Harry Potter and The Sword Of The Phoenix

Title: Harry Potter and the Sword of the Phoenix
Chapter Title: More Training
Author: Ash Knight
Pairings: Harry/Draco
Warnings: Lemon Spoilers from book 5, and Sap . . .
Disclaimer: I don’t own Harry Potter and I do not make any money from these stories.


Harry knew Kingsley was waiting for him in an unused classroom near the great hall. When he walked in he saw the room was remodeled like a dojo with a Japanese design. The walls were covered in Japanese symbols and tapestries and the floor seemed t mad made of dark wood.

“I’m glad I could finally make it.” Kingsley said with a chuckle.

“Me too.” Harry smiled back.

“Here.” Kingsley said as he handed Harry a karate uniform similar to the one he had on.

“You can change behind those curtains.”

Harry nodded and changed into the uniform quickly.

“Alright, the first thing I want you to do is some stretching so you won’t cramp up, and some exercises.”

For next half hour Harry and Kingsley stretched and did some push ups and sit ups. After that Kingsley began to teach him some basic kicks, punches and blocks.

“Good, now I want you to try and hit me.”

“What?” Harry asked looking nervous.

“I want you to try and hit me.” Kingsley smiled.

Harry did as he was told and tried to hit Kingsley. Not one of his attempts made contact and after about twenty minutes, Harry was too exhausted to move.

“Ok, that was pretty good, lets take a short break.” Kingsley said as he handed Harry a bottle of water.

“So, where did you learn to fight like this?” WellWell, I always wanted to be an Auror, but after I took my NEWTS I was pretty much wasted. So I decided to take a gap year. I always wanted to see Japan so decided to go there. When I got there I heard of a wizard tournament where the top ten most worthy witches or wizards would get the honor of training with a world renowned master. Of course, I entered wanting the chance to be taken as one of the pupils. But, when I entered I didn’t realize how strange the competition would be. Instead of dueling, there were obstacles and strange tests to pass. Little did I know at the time they were all fixed.”

“What do you mean fixed?”

“Well the tests were all fixed sly tly those with a certain amount of power, magical awareness, and so forth could only pass the tests. The oddest was the first test, which was the drawing of lots. Whoever got a red slip of papers could stay the rest were all sent on there way.”

“Why lots?” Harry asked confused. “How could that be a test?”

“Well, you see the lots were all fixed so that if someone with the right amount of power grabbed it, it would turn red. They were all originally white little pieces of paper. So after the lots were drawn, all the hundreds of people were turned away, leaving only fifty.”

“So you were one of top ten?” Harry asked.

“Yeah, but just barely though. Once it got down to ten, well that’s when we got down to dueling. All the others had spells I never even heard of since they were from all over the world, lethal ones too. I was lucky enough to make it out alive, let alone win a top spot. After the ten of us won, we trained for a year and learned some amazing techniques. So by the time I came home, becoming an Auror was a synch.” Kingsley said as he downed the rest of his water.

Then they continued for a bit longer, sparring lightly. By the time it was over Harry was exhausted.

“That was good for a first night Harry but we need to work on your endurance. From now on I want you to run two miles early in the morning. By next week I want you to run five.” Kingsley declared.

“Five miles?” Harry asked incredulously.

“At least” Kingsley laughed.

With that Harry quickly changed and went to Dumbledore’s office.

“Lifesavers.” Harry called out and went up the rotating stairs.

“Good evening Harry.” Dumbledore said as he sat at his desk.

“Good evening Albus.” Harry replied.

“Are you ready for your lesson?”

“There’s only one way to find out.” Harry said as he stood up.

Dumbledore took out his wand and the lesson began. Harry was running through the department of mysteries after Lestrange, . . . Cho was kissing him under the mistletoe . . . Draco and him were making love for the first time . . . Harry quickly pushed Dumbledore out and his face grew red with embarrassment. Harry looked up to see Dumbledore’s face was red as well. When they were both their normal shade of color they continued.

“Legillimens!” Dumbledore shouted.

Harry felt something pressing against his mind but quickly pushed it away.

“Very good Harry.” Dumbledore said as he prepared to attack again.

Again, the he felt the pressure building up into his head but he pushed as hard as he could against it. It seemed that Dumbledore could no longer break into Harrys mind.

“That’s very impressive Harry.” Dumbledore declared.

“Thank . . . You” Harry said out of breath.

“I think that’s enough for tonight.”

“No! One more try, with all your force!” Harry demanded as he recollected himself.

Knowing Harry wouldn’t let it go so he complied.

“LEGILLIMENS!!!”

It felt like being hit in the head with the force of a locomotive. Biting his lip he pushed against stagstaggering forward against a great force that seemed to be pushing him backwards. Suddenly, the force seemed to stop and he saw Dumbledore click out all the lights with his Put-Outer on Privet Drive. With a great lurch Harry was knocked flat on the floor on his back. It seemed both teacher and student were out of breath. Finally finding the strength to stand up, Harry saw Dumbledore looking at him oddly.

“Don’t tell me I’ve grown another head now.” Harry said, making tbothboth laugh.

“Harry has that ever happened before?” Dumbledore asked, getting serious.

“Only once before when Snape was teaching me in 5th year.”

“Professor Snape.” Dumbledore corrected. “Harry, no one has been able to break into my mind in over fifty years.”

“That was the night you left me on Privet Drive, wasn’t it?’ Harry asked.

“Yes, Harry that was the night I had Hagrid bring you to live with your Aunt.”

”That cat, wasn’t it Professor McGonagall?”

“Yes, it was Harry. She was watching your relatives all day, and that night she tried to persuade me to leave you anywhere else.”

“Remind me to give her a big hug later.” Harry said with a big smile.

“It seems you havme vme very strong natural abilities with Legilimency.”

“Can you teach me that as well?”

“Yes, I can, but I must warn you not to abuse this ability. It’s not right to break into other peoples minds, and I’m afraid it may bring disastrous consequences.”

After some talking both Dumbledore and Harry agreed and Harry was off to animagi class. Hermione and Draco were already there, and thankfully Ron was not.

“Good of you to join us Mr. Potter” McGonagall said, clearly annoyed by his late appearance.

“I’m sorry professor, my Occlumency ran a bit late tonight.” Harry stated.

“We were just about to begin transformations, perhaps you would like to begin?”

Harry agreed and stepped to the center of the room. He stretched out his arms and began to concentrate. His arms began to change and grow feathers. His feet began to twist and bend, and were suddenly talons. A tail sprouted from behind him before he finally stopped. He then quickly changed back to his normal human body.

“That was very good Mr. Potter. I dare say you will become a full animagus sooner than I expected.” McGonagall said with a small smile.

They continued for the next hour, transforming and discussing what their forms meant. They all seemed to have made great progress and McGonagall told them more things to go over and try when the class was finished. Harry told Draco to go ahead without him and told him he would be in late.

“Excuse me professor?” Harry asked as McGonagall was about to leave the classroom.

“Yes Mr. Potter?”

“I want to say thank you.”

“For what?” she asked curiously.

“I know you tried to ask Professor Dumbledore to leave me somewhere else than at Privet Drive.”

“He told you about that?” she asked, trying to hide her surprise.

“Kind of, I sort of saw it in his head, that’s why the lesson got a bit complicated.”

“I didn’t think those muggles would give you a good home. I watched them all day and what I saw made me sick. But, the headmaster put his foot down.”

“Thank you, that really means a lot to me. I know I’m definitely not your best student professor but I’ll do my best to make you proud.” Harry declared.

Her cheeks began to grow red in a slight blush and Harry quickly left before it became too much and headed back to Dumbledore’s office to go back down into the secret library. . .

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Authors Note: Now if anyone has ever seen Yu Yu Hakusho they know that’s where I got the idea about the drawing of lots when Kingsley explains how he learned martial arts. Also, to comment on the educational system in the UK, I know that once the kids are done with the UK equivalent of high school most usually take a gap year before they go to college, which is where I got the idea of Kingsley going to Japan.

Mikochef: first I want to say that I’m really going to miss you when you leave and I hope you’ll be able to read whatever I manage to write and enjoy it as well. I’m glad you like the phoenix information I invented and I might use sof itf it in another fic I’m working on which I’m sure you know by now. The Dobby scene I put in for a laugh so I’m glad you found it humors. As for the naked wedding it’s a long ways away but I will give you more info about it in the next chap or the one after, I haven’t decided but most likely in the 11th chap. As for the Horse for Ron, I was surprised at how well it matched the basic idea of who Ron is in the stories so I just knew I had to make it his animagus form.

Roxy: I’m glad you like the phoenix information I put in and I hope you enjoy what’s to come. As for the whole Ron episode, well I put it in because I thought there was some conflict needed. Plus, some things still needed to get out in the open. Like Hermione explained in book 4, Ron always feels jealous and cast aside. In truth he is, but that’s not Harry’s fault. With his big family, Ron is always out done by all of his brothers and even if he did all the things they all did, it wouldn’t matter because they all already did it before him. Harry on the other hand never wanted to be special. All Harry ever wanted was a family and even in the books you can tell that he would give it all up just to see hi parents for just a short moment. And even though in my stories, Harry has moved on from that, the pain of it all is still with him. I always found it rather ironic how Rowling always had Ron and Harry, and when you take them both into view; you can see that the grasslly lly isn’t always greener on the other side. And I’m glad you like the horse for Ron. Also, I’m glad you liked how Draco stood up to Ron. Draco knows everything Harry has been through, and he knows how brave he tries to be around everyone but instead he tries to be that brave and so on for Harry.

MaiMai: I’m flattered you like the story so much and I hope you like what I have in mind for Lupin and Snape.

Mitzu: Thanks for the tip on the spelling. I’ll try to be more careful about it. And I’ll email you when the next chapter is up, namely this one, lol.