The Stubborn Old Headmaster
by Teddylonglong
All recognizable characters belong to J. K. Rowling, and I am not earning anything by writing this story.
I am not a native speaker of English. Please excuse my mistakes.
COMPLETELY AU! Partly OOC! Dumbledore bashing!
It is my story, and I intend to write it the way I want it. If you don't like it, don't read it.
Reviews are very welcome, as they inspire my muse. Thank you so much for your kind reviews for the previous chapter!
'What am I going to do?' Harry thought, frantically. While trying not to panic he totally forgot that he could talk to his new daddy telepathically and the process unintentionally blocked his daddy from being able to reach him. 'If I only knew the name of the hotel or even the name of the temple that we visited, then I could ask. I know enough Japanese to get help from someone. But I don't know what temple we were going to, and since the hotel is a wizarding hotel, all these muggles around here won't know it.'
While he was thinking, he had unconsciously let himself being driven forward by the mass of people walking on the street and soon reached a river. He spent a while sitting near the river thinking. 'Well, I could transform into my chameguise form, but I can't flash to people, only to places,' he thought wearily, when a sudden idea crossed his mind. 'Kori!' he thought in relief. 'She could take me back to my parents. But will she be able to hear me if I call her all the way from here in Japan?'
He decided to try and called his phoenix, knowing that even if she heard him and came to his rescue it would probably take a few hours for her to reach him.
'In the meantime, I could try to transform into a phoenix myself,' he mused and made himself invisible. 'As a shape shifter, I should be able to transform into any animal.' Looking at the light blue water of the river, he concentrated on the blue form of a water phoenix with light green wings in the back; however, it obviously didn't work. 'Maybe I should transform into my chameguise form first,' he thought and transformed.
He had to try several times, but an hour later, he finally succeeded in transforming his whole body. He flapped his wings a few times, and suddenly an urge to fly overcame him that was even stronger than his desire to find his parents. He once again flapped his wings and tried to fly. Unfortunately, it was much more difficult than he had assumed, and he nearly landed in the river. 'Oh no!' he thought, realizing that he was not even able to properly walk on his bird's feet. 'Will I be able to flash accurately?' he thought worriedly, while he tried to get a few steps further away from the water on his unsteady feet.
Harry just resolved to try to flash thinking of his mother, when Kori appeared by his side.
#Harry! What are you doing? Can you make yourself visible please?#
#Sorry Kori and thanks for coming# Harry replied in utter relief and made himself visible.
#Oh, you're beautiful. A water phoenix. Congratulations Harry,# his familiar trilled in obvious amazement.
#Thanks Kori, but I have a problem,# Harry replied, sighing. #I can neither walk, nor fly, nor do I know how to flash properly.#
#Well, I will practise with you when we're back at Hogwarts. Now I'm going to take you to your parents; they will be worried sick about you,# Kori replied in a firm voice.
'Of course,' Harry remembered and quickly transformed back into his chameguise form and then into his human form, grabbing Kori's tail feathers, knowing in relief that he would soon be back with his family.
A minute later, Harry was enveloped in Minerva's arms, sobbing fiercely. After a few minutes, when he calmed down a bit, he looked around and saw that the adults were still standing in the same underground station, in which he had gotten off the train before. Mrs. Hara had asked the people to make an announcement in Japanese and in barely understandable English in all stations of the underground that told Harry to come to the station, where they were waiting, but unfortunately, Harry had left the underground too early to hear the announcement.
Severus reminded Harry of his telepathy and Harry felt embarrassed that he had completely forgotten about the matter; moreover, he had been so focused on finding them that he had unintentionally prevented Severus from being able to communicate with him. He was praised by both Minerva and Severus for remembering to call Kori for her help.
During the rest of their stay in Kyoto, they never used muggle transportation again. Hara-san either prepared Portkeys for the group, or Kori flashed the group to the places which they wanted to visit. While they were visiting the temples that were often situated in large parks, Harry would sometimes transform into his phoenix form, which he managed without having to change into his chameguise form first after just a bit of training, and practised walking, flying as well as flashing over the short distance of a few metres.
"Your phoenix form is absolutely beautiful," Minerva commended the child, feeling very proud of her son.
"Thank you Mummy," Harry replied happily.
Too soon, their holidays were over, and the little group had to return to Hogwarts. Harry was very tempted to flash back to Scotland like Kori, but Minerva, Severus, and Poppy vehemently forbade him to flash and held him close when they took hold of the Portkey.
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As much as Harry had enjoyed the long summer holidays, he was looking forward to school. Since Tonks had vehemently protested against the separation of her class into the eight year olds that were supposed to build a new class together with the seven-year-olds and the nine-year-olds, who were supposed to come together with the ten-year-olds, Godric had grudgingly agreed to her suggestion and hired another teacher for the youngest class, so that the other classes could remain as they were.
"Thank you so much, Uncle Godric," Harry happily said to the headmaster of the primary school. "I'm so glad that I can remain with my friends."
"It's all right," Godric grumbled, causing Harry to laugh. The headmaster barely ever gave in to other people's suggestions, but everyone knew that he was very weak when it came to Harry, and the small boy could get almost anything that he wanted from the grumpy headmaster.
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The first weeks of the new school year passed uneventfully, and a few days before the full moon in October, Severus took Harry aside and suggested, "Now that you're my son, and since you're so adept at potions, I'd like you to help me brew the Wolfsbane potion, that is if you want to."
"Oh Dad, I'd like that very much," Harry said excitedly, knowing that Severus brewed the potion for Remus every month and that it was one of the most difficult and time consuming potions to brew. From that time onwards, Harry helped Severus to brew the Wolfsbane every month, and after a few months he knew the brewing process by heart.
One day shortly before the beginning of the summer holidays, however, Harry was extremely absentminded, thinking about how Ginny had partnered up with Draco that morning instead of pairing up with him like she usually did. Severus reprimanded him twice, telling him that he had to either concentrate on what he was doing or he had to leave. He even stepped over to Harry and felt his forehead to see if he had difficulties to concentrate because he was sick.
"I'm sorry, Dad. I'm fine and I'll try to concentrate now," Harry replied eagerly and tried his best. However, he couldn't help cutting his finger with the knife he was still holding in his hand, while he was inserting the next ingredient into the cauldron.
"Harry!" Severus scolded him in exasperation. "Put the knife away as soon as you're finished cutting something. You didn't get any of the potion on your finger now, did you?" he asked in genuine concern while he carefully examined the small cut, before he disinfected it and healed it with a flick of his wand.
"No, of course not," Harry replied and thanked his father, noticing that his dad had healed the small cut and it didn't even hurt anymore. 'A bit of my blood dropped into the cauldron though,' he mused, while prepared the next ingredients. However, before he could voice his concern about the matter, Minerva entered the room.
"Harry, I believe that it's time for you to go to bed. I'm sorry, Severus, but as you know Harry has school tomorrow."
"Of course, son, leave everything as it is, and I'll continue alone. I always did that, so it's not a problem," Severus said to Harry, noticing that he was going to interrupt his mum and say that he had to help finish the potion. "Sleep well, Harry and thanks for your help." Severus pulled Harry close and gave him a kiss on the forehead.
"All right, good night, Dad," Harry replied, smiling, and followed his mother into his own room. He quickly prepared himself for bed and sat in his bed, where he read a chapter from the fifth book in the series 'The Five Magical Friends' for Minerva to practise his reading abilities, before he lay down and listened, while she read the next chapter to him.
Minerva had just tucked him in and kissed him good night, when all of a sudden, Ginny's voice penetrated his mind. 'Harry, are you still awake?'
'Yes of course; hello Ginny,' Harry replied, getting very excited.
'I just wanted to tell you something,' Ginny continued, 'I'm sorry for pairing up with Draco this morning, but I had to talk with him about something. It's something for your birthday, you know, so don't worry. I'm going to pair up with Neville tomorrow. All right, Harry?'
Harry felt as if as load was lifted off his shoulders. 'All right, Ginny,' he replied, feeling extremely happy. 'Thanks for telling me.'
When Ginny indeed partnered with Neville the next day, Harry did not mind at all and asked Luna, "Shall we work together?"
"Yes, that would be nice," Luna answered, smiling. "I don't know why Neville is together with Ginny today," she mused aloud, and a small frown clouded her face.
"That's all right, Luna," Harry told the girl in a calming voice. "Ginny told me that she wanted to pair up with Neville today to speak about something for my birthday. I'm sure he'll tell you later."
"Ah, that's fine then," Luna replied in obvious relief, giving Harry a dreamy look.
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When Harry woke up the next morning, it was still very early. He carefully climbed into his parents' bed to cuddle with them until they had to get up like he did every morning. However, he was surprised to notice that his father wasn't there and that his mother was awake and seemed to be very excited.
"Good morning, Mummy," Harry said cheerily, placing a small kiss on her cheek.
"Good morning, Harry. Did you sleep well?" Minerva enquired, cuddling him close.
"Yes; where is Dad?"
Minerva sighed. "He's in his lab examining the Wolfsbane potion you brewed the other night. Something seems to have been different than normal."
Harry let out a huge gasp, suddenly remembering the drops of his blood that had dropped from his finger into the cauldron.
"Are you all right?" Minerva asked in concern, seeing that Harry's face had turned as white as the sheets.
"No," Harry exclaimed, terrified. "That's all my fault. I wasn't paying attention because I thought about Ginny pairing up with Draco, but it ended up being because they wanted to speak about something for my birthday, but Ginny only told me after I was in bed that night, and yesterday she paired up with Neville and I was with Luna, but that was okay because I already knew she was. Anyway, I didn't put the knife away and cut my finger, and a bit of my blood dropped into the cauldron, and I forgot to tell Dad about it, because you came to put me to bed, and now the potion was ruined and..." He finally stopped his rant and looked up into Minerva's face. "What happened to Uncle Moony? He didn't die, did he?"
Minerva, who had been trying hard to follow his fast and excited ranting in utter concern, let out a deep sigh and relaxed.
"Relax Harry, everything is all right," Minerva told the child in a calming voice. "In fact, Remus didn't transform at all last night. Let's get up and tell Dad about it. Maybe, you found a better potion for the werewolves."
Before Minerva could even get up, Harry was already out of the room, running to Severus' private lab, where he repeated his rant. When Minerva followed him a minute later, Severus cast her a confused but grateful look. "Do you know what this is about, Minerva?"
"Yes Sev. Harry, calm down and tell your father exactly what happened, slowly," Minerva instructed her excited son.
Harry quickly informed his father about the small amount of blood that had been added to the potion, unintentionally.
"Harry!" Severus replied, an expression of absolute horror on his face. "Can you imagine what could have happened? How could you be so reckless to not tell me about that? We should have brewed the potion once more fresh from the start. You cannot easily add ingredients, especially not blood, because it can be very dangerous to the person, who has to take the potion. Remus could have died because of it."
"Dad, I'm so sorry," Harry exclaimed, before he buried his head in Minerva's robes and began to sob, vehemently.
"It's all right now, nothing happened, son," Minerva tried to calm him down, gently rubbing circles into his back.
"Can you promise me to never act so reckless anymore when you're brewing potions?" Severus asked in a soft but stern voice, causing Harry to sob, "Yes Dad, I promise."
"All right," Severus replied contentedly. "Now, why would Harry's blood change the potion enough that Remus didn't transform? You know, Minerva, I always have to put one drop of my blood into this potion, or in case I'm sick I use Poppy's blood, because I need one drop of a healthy wizard's or witch's blood for the Wolfsbane. However, with an additional drop or two of Harry's blood, it changed the whole makeup of the Wolfsbane. What is so different about Harry's blood?"
"Could it be because Harry is younger?" Minerva suggested.
"I have no idea. Oh, wait," he corrected himself, thoughtfully. "I know what it could be. Perhaps the reason is that Harry is part chameguise, and the chameguise is a very special magical animal. I can imagine that its blood holds exceptional qualities too. Maybe I should use a few drops of Harry's blood for tests in other healing potions as well," Severus continued, pensively.
"Well, we'll see if it works next month as well," Minerva replied calmly, smiling at Harry, who was slowly calming down.
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Four weeks later, Harry was very excited. 'Will my blood be able to help Uncle Moony not to transform?' he thought eagerly and could not wait for the night of the full moon to approach.
Unfortunately, a few days before the full moon, Harry was poisoned again. Kori, who had been sitting on his shoulder like she always did, managed to kick the glass with the pumpkin juice out of Harry's hand just in time, but the phoenix couldn't prevent Harry from spilling the juice all over himself. This time, it wasn't too bad; however, Harry suffered for a few days, because his skin had become infected and he was running a high fever.
On the day, when Severus had to brew the Wolfsbane potion, Harry was already feeling much better but was still feverish and was devastated when Severus told him, "I'm sorry, Harry, but I can't use your blood for the potion today. I can only use the blood of a healthy person; so, I don't want you to help, because you're not well enough yet. However, I'll ask Aunt Poppy if she's willing to release you, so that you can spend the evening with Mummy in our quarters."
"It's such a pity; we really hoped to confirm our new and better Wolfsbane tonight," Severus told the healer a few minutes later, when they left Harry's bedside together after the child had drifted off to sleep.
"If it's the chameguise blood that makes the difference, why don't you ask Godric for two drops of blood," Poppy suggested, questioningly. "You know that his blood is the same as Harry's was before you blood adopted him."
"Oh that's right, I had forgotten about that," Severus replied, wondering how he could have been so absentminded, and followed the healer into her private quarters in order to speak with her husband.
"No. I won't let my blood be used for anything," Godric replied obstinately, even when Poppy told him that it was necessary for the new version of the Wolfsbane.
"He's extremely stubborn if you ask him something, unless it's Harry who asks. He can't deny that boy anything," Poppy sighed when they returned to the hospital wing.
"Well, I'll go and ask Tom," Severus replied, feeling completely annoyed at the founder's attitude.
Fortunately, Tom agreed and even helped Severus to prepare his ingredients. To everyone's excitement, the potion seemed to work and Remus once more remained in his human form throughout the night.
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Over the next four weeks, Severus did a lot of research and finally decided, with Remus' agreement, to test if the potion could by any chance be a permanent cure.
"We won't brew the Wolfsbane potion this month, and Remus will spend the night in the Shrieking Shack, where it doesn't matter if he transforms into a werewolf," he explained to Harry.
"Wow; can I go with Remus and spend the night with him in case he needs help?" Harry asked excitedly, causing Severus to frown.
"Harry, you wouldn't survive a night with a werewolf."
"But I could go as chameguise and make myself invisible, so that he couldn't see me," Harry disagreed, throwing his father a pleading look.
"No Harry, under no circumstances will you be allowed to go," Minerva spoke up, giving Harry her strictest teacher's glare. "Even if he couldn't see you, he'd be able to smell you," she explained in a no-nonsense voice.
Harry was very disappointed but also very excited, because two days after the night of the full moon was his birthday. The few days leading up to his birthday, he spoke of nothing else, and his parents were relieved because they thought he had forgotten about the full moon.
Harry however, who would never forget about his friends so easily, set his alarm clock for two o'clock in the morning, knowing that even his father would be asleep by then, and put it under his pillow, so that his parents would not wake up at the sound. When the alarm went off, he quickly transformed into his phoenix form and thought of Remus in order to flash to him, knowing that he would be able to get away in the blink of an eye if necessary.