I Don't Own Harry Potter


"I hate you sometimes you know that" I looked over at Blaise and raised an offended eyebrow at that, before looking back at the big potion lab room that I had spent a full six hours and a lot of liberal use to floating charms, after a second I turned back to him and asked.

"Do you not like it?" I thought he would have, but I could have been wrong, I've said before and I'll say again, but I'm not exactly the best at gift giving.

"Huh no that's not it, I love it actually, I'm just stating that maybe you should have given me a hint about this before I thought that you forgot to get me a gift" Oh, but then it wouldn't have been a surprise and that wouldn't have been as fun. Though I have a feeling that I probably shouldn't give him that reason.

"Oh, ok. I'll remember that for next time" He sighed at that, like he should have expected that I was lost about it all. Rude but whatever, moving on past that I held back from rolling my eyes at his lack of faith.

"Well then, I believe I have a potion's lab to explore, so in the kind words of my third step-dad, 'Piss off I have work to do'" And with that he walked forwards with what seemed to be a kick in his step. Good, I'm glad he's having fun, it would be sad if I spent a night working on this and nothing came of it. Well time to get onto the next project I have to get done soon. With this years plot out of the way and my mental breakdown done this is a good enough time as any to finally learn the patronum charm.


Turns out hardcore emotional repression makes dragging up emotions difficult. Who would have guess? Well besides everyone that is. Still it had been a while, a couple weeks, and while everyone else was swamped in extra homework and the like for the finals coming up, I was spending most of my time on the charm and I managed the mist version without much effort but the corporal form was much more difficult.

I'm sure I had the power to back up the spell and I know the memory I picked was a happy one, it was a very happy one in fact. Maybe it's because it came to an end, my relationships seem to do that, and that on in particular left me pretty depressed for a while, maybe that stains the happiness of my chosen memory. In which case I'm not sure what I should use then, I have other happy memories but that one is the strongest, maybe I'm just not letting myself feel it all.

Maybe it's because I'm not properly desperate enough for it to work. I'm sure that after I get it done the first time I'll be able to break through this mental block I've some how put on myself. It's very difficult to be as picky as I am with my emotions as I am, it takes a lot of skill in that regard but it does come with this kind of downside, but to be fair for me I wasn't expecting my emotional control skills to come into play when it comes to magic because I wasn't expecting magic to happen when I figured out these control tricks.

"You look annoyed, what's wrong" I moved my blank expressionless face to Blaise and blinked at him, wondering what in the hell makes him think I'm annoyed, he just rolled his eyes at that before saying.

"Come on, I've known you for two years now, just cause you don't show any annoyance doesn't mean I can't notice it" I think he's got that backwards, if he can't read me then he shouldn't be able to read me at all when I'm being unreadable, that's the point of being unreadable, it kind of defeats the purpose of such an act if I can be read. Well, I spend most of my day with someone and they would learn some of my tells, maybe I'm not trying hard enough, that or I've underestimated Blaise, maybe both.

"I'm having trouble with a charm" He looked shocked at my admission, I think he's gotten to use to the fact that I don't struggle with magic.

"You? Really? And what charm is that?" I sighed as I looked up at the ceiling before saying.

"The patronum charm. One of the biggest components is having a very happy memory, and for some reason I'm having trouble with it" He looked at me and then laughed, laughed right in my face, it was rude. After a couple moments he had calmed down and sad.

"Sorry, but really? You're having problems with a spell powered by emotions and you don't understand why? Kyu, you're a fucking sociopath, I'm sorry to say that maybe just maybe you won't be able to manage this spell" I thought about glaring at him but stopped and instead just gave him a look that said I wasn't amused before replying with.

"I'm not a sociopath" He just snorted.

"Yeah you keep telling yourself that" Never any faith I swear, one of these days I should stop making myself and just fuck with him. Now that would be pretty funny.


It was a even longer time later and I finally got a glimpse of a fluffy tail before the animal disappeared into a cloud of mist. It was something but it wasn't all I was looking for, and I hate not being productive so I've started working on another goal. It took a good deal of bribery from a seventh year Hufflepuff that was taking an apprenticeship from Professor Sprout to get me a matured mandrake leaf.

I had taken to holding it in my mouth for about two weeks now, it wasn't that difficult to work around it, small dry comments are usually how I talk anyway when I'm not explaining my 'crazy' and 'insane' magical ideas to an irate Blaise who thinks I've gone either further into the deep end. But besides that nothing about the Animagus process was all that difficult once I finally found a book on it in the Come and Go part of the Room of Requirement.

The potion was easy to make, the only thing I needed left in it was leaf in my mouth and a lightning storm to drink it at, as I'm already in the middle of the spell-a-day for a month part of it all.

Recap over with, I was currently messing with the leaf in my mouth while listening to Blaise and Theo complain about the four foot length of parchment they had to do for transfiguration, something I had done in class as I had completed the assignment in a couple minutes and got my commonly occurring point to Slytherin as I do that every lesson, I think McGonagall is trying to limit my point intake for a house that isn't her's while still rewarding me for my genius.

"Come on Kyu can't you help me? No everyone is as good at transfiguration as you are, or at most of the school subjects for that matter. Still, come on, help a buddy out" I opened my closed eyes and looked at Theo who had asked, as Blaise liked to not have to rely on me as much as he did during first year. He still does it on occasion but still tries to try and figure everything out himself.

"The answers C" Blaise snorted at that while Theo made a funny whiny sound before pouting at me like it was going to change my mind about it.


Does anyone know how rare a lighting storm is in Scotland? Surprisingly not as rare as one would think it is, one was going on right now in fact, the only problem is the potion is on the third floor and it's was maybe twenty minutes before midnight and way past curfew at the moment, not exactly that much of a problem, I still don't have a full-proof way to not get caught but I'm very good at being stealthy when I need to be and I do know how to manage a Disillusionment Charm so I'll probably be fine.

So with that I made my way out of the common room and slowly made my way up to one of my potion rooms while circling the leaf around in my mouth, a habit I've taken to doing at some point in the last month. Rushing up the staircases, I pushed my way into the potion room and walked up to the window in the room while snatching up a nearby empty phial and opened the window up.

Putting my out of said open window, I moved my hand with the phial in front of my mouth and spat out the leaf and noted that it was very weird to not have in my mouth at the moment, strange. Holding the phial up to the moonlight, I let it be exposed before walking back into the room and started mixing the ingredients needed while finishing up the potion. Taking a small breath to myself, I then sat down and then started the chant that I would have to continue for the next twelve some hours.

"Amato Animo Animato Animagus. Amato Animo Animato Animagus. Amato Animo Animato Animagus. Amato Animo Animato Animagus. Amato Animo Animato Animagus. Amato Animo Animato Animagus. Amato Animo Animato Animagus. Amato Animo Animato Animagus. Amato Animo Animato Animagus. Amato Animo Animato Animagus-"


I slowly put down my wand to my side as I got onto my feet, ignoring the pins and needles surging into the bottom of my feet and legs as they had long since gone to sleep. My throat was sore as fuck from hours on end of talking, something I must say, took for fucking ever, but instead of getting something to drink I just walked forwards and picked up the long finished potion, looked at it for a second before sighing to myself, expecting the taste of something bad, and then downed it.

I grimaced at the taste which was somehow even worse than I was expecting and because of the fact that I usually take to thinking of the worse things possible so the actual event is better than what I envisioned, so it says something when my mind couldn't think of something worse than this. Though my thoughts were suddenly muffled by the fact that I realized at some point I stopped being over five feet tall and now seemed to be a bit over a foot tall now.

Looking down I noted I had paws now, that's weird, bending my neck over my shoulder, I looked at the grey fur and familiar looking fluffy tail before blinking as I felt my ears twitch which is weird. After a second, I walked over towards a small mirror I had put in the room a while back with surprising amount of ease for the fact that this was a completely knew body.

Tilting my head at the sight of my new form, I blinked and mentally laughed at how much those actions fitted my new fox body. From the make and model, I appear to be a grey fox which was neat and can I say that being colorblind is very weird. I've had a damaged eye before which lead to color shifts that one of my eyes can perceive but that was nothing like this.

That's a bit weird I'm a fox that can speak snake, that seems amusingly ironic. Anyway, I should get back to the dorm room before anyone notices that I'm missing, it's really lucky that this happened during a weekend. Otherwise I'm sure my Professors would throw a bit of a fit at me for waiting until eight it looks like to get to a class. Even with the leeway I would get from being the top of these classes I'm sure a couple points, at least, would be taken away.

So I should get back down there, so with that I focused and suddenly, somehow, I was growing, shifting until I was standing again on two legs. Blinking at the sudden shifts in color, I looked at the mirror again and frowned as I reached up and tugged on the pair of ears that were sticking out of my head. The one opposite of the one I was tugging on twitched before laying flat, I have a feeling that I should be worried about that.

Focusing on the sight once more, I watched as the furry ears receded into my head and for a brief strange moment I was deaf before a pair of human ears stuck of the side of my head were they belonged. Pulling my hair back while looking at the sight, I wondered if it was just me that was wondering if they were a bit smaller. After a second I let my hair drop to cover them and decided that it was just my mind being a paranoid bitch.

So with that I stood up and made my way out of the potion's room and noted that my hand's fingernails were a bit pointed, after a moment they shrunk back down into there normal length and with that I continued on back to my common room.


"So where were you?" I blinked my eyes open and looked at Blaise who looked annoyed at me, I just smiled, because I'll be honest I'm in a good mood.

"Just something mildly illegal" He rolled his eyes at that.

"No duh, it's you, of course it's illegal. But that doesn't answer my question" I'm a bad influence on him of that I'm sure, I wonder if it's normal to feel proud about that, probably not.

"I figured out the Animagi transformation" He's eyebrows scrunched up a bit, clearly it was him trying to remember that term when suddenly his eyes snapped up and looked at me in shock, it was amusing enough that I let a grin tug onto my lips before I could stop it. Damn, I'm actually having a lot of fun from this, even if I don't use that transformation much this will have made it totally worth it I'm sure.

"I know you're like a god in transfiguration and all but really? Come on man, now you're just making the rest of us mortals look bad...So what are you? I'm betting it's a snake or maybe an animal that doesn't have emotions, that would make a lot of sense" I gave him an eye roll at that and held back from my normal response that I wasn't a bloody sociopath and instead answered his question.

"I'm a grey fox" He hummed before nodding to himself like he agreed with that assessment though it was clear that he didn't think it was a full match but I could disagree, foxes are tricksters and that about sums up what I am.

"That's pretty cool I'll admit, I kind of want to do it myself now, I wonder what I would be" Looking him over, I thought that maybe saying he was a mother hen would be a bit to insulting and instead just said.

"I'd recommend not trying to until maybe fourth year so you don't accidentally mess anything up. I can help you get the set up done but it involves about twelve hours of straight of transfiguration spell chanting and that isn't your strongest subject" He frowned at that but agreed with me, which is good. I'd rather not gave him end up as half a hen because I didn't give him the proper warnings.

"Fine, but you're going to keep your word on that ok?" I agreed to that as I had already said I would so it was really just him confirming what I said to him. With that he seemed to calm down a bit but I could tell he wanted something, so I just gave him a look and after a moment he spilled what was on my mind.

"Mind letting me see?" He seemed interested in what I looked like as an animal, so I just nodded and with that stood up and made my way towards my room. Though I did feel the need to make sure he knew something.

"If you try to pet me I will bite you" He choked on what seemed to be his own spit before glaring at me as I closed the door behind him as he walked in. I wan't kidding but I have a feeling that he's going to try his luck, oh well, he has some heal potions so he can deal with it himself.


The exams were upon us now and I can say with certainty that I was the only person in the whole of Slytherin that wasn't having a freak out at the moment. You would not believe the amount of people that have mobbed my Brokers and Blaise trying to get a study guide or some kind of one up on there tests. I sent them packing because the cheating wards on the finals are some powerful shit that I don't feel like taking my chances with.

Doesn't change the fact that I totally cheated a few things, like the history test which no one seems to have figured out is always the same. Lockhart's test as a final exam had to be run by the headmaster and as such was probably turned down a good dozen times before the test that we actually did came to being accepted. And like I had figured from the start of the year it was on stuff that he never covered in his class.

And because I didn't even pay attention in his class once, of course I passed with flying colors compared to everyone else who was being spoon feed bull and lies for months now. I think Blaise was glad that I felt the need to be a bit smug every time the DADA exam came up, because he used that to know that nothing that Lockhart 'taught' would more than likely would be on the test.

Past that other ones that weren't particularly all that difficult was Astronomy, as the only person that's always been awake fully during the lessons. Herbology, which I still wasn't all that interested in but have to have a strong level of competence because of all the uses they have for both Potions and Rituals. Speaking of Potions, I'm sure I did well in that class's exam because I kind of have to to be good at my job after all, well one of them at least, I have a lot of side jobs that are involved in my main job.

Charms wasn't anything challenging and I think I really impressed Flitwick by over doing the needed spell to an extreme level, instead of making a box change color before changing it's weight. I made the color consistently change before making the weight become feather light then changed it to make it weigh as much as a house. I can't tell if he was happy at my skill or amused because I put a hole in the classroom floor.

And then of course was Transfiguration and I passed the easily, hell because of the fact that most of transfiguration is about intent and imagination instead of the incantation I have recently figured about silent spell casting for most of the basic properties of transfiguration and that was enough to do the practical exam and that was enough to make it so that McGonagall was looking at me with a look that showed that she was proud of my sudden jump of skill in nonverbal spells.

And with that the exams were over and I was currently sitting down in front of Snape. Today was the day where I was to pick my third year electives, and Snape didn't seem to particularly want to speak to me in general. I think it might have to do with the fact that he knows that he can't keep track of my movements. After all, I did a ritual, killed a basilisk, and defeated a teen Dark Lord all without him finding out before I told him of it myself. He must know that I could do anything without his knowledge and he probably hates that fact.

"Mr. Malo, I'm sure you know why you're here, so tell me which classes you want to take so we can get this over with" He's a bit more blunt than I remember then again I only speak to him every couple months so my memory might just be a bit spotty from the lack of sleep. Tones and sounds of a voice is one of the first thing people forget about of a person after all, well usually, normally it's names that I have the most problem with.

"Of course. I'm planning on taking: Study of Ancient Runes, Care of Magical Creatures, Arithmancy, and Muggle studies" He raised an eyebrow at that before asking.

"You want to take Muggle studies? And what may I ask, would you hope to gain from taking such a subject as a muggleborn" I raised my own eyebrow before explaining.

"Muggle studies is a needed O.W.L for a large amount of jobs that require one to go out into the world. For example Curse breaking, Ward setting, and Ruin exploration to name a few. I have no idea if I'll ever need any of those but no need to burn a bridge" He seemed to think on it for a second before writing something down and said.

"You won't have many hours to do so many classes at once, even with reshuffling the schedules to match up with yours, and for one student such a thing wouldn't happen to just revile some of your stress" I frowned at that and leaned back to look at him, and noted that his face seemed to blank out like he didn't even want the idea of me being able to read him.

"I got word that Hermione Granger is trying to take all classes, and I didn't hear anything of McGonagall turning her down" He's face seemed to harden even more at that, and I figured out his game, he knows of the schools allowance of time turners and probably doesn't even want to think of what I would get up to with the ability to time travel. After a second he seemed to think on it for a moment before saying.

"I'll have to talk to her about that then to see if I can get this sorted out, but I highly doubt that you will get anywhere, so what class will you drop" I have a strong suspicion that he isn't going to have that chat, well, he might but only to confirm my words that McGonagall will try to get Hermione a time turner. Well then I can't have that.

"I'll have to ask her about that as well before I leave to at least confirm as well, after all it would be a shame if my information is wrong...Still, if I can't take all those classes I would still like for you to find me a way to take my Muggle Studies O.W.L" He looked at me for a long second, after all I was giving him an out without giving him an out. I will talk to McGonagall but not until he does and he knows he has to do it before school lets out or I'll be able to force her hand on the matter.

Which means I'm much more likely to get a time tuner from this, and even if he does manage to be able to get around that and not get me one for the next school year then I still win because of the fun fact that he'll have to arrange for me to get the O.W.L. for Muggle Studies which is actually something I want to have. He seemed to have come to that conclusion quickly as he's eyebrows twitched the slightest amount before settling.

"I'll have to see of course so don't get your hopes up" I just smiled and nodded, letting him know that I knew he would have to do one or the other and that we both knew his words were empty. He seemed to glower at me without actually glowering, it was interesting. I think this is actually what Blaise does to read me without having anything to read off of.

"Of course not" And with that I stood up and made my way out of his office.


This chapter was neat because of a few facts. For one I wasn't really planning on doing the whole thing with the Animagus transformation but I figured why not, as it wasn't something Kyu would be able to do during the summer without a high chance of someone finding out about his potion making stuff and he had half a year free of any plots for any side project he wanted to do and Kyu mentioned during the last Summer that he was looking into it out of curiosity so it fit for a chapter subject. Oh also, do you think a name for his fox form would be a good thing, and if so what would his name be? I'm askign because I suck at naming stuff to be honest.

As for the many subjects, well, sure he's stressed out to all hell most of the time but the schooling hasn't ever been much of a concern for him, he's still topping his classes without much problem, not to mention one of his electives is a free class, and the rest he's already read up on a good bit in his own time. And that extra stress is so minute compared to having free time travel on hand. Anyway, See ya.