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The Bothan woman scowled, even more teeth showing, but then she took herself to task, leaning back with her hands folded in her long Jedi robes. "I will go along with this change in our itinerary for now. But why do you want Lily to help teach the other younglings?"
"She and I have had several discussions since we first meet on Ryloth, the scope of which I won't bother you with now." Tholme said sitting down in the small chair across from the woman at the desk. It was either that or sit on the bed, and that was a bad idea on many levels, even if the chair was made for smaller frames then his, designed to make the student summoned to the office feel even smaller than he already was. "But one of the most interesting things she said was that Harry's abilities were not unusual in scope, but time."
At Illaveil's confused look Tholme explained. "Apparently among her people they start going to a school at around 12 or 11, and live there for seven years. At that school they learn how to do many of the things that Harry can, but he is much younger and much better at it than most of the students there would be by the time they finish their education."
"Are you saying his powers this, what was it, transfiguration, conjuration? Those are commonplace among his people?" The other master's eyes had narrowed thoughtfully, and she was now listening fully to Tholme for the first time in this discussion.
"Indeed. But she also said something else that was rather odd to me, that their people needed focuses of some kind."
"There were ancient tales of the first Je'dai needing such," Illaviel said thoughtfully. "But that soon was done away with quickly when they began to spread out." Her eyes narrowed once more. "You think Jedi, our younglings, can learn what he does."
"I want to see if it's possible yes." He held up ahead as the womanly to protest. "Spending a few weeks on this little experiment of mine will not harm the younglings in any way, you and I both know that the education they get on Coruscant is no different than what you can provide here. And the implications if it is possible…" He shrugged not needing to go into detail there.
"Why not have her try to teach you then?" woman replied quickly. "Or your young padawan. Why use the children for this experiment?"
"I've already begun some experiments of my own, a few of the things Harry does seem to need 'spells', words and gestures to accompany them, I've been practicing them. The results have not been very good admittedly, which I fear might be down to age and mental flexibility. Or perhaps some kind of mental discipline that her people take for granted we're still dealing with a slight a language barrier after all. Their ability to speak Galactic standard is exceptional for so short a time but it isn't quite fluid yet. We're adding to their vocabulary constantly as the days go on."
Tholme didn't say that Lily was interested to see if the other students could learn how to use magic like Harry could too. She had insisted that the wizards and witches of her world all needed focuses, but Harry didn't and moreover Harry could do things even the masters the art couldn't do as easily. If other children could learn to use the Force as Harry did, then it meant focuses were not necessary, at least for spells. Runes were another matter, and one that Tholme was very interested in exploring in the future.
"That's true, I suppose, the primitive society they came from originally must have been very backward indeed to not know Galactic Standard." The ancient Bothan mused but her eyes were still sharp as she stared at Tholme. "I don't like it, I don't like the idea of contaminating my students with dangerous non-Jedi thoughts at this stage. You know a few of them, Harry included, are already too old for many of the Council of Reassignment or High Council to approve of further training. Adding in new teachings to that could make things worse for them when we reach Coruscant. We may say that the Agricorps is an honorable profession but there is no doubt that it does not hold the same primacy as becoming a Jedi."
The Agriculture Corps was the portion of the Jedi Order for those initiates who did not make the cut from youngling to padawan for whatever reason before their 17th birthday. Exceptions were known to be made for students with exceptional Force ability, but for the most part if you weren't accepted by a master or knight before your 17 you were sent to the Agricorps.
In the past five years there had been a move to stop that practice, simply because more Jedi had died recently on missions then in the 30 or 40 years before, and the Order wanted to bolster its numbers. But there was quite a bit of internal dissension against that idea, and no clear outcome in sight for that discussion.
"True, however, I do not think that it's necessary to worry about it at this time. Of the students can learn to manipulate the Force in the same ways that Harry can, no doubt they will be welcomed with open arms."
"I don't like it," Illaviel said again shaking her head. "I don't like it, but if you have Master Yoda's permission, I will not argue further. I will however demand that I sit in with you as we watch her teach. And if she is not a good teacher, I will make my own decision then agreed?"
"Agreed," Tholme said with a complacent nod. After all, Harry's skills couldn't entirely be put down to his power or his own intelligence, nor could Aayla's progress in so short a time.
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The next day Harry and his new friends woke up, joining with Aayla and the girls outside of their room before following a small glowing robot all that hovered in the air above them. "Students, please make your way to your first class of the day. Breakfast will be served afterwards."
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