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parsletongue
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Harry is shocked to see everyone he loves standing in the Great Hall grinning ar him. Sirius runs to him and throws his arms around him. He picks him up spinning and laughing. Everyone gives the two a moment before they walk over towards them.
"Let everyone else give him a hug, Padfoot," shouts Moony over their laughter. Sirius lets Harry go reluctantly. Ron and Hermione run and hug him, then Moony hugs him. The next is Mrs. Weasley followed by Mr. Weasley, Ginny, Hagrid, Albus, Neville, Luna, Bill, Charlie, Fred and George, Dobby, and Winky while Percy only shakes his hand. Everyone realizes that Harry is shocked about the party, but they aren't going to say anything.
"How come we're having a party today, my birthday isn't til tomorrow?"
"You'll come into your magical inheritance tonight and won't be awake tomorrow for a party," replies Albus.
Harry just shakes his head. He looks at Sirius and motions for him to follow him to a deserted corner. Sirius agrees.
"Sirius, you know why I'm at Hogwarts don't you?"
Sirius grabs Harry and hugs him to him before he replies. "Yes, and if those filthy muggles weren't already dead, I would have killed them before I came here."
Harry pulls his head away from Sirius' chest to look up at him tears in his eyes.
"The reason I'm even mentioning it is because later that night I dreamt about mum and dad."
Sirius looks down at Harry shocked but waits for Harry to explain.
"Dad told me to tell you "I won't be angry and that he still loves you and Moony like brothers"
When Sirius hears this he hugs Harry even tighter to him and starts to cry.
"What did he mean Siri?"
"He means that it's okay that I love you like a son, and that if you feel like you lov eme like a father he won't be upset."
As soon as Sirius finishes telling him they both start to cry even harder than before. Lupin sensing their distress walks over to them.
"What the matter you two, this is a party?" he asks.
Sirius explains to him what James told Harry and his response. Lupin wraps his arms around the two and stands their crying with them. Harry looks at the two men.
"I love you both, so much, I would be honoured if you would both let me consider you my fathers."
Remus and Sirius just look at him stunned. They nod their heads and start crying even harder than before. Ron decides they've cried long enough and that he wants some cake.
"Are you going to blow out your candles or are you going to make me starve to death?" He yells.
Molly smacks him on the back of the head and yells,"They need time and you'll give it to them or you'll not get any cake, Ronald Weasley. Ron's face goes beet red. Seeing his face make the three in the corner laugh. They make their way over to the cake and Harry makes a wish and blows out the candles.
"What did you..."
"wish for, Harry?" ask Fred then George.
"If I tell you it will never come true," he replies.
They all settle down to eat cake when Harry notices that Dobby and Winky haven't gotten any.
"Dobby, why don't you and Winky come and enjoy some of this cake."
Dobby and Winky get tears in their eyes as they accept a piece of cake.
"We always knew you was a great wizard, but to invite us to eat with you. Harry Potter sir, is indeed kind and generous." they reply.
Harry's face starts to go red and everyone starts to laugh. They sit around the table, eating cake and talking. As soon as they are finished Harry and his friends go to the other side of the room to play games, while the adults talk.
An hour later Sirius walks over and puts his hand on Harry's shoulder. Harry looks up from the game of chess him and Ron are playing.
"It's time for you to come and open presents. I can't wait till you see what I've gotten you."
Sirius pulls Harry to his feet and drags him over to a chair. Dobby and Winky levitate the gifts over to beside Sirius. He starts to pick one up when Ron beats him to it. Ron hands him a large woven basket with a blanket on top.
"This is from me, Hermione and Neville. We hope you like it."
Harry pulls the blanket off to find to large eggs with a book under each egg. He picks up the first egg which happens to be about the size of an ostrich egg and the color of oatmeal. He picks up the book and reads the title, "How to care for your Phoenix" by Albus Dumbledore. He places the egg back in the basket and struggles to pick up the other one. It's about the size of a football and a gold color, he places it in his lap and picks up the book under it. It's title is "Everything You Need to Know to Care for Your Griffin" by Edward Potter. Harry gently places the egg back in the basket and looks up to Dumbledore.
"Yes Harry, that book was written by your great grandfather."
From Ginny he receives a phoenix quill and a notebook.
"The notebook is charmed, when you use that phoenix quill to write in it the answer will come to the brother notebook at the burrow. It will chime to let the other know that there is a message."
Harry hugs her and tells her it was perfect.
Fred and George give him a box of experimental pranks. Bill, Charlie and Percy buy him a magical trunk with severn compartments.
"The book on top is the instruction book. It will tell you how to program the locks and what each compartment does." states Bill.
"If you look in one of the compartments there is a little surprise from a friend you might know as number 4," Charlie tells him with a smile on his face.
Harry looks confused for aminute till he realizes that number four means the horntail dragon from his fourth year. He looks at Charlie and says, "Why would she give me one? Isn't it illegal to have one?"
"Not for you it won't after tomorrow. She is became my familiar last year. When I told her about your birthday she wanted to give you a gift. There is a note with the gift explaining everything but you won't be able to read it till after your sixteenth birthday."
"OH? Tell her I am honoured that she would give me the honor. Tell her I will not dissappoint her."
Charlie shakes his head.
Mr. and Mrs. Weasley give him a couple pair of jeans and a few tshirts. He thanks them and is told that they are a little big and that they will maagically enhance to whatever size he needs them to be.
Next is Albus. He hands Harry a small box with holes in it. Everyone can hear the hissing coming from it. He opens it to find a beautiful baby black snake with amethyst eyes inside.
"What type of snake are you?"
"You can talk to me? I am a magical black mamba snake. Are venom is more deadly than the basilisk."
"What is your name? Are you male or female?"
"I am a female. I don't have a name. I hatched from my egg yesterday. Will you name me master."
"I'm not your master. My name is Harry, and I will be your friend. How does the name Koi. It mean love in japenese."
I would love it thank you Harry. May I climb upon your shoulder and go to sleep.
Harry shakes his head and watches Koi climb up his arm. She situates herself around his neck and goes to sleep. He looks up to find everyone looking at him. Sirius is the first to speak.
"I've never heard parsletongue before. I never realized it was such a beautiful language."
Everyone agrees.
"What did you name the snake, Harry?" asks Dumbledore.
"I named her Koi. It means love in japanese."
"I think that is a lovely name, Harry" he replies.
The next gift is from Sirius and Remus. Harry opens it up and gasps. He looks to Sirius and Sirius nods.
"We caught him the day after you were brought here. I was pardoned yesterday. I'm your legal guardian now and as soon as you wake from your inheritance tomorrow we are going to take you shopping for new clothes."
Harry jumps up and runs to Sirius crying and laughing at the same time. They stand their laughing and crying for a few minutes till Sirius pushes back him into the chair.
Dobby and Winky walk towards him. Dobby starts to speak and Winky just nods her head the entire time.
"Harry Potter, sir, we know you don't have any house elves. They have all left from your family homes. We would like to be your houseelves now."
Harry looked at the two elves and could tell that they truly wanted to be with him. He shook his head and said, "I will only tell this to you two once. You will not call me master, just call me Harry. I will pay you what you make here or more if that's what you want. And one day a week you will take off to relax and spend time with each other or with me talking or anything. Now how do you become my houseelves."
"We grab your hands and bind ourselves to you and your homes."
Dobby and Winky each grab a hand and a green glow forms around the three and just as soon as it is there is is gone.
Harry looked to see there was one more gift and turned to Sirius.
"Who is that from?"
"I don't know Harry. The one from your parents is in your room. I was told that if they died before you turned sixteen to give it to you but you had to open it alone."
"Harry, there is also a letter on top of the box from your mother, it has been charmed so that you can't open it till tomorrow. She asked that you read it after your inheritance.," states Albus.
Moony places the long box into Harry's lap. He unwraps it and gasps when he opens it up. Inside are four pensives and a note. The note said:
Harry, the silver pensive is empty. I thought you might like to unburden yourself of some of your thoughts.
The green pensive is your mother's. The blue one your father's, and the black one has some of my memories of your parents in it for you.
These three pensives have been charmed. You won't be able to look into them till Aug. 1st. I promised your parents I would make sure you got their pensives on your 16th birthday. After your birthday we will have a long talk. I'm sorry I couldn't be their for you party but I'm positive some would not have wanted me there.
Till then your friend,
black
Everyone looks to Harry to see if he is going to tell them who it was from but he was being tight lipped.
"I'm not going to tell you who this is from until they tell me I can. So don't even bother to ask."
He turns to look at Dobby and Winky. "Will you two please take my gifts to my room?"
They nod their heads and disappear with his gifts. Everyone sits around and talks till dinner, after dinner, all of the Weasleys and Hermione leave. They all agree to meet in two weeks to get their school supplies.
Albus shows Harry his room for the summer. "The only other room on this hall is Remus and Sirius' room."
Harry tells them goodnight and that he would see them in the morning. He walks into the bathroom and gets ready for bed. He climbs into bed and goes to sleep.
- Midnight -
Harry awakes to a slight burning over his whole body. He reaches for his glasses and wand. He checks the time to see it is midnight. The burning starts to become more intense. He raises his wand and cast silencing spells around the room. The burning goes from intense to the feeling of knives stabbing him all over his body. He starts screaming the pain is too much for him. He stumbles out of bed and falls to his knees. He places his hands on the floor. 'Please, don't let anyone come in until I'm awake and ready for them. Oh please, I don't want them to see me in pain.' Harry passes out.
Unbeknownst to Harry, Hogwarts heard him and warded his room off. No one,not even a house elf, will be able to get in till he is ready. The castle trembles and sighs as she feels the pain of her young one. She lifts him up and places him back into bed.
- August 1 -
Harry wakes in bed the sun shining in his face. He starts to reach for his glasses when he realizes he can see already. He remembers the letters from his mother and grabs them. He reads them and smiles. He goes into the bathroom and looks in the mirror.
His hair is a pale cream, that hangs straight and thick to his waist. His skin paler than before almost sickly but not quite. His features took on a more strong, fierce, unyieldingly sensual look. Lips fuller, nose small and straight, eyes seem to glow with power. Instead of being five eight and scrawny, he looks to be about six foot four or five and masculine. He's not built like a body builder but his shoulders are broader, muscles more defined and he turns to look at his back when he gasps. There is a set of white, red and gold wings on his back. He fingers the feathers, every other feather tip is red while the rest have a gold tip. He waves his hand and they fold into his back. He showers and dresses.
When he comes out of the bathroom he places his hands on the wall beside the door. "Thank you for helping me. I wonder if you would tell me your name so I would now what to call you, I'm sure you don't want to be called Hogwarts." He can feel the laughter and happiness of the castle, he gets the picture of a rose in his mind.
"Is your name Rose?"
He can feel her answer is yes.
"Thank you, Rose. Will you open my room now? Where are Albus, Sirius, and Moony?"
She sends him the mental image of the headmaster's office. He thanks her again and makes his way there. He reaches the gargoyle a few minutes later and before he even says anything it moves out of the way. He goes up the stairs and stops in front of the door. He starts to knock but decides to just go on in. He opens the door and steps in. The three occupants stop talking. Sirius gets up and walks foward.
"Harry, is that you?"
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Thanks again to my betas. Thanks for all the reviews. Next chapter clothes shopping, discussing of scents, and some veela death eaters meet the veela king. He also finds out what is in the package from his parents.