Follow my lead
Chapter one - Introduction
The Ministry of Magic had never been known for its honesty, but when the wizarding world had discovered that the Minister for Magic himself had started training a group of ten teenagers, all between the age of fifteen and eighteen there was outrage, but not much could be done as no one knew who these ten students were.
Five girls and five boys, all having no where to go and were of course powerful wizards and witches in their own right. Eight teachers taught them both magical and muggle subjects, these included Ancient Runes, Defence training, Duelling, Transfiguration, Potions, Herbology, Muggle Studies, English, History, Mathematics and science.
They had grown up in the ministry of magic and had been taught by aurors, none of them had ever interacted with other children other than those in the class. Now all were in the appropriate age bracket news had been leaked of their existence, the news had not been taken well.
Nine out of ten had been gathered together for roll call, Professor Damien Wood who took them for Potions and Science was calling out the list of names.
"Baline, Carrie"
"Sir"
"Douglas, Sydney"
"Sir"
"Edmonds, Trinity"
"Sir"
"Goddard, Logan"
"Sir"
"Harris, Megan"
"Sir"
"Haughton, Clayton"
"Sir"
"Norwood, Nicholas"
"Sir"
"Patton, Cassidy"
"Sir"
"Potter, Harry."
There was no reply, Damien continued on as if he had actually answered but with a slight hint of irritation in his voice now.
"Sussman, Landon"
"Sir"
"Where is Harry?" The professor asked, it was Trinity to respond.
"I believe you'll find him in our dormitory." She said, Trinity was one of Harry's best friends, along with Landon, Cassidy and Sydney, the four couldn't be separated on most occasions however when paired off Harry was always put with Megan who was quiet by nature but lethal with any weapon you handed her.
Each had their main strengths but they were all competent in everything they did, it wasn't in their nature to fail. Unlike Aurors these guys, they called themselves students of allumer et l'amour, or the Allure for short, were like secret police. They were a greater power than the Aurors and were therefore sent on missions worthy of them.
"Will you please fetch him" Damien said, although he knew that Harry was not one to miss roll call without proper reason.
"Can't Sir"
"And why can't you?"
"Because," Sydney said, "Logan cast a sleeping spell over him last night when he was already asleep."
Damien raised an eyebrow at this, Harry was not one to fall for such pranks however of late he had been studying extra hard, staying up until all hours reading book after book of magical history and defence. He had been caught at this on so many occasions that he and the other teachers had lost count.
"Well I suggest that you go and wake him up, Trinity, please take Nicholas and try to rouse Harry, in fifteen minutes the Minister for magic himself will be arriving and expects you all to be present."
Trinity and Nicholas nodded and went to fetch Harry while Damien laid into Logan; it was not a pleasant sight, Trinity was glad to be going to get Harry with Nicholas. They were always paired together; she was brilliant at working out logical problems whereas Nick was all muscle, he acted first and thought later.
Harry was the same although hand to hand combat was by far his strength he could match Trinity for brains any time and could map out strategy as well as Carrie could.
He was, in a way, their unofficial leader, Logan and Carrie, the eldest two, both eighteen, didn't object to taking orders from someone a year younger than themselves, they looked up to him; he was so strong, stronger than any of them.
They found him where Logan had left him the previous night, fast asleep and snoring, no one was perfect. "How are we going to wake him?" Nicholas asked, as I said, he wasn't much of a thinker.
"Well, a spell was used to put him this way so I guess we're going to have to use magic to wake him up."
Ten minutes later and Harry was sat up in his bed rubbing sleep from his eyes, he was surprised to see two friends of his standing over him, looking expectantly at him.
"Um, morning" He said sleepily, almost stifling a yawn.
"Logan cast a spell on you, your late for the meeting; the Minister is arriving in" She checked her watch, "five minutes, so you had better get moving."
"Shit" Harry swore jumping out of bed and pulling on jeans and a shirt, then moving on to his socks, he pulled his shoes on as he ran out of the door; Trinity and Nicholas following close behind.
They reached the room in record time and joined the other students, Harry glaring icily at Logan who gulped and tried to ignore it, he knew he was going to pay for his little stunt later; Harry would make sure of that.
"Now, as we are all here, finally, we shall begin. Firstly I am happy to introduce the Minister himself."
Fudges replacement strolled in and gave a curt nod to each student before settling himself in a chair, the students were all standing to attention, backs straight waiting for their orders.
"Please, all of you take a seat." The Minister said and all of them did. "I have come here today to ask for you to fulfil a favour." The Minister begun, "As you all know, Hogwarts headmaster, Albus Dumbledore has a group called the Order of the Phoenix, he cannot however protect Hogwarts with only this small number of people."
"Please don't tell me you want us to go to Hogwarts" Harry said interrupting the minister and receiving a glare from Damien.
"Three groups will be going yes, the other two will be travelling abroad in search of Voldemort's soul fragments." Each knew what these were; they had been well briefed in Horcruxes. "It is of great importance that the school does not fall into Voldemort's control, the future of good magic depends on it, I would not be here myself if it was not of dire importance."
"They quite understand" Damien said as the Minister got up, the students did also as a sign of respect. Once the Minister for Magic had departed after thanking each student Damien began to announce who would be going abroad and who would be going to Hogwarts.
"B, C and D will be going to Hogwarts, A and E will be going abroad, your classes have been cancelled for today so that you may pack your belongings." Damien said little else as he left the ten students to it.
Groups B, C and D included Sydney, Trinity, Megan, Clayton, Nicholas and of course, Harry. Carrie, Logan, Cassidy and Landon would be going abroad. Not that they hadn't all done this before but between backpacking across mountain peaks and harsh desert to going to school Harry would chose backpacking any day. He had never once been to school before and didn't want to either, although it didn't look like he had a choice, they had all been trained to blend in but social interaction with others outside their small group had been forbidden while training was in process. Training was obviously over.
Grudgingly they all trailed off to their dormitory to pack some things together, Harry did wonder what they were playing at sending only one main fighter out backpacking, the rest were more to use their brains than fists, it made him think that maybe they thought there was going to be a chance to fight at Hogwarts.
This slipped from his mind however when Harry spotted Logan, "Right Logan, I need to have a word with you" Harry said approaching the teen, Logan now looked suitable worried, any one who had Harry after their blood had a right to be terrified.
"Now, Harry, mate, friend, I meant no harm, can't we settle this in a nice peaceful, owwwwwww" Harry had tackled him and now had him in a headlock.
"I think I want an apology." Harry said, Logan, despite being eighteen was neither larger or stronger than Harry, he was more one to gather information than go into any sort of confrontation.
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry."
"So you should be, I think you should be grateful that I didn't use my wand."
Knowing when to just let things lye Logan did not retaliate instead he conjured up a backpack and began to choose his items with care.
Harry slumped down onto his bed and sighed, Trinity sat beside him along with Sydney. Both girls admired their friend and with both being teenagers of course had each had a crush on him at some point but they knew they didn't have any sort of chance seeing as Harry thought he might be gay.
Of course they could only think, it was a rule that they couldn't date each other but they didn't, each was like a sibling to the other, they had all practically grown up together, purely to fulfil the purpose of warrior for the ministry. Going to Hogwarts was a big deal to those going, mainly because there they were able to interact with others and indulge themselves with a world that they had previously been bared from.
"What do you think Hogwarts will be like?" Sydney asked randomly, Trinity, being a year younger than them both nodded.
"Boring" Harry replied vaguely, "We've already passed our OWLS, NEWTS and our auror tests; it's going to be majorily boring."
"I think it'll be great" Trinity said, "I heard that there are four different school houses and they play quidditch matches."
"I think it'll be good" Landon said joining the conversation, he slept on the bed next to Harry's and was packing a few items into a backpack.
"That's easy for you to say, your not going" Harry replied, with a wave of his hand his belongings all picked themselves up, folded themselves and placed themselves neatly into Harry's trunk.
"I know" Landon said happily, "You never know, you may have fun, you may even get laid." He said, Harry threw a pair of socks at him; he didn't want to think about that. "Least you get a comfy bed and good meals; I doubt we'll get much of that."
"True, but you won't be stuck with nothing to do for weeks on end, school, how dull."
"Well, I'm looking forward to going." Sydney said, Harry just gave her a look.
"That's only because you know what a great library they've got there Sid, your going to be reading for weeks."
"So true, maybe Trin might even find someone that beats her at wizard chess."
"We're not asking for a miracle." Harry joked; it was now his turn to have socks thrown in his general direction.
By the time they were called for dinner each had finished packing and were ready to go. The ten students made their way to the cafeteria in the ministry where all of their meals were, it was closed off for them for an hour each meal time so they would not be disturbed, or discovered, by other witches and wizards.
Professor Brett Katz, who took them for Runes and Transfiguration joined them today, along with Professor Carlos Hensley who taught them Muggle Studies and the Brook sisters, Madeline who taught them duelling and Chloe, a squid who took them for Mathematics.
Dinner was a pleasant enough affair, Alastor Moody, who had been put in charge of their education and was in effect their head teacher made an appearance as the desert plates cleared on their own accord.
Everyone fell silent automatically, "The following students will quickly retrieve their bags and gather in the atrium within the next ten minutes, Carrie Baline, Logan Goddard, Cassidy Patton and Landon Sussman. The remainder of you will remain here and given your instructions."
Each student hugged their friends that were evidently departing that night, it felt strange to them all, during their training they had done everything together, it didn't matter what gender or what age you were, everything was done as a group.
When the remaining six had watched the other four leave they sat back down and waiting for their instructions. It was Brett who spoke "You will all be leaving at six tomorrow morning so please reframe from pulling childish pranks on each other tonight, one of us will wake you in the morning, I suggest that you all go off and get a good nights sleep, which includes you Harry."
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