"So Tonks what do you think, would you like to spend some time with me there?" he smiled as she tried to regain her composure. It had to be weird to know that they were going to be spending the next few months in the home of one of the most famous wizards of all time.

"Harry how do you own this place I mean you would... oh my god. Are you trying to tell me that you are a descendant of THE Godric Gryffindor?" she asked as her mind finally wrapped around the information that she had been given.

"Yup turns out the Potters are descendants of Godric himself. Something to do with him having only one daughter and her marrying into my family. Even offered to change our last name to Gryffindor in case he wanted an heir. He said no and here we are." his smiled only deepened as he noticed the look that Tonks was now sporting. It was as if her brain had shut down in mid thought. Of course he began to worry when after a couple of minutes she hadn't so much as blinked. Fearing the worst he walked over and waved his hand in front of her face trying to snap her out of her stupor. When that didn't work he grabbed her shoulders and lightly shook her. Now he was getting desperate, she was simply staring at him and it was beginning to creep him out a little. Deciding that he could not possibly make the situation any worse, nor could he embarrass himself anymore he decided to pull out the big guns. Keeping his hands firmly on her shoulders he leaned in and placed a gentle kiss on her lips. Unfortunately the room was carpeted and he had never stuck around long enough to learn of static electricity in muggle school. The results were that as soon as their lips met there was an instant spark. Luckily it did the job and Tonks blinked a few times. Unfortunately it had the adverse affect of making her get a little light headed and subsequently faint.

It was all that Harry could do to keep her from falling to the floor as she slumped forward. "Guess that she couldn't handle all the excitement." he said to no one in particular. Though he knew that there had to be another meaning behind her awkward behavior. Placing a hand on her back and looping one around her legs he gently lifted her back onto the bed where she could get a little sleep. Then taking a look at the clock on the wall he realized that he needed to set up transportation to his new home, the Gryffindor Estate. Deciding that the only beings that he could trust were the goblins he quickly apparated to Gringotts. After obtaining a portkey and a few house elves to ensure that the estate stayed in tip top condition he apparated back to the apartment. Knowing that it would be best for to wait until Tonks awoke before trying to portkey he decided to once again go over his bank statements.

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It had taken Tonks three hours to wake up and when she did she woke to see Harry sitting in the chair that he had pulled to the opposite side of the room. In front of him was a table, that he had obviously conjured with a mess of papers on the top of it. She slowly swung her feet off the bed and made her way over to Harry who was engrossed in what looked to her as a bank statement outlining property of some sort. As she leaned over his shoulder she read that it indeed outlined property. More specifically it outlined the contents of his many vaults.

"Well Tonks are you ready to go?" he asked without looking up from the paper. She nodded in response and when he didn't respond she realized that he was waiting for her to respond.

"Uh yeah lets go. But... how are we going to get there?" she asked as he stood up. He walked over to the table beside the bed and picked up his wand. After gathering up all the parchments with a gentle flick of his wand he picked up another object that she hadn't noticed until now. It was a pen. He held it out as the crow that was still sitting on the headboard flew over and landed on his shoulder. Knowing what the object was she walked over and placed a single finger on it. She hated what came next as something hooked behind her navel and the ground was removed from beneath her feet. Only this time it was different. Instead of the normal feeling of the ground ripped from under her it was almost as if she was lifted off of it gently. 'Must be goblin made' she thought. She had heard that the goblins were the best at everything that they did but this was unreal. She was even more surprised when she landed. Instead of the usual ankle breaking touchdown her feet were gently placed back on the ground.

"Well that was new." Harry said. She simply nodded in agreement. That was when she looked up and noticed the room that they were in. It was a massive foyer with marble floors, oak walls and two sets of massive doors. In front of her were also two sets of winding staircases, one that went up and one that went down. She stood there dumbfounded not knowing what she should do. The room was even more impressive then anything she had seen at Hogwarts. Just then she heard a slight pop behind her and both she and Harry turned to see five house elves with matching uniforms, the Gryffindor colors standing in a neat line waiting for instructions.

"Okay lets get everything strait. I will need only one of you to work in the kitchen. So whoever is the best at cooking that is you. Three of you will be in charge of cleaning this place up starting with the living quarters and the training rooms. The last one will basically do whatever pops into either my or Tonks mind." he smiled as they all nodded and went about their various tasks. Just then a thought entered his mind and with a single word he stopped all of them. "Right forgot a few things. One I don't believe that we have all been properly introduced. My name is Harry Potter and this is Tonks. She has a first name but if you were to call her by it she would likely kill me. Now what are your names?" he asked the group of startled elves. He assumed that they were not use to being addressed in such an informal and friendly matter. Slowly one by one they stated their name. There was Blub, Freeny, Zorry, Wanny, and Groc. "Alright and lastly I will need one of you to go to Tonks' apartment and collect her stuff and bring it to her new room here." and with that Freeny disappeared. Apparently it looked like he was that one that would do all the miscellaneous things that needed to be done. After he had disappeared he dismissed the others to go about their appointed tasks.

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Dumbledore watched as his student finally completed the course. It had taken him months of training but now Dumbledore thought that he was truly ready to learn some magic. It was time to teach him what he would need to defeat Voldemort.

"Neville come her my boy." he said. His voice had lost that grandfatherly quality that it use to have a few months prior. Even his eyes had long since lost their shine. "It is time for you to start to learn real magic. I know that this isn't where your strengths lie but you must learn everything that I am to teach you. You must master it. It is up to you now Neville. You are the new savior of the wizarding world. You must be the one avenge all those who we have lost." he had said this all to the boy before. He had said almost everything to the boy but he felt the need to keep telling him.

"I know Professor. It is up to me to avenge Harry, and my parents. I know that they would have been proud to know that I am taking up the cause." he knew that deep down his parents would have been proud of him no matter what he did. This just made it easier to train. Albus however knew that if Neville's mother ever awoke from her catatonic state he would have hell to pay. She herself never wanted to be a fighter and he knew that she would never have allowed him to train her only son to face the evilest creature ever known to man. But it had to be done. For the greater good.

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It had been a week since they had arrived at the Gryffindor estate. They had since then quickly fallen into a routine. They would wake up in their separate rooms and quickly make their way down for breakfast (Harry found that he indeed had to eat if he wanted to be able to cast spells) then they would proceed to one of the training halls for physical training. Harry had somewhere along the line picked up a skill for the martial arts. After talking to Grex he discovered that it was simply something that all Crows would get. He also discovered that he had an affinity for darker spells. He simply chalked this up to the fact that he had died. After the physical training, where he not only trained his body but also tried to depart some of his martial art skills to Tonks they would head to the expansive library. Here Harry would try to pack as much knowledge into his head as possible. First he learned all the he could about Occulmency. This was made easier by the fact that he now had extra help to sort his mind. Even though that help often made rude comments about his few female friends. When he finally had his mind sorted he found that it was much easier to adapt Snape's training when it came to Occulmency. He cleared his mind and started to build up his defenses. By now he was able to stop Grex from reading his thoughts like they were an open book, something that he very grateful for. While he was doing this Tonks would be spending her time looking up spells that he should probably learn. Next in the day came lunch which was usually spent in the library cramming as much as they could. Although she didn't look it Tonks was amazing when it came to organizing and studying. Directly after lunch it was time for the duo and Grex to go to another more specialized training area. This one was used specifically for dueling. Now it was time to learn what Grex called real magic. While the bird was happy to let Harry and Tonks learn as many spell as they wanted he refused to call it magic. He insisted that it was a bastardized version of what he would teach them.

"Alright you to remember what I told you. Magic is all about intent. You have to be able to feel the flow of magic not only inside yourself but also all around you. Eventually when you master being able to call upon your own magic you will be able to start calling upon the natural magic that surrounds every bit of matter." Grex was sitting on a single metal rod that was suspended from the roof. The rod was bent into an 'L' shape in order to give the bird a perch.

"You keep saying this but it doesn't make it any easier." a frustrated Tonks said from her position on top of a pillow. Both she and Harry had been meditating in this same room every day since they had gotten there. The first day Grex had told them what true magic was. True magic was when a witch or wizard would be able to call upon their magic in order to bend it to do whatever they wanted. They didn't need wands, incantations, or movements. All that they needed was willpower. Both of the two had all the willpower needed in order to pull this off but what they didn't have was the control over their magic to do so properly. As Grex had explained it because they had relied on their wands to do all their magic it would take time to gain the proper control necessary to cast wandlessly.

"I keep saying it cause it is true. I have told you everything that I could to try and get you to understand how to do it. Now it is up to you. Hell who knows maybe the way I did it wont work for you. Maybe you should try and visualize it differently." Grex had become irritated that they had not grasped this concept yet.

"What the hell are you talking about. You mean to tell me that there is more then one way to do this. What the hell is wrong with you you stupid canary." Tonks screamed at the irritating bird. Since Grex had started talking aloud he had done everything possible to piss the young metamorph off. Needless to say it had worked.

"Tonks you need to calm down. I am sure that he simply forgot to mention the fact that there is more then one way to do this." Harry had of course thought of this idea quite a while ago. As Grex had explained it magic had always felt like an immovable force. So he had visualized it as a mountain. This was of course not how Harry felt about magic. To him it was a beautiful yet dangerous force. He had recently started trying to visualize his magic as a roaring fire. He was beginning to feel it but even still it felt wrong. To him it felt like there was something missing. He had started to talk about it with Grex. He had told Harry that this was normal and that one day he would find whatever was missing. Grex had also told him that he had sufficient control on his magic that he could start to learn true magic from him. Of course Harry had opted to wait until Tonks also had control over her magic so for now he was simply working on fine tuning his control. He now knew not only the size of his fire but also the color and the heat. Or at least that is what it felt like to him. This simply meant that he probably had mastery over his magic.

"Fine then what does it feel like for you." she had gotten the hint that Harry also knew this little trick. She was a little mad that he hadn't told her but now that she looked back it seemed so obvious that she didn't want to make herself seem worse off in his eyes.

"Well for me it feels like a roaring fire. It feels both beautiful and dangerous at the same time."

"I don't think that either of those will work for me."

"Well try this when you cast a spell that takes a lot of magic how do you feel."

"It's kinda like I am floating. I know that there is something around me but I can't make it out." As she said this Grex started laughing. She knew that he was laughing at her and it took all of her control not to draw her wand and Hex the stupid bird. "And what might I ask is so funny?" she asked a dangerous edge to her voice.

"Well it sounds to me like you are describing water. You know you float in it but it still wraps around you like a blanket." Harry decided that it would be best to explain it to her himself rather then let the bird make her even madder.

"Well that kinda makes sense. Alright let me try something." Tonks started to visualize herself floating in a pool of her own magic. She continued to meditate and soon she felt it. She began to see her magic. It looked like a Pond or maybe a small lake. She couldn't make out the color or how deep it was but she knew that this was her magic. "I can feel it. This is so cool." she was pleased that she had finally felt her magic. She knew that Harry was waiting for her from the way that he described his own magic.

"Great now we can actually begin to train." And so it began. The three of them quickly settled into a new routine. It would take a while before they would have sufficient control over their new magic and until then they would simply continue to train and learn all that they could.

AN

Okay I would first like to apologize for the long wait for the new update. I won't give you a n excuse. Please Review I love them all. Also I am starting a new series called the House Elf Chronicles. It will simply be a series of oneshots on the destruction of Volde. Also if you all be so kind as to look at my profile and Vote on the poll it would be helpful (as it effects this story directly). Thanks.