Disclaimer: Today we're going with good ol' nihongo known to English speakers as Japanese. Now repeat after me: Watashi Hari Poteru iie shoyuu suru. Very good class. Next time will be in….no clue I'll think about which one, maybe Latin or taino or some other 'dead' language that I know. We have ten languages to go before I have to start using either fantasy languages or just use dictionaries of other languages.

Chapter 04: Animagii

June 28th, 1982

"HARR…." Tonks started screaming but stopped upon tripping and falling face first into the floor of the kitchen.

"Nymi, I am deeply insulted. That you could mistake me with the floor sows a lack of care towards my person and it hurts. It is indeed a low blow." Harry said while holding back laughter at the current and common predicament of his best friend.

"Shut it, Moody." She growled out as she stood and brightening up immediately continued, "Unspeakable Cypher is here, he'll train us to become animagi. So shut the book and hurry up!"

"Nymphadora, the book I'm reading is very important as it's the theory about animagi, very fascinating stuff." Harry told her and saw her make a horrified face at him.

"Bad Harry, Bad! You're sounding like my mom and other grown ups, no more books for you." She said in a scolding tone while wiggling her finger at him. "Now hurry up and lets go already!" she said brightening up once more. Her answer was a simple "Feh!" from Harry.

Unspeakable Cypher had grey eyes, shoulder length blond hair and a two inch beard. His clothing and the sword at his side made him look as if he'd come out of the Dark Ages.

"First thing you must know is that you do not choose what animal you become. The animal chooses you, it is part of you. As you are Sorcerers you will have three, of which at least one will be magical but all three can be. Only two Sorcerers have been known to have all three be magical, these are Merlin and Godric Gryffindor, both of whom are dead." He looked at them to see if they were following him on what he was saying.

"You should know that you might not be able to turn into your animagi forms, especially your magical ones at this time due to your young age and power. You might be able to do it, but you would become completely exhausted after turning into your magical form or forms. Now if we were going about this the normal way it would take you months if not years to become animagi, but lucky for you we at the Department know a few ways to become an animagus that the rest of the world doesn't and won't for some time. Any questions up to now?" he looked at them once more seeking questions, after finding none he continued, "Well then, as you both have more than a master's understanding of occlumency this first step will become easier for you but i still will not know how long it will take, it really depends on the person. I want you both to sit down and get comfy as you might be in that position a while." After both Harry and Nym sat down on the floor he continued, "I want you to meditate and concentrate on finding your other selves, don't try to look for animals or you won't find them, you must look for yourselves, your other selves. This process may take as little as one hour which has been the shortest time to a very long time; the longest recorded was two weeks. As you both have three forms I am sure you will take longer than an hour but I don't know how long but I'm sure it will be less than one day. You may begin when you are ready."

As the two kids went into deep meditative state, the Unspeakable set up a kágetama. A kágetama was a small black orb that recorded the change in shadows in the room it was set up. It would let out a small beeping sound when the shadows changed from the position they were in when it was set up. They were made with animagus training in mind as the shadow of the person training would change into the shape of their animal once they found what it was. This was used so that the person would have a visual clue as to what his animal looked liked as some people would not remember what it was once they awoke from their meditation.

Nine and a half hours later Harry came out of the meditative state, "Wicked!" came out of his mouth after which he promptly fainted causing Cypher's left eyebrow to rise up in amusement. Waving a hand distractedly, he conjured a bed and placed Harry in it and promptly returned to the book he was reading without a second thought to the boy or girl in front of him. Twenty minutes later Tonks came out of meditation and fell backwards asleep without a word, without even looking up Cypher once more waved his hand and Tonks levitated and was placed next to Harry on the bed as the Unspeakable continued to read undisturbed. Neither of the two kids would wake up until the next day.

"Now that you know your forms we'll start with the non-magical ones first, but first how many magical and non magical do you have?" He asked wondering if he'd hear three magical but doubting it.

"I have one magical and two non-magical." Harry said sounding a bit disappointed that all three of his weren't magical but still happy with them, especially one of them as it brought back happy feelings from his past even if he didn't know why.

"The same." Tonks said from besides him.

"Good, remember that you must remain in control and not to let instinct take over, then concentrate on one of your non-magical forms, bring it into your mind and will your self to become it, much like how you will your bodies to change with your metamorphmagus ability. Now don't worry if you don't change as you might not the first few times, but I am sure that you will eventually get it right. Now will your change to come."

As he stood watching he could see the concentration on their faces and then saw their magic come forth as they immediately began to get smaller until two birds stood in front of him and as he looked at them he could not see their magic showing him that they were indeed non-magical birds.

Harry turned into a three foot tall Eagle completely white with golden eyes. It's wingspan that of close to seven feet. It was a very beautiful and deadly bird. As he watched he saw the struggle for control going on within the bird, after a few minutes of struggling he saw Harry win over the instincts as the birds' eyes turned emerald green with slim golden circle surrounding the green that would be unnoticeable unless you looked for it. This was one of the signs of a person being an animagus but few knew of it.

Tonks turned into a black Falcon with black eyes. The bird was a bit smaller than Harry's eagle but just as deadly. As he watched he could see the same struggle within the eyes as he had seen in Harry's. In a few minutes he saw them change into the silver grey that distinguished the Black family. They also contained the slim ring around the eyes only this time it was black instead of gold.

"Very good both of you now change back. All you have to do is to will yourself to become your natural self once more." After saying this he wrote in a piece of parchment in front of him. When he looked back at his two students they were already in human form, but neither of them had any clothing on having lost it in the change as they did not know that they had to concentrate on wearing it when they turned back or the magic would destroy clothing and everything else would appear inside their bodies, but as he knew neither of them were carrying any items he decided not to tell them and play a prank of them, after all it had been a long time since he had pranked any one.

"I see I forgot to mention that you have to concentrate on appearing with your clothing at least until it becomes second nature, until then if you do not concentrate on them they will disappear as well as any organic matter metals and other such things will be inside your body, not a very nice feeling. Now unless you have no problem with being unclothed in each others presence put some clothing on or continues like that, either way it doesn't matter which to me." They both looked at each other, blushed in embarrassment at their idiocy and Harry spoke for them both, "We'll continue like this for now, we've seen each other like this plenty of times already when taking baths, and this way we won't destroy some more clothing until we get the hang of it." Cypher only raised an eyebrow at this.

"Very well. Concentrate on your second non-magical form and turn into it." As he watched them turn this time faster than before but still slow enough to see the change he saw them change into a lupin and a feline.

Harry turned into a big dark brown wolf with amber eyes, but unlike the previous form he could detect the magic within this form and when he did he found it familiar but it took him a few seconds to place the magic and when it did he saw the wolf jumping towards him to attack, he threw the most powerful wandless shield he could around him as he recognized a werewolf in front of him. He saw the animal crash into the shield and the struggle within it intensified. As he watched he saw the wolf eyes in front of him change to emerald green and at its edges around the green was the golden circle and outside it he saw something that he did not understand where there should have been an amber circle were and amber and brown circle. Then as he looked at the werewolf in front of him, he noticed the magic leaving the wolf and it became slightly smaller with black fur and all indication of it being a werewolf were gone leaving a normal wolf behind. As he looked it in the eyes he saw its confusion followed by concentration and watched it change into a werewolf and back again. This, he thought, was a truly amazing and unprecedented in animagus history. Young Mr. Potter had done the impossible again and gained an animagus form that was a curse created in the ancient past by wizards in some way or other. Taking his concentration away from the wolf in front of him he looked at the animal besides it.

There in front of him was a snow leopard with the normal silver grey eyes of the blacks with a ring of black and another of blue. To his amazement he detected magic within the animal and to his knowledge there were no leopards with any magic in the whole world. As he looked at this creature before him he saw something that for the second time that day shook everything he knew and believed in. the snow leopard stretched wings that he hadn't seen until that moment and that it shouldn't even have as such an animal didn't exist. He asked them to once more turn back to their human forms and explained to them what he had seen, but could not offer any explanations. After writing once more his observations in the parchment he asked them to change into their second and previously believed only magical form and in front of him once more stood a feline and a canine.

Harry turned into a familiar form as he remembered it from his uniform in his days at Hogwarts, it was that of a Golden Gryffin, three parts lion and one part eagle it represented Gryffindor house as it was this animagus form that gave the Gryffindor family it's name, the gryffin d' or. It showed that the Potters were indeed descendants of Gryffindor. As he watched the blue cat-slit eyes changed into emerald green cat slit eyes with bands of gold, amber, brown, and blue surrounding it.

Besides it was another familiar and extremely misunderstood creature. Proclaimed the Harbinger of death, a grim stood there. Declared dark creatures by most for their ability to shadow walk and turn invisible. They were highly intelligent and loyal animals that would defend those they considered friends to the death. As he looked to the eyes he saw the silver grey eyes with bands of black, blue, and green surrounding it.

He asked them to change back and told them to keep their forms a secret from most people and that the only person to be informed aside from anyone the two of them decided to tell would be the Head Unspeakable. After Cypher finished explaining and writing in his parchment he closed it and after muttering a charm over it pointed his finger at his head and spoke, "Obliviate!"

Unspeakable Cypher looked around himself and noticed two naked children in front of him, not knowing what was going on he looked down and saw a parchment written in his handwriting,

"Hey me! Guess you forgot but you, as in me, have been teaching those two kids in front of you, yeah the two probably naked kids looking at you weirdly, well I've been teaching them to become animagi, the sealed parchment is for the Big Head in there is contained their forms which you just obliviated out of your mind. See ya me! Hope we have a good day.

Signed,

Me!

Ps: tell the kids to put some clothing on.

AN: there you go another chapter, and before any of you kill me, at that age it is perfectly normal for parents to bathe their kids together no matter if they are of different sexes. Please remember to review and I hope you enjoyed.

Important: one of the reviewers brought to my attention that he did not like the fact that I put the big list of responses to reviewers here as part of the chapter. So I would like to ask you to tell me if you don't mind having them here, if they bother you or if you would like them to remain. Thank you.

Reviews: thank you all for reviewing!

Yenom – well no need to worry about that as they will go to Hogwarts, officially with their real names.

Darknight3030 – in the first two chapters it's explained when Moody goes back in time six years with Harry.

Bellashade – you didn't miss it and I'm not explaining yet, they could have just added it for the heck of it or it could mean something. But either way I doubt any will guess.

Athenakitty – yes, Andromeda will suffer for it, even if she doesn't understand why, and as for Sirius, well...

Firebirdgs – Moody's old but not that old, he could probably be around 90 or so, I kinda picture him as having sneaked off into the first world war for the heck of it. As for the chapter he will be sorted in couldn't say as my outline isn't by chapters but I would guess maybe at 10 or it could be before, and maybe even after but it should be around there. I never said that he would not be in Slytherin, I just said that he doesn't nesesarily will be there, if you read the first book the reason the hat wanted Harry in Slytherin was because Harry had a 'thirst to prove himself' since he grew up hated and all by the Dursley's, that reason is no longer there, but he might go to Slytherin for another reason or he might not. Nope, he doesn't know how to fly as Andromeda lives in a muggle neighborhood and they rarely leave the house. Miss fig, she does exist baring that… 'innocent whistling'.

Makotochi – again Harry went back in time six years with Moody, but he will not go to Hogwarts until he is supposed too in 1991 as if he went when he turned 6 in 85 people would know about his time travel and as far as the world is concerned time turners can only go back a few hours at most.

AzureSky123 – yes, I did know about the greek reference but that is not from where I am using it in this story, in canon all Black names have something in common, so I made their fake names have the same thing in common with them.

cj-cold – My preciiiious, Not saying about the Ravenclaw thing as for Newts they will take them in two years.

Korrd – people belive he knows everything in the castle, but he doesn't as proven by Snape, when he purposely weakened Harry's mind in 5th year. Albus just tries to know everything.

Akanan –I wondered too until this chapter, lol. Muse didn't wan't to reveal it before, knowledge hog that it is.

Borg – do you work for the Puerto Rican government? They seem to share a lot of your opinions, none of them good.

Don't – keeping it in mind but I'll let the reviewers decide if they want it this way or changed.

snow fox2000 – thank you

katari8010 – I'll try to keep the pace, but no guarantees. Depends on my workload as I work and study both.

goddessa39 – appreciated.

Furie – I will certainly try.

Tombadgerlock – I hope I can. I'll try to make the explanations better. And a lot of things can stop them. They are powerful for a couple of reasons. First of all they are sorcerers which means they are inherently powerful but toppled with that they began training at a very young age thus expanding their magical cores at an earlier age than other wizards. Because of their young age it is easier for them to learn spells and to control their magical powers more efficiently and effectively. This is the reason modern wizards are mostly weaker than the weakest ancient wizard, for in ancient times they began training at an earlier age therefore became more powerful. With the coming of the Ministry they decided to place a starting age to training to ensure weaker wizards and less opposition to the ministry's power. Of course this is in my universes I can't speak for JK. I am basing this on my own original stories.

Gryffindors – thank you.

Treck – o.0

Marka - Nym is a few months older than Harry, I've given her the birthday of April 16th. You have the animagus here in this chapter and as for the blood gifts, you'll have to wait a bit longer.