Disclaimer: Nope, never owned it, never will.
A/N: My tenth chapter! Harry will be going to Hogwarts soon, so don't worry about that. I've been happy about the steady schedule I've been keeping for this story, I update about every two weeks, so you should expect me to try and stay by that. Anyway, to the story part!
Returning of the Parents
By: AutumnBreeze12
Chapter 10
Harry groaned as Ice woke him up. He had been having a good dream, too.
/Get up, you lazy child/ hissed Ice irritably. Harry scowled at the snake.
/It's my birthday, can't you go easy on me/ asked Harry unhappily.
/I am going easy on you. I woke you up an hour later than I should. Now, up/ Harry groaned again and got up out of bed. He began to do the exercises that Ice set him. There were a lot of them, but he was getting used to the schedule. The warm ups were always hard, seeing as Ice made him do 500 push ups, 500 sit ups, 500 jumping jacks and he had to sneak out of the house and go down to the lake to jog a few times around it. It always made his muscles very sore afterwards, and half the time he didn't even have enough time to do the rest of his training.
After all of his warm ups and swinging Merlin's sword around the room (destroying a lot of it in the process) Harry went down to the dining hall. It was decorated in red and gold colors and had signs like 'Happy Birthday' around it. It looked quite nice, and Harry couldn't help but feel pleased that it was for him. Lily looked up at Harry when he entered. It was a little later than he usually got up, so Lily looked slightly surprised.
"Did Ice let you sleep in?" asked Lily.
"Yeah. Even though he called me a lazy child in the process," said Harry. He sat down tiredly. No matter how late he slept in he still had that permanently tired feeling around him. He couldn't shake it, but maybe that was because of all the stuff that had been happening lately. Harry hoped so.
James, Remus, and Sirius bounded into the room at that moment. They all looked really happy and hyper, so Harry braced himself.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" the three marauders shouted at the same time. Harry and Lily winced at the noise. Sirius jumped on Harry and began happily shouting something about cupcakes. Remus smiled and congratulated Harry on turning fifteen. James began bouncing up and down and shouting about cupcakes, cakes, Weasleys, and birthdays. All in all, no one could hear a thing that they said anymore.
Harry tried to pry Sirius off of him, but failed in the attempt. Suddenly all three marauders were silenced and they all cracked evil grins that Harry didn't like. Harry tried to get Sirius off him again, but Sirius gripped tighter.
"Now Harry, it is a Potter family tradition to have each member, when it's their birthday, get the appropriate amount of 'birthday spankings'," said James evilly.
"You see, since you're fifteen now, you'll get fifteen spanks," said Sirius.
"Yeah, I remember when I came over to James's eighteenth birthday party, which was a small group of friends, and 'accidentally' James's father had forgotten to give him the spankings, so he gave them in front of everyone, which included me, Sirius, Remus, the rat, my parents, and a few of my friends. You should have seen it, it was so hilarious!" said Lily. By this time Harry was trying to get out of Sirius's grasp and out of the room, but Sirius held firm.
"I still think that I have the pictures," said Remus. James glared at him.
"You still kept those pictures! I thought that I told everyone to dispose of them!"
"Just because you told us to doesn't mean we do," said Sirius. "Another tradition is to take photos of it and keep them forever, regardless of what the person in them says,"
"No way, let me go," said Harry desperately. Lily took out a camera from her pocket and smiled at Harry sweetly.
"Now why would we do that?" she asked, smiling. James came over to where Harry was sitting and sat down, taking Harry out of Sirius's grip and holding him firmly down on his lap. Harry struggled as hard as he could, but it was useless.
"Say cheese," said Lily, taking pictures. Remus and Sirius were both beside themselves with laughter.
"Why Harry, I never knew that you could go that red," said Remus.
"Ah, yes, you should wear that look more some time," said Sirius. Harry glared at them. When James finally finished, Harry got up, trying to look as dignified as he could, but failed miserably. Everyone but Harry was laughing so hard that they had been reduced to tears. Harry tried to get the camera from Lily, but Lily quickly hid it from Harry.
"I'm sure that everyone will want to see these when we go to Grimwauld place today," said Lily, smirking an evil smirk.
"No! You can't give them to Fred and George! They would never let me live it down!" wailed Harry.
"Good to know that we have blackmail on you then," said James cheerfully. "Anyways, we should go to Grimwauld place soon. You do want to see everyone else on your birthday, right?" asked James.
"Yeah, of course!" said Harry quickly. "As long as you don't show them the pictures, I want to go," They all got up and quickly flooed out of Potter Manor. When they arrived at Grimauld place it was unusually quiet for having the Weasleys living in it for the summer. Harry and the others went into the kitchen, and when no one was found there, which Harry noticed that Sirius, Remus, Lily, and James didn't look surprised, they went into a different room, which Harry absently registered that it must be a sitting room. All at once, about all the Weasleys and a good part of the order jumped out and cried, "SURPRISE!"
Harry wasn't really expecting a party, so he nearly fell over in shock. A lot of people laughed at the astonished look on Harry's face and the surprise party started to take place. After regaining his composure, Harry laughed it off with the others and began to chat with Ginny, not noticing the look Lily and James passed when they saw him conversing with her.
Lily went over to one of the tables that had been set up for the occasion. She tried to take a drink of the punch, but instantly spit it back out and marched over to James with an angry expression on her face. "What did you put in it?" she snarled at him. James feigned an innocent look.
"What do you mean? I don't remember putting anything in the punch," James said. Lily glared at him.
"It tastes like alcohol," snapped Lily. "I know you did this because you did this at one of our dances too,"
"Ah, yeah, I remember that, but I really never want to see Dumbledore drunk again. That was just plain scary, you would think that after how long he's lived he would have been able to hold it better," said James.
"Well, get the alcohol out of the drinks! There are children around!"
"So? I got drunk once when I was seven years old, even though that was an accident," At that point, Sirius came over and tried to help James with defending the punch, even though it wasn't really working. Finally Lily gave up and warned him that if anyone gets drunk and makes a mess, they would have to clean it up.
Harry walked over to where Ron and Hermione were. Hermione looked disapproving that the bowl was filled with alcohol instead of punch, but she wasn't saying anything. Ron was happy that he got to drink so early on in life, so he consumed large amounts of it. Hermione got up and walked away, hoping to persuade James and Sirius to get that stuff out of there. After a few moments, Harry was glad that Hermione had left because Ron started getting really drunk and began to babble on about her.
Harry looked around desperately for someone to help him. The closest person was Ginny, Fred, and George. "Hey, Fred, George, Ginny, can you help me here? Ron's drunk," called Harry so where only they would hear him. They walked over to where Harry was supporting Ron and smirked.
"Ahhhhh, Ickle-Ronniekins got drunk!" said Fred. They watched Ron for a few seconds, before realizing that he was saying some inappropriate things about Hermoine.
"Should we just knock him out?" asked Ginny, looking slightly sick about the things that Ron was describing.
"I'm all for that," said George. At that point, there was a sound of breaking glass and they glanced up to where the noise was. It was Molly, and she had gotten drunk too. Ginny looked revolted now. Harry glanced around the party, and was shocked to see almost everyone was drunk, and the party had barely been going for two hours. So far, the only people who hadn't gotten drunk were him, Ginny, Fred, George, Hermione, and Lily.
Lily and Hermione made their way over to where they were. Lily looked disapproving while Hermione looked appalled at the behavior of some people. Harry quickly put his hand over Ron's mouth so Hermione wouldn't hear what he was saying.
"I can't believe them! They're so irresponsible!" exclaimed Lily. "I am so going to kill James when all of this is taken care of,"
"Ron got drunk too?" asked Hermione, glancing at the still mumbling Ron.
"Yeah. I don't think that he knew that there was fire whiskey in the punch, so he ended up drinking a lot," explained Harry. Lily and the others nodded and glanced around the party. There was music playing off the wireless, and a few people were dancing, even though you couldn't call it a dance, more like jumping around and swinging their arms.
"What are we going to do?" asked Ginny.
"We could get drunk too and wait for this to clear up," suggested Fred. The rest of them glared at him.
"Why don't we knock everyone out?" asked Harry.
"I'm the only one who can use magic here, though," said Lily.
"Oh. I forgot that this isn't Potter Manor," said Harry sheepishly.
"How can you forget? Potter Manor is cheery and has a good atmosphere while this place… is just bad," said Lily. Harry glared at her.
"I mean I forgot that I couldn't do magic anywhere but Potter Manor," snapped Harry.
"Anyway, what should we do?" asked Hermione, hoping to bring their attention back to the problem at hand.
"I say that we just let them eventually pass out then tomorrow tease them about this," said Fred.
"I agree. Why don't we take pictures?" asked George. Lily, Ginny, Hermione, and Harry exchanged unsure looks.
"Well… why not? I mean, they kind of deserve to be made fun of," said Ginny. In the end, they decided that it would be best just to let them pass out on their own. In the meantime, they would take pictures that could be used to their advantage in the future.
After a few hours of watching people embarrass themselves, a few people finally passed out. Meaning, James and Sirius passed out. A few hours later, almost everyone was asleep on the floor. They had gotten many pictures from this, and they decided that they would use them wisely.
"What should we do now?" asked Harry, gesturing to the floor. Ginny shrugged while Lily looked thoughtful.
"Why don't we just leave them here?" she suggested. "I doubt that they would want to wake up in this kind of position, and it would be hilarious to see their reactions,"
After a while, they decided to go to their rooms here to sleep.
James woke up with a horrible headache. When he said horrible, he meant that it felt that his head was going to split right open.
"Oh, he's waking up," said a voice. James winced at the sound, it felt like they were screaming in his ear and it was making his head pound. He opened his eyes cautiously and found almost everyone gathered around him.
"What happened?" he asked.
"You and the rest of these guys got drunk and passed out. You're the last one to wake up, by the way," said Lily.
"I passed out?" asked James, the evening events slowly returning to him.
"Yeah. Sirius just woke up a few minutes ago. Don't worry, not everyone got drunk," said Harry.
"What does that mean?" asked James.
"It means that the people who didn't get drunk, me, mum, Hermione, Fred, George, and Ginny got a whole ton of pictures," answered Harry. James groaned. He remembered some of the things he did last night, and he really hoped that they didn't get pictures of all of it. A few people snickered at his expression.
"What time is it?" asked James.
"One in the afternoon," answered Lily.
"One in the afternoon? I was out that long?" said James, amazed.
"Yep," said Fred.
"We should go home now," said Lily.
"Yeah, I want to get Harry started on his animagus form," said Remus. James groaned again.
"There is no way that I can teach him that stuff right now," said James.
"I didn't think so," said Remus, smiling.
"Why are you so happy anyway?" asked James.
"Because I had a feeling that something like this would happen so I made a few potions that get rid of hangovers. To bad I don't have anymore," said Remus. James glared at him.
"Right. Let's… just… go home," said James reluctantly. After a few minutes, they were ready to floo out. James was pleased to see that Sirius was just as trashed as he was. When they finally went back home, James instantly called one of the elves for a hangover potion. When they finally had gotten the potion and it had taken effect, Harry's snake, which they had left here, came slithering down the stairs. It began to hiss at Harry who hissed back. It began to creep James out, so he said, "Why don't we start on your form?" Harry nodded quickly, looking like he wanted to get away from Ice.
"Okay then, we should go to the experiment room to do this. I doubt that your hawk form will be very big, so we can practice in there," said Remus. Harry nodded and everyone went up to the experiment room.
"Okay, the first thing that you need to do is concentrate hard on your form, concentrate on every detail," said James.
"After that, you need to will yourself to change into the form," said Sirius. After a few moments of standing around, James could tell that Harry was beginning to feel stupid.
"Was something supposed to happen?" asked Harry.
"Well, it takes a lot of practice and power to change, I mean, it took me and James about three weeks just to get a small patch of fur. It gets easier as you go on though, and after a while you'll be able to change without even thinking about it," said Sirius.
"It took you three weeks?" asked Harry.
"Yeah, well, we also didn't have a teacher with us," muttered James. Harry nodded. After about another hour of standing around and concentrating on his form, they decided that that was enough practicing. Harry reluctantly agreed.
"I guess we should tell you more about animagus forms," said Sirius.
"Yeah. When you're in your form you also have the brain of your animal, in your case a hawk. You'll think like a hawk, but after a while you'll be able to think with your human mind, though it takes a little while," said James.
"Like I kept getting the impulses to chase cats when I'm in my dog form," said Sirius.
"After a lot of practice you'll be able to block a lot of your hawk mind out, but it could take a while, and it doesn't help that you have to be in your hawk form to practice," said Remus.
"You'll probably feel like flying and eating mice," said Sirius.
"Speaking of eating, why don't we go have dinner?" asked Lily.
Harry dragged himself to his room. He was tired again; Lily had decided to test him on history of magic. Of course, when she realized how bad he was at it, she decided that he needed another tutoring lesson on it. Harry felt like his head had been banged against the wall a whole ton of times.
/Are you ready to train now/ asked Ice, slithering out of the shadows.
/I guess/ answered Harry.
/I still can't believe that you left me here while you went to a party. Then you didn't come home, and you missed your training/
/I told you that I'm sorry/
/Sorry isn't good enough/
/What do you want me to do/
/I want you to research animagus forms again. See of you can find the breed of dragon that you were/
/I doubt that I ever will. I've never heard of it/
/Which means that it most probably is out there somewhere and almost everyone knows of it/
/What is that supposed to mean/
/It means that you aren't the smartest person there is. Now, go to the library/ Harry unhappily got up from where he was positioned on the bed and crept down to the library. He began to look around for a book on dragons. After a few minutes, he found one titled, Rare Breeds of Dragons and their Uses. He also got a few books on animaguses and out them on one of the tables. He started reading the dragon book first.
After about twenty minutes he still couldn't find anything about the dragon that he was. He was so immersed in reading the book that he didn't see Lily enter the library.
"What are you doing up?" asked Lily. Harry jumped, having not seen her.
"Erm, just reading," answered Harry.
"Why are you up reading?" asked Lily.
"I… couldn't get to sleep," lied Harry lamely.
"What are you reading?" asked Lily.
"Erm… just a book," said Harry.
"A book on dragons?"
"Yeah, they sounded interesting so I thought I would do a little background reading on them," said Harry.
"That might have been a good excuse if I hadn't known that you avoid reading at all costs," said Lily. Harry gave her a small smile.
"I guess I should get to bed," said Harry. He left the library quickly, forgetting about all of the books that he had taken off the shelf. Harry went into his room. Ice had been with him that whole time, and he wasn't particularly happy about it.
/You couldn't have thought up a better excuse/
/Well, I didn't expect her to come in like that/
/That doesn't give you an excuse to be unprepared/
/Well, what did you want me to do? Make an excuse before I went there/
/Yeah, that would have been better than look like a complete idiot/
/Well, I didn't think that anyone would come in there so late at night/
/I know. Which is why you need to be more prepared/
/I'm prepared fine, thank you very much/
/No, you're not. You a lazy child/
/I am not/
/Yes, you are. You're often slacking off when we're training and you aren't trying to your full potential/
/A lot you know then/
/I know more than you think. If you ever want to survive another time with Voldemort, you're going to have to try harder/
/Oh, shut up, it's not like I'm the only one who can defeat him/
/You'd be surprised/
/If you say so. Can I go to sleep/
/NO! We're going to start training more. While you're getting better at wandless magic and have improved with the sword, you still have way too much to learn. You barely know anything about this kind of stuff, and you're not trying. I think that we need to do more training/
/Does this mean that I'm going to have to go to bed later and get up earlier/
/Yes/
/No way! I already do too much/
/And while I'm going to teach you all of this stuff, I want you to pay more attention to your mother when she's tutoring you. I also expect you to get better in your classes when you go back to school/
/What! Why/
/Because you need to learn this stuff/
/What will happen when I go to school? I can't take you with me/
/Easy. I go invisible. All you need to do is carry me on your shoulders or put me in your bag/
/I think that I'll put you in my bag/
/Nope. You're going to carry me on your shoulders more because it'll help you get your strength and endurance up/
/Fine/
/I also want you to practice on your animagus transformations more. You never know when they will come in handy/
/There's another problem. Where will I practice all of this? I mean, I can't practice in my dorm room because of the fact that I live with four other boys/
/Is there any other place that you know of that people won't spot you or don't know about/
/Well, not that I know of… wait, there is one, but I don't want to go there/
/Where is it/
/It's called the Chamber of Secrets/
/Oh, I've heard of that. Yes, that will be perfect/
/I just said that I don't want to go there/
/Then why did you suggest it/
/…/
/Anyway, it will be perfect. Only a parselmouth can open it, and you're the only parselmouth other than Voldemort, correct/
/Yeah/
/So then this is perfect/
/But I don't want to go down there/
/That's too bad, isn't it/
/Hey, you can't make me go down there/
/You would be amazed at what I can do/
/I don't care what you think. Anyway, there is a rotting basilisk down there too/
/Well, that can be used as valuable potions ingredients/
/I don't want to use it as potions ingredients/
/Too bad. You'll harvest all the ingredients you can then you can vanish the remains/
/Fine then. But I really don't want to do this/
/Don't worry. Anyway, you still have a month until you go back to school/
Harry sighed and flopped down onto his bed. He was really tired now. Unfortunately, Ice still wanted to train tonight.
Lily glanced around at the books that lay scattered around the table that Harry had been working at. There were animagus books and dragon books. Lily wasn't sure anymore what Harry was doing. She glanced down at the books again and saw that one of the books were open. She glanced down at it and frowned at what she saw.
When you have multiple animagus forms it means that you are a very powerful witch or wizard. The last known person to have multiple animagus forms were the four founders of the school Hogwarts. Gryffindor had three forms, Slytherin had three forms, Ravenclaw had two forms, and Hufflepuff had two forms. The most anyone has ever had was Merlin, who had four forms.
Lily stared at the page, deep in thought. Then suddenly it seemed to click in her mind. Harry reading about multiple animagus forms. Harry reading about dragons. He had two forms! It was obvious as she thought about it, the way Harry had hesitated when he told them, the way he had been reading about dragons late at night. Harry didn't want anyone to know, but why he didn't Lily wasn't sure. Lily decided that she would give him time to talk to her about it, especially if she wasn't right.
A/N: Lily knows about another form! She's way too smart because she's going to eventually figure everything out. Anyway, please review!