AN: I've been reading fanfiction on this site for a couple of years now, and wanted to try my hand at writing one. There will be some AU elements to this story, but it will be mostly canon compliant. That may change later down the road though, depends on where the story goes in the future. I will try to be keeping the story to a K+ to maybe a low teen rating, rated as teen though just to be safe. I'm not completely sure where that line is.
As this is my first fanfiction, and I'm not the best writer, the story will probably be a little rough in spots, Ill try to get it to flow as smoothly as possible, but writing was never my strongest point. I'll also do what I can on spell checking and grammar, but I'll probably miss some things here and there. On that note if you have any comments/constructive critics about the story please leave a review or PM me.
Here is a slightly edited version of the first chapter, thanks to Fangirling Way Past My Bedtime for betaing for me.
Godric's Hollow
It was a quiet winter evening in the small village of Godric's Hollow, when suddenly a loud crack ringed though the tranquil village, barely disturbing the freshly fallen snow cloaking the trees. Outside the gate to a small two story cottage, stood two individuals dressed in dark blue started walking towards the gate of the cottage, only to be stopped by a small wail which broke the silence following their arrival seconds before.
"There, there my little Luna, no need to cry." One of the cloaked individuals calmly stated as she begun to rock the crying bundle back and forth in her arms. The woman continued to rock the small crying bundle in her arms as her snow colored hair started to spill out of her hood slightly, falling past her shoulders. The crying baby quickly began to calm in the rocking embrace of her mother as she fell back asleep into her blanket patterned in moving snowflakes.
"Pandora, lets hurry inside before we start to freeze." The other cloaked individual remarked as he opened the gate and proceeded to continue walking towards the cottage.
"Of course, Xenophilius." The newly identified Pandora remarked as she quickly followed behind her husband. The front door of the cottage opened as she reached the front steps.
"Hello Pandora, Xenophilius, come inside before you have to suffer anymore in this cold." Greeted a woman from the other side of the doorway. Her curled, auburn hair swaying slightly as she moved aside to allow her guests through the doorway. "And I see you brought Luna with you, I'm sure Harry would love to play with her. He certainly has some energy to burn as he just woke up from his nap."
"Greetings to you as well Lily." Pandora replied as she continued to pacify the now quietly sobbing bundle in her arms. "I'm sure they will both have fun."
"Hello Lily, I trust you and James are doing well this evening?" Xenophilius greeted as he closed the wooden door behind him. Quickly pulling out his wand and with a quick flick bother his and Pandora's heavy traveling cloaks floated over to the hooks on the left side of the entryway.
"We have been doing fine. Now why don't you both go join James and Sirius in the living room while I fetch Harry from his nursery." She responded as she then proceeded down to the end of the hall and up the stair to Harry's nursery.
The Lovegoods walked part way down the carpeted entryway before turning into a large family room lighted by a fairly large candle lit chandelier hanging from the ceiling in the center of the room. In front of them, against the wall was a large brown sofa where a tall man with combed black hair and glasses was currently sitting.
"Good evening Xenophilius, Pandora, please take a seat as Lily will only be another minute or two. And Sirius will be back momentarily, he went to the kitchen to get a quick snack." James greeted as the Lovegoods responded with a slight nod and proceeded to sit in the smaller loveseat to his left, Pandora still cuddling Luna in her arms.
"Pandora, Xenophilius, when did you get here?" A man questioned as he walked into the room carrying a treacle tart in his left hand. The man was of medium stature with unruly black hair and a thin mustache adorning his upper lip.
"We just got here Sirius, and it's good to see you too." Xenophilius replied with a smirk. "We came over because we thought Luna and Harry would have some fun playing together; that and we haven't been able to catch up with Lily and James much since they went into hiding."
"There isn't really much we can do besides going into hiding, not with the fact that Voldemort might be after Harry because of the prophecy." James responded somberly. "Although there isn't much to catch up on, Lily and I haven't left the cottage much since Dumbledore wanted us to go into hiding. We mostly just sit around the house either reading or playing with Harry, Lily does brew potions on occasion, but nothing really of interest."
"James's slight moping aside, there isn't much new since the last time we saw you, besides Harry starting to walk and the seldom occurrence of accidental magic." Lily continued as she walked into the room with Harry in her arms. She then set him down on the carpet between the sofas, then she took a seat next to her husband. "It's usually to get his blanket or one of his toys though."
"He can't seem to be able to go for 5 minutes without his lightning patterned blanket though." Sirius added with a slight chuckle as he continued to nibble on his treacle tart.
"Luna can't stand being separated from her blanket either, although we haven't seen any accidental magic yet." Pandora commented as she set Luna down on the carpet in front of her, several feet from Harry. "Luna, this is Harry, why don't you play with him a bit."
"Hawwy?" the white-haired girl questioned before a small glint of understanding appeared in her silvery eyes. She then proceeded to slowly walk towards the aforementioned child.
"Harry, not Hawwy, Luna, but great try though." Her mother corrected as she smiled approvingly at her.
"Harry, this is Luna, and she is going to play with you for a while." Lily told her son as he stood up looking at the girl walking towards him.
"Luna?" the small child questioned a moment before he nodded in understanding and started toddling towards the snow-haired girl.
"Very good Harry." Lily complimented with a smile adorning her face.
The two children continued to slowly walk towards each other as the adults watched them, waiting to see how their first interaction would pan out. As the two children got within about a foot of each other, Harry raised his right hand while Luna raised her left one to meet his. When their hands got within a few inches of each other, an arc of magic appeared from each of their palms connecting with the other's.
The two children just stared into each other's eyes the moment the arcs of magic connected with their respective palms, Luna into Harry's glistening green eyes, and Harry into her silvery orbs. This continued for several seconds as the adults just stared in first wonder, and then worry over what might be happening to the children. Sirius was the first to get over the initial shock of the events, and then proceeded to quickly get out of his chair, moving towards the children.
"Wait Sirius!" James cried as he quickly stopped his best friend from getting to the children. "We don't know what will happen if we stop them now, we don't want to accidentally hurt them. I know you're worried, we all are, but we need to wait for this to stop before we interfere with the children."
"James is right, we don't know what's happening, but we don't want to cause any damage by interfering. There is nothing we can do but wait for it to play out." Xenophilius remarked sadly as a feeling of uselessness began to pass over him. "At least it doesn't look to be causing any harm to them."
"I guess you're right." Sirius signed, a look of resignation spread across his face as he fell back into the chair.
"That's about all you can do at the moment. But don't worry, no harm will befall the children." A soothing voice calmly stated from the entrance of the living room.
At hearing the voice of the new comer, the five adults turned to see the newest presence in the room. There stood a tall woman a bit over six feet in height, locks of silver hair falling down the length of most of her back and framing the sides of her face. Sapphire eyes detailing the interaction between the two children. The pointed tips of her ears poking out of the hair flowing down the sides of her head. She wore a light green colored dress adorned with patterns of forest green colored ivy flowing across it. The dress flowed down the majority of her legs, showing of some of her light cream colored skin.
"Who are you?! And more importantly, what is happening with the children?" James hastily called out as he, Sirius and Xenophilius all quickly stood up, each drawing their wands and pointing them at the newcomer. Lily and Pandora also drew their wands but were more focused on their babies. Beginning to worry about what was happening with them.
It was at about this time that the arcs of magic connecting Harry and Luna's palms disappeared as quickly as they appeared a minute prior. After the magic disappeared the two children drifted in and out of consciousness for a couple of seconds before they both collapsed where they were standing.
"HARRY! LUNA!" The two frantic mothers yelled in unison as they rushed to the sides of their passed out children.
"The children are fine, merely unconscious from mild exhaustion, they will be fine after some sleep." The woman calmly mentioned as she continued to observe the children.
"You still haven't answered our questions." Sirius remarked while he and the others continued to hold her at wand point.
"My, my, you are an impatient one aren't you." The woman commented with a slight chuckle before waving her hand; instantly forcing the wands from the men's hands, and forcing them to sit back down into their seats. "I mean you no harm, I merely wanted to see these two with my own eyes. If you are civil with me I may answer some of your questions."
Pandora turned her head up from examining Luna to look at the woman in better detail when she noticed something. "Your ears." she muttered out, "what is an elf doing here?" she almost stuttered out with a little fear leaking into her facial features.
'An elf?' The rest of the group in the room thought as their facial features quickly began to copy Pandora's.
"Yes, I am an elf, took you a little longer than I expected you to realize it though." The woman responded with a slight smirk spreading across her face. "Now enough of that, are you all going to behave now?"
"Yes we will." Xenophilius quickly responded before anyone else could. "Now could you please answer our questions?"
"I suppose I can entertain that notion a little." she responded as her smirk grew slightly. "As for what happened with the children, it was the reaction for them meeting for the first time. Regarding why it happened, is something for them to learn at a latter date. As for who I am, that would take the fun out of it. I'll say one last thing before I go; you might want to give the children some room for a while."
"What do you…" Lily started to say as the smirk on the woman's mouth grew considerably before she vanished into thin air.
"What would an elf have been doing here, and why would she be interested in the children?" Pandora muttered out as she quickly cast a couple diagnostic charms on the two currently unconscious children."She was right though, the children seem fine except for a case of mild magical exhaustion."
"I don't have the faintest idea, but if an elf is involved the matter may become very complicated and even more dangerous." Luna's father sighed out as he allowed himself to relax slightly into his seat.
"On that note, I think we should keep what happened here to ourselves. If anyone even heard a rumor that any of us met with an elf; there would probably be no saving us from a dementor's kiss." James added with a bit of a grimace look taking over his facial features.
"I agree with James on this one; no one can know we had an encounter with an elf tonight, unwilling or not." Sirius followed up.
"Do you think we should tell Dumbledore about this? He might have an idea as to what happened with the children." Lily questioned as she continued to hold Harry securely in her arms.
"As much as we trust Dumbledore, we have no idea how he may react with an elf apparently being involved in this." Pandora commented. "In which case, I don't think we should tell him."
"I agree with her, the less people that know the better." Her husband answered. "Although I wonder what she meant when she said we had better give the children some space."
As Xenophilius finished speaking, the children began to emit small magical auras that quickly surrounded their bodies. Luna's was pure white in color, like she had just been covered in a thin layer of freshly fallen snow; while Harry's was a pale yellow, like he was wrapped in the embrace of a lightning bolt. And this didn't go unnoticed by either mother.
"Ahhh!" Both mothers yelled as they jump back a couple of feet. Pandora's hands were showing the beginning stages of frostbite, while Lily had first degree burns littering hers. This caused them to drop both of the children, allowing them to fall to the ground with a soft thud.
"Sirius, can you get me some burn salve from the potion cabinet." Lily asked as she quickly regained her composure. Despite this, upon seeing the current state of the children, a look of worry began to spread across her features; something that the other adults in the room quickly mirrored. None of them wanted to touch the children while they were still covered in their respective glows; considering what happened to the two that had a moment of contact with them. Although their postures and facial features relaxed a bit as it appeared that the children were not in any pain or discomfort.
After a few moments the snow white glow that had enveloped Luna began to recede back into her. As the aura receded, Luna's skin began to quickly become covered in a pattern of tiny scales, which quickly spread across her body, originating from the palm of her left hand. As the scales continued to spread across her body, her nails began to elongate and sharpen into small claws. The couple of teeth she had been missing quickly grew in and were sharpening to a very sharp point, like a mouth filled with tiny daggers a couple inches in length.
Her body repositioned itself on the carpet, laying flat on her stomach as the tip of a tail began to swiftly poke out the side of her snowflake patterned blanket. As her hair was receding into her scalp, two small horns of a very light shade of blue quickly sprouted on each side of her head, quickly growing to about 4 inches in length, easily poking out of her hair. Her face was starting to elongate as her eyes migrated to either side of her lengthening mouth, filled with now razor sharp teeth, as her nose shifted into nostrils at the end of her forming snout.
A disturbance in the blanket covering her back revealed that two wings were quickly growing, the solid edges were of the purest white, halfway along these growing protrusions, 4 others of the same color sprouted, growing out like the limbs of a fan between both parts of the one emerging from her back. The gaps between these were quickly covered by a thin membrane, a couple shades of blue darker then her horns. Her entire body was lengthening, particularly around her neck and growing tail, while her arms and legs morphed in a more draconic appearance. The scales covering the main portion of her body turned to a snow white color, while her claws, and the scales of her under belly turned the same color as the growing membranes of her wings.
As the changes finished, her eyes opened to reveal her silvery orbs now possessed a fairly dark blue slit pupil. She began glancing towards the boy off to her side that was going through a very similar change as she had just finished. Harry's changed features were very similar to Luna's, mainly just a difference in coloring and a slight difference in size, him being a tad smaller than her. The main portion of his scales were a dull gold in color, while his claws, and the membranes of his wings were a brighter shade of electric yellow. His horns were a darker yellow, as a shade of bright gold coated his underbelly. As he finished shifting, his eyes opened revealing now almost emerald orbs with a bright electric yellow slit pupil in them.
The two children now turned dragons stared at each other for a few moments, examining every detail of the other before they both jumped towards each other and began to play. Harry was about 6 feet long from snout to tail tip, while possessing a wingspan of a little over 5 feet when fully spread. Whereas Luna was 8 feet from snout to tail, with a 7 foot wingspan. While the adults tried to recover from their shock of what had transpired over the last minute.
"Can someone please tell me this is all a dream, and I did not see the kids change into dragons." Sirius questioned as he rubbed his eyes to make sure he was seeing was actually real.
"I don't think you're dreaming, not unless we're all having the same one." James answered, still not entirely sure of what just happened.
"Well, at least now we know what that elf meant earlier." Pandora commented as she was the first to fully recover from her shock. "Now we definitely can't tell anyone about this."
"I agree with her on that, now can we do something about the two dragons currently playing in my living room?" Lily commented as the others had about finished recovering from their reactions to the previous events. "Do you think they can even understand us? Harry?"
At the sound of his name being called the yellow dragon abruptly stopped playing with his slightly larger counterpart and looked in the direction of his name being called. "Mama? Mama!" The baby dragon almost yelled out excitedly as he jumped towards Lily, abruptly knocking her back into the couch she'd been sitting on.
"Did that dragon just speak english?" Sirius managed to get out while trying not to laugh too much.
."Yes he did Padfoot." James answered with a slight chuckle. "Harry, can you please get up off of mama now?"
"Ok." he muttered out with a slightly depressed tone; his voice still sounding like that of a child, but with a slightly deep tone to it. He quickly cheered up as his eyes again caught sight of the other dragon in the room. "Luna, play!"
"Ok." She replied, while preparing to be tackled by the ball of energy heading right for her. Her voice was calm and soothing, like it had an almost angelic tone to it. They quickly picked up where they had left off, and were quickly bouncing all over the living room.
"I think we just have to wait for them to tire themselves out." Pandora commented as a small sigh escaped her lips. "Once they are sleepy we can put them both down for a nap. Then we can try and do some research to see if we can find out anything about this."
"That could work, we can put them up in the nursery, then while they are sleeping, you Sirius, and Xenophilius can go to Potter Manor and see if there is anything in the library there. James and I shouldn't leave due to the fidelius, so we can stay here with the children; see if there might be something in the library here." Stated Lily. "Now we just have to wait for them to tucker themselves out."
It took about half an hour for the two dragons to tire themselves out. During which the 3 guys played a game of exploding snap while Lily and Pandora continued to chat with each other.
"Are you two ready to sleep?" Pandora inquired as she looked towards the two yawning dragons.
"Ya." They both responded between yawns. After a few more yawns the two children quickly changed back into their human forms, and started rubbing their eyes as if they were about to pass out.
"Then let's get you both up to the nursery for a nap." Lily calmly stated as she and Pandora picked up their respective child; and then proceeded to walk towards Harry's nursery. His nursery was a somewhat large room with the walls patterned in striped of red and gold, and a border of gryphons running along the top and bottom of the walls. There were various toys scattered across the room, with his crib over in the corner.
They both placed their child at either end of the crib, giving them a pillow, and making sure they were covered by their favorite blanket. Then they proceeded to give their child a quick peck on the forehead, wishing them sweet dreams as the children left the land of the living within moments. They then headed back down to the living room.
"It seems like the children have those dragons for their animagus forms, or something along those lines, at least that answers some questions for us." Said James as the women were entering the room.
"But I have never heard of there being a magical animagus, let alone a dragon." Sirius added.
"Another thing to add to our list to research." Xenophilius commented, earning a slight groan from Sirius in the process. "Anyways we're off to Potter Manor, we'll be back in a couple hours to and we can discuss our findings then."
After that Sirius started walking towards the front door, with the Lovegoods right behind him. James and Lily went to do their own research. Although even about 3 hours later, they had not made any progress.
"I'm going to go check on the kids; meanwhile can you go down to the kitchen and make us a snack? I'm starting to get hungry." Lily mentioned as she got up and left the library.
Outside the Potter's Cottage
A lone cloaked figure was rapidly approaching the Potter's Cottage, yet didn't disturb a single flake of fallen snow that they were passed over. The gate suddenly opened as the figure got closer to the cottage before it continued towards the Potter's front door.
Meanwhile inside the cottage, James was down in the kitchen we he was notified to an unknown entry to the wards.
'How can anyone find us? The fidelius should have hid us from everyone who wasn't told.' He thought to himself as he readied his wand in his hand and headed towards the entryway.
Outside the cottage, the figure approached the locked door. With a quick flick of its wand, the door was stripped of any enchantments, granting passage into the cottage. He saw James blocking his path as he crossed the threshold.
"Stand aside, I would rather not end an old pureblood line this evening. I am only interested in killing the boy." The cloaked figure rasped out in a dark ominous tone that sent shivers down James's spine.
"Voldemort, you won't touch a hair on his head, even if it's the last thing I do." James commanded as he steeled himself against the Dark Lord. He quickly swished his wand several times as every item in the entryway started floating in the air, and flew towards Voldemort. Each item transfiguring into a large razor sharp spear, speed forward with the intent of impaling Voldemort.
"Foolish." The Dark Lord commented as he flicked his wand, summoning a shockwave that shattered every single transfigured spear as they came into contact. The shockwave continued down the entryway, tearing up the floor, damaging the walls, and creating a wave of debris in its wake as it all rushed towards James.
He managed to dive into the living room, moments before the tsunami of debris passed the room's entrance. Thinking for a quick second, James rushed deeper into the room, waving his wand as he moved, transfiguring every piece of furniture in the room in a large pride of powerful lions; all ready to attack the first thing that entered the room. With another few waves of his wand, everything hanging of the walls levitated into the air, transfiguring into daggers, and flying into the kitchen.
Voldemort entered the room as the last dagger had passed out of sight into the kitchen, causing every single lion in the room to leap towards him, claws out ready to rend him to ribbons. With a simple wave of his wand, earth spikes rose up impaling every lion mid-leap, while a wall rose up out of the floor, blocking every dagger as they attempted to strike him from behind. With another wave of his wand, the previously stopped lions were retransfigured into iron stakes that rushed towards James.
"Fulguris" He chanted as a bolt of lightning emerged from the tip of his wand, connecting with the nearest stake, before jumping to the next closest one. This repeated as the lightning jumped from stake to stake before heading straight towards James.
Realizing that he didn't have room to dodge, James waved his wand instantly raising a thick stone wall in front of him in an attempt to prolong his life. The lightning bolt collided with the wall a moment later, tearing through large parts of it. What was left of the wall didn't stand long as the lightning enhanced staked made quick work of tearing through the wall. They quickly impaled the wall on both sides of James. The arcs of lightning that were connecting the stakes followed moments behind the stakes as they binded James to the wall, instantly killing him. Finished with James, Voldemort moved out of the living room, up the stairs and proceeded towards the nursery.
"Stand aside girl, I only came for the boy." He commanded.
"You won't touch him!" She loudly retorted with a fire in her eyes as she moved between Voldemort and the crib, summoning her wand to her hand to defend the children from him.
"Foolish." He chided as a pale green bolt of lightning erupted from his wand, striking Lily in the chest before she realized what had happened. She fell to the ground, dead before she came in contact with the floor.
The sound of Lily yelling caused the children to wake up, quickly sitting up; they peered out the side of the crib as the cloaked figure approached them from where Lily had fallen.
As he approached the crib, he raised his wand and released another killing curse, intending to strike down the last of the Potters. As the curse struck Harry's forehead, much to Voldemort's surprise and shock the curse rebounded off the toddler, striking him in the chest before he could react. As the rebounded curse impacted Voldemort, a shockwave of magic tore out, instantly destroying all the protections around the Potter's cottage. While a smaller shockwave spread out into the nursery, knocking the children into the side of the crib, causing them to fall unconscious.
"My, my you two certainly are interesting ones." A woman in the corner of the room commented as she appeared in the corner of the room, and instantly noticed the glowing snowflake on Luna's left hand, and the glowing lightning bolt on Harry's forehead.
"Your futures are going to be very interesting children, until we meet again." She added before disappearing as quickly as she had appeared moments before.
AN: Just a quick couple of comments. Regarding elves, I have a couple of ideas but they probably wont come into play much until later in the story; just suffice to say wizards tend to fear elves sometimes more than Voldemort, not necessarily because they are dark/evil; but more so because they are powerful, mysterious, and wizards know very little about them.
On the children, the change to dragon form was detailed for the first time, it wont be like that for the rest of them; I just felt the first one was special and wanted to be descriptive. Continuing that, I haven't seen many of fanfics where Harry is a dragon animagus, so I wanted to add my own. I'm planning on them being on the stronger side of their age group, but not much more than that; they wont be able to take on adult wizards anytime soon. Also I want to do a Harry/Luna pairing eventually, but currently I feel I can't write it well enough so for now it is a childhood friendship. Once I feel comfortable enough, I will try to write them as a pairing; even then any romantic stuff between them wouldn't happen till 4th year or so, and the progression of their relationship would be gradual, and hopefully realistic.
On Voldemort, he is going to be stronger than he was in canon probably, definitely more sane. At times he didn't seem like a true villain, so I hope I can correct that in my story. Also I don't plan on doing any bashing in this story.
I have the general ideas for the next chapter but it will take a bit to write so I'm hoping to have it done sometime next week. Continuing off of that, my free time can fluctuate at times so updates may be a bit sporadic. I'll try to keep chapter progress updated on my profile.