The Elvin Consequence.
Chapter One
The ground rippled with the after shock of the explosion, houses all around trembled as the vibrations took them by surprise. The town of Godric Hollow had never known such a thing before.
The home of the Potter's, now nothing more than a wreckage of bricks and mortar, lay heaped in a pile. Lily Potter's lifeless body obvious near the top of the wreckage, the life less form James Potter buried somewhere underneath.
The crib in which their child, Harry James Potter, had been asleep in had been crushed, the infant still inside. However when Rubeus Hagrid, half giant and keeper of keys and grounds at Hogwarts, arrived on the scene he would find a child a live and well, a child with a lightning scar on his forehead.
Sirius Black would arrive moments later and give the giant his motor bike before fleeing for his life knowing that he would be blamed for the death of his friends. No one was to know that the child that Rubeus Hagrid took from Godric's Hollow that evening was not in fact Hay Potter at all but someone else entirely, someone else who needed the protection that the wizarding world could offer.
Sixteen years later.
Harry Potter sat in Gryffindor common room gazing thoughtfully into the fire. Harry had turned seventeen only days before. He had celebrated his seventeenth, coming of age, alone in the castle with only Severus Snape and Albus Dumbledore for company, neither man being much of a party animal.
Since being taken from the Dursley's he had gone to Hogwarts, he wouldn't say that he hadn't been happier here because he had but he missed Ron and Hermione who had broken their promise of writing every other day.
It didn't matter how many promises that they broke to him he would still love them as his best friends. They had promised that they would be there when Dumbledore took him back from the Dursley's, they had promised they would visit him at Hogwarts, they had promised him that they would write.
He had heard nor seen anything of them all summer. Harry was beginning to feel very isolated, he had no one to talk to and the strangest things were starting to happen to him. Things that not even being a wizard could explain away.
He felt different and that was just the beginning of it. He was starting to look different, where once he had looked identical to his father except for his mothers eyes he now looked nearly nothing like him.
He wasn't the same person as they had accepted into Hogwarts six years ago. His once dark ebony hair had lightened two shades to a rich chocolate brown and his eyes had transformed from emerald green to a more vibrant coloured green.
The greatest change was in his more physical features. He knew that he was supposed to be growing up but this was something else entirely, he was well muscled and toned because of Quidditch anyway but he now had the body worthy of the centre fold of Play Witch Weekly.
He had shot up in height as well, years in the cupboard under the stairs had stunted his growth up until now, he was currently averaging on 6ft, only two inches shorter than Ron.
The most obvious and probably the strangest thing to happen was the shape of his ears changing. They had become pointed to such an extent that even his long emo style hair could not cover them.
He couldn't really talk to Albus about them or even Severus who had was his mentor when it came to training him. He was confused about them and wasn't sure what it meant, it was just another added stress on top of everything else.
There was a week before school started up again and Harry would be spending it training with Severus, Dumbledore had to tend to business else where and would leave them alone.
It was early morning and Severus was due to come and collect him to start their training any minute, he hadn't really seen either professor over the weekend when all of the changes had started to take place and they hadn't really noticed.
There was a knock on the portrait before it swung open and Severus Snape stepped inside, the tall man was wearing nothing but black as usual but he opted for more casual wear due to the nature of the activities they pursued together.
Snape had tied his greasy hair back into a pony tail and Harry found that underneath the greasy and snide exterior was a handsome and kind man who didn't often show these qualities to the rest of the world.
Never before had they spoken about anything personal but Harry knew more about the Professor from Occulency lessons than he did from the six years that they had known each other.
He had seen the man hide away just so that he could protect himself from the outside world that was cruel and unforgiving. Harry wanted very much to do the same, he was emotional and as Severus often reminded him, unbalanced because of it.
"Are you ready Harry?" Severus had dropped the formalities outside of school as it seemed ridiculous, although it would go back to normal once school resumed.
Harry only nodded but he did not get up, it was almost as if he didn't have the energy to do so, he felt so tired, despite having slept for twelve hours the previous night. The weekend had been a difficult one to live through, with all the changes within him and all of the intense training his magic was running low.
"What's wrong Harry?" Severus sounded concerned, over the course of the summer he had become almost fins of the boy although he would never admit this.
He moved over to where the boy was sat curled by the fire and took a seat facing him.
"Will you please just tell me what's bothering you brat." The term brat had become a fond nickname for Harry and wasn't said or meant as harsh.
"I don't know what's wrong with me." Harry admitted truthfully. "I just feel really weak, ever since my birthday."
"I would usually suggest a trip to Madame Pomfrey had she still been here," Severus said with a sigh. He didn't want to owl the headmaster and worry him but it seemed that something was wrong with the boy.
"And there is something else." Harry admitted a little shyly. "Actually a few something's."
"Go on" Severus said patiently, he had found that he needed endless patience to talk to Harry, he so often tested the man to his limit.
Harry proceeded to tell Severus about the change in his eye colour and the fact that he no longer needed glasses, the difference in his height, looks, physic and finished by showing the Professor his now pointed ears.
"Oh my!" Severus exclaimed, "That is odd. May I?" Severus asked motioning that he wanted to touch them. Harry nodded his permission. The potions masters hands were cold and even his gentle caresses made Harry giggle a little.
"Tickles" He said turning to look at his Professor before realising how close that they were. Severus backed off immediately.
"Perhaps, considering that you are not feeling your best we could forgo physical training for today and instead we could go to the library and research what could possibly be causing such abnormal changes in a young man, and they are abnormal, even for wizards."
"Do you think that something is really wrong with me?" Harry asked, before he had told Severus he had just been oddly curious now however he was paranoid that something might be seriously wrong with him.
"Don't worry, it could be something or it could be nothing, the best that we can do is research the possibilities and then we can go from there."
"At times like these I really miss Mione."
"Well then until Miss Granger returns you'll have to suffer my company and do the research yourself."
"That really isn't so bad." Harry said as Severus stood and offered a helping hand to the younger boy which he gratefully accepted.
"Come along brat, lets get going."
