Sensing Magic
by Teddylonglong
Please refer to chapter 1 for my disclaimer and warnings. Thank you.
Their stay on the Isle of Elves was much fun, as usual. In the morning of the first day, Teddy woke Harry up very early.
"Let's go to the beach. I need to show you something." When Lucy let out a small growl, he added, "Leave Lucy here. We'll be back on time for breakfast anyway."
"It's all right, Lulu. You can sleep a bit more," Harry told the canine, gently caressing her fluffy ears, causing her to simply sleep on.
On the short way to the nearest beach, Harry wondered what his friend wanted to show him; however, Teddy merely smirked. Only when they arrived on the still empty beach, he transformed into a majaroo.
"You did it!" Harry stared at the four-legged animal in front of him in surprise. "How cool! Well done, Teddy."
He was so busy staring and admiring the form that only when his friend playfully slapped his arm with his right front paw, he was brought back to reality and swiftly transformed as well.
Together, they ran over the beach and through the shallow water, doing large jumps and chasing each other. It was much fun.
Only when a group of small children came onto the beach and quickly fled upon noticing two seemingly wild animals rampaging on their playground, did they realise that breakfast time had to be long over. They quickly transformed back and hurried home, glad that they did not meet anyone on the way, who might have connected them to what turned out to be the myth of the wild animals on the beach that spread like a wildfire on the Isle of Elves.
Playing on the playground with the other children, studying Healing with Anastasia and being taught about the elven history by Bandhu, two weeks of holidays passed much too quickly for Harry's and Teddy's liking.
HP
For their travel to Inis Rún, Severus held out an inflatable crocodile, much to Felix' excitement. It was large enough for Regina, Harry, Lucy, Severus and Felix, who was being held by Severus in a firm grip, to hold on to it.
They arrived on the top of what seemed to be a large dune and followed a small, wooden arrow with the inscription 'Bally Sideways'. They soon reached a village and found themselves on a relatively large square.
One side of the square was occupied by a seemingly old church built in an interesting style with several heights of roof. 'This seems to be the main place here,' Harry thought, seeing a tiny branch of Gringotts, a small bookshop and a slightly larger store that seemed to be selling every day needs on the next side of the square. On the third side, he noticed a plate in the front garden of a house decorated with lots of red flowers opposite of the church. 'Healer O'Brien' was written on it. Next to the healer's house was a building that was slightly bigger as it was stretched to the side with a large plate standing in the front of the building: 'For Sale'. The fourth side of the square was occupied by what seemed to be several tiny holiday homes as well as an interesting looking playground.
Severus led them to one of the holiday houses, pointing to the house with the number 9. "Here we are."
The house was small, but it was just large enough for the four of them plus Lucy, and to Harry's relief, it had a small garden in the back. 'Thank Merlin; otherwise, I'd have to take Lucy outside every now and then,' he thought.
"How did you know about this island?" he suddenly remembered to ask his father. "I've never heard of it before."
Severus smirked. "Have you seen the house of Healer O'Brien on the other side of the square? She wrote to me and invited us here, stating that as the inventors of the wolvescure we might be interested in jellygrapes. I told you about them."
Harry nodded. "Yes, they have strong healing properties."
Felix pulled the edge of Harry's robe. "Hawwy, go to de beach now!"
Lucy immediately confirmed the small boy's wish with a series of small woofs.
"Later on, we'll go to see Healer O'Brien. Let's go to the beach first and hope that the two of them will be tired afterwards."
Harry inwardly grinned, knowing from Lucky and Lucy how fast they had become tired, when they had been walking along the beach on the Isle of Elves.
Indeed, thirty minutes later, Severus was giving Felix a piggy ride.
"Mum, why don't you transform into your majaroo form and put Felix into your bag?"
His parents exchanged a look, before they apparently decided to try it out. When Regina transformed, Severus carefully lowered Felix into the bag, where he automatically transformed into a small majaroo.
"How cute he is," Harry cooed, as he carefully glanced into his mother's bag, causing Lucy to gently push him aside to get a good luck.
"Now, Harry and Lucy, leave your mother and Felix alone." Severus shook his head in apparent annoyance.
However, Felix seemed to have other ideas. Apparently, not feeling tired of walking anymore, he jumped out of the bag and, instead of automatically turning back into his human form, took a few unsteady steps in his majaroo form.
"I just hope he'll be able to transform back afterwards. Otherwise, we'll have to call Minerva for help," Harry commented, before he transformed into his second Animagus form as well – to Lucy's obvious displeasure.
"Hey doggy, care for some feline company?" A moment later, a lynx joined the group of three majaroos and one canine, before Felix became tired after a few minutes of jumping and running through the snow on four legs. He sat in front of his mother, raising his front paws for her to pick him up and place him back into the bag.
When Severus carefully took Felix out, so that Regina could transform back before leaving the beach later on, the child automatically took on his human form.
Harry immediately liked Inis Rún. Somehow, it reminded him of the Isle of Elves.
HP
Later the same day, they went to see Healer O'Brien, a very kind older witch, who immediately invited them to stay for dinner and told them many things about the small island. When Regina told her that Harry was a natural healer and had been studying Healing with Poppy Pomfrey for about three years so far, her eyes widened. Her expression was laced with disbelief but at the same time hope. "Is that really true? In fact, I have three patients here on the island, whom I'm not able to help."
Harry smiled at the unasked question. "If I can help, I will."
"Thank you so very much." The healer reached out to squeeze his hand in apparent gratefulness. "Let me talk to them and arrange something for next week. First of all, you enjoy your holiday here. I'll also arrange for one of the fishermen, perhaps Larry O'Leary, to take you out to harvest jellygrapes on Sunday."
Severus profusely thanked the old witch. "Harry, do you wish to accompany us?"
"Of course."
tbc...
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