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"I agree, and further the argument about family, while I agree it was cogently made and with many good points, need not be made here. The attachment I am seeing before me worries me far more, as does the fact that you willingly hid where these new Force skills came from." Master Gallia said.
Across from her Master Pouf also spoke up. "I for one am less concerned about this Force bond we see, after all, such things can be severed." He did not notice or ignored how Aayla flinched at that, while Harry's fingers curled, his eyes beginning to smolder. "I must ask why you thought that second point necessary."
Like a few of the council, Pouf had tried to learn the new techniques, only to find himself unable to grasp them for some reason. Some could use the Force Shield, or the red knock out blast, but that was all. Only Giiett and Windu could do more, a wind assault which was basically a less condensed version of the Force Crush he already used with such proficiency. Pouf, Tiin, and Eeth Koth could not do even that much.
Yoda merely nodded, then began to discuss the number of techniques Harry and Lily had passed on already, as well as more than a few things they hadn't. Harry demonstrated his conjuration skills to the shock of the council, as did Aayla, then they showed a bit of their element manipulation as well. Fay stepped forward after that, describing the experiments she and Lily had conducted into runes. After all, talking and even showing things like this was one thing, teaching them another. She was very careful to mention the number of mishaps the two of them had run into during their tests. At no point did any of them mention the combat 'spells' Harry knew, and had begun to use in combat at times.
Here the conversation bogged down to an intense question and answer session. Many of the Council tried to catch Lily or Harry out about the nature of the techniques. Specifically, they tried to link transfiguration to something called Sith alchemy and their elemental control to Sith Lightning, trying to get one or the other to admit to using emotion to power them.
They continually tried to insinuate all of their spells were based on emotion, positive or negative, or that the techniques propagated a more emotional mental state. They sort of did in a way, imagination was integral to several of their techniques and emotions went with imagination. However there simply was no basis for their concerns: Lily had never taught Harry Dark spells, and he had never come up with any attacks that fed on Dark Side emotions. The one experiment he had tried back on Earth was still prevalent in his mind, and a few times during missions he'd had to deal with anger when dealing with slaves or cleaning up after pirate attacks, so he knew they had a corrosive element. Aayla too had to deal with anger, far more than Harry, but neither had ever reached out to the Force through those emotions.
There were some looks of consternation and chagrin at the explanation for why many of the most learned masters of the Order could not perform the techniques, while many a youngling could perform them with practice and patience. Yoda nodded at them all. "Concerned I was, lead to a schism within the Order the new techniques could. Introduce them slowly under my egis we would. Worked up to a point it has."
"And you kept Young Potter and Mrs. Lily a secret for that reason, the… odd… nature of their origins, and this vision of their being on Coruscant at the time leading to disaster. I wish I could take umbrage at you following such an vague Force vision, but given how clouded the future is becoming I can understand," Mace said, leaning back.
It was at that point that Harry suddenly realized something that Fay's unique abilities had hidden him from before: the Dark Side of the Veil was impacting the Order a lot more than he had thought, though it wasn't really his fault that he had missed that. Despite looking to the Force to guide her from mission to mission, Fay had never forced Harry to do the same, believing such skills would come with time if at all, and unable to really describe how she followed the Force's eddies to such a degree in any event.
But the rest of the Order did the same thing, if not to the level of detail she could. They looked to the Force to guide many of their decisions, large and small, on missions and not, just as much as they looked to the Order's organization for orders.
And now with the Veil of the Dark Side becoming more powerful with every passing year long term visions were becoming impossible to discern without difficulty. Even medium range visions as it were, such as where an individual Jedi should go from here within a few months, was becoming harder. This left the Jedi bereft with no long term direction, like a ship unable to navigate. And such people tended to become more reactionary than they otherwise would have.
In another timeline, one without the offsetting Light of Harry and Lily's presence, the Jedi would be unaware this was even occurring for some time to come, certain they were still seeing the future as well as they could, never realizing they were being led astray until the Clone Wars erupted around them. Here that was not the case, but they were still slowly becoming intolerant towards anything different than what they could personally discern.
"I can agree with and even respect that decision Master Yoda. It took great courage and moral fortitude to make such on your own. However I must still raise my objections to the bond we are seeing here between Padawan Potter and Padawan Secura. Regardless of his importance to the Order we cannot make allowances in this area less we open ourselves up to accusations of favoritism when others being to emulate them," said a male Zabrak sitting beside Master Windu.
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