Kiss From a Rose
Disclaimer: I do not own anything that contains any of J.K. Rowling's work, she by far is much more experienced in writing then I am at the current moment. This is her universe that I am using to produce works like Kiss from a Rose. It seems that my Beta-Reader has left me for a week (found out that she's in London vacationing), so this is an edited chapter by me and it isn't going to be good.
Chapter 9 – Animagus Classes
They all walked to the great hall Hermione and Ron hand in hand, Ginny just followed along with Harry who couldn't seemed to get his mind off of his classes tonight at 8:00. Like most wizards (in school) and like most muggles (the dreamers) he was very excited to find out the process of how to do this. From what he had heard it wasn't easy, well, it wasn't easy for one to become a magical creature. McGonagall told the class that it takes a person who can understand the knowledge of magic and that doesn't mean what you can learn in books. This certainly confused Harry, weren't they doing that or was it something else he had to learn. He would learn some of it tonight Harry said to himself as he just sat there at the Gryffindor table surrounded by all his friends.
"Harry why aren't you eating?" Ron said through the mouth full of food. Harry looked at Ron and then looked at Hermione, who didn't say anything nor move her eyes.
"Um,.. Just not hungry." Harry responded.
"Not hungry, I haven't seen you eat breakfast, lunch, and now dinner. How come your not hungry… Matter of fact I don't think I've seen you eat anything for the pass week. Is there something wrong?" Ron said, twisting his fork in his steak. Certainly this caught Harry off guard, Ron being this observant, this certainly was a change in his thinking. It was then like an angel did McGonagall come over and ask for Harry to follow her before Harry could answer Ron's question. Ron raised and browed then shrugged before going back to eating his food.
"Thank you," Harry said just as McGonagall and him walked out of the hall and over to her class room.
"You are most welcome Mr. Potter, I think you should think about your actions now. Some people do tend to change over a few years of knowing them." McGonagall said, lips thin and face straight as she entered a fairly lit room with all the desks gone. "Have you chosen your animagus form yet? Or at least have some ideas?" asked McGonagall as she flicked her wand lighting more of the room.
"Yes, I want to be a griffin. Hagrid had that griffin in the Care for Magical creature's class. Once I saw it I knew that I had to be that." Harry said with a little excitement in his voice. For a second Harry could have though she had a smile on her face but then he looked again and noticed that it was only a thin lipped teacher, no change to Harry's dismay.
"Well Mr. Potter that is certainly a task to do. Do you remember what I said in my first class of this year?"
"Yes, you had to have a certain level of understanding of magic before you could become a magical creature." Harry said.
"That's right, it takes a mind that can understand the magical theory." McGonagall said, Harry looked a bit confused about the magical theory. "But don't let that get you down, I think it would be best that we start off by working on becoming a lion and then if you do understand how magic works then we can work on getting your wings." Harry said nothing that was until a question came rushing through his head.
"Do you understand the magical theory?" McGonagall looked as if she was caught off guard but like most adults her age she kept in line and answered, "I understand my limits, but I do not understand the magical theory I suggest that during your time you are no working on your homework or practicing your animagus form you go talk to Professor Dumbledore about the theory and how it works. He has a stronger grasp on it then I can teach you." Harry nodded.
"Well then, I guess I think we should start off by with elongating you fingers, nails, toes, and hair. I believe that you have already done a bit of this when you first became a vampire?" McGonagall said and Harry nodded before growing out his fangs to there normal length. "Well then, just do the same thing with your fingers, toes, hair, and nails" Before Harry could even think about it Dumbledore walked into the room (smiling at Harry and then looking at McGonagall), "Minerva, it seems that Snape needs some help with a potion he has been working on." McGonagall nodded and then turned to Harry, "I will be back in an hour, I expect to see some practicing" Harry nodded then watched McGonagall and Dumbledore walk out of the room chatting about something which Harry could only faintly hear, 'It's almost finished I think he would be certainly happy when he can'.
About thirty minutes had passed as Harry seemed to get no where in changing his fingers or anything for that matter. Like most he was frustrated at himself because it seemed harder then it had been just to change his fangs. It was in then in the middle of him closing his eyes that he heard the door open and a familiar smell entered the room. Unique to only one man that Harry knew of, his sire Romulus who happen to start laughing.
"Are you trying to sleep standing up Harry?" Romulus said trying to get out through his laughter. Harry turned around a bit upset but he soon smiled.
"Of course not I'm trying to become an animagus" Harry replied noting to himself that he really did look stupid doing that.
"Animagus, ah yes, I have heard of these folk. People who can change into a animal or something like that, right?" Romulus asked as he walked over towards the desk and popped himself down in the wooden seat.
"Yes," Harry responded looking at his sire.
"When are your teachers going to learn the pleasure of muggle comforts, like chairs with wheels and with padding." Romulus said shifting in his seat. Harry chuckled, "What do you want Romulus?" asked Harry.
"Oh, just wanted to know if your up for a night in London, you'll be back before sunrise." Asked Romulus. Harry knew that legally he couldn't go at this time of night, but it did sound good.
"Alright, I'm up for a night in London, we will go in an hour ok?" Romulus nodded before speaking again, "Also, maybe you should talk to Remus (he put a very hateful sneer with that room), he's been trying to find me for sometime asking me to leave you."
"What is it with you and Remus, your brothers for crying out loud." Harry said with a little hatred to both Remus and Romulus.
"Harry, please don't bring this up."
"No, I will bring it up, I want to know why you and your brother hate each other so much that you two cant come together and be brothers." Harry spoke loud and clear which only seemed to tick of Romulus who slammed his hand on the desk cracking it in half, "I TOLD YOU NOT TO BRING THIS UP! NOW SHUT UP AND FINISH YOUR TRAINING." Romulus yelled which Harry knew that it would travel through the school. It was just like Harry thought when Dumbledore and Remus came into the room looking directly at Romulus.
"Just great, just great see what you had done now! Your brother my idiot brother and –"
"I would not say any more Romulus if you choose to keep your tongue." Dumbledore said with his wand pointing directly at Romulus.
"I ask you, no, I tell you to leave Harry alone." Remus said.
"Remus, he is my fledgling, I cannot just leave him alone. He will always be with me." Romulus stood up tall and firm while looking at Remus. Harry stood in the middle and looked between the two brothers, Dumbledore did about the same thing of just watching. It was dead silence between the two and the entire room, it was only broken up by the door opening once more and McGonagall looking in Horror to see Romulus there.
"What is he doing in this room." McGonagall shrieked as she immediately took out her wand and pointed it at Romulus.
"Great you've brought the scream wrench that can't even get a decent –" A blue spark flew across the room hitting Romulus dead in the chest who looked stunned before collapsing on the ground. Dumbledore looked more furious then Harry had seen him, Harry turned to Romulus who was out cold on the hard ground. Harry mouthed wow and watched Remus and Dumbledore walk over to Romulus.
"What are we going to do with this?" Remus asked.
"We are going to hand him over to Aurors, from there they will handle it." Spoke Dumbledore.
"Can't we just leave him out in the sun?" Remus said, Dumbledore seemed to chuckle a bit before shaking his head and looking at Harry then back over to Remus who knew what he had to explain to Harry.
"Harry let's go take a walk around the lake while I try to explain our past." Remus said while walking out closely followed by Harry.
Harry had his head down, partly because he was annoyed of the foolishness of his sire and because that Remus was treating him like a child. Remus didn't say anything until they had reached the lake, it glistened in the moonlight, ripples reached the shore probably because of the merpeople down below. "You are probably wondering why me and my brother are enemies." Said Remus. Harry gave a grunt and continued to gaze into the dark waters of the lake.
"Well, I guess I should start with when Romulus was turned a vampire." This seemed to catch Harry's attention. "It was when we turned about 12 years of age, of course I was a werewolf long before then. He was jealous of me, I got all the weird things happen to me, of course I never told him how hard it was for me to be a werewolf. That's when he decided he was going to look for immortality, he was going to look for a vampire." Remus said, then moved his hands into his pockets and shifted his robe around. Harry remained quiet. "He didn't go to Hogwarts, no, he left I didn't see him until I was about 19 years old and still searching for a job. He had changed so much, we use to be best of friends. It was Quidditch everyday, even the muggle sport football (soccer). When I first saw it we were still the best of friends, maybe even better then before since we could play on the same terms. But that all changed when our parents were killed by Voldemort. Of course I decided that I was going help Dumbledore fight Voldemort, but my headstrong brother decided he wanted personal revenge. So he left again, with a personal war against Voldemort, and when the war was over he came back. But it wasn't the same Romulus, his mind had been twisted into something I could never imagine. He thought he was a god, in fact he was far from it, though he was powerful, he felt as if the world was his toy." Harry didn't understand, wasn't the world a toy to the immortals, couldn't they play with anything they liked to? "But you must understand something Harry, the world is not your toy, in fact far from it, you are just like me, Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, all the people mortal or immortal. You are not a god, your not even close to it, though you do have more power then most. It is the way to use it, as you see Romulus he only uses it for personal gain, he's lost his humanity after fighting Voldemort. You ever wonder why he never is out during the day?" Remus turned to Harry who finally looked at Remus with questioning eyes.
"He never told me, he just said he prefers the night." Harry spoke softly.
"He prefers the night because he can't walk during the day, he's lost the humanistic side in him. The side that enjoyed life, enjoyed to live and love, you haven't lost that yet that's why you can walk during the day, you can do more then he can."
"Then who was doing those attacks," Remus didn't say anything as his eyes continued there undoubting stare.
"I don't know, maybe it was Romulus who wanted you to come with him instead of being in Hogwarts."
"I doubt that, he told me to go and learn. That wouldn't make sense for him to try to get me to leave here" Harry replied.
"What about Lily?" asked Remus.
"Can't be, for what reason would she do that for?"
"Don't ask me, I'm not Dumbledore I'm not all knowing." Remus chuckled and started to walk back to the castle. Harry gave a small chuckle and followed Remus, though the thought still was bothering him, who would do it.
"You think Voldemort has something to do with it, you think he knows about me?" Harry asked and opening the door for Remus.
"That's what the order is trying to find out, although we suspect that he is planning something but we don't think this is it." Remus walked up the stairs and to the commons with Harry.
"What will happen to Romulus?" Harry stopped just at the door to look back upon Remus who started walking away.
"Well the ministry will ask him a few questions, then probably tag and release him."
"You sound like we are animals." Harry said a bit in anger. Remus paused, then looked back at Harry, then turned and walked away not saying anything.
Next Chapter – Hogsmeade (Part 1)
- "They looked into each other's eyes and knew that it would be the final moment, one of them wasn't going to make it out alive."
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BAD BOY HARRY – I know, Ron needs to go, don't worry I'm working on the breakup I can't handle him with Hermione for much longer.
potter-man – A Chimera, nah, I'm going to stick to what he would want to be. But things don't always turn out to be the way they start.
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Robaatsu – Multi-animagus? Nah, I was considering keeping him to two forms one for his human side, the other his vampire side… but I decided not to do that.
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