Disclaimer: see the first chapter.
Author's Notes: I'm dedicating this chapter to my eight reviewers:
Telecazz: Thanks for reviewing.
Apostrophe: Thank you, I hope this chapter is as good as you hoped. You hit the nail on the head with your guess.
Machine: here it is
Lainamalthea: Of course I'll write more, what do you think I am, lazy? Don't answer that.
Dark Golo: I would read your fic, but I have I hard time reading Spanish (as you know already know). Looks like what your joke came true!
DigiDestined of Courage: Thanks! You're my eighteenth reviewer. I can't believe it; I've been getting one more reviewer each chapter!
Bob: Thanks, the owl feather is from Prongs, because I couldn't think of where Harry could find a stag.
Sirius Potter: Yea, I know. He's the greatest beta I could find. ;)
Anyway, if there were a prize for the guessing, it'd go to apostrophe and Bob. ON WITH CHAPTER FOUR!!
Harry Potter and the Penta-Heir
Chapter Four - A Letter and An Owl
"The next step," Sirius said while looking in the book, "is to try doing that with your toenails. You'll have to take off your socks and shoes first. Don't worry, eventually you'll be able to transform with your shoes on."
Harry took off his shoes and socks, and then studied his toe-nails. He then imagined them becoming longer. He felt the tingling enter his toes. As his fingernails before them, his toenails were now two feet long.
"Time, Sirius?"
Sirius stood flabbergasted. "Twenty seconds..." he said faintly before continuing to stand there looking as though he had just seen a muggle flying on a broomstick. Harry joined him as soon as he realized what had just happened. He had done something on his first try that had taken other animagi weeks.
"Well..." Harry said hoping to break Sirius out of his trance. "Next activity, I suppose?"
"Yea, quite right," said Sirius, still shocked. "OK, next step is...trying to make your hair grow. You'll need a mirror for this one."
"Of course," said Harry. He slipped his shoes on before Sirius conjured up a mirror. Harry looked into it and studied his hair. "How long do I make it, Sirius?"
"Whatever, Harry. You can shorten or lengthen it."
Harry thought for a moment before deciding to shorten it so it looked like he got a hair cut. He shortened his bangs and the sides more than everywhere else because they were longer. When Harry finished, you could see his forehead, his hair was about half an inch high, and it wasn't as unruly as before. He looked at himself in the mirror. He liked it.
"OK, now what?"
Sirius had gone back to gaping at him. "Harry, that took you ten seconds!"
"Really? Wow! I might be the fastest person to ever become an animagus!"
"At this rate, you'll halve the current record! When's Hermione picking us up?"
"The day after tomorrow. Anyway, now that I've got a 'haircut', what's the next step?" "Well, according to this, you have to try making your fingernails and toenails grow separately, making a thumbnail grow, an index, another thumb, another index, etcetera, but making it so none of them are growing at the same time."
This took Harry a few minutes to get right. Once he finally got it, after about five minutes, he started on the next step, which was changing the shape of an arm. Harry studied his arm without the shirt sleeve rolled up so he could imagine it. Then, he imagined it changing to look like the wing of the snowy owl the anify stone showed him. After some pain and about an hour, Harry got it to look, work, and feel exactly like a snowy owl's wing. Then, he changed it back, which wasn't as hard as changing it the other way around.
"Keep practicing changing it like that until you can't feel any pain and you can do it faster than you can grow your hair," informed Sirius.
"Sirius, could you start on the map for Hermione's house?"
"Of course, Harry."
"The information is in Hermione's letter."
"All right. I'll make it when you go down to eat."
Harry kept practicing. Around five o'clock, he went down to dinner. He and the Dursleys ate quietly. The Dursleys were too afraid of Harry and his godfather to speak, and Harry was thinking.
When Harry finished eating, he started to talk to the Dursleys.
"Just to prove to you that I can do magic over the holidays..." he said, trailing off. He concentrated on changing both his arms to look like snowy owl wings. Aunt Petunia screeched and hid behind Dudley and Vernon. "I-I thought y-you h-had t-to u-use t-that s-stick of y-yours t-to d-do ma- magic!"
"Normally, I would," he said, changing his arms back to normal. "If I couldn't change into a snowy owl, a Hungarian Horntail, which is a species of dragon, a basilisk, which is a fifty foot long snake that can kill by just meeting another creature's eyes, and a griffin, which is a lion with wings at will. And, 'that stick of mine' is called my wand. Also, just so you know, Hermione will becoming by car on Saturday around noon," he said, then walked back to his room.
When he got there, he heard thunderous footsteps coming upstairs and to the bathroom, then a door slam and what sounded like someone throwing up.
"Sounds like Dudley didn't like my little trick," Harry said sarcastically.
"What'd you do this time, Harry?" asked Sirius, who was holding an incomplete map of Hermione's place.
"Nothing, really. All I did was change both of my arms into owl wings."
Sirius burst out laughing. Then, suddenly, he stopped. "Can you do it again, Harry?"
"All right." Harry set about doing what he did downstairs once more. When he finished, Sirius asked, "Did that hurt at all, Harry?"
Now Harry got what Sirius had meant. "No."
"Then you're ready for the next step." He grabbed the animagi book and turned to the next step. "Harry, since you did both your arms at the same time, you skipped a step. Now you need to try changing your legs. Oh, and what passwords and name do you want for Hermione's map?"
"Um... I think the opening password should be 'I solemnly swear I need to guard the Grangers'. Um...closing... 'Death Eaters managed'. Umm... name... 'Mione Guide'," Harry said, before working on changing his legs. He thought of his legs changing into owl legs. The first try was a little painful and slow, but after about five minutes he got it right. By that time, Sirius had finished the map and was working on a different potion, as he had poured the other potion into a magically enlarged beaker.
"Hey, Sirius, I finished changing my legs painlessly, I'm ready for the next step."
"Alright, hold on. I've got to finish this potion, which will change the maps we made."
"How will it change them?" Harry asked curiously.
"Well, for starters, it will make all magical people that are on the side of evil appear green. It'll also make all good magical people appear red. Muggles who know about the magical world will be brown, and muggles who don't will be black. All of the good Hogwarts Teachers will be either a yellow, the evil ones will be purple. It'll be a lot more helpful because we won't need to figure it out ourselves."
"That's great, Sirius! Now, when we leave, I can hopefully give the Dursleys the map of Privet Drive and tell them to call Mrs. Fig if they ever see a green dot."
"That might work, since these maps can't be destroyed by muggles. It also magically jumps out of any garbage can and flies to the nearest surface."
"So, how are we going to make the maps change?"
"Well, as soon as I finish making this, we'll dip each of the maps in it, one at a time. Then, I'll combine it with the other potion, and then it'll automatically come out with the colored dots."
"Wow! How much longer do you think it'll take you to finish it?"
"I'd say about ten more minutes"
"All right." So Harry practiced changing both his arms and legs until Sirius finished. He had just changed both his arms and legs at the same time when Sirius turned around to tell him he had finished.
"All right, Harry, I'm--WOW!" He jumped when he saw Harry sitting there, only his torso, head, and neck still human. Harry immediately changed back when Sirius jumped. "OK, as I was saying, I've finished altering the maps and adding it to the other potion. Let's see, the next step is to... change your torso."
"Really? I've only got to learn that and my head and neck, and I'll be done?"
"Well, the torso's a bit harder, because you have to change your whole digestive system to that of an owl's."
"Luckily that book on owls had pictures of that. It was kind of disgusting, since the pictures were moving, but anyway, I'm going to get started on that."
"OK, I'm going to be studying the Dursley Drive and the Mione Guide."
"OK." It took Harry until near midnight to get the torso right painlessly. Sirius laughed the first time he got it right, because Harry tipped over due to his head and neck being bigger than the rest of his body, as he had changed his arms and legs as well..
"Well, I think you're ready to change your head and neck. This is going to be hard, because you're going to have owl instincts running through your head when you get it right. Fortunately, not as hard as the torso."
"I know, I read that in the book earlier. Well, here goes nothing!" Harry imagined his head and neck looking like an owl's. He felt the tingling sensation all throughout his head and neck, then felt his ears move inside his head and one moved forward and the other moved backward, his neck get smaller, and his mouth and nose merge and harden. When the change was finished, which only took a few minutes, and only a little pain, he changed the rest of his body. It felt magic surging through his brain. He knew where almost everyone in the world was! And he could fly now! He flapped his wings and managed to fly over to the mirror. He looked almost exactly like Hedwig!
He decided to try to talk to Hedwig. "Hello?" His voice sounded like an owl hooting. He got his voice box right! He heard Hedwig hoot back a few times, but he was able to decipher it. "Who are you and what did you do with Harry?"
"I am Harry, Hedwig. I can change into an owl now."
"Really? I was wondering why parts of your body were changing to look like an owl's. What's that on your forehead?" He knew she was talking about the gray lightning bolt and the rings around his eyes.
"Remember when I had glasses on and the shape in my forehead?"
"Yes."
"They're still there because when I change into an owl, I still have the mind of a human, but I look like and have the instincts of a snowy owl. But animagi have a uniqueness from regular animals."
"Animagi?"
"People who can change into animals."
"Oh."
Harry changed back. "Well, that certainly was a trip," he said, voice back to normal. Sirius was gawking at him. "What?"
"Harry, did you feel any pain?"
"Just a little, why?"
"Harry, all you need to do is get rid of the pain and be able to change all of your body instantly like you did with everything but your head, and you'll be an animagus! It took Prongs, Wormtail, and I two years to do what you've done in a little less than two days!" he said, spiting out the word Wormtail.
"Oh," Harry said, blushing slightly at this. He didn't like being better then Sirius because he felt like he was showing off. He tried changing everything at once. It hurt a little. He changed back and tried again. No pain. He changed back once more as he saw Sirius nearly faint. "Sirius, I can do it without any pain!"
"Where'd I put that letter to Albus? I need to make a few changes to it, since I never sent it."
"Sirius, something just occurred to me. What happened to Buckbeak?"
"I set him free in Africa. Ah, here it is!" Sirius made some changes to the letter and was about to tie it to Hedwig's leg when Harry spoke up.
"Hey, Sirius, why don't you let me take it? I bet Dumbledore will be surprised to see me."
"All right, Harry," he said, chuckling. Harry changed into an owl and Sirius tied the letter to his leg when he stuck it out like Hedwig did.
Author's Notes: Any guesses on what's going to happen? Answer in your reviews as usual. I got six reviewers the first chapter, seven the second, and eight the third. Obviously, this time, we're shooting for nine, but won't object to more! This fic has been up for about two and a half weeks, and I'll be starting on chapter five later today.
Author's Notes: I'm dedicating this chapter to my eight reviewers:
Telecazz: Thanks for reviewing.
Apostrophe: Thank you, I hope this chapter is as good as you hoped. You hit the nail on the head with your guess.
Machine: here it is
Lainamalthea: Of course I'll write more, what do you think I am, lazy? Don't answer that.
Dark Golo: I would read your fic, but I have I hard time reading Spanish (as you know already know). Looks like what your joke came true!
DigiDestined of Courage: Thanks! You're my eighteenth reviewer. I can't believe it; I've been getting one more reviewer each chapter!
Bob: Thanks, the owl feather is from Prongs, because I couldn't think of where Harry could find a stag.
Sirius Potter: Yea, I know. He's the greatest beta I could find. ;)
Anyway, if there were a prize for the guessing, it'd go to apostrophe and Bob. ON WITH CHAPTER FOUR!!
Harry Potter and the Penta-Heir
Chapter Four - A Letter and An Owl
"The next step," Sirius said while looking in the book, "is to try doing that with your toenails. You'll have to take off your socks and shoes first. Don't worry, eventually you'll be able to transform with your shoes on."
Harry took off his shoes and socks, and then studied his toe-nails. He then imagined them becoming longer. He felt the tingling enter his toes. As his fingernails before them, his toenails were now two feet long.
"Time, Sirius?"
Sirius stood flabbergasted. "Twenty seconds..." he said faintly before continuing to stand there looking as though he had just seen a muggle flying on a broomstick. Harry joined him as soon as he realized what had just happened. He had done something on his first try that had taken other animagi weeks.
"Well..." Harry said hoping to break Sirius out of his trance. "Next activity, I suppose?"
"Yea, quite right," said Sirius, still shocked. "OK, next step is...trying to make your hair grow. You'll need a mirror for this one."
"Of course," said Harry. He slipped his shoes on before Sirius conjured up a mirror. Harry looked into it and studied his hair. "How long do I make it, Sirius?"
"Whatever, Harry. You can shorten or lengthen it."
Harry thought for a moment before deciding to shorten it so it looked like he got a hair cut. He shortened his bangs and the sides more than everywhere else because they were longer. When Harry finished, you could see his forehead, his hair was about half an inch high, and it wasn't as unruly as before. He looked at himself in the mirror. He liked it.
"OK, now what?"
Sirius had gone back to gaping at him. "Harry, that took you ten seconds!"
"Really? Wow! I might be the fastest person to ever become an animagus!"
"At this rate, you'll halve the current record! When's Hermione picking us up?"
"The day after tomorrow. Anyway, now that I've got a 'haircut', what's the next step?" "Well, according to this, you have to try making your fingernails and toenails grow separately, making a thumbnail grow, an index, another thumb, another index, etcetera, but making it so none of them are growing at the same time."
This took Harry a few minutes to get right. Once he finally got it, after about five minutes, he started on the next step, which was changing the shape of an arm. Harry studied his arm without the shirt sleeve rolled up so he could imagine it. Then, he imagined it changing to look like the wing of the snowy owl the anify stone showed him. After some pain and about an hour, Harry got it to look, work, and feel exactly like a snowy owl's wing. Then, he changed it back, which wasn't as hard as changing it the other way around.
"Keep practicing changing it like that until you can't feel any pain and you can do it faster than you can grow your hair," informed Sirius.
"Sirius, could you start on the map for Hermione's house?"
"Of course, Harry."
"The information is in Hermione's letter."
"All right. I'll make it when you go down to eat."
Harry kept practicing. Around five o'clock, he went down to dinner. He and the Dursleys ate quietly. The Dursleys were too afraid of Harry and his godfather to speak, and Harry was thinking.
When Harry finished eating, he started to talk to the Dursleys.
"Just to prove to you that I can do magic over the holidays..." he said, trailing off. He concentrated on changing both his arms to look like snowy owl wings. Aunt Petunia screeched and hid behind Dudley and Vernon. "I-I thought y-you h-had t-to u-use t-that s-stick of y-yours t-to d-do ma- magic!"
"Normally, I would," he said, changing his arms back to normal. "If I couldn't change into a snowy owl, a Hungarian Horntail, which is a species of dragon, a basilisk, which is a fifty foot long snake that can kill by just meeting another creature's eyes, and a griffin, which is a lion with wings at will. And, 'that stick of mine' is called my wand. Also, just so you know, Hermione will becoming by car on Saturday around noon," he said, then walked back to his room.
When he got there, he heard thunderous footsteps coming upstairs and to the bathroom, then a door slam and what sounded like someone throwing up.
"Sounds like Dudley didn't like my little trick," Harry said sarcastically.
"What'd you do this time, Harry?" asked Sirius, who was holding an incomplete map of Hermione's place.
"Nothing, really. All I did was change both of my arms into owl wings."
Sirius burst out laughing. Then, suddenly, he stopped. "Can you do it again, Harry?"
"All right." Harry set about doing what he did downstairs once more. When he finished, Sirius asked, "Did that hurt at all, Harry?"
Now Harry got what Sirius had meant. "No."
"Then you're ready for the next step." He grabbed the animagi book and turned to the next step. "Harry, since you did both your arms at the same time, you skipped a step. Now you need to try changing your legs. Oh, and what passwords and name do you want for Hermione's map?"
"Um... I think the opening password should be 'I solemnly swear I need to guard the Grangers'. Um...closing... 'Death Eaters managed'. Umm... name... 'Mione Guide'," Harry said, before working on changing his legs. He thought of his legs changing into owl legs. The first try was a little painful and slow, but after about five minutes he got it right. By that time, Sirius had finished the map and was working on a different potion, as he had poured the other potion into a magically enlarged beaker.
"Hey, Sirius, I finished changing my legs painlessly, I'm ready for the next step."
"Alright, hold on. I've got to finish this potion, which will change the maps we made."
"How will it change them?" Harry asked curiously.
"Well, for starters, it will make all magical people that are on the side of evil appear green. It'll also make all good magical people appear red. Muggles who know about the magical world will be brown, and muggles who don't will be black. All of the good Hogwarts Teachers will be either a yellow, the evil ones will be purple. It'll be a lot more helpful because we won't need to figure it out ourselves."
"That's great, Sirius! Now, when we leave, I can hopefully give the Dursleys the map of Privet Drive and tell them to call Mrs. Fig if they ever see a green dot."
"That might work, since these maps can't be destroyed by muggles. It also magically jumps out of any garbage can and flies to the nearest surface."
"So, how are we going to make the maps change?"
"Well, as soon as I finish making this, we'll dip each of the maps in it, one at a time. Then, I'll combine it with the other potion, and then it'll automatically come out with the colored dots."
"Wow! How much longer do you think it'll take you to finish it?"
"I'd say about ten more minutes"
"All right." So Harry practiced changing both his arms and legs until Sirius finished. He had just changed both his arms and legs at the same time when Sirius turned around to tell him he had finished.
"All right, Harry, I'm--WOW!" He jumped when he saw Harry sitting there, only his torso, head, and neck still human. Harry immediately changed back when Sirius jumped. "OK, as I was saying, I've finished altering the maps and adding it to the other potion. Let's see, the next step is to... change your torso."
"Really? I've only got to learn that and my head and neck, and I'll be done?"
"Well, the torso's a bit harder, because you have to change your whole digestive system to that of an owl's."
"Luckily that book on owls had pictures of that. It was kind of disgusting, since the pictures were moving, but anyway, I'm going to get started on that."
"OK, I'm going to be studying the Dursley Drive and the Mione Guide."
"OK." It took Harry until near midnight to get the torso right painlessly. Sirius laughed the first time he got it right, because Harry tipped over due to his head and neck being bigger than the rest of his body, as he had changed his arms and legs as well..
"Well, I think you're ready to change your head and neck. This is going to be hard, because you're going to have owl instincts running through your head when you get it right. Fortunately, not as hard as the torso."
"I know, I read that in the book earlier. Well, here goes nothing!" Harry imagined his head and neck looking like an owl's. He felt the tingling sensation all throughout his head and neck, then felt his ears move inside his head and one moved forward and the other moved backward, his neck get smaller, and his mouth and nose merge and harden. When the change was finished, which only took a few minutes, and only a little pain, he changed the rest of his body. It felt magic surging through his brain. He knew where almost everyone in the world was! And he could fly now! He flapped his wings and managed to fly over to the mirror. He looked almost exactly like Hedwig!
He decided to try to talk to Hedwig. "Hello?" His voice sounded like an owl hooting. He got his voice box right! He heard Hedwig hoot back a few times, but he was able to decipher it. "Who are you and what did you do with Harry?"
"I am Harry, Hedwig. I can change into an owl now."
"Really? I was wondering why parts of your body were changing to look like an owl's. What's that on your forehead?" He knew she was talking about the gray lightning bolt and the rings around his eyes.
"Remember when I had glasses on and the shape in my forehead?"
"Yes."
"They're still there because when I change into an owl, I still have the mind of a human, but I look like and have the instincts of a snowy owl. But animagi have a uniqueness from regular animals."
"Animagi?"
"People who can change into animals."
"Oh."
Harry changed back. "Well, that certainly was a trip," he said, voice back to normal. Sirius was gawking at him. "What?"
"Harry, did you feel any pain?"
"Just a little, why?"
"Harry, all you need to do is get rid of the pain and be able to change all of your body instantly like you did with everything but your head, and you'll be an animagus! It took Prongs, Wormtail, and I two years to do what you've done in a little less than two days!" he said, spiting out the word Wormtail.
"Oh," Harry said, blushing slightly at this. He didn't like being better then Sirius because he felt like he was showing off. He tried changing everything at once. It hurt a little. He changed back and tried again. No pain. He changed back once more as he saw Sirius nearly faint. "Sirius, I can do it without any pain!"
"Where'd I put that letter to Albus? I need to make a few changes to it, since I never sent it."
"Sirius, something just occurred to me. What happened to Buckbeak?"
"I set him free in Africa. Ah, here it is!" Sirius made some changes to the letter and was about to tie it to Hedwig's leg when Harry spoke up.
"Hey, Sirius, why don't you let me take it? I bet Dumbledore will be surprised to see me."
"All right, Harry," he said, chuckling. Harry changed into an owl and Sirius tied the letter to his leg when he stuck it out like Hedwig did.
Author's Notes: Any guesses on what's going to happen? Answer in your reviews as usual. I got six reviewers the first chapter, seven the second, and eight the third. Obviously, this time, we're shooting for nine, but won't object to more! This fic has been up for about two and a half weeks, and I'll be starting on chapter five later today.