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Chapter 4

Harry was quiet over the next couple of days, wondering why Ginny could suddenly hear him. Ginny was starting to think the reason she heard the ghost voice was the stress of Harry missing. Sirius was on a mission for the order and therefore wasn't in the house to talk with Harry. Harry wondered the halls thinking about his predicament when the click of his nails died away, this was curious to him; he hadn't clipped his nails so why should the nail-click noise go away. Looking down he saw his actual fingernails … albeit they had black nail polish on them … but that was probably just the remnant of the nail polish he had put on them to scare his aunt. 'I have fingers!!' he thought excited, but as he watched they slowly shrunk back into his paws. 'at least I did some of it.' He continued walking until he felt like he was stretching and changing shapes rapidly. It hurt, to be walking on four legs and then with a burst of pain suddenly be laying flat on your face in the middle of a dusty hallway.

"What the hell?" Harry's voice sounded disused, not surprising, but it startled him. Harry looked at his hands, his feet, and his hair (which had grown considerably), without thinking he shouted "Mrs. Weasley! Hermione! Ron! GINNY!!" as he heard the 4 pairs of feet running up the stairs he felt that same burst of pain and when he looked up he was looking up at four concerned faces looking everywhere for that voice which they so longed to hear. 'Aw shit!' even though Harry tried with all his might to talk, it only came out in a whimper. Ginny walked over and picked up the whimpering puppy. "What's wrong Lightning, did you hear your owners voice but trip on your way to find him?" Ginny started stroking the soft fur on Harry's back. 'Ginny, I'm trying. But I can't seem to stay in one shape.' Again Ginny heard the ghostly voice saying, "trying" and "can't stay" it wasn't much but it was enough to scare her. "I think I'm going crazy!" muttered Ginny as she was carrying Harry away from the hallway.

When they got to the kitchen Harry flopped down in front of the fireplace, thinking about what had just happened. 'Why did I suddenly change like that? Why did I change back?' Hermione was sobbing at the table, while Ron rubbed her back in comfort. Ginny was sitting with her head in her hands, wondering what in the world had just happened. Harry watched Mrs. Weasley the closest though, she was bustling around the kitchen trying to prepare lunch for 15 people when there were only the four of them in the house. Harry was starting to wonder if he imagined it when Sirius walked wearily through the door. Sirius looked around the room, sighing. "Molly, I couldn't find my contact in Diagon Alley. Fortescue told me that he saw a gentlemen matching his description getting chatted up by Lucius Malfoy before they walked off and didn't return." Sirius walked over to the fireplace and sat down by Harry who promptly stood up and then sat back down on Sirius's lap.

Harry nudged Sirius's hand as a sign that he needed to talk to him. Sirius nodded before turning again to Molly saying, "Molly … has Lightning been outside yet today?" Without turning her head from the stove which now had French Onion soup starting to simmer she said "No, I don't believe so Sirius. Why don't you take him out to the backyard." Sirius sighed, picked up Lightning and walked out carrying him. After changing Sirius looked at Harry saying "What's up pup? Why is everybody upset in there … the tension levels are so high I couldn't swallow." Harry whimpered "I was walking upstairs on the level of Ginny and Mione's room and I change back! Sirius! I changed back into a person!! I screamed for the others but then as soon as they got to the stairs I was changed back. It's really frustrating!" Sirius nuzzled the top of Harry's rather small head and sighed a dog sigh. "Well pup, now you know the feel of changing, it might be easier to change back and forth now. Have you gotten bigger?" It was true, where as yesterday Harry in his Lightning form only came to Sirius's elbow and today he came up to his shoulder. Harry looked at Sirius saying "Why am I bigger and why are we just noticing it now?" Sirius thought about it then said "Maybe, its because you figured out how to change. Maybe its because when you figured out how to change you unlocked your animagus maybe Voldemort tapped into your animagus and somehow shrunk it." Harry sighed and started digging a hole in the ground, he never liked leaving things on the lawn when he could just as easily bury them.

Unbeknownst to Harry and Sirius Hermione had stopped crying and her brain started working. Her and Ron had been working on becoming Illegal Animagus over the summer with the help of Sirius and the twins. Hermione looked at Mrs. Weasley saying "I think I'm going to go lay down until lunch Mrs. Weasley. I need to sleep off some of this tension." Mrs. Weasley made an affirmative noise, never looking up from the meal she was making. Hermione nearly sprinted up the stairs, hoping that Ron would catch on and follow shortly. Sure enough as Hermione reached the landing to the second floor she heard the Kitchen door closing again. Hermione sprinted off the staircase and into Ron's room; it was the closest to the stairs, as she got into the room she transformed, her transformation finished as soon as Ron got to his door. Ron was slightly panting when he reached his door; he heard a squeak and opened his door, a milk chocolate colored doe was standing in the middle of his room. "That's brilliant Hermione! We can transform and ask Sirius!" Ron then changed into his russet red fox, and together they slowly made their way down the stairs.

A/N

I updated! Finally! I'm sorry to all those who are following my story. It's been really hard for me to write this. Its been reminding me too much of my doggy that we had to put down. This chapter was written in 1 day. I had time to kill … finally! I've been at the hospital all freaking day. My mum was having heart surgery and I had emotion and time … so here it is! Hope you like it.

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