(Major boo boo! In my last chap I said that Sara had an idea for the two suspicious men...welllll...woteva that plan was...I'VE FORGOTTEN IT! Guuuuuurrrr-eat! Now I have to think something up, so if this chap is a bit spaz ya'll know the reason, kay??!! )
"I'm not done Harry!" Anna placed her hands on her hips, her face set and determined.
"FINE!" Harry flung his hands up in defeat. "But I refuse to be a bunny rabbit or anything else like it!"
"Awww, you take all the fun out of life!" Anna 'hmphed' and sat down cross-legged on the bed, thinking.
"What about a dog, or something?" Nada, who was sitting on the bed next to Anna suggested, tucking her wild curls behind her ears. Immediately Harry thought of Sirius, and how he was coping with the disappearance of his godson. Not that there was much Sirius could do about it, being an escaped criminal had its downsides in life.
"Harry! HELLLLOO!"
"Earth to Harry!"
Both girls waved their hands in front of his face, bringing him out of his thoughts immediately. He narrowed his eyes slightly,
"Alright, a dog then!" He grinned mischievously, getting ready to scare the bejeebers out of the girls. He focused on the memory of his dear old friend Padfoot, and soon had an itching sensation covering his body, he had the mad urge to scratch but resisted and instead watched in fascination as the hair on his arms thickened and darkened in seconds. Instead of shrinking like he imagined, Harry began to hunch slightly until he was on all fours and claws extracted themselves from his now canine paws.
"A GRIM!" Nada shrieked and sprang from the bed, taking Anna with her who was staring in shock. Harry grinned doggishly, his tongue lolling out of his mouth as he trotted towards the girls who were backing away slowly.
"Now, Harry as much as we love you, we'd rather not die...so...back off, please?" Nada smiled weakly and Anna nodded in agreement, to shocked to speak. Backing away, they managed to make it to the doorway and just as they were about to turn and run, Jess appeared.
"What's up guys?" She smiled and peered over Anna's shoulder into the room. "Hey, a dog!" She grinned excitedly and pushed through the two girls.
"Jess, no!" Anna reached out, finally finding her voice and pulled Jess back.
"Huh?"
"It's the grim!" Jess had always been a bit careless.
"The grim?" She rose an eyebrow questioningly.
"You know, symbol of death..." Nada looked at her out of the corner of her eye.
"A party and I wasn't invited?" Jason appeared, cocky grin on his face. Nada rolled her eyes.
"Use your eyes, brainy-ack!"
He peered over her shoulder and instead of stumbling back in shock like the girls imagined him too, he grinned.
"Cool! Looks like the grim, doesn't it?"
"Maybe that's because it is the GRIM!" Jessica said pointedly she seemed to have edged her away around behind Anna and Nada.
"Not just any grim!" Anna began.
"It's the Harry-Grim!" Nada concluded.
"Harry!" Jason exclaimed he pushed past the girls and approached Harry, scratching him behind the ear. Suddenly the Black dog began to straighten up, the hair lightened and disappeared and Harry appeared crouched on the ground. "Fantastic!" Jason exclaimed retracting his hand from whence it had been scratching Harry.
"Weird," Harry replied, standing up and stretching. "Ahhh!" He sighed in relief as the tension in his back was released.
"What was it like?" Jess asked, pushing through Nada and Anna again.
"Strange, I had all the dog attributes and I could feel them there but I was in control of them. Hard to explain..." Harry looked slightly confused but shrugged it off.
"Umm, guys, don't we have Potions now?" Nada was looking at her watch with a wrinkled brow.
"Shit!" Jason exclaimed as he too, checked his watch. He sprinted out of the room with the others hot on his tail. The approached a spiralled staircase that travelled upwards towards the highest level of the house. Quickly scaling it, they entered an attic shaped room, large for its size. Sara was sitting on the floor cross-legged with a look of plain irritation spread across her face.
"You're late," she stated plainly. Harry glanced around the room, taking in what he saw carefully. Instead of tables and chairs, the cauldrons were all on the floor, five of them and Harry noted his own cauldron was the fifth one. Jutting out of the wall to the left, were a series of shelves with Potions ingredients that seemed to go on forever. Sara was seated in front of them with a simple book and upon further investigation, Harry found that if you just look up the Potion and then press the name with your index finger, the instructions popped up like a hologram.
"Invisibility, that is what we are going to look at today!" Sara changed her demeanour immediately and was back to her bubbly self. "How to make an invisibility potion! Though Harry may have no trouble with this himself, I'm not sure. Shape shifters are quite baffling actually. But anyway, that is for another day!"
Sara rattled on, but Harry was slightly detached for the rest of the lesson. He had already covered invisibility potions before anyway and he had an invisibility cloak, but that wasn't what was sidetracking him. He was more astounded with the prospect that he might be able to shift invisible.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Still?" Sara asked wide-eyed. The boy nodded his head.
"They keep on coming into the cafe, and keeping an eye out."
"Thanks, Bert."
"That's alright, see you next Thursday then!" The boy turned and walked out of the cafe doors, with a smile on his face. The Bell tinkled and he was gone. Sara sighed, rubbed at her temple and turned back to the counter. She quickly pressed a random code into the cash register and was rewarded with a pleasant "Ca-ching" sound.
"Sara?" She looked up to see Harry coming out of the back room. He looked at her searchingly before stating, "They keep on coming back, don't they?" She didn't respond, but instead began recording the money they had received that day. "What are we going to do?" Sara looked up again and smiled.
"Don't worry Harry, I have an idea. You'll see... Now, how are you going with the note book, have you caught up on some of the wandless magic yet?"
She was changing the subject and what that meant Harry had no idea, but he humoured her anyway. "Yeah, almost up to the 11th charm, but it's getting difficult, especially the transfiguration..."
"Yes, well the others had the same problem... you'll get it in the end, I know you will! I've got to finish counting this..." Harry took that as his cue to leave and smiled and left via portkey. Landing on his feet for once in the middle of the lounge room was a relief, this time he wasn't winded. Anna was waiting for him.
"They're still suspicious," Harry said to Anna's unspoken question. "Apparently they keep on coming in and keeping an eye out, at least that's what I overheard from Bert one of the kitchen hands."
"What's she doing about it?" Anna tucked a strand of mahogany behind her ear.
"No idea," Harry shrugged and plopped onto the couch beside her. "The only thing I can think of to stop their curiosity would be to go back to Hogwarts..."
"HARRY!" Anna jumped to her feet.
"What?"
"That's it. That's got to be what she's thinking of!" Anna was bursting with excitement.
"But, how can you be sure?" Harry raised an eyebrow.
"Well...I can't be...BUT I can still be hopeful!" Anna grinned and bounced on the balls of her feet.
"Nutters, completely nutters..." Harry mumbled shaking his head despairingly.
"Shush! You're disrupting my chain of thought," Anna snapped, tapping her chin thoughtfully. "The Hogwarts school year hasn't started yet, has it Harry?"
"Not for another week or so..." Harry watched her curiously. She couldn't seriously be thinking that Sara would send them to Hogwarts.
"WOW!" Anna's eyes lit up and she bounced on her feet momentarily.
"Anna, that's stupid! Everyone will want to know where I disappeared to and all!"
"So?" Anna shrugged, and glanced at Harry strangely. "Hey, Harry I never knew you had red in your hair!" She walked up close to him, and lifted one of his strands of hair with her fingers and studied it.
"I don't."
"You do. It's like mine! Mahogany colour...black and red... and your face shape...its different..."
"It is?" Harry stood up and walked towards the fireplace, where a mirror hung as decoration above it. He glanced in at his reflection, noticing now the subtle changes in his appearance, he did have red in his hair, his nose seemed more of a softer shape and his eyes, if it was possible were darker than normal. He moved his head slightly in the mirror and the shade of green changed. Weird.
"Have you been shifting?" Anna asked with her hands on her hips. Harry shook his head, no. He studied himself, something seemed all too familiar about his reflection.
"What is going on?"
"Maybe it's those changes Sara talked about when you first came, maybe your still changing..."
"Yeah, that's probably it."
"Or maybe, you're becoming more like your mum!" Anna suggested.
"Huh?" Harry scrunched his eyebrows thoughtfully. "Stay there! I'll be right back!" He dashed out of the room and up the stairs. A moment later and he reappeared with a small album clutched in his hands, he flopped into the couch next to Anna and opened the book.
"Wow..." Anna breathed. "Is that your mum, she's beautiful..." She stared in aw, at the red head smiling and waving at them. Harry nodded, a wistful look in his eyes. "You look like a real mixture of them now you know. Before you didn't have this much of your mum in you, but now..." She trailed off watching Harry. He stared at the photo with a soft look and then shook himself out of his day dream.
"Sorry, what were you saying Anna?" He glanced at her.
"Just that you look more like her now. You really do." She smiled brightly at him.
"Thanks."
(I've changed it now, seeeee?? Hope I haven't disappointed too many ppl, but just remember Snape will be involved. Just not as much had this fic actually been a father/son. A new chapter will come in shortly!!)
~Bubby
"I'm not done Harry!" Anna placed her hands on her hips, her face set and determined.
"FINE!" Harry flung his hands up in defeat. "But I refuse to be a bunny rabbit or anything else like it!"
"Awww, you take all the fun out of life!" Anna 'hmphed' and sat down cross-legged on the bed, thinking.
"What about a dog, or something?" Nada, who was sitting on the bed next to Anna suggested, tucking her wild curls behind her ears. Immediately Harry thought of Sirius, and how he was coping with the disappearance of his godson. Not that there was much Sirius could do about it, being an escaped criminal had its downsides in life.
"Harry! HELLLLOO!"
"Earth to Harry!"
Both girls waved their hands in front of his face, bringing him out of his thoughts immediately. He narrowed his eyes slightly,
"Alright, a dog then!" He grinned mischievously, getting ready to scare the bejeebers out of the girls. He focused on the memory of his dear old friend Padfoot, and soon had an itching sensation covering his body, he had the mad urge to scratch but resisted and instead watched in fascination as the hair on his arms thickened and darkened in seconds. Instead of shrinking like he imagined, Harry began to hunch slightly until he was on all fours and claws extracted themselves from his now canine paws.
"A GRIM!" Nada shrieked and sprang from the bed, taking Anna with her who was staring in shock. Harry grinned doggishly, his tongue lolling out of his mouth as he trotted towards the girls who were backing away slowly.
"Now, Harry as much as we love you, we'd rather not die...so...back off, please?" Nada smiled weakly and Anna nodded in agreement, to shocked to speak. Backing away, they managed to make it to the doorway and just as they were about to turn and run, Jess appeared.
"What's up guys?" She smiled and peered over Anna's shoulder into the room. "Hey, a dog!" She grinned excitedly and pushed through the two girls.
"Jess, no!" Anna reached out, finally finding her voice and pulled Jess back.
"Huh?"
"It's the grim!" Jess had always been a bit careless.
"The grim?" She rose an eyebrow questioningly.
"You know, symbol of death..." Nada looked at her out of the corner of her eye.
"A party and I wasn't invited?" Jason appeared, cocky grin on his face. Nada rolled her eyes.
"Use your eyes, brainy-ack!"
He peered over her shoulder and instead of stumbling back in shock like the girls imagined him too, he grinned.
"Cool! Looks like the grim, doesn't it?"
"Maybe that's because it is the GRIM!" Jessica said pointedly she seemed to have edged her away around behind Anna and Nada.
"Not just any grim!" Anna began.
"It's the Harry-Grim!" Nada concluded.
"Harry!" Jason exclaimed he pushed past the girls and approached Harry, scratching him behind the ear. Suddenly the Black dog began to straighten up, the hair lightened and disappeared and Harry appeared crouched on the ground. "Fantastic!" Jason exclaimed retracting his hand from whence it had been scratching Harry.
"Weird," Harry replied, standing up and stretching. "Ahhh!" He sighed in relief as the tension in his back was released.
"What was it like?" Jess asked, pushing through Nada and Anna again.
"Strange, I had all the dog attributes and I could feel them there but I was in control of them. Hard to explain..." Harry looked slightly confused but shrugged it off.
"Umm, guys, don't we have Potions now?" Nada was looking at her watch with a wrinkled brow.
"Shit!" Jason exclaimed as he too, checked his watch. He sprinted out of the room with the others hot on his tail. The approached a spiralled staircase that travelled upwards towards the highest level of the house. Quickly scaling it, they entered an attic shaped room, large for its size. Sara was sitting on the floor cross-legged with a look of plain irritation spread across her face.
"You're late," she stated plainly. Harry glanced around the room, taking in what he saw carefully. Instead of tables and chairs, the cauldrons were all on the floor, five of them and Harry noted his own cauldron was the fifth one. Jutting out of the wall to the left, were a series of shelves with Potions ingredients that seemed to go on forever. Sara was seated in front of them with a simple book and upon further investigation, Harry found that if you just look up the Potion and then press the name with your index finger, the instructions popped up like a hologram.
"Invisibility, that is what we are going to look at today!" Sara changed her demeanour immediately and was back to her bubbly self. "How to make an invisibility potion! Though Harry may have no trouble with this himself, I'm not sure. Shape shifters are quite baffling actually. But anyway, that is for another day!"
Sara rattled on, but Harry was slightly detached for the rest of the lesson. He had already covered invisibility potions before anyway and he had an invisibility cloak, but that wasn't what was sidetracking him. He was more astounded with the prospect that he might be able to shift invisible.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Still?" Sara asked wide-eyed. The boy nodded his head.
"They keep on coming into the cafe, and keeping an eye out."
"Thanks, Bert."
"That's alright, see you next Thursday then!" The boy turned and walked out of the cafe doors, with a smile on his face. The Bell tinkled and he was gone. Sara sighed, rubbed at her temple and turned back to the counter. She quickly pressed a random code into the cash register and was rewarded with a pleasant "Ca-ching" sound.
"Sara?" She looked up to see Harry coming out of the back room. He looked at her searchingly before stating, "They keep on coming back, don't they?" She didn't respond, but instead began recording the money they had received that day. "What are we going to do?" Sara looked up again and smiled.
"Don't worry Harry, I have an idea. You'll see... Now, how are you going with the note book, have you caught up on some of the wandless magic yet?"
She was changing the subject and what that meant Harry had no idea, but he humoured her anyway. "Yeah, almost up to the 11th charm, but it's getting difficult, especially the transfiguration..."
"Yes, well the others had the same problem... you'll get it in the end, I know you will! I've got to finish counting this..." Harry took that as his cue to leave and smiled and left via portkey. Landing on his feet for once in the middle of the lounge room was a relief, this time he wasn't winded. Anna was waiting for him.
"They're still suspicious," Harry said to Anna's unspoken question. "Apparently they keep on coming in and keeping an eye out, at least that's what I overheard from Bert one of the kitchen hands."
"What's she doing about it?" Anna tucked a strand of mahogany behind her ear.
"No idea," Harry shrugged and plopped onto the couch beside her. "The only thing I can think of to stop their curiosity would be to go back to Hogwarts..."
"HARRY!" Anna jumped to her feet.
"What?"
"That's it. That's got to be what she's thinking of!" Anna was bursting with excitement.
"But, how can you be sure?" Harry raised an eyebrow.
"Well...I can't be...BUT I can still be hopeful!" Anna grinned and bounced on the balls of her feet.
"Nutters, completely nutters..." Harry mumbled shaking his head despairingly.
"Shush! You're disrupting my chain of thought," Anna snapped, tapping her chin thoughtfully. "The Hogwarts school year hasn't started yet, has it Harry?"
"Not for another week or so..." Harry watched her curiously. She couldn't seriously be thinking that Sara would send them to Hogwarts.
"WOW!" Anna's eyes lit up and she bounced on her feet momentarily.
"Anna, that's stupid! Everyone will want to know where I disappeared to and all!"
"So?" Anna shrugged, and glanced at Harry strangely. "Hey, Harry I never knew you had red in your hair!" She walked up close to him, and lifted one of his strands of hair with her fingers and studied it.
"I don't."
"You do. It's like mine! Mahogany colour...black and red... and your face shape...its different..."
"It is?" Harry stood up and walked towards the fireplace, where a mirror hung as decoration above it. He glanced in at his reflection, noticing now the subtle changes in his appearance, he did have red in his hair, his nose seemed more of a softer shape and his eyes, if it was possible were darker than normal. He moved his head slightly in the mirror and the shade of green changed. Weird.
"Have you been shifting?" Anna asked with her hands on her hips. Harry shook his head, no. He studied himself, something seemed all too familiar about his reflection.
"What is going on?"
"Maybe it's those changes Sara talked about when you first came, maybe your still changing..."
"Yeah, that's probably it."
"Or maybe, you're becoming more like your mum!" Anna suggested.
"Huh?" Harry scrunched his eyebrows thoughtfully. "Stay there! I'll be right back!" He dashed out of the room and up the stairs. A moment later and he reappeared with a small album clutched in his hands, he flopped into the couch next to Anna and opened the book.
"Wow..." Anna breathed. "Is that your mum, she's beautiful..." She stared in aw, at the red head smiling and waving at them. Harry nodded, a wistful look in his eyes. "You look like a real mixture of them now you know. Before you didn't have this much of your mum in you, but now..." She trailed off watching Harry. He stared at the photo with a soft look and then shook himself out of his day dream.
"Sorry, what were you saying Anna?" He glanced at her.
"Just that you look more like her now. You really do." She smiled brightly at him.
"Thanks."
(I've changed it now, seeeee?? Hope I haven't disappointed too many ppl, but just remember Snape will be involved. Just not as much had this fic actually been a father/son. A new chapter will come in shortly!!)
~Bubby