Chapter 2: A magical age.

Six years after the disaster at Godricks Hollow. HOOOOOT, that was the sound of a party horn right in Harry's ear at 7:00 in the morning. "arrrghh Sirius come on it's seven o'clock!" Harry was rudely awoken at this ungodly hour on the 31st of July apparently because "it's your birthday harry, lucky number seven!" Five minutes later harry had stumbled down the stairs past decorations of a house so luxurious it's nowhere near recognisable to what it was when they first arrived there six years ago. During his sleep walk to breakfast that day, Harry reflected about what he had done since living there. Most of Sirius's time had been spent changing the house from its state before, fill of dark objects, there life had been relatively relaxed, harry had developed the beginnings of an understanding of magic and learnt how to organise his mind, well to the extent a seven year old can anyway. The only downside had been the lack of company due to being unable to leave the house often. Since the attack Voldemort had increased in power, he now controlled all of Britain and had expanded into some of magical Europe and America. The muggles weren't really sure what was going on, they seemed to believe that some secret terrorist organisation had done all of this, but one thing was for sure, they knew they had been invaded.

Harry slumped in his chair to find a piping hot full English breakfast laid out in front of him. Harry quickly thanked Kreacher (their resident house elf) and got stuck into his food. "mmmhmm delicious Kreacher, well done" Harry said whilst stuffing his face. "Thank you master Harry" Kreacher replied bowing and leaving the room. It's amazing how happy and helpful he is now that we treat him well, at one point we almost had to get rid of him, not that we ever mistreated him but it was obvious before that serious didn't like him. "So harry, what do you want to do for your birthday?" asked Sirius. "ummm can we go to the zoo please?" Harry begged. "Of course we can Harry it is your birthday after all and seven is a special age for wizards." Sirius bemusedly answered. "Oh yeah, I'm meant to have my first magical growth spurt this year aren't I?" "That's right, anytime now you should start to feel it, but i warn you as your parents were both powerful wizards and you have always had a lot of magic, it's likely to be a painful experience." Harry sobered at the mention of his parent's; sometimes he still had nightmares of his dad and mums deaths.

Around an hour later Sirius and Harry were arriving at the London zoo and harry was practically bouncing up and down with excitement. They had visited around 8 zoos together in the last 6 years as Harry had always seemed particularly fond of animals and they of him in fact. They wondered around the zoo for a couple of hours until they came across the reptile section. "Sirius, can I go look at the python please?" as Sirius looked at the large python, (about 19 feet in length) he nodded and went to look at the chameleons. Harry had been admiring the snake for a few minutes before a boy a little older than him and much bigger, although mostly from fat, waddled over with three cronies flanking him "hey look at that snake let's make it move!" he walked straight into Harry then pushed him into the glass, hard. The boy and his cronies laughed and pointed at him, but then harry felt his magic slip. "uh oh" a surge of magic burst from him pushing the fat kids on their collective arses and suddenly the glass containing the snake disappeared.

The boys were crying and the leader started shouting to his parents "Mum Dad this freak pushed me over!" the boys parents, a skinny mum and a fat dad came bustling over. As Harry stood up he saw the mum worrying over him "oh no duddiekins he didn't hurt you to bad did he?" feeling the back of his head as he felt a little woozy, he took his hand away to see blood. Oh no this isn't going to well is it? The fat man came up to him a vein on his forehead looking ready to burst and his face quickly turning redder and redder. "Who do you think you are manhandling my buy, I have half a mind to teach you a lesson right he-"Just as he was getting fully worked up there was a hissing noise and the man was staring past him, looking left harry saw the emerging python slither over the barrier and towards the group, harry felt a tingling and he could of swore that the snake spoke. "Thanksss friend have a niccccce oneee" just as this happened Sirius finally seemed to have noticed that something was happening and came running. "What the hell is going on here, are you alright harry?" the snake seemed to have slithered off somewhere and most people were paying attention to that. "What's going on here is that your son or whatever has attacked my boy and I. EXPECT. PUNISHMENT!" At this point harry got angry "I Did Not attack your son , he pushed me over and... and umm." How i am going to explain that one? Just as he was starting to despair however, Sirius pieced together what had happened and looking around he saw that at everyone else was gone after the snake, he subtly pointed his wand at the family and modified their memory's so that they thought the injuries had come from a fight between their son and his cronies. He took harry gently by the hand and the left for home. What a disaster of a birthday.

In a secret hideout somewhere in England...

"So we still have no leads as to what he who must not be named is doing in England when he has a full war going on in the continent?" asked Dumbledore. Mad eye Moody seemed to have something to say so he motioned him to speak. "I don' think it really matter wha' he's for, we got an opportunity to kill em." Although Moody had been scarred many more times in the war than anyone else he still kept his usual views on how to act, unfortunately for him no one else even thought it was possible for Voldemort to die anymore, especially now that they prophesised boy was presumed dead. "I don't think that's such a good idea, we don't know where he is and all other assassination attempts haven't even fazed him, it's as if he knew we were coming" Professor McGonagall said this almost as if she was telling off a student although neither her or I teach any longer now that Voldemort controls Hogwarts, I suppose she misses it. "I have to agree with Minerva here Alastair I do apologise, I think what we need to focus on is gaining support. Which is why I am suggesting this."

"I would like to send Hagrid and Madame Maxime into the alps in search for the giants that live there and i wish you to try to gain their aid." They gave their nods of approval. "McGonagall and Alastair i want you to look for all the ex aurors and officials that might be willing to help us in Britain." Again, nods. "Bane I'd like you to find centaurs and tell them of us." He nodded grudgingly but said "i will but you know a lot of the herds won't be happy with me for helping humans. Dumbledore nodded. "the rest of you i want to gather as many contacts with people you know and start doing whatever you can to resist the death eater's but don't do anything that will bring attention to yourselves." There that should renew their confidence in me, now i can continue on without them being suspicious. "Unless there's anything else someone wants to add i suggest we finish up here?" no-one had anything to say so the group stood up and left. Dumbledore reflected to himself about the state of the order of the phoenix i swear it seems only yesterday when there was over 150 members of the order of phoenix and we were all well equipped and organised, no what do i have, 18 members and only 4 of them really are of any use in a fight besides me. Maybe it's doubly a good thing i have them recruiting again.

Back at the house an hour later Harry had explained what happened to Sirius and healed his wounds before leaving to get a movie and some treats for tonight. This made it a tad confusing that he still had that tingling sensation, and in fact it's gotten stronger too, i wonder if it's to do with that magic growth spurt thing that Sirius was talking about. After waiting around for another hour the tingling sensation had gotten stronger and he was starting to ache, he felt as if he was full up with something ready to explode. He heard the door open and Sirius spoke "I'm home harry and I bought chicken run!" Harry stood and shakily went to the door he said "Sirius, i, feel, weird." Only instead of coming out normally it sounded ethereal, almost ghostly, and with that Harry lost consciousness and fell to the floor.

Sirius had been stunned when he saw harry, the child was sparkling with electricity, his clothes and hair whirring as if in a tornado centred around harry, but most frightening of all; was his eyes. What was usually a bright green, just like his mothers had been, was now a mass of colours constantly shifting and changing, and it was glowing, glowing with a power so obvious it scared the shit out of him. Then harry spoke in that ethereal voice and collapsed, Sirius quickly cast a cushioning charm on the floor to break his floor then used wingardian leviosa to carry him up to his room. Laying him gently on the bed, he set to work gathering water and warding the room so that whatever happened, the damage would be reduced as possible. It looks like Harry's going to be more powerful than i thought, and i thought that i had a rough time in my magical growth periods, even my 11th was now where near as bad as this, i just hope he's ok.