Ok well I hope that everyone has been enjoying this fic
To let you all know I am not sure about an update schedule. I only have 8 more chapters after this one until I have completely finished Timeless. I still want to do a sequel to this fic and I am not sure if I want to make it a trilogy. You might not like it after the second story but oh well it is my choice. Hehehe.
Anyways on with the story
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CHAPTER 17
HOLIDAYS AT WAR
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The faint sounds of a spell's incantation brought Harry out of his sleep. He opened his eyes to find a room that he didn't remember. Ginny was sitting next to him in an identical chair. He could feel her confusion as well. Realization hit him like a sack of cauldrons when he spotted the four other people in the room. They were hit with stunners upon opening the door.
"Mad eye that was a cheap shot."
"What ever happened to constant vigilance with you two?"
Harry glared at him as he rubbed the nape of his next. His head hurt from the fall.
"Fine whatever we should have been prepared for that."
Moody gave a small chuckle. Harry and Ginny glared at him.
"Well are we going to get this training session on with or are we just here to chat."
That was your training. You both failed."
They looked at their ex-professor (although he couldn't really be called that) a bit annoyed at the way he was talking to them.
"Ok well then I guess we will be going then."
"Not so fast Harry, we still need to discuss a few things with you. Because the semester has officially ended we have decided to have you in here everyday of the week for spell casting and Rune drawing. We want your knowledge to match your luck."
"Harry what Mad eye is trying to say is that we need you to be ready."
James was of no help with this comment. Harry already knew what they needed him to do. He was determined to get out of this alive.
"Besides…" Tonks started, "…I am suppose to teach you how to combine Runes with Magic."
"As am I…" Harry looked at the new voice that had entered the room. If Dumbledore looked ancient then this man looked as if he evaded death for centuries. His features showed the antiquing process that happened to most objects after centuries of neglect and yet a humbleness and warmth radiated from him. He could be only one person in their eyes. Nicholas Flamel. "…Mr. Potter and Ms. Weasley. In fact I am going to start your lesson tonight. My wife is down in the Great Hall. If you'd please follow me we will go and collect her and start your lesson. Ms. Tonks are you ready."
Tonks walked out of the door followed by Nicholas Flamel. Harry and Ginny stood watching the two walk out of the room.
"You two had better get going."
And with that they set off towards the great hall to find Mrs. Flamel.
Half an hour later found Harry and Ginny in the transfiguration classroom listening to a metamorphmagus on combining Runes.
"Now the way that you combine Runes is first you must know how to use and write them. We can skip past that part because you two already know this. The basic rules when combining Runes are first they must share properties in themselves. Both magically and physically. Meaning that they must share at least one property magically and one property physically in the written form. Take the Rune that I created as an example. The Rune of Focus with the Rune of Power…"
She drew the Runes as she spoke.
"…Now the Rune of Power and the Rune of Focus both share mental clarity. And when you draw them they both share this edge…"
She pointed her wand towards the right most edge of the Runes.
"…Now when you combine these Runes together you do so by with one leading into the common edge but when you draw that edge you change to the other Rune. Just like this."
She swept her wand in the motion of an "S" and pulled up on her wand forming the common edge. But instead of continuing with the overlapping curl and slash of the Rune of Focus she then connected the Rune of Power by looping her wand under the line and prodded the middle to ignite and activate it. The Rune caught fire as the wand was retracted. The light cast by the flames curled sickly towards Tonks before the Rune disappeared into her aura. Her eyes flashed a violent shade of white before returning to her normal pink color.
After Tonks finished what she was teaching them Nicholas took over and she grabbed a seat next to Harry and Ginny.
"Yes well you see as Ms. Tonks was so nice to teach the basics of this I will not go over them as well. But there are a few points that she forgot to mention. While it is true that the Runes must be compatible with each other they also must be compatible with your magical aura to be combined. This is why most people do not use combined Runes because they do not have the power in their aura to contain it. The Runes would physically exhaust a person that didn't have the power to use them."
"They didn't explain that in the auror training."
"That is because at the moment they do not want you to ignore the training. They want you to try and use them even if it will exhaust you. If it ends up exhausting you then you will be told about this but they don't want you to give up in fear. I agree that it is a barbaric way of teaching but it seems to get the job done.
As I was saying though. There is a simple test that you could perform on yourselves to check and see if you can use that combination of Runes. It is always best to use this instead of trial and error. The incantation is Vialtose. It is a conjuring spell that brings forth a part of your aura onto a piece of parchment. You can write the Rune on this parchment and if it burns then you cannot use that combination. The wand movements are like most conjuring and simple flick of the wrist."
Harry tried the spell and a piece of parchment appeared on the table in front of him. He then drew the Rune that Tonks had showed him. The paper flashed and then in just as suddenly it was normal. He had the energy to sustain that Rune combination.
"Now then next thing that I must inform you about is combining Runes with Alchemy and Transfiguration. Alchemy is known more commonly as blood magic. When you combine Runes with Blood magic you are able to imprint Runes in your own blood. Harry I believe that you are already familiar with this form your aunt's house has a ward protecting you from harm using this form of magic.
The next is with Transfiguration. Runes have the ability to add protection to your transfiguration. By combining the Rune of Power to a sword transfiguration that sword becomes unbreakable.
I must tell you before the end of this lesson that I am going to be teaching Alchemy this next semester and next year as well. It is only opened to sixth years and above. I am willing to make an exception for you Ms. Weasley."
That night Harry and Ginny were in the common room trying to find common links to Runes so they could combine them.
Harry had found three combinations so far that he wanted to try out in combat situation. One was a Rune that combined the mental focus of the Rune of Focus with the spell negation of the Rune of Disruption. He had also wanted to learn how to combine Runes with Alchemy. It sounded like it would be a good idea if he could write them into his blood.
Seeing the frustration in his eyes she decided to take pity on him. She grabbed his hand and pulled him out of the common room. Ignoring the fat lady shouts as they exited, she led him up to a corridor on the seventh floor. They entered the room of requirement and Harry saw that it was set up for them to duel.
Harry knew what was going on because it was impossible to hide anything from each other. They found that out when ordering each other's presents for Christmas. They could hear each other's thoughts so they knew what they were getting from one another. Although the surprise had been taken out of the gift the thought of it was still there. So they agreed to wait until Christmas before they gave each other their gifts.
Harry drew his newest Rune in the air and prodded the middle with his wand. The Rune burned its way into Harry's aura and strengthened it. He could feel his focus reinforcing itself. An invisible shield stretched from his mind and stopped a few feet in front of him.
Ginny threw a stunner at him and watched as it dissolved into his shield.
Incantation: Stupify
Classification: Light orientated
Uses: Dueling to render an opponent unconscious the weakest and simplest form of a stunning curse.
Wand Movements: A flick of the wrist
His Rune was working properly and for the looks of it; it was strong enough to stop most all low level, some medium level, and a few high level spells. To test her theory on it she cast a particularly stronger reductor curse. It vanished before it even hit the shield.
Incantation: Reducto
Classification: Light orientatedUses: Although it was originally used to clear obstacles from ones path it was adopted in the use of combat for generally the same purpose. Only the obstacles in ones path are usually the opponents.
Wand Movements: Bring the wand from the opposite side of your body of you wand hand and flick the wrist from the side.
Ginny drew out her Runes as well. Harry was having a hard time hitting her because of the particular Rune she developed. It was a combination of the Rune of Speed and the Rune of Stealth. The effect of the combined Rune made it difficult to tell where she was at any given time. Harry could cast a stunner where she was but the minute the spell was cast she was gone from his line of sight.
The only downfall to the speed that she had was that she was unable to cast a curse of her own. The metal concentration that you had to use to keep the Rune activated provided no other thought to enter your mind.
"Ginny." Harry was going to ask her if she could cast the charm on him through their connection. But through their connection Ginny had already heard this. Her Runes fell as she thought about the words that had entered her head. She focused on the Rune she was drawing and pushed it through their connection. His speed increased to a blur as he suddenly stepped out of the realm of light.
He was shrouded in shadows and concealed by illusions. The light of in the room had no longer washed over his features. It was as if he were simply moving to fast to reflect it. His movements were masked with silence and it was as if the entire world had slowed. He grabbed his wand and cast a stunner. The red beam moved out of the tip of his wand and flew towards the wall. Harry casually walked beside the curse having to stop a few times to let the curse catch up with him.
By the time the curse hit the wall Ginny had let up on the Rune. He could feel his speed returning as the light around him suddenly enveloped him. He was no longer standing outside of the world as it slowly moved past him. He was an active participant.
"Ginny how long can you keep that Rune up."
"Well I think that I can feed it to you for about five or six minutes. I don't think that I could do it any longer than that."
Harry reached over and pulled her lips to his.
"Five or six minutes. This is wonderful Ginny. I might actually survive this war with you here to help me…" Harry face twisted up in understanding, "…That's it, Ginny. You are the power that he knows not. Our bond is what is going to give me strength enough to beat him. He made the mistake when I was a child by underestimating the power of love. It nearly cost him his life when he destroyed my mother. The bond that she shared with me was enough to keep him at bay and it wasn't nearly as strong as our."
The night Harry and Ginny curled up in a bed in the room of requirement. The room was able to summon the dream enhancer for them and Harry had turned it on. He wanted to spend the rest of the night with the people that he loved and missed.
They spent most of their time talking not really about anything in particular. They were sitting around a small circular room that looked as if there were more to it, but the blinding white light consumed everything that was further than ten feet from them.
Harry and Ginny were getting to know the real Remus Lupin. It turns out that he found a ritual that could move his soul from his body to another body. It would in essence swap bodies with the person. It was only suppose to last for about a day. Apparently the same wizards that wrote the muggle version of Kama Sutra developed it as a way of feeling what their spouse felt during sex. The problem was that if one of the two died while in the other body then the one that lived stayed in the foreign body.
After they spent enough time talking about how life was Lily turned the subject once again to magic.
"Harry I know that you have finished researching the shield for the killing curse. I just want you to know that I am proud of you and your friends for that accomplishment. But it isn't done yet. You know that Voldemort has already come back from that curse once. You will need to use your shield to alter the killing curse. It will require you to study black magic and the Dark Arts. Harry I know that you don't want to study that magic and it might look like you are turning into the next dark lord to some but if you want to defeat him forever then you must do this.
For now let us discuss what you need to do when you get back from this dream. You will need to ask the room that you are in for two books. Alchemy, Runes, and magical shielding by Nicholas Flamel, and The Wandless Spirit of Magic by Albus Dumbledore.
The room can get them for you. You will need to read these books before Christmas and understand the subject matter. You will get only a general idea but it will help you with finishing my work. And Harry I love you."
With that Harry found himself awake on his bed.
Harry summoned the two book to the couch that they were now sitting on. The room changed from a bedroom to a comfortable sitting room. Harry could feel his stomach growl with the pangs of hunger. Before he could ask the room hand given them breakfast from the great hall downstairs.
Harry opened the book by Albus Dumbledore as he was eating. He could see Ginny doing the same thing. He ate a hearty amount of sausages and toast before he settled back into the comforts of the couch. He started to read the book in front of him but it did seem to make any sense. His attention started to slip as his thoughts moved back and forth between Ginny's book and his.
"…The rules of magic only apply to those who believe in the rules…"
"…Though alchemy is the magic of blood, it can be used in many different way…"
"…Although it is harder to break the barriers of magical law if one believes them as a truth it is not impossible…"
"…And with the exercises of Blood Rituals one can become a force of magic through which ever route he or she entered in it…
"Ginny this is going to be to difficult to read both books at the same time. I can't concentrate on anything."
"I know what you mean all I am getting is a jumble of words from both books."
Harry noticed the time on the grandfather clock beside the fireplace. They were due to be in the Headmasters office in twenty-minutes time. Then an inspiration hit him.
"Ginny I know that you want to come with me but I have an idea."
"Go Harry I stay here and cast the Runes on you. I think that it will be a good tactical plan against the three of them."
Harry drew his Rune of Negation as he now dubbed it into his aura before he set off for the headmasters office. Upon entering the room three curses were sent at him. Within two feet of him his shield glowed and changed color. For a second he thought that it wouldn't stop the curses but then when he looked back at them the curses were gone. He could feel his Rune Strengthen itself as the new curses were absorbed into his memory.
That was the ingenious part of the Rune not only would the curses be negated by they would also be placed in his memory so he could learn them later. The incantations and the wand movements were stored in the back of his mind. He could feel another Rune being erected in his Aura.
"Where is Ginny?"
"Sorry Tonks but she can't make it today she has to study."
"Likely story. Keeping her in the background are you. Think you have what it takes to take on all three of us by yourself."
"We'll see."
Harry entered the Room as it made itself into the streets of London. It was rather eerie to see the city without people in it. But just as he thought this, the streets started to crowd. Harry felt the last Rune being etched into his aura. He could now sense the street around him. Tonks, James and Moody had split up and were combing the streets for him.
He could feel Tonks close to him. With a wave of his wand he became invisible. He walked around the building that had now separated himself from Tonks. He could see her but he still new were her general location was. The Invisibility charm that they had both placed on themselves would shimmer in the sun very slightly giving a ghost outline of the figure that it hid.
He saw a faint amount of movement out of the corner of his eye. That is strange Moody was behind him now. But he was just on the other side of the city not two seconds ago. And you are not allowed to apparate inside of Hogwarts. Harry tried to test if the apparation wards had been brought down but it was no use. They were still standing so how did moody creep up on him so quickly. Did he have the ability to throw his presence to a different location like a ventriloquist could with their voice?
A powerful curse was thrown at him from were moody was located. He could feel Tonks turn around at the sound of his voice. James who was down the street about three blocks had also started to run towards them.
He didn't know what the curse was until it hit the shield in front of him on the top of his shield. The shield broke down the magic and classified it.
Incantation: Sanctus iudicare
Classification: Light spellUses: to overpower most shields and render an opponent unconscious. The effect can only be removed by a powerful strength replenishing potion as it disconnects the opponent from their magical core and drains it. The Magical exhaustion caused from this temporarily puts them in a state of comatose.
Wand Movement: Thrust your wand towards the sky. After the incantation is said the spell is released. Brandish your wand as if it was a whip towards the opponent. The spell will seek the person from the sky.
Harry moved the information that he received to the back of his mind. He couldn't see were Moody was but he knew that because of his eye he could see Harry plain as day.
"Finite Incantatum." Harry could feel the magic tendrils slip off his wand and reach out around him. He instantly saw Tonks appear out of the corner of his eye and without thinking he thrust his wand in the air.
"Sanctus Iudicare."
He whipped his wand towards her. She dived from where she was standing to avoid the spell but once the incantation was said and the wand pointed the beam came from the sky not from his wand so her movement was unsuccessful. The spell tore through her Rune Shield and she hit the floor. He could see Mad eye looking at him now.
"That was impressive boy. I didn't know that you knew how to use that spell."
"I didn't until you cast it on me."
"I was invisible how could you see the wand movements."
"I didn't. The Rune that I have surrounding me broke the spell down and gave me the information."
"That is clever."
Harry felt James come up from behind him. He knew his location.
"Ginny I need the Speed and Stealth Rune."
He could feel her drawing the Rune into his aura. It flashed a bright white before returning to normal. He looked up from where he was standing. The invisibility spell that James was using was useless. The magic couldn't find Harry to hide James from him.
Before anyone had moved Harry was behind James.
"Ginny take the Rune off right now."
She complied with him and the world returned to normal.
"Good to see that you know that Rune of Speed as well. I am aware of the combining it with the Rune of Stealth. That's a nice trick you did though. You are going to have to teach me how you drew that Rune without me seeing you move."
"Sorry Moody I can't teach that because I didn't draw the Rune."
Harry could see the corners of his lips curl.
"So Ginny is in this room after all. I must admit that I am not sure how you hid here from me. Did you hit me with a confundus charm?"
"No, Ginny is not in the room with us. She is currently sitting in the room of requirement."
"Ginny put the Rune back on."
The world around Harry once again slowed. Harry could see his dad and hit him with a full body bind. Before he hit the ground Harry was behind Moody.
"Stupify."
But when the spell hit where Moody was standing he was not there. Harry looked around the street. Both of them were moving quit fast.
"Ginny let up Moody know the same Rune that we do. I can't hit him when he has it activated."
The world sped back to its original speed. A loud thump caught Harry's attention. He looked over towards the noise to find that James had just fallen to the ground. Surprise evident on his facial features, the only part of his body he could move. Moody had just come back into view.
"Now boy you must tell me how you are able to keep concentration for the Rune and still cast a spell."
"I am not doing the Rune Ginny is. You know about the connection that we share don't you…" Harry continued at Moody's nod. "…Well we are able to send our spells and Runes through it."
"Very well."
Harry could see Moody's magical eye start to change color. Then suddenly without warning Harry's world went black.
Harry opened his eyes on the street that he was still on. He looked up and faced Moody who was smirking at Harry. The smile faded when he saw Harry stand up. After being hit by a stunner Harry had gotten up like nothing happened.
"That was cold Moody."
"I can see that it will take more than an overpowered stunner to take you out."
"Yes as this is a battle situation it is not over until I am not able to continue. Ginny can enervate me from anywhere in the world. So a simple stunner will not be efficient enough to stop me."
"Very well."
Harry was now the one smirking. He had an advantage over Mad Eye Moody. The advantage quickly faltered when Harry was hit with an unknown spell. His Rune protection having been lost to the stunner that Harry was hit with earlier.
Harry hit the ground and was unconscious once again.
He could feel the surprise in his head when Ginny was hit by the same spell.
Harry opened his eyes once again in Dumbledore's office. Ginny was sitting next to him as well.
"That was impressive Harry. Do you know where you went wrong though?"
"I gave you too much information. You knew how to affect Ginny threw me."
"Actually you gave me Ginny's location. I knew that she was in the room of requirement and needed a place to be safe. I used my Rune of Speed to open the door to her. I stunned her before she could enervate you. The reason that I chose that specific spell was because it was a difficult spell to wake you from. It could only be done with the Rune of Power."
"Harry, do not worry about this. I have to admit that you did remarkably well. You defeated to of your opponents one of which is still exhausted from the spell you hit her with. Now then tomorrow is Christmas so we will not need for you to practice until the next day. Have fun and I will see you in two days."
Harry and Ginny walked out of the office towards the great hall. It was lunchtime and they were rightfully hungry. After a quick but huge lunch they headed back towards the common room. With the books that they received in the room of requirement and the knew knowledge of spells and Runes they wanted to once again tackle it once again.
After half an hour they decided to draw the Rune of Focus. With the improved concentration Harry was able to read his entire book and get a basic understanding of the subject. The book was about magical theories. Albus theorized that with the right understanding of magical subjects one could break the walls that separated them into categories. He stated that they were only in the categories of magic because wizards and witches put them there. The categories were in fact man made.
The other book was slightly harder to understand but the two of them got enough of the subject matter that it would at least be easier to combine Alchemy charms and Runes.
The time had come for Harry to meet up with Nicholas Flamel, to study Alchemic Runes. He had showed them how to combine a Rune with alchemy to fuse it within your blood.
That night Harry and Ginny fell asleep exhausted from the events of the day. Their minds stayed connected but they didn't dream.
Harry woke up the next morning to both Ron and Ginny screaming at him. It was time to open presents and it was tradition that everyone is in each other's company before they started.
He walked into the common room and sat on the couch. Neville and Dean had already started pulling their piles towards them.
Harry opened his first gift. It was from Ginny so he already knew what it was. Never the less though he was happy when he opened up the package containing a journal that could only be read by himself.
Ron had gotten him a book on the dark arts witch Harry was thankful for but at the same time worried about his best friends new obsession. Hermione had gotten him a few more books on Runes. The card that came with it explained that he missed three years of ancient runes and this was the quickest way to learn what was taught in the class.
He received a present from his dad as well. It was addressed to him and Ginny from both of his parents. It was a key to their family vault. Harry was going to be able to get into his vault today.
Dumbledore had given him a few books on defensive magic without a wand. The basic principles of summoning, banishing, and shield casting without a wand sounded like something to read.
The phrase that Dumbledore had once told him resonated in both Harry and Ginny's head.
"So many people see me as an intellectual person that receive so many books for the holidays when all I really want is a pair of comfortable warm sock."
They chuckled at the thought of how off Dumbledore really was.
Harry received his usual gifts from the twins and Mr. And Mrs. Weasley. Chocolates and sweaters from the latter, pranks and fireworks for the former.
Harry went down to the great hall with Ginny in his wake. He had gotten her a necklace that had a few Runes inscribed on them. The Rune of Focus and the Rune of Strength. He told her that it would help her with her O.W.L.'s because she wasn't able to use Runes on herself during the test. It was also charmed to look like a stunning necklace and impervious to any charms that would reveal the Runes.
She scowled at him at first but then decided that it would be better to just go along with it. There really wasn't anything on the necklace that would actually be considered cheating it was just some Runes that would allow here to focus and stay awake.
After lunch they made there way up to James quarters. Dumbledore had offered him a place to stay at Hogwarts so he could guard the castle. He accepted after Harry had caught him.
They had there present to give him. It was something that they wanted him to receive in person rather than alone. They entered the room to find him sitting on his couch opening the few gifts that he had. Harry could feel the mood in the air. It was of sorrow for fallen friends and family. He looked up and caught Harry's eyes. He could see that there were silent tears forming on his former teachers eyes.
"Harry, Ginny please come in sit down. I was just opening my gifts please join me."
Harry sat down and watch his father open up the few presents that he got. He noted absently when Ginny grabbed his hand and sat beside him. He could tell that his father missed all of his friends.
After he finished opening up the presents that he was recieved, Tonks sent him a new cloak, Dumbledore sent him some books about lycanthropy, Moly and Arthur sent him a few pies and a sweater, Hermione sent him some books, and Ron sent him a few shirts sporting the Chuddly cannons, He turned towards Harry and Ginny.
Harry handed him his last gift. They were watching his face with baited breath while he opened it. Once he got the packaging off he stared at it. His face strewed up in confusion.
"What is it?" He finally asked after a few minutes.
"It is a special kind of dream enhancer. This one is a bit different then the normal ones because it gives you the ability to do almost anything you want in there. You can go and see Sirius, Remus, and Mom. But unlike mine it also prevents anyone from entering your area unless you allow them to."
"I can see Lily with this. I can see my wife and my best friends."
"Yeah I have been talking to them all semester. Sorry that I didn't let you use my dream enhancer before but I wanted this to be special. I guess it was kind of selfish of me to do that."
"Harry, don't worry about it. This is the best gift I have received since you were born. Thank you both of you."
"Harry and Ginny beamed at James in pride. It was nice to see the usually sad eyes of Remus Lupin glint as a smile brushed his features.
"Come on. I have a port-key that will take us to Gringotts. It was made last night by Albus so he knows that we are leaving."
Harry and Ginny grabbed a hold of a galleon that was in James hand. With a tug on his navel the wizard bank appeared around Harry. He followed James up to a teller
"Harry Potter would like to visit his family Vault."
"Does he have his key…"
Harry handed him a gold key and the goblin called an assistant to help Harry down to his vault.
"And Mr. Potter I am to inform you that as of a week and a half ago one Sirius Orion Black was cleared of all charges. His last will and testament will be carried out once the final papers are released from the ministry declaring his property free of government seizure. A formal letter will be sent to you with a copy of the will.
Usually there is a reading to attend but with the circumstances of his character it has past the time that legal allows one. Therefore when the estate is turned back over to the bank it is our job to distribute it amongst the proprietors. Have a good day mister Potter."
Harry followed a familiar goblin to a set of carts that ran along the winding tracks. They boarded the cart and it sprang to life at neck breaking speeds. All to short the ride came to a stop. They exited the cart in front of a pair of doors that rivaled the entrance to Hogwarts. The goblin inserted the key into the hole and stepped back. He instructed Harry to place his hand on the door and turn the key.
Harry did as he was asked and the doors opened. The vault was a huge one-room space that stretched the entire corridor. In the center of the room was a large pile of gold that made his original vault look empty. Around the room were various shelves of books and what looked like potion ingredients. Towards the back of the room there were two trunks.
Harry turned to face Ginny and his dad with a smile on his face but they were still at the entrance. They hadn't entered the vault. The goblin explained that no one was allowed in the vault except one with Potter blood unless they had permission from a Potter. So after he keyed them into his vault he went back to searching the place.
The two trunks that he found earlier belonged to his mom and dad. Harry picked up a letter on the top of his moms trunk and put it in his pocket. He knew that it would be to emotional to read that letter so he decided to read it on a different day. The trunk had a lot of his mom's personal items. Her journal and a few other books that he could tell she was writing. The book that caught his attention was a leather bound journal that had gold lettering on it. The writing said "My Findings on the Killing Curse" by Lily Evans-Potter.
Harry returned the books to the trunk and shrunk it. He then pocketed the trunk and walked over to the bookshelves with Ginny. She was looking through a few books on the dark arts. Harry helped her pick up the three books that they had found and walked over to his dad. He was absently walking around the room touching things, remembering. After a few minutes Harry grabbed a bit of gold from the room and they walked out of the vault. The doors re sealed themselves as they made their ascent towards the bank above.
Harry tossed the bag of galleons towards his father on the way out of the bank. He looked at it as if it was going to bit before he spoke up.
"Thank you Harry, It is good to be able to hold the gold that my family earned once again."
They walked over to the port-key point and with the familiar jerk behind the navel Gringotts dissolved into Hogwarts.
Once they arrived back at Hogwarts they attended the Christmas feast. That night Harry went to bed wanting to use the dream enhancer to thank his mom but decided to let his father visit her alone.
The rest of the vacation Harry spent going over spells for defense and dueling. He also came up with three new Rune combinations. Two of them would alter his spells that he cast to get through basic shield spells like protego. The third one was used to weaken an opponents spell so his other shields could absorb them. After a week and a half of studying he realized that he could combine his spell weakening Rune with his spell reading Rune.
He applied the test to see if he could sustain the Rune. The parchment glowed a blinding hot white the edges of the parchment caught fire and just when Harry thought that he was going to have to find a new Rune the parchment returned to its normal state.
The lessons with Nicholas Flamel finally took a turn to start creating Runes in his blood. He grasped the basic concept and was practicing in the room of requirement. He wanted to fuse his strongest Rune into the blood within his hands. Nicholas had told Harry that if he could learn how to infuse the Runes that he created into his blood then he would have the advantage of never needing to cast that Rune again. The downside to it was Rune infusions were very dangerous. If the Rune required more power than you were able to given then you would be in a coma until it was lifted from your blood. And if no one knew what the Rune looked like or was then you would remain that way until it eventually burned you soul.
Harry was in the process of trying to fuse his blood with the Rune that he had just created by combining two Runes that he had already made. The tactical advantage of having this Rune in his body outweighed the risk of being comatose. He was up all night trying to figure out the right alchemic formula to infuse his blood with no success.
On his way to meet up with Dumbledore for his last duel with Moody, his dad, and Tonks before the new term started he suddenly had an idea. Harry decided that he was going to try and combine the alchemic symbols for fusing Runes to blood with his own special Rune.
He drew the combined symbol on his hand and felt the fire almost immediately. He fell to the ground his whole body convulsing. Ginny could feel the reaction as well. It was just as strong for her. The edges of his body felt white hot and burst into flames. And just as soon as it happened the pain was gone and they felt fine.
"What was that Harry?"
"Well I figure that it was the Rune that I drew on my hand."
"But why did it feel like I was on fire?"
"Well you remember when I wrote that Rune on the parchment and it caught fire and then went out. I think that it meant that I was just barely strong enough for that Rune. It almost consumed us. But it actually made us stronger than before."
"What do you mean us Harry?"
"Well you should have the same ability that I do know. I wont know until I get back though. I will test it then. Unless of course you want to try it out on the three of them right now."
He could feel her grin as she ran out of the room of requirement. She raced down the corridor to Harry's side.
"Well that was fast."
"Yeah well I want to see this."
" Lets try it first."
"Stupify."
Harry waved his hand and the spell absorbed into his palm.
Incantation: Stupify
Classification: Light orientated
Uses: Dueling to render an opponent unconscious the weakest and simplest form of a stunning curse.
Wand Movements: A flick of the wrist
"Expeliarmus."
Ginny waved her hand and the light faded into her palm.
Incantation: Expeliarmus
Classification: Light Orientated
Uses: Knocks the opponent off their balance and causes them to lose their wand.
Wand Movements: a twirling motion followed by a flick forward.
That is cool. I can't believe that it worked.
They made their ways into Dumbledore's office and threw up a quick rebound charm. The disarming charm and the stunners were sent back at their casters.
After the pleasantries were acknowledged Harry and Ginny began the duel. The room changed itself into the grounds of Hogwarts by the quidditch field. Harry quickly cast a doppelganger charm on himself and then an invisibility charm. Ginny cast an invisibility charm and levitated herself up to the goal posts. She could see the area where Tonks, James, and Moody had entered and turned themselves invisible. She drew a rune in the air that aided her eyes in seeing through spells. She could see the soft features off Tonks approaching from behind her shields and cloaking spell.
Tonks saw one of Harry's doppelgangers and cast a spell towards it. The clone threw up a shield and deflected it. From her side another one of Harry's clones shot a stunning spell at her. The spell shimmered in her Rune shield before it disappeared. She turned to face another Harry and realization hit her.
"Finite Incantatem."
One by one Harry's clones vanished until at of thin air Harry's real body appeared. He was behind her and could see her location through Ginny's eyes. He aimed his wand at her and waited. Ginny was just about to drop her Rune shield. He could hear her soft chanting in his head. She was just about there.
"Stupify."
Tonks turned around to see the red light coming at her. She looked mildly offended at the spell that he sent at her. The mock look disappeared once the red beam passed where her shield should have stopped it. She turned her wand and swiped at the beam. It changed direction and blew a chunk of the earth where it hit. She lifted her invisibility charm.
"So Ginny is getting better at bringing down Runes. I didn't even notice them fall."
"Yeah well you know how it is I would love to talk but we are in the middle of a duel right now."
"Very well."
She flicked her wand at Harry and a blue beam of light started its path towards Harry.
"Ginny now stun her."
The blue beam of light moved towards Harry. He moved his hand to intercept the curse. The beam of light dissolved into his palm and Ginny had sent a powerful stunner and binding charm and Tonks.
Incantation: Ars Arcanum
Classification: Dark Orientated
Uses: pain curse rendering the opponent unable to think of little else. Not potentially dangerous and wont cause insanity like its bigger brother.
Wand movements: Brandish the wand like a whip.
Tonks stood there completely bewildered. She had just watched Harry absorbed a rather nasty spell into his hand.
"Harry you can…"
But whatever Harry could do would have to wait as she was blasted from her footings and bound and unconscious.
Harry set out after his next target his father. Ginny had spotted him on the other side of the pitch. She drew a Rune of speed and concentrated on Harry. He could see the world slow around him. Harry walked to the other end of the pitch. His father was barely moving. He sent a barrage of spells at him coming from every angle as he walked around his father.
The Rune of Speed was let up and Harry had watched with a pain of sadness as three different stunners and a reductor curse hit his father before he fell to the ground. He could feel the Rune of Speed being reactivated as Ginny spotted Mad eye Moody. He walked the distance of the stands. Mad Eye was merely sitting down watching everything that had taken place.
"Nice tactics kid. One problem is that you are relying to much on Ginny."
Mad Eye sent a reductor curse at the goal that Ginny was sitting in. The base of the pole exploded and she was forced to levitate herself to the ground. When she hit the ground a few nasty stunners and a fireball was sent her way. She absorbed all of the spells into her hand.
Incantations: Borealosus, incenatia, Gourd Nok
Classifications: Light orientated, light orientated, dark orientated.
Uses: high class stunner, fireball used to incinerate the energy of a wizard, High class stunner
Wand Movements: A descending figure eight, a quick jerk back at the elbow, a slash like a sword stance.
Ginny grinned. She aimed her wand at Mad Eye and launched three different fireballs at the stands. Mad Eye was forced to flee the stands. When the flames connected with them they blew apart. The fields behind them light the night sky. Harry whipped his wand around and cast in quick secession two impedimetia curses a dark oriented stunner, two reductors, and a sweeping flame that covered the entire area around Mad Eye. He didn't have time to conjure a shield to block the flames but he cast a flame freezing spell to stop the damage that would have been caused. Unfortunately the flames blocked his view of the other curses until his eye focused in front of him. By the time he had seen the curses he was being blown across the room unconscious and obviously in pain.
The room returned to its original state and Harry levitated them into the headmasters office. Once they were revived both Harry and Ginny were given letters from Dumbledore and excused.
They had beaten Mad Eye in a duel. Their skills were improving. Harry walked back up to the common room and read the letter that he was given.
Dear Mr. Potter
This Letter is to inform you that during the second semester of your sixth year and your seventh year you have the option to take more courses if you feel that you have adjusted to newt level courses yet.
The courses that you can add on to your schedule are.
Alchemy
Rune creation
Spell creation
Law and government
Curses of Egypt
Care of dangerous creatures
Wandless magic
Languages of the world
World traditions
English traditions
Proper wizard etiquette
Sword fighting
Dueling
Rituals
History of Spells and Charms
Please choose any of the classes that you want to take. You must take three extra classes during you seventh year semesters. You can take up to five classes a semester. Please pick out you classes and let your head of house know the first day back.
Sincerely
Headmaster Dumbledore
Harry looked at his the list again. He was going to add three classes this semester. Alchemy, Spell creation, and Rune creation. He would just need the Rune masters permission to take that class since he didn't take ancient Runes during his owl year.
The rest of the school showed back up the Saturday before the start of the new term. He decided to hold another D.A. meeting the night before they all went back to school.
Harry entered the Room of Requirement with Ginny and waited for the rest of the students to show up.