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A/N: Okay, here's another fanfic for you! Hope you enjoy it! It starts out at the beginning of Harry's sixth year so it DOES contain spoilers.

Okay, also, if you think that the owl part of the story is stupid, then go right to the end of chapter six and read on!!!!!!!! If you would really like to read it, do not read the following paragraph and find the three stars and read from there, cause the next paragraph will be ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT READ CHAPTERS 1-6
Okay, well, basically, Harry doesn't want to be human takes a potion to turn into an animal of his choice. He chooses an owl. He turns into one, and leaves Hogwarts and his friends behind. What he chooses to ignore is that after a year of being the owl, he will lose his memories and basically become a true owl; not remembering who he really is. Well, the year has passed, and he travels to Hogwarts, not knowing about it or anything he used to know. Well, Ron and Hermione find him and when the realize that he doesn't remember who he is, they give up hope. Harry somehow remembers, and turns back into a human and gets a vision of Voldemort becoming the most powerful wizard of the world.

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"What is I wasn't human?" 16-year-old Harry Potter asked his two best friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasely.

"What?!" They both exclaimed in unison.

"What are you talking about?" Hermione asked curiously. "You were born human, so you have to stay one. Unless you're talking about becoming an Animagis."

"No, I mean, actually turning into something that's not human, forever," Harry explained.

"But you're the boy-who-lived!" Ron cried. "Everybody believes you now!"

It was true; after the end of last year, everybody believed him and his story of Voldemort rising again.

"But I just don't want to feel this pain and loss anymore!" Harry shouted. "You don't know how hard it is to be me!"

"We know you're upset about Sirius, Harry, but there's nothing you can do to bring him back from the dead!" Hermione said.

"Yeah, you've experienced loss in your life; why is this any different?" Ron asked.

"Ron!" Hermione cried. "I wouldn't of said that of I were you!" She carefully looked over at Harry who looked like he was about to explode.

"WHY IS THIS DIFFERENT?!" Harry exclaimed. He stormed out of the Gryffindor common room leaving Ron and Hermione whimpering near the fireplace.

"Well, why?" Ron asked with a frightened expression.

"Because he knew Sirius!" Hermione said to Ron. "He never knew his parents!"

"Oh," Ron sighed. "I forgot."

"Well, we better go find Harry and apologize." Hermione too, sighed. "We don't want him to be mad at us now. Especially now.

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Harry silently walked through the long corridors. He thought about what happened in the common room. He didn't want to feel all this pain and loss. He didn't want to be human; just like he said to Professor Dumbledore at the end of last year. He wanted to some sort of creature that didn't have to worry. Something that could just leave it's worries behind.

Harry sighed and came to an old classroom with the door slightly open. He crept inside.

He gasped. This was the classroom where he had discovered the Mirror of Erised in his first year! He remembered coming here for a few nights in a row and just staring at his parents in the mirror.

The mirror wasn't in here now; of course, but Harry figured that this would be a good place to relax and think about the past five years.

When he had found out that he was a wizard on his eleventh birthday, he was the happiest he had ever been in his life. He couldn't wait to leave the Dursleys and learn magic. Almost three years later, he had found out that he had had a godfather; Sirius Black. He had been about as happy as he had been when he found out he was a wizard. He had almost gotten the chance to leave the Dursleys forever! He had been so excited. But of course, Peter Pettigrew escaped again and Sirius had to run for his life. When Voldemort had some back a year later, nobody believed Harry. They believed the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, who said that everybody was safe and that their was no threat of evil anywhere. Then, another year after that, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny Weasely, Neville Longbotton, and Luna Lovegood set out to save Sirius Black at the Ministry of Magic from a vision that Harry had. The vision was false and everybody had gotten hurt, including Sirius, who died the exact same way Harry's parent had. That was the worst day of Harry James Potter's life. And there was even more bad new.

Harry had found out why Voldemort wanted to kill him on the first place. It was form a stupid prophecy that Professor Trelawney had made before Harry was even born. It stated that somebody who was born at the end of July would have to the power to defeat the dark lord. This person could either be Harry Potter or Neville Longbottem. But, it had to be Harry Potter, because the prophecy also stated that this person would have a mark that connected him to the dark lord. And Harry Potter had his lightning bolt scar.

Harry sighed again. He just didn't' want to be human. He didn't' want to be famous, he didn't want to feel loss and pain, and he didn't want everybody to count on him to defeat Lord Voldemort.

"I wish there was a way to become something besides me," Harry mumbled to himself.

"Wait, why shouldn't there be?" Harry stood up from the small chair he was sitting in and walked out of the classroom.

He practically ran to the library. When he got there, he noticed it was pretty much deserted. Madam Pince, the librarian, was dozing of behind her desk.

Harry walked up to the shelves that contained books about animals. He started searching.

After about fifteen minutes, he had four books picked out: Humans and Animals: A Guide to Magical Creatures and Fantastic Beasts and where to find Them were the ones he started with. When he had skimmed then and found nothing useful, he went on to Animal Transformations of the Past Millennium. This book just described transformations, but it didn't give any instructions on how to do it. He searched the last book, which was titled: Animal Potions and Charms. He came to a passage that seemed useful.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A/N: Yep, that's right, first chapter is a cliffie. If I get some reviews, I'll update ASAP! So, please REVIEW!!!!!! Even if it's a flame, I just need to know that people are actually reading it! Also, this goes along with my other stories. SO PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!!!!!!