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Innovo Adorior

A New Rise

CHAPTER 3 'The Polyanimagus'

"Hershey's." Albus told the gargoyles, who sprang to life and out of the way to reveal the spiraling staircase that led the way to his office. Harry chuckled to himself; leave it up to Albus to think of sweets as a password to his offices. They entered the office and took their seats around the room; Harry separating Sirius and Severus, Albus sat at his chair behind his desk.

"Tea? Lemon drops?" Albus offered. Which did three shaking heads decline. Albus shrugged and popped a lemon drop in his own mouth. Harry could feel eyes boring into him and looked at Sirius who was looking expectantly at Albus. This confused Harry so he looked at Albus but he also seemed entranced by something on his desk, so he looked to Severus. He looked straight into his eyes for the second time in the space of about half an hour. He hoped this wasn't going to be a reoccurring habit. He couldn't help feel a strange feeling that he never dreamed he would towards this Potions Master. But he put it down to just finding out he actually had a father, one who wasn't dead. No matter who it was Harry was glad there was some one he could go to like a father. Even though it was Severus. He seemed to have changed his attitude toward Harry, as he had not heard one foul, degrading insult being muttered from him. Harry got lost in his thoughts and shook his head; as he had realized he was staring, and turned to look at the floor in front of him.

Severus blinked and looked away as he realized he had been staring when Harry looked away from him. He had studied those eyes, so much like Lily's. He wondered what kinds of charms and potions lily had to use to hide Harry's appearances. She must have known that it was not James' child; she had hidden his looks from everyone. He refocused his mind to Harry. He had seen emotions pass through that boy that were never seen before. Harry had always had a stony mask covering his feelings that he buried deep within himself. He saw, first, surprise and confusion that turned into, was that pride? And finally saw something that confused and startled him; love? Severus snapped out of his thoughts to listen as Albus started talking.

"Sirius, we have some...news to tell you." Albus started, choosing his words very carefully. Albus looked to Harry and Severus raising his eyebrows. Severus sighed and opened his mouth to tell Sirius, who had a thoroughly confused look upon his face, but Harry cut him off with a look and turned to Sirius. Severus was taken aback at Harry, he had never been able to do that before, was he losing his ability to scare the students? Or was it just Harry he no longer intimidated?

"You see, Sirius, we've just found something out." Harry started very quietly but loud enough to be heard, "And you need to know, but you mustn't do anything rash, alright?" Harry paused and looked up to his Godfathers face. Sirius nodded slowly not liking how this was sounding.

"Umm...Sirius, James wasn't my father." There, Harry thought, I said it. He looked back up to Sirius' face again, hoping he didn't look mad, or give up being Harry's Godfather. Sirius wore an even more confused face than before.

"Harry? What do you mean? Of course he was your father. Wasn't he?" Sirius finished his sentence weekly and nearly whispered the rest, "Who is really? Do you have proof? Or ... Sirius broke off as his eyes fell upon Severus and his eyes grew to the size of saucer plates, "No. He's not." He turned to Albus with pleading eyes, then back at Harry, "But he looks just like him. He can't be Snapes'..."Sirius broke off and just stared around him.

"I assure you Sirius, Harry is Severus son, we have the blood work if you would like us to prove it to you. Trust me, we were as shocked as you to find out." Albus told Sirius with patience. Sirius took on a defeated face and tried to smile at Albus but failed miserably. He turned to Harry and Severus and once again asked why Harry didn't look like Severus as a last stand against the truth that had been revealed. The other two men sighed and Harry looked at them also wondering why he didn't look more like his biological father.

"Well, Black don't you remember Lily's best classes back when she went to Hogwarts? Charms and Potions. Does that answer your questions? The Charms she placed on him should be wearing off in the next couple of days. The potions will wear off a little later following the charms." Severus explained to Sirius. A dawning appearance showed itself across his face then was replaced by anger.

"You mean you're his father? You've never been there for him. In fact I think you've tried your best to make his life a living hell and now all of a sudden you step in to be his father? I don't think you can just pick up somebody you've treated like dirt for the whole time you've known them and expect them to accept it?" Sirius blew up. Harry winced at his words remembering the way Severus was towards him. Then he wondered when it was that he started thinking of him as Severus. Severus also winced at the same time as Harry, making them look even more like father and son.

"I have seen what my mistakes have been, thank you Black for pointing them out to me." Severus spat venomously at Sirius, who just sneered.

"Your very welcome." Sirius said shortly back to Severus. Harry sensing a fight coming on tried to stop it. He didn't need the two people who he needed the most in the world fighting.

"Okay, calm down Sirius, you told me you wouldn't do anything rash, remember? Besides, lets leave the past where it belongs, just there. Agreed?" Harry said trying to pacify the two men's anger. It worked they looked down between them to Harry looking Sorry. Harry smiled. He had stopped grown men from behaving like children. Then changed his mind, 'I'm a child and would never act like that.' He thought.

"So, what happens now? Am I still his Godfather?" Sirius asked sounding deflated. Harry looked up at him, and then turned to Severus hoping Sirius would stay his Godfather though he new the two men hated each other. Severus glanced down at Harry, and then back up to Sirius.

"I would not keep you from Harry, he needs you." Severus said, shocking both Sirius and Harry, though Albus smiled knowingly. Finally Sirius seemed to catch the drift that Severus would be a real father to Harry and do anything to protect him. Where as he would be more as a best friend or brother and help reek havoc around him. Sirius finally accepted it, but it didn't mean he was going to restrain from pulling any pranks on Snape this summer. Sirius grinned mischievously, one that surpassed the twins' devious side. He nodded and turned to Harry and smiled his best smile at him. He was going to stay his Godfather. Harry smiled back at him and his father, who was startled at first but then accepted it with his own that startled the other two.

"Ahem..."Albus cleared his throat bringing the other three to realize he was still in the room, and smiled at them, "I see we have everything cleared up then."

"Ah, yes I suppose so." Said Sirius still smiling at Harry, glad he wouldn't have to be out of this amazing boys' life.

"Alright then, I will look forward to seeing you all at the farewell feast tomorrow." Albus said smiling the twinkle in his eyes working overtime. Everyone in the room nodded their assent and stood to take their leave. Then Harry turned with a question.

"Albus? Where will I be staying over the summer? You never told me." Albus smiled at this and looked up to the two men behind him.

"Well Harry, as it seems both have told me they decided to stay at Hogwarts over the summer it is between here and the Dursleys, it is your choice." He smiled at Harry knowing the answer. Harry' face lit up. Two of the things he wanted to happen just had. He would be able to stay with his Godfather and father at Hogwarts and away from the Dursleys this summer!

"Yes! Albus, Please, I would like to stay here." Harry was nearly jumping with excitement with the summer that presented itself in front of him. Sirius and Severus could feel the happiness flowing from this powerful boy and couldn't help but smile, Harry had gone too long without this kind of happiness.

Harry headed up to Gryfindor tower to try and get some sleep before the farewell feast tomorrow. He got to the fat lady's portrait and realized he didn't know the password.

"Uhh..." Harry thought aloud trying to think of what they might have changed the password to. Then the fat lady opened her eyes and looked down at Harry and her eyes widened.

"Oh sir, pass." She said with a bow and the portrait swung open to reveal the passage that led into Gryfindor common room. Confused, Harry made his way into the room. As the portrait swung closed he realized that he wasn't the only one in the room. Ron, Hermione, Neville, Ginny, and others were still up. Harry made his way over to Ron Hermione, Ginny, and Neville in front of the fire to sit in the chair he normally did, and was surprised to find it empty as if being saved for him. The room was silent as he walked through. All the conversations stopped when they realized who had walked through the door. Now they all just stared at him, making him very uncomfortable. Slowly, the noise built up again, but not on their previous conversations, but as cheering, applause and congratulations to him. The group he was walking to noticed him and ran to him; Hermione and Ginny embracing him as Ron pat him on the back vigorously and Neville stood in front of him beaming at him from ear to ear. Harry spotted Neville's new wand stowed in his pocket, as his old one had been destroyed in the battle at the Department of Mysteries. Harry couldn't help but smile back. Then Hermione stepped back and Ginny did as well shoving him slightly. Their faces set in hurt, angry expressions.

"What?" Harry asked concerned.

"Where were you?" Hermione demanded.

"We searched for you all over when we couldn't find you in the Hospital Wing." Ginny finished. Harry looked to Ron and Neville for help, but Neville seemed to be afraid of the two girls, and Ron just smiled and put his hands up letting him know he was on his own. Harry sighed, he couldn't tell them, at least not in front of the entire common room. He looked around at everyone in the room meeting them in the eyes thinking 'some privacy please'. They seemed to have heard him somehow and left a little upset about being excluded. Harry looked back at the two girls in front of him as they watched confused as the rest of the people in the room left. Then they turned back to Harry, their confusion gone now just their faces demanding where he had been remained. Harry looked down at them all, since he had sprouted quite a bit in the month he had been out in the infirmary, and gestured toward the chairs. They all took a seat around him while he subconsciously hid his powers signature from them all to hide how much power he had that was still growing.

"Well you see I left with Sirius today, to have some time with just him, and get to know him and spend the time together that we weren't able to before..." Harry started, and by the looks on their faces they knew he went and did something again, "and I asked him to teach me to become an animagus afterwards." Hermione gawked at him at this.

"Harry, you didn't, that would be illegal. If you do decide to do this then you had better plan on registering." She told him in her stern voice normally reserved for telling him and Ron to do their homework. Harry smiled at her and bowed his head; she was going to be tough.

"Well I will plan on it just not yet, please Hermione I need a way I can get away from everything, this definitely would help me. I just don't want to register yet." Harry said, hoping she would catch his little hints he dropped for her. He smiled as she just looked at him, obviously deep in thought.

"Well, obviously you don't have to register now, not until you actually become one. Then you must but ..." Hermione cut herself off, "You don't mean that you..." Harry smiled glad that she finally got it.

"Yes Mione, I can." He said matter-of-factly. Hermione just gasped and stared at him in shock for several seconds.

"But, you can't...unless you've started back in like second or third year. Otherwise you can't. That's...impossible, I mean it's never been done before..." Hermione stammered on.

"Yes, that's almost exactly what Sirius said!" Harry said starting to laugh at the way she just stared open-mouthed in shock at him.

"Okay, come on there are those of us who have no clue what's going on here and would like to know what is so impossible for Harry to do." Said a very indignant Ron. Harry stopped laughing and turned to him still smiling from ear to ear.

"You guys, I am an animagus." Harry stated. Ron's eyes grew to nearly the size of hubcaps, Neville looked like a goldfish and Ginny just spread a huge smile over her face, her eyes lighting up as if Christmas had come again.

"Do you think you could show us what you are?" Ginny asked excited at being able to see Harry as his animagus form, "What are you anyway?" Harry laughed again at this and his friends joined in with the same thing on all their minds; how good it was to see Harry in such high spirits.

"Of course you can." He said between laughs. Finally he quieted down and started to concentrate how Sirius had taught him. But this time it was different. He felt himself shrink a bit and no fur sprouted. Instead there were feathers and claws and wings. He wasn't the same as before. When he opened his eyes he saw all their knees, when he stood at full height. He turned his long neck around to look at his body to figure out what he was now. Red feathers mixed with black and gold. He widened his already large eyes. He was a Phoenix! 'Okay, that's cool he thought, I wonder what else Sirius can turn into other than his shaggy black dog' he thought to himself. Ginny and Hermione immediately came down and started patting his head. Saying...no their mouths weren't moving. Harry tried an experiment.

Hey girls, having fun? He thought out, imagining it being said aloud and directed it at them. Their response was immediate. They pulled their hands back as quick as a flash, and stared at him once again, wide eyed.

"H Harry... Was that you?" Ginny and Hermione asked in unison as Ron and Neville just stared at them in confusion. Harry smiled, well, as best he could with a beak and nodded. He was right, he was a telepathic phoenix. And answered Ron and Neville's questioning looks he directed conversation at all four of them.

I guess I have the ability to read your minds and talk in yours as I am in this form. Harry said to a very taken aback Ron and Neville.

"Cool!" Ron said aloud. Still looking at the bird that was Harry. Harry could also feel Hermione's mind working in what seemed to be over time for the second time that night.

Hermione? What's up? He asked her.

Just thinking, she thought at him without realizing it, you said 'In this form,' right? Does that mean you have more than one animagus form? She asked her brain wheels ticking on.

Yes, I was going to ask Sirius what else he could become or if we can become anything we want to. It sounds pretty cool I was going to try for something else next time want to see? Harry replied. Hermiones' eyes widened and she quickly nodded. Harry decided he must have kept that conversation between him and Hermione as the others looked at her confused when she started nodding her head. Harry changed back into his normal body.

What would you like to see now? He thought looking into Hermiones' eyes, without realizing he had until Hermione looked at him and her eyes widened even more.

"Harry! You still can do that! You must be a telepath! Wow they are very rare. Don't go around reading our minds though that is an invasion of privacy and..." She was cut off by Harry laughing at her.

"Hermione, calm down I didn't even know I could, besides, I would never do that I thought you knew me better than to go finding out what people were thinking?" Harry said, "Anyways, what now? You didn't tell me." Hermione looked confused for a second then thoughtful, finally she ran up to her room and came back down shortly afterwards with her Care of Magical Creatures Text open in her hands. She handed him the book and pointed out an animal.

"Hmm... I think I can just a moment." Harry said thoughtfully and sat down to read more on the animal. It was a Cat type animal, but it had a longer tail than most, long pointed ears, brown fur with black stripes, large eyes, and a snake-like tongue.

"Hmm... So you want to see a Pslank? I think I could do that." He said thoughtfully. Then he set the book aside and stood again in an open space on the floor. He started his concentrating again. The warm sensation and tingling soon washed over him again. This time when he opened his eyes he was looking at their knees again. He looked up into his friends' awe-stricken faces and let out a meow. He had done it again. The girls had descended once again to pet the creature before them. Ron and Neville gave him a pat on the head after a while. Harry let out a purr and flopped his long tail back and forth. Harry turned back to his normal shape once again. He beamed around to the excited faces around him.

A/N

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