Harry Potter
and the
Duel of Destiny
Harry Potter and all characters within are not created by me
no I do not own them in anyway,
unless so noted at the end of a chapter.
CHAPTER TWO : Dueling in a new way
Harry opened his eyes as he woke in the early morning hours, before even the sun came up. he sat up and looked around his room. He wasnt sure what to expect from lupin. He remembered that lupin had taught him the spell to chase off a dementor and that he had perfected that with help from lupin, lupin had helped him push himself, and thats what he needed. Now more then ever.
As he sat there thinking he began wondering where lupin was, already it had been 10 hours since he got the letter. where was lupin? He decided to give it another 2 hours then hed start worrying.
He got up and opened his trunk hed need to do some reading, so he pulled out every darkarts book he owned and began reading through them all one by one.
After an hour an a half, and 2 books later, a knock broke the silence, and Harry jumped to his feet. As Harry carefull opened his door he heard Uncle Vernon grumbling out of his bed.
"Who the ruddy hell shows up at 5:30 in the morning?" Vernon mumbled as he stumbled his way down the stairs. "WHO IS IT?!"
"Er, Remus Lupin." shouted the muffled voice from the other side of the door.
"Remus lupin?" Vernon scratched his head, apparently hed forgotten the name. "Whe the bloody hell is that?"
"Er, May I come in sir?" the voice replied once more. "Im here to see Harry?"
A look of terror spread over Vernons face as he seemed to remember the name. "UHH... Just a second, Professor Lupin!" He shouted as he ran upstairs again.
Harry was a tad confused by this but decided to stay hiddedn and watch for personal amusements sake.
"PETUNIA QUICK!" Vernon shouted at his wife as he threw of some more suitable clothing.
"What is it Vernon?" She mumbled stretching a bit.
"Its that freak!" Vernon replied. "Hes here right now! quickly get Dudley!"
Petunia jumped out of bed and ran down the hall to dudleys room.
Lupin who heard all the noise cast a spell and knocked the door clear of its hinges. He leapt inside his wand at the ready, scanned the room and surveyed the room carefully.
The dursleys fell to their knees and began begging for mercy and Lupin put away his wand.
"Where is Harry?" He asked scanning the room with a slight note of worry.
"Im fine Lupin." Harry said casually making his way down to where Lupin now stood.
"Ah, I was worried for a second there, thought maybe you were in trouble, Mind you I dont know your families voices." Lupin said smiling as he flicked his wand at the door re-hinging it.
"Im sure it didnt help that they were cowaring and begging for mercy either, now did it." Harry laughed as he gave Lupin a friendly hug.
"Nope, Now let me have a look at you boy!" Lupin replied as he looked harry over holding him at the shoulders.
"Im doing much better then usual, I've managed to make it clear to my aunt and uncle that im not going back to Hogwarts and thus can use magic as I please."
"Now Harry, you know very well thats not entirely truthful." Lupin said giving him a stern look.
"Yea well neither was the story they gave me of how my mum and dad died." Harry replied taking a seat on the sofa.
"Oh?" Lupin looked a tad suprised to hear this as he put away his wand, joining harry on the sofa. "What did they tell you had happened?"
"Car crash they told me til hagrid arrived 6 years ago." Harry smiled. "Aunt Petunia, would you be so kind as to fetch us some tea?"
Aunt petunia went a fury color of red but went as asked none the less.
"Now just a minute!" Vernon snarled almost entirely usual as always. "What did he mean by not entirely truthful?!"
Harry smiled at his uncles amazing speed at changing emotions and attitude from fear to rage.
"He mean my school wasnt closed for certain. The headmaster was murdered by one of my teachers and Voldemorts faithful deatheater, Severus Snape." Harry spared Lupin an appoligetic glance as he noticed him shudder at the name.
"So your not allowed to use magic!" Vernon snarled in rage advancing quickly. "I'll tear you to shreds you lying little brat!"
"Be Silent you old toad!" Harry said with a flick of his wand and suddenly uncle vernon went stiff as a stick and fell over.
"MUM!!" Dudley screamed as he ran from the room. "They killed Dad!"
There was a sound of shattered glass and a scream of horror from aunt petunia as she appeared in the doorway. She turned to run away and Lupin quickly flicked his wand slamming the exit shut to prevent their escape.
"Now, really!" Lupin said it utter displeasure. "How foolish are you to think he could bring himself to kill his own uncle! the man who raised him?"
The room went silent for about a half a moment before Harry began laughing like a deranged lunatic.
"Whats so funny, Harry?" Lupin asked staring bewildered at him.
"Just what you said, professor."
"And whats funny about that?"
"I would gladly kill this old toad if I thought it was legal!" Harry grabbed his ribs and continued laughing for a moment.
"Oh come on now Harry!" Lupin said staring in disbelief. "You dont really mean that do you?"
"Well..." Harry stopped laughing and pondered a moment. "Well, no I guess not, if I did id be no better then You-know-who. But I really would lock him away in a cupbourd for 12 years, then put him in a cage for another year, and feed his fat ugly bum bits of scraps and never allow him desert, for all on 17 years."
"Whe the ruddy hell would you do that?" Lupin said putting away his wand and taking his seat again.
"Because thats what he did to me."Harry said flicking his wand at the mess of broken glass and tea laying on the floor at the door, the mess magically cleaned itself up and vanished. "Anyways, hes not dead, Aunt Petunia, hes just been petrified, hes still fully contious and aware, basically I just paralysed him temporarily."
Petunia gave a faint sigh of relief and fell to her knees crawling to her husband.
"And Vernon old boy, I am allowed to use magic, because the school may or may not be closing down, but I am allowed to choose whether or not to go back. I'll be seventeen this year and thats legal age for wizards."
"Well then, Harry, Have you anyplace to train?" Lupin asked observing his surroundings.
"Anywhere in the house really." Harry smiled getting to his feet. "I spent the whole night reading all my Dark arts books, didnt really learn anything, hopefully you can get me ready for The big duel."
"Hpefully, I can help, however I wont be able to teach you much that you dont already know." Lupin said slightly frowning at harry's eagerness. "I havent ever had any real profession, I havent had any advanced wizard training, Im no auror."
"I know, but Im hoping you can atleast help me find others to help me."
"We'll see what we can do, for now im going to ensure you know anything and everything I know, except maybe how to become an animagus."
Harry nodded and watched as Lupin got to his feet and pulled out his wand.
"Im going to have to ask that everyone aside from me and harry leave the room. we will need all the space we can get."
Aunt petunia stared confusedly at him for a moment then noticed vernon could move again and they quickly left the whole house without another word.
Lupin gave a few flicks and swishes and such with his wand and everything in the room basically moved itself out of their way.
"Now Harry we only have a month, my goal is for you to be as well trained as I am by the end of that month, naturally I cant show you all of my experience in life, but I can teach you everything I know about magic. But we'll need you to focus, and push yourself alot. can you do that?"
"Of course." Harry said with a smile.
Lupin suddenly slashed the air with his wand and harry was thrown to the wall and he began to feel a burning sensation throughout his body, almost like the cruciatus curse only far less painful, though still very painful none the less. Harry began to vomit blood as he felt the burning die down.
"Rule number one harry, always be ready to fight. The first thing Im going to teach you is how to duel."
Harry coughed up some more blood and began to quiver, his mind was in a state of confusion and shock.
"Why the bloody hell didnt you warn me?"
"Will you-know-whos deatheaters warn you before attempting to kill you?" Lupin asked as he slashed his wand and a strange blade of light flashed ripping apart harry's flesh. throwing him to the floor on his back.
Harry was begining to understand what Lupin was doing, but how was harry supposed to fight back? he had no idea what kind of spells those even were. he drew his wand and slowly forced himself to his feet.
"Sectum sempra!" Harry shouted pointing his wand at Lupin. The white hot claws it created whipped across the room at Lupid who deflected them with a swish of his wand.
"Very dark magic Harry, where did you learn that?" He asked while sending a flash of red light at harry who ducked it easily, but had trouble standing again.
"learned it from Snape technically." Harry answered as he began focusing his mind of the silent speels and he threw a stunning hex at Lupin who again waved it away.
"When we're done with your training you should be able to tear me apart." Lupin laughed as he threw another curse at harry who deflected it this time, sending a counter curse.
After about another 15 minutes harry passed out from exhaustion.
Harry opened his eyes suddenly aware of a horid burning throughout his body. He looked around and saw Lupin closing a bottle containing a potion of somesort, which harry guessed was what had caused the burning. He felt dazed and out of his sorts for a moment, then managed to recover himself.
"What happened?" He asked sitting up against the back of his bed.
"You passed out." I've been mending your wounds with the fastest possible techniques." Lupin smiled sadistically. "This is where the phrase "no pain, no gain." really comes from."
Harry tried to manage a half smile. "How long was I out for?"
"Bout a day and a half."
"A whole day?!"
"Yes, hopefully the time will decrease as we continue our practicing."
Harry nodded and from there they began training once more.
After about 3 weeks of training Lupin decided Harry knew enough about dueling to move on a little.
"Harry, your doing great!" Lupin said to him as they sat down to rest a moment. "Your offense is becoming quite impressive. but I think you've learned enough about the aspects of dueling in the real world, as well as enough about focusing your will and energy into the spells."
"Thanks, professor." Harry grinned as he wipes some sweat off his forehead.
"Im going to give you some books I want you to read, they will teach you some more advanced spells, that even im not quite skilled at using. theres a good few books in there, and I want you to read them all. over this last week we're going to practice what you learn in there. then you will know not only all that I know, but I will have to consider you my equal if not my successor!"
"Im very proud to be so close to your level, professor." Harry smiled taking the booklist from Lupin.
Harry read down the list not recognizing even one.
"Where will I find these books?"
"Oh I have them already, though in the future you can buy them in knockturn ally."
Harry Opened the trunk Lupin indicated to him, he picked up the first book without reading its title and laid back on the sofa and began reading. 6 days later he had finished the list. and was so exhausted from all the reading he felt like passing out again.
"Harry our last week of safety is up. tommorow this house will no longer be safe from the deatheaters."
"Any ideas where I should go from there?"
"I have a close friend of mine on their way, they will help us get to a new location. it wont be godrics hollow, but it wont be as cozy as this place either."
"Whos the friend? is he a pheonix?"
"Ah, she actually, and yes, she is a pheonix like us."
"And wheres she gonna take us?"
"Cant say really. its her own little place. even dumbledore never knew where it was. so we suspect it will be pretty damn safe."
"Lets hope." Harry said with a halfsmile
After a small buffet of food, Harry and Lupin went to bed for their last night at number 4 privet drive.
A/N : Okay peoples, whatchya think? good? bad? I know, still not the longest chapter ut there, but oh well, its the story in the small chapter that really matters isnt it? so like I know, im not that detailed a writer, but its still gonna get better, lots better! ... I hope. hehe R&R!! MAS