"Again I ask, in what? What was I to train him in? The prophecy mentioned a power that Voldemort knows not," Dumbledore again paused and looked around. "So what is this power? If I risked training him in something entirely different, this special power might be hindered. I have spent years keeping an eye on Harry, trying to figure out what the prophecy might be referring to. I constantly asked at every teacher's meeting if any student was displaying any kind of special abilities in hopes his name would be mentioned."
"Is that why you asked that question?" Remus asked.
"Yes," Dumbledore replied. "I had a suspicion that it was something that would never materialize in a classroom, but I had to be sure," He again paused and looked around the room. "But there was nothing. Harry was a fine but average student, but nothing that gave me any indication of that special ability."
"What about 'is parseltongue ability?" Fleur asked. "Zat is something special."
"While I agree it is very special, it is also something that Voldemort is very familiar with, besides there are other issues that prevented me from exploring that angle," Dumbledore replied. "I did come across my first clue to his abilities last year, but it wasn't until this year that I understood what that clue meant and I think last night proved it," He again paused again as everyone waited to find out what the Headmaster thought Harry's special ability was. "At the end of last year Harry preformed a most remarkable feat of magic."
"The Patronus?" Hermione asked.
"Exactly," The Headmaster replied with a smile. "He cast a Patronus that was so powerful that it drove off every Dementor guarding this school."
"You should see it now," Muttered Sirius.
"I did...last night; and yes it is quite impressive," Dumbledore replied as he looked at the young man and his bondmates. "But at the time I didn't realize exactly what it meant. I thought maybe Harry had come into his own magically, so I waited for this year to begin; hoping or expecting greater things from him, but it was not to be. As far as his teachers could tell me his abilities were average," He looked at Harry. "Not to say your Triwizard performance wasn't great, but outside of a very nice summoning charm, it has not been impressive magically."
"But how could he... I mean I saw him," Hermione replied.
"I was very confused as well. It wasn't until I witnessed the bondimage that it started making sense to me," Dumbledore explained. "You see, Professor Berceau used the phrase 'overabundance of love to give' to describe Harry's heart. In fact it was more than she ever came across in her research before," He turned to Remus. "What drives the Patronus Charm?"
"Positive emotions of course like...love."
"Exactly," Dumbledore said. "I think Harry tapped his real power for the first time last year."
"But...what did I do last night that proved it?" Harry asked still very uncertain to what was being explained.
"I had an extremely upset Hagrid in here this morning explaining that an Acromantula was killed in the maze last night," The Headmaster replied. "I remembered Miss Granger telling me in the midst of everything else that you had save Miss Delacour from one. Would you like to tell everyone here what you did to it Harry?"
"It was attacking Fleur and...and I just hit it with a cutting curse," Harry explained.
"And..." Dumbledore prodded the young man.
"I killed it," Harry admitted with a shrug.
"Harry's spell basically sliced the creature in half," Dumbledore continued to explain. "Was it only one cast Harry?"
"Yes sir," Harry admitted.
Dumbledore's eyes roved around the room. "The spider in question was over fourteen feet long, one hex and he sliced it in half."
A low whistle came from Sirius as he looked at his godson.
"Harry, may I ask what you were thinking when you did that?" Dumbledore asked.
"Nothing really. It was on top of Fleur and would've killed her," Harry replied, "I just knew I had to save her."
"Again I argue that when he needed to desperately save someone he loved he was able to tap into his power," Dumbledore said.
"But love?" Harry asked. "Doesn't the prophecy say Voldemort's equal. How would love do that?"
"Equal but opposite," Fleur murmured.
"What?"
"Equal but opposite," She said again, louder this time. "Ate drives Voldemort, zat is why 'e can perform ze killing curse so easily."
Dumbledore nodded. "Exactly."
"So I'm supposed to love him to death?" Harry asked sarcastically.
"Non, Ze 'eadmaster didn't say zat 'Arry," Fleur chastised her bondmate. "E is saying zat love is what drives your magic."
Dumbledore nodded again. "Now I think I have answered your questions, will you answer mine?" He asked Harry. "How did you find out what you know?"
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