CHAPTER 9

It was a quarter to seven when Harry started getting everything ready for the meeting with the Marauders. He would be taking them up to the Room of Requirement. All he had with him was his notebook and his wand. All else would be forgotten once the lesson started.

When the boys arrived, James was leading a group of three others with completely puzzled faces. "I take it you didn't tell them what was said and what was going on tonight?" Harry asked James.

"Nope. I wanted it to be a surprise. I think it's been a big enough of a surprise already that I voluntarily wanted to some and see you." He and Harry both laughed and the boys continued to look on trying to figure out what was going on.

"Okay come in, but don't make yourselves comfortable because we won't be staying here." After seeing an additional confused face, he added, "It's not safe enough here. There's a place where very few people know about. That's where we'll be going."

"Where is it? I betcha we know where it is, right guys?" Sirius challenged.

"Okay, how much do you want to bet? Becasue I'm sure I'll win. Before we finalize that bet, have you ever seen anyone just disappear before on that map of yours?" He ended with a knowing smile.

"You told him about the map?" Sirius exploded at James. "I thought it was supposed to stay a secret. That was your rule wasn't it?" Harry suddenly felt bad for what he said, and James sent him a pleading look.

"He didn't tell me. I don't need one of you guys telling me everything. I know things about this castle that very few other people know." James gave him a thankful look, but the boys still were not pleased.

"How did you know about our map?" Remus asked.

"Oh, so you really do have a map? That's good to know," Harry replied. That shut them up quickly. "Okay, now let's get started. First thing's first, James brought you down here to learn the spell we went over in class yesterday. And James is not crazy for suddenly deciding to like me. He can tell you about that later if he wants you. Okay now come here. I'm going to put a Disallusion Charm on you; I dont' want anyone to see me taking you guys to this room." One by one, the boys became invisible. "Okay, now follow me closely, and don't let anything run into you, especially a person," he whispered.

They tiptoed throught the halls of Hogwarts following Harry closely. They made it to their destination without a problem. Harry started pacing in front of a bare wall, and the boys looked on confused. After pacing it three times, a door appeared, shocking the Maurders, but none of them wanted to admit surprise.

When they walked in, they were greeted by a large empty room. Harry performed the counter spell on the boys, and took out his notebook. "Okay, so how much do you guys owe me for that bet, becasue by the look on your faces you obviously haven't seen this room before, even with that ruddy map." Harry chuckled for a minute, becasue the boys apparently couldn't tell that he was only joking. "Don't worry guys I'm only joking. Now let's get started." And they did.

After going back over what they had learned about the spell in class, they got to the practical part. "So are we going to be doing this on each other? Becasue if we are, then Mooney isn't doing it on me!" Sirius said with concern.

"Yeah, like I'd be dumb enough for that. I brought you here for a reason." Harry couldn't belive Sirius was so thick when he was younger. But then again, on second though, he could. "Okay, what I want you to do is wish for someone that has xactly the same power and skill level as you do. When you're done with that, you should see a practical carbon copy of yourself in front of you. Sometimes though it's a dark figure and you can't really make out what they look like, so don't worry about that." They all did as they were told, and suddenly there were 5 additional people in the room. "Okay, good. I'm going to show you what it looks like, and then I'll have you guys try."

Harry went ahead and performed the spell on the dummie he had summoned. It was the first spell he threw at it and it ended the duel bcause the dummie couldn't retaliate. "Okay, did you see the wand movements I talked about. And if its not a purple color, then you did it wrong."

Remus tried it first. The color that protruded out of his wand was not the same as Harry's, but a little more on the blue side. It did seem to have a similar effect though, becasue the dummie couldn't retaliate, and was doubled over in pain.

Sirius stepped up to try it next. The first time he tried it, a yellow light came out, but then Harry corrected his pronunciation and he tried again. This time there was a lilac color, much lighter than Harry's. His dummie was delayed, but was able to retaliate. Sirius, not expecting this, was turned around and was hit by the spell sent at him.

He was sent flying across the floor, and before he even had time to try to get up, Harry was in front of the dummie he had created. In about twenty seconds, the dummie was disarmed and Harry was at SIrius' side. "Are you alright?" he asked with concern. "That was a nasty curse. Do you even know what it was?"

"I know what it was, but I don't know how to perform it. It's a really nasty spell when it's done right. It splits you-"

"I know what it was; no need for grusome details. Your lucky it wasn't done right though, it could have killed you." Harry helped Sirius up and sent him over to his friends.

Peter was up next, and Harry had to will himself to wish he failed. THe light that came out of the tip of his wand was white. This surprised Harry a lot, becasue there were very few spells that could becasted with a white light. He hadn't planned on it when he invented the spell. "Do it again." he demanded. Peter gave a scared look over to his friends and they urgesd him to do it again. He performed it again, and again the light was white.

"I guess I can't do it," he said sadly to Harry.

"No, wait. Do you know anything about spell casting. I mean not just the incantations, but the power behind them?" They all gave him puzzled looks which ansered his questions for him. "There are very few spells that can be cast with a white light, and when I was looking into this spell, these weren't my intentions. I was only looking for a legal way to cause pain. It sounds pretty harsh, but it's the truth."

The boys still looked pretty clueless, so Harry explained further. "When a spell can be cast with a white light, then it can penentrate almost every shield. There's only one sheild that it can't penentrate, but no one ecluding me knows about it. The unforgivables don't need to be sent in a white light, they can penentrate any sheild ever invented.

"Okay, this is going to sound crazy, but I want you to perform the spell on me. You all know the counterspell, so once I get hit, someone stop it." Peter looked very nervous, and he didnt really want to do it, but he didn't want to disobey his professor either. He got ready, into his scared stance, and said the incantation. The white light they were already familiar with was sent out and hit Harry.

There was no effect. He just stood there confused. "It didn't work," he said dumbly, stating the obvious. "I guess it was just a fluke. I'll have to look into it later. But now its James' turn."

James stepped up, and tried the spell. The first time he tried, a purple light came out but fizzled out two feet in front of him. "Put some more power behind it," Harry said. When he tried again, it came out full forced and hit the dummie strongly. "Well done!" Harry exclaimed. "I'd give ou house points, but we're not even supposed to be here. But then again, when has that stopped you guys?" he laughed.

As they were walking out, Harry stated again, "I'll look into that white light spel and let you guys know about it. If it's true, it could be really valuble. There's a certain way you have to perform the spell to come out like that. I don't know, it could just be a fluke, like I said." Once they got to the spot where they had o part ways, Harry said good night, but The four boys had a question for him first.

"Wait!" they said simultaneously when he had turned around. James, their unofficial leader stepped forward. "Can we do this again?" he asked. "I mean, can we go through some new things, or jusy some things we didn't go over completely in class? I learned a lot tonight. And you're right, we're going to have to know as much as possible for this war."

"I'd like that." Harry responded. "I'll see you in class tomorrow." They bade their good nights and good byes, and parted.

After reliving the night to Remus, Harry plopped down on his bed, which seemed more comfortable when he was this tired, and fell asleep.

A/N: Oh man, I'm soo sorry about the wait, but I just wasn't interested in it for a little while, and then I was interested again. I might do that periodically. Weird, i know, but whatever. Um, I hope you guys like this one, and review please! I dunno when I'll have the next chapter up though, becasue I still have to write it so... hopefully it'll be sooner than this one.