A/N- Trying to finish this story in order to avoid complete abandonment, but it's difficult. Comments on style, ect, are welcome and wanted.

    Lord Voldemort advanced slowly and menacingly towards Harry, but saying nothing at all. Ginny looked at Harry, meaning to defend her to the death, and then she realized something. Looking at the figure again, it didn't look like the pictures of a healthy, full power Lord Voldemort. In fact, it looked exactly like Harry had described him to look at the end of the tournament. Without stopping to think, she threw herself in front of Harry. If she were right, everything would be good. If she was wrong... she didn't want to think about what would happen if she were wrong.

    Harry yelled at her, and she almost turned back to look at him. She couldn't however. She had been right. Lord Voldemort disappeared in a puff of smoke, and turned into a young, handsome boy of about sixteen.

    "You'll finally let me kill him, you stupid little girl." The Boggart sneered. Ginny was familiar with this Boggart. It had been her greatest fear since she was eleven. Luckily, Harry caught on, and also stepped forward. Together, they got rid of it, just as Crimson came running up. Taking in their sweaty faces, and their wands, she led them back to the house. On the far corner of the lawn, Ron and Hermione were still snogging heatedly, oblivious to everything but each other's presence.

    After they explained what had happened in the forest, the adults cast each other worried looks. The wards that were up should have made it impossible for any dark to come into the enclosure. Then Sirius perked up.

    "I know what happened! We specifically left out dark creatures, remember? Otherwise the wards would have repelled Moony!" Lily looked relieved.

    "So, now we fine tune that ward to only let in werewolves. That works." James was smiling. "That can wait, though. We have four teenagers who are anxiously waiting for Animagus lessons. Petunia, do you want to watch?" Petunia shook her head. She was in the middle of one of her daily soap operas.

    "Go ahead. I'll make lunch, since certain people here have been known to give everyone indigestion." She looked at her sister significantly. Lily merely smiled, shook her head, and walked out of the room. It appeared that her sister was fast regaining her old form, and for that Lily was grateful. She had no idea how to deal with a nice Petunia. If it also got her out of cooking, that was fine with her.

    Once everyone was out on the lawn, Lily and Crimson took over the lessons. After all, they reasoned, it had taken a fraction of the time for them to learn it compared to Sirius and James. By the end of the day, everyone was well on their way. They had done the first twelve charms, and taken the potion that would determine what animal they were working towards. Hard as it was, Harry wanted to be black. He didn't really care what animal he was, as long as he was black. The others drank their potion first. Hermione went first, and popped into a peregrine falcon with beautiful brown markings. She took off into flight, and then landed carefully as she became human again.

    "I think I'm going to like this," she said with a smile on her face. Then it was Ron's turn. He drank his potion, muttering 'Anything but a weasel, anything but a weasel'. He got his wish. He transformed in red fox, exactly the came shade as his hair.

    Human again, Ron looked at the others. "That was a fox, right? Not a weasel?" Harry nodded. Ginny disentangled herself from Harry, and moved to the middle of the circle. She drank her potion, and the sight that greeted them was beautiful. No one had expected a magical Animagus, but Ginny had transformed into a Pegasus.

    "Was I just a horse with wings?" Harry nodded, and Ginny whooped around the yard. Then she stopped. "I guess I'll be rather conspicuous, now won't I?" Lily whispered something in her ear. Ginny's face flamed, and then she nodded and grinned.

    "What was that all about?" Harry asked, confused.

    "Don't worry about it, Harry." His mother said. "You'll find out soon enough." Harry never knew when he was missing his parents that his mother was the true prankster of the group. It made him very nervous, as he had realized that she was more devious then the Slytherin that she should have been sorted as. Finally, he stood in the center of the circle. He poured a gulp of potion down his throat. It tasted disgusting, but then, most potions tasted disgusting. He felt an odd tingling, and suddenly a sharp pain burst through him, and all his nerve endings felt like they were being rewired. He noticed that he was much lower to the ground, as well. He realized he was a bird, and took flight for a few moments. He opened his mouth to whoop with sheer joy, but instead a burst of spine tingling music came out. Startled, he popped back into human form and landed with a painful thump on the ground.

    "Was I what I think I was?" he asked, amazed. Everyone else nodded. Hermione looked a bit jealous, but shook it off. It would have been nice to know about this ability BEFORE people had hurt and bled and nearly died, but other then that, she though she could live with it.

    "Harry, you do realize how rare this is, right?" Remus asked gently.

    "No. I mean, everyone has a chance at being anything don't they?" Harry asked.

    "Harry, only a child born from two parents with founders blood can turn into a Phoenix," Hermione whispered, looking at him as she remembered. Harry looked at his parents.

    "I know about Dad's side, but what about yours?" he asked his mother, confused and shocked. How many other pieces of his family tree were going to bite him on the butt? Lily looked as shocked as Harry felt.

    "I don't know, Harry. I just don't know." James looked at his wife and son. "I think a trip to Dumbledore is in order as soon as we complete their transformations. Any objections?"

    The little group worked on the transformations for ten hours a day, every day. Everyone was so tired at night that it was all they could do to stay awake long enough to eat some supper and go to bed. It wasn't too surprising, then, that all thoughts of the rogue female werewolf were forgotten, and would stay that way until the next full moon.

    Durmstrang and Beauxbatons had both replied to Harry's letters, saying that no such girl attended their school. He was starting to feel very discouraged about ever locating Laurel, whoever she had come to be, but he still had to try. The next places he was checking were the Kookaburra Magical Comprehensive, in Australia, and the Maple Leaf Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry, in Canada. He knew that the British social services did not like to send any of their children outside the commonwealth. And since his aunt was a witch, it should make it easier to track her down- or so he hoped.

    After a week, everyone had to come and go every night and morning by floo powder. The Weasleys and the Grangers didn't like the idea of allowing their children to impose on the Potters so soon after their reunion, and besides, they only got a little time with their children now anyway.

    Finally, three days before the full moon, all the charms and potions had been taken, and they were ready to make the transformations. After putting up a camouflage shield around the house in case anyone saw Harry or Ginny, everyone once more met up on the front lawn.

    All four decided to transform at once, with an adult watching each. James took Harry, Sirius took Ron, Crimson took Hermione and Lily watched Ginny.

    "Now. Remember that the instincts are sometimes hard to control. Remember that you must concentrate on keeping your human minds. The nerve rewiring sometimes takes a few moments, so allow some orientation time before you go flying or exploring. Be careful, and don't leave the yard!" James was as nervous as any of the four about to attempt their first transformations. It was probably for the best he didn't know that Sirius was making exaggerated movements behind his back even as he spoke.

    With that final warning, all four teens disappeared. Harry flew up and perched in a nearby tree. Hermione rocketed up towards the sky, and enjoyed the feeling of the wind under her wings. Ron ran across the grass, reveling in his speed. Ginny went for a long gallop before taking off into the sky and circling overhead.

    "Long enough!" James called, and everyone reluctantly gathered back up on the lawn. Four popping noises were once again heard, and teenagers once again sat where the odd assortment of animals had sat.

    "You are now officially Animagi. You have to be careful about transforming. To tell the truth, I wasn't sure if all of you would be able to do it. Now that you have, you have to choose whether to stay unregistered, or go to the ministry and have them write you down. Sirius and I intend to go and register tomorrow. I'm sure you won't mind, though, if we ask you to leave a little early today. I believe we need to go see Dumbledore.

    Ginny, Hermione and Ron stood up, and dusted themselves off.

    "Can I go show my parents?" Hermione asked excitedly.

    "By all means, go! Show them what you've been up to this past month," laughed Lupin. He was tired, the full moon only days away again, but Hermione was enough to make anyone laugh.

    "I'll see you tomorrow!" she called, and disappeared into the fireplace.

    "I guess we'll take off too. Floo me?" Ginny asked, grinning up at her boyfriend.

    "You know I will," he smiled, and sent her off into the fireplace. Ron followed not far behind.

    Lily, James and Harry walked up to the castle from Hogsmeade. They needed to find out just what lineage Lily's squib mother had.

    As the three of them walked up the path, they had no clue as to the watchers from the village. Many of them remembered Lily and James from when they were students, and had seen Harry in the years since he started to visit the village. Seeing them walking as a family renewed the wizarding hope like nothing ever had. Dumbledore met them at the gate, and walked with them up to his office. Harry looked around in amazement at the school. Usually so bustling, it was dead quite except for various teachers setting up their rooms for the new terms, and going about business of their own. Harry chuckled at the look on Snape's face when he saw them and muttered something about 'like father, like son'. Lily gave a big smile and wave, making the stormy potions teacher turn bright red and hurry down the hall.

    "What was that all about?" Harry asked after he had disappeared around the bend.

    "He had a crush on me in school. I wanted to see if he still did." Lily said with a shrug.

    "You would think you would know by now, Mum! You have been working with him all year," Harry pointed out as he grinned at her.

    "I have, haven't I?" she said with a devilish smirk. Unable to contain himself anymore, James burst out laughing.

    "Your mother, I think, was trying to see if she could make him have an aneurysm. Or get him to explode in apoplexy," he reflected. "Which one was it this time, Lil?"

    Lily looked innocent. "Why must you cast heinous purposes to innocent actions?" she asked, trying to look hurt. Dumbledore looked at her with a twinkle in his eye, but said nothing. They were at his staircase.