Harry Potter isn't mine. JK owns every thing HP. But this plot… is mine…. Enjoy reading and please review. This is the 10th chapter and here they will discover their new abilities.
Chapter 10: New Discoveries
Harry awoke from the little sunshine coming from Hermione's window. He smiled at the sight of Hermione sleeping comfortably by his side her head resting on his bare chest. 'Thank you for that wonderful first night,' he thought and he kissed her forehead.
"Well, thank you too Harry," Hermione said and she kissed his cheek. Harry was a bit startled. He couldn't possibly be thinking out loud, he thought. "You're thinking what out loud Harry?" Hermione asked him.
"Hermione I think you're reading my thoughts," Harry said to her.
"I am?" she said a bit confused, "but how could that be possible?"
'You can read my mind, can't you?' he thought.
'Yah I guess I can,' she answered him in his thought.
"My, this is weird, I can read your thoughts and did you hear my response?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, I did. Did the book mention anything about us hearing each others thoughts?" he asked her as he sat up.
"Well, I think it said something about us meaning, you, me and Ron to discover some hidden skills, maybe this is one of them," Hermione replied.
"I guess I can't hide anything from you anymore, can I?" Harry said as he stood up and went made his way to Hermione's bathroom.
'Oh… Harry you look so sexy on those boxers,' Hermione told herself.
"I heard that!" Harry joked, 'and you're the most beautiful witch I have ever seen,' he thought.
Hermione turned pink, "I heard that too!"
Harry asked Dobby for some breakfast but he was the one to bring it in Hermione's room. He also requested for some nice flowers to go with it. They spent their early morning in Hermione's bed just holding each other and laughing and making comments about each other's thoughts.
"Harry I was wondering would it be any different if we're into separate locations do you think we could still hear each other's thoughts?" Hermione asked as she playfully twirled a lock of her hair on her finger.
"I guess the only way to find out is to try it," he said as he circled his arms around her. "I think we should do that later, I mean I'm enjoying myself here."
"Actually I think we should get a move on. We might have a big pile of responsibilities ahead of us and we're still up here enjoying ourselves," Hermione reasoned.
"But it's a weekend, Hermione," he tried to argue, 'plus you look really pretty in my Quidditch robe.'
"Dream on Potter, and this is mine now. It doesn't fit you anymore remember?" Hermione scolded him. "Get out of my bed and go to your room get ready to do some Head boy responsibilities," Hermione commanded. 'Before I change my mind.'
"You were saying Hermione," Harry said as he stood up of the bed. 'Are you sure you wouldn't change your mind,' he thought.
"Harry, just go please!" Hermione said while she stopped herself from giggling. 'Oh Harry you handsome prat,' she told herself.
"I heard that!" Harry yelled from his room across.
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Ginny was eating her breakfast with Ron and Lavender. She had the most wonderful night with Draco. They walked by the lake last night and he gave her a necklace. Draco said it was his mother's and she gave it to him before he left for Hogwarts that year.
"Ginny that necklace, it's really pretty," Lavender commented.
"Thanks Lav, Draco gave it to me last night," Ginny mused.
"Good thing he's taking all my advices in mind," Ron said in between eating some pancakes and bacons.
"Advices, yah right Ron?" Ginny muttered. "Oh here comes Draco," she smiled at the approaching Draco.
"Morning, Gin," Draco said and he planted a kiss on her head.
"Morning Draco, slept well?" she asked.
"Pretty much yes, especially since the last person I saw last night was you," he beamed. "I'll go to our table now. See you at the grounds later."
"Yah. I'll see you there," Ginny exclaimed.
"Pass me that pitcher of pumpkin juice Gin," Ron asked his sister but she was still looking at Draco at the Slytherin table.
Ron reached his hand to the pitcher and was about to ask Lavender to pass it to him but he realized that he was already holding it.
"That was odd," he said a bit confused.
"What's odd?" Lavender asked him with concern.
"I was reaching for the…never mind it was nothing," Ron said. 'I think I should tell Harry and Hermione,' he thought to himself. "Have either you seen Harry or Hermione?" he asked Lavender and Ginny.
"They were off early last night. I haven't seen them since then," Ginny said she was still glancing at Draco who was also affectionately looking at her.
"Uhmm… Lav, I'll go look for Harry I have to tell him something. See you by the lake later ok," he said and he kissed Lavender on her lips and he ran off to see Harry and Hermione.
Ron made his way in front of Godric Gryffindor's portrait. 'Now what would the password be?' he thought to himself. 'Think Ron, think…'
"Hey what are you doing out here?" Harry said as peeked his head out from the portrait hole. "Come on in."
Ron went inside the portrait hole and was now in the little common room. "Say you guys missed breakfast."
"We had breakfast up here. Hermione will be down any moment now," Harry said. "Why were you there outside, anyway?"
"I have to tell you something. Something strange is happening to me," Ron started.
"What strange thing is happening to you Ron?" Hermione asked him as she descended from the stairs.
"Well, this morning when I woke up I wanted to a glass of water but the pitcher on my bedside was empty so I had to get up and well walk over to the pitcher on Seamus' bedside but I realized that I can use the Accio spell so I just sat in bed and moved my hand as if reaching out for the pitcher but before I said anything it was already in my hands. Then at breakfast I asked Ginny to pass me the pitcher of pumpkin juice but she wasn't paying attention to me so I tried to ask Lav but before I knew it I was already holding the pitcher," Ron explained.
"Well, you can summon pitchers Ron without saying anything or even without your wand," Harry joked.
"Very funny Harry," Ron said pretending to be hurt.
"Try summoning that book on the table Ron. See if it works for other things?" Hermione asked Ron.
"Okay," he said and he moved out his hand as if reaching for the book and it flew directly to his grip.
"You can summon things that's your skill," Hermione exclaimed.
"Huh? What skill?" Ron asked with a questioning look.
"Well, Hermione said that the book said something about special skills that we may acquire at the right moment," Harry explained. "See this morning Hermione and I realized that we can hear each other's thoughts."
"Really?" Ron said in amazement. "But what do you reckon triggered this from happening? I mean just one morning you wake up hearing each other's thoughts? And I well, I can summon things just by reaching out and looking at it?"
"I don't know," Harry said. Hermione was now walking around the room and was deeply engrossed in her own thoughts.
"You think?" Harry said to her. Ron was confused because he hadn't heard anything from Hermione but then again he realized that they could hear each other's thoughts.
'Yes Harry, what we did last night was our unspoken vow of love. It was written in the book and maybe it was the trigger for us to acquire these skills,' she told him in her thoughts.
"You guys! Someone here can't hear your little conversation care to share it with me?" Ron snapped.
'Should we tell him?' Hermione asked Harry.
'I guess we should he'll probably find out and he must have done that with Lav a few times already,' Harry tried to convince her.
'Okay, you tell him,' Hermione said and he gave Harry the look.
"Okay, please explain yourselves I know you're having that private conversation again. Don't be rude and tell me what's going on," Ron said a bit annoyed.
"Okay, okay, Hermioneandislepttogetherandwethinkthatwasthetriggertoallthis," Harry said and was now all red with embarrassment.
"You did what?" could you please repeat what he said Hermione, I didn't get it," Ron asked her.
Now it was Hermione's turn to be blush. "Well, you see Ron… Harry and I… We…uhmm…"
"Hermione please stop stuttering, you're starting to sound like Professor Quirrell," Ron demanded.
"Well, alright I'll repeat what I said," Harry said to save Hermione from the embarrassment. "We made love last night for the first time and it was amazing…"
"Okay, okay… I get it. Spare me the details, so what does that have to do with what's happening to us?" Ron said.
"So we think that was the trigger," Harry continued.
"So you finally did it and then we inherit some special skill from it. You guys should do it more often," Ron said he was now smiling.
Hermione threw one of the pillows from the couch at him, "I can't believe you said that."
"I think that's a good idea," Harry joked.
"And you too. It isn't funny you know," but even Hermione who just threw another pillow in Harry's direction, and was now laughing along.
"So what do you suppose these skills are for?" Harry asked.
"Well, I can use my skill to summon the Quaffle so I wouldn't have to move around those three rings all the time during Quidditch," Ron said as he thought of how many goals he can prevent from his skill.
"I can't believe that's all you can think about Ron. Your skill may deem important in helping Harry defeat You-know-who," Hermione scolded him.
"Oh, come one Hermione you can't go spoiling all the fun in my life by reminding me that," Ron said.
"Do you reckon we should tell Dumbledore?" Harry asked them.
The two both nodded in agreement and they made their way out of the portrait hole.
They were going to make way to where the Gargoyle stood when they saw a familiar man talking with Professor Figg.
"Remus!" the three called out and they ran towards their former DADA professor. All three gave him a hug.
"You three are all grown up now," Remus greeted them. He was no longer wearing his slightly tattered robes. Instead he wore a maroon-working robe.
"Were so glad to see you," Harry said. "Is Sirius with you too?"
"Sirius will be here in a little while Harry," Professor Figg answered him.
"Morning professor," all three acknowledged their teacher.
"Have you come to see Professor Dumbledore as well?" Arabella asked them.
"We have something very important to tell the professor," Hermione responded.
They all chatted along until they saw Sirius walking towards them. Harry went running towards his godfather. "Sirius!"
"Harry, it's so nice to see you again. You've grown a lot since the last time I saw you," Sirius hugged his godson. "Remus, have you talked with Dumbledore yet?" Sirius asked his best friend. "Good morning Arabella."
"Last night I told him as soon as I got here," Remus said.
"It's lovely to see you again Sirius," Arabella greeted him. "I guess we're all here so we should be heading inside now," and with that she said the password and they went up the stairs leading to Dumbledore's office.
Harry, Ron and Hermione were having a little discussion of their own while taking the steps up to Dumbledore's office.
"Good morning to all of you? Please sit down" Dumbledore said and motioned them to sit on the chairs placed in front of his table.
"Sirius, Remus told me about the attack last night and he has informed me that you have already told Fudge to recruit some new Aurors," Dumbledore started.
"Yes, Albus. I have informed Fudge that the death-eaters are growing in number and that we have to increase number," Sirius answered, "But you know how he is? He doesn't want to attend to the immediate problem instead he tries to cover it with lies. He knows that the attacks will grow stronger unless we do something."
"I agree with your assessment. But you should also be careful with the people you will train as Aurors. We wouldn't want a traitor in our midst," Dumbledore reminded him.
The older wizards had finished talking about the situation in the Wizarding world. Harry, Ron and Hermione were absorbing every little detail. They knew that Voldemort was growing stronger but they didn't think that he's legion had been growing in number. Harry looked at Hermione who was now in deep thought. It didn't help him that he could hear her thoughts. Now he could hear her worries for him.
"Harry is there anything that you should tell us?" Dumbledore addressed Harry who was a bit stunned because he was engrossed with Hermione's thoughts about him.
"Err… yes professor… Ron here had developed this skill," Harry started. "He can summon objects by looking at it and reaching his hand out to it."
"Ah, he had finally received his gift. I do suppose you and Hermione hadn't figured your gifts yet?" Dumbledore asked.
Harry was to answer his question when Hermione collapsed and fell on the floor.
Hermione was in a small house. From the window she could see that it was already nighttime only the outside was lit by burning houses. Then she was outside. She saw people fleeing. Death-eaters were cursing everywhere. There were only a few Aurors. It was a small village. It was Little Brooks Village located in Scotland. She'd read about the place in books. The she was back inside the house that was now burning down and a little girl was trapped inside it with her. She was screaming for help. She couldn't get to the girl and then it all fell to darkness. She woke up inside Dumbledore's office.
Harry was the first person she saw. "Harry, I saw a village being attacked…" She was sobbing over his shoulder.
"Come down it was just a dream," Harry tried to sooth her down. Ron also sat beside Harry and was now rubbing her back.
Arabella helped Hermione up to her seat and gave her a glass of water. "This would help," she said to Hermione whom Harry was still holding.
"I believe you've found your gift Ms. Granger. You are to see premonitions," Dumbledore said.
"If she had seen an attack maybe we can prepare for it and they wouldn't take us by surprise like the last time," Sirius said.
Hermione told them about the things she saw. It was a good thing she was good at everything and that she had even pointed out the location of the attack.
"Well, be prepared this time. Hermione, you know that many lives will be spared this time, and they owe it to you," Sirius told her and gave her shoulder a light squeeze.
Hermione showed a slight sign of relief, but she was still shaken by the visions she had.
"So if I can summon things and Hermione has premonitions then that leaves Harry with what?" Ron said.
"That he will discover in due time. Harry wasn't able to tell Dumbledore about his and Hermione's ability to hear each other's thoughts.
"Arabella I suggest you take Ms. Granger to Madame Pompfrey," Dumbledore instructed Professor Figg. "Harry, Ron, please stay a while with me and Remus."
Arabella and Hermione went out of the office, 'Please visit me at the Hospital Wing when you're through?' Hermione thought.
'Will do,' Harry answered her thought.
"Harry, the attacks are getting stronger and it would only be a matter of time before Voldemort finally comes after you," Dumbledore said. "Mr. Weasley, we might need the help of your brothers on this. If your parents agree of course," Dumbledore said to Ron.
"What will my brother's do professor?" Ron asked.
"I believe you have heard of the Order of the Phoenix? Dumbledore asked Ron and he just nodded. "Your two brothers, Bill and Charlie are members of the Order. So is your friend Harry and Remus here. Other members are Professor Snape, McGonagall, and Figg. Now what I am about to ask you is rather a thing of your choice whether you accept it or not?"
"Are you asking me to be a member too? Wicked of course I'll join in," Ron said without any hesitation.
"I'm glad you agreed. You will begin training with Harry and Hermione during your Christmas holiday," Dumbledore said. "Harry, you know that Ms. Granger would also be part of this?"
Harry only nodded. Dumbledore knew that Harry was worried of Hermione's safety. "It is better that she is trained so she would be able to defend herself. She is part of your destiny Harry. You should have known that by now. The book you three have says so."
Harry and Ron stared at each other in astonishment.
"Are you saying Albus, they have the book of prophecy written by Merlin himself?" Remus asked.
"I believe so," Dumbledore said as he eyed Harry and Ron behind his half moon spectacles.
"We never told you about it professor, how did you find out?" Harry asked.
"I was most certain that Ms. Granger would find my book interesting," Dumbledore said to them with a bemused smile.
"You placed the book on the pile Hermione was reading but how did you?" Ron asked.
"The professor doesn't need an invisibility cloak to be invisible," Harry, answered Ron's inquiry.
"You boys, better go and visit Miss Granger. I need to have a word with Remus here," Dumbledore said.
"Bye Remus, thank you professor," Harry said. Ron followed him outside.
The boys were walking along the corridors towards the hospital wing.
"Harry I can just imagine Professor Trelawney's face now knowing Hermione is gifted with premonitions. Hermione lacked Aura she said," Ron laughed and so did Harry.
"Well, that's my Hermione, No wonder you always called her a know-it-all because now she really does know a lot before hand," Harry exclaimed.
To be continued… What is Harry's skill? Wait for the next chaps to find out…r/r.