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Category: Post-OotP Characters:All, All Genres: Angst, Drama, Fluff, Humor Warnings: None Rating: PG Reviews: 309 Summary: *** The author has been reminded via the e-mail address on file that this story is listed as incomplete and has not been updated in over 2 years *** This story starts at the end of Order Of The Phoenix. Although this story starts as the usual Harry/Ginny romance, I believe after several chapters, you will find that Ancient Dark Magic takes on a whole new meaning to our Harry and Ginny. Will Harry discover the key to the Half-Blood Prince?* * * *American Edition *** * * * Hitcount: Story Total: 196469; Chapter Total: 3910 Author's Notes: SUMMARY: Harry gets defensive. O.W.L.S are flying |
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Chapter Five - Defense Room The next morning, Dobby woke him up and pleaded with Harry to come down to breakfast. The first thing that Harry noticed was that there was beautiful green carpet on the landing and stairs. The walls were painted a light warm cream color. The painting of Mrs. Black was gone! YAY! In its place was a long gold plated mirror. Now, the Entrance Hall looked like it was part of a different house. All the old portraits from the Black family were gone. There were nice lighting fixtures in their place. The old troll leg umbrella stand was gone, there was a nice brass one in its place. There was a beautiful area rug in the center of the room with a large round table with a gorgeous vase of flowers sitting on it. The chandelier was gone, it was replaced with a large modern hanging light. The light from the windows was shining down on the floor making the room look bright and cheerful. “Winky!” called out Harry. Winky joined Harry and Dobby in the Entrance Hall. “Winky! this room is BEAUTIFUL! How did you get the painting down? Where did you get all these things?” “House Elves have special magic for some things. Some other House Elf put a charm on that painting. We knows about that kind of charm, so we removed it.” “About the new things. We is be getting them from a book. We pick what we is wanting, then we orders them. It is charged to you. We is hoping that you like,” said Winky hopefully. “You and Dobby did a wonderful job. THANK YOU!” said Harry. Winky and Dobby beamed. “We is pleased that you like it master,” said Winky. “Winky, you and Dobby are NOT to call me master! You are to call me Harry. Harry is my name. You got that?” “Yes sir, mast... I mean Harry Potter,” said Winky. “Yes sir, Harry Potter,” said Dobby. Harry laughed as they headed for the kitchen. Lupin was already sitting at the table nibbling on some toast. After breakfast, Lupin and Harry along with Winky and Dobby went to the “ballroom”. Lupin and Harry explained to Winky and Dobby just what they wanted for their new Defense Room. They would move the wall between the drawing room and this room to make the Defense room a little smaller and the drawing room a little bigger. The rest of the day, other than Harry’s nap time, Harry and Lupin discussed more plans for the house. That evening Lupin pulled out an official looking envelope and handed it to Harry. “Dumbledore dropped this off while you were napping,” said Lupin. Harry opened it. It was his O.W.L.S results. Astronomy A Charms O History P Devination P Herboligy E Potions A Transfiguration E Care of Magical Creatures O Defense Against the Dark Arts O Defense Against the Dark Arts extra credit O Eight total O.W.L.S ! Harry was VERY pleased. He did a lot better than he thought he would. Of course, his Potions grade would not be high enough to become an Auror. He and Lupin discussed his options. They decided that if Harry still wanted to become an Auror after he left school, that he could pay for private lessons in Potions. No more SNAPE! Harry was happy to know that he had someone like Lupin to help him make decisions. Lupin was very understanding and didn’t try to push Harry into anything. He just explained things to Harry and let Harry make the decissions. Harry liked that. That night, before going to sleep, Harry reflected on all the changes in his life in the last few days. There were hopes for tomorrow. The next morning, Dobby half dragged Harry out of bed. “Come see!” Harry dressed as fast as he could with a House Elf pulling on his arm. It was not easy. Harry was met by Lupin and Winky at the door that let to the new Defense Room. Dobby grandly opened to the door to present it to his new master. Harry loved it. The walls were a light minty green. At the far end of the room was a long table made of dark wood. Tucked under it were several square white boxes on wheels. On closer look you could see that they were upholstered seats. They could be pulled out and moved around the room in any which way. There were white mini blinds on the windows. And several minty green floor mats like they had used in the room of requirement. It was cheerful but practical for their purpose. Harry couldn’t wait for his friends to arrive so they could get started. After breakfast, Harry was counting the minutes before his friends would arrive. At 10:00 sharp they all Portkeyed in. Ron and Ginny both had some kind of pastry in their hands and were laughing as they still wobbled from the Portkey. Actually they were both holding on to the SAME pastry and they were not exactly laughing. They were having a tug of war over the pastry. “Give it to me, Ginny!” “You’ve already had yours. This one is mine!” “But they’re small, I”m still hungry!” yelled Ron. “They are small. That’s why Mum left out four. Two for you and two for me,” said Ginny. “Look, you already had one. You’re gonna get fat if you eat this one,” argued Ron. “Fat? In OUR house? Nobody can get fat in a house with YOU around. Let go, Ron. This is your last warning,” sneered Ginny as she whipped out her wand. “Fine! But I’m telling Mum! I was going to offer this one to Harry. But nooooooo, you are so selfish. You want it all to yourself,” scoffed Ron. “Really?” asked Harry. He grabbed the pastry from both of them. “Thank you very much. Your mum makes the best!” Then he popped it into his mouth. “Harry!” yelled both Ron and Ginny. “What?” asked Harry with a mouth full of pastry and a grin. “I was gonna OFFER it to you. I’m sure you would already have had breakfast, so you should have refused it,” said Ron. “Yeah! You were gonna offer him MY pastry,” said Ginny. “Whose ever it was, it was very good,” laughed Harry. Hermione, Neville and Luna were all laughing at the scene. Not one of them would have believed that Harry would actually do such a thing. Neville seemed to have grown a foot since Harry last seen him. Neville proudly showed Harry his new wand. He was very excited about trying it out. Luna had her usual dreamy look. With her wand in it’s usual place tucked behind her ear. Hermoine was her same old self. She ran over and gave him a bone crashing hug. She stood back and eyed him carefully. Harry blushed because he knew that he was so skinny and pale. She must have been warned of his appearance because she didn’t say anything about it. “How did you do on your O.W.L.S ?” asked Hermione. Harry told her about his. “Oh! I’m so proud of you. Ron got eight also! I got twelve, of course I had taken extra courses. I’m pleased with my grades. Of course, I would have liked to have gotten an O in Astromony instead of just an A but that was the night that Hagrid and Professor McGonagal were attacked so no one really got to finish,” said Hermione sighing. Harry lead them to their new Defense Room. They all seemed to be pleased with how it turned out. The first two days were taught by Tonks. She taught first aide during battle. They all wished they had known of these spells before they had went to the Department of Mysteries. They learned how to stop a bloody nose, how to heal light cuts and how to stop bleeding from large wounds. Harry probably would have thought this was too trivial to bother with last year. But since the battle at the Department of Mysteries, he now knew how important some of these simple tricks could make a difference between life and death. The instructions were not hard to learn and were not too straining for Harry. Although he was much better, he still had to rest often. On the third day, Shacklebolt taught them how to tie and bind Death Eaters after they have been disarmed. If they could do it quickly they could trap them so that they couldn’t Disapparate. Letting a Death Eater escape, could mean them sending more back. During their lunch breaks, they all had lots of fun. Just talking and laughing. On the days that Tonks taught, the girls would go upstairs after they ate. The boys didn’t know what they were doing but they would come back to class giggling. After their class on Friday, Lupin came in and told them that the next day the men were all going to London. They were going to go shopping. It was time to spend some Sirius money! * * * * |
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