Eng - Vernon thanks Harry

by Smargden

After the 5'th year at Hogwarts, Harry is at Number 4, and bad things happen. During a home invasion Harry kills two intruders to save his relatives and himself. With Harry performing magic both the aurors and Dumbledore's club of the flaming chicken received alerts. Rated for 'bad mouth'.

3. Chapter 3 Small bits of trai

Chapter III Small bits of training at Gringotts

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/AN: A lot of things teachings went on inside the 30 days of the compressed time, just a few things of the inside or outside are mentioned here, more to count the real passing of days.

I just locked at the words for the first swedish edit 18,790 words for the story, and now 2 of 7 chapters in this edit 27,637 words, and it be close to 90,000 when it's end, and I put chapters up every second day.

Thanks to gaschalk there are some last minute corrections that have been updated in chapter 2 : Swedish time 14:10 dec 26, small grammar and spellings.
And we give our thanks to gaschalk for the extra helping for this ch as well. :NA/

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:-:-:-:-: A new experience for Harry…. shopping :-:-:-:-:

After they left the bank Tonks took Harry out on a whirlwind shopping trip. Three new multiple compartment trunks were just the start of the shopping. In the bookstore they began to build Harry a proper library, buying any book that caught their eye. Some that made it to the new library were complete sets about potion making and it wasn't just the ones that covered the Hogwarts classes either.

At the apothecary they bought an array of ingredients. They would be making potions assigned from the school years and beyond. Tonks even volunteered to show Harry a few potions used for auror work, field medicine and what St. Mungo's often used as well. There was also ready-made sets for both individual potions and large-scale packages to the expected needs of some professional groups, like healers or aurors.

However clothes shopping became their first major challenge. Tonks would shop, for Harry, based on her tastes. She would then bring Harry, what she dubbed, the most gorgeous set of black dragonhide pants. From there it would be a mini war between the two. She would insist that Harry would try them on and model them for her, so she could make sure the fit was right. Harry wouldn't have minded so much, since it was the first time he had ever gotten new clothes and not hand me downs. But the dragonhide pants, she wanted him to try on looked to be made for someone without balls. He honesty thought that in order to get them on he would need to cut some things off, things he didn't want to lose. Once he convinced her to go to larger sizes a temporary truce was created and he played dress up for her. Similar wars occurred when shopping for dress pants, vests, well really they happened over every new article of clothing. He began to believe Tonks was just trying to cut him in half by stuffing him into clothing that was too tight.

Harry thought by the time they were done they had bought enough clothes for six people and he would never wear it all. When they left the store Tonks had worn Harry down enough that he had switched into a new outfit she had picked for him. He walked out feeling a little over dressed in black dragonhide pants, a red shirt, and a half length black dragonhide coat. A coat that she said she had plans for. She was convinced that Harry was one of a very few wizards that had the power to add some spells to the coat that would make it useful in both worlds. Harry was just glad the clothes shopping was over and while Tonks was a great help in expanding his wardrobe he really didn't want to think about her picking his underwear for him. He had a pair for everyday for a month. Some were dayglow, then there was glow in the dark ones, the bikinis, the briefs, the boxers, and the thongs. Harry really wanted to burn the thongs. He felt they were the greatest evil to ever grace existence. Who needed to be afraid of Voldemort or werewolves when you had thongs with zippers over your crotch? He also wanted to know which muggle born introduced them to the wizarding world just so that he could curse them stupid.

He had hesitated when Tonks had taken him into Knockturn Alley due to all the warnings he had previously been given about the place. She had not stopped though. When he had, she just grabbed his hand and tugged him along like an unruly toddler pulling him into the Opti-Magic shop. Once there she spoke with the clerk and started with orders for new glasses and then contact lenses. When the order was in Tonks had shown her auror badge and had the clerk to add a variety of additional spells to them that weren't normally available. The end result of this was he could now see things like the color of the magic being used around him and through solid objects. He thought that was awesome but felt that being able to see in the dark, through mist and fog and having his long distance sight vastly improved was far more important. Sure the extra spellwork cost more but he felt the benefit was more than worth it. Tonks next extreme purchase order was at a store that sold second-hand.

"Harry this store has wands of varying quality. Make sure you find at least three that you can use as spares." After telling Harry this she walked to the clerk and said "We need three wands to be used as a reserve for my new colleague." Tonks said to the shopkeeper as she showed her badge.

"Isn't he a little too young?" The salesman countered.

Tonks just changed her appearance to be as young as Harry. "You could say that about me too, depending on my mood, but the difference between him and me is that he's more mature than me. So, it's okay."

The clerk just looked at her like she was a little unbalanced and shrugged. "If you say so."

He then turned to look at Harry and said "Okay young man start by bringing your hands over the wands. The ones you feel a pull to let me know and I will put them to the side. When you've found all that react to you I will put the others away and we will repeat the process. We will keep repeating the process until you choose the three with the greatest reaction to you. Go ahead and pick them up then try Lumos and Nox."

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Later after he had found his spare wands Tonks made a final request of the clerk "Now we need four complete sets of wand holsters. We will be carrying the wands so we need to have holsters for the right and left forearm and both ankles. We prefer Hungarian dragonhide for the forearms and Chinese fireball dragonhide for the ankles. Oh… and before you trying giving us knock offs or the cheap second hand ones we want them to be level Delta. Eight. Five. You know ,,,, the ones with auror settings?" The clerk just looked at her and sighed before telling them it would take a moment to gather the requested items from the back stockroom.

They had finally paid for their wands and holsters, after Tonks checked each holster to verify they received the right equipment, and had left the shop Tonks pulled him into a weapons shop. Harry never had a clue that there were magically enhanced weapons and other accessories other than the goblin made ones. There were knives, swords, canes, and other things that he did not understand how they could be considered weapons. But then he remembered Lucius Malfoy's cane and he wondered if it was something that came from this store, maybe it had a little extra something special to it. Maybe it was something more than a glorified wand holster. He will have to keep that in mind the next time he crosses wands with Lucius Malfoy just so that he isn't surprised if it is.

When they left the shop two hours later he realized that it was a place he should have found years ago. One of the purchases he enjoyed the most was the ring he found there. When activated it would be able to create a rune based ward prohibiting apparating, portkeys and magic within a area of 50 feet or about 15 meters. Plus it had settings so he could activate the wards he wanted when he wanted. It wasn't all or nothing. He could prevent apparating and portkeys but still use magic which depending on the circumstances might be helpful. The only downside with the ring was that he had to remember to disable the magic nullifying ward when he was near the flying brooms. If he forgot then things could get real messy real fast.

He realised if he needed to activate the ward to prevent magic then he could still use his new throwing knifes and if need be his newly acquired pistol. It looked a bit clumsy, the pistol that is, but it had come with a silencer which took away more than four fifths of the sound, he was told. With the addition of magic to the silencer it was rendered completely silent. He had learned, prior to purchasing it, that it was aggressive at a distance up to 15 meters and more then able to compensate for any loss of magic.

Of course, the gun was the one thing he wouldn't have gotten if it wasn't for Tonks. When he had been hesitant to get the gun Tonks reminded him of the threat he was facing. She said he couldn't go by the normal rules if he wanted to be as safe as possible and if he wanted to keep others safe. She then told him that she had already arranged a for temporary weapons dispensation for him.. She further stated that Amelia, and not her, was the one that arranged for it as she had fast tracked the paperwork through the muggles. Once he knew Amelia had a hand in getting the dispensation he felt a little better about having the gun. Also with the paperwork completed through the muggle side the carry permit he had, it would be legal in the muggle world, if not and he happened to have the gun on him and get stopped by the Bobby's it could prevent some serious jail time.

According to Tonks when Amelia filed the paperwork she had used the attack on him, the burglary attempt, to help force the paperwork through. She had transformed it into an attack on him personally and his family. It would help considerably to persuade them to issue the license to bear a concealed weapon and, if need be, use it in self-defense. Something like this was, typically, reserved for police detectives and bodyguards.

:-:-: Day 1 of Goblin Training :-:-:

Tonks came to see that she was not as fit as she had first thought, but she was doing quite well compared to most of the other magicals. Still it was a month of doing nothing but training and as they entered the time compressed training area she realized that every time they did so she only got better then she was before. Both she and Harry quickly realized, that with training in time compression, what you bring in was what you had. If you forgot something then too bad you had to make due, there were no quick trips to the market to get more. Yes they had an emergency exit but in using it that also ended that day's training for the compressed month. With the effort they both were putting forth, and the time the goblins put into their training, neither wanted to use the emergency exit unless it truly was an emergency.

The pair quickly found out that the goblins did not bother to separate human females from human males. In goblin eyes Harry and Tonks were a team, therefore it didn't make sense to them to place them in separate rooms for sleeping or even for hygiene. A fact that somewhat bothered both Harry and Tonks but they learned to compromise and share the facilities with the least embarrassment to the other. After walking in on each other either using the toilet it was a mutual decision to have some sort of barrier in place to curb the blushing and to provide some privacy.

The sleep area contained two mattresses, that was it, just the mattresses. They were thankful that, while there was no other furniture, they at least were given blankets and pillows to use. It did take them some time to get used to the new schedule. It wasn't set up like normal days, it was set up as a twenty four hour routine. It was four hours hectic training and four hours of rest, it then repeated four on and four off, and again, in total three times a day. Also time between various forms of training was a luxury not a right. After the first time one of them didn't get a chance to clean up between trainings they became accustomed to being naked in the others presence. It wasn't an instantaneous change. Harry, at first, would try to be respectful of Tonks and not look anywhere but at her face or up at the ceiling. After walking into the wall a couple of times that was quickly stopped. The blushing was still so prevalent, at the beginning, that even Tonks also put forth an effort to make things easier for both by using her metamorph abilities to appear neither male nor female. This would in effect cause her to be a neuter, or something similar to a muggle Ken doll, but the form was draining and was quickly stopped due to exhaustion. The training was taking everything they had. Their days inside the time compression were basically the same food, train and some form of rest. It really was all that they were able to focus on at first. They didn't realize till the end of the first day/month of training that they were growing closer as friends, maybe something more, and this was just the first day/month of Merlin knows how many to come.

:-:-: Day 2 of Goblin Training :-:-:

They had just left the second day/month of training at Gringotts and were indulging themselves by having an ice cream at Florean Fortescue's. Harry had gone to order two of Fortescue's special sundaes for them while Tonks set up a privacy charm around their table. When Harry returned with their order Tonks opened the discussion with "Harry, the gun you bought, I hope you have it in the trunk you have at home. I forgot to tell you not to bring it with you into Gringotts. It was my mistake but I should have told you to never ever bring a gun into Gringotts unless you been told, in advance, that you can bring it. You can't even take it in a shrunken trunk … Think of it like you're visiting a foreign country every time you enter Gringotts. If you have, in the past, brought the gun then don't do it again."

"I haven't and it's at home but yes it has crossed my mind … I had hesitated because Gringotts is NOT under the ministry jurisdiction. Plus it felt disrespectful to the goblins and their culture so no, I left it at home."

"Good, that is really good news. Now, I will leave you take some down time this evening because we have a tough day ahead. Just to remind you it will be starting early tomorrow morning. If you want, I can take you home before I leave to do some things."

"No that's ok Tonks you don't have to. I can take the Knight Bus." Says Harry interrupting Tonks.

"Hey you need to let me finish. It's rude to interrupt a lady ya know?"

"Lady? What lady? Where?"

"You do realize if I wasn't a Lady I would hit you or worse about now."replies Tonks.

Harry quickly realized that unless he wanted to get pranked he better just apologize and agree. He wasn't worried about getting hit by Tonks but he quickly realized that Sirius had trained her well in the art of pranking. Add a touch of Black madness and you were insane not to. She could humiliate you so bad that your grandchildren's grandchildren would still get laughed at.

"Milady, I profusely apologize that your humble servant has in anyway caused you undue stress. How may I redeem myself in thine eyes?" Harry says while quickly getting up from his chair, kneeling at her feet and bowing his head to rest his forehead on the back of her hand.

Giggling Tonks replies "Rise kind sir. I am a generous and forgiving Lady so I will forgive this transgression just be forewarned not to let it occur again."

"Yes Milady certainly Milady never again." says Harry as he quickly gets up and retakes his seat.

"Now as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted. I can take you home before I leave to do some things or you can go with me. Leaving you here to get home by Knight Bus or through muggle means is not and never was an option."

"I really didn't want to be a bother for you Tonks and dragging me along to do whatever you're going to do would be more of a bother. So I guess you can pop me home if you don't mind."

"That's fine Harry and you are not a bother. I did want to give you something first though. This is a communication mirror and my call signal is Camelia referencing the chameleon. Occasionally at times, like this evening, or other times if we are separated and you need to speak with me just hold the mirror and call Camelia. I will answer a.s.a.p., also while you can't call yourself I wanted to let you know your call signal is set to Snake." states Tonks.

Harry takes the mirror and looks at it a little sadly and says "I don't know if you knew this or not but Sirius gave me one of a set of mirrors the Christmas before he died. If I had just opened the package, read the letter with it and used it to call him he might be alive now."

"Not to be cruel but that might remind you to use this then. If you need to talk to me then remember my call signal and keep the mirror near. Please remember for the mirrors to work properly you must have open connection to magic so don't expect it to work if the magic suppression ward is on."

"Yes, yes I will keep it near and remember about the ward. Thank you."

"Good now, finish eating your ice cream you have made yourself deserving of it today by groveling for forgiveness at the feet of your Lady." says a giggling Tonks. "Also just as a suggestion, I think you should start practicing magical and non-magical dueling. You know, where you use the magic suppression ward. We can't do that at Gringotts obviously, so it will have to be later. We can train by just randomly turning it on and off till you can seamlessly go from using magic to not. I can imagine that it would annoy some people if you learn to do just that."

"Yes, that sounds like a smart idea we'll definitely have to try it later."

At the end of the second day/month or period of training Tonks had asked Harry's permission to tell Amelia that that they were receiving training in a time compressed chamber. Amelia surprised them both when she informed them she already knew they were receiving the training. She advised them that, while she was not at Harry's level of professional friendship with the goblins, she was to a degree quite friendly with her own personal account manager. Her manager while not knowing the particulars was able to say, after having her swear an oath, that specialized training was happening within Gringotts. She didn't know who was involved or details but she knew that it was happening. Her oath prevented her from saying anything to anyone until those involved in the training made themselves known to her. Tonks and Harry after hearing this from Amelia were thoroughly gobsmacked at the level and range of Amelia's contacts and informants. As Amelia was now 'in the know' as it were Tonks was satisfied.

What then gobsmacked Amelia was what they told her of the training they received and the trainers they were learning from. To say that Amelia was a little jealous was as saying water is only a little puddle.

:-:-: Day 3 of Goblin Training :-:-:

It was nearing the end of the third day/month of training just a little after the supper hour and Harry and Tonks were sitting and relaxing. Even if, by goblin standards, the last two time compressed days of that training were soft it still was tiring and overall more than they were used to. They really needed to build up their stamina and endurance but that happens over had also come to like the talks they had after the bulk of that day/months training was complete.

"Ok so the next thing I wanted to do Harry was to borrow your trunks for a little bit. I was thinking about some modifications that could be done to them. When I decided on the most beneficial modifications to have on them I checked to see if there were a possibility. I ended up talking with the very person who can do the things I wanted. The modifications I had thought of where this. Each of your trunks have kitchens right?" Harry nods in the affirmative looking a little mystified as to why she was asking the question.

"Well kitchens have stoves or fireplaces and sometimes both. What I was going to do was to have him modify the three trunks so they can be connected to each other. Also I was talking to him yesterday and it turns out it can be more than just three trunks connected, let me try to explain some things."

"I'm listening." Harry says.

"I had this in mind as we bought them. I know that some people in the department have three trunks and why. It's another reason why I sent you to buy three. The guy I spoke to, about modifying the trunks, told me some interesting facts."

"Ok I thought there was more to come."

"Well the trunks are created on a rune based network. It also has a few different settings, just don't ask me to be technical in explaining how works, but it works something like this. If you switch the light on here then you know it's on or off. Just don't even mention dimmers. Now add another lamp twice as strong as the first, with it's own button. The second lamp provides additional light to brighten the room which causes the room to be twice as bright, on its own. Now you can have soft light, stronger and even stronger with both lamps together. That is three levels of light, with 2 lamps. The same applies with the third lamp but now this must be is double as strong compared with the second lamp. Now think about this, you can have the buttons with eight different settings and one of them can be completely set to off. Then with two there is only three different levels of light, with three buttons we can have seven levels of light, and so on. That is the same principal for the setting for addressing the trunks. Hence I thought there could be only three addresses for the trunks, but it's actually up to fifteen."

"You mean like computers one or zero Yes, I can see that. You can't address nothing, … hell … if you do … hey THEY DO ! ! ! ... the Veil of Death - that goes too nothing … " and Harry just stopped thinking.

"Yes they do … well my … friend, in the department that we don't speak about, asked me if I liked to add an additional section or just lock it to three. I asked for an explanation, that's when he tried to explain to me what I just told you. He said he could do three settings with two, three or four buttons. That equals out to three, seven or fifteen trunks in total. I asked him to complete modifications for the largest one, four buttons. With that setting there can be up to fifteen trunks, as money is of no concern, we can have one each and thirteen around, for storage or as gateway's."

"Can I . . . no that will not be a good idea. To have my own gate to nothing but I'm starting to really like the idea. Can you tell me more? I can also see a problem with leaving one behind."

"I will do that, after the modifications are done, if you and I have one. We can leave one here, one at my house, and carry one with each of us. The rest of trunks can be stored in a safe house where we go often. What is unusual with this is that it has two ways of functioning. The normal is just a gate, a normal transport, but the optional features and what make them extra good is the escape mode."

"Is it a last defence, like a self destruct after I leave option?" Asked Harry as he was imagined leaving a WWII gigantic bomb left behind for his attacker.

"If you need to use the escape mode option then your trunk will follow you when you leave. In a way it's like going through the floo except there is no fire, once you reach your destination, you will be spit out and your trunk will magically come through after you. If you don't move out of the receiving area quickly enough it's possible the trunk will be hitting you in your rear."

"That's possible? They can do that? That's totally awesome!" Harry exclaims.

"As I said you can go from one place to another as long the trunk networks are established and you have a trunk there."

"That's really good, thank you for preparing for it."

"Here, this gateway net must have a unique name, they have twelve runes and they can't be made to an address outside their own name. To do this it will cost some blood to make them. For you to do it you must come with me and the blood, that's to key them to you. You can then later add anyone you like. He might not charge you for setting it all up Harry, because of who you are, but I know he needs the money. When he has done this for others he charged about 200 Galleons for three trunks, fifty for the start and fifty for each trunk. If we come with fifteen trunks and your coat, after he modifies the trunks, he can teach you the charms I have in mind for the coat. You can ask him, I can see you want to know, but I can tell you now, he will not show anyone how he modifies the trunks like that. Then for payment…. . I think a 1000 galleons will do."

Harry looks like he might protest a little due to the amount Tonks gives for potential payment. She knows it's not because he doesn't have it or because he is cheap. It is more that it is just such a large amount of galleons to use at one time so Tonks rushes a little to reassure him "YES it's a lot of money, but he needs the galleons of that I am sure. I also think it's worth it for you to do this. Think about it, but if you'd like to have more than three or seven you need do it now." Tonks finishes speaking a little more loudly and urgently, trying to impress on Harry the importance of getting the modification done.

"I don't have to think about it Tonks. It's a damn good idea and yeah the price was a little steep. I don't say that because I don't want to pay for the work. I just didn't want to run the risk that he blabs about how much I pay him for the job. So are we going to it today or …?"

"He will not talk about the job or how much he is paid. I know how much he charges, not from him telling me, but from others who have paid him to do the same thing. When we are inside there we do not speak about those types of things. I can say for sure he will not blab, in fact, if it wasn't for others telling me that he did it for them I wouldn't know that he could do it at all." assured Tonks.

"You are one of them?" Asked a surprised Harry, "Aren't you under Madam Bones?"

"I'm an auror under Amelia yes. You don't need to know anything else, but as you let me in on some of your secrets, a damn BIG one, I might slip some time. … well let's stop it there. If you are ok with the trunks, we can go and order them after training"

:-:-: Day 4 of Goblin Training :-:-:

As Regnok had previously stated, to the watchers if there were any, it appeared they left ten minutes after they went in and only the most observant watcher would notice that they didn't always leave in the same clothes that they entered in. But whoever said the Order members or even the general wizarding public was observant? After a few days of doing this Griphook became a little concerned someone may eventually notice and he voiced that concern to Harry and Tonks. He then put forth a possible solution that was so simple that they could have kicked themselves for not thinking of it sooner.

Instead of training in the clothes they wore into the bank they would instead either wear the training clothes under their normal 'everyday clothes' or change into the training clothes that they would leave at the bank. If the training clothes get damaged either the bank could order new ones or they could. Once the options were given to Tonks and Harry they chose to order the training clothes in bulk but have the merchant forward the order to the bank for them to 'pick up'. With a larger purchase like that, the merchant was more than happy to accommodate any simple but strange requests they had. What did he care that he was sending it to Gringotts as long as he got paid.

:-:-: Day 5 of Goblin Training :-:-:

Time passed during the training Wow! … did they get better physically. They found muscles they didn't know they had. Finding those muscles usually involved moaning, crying and snivelling like babies. In the hand to hand portion of their training they were making some improvements both with and without a weapon in hand, more without than with. That the goblin instructor would not let them train with a 'real' weapon, and he could often be seen shaking his head and looking away from the training with what looked like tears in his eyes, was immaterial. They still counted it as improvement when they could get through the training with the weapon in their hands and no broken bones .. or feet. The training had only begun a short time ago but that they were still alive and could drag themselves back day after day, they considered that to be a major victory. That they left everyday muttering about sadistic goblins was paid no heed by the goblins, as they took it as a compliment, or by the watchers as they usually didn't think much of the goblins in the first place.

Tonks had borrowed a few training wands from the Auror trainers. It was different than a normal wands because for one, it was an orange colored wand and two when used it only simulated the wounds that occur due to being hit with different types of spells. It also gave the person hit a mild shock to let them know they were hit and the only spells the wand could not simulate were unforgivables. But then again how do you simulate death , extreme pain, or the inability to think and control your actions? They were allowed to use that type of wand in simulated deals with each other and against training dummies. They were told that later it could come to be real wands against training targets.

:-:-: Day 5 Evening at DOM :-:-:

It was later that evening and Tonks and Harry had just emptied their trunks at Tonks place. Tonks had stepped into another room to give Harry a moment alone to change and while he did so he thought about her place. It was technically a house since yes, it was in a house. Her place was a total of three rooms that had been separated from the main part of the house. The rooms were amazingly small and might have actually been just one room before it had been converted and turned into what could be laughingly called an efficiency apartment. He thought it could be called an apartment if you squint really hard, tilted your head sideways and looked at it upside down. This was more like a bachelor's closet, and he wondered as he changed his underwear and donned a newly purchased pair, how one did their laundry while living here? Did their used underwear get tossed or hidden in the walls to used for insulation in the winter? This is why he thought of it more as a bachelor's closet then a true living residence. Not wanting to be in the room any longer than necessary he quickly finished dressing and called Tonks back in.

Tonks came back in, took a look at what Harry had changed into, and apparently approved of the outfit. He assumed this because she started going back over the same information she had already given him before they got to her apartment. "Now Harry, just a few reminders. First do not address me as Tonks we go by code names once inside. Second you need to respond if someone calls Snake as that is your code name. Third you must wear this robe" she says as she hands over a dark grey robe "it will hide your identity, and yes by accepting it, you will be a probationary unspeakable. How can this be your thinking? Well it's like this, someone placed you on the access list for the department wards. The person that did this had a high clearance level and was able to work the wards access list so that you could bring others in when you came." seeing that Harry might interrupt to say it was a death eater Tonks decided just admit it so they could move on. "Yes, before you ask, it was a death eater and he was one of the escapees from Azkaban. It was a fellow called Rookwood. He really shouldn't have had access, but he must have known about or created some sort of backdoor into the departments wards we are looking into that now. I remember reading that before Igor Karkaroff blew the whistle on him Rookwood was one of the departments top five agents. I want to point out, that without him doing this, you would not have been able to get passed the rotating doors."

"I'm an unspeakable? No that can't be! You must be kidding me."

"He did and, I'm not kidding you. Just so you know being on the ward access list is not the same as being an unspeakable, being part of the chain of command or being on the payroll. They are not the same and all you have is a glorified access pass to the department that's it. Back when they first found out about Rookwood they must have missed blocking his access, and he knew that, otherwise he would not have remembered how to get in. Anyway, since he remembered, he put you on the list as a member of staff. That list in itself is restricted to most, hence why no one knew he did it. Now one of the most important thing to remember about this list is once you are on that list, you are there you can't be blocked. You can be removed and, if removed from the list. you can never be added back. It in effect blocks you from ever accessing the department again. What is usually done instead is changing the settings, for the level of access, for the individual agent. With that said, I'm not aloud to tell you more and at the moment we are short on time."

What happened next was a giant blur to Harry. Apparently, while Tonks had been speaking to Harry, she had a portkey in hand that was set on a timer. Once she had gone over basics with Harry she had grabbed his hand and the portkey had activated shortly thereafter. It had taken them into a staff area and from there Harry was shown a locker with an image of a snake on it.

"Now Snake, just place your hand on that image and say 'I Snake, command you to Open'. You only need to do this once, after this you just need to place your hand on the image and it opens." Harry listened to Tonks instructions then implemented those instructions. "From the upper compartment on the door, take the item in it and place it in your pocket. I will tell you more about it later." Tonks then took a tag, with a duplicate image of the snake from the locker, and placed it on the robe Harry had. The tag then magically merged with the robe, to look as if it had always been part of the robe. Harry could see that inside the locker were more robes like the one he now had on.

"Go ahead and close the locker and let's move." After a few corridors and a lot of doors they entered the room with only one unidentifiable person."Welcome to my little workspace, I heard you would like to have some chests modified. Is that correct?"

Harry remembered when he first walked in the room it looked as if the room went on forever, at least until you stood in front of the desk where the unspeakable was stationed. Harry wasn't sure how big the room really was. Standing at the desk the room looked small and cramped, if you backed up a few steps and changed how you viewed the room it looked cavernous. He figured all of it was a giant illusion of sorts to offer some sort of extra security, what type of security he didn't know. All it did for him was give him a headache. "Yes please." Now that the agent had spoken to him Harry could focus on him easier. He could also now see that the nametag on his robe was nothing but a filled in black circle. The other thing that became clearer was the table in front of him. On the table was a trunk, that Harry assumed was a gateway trunk, like the ones that Tonks wanted his made into.

"By the way, if you ever find a way to repeat the rune array, never ever make a gate to nowhere. Now with normal with a floo travel, you just toss the powder in the fireplace and step into the flames. Hopefully you will make sure the flames are green before putting a toe inside. The amount of burns that St. Mungo's treats is unreal." While Harry couldn't really see any of the agent's body movements, due to the nature of the charms on the robes, he could mentally picture the agent shaking his head and clicking his tongue as tskd' at the stupidity of some wizards. "Now the trunks are similar to floo travel but at the same time they are nothing alike. The floo network was created to use voice commands and you walk through the flames. This however is, as I think Camelia here would have told you, commanded by runes and you go through a door/gate. Unlike the floo to activate a gate, using the trunk, you must first create an address for it. The address would be included into the creation of the gate so it will not change unless you, in effect, delete the entire process and start over again.
"The first button you see here is to alter or to set the transport mode, so it would either be set to normal or escape mode. The second, third, fourth and fifth buttons" the Unspeakable points to the buttons on the display trunk on his table "are actually dials to create the destination address for the trunk. You would turn the dials to set the address you may only need to use one dial for the address or you could use all four depending on the address. After that is the sixth and final button or dial and that is to open or activate the gateway. Now you wanted four, for the address wasn't it?"

"Yes please."

"Okay, plain door, or fireplace?"

"Can I choose?

"If not, why me asking. Fireplace or door."

"Door please." Harry could see the unspeakables annoyance with him even from behind the spell camouflaged surface.

"Okay, doors. Give me at least four days and at the time you are to collect them you need to be prepared to extract … some blood. The blood will be to set each of the trunks and lock them to you. Here is the list of spells, that Camelia asked for, to enhance and upgrade your coat. Place your trunks over there, be back in five days. If the pickup date changes I will let Camelia know."

Harry knew by the unspeakables tone and body language, even as muffled and obscured as it was, that he was dismissed. They quickly stacked the trunks where they were told to and left.

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Back at Tonks closet, er…. I mean apartment "Ok Lucy, I am home and Ricky needs some information here. What can you tell me? About the fact that I am technically an unspeakable? Why when you found me on the list for access didn't you limit the access or remove me? OOOOh I know how about you tell me what crawled up Mr. Pissy Pants butt, you know the guy we just met? I mean why would you want a teenager that isn't exceptionally smart, I am not as dumb as a box of rocks but then again I am not a rocket scientist either, as an unspeakable? I even have a text book crazy villain after me. Please tell me something before my head explodes."

"I'm sworn to silence about most of the department and what goes on in there. When I took the job there were required oath's that I had to take, which is why on a lot of it I will say no comment. I simply can not say and the oaths will make sure I don't. Even veritaserum and legilimency will not help someone seeking information about the department when not authorized to have it. I can say for a fact that you are not oathbound. I know that there was debate as to whether or not to remove you from the ward access or to limit your access.. In that order, or blocked before in. Blocked can never be in. And a lot of staff, could see you as one of them, hence you are not blocked. It come upon me to see your reaction if I was in and as you did not hit the roof, I was to let next step take place."

"I'm lured into this? Isn't I?"

"As I say, You can say NO, I just grab my mirror and relays your no and you be blocked, and blocked mean just that. By the way, Rookwood are blocked now. Shell I relay the no ?"

"No, don't. I … and I suppose you could not tell me before, right?"

"Right, yes. I'm told that I'm forbidden to talk you into accepting the DOM. Further, never ask me who we spoke with, or any other for that sake. If that person let it slip, be careful, never ever ask who somebody is. To the world … Sirius Black is dead, and that's it. Whatever you think, and if what you can imagine Sirius Black is still dead. What ever pass that veil is beyond this world. Gone is gone."

"And if not, no one can know, right?"

"Something like that, yes."

"If that was a man, and if it was him he did not like me, I'm sorry."

"It could also be that he was oathbound not to reveal his existence, at this level. You see the way you got in, you are not oathbound, and because of that there are a lot of things no one can talk to you about. I for one had to be told that I was allowed first to slip and after we got passed that , then I could to tell and invite you. OK, it's late and I will take you home."

:-:-: Day 6 of Goblin Training :-:-:

One form of magic that Harry was beginning to learn was chaining spells. Chaining spells was a method of dueling that gives you the ability to possibly trigger devastating damage to your opponent or target. The effect that the chain spells would have would depend on the person using the magic, the spells used and the power behind the spells. At the moment Harry was trying to build up the speed in which he used the chain spells. He needed to stop thinking what spell to use and instead fire the spell somewhat automatically. Right now when he did spell chaining it was like taking a boat out on the river and through the rapids, it seemed very stop/start or jumpy. He was aiming instead to have it flow like a steady uninterrupted river. Once he got the flow down he could work on his speed and go from a rowboat to a speedboat.

Now, while he equated the flow of the spells to a river, very fast and fluid, he equated the damage they did to different caliber pistols. He had three different guns in his mind that he equated the chaining spells to. The first was .22, for soft spells or light friendly dueling that was clean and non lethal. The second was a medium .38 that was for more serious fights or duels that needed medium powered spells. Those spells may include a bone breaking, cutting, piercing or reducto curse for example.

The third and final was more a killer chain. He equated this chain series to a .45 or a maximum stopping force. Harry felt that by comparing the spells and power used to different guns the spell power would already be mentally set. There would be no need to stop and think of that when fighting. By training this way he felt he was also in tune with his body and magic, that he would have a feel for his magical reserve. After he assigned spells to a caliber, .22, .38 or .45, it was just a matter of deciding in what order to use them. To confuse the opponent did he want to mix the 'caliber' of spells used? Could he start soft with a .22 spell or did he want to go straight to the killer .45? His spell knowledge for dueling or as he thought of it now, his caliber, was limited. He had some spells for each caliber but with more spells could hold more in his 'magazine', or if he was lucky have a spare magazine. He had no problem converting and using a magazine for higher powered caliber in a smaller gun. The spells would just become weaker or even possibly the other way around, spells for the soft caliber in the BIG gun. The stupefy, or whichever spells the chain had, would start coming with a hell of a lot of power. First he needed to set the target, then set the power, choose the chain each with a predetermined number of spells, and finally where to hit and fire. Think of the stupefy like a shotgun blast but with power behind it. Well Harry had his favorite spells from that night and they were effective, at least in training. They did after all fire live on the target dummies holding the training wands.

:-:-: Day 7 of Goblin Training :-:-:

Albus has learned, through several sources, that Harry goes to and leaves Gringotts, everyday a little after 3 o'clock. Being the concerned headmaster and magical guardian he is he heads to Diagon Alley and places himself in a strategic location to be able to intercept…. Er I mean meet up with his slightly wayward charge.

Tonks had scanned the crowds of Diagon when she and Harry had started to leave the bank. She was trying to head off danger or potential issues before they happened. Unfortunately she hadn't seen the headmaster till it was too late "Be ready Harry, Albus is here. He must have gotten word somehow that we were coming to the bank often. He has seen us and now he's coming our way. Activate your ring to block transport magi like portkeys and apparition. Just don't block access to magic, as that can potentially cause accidents for the workers to close to us."

"Oh Nuts! Ok thanks, I see him. Roger Wilco! No transport magic allowed, portkey and apparition, blocked."

"Oh Harry my boy. I'm so disappointed in youuuu . . . . ." Albus abruptly stopped talking after almost howling the word you. He was acting as if he was is in PAIN, extreme pain by the looks of it. He was pale, sweating, eyes were tearing up, yep that was pain, couldn't happen to a nicer goat … er man. It looked as if his arm spontaneously broke. He begins to quickly move as if his back was being hit repeatedly. After a few seconds he manages to gasp out the words " . .Fa . . wk. . es . . he . lp." when the words were out Fawkes immediately flames in clutches the headmaster in his talons and flames him away.

"Ok what was that about?" Asked a confused Tonks. She had been sure that they were going to have to do some fast talking to evade the headmaster before the encounter culminated in Tonks throwing herself in his path while Harry quickly went back into the bank. The headmaster may be powerful, both magically and politically, but even he won't go up against the goblins in their own bank.

"I have no idea, but suddenly I had visions from . . . well, I guess I must have been around four years old. Vernon had grabbed me and shoved my head into the wall and I blacked out for a minute. When I came to Vernon started whipping my back with the belt. I think he either broke a memory charm, or something. I even think I was unconscious for a little bit but my subconscious mind must have recorded it, and seeing Albus here, it just came flooding into my mind. But why? I have no idea."

"Harry, you are wearing the new glasses, and there are some good charms on them, actually it's a whole array of them. What and exactly how many I don't know but I do know one of them repels mind intruders, the way it repels depends on a lot of variations, therefore there is less of a chance to avoid it for the intruder. You saw yourself getting hurt, you said, and further you have no recollection of the event I can only speculate and I don't think a mind healer could accurately say what happened here either, so let's just speculate. Vernon hits you, hard and it starts to go really bad, somehow Albus knows you are badly hurt. He and Poppy just pop in. He has her heal you then he removes your memory of the incident. Now, when you wear your new glasses, they and you react. As its the same signature of magic that blocked your memory, no it was not removed. Removing a memory is a very demanding thing to do, but blocking can be done in seconds. Ok, so then your magic combined with the charms work together to unlock the memory. Now you have access to the memory and then seeing Dumbledore brings that memory from your subconscious memory to active recall. In a way it's your minds way of giving an early warning, a warning that you may not be able to trust him. Just remember Harry, I can only speculate with what I have to go on."

"It was just odd and his words 'my boy' seems to have triggered something to. You know, before I knew that my name was Harry, I thought my name was freak, boy, or freak boy. It could have been a combination of words and events together with what the glasses do, or help me to do."

"Tonks! Anything to add?" A voice from behind Harry asked.

"No, neither Harry nor I know what happened to or did anything to Dumbledore. Other than repelling a legilimency attack."

Harry could see a disturbance in the air outlining the profile of a human like figure.

"Who was that? … and why?"

"That was someone that did not like Albus Dumbledore. They are on your side, and currently they are someone you are not to ask about. It is almost certain that I will know more about what happened to the old fool by tomorrow, or possibly the day after." said Tonks considering the people involved.

"Hmm, someone … I see. Thank's."

:-:-: Day 8 & 9 of Goblin Training :-:-:

As it was the eighth month of physical and magical training it was now time to include mind training. That training would include the passive scanning of surrounding area. This was done to feel if there are any hostile thoughts directed against them and after that they would focus on people around them. Then to find and identify the feelings of the individuals around you and completing deeper scans on particular individuals. This would be done by making eye contact and then they would learn to do it again without making eye contact which is infinitely harder. All of this would be nonverbally so the person they were scanning would be unaware.

The training would be all inclusive while they would learn to defend they would also be trained to attack. The way they would attack would be through spells for intruding into another's mind, for viewing a memory, implanting suggestions, blocking memories, or even removing existing blocks.

The defence side of the training would contain things like learning to build mindscapes, making backup memories, indexing memories, self identifications, and the animal inside which is the first stage for animagi training.

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All throughout their training they had learned meditation to better balance themselves as warriors, as fighters. The eighth month of training put more focus on that meditation, by beginning their training in the mind arts, and now they would use it to start trying to transform themselves into their animagus form. Their instructor for the animagus transformation started to instruct by pointing out the differences between a true animagus and a shapeshifter. He explained the difference between the two by defining the benefits of animagus vs shapeshifter.
"You see, to become a dog animagus you need to know how all of the dog's body functions or else you are just a shapeshifter. You would still be human just in the form of a dog. I can tell you, human wizards think they are animagi but they are just humans in animal form, just shapeshifters. To become a true animagi you must learn the animal's body and how it functions. You must truly become the animal in body and mind. Let's use your dogfather as an example.
"Yes he could transform himself to the form of a dog, he did that really well, but he did not fully embrace what a dog was and should be. The olfactory senses of the dog are far superior to that of a human's and we have no ability to test that, but I will say Black did have a very good nose. Now his hearing, we can emphatically say, was not that of a dog's. We say this because, as a race, goblins have a different range of hearing wavelength receptors than humans have. Your range of frequency goes from around twenty to twenty thousand, while ours can go past that by about three times and often more. The range of seventy thousand hertz is a common max for us.
"We tested Lord Black without his knowledge. He, when tested, could not hear . . . um no that's wrong … his ears might be able to detect the sound but he could not react to frequencies above eighteen thousand hertz. If his ears could detect the sounds, then it was his brain that did not understand what his ears detected. You need to understand the whole animal, to make it part of you, to have access to their system for it to do you any good. I can put my hand on the wall of a cave and by knocking on it with a small stone I hear the surrounding area. What is solid, where there are cracks or pockets of water and so on.
"Depending on your animals you two might be able to detect low frequencies on the dirt out in nature. If you are a snake you might be able to pick up smell by collect the molecules that carry whatever scent was in the air with your tongue, but what array of scent are a snake being able to identify, compared to the snake animagi. As a bird, you might be able to focus your eyes on a pray from far away, but are you going to see it as a bird, or a human? Birds can see wider opening in wavelength frequencies of what you call colours. I can by looking at you see temperature differences in your face, I'm positive birds can do that to. Flying at four hundred feet above ground you would not see a rabbit sitting still. But to the hunting bird, the rabbit and the surrounding area would have a different temperatures, to them it is like a light on a dark night. I don't see in the dark as you do, I see temperature differences and my mind builds me an image of the surrounding area, like it does for when you can see normally."

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That's how their training started and continued. All the compressed time was a mixture of learning and doing what you could to improve yourself. During eight months of training some of the time was used to better understanding spoken language. Such as using Memo Crystals, they were what the goblins used among themselves to teach their young. They worked by translating, from the foreign language to their native one, the pair found they had to first master gobbledygook as that was what was considered the 'native' language. While they learned the words, understanding those words in the context they were used, well that took more than three of the training periods/months. The sentence structure and sometimes just the different meaning of the words, as well as the context in which they were used, was a little difficult to translate fully. When they weren't learning languages they learned forms of combat, politics, healing, runes, potions, animagus training, weapons training, arithmancy, legilimency, occlumency, and strangely enough etiquette. The training was given through a mixture of training agents and it was brutal. They were put through a grueling pace during the eight months, doing nothing but training.

:-:-: Day 10 of Goblin Training :-:-:

"Harry, you have a lot of new items and weapons but you also have things from your ancestors. You need to learn how and when to use them, especially outside of training. Now we still have nine days until you are sixteen and I thought of a few things when the ring was explained to you. The magical rope spell, incarcerous, if you turn on the anti-magic ward aspect of the ring then they will dissolve. Next what about doors that are locked by magic, can they be opened? Things like that we should look at and have a plan for it in case we need it. Moreover what about animagi? As we now have our animal form done, will we return to our base form when the ward is active? Can you control the ring in your form? Or do we keep the animal shape but without the ability to change back for as long as the field is active? These are the things we have to try or at least think about trying." Tonks did point out about effect his ring had on animagi and magical weapon, as they was talking.

"Imagine if Rita Skeeter was to come flying in as a beetle. Then suddenly she returns to herself four meters in the air and bang right down the cobblestones. I already see a good use for it."

"Rita Skeeter is an animagus? A beetle? She has to be unregistered?"

"Yes, yes and yes."

"How do you know this? I can't imagine she would just freely say 'Hey guess what I'm a beetle animagus'"

"Hell no. It was during fourth year….. You know during the tournament? She was writing those horrid newspaper articles but she knew too much about things she shouldn't have. She knew about things we said during private conversations when no one else was around. Then Hermione remembered about Pettigrew, with him being a garden variety rat he could get around unnoticed, and that often we saw a big, black beetle on those occasions. Imagine flying beetles, in the middle of winter, at the Yule Ball or during the second task of the tournament. It was too obvious for her to miss."

"Now that I've been told about it I think it's definitely something I have to talk to Amelia about."

"Only if you can explain to her how you found out without it involving me or Hermione. Hermione has been blackmailing her to not write crap about us again. So far she has kept her part of the agreement so we intend to keep to ours."

"Ok soooo I will say an 'anonymous source' told me about Rita being an animagus but my source refuses to tell me their name so it is worthless in court. I will then remind her of all the articles that Rita published and say that being an animagus would explain how she could find out about everything. At that point she will probably place us on alert and we will then devise a plan to 'discover' Rita by ourselves."

"That's fine as long as you can keep us out of it. Now to test the ward I have the anti-magic ward active now. You did not change. Is this your basic shape now?"

"No, but I can't change either. So if you activate the anti magic ward then I'm useless as a bodyguard if I need to have a different body type."

"Alright I have released it, but now we know as a metamorph, you do not change. From that we can say you probably won't as an animagus either."

"Anyway, we do need to register, but not in the public registry. We will register at the D.O.M., so don't worry about that part."

"D.O.M.? But I'm not on the, how did you say it? 'The chain of command' list."

"No, you're not and that's the fun part. Your directory cards are blank, to everyone. Some know that Harry Potter, has access, but that's all. Let's also say that some people at the top like knowing if Harry Potter has access. If he or she look they will find the answer to be 'YES'. If it wasn't for me being your guide into the department I would never have been told. As for what it means? I have no idea. But still, don't even think of walking into the registry for animagi office."

"Thanks for telling me."

:-:-: Day 11 Trunk retrieving :-:-:

"Harry it's time to start testing the next use of your Unspeakable robes. Now these are part of a portkey, usually most consider the portkey as only one part. The theory behind the art of portkey travel is lost to most that learn to create one. For the portkey to work it needs a starting point and destination. When you try to use one, or set one to activate ideally the spell starts by reaching out for the destination, if it can make connection then the line of travel opens. You can easily block this with the ring, or just by employing normal security spells. A powerful wizard can make a portkey that is a little different. It reaches out, like a normal portkey, but normal blocking methods do not affect it, as it is not connected to the arrival point. A powerful wizard can bypass that step when creating portkey, they in effect create a portkey that has no need for an open line. The party coming by that portkey is trying to get past anti portkey wards or blocks. Their portkey goes through the block or ward by punching through the wards. Depending on the power behind the portkey that is punching through it can be a bit hazardous to one's health. It's an unpleasant experience to fall if the portkey brings you though but you stop a few feet above the ground and then drop. Also if the portkey had already established, prior to the ward being raised, a connection and it was just idling waiting for the activation phrase, it can't be blocked. The magic of the portkey, once the destination is set, will 'remember' based on predetermined coordinates used."

"Are you telling me that there is a portkey that is unblockable?"

"In a way it is. In this instance it is only for you and these robes. You must press your hand to the tag on your robe and give the activation phrase, 'Command; Locker'. You will end up in front of your locker and that's the normal way in for us. It can also be used to escape from perilous situations. Later, if you accept the position and when you are on our payroll, you can have access to the sickbay and use the command 'sickbay' to get there. If you work for us, are wearing your robe and are knocked unconscious, you will end up in sickbay anyway."

"That can be useful and all the stuff from the pocket, you haven't talked about them yet."

"That you will learn about later. Most of it is portkeys into our holding cells. Now find what looks like an old pocket watch." Harry finds it and holds it up", Good hold it to your tag and say Command Connect' then place it over there." Said Tonks and points to a free spot on the table.

"You are now presented to your locker, you are not to say I Snake any more. I also missed something last time, I did say you only have to put your hand at the image of the snake on the locker for it to open up. Well that is correct, as long no other commands have been used, you just did a command. With that the locker did a reset of the command to open, hence you must again command it to open if it's to be opened. Since you already did the initial presentation of 'I Snake' you need only say Command; Open. If it doesn't, then try it by saying 'Command; you to open'. As that was how it was commanded last. Do NOT start saying 'I . . . ' and then holding your hand at the image on the locker. I will repeat that is only for the initial setup to you and if you do that again it can be that they will all be . . . well, think tilt and error. You will be on a 'to laugh at list' until someone else makes an error.

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They both did the Command to travel back to the unspeakable and collect their trunks.

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Once they had entered the same room as before they saw the unspeakable and their completed trunks. The unspeakable then gave directions to Harry on how they would code the trunks to him. Harry was to let two drops of blood fall on the lock as the black tagged unspeakable held his wand on it. Then mysterious unspeakable would remove his wand so Harry could then place his on the same spot and let another drop of blood fall. This was to continue fifteen more times. Conversation was kept at a minimum, but before he left he was handed a little book with a verbal direction to "Read the first three pages before you open any of them." Then without a word Tonks placed the bag of galleons on a side table and they turned to leave. The last word from the unknown person was more loudly thought than spoken in words, but Harry heard it and it confused him.
"Someday, perhaps."

:-:-:-: back in the locker room :-:-:-:

"Now as you have placed the return point just place your hand on your mark say; Command; Return; and you will end up in front of where you left the watch, while I will end up at my return point.

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They then had some reading to do, and some instructions to follow. Tonks insisted that Harry store six trunks and that they would have one at home. They would then carry one and set two to be stored at two different safe locations. Since Harry had chosen doors the instructions advised, to the right of the door at eye level on the door frame, the knob, was to be pushed in, always. Pulled out to the outer setting is for exit mode and in exit mode it can't receive travelers. A foot down from that was another four smaller knobs, all painted half black half white, they could be turned to have either black or white up. The book had a page for each setting, it also had open places for Harry to write where each trunk was. The last knob to turn was the doorknob, that connected the doors to become one door that you could open. When the door was open you could have one foot in each room, but keeping the door open was using the trunks power. Since power was a concern, no more than five minutes an hour was recommended and after ten minutes with the door open the knob lit up and started to 'blink'. If the knobs started to blink then it was dangerous to pass through the gate.

Another requirement to keep the door open was that you must hold the doorknob for it to remain open. If you let go of the doorknob then it reset all black/white knobs to the trunks unique number thus allowing it to be open for receiving from another trunk. If for whatever reason you were in the middle of the doorway and let go of the knob you would find it to be unpleasant. When in the trunk and you did not want to receive visitors, you could pull the mode setting knob to exit mood thereby closing that trunk for incoming guests. Think of it as a giant Do Not Disturb sign. Once the basic instructions were read through and understood they practised going between trunks. Harry did find the little marking in the left front corner, it had small markings of ring or star four in a line, and the star could be translated to black, and the ring to white. And by that he had the trunks outside markings.

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From the day he first knew that he would own fifteen trunk gates he had started to think how to use them and he was thinking in numbers. He had also made his list of trunk numbers and where they would be. When he got them and saw it was operated by four knobs colored white or black he did some rethinking. They had colour, well black and white, which made them easy to keep in mind, it was almost logical to use that.
It ended up with: WWWB and WWBB was his carried and home. For Tonks she just reversed it and to be BWWW BBWW.

The emergency trunk would be BBBB and all black. It would later be placed in a safe place leaving WWBW WBWW and WBBW as what they had to play with. WWBW was chosen to be placed at Gringotts. Wait that needs to be two at Gringotts. He added WBWW for Tonks for as long as they were working together.

Harry made the master list, then duplicated it to all the trunks, in order as it was easy to see. Black from the left for Tonks, from the Right his.
(00) WWWW - not to use
(01) WWWB - Harry C - for carry
(02) WWBW - Gringotts room; Harry
(03) WWBB - Harry room
(04) WBWW - Gringotts room; Tonks
(05) WBWB - Stored - Planned for Barbados
(06) WBBW - Stored - For minor retreat
(07) WBBB - Stored - for Harry to select
(08) BWWW - Tonks C
(09) BWWB - Stored - Planned for Nr 12 - after the will reading
(10) BWBW - Stored
(11) BWBB - Stored - Planned for new School USA
(12) BBWW - Tonks room
(13) BBWB - Stored - Planned for new School USA
(14) BBBW - Stored - for Tonks to select
(15) BBBB - Stored - FIX it Emergency Room

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The next day they carried two trunks each, one from each person to be left at Gringotts if it was allowed.

:-:-: Day 12 The inner body :-:-:

They had been learning a lot about healing but now they had come to seriously difficult healing, the regrowing lost limbs.
"We have instructed you about the most basic of healing, stopping when we reached some wounds that won't heal with normal healing magic. By wizarding standards, healing magic stops when the magic that is cast is a dark spell. Well, there is no such thing as light, dark or gray magic, magic is magic. What wizards consider unhealable, due to dark magic, we say it can be healed by using a ritual to help, to heal. The rituals may vary depending on what magic was used and what is being healed. They generally also require an offering or sacrifice this could include things such as blood, bone or tissue. As long you do not force others to suffer or die, and they help you of their own free will driven by love or a strong desire to help, rituals like that can never be evil.
"A spell that causes damage or otherwise affects your physical body, that can be healed easily. The healing can be done in minutes or it could take weeks, but it will be healed. Now we have been speaking about spells that target the mind, but to see and be able to do the next part, you must understand a little more. This is not the same, but an analogy to help you understand. To build a house you must have blueprints for the builders to known how to build the house. How wide, how many stories, do we add a basement or an attic these are important for the builders to know. Now think of the cells that came together to form the body, they were the blueprint of the body. The body form is the house. Your essence or soul, that which makes you unique, is the inhabitant that can freely move within the body. You are not the cells, the organs, or shell that we call a body. You are the essence or soul within using the body to affect the material world. When the body passes or dies we sometimes have a ghost left behind yes? Like your history teacher Professor Binns right? That is the essence."

"What makes you, you, is the spirit inside your body. If the spell damages both, the astral and physical body, only healing the physical body will not work as your spirit or essence is still damaged. Spells that can do this are what your ministry call dark spells. They are not dark, evil - well, that you can say. But nonetheless, to heal wounds of that kind, you need to see the part that is wounded, the astral body, heal that first, then the the physical body can be healed.

"What many wizards don't know is that some of my race are given the gift to see what others can't. They can repair an astral body with there hands like a normal healer would repair the physical body. To others who don't have the sight, it's looks as if they do meaningless gestures up and around the person they help. The curse you call the killing curse doesn't kill the body, it shocks the physical body and kills the the astral body. When a hunter fires a gun, like a shotgun, at a deer the outermost range of pellets won't kill the animal. The animal will still collapse and fall down where it is. It's in effect 'shocked' to death. It can be that it's just shocked and unconsciousness, to later wake up and walk away. The same can happen with the killing curse if the victim receives care under a non magical healers care in less than five minutes, then the physical body can survive. The thing with the killing curse is if the astral body was just shocked, then the victim can survive. If the curse is to close and it kills the astral body then you may get the physical body back but the essence is gone. I am also sorry to say, that one can't simply be taught to heal astral body if you can't see it."

"Basically, magic is magic, and if you focus on both the astral and the physical healing as you perform healing magic you may be able to help someone. Magic as we try to use it, is intent based. If you include the astral body in your healing focus, you might heal wounds even your St. Mungo's hospital can't heal.
"Why can't they heal some of these wounds, you can ask. Well, a healer learns from another healer and they are not allowed to do other than what's been traditionally done. They don't experiment, or try new things unless forced, and they definitely don't think outside of their pretty little boxes."

"Werewolves how do they become were's? It is the same thing, the bite, it infects the inner astral body. The astral body needs the full moon, not physically but mentally. If a were doesn't realize the full moon is that night and doesn't see it then the transformation doesn't happen. In here, if the werewolf doesn't know of the time compressions and they are counting the days to the full moon then, once they reach the day when they think there is supposed to be a full moon they will transform. The body fluids and other reactions that come with the werewolf transformation are created from the inner body. How long of a time period a werewolf must go knowing there is no full moon for the inner body to forget about it is unknown. If a werewolf is reminded of the moon the transformations just begin again.

:-:-: Day 13 The shooting range :-:-:

Shortly before the end of the training period one of their instructors stopped and said, "Today after the day/month training period I'm going to take you over to a shooting range. You will meet your instructor there at four o'clock. So come to the room your trunks are in with your gun and fifty rounds no, make it sixty rounds, ten for practice and then ten series of five."

"Okay." Replied Tonks and Harry.

Tonks and Harry thought the go between the trunks had started to go smoothly. The goblins made and agreement with them that they were going to seal the door as soon they left and only reopen it a few minutes before the next day's training.

:-:-: At the range :-:-:

A goblin lead Tonks and Harry from their trunks to a large room and a very ordinary looking man. Once they had reached earshot of the man in the room the goblin said "Ok Mr. Potter and Tonks this will be one of your weapons instructors Lieutenant Hawkeye. He specializes in muggle firearms. He will instruct you in the care and maintenance of the firearm you purchased. I will leave you now but if you need anything ring the bell outside the door to the room and a goblin would be with you shortly."

Once the goblin had left the instructor, a short man with brown hair and eyes looked at them and said "Now guys and gals, what we are going to do first is learn a little bit about the gun you've purchased and how to care for it. Yes, you have a weapon, but it just like when you first got your wand, you don't just immediately know how to use it you need training and knowledge to be able to use it. The first thing that you need to know about the gun is how to tell if it is loaded."

At this point he extended his hand for Harry's weapon and once he took it in hand he continued with, "Ok so automatically if you are not aiming to fire this weapon either in training or at an enemy we need to remove the magazine. So we will just slide this out and set it to the side. Now just because the magazine is out doesn't necessarily mean it is safe. We need to check the chamber to make sure there isn't a bullet inside. See," says the instructor "if we hadn't checked we would have missed this bullet so let's just set it with the magazine."

"I am going to dismantle the gun and go over basic care and maintenance. Now young lady, I see this young man has a weapon but you do not so let me look in my bag to see if I have same model. If I do then it will be much easier for you to learn. I can even let you keep the gun. When Gringotts set up the training session for you they paid for the weapon as well." As Lieutenant Hawkeye searched his bag for the gun Tonks just had to speak up.

"Um Lieutenant Hawkeye? Sir? You don't have to call us young lady or young man you can just call me Tonks and he's Harry." aid Tonks a little nervously. She didn't know what it was about this guy but he set off her 'Spidey' senses something fierce.

"Well alrighty then you can call me Hawkeye. None of this Lieutenant Hawkeye or Sir crap." he replied. "Ahhh here it is… and it is the same model as Harry's gun so we are in luck. As I said the gun is paid for so it is yours but, to stay away from the paperwork Nazi's, I need you to fill this out for me." He hands Tonks a pack of papers to fill out. Onc she completes them he takes them and quickly stores them back in his bag. "I can throw the paperwork at them and run away. If I don't have this or lose it they track me down and take me back to their lair to fill it out again in triplicate evil bastards.

"Alright as I was saying I am going to instruct you on care and maintenance as well as how to fire the gun. So while I have Harry's gun just watch me while I dismantle it. I will give a verbal list of what I am doing as I do it. Pull down the front end of the trigger guard and push it to the right. It will rest against the frame and remain open. Pull the slide to the rear as far as it will go. Lift up and ease it forward off the frame. Remove the extractor by depressing the extractor plunger well below the edge of the slide. Use a thin awl or a jeweler's screwdriver as I show, and rotate the extractor toward the firing pin.

"After removing the extractor spring and safety catch plunger remove the safety catch by first rotating it to the off position. Then, while pushing the firing pin deep into the slide, lift out the safety catch.

"Finally, the magazine catch is retained by the trigger guard plunger. Removing the plunger and spring is not recommended unless it is absolutely necessary as they are under strong tension. If it is necessary, first push out the trigger guard pin. Again, it is not advisable to remove the trigger bar or cocking piece unless absolutely necessary. If so, do not pry out the trigger bar; rather, remove the cocking piece first. Reassembly is just in the reverse order."

"Ok so the gun that I have here is in good working condition. Did you know that when you bought it?" asks Hawkeye.

Harry just shakes his head no and says "I don't know anything about guns really but I was told it was in good condition when I got it. I was also given this." Harry say, as he places the silencer on the table.

"WHAT . . . ?" Hawkeye cried out and took a closer look at it before continuing. "That's a silencer, but for it to fit on the gun, or any gun the gun would have to have the brackets for it. Your gun doesn't have those brackets therefor it won't fit this gun. And you have a silencer to a bigger gun, if you ever replace your gun to a thirty eight or bigger, then you may get a use for it. Until then it's merely a paper weight as it waste to have it on you at this point. Shame that is to" Hawkeye sighed, "that is a very nice silencer but go ahead and put it back in your bag or in mine if you don't like it."
"I really have no use for it, so here, if you like it you can keep it." Said Harry and then gave it to the Lieutenant.

"Well you were lucky kid they didn't rip you off and actually sold you a quality piece." Hawkeye turns and looks at Tonks and says "Tonks don't worry about your gun I don't keep inferior pieces, the gun I gave you is in excellent condition as well." After doing the inspection of Harry's gun and telling Tonks hers was ok he went on to assure them that they wouldn't be expected to remember everything.

"Now don't panic I will have you do this a couple of times with me before you do it yourself or actually use the weapon. I want you to be familiar with the gun to know what makes it work and how to fix it if necessary." Hawkeye puts the gun back together and takes it apart again going back over the instructions. He put the gun together a final time before giving Harry the gun and letting them both do it themselves.

Once they were comfortable with dismantling the gun he lead them to the opposite side of the room. Hawkeye started by saying " This is a small target range before we start practising there are a few rules I want to make you aware of. First do not ever point your weapon at anyone in this room while training. You never know it could go off and hurt someone and accidents do happen. The only thing you will fire on are the targets I give you. Second if I tell you to hold your fire then HOLD YOUR FIRE! I will not get shot because you decide to play around. If I do get shot you will BLEED! Third at the end of your time here you will be expected to clean your weapons no exceptions. I also need to make you aware I AM NOT THE MOMMA! I will not wipe your noses or butts and I sure as HELL won't clean your weapon so don't ask."

From that point he gave them the nickel and dime tour of the area. He explained the room and showed them the targets they would be using. The instructions seemed simple enough "We look down the barrel to aim at center of the target over there then pull the trigger back and the gun fires."

"Now one of the things that most people overlook is the stance they take when firing a weapon. We have 3 shooting stances the Isosceles, the weaver, and the fighting stance. Each has their merits and we are going to practice a little with all 3 to find the one you are most comfortable with."

"The first stance is the one that was previously the standard when learning to shoot, the Isosceles. Now for this stance the shooter faces the target squarely, the feet are set shoulder width (or slightly wider) apart. The toes face the target and are aligned. The knees are flexed at an angle that varies somewhat and the shooter leans forward from the waist towards the target. The shooter's arms are extended and form an isosceles triangle, hence the name. Now Before I go any further and explain the other stances I want you to come to the target line here." Hawkeye stepped back and directed both Tonks and Harry to the appropriate spots. "Ok what I want you to do first is pick up the magazine and slide it back into the grip. Now, while I was showing you how to dismantle your guns earlier I went ahead and grabbed two fully loaded clips from my bag, one for each of you. You should notice a slight difference in the weight of the guns now, versus before when you had empty or half loaded clips in. Always make sure the gun is not pointed at anyone in case an accidental discharge occurs. Now while we are here at the firing range the best place to point the gun is at the targets unless someone is heading to the targets to change them out. At that point the guns should be pointed down to the ground. Never aim the weapon unless you intend to use the weapon. Now I am going to stand behind you and give directions so make sure to listen and follow my instructions capisci?"

Both Harry and Tonks both said yes then did as instructed before looking back to Hawkeye. "Great now I want you to look on the grip of the gun and make sure the safety is not 'on'. It won't do you any good to pull the trigger if it won't shoot because your safety is on." Both Harry and Tonks checked their guns as directed and verbally advised the safeties were off. "Ok last thing I am going to do is place a modified silencing spell on your ears. Guns when fired especially indoors like this tend to be loud. I am sure neither of you want to deal with ringing ears or temporary to permanent deafness. The spell is modified to silence or muffle sounds above a certain range. You will be able to hear me speak in a normal tone of voice but when the gun fires you won't hear it. Now go ahead and take the isosceles stance, good good. I want you to point the gun towards the target and fire 5 shots. Then stop and point the gun down towards the floor to let me know you have finished firing." Hawkeye placed the modified silencing spell on each of them stepped back and said"Begin."

Harry and Tonks each fired their 5 shots, stopped, pointed their guns down to the floor and gave their impression on how they felt firing the gun in that stance. After each series of 5 shots and their reviews of that stance Hawkeye would tell them about the next stance until they had gone through each of the three.

:-:-:

"Ok now that you have gone through and used each stance, while firing a weapon, did you find the one most comfortable for you or would you like to do it again?" queried Hawkeye.

Harry and Tonks looked at each other then at Hawkeye and said as one"The Fighting stance."

"It feels like it is a modified stance between the Weaver and Isosceles stances." said Tonks.

"Yeah," said Harry. "The Weaver stance felt like it exposed an area of my torso, like kind of left it out there to be shot at. The Isosceles stance while it has side-to-side stability, it lacks front-to-rear balance due to the positioning of the feet. It felt like I would fall over if the gun had a kick to it, ya know? Plus if we end up using a different style of gun, one that has that 'kick' or recoil to it, we wouldn't need to change our stance. The Fighting stance should work just fine."

"Ok I can see those points myself I was trained to use the Isosceles stance. It was the standard stance taught by law enforcement and some militaries. Now go ahead and put the safeties on the weapon. I want you to remove the magazines from the gun and remember to check the chamber to make sure you don't have one in the chamber. When that's done just lay the guns on the counter for a moment." Hawkeye watched them both as they followed his instructions. Once they put the guns down he went over and double checked that the safeties were on, the magazine was removed, and there were no bullets in the chamber for each gun. Once that was taken care of he accio'd the targets for each of them.

He looked over the targets and said "The result is good you can see they all center, somewhat. We can work more on the aiming of the weapon over time but this is good you at least hit the target for the most part. Now as you see if you aim right, the gun be your friend. Now, the distance I set was at eighty two feet, which equals to roughly twenty seven yards, or as most countries use meters, twenty five. I just want to give you a little general information at the moment. If you now aim by the sight you see, you are right on target. If you, by accident, happen to fire the gun slightly upward about thirty degrees the bullet can fly three quarters of a mile. The gun you used today is a common gun for armed guards or non magical aurors, ah sorry, yes that's muggle ammo used is a .32 calibre or, seven point six five millimeters. The ammo is not just .32 you must get 7.65 Walther or .32 ACP. There is a variety of .32's to choose from."

"I wanted to let you know I am going to keep the targets each day we practice. About halfway through training we will review them again to see our progress and possible areas to improve upon. We will also increase the distance between you and the target slowly. I want to see, by the end of your training, how good you can shoot from a distance.

:-:-: Day 14 - juli 26 - end of Gringotts training :-:-:

The pair was very surprised to see Regnok at the end of that days training. "Harry and Tonks, my friends, it pleases me greatly to inform you that today is the last day of your time here. Your trainers have given me reports on your progress and all of them have informed me that your training with them is complete. You have lived and trained in compressed time, while to everyone else only a few days have passed, for you it has been little more than a year."

"Thank you Director Regnok, for allowing me access to such superb instruction and training. Please add a bonus for them all."

"That bonus you mentioned was all payed out with the rendering of the basilisk. Which is why we, well I, felt it was right to give something back to you. You might remember I said that I would take, per the agreement twenty percent, but you let us have sixty seven percent giving Gringotts a total of three hundred thousand galleons more then estimated. So you did pay quite a sum for this. Also in the deal was the armour, a few trinkets, and those two boxes. We ask that you unshrink them at home. Now, if you like, we can move your trunk to our secure room for travelers that are nervous of the outdoor environment. Then you can come and go without walking in the rain."

"Thank you my friend that is very generous of you. While training elsewhere, has grown on me, I hope we can find something as good."

"I have looked into that for you and I can offer you at least three places that look good."

"Thank you that's great."

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:-:-:-: EOC :-:-:-:

/ It warms an old man's mind to see that so many are interested in reading what I - we, write. Many follow, many ways are favorite, but not many put a few pies in a little 'hello there' waving. It would heat even more. Two chapters further in the new year come. / unedited google translation ./