Disclaimer: I do not own any of J.K. Rowling characters or idea's and I don't own any X-Men characters or idea's either.
Mutating Life
by Volpe
Chapter 7: Rumours
Harry woke to find his vision blurred and his hearing fuzzy. He didn't feel all that great either. The lights he could see were white and fuzzy and the voices were not familiar sounding at all. He ad no clue what was going on. Had he been killed? Had Voldemort got him? Had Greyback kidnapped him yet again? Did the Aurors storm down Tourniquet Island? As his vision came into focus he found that none of the above was the situation he found himself in. He was looking upwards and at the face of none other than Magneto.For some unknown reason Johnny was not in the room. Harry knew upon regaining his vision that things were going to get worse and fast.
"Why am I here?" Harry growled.
"Listen, boy, and listen well. You are here because I made it so. You are going to join me and Johnny here and help me rid the world of humans. Sound good?" Magneto laughed.
"You're just like Voldemort. Trying to rid the world of its impurities, well they're impurities in your eyes anyway. But it will never work!" Harry yelled.
"Well, with you helping me it just might."
"Never! I hate people like you. You're so blind to the truth. I won't help you!"
"Fine! You'll die then!" Magneto was not happy.
"You can't kill me! If Voldemort can't then you definitely can't!" Harry shouted. Is muscles bunched under the metal holding him down and it broke. Harry in the flash of an eye was sitting up and about to make a run for it when a metal bat collided with his head.
Luckily for Harry it did nothing. He stood up and made a run for the door.
"Stop him!" Magneto yelled.
Johhny threw a fireball at Harry causing him to have to swerve away from the door giving Magneto time to close the door.
"You're not going anywhere, Harry, not till you agree to join me!"
"GO… TO… HELL!" Harry screamed at him as he punched Johnny who struggled to find a source of fire because Harry had broken his with his telepathy.
Harry was trying to force the door open at the same time but Magneto was strong but Harry hoped, just hoped, that he was strong enough to escape. With a final blow to the head Johnny was knocked out and the only thing standing in Harry's way of escaping was Magneto.
"Do you really think the world will accept you for what you are. Face it, Harry, you're a freak! The humans you call muglles didn't accept you, they feared you! And how did they deal with it? They treated you like a slave, like dirt! They beat you because they were scared of you! Do you really think the world is going to accept a hybred, such as yourself, with open arms? Of course not! Chances are they'll hunt you down and they'll kill you just like the wizards tried to do with the werewolves!" Magneto argued.
"So? Just because they're scared doesn't mean they're bad people! Fear is no reason to kill someone. It's just your sick way of dealing with your past! Mine was just as bad but you don't see me trying to destroy them! I don't hate them! I pitty them! You wanna know why? Because they'll never know, understand or accept something unless they see it with there own eyes and believe it to be of know great evil!" Harry yelled as he telepathically threw things at Magneto who used his abilities to create a moving metal shield.
"So the people that hurt you should just get away with it because they're stupid and blind! You are so young and foolish! They need to be taught a lesson as do all humans!"
"Punishing them is only going to do one thing!"
"What?!" Magneto yelled.
"It'll prove them right. They already think your dangerous and evil and punishing them is showing them that you are evil and dangerous! You're bringing this down on yourself!" Harry yelled.
"So are you going to forget exacting revenge on Voldemort because he is prejudice and blind to the truth?!"
"Voldemort knows what he's doing is wrong! He understands fully!"
"Why should he be punished and not the muggles who hurt you?" Magneto roared.
"I already told you! Because he knows and understands what he's doing! The muggles were scared of something they didn't know! As much as I hate my muggle relatives, it's not there fault that there blind to the truth!"
"You're weak, Harry, Voldemort will chew you up and spit you out because you will never beat him!" Magneto yelled.
Harry had had enough. He trans formed into his lycan form and charged at Magneto. In defense, Magneto tried to stab Harry with various metal weapons, using his power, but Harry was able to use his telepathy in his lycan form and just threw them back at him. Harry leapt into the air prepared to tackle Magneto down. Which was exactly what happened. Magneto was pinned under Harry who was trying to get a hold of Magneto's throat so he could kill him quickly but Magneto wasn't going to go down easily and was fighting back so Harry couldn't go for the throat. Instead Harry slammed one of his front paws, claws first, into the spot where Magneto's heart should be. Harry knew his claws weren't long enough to do some real damage but he knew that it was cause some major bleeding which would weaken Magneto.
Harry pulled his claws out and swatted Magneto's face with his paw. His claws, which were razor sharp, easily sliced through the skin on Magneto's cheek. The floor was slowly turning red and Harry could tell he was hurt somewhere. Impaled in his shoulder was a blade. Luckily it hadn't punctured a major artery. Harry pulled the blade out quickly and tried his luck at stabbing Magneto with it but had no such luck. Magneto used his powers to destroy the blade and managed to push Harry off of him. Magneto stood facing an equally bloody and vicious Harry. Both of them were breathing heavily. Magneto because he was dead tired and bleeding and Harry because he was massively angry, he was injured and because he was dieing to get revenge on Magneto. Harry's pulse was loud enough that Magneto could hear it, THUMP, THUMP, THUMP, Harry's pulse was naturally fast, due to being a werewolf, but it was a lot faster than it should be. His feet propelled him forward, yet again urging to tackle Magneto and finish what he had started.
Harry's weight slammed into Magneto with such force it sent them slamming into the wall and Magneto's back hit it with a sickening THUD! Harry stepped back and noticed that, not only did the force of hitting the wall kill Magneto, but there protruding from Magneto's chest was a metal rod of some sorts. On the impact it had impaled Magneto and just, by barely a centimeter, missed Harry. Harry stood and panted heavily. He, upon taking in the fact that he had just murdered someone, panicked. He transformed into is animagus form, a big black shaggy German Shepard and ran from the building. He didn't care that he was bleeding, he didn't care that the running pained him and he didn't care that he had no clue where he was running. He, Harry Potter, ha just killed a man. An evil man, yes, but that wasn't really the point. Evil or not it was still murder. Harry had started the fight and therefore it couldn't be claimed as self defense. Why am I thinking about such things as self defense? I won't be caught because my DNA and name aren't registered in the muggle system. MY DNA! Shit! What if they test it and find out about wizards and werewolves and lycans? It would cause a world wide war! SHIT! I am so stupid! I need to go back and clean up! Harry thought as he ran.
For the rest of the day Harry cleaned up all evidence. He:
Cleaned up all the blood and wore gloves and a hair net.
He destroyed the body using his telekinesis (a/n: think when Jean Grey kills the soldiers and they turn to leaves or ash or whatever.)
He cleaned and made the entire room look different.
He retraced his steps to make sure no weapons, that may have contained DNA, were hidden on the floor somewhere.
Harry left feeling so guilty, he apparated to Tourniquet Island where he took a shower and bandaged up his shoulder. He had no idea whether or not he was going to tell his parents, Sirius or Ahlue. They'd probably give him in to the police. So Harry went to dinner looking extremely depressed. For most of dinner it was completely silent until Ahlue noticed how he was behaving. For a while she just kept an eye on him but soon she decided to bring up the subject.
"Harry is everything okay?" she asked scrutinizing his sad looking face.
"Yeah. You look depressed!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Subtle, Sirius, subtle." Lily said rolling her eyes at him.
"Nothings wrong if that's what you're asking!" Harry snapped not meaning to.
"Are you sure?" Lily asked.
"I'm sure I'm sure." Harry growled as he got up and left the table. He had to tell Xavier what happened. He sat down at his desk, pulled out a piece of parchment and wrote…
Dear Professor,
I thought I should tell you that our mate Eric has gone on a life long holiday. I hope he has fun. I was, surprisingly, the one who suggested it. God knows he needed that holiday. Anyway, he has had everything taken care of and already left for his destination.
Harry Potter.
Harry wrote carefully. He knew that Zeus might get intercepted so he wrote it in code trying to make it unobvious to others but extremely obvious to the professor. He hoped he got the message. Harry slept for the next day and tried to forget the ugly events that took place with Magneto. If he hated that fight he couldn't imagine how bad the war would be. Unfortunately our heroe should have stayed in bed since the one thing no one would ever want to wake up to happened when he woke up.
Harry woke, got dressed and walked down stairs where he found his parents, Sirius and Ahlue looking extremely unhappy.
"What's happened now?" Harry groaned.
"I think you should read this yourself." Lily said as she handed him the paper. They all sat down in the lounge room and Harry read the paper. It said:
Friend or Foe?!
By Rita Skeeter.
The latest rumour circling the 'chosen one' is that Harry Potter is not a hero, he's an animal. Our sources are saying that they have inside information which says that Harry Potter is not just a wizard. He is also, apparently a werewolf. To go along with this alleged problem of Mr. Potter's they are also saying that he is, what the muggles refer to, as a mutant.
For those of you who haven't read the article some months ago, a mutant is a sub-species of muggle that has magical like abilities that aren't actually magical at all. Some of these mutants can read our minds, change there appearance (like a metamorphmagus), control elements such as fire and ice and can control metal. Every mutant is said to have at least one ability. The muggles are against mutants, like they were magic centuries ago, and are wanting the mutants exterminated.
It is said that Mr. Potter received the mutant gene from his mothers side of the family. Lily Potter, maiden name Evans, was a muggle born. Mr. Potter is said to be telepathic and telekinetic. Telepathic meaning he can read our minds and hear our thoughts and telekinetic meaning he has the ability to move, manipulate and control things with his mind.
To go along with the information above our sources say that Mr. Potter is also a lycan which were thought to be extinct after werewolves were nearly all exterminated when Voldemort was in power last time. Lycans, for those who don't know, are people who are born werewolves. They are faster, stronger, smarter and more wolf like than your average werewolf. If someone is bitten by a lycan they become a werewolf just as they had been bitten by a werewolf. A lycans senses are heightened a lot more than a werewolves as well as the fact that lycans have an abnormally fast pulse, if we had there pulse it would be cause us to have over fifty heart attacks in a minute, and an extremely high temperature which is normally around 48 to 55 degree's depending on the temperature of the weather. Lycans are also allergic to silver but more severely than werewolves.
For those who would like to know, because Mr. Potter is a lycan and a werewolf it means that he transforms on a full moon, like normal werewolves, but into his lycan form. Lycan's don't have to transform on full moons because they are able to transform whenever they please as if they have a second animagus. I their lycan form, they retain there human mind. On the full moon, in Mr. Potter's case he would be forced to trans-form but would still retain his human mind which means mean he has the choice to attack someone.
Our sources have seen Mr. Potter hanging around with a new friend. Ahlue Greyback, daughter of well known werewolf leader Fenrir Greyback, who is 16 this year has been seen hanging around with Mr. Potter. Ahlue Greyback has been kept from the world for her whole life because up until now the world has had no idea that Greyback fathered a daughter. The two seem to be extremely close which raises the questions:
Is she Mr. Potter's latest love interest?
Is Mr. Potter allied with the werewolves?
Has Greyback and Mr. Potter joined sides with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named?
I'm afraid our sources have yet to find any other useful information but if and when they do you will be the first to know.
Our sources are extremely reliable and have never failed us before. If you have any questions, queries or comments about this article or any other please don't hesitate in picking up a quill and writing to us. If you would like we can owl people pamphlets on werewolves, lycans, recognizing them, the differences between them and other such werewolf/lycan related information.
Harry was shaking. How did they find out about this?! Who or what are these supposed fucking reliable sources! Harry thought frantically.
"Harry are you okay?" Sirius asked.
"I'm fucking going to EAT RITA SKEETER and if I don't I WILL FEED HER TO A FUCKING DRAGON!" Harry said talking calmly (lower case letters) and angrily ( upper case letters).
"Ok, but only after… I DAMAGE HER SUPPOSEDLY PERFECT FACE!" Ahlue yelled in the same way Harry did.
"How did she find out though?" James asked as he paced.
"You don't think my dad would have do you?" Ahlue asked.
"No way, he wants me to keep the pack safe, there's no way he would do that because he would know I would come after him and refuse to help him. He wouldn't sacrifice getting major help so he could rat me and his own daughter out to the papers." Harry said. At least I hope and think not he thought.
"Listen, it will be alright. The people who don't care are the only people worth your time, okay?" Lily said.
"Ahlue, you remember Magneto?" Harry said.
"Yes, there's no need to tell me or even try to explain. I know, well, actually I predicted it so I know everything." Ahlue smiled as she poked his injured shoulder.
"Ouch!" Harry whined rubbing where she poked him.
"What are you to talking about?" James asked raising an eyebrow smirking.
"Idea's to use in my bedroom tonight, actually." Harry said as I it was something everyone should already know. Ahlue didn't take the joke well and slapped him upside the head.
"God, woman, stop with the harassment!" Harry whined.
"Well, don't give them idea's!" Ahlue snapped.
"What? But it's true!" Harry laughed as she slapped him upside the head again.
"Okay, Okay! I get the point you man basher!" Harry whined.
"Finally!" Ahlue sighed exasperatedly.
"Nothing wrong with a healthy sex life!" Harry pointed out.
"More like a man whore." Ahlue giggled.
"Okay… let's change the subject!" Lily said.
"Why?!" Sirius whined, "I liked that topic! I reckon I could have contributed a lot of useful information to it!"
"Sirius, you man whore!" Lily snapped hitting him in the head.
"What?" he moped and Ahlue whacked him upside the head.
"Oh, come on!" Sirius groaned.
"Stop groaning! It's irritating and rude!" Lily and Ahlue said and the same time simultaneously slapping him on the arm.
"God! Is it bash Sirius day or something! I'm so unloved!" Sirius pretended to cry on James' shoulder.
"God, Sirius, grow a back bone!" James groaned.
"I have one already thanks!" Sirius said making an indignant face.
"Then its way past its expiry date!" Harry laughed.
"Now back to what I was saying. No one who cares about you is going to care about what you are. They'll accept what you are and move on." Lily reassured.
"Right." Harry said less than enthusiastically.
They spent the rest of the day having fun and making fun of Sirius. Harry felt better after a while and forgot all about the article in The Daily Prophet. Unfortunately that wasn't the case at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Meanwhile at Hogwarts…
The great hall was buzzing after students received The Daily Prophet that morning. The teacher sat at the table and had a private conversation about it.
"Yes, Sybill, we already knew. Although, none of us told The Daily Prophet. The poor boy, as if he doesn't have enough to deal with without this article. I wonder if he even knows?" McGonagall said.
"I hope he doesn't do anything rash." Remus said, "If the students can deal with me being a werewolf I'm sure they can deal with Harry being one. It isn't to much of a difference."
"Yes, but do remember, he is also a mutant." Flitwick squeaked.
"This is so unfortunate. Remus, did you know that Greyback had a daughter?" McGonagall asked.
"No, I didn't, actually. I wonder how Harry met her."
"No idea, but she's very pretty looking in the photo of her they released." Professor Sprout put in.
"Yes, but appearances are only the beginning. If she's anything like her father she'll be dead evil and have a sharp tongue, that's all I can say I know really." Remus said.
"Hmm, yes, hopefully the girl takes after her mother. I wonder who would be oolish enough to get pregnant with Greyback of all people?" McGonagall asked Remus.
"Probably one of his female pack members. To a female pack member having his child would mean higher status and more rights. It would be like winning a billion galleons in their minds." Remus said.
"Poor, girl, having a monster for a father." Sprout said sadly.
"She would be a werewolf too, you know?" Remus stated.
"Still…" Sprout muttered.
The conversation went on discussing Harry and such matters that revolved around him if Harry had joined Greyback and if Greyback had joined Voldemort it would mean mortal peril for the world. Harry would never join Voldemort but they didn't know who he was anymore. The students were mostly freaked or worried that he had joined Voldemort. That day the news of Harry Potter's new abilities shocked the world in a way Voldemort never had. Hope was shattered, Faith was no longer existent and hearts momentarily world wide.
