"Chapter 3: Circle of Life" Read Flitwick.
"Harry watched the sun rise over the Savannah as his long, jet black hair swayed lightly in the breeze. The, when the sun was just peeking over the horizon, he ran excitedly into the cave. Jumping over sleeping members of the pride accidentally landing on ones tail making them grunt.
"Sorry." Harry said quietly as the lioness turned over back asleep. He stopped at his parents who where still in that not quite awake, but too tired to wake up state. "Dad come on we gotta go wake up!" Harry said excitedly shaking the lion. "Dad." He whined slightly. "Dad dad dad dad..." He kept repeating dad over and over hoping to annoy him awake."
"Where was this attitude now?" Fred asked liking young Harry. He reminded him of himself and his twin.
It died with my dad. Harry thought sadly as he snuggled into Mufasa's mane.
"Your son is awake." Sarabi said in a tired voice as Harry kept repeating his mantra of "Dad dad dad."
Mufasa groaned. "Before sunrise he's your son."
Those Professor's who had had children smiled.
"Dad, come on dad." Harry said pulling lightly at Mufasa's ear. "Dad, woah." Harry said as he lost his balance and fell backwards into a pile of bones. He then tackled Mufasa as hard as he could causing a semi loud thump. "You promised.' He said, putting on a slightly hurt expression when his dad finally looked over.
"Ugh, it works everytime." Hermione said rather envious that she couldn't pull off that expression.
Those who had seen that expression nodded in agreement. Mufasa smirked at his son.
"Okay, okay, I'm up, I'm up." He said.
"Yeah." Harry said eagerly as he went over to the cave entrance not using the shortcut over the other lionesses.
Mufasa let out a loud yawn and Harry hugged his mother who nuzzled him in return as his dad walked to the cave entrance. Harry followed and his mother nudged him further sitting down at the cave entrance watching the two. The sun had risen fully now, embracing the Pride Lands with its glorious morning light. He and his dad sat down, Mufasa on his hind legs, Harry with his legs crossed.
Harry had a dreamy expression on his face.
"It sounds gorgeous." Lavender said.
"Look son." Mufasa said motioning to the savannah. "Everything the light touches, is our Kingdom."
"Wow." Harry said in amazement, the light shone as far as he could see, very far from Pride Rock.. Except for a small area to the north.
"One day Harry, the sun will set on my time here, and will rise with you, as the new King." Mufasa
"And this will all be mine?" Harry asked in amazement as he watched a herd of Antelope leap off somewhere.
"Everything." Mufasa smiled at his son's innocence.
"Everything the light touches." Harry repeated as he walked a bit away. "What about that shadowy place?" He asked glancing at his father.
"That's beyond our borders, you must never go there Harry." He said firmly.
"Why?" Hermione asked curiously.
"A clan of hyenas that my father banished for hunting humans lives there." Mufasa answered the human girl who nodded.
"But I thought a king could do whatever he wants." Harry said as he followed his dad down the rocks leading to the grass.
"Well, there's more to being King than getting your way all the time." Mufasa said as his son gently climbed on his back.
"There's more?" Harry asked in amazement.
Those who knew Harry personally now smiled at his past innocence.
Mufasa chuckled Harry's name as they left Pride Rock.
"Everything in nature." Mufasa said to his son on the savannah as they watched the Antelope. "Has a delicate balance, as King, you need to understand that balance. And respect all creatures, from the crawling ant, to the leaping Antelope."
"But dad don't we eat the Antelope?" Harry asked in confusion.
"You eat raw meat?" Parvarti Patil said with a grimace.
"I miss it." Harry said with a dreamy expression thinking about Hippo meat
Several girls grimaced.
Mufasa and Sarabi wondered why their son wasn't eating meat anymore.
"Yes Harry but let me explain." Mufasa said as they walked "When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the Antelope eat the grass." They stopped near some rocks in a grassy area. "We are all connected, in the great Circle of Life." They watched the herbivorous animals of the Pride Lands graze.
"That was lovely." Luna said in her usual dreamy tone.
"Good morning sire." Zazu said as he fluttered down on one of the rocks.
"Ah, Zazu, right on time."
"Checking in, with the Morning Report." Zazu said with a bow.
"Fire away." Mufasa said as his son had transformed into his lion cub form, yes, Rafiki had told both him and Sarabi that their son would develop strange abilities as he aged. But they never expected to find a lion cub sleeping with them where Harry had been the night before.
"Shock of my life." Harry muttered in Sarabi's neck.
Ours too. Mufasa thought. He thought Simba was alive again.
After several months of practice Harry could now go back and forth between his human and lion form with ease. He was the same color as Mufasa and if Mufasa's son had lived, he was sure they could have been twins.
"I was Five when I first transformed." Harry said offhandedly.
Minerva stared in shock.
"Well, the buzz from the bees-" Zazu started as Mufasa half-listened for anything of vital importance. He noticed Harry jumping from place to place trying to catch a grasshopper.
"Aww." Several girls cooed again to Harry's embarrassment.
"What are you doing son?" Mufasa whispered.
"Pouncing." Harry said opening his paws and having a disappointed look on his face that he hadn't caught the grasshopper.
"Let an old pro show you how its done." Mufasa said matching his son in a grin as he looked at Zazu.
"Cheetah's never prosper." Zazu continued not noticing his audience wasn't paying attention.
"Zazu, could you turn around?" Mufasa asked the bird.
"I get it." Fred said with a smirk.
"Yes sire." Zazu said turning on the rock in the opposite direction.
"Stay low to the ground." Mufasa grinned to his son pushing his head down slightly.
Several first years giggled.
Zazu heard the young prince say something and turned around slightly. "What's going on?" he asked.
"A Pouncing Lesson." Mufasa answered.
"Oh very good, pouncing." He turned back around"Pouncing?" He turned back around in a shocked tone. "Oh no please Sire you can't be serious." Mufasa merely motioned for him to turn back around.
"Its a tradition for the kings son to learn pouncing with the Major Domo." Mufasa said with a smile remembering pouncing Zazu's mother.
"Nice." George smirked.
"Oh, this is so humiliating."
"Do not make a sound." Mufasa said to the crouching cub.
"What are you telling him Mufasa?" Zazu asked looking backwards. However, the two where nowhere to be seen. "Mufasa?" He asked timidly. "Harry?" He looked around in panic. "BLEAGH!" He shouted in fear as he was pounced on by an eager cub. Harry puffed out his chest with pride.
There was laughter throughout the Great Hall at this.
Mufasa laughed heartily at his son's pouncing attempt. "That's very good." He said as he continued to laugh.
"Zazu." A gopher said popping out from the earth below.
"Yes?" Zazu moaned.
"Sir, news from the underground." The gopher said.
"Now." Mufasa said as Harry had transformed back into his human form. Mufasa ruffled his son's hair with his paw. "This time." He said as they crouched low again.
"Sire!" Zazu said in panic. "Hyena's! In the Pride Lands!"
Mufasa leaped over the rock. "Zazu, take Harry home."
"Aw dad, can't I come?" Harry begged.
"No son." Mufasa told the human child running off to take care of the hyena's.
"Aww, I never get to go anywhere." Harry moaned as he walked under Zazu who was flying overhead.
"Where would you go?" Malfoy sneered. .
"Shut up Malfoy." Ron snapped.
"How original Weasel."
"Oh don't worry young master, one day you will be king." Zazu reassured the boy. "And you can chase those slobbery mangy stupid poachers from dawn until dusk."
"Now why wasn't Zazu like this when he was here?" Fred asked. "We'dve gotten along swimmingly."
Harry smiled at thaat thought as Pride Rock came into his sight.
"I shall read next." Sprout offered and took the book. "Chapter 4: The Elephant Graveyard."
To Be Continued...
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