Chapter 13
Tonks lay staring glumly at the ceiling in her dormitory. She couldn't sleep, in fact she hadn't had a good nights sleep since Harry had left. She longed to hear his voice just to know he was safe. She thought she had started to hear his voice in her head calling her name until she realized it wasn't coming form her head at all, it was coming form her bedside draw. She opened it quickly and pulled out the two way mirror in which she could clearly see a tired looking Harry.
"Harry?" she asked incredulously not believing what she was seeing.
"Hi," he said sadly and Tonks felt a wave of emotion rush over her seeing him again.
"Harry are you ok?" she asked worriedly.
"I'm fine," he said unconvincingly. "I'm safe." A tear fell down his cheeks as he slowly said, "I miss you so much Tonks."
"Then come back," Tonks said unable to hold back her own tears.
"I can't," he said dejectedly.
"Harry I need you. I know you're worried about my safety but I'm willing to take the risk."
"No." Harry said defiantly. "I saw him kill you Tonks. I tried to stop him but I couldn't. You were in so much pain Tonks. I can't let that happen." She now knew why he had left so suddenly but it still didn't help matters.
"Harry it was only a dream, I'm perfectly fine. I just want you to come back to me." She pleaded. "Just because of what you saw V-V-Voldemort do in a dream doesn't mean you should be alone."
"I may not have a choice," Harry replied sadly. Tonks completely broke down when she saw the resignation in Harry's face and her sobs woke up Hermione and Ginny.
"Harry I can't live without you!" she cried and Hermione and Ginny looked at her worriedly until they heard Harry's voice come out of the mirror.
"I'm sorry," Harry said looking down instead of at Tonks. Then his face disappeared and Tonks could only see her own reflection.
"Harry! Come back!" she cried to no avail. Hermione and Ginny came over to comfort her as she sobbed into her pillow. "Why won't he come back to me?" she asked. "It'd be easier to cope with if he was ok with what he's done but he's not. I could see it in his eyes. He's not ok!"
"He'll come back eventually," Hermione said reassuringly but it didn't appear to help. Hermione and Ginny were struggling as well and before the night was through all three of them had shed tears for Harry.
Harry didn't sleep well at all that night and he knew he had made a mistake using the mirror to contact Tonks. Just seeing her made him regret his decision to leave but he knew he had to be strong. It was for her own good he told himself. When morning finally came, he took a quick shower and went down for breakfast. His apetite was non-existent but he knew he'd need his energy for the days training so he forced two pieces of toast down himself.
Realizing it was still early Harry thought that he might as well do some reading in the library before Dumbledore came. He picked up an old looking spell book off a shelf and sat down in his favourite leather chair. Flicking through the pages his eyes were caught by a section that Harry was really interested in. the section was about silent bludgeoning spells. Reading the information about them Harry found that they were very powerful spells that could penetrate any shield. The spell was also altered by the mind of the caster. The caster could choose to fire one all powerful spell or three slightly less powerful ones. Because they were silent they needed a lot of strength of mind to master and it was said that only very powerful wizards could cast them. To work them the caster had to picture in his mind the spell coming out of his wand.
"You look tired today Harry," he heard a voice say behind him. He turned and saw Dumbledore standing the doorway.
"I used the mirror last night," he said somberly.
"I'm afraid that until you go back, the pain will never go away." Dumbledore said wisely.
"I know," he conceded. "I just need to take my mind off it." So he and Dumbledore began their training for the day.
With so much on his mind Harry was unable to clear his mind for his Occlumency lesson and Dumbledore penetrated his mind straight away. A rush of memories filled Harry's head. He saw Sirius fall through the veil, he saw Cedric Diggory die, he saw his first kiss with Tonks. Then the images came back from the dreams he had had during the summer. He saw Dumbledore fighting Grindewald and Frank Longbottom telling Dumbledore about his parents' murder. Suddenly it stopped and Harry opened his eyes and Dumbledore looked at him questioningly.
"Some of those images were not your memories Harry," Dumbledore stated. Harry nodded.
"They were from dreams I had during the summer, I guess I just forgot about them." Dumbledore looked at Harry thoughtfully.
"Harry these were not dreams, these were my memories." Harry looked at Dumbledore confused.
"How can they be yours sir? That would mean I had performed some sort of Leglimency." Harry replied.
"Yes it would." Dumbledore said as if to himself and thinking to himself for a minute or so. "Harry, I want you to try and break into my mind."
Harry shook his head, "Sir I can't do Leglimecny, I've not even mastered Occlumency yet."
"Harry please, humour an old man." Harry grudgingly nodded and pulled out his wand.
"Now Harry, you need to focus your mind on me and channel as much magical energy into the spell as you can."
Harry pointed his wand at Dumbledore, "Leglimens!" he shouted. Suddenly the room disappeared and hall Harry could see was Dumbledore. Harry felt resistance and willed more power into the spell even though the pressure was starting to give him a headache. He could feel Dumbledore doing his best to resist Harry and Harry pushed harder. Dumbldore's shield was beginning to crack and Harry could feel it. He couldn't quite explain how he was doing it or how he knew Dumbledore's defences were about to break, he could just feel it.
Then Harry saw them; Memories inside Dumbledore's head. Dumbledore was putting a baby Harry down at number four Privet Drive, he was then using his wand to slow Harry as he fell off his broom during a quidditch match, then he was telling Hermione and Harry about using the time turner to save Sirius. Harry then released his contact with Dumbledore.
"How the hell did I do that?" Harry asked confused. Dumbledore looked at him appraisingly yet thoughtfully.
"Obviously your amount of pure magic allows you to easily pressure your way into someone's mind. Luckily I knew you were going to do it and was able to hide certain memories." Dumbledore said. "You lacked subtlety in entering my mind but for your first try that was truly remarkable."
"So I can get into peoples minds now?" Harry asked.
"Technically yes. I trust you will not use this unless you have good reason too." Dumbledore said strictly. "Now all that remains is for you to fine tune your Occlumeny and Leglimency skills. We will spend a smaller amount of time on that each day so we can spend more time on spells."
Harry and Dumbledore then moved into the training room and Dumbledore started showing Harry how to do some advanced transfiguration. It took Harry the best part of two hours to be able to transfigure objects into animals. At one point his chair only grew wings and flew right out of a window. Dumbledore chuckled and Harry doubled his efforts finally turning a chair into a seagull and back again. He found that once he could do one animal it was a lot easier to do others. Although by the end of the training session he felt magically exhausted, he was immensely pleased with himself.
"Professor McGonagall would be pleased!" Dumbledore said to Harry as they finished their training session. Harry waved off the comment blushing slightly. "Tomorrow we will try work a bit more on your wandless magic. Then I think we should have a duel so you can put into practice what you have learned so far."
"I can't duel you!" Harry said. "I'll lose before we even start."
"Have confidence Harry, I think you will do better than you think."
"You mean you'll go easy on me." Harry said bitterly. Dumbledore looked affronted.
"I would never do such a thing. You have my word as a wizard." He said honorably. Harry seemed satisfied and Dumbledore smiled, "Until tomorrow then," he said cheerfully and turned and left.
Harry decided he wanted to give Dumbledore a little surprise and stayed in the training room to work on his wandless spell work. Harry had found that the training room worked similar to the room of requirement; if you needed something to help you train you just asked for it. So, Harry wished for an opponent to fight, instantly a copy of Harry appeared on the other side of the room and Harry looked at his other self.
"This is gonna be weird," he said. The opponent Harry fired a disarming curse at Harry who rolled quickly to the side and threw up his shield. After a few attacks and deflections Harry decided to put his wands away.
"Stupefy!" he shouted and the spell shot out of his hand at the dummy. Harry, impressed, fired a few rapid curses at the other him using both hands. His aim was slightly off but he could tell the spells were more powerful. Finally with a well aimed body binding curse the other Harry was on the floor unable to move. The real Harry slumped to the floor, magically exhausted. "Dumbledore will be pleasantly surprised tomorrow," Harry said to himself.
"But Hermione, we can't do it without Harry," Ron said indignantly.
"Look Ron, we need to do it. The DA still has a lot to learn before we're ready to fight Deatheaters. I know it won't be the same without Harry but we have to do it. It's what he'd want."
"I guess," Ron conceded. "We'll need Kyla to teach us though, she's the only who's good enough." Hermione nodded.
"It'll be hard to convince her though, she's really upset recently. She's started avoiding me and Ginny even. But we can ask. I'll put a date on the galleons as well so we can tell people we've re-formed." Hermione said. She knew she was doing the right thing; she had to help Harry in this war even if it was only a little.
She knew wherever Harry was he would be training hard, from what she had seen he was already more powerful than she could ever hope to be but that didn't dent her confidence. Harry was special and she knew it, his powers were growing faster than ever and his aura was getting as powerful as Dumbledore's.
Making her way to the Gryffindor common room she pulled out her galleon and set it so there would be a meeting that night. When she reached the common room she immediately saw who she was looking for.
Kyla was sat in a chair with a book but she didn't seem too interested in it. Her eyes barely skimmed the page before she turned onto the next one.
"Hey Kyla," Hermione said cheerfully, sitting down opposite her.
"Oh hi Hermione," she said looking up then went back to her book.
"I need your help with something," Hermione said to Kyla.
"What is it?" she replied.
"Well," Hermione collected her thoughts. "Last year we started a small group that was dedicated to learning defence skills so we could prepare for the war against V-V-Voldemort." she said trying to gauge Tonks' reaction. Tonks barely moved so Hermione continued. "Well we've decided that we want to start it again and I was wondering if you would help us seems as though you're an Auror." Tonks looked at Hermione strangely.
"Why can't you just learn form whoever ran the club last year?" she asked. "I'm don't really feel like running an after school club at the moment," she said a slight bit of anger creeping into her tone. Hermione thought about how to answer and realized there was no easy way around it.
"We can't have who we had last year, because it was Harry." She said flatly. "Look, we think it's really good idea to start this up again. It's what Harry would have wanted I'm sure. You more than anyone want to help Harry in this war. This is what you can do to help him." Hermione felt slightly guilty about putting a guilt trip on her but she felt it was necessary.
"Ok I'll do it." Kyla said won over by the guilt trip. "When do you want to start?" Hermione beamed.
"We're having a meeting tonight at eight to tell people it's starting again. We'll go down together then ok?" Kyla nodded and Hermione continued smiling.
"Thanks Kyla, I've got to go to the library but I'll meet you here just before eight." Hermione said as she practically skipped out of the common room.
At a quarter to eight Hermione came back to the common room to get Kyla and Ron and they headed to the room of requirement. They were the first ones there but it wasn't long before the others started filing into the room and making themselves comfortable. When everybody had arrived Hermione motioned for quiet and addressed the DA.
"Thank you for coming," she said politely to everyone. "As you know there is a war going on. One which will require a lot of effort from everybody. That's why I have called you all here. I think it's time we started to train as the DA again."
"But we're not the DA without Harry," Ginny piped up and lots of the group murmured their consent.
"Look I know Harry isn't here but we need to do this for him. He left Hogwarts to keep us safe from Voldemort." a few people winced at the name but Hermione continued. "Voldemort is after Harry and that's why Harry has become more powerful. We need to learn to fight so we can help him destroy Voldemort." people nodded agreeing with Hermione. "I don't expect any of us to ever be as powerful as Harry but we can do enough so we can defeat the Deatheaters who will kill us whether we stand up to them or not." Hermione's harsh truth had a positive effect on the group and some of them cheered.
"So if it is ok with everyone we will start training as soon as possible. I have asked Kyla to train us because as you may have seen she is quite a powerful witch. If we help each other we will do well. So everyone keep their coins on them and we'll have our first meeting soon."
"Do we keep it a secret?" one person asked. It was true they had only kept it a secret in fifth year because of Umbridge but was there reason to keep it secret now?
"For now yes," Hermione said. "Anything else?" she asked. Ginny raised her hand. "Yes Ginny?"
"I don't think we should be called Dumbledore's Army anymore," she said plainly. A few people looked at her as though she was stupid.
"Err Gin, why not?" Ron asked his little sister.
"Because we're not fighting for Dumbledore are we? We're fighting for Harry." People realized she was right. Harry was the reason they had reformed.
"So what are we?" Hermione asked. "Potters army?" she asked seriously. Everyone cheered loudly and Hermione took that as a yes. "Ok that's settled we'll have our first PA session soon," she said grinning and everyone started to leave the room except Ron, Hermione and Kyla.
"You were great there Hermione!" Ron said cheerfully making Hermione blush.
"You still ok to do this?" Hermione asked Kyla.
"I'll do anything for Harry," she said and smiled weakly.
Harry woke the next day feeling fully energized and was quite looking forward to his duel with Dumbledore. He knew he would lose but at least he would be able to learn from it. Plus he planned on getting at least one hit in on Dumbledore.
He had been at the Potter mansion for well over a week and in that week he had done nothing but read and train constantly. Since talking to Tonks in the mirror he had done his best to block her from his mind. His Oclumency training helped with that for which he was eternally grateful. The wolfsbane potion he had started to make for Remus was complete and he planned on giving it to Dumbledore to give to him. He knew his powers were developing quickly and hoped that in a few months he would be ready to go to the department of mysteries to get the final piece in the puzzle to defeating Voldemort.
But for now it was time to prepare himself for his duel with Dumbledore. He ate a small breakfast and did some of his mind clearing techniques so he would be more focused. Not long afterwards Dumbledore appeared inside The Potter mansion looking as calm as ever.
"Should we start on Occlumency before we commence our duel?" he said quite friendly. Harry consented and for the first hour Harry tried to hone his occlumency skills. His shield was becoming stronger and for the last two attempts Dumbledore failed to break it.
"Your skills have much improved Harry; your mind focusing exercises must be doing the trick. Your Leglimency still needs work for you to get into someone's mind undetected but you will get there."
"How am I learning so fast professor?" Harry asked. "In a I did it for months with Snape but hardly achieved anything."
"I think it is because your adult powers are manifesting themselves, you are more powerful and better able to control that power and focus it on what you want it to do." Harry accepted the explanation because it made perfect sense. "Now, shall we put some of your powers to the test?" Dumbledore said with a sly grin.
In the training room, Harry and Dumbledore faced off at either side of the room. "First person to score 3 hits on the other wins." Dumbledore told Harry. "Anything goes except unforgiveables obviously."
"Sir," Harry interrupted. "Have you ever cast an unforgiveable?"
"No I haven't Harry,"
"Oh," Harry said feeling bad that he had resorted to it on Bellatrix. Dumbledore sensed Harry's path of thinking.
"Do not feel as though you are less of a wizard for using one Harry," Dumbledore said. "You can show me now what you are capable of and I'm sure you will do quite fine without resorting to them. Ok, when the sash hits the floor we may start." He summoned a red sash with his wand and it hovered in the air as the duelers took their positions and got their wands ready.
The sash dropped and Harry shouted, "Expelliarmus!" Dumbledore raised a shield that reflected the spell back at Harry who jumped to the side to avoid it. Dumbledore fired a jelly legs curse just as Harry sent two stunning spells at him. Harry raised his own shield to deflect the spell instead of dodging and fired a freezing curse straight away. The three spells Harry had sent as well as the reflected jelly legs curse flew at Dumbledore and Harry thought he would get the first hit but all four curses were reflected back at him and he had to dive to the floor to avoid being hit. Damn Dumbledore's shield is strong Harry thought. He started to get up and saw a spell coming right at him. He didn't have time to move as the body binding curse hit him in the shoulder and he fell to the floor unable to move.
Dumbledore lifted the spell off Harry who got back on his feet. "Not bad Harry but remember, play to your strengths. First hit to me." They took their positions again and Harry took in Dumbledore's words. Strengths Harry thought and an idea came to his head.
The second round began and Harry raised his shield straight away instead of attacking, as did Dumbledore. He knew that he was going to have to use some more advanced spells to even have a chance against Dumbledore so he started with a slashing curse that was deflected by a purple curse Dumbledore sent. Harry took this slight pause in the action to execute his plan.
"Serpentsortia!" Harry shouted and a giant cobra came out of his wand. "Attack Dumbledore," Harry told it in parseltongue and it quickly obeyed slithering towards the headmaster. As it went Harry sent a barrage of spells at Dumbledore who was having trouble keeping his shield up and dealing with the snake as well. Dumbledore's shield fell quickly at Harry's spells and just as Dumbledore got rid of the cobra and turned his attention back to Harry, he was hit with a flipendo curse and knocked off his feet.
Harry was elated; he had managed to get a point against Dumbledore! Dumbledore got up grinning at Harry.
"That was a very good plan Harry, but I won't fall for it again," he said smiling. The score tied at one all Harry felt that Dumbledore hadn't been giving it his all so far so Harry made a mental note to step it up a notch.
Again Harry threw up his shield straight away but Dumbledore fired a spell that Harry hadn't heard before. It was bright yellow and broke straight through Harry's shield and hit him in the chest sending him flying against the wall. Harry felt the pain from the impact but when he tried to get up he realized he couldn't move. He had lost all felling from his neck down.
Dumbledore smiled at Harry before lifting the curse. "What was that?" Harry asked.
"Full body paralysis spell," Dumbledore said. "Worked quite well didn't it?" Dumbledore said goading Harry. Harry hadn't seen this side of the professor before. Harry was quite annoyed that Dumbledore obviously found Harry to be a push over. Feeling angry as the adrenalin spread through his body he got up and stared Dumbledore in the eye waiting for the next round.
Harry decided that the only way to win was for his spells to be more powerful so he took a gamble and put his wands back in their holsters, opting to fight using his wandless magic. Dumbledore seemed unperturbed as the sash dropped and sent a stunning curse at Harry who instinctively dodged it and sent two back of his own. Dumbledore just about got his shield up and Harry pressed his advantage, firing spells faster than he ever had before. He even sent some potentially dangerous ones such as the burning curse and the crucifix. His spells weren't always accurate but they were a lot more powerful and Dumbledore's shield collapsed forcing him to dodge to the side to avoid being hit.
Harry was fuelled by adrenalin and kept attacking and dodging as fast as he could not worried about keeping his shield up.
Dumbledore, obviously deciding he needed a new tactic, cast a disillusionment charm on himself and disappeared from view. Harry then had to dodge spells seemingly coming out of thin air. His seeker reflexes served him well but he couldn't keep it up forever. He shot a few curses himself but none hit because he didn't know exactly where to aim. Thinking he was going to lose Harry decided on a last desperate ploy. He hadn't tried the spell before and didn't know if it would work normally never mind without a wand. He ducked and dodged as he focused his mind on what he wanted to do. He pictured the three bludgeoning spells coming out of both his hands and felt his magical energy build up inside of him. He had to prove he was a powerful wizard and this was the way to do it he told himself.
He felt his magical power reach a climax and let lose with all him power. Three spells shot out from both hands, six in all. Four of them hit the wall, but two of them hit the invisible target and Dumbledore came back into view as the spells hit his shoulder and leg and sent him spinning through the air. Harry's moment of joy was short lived as he collapsed to his knees and almost fainted. Virtually all his magical energy had gone. Even though Dumbledore got up awkwardly and looked like he could still fight, Harry was officially the winner since two of his spells had hit the headmaster simultaneously making the score 3 – 2 to Harry.
"Harry are you ok?" Dumbledore asked coming over to him, holding his shoulder.
"Just exhausted," Harry admitted. Good job there wasn't any more rounds he thought to himself.
"That was a risky thing you just did." Dumbledore said seriously but Harry could see a hint of pride in his eyes as well. "I have to say I am more than surprised that you beat me. Was that the first time you had used that spell?" Harry nodded. "I guess all the reading you've started to do is paying off." He said clutching his shoulder.
"Are you ok professor?" Harry asked concerned.
Dumbledore smiled despite himself. "I think you've done a nice job of dislocating my shoulder," he said smiling. "I'll get Poppy to look at it when I go back to Hogwarts. You know, no one has hurt me in a duel for many years," he said helping Harry to his feet. "Not even Tom," he added meaningfully.
Harry didn't answer but just walked with Dumbledore back to the library where they both sat down.
"Summoning the snake was a good idea," Dumbledore praised Harry. "I was hoping to see some of the conjuration Moody told me about." He said slightly disappointed and Harry recalled the wall he had conjured against the Deatheaters in Diagon Alley and against Voldemort himself.
Not long after Dumbledore excused himself still clutching his shoulder and Harry let him get back to Hogwarts. Harry asked dobby to make him lunch and Dobby sat enraptured as Harry retold his duel with Dumbledore much to Dobby's delight.
As he appeared back in his office at Hogwarts, Professor Dumbledore had barely been able to sit down before he heard a knock at the door.
"Come in," he said kindly. Professor McGonagall came in and Dumbledore smiled at her.
"Minerva, what can I do for you?" he asked nicely conjuring a chair for her to sit in.
"I have some interesting news for you," she said mysteriously successfully piquing Dumbledore's interest. He nodded for her to continue.
"I've heard a rumour that the DA has started up again." She said making Dumbledore smile.
"Marvelous!" he said happily. "At least some people are taking the correct preparations for this war. I'm glad they've decided to re-form even without Harry."
"That's the interesting part," she said. "I'm sure it's meant as no offense to you but they have re-named themselves."
"Really?" Dumbledore said looking slightly disappointed. "What to?"
"Potter's Army." She said grinning and Dumbledore couldn't help but grin. "Even when he leaves his friends still stick by him," professor McGonagall said.
"Yes, he has that effect on people." Dumbledore admitted. His shoulder was starting to get stiff and he needed to see Madam Pomfrey soon.
"What's up with your shoulder Albus?" McGonagall asked noticing the professor wince.
"Just a little stiff," he said casually but the transfiguration professor didn't believe him and looked slightly worried.
"You can't lie to me Albus. You've not been injured since before the last war. What really happened?" Dumbledore knew he didn't have much choice, he didn't like to lie to Professor McGonagall, they had been friends for many years.
"I was hurt in a duel," he said truthfully and McGonagall looked shocked.
"Who were you dueling with? There have been no Deatheater attacks."
"I was dueling with Harry," he said.
"Harry! You know where he is? Did he attack you?" McGonagall fired a barrage of questions at the headmaster.
"Relax Minerva, I do know where he is. I sent him to a safe place and have been helping him with his training."
"And you didn't think to tell me? You know I would have supported you Albus, we've been friends for more years than I care to remember." Dumbledore smiled at her and realized she was right. "Besides the fact that you helped Potter go missing, how did he do that to you?" she asked inquisitively.
"He used a silent bludgeoning curse. Luckily I was invisible at the time so was only hit by two of the spells."
McGonagall was impressed. "That's a very hard spell. Even I can't do it."
"Would you believe he did it wandlessly as well?" Dumbledore said.
"My god! How powerful is he Dumbledore?" she asked shocked.
"A lot more powerful than he realizes. I had to goad him into fighting me with all he has and even then I could sense that he had more in him. His knowledge of spells is increasing all the time. When I show him some of the rare and powerful spells he will effectively be more powerful than me."
"But how? He is so young."
"His natural magical ability mixed with his desire to succeed. Not to mention when he battles his emotions make him even more formidable. He truly is a special boy. He does not deserve this burden."
"He has sacrificed so much," McGonagall said sadly.
"Indeed he has. But for now, I must go to poppy to get my shoulder fixed. Could you ask miss granger to come and see me tonight after dinner?"
"Certainly Professor." She got up to leave but turned round at the door. "Do you think all his sacrifices will be worth it in the end? Can he defeat the dark lord?" Minerva asked.
"There is no doubt in my mind that he will." Dumbledore said confidently.
"What are we going to be doing tonight in PA?" Ron asked Hermione during mouthfuls of food.
"Ron don't talk with your mouth full!" Hermione scolded. "As for what we're doing you'll have to ask Kyla."
"So?" Ron said turning to Kyla.
"Well I don't know what you already know but I was thinking about showing you all an advanced shield charm. It's better than the protego shield. It's the best way to start a defence club." She said. Hermione looked excited about learning the new shield charm but Ron just nodded obviously disappointed that they weren't going to be learning any offensive spells.
During Lunch Professor McGonagall came to the Gryffindor table. "Miss granger, the headmaster would like to see you tonight after dinner in his office." Hermione nodded wondering why Dumbledore would want to see her.
"Not done anything naughty have you Hermione?" Ron teased much to Hermione's annoyance.
"No Ron, now go back to stuffing your face with food." Ron happily obliged.
Even though the school was down because Harry wasn't there the atmosphere was definitely lighter without Malfoy swaggering around and the inter-house relations with the Slytherins weren't as bad as they used to be. This said, Pansy Parkinson who used to be all over Malfoy had tried to take it upon herself to continue in his footsteps and today was no exception. Walking down the corridor she saw Kyla with Ron and Hermione and couldn't resist the urge to insult them.
"Oh look, it's Potter's girlfriend who he just abandoned because he was afraid of the consequences of getting Draco expelled." She said snidely.
"Harry's not afraid of anyone." Kyla said angrily.
"Oh yeah? Then why's he gone into hiding? Sounds like he's scared to me." Tonks started to get really angry and drew her wand and pointed it at Pansy.
"Insult Harry again and I will personally put you in St. Mungos. Got that?" Tonks said dangerously. Pansy looked scared but didn't say anything as she stormed off followed by her friends.
"One day I will get her when no one is looking," Kyla said angrily.
"I don't blame you," Ron said. "If she was a boy then I would have punched her right then."
"She's just bitter because Draco got expelled," Hermione said. "Trust me; on the inside she's not happy."
"Still, she's practically ruined my day," Tonks said.
"Just look forward to PA tonight. You're going to make a great teacher."
"I'd rather have Harry here," she muttered as they headed to potions.
"Ah miss granger, thank you for coming." He gestured for her to sit down. "Lemon drop?" he asked holding out a bag of sweets which she politely declined.
"I'm sure you're wondering why I have asked you here. Well it has come to my attention that you have decided to re-form your defence group."
Hermione was shocked, "How did you know?" she asked.
"There are no secrets in Hogwarts Miss Granger." He said his eyes twinkling. "Don't worry I do not plan on putting a stop to it. I just wanted to inform you that you needn't keep it a secret. You can make it an official club"
"Thank you professor, the PA will appreciate it." She said gratefully.
"Ah I heard about the name change too."
Hermione looked embarrassed. "Sorry professor, it's nothing against you, it's just that it's Harry's group you know?"
"I understand perfectly Miss Granger." He said smiling. "I was wondering who you have to replace Harry as its leader?"
"Well we've got Kyla to do it seems as though she's an Auror. People will just think she's a gifted witch. She will be doing all the teaching and I'll help her with the organization." Hermione said.
"I'm sure it will be quite successful," Dumbledore said honestly. "Before you go I just wanted to ask; how is Tonks?"
Hermione collected her thoughts thinking how to explain. "Well she's better than she was I guess. She's still quite upset about the whole thing, I know she doesn't sleep well and barely eats. She really loves him professor, it's like she doesn't know what to do without him." Dumbledore nodded sympathetically.
"Have you spoken to Harry about it?" Hermione asked.
"Once," Dumbledore replied. "But I did not push the matter."
"How is he professor?" Hermione asked concerned for one of her best friends.
"I know he misses all of you more than he cares to admit but he is able to keep his mind off it most of the day. His Occlumency helps for that I believe."
"He's mastered it then?" Hermione asked proudly.
"He is quite proficient at it yes. Not quite as good as professor Snape but one day perhaps he will be. Apart from that he is quite well. Just to put your mind at rest miss Granger, he is eating well, reading a lot and getting physical exercise."
Hermione smiled at the thought of Harry reading a lot. "Is he preparing to fight you know who?" she asked quietly.
"Yes," Dumbledore said somberly. "He is even more powerful than when you saw him fight the Deatheaters in Diagon Alley."
"More powerful than being able to overcome over 20 Deatheaters?" she asked incredulously.
"Indeed. You shouldn't be so surprised; Harry is a very gifted young man."
"I know," Hermione admitted. "Thanks for your time professor I really appreciate it."
"Anytime Miss Granger. You may go now, I believe you have a club to go to." He said smiling.
"Wow," Harry said reading a page out of a spell book he had found towards the back of the library.
The Electrolonux or the lightning spell is a very effective and dangerous curse and is not considered to be a light or dark spell. When cast a jet of lightning shoots out of the casters wand and can target multiple enemies. The more powerful the wizard the more enemies the spell can target. Although this in itself is a very effective spell, it also has an additional use. If the caster is focused properly they can manipulate the lightning to form a shield around them which is more powerful than any other shield known as it absorbs the energy from the spell and makes the shield stronger. It is not known whether the shield is able to stop the unforgiveabilles but the shield can not be broken any other spell and lasts as long the caster is able to hold it in place. When cast the shield prevents the caster from firing spells as well.
Harry was definitely going to practice that spell. However he knew it wasn't going to be tonight as he felt tiredness wash over him and he placed the book on his bedside table and fell asleep.
It was the next morning when Harry got to practice the spell. He now practiced new spells wandlessly to build his proficiency and it seemed to be working. The lightning spell started off as only a small jolt of lightning and and he found it hard to control but after about an hour he was producing a steady flow of lightning at three practice dummies. He never had chance to practice the shield part of the spell because Dumbledore arrived but he made a mental note to do it at some point.
"Harry, I have been thinking," Dumbledore said to Harry as his greeting. "With your performance yesterday I think you are ready to learn some of the most advanced magic you will ever come across."
Harry stared questioningly at Dumbledore. "Am I powerful enough?" Harry asked.
"I have no doubt." Dumbledore replied. "The four spells I am going to show you aren't like other complicated spells you have learnt. You cannot be told how to use them. You have to already know."
Harry was confused. "What do you mean?" he asked.
"Put simply you have to have a memory of casting them before in order to use them." Harry realized what he had to do.
"All I have to do is use Leglimency and take the memory from you?" Harry asked. "Then I will be able to use them?"
"Yes but you will still need practice mainly because they are silent spells focused by the mind." Dumbledore said. "As you have to be able to do Leglimency to know these spells few people know how to do them. Before you go into my mind you need to know what you're looking for. Remember, four spells, four memories." Dumbledore said. "Ok, the four spells. The first spell is the Transmorma spell. It gives the caster complete control over his opponent. It is not classed as an unforgiveabille for a few reasons. One, its very rare that people can actually do it and two, because the opponent has to be within the casters line of sight, so it is obvious the person is under the spell. Another reason is that it does not effect the persons mind in any way."
Harry nodded to show he knew what he would be looking for.
"Two of the other three spells are related," Dumbledore said. "They are powerful elemental spells. One is the ability to control the earth in the sense that you can cause earthquakes etc. The second one is water; the caster is able to summon a funnel of water and can control its direction, power etc."
"The last spell is the Vita Adficio spell. It is a very powerful spell that absorbs the opponent's magical energy and transfers it to the caster. All four of these spells should not take long for you to master, but they are very powerful indeed." Harry nodded. "Are you ready to take the memories from me?" Dumbledore asked.
"As ready as I'll ever be." Harry said.