Learning to Understand

by ADuskWithoutDawn

Disclaimer: If I owned Harry Potter 1) I'd wouldn't need to write an AU 2) I'd be rich. 3) One of my friends would call me the goddess. None of those are true... Therefore I don't own Harry Potter.

THIS IS AN AU STORY. THEREFORE IT DOESN'T FOLLOW SOME THINGS IN THE BOOKS. IF YOU DON'T LIKE, DON'T READ.

Sen gave Harry another hug. "Awww, Nana. You're making me emotional again," Harry said while pretending to cry on her shoulder.

Sen lightly punched him on the shoulder. "No more making fun of my emotional problems." Sne then turned to Harry's large farmiliar. "You take care of him Sanaa. Otherwise, you have me to deal with."

Harry mocked offensiveness. "Don't you go hurting my winged kitty." The 'winged kitty' saw red and pounced. "I mean, lovely white siberian tiger with the most beautiful angel wings I have ever seen," he wheezed out.

The tiger got off of him, shrunk to housecat size and lept on to his shoulders as soon as he stood up. Harry was no longer a scrawny child. He had toned muscles and, against Nana's will I might add, had gotten the tips of his hair died silver. A knock on the door interupted his and Nana Sen's thoughts.

"Can we come in yet?" Maya asked through the door.

"We wanna say goodbye too, you know," Edan said loudly.

"Come on in," Harry shouted back. Harry exchanged hugs with everyone and then they gave him some last minute reminders.

"Remember to keep up training, especially physical," Ilo said.

"Be sure to keep some of you powers a secret," Aira reminded.

"When you do Operation Totally-Freak-And-Shock-Everyone-Out be sure to A) make a flashy entrance and B) take a picture of Dumbledore looking shocked and send it to me." Edan smiled at his prankster prodigy.

"Befriend the creatures of the forest. Have friends in the most unlikely places," Nitesh said.

Maya grinned lightly at Harry. "Always safer than sorry. Keep a wand and a knife at all times."

"And always remember this. We'll be loooking after you and we love you to pieces. If you get into life dangering trouble, I'll kill you if you get out of it alive and if you ever forget about us, I'll also kill you," Sen finished. "I love you, child."

Harry didn't look back when he Shadowed himself away but he did mumble, "If you kill me, I kill you back."
Harry stood, blending in the shadows of the Great Hall. He looked at what everyone in this room had thought to have been him for the past seven years. Harry also admired his work of art, being the last fake Harry he had made. There was a fake Harry made twice a year and he had been making them since the fakes had been going to Hogwarts. Harry had learned how to make it so the fake would be slightly based after what Dumbledore thought Harry would be like so Harry himself wouldn't need to constantly look after it. The fake looked different than Harry. Not as much muscle and definitely no silver tips on the hair. Oh yes. Everyone in this room was in for a change.

Harry looked over at the miniature tiger on his shoulder. "Are you ready?"

'Of course,' Sana replied through mind communication.

Fire erupted in the middle of the Great Hall and everyone was silent as a person stood up in the flames. All the teachers had wands on this newcomer as soon as the flames went out. The person everyone in the room but one thought was Harry Potter stood up and ran over to the person despite the shouts that told him to stay away.

"Harry!" the fake shouted. "It's wonderful to see you again." Everyone was silent once again and some of the teachers wands clattered to the floor.

"Number fourteen," Harry smiled at the fake. "The last time I saw you was on our birthday. Everything going well?"

"Swimmingly," the fake replied, grinning widely.

Dumbledore had shaken off enough of his stupor to call to his adoptive grandson. "Harry."

Both of the people in the middle of the room looked up. "Yes?" they said together.

"Harry Potter," Albus tried again so as not to confuse the one with silver-tipped hair into believing that Albus was talking to him.

The two grinned at eachother and then looked up once again both saying, "Yes?"

The real Harry faked a concerened look. "Oh. Are you speaking to my fake? I'm sorry. Go ahead, tell number fourteen what you were going to tell him."

Dumbledore's brows furrowed. "Fake?"

"You mean you haven't noticed?" the fake said, mocking his adoptive grandfather.

"You are a pretty good actor," the real Harry commented.

"It's just the way you made me," the fake returned.

"You flatter me." Harry smiled.

Both Harrys looked up at Albus who was still thinking. "How long has it been-"

"A fake Harry?" the real one interupted.

The fake one answered his unfinished question, "Since you picked me up from the Dursley's."

The real Harry looked over to the fake. "I'm gonna let you go now. Nice seeing you again."

"You too, Harry," the fake replied. With a flash of smoke the person the entirerity of the wizarding world knew as Harry Potter was gone. There was a thump as Hermione fainted.

Harry actually looked at the room around him and took a good look at the people around him. "I haven't truely introduced myself yet, have I? Harry James Potter. I'm quite pleased to be at Hogwarts for the first time."

YAY! I had so much fun writing this chapter.

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