Smaug's successor

by DiamondDrake12

What happens when by accident Harry comes across the book called The Hobbit and reads it. Becoming engrossed in the story of the book, while Smaug becomes his favourite character in the story to the stage where he wishes to be like Smaug and by chance his magic reacts to this wish.

1. What a wish can do

Rated M for violence, gore, adult themes, language and just to be on the safe side!

[Author's note: Hello! This is a story that I have been wanting to type up for a long time. I don't know what the pairing will be yet, but I know that Harry won't have a relationship with a human because of him being more like a dragon than a human.]

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter and The Hobbit or any of their Characters.

"Speech"

"Human language in dragon form"

~Parseltongue or dragonese~

'Thought'

"Whispering/Writing or a significance to a word"

Smaug's successor

Chapter: 1 – What a wish can do

(School – 8-year-old Harry's POV)

Darting around a corner in the corridor, I trip and fall to the floor but get back up while I look behind me with fear as the sound of running echoes around the corner. Looking around the corridor frantically, I see two doors on my left and hastily move over to the first door before opening it as I run inside. Turning around and locking the door, I sit down on the floor as I lean my back against the door, while multiple footsteps are heard running down the corridor before I can't hear them anymore.

Breathing out a sigh of relief, I look up to see where I am as I stand up. Gazing around the room, I see that I am inside of a classroom that is also a library.

The wall in front of me having two windows that take up most of the wall, while the wall on my left and right is filled up with bookcases. The door I'm standing in front of being on the right side of the wall while taking up the left side of the wall is a teacher's desk. The middle of the room is filled up with round tables.

Looking back at the door as I think about what I am about to do next, I look back at the bookcases filled with books before making up my mind as I walk over to the one the right. Gazing over the books as I walk along the bookcase, I stop as a book's title catches my attention. Walking up to where the book is, I grab the book and take it off the shelf before looking down as I gaze over the cover of the book.

The cover of the book has a picture of a red scaled dragon resting on top of a large hoard of gold, while on top of the cover is the title of the book.

"The Hobbit"

I read out the title quietly as I gaze at the dragon in awe before I move over to one of the tables nearest me and sit down as I place the book on the table. Opening the book, I start to read the best I can as I gradually lose myself in the world of the book.

Jolting up as I hear the school bell, I look down at the book I lost myself in to see that I am four pages into the book, which I close and hide under my baggy top before I make my way out of the room.

(Time Skip – Couple of hours later)

Crying out as I am thrown into my cupboard, I look towards the door and see Vernon glaring at me.

"You stay in there for the rest of the day, freak!"

He yells out at me, while he slams the door shut before I hear clicks of many locks on the door being used. Wincing as I get up off the floor, I move to my bed before pulling out the book I stole from school. Going back to the page that I was on, I carry on reading as I lose myself in the world of the book again.

(Time Skip – A week later)

Engrossed in the book as I read the last page of the story, I finish the book as I close it and stare at it in awe, while the whole story plays out in my head. Gazing over the image of Smaug on the cover of the book, a grin makes its way on my face as I think about how cool Smaug was.

"I wish I was a dragon. If I was one, I would be as cool as Smaug and even try to surpass him."

I whisper out as I think about being a dragon and all the things I would do as one, not knowing that at that moment my emotions are at their highest as I daydream, causing a surge of strong accidental magic to happen. This strong accidental magic reacting to my strong emotion that is directed to my wish, which makes the wish come true as the magic courses through my body as it mutates and changes my DNA. My magic core also slowly changes into an inferno, which is consuming small amounts of the natural magic like it is oxygen and using this magic as fuel to grow.

Feeling very tired all of a sudden, I lay in my bed and go to sleep as I feel something burning in my chest, which comforts me instead of hurting me like I think it would.

(Time Skip – One year later)

Throughout the year since I finished reading the book called The Hobbit, I have been going through changes, which are me getting stronger, faster and my endurance heightening. This caused my body to be filled out with compact muscles and for me to grow just above the average height of someone my age.

I have also been getting smarter, remembering everything I have seen, smelled, heard, touched and tasted, while my mind works ten times faster than it used too. I am also able to look at something and understand how it works without having any knowledge of what the item is, while also gaining data of how I could make the item better.

My senses themselves have also grown stronger to where I can see in the dark and see better than an eagle, which also makes it so that I don't need to wear glasses anymore. My sense of smell is also so advance that it would put a bloodhound to shame, while I can hear the heartbeat of a person a mile away.

As all this has been happening the fire that I can feel inside of me has been growing stronger as well, which has caused my temper to rise and for me to develop a short fuse. I have also become very possessive of my possessions and lured to anything that is of value, but more so towards gold.

Coming out of my thoughts as I look up from the swing that I am on, I see Dudley and his gang, who consists of three kids who are nearly as big as he is, coming up to me with smirks. While they wobble their way over to me, all the other children move out of their way as they crowded around to watch what is about to happen. Gazing around the playground, I let out an annoyed sigh as I see none of the teachers are out watching us like they are supposed to do.

Getting off the swing as Dudley and his gang stop in front of me, I stare at them in annoyance as the fire inside of me flares at my emotion.

"Freak! What are you doing on my swing?"

Dudley says to me before laughing as does his gang, which causes me to narrow my eyes while the fire inside of me blazes in anger at him calling me a freak. Gazing at him and his gang before looking across the crowd of kids that have gathered, I look to the swing then back at Dudley as a smirk creeps up onto my face.

"Your swing? I don't see your name on it, and besides, with how fat you are you will break it if you sit on it."

I fire back as the crowd of kids gasp and look towards Dudley who is shaking in rage as he glares at me before he looks at his gang, who are staring at me with wide eyes at me having the guts to insult their leader.

"What are you waiting for? Attack him! He called me fat!"

Dudley shouts out to his gang in rage, causing them to snap out of their states as they run at me at a slow pace, while the crowd starts chanting the word fight over and over again. Eyes narrowing further, not seen by me they nearly turn to slits as they dimly glow blood red, while I watch as my surroundings slow down until everything is moving at a snail's pace.

Dodging to the right as gang member number one throws a punch and passes me, I dodge to the left out of the way of another punch before getting behind gang member number two as I launch out my right foot behind me. Foot connecting with the back of gang member two, the back kick launches him into gang member number one, which causes them to land on the swing that I was on and for a snap to be heard as their weight breaks the swing.

Bringing up my left hand, I grab the right wrist of gang member number three when he is in the middle of throwing a punch at me, while I place my right-hand fingertips onto his chest as I smirk at him as he stares at me in fright before I one-inch punch him. This punch causing him to be launched off his feet as he flies past Dudley, who is staring at my blood red eyes in terror, while I smell urine as I look down to his trousers to see a large wet patch running down his leg.

Letting out a quiet growl at him, he lets out a scared whimper before fainting into his own puddle of urine, which causes me to let out a snort at how pathetic he is.

"What's going on here?"

A female teacher yells out as she comes running over to the crowd, which parts away so she can get through before she gasps at seeing me standing in the middle of a bunch of kids, who are all moaning in pain or are unconscious.

(Time skip)

Following Vernon, who's face is red with rage, I walk into the house as Vernon slams the door shut behind me before turning around and glaring at me in hatred. While in the living room Petunia fusses over Dudley before stopping to glare at me as she sees me, which turns into a smirk as she sees Vernon behind me.

"You need to be taught a lesson boy!"

Vernon yells out as he cocks back his right fist before launching a punch to my face, which I catch easily with my left hand with fully narrowed glowing blood red eyes. This causing Vernon eyes to widen in fright as he stares into my eyes, while he tries to pull his fist out of my grip, which tightens causing Vernon to cry out in pain as the sound of crunching bones is heard. This causing Petunia and Dudley to scream in horror as they watch Vernon collapse to his knees crying in pain, while he tries to get my hand off of his fist before I grab his neck with my right hand.

Lifting Vernon off of his knees without any effort, I snarl into his terror-filled face in rage as I glare at him, which causes him to whimper at me.

"I have had enough! From now on, if any of you tries to hit me, not give me food, make me do all the chores or make me sleep in the cupboard. I will break, every, single, bone, in your bodies! Do you understand?"

I growl out, my voice becoming deeper and filled with power as I do, which causes everyone to flinch back before nodding their head at me in fear, causing me to snort as I release Vernon's hand. Standing back as I look down at Vernon who is cradling his crunched hand, while Petunia runs over to him with Dudley before grabbing the car keys to take him to the hospital.

Glaring at them as they leave the house, I move over to my cupboard and collect all my things before heading upstairs to Dudley's second bedroom, which I throw everything I don't want out of as I place my few belongings in.

Looking around the room, I walk out of my new bedroom as I head over to Vernon's and Petunia's bedroom. Walking into the bedroom, I look around until my gaze lands on a jewellery box on top of a small cupboard, which has a round mirror on the wall above it. Moving over to the jewellery boxes as I feel a pull on the fire inside of me towards it, I open the jewellery box and gaze over all the jewellery inside of it in a trance before I take all the jewellery out and place them into my pockets.

Finishing taking all the jewellery, I snap out of my trance as I shake my head, while memories of Smaug's hoard from the book The Hobbit comes to the front of my mind, which causes me to gain a smile as I chuckle in amusement. Walking over to where I know Vernon keeps his money, I take all the money he has and move out of the bedroom as I make my way downstairs.

Opening the door that Petunia forgot to lock in her haste to take Vernon to the hospital, I make my way over to a bus stop as I think about what clothes I am going to buy.

(Time Skip – Two months later)

Walking along the path as the moon is high in the sky, I look around and watch all the homeless people on the street huddled around open barrels that are used to hold fire. I am currently wearing black cargo pants with a black T-shirt that has a black leather jacket over it, while on my back is a large rucksack that is filled with all my things. The reason that I am on the street is because I have left the Dursley's house to find a place that I can claim as my own before living there.

"Hey, kid!"

Looking over to where the voice came from, I tilt my head to the right as I gaze at the man who called me. The man has light skin, long messy hair and a beard, while he wears baggy clothes that are filled with holes, the man also looks like he hasn't cleaned himself in a weak.

"What are you doing here? Come over here next to the fire before you freeze to death."

The man says to me in a kind voice that is filled with worry as he waves his hand at me to come over to the fire. Moving over to the fire, I gaze over the other people who are by the fire as well, there is a woman standing by the left side of the man and on the woman's right side is two men.

The woman has long blond hair, while she wears a large winter coat that blocks most of her body from view, she also has boots that look a little worn for wear and also has gloves on her hands. The man on her right has tanned skin with a coat that looks like he is barely fitting into it, while he has ripped jeans and shoes that have seen better days. Next to this man is a light skinned man that also has a coat, but this coat looks like the right size for him, he also has gloves, tracksuit bottoms, and broken trainers.

Nodding to them as they smile at me, I move next to the man who called me over before frowning as I tilt my head at him again.

"I'm Mike, - The man says before pointing at the woman. – that's Sophia, - He says as Sophia waves at me with a warm smile. – and they are Aaron and Oliver."

He finishes off as the two men smile at me before he looks at me.

"I'm Harry."

I say as I see that he is waiting for me to say my name, which causes them all to smile before Oliver walks of over to a bag on the floor.

"So, what are you doing here at this time?"

Sophia asks in concern, causing me to tilt my head at her.

"I am looking for the right place."

I reply, causing all of them to frown at my answer before Oliver comes over with five cans and tosses one to each of us.

"That's the last we have."

Oliver says in sadness, which the others nod at. Looking down at the can in my hand, I see that it is canned baked beans. Looking up at the people around me, I frown down at the food they have given to me, which by what Oliver said is their last.

"What's wrong kid?"

Oliver asks as he sees that I haven't opened the canned beans yet, what he said causing the others to look at me as well. Looking around at them, I take my large rucksack off my back and place it on the floor, which gets wide eyes from them as they hear a thud when it lands on the floor.

"Dam, what do you have in there, kid?"

Mike asks me, causing me to look up at him before looking back down at my rucksack as I open it and look around inside. Finding what I was looking for, I pull out a cool box from my rucksack, which gets surprised looks from everyone around me before I open it as Mike looks to see what's inside. Hearing him gasp as he gazes at the contents of my cool box with wide eyes, filling up the cool box is packs of sausages, burgers, and bacon.

"I only eat meat."

I say to answer his earlier question, causing him to gawk at me, while all the others come to see what the fuss is about.

(Time skip – Two months later)

Throughout the two months that I have stayed with Mike, Oliver, Aaron and Sophia who has become a family to me, I have been looking around for a place that I can call my own, which I found after a week of being with them. This place being an abandoned warehouse, after finding the place I slowly decked the place out with furniture that I found and fixed up.

After making the place liveable, I took my new family to the place, which I said that they can live there with me if they wanted too. This made them more than happy as they had a place to live, which is better than where they lived before. They have also been getting confused with how I am as well, which is how strong and fast I am as well as my possessiveness of my jewellery.

"Who are you?"

I hear Aaron yell out, causing my head to snap up as my eyes narrow onto a group of five people standing at the entrance of the warehouse, who are wearing black robes, while masks cover their faces. Quickly moving in front of Aaron, while everyone else comes up behind me, I gaze over the robe wearing group as they stare at me before taking out carved sticks.

"Stay behind me."

I order my family.

"What! No! We are not letting you face them by yourself!"

Sophia shouts out in denial, while all the others nod in agreement to her, causing me to look back at them with slit blood red eyes.

"Do as I say!"

I growl out to them, causing them to take a step away from me as they stare into my glowing blood red eyes with wide eyes. Turing back to the robed figures, I take a step forward as I gaze them over, my advanced eyesight showing me that the sticks they are carrying are focusing the weak power that they have inside of them.

Seeing the middle robed figure bring up the stick in their right hand, a red light shoots out of the end of the stick, which zips through the air towards Mike. Snarling, I move into the path of the light, which impacts me before every inch of my body feels like a needle has been stabbed into it.

Collapsing to my right knee as I hiss out in pain, I hear my family scream to me, while I hear the robed figures laugh in glee. Starting to shake on the spot as my hiss of pain turns to a rage filled growl, which becomes louder and louder, while the fire inside of me explodes through my body. This fire causing pain to come to me when it reaches the scar on my forehead before it goes away as it feels like something heavy has lifted off of my being.

As I growl loudly, I stand up and glare at the robed figures who have stepped back in shock before the fire that is flowing throughout my body grows stronger as it escapes my body. Behind me, my family gasp as fire consumes my body, which starts to expand out as I feel my body morph into something else.

The expansion of the fire around me causes the robed figures and my family to move back, while the inferno nearly fills up the whole warehouse. As the fire dies down, everyone gulps in fright as they look up at the being that towers over them.

In the middle of the warehouse is a dragon that has pitch black scales, which have a spike in the middle of them, while its underside scales are smooth and look like gold. The dragon has four legs with paws that have long curved claws that look like they can cut through anything. The dragon has a long tail that has a dagger-like tip to it, the tail itself is wrapped around the dragon's legs. The dragon also has a long neck, with a long muzzle filled with long teeth that look like jagged daggers, while on the dragon's head are two large horns that curve up slightly. The dragon has spikes that start just before the two large horns, which travel all the way down along the spine, growing smaller as they travel down the tail until they stop at the dagger-like end of the tail.

As I finish morphing into a dragon, I look myself over in glee at being a dragon and now having the opportunity to surpass Smaug. As I am looking myself over, knowledge of what I am and everything that I can do uploads into my brain, while my instincts heighten.

Hearing movement, I snap my gaze towards the robed figures that freeze on the spot as I start snarling down at them. This causing them to start shaking in fear as they look up into my snarling muzzle, which opens as I breathe in while the fire inside of me travels up to the back of my throat.

This causes the robed figures to scream as my chest glows, which travels up my neck until the glow can be seen in the back of my throat. Opening my muzzle wide, torrents of flame stream out of my jaws and baths the robed figures, causing their short screams to halt as my powerful fire turns them into ash.

As the fires die down, five piles of ash lay on the floor where the robed stood, while floating above each of them is a ball of tainted black light, which is coated by some of my flames. The tainted black balls of light seem to be trying to escape, but my flames hold them in place as faint screams can be heard from them.

Frowning down at the balls of light, I will my flames to consume the tainted balls of light, which they do happily. This causes the faint screams coming from the tainted balls of light to heighten as my flames eat them before the only thing left is my flames. Gazing at my flames that are brighter than they used to be, I see that each of the fires hold that power which was inside those robed people.

Willing my flames together, they form a large ball of flames before they flow to my chest and get absorbed by my inner flame. When the flames get absorbed, knowledge starts to flow into my brain, everything that the robed figures knew becoming mine and my flame inside me becoming slightly bigger. Blinking as all the knowledge I just learnt gets sorted in seconds, I turn my head towards my family and tilt my head at them as they stare up at me in fright.

"Why are you so scared? I would never harm what I deem as mine."

I question as I lower my head down to their level, causing their eyes to widen in surprise and for them to gulp at what I said at the end.

"Yours?"

Aaron asks in nervousness, while they edge away from me as I bring my muzzle closer to them.

"Yes, mine. I claimed you all as mine when you accepted my invitation to live in my nest and when you became my family."

I answer, causing them all to go rigid as they gasp and look at me with wide eyes in disbelief.

"Harry?"

Sophia says in uncertainty, causing me to move my gaze to her.

"Who else would I be?"

I question with a small chuckle, causing her to run forward and barely hug my huge muzzle, while the others calm down slightly.

"What? How are you a dragon?"

Oliver questions as he takes a step towards me, while the others nod in agreement to his question.

"From what I have figured out, I was a wizard. But wizards at young ages have bouts of accidental magic when their emotions are high, this is the reason that I am a dragon. I must have caused a strong boost of accidental magic after I read the book 'The Hobbit' and wished to be like Smaug, which caused me to slowly change into what you see now."

I explain, getting more disbelief looks from them, while Mike gains a worried look.

"So you are stuck like this?"

Mike asks, causing me to look over to him before frowning.

"No, I should be able to morph back into my human body. Can you all stand back?"

I answer, getting nods from them as they all stand back before I close my eyes as I concentrate on the fire inside of me, which I will to engulf me and morph me back to my human body. Like I willed, fire seeps out between where my scales meet each other and travels over my body, bathing me in my own flames. When I am completely covered by my flames, I feel my body shrink as it morphs back into my human body.

Breathing in, I open my eyes as I breathe out black smoke from my nose, while I gaze around at my family as they stare at me in awe.

(Time Skip – A month later)

Over the month I have used the knowledge I got from the death eaters as they call themselves and used it to train my magic. I have found out that I can do wandless magic very easily and trained myself in wandless magic. After training for two weeks, I mastered everything that the death eaters knew and then went on to using magic to improve my nest, which is the warehouse.

The warehouse now has new furniture and everything you would find in a rich person's house. I have also used magic to enlarge the inside of the warehouse, especially my room as I have taken to staying in my dragon form more than my human form. This hasn't bothered my family that much as they have got used to seeing me in my dragon form, while they have also seen how much happier I am in my dragon form than my human form.

I have also put some wards up around the warehouse as well, which keeps people away from the warehouse and stops any tracking spells being used to find me as well as blocks magic from being detected in the warehouse.

Currently, I am in my enlarged room in my dragon form laying down on a large pile of pillows, while I stare at my small amount of jewels as I think about what the death eaters knew about me. The things that they knew being that their dark lord killed my parents before, somehow, I survived the killing curse and killed the dark lord. But the thing that my mind is mostly on is that I am the Potter heir, which means that I have a lot of gold that the Goblins are guarding and keeping safe for me. This has also made me be filled with rage as I know that my parents would have a will that would say not to place me with the Dursleys. I also know that my parents would have people written down to tell where I should go if they die and if none of those people could take me in, I should have been placed with a family that wouldn't harm me.

Frowning as I think about that piece of information, my mind goes back to the gold that I have as the fire inside of me stirs around in excitement, while I think about the amount of gold I might have. Eyes glowing brightening as I think about the gold, I stand up and move out of my room, while I will my flames to consume me.

As the flames around me stream back into me, I am still in my dragon form but now the size of a horse, this being an ability that I made so that I don't need to turn into my human form to go into human-sized places.

"Where are you going?"

Mike asks me in curiosity as he comes up to my side, while I walk to the entrance of the warehouse as I look over to him.

"I need to gather some information and go to the Goblins to see my gold."

I answer, which gets a nod from him and for him to frown at the gold part as he knows how it affects me.

"Good luck then, just don't go Smaug on us when you are in that wizard bank."

He says, causing me to chuckle at what he said as he stands back, while I spread my wing when we are outside of the warehouse.

"I'll try not to."

I answer in mirth before shooting off into the night sky, while he smiles as he watches me vanish into the night sky.

[Author's note: Ok! That's the end of the chapter! Hope you liked it so far and please review!]