"Harry….Harry it's morning….Time to get up…" Harry grumbled turning over pulling his blanket over his head, he didn't want to wake up, not from the nice dream where he got a little friend. "Harry up, now." He whined refusing to move the one talking moving and trying to reach under his blanket. He yelped a sharp pain in his ear making him jump up startled to see he wasn't in his room but still in the clearing with the stream bubbling next to him. "Finally!" Primrose cheered nuzzling him Harry rubbing his sore ear.
"Did you have to bite me?" She there was no other word for it shrugged her coils scrunching up to mimic shoulders.
"I didn't know what else to do, you wouldn't get up." Harry tapped her beak chuckling a little.
"Ok point taken, hungry?" he asked holding up his bowl of cornflakes.
"Ya, but there's a small ant hill by the roots of that tree, and their much more nummy!" She chirped slivering off his shoulder and pecking the ground happily snapping up the insects Harry chuckling pouring his milk over the cornflakes and tucking in the pair sharing a comfortable silence only broken by bird song and the stream. Harry blinked watching the stream wondering something.
"Prim?" The snake bird hummed in answer "If the streams filled with eggs, how come there aren't any in it right now?"
"Because this isn't the right place." She replied "This is only an off shoot of the stream, it'll vanish soon enough as it's served its purpose of getting me to you." Harry blinked feeling sad it was going to disappear.
"It has?"
"Unless there's another around here with the potential to become a magi, the purpose of offshoots like this is either to get Familiars like me to their Magi or to help Magical creatures when they can't travel to the main stream to give their off spring to it." Harry nodded slowly.
"I see, there must be a lot of Magi huh?" Primrose froze and slowly shook her head.
"No…The way of the Magi is almost lost." Harry's eye's widened.
"What? How?" Primrose sighed the Ashevor curling up on a sunny rock.
"You see Harry, times have changed. The industrial revelation, the wars so much has happened in so little an amount of time nature's not been able to adapt that well to it. There used to be many Magi training ground and now the only one that's still standing is the Keep. And it's not only the None Magical's whose fault it is, the Wizards and Witches are as much to blame." Harry blinked nodding along with the history lesson.
"What'd they do?"
"They prevented Dragons from getting their eggs to the stream meaning at least half their off spring die limiting their genetic diversity." She went on unaware she was dipping into subjects Harry knew nothing about "And without the magic of the steam teaching the dragons and getting passed on each generation it dulled their minds to the point that wild dragons are no longer the proud noble creatures they used to be. Now there just dumb beasts." She sighed saddened "They drove several magical creatures extinct in the wild apart from what eggs remain safe in the steam, and finally even if a magical child finds an off shoot and a familiar, they consider Magi to be the lowest of the low and even the most light sided of family's will kill a Familiar to prevent their child from becoming a Magi." Harry nodded along with her gently picking up Primrose and cuddling her.
"I'm sorry." He said softly the serpent nuzzling him.
"It's ok Harry, you were going to learn it eventually." She slivered up onto his shoulders clicking her beak. "Come on we have work to do, pick up a stick pack up and head to the road." Harry blinked confused but she hadn't lead him wrong yet so he quickly packed up wondering where they were going as he picked up a stick. "Now when we get to the road hold out the stick with your right arm, oh and try not to talk to me, or if you do whisper so they can't hear you." With that Primrose slivered under the collar of his shirt Harry squirming and giggling.
"H-hey Prim! That tickles!"
"Sorry." She nuzzled him with his beak "But I can't be seen, magical's will think badly of me and you need to get on the Knight Bus."
"Knight Bus?" But we don't have any money!" He laughed a little Prim's flickering tongue tickling his neck a little.
"Don't worry just lift your fringe and show him your scar." Harry frowned confused.
"Ok…Then what?"
"Say you want the Leaky Cauldron, tell who ever's at the bar that your parent went ahead of you and you don't know how to open the door. Then when you get into Diagon Ally head for the white building."
"Ok…then what?"
"Then ask one of the goblin to let you talk to the manager of vault 6, they'll lead you to a meeting room and I can take over from there." Harry sighed a little petting her head.
"I hope you know what your doing Prim."
"….Honesty Harry? So do I…." The bird/Snake hybrid sighed curling around his arm tight "I may sound smart Harry, but I'm only really repeating what I know from what the voice of the stream told me while I was sleeping in my egg that we'd need to know." Harry blinked nodding.
"What else did it tell you we needed to know?"
"Well….The basics all Familiar's learn how to be a Magi, what it entails, the basics of the Stream, how to get to the Keep, how to care for hatchlings. Though that last bits mainly locked away for emergencies, Magi are meant to learn how to do that on their own with minimal help from Familiars But considering I gotta be your teacher as well I don't think it matters." She sighed a little nuzzling "And I learned about, you, your life and how best to help you be the best we can and the way to do that is to get you to Gringrotts." Harry nodded petting her one last time before holding out the stick stumbling back and looking up wide eyed at the purple bus.
"Wow….I think I'm going to like magic…"
