Rhyllen – any changes I felt should be made I did in red, anything I felt didn't belong I put in red with a strikethrough
DISCLAIMER: I only wish I owned this! Anything you may recognize belongs to JK Rowling, and I ain't makin' a dime off of this. Wish I was though, and then maybe I could move out of this spacious cardboard box, lol!
A/N: I'm really beginning to wonder what ya'll see in this story. I just read through Of Gods and Mortals and chapters 1 and 2 of this story last night and I had to force myself past chapter 4! I suppose the old adage is true: each person is their own worst critic. Anywho, I'd like to thank Thanach who's going to be my beta for this story to keep me in line as far as my poor spelling and grammar go, lol! Updates might be a wee bit slower due to that, but I'll try to get them ready faster to circumvent that. When there's more than one person involved it happens, especially when correcting the work of someone. Hope ya'll enjoy the chapter!
A/N (Not important): Since Tanydwr asked, and I noticed that I didn't describe her, I'll tell ya'll what Eliz looks like more than the bare bones basic eye and hair color. As I described before she has the same emerald eyes as Harry does, and her hair is a flaming red. Her build is more athletic than anything else, she may be a warrior, but she isn't bulky. As for her figure, she has one, but you wouldn't find her in any pin-up magazines. She has a few physical scars, but for the most part she's avoided injury. She has a button nose with full lips, and medium eyebrows. Since her hair color is from her element she luckily gets away with no freckles, lol. That means she can get a tan, which she tends to sport due to the amount of time she spends working out in the courtyard with the troops.
"Phoenixus" Except when dreaming, thinking, or in a flashback
"Atlantian"
Chapter 3: Hogwarts!
Harry was grateful when he woke up the next morning that they had gotten everything sorted and in it's proper place the previous night, as he didn't want to have to do that today. He knew that today was going to be a hard day without having to do the back breaking labor of lifting all those heavy books. Once they had gotten back to the pub yesterday, they removed their concealment charms and headed straight up to their room. Eliz, however, stayed under an invisibility charm since Rosmerta didn't know she was staying in the room too. Once in the room they spent the better part of the next six hours sorting, cataloging, and placing all of their purchases in their proper place. To say the least, they were wiped out. The next morning, after a quick shower and conjured breakfast they left the pub heading towards the castle they could see in the distance, assuming it was the school. They each wore a pair of their better everyday robes hoping to make a good impression on the headmaster, knowing it could mean the difference between being admitted and being thrown out on their arses.
Once they reached the front gates of the castle, Harry felt that he had truly come home for the first time in his life. He couldn't explain it other than that this castle felt like a place that he was always meant to come to. Both he and Eliz looked up at the castle in awe as it was nearly as big as the castle of Atlantis, which was saying something, and the atmosphere surrounding it was just as welcoming to both of them. Pushing open the gates they walked up towards the school, noticing a class going on down on the grounds. From the distance they were looking at it, it appeared the class was learning about phoenixes. Before anyone could react the red and gold bird disappeared in a flash of red and gold only to reappear on Harry's shoulder.
"Good day Phoenix Lord," the phoenix chirped.
"A good day to you as well," Harry replied. He knew there was no way to stop the phoenix from calling him Phoenix Lord so he didn't even try, instead he decided to ask his name, "May I ask your name?"
"My true name is Leos, after the last true King of the Phoenix line, but my human familiar calls me Fawkes," the firebird answered.
"I knew Leos well, he would have been honored to have such a noble phoenix named after him," Harry remarked. Fawkes nearly fell off his shoulder when he heard this, knowing that the last King of Atlantis had been alive 6,000 years ago.
"How did you know him young one," he asked in earnest.
"Blame the God of Time for that, I was sent back to train my magic because I had suppressed it," Harry explained before getting an elbow into his ribs. He looked up to see Eliz looking at him pointedly.
"It's not nice to speak in a language I know nothing about when I have nobody to talk to," she commented slightly miffed.
"I apologize love, I was just trying to get to know this wonderful phoenix. He was named after Leos," Harry explained. Eliz got tears in her eyes thinking about the friends she had left behind in Atlantis, she had never been too close to her family, but Leos and Seliv had been close enough to be considered her family. "I'm sorry Eliz, I shouldn't have mentioned it."
"It's alright Harry, I have to get used to it eventually," she told him before they heard a booming voice yell, making them nearly jump out of their skins.
"What're ya doin' 'ere," they heard the voice yelling before they saw the cause of the voice. A huge man with a scraggly beard was walking towards them in great strides, his huge hands were each the size of their heads.
"We were hoping to speak to Albus Dumbledore," Harry replied hoping to placate the giant of a man.
"Whatta ya nee' ta see Professer Dumbleder fer?"
"Nothing dangerous I assure you," Harry told him, "If I were dangerous would this phoenix be perched on my shoulder?" As Harry said this he pointed to Fawkes who was indeed still perched on his shoulder acting as a guard of sorts it seemed.
"Alrigh', but nothin' funny. I'll go wif yer to make sure of tha'. If yer even think of layin' a hand on Dumbleder I'll chuck ya outta da gates me self," the man told them.
"I wouldn't have it any other way," Eliz told him, "My name is Eliz and this is my husband Harry."
"Hagrid," the giant replied before leading them towards the door. Everyone was silent as they made their way through the castle. Harry and Eliz were enjoying the sights they were seeing, such as the paintings and the moving staircases. When they got to a gargoyle in the middle of the hallway they wondered why Hagrid stopped. That question, however, was answered a second later when he leaned forward and whispered something, which made the gargoyle leap aside, revealing a staircase that began ascending. All three of them stepped onto the stairs and rode the escalator type stairs up to a very ornate door, which Hagrid knocked on in his booming style that someone his size would have trouble not doing. The whole time this was going on Fawkes sat contently on Harry's shoulder knowing that the meeting that was about to take place was going to be rather hilarious, and he had been turning over in his head what Harry had said about having met his namesake. If that were true then he would need to leave soon for a bit to relay this information to some very curious people.
"Come in," an old voice sounded from the opposite side of the door. Hagrid obliged by opening the door and motioning them to go in before him so he could keep his eyes on them the whole time.
"Pr'fesser sir, these peeple wantin' to be seein' ya," Hagrid informed Dumbledore.
"Thank you Hagrid," Albus said with a kind smile, "What may I do for you?"
"Greetings Albus Dumbledore," Harry and Eliz both said with a slight bow of the head. "I was told to seek out your school about completing my education, you see I was home schooled late in my life, but before I was tutored in potions my parents were killed. I think you would find that my abilities in spell casting are sufficient enough, but I have never even attempted to brew even the simplest of potions." Harry could tell that Albus was getting suspicious regardless of the fact that Fawkes was perched on his shoulder.
"May I enquire as to your names," Albus asked with only a slight twinkle in his eyes which made Hagrid slightly on edge.
"Of course, please forgive my rudeness. My name is Harold Samiz, most call me Harry, and this is my new wife Eliz."
"Might I ask as to why your 'wife' isn't able to teach you potions," Albus asked even more suspicious now.
"I only have the most basic concept of it myself. My parents never put much stock in it, I was also home schooled and trained in spells over potions. They viewed potions as a waste of time," she responded with a slight chill to her voice. "We understand there are dark times approaching, but we were expecting to at least to be greeted cordially and have a chance to prove ourselves as faithful to the light. Let's go Harry, obviously the Headmaster," she spat the title as if she were calling him a beggar, "isn't willing to give you the opportunity." They both stood up to make their way towards the door, with Fawkes still riding Harry's shoulder showing no inclination to leave anytime soon.
"You should really go back to the old coot," Harry sang, "He'd probably accuse me of stealing you otherwise."
"Of course young Phoenix Lord, should you need any help of me or my kin we should gladly aid you as we did long ago," Fawkes replied before going to his perch avoiding Albus in an act of snubbing him.
"Please wait a moment," Albus called before they made it to the door.
"What," Eliz asked with her shoulders shaking in frustration.
"How is it you are able to converse with a phoenix," he asked perplexed.
"It is one of my talents," Harry supplied coolly, "I have many, it is only one of them. Let's go dear." They opened the door and made their way down the stairs past the gargoyle before breaking down in laughter. They knew the way they left the office would be causing quite a stir with the two they left in there, especially considering the fact that Fawkes was now snubbing his human familiar. Stifling their laughter they made their way as best as they could back towards the entrance hall seeing how long it would take for Albus to catch up with them, but before they could make it to the stairs a bell went off and the hallway was flooded with students shuffling towards their next class. They moved next to the wall to avoid being swept up in the flow of teenagers moving around.
Within a few moments they noticed someone looking remarkably like Harry used to, but before they could get another look they felt hexes hitting them and looked down to see their skin changing into a maroon color with golden outlines of lions jumping around everywhere. Their robes were also affected in that they were flashing the words 'Gryffindor Rules!' on them. Harry and Eliz just shared a laugh before they righted themselves and attempted to make their way towards the entrance hall.
A/N: I am sooo sorry that this chapter is 1. late and 2. so short. The crap has really hit the fan here lately and I haven't really had time to get this done, I've been busy getting everything else done. Hopefully know that my life is back to it's normal casual chaos updates will go back to normal, but again no promises.
Review responses:
Triquetraperson: I'm glad you're enjoying it so far. Harry's got his first dose of his father so far, and it'll only get better from there. Don't worry, there'll be more interaction with them later, though Harry might not realize that they are his parents.
Thestrals: Thank you, I'm glad you liked that bit. Snape isn't teaching potions because Harry's in the time where his parents went to school and if you remember, Snape was a classmate of James so he couldn't be a professor yet. As for Dumbledore, things will be interesting between him and Harry for a little while yet. I doubt he'll figure it out, though he may have suspicions. Ron really hasn't been a character in this story except in passing so I think you're referring to my other story, good to know that you're a fan of all my work though, lol.
Tanydwr: I hope I explained Eliz's looks well enough. I stink at things like that, that's why I generally leave them out. The way I see it, and many other fan fic authors, Potters have a thing for redheads so when they put the concealment spell on Eliz she could've passed for a twin of Harry's grandma. I'm glad that you're enjoying the story, now stop reading mine and go update yours, lol!
Kaaera: Sorry it took so long and this chapter is so short, hopefully this sated some of your curiosity. I'll try to get another chapter out soon to make up for it, but no promises. I'll do my best, lol.
RNet: Thank you very much.
Shadowned Rains: I'm glad you're enjoying it so far. Where do I get the time? Unless a bunch of things go wrong like they have in the last few days I have a LOT of free time, plus I can usually crank out a chapter in under 3-4 hours so I don't need too much. I only space it out so I can think up the ideas for the next chapter otherwise all three stories would've been done a while ago, lol. Hope you enjoyed the chapter.
TuxedoMac: I'm glad I could clear that up, and I'm glad that you're enjoying it. I highly doubt I'll be doing the wedding in a chapter unless I can get someone to co-author it with me, someone with fashion sense, lol! I would love to do it, no doubts there, but I can't describe rooms, outfits, any of that stuff really well, and if I tried well, the outfits would probably sound horrid, lol! Hope you keep enjoying the story!
Jbfritz: Thank you, the training'll be coming up fairly soon.
Night-Owl123: LOL! Thank you.
Athenakitty: They already bought their wizarding clothing, they already did, a magical contract basically means if either party breaks the contract they forfeit their magic. Kinda harsh, but it keeps people in line in regards to contracts.
Thanach: I wouldn't say I'm a god, but thank you for the compliment, and thanks again for being my beta!