The Dragon Eagle.
Please Read and Review. Nothing Is My Own. ********************
Harry couldn't believe it. Did this house really belong to him? It couldn't be, but Lupin did sound very serious. Harry was still in the room, where Buckbeak was. He sat up against it. He almost slept. Lupin had only just left. He could feel his eyes getting heavy.
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He was sitting in the kitchen at Grimmauld Place 12. All the Weasley members (even Percy), Dumbledore, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and his mom and dad were celebrating his birthday. None of them were dead. He was so lucky.
But then it all disappeared and he was now in a room. Not a very big room. The window was open. Some kind of an eagle came into the room. The three people who were in the room, tried to get it out, but had no luck. Instead the eagle's eyes turned blood red and attacked. There was blood all over, it didn't give any mercy.
It disappeared out of the room and into the clear sky. Two of the people tried to help the other one, who had been attacked. They screamed for help and four full grown men came into the room and carried the person out.
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Harry woke up, he were all covered in sweat and was breathing heavily. The dream felt so real. It felt like he knew the people in his dream. He looked at his watch. It was six in the morning; he thought it might be good if he returned to his room.
There was no Ron in the room. 'Weird, I wonder where he is.' Harry said to himself and walked out of the room again, to go look for his friend. There was no one in the house, he wondered if it was a dream. But it wasn't, he could feel the breeze from an open window.
He walked down into the living room, where Albus Dumbledore sat at the fireplace. Harry walked in silence over to him; he didn't want to wake him up, if he was asleep. He looked at Harry as he came into view, "Where have you been?" he said with a stern look.
"I have been in Buckbeak's room, sleeping." Harry said with a yawn.
"You have to come, it's an emergency." Dumbledore said and gave him some floo powder. "We have to go to St. Mungo's."
"What is wrong professor?" Harry said worried.
"No time for question, Harry. Now come on!" Dumbledore said.
A few minutes later, they arrived at St. Mungo's. "Follow me." Dumbledore said and led Harry down a corridor. "What are we doing in the closet ward?" Harry asked Dumbledore. But he didn't get any respond. Finally Harry saw what they were doing at St. Mungo's. Ron lay in a bed, all the Weasley members, Remus Lupin and Hermione sat around him.
"What happened?" Harry asked, not taking his eyes away from Ron. Mr Weasley nodded with tears in his eyes to Lupin.
"Well have you heard of a so called Dragon Eagle?" Harry shook his head no. "Well, they are great creatures; they are usually black, with white wings. Their wings can each be three feet long and fly at the speed of fifty miles an hour..."
"What are you trying to say?" Harry asked, now getting worried.
"Well, this night, Hermione, Ginny and Ron had an attack in their room by such a Dragon Eagle." Lupin said, nor looking at his feet.
'No!' Harry whispered, mostly to himself, remembering his dream from last night. It couldn't be. It just couldn't. The eagle he had seen in his dream attacking, had attacked his best friend Ron!
"Sorry?" said Lupin, with a look of confusion.
"Is he?.. Will he?.." Harry couldn't manage to say the right word.
"He won't be fine. Ever again!" said Mr Weasley. He looked like he was about to cry.
"What?" Harry said, now getting a bit scared.
"Harry, you remember that I was bitten by a werewolf, when I was a kid? Well, that is sort of the same that has happened to Ron. But only worse, he doesn't know when he will turn into an eagle, it will just happen! But he won't be as aggressive as I get when I turn into a werewolf."
"No, it can't be!" Harry said, now getting tears in his eyes, "Not Ron!" Mrs Weasley walked over to Harry and gave him a motherly hug.
"It's going to be all right." Mrs Weasley said, trying to comfort him.
***
When the time was ten p.m. everyone, except Mr and Mrs Weasley had to go home to Grimmauld Place. When they arrived, Hermione, Ginny and Harry found their way up to one of the rooms. They had been up in the room for ten minutes, before Harry broke the silence.
"It's not fair. Not Ron. It's not fair." Harry said, starring out the window. He was stunned, that such a thing happened to Ron.
"I know." Hermione agreed. The silence fell again. Suddenly Ginny rose to her feet and walked out of the room. "I have to go see mum." she said before leaving. The silence fell once again. Harry lay down on one of the beds. Suddenly he got a great idea. He sat back up. "Hermione.." he began. Hermione looked at him. "You know, when my dad was at Hogwarts, him, Sirius and Peter all became an Animagus, because Lupin was a werewolf. So.. I was thinking, if maybe you and I became an Animagus, too."
Hermione sat speechless for a few seconds; she probably didn't think that was coming. "I don't think that's a good idea, Harry."
"Of course it is.." Harry said in his most convincing voice, "you heard Lupin; he doesn't know when he will transform into an eagle. So if it does happen in a-not-so-good-place we can get him away, without getting hurt!"
"What if we become animals, like a mouse or a tiny little bird, then we can't do much to stop him!" Hermione said in her knowing-everything tone.
"Then we get some fun out of it!" Harry said as cheerful as he could.
"Harry, the process of becoming an Animagus isn't anything you just do! It takes long time to know how to do it right! And it's very, very dangerous!"
"Okay, Hermione do what you want to do. But I'll do it anyway!"
Hermione sat there for a few seconds before she finally said; "You know, we can get expelled for this!"
"I know, but we do it for a friend! Remember that."
"Fine, but if we get caught, I blame it all on you, Harry!" she said with a stern look.
***
The days at the Noble House of Black, passed quickly. Harry and Hermione had visited a Wizard Library in London. They didn't say that, they were going to do research for becoming an Animagus. They just said that they needed to do some homework; they had gotten over the summer holidays. But by the way Dumbledore looked at them while they said this, told them he knew, but would keep it a secret.
"This is impossible," Hermione said as she looked in her number thirty book or so. "There isn't anything that has to do with such advanced magic in this library!"
"It doesn't look like you to give up like this!" Harry said. He was feeling much better now, when he had been with his friends. But if anyone mentioned Sirius or something in that area, he would get offensive and think they blamed it all on him. So Sirius was an object they didn't talk much about.
"Here Hermione, I've found something!" Harry yelled, not taking his eyes away from the book. "But it's complicated; I've never seen something like this!"
Hermione came over and took a look at it. Her eyes widened. It was obvious by the look on her face that she agreed with Harry. "We have to find some other books; they may help us a bit. If we only have this book, there is no way we are going to make it!"
After searching for two more hours, they had found eleven more books with some facts about Animagus magic. So they headed back to Grimmauld Place. They hided the books in their cloaks as they walked upstairs and into the room they usually hang out in. But Ginny was in there, so they excused themselves and walked out the room again.
"What now?" Hermione said, panic racing through her. She was worried if anyone caught them with these sorts of books.
"Well," Harry said, a little smile spread across his face for the first time, since Sirius' death. "I know a place, where we can be in peace." they started to walk up to where Buckbeak was, when they ran into Dumbledore 'Great. Now we are in big trouble.' Harry thought.
"Hello, where are you two going?" Dumbledore asked suspicious, looking from Harry to Hermione, who were both covering the books with their cloaks.
"We are going to see Buckbeak, thought he might want some company." Harry tried to say in his most believable voice.
"I'm just heading back, from up there. He is awesome, don't you think?" he said, like he knew they were just going up there to study Animagi.
"Yes, I agree." Hermione said, now starting to get sweat on her forehead.
"Is there something you might want to tell me?" he asked the two sixteen year old students.
"No, I don't think so, professor." Harry said, trying to end this conversation.
"Off you go then." he said, as he let them pass him. He watched them walk away.
"That was close." Hermione said as Harry opened the door to the room where Buckbeak was.
"Too close, we can't let that happen again!" Harry said, as they both bowed to bowed to the great creature.
"Certainly not." Hermione said, while opening a book.
They studied for the most of the day, not talking to each other. "You know what, Hermione? I'm starving, I'll go get some food, you want some?" he said and rose to his feet.
"Sure." she answered not looking away from the book.
Harry walked down to the kitchen and grabbed some food. When Mrs Weasley came over to him, she looked like she was on the verge of tears (she always did, since Ron was attacked). ""Don't eat too much, dear. Dinner's ready in two hours." Harry nodded and walked back upstairs. He was balancing with a plate of sandwiches, two silver goblets ad a jug of iced pumpkin juice.
He didn't look where he was going; he just focused on what he was carrying, when he almost bumped into someone. It was Cho again. She had a huge smile on her face, when she saw it was Harry. "Hi, again Harry." she said with her beautiful voice.
"Hi." Harry said, as he was about to go past her.
"Where are you going?" she asked, looking at the food and pumpkin juice.
"I'm studying with my friend, Hermione Granger and we got hungry. So I got down getting some food."
"Oh, your precious Hermione." Cho said with disgust in her voice.
"Will you stop that?" Harry said, remembering his last year, when she was against Hermione.
"Why? You don't like I talk about your wonderful girlfriend?" Cho said, turning round and walked away. Harry made a grimace at her and walked on again. But he couldn't walk much longer before he almost bumped into another girl. This time it was Ginny Weasley.
"Hi Harry, where are you going?" she asked. She wasn't as attracted to him as she once where. She was more of a normal human being.
"Hi Ginny, I'm going up to Buckbeak." he said. Ginny was one of Harry's best's friends at the present moment.
"Can I come?" she smiled at Harry, trying to convince him. 'Wow' Harry thought when she smiled. He had just realized how beautiful she was when she smiled. He didn't blink for fifteen seconds or so. "Harry? Why are you not blinking?" Harry blinked immediately. He blushed. But why he didn't know, it was not like she heard what he had just thought.
"No, I don't think it's a good idea Ginny."
"Why not? I'm not a little girl anymore!" she said, getting offended.
"Because me and Hermione are discussing some private things." Harry said, hoping she would believe him.
"Well, I can help you discuss those 'private' things of yours"
"No, I don't think it's a good idea."
"Oh.." Ginny said, like she had found out what they were doing. "You two are dating. Am I right?" she said with a huge smile on her lips. Harry's jaw dropped.
"What? No we're not dating." "Then why won't you let me come?" she said crossing her arms.
"Ginny let me pass." Harry said now getting tired of this conversation.
"No!" she said, Harry could tell she wasn't going to move.
"Okay, then come." Harry said. He thought about what would happen, when they got there. He walked as slowly as he could, so he had more time to figure out what to do. But they had to get there sometime. Harry raised his voice, so Hermione maybe would figure out, that another than Harry was coming. "SO GINNY, DO YOU THINK NEXT YEAR AT HOGWARTS WIL BE HARD?" he said louder than normal.
"Why are you taking so loud?" she asked, narrowing her eyes.
"I DON'T KNOW, I GUESS I JUST FEEL FREER." Harry said. He could have hit himself in the head, for such a stupid thing to say. Ginny stopped walking and looked suspicious at Harry.
"Harry, what is going on?"
"NOTHING!" he said outside the door to the room. They got in and to Harry's relief; Hermione had caught what Harry had meant, by talking so loud. He let out a deep sigh.
Please Read and Review. Nothing Is My Own. ********************
Harry couldn't believe it. Did this house really belong to him? It couldn't be, but Lupin did sound very serious. Harry was still in the room, where Buckbeak was. He sat up against it. He almost slept. Lupin had only just left. He could feel his eyes getting heavy.
*-*-*
He was sitting in the kitchen at Grimmauld Place 12. All the Weasley members (even Percy), Dumbledore, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and his mom and dad were celebrating his birthday. None of them were dead. He was so lucky.
But then it all disappeared and he was now in a room. Not a very big room. The window was open. Some kind of an eagle came into the room. The three people who were in the room, tried to get it out, but had no luck. Instead the eagle's eyes turned blood red and attacked. There was blood all over, it didn't give any mercy.
It disappeared out of the room and into the clear sky. Two of the people tried to help the other one, who had been attacked. They screamed for help and four full grown men came into the room and carried the person out.
*-*-*
Harry woke up, he were all covered in sweat and was breathing heavily. The dream felt so real. It felt like he knew the people in his dream. He looked at his watch. It was six in the morning; he thought it might be good if he returned to his room.
There was no Ron in the room. 'Weird, I wonder where he is.' Harry said to himself and walked out of the room again, to go look for his friend. There was no one in the house, he wondered if it was a dream. But it wasn't, he could feel the breeze from an open window.
He walked down into the living room, where Albus Dumbledore sat at the fireplace. Harry walked in silence over to him; he didn't want to wake him up, if he was asleep. He looked at Harry as he came into view, "Where have you been?" he said with a stern look.
"I have been in Buckbeak's room, sleeping." Harry said with a yawn.
"You have to come, it's an emergency." Dumbledore said and gave him some floo powder. "We have to go to St. Mungo's."
"What is wrong professor?" Harry said worried.
"No time for question, Harry. Now come on!" Dumbledore said.
A few minutes later, they arrived at St. Mungo's. "Follow me." Dumbledore said and led Harry down a corridor. "What are we doing in the closet ward?" Harry asked Dumbledore. But he didn't get any respond. Finally Harry saw what they were doing at St. Mungo's. Ron lay in a bed, all the Weasley members, Remus Lupin and Hermione sat around him.
"What happened?" Harry asked, not taking his eyes away from Ron. Mr Weasley nodded with tears in his eyes to Lupin.
"Well have you heard of a so called Dragon Eagle?" Harry shook his head no. "Well, they are great creatures; they are usually black, with white wings. Their wings can each be three feet long and fly at the speed of fifty miles an hour..."
"What are you trying to say?" Harry asked, now getting worried.
"Well, this night, Hermione, Ginny and Ron had an attack in their room by such a Dragon Eagle." Lupin said, nor looking at his feet.
'No!' Harry whispered, mostly to himself, remembering his dream from last night. It couldn't be. It just couldn't. The eagle he had seen in his dream attacking, had attacked his best friend Ron!
"Sorry?" said Lupin, with a look of confusion.
"Is he?.. Will he?.." Harry couldn't manage to say the right word.
"He won't be fine. Ever again!" said Mr Weasley. He looked like he was about to cry.
"What?" Harry said, now getting a bit scared.
"Harry, you remember that I was bitten by a werewolf, when I was a kid? Well, that is sort of the same that has happened to Ron. But only worse, he doesn't know when he will turn into an eagle, it will just happen! But he won't be as aggressive as I get when I turn into a werewolf."
"No, it can't be!" Harry said, now getting tears in his eyes, "Not Ron!" Mrs Weasley walked over to Harry and gave him a motherly hug.
"It's going to be all right." Mrs Weasley said, trying to comfort him.
***
When the time was ten p.m. everyone, except Mr and Mrs Weasley had to go home to Grimmauld Place. When they arrived, Hermione, Ginny and Harry found their way up to one of the rooms. They had been up in the room for ten minutes, before Harry broke the silence.
"It's not fair. Not Ron. It's not fair." Harry said, starring out the window. He was stunned, that such a thing happened to Ron.
"I know." Hermione agreed. The silence fell again. Suddenly Ginny rose to her feet and walked out of the room. "I have to go see mum." she said before leaving. The silence fell once again. Harry lay down on one of the beds. Suddenly he got a great idea. He sat back up. "Hermione.." he began. Hermione looked at him. "You know, when my dad was at Hogwarts, him, Sirius and Peter all became an Animagus, because Lupin was a werewolf. So.. I was thinking, if maybe you and I became an Animagus, too."
Hermione sat speechless for a few seconds; she probably didn't think that was coming. "I don't think that's a good idea, Harry."
"Of course it is.." Harry said in his most convincing voice, "you heard Lupin; he doesn't know when he will transform into an eagle. So if it does happen in a-not-so-good-place we can get him away, without getting hurt!"
"What if we become animals, like a mouse or a tiny little bird, then we can't do much to stop him!" Hermione said in her knowing-everything tone.
"Then we get some fun out of it!" Harry said as cheerful as he could.
"Harry, the process of becoming an Animagus isn't anything you just do! It takes long time to know how to do it right! And it's very, very dangerous!"
"Okay, Hermione do what you want to do. But I'll do it anyway!"
Hermione sat there for a few seconds before she finally said; "You know, we can get expelled for this!"
"I know, but we do it for a friend! Remember that."
"Fine, but if we get caught, I blame it all on you, Harry!" she said with a stern look.
***
The days at the Noble House of Black, passed quickly. Harry and Hermione had visited a Wizard Library in London. They didn't say that, they were going to do research for becoming an Animagus. They just said that they needed to do some homework; they had gotten over the summer holidays. But by the way Dumbledore looked at them while they said this, told them he knew, but would keep it a secret.
"This is impossible," Hermione said as she looked in her number thirty book or so. "There isn't anything that has to do with such advanced magic in this library!"
"It doesn't look like you to give up like this!" Harry said. He was feeling much better now, when he had been with his friends. But if anyone mentioned Sirius or something in that area, he would get offensive and think they blamed it all on him. So Sirius was an object they didn't talk much about.
"Here Hermione, I've found something!" Harry yelled, not taking his eyes away from the book. "But it's complicated; I've never seen something like this!"
Hermione came over and took a look at it. Her eyes widened. It was obvious by the look on her face that she agreed with Harry. "We have to find some other books; they may help us a bit. If we only have this book, there is no way we are going to make it!"
After searching for two more hours, they had found eleven more books with some facts about Animagus magic. So they headed back to Grimmauld Place. They hided the books in their cloaks as they walked upstairs and into the room they usually hang out in. But Ginny was in there, so they excused themselves and walked out the room again.
"What now?" Hermione said, panic racing through her. She was worried if anyone caught them with these sorts of books.
"Well," Harry said, a little smile spread across his face for the first time, since Sirius' death. "I know a place, where we can be in peace." they started to walk up to where Buckbeak was, when they ran into Dumbledore 'Great. Now we are in big trouble.' Harry thought.
"Hello, where are you two going?" Dumbledore asked suspicious, looking from Harry to Hermione, who were both covering the books with their cloaks.
"We are going to see Buckbeak, thought he might want some company." Harry tried to say in his most believable voice.
"I'm just heading back, from up there. He is awesome, don't you think?" he said, like he knew they were just going up there to study Animagi.
"Yes, I agree." Hermione said, now starting to get sweat on her forehead.
"Is there something you might want to tell me?" he asked the two sixteen year old students.
"No, I don't think so, professor." Harry said, trying to end this conversation.
"Off you go then." he said, as he let them pass him. He watched them walk away.
"That was close." Hermione said as Harry opened the door to the room where Buckbeak was.
"Too close, we can't let that happen again!" Harry said, as they both bowed to bowed to the great creature.
"Certainly not." Hermione said, while opening a book.
They studied for the most of the day, not talking to each other. "You know what, Hermione? I'm starving, I'll go get some food, you want some?" he said and rose to his feet.
"Sure." she answered not looking away from the book.
Harry walked down to the kitchen and grabbed some food. When Mrs Weasley came over to him, she looked like she was on the verge of tears (she always did, since Ron was attacked). ""Don't eat too much, dear. Dinner's ready in two hours." Harry nodded and walked back upstairs. He was balancing with a plate of sandwiches, two silver goblets ad a jug of iced pumpkin juice.
He didn't look where he was going; he just focused on what he was carrying, when he almost bumped into someone. It was Cho again. She had a huge smile on her face, when she saw it was Harry. "Hi, again Harry." she said with her beautiful voice.
"Hi." Harry said, as he was about to go past her.
"Where are you going?" she asked, looking at the food and pumpkin juice.
"I'm studying with my friend, Hermione Granger and we got hungry. So I got down getting some food."
"Oh, your precious Hermione." Cho said with disgust in her voice.
"Will you stop that?" Harry said, remembering his last year, when she was against Hermione.
"Why? You don't like I talk about your wonderful girlfriend?" Cho said, turning round and walked away. Harry made a grimace at her and walked on again. But he couldn't walk much longer before he almost bumped into another girl. This time it was Ginny Weasley.
"Hi Harry, where are you going?" she asked. She wasn't as attracted to him as she once where. She was more of a normal human being.
"Hi Ginny, I'm going up to Buckbeak." he said. Ginny was one of Harry's best's friends at the present moment.
"Can I come?" she smiled at Harry, trying to convince him. 'Wow' Harry thought when she smiled. He had just realized how beautiful she was when she smiled. He didn't blink for fifteen seconds or so. "Harry? Why are you not blinking?" Harry blinked immediately. He blushed. But why he didn't know, it was not like she heard what he had just thought.
"No, I don't think it's a good idea Ginny."
"Why not? I'm not a little girl anymore!" she said, getting offended.
"Because me and Hermione are discussing some private things." Harry said, hoping she would believe him.
"Well, I can help you discuss those 'private' things of yours"
"No, I don't think it's a good idea."
"Oh.." Ginny said, like she had found out what they were doing. "You two are dating. Am I right?" she said with a huge smile on her lips. Harry's jaw dropped.
"What? No we're not dating." "Then why won't you let me come?" she said crossing her arms.
"Ginny let me pass." Harry said now getting tired of this conversation.
"No!" she said, Harry could tell she wasn't going to move.
"Okay, then come." Harry said. He thought about what would happen, when they got there. He walked as slowly as he could, so he had more time to figure out what to do. But they had to get there sometime. Harry raised his voice, so Hermione maybe would figure out, that another than Harry was coming. "SO GINNY, DO YOU THINK NEXT YEAR AT HOGWARTS WIL BE HARD?" he said louder than normal.
"Why are you taking so loud?" she asked, narrowing her eyes.
"I DON'T KNOW, I GUESS I JUST FEEL FREER." Harry said. He could have hit himself in the head, for such a stupid thing to say. Ginny stopped walking and looked suspicious at Harry.
"Harry, what is going on?"
"NOTHING!" he said outside the door to the room. They got in and to Harry's relief; Hermione had caught what Harry had meant, by talking so loud. He let out a deep sigh.