A/N: I do not own Harry Potter... Thanks for the reviews. 'Thoughts', Book text, Spells
Chapter 3: Training Part Two
When Harry woke up, he checked the condition of his mind protection system. He found a slight weakness on the side, but it was quickly mended. After that Harry called Dobby and asked for breakfast. Of course Harry could have made his breakfast himself, but he understood that his house elf needs to do something in order to feel useful and happy. Of course Dobby, being Dobby, eagerly hopped from his bed and hurried to the kitchen.
While waiting for breakfast, Harry got out of bed, took a cloak on and went to shower. Harry noticed, that he gets some brilliant ideas while showering, so he started to plan the year ahead. He understood that his previous plan won't work, because he has much more time on his hands. In the place of two months, he could have as much as sixty years! Also by being The Lord of the Light, he could stop his aging process, so no one would have an idea about his knowledge. He could even make people think that he cannot fight, he could make people think that he is weak. This way, his opponents and enemies would become very overconfident, and would drop their guard when fighting or arguing with him. Harry understood that things like these are the things a real Slytherin would use, but he finally dropped his prejudices where they belong, and understood, that Slytherin was definitely the right house for him. For all his life Harry Potter used his cunning to keep himself alive at the Dursleys, but by being sorted to Gryffindor, he forgot almost everything the life taught him. By this realization, Harry decided to embrace his Slytherin side, to use every opportunity that was given to him.
When Harry finished showering and entered the kitchen, he was met with huge breakfast. It was so huge that ten people could have eaten until they couldn't have even one more bite, but there would have been enough leftovers for lunch and dinner too.
"Dobby, don't you think that that much food is too much? Even starved Ron and Dudley together would not be able to eat all of this..." Harry carefully asked. He did not want to offend Dobby after all.
"Harry Potter is very great wizard who was malnourished by his bad relatives! Harry Potter must eat much food to be strong to defeat You-Know-Who!" Dobby eagerly explained.
"Well, okay, at least I will have a snack when training. And Dobby, please call him Noisyfart or Dork, or Dark Dork Noisyfart or simple Tom Riddle. Do not call him You-Know-Who, because, first, it just gives him more power and second, I really and I mean really do not know about whom you're talking about.
By this time Harry finished his overly large breakfast and started to think about his regime for the training. 'Hmm... Which way to train is better? Include everything in the schedule or learn Dueling for a month, than General Defense Against the Dark Arts for a month and so on? It would be better to learn every subject for a month in my opinion... Well, let's try it like that and if it won't work than I can change it anytime. Yes, I will learn dueling for this month, and then I will think about which subject I need the most for the next month.' After Harry decided on the method of learning, he took a letter from Merlin and on the other side of it wrote:
"Hello again, Mr. Emrys! How are today?"
"Hello to you to young Harry, I am very well like always. Great place, Paradise, you know... And by the way, don't call me Mr. Emrys. It makes me feell old! He He Now, what questions do you have for me today?"
"Well, I casted the Tempus spell for three hundred sixty five times and decide to learn one subject for a month, after the month is finished I will continue to study that subject, or I will choose another subject. I just wanted to know if my learning capabilities will be enough to learn how to effectively duel in a month? And by the way, you are old! How old are you anyways?"
"For your knowledge, I am six hundred fifty years old, but I felt like a teenager before my death. And your learning capabilities will be more than enough to make you a very accomplished dueler. I dare to say that you will master a spell in no more than three tries. Then after you trained yourself in wandless and non-verbal magic, it will take three more attempts to successfully master the spell wandless and non-verbally. Due to your photographic memory and calm mind, you will never know what a lack of spell to use means. That is if you read all the books in my library of course. If we talk about books, it is possible that you may be able to read a book in no more than a couple of hours and no it by heart after that, so it should not take you more than a year to read every book in my library. Back to the dueling,your power is much bigger greater than any other wizard's in the world. After this year, you will be able to out power Noisyfart and Dumbledore together without breaking a sweat. When your power finally reaches it's maximal capacity, you will be able to destroy them both with a flick of your little finger. Of course you won't do that, because you are the Lord of the Light and that means tat you are not capable of cold blooded killing."
"Thank you Merlin. Oh, by the way, do you perhaps know of any way to create a dueling partner?"
"I am glad to be able to help. To answer your question, you do have a house elf, do you not?"
"Yes, Dobby is a very good friend."
"So why don't you ask him to help you train? Magic of the House Elves is extremely strong. They do not need incantations, wands or other things wizards prides themselves over and other magical creatures laughs about? Humans are weakest of the magical creatures after all... I believe Dobby could provide you with a challenge. When you can best Dobby in an all out duel, then you can stop worrying about Death Eaters. There is nothing for you to worry about in the first place, because you are immortal, but nevertheless your skill could save many people."
"Thank you for the advice. I will write to you soon."
When Harry put the letter back where it belongs, he asked Dobby to come.
"Dobby, I really need to train myself at dueling, and I was wondering that maybe you wanted to help me?" Harry carefully asked.
"Dobby will help Harry Potter, sir, to the best of his abilities! What Dobby needs to do?" Elf asked eagerly. "Well, as I said, I am starting to learn to duel and I need a sparring partner. I would like to ask you to duel me as hard as you can..." Dobby's eyes widened with horror. "But Harry Potter, sir, House Elves are being very powerful! I is not wanting to hurt Harry Potter."
"Do not worry Dobby, I am extremely powerful, I have to wonderful phoenixes, who could heal me if necessary, and I am immortal, so you cannot hurt me really badly."
"Well, if you insist on Dobby dueling with Harry Potter, than Dobby hopes that Harry Potter won't be very angry at Dobby for hurting him, because Dobby will prepare Harry Potter for fighting bad wizards."
"That is all I am asking from you Dobby. Thank you. Now I am gong to read some books about dueling and practice the spells I find in the books, and at the end of this month, we will duel for the first time.
Harry found the Catalog of the Library and took all the books on dueling he could find. When all the books arrived, Harry understood that he is in for a lot of reading. Harry took the first book named Fight the Dark by Godric Gryyfindor and started to read.
Thirty days and two hundred forty books later, Harry found himself standing against a very reluctant House Elf. When the duel started, Dobby flicked his finger and Harry was nearly hit with a powerful beam of cold. Dobby explained that if the beam would have hit him he would have been frozen.
An hour and thirty more duels later, Harry understood that he does not have any chance to defeat Dobby unless he can perform wandless and non-verbal magic.
So with this thought, Harry started to look for his Catalog. When he found it, he returned all the finished books and took the book named All there is to know about wandless and non-verbal magic for beginners and experts by Myrrdin Emrys.
When he finished the book, Harry finally understood why everyone sweared by Merlin. His understanding of magic was superb. By reading this book, Harry had a clearer understanding about how magic works, than after his five years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. By following the directions of the book, Harry entered the disk D of his mind and willed himself to his magical core. There he found many channels which where leading his magic to all the parts of his body. Now, according to the book, he needed to widen all the channels. Especially those who led to his arms. The book said that it was a very painful, but nevertheless necessary process in order to be able to perform wandless magic.
Harry concentrated very hard and found a strand of his magic, which was flowing to his right arm. Then, he started to forcibly shove his magic into the said channel. Slowly, it started to widen. By this way, Harry widened the channel to his arms, legs, heart, lungs and most importantly brain. By linking his magic to his brain, Harry increased his mental capabilities even further, and made his non-verbal wandless magic to be even easier to perform. When Harry came out of his trance, he concentrated and said Lumos and a big blindingly bright ball of pure light appeared above his palm. It was too powerful, so Harry tried to lessen the power he was putting into the spell and gradually the strength of the light lessened.
Then, Harry tried to perform the same spell without wand and incantation. He just willed his magic to make light, and it did. It was exactly as strong as Harry wanted it to be. Harry tried to make it look like a triangle and it did. He found that he can manipulate the ball in any way that he wants.
After a couple of minutes of playing with the ball, Harry decided that he needs to test a new spell. He chose Incendio. Harry willed his magic to create a small ball of fire. He willed it to become cool like a autumn wind, and it did, Harry willed it to be hot enough to burn anything and it did. A nearby armchair turned on fire! Harry cooled the fire down, put it on the table and willed his magic to repair the piece of furniture. To Harry's surprise, it did! Then Harry willed his magic to make the said armchair fireproof. When the spell supposedly did it's work, Harry picked the ball of fire up, made it as hot as possible and dropped it on the armchair. Surprisingly, it did not lit on fire. Harry decided that he needs to check if he can manipulate any spell he knows. After some interesting tests, he came to the conclusion, that he can perform any spell he knows, by concentrating on his magic and willing it to do anything he needs. He even managed to create some effects of spells he did not know at all. Then, Harry decided that Merlin should hear about this.
"Hi there Merlin! How are you?"
"I'm okay like always Harry. Now, what do you need?"
"Well, you see, I was dueling with Dobby the House Elf today, and he ahh.. bested me in the duel."
"You mean to say that he wiped the floor with your face, I believe. Am I right?"
"Well, basically, yes. When I started the incantation, there were at least five spells going at me. So naturally I decided to work on non-verbal wandless magic before even trying to duel Dobby. I did everything your book said, but I widened the channel to my mind too, and now I find myself being able to manipulate spells. For example I can create whole new spell effects, by willing my magic to do what I need it to do. Is it normal when you make the channels wider?"
"No Harry for normal people it is definitely not normal. Even Albus Dumbledore or Tom Riddle can do only minor wandless magic. But you can do basically anything you want except raising the dead back to life and creating new forms of living beings. You are as powerful as a God, but you are not the God. Remember that. Well returning to the topic at hand, for the Lord of the Light, these things are definitely normal."
"So, do I have to study Charms or Transfiguration?"
"Well maybe for he pleasure of it, but there is nothing you can't do in these books. I would still recommend you to read all the books on Potions, Herbology, History of Magic, Arithmancy, Runes, Divination, Wizarding and Mugle Traditions, Muggle Sciences and finally Muggle and Wizarding Law. I have a feeling, that you will need the knowledge of Law very soon."
"Thank you for your help, be sure that I will read up on the topics you have mentioned."
By this time, Harry was dead tired, so when Dobby started to shoo him to bed, Harry happily complied.
The next morning welcomed Harry James with a not so welcome sight of big dinner plate sized eyes.
"Good Morning Dobby. Could you possibly make some breakfast?"
"Of course, Harry Potter, sir!" Dobby squeaked and hurried off to the kitchen.
After showering, Harry ate his breakfast while reading a book named Moste Pontente Potions it had many interesting if not quite dark looking potions. After finishing this book, Harry found a book with a very interesting title. I was called Defy the Nature, Live forever by the help of the Magic by Nicassus Smachkov. Harry started warily reading the book. It was clear to him that it was a book about the vilest of dark arts. It explained the concept of the Horcruxes, the things that are use to keep a portion of your soul in it. Horcux is an item in which the portion of its creator's sold is kept. Upon the possible death of it's owner, Horcrux keeps it from going to the afterworld. This way owner of the Horcrux is kept alive.
The creation of the Horcux is very difficult and painful process. In order to create a Horcux, you must commit an act of murder of innocent. It effectively splits your soul to two equal pieces. Then you perform the spell Essencus Dividis Horcruxuswhich puts a fragment of your soul into an item.
Many people speculated about effectiveness of a Horcrux, but most of them agree, that it is an effective way to achieve immortality. Only downside is that if someone destroys your Horcrux you become mortal and much weaker magically. The possible solution for this problem is creating multiple Horcruxes, but this is not advised, because with each Horcrux, it's owner looses more and more of his soul and in effect of that, his humanity. Author does not known of any person who created more than three Horcruxes. The said person Dark Mistress Morgana LeFay. She was destroyed by Merlin after her Horcruxes were found and eliminated.
After reading this chapter, Harry had a suspicion of what Voldy did to himself in order to become immortal.'Well, if Voldemort did make Horcruxes, we are pretty much fucked. That is bad because I cannot go to his lair and simply kick his ass. I have to find out how many Horcruxes he did make, what are they, where are they, how good the protection spells are and finally, I have to destroy them. When I think about it, I believe that the Diary which made Ginny to open the Chamber of Secrets could possibly be a Horcrux. Wait! It is Horcrux! There is no spell to imprint a memory to a diary like that. That shadow of Riddle was able to think for himself! I bet good old coot Dumbles knows about them and does nothing. And he haven't told me about them at the end of the School Year... Well I need to ask Merlin for help... again!'
"Hey Merly! How are ya today?"
"A bit cheerful aren't you? And don't call me Merly! So what did you ungrateful brat want?"
"Well, I was reading a book today and found a very disturbing chapter about Horcruxes. I believe you know what they do. I think Noisyfart uses them. I would guess that he has more than three of them."
"Horcruxes you say? Well that certainly makes things more difficult. Yes, I know what they do Arthur Pendragon's sister Morgana LeFay had three of them. Horcruxes are very difficult things to find, because they can be anything from a quill to building. Just remember that every Horcrux has some sentimental value for its owner. Now until you can validate your claim, I would advise you to train by trying to beat Dobby, and reading any books that are left in the library."
"Thanks for help Merly!"
"Hey, do not call me that"
"Of course Mr. Myrrdin Emrys, the Former Lord of the Light"
"Hey!"
"Okay, okay... Bye Merlin!"
"That's better! Bye Harrykins!'
"Hey!"
Harry respected Merlin's wisdom and judgment, so he sat at his desk and started to read again.
A/N: Well, one more chapter up... Sorry for the mistakes... Just wanted to say that I had to insert Horcruxes somehow, because in my opinion, it would not be interesting if Harry was able to kick Voldy's ass right away. Now he will have some work to do at Hogwarts, to get the info of Horcruxes from goo' ol' Dumbles wink wink