He desperately tried to ignore Hannah when she winked after the fourth connection. He had to do this to two more girls? God, he was going to be blushing for a month. Three blushing 11 year olds later and they all had three strong ropes and a good number of threads.
As far as he could tell, they all had some control over the ropes, but the threads just sort of danced with their emotions. Maybe if this had been done when they were younger? They also didn't seem to be able to change the rope thickness. Still they were all excited... God his blush.
Back on topic, they were eager to start practicing.
Harry waved a hand, creating three cloth turtles with huge cute eyes. "Ok, practice makes perfect in this case. As far as I can tell, wands give you precision by doing a lot of this stuff for you automatically. It controls your magic for you, it pulls it out for you, and it controls what the magic does." He pointed at his own wand. "It also gives you a good amount of precision that is really hard to do without a wand, let me tell ya."
He pointed at the turtles. "Job one: Lift the turtle."
The three (Slightly blushing) girls were now all staring at the boy as he held his hand out. A rope about the thickness as theirs rushed down his arm, out his hand, and pierced the toy. At their shocked cry, he raised the other hand. "Don't worry, it is pure magic. As you can see..." He pulled the turtle to them so they could see it undamaged. "The rope works with intention. I didn't want to stab it, so when it hit the turtle it wrapped in threads instead." He tossed it back with the others.
Pointing at his arm, he continued. "The first couple of times you move a rope through a limb, it burns. Your body will be changing automatically to allow that large amount of magic through a body part that has never felt it before. It shouldn't hurt for you though, since I made sure to saturate your body with a certain amount of my magic earlier." MERLIN it was hard to stop blushing.
Jim had thankfully wandered off earlier in the training process. He would probably be mocking Harry later for the blushes, he had no doubt.
Hermione was the first to get it. She spent a good amount of time just moving all three ropes around her body, learning how to control each one individually and getting rid of the tingly feeling when it passed through her arms or legs. After that it only took a single try. Susan and Hannah quickly followed her example. Every once in a while they would look over and see Harry... seriously, it was amazing. His threads were everywhere, ESPECIALLY on the back of his left hand. Ropes? Heck, he had cords, CABLES of power. Draco had been far luckier than they had thought that he had walked away. Well, sort of walked.
Susan was hooked. Her body felt better than it had in a while after that... experience of being wrapped in magic. In fact, she felt just slightly taller... and her skin was much clearer than she had remembered. But this thread stuff felt amazing. It was like some part of her was finally being scratched, that she had found some toy that had been her favorite as a child but somehow had gotten misplaced.
Accidental Magic? No, this was PURE magic. The connection between her power and the world had never felt so clear, and even as she felt more of a connection than she had ever had before with her wand, it didn't feel as WARM as when she moved her ropes.
She grinned as she waved a hand, making her turtle act like it was swimming. Her Aunt would flip, do spins, come back and flip again. Wandless Levitation? Half the spells out there were about forcing you to drop your wand or lose the ability to use it. Now even if she couldn't move, she could move things... wow.
Hannah was giggling as she began fighting her turtle against Hermione when she suddenly remembered the train. She waved over at Harry. "Hey Harry, how long have we been in here? I don't want people thinking we passed out or anything."
Without looking at the group he pointed up. "That is a fake moon. I made it to help me keep track of time outside of here." He seemed to be twisting some sort of sheet in his hands. "According to it, we have been here... uh." He looked at the wall. "HEY JIM, How long have we been here?"
"Quack!"
"Thanks!" Harry turned toward the girls. "Around 22 minutes. We have lots of time if you wanna practice something harder." Suddenly he got a grin. "Hey, wanna learn how to make fire?"
Shortly after showing them how to twist two of their ropes together, Harry started throwing random targets in the air. If anyone was annoyed that the targets had pictures of Draco's face on it, no one was saying anything.
Hermione hurled another fireball. "Oh, close miss 'Mione. Try guiding it with your third rope." She looked at Harry startled before a HUGE grin crossed her face. A moment later a Draco plate was being chased by three fireballs, one on each of Hermione's orange ropes.
As soon as Hannah and Susan saw how much fun she was having there were a total of nine fireballs being guided toward a WALL of hurled Draco plates. Harry was having the time of his life. Who said girls couldn't have fun? Fireball accuracy contests ROCKED!
"Quack."
Harry looked up as the girls paused. They had each been trying to make the duck launcher when Jim had interrupted. Hermione was the most annoyed since she had felt REALLY close that last time. Well, she had accidentally created a fire lance when the tube collapsed instead of sealing, but everyone agreed it was awesome anyway.
He sighed. "Girls, it was a fun few days, but we are getting close to Hogwarts. We gotta head back and get ready." He listened to their complaints. "I know, but it was fun, right?"
Three slightly grumpy nods and Harry gently pushed their magic back out of his mind.
As Hermione woke, she felt odd. She was slightly taller, her teeth felt... smaller. Her hair was MUCH less bushy. She looked over and saw confused looks on the other two girls as well. "Harry, I think... I think we changed a bit."
Harry stretched. "Considering how much magic has changed in each of you, I am not surprised." He blushed again. "And when I saturated you while setting up the ropes, if you had subconscious things about yourself that you wanted changed, it is really possible that you were altered then. Remember you were basically submerged in raw magic for a few seconds."
He pointed at himself. "When I first did it, I grew a LOT. Most of my bones got rebuilt since they were so sick, heck I changed almost completely. It may be why I am so conductive to magic now, because of how much my body had to change to heal me." He walked out into the hall. "Well, go ahead and get changed first. We have to put on robes, right?"
Hermione grinned as she waved a hand, watching the door closed. "Nice try, but no peeking allowed."
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