Disclaimer: this work borrows from the world of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books; some plot elements, characters, and concepts are hers.

Chapter 5: Prodigy

Over the next few days Harry settled into a fairly simple routine.

He got up at about 6:30 in the morning, and made breakfast for his relatives, and ate a little himself.

He then did a few chores, and Jacob came to get him at about 10.

They would work on the greenhouse until between noon, and half past, and then they would have lunch.

After lunch, they would do any number of things, from doing some less strenuous work in the greenhouse, to watch a movie, to going for a walk in the park, and then Harry would head home about 18:00. (6pm in U.S. time)

The second night, Jacob had let Harry go home alone, Harry was screamed at by his relatives, and locked in the cupboard without dinner.

After that Jacob made it a point to walk Harry home.

When Harry asked about this, Jacob confided that if he could look into someone's eyes he could get some idea of what they were thinking, and influence them to some degree.

Jacob seemed nervous about telling Harry this, until Harry smiled and said that it was a cool ability.

Jacob then stated that that was the reason he accompanied Harry home every night, so that he could make the Dursley's leave him alone.

The next day Harry and Jacob were sitting at the kitchen table having sandwiches for lunch, when Harry decided to feel Jacob out a little bit more.

"Hey Jake" he said quietly "Have you ever made something happen? I mean something, I dunno, weird?"

Jacob looked at Harry questioningly "What do you mean?"

Harry shrugged "I know you can see into people's minds, anything else?"

"Like what?"

Harry shrugged. "When I was ten my relatives took me with them when they went to the zoo for Dudley's birthday." He said, smiling at the memory of what happened next "When we were in the reptile house, and a Brazilian Boa constrictor looked at me and winked. I said that people drumming on the glass to its cage all day must be annoying, it nodded to me.

When Dudley saw the snake was awake, he punched me out of the way to look at it, then the glass on the cage disappeared, the snake crawled out, and Dudley fell in, then the glass re-appeared."

Jacob grinned "I would say that you should have left him there, but then people would have stopped coming to the zoo."

Harry snickered "So have you ever done something like that?" he asked.

Jacob looked over his shoulder to make sure his mum was not watching, and then raised his hand.

Harry's cup of tea floated about six inches off of the table, hung there for a moment, and then floated back down.

Harry grinned, deciding that the next day he would grab his book on magical theory for Jacob to read.

"Can you do that kind of stuff too?" Jacob asked. "I have a harder time controlling it, but yeah. I've never really tried it without a wand." Harry responded quietly.

Jacob raised an eyebrow "A wand?" Harry nodded "I'm a wizard Jake. That's why the Dursley's hate me so much."

Jacob nodded "Well then, you can practice with me, I've been letting it slip, and perhaps if you work on it a bit you can learn to work without your wand"

Harry nodded "Allright, but won't your mum suspect something?"

Jake laughed "She knows, she just doesn't want me showing anyone else because of my parents"

Harry gave Jake a confused look. Jake shrugged. "I'm adopted. I was taken from my mother when I was born because she was in prison for working with a terrorist organization. Mum's afraid that if the people she was working for find out about my abilities, they would try to take me and force me to work for them" he explained quietly.

Harry nodded. "Ok, let's practice. How do you levitate things?" He asked. "With a wand it involves specific movements and an incantation."

Jacob shrugged. "I just focus on what I want to happen, and push my power in that direction" he said.

Harry nodded, held his hand about three inches from his teacup, mentally summoning it to his hand, the cup shook a little, and Harry sighed. "Well I guess it works for some people."

"Don't give up yet." Jacob said "The first time was an accident, the only reason I can do it deliberately now is because I put a lot of practice into it."

Harry nodded, and tried again, the teacup moved about a half-inch.

Jacob laughed "See? You're getting it already." Harry grinned, and tried again, this time the cup slid slowly into his hand.

Harry and Jacob spent the rest of the day practicing levitation, summoning and banishing objects in Jacob's room, using tennis balls.

While Harry banished balls, sending them flying at the wall, only to bounce back and be banished again, Jacob was teaching himself to juggle, without using his hands of course.

While this was going on Karen walked into the room, and sighed. "Well, that explains a lot." She said, raising an eyebrow and looking between Harry, who in his shock had frozen the tennis ball in place, floating about a foot in front of him, and Jacob, who was rubbing his head from losing control of a ball and having it bounce off of the wall and hit him.

"Jacob, tell me why I shouldn't be angry with you after you promised me that you would not tell anyone about this." She said quietly

"Sorry mum, he figured it out on his own."

Karen sighed "Please be more careful." She said seriously.

"I came in here to tell you boys that I have to go to London tomorrow, so I'll be gone most of the day" she said after a few moments of nervous silence.

"Mrs. Anasazi, would it be possible for me to go with you? I'd like to drop by Diagon alley, and since you are going to London anyway, it sounds like a good opportunity."

Karen and Jacob gave Harry a confused look.

"Diagon alley is basically the wizarding equivalent to a shopping center." Harry said, answering the unasked question.

Karen raised an eyebrow "So there are more people like you two?" She asked in shock.

Harry nodded "There is a whole community, but most of them aren't like us. Most wizards have to use a wand." He explained.

Karen shrugged. "Well since I'm going to London anyhow, I don't see any harm in it."

Authors note: Greenhouses can be any shape or size. All a greenhouse really is, is a building with windows instead of walls and a roof. I'm imagining Jacob's as being about 12'X8' and build like a shed with windows instead of boards on the walls, and shingles on the roof.

Also fixed an error on my part, removed mention of Bella Lestrange being Jacob's mother.