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Thoughts

"Speech"

"Beastspeak" (the context will explain which type of animal)

'Parseltongue'

"Flashback"

Chapter 8: Training

After waking up, taking baths and eating breakfast Remus decided to start with the theory of animagi. "The first thing you must know is that the animal chooses the wizard, the animal represents what you are. For example, James was a stag, because he was Dignified, graceful and a good person, even if he was a bit arrogant at times, it was not because he liked to frolic around like Sirius thought; Sirius was a dog, he was loyal and very playful, he liked to prank, but he would never betray those who had his trust. Now the first step to becoming an animagi, is to meditate on your characteristics and try to picture an animal in your head, don't try picture a specific animal, let the animal come forth, just while thinking of your qualities, think about an animal coming forth, I don't expect either of you to do this fast as it really is one of the hardest part, and while every wizard has the ability to become an animagus, some can't do it because they keep trying to picture a specific animal. Now try."

Harry closed his eyes, and tried to think of the characteristics that described him, he knew he was loyal, shy, stubborn, and prideful. And modest, he knew he was modest, and if he had to admit it to himself, even if no one else, he knew he was powerful, after all he mastered the Patronus charm when he was thirteen, and most people can't even do it. As he was thinking of this, he suddenly found himself in a big room, he could not see the edge on any side, but he could see that he was standing in the middle of the room. The whole room was completely white. As he looked around he saw Fawkes appear beside him, only to notice that it was not Fawkes, for one thing this Phoenix was bigger, and the colors where different, this Phoenix was white in the middle, the feathers slowly turned blue, then orange, red and finally they ended in black at the tip of the wings and in the tail. It had emerald green eyes and a look of great wisdom in its eyes. He didn't know why but this Phoenix felt familiar to Harry as if he should know him. Then as Harry watched, it burst into flames, revealing it to have changed into a human like appearance, betrayed only by the pair of wings emerging from its back in the colors of its phoenix form. Before he could take a closer look it had once again burst into flames and changed back to its original form; as Harry was looking at the Phoenix he noticed another animal appear next to it.

It was a lion, it was golden lion. It was the biggest lion Harry had ever seen, it to had emerald green eyes and the same look of aged wisdom in it's eyes which where slit like all cat eyes, but to Harry's amazement the lion slowly spread previously unnoticeable wings from his back. While the lion was around twelve feet long it's wings had a span of almost twenty feet, and amazing as they were Harry was even more surprised when the lion turned white, then black and then disappeared before his eyes, but he knew that it was still there, only invisible. The lion slowly reappeared once again in its white color and closed its wings till they were no longer noticeable. The lion then looked at Harry once more and then looked to his side where yet another animal appeared.

It was a white wolf, but not just any type of wolf but an Akerian Wolf, not that Harry knew this of course, this wolf was almost four and a half feet tall and seven long and as all Akerian Wolfs can do, it changed into a humanlike form, while it still had claws, tail and ears at the top of it's head, and fangs, it looked kind of human as it still had it's entire form covered in fur which hid it's huge muscles. In this form it stood near to six and a half feet tall and it had a determinedly wolfish look to its face with its mouth and nose still in a less pronounced muzzle. But it didn't stop there as the wolf changed form once more into an even more human like appearance, in this form it stood an even six feet tall, the muscles while less than in the previous form, seemed the same as they had no fur covering them, his face now looked completely human, barring the fangs which looked vampiric in nature, it still had claws at the ends of it's hands, a tail and the ears at the top of the head. In all three forms it had the same green eyes as the other two animals, and to his surprise it looked like him, only it had no scar on its' forehead. Then as Harry watched, it once more changed into its original form and sat on its hind legs. Once more another animal appeared next to this one.

This was an animal Harry recognized easily, it was a Grim, just like his God father's form in all ways, except it looked younger and less scuffled. And as he watched its fur color started turning grayish until it turned completely white. It was about three and a half feet tall and at least four and a half long. As all its predecessors it had the same emerald green eyes. Slowly it changed its color back to black and look to its side where another familiar form appeared.

This one was a stag, exactly like his patronus form, it stood seven feet tall and eight or nine long. Once again it had the same eyes, but aside from that did nothing else except for shaking it's antlers to its side where once again another animal appeared.

It was an owl, a very large owl; nearly four feet tall he recognized it from Remus' description of Atinean owls. It was completely white and as he watched it became over ten feet tall and then once more shrank down till it was the size of Pig, and started growing to its original size. It had like before the same eyes. It too looked to his side where a new animal appeared.

It was a very large black serpent, it had its eyes closed, but it looked familiar to Harry, it was at least twenty five feet long and six and a half feet wide. When it opened its mouth Harry saw fangs that he knew were deadly, not only for their size but for their venom. He finally knew what this animal was; it was the rarest of all serpents. It was the King Basilisk, completely black and it grew to such sizes that it would make a normal adult basilisk look like a small garden snake. Even the thousand year old basilisk he'd fought in the Chamber of Secrets would seem small once it reached at least twenty years of age. Once it opened its eyes, Harry saw that it once more had the same emerald green eyes as the other animals, only this one like the lion its pupils were slit. Once more another animal appeared next to this one, one so big it dwarfed the basilisk.

It was an animal Harry immediately recognized, yet unlike any of his kind he had ever seen. For in front of Harry stood a black dragon that would have had no trouble carrying a 747 jet plain in each of its paws. Its size was gigantic, five 747 could be flying next to each other with twenty feet between wingtips and they would still be unable to match its wingspan. It's eyes alone where 15 feet big and yet again the same emerald green as before; only unlike before these ones had swirling near the edge of the eye a blue color that was 3 feet at it's widest and around 6 feet long, Harry knew the color and length determined the emotion and level of emotion it was feeling at the moment respectively. Another difference in its eyes was that it didn't have just one pupil, but millions of them, its eyes were multifaceted. Its teeth were some 40 to 50 feet long. Looking at it, Harry knew this was a dragon that no human would see for millennia's to come, even in his own time. He knew this dragon was not a Terran one. He also knew that one day he would meet its kind, thousands of years into his own future. Like the other animals this one too looked to its side where a much smaller animal appeared.

This animal was white and feline. It was a snow Leopard. It was a bit smaller than the lion with wings, and as he watched this one too spread wings. Harry was completely baffled, lions and leopards should not have wings, but these two had. But the surprises didn't end there for its emerald green slit eyes started glowing and the ground under the leopard moved upwards around 3 feet and then around the feet of the leopard ice started appearing covering the raised ground. After completely freezing the ground beneath him it closed its wings.

Hermione closed her eyes and began thinking about her qualities. She knew she was smart, she was also very brave as the Department of Mysteries had proven. She also knew she was loyal and had a great capacity to love, unfortunately, the person she loved was non other than her best friend Harry and he was completely clueless when it came to feelings. Not that she blamed him, from what he had told her about the Dursley's and that was far more than he had told anyone else, after all she was probably the only person that knew that Harry considered her his best friend even more so than Ron would ever be, from what he'd told her about them and the things they did to him she was amazed he turned out as good as he had but he still had the habit of blaming himself for every wrong thing that happened and that came from all the times the Dursley's had beaten him into believing he was worthless. He had never said they'd beaten him, but he didn't need to, she saw it in his eyes. She remembered every single time they'd stayed up curled against each other in one of the armchairs in front of the fire just talking the night away, they'd been doing it since they were in first year, but those were their private moments, she remembered when he'd apologized for Ron after the Yule bal incident,

"Nee, well…I just, well…er…I'm sorry!" Harry said looking very embarrassed, ashamed, scared and helpless. I'm amazed at the range of emotions he can express in just one look, but then again this is Harry. "Whatever for Ree?" I asked him, using like him, the name we call each other when no one else is around, wondering what he thought he had done wrong this time.

"Well you know, for Ron's comment about you being a girl….er…what I mean is…when he went out and said you were a girl…er…um…..I mean that he acted as if he didn't know you where a girl…." I watched as he stopped talking and took a few calming breaths, I think I know where this is going but why does he think he needs to apologize for his git of a friend, then again this was Harry, he thinks everything is his fault.

I was a bit sad that he still could not speak normally about emotions to me, but I knew the reasons for this so I did not held it against him. I then saw him open his mouth to continue, "Nee, what I mean is that unlike Ron, I've always known you were a girl. Andaverycuteoneatthat." He sad that last part very fast, but I still understood him and was soon blushing, but at least I was not the only one as he was blushing too. "And well you see the reason I didn't ask you was because I thought Ron liked you that way, you know how he always tries to start arguments with you. I thought he would ask you, if not I would have asked you, because I really couldn't think of any other person to have gone better than you Nee." Once again he was blushing, but then, so was I. Before I could respond the portrait hole opened and in came stumbling the twins and Lee.

"What are you two doing up?" George or was it Fred asked, "Never mind, if anyone ask we were in our dormitory since early tonight, you never saw us." With that all three of them went running up to their dormitory leaving us alone again.

I walked toward him give him a hug and kissed his cheek and told him, "Ree, its ok you don't have to apologize for Ronald, you did nothing wrong. But let's head to bed before we get accused of doing whatever those two did."

Shaking her head out of her thoughts Hermione opened her eyes only to realize she was in the middle of a very large and empty room. As she was wondering where she was now, she was amazed by the sight that appeared next to her.

It was a Phoenix it was bigger than Dumbledore's from what Harry had told her about Fawkes and the colors where different, this Phoenix was white in the middle, the feathers slowly turned blue, then orange, red and finally they ended in gold at the tip of the wings and in the tail. It had chocolate brown eyes with green specs in them, and a look of great wisdom too, to her amazement it burst into flames leaving a human shaped creature there that looked exactly like her except for the pair of wings sprouting from the back in the exact shades of color as the Phoenix's had been, then before she could take a closer look it burst into flames once more and changed back again. She got so lost in admiring the Phoenix that she almost didn't notice the sight of another animal appearing next to the Phoenix.

It was a lioness, a golden lioness. It was bigger than any she had ever seen before, it was bigger than any Lion male or female she had ever seen it was around eleven feet long and a good five or so high. But to her amazement it spread the most wonderful and beautiful wings she had ever seen from its back, it was then she knew that this was not a normal lioness but a Golden Griffin. The griffin had a wingspan of almost twenty feet but what surprised her more was when it turned white, then black and then disappeared before her eyes, but she somehow knew that it was still there only invisible. The griffin slowly reappeared once again in its white color and closed its wings till they were no longer noticeable. It was then that she noticed that it had the same eyes as the Phoenix, the only difference being its slit pupils. The griffin looked to the side where yet another animal appeared.

It was a white wolf, but not just any type of wolf but an Akerian Wolf, this wolf was almost four feet tall and 6 long, and as all Akerian Wolfs can do, it changed into a humanlike form, while it still had claws, tail and ears at the top of it's head, and fangs, it looked kind of human as it still had it's entire form covered in fur which hid it's huge muscles. In this form it stood nearly six feet tall and it had a determinedly wolfish look to its face with its mouth and nose still in a less pronounced muzzle. But it didn't stop there as the wolf changed form once more into an even more human like appearance, in this form it stood around five and a half feet tall, the muscles while less than in the previous form, seemed the same as they had no fur covering them, her face now looked completely human, barring the fangs which looked vampiric in nature, it still had claws at the ends of it's hands, a tail and the ears at the top of the head. In all three forms it had the same brown eyes as the other two animals, and once more it looked like her, she watched it change once more into its original form and sit on its hind legs. Once more another animal appeared next to this one.

This was an animal Hermione recognized easily, it was a Grim, just like Sirius' form in all ways, except it looked younger and less scuffled and smaller. And as she watched, its fur color started turning grayish until it turned completely white. It was about three and a half feet tall and at least four and a half long. As all its predecessors it had the same eyes. Slowly it changed its color back to black and look to its side where another familiar form appeared.

This was an animal she had first seen in her third year when Harry produced his patronus. It was a doe, Harry's patronus was a stag, this was its female, it stood almost seven feet tall and eight or nine long. Once again it had the same eyes, but aside from that did nothing else except for shaking its head to its side where once again another animal appeared.

It was an owl, a very large owl; nearly four feet tall she recognized it from Remus' description of Atinean owls. It was completely white and as she watched it became over ten feet tall and then once more shrank down till it was the size of Pig, and started growing to its original size. It had like before the same eyes. It too looked to his side where a new animal appeared.

It was a very large gold serpent, it had its eyes closed, she knew what it was, and it was at least twenty two feet long and six feet wide. When it opened its mouth Hermione saw fangs that she knew were deadly, not only for their size but for their venom. It was the rarest of all serpents. It was the Queen Basilisk, completely gold and it grew to such sizes that it would make a normal adult basilisk look like a small garden snake. Even the thousand year old basilisk Harry had fought in the Chamber of Secrets would seem small once this one reached at least twenty years of age. Once it opened its eyes, eyes as the other animals, only this one like the lion its pupils were slit. Once more another animal appeared next to this one, one so big it dwarfed the basilisk.

It was an animal she immediately recognized, shaking off the images of Harry and the first task she looked back at this animal that was so familiar, yet unlike any of his kind she had ever seen. For in front of Hermione stood a gold dragon that would have had no trouble carrying a 747 jet plain in each of its paws. Its size was gigantic, five 747 could be flying next to each other with thirty feet between wingtips and till they would not be able to match its wingspan. It's eyes alone where close to twenty feet big and yet again the same chocolate brown with emerald green specs as before; only unlike before these ones had swirling near the edge of the eye a blue color that was 3 feet at it's widest and around 6 feet long, somehow she knew the color and length determined the emotion and level of emotion it was feeling at the moment respectively. Another difference in its eyes was that it didn't have just one pupil, but millions of them, its eyes were multifaceted. Its teeth were some 45 to 55 feet long. Looking at it, Hermione knew this was a dragon that no human would see for millennia's to come, even in her own time. She knew this dragon was not a Terran one. She also knew that one day she would meet its kind, thousands of years into her own future. It too looked to his side where a new much smaller form appeared.

It was a white fox with red paws that looked as if they where on fire. As she watched a wind started blowing around the small animal and she saw the paws burst into flames and the small creature start running around in the air without wings before coming back to ground and landing in front of her. As she knew it would its eyes were the same color as all the others.

Remus had watched them as they closed their eyes, believing that they would not find out their forms this early, but knowing that this was Harry and Hermione, he kept watch on their shadows, should they find their animal, their shadows would turn into the shape of the animal.

It had been nearly an hour since they had closed their eyes, he did not interrupt knowing that Sirius and James had stood nearly 5 hours concentrating when they had discovered their forms and when they finally saw them immediately woke themselves up to tell each other and him, as he was thinking this he heard something that surprised him, he heard Phoenix song coming from both Harry and Hermione who were both shining, and to his greater amazement the egg Harry had with him also started to glow with the same golden light.

When he looked to the shadows of the two teens with surprised and bewilderment spread on his face he was even more surprised when he saw they both had shadows of some bird, instead of their own. The shadows where identical except that Harry's was a bit bigger than Hermione's which made him think they both turned into the same animal. To his greater surprise he watched as their shadows slowly changed into a humanlike form with wings before returning to the bird shape.

As he watched them waiting for them to wake now that their animal had been found he was very surprised to see their shadows change once more into what looked like large cats and he guessed to be lions that is until he saw the wings extend from the shadows; griffins he thought and as he watched the shadows disappeared for a few seconds before reappearing again.

He was even more surprised when their shadows changed once more into the form of a dog or wolf, this same shadow then changed into a human like appearance with the same wolf like ears. He did not understand what this meant, but saw these humanlike shadows change once more into a smaller size, then back again to the original dog or wolf form. They where both displaying the same shadow was the only thought that passed through his mind as the shadows changed form once more.

The next he recognized from his own days at Hogwarts, the same shadow had appeared behind Sirius, the Grim. For some reason he could not identify the shadows became pale and then dark again. This he could not understand as Padfoot's had been constant.

The next was one he again recognized from his years at Hogwarts, it was Prongs form only with Hermione it had no antlers. He was still amazed at what he was seeing and only became even more amazed with every change.

The next he thought was an owl but he was not very sure as it was over four feet tall and as he watched the shadow grew to around ten feet before shrinking to a very small size and going back to the original four.

Not as surprised anymore but even more amazed he saw the shadow change into a very large snake form. He suspected it to be a basilisk, but didn't believe it to be so, even with the size he was sure it had to be some unknown snake, for he knew that one could not turn into magical creature, he forgot at this point about the griffins he'd seen.

What came next really surprised him, he could not tell what kind of animal it was, only that it was massive the whole room filled with the shadows of the two teens and no form was discernible.

The next form to appear was different for each of them, the first one to be so. Harry had what appeared to be tiger which to his amazement spread wings, he'd never heard of such a creature and as he watched he saw something grow around the tigers paws but did not know what it was. As for Hermione's it was far smaller than any of the previous one it looked like some sort of dog with a very bushy tail. As he watched it, what appeared to be the shadow of fire started licking the paws of the small creature.

Remus couldn't believe what he had seen up till now, it was impossible, how could a person have more than one animagus form. He had never heard of anyone with more than one and with this thought Remus fell down in a dead feint.

As Jasoph watched their shadows change he knew he had been right to think they were powerful, to have so many forms and most if not all of them magical. Yes these two were special indeed.

AN: Sorry for the lateness, but just didn't know how to go about their animagus training, until I came up with the way you just saw. Hope you enjoyed it. Please Read and Review.

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