Harry awoke slowly in the morning groaning lightly. His dreams had been a confused mess of the nightmare he had awoken from and strange desert dwellings and sand. He slowly sat up his eyes mostly still shut as he rubbed at his face again. He opened his trunk hearing the other boys slowly waking up and grabbed his clothes for the day.
Harry stepped into the bathroom and glanced into the mirror staring for a moment at his appearance. He had changed so much but it felt right especially the power that thrummed through his form. He shook his head and growled noticing his hair was now another full inch longer than the night before. Harry started to twist his hair to the top of his head then snarled in frustration that it wasn't long enough before just tying it off at the base of his skull.
Harry cleaned up dressed and walked back into the dorm room to see most of the other boys getting going slowly. He moved over to Ron's bed as his friend seemed to not even be moving yet. Harry kicked the mattress Ron was sleeping on causing the whole bed to shake and Ron to jump out of sleep in confusion.
"Come on Ron get ready. You want a decent amount of breakfast right?" Harry asked his friend making Ron groan and move as though to curl back up. Harry reached down and grabbed Ron's shoulder holding back his strength so as not to hurt his friend.
"Ron get up!" Harry said shaking Ron gently. Ron groaned opening his eyes slowly. He looked at Harry then around the room again.
"Don't wanna get up." Ron mumbled trying to curl up again as Harry sighed. Harry moved about grabbed Ron's blanket and whipped it off the other boy making Ron cry out again.
"Ron it's time to get up or you will have to explain to Professor McGonagall why you are not down at breakfast to get your class schedule." Harry stated as he moved to leave half watching as Ron rolled out of his bed to hit the floor. Harry laughed watching this as the other body practically crawls to grab his stuff and head to the bathroom to prepare for the day himself. Harry made sure he had a basic bag of stuff for the day then headed into the common room to wait for Ron and head down to breakfast.
Harry leaned back against a wall and smiled a bit as he relaxed thinking on what class might be is first of the week. He smiled as Hermione soon joined him and nodded seeing her bag being stuffed full. Harry chuckled and shook his head slowly.
"Hermione you don't need to bring everything on your first day." Harry murmured with a soft smile. Hermione shrugged and frowned at Harry a bit.
"We need to be ready for classes from the beginning." Hermione stated causing Harry to chuckled again. He placed his hand on Hermione's shoulder.
"Don't change Hermione." He stated then glanced hearing a fairly loud yawn coming from up the stairs. Harry watched Ron stumble down the stairs yawning again his clothes only just on and looking like a hard wind could pull them off of him. Harry and Hermione both started to laugh as Ron yawned again.
"Come on Ron you won't be functional till you actually get some food in you." Harry stated and grabbed onto Ron's shoulder to make sure that he made it down to the great hall. They made it to the great hall easily and Harry made sure that Ron sat with a large amount of food in front of him. Ron blinked and started to stuff his mouth with food as Harry and Hermione began to fill their plates with food.
Harry blinked as a sheet of paper is placed next to him as he was eating. He looked up and nodded seeing professor McGonagall handing out the class schedules. He picked up his schedule and glanced at what is first class would be only to huff with irritation.
"Harry please we don't need him angrier at you try to control your temper at him during classes?" Hermione requested seeing the first class was Potions. Harry glanced and groaned in again before stiffening a bit and glancing around. His eyes finally landed on Draco who was giving him a death glare. Harry started to chuckle his eyes locking onto the other boy.
Harry's yellow eyes started to shine gold as he slowly let a dark predatory grin cover his face as he kept his eyes on Draco. Draco flinched seeing the look Harry was giving him causing a few of the other Slytherins who noticed Draco flinch looked up several of them paling seeing Harry's look. Harry started to chuckle darkly watching several of the Slytherins shift uncomfortably.
"Harry stop intimidating the poor pureblood supremacists." Hermione murmured causing Harry to laugh a moment and release the power that was flaring into his eyes.
"But it is so fun Hermione, besides they deserve some fear in their lives." Harry said as he leaned back. Hermione took a slow deep breath as she smacked the back of Harry's head. Harry turned to look at her in pure shock at her willingness to hit him.
"Don't look at me like that. You know you deserve that." Hermione stated giving Harry a dry look as he starts to chuckle again before moving back to his food. Ron just groaned looking at the two and slowly shook his head.
"Come on Hermione you know they deserve it. Look at what the ferret called you in the third year that made you punch him." Ron pointed out making Hermione huff in irritation as Harry chuckled more and patted Hermione's shoulder gently.
"Come on at least I'm not getting physical with them. Though I suspect if I did I'd break most of them." Harry admitted as he gave a dark grin. Hermione just groaned as Ron laughed loudly. Harry sighed as he finished his food and glanced about. Hermione stood from the table and smiled at the two.
"Okay, you two hurry it up. We need to get down to the dungeons before the Professor gets to the class. We don't want to irritate him." Hermione stated causing both Harry and Ron to groan.
"Hermione there is no preventing him from being irritated with me." Harry said as he moved away from the table. Ron groaned and looked at the table again then at his friends.
"Do we have too." Ron half whined as Harry placed his hand on Ron's shoulder and gripped slightly.
"Don't make me lift you up Ron. I don't wanna test my strength that much." Harry stated causing Ron to groan and slowly push himself up. He half-heartedly glared at Harry as he grabbed his own stuff.
"You are becoming a major pain mate. I really don't wanna have to face Snape first thing this morning." Ron stated. Harry smirked and headed out of the great hall sure that Hermione would make sure that Ron followed along. Harry headed through the halls stretching slowly as he walked. He stopped outside of the potions classroom. Several other students already gathering there. He moved to lean against a wall and shut his eyes to wait. He only opened his eyes as Ron and Hermione moved to stand next to him.
"So Harry what is your plant to deal with Snape this year?" Ron asked as Harry chuckled a bit.
"Ron he will never act nice there is no point in trying to change it." Harry stated as Hermione shook her head a bit.
"Harry if you showed some respect to Professor Snape he might not be so hard on you." Hermione said causing Harry to stare at her again.
"Hermione he will never change he has a raging gay hardon for treating me as badly as he can." Harry growled as several of the other students stared at him for his words.
"Potter detention tonight after dinner for your words. Everyone into class." Snape's voice snarled from where he stood staring at Harry. He watched as everyone enters the class then stalks in himself his robes billowing dramatically as he moves to the front of the class.
"Since it seems this class has become more immature than any of my others. I will remind all of you that there should be no messing around or playing games within this class. Any who do will serve detention with me." Severus growled as each person got behind a table. He lifted his wand and waved it at the board in front of the class.
"We shall start with one of the easier potions you did last year. Get to work." He stated. Harry looked over the board reading each ingredient letting many of the others rush to the cupboard first. He stood and slowly moved into the cupboard and gathered his ingredients calmly. Harry paused as he entered the cupboard and looked around it. Things were missing weren't they, he almost turned to ask Severus where a few items were before stopping himself.
Harry instead gathered his ingredients went back to his spot and began to carefully prepare them. The thought on missing items still bothering him. He worked silently on his potion not even noticing Severus stalking around the room watching each person as they worked. He kept his mind one step ahead of what he was working on making sure his timing was better when he heard a growl behind him causing him to glance up.
"Can I help you Professor?" Harry asked noticing the man hovering over him. He watched as Severus turned away obviously not happy about Harry's showing skill. Harry went back to work and frowned noticing some movement from the corner of his eye. He moved and felt an item bounce off his shoulder and away from his cauldron making him growl softly.
Harry looked up and around the class trying to figure out who threw something before getting back to work. Really with how dangerous potions could be adding something to someone else's cauldron was dangerous. He sighed as he frowned remembering his mothers working around a cauldron at sometimes and again froze up for a mere moment. He didn't have mothers where did this thought come from.
Harry concentrated on the potion pushing the strange thought back for now. He growled feeling eyes locking on him as though looking for an opening as he worked his eyes starting to glow gold with irritation. Could no one leave him alone for any length of time. Peace seemed to be something he would never receive. Harry finished his potion shortly after everyone else. His potion seemed to be within a couple shades of the exact right color. Harry bottled his potion and took it up to Severus desk once labeled.
He walked back to his work station and began to clean it up as he tried to sort out the thought he had had earlier. His parents where Lily and James Potter not two women so why did he remember having two mothers? He frowned as he cleaned up his cauldron and the table. He glanced up as the last few finished. The class was soon dismissed and Harry rushed out of the classroom with a sigh of relief. He paused and waited for his friends to catch up. Ron threw his arm around Harry's shoulders and shook his head at Harry.
"Harry I don't know what happened but you did a lot better than I have ever seen." Ron stated. Harry shrugged thinking on it again.
"Someone threw something at my cauldron. I was able to stop it from getting in." Harry admitted softly. Both Ron and Hermione stared at Harry as he stated that.
"Harry you should of let Professor Snape know. You heard him about people doing such things." Hermione stated as Harry rolled his eyes. He placed a hand gently on Hermione's shoulder.
"Hermione he would never listen to me. You know that." Harry pointed out with a groan. Really she needed to stop with this belief in the higher-ups. Hermione groaned as they reached the classroom for Transfiguration.
"I hate it when you are right about those things." Hermione groaned rubbing her face a bit. Harry chuckled and shook his head before pulling her into a quick hug.
"You wouldn't be you if you didn't trust teachers as much as you did." Harry stated then released Hermione and stepped into the classroom finding a seat quickly. Ron and Hermione joined him quickly shaking their heads a bit and glancing at each other then Harry.
"So Harry what took you so long in the ingredient cupboard?" Ron asked finally keeping an eye out for McGonagall and the start of class.
"I'll explain later. I'm trying to get a clearer idea of things that are going on in my head." Harry admitted softly. Hermione nodded as McGonagall arrived and walked into the class to start it. Harry listened about the review and the fact that it was their OWLs year. Harry groaned hearing her going on about the tests.
Harry began practicing what Professor McGonagall encouraged each student with the practice. Harry frowned as he looked at the object he was transforming. It seemed so wrong to change an object from one thing into another. He felt like it was something that should only be used in extreme circumstances or those were the only situations where it could be used.
Harry looked down at the object easily reverting it to normal. He murmured silently to himself, before looking up again and then frowned in thought before getting the professor's attention.
"Yes, Mr. Potter is there something I can do for you?" She asked as Harry smiled a moment and nodded.
"I was wondering if I could quickly ask you something after class." Harry requested softly. He may not like the idea of shifting items around but being able to transform himself seemed like a great idea.
"Certainly once the class is dismissed I will come talk to you." The professor said making Harry smile and nod before going back to work. He frowned a bit as he paused again. He ran his hands over his face a bit then leaned his head back. The Professor probably wouldn't help him in his desire if he did poorly in the class just because he was uncomfortable with changing the nature of items.
Harry frowned and looked again then frowned a bit. He could see where the usefulness of being able to transform stuff into other stuff, but the one that bothered him was the inanimate to animate and animate to inanimate. He leaned back as McGonagall dismissed the students and walked over to Harry.
"What is it you wanted to know Harry?" the Professor asked. Harry glanced and smiles a moment.
"I was wondering if you could tell me anything about how to legally work towards becoming an animagus?" Harry asked causing the professor to blink a bit.
"So you wish to look into the requirements for it. Are you planning to attempt?" The professor asked causing Harry to smile a bit.
"I might but I do want to know the requirements and laws first." Harry stated with a slight smile. Professor McGonagall nodded slowly seeing Harry's desire and explanation on it as a good thing.
"I will get the information together for you Harry. Then give it to you in a week." She said and Harry smiled brightly at her statement.
"Thank you Professor. I really appreciate this." Harry replied before waving and heading out. It was time to head for the great hall and lunch. Harry blinked surprised to see Ron and Hermione waiting for him outside the classroom.
"Surprised you two didn't head to the great hall and food." Harry stated causing Ron to laugh and Hermione to smile.
"We decided it would be better to wait for you. You are our best friend after all." Hermione reminded Harry playfully as Ron chuckled at Harry.
"There is lots of time I can get plenty to eat as long as we hurry up and get there now." Ron stated and tried to pull Harry and Hermione to the great hall. Harry smirked set his feet and watched as Ron tried to shift him. Ron grunted causing Harry to chuckle before moving causing the other boy to stumble with the sudden change in motion. Hermione snickered softly as Ron playfully looked at Harry in a hurt manner.
"Something wrong there Ron?" Harry asked smirking still as he kept walking towards the great hall forcing both of them to hurry after him.
"Mate that was a mean trick." Ron growled and pounced on Harry's back with a soft growl. Harry laughed and smirked not even pausing his walking towards the Great hall. Hermione watched Ron being carried by Harry with no issue. She blinked a couple of times as Harry kept walking forward.
"Harry? Isn't Ron heavy at all?" Hermione asked as Harry turned his head to look at Hermione and smirked.
"Not really. I haven't even noticed his weight yet." Harry admitted. Hermione blinked a couple of times then frowned in curiosity as she tapped Ron causing him to let go of Harry and land on the ground. Harry looked between the two then started to grin and kneels onto the ground.
"Hermione get on I want to see if I can make it all the way to the Great Hall with you on your bag on my back." Harry stated causing Hermione to blush a bit. Hermione glanced at Ron and Ron just grinned at her.
"Do it I wanna see this!" Ron cried out in excitement and finally, Hermione moved into position behind Harry and wrapped her arms about his shoulders as Harry wrapped his arms under Hermione's legs before standing up again. Hermione gave a soft cry out in surprise at how easily Harry lifted her up. She had yet to set down her bag even as he had.
"Harry, you okay?" Hermione asked feeling a little nervous about her present position on Harry's back. Harry chuckled as he began walking forward feeling no real effort at this.
"No problem at all Hermione. This is easy." Harry stated as Ron walked along beside Harry. Ron laughed shaking his head glancing at Harry a couple of extra times.
"Harry this is a scary amount of strength you are showing." Ron stated. Harry shrugged even with Hermione wrapped about his neck. He glanced back making sure that she wasn't losing her grip. Hermione started to giggle as Harry kept walking grinning widely.
"Maybe I should charge for some rides?" Harry joked as they approached the doors to the Great Hall. Harry looked at the doors as a grin crossed his lips and glanced back at Hermione. "Hold on tight." He said and waited till he felt Hermione's grip tightened then charged forward as quickly as he could towards the doors smashing them open and laughing even as Hermione laughed and held onto him. Everyone who was already in the Great Hall turned to look at the noise and saw Harry charging into the great hall with Hermione on his back. He stopped after a few more feet getting close to the Gryffindor table before kneeling down again to let Hermione get off his back.
"Harry you are crazy." Hermione stated gasping a bit from the last bit of her ride. Harry just smirked as he stood up once Hermione has fully released him. He moved to find a spot to sit at the table still smirking as the great hall started to whisper about what they had just witnessed. Harry ignored it as Hermione slowly moved to sit next to Harry going back to smiling.
"What can't even enter the great hall normally Potter?" Malfoy's voice snarled from the Slytherin table. Harry groaned and glared at Draco with irritation.
"It's called having style Malfoy." Harry stated causing several of the students around him to start laughing. Malfoy glares and starts to stand preparing to charge at the bigger boy.
"Come over here and say that to my face." Malfoy snarled causing Harry to raise a single eyebrow at the other boy.
"You don't want me doing that Malfoy. There is no reason for you to be such a drama queen." Harry said causing more snickers around the tables.
"Shut up you freak!" Malfoy snarled trying to puff up in a bit of anger. Draco moved to head towards Harry as Luna smacks the back of Malfoy's head as she passed by behind him heading towards the Ravenclaw table. While walking though she looks at Harry her blue eyes being very sharp staring at him for a moment as Malfoy leaped and turned before then frowning as he watched Luna walking towards her table.
Harry's eyes burned in rage as he tensed ready to leap at Draco until his eyes locked onto Luna's. He winced seeing the sharpness in her eyes and rubbed at the back of his head then chuckled on what had happened before turning to concentrate on eating and not on the ferret any longer.