The Girl Who Lived to be a Nightmare Chapter 4: Magic and Discoveries, a harry potter fanfic

The Girl Who Lived to be a Nightmare

Summary: What if the Potters never died that Halloween night? What if everyone believed that Rose Potter was the Girl-Who-Lived? What if the Potters became egoistic and favoured Rose over Harry? What if Harry knew all along that he was special and began practising magic at the age of 7?

Disclaimer: I own nothing, not even the computer that I'm typing on.

Italics are thoughts

Bold is parsletounge or beast speak

Bold and Italics is writing or letters

Underlined is Spells

To those who got the questions right, I'd give you the cookie, I just don't know how.

Chapter 4

Magic and Discoveries

You can't judge the person,

but you can judge the act

Potter Manor

Neville just stood there as he watched Harry faint. 'Could it really be that bad?' he thought to himself. He didn't want to look at what the book said incase he fainted to. Neville walked out of the room and into the open bathroom. He got some cold water and put it in a glass. He walked back over to Harry's room and reshut the door. He slowly poured the water onto Harry's forehead and watched as he stirred .

"Bloody Hell," Harry said when he finally woke up. He looked stunned.

"Come on," Neville joked, "It can't be that bad."

Harry didn't laugh. He just motioned for Neville to sit down beside him.

Neville looked at what the book showed Harry and paled, "Holy crap!" he whispered. Harry nodded and they began to read.

Harry James Potter

Rare Magical Gifts�� Level�� Abilities

Telepathy�� 8��Teleport, Telekinetics ('command magic'), project and�receive thoughts/mental pictures

Empathy�� 8��Sense emotions, project emotions, better at emotion based spells (Patronus)

Metamorphmagus�� 10�� Change bone stucture, internal organ arrangment and size including voice box, colour of hair, skin, eyes, and nails, change length of hair and nails, change muscle tone

Metamorphanimagus 10��Can change into any non-magical animal (You must first look up the anatomy of the animal or group of animals ex canines, before you should attempt this because otherwise you can kill yourself)

Magical Shifter�� 10�� Can shift into any magical creature/being (look up anatomy first) whether they are alive or extinct

Beastspeaker�� 10�� Speak to canines, felines, bears, rodents, apes

(To speak with avians (birds), equestrian (horses), and sea-dwelling creatures, you must know Telepathy level 9)

Parsletounge�� 10�� Speak to smakes, alligators, crocodiles, alligators, lizards and dragons, level 9 Parsletounges can preform Parsloz magic

Seer 0none

Aura Reader��8�� Can see a persons aura of magic, see how powreful a person is and if they have any magical gifts

Magic Reader�� 8�� Can 'see' magic ex wards, enchanments, chramed objects, hidden/invisble things

(Magic and Aura Readers can turn their abilities on and off)

Note: With training the abilities of Telepathy, Empathy, Aura Reader, and Magic Reader can become level 10. One should not attempt to increase the level of any other abilites since you are born with them and the others can be learned.

Elemental Abilities

Fire�� 9

Water�� 9

Air�� 10

Earth�� 9

Note: The control and abilities of each elemental to the next varies. Creativity is most useful in testing your limits.

10 means you have unlimited control over the element.

Other Magical Abilities

Occlumens�� 0

Legilimens�� 0

Wandless Magic�� 5

Silent Magic�� 0

Magic Power�� 5

Note: All of these (except for magic power and Wandless Magic) can be increased with age or practice.

IMPORTANT: Someone or something seems to be surpressing your natural Magic Power as well as Silent and Wandless Magic and Occlumency and Leigimency. Please break the barriers as soon as possible, until you do it will be harder to work with your gifts/abilities.

Harry sat back and waited for Neville to finish reading. 'Who could be surpressing my power?' He thought of all possible people who had the power to do so. 'Mum? no she wouldn't do that, neither would Dad. Hmm let's see... Dumbledore!' When Harry came to that realization he was seething.

"Harry, are you alright? Who could be surpressing your power?" It looked like Neville had finished reading and was now staring at Harry worriedly.

Harry said one word to Neville, "Dumbledore."

With that one word Neville understood. Neville knew all about how Dumbledore would come to check up on Rose to see how she was doing. He would completely ignore Harry and one time he even encouraged his parents to do the same. Lily had yelled at Dumbledore for an hour after he said that. Why Dumbledore would bother to surpress Harry's power was beyond Neville. "What are we going to do?" Neville asked.

"Well," said Harry, "I think we should look at your results first before we do anything about it."

Neville Frank Longbottom

Rare Magical Gifts

Telepathy�� 9�� Teleport, Telekinetics ('command magic'), project and receive thoughts/mental pictures, can talk to avians, equestrians and sea-dwelling animals

Empathy�� 10�� Sense emotions, project emotions, better at emotion based spells (Patronus), use emtion magic (Spells based on the feeling of love etc) much easier

Metamorphmagus 3�� Can change hair and eye colour

Animagus�� 4��Can change into any mundane feline, avian or snake

Magical Shifter�� 2��Can change into 1 magical race and a Nundu

Beast Speaker�� (4)�� Once changed into animal form, he learns the language of them, not instinctive

Parsletounge�� (8)��Once changed into a snake, you learn the language, cannot perform Parsloz magic

Seer�� 0�� None

Aura Reader�� 8�� Can see a persons aura of magic, see how powreful a person is and if they have any magical gifts

Magic Reader�� 8��Can 'see' magic ex wards, enchanments, chramed objects, hidden/invisble things

(Magic and Aura Readers can turn their abilities on and off)

Elemental

Fire�� 3

Water�� 9

Air��8

Earth�� 10

Note: The control and abilities of each elemental to the next varies. Creativity is most useful in testing your limits.

10 means you have unlimited control over the element.

Other Magical Abilities

Occlumens�� 0

Legilimens�� 0

Wandless Magic 8

Silent Magic�� 0

Magic Power�� 9

Note: All of these (except for magic power and Wandless Magic) can be increased with age or practice.

Neville nearly fainted. 'I'm that powerful!' He was on par with some of the best witches and wizards in the world, and he was only 7!

The two of them sat in silence for several minutes before Harry spoke up. "Well," he said, "I guess we better get reading." They headed down to Potter library. 'I wonder if Rose is has as many gifts as I do, why on earth would Dumbledore be surpressing my powers?' Harry thought.

When they got to the library they started to read books about regular magical abilities. They started with Occlemency. They were shocked to find that anyone with the smallest training in Legilimency could have read their thoughts. Harry was scared that anyone could find out about Sky. They made an agreement to never look anyone in the eye until they learn more about occlumency. They read for another hour (Neville reading his new Herbology books) before their Mums called them for dinner.

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Dinner was a joyous affair. Everyone was talking and making jokes. Right after everyone had finished eating the fireplace roared to life. Everyone walked into the living room to see none other than Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. He had twinkling blue eyes that drew you to look into them. Harry and Neville immediatly dropped their gaze to the bottom of the Headmaster's brightly coloured robes.

When he saw them there he said, "Awe Mr and Mrs' Longbottom. I did not know you would be here. I can come back later." he turned to leave through the fireplace.

Frank cleared his throat and spoke up. "No matter Albus, we were just leaving now anyways."

Neville looked appalled, they weren't supposed to leave for another hour yet. But when he looked at everyones faces they all nodded in agreement. Everyone except Lily, Remus and Harry. Neville filed that away for later use.

The headmaster nodded and stepped away from the fireplace. One by one the Longbottoms returned to Longbottom Manor. Neville was once again the last person through. He turned back to Harry to say good-bye.

"Come visit again any time Neville." he said. Neville nodded and went through the floo to his house.

Lily, James, Harry, Rose, Sirius, Remus and Proffessor Dumbledore all sat down on the couches. They Potters looked espectantly to Dumbledore who didn't disappoint. "I am here today," he started, "for a special reason. I would like Rose to start her training. I will come once a month to check her progress. The ministry said that they wouldn't get her her own wand until her eigth birthday at the earliest. In the mean time I trust that you will allow her to use your wands?"

Harry looked at the reactions of his family. Rose seemed to be very excited, if the jumping up and down, clapping her hands was any indication. His Dad and Sirius seemed to agree with Dumbledore. His Mum and Remus' reaction both surprised and pleased him. She looked rather upset that ROSE was getting magical training. She cleared her throat, "What about Harry?"

James looked rather upset (for once) that Harry was being left out. Harry looked at him curiously before bringing his attention back to the conversation. Dumbledore looked Lily, "I have already told you why Harry will receive no extra training. He will fell too pressured to keep up with Rose and I want at least one of your children to have a normal life."

James seemed to buy that but his Mum didn't. "Okay," she said unsurely, "Whatever you say."

Dumbledore smiled, "Good I'll come back tomorrow and help you get started." With that he got up and flooed back to wherever he came from.

Rose couldn't contain herself any longer. "YES!" she screamed. "I GET TO LEARN MAGIC! I GET TO LEARN MAGIC! I GET TO LEARN MAGIC!" she started dancing. James and Sirius laughed at her antiques.

Harry was disgusted. He left the room and went to his room. He ran up the stairs, pounding all the way before he slammed the door shut. He put away the still open book into his hidden draw before he silently raged, 'WHY DOES SHE GET EVERYTHING SPECIAL! WHY DOES SHE GET THE SPECIAL TREATEMENT! WHY IS EVERYTHING ABOUT ROSE POTTERHe didn't notice the objects in his room start to shake.

He went on like this for about five minutes before he heard someone knock on the door. "Harry can we come in?" he recgonized the voice as his Uncle Remus'. "It's Remus and your Mum."

Harry sighed and opened the door. Sure enough, Remus and Lily were standing there. He motioned for them to sit down on the bed and he sat inbetween them.

His mother spoke first. "Harry, me and Remus don't agree with Proffessor Dumbledore."

Remus nodded he continued for Lily, "We decided that we are going to teach you some theory work and maybe even a little bit of practical work."

Harry smiled, he knew that his Mum and Uncle Remus would pull through. He decided to ask them a question that had been bothering him. "Does Dumbledore know Legilimency?" he asked.

His Mum and Remus looked taken back. "Where did you learn about that?" she asked.

"Neville and I were looking in the library and we saw a book on it." Harry said. It wasn't an entire lie.

"Yes Harry, Proffessor Dumbledore does know Legilimency." his Mum said.

Remus caught on. "Do you want us to teach you Occlumency so he won't find out about this?" he asked with a knowing grin.

Harry nodded. "Ya, can you teach Neville too?" he asked. He didn't want Dumbledore to find anything out through his friend.

Lily nodded. "Okay," she said. "I'll floo over to his house and see if Neville wants to come over tomorrow after his workshop." With that she left.

Harry turned to Remus who asked, "Do you want to go and have a look at the books in Occlumency in the Potter Library?"

Harry nodded and they went downstairs to the Library. Harry and Remus looked at the books for a while before Lily joined them. "Neville said he would be thrilled to come over tomorrow." With that they quietly began the study of Occlumency, with Remus and Lily adding in comments now and then when the book became to vague or confusing.

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The next few months passed by quickly for Harry and Neville. Neville came over every day and, as promised, Lily and Remus taught both of them occlumency. At first it went slow, but after about a week both of them caught on and were progressing rapidly. Lily and Remus were astounded at the rate at which both of them were learning. Though Harry didn't tell them, he had torn down the barriers that Dumbledore had put up when he was inside his mind and was putting up the outside barriers to protect himself from instusion. After about three hours of practice, Lily and Remus would leave them to do their own thing. Once one their own, they would usually grab a few books and visit Sky. Both Shadow and Sky got along great after they were introduced, and they were both growing rapidly. After a few weeks, Harry just left Shadow in the forest with Sky, he was so big. 6 months later, Sky was the size of a horse (Harry even rode on her a few times) and Shadow was almost twice her size.

One day Harry and Neville got a huge surprise.

Harry and Neville were pracitcing changing their hair and eye colour. Turned out that even though they had all these gifts, they still had to work on them to make them effective. Neville had just made his hair a really light brown when he heard Shadow wimper in pain. He looked over and saw Shadow rolling on the ground, his overly large shoulders looked like someone had cut a whole in each one. Harry, who had green hair and purple eyes watched too. Neither of them knew what to do so they just backed away slightly.

Neville was about to run and get help when Shadow barked at him. He looked at Harry who had a confused look on his face. "This is supposed to happen," he said. "That's what Shadow said."

Both of them waited in silence for a long time before Shadow suddenly seized up. Then the most amazing and bizzare thing happened. Two heads came out of the cuts on Shadows shoulders. Harry gasped, 'He's a Hellhound' (1). It was true, Shadow now had three, fully grown heads on his shoulders, which didn't seem so large anymore.

Harry heard Neville whisper, "Bloody Hell!" beside him. He nodded weakly. 'How on earth did Neville's parents find a hellhound, they are supposed to be super rare, even in Greece.'

Shadow got up awkwardly. "This is gonna take some getting used to." The middle head said.

Harry ventured over nervously, "What happened just now?" he asked.

The left head answered for him, "When a hellhound is born, it is born with one head. It does not receive it's other two heads until it reaches maturity."

Harry repeated this for Neville. Harry glanced at his watch and saw that it was almost time for Neville to go home. They were on their way back when they got another surprise. A crup (2) puppy ran right into Neville. It appeared to be being chased by something. Sure enough, a pack of cornish pixies flew overhead, obviously to interested in finding the crup then to notice Neville and Harry standing there with it.

After the pixies were gone, Neville picked up the crup, "Do you want to come home with me" he asked. The crup nodded.

Neville and Harry went back into the house. Neville said goodbye to Harry and left through the floo before anyone could realize that they were there. Once Neville was gone, Harry heard some laughing going on in the library. 'I wonder what that is all about.' He went over and instantly wished that he hadn't.

Standing there in the middle of the library was Rose. She was holding James' wand and appeared to be levitating a feather. James and Sirius were cheering for her. Lily looked like she was congratulating Rose but didn't seem too excited so Harry got the feeling that it had taken Rose a long time to get the charm. Remus looked to be doing the same thing as his Mum, congratulating Rose, but wasn't overly excited. That made Harry feel a little better.

Rose then noticed that he was there. "Look, Harry!" she said, "I casted Wingardium Leviosa on the feather and it levitated!"

Harry decided to test his luck, "That's great, can I try?" As soon as he said that, all the conversation ceased and everyone looked at him. He wanted to show them that he could do anything she could do too.

Lily saw what he was doing and said, "Sure, you can use my wand." With that she pulled out her wand and held it out to Harry.

Harry walked over and grabbed the offered wand. He turned to the feather that Rose had returned to the desk. 'Alright here we go. Just picture the feather floating.' "Wingardium Leviosa!" Harry said, swishing and flicking his Mum's wand. Everyone in the room was floored as the feather rose from the desk to eye-level. No one noticed the books behind them floating, they were to busy impersonating a fish while they stared at Harry. Remus and Lily weren't as surprised as the rest since they knew that if he could master Occlumency as fast as he did, this was like a piece of cake for him.

"Whoa!" Harry said, pretending to be as surprised as the rest of them. "That was so cool. Did you see that! The feather floated!"

"Wow Harry," his Mum said, beaming at him. "That was pretty amazing. Why don't you lot go wash up while I start making dinner?"

Everyone except for Harry and Remus walked in a daze out of the library. Harry headed straight up to his room. He knew that he shouldn't have done that. Now Dumbledore was going to try extra hard to make sure Harry never got his hands on a wand until he started school. 'Whatever, I don't need his permission to practice magic!' Harry thought of ways that he could sneak his parents wands out of their room to practice magic before the answer hit him like a brick wall. He would do Wandless Magic! For the next half hour Harry tried to levitate his quill. He just couldn't seem to hold onto his magic long enough to hold the spell. Finally, at the end of the half hour before dinner, Harry made the feather float about an inch off the ground. He was estatic. After dinner he practiced some more and soon he was able to cast the spell from his left and right hand as easily as if he had a wand.

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The next 2 and a half years sped by for Harry and Neville. Rose got her wand at age 8 and began doing more pracitcal magic. Harry told Neville about the Wandless Magic and soon both of them were performing spells as much as Rose. Lily taught them the art of potions since they had finished Occlumency. She taught them why certain things were mixed together and how they should be mixed. She gave them the eqivilance of the Muggle Periodic Table for potions. Harry and Neville had memorized it within a week. Both Harry and Neville seemed to be naturals at potions, Harry probably because he had inherited the talent from his mother, and Neville since alot of the potions ingrediants were plants and he knew plants inside and out. Neville taught Harry what he knew about Herbology, which was alot, whenever Harry came over to Longbottom Manor and showed him his plants. Remus taught them History of Magic since he knew how boring History of Magic at Hogwarts was. In secret, Harry and Neville mastered their gifts and learnt the first and second year Hogwarts curriculum, using Wandless Magic of course. After they could do the spell Wandlessly, they worked on the spell Silently.

On the first of July, two owls flew through the window bearing Hogwarts crest. Since Harry was the only one up when they arrived, he decided that the rest of the needed to wake up just then. "WAAAAAAAKKKKEEEEE UUUUUPPPP! THE HOGWARTS LETTERS AAAARRRRREEEEE HEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEE!" he screamed.

His screaming had a dramatic affect, what sounded like a herd of elephants charging came down the stairs. Rose followed closly by James and Lily came running through the kitchen door, all dressed in their night clothes. Rose ran to the owl that was addressed to her and opened it. Harry opened his too.

Albus Dumbledore

Order of Merlin, First Class

Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards

Cheif Warlock of the Wizengamot

Dear Mr Potter, I am pleased to inform you that you have been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Inclosed within this letter is a list of requirements for first years. Please reply by July 31st if you wish to attend.

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

This was what Harry had been waiting for. He had been sent exceptance letters from dozens of magical schools from around the world but he had declined to each of them. Finally he was able to go to Hogwarts, 'I can finally get a wand!' he thought. Now he and Neville could practice magic some more without worrying about getting caught. Suddenly he frowned. 'How am I going to get Shadow and Sky to Hogwarts?' Harry decided to worry about that later. For now, he decided to just be happy to be going to Hogwarts.

Lily was crying tears of happiness. "My babies are finally going to Hogwarts."

James looked estatic, "Tomorrow we go to Diagon Alley!"

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1 Hellhound, think Fluffy

2 Crup, a dog that resembles a jack-russell terrier. They make great familiars since they are very protective. They are good at chasing away gnomes. They also know when it is going to rain and if something is wrong with a plant.

(Both of these are form but I made some of it up)

Next chapter is Diagon Alley. Harry and Neville go shopping together, alone. They buy some out of the ordinary items and even visit Knockturn Alley.

After that is Hogwarts!

Thanks to everyone who reviewed! Congrats to those who got the questions right. Only one person got the hellhound. Someone mentioned Harry having healing powers and a few people mention magical-creatue blood. Harry and Neville may or may not have magic creature blood. hint That is where the other book from the last chapter comes in.

Questions for this chapter

1. What's Neville's curp's name going to be?

2. How will Shadow and Sky get to Hogwarts (they will be going)? (123abc-harrypotter can't answer this)

3. What house will Harry be in? (I already know where he's going but can anyone guess?) (123abc-harrypotter can't answer this)

4. What will Harry buy in Diagon Alley? (If you answer Hedwig than it doesn't count)

5. What's Harry's wand core? (He may or may not have two wands hint)

I won't post again until Friday at the earliest (unless I can get Diagon Alley up today), since I'm not allowed on the computer Monday-Thursday.

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