Chapter 4: The Light Becomes Dark

Harry woke up to the alarm charm he put under his pillow to make him wake up at 7:00 am. Harry quickly got changed into his black Hogwarts robes then snuck out the room quickly and quietly. He slowly crept down the stairs to meet up with Ginny as she was also doing this so they could go down together.

Harry, are you coming down? Ginny asked

Uh yeah I'm almost there.

Well hurry up I'm hungry.

Alright, alright calm down. Harry said

Harry reached the bottom of the stairs then departed the stairwell and entered the circular common room of Gryffindor tower. When he got down he began searching for the small redhead then found her at the portrait hole.

"Are you ready?" Ginny said

"Yeah let's go." he said

"You know I'm really looking forward to that howler." she said after a couple minutes of silence on the grand white, marble staircase.

"That should be fun." Harry said

They quickly made it to the bottom steps then walked over to the great hall for breakfast and a schedule. When they walked into the great hall it already had some people so they sat down at their usual seats at the table.

"Ah, good you're both awake this early." Mcgonagall said as she gave them both a schedule.

"Ooh Transfiguration first." Ginny said

"Same." he said

"Then we have Snape." Harry said

"Alright, double transfiguration and double potions before lunch. This should be good." Ginny said thoughtfully.

They talked for about 20 minutes before the food all appeared on their golden plates. Quickly students began flocking into the great hall for breakfast. When the time for post owls came in Harry noted Perla's golden owl with a red envelope meaning a howler. Malfoy, the Slytherins and Ron all watched in anticipation as the owl dropped the howler then stole some of his bacon. The howler quickly raised into the air then opened its mouth to speak and Perla's voice came out.

"Hey Harry it's me Jewel I had to force a drunk Tonks not to do this howler. I guess it's just a family thing, but Really Black Claw? It's your first day on the opening feast and you were caught with alcohol. You need to learn how to sneak it or smuggle it but you are the best thing to happen to me so I don't care. I did the same thing that you did so I shouldn't be talking. I should probably finish this now because Tonks is laughing her ass off right now.

P.S: Don't get caught, stay strong marauder, and never stop pranking."

Harry just began laughing in much amusement as did Ginny and the twins at Perla's antics. Everyone else was disappointed that nothing really embarrassing happened. As he looked around he looked at the snack table and saw Snape was highly annoyed and that Mcgonagall was as pale as paper about to be shredded.

As breakfast ended Dumbledore spoke," as amusing as that was, you should all head to classes." Dumbledore chuckled.

With Dumbledore dismissing them they all began filing out of the great hall. The trio of Harry, Ginny and Neville made their way to their first class of the day, Transfiguration. To all three of them their transfiguration was very good and to them it was easy.

When they entered the classroom they found a gray tabby cat sitting on the professor's desk. Harry having the enhanced vision and sense of smell he quickly noticed it as an animagus. Harry walked up to professor Mcgonagall and transformed into a Leopard. Harry, having practiced complex spells in his animagus form. He conjured a Leopard Patronus and made it speak.

"Alright class this is Professor Mcgonagall in her animagus form which is a cat and as you can see mine is a Leopard The Patronus spoke in Harry's voice.

When the Patronus stopped talking everyone was in a state of shock. Hermione though was becoming very excited and curious for her own good.

"Can you teach us how to do that spell? Isn't that beyond N.E.W.T level? Can you make us become animagus?" Hermione said with excitement while Ginny and Neville rolled their eyes at her.

"Well Hermione, no to both first that spell is way above Newts and you won't learn the animagus form until you're in your 6th or 7th year. Also it is highly dangerous." Harry responded.

"But you're an animagus." Hermione argued.

"Yes I am but I had training." Harry said

"Good explanation and please be quiet." Mcgonagall said

"Mr. Potter, how did you do a spell in your animagus form?" she asked.

"Well you still have magical power even as an animal. The reason why it's so difficult is because you pretty much need to master wandless magic and non verbal magic to try to do magic as an animal. It is harder to become an animagus if you are a metamorphmagus but it is possible. It's amazing that I can change my eyes to the eyes of a leopard and make them purple to have amazing vision that is greater than one of a human. I can also smell things better than usual and that is why I found out you were an animagus. I smelled the smell of a human not a cat." Harry said while everyone was watching him in shock including the professor.

"That is amazing, I didn't even know that. 75 points to Gryffindor." She said still shocked at his explanation of the animagus forms.

"Why are you not the teacher? You know a lot of transfiguration for a student?" Ron said to him.

"Disrespect the teacher one more time and you are a monkey hanging from the ceiling." Harry threatened as Ron got pale.

Mcgonagall was too shocked to do anything about the threat so she continued to explain Transfiguration and made them read the first chapter of the book.

The rest of the day was normal except in potions where Snape decided to question him on potions.

"Potter!What would you get if I added powdered asphodel root to the wormwood?" Snape sneered at Harry startled.

"A Draught of Living Death sir." Harry responded

"Where would you get a bezoar?" Snape sneered again.

"In the stomach of a goat sir." Harry said

"Very well. Why aren't you taking notes?" Snape sneered at the class. Snape was sure Potter wouldn't get this one right."Alright Potter. What is the difference between Monkshood and Wolfsbane?" he asked

Hermione raised her hand but was ignored by Snape."There is no difference, it is the same plant but can also be called aconite." Harry responded.

Snape was shocked as it was visible on his face but masked it quite quickly then turned and left and began a lecture.

At the end of class Harry told Ginny and Neville to head down to dinner and to wait for him there. When all the students left the room Harry walked up to Snape to explain things. Since he used legilimency on the man and snuck past his shields he knew that his father was a jerk to him.

"What do you want, Potter?" Snape said in annoyance.

"I'm not my father."

"Excuse me?" he asked

"I'm not my father. All I ask is to treat Gryffindor the way you treat the Slytherins. Act how you think my mum would want you to act. Be kind just for her." Harry said then quickly left the room leaving Snape a lot to think about. In Snape's mind the same words repeated over and over again ' be kind for her' and act how you think my mum would want you to act.'

Snape left to go down to the great hall for dinner. Harry was sitting in his chair when Snape walked in and went to Harry.

"I have thought about our talk after class and thank you. 20 point to Gryffindor." Snape said

To everyone's disbelief Snape had actually given points out to other houses. What had happened when Harry talked to him. The staff were so shocked at what just occurred that Flitwick even fell out of his chair in shock.

"What did you talk to him about?" Hermione asked

"None of your business." Harry replied coolly

Harry began eating when an owl flew to him and dropped a note on Harry's lap.

Dear Harry and Ginny,

Please come to my office after dinner, no passwords needed. I want both of you to come here.

Albus Dumbledore

When Harry finished reading in confusion as to what Dumbledore wanted. After Ginny finished reading they both looked up toward the staff table and saw that Professor Dumbledore was nowhere to be seen. They both got up and left the great hall without saying a word. They left and quickly got to the stone gargoyle in front of his office.

When the gargoyle saw them he jumped aside revealing an opening in the wall that they walked into. As they were being carried upstairs they still were in silence. They finally made it to the door and knocked.

"Open."

Harry opened the door and held it open for Ginny to walk through then closed the door and stood at the desk. When they turned to the desk they found Ron standing beside Dumbledore with a smirk.

"Hello you two. I hope you understand but this is for the greater good. Imperio befriend Ronald Weasley and not talk to Ginny Weasley." Dumbledore said while pointing his wand at Harry and putting binds on him trapping a lot of his magic.

"Imperio, stay away from Harry Potter." he said again while pointing his wand at Ginny.

Harry quickly realized that he was not under the imperious and Ginny wasn't either. He gave Ginny a look that said 'play along with it' and turned back to a still Smirking Ron and Dumbledore.

"Want to go play exploding snap?" he asked

"Sure." Ron said

Both of them did not see Ginny's slight nod but Harry did so he turned around to Ginny and leaned in to kiss her. When she realized what he was doing she leaned in and kissed him while slowly making the deeper and more passionate kiss. Ron and Dumbledore were looking at them in shock.

When they broke apart Harry walked over to the Phoenix named Fawkes.

"Would you like to bond with me?" Harry asked

The bird trilled softly as a golden light cascaded onto both of them. When the light ended Harry grabbed the phoenix and Ginny then shot a very overpowered blasting curse at them and the office exploded as the whole castle shook. Harry and Ginny appeared in the middle of the common room and everyone stood there in shock and confusion at the rumble coming from the castle.

"Blowing up Dumbledore's office is fun. I would love to do it again." Harry said with joy as the twins goth clapped him on the back.

They all went to sleep peacefully after the long day they all had.