Chapter Two: Training

Harry made his way through the streets of Tokyo towards the Ministry of Magic building. He had been living in Tokyo for nearly seven weeks after spending nearly a week in Sydney doing induction examinations to show that he could actually make the grade.

Since then, Harry had spent his time learning real advanced magic at not only NEWT level but also at Auror level. Harry loved the training that he was receiving. Harry had found it stimulating, even though much of it was very difficult to master. However, Harry put every effort into the training that he was receiving, wanting to become an Auror at the end of it all.

Harry had spent the first week of training in Tokyo learning to Apparate as well as reviewing all of the spells that he should have learned up to fifth year and making sure that he could perform them all flawlessly and first time, every time.

This had been done, it was explained to Harry, to make sure that he knew all of the basics to that he could learn all of the more advanced material otherwise there was no point in learning it all. Harry learned all of the material quickly and trained with it relentlessly.

Even though Harry really enjoyed all of the training and the material, there was something that was constantly bothering him.

It was what had been left back in Britain.

Harry had lost almost everything in Britain in regards to family and friends. Soon after Harry had left, Madam Bones investigation into Professor Dumbledore had showed that he had used much of the money that had been stolen from Harry (but Harry had gotten back from Gringotts who sued Dumbledore for the money) to fund the Order of the Phoenix as well as pay the Weasley's and Hermione Granger to spy on Harry and to make him feel loved. Dumbledore had even given Hermione the entire Potter library (which was quickly confiscated and returned to Harry's vault) as part of the deal.

During the investigation, only Ginny, Charlie and the Twins were on Harry's side and all had left their family behind, refusing to call themselves Weasley's any longer. None of them had ever known about what their parents and Dumbledore were doing with Harry and refused to allow it to happen and left the family when Molly had refused to change her ways.

It had even been discovered that Bill had been using his own influence within the bank to get hold of Harry's money for Professor Dumbledore by bribing the goblins to allow the transfers. This had forced the goblin community to try the goblins that had been bribed and execute them, as well as sack Bill from the bank. But that was not all. All of the information was passed to Madam Bones as well who had filed charged against Bill.

However, Harry had found himself with a new life in the far east and receiving all of the training that he had wanted so decided not to return to his homeland, something which could be a good thing if the reports were anything to go by.

The Daily Prophet had ran many scathing articles in regards to Dumbledore and his manipulations, but also put Harry very much in the frame as reporting it all. This had almost caused a riot until they found out that Harry was now living abroad.

This had caused many outbursts within Britain, mainly due to the unknown facts published by the Daily Prophet that told everyone of Wizarding Britain that Harry was the Chosen One, the one who was destined to defeat the evil dark lord. This was because the articles had portrayed Harry in a way that it seemed that Harry was abandoning Britain to its fate – something which had caused many outbursts within Britain.

Harry's new trainers had thought ahead and set up a special postal area for all of Harry's mail as there was quite a bit of it. Harry was still receiving quite a bit of news from the Law Enforcement office in regards to the investigations that were still ongoing as well as from Gringotts who were doing a full audit of not only Harry's accounts but also every other account within Gringotts worldwide to see if any other illegal activities were taking place.

Harry had helped them out as much as he could by providing memories of his visits to the bank to show exactly what money he had taken out personally as well as what others had said in regards to his banking, something which might be useful in proving illegal activities.

Harry arrived at the large and imposing building which was located at one end of a Wizarding shopping centre, much like Diagon Alley but many times larger and contained dozens more of shops than the London alley did, something which Harry found enjoyable as he could spend hours wandering through the shops on a day off and still not go round all the shops as well as discover many new products on the market to buy.

Harry made his way inside and passed through security in a matter of moments, after showing his badge at the security officers who let him pass without interference. What Harry did not know was that they were slightly awe struck as well as nervous with Harry.

Flashback

It all started three weeks prior. Harry had been shopping through the centre looking for some new clothes when he heard a dozen pops outside.

Harry had thought it odd that they had Apparated by the shop when it was a custom to Apparate at one end of the alley where there was a predetermined area.

Harry looked up from the products that he was looking at and looked out of the store window to see eight Death Eaters walking towards the door, wands out ready for the attack.

Harry quickly sprang into action drawing his wand. He yelled at the other shoppers to get out of the building through the floo and told the shop keeper to floo the Auror office before escaping herself. Harry quickly ran towards the door to head off the death eaters.

Harry arrived when the first death eater had blew open the door with a reductor curse, causing it to fall to the ground in rubble.

Harry didn't wait for them to cast a curse and fired off his own specially designed stunning curse that passed through any shield.

Harry had developed the curse after a few days when he was reviewing tactics with a master and broached the idea of using a special stunner that passed through any shield and where its curse and counter-curse were protected by the Magical Law Enforcement.

Harry fired the curse off many times hitting death eater after death eater. The remaining four death eaters dove for cover when they saw that the normal shields were not working.

Harry dashed over to the doorway and quickly removed four marbled from a pouch on his belt and created four portkeys to the holding areas within the ministry and quickly threw them onto the stunned death eaters before seeing where the other four were hiding.

Harry knew that he needed to get them so that they did not get word back to their master and quickly started firing powerful destructive curses at them, trying to draw them out from their hiding places.

Slowly, their hiding places started crumbling and the death eaters quickly scrambled for new hideouts only to be quickly stunned by Harry.

Soon enough, all eight death eaters had been caught and were out cold. Harry didn't waste much time in creating four additional portkeys to transport them away.

Moments after their disappearance, two dozen Japanese Aurors in full combat gear came running down the alley, wands at the ready, prepared to fight.

"Hold your fire," Harry yelled at them as they swamped the area.

"Potter, what is happening here?" The Major yelled, scanning the area for enemy.

"Eight British death eaters Apparated outside. They blasted the door off the shop. I stunned them all with the new stunner that I worked on before portkeying them to the ministry. The remaining four were portkeyed only a few moments before you arrived sir," Harry reported.

The Major nodded at the facts before turning to the other Aurors. "Captain Evans, use your team to collect witness statements. Lieutenant, take your team back to the ministry to take statements off all the witnesses that we have there and Captain Lucas your team is responsible for looking after the death eaters that Potter transported to holding cells. Dismissed."

End flashback

That was the day that Harry actually made a name for himself within the department. Many there, especially the officers, thought that Harry was there because of his fame and would not last long. Many had even tried to disrupt and destroy his training efforts so that the trainers would get rid of Harry but somehow, Harry managed to prevail and actually manage to get extremely high marks.

Most, especially the death eater incident accepted Harry as part of the team, one who had proven himself and one who could look after his own back. This of course not true of everyone as many of the older Aurors were still short with Harry, many of them convinced that it was either a set up or sheer dumb luck.

Harry, meanwhile, headed into the main lift within the ministry building and headed towards his floor where the Magical Law Enforcement for the Pacific islands were located.

Many centuries ago when the ministry in the area was formed, it was decided that it was easier to have one single ministry for the islands in the far east for islands including Japan, New Zealand and Australia and ever since it has worked very well, and has allowed a large amount of international friendship to form as a result.

Harry arrived at the office. He knew that today was a big day as it would outline all of the training that was required for him to have that would cover NEWT level and Auror level education.

Once Harry arrived, he noticed that there were hardly anyone in the office at the moment, which was kind of unusual for eight in the morning as it was the usual time when the most number of people were actually in as it was a general shift change.

Harry quickly headed over towards the commanders office for his meeting and to raise the issue of hardly anyone in.

Harry knocked on the door and entered when he heard the command to.

"Sir, have you noticed how quiet it is out there?" Harry asks of his boss when he enters.

"I have, most of them are on a field training exersise and were told to meet up at a specific rendezvous point. No point letting our forces get lax," the commander replied.

"Understood," Harry said, "However, I believe that you needed to speak to me in regards to my training schedule?"

"Yes I did Potter," the commander confirmed, "However we are going to be coupling it with a little adventure for you with one of our war mages from the Department of Intelligence here who will be taking you back in time by three years to train you up to not only our standard but theirs also. Your testing has shown that you have more than enough ability to make all the grades and can easily be the best."

"War mage? Time travel? Sounds kinda busy to say the least, not to mention long term and three years is most definitely long term," Harry said.

"It will actually be four. We can use a year out of normal time as well so that nobody notices you suddenly having all of these abilities. They will simply assume that you learned it all in a year. This means that at the moment, you are here in my office as well as in a secret location conducting your final year of training," The commander said.

"Unless of course I were to say no, that would just destroy the paradox," Harry said, thinking of the alternatives to the time travel scenario.

"Who says that you're going to say no?" the commander asks with a smirk.

"Who indeed," Harry concurs, "So in honour of paradoxical confusion, when do we begin?"

"As soon as we meet your future trainer for the four year assignment and make sure that you like him enough to work with him, at least for the first three years as there is no way to travel forwards in time and there's no way we would said you back for another stint."

"Fine with me," Harry says going along with his commander.

"Right then, lets get down to the department of Intelligence and get started with all this," The commander says standing up from behind his desk.

Harry quickly follows suit and within moments they are walking briskly down the corridor towards the lifts which take them at speed to the most secret of basement levels.

The pair arrived at the secret department within a matter of minutes and soon found themselves face to face with a tall, slender man wearing a full length grey robe and concealment hood which hid all of his features. Harry was only able to tell that this person was a man because of the hands of the person as well as his height.

The mage showed the pair to a meeting room where they met the head of department who briefed Harry on the training mission that he would undertake as well as the many temporal laws that were in place to protect the time line and that the department would monitor them in whatever time they were in to make sure that their behaviour would not affect history in any way.

"Right then Mr Potter," The head of department of Intelligence said, "I want you to pack up all of your belongings at your flat and grab all of your training equipment, manuals etc. and report back here in three hours. Do not cancel the lease on your flat as your future self will be moving in after you leave. Don't worry about hiding your key anywhere, just keep it on your person then you should be aright."

"Yes Sir," Harry said formally before saluting his commanding officer as required (well around others anyway as per the commanders instructions since he hated being saluted when no-one else was in the room apart from himself and the other person) before briskly leaving to pack.

THREE HOURS LATER

Harry quickly returned to the ministry building and headed back to the department of Intelligence where he presumed the head of department and the as yet unknown mage were waiting.

Harry arrived and he headed towards the meeting room that he was in before and received the briefing on what he would be trained it. It was an extensive list and Harry knew that he would have very long days for a very long time, but it wasn't as though he could go out anywhere or date anyone, especially since he was travelling into the past by three years – where he would only be approaching his thirteenth birthday, before he even started thinking about girls.

In the meeting room, the mage who had greeted them earlier was waiting for him there and beckoned Harry inside once he was spotted.

"Right Mr Potter, I believe we should have a chat first, get to know each other and make sure that we can actually work together or if we might need to choose another war mage to work with you throughout the duration," the mage explained.

"That would be a good thing to do," Harry said taking a seat opposite his potential trainer.

An hour and a half later, Harry and the newly introduced war mage (Andrew Connor) left the meeting room and headed to the office of the head of the Department of Intelligence.

"Now that you want to go on the training," Andrew says as they continued down a corridor, "There's no time to waste."

"But most of the training is done in the past anyway," Harry says in response.

"True but the sooner we get there, the sooner we are back," Andrew replies as they arrive at a door.

Andrew knocks twice and opens the door.

"Sir, we are ready to go," Andrew says formally to the head of department.

"Right then," He says with a smile, "Head over to the time room and get going. I expect a progress report in twenty minutes."

"Yes Sir," Andrew replies before leaving with Harry and heading to a different section of the department.

After several twists and turns and many bland corridors, they arrived at a large glass door which opened automatically as they approached.

Harry and Andrew entered and were immediately entered and were approached by a tall blonde woman who smiled at Andrew.

"What can I do you for?" She asks.

"We have new orders," Andrew says pulling a piece of paper out of his robes.

The woman skimmed through the paper and beckoned the pair to follow her into the next room.

"Sure this is correct?" she asks in the next room.

"Yeah, three whole years," Andrew says.

"Long time isn't it?" She asks.

"Yeah but its worth it," Andrew says, "Can we get going? We don't really want to have to go back further."

"Sure," She says, keying the information into an arch way which turned luminescent.

"Give it a minute then you can walk through," She says after finishing.

"Ok, give us a signal," Andrew says while checking all of his pockets for his belongings.

"Three... Two... One... Now..." The unknown woman says.

"Thanks," Andrew says before stepping through with Harry following, after of course checking his own pockets for all of his belongings which were still in place...