Year 2 New Skills

Harry and Lucy were now both halfway into their 2nd year of professional education. Harry was just entering one of his new and favourite classes of the year, Necromancy.

A very old vampire taught necromancy. Harry knew he was not as old as the original that he had met but he was still up there his name was Alucard. He and Harry got along really well whether it be because of the blood Harry shared or Harry going to him for help with his powers that manifested after the soul bond was solidified or just the fact he said Harry was one of the best and most natural Necromancers he had ever taught.

When the soul bond had solidified Harry had felt the release of a few more powers that he reasoned must have come form the vampire blood he was given. After training with Alucard, he had learned to blood warp which was like apparation and flame travel but it was done with a mist of blood instead of fire or air. He also found he liked his meat bloody, which he did not really mind he never did like it over cooked. His strength was increased even more than it was as were his other senses. He also found the strength of his mental abilities had increased. Alucard had also helped him and Lucy with their aura reading and mage sight. Now they were able to use them both subconsciously.

Today Alucard had entered the classroom and told them they would be going on a field trip to put their knowledge to work. So now Harry found himself and the 4 other students who had been able to get in and stay in the class standing in the middle of a large old looking graveyard.

"Now, I come here every year with my surviving students to test their skills, and control as you should remember the easiest form of necromancy is summoning spirits, then animating corpses/skeletons and finally combining them both and keeping the creation loyal. Today you will all be following the process of placing your hand on the ground and focusing magic through it to animate the corpses now try to animate as many as you can but remember don't push yourself remember you need to keep control of them or they will fall apart. Cynthia you first." He indicted to the young vampire her sister had not made it into the class but she had made it into elemental magic so they were copying Harry and Lucy and teaching each other.

Cynthia stepped up and focused her magic into her hand and placed it on the ground, Before closing her eyes and adding more focus to push it into the earth and grasp as many skeletons or corpses as she could. After a few seconds, cracks appeared in the ground and out of the cracks crawled a mix of 9 skeletons/corpses.

"Excellent Cynthia but you had a lot of wasted magic there that was unfocused if you had managed it all you could have been able to get at least double. Next." Alucard said to the gathers students.

It went on like this till Harry was last everyone had at least matched Cynthia and some taking the teachers advice had got more the most being 27.

Now it was Harry's turn he stepped up and knowing for this his magic would need too be focused he subconsciously used his mindscape to give him half power and focused on opening his magical channels in his right arm. What came next was a new experience he had only read before. When he placed his hand on the ground, he could feel all of the bodies buried there so he began to focus on sending some of his magic to each of them. After a few seconds, the ground cracked and for Harry a total of 53 skeletons/corpses arose and went on bended knee waiting for their master to give them orders.

"Excellent Harry, you seem to have a grasp of it as always I think if you can each today raise 30 then we will move on to the next stage which is more valuable but also harder and more draining. The summoning of spirits and creation of magical bodied this is used when you are on the battle field without dead bodies you can use these creations to help fight and they will have a partial mind of their own basically how to function to kill whatever you tell them and obey you without question. You must always remember though never summon more than you can control you must do this one at a time until you find your limit." Alucard explained before every one tried again and Harry practiced ordering his summons to do his bidding.

By the end of the lesson every one had got at least 35 so Alucard congratulated them and told them to be prepared for the next class.

A few weeks later Harry and Lucy were in their only combined class Elemental training. After last year Harry replaced his magical control with Necromancy and they both replaced magical creatures with the two year course of elemental training the last class you were tested on the first day you either had it or not.

Now though they would be learning what elements they could control. They would be given a potion that would put them in a trance where they would see a ball of the element or elements that they control. It would look like their core but would be different sizes depending on how much control they could gain of that element.

So when Harry and Lucy took the potion they fell into their separate trances.

Harry fell into unconsciousness and was surrounded by darkness before two large spheres of different colours appeared one was smokey yellow and the other was a sparking white.

'Well I suppose that yellow is air and the white… going by what it is doing must be something like lightning or energy.' He thought.

At the same time, Lucy was seeing her own vision. Before her was two spheres of her own hers were also large they were green and blue. Her blue sphere was the largest and even bigger than either of Harry's, though that was to be expected since elves were natural earth elementals the addition of the blue water element would work with her earth.

When they came out of the trance, the teacher an elf named Guldor he was an old elf but he knew the old ways of the elves he had left the settlement before they had become stagnant like they were. He was a complete elemental to an extent for each element. He was especially proficient in earth and fire.

"Well lets see you two what is your element or elements?" Guldor asked Lucy and Harry.

"Well sir, I got 2 mines were yellow that I think must be air but the other I was unsure about. It was a sparking white I thought something like energy or lightning?" he asked.

"Ah, that is a good combination you are correct with both you have air and energy. After some training your use of those two together, will be able to control the weather and create storms. There has only every been 4 other energy elementals and they al lived a while ago. It is said that energy elementals can control magic more than others can. Now Lucy what about you?" he asks.

"I also have two mine are green and blue, earth and water I presume?" she asks with a smile.

"Yes. You are correct, that is also an excellent combination. With it you will be an excellent herbologist or potions mistress would be better suited to you if your grades are any indication." He said with a kind smile.

With they two major events the rest of the year went along smoothly with their training of themselves and Fleur continuing. They also started studying muggle classes Harry was continuing an ongoing side study of computing in taking advanced Electrical engineering and Computer science at MIT. He was also taking Political science to help him with his wizenagamont seats and any other legality that may occur.

Lucy was taking an advanced medical and science course using her magical knowledge to help her along the way. It was an independent study course at Harvard medical.

Fleur was studying the same computing course as Harry but instead of politics, she was taking Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences. She had always had an interest in space and the planets ever since she had heard that the mundane's were exploring space and had travelled to the moon.

They had a very aggressive study schedule as well as the number of exams they were taking though since they were all working together on the magical work their workload was still at a manageable amount.

They hoped to have completed their mundane courses in the next 3 years. Fleur had informed them that Madam Maxime had told all of the students that a duelling tournament would take place this year to determine who would be travelling in a group to take part in a tournament that would be taking place next year at Hogwarts.

Harry having not been informed by Dumbledore of this fact was not very happy so had sent Elysia with a message asking for information and why he and/or the founder lords were not informed before this was agreed to.

Harry received a reply that was not to his liking but he could do nothing about it. He would just have to pay Dumbledore back somehow.

The reply simply said that it was all put in motion and agreed upon by the board before it was disbanded. So he has assumed they would already know of the plans for Hogwarts to host the triwizard tournament. He then went on to explain that the tournament was a tournament between the 3 magical schools in the world. It was supposed to encourage co-operation and friendly competition.

At the end of the year Harry and Lucy sat more exams, for Harry it was Potions, Spell craft, Blood Magic, Necromancy, Elemental, Rituals and charms OWLS as well as Runes Necromancy, Elemental, magical being interaction and charms NEWTS.

For Lucy it Runes, Elemental OWLS, as well as Healing, Elemental, Magical control and Charms NEWTS. She was also sitting her Herbology and Potions Masteries.

It was again the 1st of October the only full month free that everyone was free but for the next, hopefully only 3 years they would have mundane exams aswell in the first week.

After having sat their university end of year exams, they were free to relax. Harry had received an owl from the queen asking him over with his girlfriends and family for Lunch sometime during the holiday to give them time to update her on the progress of the capturing and execution of the death eaters.

Now though Harry had a meeting with Ragnock about his accounts as he had some new investments to make. As well as some to change especially in the muggle world.

"So Harry what investments would you like to make and change with us?" Ragnock asked getting out a quill and parchment.

"I would like to increase my Microsoft shares from 13% to about 20-25%, I would also like to gain shares in British petroleum, Apple, Boeing and Wal Mart. For muggle companies and I will trust you to add any more you think will do well even a few high risk ones if you like. I would also like to donate some money to the auror department to help with training more aurors and help with the capture of death eaters but I don't want it to be used by the corrupt minister anywhere else. Can you make that work somehow?" Harry asked.

"I should be able to work something out while you are here I think you should go over the Hogwarts accounts." Ragnock said passing a file over the desk.

'Hogwarts Account

BALANCE: +35,760G

INCOME: +1,295,000G (PA)

SPENDING: -1,259,240G (PA)

Teacher Salaries PA: -850,000G (50,000G per teacher PA)

Matron Salary: -35,000G (PA)

Care Taker Salary: -20,000G (PA)

Game Keeper: -15,000G (PA)

Food Budget: -196,240G (PA)

Potions Ingredients Budget: -10,000G (PA)

Herbology Supplies: -25,000G (PA)

Hospital Supplies: -2,000G (Dry Supplies, Potions made in house)

Maintenance Budget: -100,000G (When needed)

Library Update Budget: -6,000G (Newly instated)

Student Tuition: +3700G (PA)'

"Ragnock why is the balance only positive of 1 years earnings? The leftover money is only enough to pay the matron for a year that means every year that has been spent somewhere every time. That is with my salary increase and introduction of the library budget. So where has it gone every year?" Harry asked annoyed since technically any profit from Hogwarts was supposed to be split between the founder's vaults or used to upgrade the schools materials.

"I am embarrassed to say that until now no one was really keeping an eye on it except to ensure it did not go in to the negative. But I will have someone to look into it and see where the money is going plus the fact there was a ghost teaching yet his salary was still being used but it never went to the Binns family account as it has been closed since his death." Ragnock said thoughtfully.

"It is worrying that has been about 100,000G per year that has gone missing." Harry said. That was a lot of money double one of the highest salaries in the wizarding world and even the muggle as the exchange rate is £5 - 1G.

The rest of the day Harry spent with his house elves and bonding new ones. He now had 527 house elves and as soon as they bonded they begin to gain more magic and their bodies increase in size and muscle mass, their speech and knowledge capabilities are also increased. So now he was arranging for 100 of them to go and get basic training on all areas. Then when they have a basic knowledge, they can either train in a specific field or train other elves to bring them up to basic level then they can also choose either option.

Next day Harry, Lucy and Fleur began training Gabrielle in all types of magic and readying her for her first term at Beauxbatons during this training Harry and Lucy talked about the option of using the Potter knowledge spell on Gabrielle and when and who was going to use it on Fleur.

"I think that I should use it on Fleur since we have more of the same courses and you use it on Gabrielle since you two share more of the same interests. We need to decide whether or not we want to use it on Gabrielle she is still young and her mind is not as organised as ours should we train her mind first or just give her all the knowledge and then try to organise two minds worth." Harry said laying out the two options.

"Well you have already trained Fleur why don't you give her the transfer now since she will be joining this tournament which we still have to research by the way. So she will need all the help she can get though we both know there wont be much challenge from Hogwarts. While you do that I will begin Gabrielle's occlumency training and you can come help once you have Fleur settles as we both know she will be out for quite a while. Also have you decided if you will make Gabrielle's wand or if she is to buy it?" Lucy asked they had been mainly training her in wandless magic but she did have a family wand that was used for training the underage in the family.

"I think I should make it as long as she agrees that way we know it is the best suited to her and we can put protections on it to ensure she is safer. It will make me feel better with us not being there." Harry ended with a shrug.

The rest of the day was spent with Harry giving his knowledge to Fleur and helping Gabrielle set up her basic occlumency mindscape. That night before going to bed Harry took Gabrielle to his staff/wand creation room and had her choose her wood and core/s.

He had visited Olivander since his creation of Fleur's wand at the suggestion of Godric who hinted that Olivander was a lot older than what people thought. He remembered how that meeting had gone.

FLASHBACK

Godric told Harry that although Olivander only made wands instead of crafting them he had some good materials on core bonding and what runes could be used on wands and staffs to benefit the user.

So not Harry was in Diagon alley and had just entered Olivander's.

"Ah. I wondered when I would be seeing you Mr Potter, though you seem older than you should be. How is that?" Olivander asked.

"That, is something that I am afraid I cannot tell you without a wizards oath. But my reason for being here may give you a clue." Harry replied.

"Well you are here for your first wand I presume?" Olivander asked confused.

"I am afraid I am not I already have a perfectly good wand that I crafted myself. No, I am here to ask for a book that Godric told me you may be willing to lend me that will give me some new ideas for rune's when I am crafting wands." Harry stated to which caught Olivander off guard.

"You..You have crafted your own wand and plan to craft more? And you are how old?" Olivander was having trouble getting over his shock. Here in front of him was a young man whom he believed was only 11 yet he had crafted a wand of his own.

"Yes, but I am afraid that I am unable to show it to you at this time. I am willing to pay for the book if you want." Harry said.

"I will tell you what call me Octavious. I will give you the book as long as you promise to show me your creation some time." He suggested to Harry.

"Well, Octavious. I will make that deal with you and if you are ever in need of cores or woods, if I have spare, I would be willing to help." Harry said extending a hand to Octavious to shake which he did.

"Well Harry, I think we have a deal here is the book and I hope to see you and your wand again soon." He said as he handed over the book and headed back to the back room.

End Flashback.

It turned out Gabrielle's wand was a beautiful white Seagrape with a core of ground unicorn horn and freely given blood. It was beautiful, yet simple with a fiery personality. Just like the person, it was being made for. He added runes for non-summoning, Blood binding (works like the creators curse), unbreakable, self-cleaning and magic focusing.

While Fleur was in her knowledge trance, the others researched the tournament. It appeared there were 3 champions and 3 tasks but along with that there was also a duelling tournament that took place between anyone who wanted to enter. The first of the three tasks was always something to do with a class 5 magical creature like a dragon or chimera. Task two was always a dangerous situation where they would have to search and return with something after passing through smaller trials. The final task was either a maze or a simple duelling competition between the champions depending on how many competed in the duelling tournament.

When they had lunch with the queen, she was not happy that the wizarding government was not taking a more pro-active approach. When Harry explained this was because either most of them worked for Voldemort or were sympathetic to his cause she was understandably less than happy to hear about how corrupt that part of her government.

"I want you to ensure that this corruption is cleared as much as you can before you go to the dwarfs." She had said. This completely confused Harry he did not remember having told Liz about the dwarfs offer.

"How do you know the dwarfs want me to go visit them when I have finished with the Voldy problem?" he asked confused as Lucy looked on at the calm by play between probably the two most powerful people in the country on political on pure power.

"Ah, I did not mean to say that and I cannot elaborate as I have sworn an oath to keep that information to myself. I am sorry Harry but you will just have to be patient and wait until the time is right to know." Liz said with a sly smile.

The last two weeks of their holiday Harry passes Gabrielle on her occlumency skills, Lucy used the spell to transfer her knowledge to Gabrielle and Fleur awoke from her own knowledge download and had most of it sorted. Now Gabrielle was in her trance, Harry decided to check how much Fleur had fully absorbed and continue her duelling training she was now almost as good as Lucy and Harry was thinking of training her in sword fighting. You never know when you may be cut off from your magic or have a magically resistant foe.

They new year was about to begin so Harry and Lucy said their good byes to Fleur and Gabrielle and wished them luck for the new year and also wished Fleur the best of luck with the tournament.

AN:

Well this was really just a filler chapter so I apologise if it was not as fulfilling as you would like but I was running out of ideas.

I thank you all for reading and I hope that any females reading or males that are good with female dresses could give me a description of Fleur and Lucy and Harry wearing their Yule ball robes/dresses.