Authors note: sorry for the long wait, i have had a complete writer's block but now i am a little better. This is very short and i apologize again. Please read and REVIEW.

Disclaimer: i do not own Harry Potter or anything to do with Harry Potter. I do not earn any money on this.

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Hope to belong

It had been almost two weeks since the Weasleys had come tearing through and now Harry was almost back to his normal self, only now he was healthier and happier. The school year was fast approaching and for the first time ever Harry did not feel ecstatic. He for the first time felt like he would rather stay home with his uncle moony and Paddy.

After the disaster with the Weasleys he had only had contact with his friends through letters and he felt his nerves tearing through him at the thought of having to be among so many people. Paddy and Moony had tried to comfort him, but it had not worked until a week later when Paddy decided that Harry simply needed a way to get away if things got to rough. And that solution came in the form of an animagus transformation. At first Moony had said no, but when he saw the hopeful look on his cub's face he had given in.

Since then they had worked very hard, but they had meet a few complications when Harry was to discover his form. He kept seeing more than one animal and it had taken Moony days to discover why.

They all almost fell apart laughing when he finally found the answer it was so obvious. Harry was one of those few that had multiple forms. He had yet to discover how many or which animal each of them where, but the first one he discovered was that of a cub or pup. He was so happy; this meant that he had something in common with his guardians. The smile on his face had not left is since.

Apparently Harry was a very gifted animagus as it only took him a few days after clearly seeing his form to actually changing into it. He had stayed in that form for a whole day just playing with Padfoot and snuggling with Remus.

Harry felt as he lay on the soft ground with his godfather, that life was good and the only thing he needed to do now was to somehow get Siri and Remy to allow him to stay out during a full moon.

Sirius and Remus knew very well what he was plotting and they where nervous. On one side they wanted to let him, they wanted to give him everything he wanted, but on the other side they did not want him to get hurt and there was a chance that would happen. Even if Remus and his inner wolf felt the same pain at the thought of their cub hurt.

But in the end Harry succeeded. Two weeks before the summer holidays ended they decided that Harry would be allowed to accompany them on the next full moon. Harry was ecstatic.

-Time skip- Full moon-

Harry was sitting in the living room, they had told him that he had to stay there until midnight and then he could turn into his form and make his way into the forest, he was to meet them in a clearing a near the house.

They had decided that Harry's marauder name was to be Shadow; the reasoning was that he had kept himself in the shadows so long and he always found out about everything.

So when the clock struck midnight shadow made his way out the doggy door and into the forest. He was almost shaking in excitement. He slowed down when he was near the clearing and slowly approached them. Padfoot and Moony was playing around in the middle of the clearing and Padfoot was the first to notice him. He nodded to him and Shadow stopped. They had told him that it would be safer if Moony approached him first and as Moony did so Harry lay down and rolled over showing his tummy. Moony sniffed him twice before whining and licking his face. Then to everyone's surprise he lifted Shadow by the neck and carried him towards Padfoot. When there he was carefully set down before Moony gave him a playful shove and they started to play.

- Moony's POV-

Moony felt the pain and knew he was soon to be relished. He felt guilty for the pain this transformation caused his other self but he could not help it. It would have been easier if he could accept him, but that was a long shot. It also would have been easier if his mate and pack still had been alive but they where dead now and the pack was down to him and Padfoot. He looked over at the dog and the moment the transformation was over he jumped him. Padfoot did not see it coming.

They had only been playing for a few minutes when Moony smelt someone approaching. He saw Padfoot nodding at someone and turned his head, a cub he thought as he smelt the creature. He smelled familiar, he smelled like family. He approached him carefully and nuzzled his snout into the cub's belly. His other part gave him the name. Shadow, Harry their cub, the cub of the pack, his brother's cub.

He carefully lifted him up and carried him to Padfoot who watched on in surprise and amusement.

-Normal POV-

They had played on for hours and hours and when they where finished they had all fallen asleep curled up together.

That had been a week since that night and now they where going to Diagon Alley to buy his school stuff. It would be the first time he left the property and he was really nervous. What if he didn't belong anymore? Harry knew it was probably just an irrational fear but that did not make it easier.

He looked over at his Paddy and Moony and they smiled back at him. They where going to floo to the Leaky caldron and Harry was going do floo with Siri. Most teens would probably find that embarrassing, but he felt comforted by it. Moony went first and then Harry and Sirius stepped through and Siri laid his arm around his shoulders and squeezed lightly. "It's going to be ok pup. Everything is going to be Ok. You will always belong with us"

************************Authors note*****************************

I think the next chapter will be the last, then if I get enough response i might write a sequel about Harrys fifth year, but i have only gotten one reviewer that wants that. So we will see. Please review and tell me what you think. I know this was a bad one but I wrote this in my Norwegian class while the teacher was not looking so... Review please...