A Second Chance

Chapter 5 :Beginning of Change

The next morning, both of them woke up in each other's arms and were delighted by the change of events that took place in just the past 2 days. They both greeted each other good morning, made out a bit and decided to get fresh and meet up in the common room in half an hour. When Hermione met Harry in the common room she could feel the change in the magical power of Harry as it was so intense that the power he possessed was literally radiating out and he too was able to feel it and was able to control and channel his magic.

The day being Saturday there were no classes and a lot of students were still lazily sulking in their beds. The great hall was almost empty at 7:30 and the pair quickly finishes their breakfast and headed towards the second floor girl's lavatory. Once inside, Harry opened the chamber using his parseltongue abilities. Fortunately, Moaning Myrtle was not present there risking any chance of them being reported, they quickly made their way down to the chamber and collected the fangs. To say that Hermione was grossed and freaked out at the same time would be an understatement. Looking at the giant basilisk, her respect and admiration towards Harry increased ten folds. 'He would have looked so sexy weilding that sword' she thought and chastised herself for thinking like that at the moment. They returned on the surface and made their way towards the room of requirements.

Harry took her to the seventh floor corridor and was pacing in front of the tapestry and suddenly a door appeared out of nowhere. Harry ushered her inside quickly, closed the door and put silencing and locking charms on it for privacy but the thing he didn't notice was that it was performed wandlessly and without speaking the incantation and this didn't go unnoticed by Hermione but she didn't comment on it for the time being. She shifted her gaze onto the room they were currently standing in and it was nothing but a magical junkyard.

"Harry how will we practice in here? " she blurted out pointing towards the piles and piles of junk.

He chuckled and said, "We won't practice here love, the horcrux is hidden in here and first we will destroy it before starting our practice. "

He led her towards the diadem and laid it on the ground. He handed her the fang and said, "It's all yours", she tried to hand him the fang back but it was of no use. He said he believed in her and it was her task to rid of Voldermort's piece of soul. She gained a lot of confidence from his words and stabbed the diadem with all her might. The diadem broke in two and black smoke rose up in the air, the smoke was screaming and screeching. After a while it settled down and Harry repaired the diadem wandlessly again and failed to notice it. Hermione eyebrows shot up in confusion but she kept silent. He collected the diadem, closed his eyes and when he heard her gasp of surprise, opened his eyes and smiled broadly towards her.

"Harry what is this place" she asked admiring the room which now contained a couch and several dummies for practice.

"It provides you whatever you require love, pacing ing front of the tapestry thinking about what you need, the door appears and then you can change it as per you require. " he replied.

"Right, so we've destroyed four of them, how much difference does it create from your timeline? " she asked.

"A lot" he chuckled "we didn't know anything about the horcruxes until our sixth year and we were on the run for them all of our seventh year. Returning back has just brought old Voldy's death a lot closer. " he laughed and she soon joined in. After the laughter died down he said "I can save a lot of lives now that I know all about his horcruxes and I can live peacefully once I defeat him. And for that to happen I will have to break one of my promises. "

"Oh? Which one and why? " she asked a bit angry due to his nature.

"I'll have to participate in the tournament.. "

"NO" she almost shouted "Please don't do that Harry, you could be dead or seriously injured and why do you want to participate in that bloody excuse of a tournament? " she asked tears welling up in her eyes.

He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her tightly, "He will be resurrected through my blood and it happens at the end of the third task, so when he rises again and this time without any support of his horcruxes I will kill him once and for all. "

Hermione was still contemplating his reasoning despite knowing that he was absolutely true. In the end she gave up and sighed dejectedly, " I guess you're right but please be careful and if you won't I'll hex you once you recover. " she said sternly glaring at him.

He chuckled once again and kissed her forehead and gave her a chaste kiss on the lips. " Don't worry I am more afraid of you than the tournament, I don't wanna risk my life after all. " he teased her and winked playfully.

She snorted and smacked him on the chest. "Now onto the main motive, what do you want to practice first? Oh, and did you notice your new abilities?" she asked clearly interested in the training they were going to do.

"What do you mean 'notice' my new abilities? " he asked completely confused.

"Really Harry? Didn't you notice that you casted the locking, silencing and the repairing charms wandlessly? " she asked.

"Wha.. Really? Wandlessly? As in without a wand, with my bare hands? " he stammered a bit and was dazed by the new confession.

"Yes Harry, without a wand and without any incantation. " she chuckled. "Try performing the spells you know wandlessly."

He performed the spells in the curriculum of all seven years, wandlessly one by one and to their surprise was successful to cast them with a great intensity. Both of them were staring at each other slack-jawed and were dazed at his display of powers. He cleared his throat uneasily, "Right, now what I wanted to do was to teach you the curriculum of the next years so that you can aid me. Once done then we can learn new spells through books. "

"But how will you teach me 3 years of spells, we don't have that much time? " she asked confused and still in awe of the display of his powers.

He chuckled and closed his eyes and after a few moments waved his hand and said "tempus segnis". There was a a huge amount of power generating from him and the magical frame covered the entire room.

" What.. what was that? ' she snapped out of her daze a few moments later, impressed by his powers.

"That my love was temporal magic and I slowed the time frame in this particular room. " he said, impressed by the powers he himself possessed.

"How did you know temporal magic, it is believed to be a very difficult and advanced field of magic. " she inquired once again impressed by his abilities.

"Well, I learnt about the spell from you in the future but none of us were able to cast it as it requires a lot of raw power to cast it. I guess, after the block was removed I can produce raw magical power. " he shrugged.

"Now, let's get started. "