"And then she gave me an earful for over an hour!" Ginny threw her hands up and paced up and down in front of where Harry sat on the bottom steps of a huge Aztec pyramid in the middle of a dreamscape jungle. Everywhere around them, the sounds of a thousand tropical birds squawked, trilled, warbled, and chirped.
Harry grimaced. "Yeah, that didn't sound too good."
"I just don't get how they caught me! I swear I made no noise. They were asleep! I'm sure of it."
Harry looked thoughtful. "They've probably put detection wards around the doors and windows."
Ginny felt her stomach slowly sink. "Bill."
Harry nodded. "Not unlikely."
"Then what do we do now?"
Harry's eyes gleamed. "First, we teach you to feel magic. You ready for that?"
She nodded firmly.
"Right, this will not be easy. Come and sit here." He patted the spot between his legs.
Ginny hesitated for only a moment before nodding, walking over, and plopping herself down with her back to him.
Harry leaned over and took her arms in his.
Something washed through her. She gasped.
"Did you feel that?"
"Merlin, Harry, I'd have to be dead not to feel that."
"That was me flaring my magic. Now, I'm going to do the same thing, but less so."
The same feeling as before washed through her. She let out a long breath and leaned back into him. "I still felt it."
Silence descended for a few moments.
"Did you feel that?" Harry asked.
Ginny's brow furrowed. "No."
"Right. How about this?"
"Still no."
"Close your eyes."
She closed her eyes.
"Go into your occlumency."
She did so.
"Imagine a sea of water flowing around you, through you, feel it on your skin, in your veins."
Silence
"Did you feel that?"
Ginny frowned "No."
"How about that?"
"No."
"Or that?"
"No."
"Well, then, How about…"
...
"And once you're done with that there's a packet of peanuts to be shelled over there." Molly Weasley left Ginny to her tasks and went off to inspect the chickens.
Ginny frowned over her pile of unpeeled potatoes.
A few feet from her, a large wooden spoon magically mixed bread dough in a large porcelain bowl.
Ginny shot the door a quick look, put down her peeler, and stepped over to the bowl. She closed her eyes, reached out her hands towards the bowl and tried to feel the magic.
She tried to imagine water flowing over senses, tried to imagine the flow of magic around her like a tide, like a river, like a trickle in a mountain stream.
She scowled.
… Nothing.
...
Ginny sat in Harry's lap for the sixth time in two weeks, this time at the top of the Aztec pyramid.
"Form a stunner on your finger tips." Harry's firm but gentle voice pierced through the murkiness of her own occlumency induced fuzziness.
She felt the ever familiar magic pour through her body and into her finger tips, but she didn't let the spell escape.
"Draw it back into yourself."
She let the stunner fade away, feeling the extra magic pool and flow around her body, a slight pressure under her skin.
"Do it again."
She felt the stunner build up, felt it flow away. She felt Harry's finger tips press lightly to her own.
"And again."
She built up the stunner, drew the magic back into herself, and gasped when she felt something else, something foreign, flow down her fingers. She snapped her eyes open and saw Harry's own fingertips all red-lit.
"I took your magic inside me?" she whispered.
"This is a dream, Ginny."
"Ah."
"Close your eyes again. This time I'm extending the finger distance."
Ginny nodded and once again closed her eyes.
...
Ginny sat in class while Lady Lily passed out the different maths and English worksheets for the different age groups.
In her hand, she held her self inking quill. A self inking quill, which was magical. When she was sure no one was looking, she closed her eyes, built up the magic on the tips of her fingers for a shield charm, but didn't let it escape. She withdrew the magic and as the magic retreated back into her, tried to desperately suck in anything else she could from the quill she held.
She opened her eyes and scowled. Nothing.
...
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