As I ate my breakfast with my mother and father they said that they would go out on the coming Sunday for movies and will return late at night at most Nine o'clock and they would be picking me up from grandma and grandpa's house. And I nodded and said," Mother Father stop worrying about me and just think about what to wear and which movie to watch and where to eat this Sunday, you guys should worry about these things only and not about me and meals as I would be with grandma and grandpa do you guys think they would not treat me properly you guys I know that you love me more than the world but you guys should make some time for each other and stop worrying about me I'm a big boy now."
On this, they laughed and mother said," Oh my little Alex has already become a big boy, huh looks like he will bring his girlfriend soon too."
As she said this James laughed louder and gave me a teasing smile but I said," It's okay for you guys to be nervous about going out as you have been immersed in taking care of a child you found in the middle of the road and have done a beautiful job in doing so. But you have also neglected your own life and its joys as you took care of the child but now that said child has grown up a little and can take care of himself if the situation demands it.
And he also got grandparents who dote on him and would not let anything happen to him so you guys stop worrying about him and focus on you date which has come after a long time and enjoy your time with each other. As for bringing a girl home and letting you meet her. Your boy is too handsome, talented, genius that not one, not two but many girls would fall for him and he will only confess his feeling with ones he genuinely loves and does not try to be a womanizer but you will find out all that in the next episode of dragon... wrong lines but you will find out all that and it will take time and will happen in future so you don't have to worry about it now only worry about your date."
As they heard me say all this their lips twitched slightly as mother said," My my our little Alex has developed quite a narcissistic personality where does he get this trait from. And you will have many girls and also have thought quite deeply about it huh. I think to control that narcissistic side of your some punishment is due so no cake for you this week and as for other punishment I will tell you later now go do your work."
And after hearing her I was a little horrified but then I thought and said," Mother if you say so then I will accept any punishment in front of your happiness a piece of cake is nothing even if you put the full chocolate cake with choc chips on top it's still nothing in front of your happiness as you have given me happiness by being my mother in this life I can leave everything for your happiness so don't worry mother. Okay, I am going to train now shall we go, father."
As I gestured at James who was now speechless after hearing my words but my mother was the clean bowled right now as she thought that she was the one punishing me but I subtly twisted my words but that doesn't mean that I am not serious about her happiness as she was the one who took care of me for the last seven years what can a cake do in front of her happiness I will vanquish anything that comes between my families happiness.
As I thought all this mother came to me and hugged me and said with teary-eyed, " Why do you act like this and make your mother cry do you feel good by making your mother cry by saying those big words and making me feel guilty just for thinking of punishing you."
As I shook my head and said," No I do not feel good seeing you cry nor do I feel happy by making you guilty for thinking of punishing me it's just that I trust you that much that I think that whatever you do will be done by considering the good of the choice you made for me as however mature I'm I am still a child and sometimes I wi not understand what you do is good for me or not so at those times I trust you guys that you will do all the things that will bring good things to me and not harm me in any way."
As they heard this they looked at me but then smiled at me and mother hugged me more tightly as we hugged each other for some time as words were meaningless at that moment. After some time I went to the underground basement to train with James where he taught me new things and then I went back and took a bath to clean myself and then I went to the car with James and we drove off for grandma and grandpas house.
As we reached grandpa was standing where he always stood smiling at us as I greeted him and went to the study. I reached the study as I saw grandma reading some book which she closed just when I entered the study as I went towards her and hugged her and she hugged back as she said, " You look happier than you usually look when you come here. What's the occasion can you tell me bout it?" As I nodded and told her all of it about me suggesting to James that they should go on a date and then later at dinner we shared a moment as a family.
Also about me saying that I will be fine and will be with my grandparents and we go sightseeing and she gave a-ok to my suggestion and told me that they will go out to movies and will come late as they will be having dinner outside and will be picking me up late at night. As I told her all that she said," You have done well for your parents but you also slightly manipulated them with your words. Are you sure you don't want to go into politics as you will be a great politician?"
At her finding out about me manipulating them slightly but with good intention and her mentioning that I would be a great politician I gave her an embarrassed smile as I said," Well I knew you will figure it out about that as I told you all the things truthfully and your guys are the ones who are teaching me all about politics and also I did not see any harm in slightly twisting my words and taking out the emotional card to make them go and live and enjoy by themselves and not always worry about me. I know that they care for me and love me as their son and all but you know when they got me they sort of stopped doing and thinking things for their joy and happiness and started to take care of me and worry about me every time and thinking about my welfare all the time. So I did what I thought was right at that time only the happiness of my parents was on my mind at that time nothing else. So grandma please tell me what I did was right or wrong?"
As she listened to my thoughts she said after thinking about it for some time," What you did was wrong but was also right at the same time as in this case you only cared about giving your parents their alone time with each other, and you did well by them by convincing them to enjoy their lives and not worry about you all the time but when you first thought about your plan you didn't think about their happiness in the first place as you thought about away so that you can go to diagon alley but then by conversing with them and sharing some emotion with them you had a change of heart and then you thought about there happiness and their alone time with each other.
You know Alex I didn't just turn my hair gray by standing in the sun but I fought, plotted, manipulated, deceived, and even killed in my life and got a lot of experience and with that regrets as well so when I tell you that you should not at least manipulate and deceive you family you should listen and carve it in your heart and mind that it will bring more harm than good in your life as at some point in time those you loved will notice it all and they will surely distance themselves from you to feel safe. So remember this well, Alex."
As she finished her words and I thought about it all and then I said," I will remember the things you taught me today grandma.
As she nodded and said, " Good child, now that you are going to be with us for the coming Sunday I think it would do you good to satisfy your curiosity and it will also be a chance for you to see the wizarding world early on albeit only the shopping place but it will give you some perspective about all the related things as you will meet a lot more people when you grow up so at your age as early as it can be you will have the opportunity to learn from watching thing and people and when you can't understand something ask me or you grandpa and we will guide you through it.
As I was stunned by her words and asked," Why you should at least punish me by not taking me to diagon alley as what I did was wrong and I should be more forthcoming, with my parents but you... I don't understand so please tell me."
She smiled as if satisfied with my question and said," Oh it was just a bait I put in front of you so that I can judge you if you thought about all the things I said and made some conclusion about it or you were just trying to act through it and fooling me, in that case, I would not have taken you with me even if you had begged me and even if tried to fool me I am a certified legilimen so I would have known it. But you thought it through and take up all the wrongs and rights and learned your lesson. And also when you asked about the question made it clear that you have thought it all in your head and took a step ahead. Also, you can't fool me as your occlumeny is not up to that standard where you can mask your emotions and thoughts and show what you want to show to others you have a long way to go young man. Ok, enough about that let's see how much you have progressed with your first shield.
As I took it all in I thought ' well old age sure comes with wisdom and experience' so I calmed my mind and cleared my thoughts and focused and then she attacked with legilimency as I blocked her and it took quite some time for her to break my shied as she slowly increased her output and I felt that my shield was getting pierced by a spear and it crumbled by giving me a huge pain in my head as I held my head and tried to massage it with my hands and after some time the pain subsided as she said," You have trained hard for me to exert this much but it's still not my full power but it is quite remarkable to do what you did as no one your age could do it not even a good seventh year could do it so tell me what are you thinking about your second shield how do you want to develop it."
As I held my head and massaged it some more then I looked at her and let out a long breath as I said," It's still a work in progress as I have already said previously that I want to build a maze-like but multi-layered structure as it can help me buy time if I was ever attacked so yeah it's still in progress as I haven't thought about what type of shape I should use like I have some ideas such as a semi-circle or full circle, semi-sphere or full sphere, triangle, hexagon, but I'm still confused so I will need some more time( Readers, please help me out in this which of these shapes I use and make a second shield comment okay )."
As she nodded as we talked some more about diagon alley. Then we went to the room without doors as we passed through the wall there stood Richard with a wand in his hand which was crossed over his chest as he was looking at us as he said, " Took you long enough. James told me about Sunday so we will be taking care of you so what do you want to do on Sunday."
As Mary interrupted and said," About that we will discuss later. And also about his occlumeny he has improved it quite well as I had to put some effort in it to break his shield. But right now we should focus on learning theories and practical application of spells."
As he nodded and said, " Okay we will talk about it later so I will teach you some basic transfiguration like Cauldron to Sieve, Cauldron to Badger, pen to bowl, some spells like Water-Making Spell, healing spell like Anapneo which can clears the target's airway if they are choking on something, some charms like Aqua Eructo which is a spell used to create, and control, a jet of clear water from the tip of the wand, Alarte Ascendare which shoots the target high into the air as you can use it with some jinxes or charms when you can double cast and yes I will teach you that."
As I nodded some of the spells I have seen before as the water making spell in half blood prince when harry and dumbles go to find the locket and dumbles drink all the cursed water and ask harry for some water after finding the locket which R.A.B had already taken and here they don't even know that they fucked up as harry the famous chosen one tried to conjure water by the help of Aguamenti spell.
And the second spell Alarte Ascendare which Lockhart used in chambers of secrets when Draco stuck-up Malfoy cast an idiotic spell called Serpensortia and Lockhart tries once again to show how much of a fraud he is and casts this spell which makes that snake angrier than it was before and then our another stuck-up professor snape cast Vipera Evanesca snake- vanishing spell.
As he began my lessons first by teaching me the Aguamenti spell and first and foremost would be theories about the spell.
As he began, "Now listen carefully as I will first teach you this spell related to the elements which is Aguamenti the water-making spell now close your eyes and focus on my voice and imagine.
Imagine yourself as the center and the elements circling you now try to draw out the energy from the water element in the minute form and channel it into your body by merging it with your magic and continue to draw it little by little and merge it with your magic now what do you want to do with the energy you drew into your body and merged it with your magic as it will need output as your body can't handle all that elemental magic as it will try to release it outside it can happen in many ways and the most common in a kid would be accidental magic as you will without any intention release magic in burst and feel exhausted after that as the tension your body was feeling was released in a single but concentrated burst and some times its too much for the body to handle so kid also loses consciousness.
But back to the topic as you have all that magical energy circulating in your body and through your core, you now have to imagine what you want to do with that magic you want to make some water right so now you will imagine water and with the intent and then you say Aguamenti and you will get the desired result.
Now open your eyes did you get the gist of it if yes then give me a nod."
As I slowly opened my eyes I nodded at him but a thought also crossed my mind that I have really good teachers.
As he said," Now we will practice the correct pronunciation of Aguamenti and then we will come to the wand movement don't be hasty as hast makes waste. And then we finally are doing the practical application."
And I nodded again. As we continued to the pronunciation part as he first said the word very slowly so that I can understand the correct way of saying it as I slowly tried to copy him and said the word. And after a few times repeating the word we moved on to the next part which was wand movement I tried to copy his movement as it took quite a lot of time to do that as well then the final part which was the practical applications and finally after saying it once I did it.
And he said," Good kid you have done it on your first try it's really good."
He said as he patted my back well this feeling is very good as I never in my previous life received a pat on the back even if I did something good.
As we then began the transfiguration lesson. As it was once again time for theories as he said, " It all depends on imagination and intent magic can do the rest but you have to give shape to it If you don't shape it well it can cause its caster harm or the product will come out deformed, semi transfigured. So imagination and intent will be necessary for transfiguration."
As I nodded at his words and emptied my mind and I imagined a cauldron then I imagined a sieve and then I imagined that the cauldron was now transfigured as a sieve. As I opened my eyes and nodded at him as we then begin to start the practical applications. As I tried to turn the cauldron into a sieve and did accomplish it on my first try.
As he saw this he patted my back again and said, " Atta boy Alex." As I looked at him with a smile.
As we practiced some more transfiguration spells and then we ended it.
As I was sitting on the chair thinking about all the things that happened as I sipped my mixed fruit juice with ice cubes. As I said," Thank you Candy for the juice. It's very well done." As the house-elf said," Thank you, young guest, if you need anything please call me." As she vanished with a pop sound and I thought I should also ask grandpa to teach me how to apparate.
And in another room, two people one male and the other female both old were talking to each other.
Grandma: And that's all that happened. After hearing him I made sure to point out the wrongs and rights of the things he did and he also learned a valuable life lesson. But do you think that we should do that after his eighth birthday? He's still a kid I know that we are teaching him everything and from our experiences but it I still think it's too soon and we have to convince his parents as well.
Grandpa: I know that you are worried about him but you also promised to take him with us to diagon alley. A for the things he did when you pointed out the rights and wrongs of the things did he say anything or did he try to justify himself.
Grandma: No when I pointed out the rights and wrongs he nodded after thinking about it for some time.
Grandpa: So that means he thought over the thing you pointed and then he accepted that as well. Then when you said that you will take him to diagon alley did he got excited.
Grandma: No he did not as he even asked why did I agree to take him to diagon alley and asked why did he not get punished by not letting him go to diagon alley.
Grandpa: See he did not get excited about you agreeing to take him. So he learned his lesson and thought it quite thoroughly might I add. You know that we have over the years met many young geniuses and even albus was not like this when he was still a kid. And we saw Albus quite closely.
When he was a kid he was also hailed genius by others but he was worlds apart from Alex when he was his age he was a genius but an arrogant kid and that is why he suffered the most terrible hardship in his life and he's still paying for all that.
Grandma: But you still did not answer my question and don't compare Alex to Albus dumbledore that man is not similar to Alex in any way when he was a kid he was a manipulative bastard and he's still a manipulative bastard because of his words we never saw those death eaters get their due punishment there are all lying bastards and the ministry is of the same cloth as well.
Grandpa: I never compared Alex and albus as I was just saying that Alex can be a greater man than Albus ever will be. I know it in my heart. And he also knows about his brilliance but he never once showed any arrogance about it.
I as well as you know it well as we were the ones that taught him all the things up until now and not even once he I saw him becoming conceited about the little knowledge he has but he did what most people even of our age forgot to keep.
He keto his modest his kindness he pursuit of knowledge is something not seen even in a genius whenever I taught him magic he was always fully focused and why do you think I repeatedly force him to memories the correct pronunciation and the correct wand movement he can do magic after seeing things once.
Grandma: So why did you?
Grandpa: I was also not expecting him to be this patient when he is learning something or when I talk about something important which is also not related to magic when kids his age would through a tantrum about going off-topic about it our own children were like this was when they were his age as they would through a tantrum about it you and I know it well.
As for why I am not stopping my plans for Alex is that I trust in us that we can make him a great man with our experience and teachings. And with Alex's aptitude in learning, I can guarantee you that he will become one of the best there is.
Grandma: Okay I agree with you on this but promise me that until the both of us are not ready we will not go through with your plan.
Grandpa: Ok I will promise you that but as a fail-safe, I will also leave papers with Mr.Rumberry in case some unforeseen circumstance occurs.
As they both nodded and came out of the room seeing little Alex siping his juice as he called out to him," Alex have you rested enough then we shall continue our lesson from where we left it.
As grandpa said and I nodded we went towards the room without a door as we once again took our positions and he began to teach me.
As he taught me Alarte Ascendare is a spell that ( just like Lockhart did in the movie and book ) can shoot the target into the air. As we practiced with a magical wooden dummy.
He then moved to the last spell that we are going to learn today called Aqua Eructo this is the spell, Grandpa used when we first met and he put out the fire which was spending quickly. As this spell is used to create, and control, a jet of clear water from the tip of the wand, and after repeating for some time the correct pronunciation for Aqua Eructo he said, " Alex remember what you did for releasing Aguamenti but in the case of this spell you have to take in more energy that what you took in when you released Aguamenti so take a deep breath now release the breath and focus take in the energy slowly and merge it with your own magic and then imagine that a house is on fire and you want a huge amount of water so with all the magic that you have merged try to summon water and now add your intent as inside the house there is a family and they are trapped without a way out and only you can save them by channeling your magic now repeat after me Aqua Eructo."
And I repeated, "Aqua Eructo." and opened my eyes and a huge amount of water gushed out from my wand as I had done it. And it's all thanks to the guidance of grandpa and grandma.
As grandpa looked at the huge amount of water and laughed aloud. But grandma was quite shocked by this spectacle as I slowly cut the magic supply as felt quite drained.
But at this time grandpa said with a laugh," Haha that's my student and grandson for you. Haha, you see that Mary hahaha this is what you call a true monstrous genius nobody will be able to match him and nobody will hold a candle to him he will become the strongest after I taught him everything I know.
As the last lesson came to end for today I felt quite tired as I sat on the chair and drank juice and ate some light snacks as grandma and grandpa went to talk about something again. As I waited for them to come back as it was nearly time for the father to come pick me up.
And after some time as they had seen the future from one direction grandpa and grandma came and from outside the honking of the horn came. As I thought that's some powerful intruder spell as they were alerted when father entered in their vicinity.
As I got up and went to the gate with them as I saw who waved at me with a smile and waved back and smiled as I hugged grandpa and grandma as they greeted each other and then I sat inside the car and as we drove off I fell asleep as we continued our journey to home.
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Authors note -
Sorry for the late posting as there are some problems with my network operator as I complained to them about not getting proper speed and today the internet speed was slower than 2g speed so it was quite problematic for me to post on time for the foreseeable future but I will try to post it whenever I get the chance.
About Alex's occulumency second shield I want some help as I want to know which shape will be the best as I would like to get as many suggestions as possible so readers, please share your thoughts.
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