Harry Potter and the shadow gryphon Chapter 2: The decision add ritual, a harry potter fanfic

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"This is speech"

'This is thoughts'

This is a spell

"THIS IS YELLING"

This is a noise

-this is gryphon speak-

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter only my own ideas. If I did own Harry Potter Harry would have had something other than "the power of love". Love is good but it's not going to kill a pyscopath

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Last time

Harry was scarred, he was the most scarred he'd ever been and he'd been plenty scared before like during Harry hunting and whenever Vernon is nearby. But he'd never been so scarred in all his short life as he was now. So he did the only thing he could and held on as Sgàil ran into the shadows the bush made so she could shadow step them out of there and to a nearby cave she'd been sleeping in. As Vernon was halfway across the yard she got in the bush and managed to shadow step them out of there to her cave.

"Thank you so much Sgàil!" Harry cried out as he flopped down on to the damp cave floor and started to shake violently as he realized he couldn't go back. "B-but what w-will I d-do n-now?"he asked not knowing what to do.

-I could make you like me- Sgàil offered

"W-what do you mean?" Harry asked confused at what she meant.

-I mean make you a gryphon, then you would never have to go back.- Sgàil said looking hopefully into Harrys emerald green eyes with her own bright red eyes.

"How? I didn't even know gryphons existed a hour ago, and now your offering to make me one?" Harry said as he thought about what he would choose.

-Your my familiar which is what drew me to you.-Sgàil explained -you also have a strong affinity to the dark which is strong enough for me to make you a shadow gryphon.-(1)

"Why? Why offer this to me?" Harry asked as he contemplated what he should do. He hoped she was serious about her offer, if she was he'd never have to go back.

-Because as your familiar I'm supposed to protect you in any way possible, even if I have to turn you into a gryphon.- Sgàil answered

"What even is a familiar anyways? You keep saying that we're familiars but I don't know what that means." Harry asked wanting to finally get an explanation for what a familiar is and why it is so important to Sgàil.

-A familiar bond is formed at birth between a wizard and a magical creature, the more powerful the wizard the more powerful the creature and the bond-(2) Sgàil explained knowing that Harry must be very confused at what was going on and that she would be explaining a lot to him.

"Can you come back in ten minutes? I'd like to think about this." Harry asked her wanting to make the right choice so that he wouldn't regret his decision.

- of course- Sgàil said as she left the cave

'Does she really mean what she said?' Harry questioned as he thought about whether or not he should go with Sgàil or not. On the one hand if he didn't go with her he'd probably be put in an orphanage but if he did he'd no longer be human, maybe he should ask her more about the specifics when she came back to the cave in 5 minutes. But did it really matter if he was human? He didn't have anywhere to go anyways and he never liked the Dursley's anyways, so was there really any reason to stay like he was? Probably not. Unless he met someone he wanted to talk to but that was highly unlikely. He'd made up his mind.

-I'm back Harry.- Sgàil said quietly -have you made a choice?-

"Yes I have Sgàil, but I still want to know something." Harry said wondering if maybe he might be able to disguise himself as a human still.

-What is it you want to know?- Sgàil asked curious as to what Harry was going to ask.

"Would I still be able to disguise myself as a human?" Harry asked.

-Yes, but it will take a a bit to learn.- Sgàil answered a bit confused.

"How long would 'a bit' be?" Harry asked relieved.

-It would take about a half month before you could transform.- Sgàil said at this point starting to catch on to what he was thinking. -so you want to be able to visit the human world don't you?- She asked

"Yes, but even if I couldn't I would have accepted anyway." Harry said. He knew that never being able to even look human would be better than being forced to live at the Dursley's. "When are you going to do this though?" He asked wanting to be ready for when she durned him into a gryphon.

-We can do this right now if you want, it doesn't really matter when.- Sgàil said ready to do the ritual to turn Harry into a gryphon whenever he wanted to.

"Lets do this as soon as possible. I wan't to start training so that I never have to deal with anyone like the Dursley's ever again!" Harry said determined to do whatever it took to stay with Sgàil.

-Ok you wait here than Harry. I will go prepare the ritual.- Sgàil said walking out the cave entrance to get the ritual ready in time for midnight. -and also.- She said as she was just about out the cave entrance -come to me by midnight that is when we will preform the ritual.-

11:53

It had taken hours for Sgàil to gather the ingredients for the ritual and another couple of hours for her to prepare the ritual, but in the end she knew it would be worth it. Right the she started hearing Harry's footsteps coming her way so that he could get ready for the ritual.

-Over here Harry.- Sgàil called out so that harry could make his way over to her and the ritual circle.

"Thank you so much Sgàil." harry said as he saw the small ritual circle wondering how she drew it when she has no hands but talons and a beak. "But how did you draw that you don't have any hands?" He asked

-I have my ways.- Sgàil replied doing the closet thing she could to a smirk with her beak. -But we should start to get ready for the ritual. Take this feather and this hair.- She said nudging the two objects closer to Harry.

"Ok I can tell the feather is yours, but whee is the hair from?" Harry asked confused as Sgàil had no hair and it wasn't his either since it wasn't black at all.

-it's a willingly given unicorn hair.- Sgàil said -quick get in the ritual circle it's almost midnight!- she said looking up at the moon.

Harry stepped into the circle holding Sgàil's feather in his right hand and the unicorn hair in the left hand. Right as the moon peaked in the night sky Sgàil started chanting as the willingly given ground unicorn horn that made up the ritual circle started to float and move slowly around Harry as both him and Sgàil fell into a trance. About 3 minutes in Harry still in the trance dropped the feather and the ground unicorn horn started to go faster another 3 minutes later as He dropped the unicorn hair the ground unicorn hair started going even faster taking the feather and hair and spinning faster and faster and gating closer and closer to Harry, until it all merged with him causing him and Sgàil to fall unconscious. If anybody had looked at that part of the forrest they would have seen 2 dark gryphons laying unconscious on the ground, but fortunately no one did.

12:07 headmasters office, Hogwarts

If anyone had been in the room they would have noticed many objects explode at once, but unfortunately for the one who was normally in this room he wasn't. Dumbledore was at the ICW meeting in Bulgaria, and by the time he could get back it would be far too long for him to do anything.

Author's note: chapter done! I hope you enjoyed the chapter I'm off to work on the next one now!

(1) I feel that it is totally possible forHarry to have an affinity to the dark after living in a cupboard for most of his life.

(2) I know that this is not cannon but this is how I feel like it should be.