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The Power He Know Not	By : Liamj899 Category: Harry Potter > General > General Views: 5593 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter List
- 1-The Power He Know Not
- 2-Of familial empathy
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For the remainder of the journey back to Privet Drive Harry experimented with his new found ability.
The first thing he had done was to see if he could possibly pick up the emotions of anyone else nearby.
He quickly discovered that if he focused on a person in an adjacent car very hard then he could pick up a faint sense of their emotions.
By complete accident he discovered a way to increase his ability to sense peoples emotions.
After failing to pick up the emotions of the driver of a car that was stuck in traffic next to them, Harry had turned to try on one of the occupants in the back of the car. As he turned to focus on the occupants of the back seat of the car, the teenage girl sitting closest to him, evidently quite bored with the other occupants in the car, began looking out of the window at their surroundings.
Immediately Harry had caught her eye and felt a sudden return of the hot flush once again along with the strongest wave of emotion yet. The emotions had definitely been female in nature, an overwhelming boredom mixed with irritation that was clearly aimed at the other occupant of the car. As the two held eye contact though something else began to emerge, irritation was replaced with something which Harry could only call speculation.
Smiling nervously at the girl Harry had waved a little awkwardly. Speculation was immediately replaced with approval and a mild sense of longing, accompanied by a thousand mega-watt smile.
While the two cars were side by side in the traffic Harry held the oddest conversation in his life. After thinking about the girls emotions he had decided that she, for some reason, found him attractive. He'd decided to see if he could confirm his suspicions about the girls annoyance and he'd jerked his head towards the traffic in front of them and rolled his eyes. This had lead to a five minute conversation done solely through the art of mime.
After he had expressed his annoyance at the queue, she had pulled a face to show she agreed before jerking her head at the other occupants of her car, who all seemed much older than his new friend, and she grimaced to show her irritation. Smiling Harry made a sympathetic gesture before inclining his head towards his Uncle and Aunt with a pained expression.
The conversation went on a few minutes longer and as it did he found himself becoming more and more pleased with his new found ability.
Since growing up with the Dursleys hadn't been the most social experience and he hadn't exactly had many friends, Harry was very pleased that his new ability would help him become much more comfortable ion social situations.
After a while Uncle Vernons car outpaced the car with the teenage girl in and Harry went back to his own thoughts.
Pretty soon his attention was grabbed once more by the emotions his Aunt and Uncle were giving off. By now his Uncles anger was growing and growing, and years of experience told Harry that if he wasn't headed off now then he would explode at some point. Perhaps literally judging from how tense the veins in his neck were.
Deciding to try something new Harry focused on his Uncle and tried to figure out if he could get rid of his anger. He tried just repeating a mantra in his mind urging his Uncle to be calm with little effect.
Clearly he couldn't just manipulate the emotions of other people. Or at least if he could he didn't know how to go about it.
Thinking for a few minutes Harry decided to see if he could pull his Uncles anger out of him, as if it were a weed in a garden.
Recalling one of Professor McGonagalls lessons on various magical theories, he recalled that visualisation is key to many magics.
Focusing on the image of Uncle Vernon being a flower bed and his anger being particularly troublesome weeds, he imagined grabbing one of the smaller weeds and pulling it out and into himself.
To his immense surprise he actually found his Uncles anger abate a little, but he could feel that it was still growing bit by bit. Focusing he set himself to the task of pulling out more of the imaginary weeds.
After a few minutes it was clear that he wasn't making much progress, each time he was only able to remove a little anger but his Uncle was evidently seething and brooding over his anger as it just surged stronger and stronger.
The effort left him feeling slightly drained and more than a little bit angry. In fact he realised he was absolutely furious. A few seconds thought brought the conclusion that any anger he was removing from Uncle Vernon he was somehow absorbing himself.
'Well that won't work! God I need to calm down' He thought to himself as he looked down and noticed that his fist was clenched and there was now red marks where his nails had dug into his palm.
Taking a deep breath he tried to imagine his mind as an empty field or a still lake, once again using instructions Professor McGonagall had given his transfiguration class. She often talked about how important it was to have a clear mind to allow one to focus on the visualisation for a transfiguration.
Finding it practically impossible to clear his mind of thoughts and emotions he tried something different, instead he decided to fill his mind with something different.
Concentrating he called up the memory of the girl from the other car smiling at him and how her emotions had made him feel. Pretty soon he felt tension he didn't know he had leave his body.
“What are you smiling at?” His Aunt asked warily.
Looking at his Aunt he noticed that he was in fact smiling or to be more precise he was grinning like a loon.
“Just happy that the traffic is beginning to clear.” He chirped happily as he gestured toward the traffic that was indeed clearing. “Shouldn't be long until we're back now.”
As his attempt to pull his Uncles anger out had failed he decided to try the opposite and instead he pushed his own happiness and elation over toward his Uncle.
The results were painfully slow, but it became obvious that his Uncle wasn't getting angrier and was in fact becoming more calm. Noting how slow it was taking he decided to try pushing towards both his Aunt and Uncle figuring it would do no good to calm his Uncle down if his Aunt goes ballistic at him.
To his great surprise he found that it was actually easier to make them both happy, and in fact the effect seemed to increase.
He spent a few minutes playing with the new ability and determined, through experimentation on his Aunt and Uncle as well as the resident of the other cars near them, that if he was pushing emotion to more than one person then if they were close enough they would somehow amplify the effect.
For example when he tried to make one family of seven in a people carrier happy he found that in less than a minute the entire family was smiling slightly. He also noted that it was much easier to manipulate the emotions of younger children, they seemed simpler somehow.
In contrast, when he tried to focus on making his Uncle happy as well as someone in another car it was much more difficult.
Content in his new discoveries Harry spent the next half hour pushing happiness toward his Aunt and Uncle until both were humming happily to some nameless tune.
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