The New Harry

by catchingafallingstar

This story contains a kind of super-Harry (who will teach his tricks to others) as a teenage having his first flirts with girls (they will be many and they'll be ok with it for their reasons) while trying to survive the usual villains (a corrupt government, sadistic Dark Lord and manipulative headmaster). Nothing revolutionary, but hopefully entertaining.

6. The problems of a stagnate society

6. The problems of a stagnate society

After such an amazing display of magic, Harry was exhausted. Two girls helped him back to a seat.

"This… this was so much more than I had expected" he commented more to himself but every one of the girls was hearing attentively. "I had expected that my magic was divided, half in my core, half around my body, but it felt as if my core was full, and a lot more was spread around my body and joined the spell!"

"Our core is constantly refilling our reserves, Harry" said Padma, "Maybe when you divided your magic the first time you have this 50-50 division, and you just believe it would work this way forever, while your core just continue refilling until you reach a 100-100 division."

"It is possible" commented Morag, "but I was one of the first to learn this division, and I can tell you that the magic in my body is at least the double of what I have in my core. Harry probably had now at least three times the magic he had last year, and he was then already one of the most powerful students in our year, if not the whole school!"

Harry looked amazed at his friend and asked "Do you really think I could be that powerful now? Do you feel the same way? Any of you?"

Morag was the first to agree, and was followed by several others. They really were feeling more powerful after they had started with the exercises and succeeded in spread their magic to the whole of their bodies, and with no sensible reduction to what their cores could store, at least after they recovered from the initial split.

Harry could only answer "Amazing!" before he was out for a nap.

.o0o.

Susan, Morag, Hannah, Fay and Padma had a quick chat then, while Padma prepared a section of the room so all the girls could seat nearby (she visualized two bleachers of three levels each facing each other) the others summoned the rest to join them. After requiring the room to protect Harry acoustically, Morag stated their objective and initiated the talk, pointing to the pile of chips: "That was the most impressive bit of magic I ever saw!"

"And he is teaching us!"

"Even that?"

"I have no doubts he will! He is showing us everything!"

"We know You-Know-Who is still out there. We'll need to learn how to protect ourselves."

"He wants to protect us. He must know he'll not be able to protect all of us all of the time."

"He is such a kind and sweet guy. And he is starting to trust us so much!"

"We made the oaths by ourselves. He now knows we are with him!"

"Sure, he is even opening about himself! He never did it before, with anybody!"

"I'm gobsmacked! I was expecting to learn just some easy tricks, and now I'm going to be as powerful as Morgana!"

"We'll all be that powerful! We would be able to do anything… to be anything we want!"

"We need to be cautious! Our oath is too weak for all this power!"

"Yes! We need to protect ourselves and others from all this power!"

"But… what if we need to use this power? You-know-who is still around!"

"Self-defence is an exception, for sure!"

"And preventive strikes against known criminals? It can be necessary..."

"This is going to be difficult… there are too many possibilities..."

"Some protection is always better than none."

"What about this sensual… sexual… whatever?"

"It is so intense!"

"But are we prepared? Are we ready to explore it yet?"

"I'll not wait! I want my chance to experience it!"

"But you are one of the youngest!"

"And if I wait I'll have none of it because one of you older ones will catch him first!"

"That is a 'no go'. We need to put in the vow that will not fight over him nor try to ensnare him away from the others!"

"I agree! This knowledge is too important to be restricted to just a couple!"

"Yes! I don't want any slut transforming sweet Harry in the new dark lord!"

"Calm down! I don't think any of us is this crazy! Let's work together and all of us will benefit!"

"I think we need to plan some actions and start some researches. I'm convinced we have here an amazing opportunity, something really great..."

"We need some stricter rules of conduct. We can't waste this chance!"

"We need to conceal better what we have being learning. Flitwick is already too curious of our progress!"

"We must be more than a simple group… perhaps a coven?"

"A coven? It… isn't it forbidden?"

"And who would know?"

"But what is a coven, exactly?"

"..."

"Not sure..."

"Just a group of witches with a common goal?"

"Why they are so criticised then?"

"There must be more to it, we need to research!"

"Yes, but is there anything about it in the Library? I never saw anything."

"We need to think everything with calm. We need more data before jumping to conclusions."

"What about boys?"

"They don't belong in a coven!"

"But we aren't sure we would create a coven and… Well, how many of us… you know, Harry's just one!"

"Are you already thinking… You are! You little perv!"

"Would you like to be with a common boy when Harry can make you… you know, 'really happy'… just being close to you?"

"But you really want to let boys join us?"

"No way! I vote against!"

"But we are too many for just Harry!"

"We can wait. We are still too young to doing too much right now!"

"Talk for yourself..."

"What! But..."

"Calm down, everybody!"

"I think we deserve to learn more before letting others join us."

"We are progressing fast, until Yule I'm sure we will be able to protect ourselves..."

"Harry showed us we will be faster and stronger, with some training in Martial Arts we can be nearly invincible..."

"Martial Arts? What is that?"

Little Su Li went to a side where 4 dummies appeared. When she reached a central position, the dummies, made of leather and sand, advanced on her. With fast dance-like movements she used fists, feet, knees and elbows to put them down, in different states of disarray.

A small blackboard appeared over a tripod at one side of them.

"Let's list what we need..."

"But will we decide anything without consulting Harry?"

"We can start some researches by ourselves, for sure, but anything else we'll only discuss for now, and talk to him before deciding."

"Yes! He has confide in us to help him. We must keep helping, but without forcing our decisions on him."

"I agree." "Me too!" "It's settled, them?" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!"...

Soon their ideas started to fill the little blackboard to the point it has to be expanded twice. At the end there was a list of points to be researched and who will help with what, after they finally were able to extract some of them from the overbooked research of sexual magic to other topics.

.o0o.

What most girls only discovered later was that one of them had abandoned the talk earlier. Little Tabitha was soon bored with it, as she still didn't know much about magic. But one thing she knew is that Harry's company make her feel really, really good.

She sneakily left the others and made her way to the boy, who was peacefully napping in a couch resting over his right side, his head resting over his right hand, his left hand resting over his right elbow.

She carefully lift his left hand and cuddle with him, resting her back against his front and covering herself with his left arm. Soon she felt his magic interweaving with hers, and sighed contentedly as she felt him adjusting his position to come closer to her. She was so happy with him accepting her presence and his magic involving her in a warm and comfortable cocoon of safety that she also fell asleep, smiling.

.o0o.

"Hey, look at this!" was the indignant cry of the first girl to find the sleeping couple.

"Sshhh! Don't wake them!"

"But she is… it wasn't… I mean, what she did is a kind of treason, isn't?"

"Well, in a way she jumped up the row… but aren't they so cute?"

"But she deserves some kind of penalty, don't you think?"

Soon all girls where circling the couple. The older ones were sharing some worried glances between them until Katie decided to voice their concern.

"With the kind of environment he grew up, with those relatives of his, do you think…?"

"You mean, we don't know if he knows about… what I know you are thinking about?" said Leanne, understanding Katie's worries.

"What? You mean, about sex?" asked Padma. The look she received from the older girls confirmed to her, and many others, the reason of their worries.

'He seems to be liking the contact quiet a lot, don't you think? For sure, he is ready to know."

"But I don't think he already knows. Not much, at least."

"And what you propose? That we teach him? Really?"

"Well, who you think would do it? His relatives? Poppy? His head of house? Maybe Snape?"

"I think boys usually learn with their peers, in their dorms… but I don't think that Longbottom or Weasley would know more than him..."

"And I definitely refused our New Harry being schooled on sex by the likes of Finnegan and Thomas!"

"At least half what they think they knew is probably legends and myths with no ground on reality."

"And the other half must be pure perverted machismo..."

"So, it seems we are his better option, right?"

"Sure!" chored many voices.

"Well, them we must decide who and how. Suggestions?"

.o0o.

Saturday morning, with no classes, Harry finally had the opportunity to evaluate the full length of the group of girls he had gained as allies. Seventy-four! It seems that all girls from 1st to 3rd year was there, except for Hermione Granger and Pansy Parkinson, plus some of the 4th and 5th years too. Even most of the Slytherins had joined the others, after the few ones already ostracized by their own house, like Millicent for her size, Tracey for her muggleborn mother and the Carrow twins for their incestuous parents, had tried to find asylum with them and were well-accepted.

Old Harry would be running away right now, scared to his bones. New Harry was overloaded by so many good feelings he was ready to burst! He was worried of being the only boy there, but that was something he will need some time to think about. He was happy with so many people siding with him, trusting him to lead them in the dark times that probably will come when Voldemort finally regains a body. He was amazed with the effort they were putting in becoming better witches and fulfilling their potential. He was ecstatic to had gained so many friends, he who had none a little more than two years ago! He was avid to know them better, and to them to know him as Harry, and not the Boy-Who-Lived. He could feel the importance of what he was doing, and the happiness for finding so many people wanting to participate in that journey of apprenticeship with him. He was also getting tired, so maybe it was time to end their morning exercises… Some girls were already becoming exhausted, he noted.

.o0o.

After breakfast, they returned to their special room. To avoid revealing the Room of Requirement to outsiders, they always reach the room indirectly. One of the girls always go there alone and inconspicuously to open a passage to whatever unused classroom they choose to use to reach the room. Many times they even open a passage from there direct to their dorm rooms, so they couldn't be seen suspiciously entering some random class and never coming back. Until now Harry had refused to test if the protections on the girls dorms would block his entry this way, no matter how many invitations he receives.

The portkeys to send the basilisk's carcass to Lord Greengrass had arrived in that morning mail, and Astoria had them with her. The little girl has decided to follow him there for the dispatch of the beast. About a third of the girls, including a fearful but resolved Ginny Weasley in search for closure for her last year tribulations, also wanted to see the place. The others were curious, but decided to wait for another opportunity after the removal of the basilisk.

The basilisk was intact, with no bad smell and no signs of decomposition. Four magical cameras were used to register everything at sight. Harry allowed Luna to write an article about the basilisk and another about the Chamber to be published in The Quibbler, but asked for her to wait for his okay until releasing the news. He was amazed with her outfit and asked for a photograph of her near the monster. She was dressed as a typical British explorer of the 19th Century, including the round helmet and canteen, her long blonde hair in two side braids, it was really cute! The both of them take turns around Ginny, giving the young red-haired their support in supersede her bad memories of last year. She cried a lot, but the other girls present also helped and she left the chamber in better mood and with a much lighter soul.

Harry, Luna and, to Harry's surprised, Morag and Padma used their ability to see magic to plot in a map some points to further investigation in the near future.

With the basilisk gone Harry had solved one of his main problems. Soon he would be receiving enough money that he would keep out of Gringotts (and so also out of Dumbledore's control as his guardian) to guarantee his financial independence. Now, he need to cut off Dumbledore's power over him and find a new place to live. He was counting on madam Bones to help him with the first point, and his financial independence and freedom from the manipulating headmaster to solve the second.

.o0o.

After a light lunch in the Great Hall they were back to the Room. Ron and Hermione were still at odds with him, casting glances at him with expressions clearly designed to guilt trip him to apologize to them, something that could have worked on Old Harry but New Harry was immune to this childish play. He knew he didn't do anything wrong, so if they wanted to keep their distance Harry was happy in accept it. He didn't want to lose their friendship but he was really tired to be the only one making concessions and acting like a buffer between them. To prove his point, they were currently also apart each other, Hermione being alone while Ron was getting along with Dean and Seamus.

In The Room, as they were calling the Room of Requirement for short, Harry divided the girls in groups according to their progress and started to help each one after pocketing his false glasses. His vision has improved to the point where it was now easier for him to see without them, to the point that he had requested Dobby to buy new plain lens to use just as a decoy. His scar had also disappeared, but he was using a small plastic sheet with an image to also fake this development in his life. It was another victory for him, a signal that the Boy-Who-Lived no longer existed, surpassed by the New Harry, the Teenager-Who-Broke-Free.

The first group he gave his attention to were composed of the girls who just started practising that week. They would lie comfortably and try to send their magic to different parts of their bodies, until they were able to do it with easy. The second group already was able to do that, so their new goal was to spread their magic to all parts of their body. The third group was requested to keep their magic spread constantly. They were doing whatever they wanted, some just talking, some others doing homework while others were playing some games. Every three minutes a bell would ring signalling it was time to check if their magic was still distributed everywhere in their bodies. Finally, the fourth group was assigned to explore how to use their magic to produce special results like magic sight, faster and stronger movements, or anything else they wanted to try.

.o0o.

Harry had just started to think what to do with his time, with the girls productively occupied, when some of them came to him, solving his dilemma. Soon they were isolated in a separated room inside The Room, and his most embarrassing lesson so far had started.

"Harry, please, promise us you will do your best to remain calm and in control, okay?" asked Katie, using their familiarity through Quidditch to put him at a favourable state of mind.

"Oh-Ho, why I suddenly feel like the cat stuck in the kennel?" he answered cautiously.

"Nothing to worry about, Harry. We are just curious if you had a satisfactory sexual education, it's all" said Leanne trying to calm him down but only succeeding in put the boy in high alert.

"Why?" was his simple answer, but it was clear how much tense he was. To prevent the boy from running away from them Katie chose for a more personal approach. She sat down in his lap sideways, put her arms on his shoulders and, looking direct in his eyes, said slowly and seductively: "Harry, you know that teenagers usually like to engage in some physical activities of a… sexual nature, don't you?" After he nod affirmatively she continued: "Well, we are teenagers, Harry. What you think of us starting some of these activities?" Dropping her robe and slowly unbuttoning her shirt, she continued: "For this, we would like to know if you are apt and know what to do with a girl, or if you need some help to find out". She had removed her shirt and was now showing off her breasts in just a small bra. She had his totally attention focused on them.

"See my boobs, Harry? Wouldn't you like to play with them?"

Harry was unable to formulate words, so he just nod. He couldn't understand why the room had suddenly gotten so hot. His attention was diverted from that pair of wonders as a quill was trusted in his hand. He looked to who gave him the object just to see Leanne, and at her side, Cho, were just as bared as Katie. Looking to the other side embarrassed he found Rosalyn, Wenna and Rhiannon in similar state. 'It's even hotter now. This must be hell... No, this is heaven. Hell must have frozen over.'

"If you just sign this parchment we can play, Harry. Wouldn't you like to play with our boobs?"

Harry didn't know who had asked him to sign the parchment. He didn't care to look what was written in it. He couldn't chose a pair of boobs to focus, he was looking from one to another, mystified, wanting them all. He took the quill, and the quill was forcibly taken from his hand!

"Hey!" he protested, but all he received was the parchment and an order to read it.

He read, and then the lesson's goal became obvious. He was ready to sign off his life and all his properties away, just for the chance to touch and feel some girl's flesh. He would be a slave for the rest of his life, if these girls were so intended. New Harry had made some progress, but there were still a lot more to do.

"Boobs are some great weapons of us girls, Harry. Don't be so sad to have succumbed to lust. I'm sure this is your first experience of the kind, isn't it?" said Katie, minimizing the incident.

"Do you see how much our boobs differ in shape and form, Harry? I'm sure you guys already compare your dicks in your dorm, all boys tend to do this. And it can be embarrassing if one of you has a smaller one. Well, the same occur to us girls. We also tend to compare our boobs, and some of us can really get upset with it, if they feel they don't are developed enough."

"Think of all the new girls out there. Some barely have anything at all, while others already have some nice boobs. While the latter will feel happy with their development, the former may be worried about their lack of something to show, and this can become a reason for insecurity, sadness and feelings of inadequacy."

"Harry, we know how hard your life has been until now. You lost your parents while still a toddler, went to live with relatives that despise and abuse of you, and had experience more danger in two year of Hogwarts than most of all will suffer for the entirety of our lives. But, while this is an exception for you as a boy, look at what we girls have to endure."

"First, a woman only can go far in a career if she is single or a widow."

"Yes, look here at the school, in fact none of our teachers is married, both male or female, but only the women are single by necessity."

"In the Ministry is the same. Former minister Bagnold and current head of DMLE Bones are both single, you must have heard of them. But any other women that reached an important position in the Ministry or in the Wizengamot is either a single or a widow, just check it."

"Second, for almost all of us, half the boys are more magically strong than us. Boys and girls have the same average magical power, but while girls have a small variance, boys are more fairly spread around the maximum and minimum."

Seeing that Harry didn't catch the full meaning of what Cho said, by the expression in Harry's face, Wenna detailed a little more: "What this mean is that we girls are roughly at the same magical power, let say 50%, while boys are spread more equally between 20 and 80%, for example, with a few bellow 20% or above 80%. So, a boy of about 55% magical power is stronger than practically all girls."

"I understand the difference, but I still can't see why this is a problem" Harry commented.

"I'm sure you noted that we only invited other girls for our group, no boys, right?"

"Yes, I was about to ask you all about it, but I'm enjoying so much to be in your company that I feared that bringing boys could change everything."

"Well, it could, and in more ways than you could think."

"Remember when you told us about how you use your spread magic to fight legilimency attacks? Well, we did some tests with it and came to some remarkable discoveries."

"We were able to totally avoid the effect of some weak charms that act on our mind, like the chearing charm and the laugh charm. We are now testing with middle-powered charms."

"Wait! Let me explain this better. If you have all your magic concentrated in your core and is attacked by a mind-altering hex, you only have your occlumency shields and your will to combat the hex, but if your magic is spread, you can use it to help you subdue the hex. It will work like an impenetrable shield, if you really are in control of your magic."

"Yes, that is exactly what I did to protect me against Dumbledore!"

"And that is why we didn't invite any boys to the group so far!"

"I still don't understand."

"Harry, by the laws of the magical world, rape is only configured as so if the criminal physically forced the act. If the girl is confounded or under the imperius, there is no physical force involved."

"What!? But… the magic… is a force… she is being forced to do something against her will!"

"Oh, we totally agree with you, but the bigoted men that made the majority of the Wizengamot don't."

"And with my PVD technique you now have a protection against rape by magic!"

"Yes, but we are unsure if a boy with the extra magic spread in his body will have enough power to overcome us, if we both know about your PVD."

"So, we are keeping only girls in the group until now. Sure you are free to invite any friend of yours, but we ask you to be careful who you select to join, and perhaps, you would accept our suggestion to put them under an oath to both keep the secret and not use it against us."

"I agree, let's keep the boys out until we find a way to guarantee your protection… Wait! What of the girls out of our group? Are they in immediate danger?"

"That's why you always see us girls walking in groups, Harry. Safety in numbers."

"Hermione! She is always alone! Is she in danger?"

"Until recently, she was the too young muggleborn friend of the famous Boy-Who-Lived. Now, she isn't so young and isn't so close to you."

"I tried to warn her, Harry, but..." said Katie before doing a passable imitation of the bush-haired girl: "Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall said Hogwarts was the safest place in magical Britain!"

Harry put his hands on his face and took a deep breath. "Yes, I can see she saying this. She is in danger and doesn't even acknowledge it, because her idols said everything is alright."

"Harry, did you noticed that most Hogwarts' students marry as soon as they leave school, even with magicals having a bigger lifespan than normals? There is a reason for this. It is like magic can tell if a woman already had children or not, and will help her conceive for the first time. This include circumvent any prophylactic measure the couple could try. Potions, pills, condom, everything can fail if the woman isn't a mother yet."

"But there are so few magical children per couple on average! How is that?"

"Magic will help the first pregnancy to occur, but once a woman gives birth to her first child, magic no longer will interfere. And the pregnancy of a magical child is harder than a normal one to the point that many women lose the ability to get pregnant after their first child."

"But, this way, the magical society is doomed. It isn't even able to keep its population stable!"

"Why do you think those bigotries still accept muggleborns in their pureblood society? If there wasn't a need, they would had closed their society to all 'foreigners' long ago."

"But Voldemort, he preaches a society free of muggleborns..."

"And since when mad guys like him let reality interfere with their dreams?"

"In reality, what I think he wants is a society where the purebloods openly dominate, with the muggleborns as servants to be used as they want. If there isn't enough pureblood women enough to keep the population, something would be done to elevate the status of the others."

"Probably they would extend the patriarchal and chauvinist tendencies of this society to the point that, if the male is pureblood, his offspring will be declared pureblood, notwithstanding the blood status of the mother."

"Yes, it would play quite well with their arrogance: a pureblood woman to show at the parties, and a harem of muggleborns to keep their families from extinction and satisfy their wishes."

"But enough of the serious time. Harry had been a very well behaved boy and deserves some reward, and we still have a lot to cover..."

Katie said they had a lot to cover, but what they done was the opposite, they uncovered a lot! They started with shoes, then socks, then skirts and finally the bras. Harry was sweating and having difficult to breathe, but was also so happy! But then he found out what Katie wanted to cover. He learned a lot, but he never was so embarrassed in his life! So many details that he had never imagined existed!

.o0o.

When he was finally free from that mix of Heaven and Hell, Harry decided to try something he wanted since the night he rescued Luna from their bullies, so he went to a corner to not interfere with the few girls still practising. He was unsure if The Room would be able to understand and provide him with what he wanted, but the benefits would be so vast that he needs to at least try it once.

To his surprise, as soon as he finished formulating his request a small table, a chair and a booklet over the table appeared for his use. When he finally finished he was so tired and had so many ideas in his mind that he just requested The Room to provide him a bed and he slept there after taking off his clothes.

.o0o.

It was a good thing they now have The Room to exercise, or they would be hard pressed to explain what they were seeing Harry doing. The girls had rushed to The Room in worry after not founding the boy anywhere in Gryffindor tower, just to find he here, breaking world athletic records at dozen per minute. He run some 50 metres in less than two seconds, jumped up to the top of a 4 metres high platform where he picked up a rock that must have weighed over 100 kilos and threw it across the room as if it was a paper plane, jumped to the next platform, some 10 metres away, then back to the floor, where he started another run at high speed but suddenly stopping when noticing their presence there.

"Let me guess" said Padma with a grin. "You just found another serious injustice in the world and need to vent a little before starting to search a way to fix it?"

"With that fire in his eyes I bet in two dozen extremely serious injustices" replied Sally-Anne.

"Exercise now, chat latter" answered Harry. "Who wants to join me in this obstacle race?"

To his surprise the entirety of the advanced group joined him and did well… for beginners. He helped them and the interaction calmed him down, while the rest of the girls used the other side of The Room to do exercises in a more human way, envious of the superhero feats of their friends but comforted that they will be soon joining them.

After the exercises, a quick shower, breakfast at the Great Hall and returning to The Room, they were comfy spread on the floor over hundreds of cushions, waiting for Harry.

"Sally won. The problems are many, and quite serious. Susan, I need your help..."

"With Auntie?" guessed the red-haired.

"Yes. We have in the castle an illegal animagus that is also known to be dead. What about this as a start? Also, our current Defence teacher is a werewolf. I don't have anything against his illness, he has being a great teacher so far, but I think the students have the right to know this fact and what measures are being taken to ensure our safety. And more, several important wards for our protection are deactivated, exposing us to serious dangers just because the headmaster wants to keep his pet Death Eater around."

"Snape? Snape is a Death Eater?"

"Yes."

Harry's news arouse a lot of comments and questions. He chose to proceed from the question of how he came to knew that.

"Yesterday I asked The Room to explain how and why the castle has guided me to Luna the night she was locked out of Ravenclaw's tower. The short answer is that there are a lot of old and complex magic in activity here for so long that some interference between them lead to some unexpected side-effects. For example, this Room is able to read our thoughts, something that the headmaster and a boggart failed with me. More than this, it has enough of a conscious to interpret this thoughts and create what we want. Add to this the power in the wards and the ley lines that feed them, this incipient conscious established by the founders had a millennium to evolve and to learn from what it has experienced."

"It is like the castle is alive, right?" asked Katie.

"In a way, at least. And last night I was able to learn a lot about the castle, its wards and… maybe we can say its personality?"

"But if what you found is so serious, would be it prudent to wait until a visit to Hogsmeade to tell Susan's auntie? We still don't know when it would be."

"I have a way to contact my Auntie for such an emergency, Harry. She can come here and take me to Hogsmeade for a talk, but I don't think the headmaster will allow you to come with us, and I'm a little afraid of having a talk with her here at Hogwarts."

"I can easily leave the castle, Susan, that's not a problem. Hogwarts itself taught me."

"Then I'll go invite Auntie for a visit soon after the lunch. What you think?"

"Yes, do it, please."

Author's Note: I tried a little experiment in this chapter, and need some feedback from you readers to know how to proceed when Harry talks with a part of the group again. I first wrote the dialogues, intending to clarify who said what latter. When I returned to do just that I saw that I would be polluting the text with a lot of '… X asked, … Y answered, … Z said' that seemed to be unnatural and unnecessary, as most girls were sharing the same opinions, so I didn't included them. Personally I think the dialogues went on more naturally and fluid this way, but it is possible you didn't like it. So, I'm asking what is your opinion, in order to choose what to do next time.