Chapter 7: Timon and Pumbaa." "Krum read.
Those who knew the meerkat and Warthog smiled.
Harry had gotten out of his catatonic state after some loving words from his parents. He smiled at the mention of the ones who had taken him in when he had no one else to turn to.
"Timon and Pumbaa?" Mufasa asked the ten year old human.
Harry merely smiled. "You'll see."
Harry wandered into the desert for at least a whole day, he collapsed that night and in the morning, buzzards where circling him from above.
Gasps where heard. But no...he wasn't dead. He just left three days ago.
"AHHHHH!" Two different voices shouted before a warthog ran into the buzzards.
"Pumbaa." Harry smiled. They loved Bowling for Buzzards.
"Get outta here ya scavengers! Go on!" A Meerkat said
"Timon." Harry smiled again. Mufasa and Sarabi looked at each other. It seemed their son was at the very least...fond of these two.
"Gotta love it! Bowling for buzzards!" The Warthog said to his meerkat friend.
"Gets em every time, eh heh heh." The Meerkat laughed as he dusted off his arm.
"Uh oh, hey Timon, you better come look, I think its still alive." The Warthog siad to the Meerkat now known as Timon.
Bastard. I stood up for you in front of father. Mufasa thought angrily as he pulled his son close to him.
"Yeh." Timon said in disgust. Is there anything they won't eat? He wondered as he walked over to the fallen thing. "Alrighty, what have we got here?" He asked lifting up the things arm with surprising strength. "Geeze its a human!" He shouted, running to the warthog and climbing on his back. "Run Pumbaa move it!" He said while pulling Pumbaa's ears.
Sarabi looked insulted. He would just leave a youngling in the heat? Why does our son like these two?
"Wait Timon, its just a little human. Look at him, he's so cute and all alone! Can we keep him?" He asked looking up on his head at his Meerkat friend.
"He's not a pet." Hermione huffed indignantly.
"Pumbaa Are you NUTS?" Timon asked into his ear. "Your talking about a human! Human's eat guys like us! Your the Bacon and I'm the steak!"
"Meerkat steak...even I'm not appetized by that." Ron said dryly.
"But he's so little." Pumbaa countered.
"He's gonna get bigger." Timon reminded the warthog.
"Nah, James was a scrawny git until he was fourteen." Sirius said playfully.
Mufasa looked at his son. He did seem a bit on the runty side. Maybe size growth was different in humans?
"Then maybe he'll be on our side." Pumbaa suggested.
"So they only keep you around for protection?" Sarabi asked Harry sternly.
"No, well...at first, but now we're more like a small family." Harry smiled at the lioness who smiled back at her human son.
Timon scoffed. "Wait a minute." He thought, the wheels in his head turning. "What if he IS on our side? Ya know, having a human around might not be such a bad idea."
"So we're keepin him?" Pumbaa asked as He and Timon worked together to get the human child on Pumbaa's back.
"Of course, whose the brains of this operation?"
"Uh." Pumbaa said in a confused tone.
"My point exactly, geeze I'm fried, let's get outta here and find some shade." Timon suggested and Pumbaa made his way back to the jungle they lived in.
Harry felt water splashing on his face. He twitched and opened his eyes to see a meerkat and warthog next to him .
"You ok kid?" The meerkat asked.
"I guess." Harry said as he stood up.
"You nearly died." The Warthog said.
Sarabi and Mufasa scooted closer to their son. Harry was starting to feel a little squished.
"I saved ya." The meerkat said but then the warthog snorted angrily at him. "Well, Pumbaa helped, a little."
"Thanks for your help." Harry said moving to leave the jungle back into the desert.
Teachers frowned. Harry seemed to try to punish himself for something at times. Now they knew what.
"Hey, where ya goin'?" The meerkat asked in true concern as the kid seemed down.
"Nowhere." Harry said in a depressed tone.
"Gee, he looks blue." Timon said as the kid just sat down at a nearby tree trunk
"I'd say pinkish peach." Pumbaa said dumbly.
A few snickers where heard.
"No no, I mean he's depressed." Timon elaborated for his slightly slow friend.
"Pumbaa gets there eventually." Harry smiled.
"Oh." Pumbaa muttered as they went over to the human kid.
Eventually, Harry got out of his depression thanks to his new friends motto, "Hakuna Matata" which meant "No Worries" and lived with Timon and Pumbaa in their jungle oasis. They taught him which bugs where ok to eat and which ones would make you sick,aside from bugs he also ate fruits and veggies that grew in the oasis.
"Your not eating meat?" Sarabi asked before Mufasa could.
"They where my first friends after exile. I wanted to fit in." Harry said truthfully.
The two lions frowned. But, Harry seemed healthy so this bugs and fruit and vegetable only diet must have supported him.
It is now 5 years later, Harry is 13. And they swing from a jungle vine into a pool of water below, Harry shook his bushy, messy hair that kind of resembled a lion's mane now, the only difference was it didn't go all the way around his face. He and his friends boogied off into the forest singing the motto that changed his life...
"So that's where you've been. The jungle across the desert." Sarabi said with a raised eyebrow.
Harry frowned.
Sarabi pulled Harry into a hug. "I understand. You couldn't have come back if you wanted. Scar would have had you executed by the hyenas."
Harry buried his face in his mother's soft fur like he's wanted to for so long.
"Are you sure he's here Severus?" Harry heard a voice ask as he was relaxing on a tree branch He looked around and saw a group of 3 humans walking around the jungle.
"That's what the Headmaster says." "Severus" Told the sandy haired human as they kept some sort of stick out in their hands. The black haired, crooked nosed human layed out the stick in his hand. "Point Me, to Harry Potter."
Harry looked questioningly at the hook nosed man at the staff table.
Potter? Harry asked himself in his mind as he shifted to his lion form, now an adult, and spied on them from the tree. A beam of light shot out of the stick and Harry's eyes widened in surprise as it shot straight to him. The 3 human's looked up into his tree and saw to there confusion, a lion. Harry smirked at them and jumped down transforming in mid air.
"Cool." Said an eager First Year Gryffindor.
"An animagus." The second black haired man whispered. "We all did it at 14, that was tough, I wonder how long he's been one."
"Since I was five." Harry said as he puffed his chest out with pride.
"Don't scare him Sirius." The sandy haired human said. Harry raised an eyebrow, these human's thought him a scaredy cub eh? He asked himself. He smirked at them and transformed back into his lion form and dashed off. I'm gonna have fun with this. He thought to himself.
Harry smirked. A twinkle in his eye Mufasa had only seen once. When Zazu had returned from his rounds with his white feathers turned pink. He chuckled at the memory.
"I will read next." Madame Maxime said and she summoned the book to her. "Chapter 7: Welcome to Hogwarts."
To Be Continued...
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