Hearing a slight cough, she looked up. Harry was being poked by the other three girls, with them whispering something. "Fine fine, I know." He looked in Padma's general direction. "Padma, the second part of this is kind of... well, this is the awkward part. Since I stabilized your core, your old wand won't work anymore most likely."
She looked in shock at her wand... wait, was she holding it before? It was like thinking about it made it appear. Before she could get too worried, Harry coughed again. "So I can make your old wand connect to your healed core now... but um..."
His blush was nearing atomic at this point. "Well, it feels a bit odd, this part."
Padma looked over his shoulder where three girls were giving her the thumbs up and nodding, then back to the blushing boy. "Sure Harry, what do you need to do this?"
He walked closer and wrapped his hand around the tip of her wand. She watched his arm as a green thread wrapped around the brown ones in her wand, following it as it twisted up her... oh. Her whole arm was getting warmer, like someone was breathing warm words of comfort as the threads worked its way up her limb. As it reached her shoulder, she suddenly realized exactly WHERE her core was and which direction this feeling was about to go. Looking at the other girls, she had a few seconds to gape at the grins on their faces before she had to hold in a squeak. Harry almost jerked as he looked at her worried. "Are you ok? Did that hurt?"
Oh god, he was HOLDING it there while asking! "N.. No, just... I'm fine. Don't worry about it."
He still seemed confused by her reaction. "Are you sure?"
Oh merlin he better get on with this. "YES YES, by all magic yes."
As the green wrapped brown thread touched her core, it felt like someone had just kissed her stomach. Face blushing, she tried to avoid looking at anyone. "Um... how many threads are left?"
Harry wiped some sweat off his blushing face. "Uh... only about a dozen or so."
The other girls giggled at her 'Eeep' while Terry just seemed nervous. This looked FAR too painful for him, he would rather buy a new wand. Just look how red Padma was turning, this must hurt like the devil!
Several embarrassing minutes later, both Terry and Padma were ready to practice with their new core, although Terry refused to have his wand adjusted since it seemed to work semi-well. Harry really couldn't build up any urge to convince the boy otherwise... something about connecting the boys wand felt off to him.
Not to mention Hannah kept blushing when the topic was being discussed, which felt like a bad omen to Harry.
Levitating pillow ducks was entertaining for the two new thread users, although going against Harry was like having a water gun fight against an army of fire hoses.
The other girls were enjoying some "Draco Targeting", as Harry created discs of flammable wood with the boy's face on them and created moving targets for the gals to aim fire lances at. Harry himself was practicing creating Duck Tunnels, as the various troops were calling them.
Being able to make a rail gun was neat, but making rail guns QUICKLY could be awesome! Still, it was slow going at first since it took so long to make the smooth tube that accelerated the Flying Canaries (Whom had gotten MUCH better at broom flying after creating a harness to hold the broom under them).
The trick was to not make the smooth tube too LONG, else the duck would just vanish into the distance.
Needless to say, he still needed practice.
A few hours into this, Terry had just managed to grab his duck pillow with a yellow rope when he paused. "You know, I feel like we forgot something. Like, we had some other plan or objective when we started this walk." Padma was busy fighting two stuffed ducks while her third rope was doodling in some sand Harry had made for her. "Like what? I mean, we got duck pillows."
Harry grinned. "Good point."
Hermione paused, fire glowing around her right arm. She could now control her orange flames really well in here. Burning Draco had been pretty good motivation... but something was off. "BOOKS!"
Padma, Hermione, and Terry all turned to face Harry, who was absently creating smooth tubes with his left arm and his right foot while laying in a chair. He blinked. "Oh... OH, right. Somehow we all got distracted when I wrapped Padma in... uh."
Hannah nudged Susan who rolled her eyes. Harry chose to move on with the conversation, as he stood and had the chair vanish. "MOVING ON, to the Library!" Padma looked at the endless sea of grass. "So... where is it?"
Harry shrugged. "Here." Behind him a giant swath of grass lifted like a hinge, showing a white wood staircase leading into a white hall.
Terry stared at it. "Are you saying we were there the whole time?"
Harry started walking down the steps. "Nah, the entrance roams around. It is never in the same place often." He paused in front of a random white section of wall and knocked. "One Moment!"
Everyone except Jim and Harry looked at each other, confused. Harry noticed and nodded. "Ah, so everyone remembers Jim, right?"
Several nods and a few rolled eyes later, he continued. "Well, Jim and I had a bit of a discussion. It takes time for me to sort through all new information, like my currently being build map of the castle and stuff... and I don't really want to do that personally. So I took the best parts of me and created a librarian."
"Aww, you didn't need to sweet talk me Harry." The wall swung open, showing a dark purple room and a tall woman dressed like a librarian... but with Harry's deep green eyes. Her core was similar to his as well, although it looked like it was mostly threads, threads that lead back into the room she just left. She grinned at the stunned children. "Hello everyone, I am Harry's thirst for knowledge and his desire for learning. You may call me Wisdom."
After a few mumbled hellos, she grinned. "Now now, everyone come in and relax." She turned to Hermione. "You would probably LOVE to see Harry's language section. He has quite a collection. Oh, and the music section is nice as well if you stay clear of the more modern stuff."
Harry nodded. "Got lots of classical stuff, no horrible screeching or cursing in it. Very soothing when I am studying school work." He accepted a book Wisdom handed him and followed her in, feeling the others follow him. As they crowded into the room he barely glanced at it before settling into a huge squishy purple chair.
"Feel free to wander. There are sections on all kinds of topics, since I only have to view the pages once to make a copy of the book. Obviously I have not scanned ALL my new stuff in... how boring would life be if ALL my books were memorized, right? But I have picked up a few things over the years."
Wisdom passed Susan a book that seemed to be bound in green cloth. "You seemed interested in the Muffliato spell earlier today. This is Harry's memory about where he found it, what he knows about it, and his memory casting it. It should really help you pick it up as well."
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