Wow. I'm so embarressed about how long this has taken to update. I'm still not sure I'm happy with the chapter but it sort of sets up what is the focus for the next couple of chapters. So here it is.

Disclaimer: I Don't Own Harry Potter. I Just Wish I Did.

To all the readers that have waited for this your wait is over now without further to say here is chapter three of the Founder's Call...

The Founder's Call

Chapter Three: Training

Three days later found Harry, Ron and Hermione in the room with Andrea and Ron was trying his hardest not to stare to openly at her. Hermione however was a different story. She'd walked in and stopped dead and whispered, "Andrea." Andrea had spun round and her eyes had gone impossibly wide.

Harry watched as Andrea looked like she was going to say something and then thought better of it. Her eyes however told a different story. It seemed to pass and Hermione snapped out of it and looked at Andrea as if it had never happened. Ron looked at Harry over Hermione's head and they both had decided to let the incident drop. Andrea, for whatever reason had decided to do the same.

"Okay then." She said as they entered. "Let's cut to the chase shall we? I'm here to help you defeat Voldemort nothing more nothing less and while I know Ron, Hermione that you want to help Harry the task will ultimately fall to him to complete." She looked at Harry then. "Harry I meant what I said when I said that I was going to have you working hard so if you go out of here swearing at me I'll be happy."

Harry frowned at her. "You're here to train me. I accept that and I also accept that it's gonna be hard. If I swear at you then you may think you're doing your job right but I won't be doing mine. I'm here to learn and you know how. If I go out of here with a few bruises then so be it. It'll be worth it if we win this war."

Andrea nodded seemingly satisfied. "Okay." She smiled and then threw a stick at Harry. "You'll need to be able to fight without magic against Voldemort since he will be expecting such so show me what you've got."

Harry looked puzzled for a moment but didn't really get much chance after that since Andrea was almost on top of him and throwing punches and kicks against him.

Harry knew enough to put up some kind of defence but he was only seventeen and every defence he had learned had involved a wand he hadn't learned hand-to-hand combat. Still he fought off Andrea and despite her vengeful approach he knew it was needed.

Ron and Herminone did not seem to think so though. "Stop it!" Hermione yelled. "Stop it!" Andrea stopped and turned her violet gaze on Hermione. "You have something to say Hermione?" She said neutrally. "Damn right I have something to say!" "You're hurting him!"

"She's not!" Harry denied hotly wiping yet another bloody nose. "Of course I'm hurting him." Andrea said shocking them all by not sugar coating the truth. "How else do you think he's going to learn the correct defence mechanisms unless it hurts?"

She looked at the three teenagers in front of her trying to make herself remember that they were teenagers and not the people she knew them as. It would be along time before they became the people she had last seen them as. Particularly Hermione she definitely had a long way to go.

"I'm not here to baby you. I'm here to make sure that when the time comes you can fight. That you all can fight. The Death Eaters will not be lenient and neither will I."

"If you want leniency you can leave and continue to fight with the DA I will not stop you I am only here because Albus asked me to be. So if you want to leave there is the door but do it quickly because if you don't want this I have other obligations to uphold."

Ron and Hermione gaped at Andrea but Harry simply picked up his wooden baton and quietly regarded Andrea who had sighed and turned her back and began clearing the space in the room of requirement. It was then that Harry saw it, a break in her guard so he ran forward desperate to at least make some sort of headway.

He attacked with all the power he had in him and he thought he was going to achieve something when his baton clanged with another and Andrea smiled at him. "Now you're learning something. I never fight an opponent, who has their back turned, it's my own code of honour." She sighed then. "But my battlefield is and will be totally different to yours. You will be fighting Voldemort and that is a totally different thing do everything you can. Because I guarantee he will try the same with you."

Harry nodded. He knew that it wouldn't be the first time he had faced Voldemort but he would be the first time he had faced his nemesis fully prepared and that gave him a sense of peace despite his task.

"But I will tell you this. He will try and anger you, he will use everything he can to try and make you loose your focus, you must never let him do that. Never attack in anger no matter how hard it may seem."

To Harry this seemed to be sensible advice but as he thought about it he realised how hard it would be to actually carry out. He thought about all the times he had faced Voldemort before and how angry he had been particularly after Sirius was killed and it was only then he started to realise what Andrea was saying.

The realisation must have shown on his face because Andrea nodded and she smiled. "Now Lightening we are getting somewhere." Harry was about to comment on the nickname but another part of him stopped it. Somehow that nickname felt right coming from Andrea though he couldn't begin to try and work out why.

By the time Andrea called a stop to the lesson Harry was on the verge of collapse and everything hurt so much he thought he'd die. Andrea knelt down beside him and said, "Well done Harry I'm proud of you."

She held out her hand and he grasped it and she helped pull him up as she did he felt a warm sensation travel through his body, like he had eaten chocolate after a run in with a Dementor.

Andrea smiled at him, "That should help with the pain and considering you are going to have this on top of your studies I think it only fair that I help you out." Harry smiled. "Thank-you Andrea. I mean that." Andrea nodded. "I know."

Harry turned and looked at his friends who were staring at him. Andrea followed his gaze and sighed. "Can you please answer me this Ron, Hermione; do you intend to help Harry when the time comes for him to face Voldemort?" Their response was instantaneous. "Yes." They said together.

"Then why do you think I'm subjecting him to this?" "I'm not sure but I'm not sure it's necessary either." Hermione eyed Andrea warily. "I would never do anything unless I thought it was needed." "I want Harry to be better than Voldemort when the time comes." anAnaaaaafadsadssdgfphisw[

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G{jGSHSb cvgcvcvcvcvc "There are peaceful ways of doing it." Hermione said.

Andrea looked at her a moment and then started laughing. "Oh Hermione you remind me of someone I once knew. And I agree but you must know that this is not the time for Peace. If you tired to get Voldemort to surrender on peaceful terms he'd tear you apart. No. This will only stop when we make it stop."

Hermione didn't look convinced for a moment and then seemed to shake herself and said, "Of course Andrea. You're right I just wish we didn't have to fight." Andrea nodded. "I know little one." She looked across the room. "And in order to win the war we are about to embark on we will need more than warriors. There will be a place for you in times to come you do not need to be on a battlefield to be of use."

Hermione nodded and though she didn't seem happy about she turned from Andrea and Harry and walked to the corner and sat down pulling out a spell book on defence and began to read.

"What next?" Harry asked. "We start all over again." Andrea grinned.

Harry grinned meeting her thrust in the middle. He was beginning to enjoy this, yeah it was hard work and he had no illusions about what Andrea expected from him but in the current climate he couldn't help but be happy about that.

He was training, not just with magic but physically training and for the first time since the war had first taken hold he felt like the Light stood a chance of not only surviving against the Dark but beating it.

He suppressed a groan as he ended up on his arse again with Andrea looking down at him barely suppressing a grin.

"Shall we say two out of three?" She held out her hand and laughing Harry took it feeling the buzz of her magic.

"Yeah two out of three." And with that he spent another hour sparing before he was sent back to the dorms with Ron and Hermione sweating and aching but grinning broadly at the thought of more to come.

He smiled at the knowledge that even in the darkest places there is always a shred of light and with Andrea and Conan's help he would find it and he and the light would succeed where Voldemort and the forces of dark would fail.

He would make sure of it. Even if it was the last thing he did. He might have not liked the fact he had this responsibility thrust upon him but it didn't mean he was going to run from it. He'd shoulder it and he'd do what was right. And for the first time he felt the dawning knowledge that he could win.

He smiled as he, Ron and Hermione made their way back to the common rooms and for once after the training took that night to have a night normal teenagers, as friends, without worrying what the dawn would bring. There would be enough time for that in the coming months.

***

Conan found Andrea later in the back of the library. "I expected you to come and find me sooner." He said softly. She looked up and smiled. "Sorry Conan. I honestly lost track of time."

"How goes the first training session with your young one." "Well." Andrea said nodding. "Better than expected actually. I have every confidence he will be able to shoulder the task that will be expected of him. I have every confidence in all of them passing the Fallen Trials."

She smiled. Conan looked at her. "I haven't heard you have this much faith in sometime Andrea. It is good to see." She nodded. "I know. He surprised me. He took hit after hit today and simply got up and started all over again. Some of my angels from the armies complain when I do that. I cannot but admire his determination and his strength. It is the first time I have truly wished and willed a group of humans to pass the Fallen Trails."

Conan smiled. "I am pleased Andrea. You are a good teacher and I'm sure they will flourish under your teachings as will the others."

Andrea laughed. "I'm gonna have problems with Hermione but then Evelyn has never really saw the point of what I did so no change there." Andrea laughed outright at Conan's face.

"She's back?"

"Yeah, she shocked me too. Little Evelyn. Always going toe to toe with me. Protecting her friends. I can't help but be impressed. Of course once again she puts me in a little bit of an awkward position. But I'll get around it I always do. It used to drive her up the wall. Made it all the more fun really."

Andrea put her book down and smiled at Conan.

"I didn't realise at first. Now I just have to find away of telling Amor. I'm putting it off but I can't put it off too long. She'll kill me. But I have to find away to tell her gently. I'll probably have to return to the Void tonight. Will you be alright if I do?" She stood and put her hand on his shoulder. "I promise I'll be back as soon as I can."

She looked at her best friend as he smiled. "Of course I will. I'll have to get Dumbledore ready for Amor's arrival no way she will stay in the Void once you tell her. But you better go tonight the longer you don't tell her, the more pissed she'll get."

Andrea nodded. "I know. Conan my love you're a star." She pecked him on the cheek and then cast out her senses to make sure they were alone and then disappeared back to the void.

Conan had to laugh. If Hogwarts thought Conan and Andrea had caused a stir he couldn't wait until they met Amor. Although he was pleased it was Andrea that had to handle her tonight.

"Coward." Andrea laughed in his head.

"Suicidal." Conan returned. "Touché." She laughed. "I'll see you soon with our esteemed leader. Then she faded out from his head leaving him to his own devices. He knew Andrea wouldn't beat around now she was on her way back to the Void so he set off directly for Dumbledore's rooms sending the headmaster a message saying to meet him there. He needed to make sure the headmaster understood.

Dumbledore would need to be prepared. Amor was not a force to be reckoned with and she would likely turn Hogwarts upside down. Especially when it came to their youngest sister. There was nothing Amor would not do for her.

Conan laughed. Well at least his time on Earth wasn't going to be boring and they were doing what they could to help his descendants. With Amor here to protect Hermione there was no way his descendants would suffer a war at the hands of this mad man.

It was more than he could hope for. Now he had to make sure that his descendants were ready for the force that was his sister. But he didn't think so. All he could do was prepare them and then sit back and watch the destruction. He smiled and shook his head. Well it wasn't going to be boring. He couldn't wait.

Soon he would have all his family together again and the threat against his descendants would be gone with his family's help. And for that he was grateful. There would be light in the dark, they would succeed he would not see his descendants suffer. The light would succeed and now with Evelyn back perhaps they themselves could have the family they hadn't had since she had been taken from them. Perhaps they stood a chance of winning their own war.

He shook his head. They needed Calum back for that but something told him if Evelyn was near by then Calum would be back soon too and then they could truly banish all the shadows that stood in the way of light.

Their time would come and when it did he would be there to see it.