Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the fabulos world of Harry Potter. I just own the odd twisted plot line that i have only some control over. Please enjoy reading my midnight rantings, and please dont sue me. R&R please
Harry had been having odd dreams for the past week. He saw Voldermort with his followers among other things. Voldermort was making people do things under the imperius curse, and was holding meetings with the death eaters. But tonight's dream was different, Harry saw Voldermort coming down Privet Drive, walking up the steps to the Dursleys home, and walking in the front door. Unknown to Harry this was actually happening. Harry then saw Voldermort walking up the stairs, through his door and whispering a spell in latin or some language that Harry didn't know. There was a flash of light and Voldermort laughed quietly and apparated. Harry woke with a start. The first thing he noticed was that he could see without his glasses, then his ear itched so he bent his head backwards and scratched it.
'Ahhh, this feels good. Wait am I scratching my ear with my foot?' Harry looked around to see what was scratching his ear and it was indeed his foot, only now it was a black paw. 'Bloody Hell! I … I … I'm … I'm a … I'm a bloody dog!!! That wasn't a dream, Voldermort was actually in my room!!!!!!!' Harry freaked out and started barking as he was trying to yell for help. Aunt Petunia ran into Harry's room to yell at him for making so much noise but scream as she saw a black dog on Harry's bed and no Harry in sight. Petunia backed out of the room so fast Harry could have sworn she was a snitch. The sound of his locks snapping into place told him that he was locked in for the night. Harry sighed and thought 'Well I might as well pack my school trunk.' Harry raised his right arm and thought 'Accio school books.' And yelped as his school books zoomed over to him. 'Wow I didn't think this would actually work!!!' and the rest of the night he packed his things.
When he was done he shrunk his trunk, upon realizing that he didn't have any pockets he transfigured his now useless watch into a collar that had pockets on the inner track of the collar. Harry dubbed himself Lightning. As he now had a white patch of fur around where his scar used to be shaped like a squiggle that Harry knew was his scar. Harry jumped off his bed and looked at himself in the mirror, he was completely black, with the white patch above his left eye, lime green eyes, a brown strip on his right leg (a/n his wand that he had slept with in his right hand, that's why he can still do magic), and his orange collar with the pockets in them that now help his full school trunk, Hedwig's (cant spell Harry's owls name. sorry) cage, Hedwig was out hunting, his tiny firebolt, and various things he thought he would need. Harry jumped back up onto his bed and curled into a ball for the night. The next morning Harry was woken up by being roughly picked up around his middle and being practically thrown out to the curb. Harry stumbled in the bright sunlight as he walked to the curb. He waited till nightfall and Hedwig came back.
"Oh dang Harry's probably worried that I stayed away so long, well at least I got him theses letters." Said a voice from his window. Harry ran around his uncles house and saw Hedwig tapping his window "Come on Harry I don't have all night I'm tired!" "Hedwig I'm down here!!!" barked Harry. Hedwig circled down to the ground and stared at the dog. "You sound like Harry but … Harry is a boy. Who are you?" Harry laughed, it sounded like yips, then suddenly he whimpered as if sad
"Voldermort did this to me. Let me take the letters then take me to Grimmauld Place. We can get there tonight if we hurry." "Harry that's all the way in London. If you let me ride on your back we can get there." "Vine" mumbled Harry as he undid the letters with his mouth. Harry shrunk them and asked Hedwig "Can you please put these in my collar? In the pocket on the right. Thanks now lets go!"
The journey took them 5 hours. By the time Harry had a chance to think 12 Grimmauld Place as he was pacing between 11 and 13. It was 5 in the morning. Harry the previous summer had installed a dog door in the front door for McGonagall and for Sirius. He used this to get into the house. Before he went into the house he took out a quill and some parchment and tried to write
"Please don't worry I'm in good hands, literally, take care of Hedwig until I find a way to get back.
Harry
P.S. take good care of Lightning, he was mine before I came into good hands, don't give him dog food, he doesnt like it.
Thanks Harry"
But with having to use a paw instead of fingers it turned out barely legible. "Hedwig could you take this to the kitchen window when they are having breakfast? Please."
"Yeah but that's in like 10 minutes for Mrs. Weasley and the other adults." "Then please! They need to know that I'm safe even if I'm with them and they don't know it." Hedwig looked at her master (and had to inwardly laugh because she an owl was taking orders from a dog!) and said "Yes master. Be safe with them." Harry looked confused and said "Always." He licked her feathers leaving a wet streak on the side of her head and then retreated into the house to wait for Sirius to come down the stairs. Harry then went inside to wait until Sirius came downstairs.
Harry sat behind the troll umbrella holder, waiting for his godfather to drag himself out of bed for this morning breakfast. Which was after they received the letter from Hedwig. Harry could hear Remus, Molly, and Aurthur discussing his note when Sirius came down. Harry bounded up to his legs like a puppy would and tried to jump up to his face. To Sirius it sounded like a bunch of quite yipping but Harry was saying "Sirius help me! Oh Man its good to see you!" Harry was waging his tail and jumping up and down and making such a ruckus that Molly and Crew came out to the door to see what was going on.
"Sirius have you brought back a puppy to play with?" teased Remus. "No, he jumped out at me from the troll leg!" Sirius bent down to pick up Harry. "His tag says Lightning. Cute cause he has a white patch. Where's your family little one?" Again it sounded like yips as Harry said "Right here with you." Ginny poked her head out of her room and yelled down the stairs
"WOULD YOU BE QUITE IM TRYING TO SLEEP!!!!"
Harry perked up his ears and struggled to get to his girlfriend. "Whoa boy don't go messing with her before 7!" chuckled Sirius, but Harry was putting up to much of a fight so Sirius put him down and Harry shot up the stairs. Leaving the adults in the gloom of the first level. As Harry was going upstairs, he was having trouble with his four legs instead of his normal two, Remus asked "Did you say Lightning? We just got a note from Harry saying … well you better come look at it." Sirius nodded then joined the other adults in the kitchen trying to decipher Harry's note.
Upon getting to Ginny and Hermione's room, Harry scratched and whimpered at the door till Ginny came to it "Sirius don't think that you can … OH!" Ginny had noticed that it wasn't Sirius but a puppy that was at the door. "What's there Gin?" asked a grumpy Hermione. "A puppy!" squealed Ginny.
Ginny picked up Harry and brought him to her bed. Hermione looked at his collar and said "His name is Lightning." Ginny was too busy laughing to answer. Harry was licking her face and yipping.
"Ginny oh my sweet Ginny I missed you!!" Hermione moved back to her bed to try to get some more sleep. Harry looked at her as if trying to gauge the distance between the beds and tried to jump from the side of Ginny's bed, closest to the door, to the far side of Hermione's bed. Sadly he didn't have enough momentum to make the jump. It was quite comical, Harry stopping in mid-air and then as if in slow-mo dropping to the floor with a loud thud Hermione bolted up right and said "I'm awake!!" as Ginny sat laughing on her bed at Harry shaking his head and looking between the two girls. Hermione noticed Harry and picked him up. Harry proceeded to lick her face. Hermione giggled.
"Well Lightning seeing as were up lets go down to the kitchen, and get you some doggie food." Harry whimpered and whined as if to say, and he really was, "Anything but that please!" The girls laughed at him thinking about how much of a human response that was.
Down in the kitchen Molly, Remus, and Sirius were all in their own worlds when the two girls came in. Remus inhaled deeply as he was thinking, taking in all the smells of the room. There was Molly's scent of Housecleaners as well as a campfire smoke smell, There was Sirius's scent which smelled like old musty clothes, dungbombs, and fireworks, Hermione's was all new book smell. Ginny smelled like Lavender, honey and that campfire smoke smell, but then another smell caused him to jump in shock (a jump that was noticed by all present.) Harry's distinct smell, Sandalwood, mixed with the sterile smell of the hospital wing, mixed with the smell of the forest. Remus couldn't figure out where the smell was coming from, but it mostly came from the dogs in Hremione's arms.
"Sirius … transform." Whispered Remus using the language that He, James and Sirius had stumbled upon in the library one day and had taken memorizing/ability-enhancing potions to master the language. It was an ancient form of Latin.
"What? Why?" snapped Sirius in the same language hoping to get a response out of Remus. Remus just shook his head and again urged him to transform. Sirius did, not knowing what he would find.
Harry seeing his Godfather transform wriggled out of Hermione's protective arms and stumbled to Sirius. "Can you hear me?" asked a nervous Harry. The room heard a series of whimpers and whines. Then Sirius stared whimpering, barking and wagging his tail as he pounced on lightning. "HARRY!!!!! Your here? who did this too you I'll tear them limb from bloody limb." then another series of yips fromt he puppy. "Sirius, Voldermort did this to me. Please dont tell them. I need to igure this out by myself, tell Remus in that cool language but not the others. Please!" "Alright Harry but your staying here."
Sirius transformed back whispered to Moony in that odd language what he had found out, then went back to eating breakfast. Moony went to the puppy, gingerly picked it up and hugged it tight, the puppy seemed to enjoy it, and was continually licking Remus's face. Unsure of what was happening the girls all looked at eachother thinking the same thing. "Boys ..."
