Harry Potter was your ordinary everyday 11 year old you would never expect him to do anything odd or have many secrets, but he did in fact have secrets, dangerous ones. One such secret was about to be revealed. Harry was just waking up to get breakfast started when he heard screaming such as he had never heard before. He quickly opened his eyes and hoped out of bed. What he saw next nearly caused to him to have a heart attack. His uncle was standing in the door screaming and trying to beat out the flames that had engulfed his enormous whale of a self. Harry had no idea what was going on but not wanting to burn with his horrid uncle he quickly opened his window and jumped out. Luckily, he landed on a branch that was just outside his window. He quickly clambered down the tree and fled from his aunt and uncles yard screaming about his robust uncle being on fire.
When his aunt, uncle, and cousin heard him screaming they had no idea what was going on, fearing that he may have damaged something of theirs they all rushed to his room just in time to see him jump out the window for apparently no reason. Not wanting the neighbors to think that they were beating Harry they quickly ran downstairs to try and catch him before he could leave the yard. What they saw when he ran out of the yard is hard to describe. They saw an orange lizard looking creature running from the yard with flames coming off of it, screaming like it was being murdered. One look at the creature and they all fled back into the house thinking that their yard and house had been invaded by dreaded magic, something that they feared someone would find out about their nephew who was after all a wizard and could do magic.
Meanwhile Harry was running down the street with no idea that he wasn't just his ordinary self, but was in fact now a big burning lizard type creature. He kept running until he ran into someone he did not expect, Albus Dumbledore. Professor Dumbledore took one look at the creature coming towards him and cast a water spell to keep the lizard back. The lizard kept on coming however and the flames just reignited when he couldn't aim his wand at it. When the lizard started to try and speak with him he just shook his head and said I'm sorry I don't speak reptile. The lizard got a confused look on its face and just kept trying to talk. After a moment Professor Dumbledore came to the conclusion that maybe this lizard was crazy or maybe it wasn't really a lizard. Quickly casting the spell to force a wizard to resume his natural shape he got the surprise of his life. Harry my boy he said I had no idea that you were and animagus. Harry just looked at him and said he had no idea what he was talking about, he was most certainly not an animagus, but that he had however seen his uncle on fire that morning for no apparent reason. Professor Dumbledore offered to walk him back to Privet Drive and see if his uncle really was on fire. When they got back they discovered the Dursleys in a state of panic and confusion. As soon as he saw Harry Uncle Vernon roared what is the meaning of this boy letting dangerous animals lose on our property and where did you get such a creature? Harry answered that he had no idea what they were talking about and furthermore, why was Uncle Vernon not burned when he had clearly been on fire when Harry had jumped out the window? Professor Dumbledore insisted that they all go inside and he would explain everything. Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia where very, very reluctant to let in the old wizard but decided that they would rather not let the neighbors see him.
As soon as everyone was seated in the living room, Professor Dumbledore launched into his explanation. He began by telling Harry and the Dursleys that not only was there no dangerous animal on the loose that belonged to Harry but that Harry had accidentally found his animagus form, and that when a wizard first finds his animagus form he can sometimes see things that his form might accidentally do to people or things around him. Furthermore if Harry hadn't been scared out of the house by what he had seen he would most likely have burned down the house and his relatives for real instead of in the just in the vision. Harry's form is that of the salamandris, salamandris he explained and as such he is a creature of fire that most certainly would do great damage to wooden houses and flesh. The only solution to Harry's problem is to take him with me to Hogwarts where we can sort all of this out and get his shape shifting under control so that he isn't a threat to anyone, he next told the Dursleys, who quickly agreed that they did not want their house burned down or to be caught on fire by Harry's salamandris form. They even went so far as to suggest that it would be better if Harry never came back at all. At this Professor Dumbledore became furious. Fine, I will take Harry with me and he will never return to this house, but remember that it was you Petunia that promised to take him in so that he would be save from Lord Voldemort, and if anything happens to him because of this then you will most certainly regret it.
Harry packed everything he owned into his trunk and quickly dragged it out of his room, where to his surprise he was met by Dudley. Let me help you with that Dudley said which surprised him even more, after all Dudley had never acted kindly to him let alone done anything for him. Dudley quickly picked up the trunk and carried it down the stairs, using the muscles that he had developed from wrestling. Thanks Dudley Harry said when they got downstairs and into the living room. When he heard your welcome in response he almost thought that maybe he had fallen into an alternate reality. When he looked at his aunt and uncle they were flabbergasted that Dudley had helped him. He started laughing and only managed to stop when he felt someone hugging him. When he looked around it was Dudley. Holy cow pie he said I don't know what alternate universe I'm in but I like it. At that Dudley just chuckled and said well consider it repayment for saving me from those dementors a couple years ago. When Harry turned around he got an even bigger shock Aunt Petunia was actually arguing with Uncle Vernon about asking Harry to leave and never come back, especially since Voldemort was still out there. He was even more surprised when Uncle Vernon actually looked a bit embarrassed about the whole thing and agreed with Petunia. Professor Dumbledore's jaw just about hit the ground when he heard how quickly the Dursleys changed their minds; he hadn't thought that he would actually ever see these mean, self centered people actually be nice to their nephew. When he finally got his jaw picked up and put back in place he declared that he had never seen such a thing and quickly agreed with Harry that they must indeed have been put in an alternate dimension, but a nicer one.
Harry will still need to go with me to Hogwarts, but I take it that you will be allowing him to return after I have taught him how to control his shape shifting he enquired. I suppose it would only be the right thing to do Uncle Vernon said and then jumped when his wife cuffed him on the back of the head. Of course Harry can return when he is thoroughly in control of his powers, he is after all my sister's son and I did promise to take care of him. With that Dumbledore sent Harry's trunk to Hogwarts and said come with me Harry it is time to learn how to control your new ability.