Lily hissed saying she understood.
Mr. Ollivander approached the basilisk, and yanked out the biggest tooth, whilst with a sharp knife made a lightning fast incision around the eye, which came out into his hand. Lily hissed in pain but Harry soon calmed her down and asked her to turn into a Demiguise, Mr. Ollivander wrapped the tooth and eye, separately. He ten turned to the Demiguise; he asked Harry if he could extract all the hairs. Harry agreed and told Lily, she consented. Mr. Ollivander made a very careful cutting charm, front, back and then both sides collecting all the hair into one bag. He then extracted the longest hair and placed it in an empty draw in his worktop. Harry asked Lily to turn in to the next, a Hungarian Horntail; this was difficult as the horn was huge. Mr. Ollivander asked if he could take all the skin so to make Harry and himself something else. This carried on for an hour, Mr. Ollivander continued requesting for additional extras, more feathers, more poison, and extra skin. Lily obliged to it all and did not whimper or lash out the entire time. It was easy enough until reaching the nundu, Ollivander asked Harry for Lily to hold her breath, he only needed a small sample. Lily held her breath and then blew into a small bottle then transform straight away and not to exhale until she had. Lily transformed into a phoenix and gasped. Harry laughed earning him a peck. Harry had to hold Lily's two heads when she was a Runespoor as Mr. Ollivander cut of one of the heads. After another ten minutes they were finished, Lily changed back into a puppy and fell asleep.
Mr. Ollivander told Harry there were twenty-three components and Harry's part for the twenty-four doors. Asking about the parts Mr. Ollivander told him that he needed all of those animal parts, as they would combine to make the most powerful magical harnessing object ever made.
The Basilisk eye and tooth would increase the power of his attack and Dark Arts spells, the Demiguise hair was to give the staff the ability to be invisible whenever Harry would want it to be. The Dragon horn and skin would boost defense and attacking spells. An Erumpent's horn and skin would also increase Harry's defensive and offensive spellwork, The Dementor cloak would bring fear to opponents, lowering the power of their spells, A Giant's skin to boost defensive magic, Graphorn's horn would increase offensive spells and put more power into the spells, Griffin feather for protective spells, defensive magic and also the aggression would add to power in attackive spells. The Lethifold skin meant that whilst the owner had the staff, it would mean that he would be silent, also it meant all spells would be non-verbal. Manticore sting increases power in defense and offence, Nundu, the silence of a nundu meant it would add to the silence of the Lethifold, also the breath would be a incredible power boost to all spells cast. Phoenix feather and tears meant that healing spells would be easy; also the wand would regenerate every time it was destroyed or damaged, Re'em skin added to defensive spellwork. A Runespoor head meant the staff would have three forms, staff, sword and something else, Sphinx hair added to the defense and unicorn hair meant that the staff would be pure and white.
This meant that the staff would produce incredibly powerful spells, the staff can protect it's user without him having to produce a shield due to the amount of powerful defenses, in his possession, all spells would be non-verbal and unpredictable, also he would be silent, in the sword form it can kill a dementor. It can never be destroyed. Overall a very powerful magical harnessing weapon.
Mr. Ollivander put all the components into the cauldron, Harry knew he would have to give some blood so Mr. Ollivander took his arm and raised it over the cauldron. Mr. Ollivander slit his arm and blood dripped on to the open contents. Harry moved his hand away just in time as a bright flame jumped from the cauldron, it kept changing colours, white, green, black, blue, red. After almost half a minute the flame died down, they all peered inside the cauldron and where all those magical animal parts had been was an astonishingly beautiful staff in its place.
'Only you can touch it Harry' said Mr. Ollivander in an awe inspired voice. Harry reached out his now clean blood-free hand and grasped the ebony black , marble like material, he immediately felt a sense of raw magical power, a mental connection formed, as if a missing piece of him had now been filled. Harry had not noticed the shock wave of power that had emitted. The staff has a black surface, a mixture between metal, and wood, with a leather bottom so that the end would not be scuffed. The top of the staff was a molded sculpture that Harry could not make out. The sculpture could not be touched as a smooth glass like barrier surrounded it.
'To cast a spell Harry, simply think the spell and tap the staff' muttered Ollivander, still dazed from the shockwave. Harry did so, he cast a cutting charm 'Diffindo' at a chair, the chair instead of cutting in half was torn to shreds.
'Reparo' thought Harry, tapping his staff. The parts had not even touched the floor and zoomed back together.
'You see it is powerful' said Mr. Ollivander. He then went on to tell Harry how to change the forms of staff. He had made the dragon skin, into suits that would protect them from all spells except the killing curse. Harry handed Mr. Ollivander ten, 500 galleon notes and exited with Liz to Gringotts.