Chapter one: animal magic
Something went terribly wrong at the large under ground base and Voldemort was not happy. Voldemort frowned wickedly and aimed his wand at the cowering man before him "give me one good reason not to kill you" he said. The man whimpered and shook " I- I have a plan" his voice squeaked. Voldemort rested his hand down on his knees but left his wand pointing towards the man. " Lucius's boy" it was all Voldemort needed, the weak man had once again saved his life at the expense of another, indeed Wormtail was good at that, one can only hope his luck doesn't run out. Voldemort waved his hand pointing one of his long snake-like fingers towards the door dismissing the man, forming a plan.
Harry whimpered and turned over, his fists clamped down on his sheets so hard his knuckles were turning white, and his eye were squeezed together forming small creases all around them. He turned again more violently and let go of the sheet with one hand and clawed at the air " Sirius!" he yelled, yes once again he was revisiting his worst memory. Hot tears ran down his face " NO!" he yelled sitting up quickly, he blinked and took in his surroundings, he was in the Gryffindor's sixth year boy's dormitory. He sighed with relief when he noticed the Seamus, Neville, and Ron where still asleep. Harry laid back down and wiped his eyes and forehead. He looked over at the
Harry silently climbed out of bed and collected his bath items heading down stares. He arrived in the common room to his surprise Hermione was sitting on the couch immersed in a book. She looked over in shock " What time is it" she asked her best friend. "4:30" he said her eyes widened, "4-4:30?" she said apparently she had not slept yet. As the shock settled, she took in Harry's appearance he looked messy and disheveled. He saw Hermione's look and smiled " I was just going to take a shower" he said. She smiled and nodded " How about you use the prefects room?" she suggested. Her and Ron had made prefect once again this year. Harry Smiled thankfully " the password is Papere". Harry Nodded and left.
He silently walked down towards the portrait of a Young mermaid and said the password, she smiled at Harry and swung the door open, allowing him entrance. He turned the water on hot and poured a few of the more masculine scented bath supplies into the water and lowered himself into it. He looked around the room, the last time he was in here was in his forth year for that damned egg. He looked around the room and noticed the different style of it, this year each house had there own, so it was now more gryffindor oriented rather than neutral.
He herd a giggle and turned and saw a picture with of a young girl, she was about his age had thick long black hair that gleamed in the sun, her eyes were like the ocean. She had black baggy pants that had red straps on them, a black shirt that had a bit of red lace at the neckline and around the arms. The girl was pale despite the sun which was beating down on her she had a little bit of black eye liner on her bottom and top eye lids and a dark blue eye shadow she also had long feathery wings, small pointy cat ears and a tale all of which were black, she was all in all a beautiful creature. Harry's cheeks turned pink and he briefly wondered what this portrait's purpose was.
" Hello" she said in a soft voice that send shivers down harry's spine. " Hey, who are you?" his voice was slightly shaky as he responded. The girl smiled warmly, again Harry got shivers, "I am Kat, my breed is Kitteh, I am half cat and half human" she said answering his next question before he asked it. " I've never herd of that before" he said confused. "Ask your COMC teacher" Harry nodded, he lifted his hand and looked at it, it was beat red and getting wrinkly. " I have to be going" he said. She nodded "As do I, I will see you again, but I think the mermaid who lives in this portrait is going to be wanting her home back" she said amused "I will be seeing you again" Harry smiled and waved good-bye as she left. He wrapped a towel around him and found himself wondering what her portrait looks like.
Harry arrived back at the common room at 6:00 classes didn't start for another hour he went upstairs to his room and put all his stuff away and sat on his bed thinking of what to do. He decided to go exploring, he may have spent the majority of his life here since he turned 11, but one could spend a lifetime here and never find out all Hogwarts' secrets. He walked down stares careful not to wake anyone he left the common room. Harry Traveled down some halls taking random turns and he found himself in front of a room he never saw before. He went into it and it looked like a Forrest, trees where everywhere and animals, exotic ones where around every tree. He ventured into it keeping his wand aimed, he jumped and yelped as something fell on his head. He reached up with shaking hands and picked it up off him.
It was a monkey, a squirrel moneky. " Well aren't you cute?" he said, the monkey nodded his head " can you understand me?" Harry asked the monkey again nodded his head. "Can you understand me" a child-like voice said. Harry blinked confused did he just here that monkey talk. " I am taking that as a yes, most who end up here can understand all of us, the last one here's name was James, and he brought a few friends in with him, Peter, Remus, Sirius, and Lily" the monkey explained.
Harry's eyes widened he was talking to a monkey who knew his parents and their friends. "I am going insane" he said simply and sat down on a near by rock. " No your not, you just have gift, what is your name young one?" the monkey asked. " Harry Potter" he said the monkey smiled " Ah, yes I should have known you would end up here, James was very gifted he came here to widen his gift, he brought his friends so they could learn as well." he let Harry take that all in before continuing " Would you like to learn the ways of animal magic?" he asked. Harry thought about it for a minute, well his dad did it, why shouldn't he with that he nodded his head. " Tell me how are our old students?" Harry winced at the question, The monkey noticed Harry's reaction and looked saddened, but waited for an answer. " Well Voldemort killed My Mum and Dad, Because Peter betrayed them, Sirius-" he cut off as the memory hit him again he quickly wiped his eyes before any tears would be shed, "he died, at the hands of a deatheater, and Remus works here" he said breathing evenly to keep control over his emotions." what exactly am I going to learn." Harry quickly diverted the conversation. " The first thing you will learn is to be an animagi, we'll begin that after we find you a guardian and introduce you to everyone." Harry nodded.
The monkey jumped down and let out a loud wild scream. Animals of all sorts showed up. " This is Gryffindor, he pointed over to a large lion, and Hufflepuff, he pointed to a badger, Ravenclaw a black raven winked at him, Slytherin and large snake, larger than the basilisk he fought in his second year, and I am Merlin." The monkey left for a few minutes and he just sat there uncomfortably. Merlin soon return and a small red and black snake trailed behind him. " This is Harry Potter" He said talking to the snake. The snake slid up harry's leg and up his stomach and onto his shoulder. " Hello Mr. Potter" A feminine voice hissed into his ear. Harry smiled " Harry" He corrected. She nodded " Harry it is then I am Lynora" she said. Merlin Came up behind him " You must go for now, young potter" he said then handed him a necklace. " What this" he said. "It will allow you to roam the school undetected, your father and his friends found them very useful" he said with an odd twinkle in his eyes. Harry turned and left with Lynora curled up on his shoulder under his robes.
He wondered briefly if he would tell anyone, of course he would, they could be the next marauders. He would tell Ron, Hermione, and two more people...but who? All well he would just leave that open for now. Harry made his way towards the great hall. Lynora peeked her head out to take a look around " where are we?" she asked. "Hogwarts" he assumed she was never outside of the anime room. " Lynora if you don't mind me asking what type of snake are you and how young are you?" he asked he chose his words about the age carefully knowing what happen when he was younger and he asked his aunt how old she was, and he got locked in his cupboard for three days. He knew Lynora wouldn't over react but still.
" I am a milk snake and I was hatched one month ago today, and I will not get much bigger than I am" she said honestly and made her way back into her spot beneath his robes as they entered the hall. Hermione was sitting talking to Ginny vividly, she looked up and waved him over. Harry smiled and sat next to next to Ginny and across from Ron who was next to Hermione.
"Where were you mate?" Ron asked shoveling food into his mouth. " Well I woke up early, couldn't sleep, so I went on a walk after showering." he said, he looked over at Ginny and Hermione, it was then he decided to let Ginny in on the secret.
" Find anything good?" Ginny asked, her and Hermione's conversation was obviously over. Harry motioned them all to move closer, making sure know one could see them, " I found this room" he contemplated on how to explain it and decided to just take them. " I will take you there, after Care of Magical Creatures" he said and got up and left, heading down to the dungeons for potions with Slytherins. Lynora shifted slightly but kept hidden. He entered the room and sat down just as the bell rang and Hermione and Ron came in breathless. "Twenty points from Gryffindor" Professor Snape said entering the room from the back. He turned his back from the class and wrote the assignment on the bored.
They trio walked down towards Hagrid's hut. Hermione and Ron pestered him about what he found but he refused to tell them. The questions really showered when they noticed a movement on Harry's shoulder. Harry smiled and lightly awoke Lynora and let her slither onto his hand. He showed her to his two best friends. They gasped in surprise " her name is Lynora" he said " Lynora this is Ron, And Hermione." he said she nodded her ahead, slightly amused by the two young adult's stunned looks. She crawled back up onto Harry's shoulder and fell back to sleep. Harry smiled he too was amused and walked away.
He greeted hagrid with a warm smile. " Hagrid I have a question about a creature I just herd of recently, It is called Kitteh? What do you know about the" hagrid beamed. " Well a kitten is a cat-like creature with a lot of human qualities, in fact the only real thing that is different between a kitteh and a human is the ears, tail, whiskers(tho you can't always see them), their teeth, and there heightened senses. Harry nodded and went to fall in with the rest of the class, looking forward to taking his friends to the animal place.
AN: Well I hope this wasn't horrible or too short . please review and tell me what you think. This story is going places so come on for the ride, I have great plans for this story. Constructive criticism is welcome but flames will be put out by Smokey the bear.