A few days passed and things within 12 Grimmauld Place were fairly calm. No one seemed willing to trigger Harry's anger even the portrait of Sirius' mother was silent. Harry worked on his summer homework even pulling an unwilling Ron into getting it finished. Hermione who had already finished hers frowned at the book Harry allowed her to look at and tried to figure out the writing within it with the few words Harry had given a translation for.
Harry and his friends were laughing as they headed down the stairs and towards the kitchen. They wanted a drink and snack before getting back to work. Harry glanced over at Hermione then looked at Ron again. Even though they were nervous of him and his changes the group seemed to be closer than it had been previously.
"Hey, Harry why do you not use your glasses anymore?" Ron finally asked a question he had been wondering. Harry glanced at Ron and shook his head. He had really wondered when one of his friends would actually ask about the fact he ignored his glasses most of the time.
"I think my prescription has changed. I can see a lot better without them than with them now." Harry admitted with a shrug. He sighed and rubbed at his eyes a moment though and muttered.
"I should probably go and get them tested before school though. My vision still needs glasses to some extent." Harry admitted. Hermione frowned at Harry and smacked the back of his head.
"Harry you will talk to one of the adults about this. Going without when you still need them to some extent will do more damage than good!" Hermione snapped causing Harry to start laughing and shake his head a bit. Hermione had been the first to get over his changes so far and in some ways, he was becoming more comfortable with her than with Ron. It was a strange change in his feelings.
"Fine Hermione I will talk to them." Harry grumbled as he tugged on his lengthening hair. He looked over at Ron only to blink and frown a moment then reached out grabbed Ron's shoulder and paused to look Ron in the eyes.
"What's up Harry?" Ron asked confused by Harry's actions. Harry kept frowning as he moved a bit closer to Ron.
"Ron, you haven't shrunk right?" Harry asked as he looked to Hermione and realized he was actually looking down at her a bit. Ron frowned at Harry shaking his head.
"No what is it mate?" Ron asked pure confusion at Harry's reaction to something. He really started to worry about Harry's reactions to things so was being a bit nervous in his reactions.
"When did I become the same height as you, Ron? I've always been shorter." Harry pointed out causing Ron to look at their feet to make sure Harry wasn't standing on anything then looked at Harry's eyes again only to blink.
"Wow, that was a surprising growth spurt. I thought you'd always be around the same height as 'Mione." Ron said as Hermione looked between the two and shook her head.
"Hopefully you don't keep growing at this rate, or all those new clothes you bought won't last you long." Hermione said with a slight smirk. Harry groaned at Hermione's words realizing how true they would be.
"Damn it, why is this happening now! I've barely grown compared to anyone else and now I'm sprouting like a weed!" Harry cried out in despair as they finally entered the kitchen. Hermione and Ron both started to laugh at Harry's over the top reaction to the situation not noticing who was in the kitchen.
"Oh, so the boy who lived for attention has something new to cry over?" Came a dark silky voice from one corner of the kitchen causing all three of the friends to freeze. Harry's head slowly turned to face the gloomy appearance of his most hated teacher.
"Professor Snape, are you here to belittle us or is there an actual purpose to your being here?" Harry growled his whole body stiffening and his yellow eyes narrowing. He slowly brushed his slowly changing hair behind his ears which both Hermione and Ron noticed were changing shape slightly too. They looked at each other then at everyone around them wondering if anyone else was noticing the new changes.
"That is none of your business boy." Severus snarled and Harry stiffened completely his eyes widening as his nostrils flared in anger. The symbol on his right hand began to glow causing both Ron and Hermione to rapidly back away and look at everyone else in the kitchen and motion them to get out of the way of the two. Several people started to back away from what was going on causing Severus to puff up.
"Are you all afraid on this little attention seeking brat that is exactly like his over-inflated ego father?" Severus growled. He didn't even notice as Harry threw his hand out sending a ball of energy towards the man his yellow eyes glowing gold with rage.
"You know not what you speak of." Harry growled his voice deepening some as he spoke. The ball slammed into Severus' chest causing him to hit the wall hard and gasp barely able to stay conscious. Harry began to stalk towards Severus his eyes still glowing with the anger. He reached out and grabbed Severus by his throat and actually started to lift the man up. Severus scrabbled against the wall his black eyes widening in shocked fear at what was going on, as Severus squirmed he saw some of the fire red highlighting in Harry's hair visibly grow in amount.
"Let me go Potter." Severus growled even though it was obvious a lot of fear was in his voice as he stared at Harry. Harry narrowed his eyes at Severus before suddenly releasing his hold on Severus' neck and watched as the man collapsed to the floor. He bent over the man his eyes still narrowed.
"Never challenge me of by Din you will not like the results." Harry growled spun and stalked out of the kitchen. Nearly everyone who had witnessed what happened released the breaths they had been holding even Harry's two friends.
"Okay anyone else think Harry is getting scarier?" Sirius asked causing everyone to turn and stare at the man. He shrugged a bit and smiled nervously.
"What was that?" Severus asked obviously not happy. Hermione and Ron glanced at each other then back at Severus.
"Something that none of us understand that is happening to Harry." Hermione stated before walking over to fill a few cups with some water then walked out with them to go find Harry.
"Don't do stuff that will piss off Harry. That's all I can say as it's not healthy for the person to do so." Ron stated then followed Hermione out with Severus still staring after the two. Severus slowly looked at everyone else and growled as he stood and stalked out of the room after a few minutes. The people still in the kitchen start to try and hold in laughter at Severus' reaction to things going on.
Hermione finds Harry after a bit of searching and holds the cup out to him. Harry jumps a bit seeing the cup appear in front of him then looked up at Hermione and weakly smiled at her. Hermione sat next to him shaking her head a bit.
"Harry it's okay. You didn't do any permanent harm." Hermione said softly causing Harry to huff softly shaking his head.
"That's not it Hermione. It's the fact I could have, that I wanted to." Harry stated softly rubbing his face after what he said. Then looked at Hermione again. "It would have been so easy."
"What do you mean Harry?" Hermione asked worried at Harry's words. Harry looked at his hands before slowly taking the cup and drinking the water in it. He quickly finished the cup and looked at the cup his yellow eyes shining with worry.
"Exactly what I said, Hermione. It would be so easy. Just a squeeze and…" Harry said as he squeezed the mug in his hand and it shattered with absolutely no effort on Harry's part. Hermione jumped and stared in shock as the shards of the mug fell to the ground and Harry twisted his hand up to show no damage to his hand from the shards.
"Harry, I don't care about this. You are still my friend and always will be. What happened in the kitchen was Severus' fault, not yours. We know with what is happening with you to rile your anger is not the thing to do." Hermione stated and hugged Harry lightly from behind. Harry took a slow deep breath his eyes still centering on the shards from the mug.
"Hermione the strength is no longer just anger triggered. I always seem to have it, it would be so easily to just without meaning too, to hurt someone." Harry murmured and quivered a bit. Hermione sighed softly shaking her head wishing she had some way to break Harry out of the funk he was starting to get himself into. Hermione placed a hand on Harry's shoulder and smiled a bit.
"Harry we will figure this out and you won't hurt anyone, you'll see." Hermione stated trying to push as much confidence into her words as she could. Harry looked at Hermione and weakly smiled before looking down again.
"'Mione I don't even know if I am Harry anymore. I'm changing so much. I've grown my eyes have changed, my hair is in the process of changing, and not even in ways that happen normally as you grow." Harry pointed out. He glared at the symbol on the back of his right hand and stood slowly. Hermione stood not long after him then smacked the back of his head as hard as she could causing him to spin and stare at her in shock.
"You will always be Harry Potter. No matter what is happening. It is what your parents named you when you were born, it is the person who became my best friend." Hermione stated glaring at him. Harry blinked a few times then laughed before wrapping his arms around her and lifting her into a huge bear hug. Hermione gasped then starts to laugh and smack at Harry's arms to try and get him to let her go. Harry slowly set her down and smiled a bit.
"Thank you Hermione. I needed to hear that." Harry said softly still smiling a bit. Hermione nodded then looked at the shards left from the mug, before looking again at Harry.
"We should clean that up or get one of the adults to do so." Hermione said blushing a bit and shaking her head at the mess. Harry shrugged and knelt down easily starting to gather the pieces. Hermione stepped away and found a small bag they could put the pieces in and held it open next to Harry. He looked up and started to drop the pieces into the bag with a nod.
Once all the pieces were placed into the bag the two of them walked next to each other and out of the room. Outside the room, Harry blinked surprised to see Ron sitting next to the door his eyes mostly closed and arms crossed across his chest.
"Thank you, Ron, for making sure no one would interfere in my conversation with Harry." Hermione said with a bright smile. Ron scratched at his nose and laughed softly before shrugging a moment.
"I'm not good with the feeling stuff, but I knew you'd be the one capable of pulling Harry out of the funk he was in due to what happened." Ron stated then smacked Harry's shoulder causing Harry to just shake his head.
"Thank you both of you. I doubt I could handle this half as well as I have been without the two of you." Harry said causing both to smile at him and place an arm over his shoulder. They walked together back down to the kitchen and saw a few people in there chatting mostly about what had happened earlier making Harry huff.
"Must we center on my loss of control?" Harry asked the people in the kitchen causing many of them to shift guiltily. Harry huffed before sitting down at the table looking between everyone gathered. Several of the people sitting at the table started to move away obviously not comfortable with having Harry's eyes on them.
"Harry ignore those gossiping busybodies and sit. My home is yours Pronglet." Sirius stated with a bright grin at Harry. Harry chuckled before sitting across from his godfather. Hermione and Ron soon joined them at the table before Ron looked about and spotted his mother.
"Hey mom is there anything to eat?" Ron asked causing Harry to smile but nod. Food did sound really good at the moment.
"Sure I will get you all some food just give me a bit of time." Molly replied grinning happily. If there was one time when she was truly happy, it was while cooking food for others. She started to cook as Harry shook his head and smirked at Ron a moment.
"You are always hungry Ron but food does sound wonderful." Harry agreed with a bright smile his eyes shining a bit. He was actually surprised by how hungry he was. Then again he had shot up in height very fast. It only took a little while before food was placed onto the table and Harry started to eat. He was downing much more food than he normally had but was very polite about how he was eating, unlike Ron who just gobbled his food down.
"Ron stop gobbling down your food and eat a bit tidier." Molly snapped at her youngest son as he gobbled down the food. Hermione chuckled from her stop sipping at a cup of tea she had made herself. Harry chuckled as he continued to happily eat away. Molly grinned seeing Harry eating much more than he normally had during previous years.
"Thank you, Mrs. Weasley. Your food is always so good." Harry said as he finally started to feel full.
"Harry dear, call me Molly. There is no need for this Mrs. Weasley stuff." Molly stated with a large smile. Harry chuckled again and shook his head for a moment, then slowly nodded his head.
"As you wish Molly." Harry replied softly as he moved the dishes he had finished with over to the counter to be cleaned. He paused next to Molly Weasley and nodded to her before placing his hand on her shoulder easily gripping it lightly before turning and leaving the kitchen. Molly smiled softly after Harry happy with his reactions.
Harry glanced towards the portrait behind its curtain and frowned moving toward it. The portrait was one of the most irritating things within the house, but the magic on it prevented anyone from getting rid of it. Harry twitched one hand and slowly reached toward the curtain and imagined fire licking across the canvas of the portrait.
Harry was so focused on the image he didn't notice Remus and Sirius walking in the room and pausing seeing him. His hand that was not reaching for the curtain had fire flickering around it and the symbol on the back of his hand was glowing again. He pulled the curtain aside causing the portrait to spin and prepare to yell only to freeze seeing the golden yellow eyes narrowed at it. Without thought, Harry lifted his flaming hand and touched a corner of the canvas only to watch with a dark smirk as the canvas was eaten by the fire.
"Enjoy the last bit of your existence," Harry growled out as he watched the fire spreading across the canvas and the portrait let out a violent scream of fear bringing even more people into the room. Everyone froze watching the red flames eat the canvas as Harry stood calmly watching before turning his hair now brushing the top of his shoulders as he glanced at everyone before walking past them. No one blocked him as they watched the portrait burn and as the last scrap burned away the fire went out.
"Well looks like you don't need to put up with her when we head back to school Sirius." Hermione said trying to make light of what they had just seen. She glanced after Harry then looked at Ron who had paled a bit and gulped.
"Hermione that was no magic I know. What is going on?" Ron asked Hermione who glanced again at the frame of the one time portrait. Hermione shook her head again and sighed.
"Ron it doesn't matter. He is our best friend, as long as he needs us we will stay by him." Hermione stated causing Ron to nod next to her and head after Harry. Harry was his best friend and would remain that way until something mainly Harry himself caused it to stop. The two found Harry in the boys shared room going through his trunk frowning. He glanced at the two and sighed a moment before he continued digging through his trunk before chucking clothes into a corner.
"Ron, I'm gonna have to convince your mother to take me to Diagon Alley or someone. I need an entirely new wardrobe. Nothing fits properly anymore." Harry grumbled glaring at the clothing strewn about. Ron paused then looked at Harry noticing how is top was stretched across his frame and his pans showed his socks completely as the cuff was too high. Ron frowned seeing this and shook his head in shock.
"Well, maybe we can convince more enough that when we go to get school supplies you can get more clothes, cause if you keep growing like this you might need a couple sizes larger too." Ron stated looking Harry over a bit. He turned to head and talk to his mother as Hermione sighed and glanced at Harry who had pulled out a muggle tee-shirt and was frowning at it.
"Bloody Hell I just bought this too." Harry muttered and looked over at Hermione actually pouting a bit. Hermione covered her mouth quickly so as not to laugh at his appearance as he pouted. Really he was starting to look so intimidating and scary sometimes but here he was pouting like a little kid.
"Harry we can replace it easy enough." Hermione pointed out causing Harry to huff and look at the door then over to Hermione shaking his head a shine of knowledge in his eyes.
"Hermione I love you, but you are so naive sometimes. They will not let me go anywhere by myself now that I am here and getting out to Muggle London will probably be almost impossible to convince them." Harry pointed out and sighed deciding not to bring up all the new abilities he was getting that would make them even less likely to allow him into muggle London being worried the new powers might erupt at any time. Hermione huffed at Harry's words but chose not to argue with him over the point.
"Harry Ron was telling me that you need new clothes. May I check?" Molly's voice called from the hall. Harry huffed at this and rolled his eyes before moving to the doorway.
"Yes, you may. I'm wearing my largest set of clothes right now so it will be pretty obvious." Harry stated and watching Molly walk into the room and look at him. She frowned looking over his size and sighed nodding in recognition of what has happened with him. She nodded pulling at the shirt then tugging at a pant leg.
"Yes, he is right. If you keep growing as you have been by the end of the year your clothing is going to be too small again." Molly muttered and sighed a bit. The cost of this would not be cheap and on top of that, it would require Harry to go to Diagon Alley something Albus didn't want.
"Well, I will try to set up a trip for you harry it may take a few days." Molly said before turning to go call Albus and speak to him. Really he wouldn't listen at all to what was going on with Harry when really he should have come to see what they were talking about at least once.
"Thank you Molly." Harry called after her watching her go before going back to talking with Hermione and Ron as he soon rejoined them.