Harry Potter and the First-Born Child
An H.P Fanfiction by
Fantasy Writer'92
Prologue- Goblet of Fire AU
Harry Potter had been pacing nervously back and forth in the Gryffindor common room for the past half hour.
It was bad enough that he was stuck competing in this Competition, he did NOT enter himself. No one, not even his best friends: Ron and Hermione believed him. At least until that first task was over, Bloody Dragons!
Now, on top of trying to figure out the golden egg clue for the next part.
As a "Champion" he was supposed to ask a girl to go with him as his date to the Triwizard Ball this Evening. Where they, along with the other champions opened the ball with the first dance. But he had nobody:
Hermione had gotten a mystery date and Ron was going as threesome with the Patil twins. (Harry thought his mate was trying to make Hermione jealous on that one.)
"Time to go Potter," said Professor McGonagall as she started to usher her house students out.
Soon all of the champions and their escorts were being made to line up.
When Snape of all people,noticed Harry's minus one!"-Potter, one would think with your infamous popularity. At least one dunderhead girl would have fallen for your sickening charms. Unless by some miracle, due to recent events they have all grown wiser"
Humiliated by the laughter around him, Harry's eyes darkened.
However, before he could respond within a flicker of a candle flame. The fourteen-year-old boy found he was not to him stood, a slightly taller, slender pale brunette. Dressed in a Cinderella style blue ball gown with black elbow length gloves to match the black feathered Parshall mask she wore. Taking a stunned Harry's hand in her own, the girl responded to the Professor "-That would be me," before turning back to him with a smile "Sorry I'm late."
The boy mutely nodded, while certain he'd never seen her before. The girl gave off a strange vibe of familiarity that Harry instantly and instinctively felt comfortable with. "That-that's okay. The main thing is that you're here now" he smiled.
Snape looked skeptical, "Your name please, young lady. For I do not recall seeing you on Hogwarts' grounds at any time?"
She sighed and looked Snape directly in the eyes, with a reproachful gaze.
"- My name is "Suri", and the reason you haven't seen me before Professor, is because I don't attend this school."
Luckily, they were saved from further questioning by McGonagall announcing roll call. The opening dance started off awkwardly as Harry proved to be still learning the steps. But then got exceptionally better once his date "Suri" took the lead, quietly instructing in his ear. Once the music died down, then shifted in a more Rock N' Roll tempo for the next song. Harry and Suri found a seat at an empty table.
"-Your voice! I-I feel like I've heard it from somewhere. Crazy huh?"
The girl smiled, "Not really, I was around a lot when you were younger. We… Well we spent some time together."
Harry's eyebrows shot up "How?! When?!"
Suri let out another deep sigh. "-From the time you were practically a sea monkey in your mother's stomach to six years old."
"-WHAT?!"
"-Long story and I don't have time to tell it tonight. The candle's magic that brought me here will be spent at Ten, then time's up. For now, let's just enjoy the moment of finally reuniting after so, so long."
Harry didn't miss the hint of desperation in her tone. "-If you cannot tell me who you are…yet. Can you at least tell me how you seemed to know where I was and that I needed a date?"
She smiled ruefully, "Harry, you and I share an especially strange connection, so I always know when you need me. Unfortunately, I have lacked the recourses that enabled me to come 'til recently."
Potter gave a short laugh "You sound like my friend Hermione. She uses big words when she talks too. I think it's all that time she spends in the library."
Rather than being offended, Suri took what he said as a compliment. "I guess being a "Bookworm" is something we have in common then. Since for years, the only thing I could make myself useful doing was read."
That further ignited Harry's curiosity but before he could speak Dumbledore appeared at their table.
"Harry, my dear boy, how are you enjoying the Evening?"
"- Um…" Harry gulped "Good Professor."
"Ah Good, good. Do you mind if I borrow Miss-?"
"Suri,"
The Headmaster's normally twinkly eyes widened before instantly plastering on a showman's smile. "-Suri, for a dance?" he asked as the band started to play a waltz.
The girl let out a muted groan, realizing there was no way out of it.
"I'll be back Harry before I have to leave," she promised as she took Dumbledore's arm. Most of the dance passed in silence as the pair glided gracefully across the floor. All the while a frustrated intensity began to spread further down Dumbledore's face to Suri's inner smirk of accomplishment.
"If you want to know something Sir, just…ASK?"
The Headmaster gave an exasperated sigh. "Who are you, young lady and what do you want with Harry?"
she chuckled without mirth. "So now you're protective of your sacrificial lamb, are you?"
"- Young lady, I don't know what you are insinuating but I-"
"-DON'T…LIE TO ME" she enunciated in a very Severus Snape manner. "As for who I am, I would say- You know exactly who"she answered,
Waltzing them into the corner where she removed the mask and undid the bun, releasing her shoulder length hair.
Dumbledore gaped in shock "Suri? My child! It is you! Where have you been?!"
"-That is not your concern, I'm only here tonight because of Harry."
"It's good to know you still care for him."
If only it were possible to see the actually steam whistling out her ears before keeping her temper in check. But that still didn't stop Suri from having a few choice words with the Headmaster:
"You-! Sick!- Senile old Goat! I have ALWAYS loved and cared for Harry. I just haven't been at the age to actually DO something about it…until now."
"-You are not removing him from the Dursleys" Dumbledore warned.
"-We'll just see about that, you forget that I am now the exception to the rule."She said turning to leave when Dumbledore reached out and grabbed her hand.
"Wait Suri, if you want to help Harry…Why don't you stick round for the Second Task coming up?"
"No! No! No way! You are not going to use ME to bait Harry!"
"-How did you-?"
"You're not the only one who can shield and read minds. Good Night Professor" Starting to turn away again, when
"-I'm afraid I must insist (stuplify)" but the aged wizard didn't count on the girl's speed reflexes. The spell shot towards its target and bounced off the handheld mirror she grabbed, hitting Missus Norris (The castle caretaker's cat instead).
Extending her left-hand Suri quickly muttered (Proteficus Totalus). Dumbledore fell stiff as a board. "Some people just have to learn the hard way" she said standing over him before chanting:
" From Flora and Fauna to Aurora
Thou Horns like prickly Thorns
With one small bleat onith thy feet
So sayth I"
As she spoke the revered Headmaster of Hogwarts began to change. Long fur began to sprout from unusual places on the man's body as his skeletal structure began to bend and twist as pointy horns developed on top his head. Within minutes and a literal old goat stood where the wizard had been. The animal seemed to be in complete shock at first before bleating profusely at Suri. Who was grateful for the notice me not shield that had been cast at some point.
"Alright, I heard you, one more bleat and I'll feed you to Aragog and his children."
The goat cocked his head sideways bleating.
"-Don't believe me?" With a snap of her fingers, they found themselves in the middle of the Dark Forest. "I have no reason to lie to you Dumbledore but I do think you need a lesson in what it means to be helpless prey at the mercy of others."
Suri could sense Dumbledore trying to change back. But the more he tried, the more he failed and the more frantic he got as the realization set in. Looking up he bleated at the girl to which she answered "-Yes I am, but it is a Monster you helped shape with your negligence. It was either going to be Harry or Me. I'll try and send help, which is more than you ever gave."
She vanished just as the spiders caught his scent…
Suri did keep her word, telling both Snape and Hagrid that something was amiss in the forest and they should check it out before saying "goodbye" to Harry as the Magic candle officially blew out. Taking her from sight though not out of mind.
Long after the ball ended Dumbledore still hadn't returned to the castle but sure enough.
Just as it started to lighten in the sky. Hagrid heard a faint bleating noise and at the edge of the trees limped out a severely injured and limping goat before it collapsed from exhaustion. Snape's magic already deducing this was his employer. But no one on the entire staff could turn him back. As luck or maybe pre-designed though, the old goat resumed his humanity in physical being with the rising sun's rays.
Quite ashamed of his ordeal, Albus Dumbledore proceeded to shut himself in his office for the day. His thoughts elsewhere.
In all her years of Divination, Sybil Trelawny had given two proven to be correct prophesies - About Harry Potter, and the not so late Peter Pettigrew.
Now however, Albus found himself remembering the first real prophesy Sybil ever gave:
It was the girl's seventh and final year as a student. He had agreed to substitute teach at the last minute for Professor Dawgai. Class had just started when she fell out of her chair and seemed to be having a seizure when-
"It is time,... the Heart of Magic shall be reborn again. In its purest form. Wild, Reckless and Unmatched is its nature. Coveted by many. It shall unite the powers of old. Prosper its friend and destroy its foe. The Heart of Magic shall be reborn again…"
Albus for a long time believed it to be the Deathly Hallows by becoming the Master of Death. But after last night, he knew better.
He had betrayed the Heart of Magic…