Harry Potter and My New Attempt For a Fifth Year Book

Chapter 1: Mrs. Figg

Harry had only just got back in his bedroom at number 4, Privet Drive, and he had started to do his summer vacation homework already. But this was not the strangest thing about Harry. Harry was a wizard in training. He went to Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft.

And even for a wizard in training Harry was uncommon. The lightning shaped scar on his forehead made him a hero throughout the entire wizarding world. His scar was the proof that he had survived an encounter with Voldemort, the most feared dark wizard in one hundred years, at the age of one. Not had he only survived but Voldemort had been vanquished from the wizardry world for the next fourteen years.

Harry was famous not only for that, but because in his school a lot of the students still remembered his adventures since his first year. In the first year he was able to stop one of his professors from stealing the Sorcerer's Stone and in the second year he killed the basilisk that had petrified a few of his schoolmates. In the third year he had finally won the Quidditch house cup for Gryffindor, for whom he had played since his first year.

Of course the families of his two best friends knew that they had saved Sirius Black, Harry's godfather, by helping him to escape from the Dementors and the Ministry of Magic. Sirius was a fugitive of Azkaban. He was innocent but this couldn't be proven. His only chance to prove this was when the real traitor Peter been captured. But Peter had escaped from Harry and had got back to his master; he now afraid of his old friends.

Thanks to Pettigrew's help, Voldemort was able to create a new body at the end of Harry's forth year. Harry was captured at the last stage of the Tri-wizard tournament and Voldemort used his blood to recover his body.

Harry also knew that his fame probably increased in the wizardry world because now he was the Tri-wizard champion. Harry didn't think he was the champion because to him Cedric Diggory was the real champion. Harry only had this position because he was receiving help, without knowing it, from one of his teachers who was in fact one of Voldemort's most loyal servants. And of course there was the fact that Voldemort killed Cedric, making Harry the champion just because he was alive.

Harry was reliving his darker memories and decided that it was time to him to take a break from his homework. When he got up and looked out of the window he saw someone that he didn't think that he would see so soon. There, walking in Privet Drive, was a black dog as big was a bear that in the magical world would be mistaken by a grim. However, Harry knew that this was his godfather in his animagus form.

But why he was passing through Privet Drive, and why didn't he stop? Harry thought. Maybe he doesn't know the number of his uncle's house.

Harry picked up his wand in case he needed it, put it in his pocket, and went outside, ignoring his relatives. He started to run, following the track of his godfather. He saw that Sirius was entering the back yard of Mrs. Figg house, and decided to catch up with him to tell were his uncle lived.

Once that he also was in the backyard what he saw almost make him lose his mind.

Mrs. Figg was pointing a wand to his godfather, who was in his human form. Sirius was shivering with pain on the floor. Thinking quickly, Harry realised that Mrs. Figg probably was a dark witch and that Sirius had come here to protect him, but Mrs. Figg had been faster than he had and now he was the one receiving the Cruciatius Curse.

Without thinking, Harry raised his hand; all the anger that he was feeling towards Mrs. Figg and the need to help his godfather made him release a beam of red energy that hit Mrs. Figg and threw her against the wall of her house. Harry decided to maintain this beam to help Sirius to capture this dark witch

"Are you OK, Padfoot?" asked Harry.

"Yeah, I am, Harry, but please release her because I need to talk to her and to you," answered Sirius.

"Why do you want me to release this Death Eater?" Harry asked Sirius and the beam of energy got bigger.

"She isn't a Death Eater. And I need to talk to her could you please release her?" said Sirius while he got up from the floor.

"OK, but I want to hear what you have to say - you owe me an explanation," answered Harry while he moved his arm. The beam disappeared.

"Ok. But please, let's go inside. Can you follow us, Arabella? I'm sure that Harry isn't the only one who wants an explanation," said Sirius while looking at Mrs. Figg.

"Why are you protecting this traitor, Harry?" asked Mrs. Figg, looking at Harry.

"Arabella, you are a diviner so can't you wait until we are inside so we can tell you the truth? You know when someone is telling a lie, so you can judge if I'm a traitor when I tell you my story," said Sirius while holding the door open so they could go in.

Harry entered the house because he wanted to know why Sirius was there and he also wanted to know more about Mrs. Figg, If she was a witch why didn't she tell him about his family, his story?

Why she didn't tell that him he was a wizard? That could have made his childhood so much better. Well no use thinking like this thought Harry to himself. Now I will know why.

Looking around Harry noticed several things that could indicate that Mrs. Figg was a witch. In the kitchen there was a watch that didn't have numbers and had only one pointer. There were phrases on the watch that said 'In danger,' 'late,' 'time to cook,' and others. A few pictures moved and Harry thought that he should have noticed this before. There was also a cauldron over the sink, and Harry could smell that a potion had just been prepared.

Harry was amazed but followed Sirius to the living room. He sat himself on the couch and waited until Mrs. Figg had sat down. He was about to ask why Sirius was there when Sirius started to talk.

"Before anyone asks anything I will gave some explanations. Arabella, I'm here because Dumbledore wants to reunite the Order of the Phoenix. Harry, Arabella is a witch that Dumbledore asked to look after you in case someone broke his wards around Privet Drive," said Sirius, looking at the now stunned and surprised persons in front of him.

"And why Dumbledore send a traitor to reunite the Order?" asked Mrs. Figg furiously.

"Sirius wasn't the traitor. The traitor was Peter!" yelled Harry at Mrs. Figg. Without noticing, Harry was emanating an aura of power and with his anger he was creating another beam of red energy at his right hand.

"Harry, stop! You have to learn to control this new power," said Sirius. "Arabella, I will tell you the truth so please listen attentively."

Then Harry and Sirius started to tell what happened since Voldemort's attack at Godric's Hollow. How Sirius had changed who was secret keeper to Peter, thinking that it was perfect because Voldemort never would think that the Potter's would use someone that incompetent. How Sirius started to think that Peter was the traitor when he saw that Peter wasn't in his hiding place and there was no sign of fight.

Sirius told her that he first went to warn his friends of the traitor and that they should move or they would be found. He described what he saw when he arrived: Hagrid holding Harry. He asked for his godson but Hagrid said that he would give Harry only to Dumbledore. Then Sirius said that he decided that he was going after the traitor. He told what happened once that he had found Peter. Then he told what he was feeling while he was being "captured". And how he escaped from Azkaban.

From this point on Harry started telling the story. How he had discovered that Sirius was after him. How Crookshanks never trusted Scabbers. How he thought that he was having death signs every time he saw his godfather in his animagus form. How he discovered that Sirius had sold his parents to Voldemort. How he and Hermione followed Sirius and Ron to the Shrieking Shack. And what happened at the shack and after.

Then Sirius started to describe what really happened at the end of the year in Hogwarts, and why the order was being reunited. After almost two hours of explanation he asked, "now you know the truth, Arabella - you used your power I believe - so now you know that we are telling the truth."

"You know that are ways of making my powers work poorly, and I know that you know how to use at least three of this ways. But as Harry is telling me this too it must mean that this is the truth. Why didn't Dumbledore didn't send me an owl or contacted my by floo powder to warn me about this?" asked Arabella.

"Too dangerous. Someone could have intercepted the letter or monitored the calls. But we are going to use muggle phone numbers to talk to each other from now own. The Death Eaters never would think of monitoring muggle ways," answered Sirius, giving Mrs. Figg a cell phone.

"Ok. About what powers are you talking?" asked Harry, while looking curious at Mrs. Figg.

"It is time that I tell him the truth?" asked Mrs. Figg.

"Yes. Albus give you the permission to do so," answered Black.

"Harry, this is a disguise," said Mrs. Figg as she took a potion from her pocket. Drinking it, she instantly started to became younger until she was a beautiful brunette, a little shorter the Harry, with brown eyes and pale skin. "I used an ageing potion to disguise myself as an old lady as this way it would be easier to gain the Dursley's trust. This is my real self. I was a classmate of your mother, no I wasn't in Gryffindor, I was in Ravenclaw but I took divination with your mother. She wasn't very good with divination so I started to be her tutor. We became close friends and she started to tutor me in the other subjects. You know she was top in all the other classes. And then I started to date the best friend of her boyfriend. So she became my best friend, and I was made the godmother of her first son. You."

"So you are my godmother? Why I'm not living with you instead of the Dursleys? And this doesn't explain your powers," replied Harry.

"Yes, I'm your godmother. I couldn't keep you because a lot of people believed that I was loyal to the Dark Lord like my fiancée and I had to hide myself so I wasn't taken to Azkaban too. About my powers: I'm a diviner. I know it's not a power you can learn to do at school but there are several levels of divination," answered Arabella.

"Divination? You can see the future then?" asked Harry.

"No, only very few Diviners can do that. Where the hell did you learn Divination?" asked Arabella.

"Well, Professor Trelawney only tries to teach us to see the future in our classes."

"Trelawney. That explains it. I will talk to Albus see if he wants a new divination teacher. Harry, there are three uses to divination: scrying, telepathy, and seeing the future. Almost every wizard can use the simplest level of scrying and telepathy, and only two or tree alive can see the future," said Arabella.

"Ooh! I would love to learn how to scry and to use telepathy, Mrs. Figg," said Harry.

"Firstly, I'm not married so I'm not a Mrs. Secondly, call me Arabella, Harry. And I would love to teach you how to do that," said Arabella.

"So there is your first assignment Arabella. Albus said that you should start to train Harry's magical skills. I will show up on the first morning to show Harry how to train his body and see if he can became an animagus."

"Train Harry why?" asked Arabella.

"Why do I have to train my body?" asked Harry at the same time.

"Arabella, you remember when we were at school? We also had to train to enter in the Order. Harry and a few other students will be trained as well. Harry, you have to train your body because with a healthy body your power will grow more quickly. There is also the fact that it is a part of becoming animagus. I still don't understand how Peter become one considering how lazy he was," Sirius said, answering both questions.

"So Harry is going to enter in the Order? Isn't he to young?" asked Arabella.

"No he isn't, and you know that. Dumbledore told you to train him in duelling, Dark Arts, Divination and to teach him how to apparate. The rest of the time you can teach him anything you want. I have to help him with the animagus, which he wants of course, physical training like running, exercises to the muscles, swimming and self-defence," answered Sirius.

"Well, now that he knows that I'm his godmother, I will do my job and make guarantees that he will do well in school. When I'm not training him I will help him with his school work and help him to revise for his O.W.Ls."

" I, for one, am glad that now I don't have to go back to the Dursleys," said Harry.

"Well Harry, there is this little problem. There is this charm that protects you while you are under the care of your bloody relatives, so you still have to live with them. But you will tell them that Mrs. Figg broke her leg and needs you to run a few errands for her so you will have to spend the day here," said Sirius.

"At least I will have some decent meals and help with my homework it is a bonus," said Harry with a sad face.

"You will have more than that Harry. Now I can do my duties as a Godmother, I will compensate for fourteen years of presents," said Arabella, trying to make Harry fell better.

"Well, you know to compensate for thirteen years of presents. I got a Firebolt from Sirius," said Harry, griming with his little joke.

"So it was you who gave Harry that dammed broom!" exclaimed Arabella, pretending a severe tone while playfully slapping Sirius around the head. "Now, Harry, godmothers give other kinds of presents. Godmothers have to give clothes and things of this kind, so I will spend this Saturday buying you new clothes and a few useful supplies to school."

"What kind of supplies?" asked Harry while the curiosity got the better of him.

"You will have to wait and see. But I think that you will enjoy the both things that I'm thinking right now," answered Arabella.

"Well, Harry, now we have to set up a few things for your training. First, and I hate to say this, you will have to wake up at 5 in the morning so you can do your running drills. After that you will do the other exercises. At 10 you will start your animagus training...oh yes, since your have Albus' permission, you will be able to use your animagus transformation at the Transfiguration O.W.Ls. Your training is going to be with Minerva once you got back at Hogwarts, but for now I will supervise it," said Sirius without any trace of joke in his voice.

"How much time does it take to be an animagus?" asked Harry.

"It depends. It took 5 months for your father and I, and 7 for Peter. You probably will take 5 months too. Oh, Harry, you can't tell even your friends about this; you never know who may be listening and this is for some sort of secret weapon against the Death Eaters," said Sirius.

"OK, but it will be hard to hide this from them. Hermione will kill me when she discovers that I will become an animagus and she didn't get the same opportunity," said Harry.

"I'm sure that she will receive that opportunity as well after a while. Ok, now it's time to me to go. I will be waiting for you here at 5:30 to start your physical training. Don't worry, your friends also will receive training but they just will have to wait until they are at Hogwarts. And Harry take this," said Sirius while giving Harry a cell phone just like the one he gave to Arabella. "It has Dumbledore, Remus, Arabella and my numbers in the memory. In case of need you can call any of us. Don't worry, we made a few modifications on it so it works everywhere, include Hogwarts. Now, I'm going." And before anyone had any time to react he Arabella a kiss that left her Harry stunned, and then he disappeared with a pop.

One minute later, Arabella recovered herself, and start to train Harry. First she explained more about telepathy. She said that there were three uses to telepathy the first of which was blocking your own mind. Every wizard was capable of this but all at different levels. Arabella told Harry that he had an extremely strong block around his mind and that he didn't need any practice in this area. She even mentioned that his block was probably as strong as Dumbledore's was.

Then there was the ability of sending your thoughts to other peoples' minds. This ability didn't come to every wizard, but it wasn't that rare so Harry probably would be able to do it. Harry trained hard for an hour until he picked up this ability and he was able to maintain a dialogue with Arabella without speaking. She was proud of Harry's accomplishments and said that they would communicate this way during his practices so they could practice this skill without spending time at it.

The third use, which was very rare to the wizarding kind, was the ability to read other person's thoughts. Arabella explained to Harry that he probably had that ability because his mother had it, as did Voldemort. It was very possible that he was able to do it. Arabella told Harry that she also could do it and explained that Harry had to let go of his mind so he could reach the other person's mind. After an hour and a half Harry started to feel the shields that were blocking Arabella's mind. She said to Harry that he was advancing very fast and from now on as practice they would play chess and they would use their telepathic abilities to get an upper hand over their opponent.

After the telepathic training she said that Harry should practice with the power that he used against her in the afternoon. She explained that this power was the very rare ability of doing wandless magic and that the Potters had this ability for at least 10 generations. It was some sort of limited telekinesis that meant that the Potters were able to do summoning and banishing charms without a wand. They were able to perform three kind of attacks: the pinning one person to the wall, floor and other surfaces; the throwing of several people to the floor; and a concentrated attack that was capable of drilling through walls, people and anything on the way. He was also able to create a shield that protected against several curses and physical strikes.

After training these abilities for hours he returned to Privet Drive, told his relatives the 'tragedy' that happened to Mrs. Figg, and that he would spend all days out helping her. He would just sleep at 4, Privet Drive. His relatives were very happy about that so they gave Harry no problem. He went to his bedroom, set the alarm clock, and slept peacefully.

Next chapter: The start of the training.