(A/N: Thanks to Rachel A. Prongs who was my only reviewer for this
chapter. Yay to her! Boo to all who read and didn't review ; )
Anyway, This chapter skips ahead at bit more until about when Harry is 8½
years old. Yes, I skipped the day of learning to be an animagus. You will
however see it don't worry. I just couldn't find a way to actually putting
it in. Again, if you read it, please review. Reviews really make my day!)
(A/N 2: Re-read chapter 2. I have made some changes in it that will make you confused if you read this chapter without re-reading chapter 2. Oh and thanks to Rachel for pointing out a mistake in chapter 2.)
Chapter 3:
'Harry.'
'What?'
'Harry Potter.'
'Who are you?'
'Do you not remember me?'
'No.'
'I am the reason that you remember things the way you do.'
'Huh?'
'You find that you can learn things in no time at all, that whatever you read is implanted into your brain forever. Am I correct?'
'Yes.'
'Good. Now Harry, if I am correct tomorrow will be your birthday. I am here to tell you about some more powers that you shall receive.'
'More powers? Why me?'
'Because of what you are Harry. You must have realized by now that you are something special. Look at what you can do; what you are capable of. You learn with no limitations, you have amazing speed and agility, your magical power is outstanding, even with another's wand you can perform the most difficult of spells. Do not think that I don't know about that Harry, I do. And I know that you haven't told your guardian. He knows too Harry, though he is hesitant to tell you. But that is not why I am here, to make idle chat with you. I am here to tell you what your new power will encompass. Harry, tomorrow, on your ninth birthday, you will gain the power of wandless and elemental magics.'
'Elemental magics?' asked Harry confused.
'Yes, using these magics, or sorceries as they are more commonly referred as, you will be able to control earth, fire, water, air, death, life, shadow, and light. These magics are rare to find among humans because of their non-human nature. This is the type of magic that dragons control. This power is not to be used lightly Harry, I hope that you will consol with your guardian, he can help you learn. As for wandless magic, you will find that you do not have to say an incantation aloud, but only think about which spell you wish to cast. There are less limitations to wandless magic because though wands focus magic enough for normal witches and wizards to use it, wands also weaken magics power. Yours will not be weakened and therefore you shall be very powerful. Now you know what will come, and I hope that you learn to control these powers as soon as possible Harry, they will be needed quicker than you realize.'
'Voice! Come back!' yelled Harry as he felt it leave his mind. Then he awoke.
"Harry! Come downstairs! We have to get ready for your martial arts!" When Harry had turned nine Sirius had decided that as a birthday gift he would enroll Harry into a local dojo. Harry loved the classes as he was able to communicate with others his age, and both Sirius and the dojo master agreed that he was very adept in his fighting. It had only been one year and Harry had already advanced to the black belt.
"Coming Sirius!" Harry came running down the stairs in his uniform barefoot. Sirius couldn't help but smile at the state of Harry's hair. Yep, he had defiantly inherited James's hair. It was black and unruly, and nothing could seem to tame it. "Can we go now Sirius?" asked Harry eagerly.
"Yep, do you remember how to do this?" Sirius was talking about apparating. It had been necessary for Harry to learn to apparate so that the trips to town would not take hours.
"Yes Sirius, I remember," said Harry rolling his eyes. Harry remembered everything. Every spell that he had ever looked at, every book he had ever read. It seemed so easy for him to remember things, and yet, he didn't know why he could. He had told Sirius about this ability and Sirius only nodded and muttered something about James being able to too.
"Alright then, next to the barn okay?" said Sirius snapping Harry out of his thoughts.
"Alright," came the response.
Both muttered the incantation for apparation, "Appario," and disappeared. They reappeared next to an old barn on to outside of town, and once checking to make sure that none had seen them they began the walk to the dojo. They passed a few on the streets who waved to them and said "Hallo" which Harry and Sirius returned. (A/N: Remember that they are in Germany.) Soon they reached the dojo and entered.
"Hello Harry, are you ready for the lesson?" inquired Master Kasper, the dojo master. (A/N: Master Kasper speaks both English and German, my German is not very good at all so I will be writing everything in English.)
"I'm doing fine Sir. Is anyone else here yet?"
"No Harry," replied Kasper smiling, "you are the first. Would you like to get an early start on your lessons?"
"Sure," came the reply and Harry followed Kasper into the training room. It was a large square room with a large circular pad on the floor, so that none would get hurt when falling. In the time that there were no others there Harry and Kasper practiced some difficult stances and moves.
"You sure learn fast Harry, I'd say that you are a natural at this. I think you'll be good at what I am teaching today too," he said smiling.
"What are you teaching today?" asked a curious Harry.
"You'll find out," was the only reply he got. Fifteen minutes later the other students began to arrive. Harry began to talk avidly to his friend Dirk about things such as music, dirk was a musician too; he played the drums. Soon the real lesson began and Harry learned what Kasper was going to teach them, acrobatics. It wasn't long before Harry discovered that he was very good at acrobatics. He was soon flipping and hand springing all over the practice pad. Dirk seemed to be somewhat a natural as well, but he couldn't quite flip as well as Harry.
The lesson, much to Harry's dismay, ended far too quickly. As soon as Kasper shouted, "Class, time to quit," Sirius came out and waited for Harry to come with him. Harry stood around and talked to Dirk for a little before going off with Sirius. It wasn't long before Harry and Sirius reached the old barn and stepped inside. As soon as they stopped Harry and Sirius stopped to look around, and then with one word each, apparated out.
Unbeknownst to them, Dirk had been running after Harry and Sirius to tell Harry that his mom had asked if Harry had wanted to come to dinner. He rounded the corner of the barn just in time to see the two *pop* away. He opened his mouth in utter surprise and went running to his mother.
"Mom! Mom! I tried to catch them but I couldn't!"
"Well that's alright, you can invite your friend next time."
"Mom! Harry and Sirius used magic to get away! They apparated!"
"Used magic? Apparated? So young? Wait! Did you say Sirius? Sirius Black and Harry Potter? Could it possibly be?" With that she ran off with her son following her.
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When the two returned home Sirius began to make lunch for Harry and himself. Harry began to play his guitar. He was very good by now and could play most of the songs that he heard on the radio. His favorite bands were some American bands, Yellowcard, Fenix TX, The Ataris, and the German band Rammstein. He could play most of the songs from these bands. Though he was playing however, his mind was elsewhere, he was thinking about the voice and what it had said. He was debating about whether or not to tell Sirius, the voice had said too, but would Sirius think him crazy?
Harry couldn't answer that question, but he knew what he had to do, he had to tell Sirius, I mean, the voice did tell him too, and said something like Sirius already knew. This was all too much for Harry to think about, so he focused back in on his playing. He started to play and sing 'A Song for Everyone' by Fenix TX. Sirius soon finished making lunch, deli sandwiches.
As they were eating Harry asked, "Sirius? Was there anything different about my parents?"
Sirius choked on his sandwich in surprise at the question. "Umm, yes Harry there was."
"What was it?"
"Well, you see, you are the heir of some very powerful wizards, as were your parents, there was also something else, but I will tell you that when you get older. Why do you ask?"
"Well, it is just that I had a dream last night, and - something - talked to me."
"What? Talked to you? What did it say?"
"It said that there was something special about me and that I would gain powers as I grew older. It also said that you knew. Right now I suppose I have the ability to learn things extremely quickly, and the voice said that tomorrow, on my birthday, I will gain control of wandless magic and elemental powers. It told me how to use the wandless magic, but it said that you could help me with elemental powers."
"Me? But I - I only know how to help you from the little that James taught me."
"Well, I guess that is enough?"
"I guess. You know Harry, you talk very sophisticated for your age."
"It must be because you are the only one I talk to," said Harry smiling.
"Must be, now, I guess all we can do is wait for tomorrow before I can begin to teach you."
"Yep, but I'm hungry so lets eat."
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"Remus," yelled Logan, "Remus! Someone reported seeing a Sirius and a Harry!"
At this news Remus shot around and looked directly at Logan, hope filling his eyes. "So, it is possible that Harry is still alive, even after the bastard Sirius kidnapped him?"
"Yes, that is what it seems. They are in Germany now, there has already been one group sent out to investigate, I will make sure that you are in the next."
"Thank you Logan, I hope, I pray that Harry is alive and well, and that Sirius is having a bad day when I see him." He looked off into space and muttered, "Don't worry Harry, I'm coming."
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Sirius was listening to Harry play the guitar, he had gotten very good. At the moment he was playing in tune with Yellowcard's, Sure Shot, and was singing along. Harry was a very good singer as well. Sirius thought it rather funny that at such a young age Harry was built like he was much older. Because of martial arts lessons and lessons in dueling with Sirius, Harry was filled out very nicely. 'Boy,' Sirius thought with a smile he couldn't keep hidden, 'when Harry goes to Hogwarts there will be girls hanging all over him.' Sirius had come to the conclusion only a couple years earlier that he would be sending Harry to Hogwarts, Harry of course, knew of the decision as well. 'Nobody will be picking on him either, I mean he could probably take all of the wimp wizards who think magic is everything, and I bet Harry could even show them up in that. Hell, he's almost as good as me in dueling.'
Harry finished his song and saw Sirius smiling and staring off into space. "Sirius? What are you smiling about?"
"Oh nothing Harry, just thinking about how you will be received in Hogwarts. Just wondering how many will try to pick on you and regret it."
At this Harry smiled. "Sirius, you know I wouldn't hurt anyone without good reason."
"Oh I know Harry, but I'm sure that there will be people that will give you more than a good reason."
"Hmmm." With that Harry began playing Rammstein's, Du Hast. An hour later both were in bed sleeping, some more comfortably than others. Harry had dreams that weren't normal at all, but not exactly troubling either. At the moment he had called up a fireball, and was throwing it at a target, he missed. This time he called a larger fireball and threw it. Then raising one hand he called water and earth up from the ground to stop the fire, and made the air around the flame swirl very fast in order to contain it. But to top it all off, he was doing all this without a wand.
'I didn't know such things were possible.'
'Oh, they are Harry, they are. And you will be the bearer of these powers. This is but a small demonstration of what you will eventually be able to do.'
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"Madam, we need to ask you and your son a few questions. Will you answer some for us? They are about your report of seeing a Harry and Sirius."
"Yes, I will answer the questions, though I must ask you, is Sirius Black really bad? Because he seemed like he is a very loving and caring father."
Remus Lupin sighed. "Yes, I believe that he is bad, he killed two of his best friends by telling the dark lord where they had been hiding, and then stole their son to raise him as his own. But that is irrelevant right now, right now I need to know either where think he lives, or where we," he gestured to the rest of the aurors, "will be able to meet up with him."
"Well, Harry has martial arts lessons with my son Dirk. The next lesson would be on, let me see, Wednesday."
Remus sighed, 'two days,' he thought. "Lets find some quarters here. We will be staying until at least Wednesday. Put up apparation tracking charms and dress as muggles. We don't want to miss this chance, it may be the only one we ever get."
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Harry awoke the next morning to find Sirius sitting on his bed staring down at him.
"Harry? Are you okay? You were mumbling all last night about powers, elements, and magic. I decided to stay with you."
"Yes Sirius, I am fine. That voice came again and showed me some of what I can do now that I'm nine. Lets see if I really can." With that Harry thought really hard about the summoning spell and the book on his desk across his room came flying into his waiting hands. "Yep, it seems that the voice was right, and that I may not be going crazy." Harry smiled at his godfather who smiled right back.
"Come one Kiddo, lets see if I can begin to teach you about those elemental powers you supposedly have."
After eating breakfast Sirius began to tell Harry of his father's and mother's unique ability, they were both able to control the elements. Sirius had spoke to James about this quality many times and had a rudimentary understanding of how the elemental powers worked. "James was very good at controlling both the elements of fire and earth, your mother specialized in water and air," said Sirius to his unusually attentive godson. "I talked with James most, so I think I will attempt to teach you how to control those elements first. Okay, now what you must do is clear your mind of absolutely everything except one thought. Concentrate on that one thought, it must be about what you want to happen."
Sirius could see Harry was trying, but he was trying to hard. There was sweat forming on his brows from his concentration. "Harry, you need to not think about thinking of nothing but what you want to happen. It is impossible to successfully accomplish this task if you think about it. Just let your mind wander except for what you want to happen. Keep that in mind." Harry visibly relaxed his face and after nearly thirty minutes Sirius jumped when a small flame appeared in Harry's open palm. 'Amazing, his first day, I think James told me it took him a month,' he thought, his face not betraying his emotions.
"Harry, open your eyes." Harry did so and gasped at what he saw. Within his palm was floating a fireball, roughly the size of a muggle baseball. Harry bent forward to look more closely at it and it exploded. Sirius jumped to see if Harry was okay, but began to laugh when he noticed the only thing wrong with his godson was that he didn't have any more eyebrows and his face was smudged with black.
"Harry! You look like a raccoon!" Sirius managed to get out between his fits of laughter.
"So," said Harry nonchalantly, "what if I like the look?" He raised one eyebrow as if to say to Sirius, 'you question my style?' and then broke out into firs of laughter as well. It wasn't much longer before Harry could summon baseball sized fireballs into existence with only a little meditation, and Sirius became worried about the house.
"Ummm, Harry."
"Yes Sirius?"
"You don't think that you may accidentally set the house on fire do you?"
"No of course not, but if you want we could go outside."
Sirius looked visibly relieved, "Okay then, lets go." Harry and Sirius stepped onto the back porch and Harry began to try to control a little of the air element, causing slight disturbances in the air and such. By the time that Harry had even managed a little breeze it was getting late and Sirius told Harry that it was time to go in and get some rest.
"Okay Sirius, let me just take a short flight okay?"
"Alright, but not to long."
With that Harry's body began to shift, Sirius watched as Harry's body shrunk and his nose elongated into a beak. Then Harry's arms melted into wings and his legs became skinny and almost scaly. In the final step of his transformation Harry grew flaming feathers, and became his complete phoenix. Sirius remembered the first day that Harry had become an animagus; it was the day after his eighth birthday. Sirius had fainted when he saw that Harry had become a phoenix, and Harry had to revive him using 'enervate.' He had only barely managed to tell Harry what he had turned into before he had fainted again. Sirius explained to Harry why he was so surprised at Harry becoming a phoenix; it was extremely rare to be able to become a magical creature, in fact, there was no one in history that had ever become a phoenix before. After learning this, Harry had been stunned as well, and Sirius had made him promise he would never tell or show anyone in exception of the direst circumstances. Harry had agreed, however, Sirius let him fly around every night for a while so that Harry would master his animagus form.
Soon Harry landed back on the porch and his form returned to that of his nine year old body, and he and Sirius walked back into the house. There Sirius conjured up some roast beef and pumpkin juice for Harry and himself and after a quick dinner, both went up to their rooms and fell asleep.
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"Sirius," growled Remus Lupin to the sky, "I hope, for your sake it is not me who catches you, for I will not be nearly as forgiving for what you did our best friends. I will not forgive you for turning to Voldemort when you had James and Lily to care for you."
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(A/N 2: Re-read chapter 2. I have made some changes in it that will make you confused if you read this chapter without re-reading chapter 2. Oh and thanks to Rachel for pointing out a mistake in chapter 2.)
Chapter 3:
'Harry.'
'What?'
'Harry Potter.'
'Who are you?'
'Do you not remember me?'
'No.'
'I am the reason that you remember things the way you do.'
'Huh?'
'You find that you can learn things in no time at all, that whatever you read is implanted into your brain forever. Am I correct?'
'Yes.'
'Good. Now Harry, if I am correct tomorrow will be your birthday. I am here to tell you about some more powers that you shall receive.'
'More powers? Why me?'
'Because of what you are Harry. You must have realized by now that you are something special. Look at what you can do; what you are capable of. You learn with no limitations, you have amazing speed and agility, your magical power is outstanding, even with another's wand you can perform the most difficult of spells. Do not think that I don't know about that Harry, I do. And I know that you haven't told your guardian. He knows too Harry, though he is hesitant to tell you. But that is not why I am here, to make idle chat with you. I am here to tell you what your new power will encompass. Harry, tomorrow, on your ninth birthday, you will gain the power of wandless and elemental magics.'
'Elemental magics?' asked Harry confused.
'Yes, using these magics, or sorceries as they are more commonly referred as, you will be able to control earth, fire, water, air, death, life, shadow, and light. These magics are rare to find among humans because of their non-human nature. This is the type of magic that dragons control. This power is not to be used lightly Harry, I hope that you will consol with your guardian, he can help you learn. As for wandless magic, you will find that you do not have to say an incantation aloud, but only think about which spell you wish to cast. There are less limitations to wandless magic because though wands focus magic enough for normal witches and wizards to use it, wands also weaken magics power. Yours will not be weakened and therefore you shall be very powerful. Now you know what will come, and I hope that you learn to control these powers as soon as possible Harry, they will be needed quicker than you realize.'
'Voice! Come back!' yelled Harry as he felt it leave his mind. Then he awoke.
"Harry! Come downstairs! We have to get ready for your martial arts!" When Harry had turned nine Sirius had decided that as a birthday gift he would enroll Harry into a local dojo. Harry loved the classes as he was able to communicate with others his age, and both Sirius and the dojo master agreed that he was very adept in his fighting. It had only been one year and Harry had already advanced to the black belt.
"Coming Sirius!" Harry came running down the stairs in his uniform barefoot. Sirius couldn't help but smile at the state of Harry's hair. Yep, he had defiantly inherited James's hair. It was black and unruly, and nothing could seem to tame it. "Can we go now Sirius?" asked Harry eagerly.
"Yep, do you remember how to do this?" Sirius was talking about apparating. It had been necessary for Harry to learn to apparate so that the trips to town would not take hours.
"Yes Sirius, I remember," said Harry rolling his eyes. Harry remembered everything. Every spell that he had ever looked at, every book he had ever read. It seemed so easy for him to remember things, and yet, he didn't know why he could. He had told Sirius about this ability and Sirius only nodded and muttered something about James being able to too.
"Alright then, next to the barn okay?" said Sirius snapping Harry out of his thoughts.
"Alright," came the response.
Both muttered the incantation for apparation, "Appario," and disappeared. They reappeared next to an old barn on to outside of town, and once checking to make sure that none had seen them they began the walk to the dojo. They passed a few on the streets who waved to them and said "Hallo" which Harry and Sirius returned. (A/N: Remember that they are in Germany.) Soon they reached the dojo and entered.
"Hello Harry, are you ready for the lesson?" inquired Master Kasper, the dojo master. (A/N: Master Kasper speaks both English and German, my German is not very good at all so I will be writing everything in English.)
"I'm doing fine Sir. Is anyone else here yet?"
"No Harry," replied Kasper smiling, "you are the first. Would you like to get an early start on your lessons?"
"Sure," came the reply and Harry followed Kasper into the training room. It was a large square room with a large circular pad on the floor, so that none would get hurt when falling. In the time that there were no others there Harry and Kasper practiced some difficult stances and moves.
"You sure learn fast Harry, I'd say that you are a natural at this. I think you'll be good at what I am teaching today too," he said smiling.
"What are you teaching today?" asked a curious Harry.
"You'll find out," was the only reply he got. Fifteen minutes later the other students began to arrive. Harry began to talk avidly to his friend Dirk about things such as music, dirk was a musician too; he played the drums. Soon the real lesson began and Harry learned what Kasper was going to teach them, acrobatics. It wasn't long before Harry discovered that he was very good at acrobatics. He was soon flipping and hand springing all over the practice pad. Dirk seemed to be somewhat a natural as well, but he couldn't quite flip as well as Harry.
The lesson, much to Harry's dismay, ended far too quickly. As soon as Kasper shouted, "Class, time to quit," Sirius came out and waited for Harry to come with him. Harry stood around and talked to Dirk for a little before going off with Sirius. It wasn't long before Harry and Sirius reached the old barn and stepped inside. As soon as they stopped Harry and Sirius stopped to look around, and then with one word each, apparated out.
Unbeknownst to them, Dirk had been running after Harry and Sirius to tell Harry that his mom had asked if Harry had wanted to come to dinner. He rounded the corner of the barn just in time to see the two *pop* away. He opened his mouth in utter surprise and went running to his mother.
"Mom! Mom! I tried to catch them but I couldn't!"
"Well that's alright, you can invite your friend next time."
"Mom! Harry and Sirius used magic to get away! They apparated!"
"Used magic? Apparated? So young? Wait! Did you say Sirius? Sirius Black and Harry Potter? Could it possibly be?" With that she ran off with her son following her.
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When the two returned home Sirius began to make lunch for Harry and himself. Harry began to play his guitar. He was very good by now and could play most of the songs that he heard on the radio. His favorite bands were some American bands, Yellowcard, Fenix TX, The Ataris, and the German band Rammstein. He could play most of the songs from these bands. Though he was playing however, his mind was elsewhere, he was thinking about the voice and what it had said. He was debating about whether or not to tell Sirius, the voice had said too, but would Sirius think him crazy?
Harry couldn't answer that question, but he knew what he had to do, he had to tell Sirius, I mean, the voice did tell him too, and said something like Sirius already knew. This was all too much for Harry to think about, so he focused back in on his playing. He started to play and sing 'A Song for Everyone' by Fenix TX. Sirius soon finished making lunch, deli sandwiches.
As they were eating Harry asked, "Sirius? Was there anything different about my parents?"
Sirius choked on his sandwich in surprise at the question. "Umm, yes Harry there was."
"What was it?"
"Well, you see, you are the heir of some very powerful wizards, as were your parents, there was also something else, but I will tell you that when you get older. Why do you ask?"
"Well, it is just that I had a dream last night, and - something - talked to me."
"What? Talked to you? What did it say?"
"It said that there was something special about me and that I would gain powers as I grew older. It also said that you knew. Right now I suppose I have the ability to learn things extremely quickly, and the voice said that tomorrow, on my birthday, I will gain control of wandless magic and elemental powers. It told me how to use the wandless magic, but it said that you could help me with elemental powers."
"Me? But I - I only know how to help you from the little that James taught me."
"Well, I guess that is enough?"
"I guess. You know Harry, you talk very sophisticated for your age."
"It must be because you are the only one I talk to," said Harry smiling.
"Must be, now, I guess all we can do is wait for tomorrow before I can begin to teach you."
"Yep, but I'm hungry so lets eat."
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"Remus," yelled Logan, "Remus! Someone reported seeing a Sirius and a Harry!"
At this news Remus shot around and looked directly at Logan, hope filling his eyes. "So, it is possible that Harry is still alive, even after the bastard Sirius kidnapped him?"
"Yes, that is what it seems. They are in Germany now, there has already been one group sent out to investigate, I will make sure that you are in the next."
"Thank you Logan, I hope, I pray that Harry is alive and well, and that Sirius is having a bad day when I see him." He looked off into space and muttered, "Don't worry Harry, I'm coming."
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Sirius was listening to Harry play the guitar, he had gotten very good. At the moment he was playing in tune with Yellowcard's, Sure Shot, and was singing along. Harry was a very good singer as well. Sirius thought it rather funny that at such a young age Harry was built like he was much older. Because of martial arts lessons and lessons in dueling with Sirius, Harry was filled out very nicely. 'Boy,' Sirius thought with a smile he couldn't keep hidden, 'when Harry goes to Hogwarts there will be girls hanging all over him.' Sirius had come to the conclusion only a couple years earlier that he would be sending Harry to Hogwarts, Harry of course, knew of the decision as well. 'Nobody will be picking on him either, I mean he could probably take all of the wimp wizards who think magic is everything, and I bet Harry could even show them up in that. Hell, he's almost as good as me in dueling.'
Harry finished his song and saw Sirius smiling and staring off into space. "Sirius? What are you smiling about?"
"Oh nothing Harry, just thinking about how you will be received in Hogwarts. Just wondering how many will try to pick on you and regret it."
At this Harry smiled. "Sirius, you know I wouldn't hurt anyone without good reason."
"Oh I know Harry, but I'm sure that there will be people that will give you more than a good reason."
"Hmmm." With that Harry began playing Rammstein's, Du Hast. An hour later both were in bed sleeping, some more comfortably than others. Harry had dreams that weren't normal at all, but not exactly troubling either. At the moment he had called up a fireball, and was throwing it at a target, he missed. This time he called a larger fireball and threw it. Then raising one hand he called water and earth up from the ground to stop the fire, and made the air around the flame swirl very fast in order to contain it. But to top it all off, he was doing all this without a wand.
'I didn't know such things were possible.'
'Oh, they are Harry, they are. And you will be the bearer of these powers. This is but a small demonstration of what you will eventually be able to do.'
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"Madam, we need to ask you and your son a few questions. Will you answer some for us? They are about your report of seeing a Harry and Sirius."
"Yes, I will answer the questions, though I must ask you, is Sirius Black really bad? Because he seemed like he is a very loving and caring father."
Remus Lupin sighed. "Yes, I believe that he is bad, he killed two of his best friends by telling the dark lord where they had been hiding, and then stole their son to raise him as his own. But that is irrelevant right now, right now I need to know either where think he lives, or where we," he gestured to the rest of the aurors, "will be able to meet up with him."
"Well, Harry has martial arts lessons with my son Dirk. The next lesson would be on, let me see, Wednesday."
Remus sighed, 'two days,' he thought. "Lets find some quarters here. We will be staying until at least Wednesday. Put up apparation tracking charms and dress as muggles. We don't want to miss this chance, it may be the only one we ever get."
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Harry awoke the next morning to find Sirius sitting on his bed staring down at him.
"Harry? Are you okay? You were mumbling all last night about powers, elements, and magic. I decided to stay with you."
"Yes Sirius, I am fine. That voice came again and showed me some of what I can do now that I'm nine. Lets see if I really can." With that Harry thought really hard about the summoning spell and the book on his desk across his room came flying into his waiting hands. "Yep, it seems that the voice was right, and that I may not be going crazy." Harry smiled at his godfather who smiled right back.
"Come one Kiddo, lets see if I can begin to teach you about those elemental powers you supposedly have."
After eating breakfast Sirius began to tell Harry of his father's and mother's unique ability, they were both able to control the elements. Sirius had spoke to James about this quality many times and had a rudimentary understanding of how the elemental powers worked. "James was very good at controlling both the elements of fire and earth, your mother specialized in water and air," said Sirius to his unusually attentive godson. "I talked with James most, so I think I will attempt to teach you how to control those elements first. Okay, now what you must do is clear your mind of absolutely everything except one thought. Concentrate on that one thought, it must be about what you want to happen."
Sirius could see Harry was trying, but he was trying to hard. There was sweat forming on his brows from his concentration. "Harry, you need to not think about thinking of nothing but what you want to happen. It is impossible to successfully accomplish this task if you think about it. Just let your mind wander except for what you want to happen. Keep that in mind." Harry visibly relaxed his face and after nearly thirty minutes Sirius jumped when a small flame appeared in Harry's open palm. 'Amazing, his first day, I think James told me it took him a month,' he thought, his face not betraying his emotions.
"Harry, open your eyes." Harry did so and gasped at what he saw. Within his palm was floating a fireball, roughly the size of a muggle baseball. Harry bent forward to look more closely at it and it exploded. Sirius jumped to see if Harry was okay, but began to laugh when he noticed the only thing wrong with his godson was that he didn't have any more eyebrows and his face was smudged with black.
"Harry! You look like a raccoon!" Sirius managed to get out between his fits of laughter.
"So," said Harry nonchalantly, "what if I like the look?" He raised one eyebrow as if to say to Sirius, 'you question my style?' and then broke out into firs of laughter as well. It wasn't much longer before Harry could summon baseball sized fireballs into existence with only a little meditation, and Sirius became worried about the house.
"Ummm, Harry."
"Yes Sirius?"
"You don't think that you may accidentally set the house on fire do you?"
"No of course not, but if you want we could go outside."
Sirius looked visibly relieved, "Okay then, lets go." Harry and Sirius stepped onto the back porch and Harry began to try to control a little of the air element, causing slight disturbances in the air and such. By the time that Harry had even managed a little breeze it was getting late and Sirius told Harry that it was time to go in and get some rest.
"Okay Sirius, let me just take a short flight okay?"
"Alright, but not to long."
With that Harry's body began to shift, Sirius watched as Harry's body shrunk and his nose elongated into a beak. Then Harry's arms melted into wings and his legs became skinny and almost scaly. In the final step of his transformation Harry grew flaming feathers, and became his complete phoenix. Sirius remembered the first day that Harry had become an animagus; it was the day after his eighth birthday. Sirius had fainted when he saw that Harry had become a phoenix, and Harry had to revive him using 'enervate.' He had only barely managed to tell Harry what he had turned into before he had fainted again. Sirius explained to Harry why he was so surprised at Harry becoming a phoenix; it was extremely rare to be able to become a magical creature, in fact, there was no one in history that had ever become a phoenix before. After learning this, Harry had been stunned as well, and Sirius had made him promise he would never tell or show anyone in exception of the direst circumstances. Harry had agreed, however, Sirius let him fly around every night for a while so that Harry would master his animagus form.
Soon Harry landed back on the porch and his form returned to that of his nine year old body, and he and Sirius walked back into the house. There Sirius conjured up some roast beef and pumpkin juice for Harry and himself and after a quick dinner, both went up to their rooms and fell asleep.
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"Sirius," growled Remus Lupin to the sky, "I hope, for your sake it is not me who catches you, for I will not be nearly as forgiving for what you did our best friends. I will not forgive you for turning to Voldemort when you had James and Lily to care for you."
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