Harry Potter and the Unexpected Heir
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James went to his room and met his wife inside, putting on her more formal robes.
"So have you found out how our tapestry gained a new name?" Lily asked James, as he sat down on the bed.
"Yep, our son followed in our footsteps, he performed the Soulmate bonding too"
"Really, then their love is true, and that means they have already…."
"Well yeah, we didn't last too long either, after all powerful love magic at work, you know how it is honey" he said.
"Have you given him the talk?" Lily asked
"I tried but he already knew; an inheritance like his" James said.
"Good, as much as I love children I think at 37 I am too young to be a grandmother" Lily said
"Same here" James added.
The two adults made their way towards the Great Hall, where dinner was waiting for them.
Before dinner Lillian made an announcement.
"Attention please, I would like to announce festive news. The staff has decided to throw a Winter Ball to boast the morale in the school. It will take place on New Year's Eve, not on Christmas Eve as originally planned; the Hogwarts Express will come on the previous day for those wishing to attend. For those staying here for Christmas, Hogsmead weekends will take place on the first few days of December. The Ball is open for all years but after 10 o'clock only seventh years may remain. That is all for now, tuck in" she said, she began to feed Penna pieces of meat. Harry who was also feeding a hungry William was talking to Ron and Hermione.
"This Ball idea was brilliant" Hermione said.
"That's your opinion, I remember the ball from fourth year, and those dreadful robes" Ron said gloomily.
"Well you said so yourself that your parents are earning more so maybe this year you can get better ones" Hermione said
"Yeah Ron, and make sure that you don't forget to ask Hermione before a Krum clone does it first. But I guess in the midst of all the kissing you don't have any time" Harry said, grinning slyly.
Hermione's face went red and Ron looked at Harry defensibly.
"You can't say anything about kissing, you and L- I mean… Clare… have gone way past kissing" Ron said, using Lillian's middle name to trick any eavesdropper's. Harry ignored him.
After dinner Harry made his way to the Room of Requirement, when he got there he stopped just before opening the large door, he was prepared, knowing Lillian she would probably throw a fireball at him the moment he entered. He opened the large door slowly and ducked, just in time to avoid the still smoking fireball which now lay on the floor, eyeing the singed door he looked over at the smiling Lillian.
"I love you too sweetheart" he said
"I know you do but that isn't going to make your training any easier. You ducked the moment you came in, it shows you are already learning quickly but-"
"There's always a 'but'"
Lillian smiled "-but the fire shouldn't even get near you if you don't want it to"
"Ok so I can control other fire and not just my own?"
Lillian nodded "Today we will work solemnly on your fire element powers"
"Ok how long is training for?" Harry asked
"It's 7 o'clock now so we should be done around 11" Lillian said
Harry nodded and got ready but he noticed he was still in his school robes. He looked at Lillian who waved her hand as his clothes changed to training ones.
"I love how you do that" Harry said
Lillian got closer to him, fire igniting in her hand. Harry followed suit.
"Ok the Fire element is the hardest to control. I can control all the elements but Fire is by far the trickiest. Fire can be violent, wild and unpredictable. Water is soft and gentle, air is calm and earth is loving; although they can be used in more violent ways, in their natural states however they are mostly peaceful. Fire in its natural form is mostly dangerous, it may be the hardest to control yet it is the most powerful. We will be working on the Fire element for the remaining of this week. Let's start with control"
She without moving her hand, made the fire in her hand fly off at an amazing speed and then fly back and burn calmly over her hand.
"See? I didn't even move my hand, I controlled it with my mind, feel the fire Harry, be the fire"
Harry focused on the fire, lazily burning over his hand. He willed it to move, even though it wasn't as fast as Lillian's, it still went and came back.
"Very good" Lillian said "I can see you will master the control in a few lessons"
They practised moving around the fire for about an hour. They took a two minute break before continuing
"Now like all elements you should be able to control the intensity, for example" Lillian began, she shot a thin beam of water towards the nearest wall, and then shot what seemed like a whole stream towards the same wall. The water then disappeared "See? Having an element is much more than simply controlling it around, you can produce it, make it disappear, shape it, modify it, anything. If you are skilled enough you can travel through fire by turning into fire and then moving around"
"I would love to do that, can you do that?" Harry asked
"Pick an element" Lillian said
"Earth" Harry said
Lillian smiled, her skin got darker and darker, getting rougher per second, and her hair began to disintegrate into fine pieces of soil. Finally her whole body crumbled into soil and sand, the small amount of earth made its way across the room and then steadily built up into the shape of Lillian. Harry clapped.
"That was amazing, how does it feel not to have hands and feet?" Harry asked
"Not that great to tell you the truth, but I could use a combination of elements, for example turn into sand and have water or wind carry me, do you get it" Lillian asked
"Yeah, it's pretty simple, can I try?" Harry asked
"Maybe another time, you have to completely master the element before you fuse yourself with it"
Harry nodded in understanding "So what next?"
"Let's work on the heat of your fire" Lillian waved her hand and a large rock appeared in the middle of the room "Melt it" she said
"Are you crazy?! How can I melt that, even the dragon on my first task couldn't melt the stone that I hid behind"
"Then your fire should be hotter than that of a dragon" Lillian said
"Well I'll try my best, here goes nothing" he concentrated; every skill he worked on for the past hour he revised in his head. Pointing his hands at the large boulder he focused all his fire engulfing the stone, a large beam of fire shot out of his hands and surrounded the stone. Sweat began to run down his face, he focused on the fire coming out of his hands, he closed his eyes and willed it to become hotter, he felt the fire leaving his hands become hotter. Hotter, hotter, hotter he thought. After about 30 minutes he felt like he couldn't go on for much longer, he let the fire extinguish and fell onto the floor, his legs weak under him. He looked up at the rock it was red and slightly molten at the front but it remained mostly solid.
"That was excellent, considering it was your first time" Lillian said, beaming proudly at him, she helped him up and kissed him straight on the month. Harry rested his tired hands on her waist and leaned into her for support.
"That makes me feel much better" Harry said, when they broke apart
"I'm sure it did, are you ok?" she asked
"Yeah, I'm just a bit tired; I didn't know it would take that much energy"
"That happened to me when I first started" Lillian said
"How long did it take you to master the elements?"
"Less than a year" she explained
"Great that means it will take me five" Harry said
"Don't say, you are an extremely fast learner and you only have one to learn, I had over five" she said quickly.
"Thanks" he said with exhaustion in his voice.
Lillian took him by the hand and sat him down, she then sat on him, facing him with one leg at each side.
"Is this a new training exercise?" Harry asked
"No" she said abruptly, she hugged him and then both started to glow a blue light. Harry felt much more energised, even more in comparison to before he started the training.
"What did you just do?" he asked
"I gave you some of my energy, now we can continue with the training; we still have two hours and thirty minutes left. I think you have had enough of fire today we can do some battle training, pick, jujitsu, karate or sword?" she asked
"Jujitsu please"
For the next two hours they continued to train, looking over battle stances, different punching techniques, and rapid movements to separate opponents from their wands without using magic. At thirty minutes to eleven they stopped, Harry was covered in sweat but Lillian wasn't even breathing fast.
"Now to finish of we will spend the last thirty minutes doing push-ups and sit-ups"
The two got down to work and at the end of the thirty minutes they lay down together for ten minutes to catch their breathes, finally after four hours of training Lillian's breath was coming out slightly faster. The said their goodbye's after Lillian transfigured Harry' training robes into his school ones, and each one Apparated to their respective bedrooms. Harry was tired; he had a quick shower and got changed into a clean set of robes, he still had Head Boy duties, just checking if any students were out of bed, and he still wanted to go and say goodnight to his parents. He exited his bedroom and found Hermione there.
"Oh Harry I was just about to go Lillian's office to see if you were there, we got duty"
"I know Hermione; I just got back from training with Lillian in the Room of Requirement"
"How I've been here for hours and haven't seen you come in" Hermione asked
"I Apparated to my bedroom" he explained as they made their way out the mirror
"You can't Apparate inside Hogwarts Harry"
"I can, I'm a descendent and besides Lillian as Headmistress gives people permission to Apparate around the castle, I can give you and Ron permission too if you want"
"Really? That would be great Harry"
"I, Harry James Gryffindor Black Potter hereby give permission to Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley to Apparate and Disapparate around Hogwarts" he said. A light breeze blew past them.
"Thank you Harry" Hermione said
"Your welcome, just try not to be seen when you do it, Lillian, my parents and I don't want to be bombarded with requests for Apparation"
"Ok I will pass the message on to Ron"
They swept the castle from top to bottom, Apparating to each floor to save time, in the end Hufflepuff and Slytherin were twenty points lighter because four third year students decided to sneak around way past their curfew. At eleven thirty Harry waved Hermione goodbye and Apparated to outside his parents' chambers. He knocked and his mother opened the door.
"Harry dear I thought you would never come to say goodnight, come in. Your dad just fell asleep I say you can jump on him or something to wake him up, he has been lazing around lately, him and Sirius are spending way too much time together" Lily said seating on the bed.
Harry had a better idea, he transformed into his Silver-Eyed lion and jumped on the bed, he roared loudly. James who had just fallen asleep and was beginning his dream in which he just found out that Lily was pregnant again, woke up with a start and seeing the large lion showing his teeth, over his head, he screamed and moved back the closest possible to the headboard, his messy hair standing up on his head, giving him a electrocuted look.
Lily was laughing so hard that she had tears in her eyes and had to balance herself so that she didn't fall from the bed. The lion transformed back into Harry which then started to laugh just as uncontrollably as his mother.
"Dad you should… have seen… you face… and your… hair! It was… priceless" Harry said between laughs. James started to laugh too.
"Lily why didn't you stop him, I could have had a heart attack!" James said.
"Sweetheart you are the one that is always saying Harry should act more like a prankster" she replied.
"There's a difference between prankster and homicidal" he said
"Dad before I woke you up were smiling like an idiot in your sleep, what were you dreaming about?" Harry asked
"I was dreaming about your mother telling me she was pregnant again" James told them
"What? James Potter why are you dreaming about such things, do you think this is the time to go and have more children, with Voldermort still to defeat?" Lily said
"I know that is why I was dreaming it" he replied
"How was your day Harry?" Lily asked, diverting the conversation to Harry.
"It was ok, you guys are excellent teachers, I had Quidditch tryouts as you know, and I just came back from training with Lillian"
"Training with Lillian, I knew she would train you but I thought she would wait a bit before starting" James said
"No we had two lessons so far"
"Is she working you too hard" Lily asked
"She is working me hard enough so that I may learn to defeat Voldermort. The training is really helping, she says I'm a fast learner but I know I will take time, its impossible to learn so many things in so little time"
"Don't try to rush things; you are under too much pressure son."
"I got used to it, before I used to just explode because my temper would rise and I would get mad under the pressure, but now with you here, Lillian and my inheritance I can be more controlled and I learned to organise my time so that I can actually have a life, whatever Voldie throws at me I can handle it. I want to defeat him and end his evil influence over the world, I know even after he is gone there will be much work to be done and I want to prepare for that too"
"Whatever happens Harry we will always love you and be proud of you" Lily said, James nodded in agreement.
"Thanks mum, you have no idea how many times I dreamed about hearing you say that" Harry said
His parents smiled again at him "Now I think it's time you get to bed, I don't want to see you dozing off tomorrow in classes, we are doing Potronus Charms tomorrow" James said.
Harry said his good-bye's and Apparated to his bedroom, he changed and got into bed, but he couldn't sleep, not without Lillian there with him, after about another half hour of turning and moving he Apparated to her bedroom and lay down next to her. Lillian instantly got closer to him and Harry was finally able to fall asleep.