A New Era of Darkness

Harry Potter woke up drenched in sweat from the nightmare he just had of Voldemort and his death eaters plotting to kill another muggle family in the London suburbs. He moaned out loud while he muttered, "Why me? Why?!" while doing so, he didn't notice that Hedwig was on fire but the flames were black and red. Hedwig gave a last hoot and burst into ash. When Harry heard this, he looked up in time to see Hedwig's ashes crumble. Harry crawled over and starting crying softly. 3 of his tears hit the pile of ash and a haunting melody was heard.

Harry looked at the ashes just when a small dark grey head poked out. "Hedwig?" Harry jumped when the bird answered his call and in a burst of black and red flames (an/ let's call them hell fire), a magnificent black phoenix with blood red tips on her wings formed. "Hedwig, can I call you Minuo? It means: To draw blood in latin. Or can I call you Ketsueki, which means: blood in Japanese. One hoot for Minuo and 2 for Ketsueki, ok girl?" Hedwig never got a chance to answer because Pig, Ron's owl, had just flown in with a letter attached to his small leg. Harry looked at Hedwig in apology and took the letter and let Pig out to go back to Ron.

He opened the letter and Hedwig hopped over to see it.

Dear Harry,

I hope you are doing well with the muggles mate.

I asked Dumbledore if you could come to the burrow

in 3 weeks when we get back from Egypt but he

said no and to send you this to tell you.

Please use this time to grieve and do not think it was your fault he died.

The Weasleys send their love,

Ron.

P.S. Dumbledore said if you get any other mail then this or one from him to ignore it because it is addressed wrong cause no-one knows where you live except 'Mione, Remus, Dumbledore, and the order.

Harry was silently fuming. 'How dare Ron think I need to grieve! I got over Sirius' death when he sent me a letter explaining why he went to save me! And him assuming that I still think it was my fault he died! How dare he!' Hedwig hooted 3 times and a mysterious voice sounded in Harry's head. 'My human, I have thought over what you can call me and you can call me Hedwig when I am a snowy owl, Minuo when I am a black raven, Ketsueki when I am a dark snowy and Caelum when I am a Hell Shadow phoenix.'

(Update 02-15-2018: It's been over 10 years and I've let this sit long enough. I apologize deeply to everyone who's ever read this old trip. Skip to CHAPTER THREE for the REVISED Chapter One. I'll try to be better this time around. A lot has happened in my life and I won't waste time on it, but I feel confident enough in my writing skills now to hopefully not absolutely derail my original outline for this. My hope is those both old and new to this story enjoy it.)