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Chapter 5

Magic and the Past

After sitting for ten minutes of staring at the pendent and thinking Harry had to do something to at least stop the rage that was starting to build. So standing up Harry tossed the chain on the foot of his bed and went to take another shower in the hopes that the hot water would help relax him, knowing that it would only do so much and what he really needed was a long run or something else physical to do but he had to work with what he had.

As the hot water pounded on his back Harry couldn't help but think of what he had overheard. So he wasn't considered human anymore and they would more than likely try to kill him in a few weeks.

The more he thought about it the angrier he became until he couldn't control it anymore and punched the tile wall beside him. There was a satisfying crack as the tile shattered underneath his fist just as his hand erupted in pain. Grunting and looking at his hand he watched in fascination as the skin that had been cut by the tile healed over by its self.

Looking at the wall and not wanting any one to find out about him punching the wall and wanting to avoid the lecture that he would get he knew he would have to fix it. So following some new instinct Harry closed his and focused on fixing the wall and muttered "Repairo" under his breath. He was unprepared for what happened next.

Harry felt warmth in his all of his limbs that seemed to be drawn into the center of his body where it gathered and all the while the heat grew more intense. When all of the heat in his limbs had gathered in his chest Harry felt it began to leave his chest and shoot out to his hand still getting hotter by the second. By the time that the energy reached his hand the veins in his arms started to feel like they were burning.

Opening his eyes when he felt the energy leave his fingers Harry watched as the tiles were repaired and it became harder for him to maintain the spell. Just as the last hair line crack disappeared Harry felt the energy stop flowing out of his fingers and race up his arm, back to his chest and out to the rest of his limbs in a flash of what felt like lava flowing throughout his muscles and veins.

With a strangled shout of pain Harry's knees collapsed on him and he fell. As he fell Harry tried to catch himself by grabbing onto the shelf that held the soap and shampoo. The shelf however wasn't designed to withstand the weight of over two hundred pounds of muscled teenage mutant wizard/cat and crack snapped off the wall as he grabbed onto it. This sent Harry falling backwards onto the bathroom floor where he landed the floor with a crash as his right elbow smashed into the stool knocking both it and the clothes on it onto the floor.

Snarling and angry at his own weakness Harry stood up and threw the stool to the other side of the room where it broke as it hit the wall with a satisfying crash.

Just as he was picking up the towels that had fallen he heard a knock on the door and Madam Pomfery call to see if he was okay. Answering with an affirmative Harry left the stool in pieces on the floor and noticed for the first time a small pile of clothes on the counter by the sink.

Seeing a note sitting on top of them Harry picked it up and read.

'Mr. Potter.

I have taken the liberty of having the house elves retrieve your measurements and alter a set of your school robes, boots, shirt and pair of pants to fit you. I have also permanently transfigured your shoes to boots that will better fit the new way that you walk.

Your boots now also have charms on them to permit your new claws to stick out comfortably in them as well as an untraceable glamour charm to hide them from any one you don't want to see them.

The robes, shirt and pants are altered to your new body. I will be by at 2:00 to take you to a tailor in Hogsmeade so you can purchase a new set or two of muggle clothing for you to wear when you get off the train, and until you get a chance to go shopping for more this summer.

From:

Prof. M. McGonagall'

Folding the letter Harry looked down at the pile of cloths and then started to get dressed.

The white shirt and black pants were part of his school uniform that as the letter had said had been adjusted to fit him. With the pants and undergarments had a hole at the back for him to slip his tail in, as well as a greater length, the same with his shirts having being enlarged around his chest, neck and the arms also having been lengthened. Looking at the boots Harry saw that they were in similar style as combat boots.

He pulled the laces out of the boots and slipped his feet into them and was surprised when his claws just slipped down some invisible groves poking up from the leather curving down to sit just above the stone floor. The heel's adjusted them to the height that he needed to walk without any problems. Just as he finished lacing up his boots Harry watched as the charm on the boots took effect and his claws vanished from sight but he was still able to feel them when he reached down and touched where they sat.

Grabbing his robe Harry left the bathroom, quickly grabbed his wand from the drawer in the bed side table, slipped back into the bathroom muttered the charm to fix both the shelf and stool. He was ready for the pain to strike again but it didn't. Instead he felt the heat start to build in his chest but it felt muffled and was drawn slowly from his core and guided to his wand arm then wand. As the spell finished Harry felt his magic being slowly realised from its needed job and return back to the rest of his body.

Deciding to use his wand whenever able but knowing that he would have to work on casting wand less eventually he slid his wand into his back pocket and left the bathroom. Harry looked at his watch while he put it on and saw that it was only twelve o'clock. He still had two hours to go until the professor got there.

After he ate his lunch Harry showed his letter to Pomfery and even though she looked like she didn't want to she agreed that he could leave. So for the next hour and a half until McGonagall showed up he was subjected to all of the health scans that he had become so familiar with the past five years and with others on top while she took extensive notes of the results. It seemed that she took more exams then the years before while omitting a couple of others and as she finished up she studied him up and down as if she felt guilty for something that she had to do.

"Mr. Potter I am going to have to send a copy of all the results to the Ministry of magic, I just hope that I have done enough scans that they don't want to call you in for more of them." Pomfery told him.

"Why? What else is going on that I'm not aware of?" Harry questioned her.

After glancing at the clock and seeing that she only had ten minutes until McGonagall got their Pomfery took out her wand and cast a silencing charm around the curtains. She then looked him in the eye for a few seconds as if trying to gage how much and what she should tell him.

"Please I have lost too much to secrets that are STILL being kept from me." Harry pleaded placing emphasis the word still.

"Very well," Pomfery sighed and looked like she was preparing herself to saw he had an incurable and life threatening disease. "The main part is that about seven and a half months before you were born and only a few days before you mother found she was pregnant there was an accident caused by a new intern. Lily worked in a section of the hospital specialises in genetic variations especially in the ones most commonly found in muggles such as Down's syndrome and Autism. But that day she was looking over a couple of samples that she had found in storage and had been their since the fall of Grindewald and the end of the muggle WW2. It seems that two muggles had caught the eye of some wizards by the way that they seemed to heal almost instantaneously from any injury inflected upon them. The wizards managed to collect a blood sample from both after finding out they were half brothers and the other abilities they had. One had the power to grow bone claws out of his hands, a set of three on each of them that sprouted from between his knuckles. The other had the ability to grow his nails and teeth into shape points.

"At the time that the blood samples were retrieved their wasn't much funding being put into the research but the wizard that retrieved them had them put into vials with that he had very strong preservation charms placed upon.

"Now as your mother was working on trying to figure out what in the blood made these two men different when an intern had mixed some potions incorrectly and caused an explosion in the room on the other side of the wall she was working in. The explosion was strong enough knock your mother off her feet as it blew apart the wall causing the vials she was working with fall off the table and smash on the ground mixing with the leftovers of the potion that had exploded and caused a gas to form that somehow created low levels of radiation much like of an muggle x-ray by in a higher concentration. As well as the potion was absorbed into her skin and blood stream where the shrapnel from the explosion had torn her clothes and skin.

"When she found out about you she was worried about any ill effects the accident might have caused the baby growing in her, but she swore that no matter if there were any effects or not that she would love you either way. With that she continued her study of the matter and after reading a paper that had been published almost twenty years earlier about mutations that might be happening to the human body and how they were brought on by stress as the human body changed naturally during puberty.

"I had actually thought that with all that had happened in the past two years that you might not have been affected by the accident but I see now that I was wrong and that you in fact did obtain the mutation of not just one but both of the men but your own DNA was changed. As well but we won't know if it was a naturally occurring mutation that is so extreme or if it was something more minor that changed with the addition of the radiation and addition of the two other kinds of mutated DNA or some kind of after effect of surviving the killing curse.

"Now what this means for you is that the ministry is very interested in you and are thinking of restarting the department that was closed down after the explosion as it had destroyed all of the other samples that they had. The good news of you is that so far I have been able to get out of sending samples to them stating that I needed to make sure you were healthy first. I have said they will not be able to safely obtain samples without causing you harm until after your birthday.

"Until then I suggest that you get used to your new body and not use any magic at all either with your own wand or without because of the trace and I am sure the ministry will jump at any reason to bring you in for a couple of questions never mind the fact that we are now officially on the brink of war." With that being said she looked at her watch and noticed that it was now twenty after and she had kept the professor waiting.

"Well I guess Professor McGonagall is waiting to take you to buy some proper fitting clothes for the summer." The witch started off and finished with "I will let you stay in your dorm tonight if you wish or you can come back here if you need to. I hope to see you back at the school next year Harry."

With that being said Pomfery cancelled the charm, opened the curtains, nodded at his professor and entered her office to finish her paper work.

Standing up Harry grabbed the chain that he had been given by the headmaster and slipped it on over his head and watched as the fur on his hands seemingly vanished. But on further investigation he could still feel the fur that was growing from his skin. Thinking that if the chain didn't have a tracking charm on in that it might be useful he walked towards Professor McGonagall.

A/N Thanks to all those that have this story to their Favorite's and those who are now following. I would also like to thank those who have left reviews.

I hope I didn't disappoint anyone in the explanation of his mutation to much but it was the only way I could think of it working at least in my one messed up mind.

The next chapter shouldn't be too long in going up as it is already half done.

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