Mastering the Mind Art 5

"How about we try this? Bring some water and throw them against each other to see what happens?" Suggested Cho and everyone looked at her in surprise.

"What?" She asked, her cheeks dusting with pink.

"Nothing, we need a lot of water, maybe we should try in one of the bathrooms," suggested Page, their Keeper.

"Yea, that will be good. But I think we should wait till classes resume and try in an empty bathroom. We don't want other Houses to catch up to our secret practice," said Harry happily and they all nodded.

As planned, they went to Myrtle's bathroom on the second floor and started their practice on the first day of their classes. As the bathroom is rarely used, none disturbed them and Myrtle was not around as well.

Their practice went well and Harry was satisfied with their teamwork and understanding. They all understood each other well and he is happy with it.

The best thing he learned from Quidditch is teamwork and understanding. He will admit that there are no better Beaters than the twins, as they understand and compliment each other well.

Though he knows he can't get that level of understanding in his team as they are not born together, he is happy that they all mesh well and are willing to give it a shot.

"That's great practice, guys. Let's hope that this will be enough to win against Cedric and the Puffs in the match," said Harry.

"What, if it didn't, I will admit some backhand things are going on," said Page.

"Ya, we should use the invisible tactic as well. They don't know what hit them. Hehe," said Jason. Others looked at him with a 'seriously' look.

"Ok, ok. I won't do that," he mumbled, which made others nod in satisfaction.

They all went to dinner and chatted happily after that and went to sleep with satisfaction. Harry is comfortable with his team now.

As this is his first match as Captain, he has high expectations and hopes on his team to win and he is sure of it now. He slept happily, dreaming of winning the Quidditch cup.

He is still wary of the dream he saw about the Quidditch match and hoped it won't come true as he is going to be playing the match soon. With those thoughts in mind, he went to sleep.

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As the week passed, Harry threw himself in Animagus training more and more vigorously. Though he knew the second dream had a lot of time to come, he is not going to slack.

He did his morning exercises and moved to the Inner Chamber to read some more on Animagus. The book written by Schpeel helped him a lot.

Today is going to be the final day of his Occlumency training and he will be a Master Occlumencs after this test. He took the book and opened it.

'Congratulations on making it this far. You have 1 last assignment that is stopping you from becoming a Master Occlumencs.

Once you finish this, you will a Master Occlumencs and rest easy that no one will enter your mind without your notice with a loud alarm bell and shields.

Let's get started. I'll give you some lines here, you are going to read them and remember them.

You will be given only 4 seconds to read each of them. After that, the passages will vanish and you will be asked to write what was in the passages.

All the best, my dear student, once you complete this, there are 6 more waiting for you, each more difficult than prior.'

Harry noticed how the book started calling him Schpeel's student after all the 3 parts have merged and assumed it to be how the man calls anyone who reads his works.

There is something small written at the bottom of the paper and he noticed it just before he turned the paper. It read.

'Hint: Don't forget these lines as soon as you complete this part.' Knowing that this is one more way of wishing him luck, Harry continued.

'1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

2. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

3. She sells seashells on the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.'

As soon as he read it, Harry didn't know what to say. They are tongue twisters. He can't understand if Schpeel added them before they were introduced or is this lunatic the one who found them?

He managed to read them twice in the given 12 seconds and wrote them as it is, though his mind twisted one or two in the process.