Lessons and Redheads

Harry awoke with a start. For the shortest of time he thought he was back at Godric's Hollow but realized by the giant bed he was laying in could no way be his at Godric's Hollow. He rolled out of bed and walk into his closet. He grabbed a black long sleeve shirt with a collar with black jeans.

As he walked out of his closet he realized that he had no clue where the kitchen was. He looked around the room and noticed a folded on the table by his bed. He opened it up and saw many names on it. It reminded him of the map that his Uncles Moony and Padfoot told him about. The memory still hurt but he swallowed it down.

He looked around on the map and found his name, "Harry Cyrus Shade" was found in the area that said "Harry's Quarters". He looked around and eventually found the kitchens. It took him a while to get there and it seemed that everybody already knew who he was.

When he got there he noticed what seemed as smaller beings run up to him and ask is he needed anything. "Umm, who are you?" Harry asked wondering what they truly were. "We, mister Shade, are house elves, is you needing anything?" The one in the front asked.

"Um, I can just get my own breakfast, its fine." Harry replied carefully. Every single House Elf looked horrified at the idea. A voice behind him whispered "You might not want to do that, it's what they love to do, it would probably kill them." Harry startled by the voice spun around on his heel to find a boy about his age with brown hair looking at him.

"Hi," he started, "my names Nicolas, Nick for short. I've never seen you around here before, did you just arrive?" He asked genuinely curious.

"Yeah, I just got here a little while ago. My name is Harry Shade. And I really don't mind getting my own breakfast, will they really be that offended?" "Oh yes, they love to serve, it would break their hearts not to serve someone." Nick told him.

By the time Harry turned around he notices that the house elves had already a buffet of breakfast food. There was everything there; fruit, waffles, pancakes, muffins, and so much more.

To his left he could see Nick smiling and muttering how brilliant house elves were. He sat down after Nick sat himself down and started eating the food set on the table.

"So, how many other people live in the castle?" Harry asked trying to be friendly to Nick. "Just my family and the Shades. Both of our families are royalty from the tribes and we both live here. Did the Shades adopt you?"

Before Harry could answer Cyrus and Lyla walked in. "Ah, Harry. We've been looking for you; I see you found the map?" Harry nodded and Cyrus continued. "We have teachers set up for you and your lessons, here's your schedule."

Harry grabbed it from him and looked over it.

Monday

7:00-8:00 Breakfast

8:15-10:00 Shadow Manipulation

10:15-12:00 Shadow Travel

12:15-1:15 Lunch

1:30-3:15 Occlumency

3:30-4:45 Flying

5:00-6:00 Dinner

Tuesday

7:00-8:00 Breakfast

8:15-10:00 Weaponry

10:15-12:00 Shadow Travel

12:15-1:15 Lunch

1:30-3:15 Legilimency

3:30-4:45 Flying

5:00-6:00 Dinner

Wednesday

7:00-8:00 Breakfast

8:15-10:00 Shadow Manipulation

10:15-12:00 Shadow Travel

12:15-1:15 Lunch

1:30-3:15 Occlumency

3:30-4:45 Flying

5:00-6:00 Dinner

Thursday

7:00-8:00 Breakfast

8:15-10:00 Weaponry

10:15-12:00 Shadow Manipulation

12:15-1:15 Lunch

1:30-3:15 Legilimency

3:30-4:45 Flying

5:00-6:00 Dinner

After looking over the lesson plans, Cyrus told him that he had Fridays free. Harry looked forward the most to flying. "You'll be taking all these classes with Nick, Harry, is that ok with you Nick?"Cyrus said directing the last question to Nick. Nick, who had his mouth filled with food, nodded.

Cyrus chuckled, "Good, Good. I'll see you in your first class Harry." With that Cyrus spun on his heel and left.

Lyla sat down to Harry's left and put some food on her plate. "How are you doing today, Mrs. Shade?" Nick asked once his mouth was empty of all the food.

Lyla chuckled, "I'm doing well today Nick, how are you?" "I'm doing other then the fact that it's a Monday." Nick said with an annoyed face. "Are the lessons really that bad?" Harry asked hoping they really weren't. "No, not really. I just like to sleep in." Nick confessed. They sat and talked until it was time for Harry and Nick to go to their lessons.

Harry followed Nick to the classroom where Cyrus was sitting at the desk reading a book that Harry couldn't catch the title of.

Cyrus didn't seem to notice anything and sat there for a good couple of minutes, while Harry and Nick sat down at the only table.

Cyrus leaned back in his chair and did a backwards somersault into the dark portal that Harry has been getting used to. Harry looked shocked as another portal opened up before him and Cyrus came out standing up.

"Shadow Manipulation" Cyrus began "A very interesting subject if I ever heard of one. The art of manipulating a shadow is very complicated, only Shadow Angels can master this art."

The class continued on till ten o-clock when they left for their next class.

The week went by in a blur. By far his favorite class was flying. There was nothing better than feeling the air in your hair.

When Friday finally came Harry found himself walking within the Shadow portals, something only Shadow Keepers could do.

He was currently looking at the wizarding world, not people he knew though.

He saw a clearing with a large brow house in it. As he was about to walk away from it he saw a girl that seemed to be a year younger than him, run out of the house crying. Harry really didn't want to interfere but something drew him to her. He walked out of the portal and over to her.

"Are you ok?' Harry asked the redheaded girl.

She spun around so fast he thought she might have apparated. "Wh-Who are you?" She asked in a tone that held a quiver.

"I'm Harry Po-Shade." He said hoping she wouldn't notice how he almost said Potter. "Oh, why are you here?" She asked the quiver slightly gone. "I saw you crying and I came to see what was wrong." He said, for some reason he felt like he couldn't lie to her.

"Well, I don't need your help." She snapped at him, the quiver now completely cone. Harry rose his hands up in defense, "Sorry, I just thought you would need me." "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm just mad at my stupid brothers. They kept calling me names and everything, just because I have a crush on Ryan Potter!" She said with a blush towards the end.

"Oh, you like him? Why?" he asked curiously. "Why? Because, he defeated You-Know-Who!" She said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Can you prove it?" Harry prodded. What is it about this girl that makes me want to tell her everything? "Well, well, no." She sighed defeated.

"Then how do you know it's true?" He asked again trying to get her to see the truth. "Because everybody says it's true!" She said in annoyance. "That doesn't mean it is, though." He said and continued, "If everyone says that you have four arms, would you believe it?" "No! That's not the point though. Hmm! Fine, wait, if you know who Ryan Potter is, are you a wizard?" She asked becoming hopeful.

"Well, you could say that, but I have to go. I'll see you tomorrow? I have to go home." He told her. "Tomorrow sounds nice, will you be back?" she asked. Harry told her that he would and he wouldn't miss it for the world.

Harry went back home and thought about the mystery of the redhead. What was it about her? She seemed to draw him to her. Hmmm, I'll have to make sure I'm there tomorrow. Harry thought to himself; as he lay down to go to bed.


A/N: For some reason this chapter just didn't seem to want to be written.

benperez31: yes, I felt the same way about Lily as I wrote this. I needed it to be that Harry had only two loving figures in his life and that when he met Cyrus and Lyla, he wasn't really used to that type of affection. Harry will go to Hogwarts and will meet Ginny before that time, as you have seen in this chapter. Cyrus and Lyla are in their early 20's so, 21, 22? I also like the idea of Shadow Angels and everything too, for where it came from, I've read other things on the internet and I just kind of had the idea for this, I liked the idea of it and decided to put thoughts to words.