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Harry Potter and the Power of the Garuda By YelloWitchGrl
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Category: Post-OotP
Characters:Harry/Ginny
Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Fluff, Humor, Tragedy, Drama
Warnings: Death, Sexual Situations, Violence
Story is Complete
Rating: R
Reviews: 301
Summary: Harry seventh year has not turned out as he expected! Will he find the power that he needs to defeat Voldemort? What does his love life have to do with it? What is Garuda?
Hitcount: Story Total: 170883; Chapter Total: 6923
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Harry felt like he as in heaven and the next day he walked as if he was floating on air. He loved Ginny and Ginny loved him. Classes that day went surprisingly well and nothing, not even Snape taking 20 point from Gryffindor because Harry smiled at him, could ruin his mood. He was even able to correctly brew the potion for dreamless sleep, much to the annoyance of Professor Snape, who was in a particularly foul mood that day. He could not even accuse Hermione of helping him because she had been sitting with Ron, whose potion was sky blue instead of purple. All in all, Harry thought as he walked out of the dungeons with Ron and Hermione, this day could not get much better.
“Mate, how did you get that potion done right? I mean, no offense, but you’re just as bad at potions as I am.” Ron asked Harry when they were well away from the potions master’s domain.
“Dunno. I just looked at the instructions and it made sense. I was able to focus on it and get it done. It’s weird though, cause I also keep thinking about Ginny.”
Ron made a noise of disgust but quickly shut up at the glare Hermione was sending his way. “I think,” Hermione said, “that this is part of your powers growing.”
“That would be cool. I won’t have to worry so much about passing my NEWTs if this keeps up. Honestly, that has to be the easiest potions lesson I have ever had.”
“I hope that this continues but we’ll see when we get to Charms. We are doing the Protean Charm today.” She was nearly bouncing as she walked beside them.
Ron looked sideways at her. “Why are you so excited about that? You’ve been able to do that since fifth year.”
“Yes, but Harry hasn’t. We’ll be able to see if his powers really are growing or if potions was just a coincidence and Harry really has not improved at anything. Personally, I think you are just going to keep getting better and thank goodness.”
It seemed that Hermione was correct though. He was able to do the Protean Charm correctly on the first try and through out the rest of the week he found himself keeping up with or beating Hermione in all of their subjects. Ron had grumbled that he was going to be the idiot in the group and Harry had just laughed.
“If you’re the idiot of our group, then how come I have not once beaten you at a game of chess?” Harry asked, grinning.
“That’s right, Ron. You do really well with strategy, which is what makes you an excellent Quidditch captain.” Hermione said, kissing his cheek. “And if you were an idiot, I would not be in love with you, so cheer up. We need Harry to do well. And while Harry may not do as well in homework as I do, because I put more into it, I do expect that he will be surpassing me in all areas of practical spell work now that he and Ginny are together. I think that as their relationship grows and deepens that the power Harry finds in himself will be limitless. I’ve seen him do amazing things when love was involved, including saving Sirius and I from a hundred dementors in our third year.”
Harry thought about what she had said. “You know, Tonks mentioned that to me too but at the time, I could not have given you a reason that I was able to get rid of all those dementors. But when you mention it that makes a lot of sense. I was desperate to live with Sirius and I knew that I did not do something we were going to die. I really wanted to have a parent.” Harry stopped. Talking about Sirius was still somewhat painful. He missed his godfather but talking about him now was more bittersweet and not just painful. “Anyway, I have to run up to meet Tonks. She said that she had a surprise for me today if I got all my work done.”
“What do you mean all your work done?” Hermione asked.
“Well… she gave me the Auror’s training manual and said that if I read it and memorized most of it then she’d have a surprise for me. I told her yesterday that I had finished it and she said that today she would give me that surprise.” Harry looked sheepishly at the floor.
“How much of it did you memorize then?” Hermione had looked incredulously at him and Harry knew why. He had shown her the manual that Tonks had given him four days ago and it was huge. There had to be several thousand spells in the book, hundreds of potions to memorize and a huge section on dark creatures. She had flipped through it quickly exclaimed over the fact that there were at least a hundred pages describing protocol and several hundred scenarios on when it was best to use certain spells.
Harry gave her a searching look before he answered carefully. “I don’t know what exactly is happening to me but I picked the book up and read it all night that night I got it. I went to class, not really tired and then after I had finished my homework, I finished the handbook that next night. I wasn’t even tired. I mean, sleeping was nice but I didn’t seem too affected by not having slept.”
Hermione looked amazed. “You finished it in two nights? I doubt I could have finished it in 3 whole days, but you finished it in two nights? How much of it do you remember? I thought she wanted you to memorize it.”
Harry mumbled something but didn’t look up at her.
“What was that?”
“I said… I said that I can recite it be heart. I had Ginny test me. I can even give you page numbers where I found something.”
Harry thought Hermione was going to be mad that he could read better and faster than she could, which had been why he had put off telling her about it but he did not expect the reaction that he got. Hermione threw herself at him and crushed him in a bone-crushing hug.
“OH thank Merlin!” She positively beamed at him and tears were streaming down her face. “This is it, Harry! You ARE going to beat him! I always knew you had it in you, but this is going to help you so much in finding a way to defeat him.” She gave him another smile then pulled out of his arms and ran over to Ron who was staring at Harry in awe. She reached up, grabbed Ron’s face and planted a kiss on his lips before pulling him into a hug. “RON!!! We are going to win the war!!! Oh, this has to be one of the best feelings.” And with that, she started bawling.
Harry looked at her then at Ron who was looking helplessly back at him. Ron mouthed ‘mental’ at him. Harry grinned and nodded his head in agreement. “Well,” Harry said casually. “I’d best be off to meet Tonks. I’ll catch up with you guys tonight.”
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