Chapter 1: The discovery

It was a glorious and sunny day in London. But Harry Potter had to stay hidden in a dark alley way because Harry had run away from his aunt and uncles house badly wounded. He did not want anyone to see him all bloody, scarred and helpless because he was the boy who lived and he was supposed to be strong. Snape the potions master was after him, trying to capture Harry so he could bring him to the castle for questioning. Harry had overheard a conversation of his when he talking to some muggles asking if they had seen any signs of a boy with raven hair, glasses, and ripped and bloodies clothing. When they answered yes Snape continued looking for him. Snape saw Harry at that very same instant when he had turned around from talking with the muggles. He had to keep moving, Harry used and elevating spell to bring him onto a nearby roof of a muggle house. He was so tired of running, he could barely move. Then he heard a rustling sound from below the building, not knowing what it was he cautiously went to the side of the building and looked down. What he saw made his heart race, there down below him looking right into his eyes was the person he hated the most. It was professor Snape. Snape saw him. Damn it! Snape jumped onto the roof harry was on and started running towards Harry, Snape was getting close, Harry started running as fast as he could. He kept on running. Harry looked back a second later, Snape had stopped to out of breath to keep going though Harry thought that was a lot of running for an oldish man like Snape. Harry ran and went into a dark alley way.

When he got far down the alley and knowing he had got Snape off his trail he closed his eyes, and thought of what a bird would look like. He didn't know exactly what kind of bird it was but he remembered seeing one, only days before. He pictured a lean muscular looking bird with jet black feathers with and a bright red chest. Big green eyes with yellow irises. The tips of its forked tail were also red. Harry kept on thinking of this picture, and cast the spell he had been working on for years.

"Avifor" whispered Harry.

He could feel his body parts transfiguring, he held his breath to stifle hi scream. It hurt so bad with all of the injuries already inflicted on him. When he opened his eyes the pain had lessoned, and he noticed his site was very far to the ground. He looked at himself and tweeted happily.

He then set off to find the greasy old bastard to give him a piece of his mind. Well, the birds mind. That's when he felt all of his strength ebb from him. But there was Snape, heading back up to the castle, limping like he had hurt himself badly.

'Serves him right' thought Harry

He flew to the nearest tree to watch him suffer in pain when he got close enough to see Snape's face what he saw was nothing he had seen before. He would think that he would be curing and raging with anger. This surprised Harry so much, he toppled out of the tree where he was perched, and landed at Snape's feet. Snape looked down and gaped, mouth open wide in surprise.

"Well, this day just turned from bloody hell to wonderful!" exclaimed Snape happily.

Harry had no clue what he was talking about until Snape exclaimed, "A Storm Bird, this can't be. They are rare especially in this part of the world". Then he noticed something weird about the bird, it was bleeding. He bent down to touch it but it flinched.

"Will you let me heal you?" asked Snape. Snape did not expect a reply but to his surprise he did!

"Tweet" Harry nodded

"Good lord! You can understand me?" Asked Snape in wonder. He had never felt so happy for the longest time. Something about this bird had his emotions all rearranged.

Harry would have never thought of having Snape lay one finger on him, but Harry was so tired of fighting off the overwhelming of the cuts and bruises that he let Snape pick him up. He was tense in his arms, but when they got inside he heard someone yelling to Snape.

"Severus did you find or get hi-"

"Oh my, is that a storm phoenix? It is!" shrieked Professor McGonagall.

"Yes this is a storm phoenix, and Potter, ah yes the brat got away! Again it's like he just disappeared. He does not know how to aperatte. But then this bird came from the direction Potter came… wait, come to think of it, this bird sort of looks like Potter" Snape looked at Harry closely

"Potter is very good at hiding. If he does not want to be found it is likely that he will not be found," Said Snape. He then changed the subject back to the bird with interest.

"You know that storm bird won't let humans touch them until they find the right person they want to be with forever, but normally it takes almost ten years, he's not that old. But he seems to like you. But Potter, what about Potter!"

Snape's face turned into a fake stone cold face. Harry and the teachers noticed this at once. All of them were surprised by this.

"What about Potter what are we going to do if he does not come back before school starts?" asked McGonagall. Dumbledore stood there for moment thinking about the question and then he said,

"Well, that's when we inform part of the ministry that he is missing, the Auroras will go after him and track him down"

"Severus, let's go down to the dungeons, I need to talk to you. Please excuse Minerva"

Dumbledore and Snape headed down to the dungeons with Snape still holding him, Harry just tried to relax as much as possible even though his shoulders were killing him.

When they stopped they were at the dungeon doors. When they opened Harry gasped because a big blast of cold air hit him. Snape noticed that the bird was shivering. Snape just held his arms firmer to keep it the bird warm. Harry and Dumbledore were very shocked by this gesture. Harry just thought 'How warm for a cold hearted man'. They were now entering the private rooms. Harry was not surprised to find that the room had almost all black furniture and also a lot of green. The couches were made of leather and there was a huge fire place already lit.

"Severus what about a name for your bird?" asked Albus watching the bird carfully.

"What…? Oh a name for the bird yes let's see, uh wow I'm not good at naming. What about maybe James" He stated looking over to where the bird was perched.

"BOOM BOOMY DWEEDLE DEE!" screamed Harry.

Snape looked startled for a second but said, "Ok he does not like that one"

'He's acting like Potter, whenever I said James name to him or to anyone or anything that sounded like James he would blow up and become very mad' thought Snape. 'This bird seems to be fuming. No, it can't be Potter'

"Hmm, what about Felix?" asked Dumbledore "wait a second you understood and answered what Severus asked?" Harry nodded.

"That is very unusual, I know they can understand humans but they normally don't nod or shake their head, they just have expressions on their faces, especially when there this young. Severus you have one amazing bird"

"How do you know he's young?" Snape asked inquiringly.

"It's hard to tell with this one because he seems very muscular and some of the lines on him are very unusual, but the smallness, the shape of its neck, and the feathers, and a lot of other stuff that will take too long to tell you" said Dumbledore looking closely at him.

"What would you say his age is?"

"In phoenix years about 1 ½ but in human years, 16 1/2"

'Potters age' Thought Snape.

"So do you like the name?"

"Tweet" Felix nodded

"Well now that we have that settled we do need to talk about Harry"

Snape and Felix grumbled. Felix did not mean it to be that loud but Snape and Dumbledore looked over curiously. But Harry just flew out the open window heading towards the shrieking shack, needing to get away and cleaned up while Dumbledore and Snape talked. He did not want to hear anything about what they were going to talk about.