Before I start the chapter, I would like to address some guest concerns. At NO point is that Child abuse would be "brushed off". I did some investigations of the British Law system, and there has to be substantial evidence gathered before anyone could be accused of a crime. Right now, the Dursleys have the advantage by making their neighborhood believe he is a delinquent, so the adults there are more likely to support the Dursleys trying to "keep Harry in line".
Their star is definitely on the fall though.
Another one asked if it was genetically altered, how did Hermione recognize Eris as a Spinosaurus?
That one is a GOOD question, and one I can readily answer. Fossil discoveries. From it's initial discover in 1912 until 2014, all that was discovered of Spinosaurus were jaws, teeth, backbones, and tailbones. From the teeth and jaw, and backbone structure, we were able to tell it was a Theropod. Due to it's size and being a Theropod, it was believed to have a similar body structure to T-Rex, which is what the Jurassic Park Spinosauruses have.
The discovery of it being quadrupedal was in 2014. Eris's egg hatched in 1991. Even the similar, yet smaller Oxalaia was discovered in 2011. Despste Irritator being found recently, I'm pushing it with it being mentioned in 1991, and I'm using fossil and amber digs as the excuse for it's early discovery in South America, since a lot of Amber in the movies in books were found in Central and South America.
For other news, they WON'T go to Jurassic Park! With Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom coming out next year, I don't want to derail those events from happening. However, that isn't to say that SOME dinosaurs won't be kept safe, or that they WON'T find more Dinosaurs in their care. A lot of stories I read; many now deleted, had Harry on Isla Nublar for the Jurassic Park fiasco, or Isla Sorna during the events of The Lost World. Although a reviewer had a good idea with the T-Rex escort back from San Francisco...Sorry to possibly disappoint, but I had a "project" for the "pack" during that time...Plus, I will showcase two dinosaurs that WILL be in the movie coming out next year!
To be honest, I wasn't going to touch those events out of respect to how sakurademonalchemist handled them in her story "Raptor". In fact, the ONLY familiar bond with a Velociraptor will be between Owen and Blue in honor of her story!
For those wondering, I looked up a timeline of the Jurassic Park movies vs the Harry Potter books timelines:
I found that the first term of Hogwarts starts September 1st and the Hogwarts express returns to London during the third week of June.
July 1991-mid June 1992: Sorcerer's/Philospher's stone. July 1992-mid June 1993 Chamber of Secrets. Summer of 1993: Jurassic Park. July 1993-mid June 1994: Prisoner of Azkaban. 1994-1995: Goblet of Fire. 1995-1996: Order of the Phoenix. 1996-1997: Half-Blood Prince. Summer 1997: The Lost World: Jurassic Park. 1997-1998: Deathly Hallows. Summer 2001: Jurassic Park 3. 2012: With Jurassic World open, Indominus Rex undergoes creation. Summer 2015: Jurassic World. Some years later: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
Spinosaur
Isla Sorna
It's time. Artemis and I are at Isla Sorna. Little Chomper and Athena are there with Wes and Jamie as well. Everything is going well. John Hammond has altered our contracts allowing us to keep Artemis, Chomper, and Athena and has already transferred ownership. There hasn't even been a dinosaur-caused injury for MONTHS!
Then why am I filled with dread?- Journal of Andrew Stormchaser; former InGen employee and bonded to Artemis the Spinosaurus.
Enter Jurassic Park Soundtrack: Journey To The Island
Isla Sorna: 207 Miles West of Puerto Rico. December 26th British Time Zone
The blue and white InGen helicopter flew towards a large island with mountains and lush, green jungles. In one seat was John Hammond holding onto his white amber-tipped cane. Harry sat across from him, a shrunken Eris laying on his lap as she rumbled nervously as she looked out a window. Sirius sat next to him, with Hermione to his right eagerly looking at the rapidly approaching island, with Neville looking rather pale and nervous next to John Hammond. Daphne, Susan, Luna, and Ron were unable to come; without getting their parent's permission or having to stay with family for the holidays. John was smiling as Harry stroked Eris's head between her crests, and Hermione was almost bouncing at the idea of what she would see, a camera around her neck with a wizarding camera around Sirius's.
"So you're the one responsible for Eris being alive?" Sirius asked as Eris lifted her head towards Harry and rubbed her snout over hand in a display of affection, opening her mouth slightly to extend her tongue and lick his left hand making Hermione giggle as she licked him for the first time.
"Yes, while unfortunately I couldn't give you an early tour of Jurassic Park thanks to my advisers wanting 'qualified' people more knowledgeable about the dinosaurs and plants inspecting it, I could show you where we make dinosaurs for the park." John Hammond said as he chuckled slightly, "As far as I know, while I get the qualified people they might just bring a rock star or something similar." Birds flew away from the whirling blades of the helicopter as the deep blue salt water below them glistened in the sunlight. White clouds drifted aimlessly in the bright blue sky. They flew over the island, with herds of Brontosauruses walking in groups across an open prairie. The wizards and witch gazed from the windows of the helicopter as they gawked at the gigantic sauropods below them, with Triceratops moving in herds between them.
Upon reaching it's destination, the pilot yelled back that he was going to land and the trees started growing larger around them as they descended."You might want to put your belts on now, it can get a bit bumpy when we land." John said as he snapped his seat belt together. As if proving his point, the helicopter lurched, and Neville let out an uncomfortable groan. Hermione and Harry copied his actions easily, and Neville fumbled a bit before clicking them together. Sirius...grabbed two of the same end and tried pushing them together. "Mr. Black, that isn't" John said, leaning over to try and help the pureblood wizard. Harry and Hermione fumbled with the seat around them, seeking the other end of one of those belts Sirius was banging together. "Look we'll have landed by the time you get it right!" John chuckled.
The copter rapidly approached the ground as it lurched back and forth, up and down from the wind currents. Sirius just looked at the two ends of the seat belt before tying them in a knot around him and smiling rather proudly about his idea. Neville looked worried about Sirius's belts, Harry and Hermione just sighed and John Hammond laughed cheerfully as Eris rumbled in amusement. The helicopter landed with a rough bump and the copilot jumped out to open the door as they unbuckled (or untied in Sirius's case) their belts as three brown and red jeeps bearing the "Jurassic Park" logo with the "InGen" logo next to the red logo reversed back next to the helicopter landing pad. Harry and John took the first one; John sitting in the passenger seat next to the driver with Harry sitting in the back. Neville took the one in the back with him claiming the passenger seat, while Sirius and Hermione took the one in the middle with Hermione claiming the passenger seat. Eris had grown to her adolescent size and was running alongside the jeep Harry was in.
Once everyone was in the jeeps, the drivers headed down a paved road. "Pull over here." John said to the driver, and the jeep went off the driveway and parked in the grass with the other two stopping next to him. Eris sniffed the air and hovered close to Harry as she seemingly licked her lips (if she had any). A loud bellowing call made the wizards stare in shock as a Brachiosaurus walked in front of them and tore some leaves off the top of the tree. Behind it were more Brachiosaurs and groups of Parasaurolophus and Triceratops.
"Paleontologists were right...they do move in herds." Hermione whispered to herself. A small growling chirp sounded behind them and there was another jeep sitting behind them with two small creatures next to them. They turned to see a man and woman, both with brown hair wearing sunglasses and the gray Jurassic Park uniforms with small German-Shepard sized dinosaurs next to them. The one next to the woman was primarily brown with yellow eyes that had veins of brown going to the pupil. It had a crocodile-like snout with the teeth from the upper jaw pointing around the lower jaw. The jaw widened at the front of the mouth with a triangular crest in the middle of the top of the snout. It's nostrils were in the middle of it's snout. It's body was similar to a Spinosaurus, with a smaller sail starting at the base of the neck and reaching it's maximum height over it's back legs and lowering and ending just past the base of the tail. There was a faint blue coloration in the bottom of the sail, and the top of the head and back to the tail was starting to turn a dark reddish copper color.
The other one was chewing on a boot. It had a long snout with crocodile-like teeth similar to Spinosaurus, with its blue eyes gazing at the people before it. It was a dark navy blue color with a brown lower jaw, underbelly, and spots across it's body ending with stripes on the tail with the tail ending in a brown color with a blue tip. It was a Theropod, with smaller arms ending in three black-clawed digits and large back legs ending in black clawed toes. While there was no obvious sail like on Spinosaurus, the backbone was pronounced in an obvious hump across it's back that made it seem like it was hunched over.
Eris growled at the new predators, before a loud roar sounded making Eris look up to see the gigantic Spinosaurus from the video emerge from the forest with the man she was with on the back of her neck. The large Spinosaurus glared down with blood-red eyes that had veins of brown and it rumbled something that made Eris lower herself and it nodded before lowering itself to let the man from the video off her neck.
"Ah Harry. This is Andrew Stormchaser and his Spinosaurus Artemis." John said, as Artemis rubbed her large snout over Andrew's cheek, "The other woman and man are Jamie and Wes Antilles. Their familiars are Athena the Irritator and Chomper the Suchomimus respectively." As if responding to her name, Chomper chewed on the boot in her mouth again while holding it up. "Poor Wes, after he named her Chomper she's been teething on his boots." John chuckled.
Chomper made a proud sounding rumble as Athena just let out a huff. Artemis let out a rumbling sound as she lowered her snout and sniffed at Eris before sniffing Chomper and Athena. "That's what Eris will look like grown up?" Sirius said with his mouth agape in shock as he took in Artemis checking in on the younger dinosaurs and eyeing the herbivores passing by. Artemis moved to Harry and Eris hissed at her as she raised her back threateningly. Artemis let out a gruff sounding huff and hiss-like sound and Eris looked at her warily as Artemis bent down and sniffed Harry's face. She let out a pleased rumble before returning to Andrew's side as Eris stepped closer to Harry possessively, as if daring the larger Spinosaurus to steal him. Instead Artemis let out an amused rumble and licked Andrew's face, making him chuckle slightly.
Being raised part of the Black family, Sirius was the odd one out among the family. Despite his family's specialty, he did not care for the Dark Arts. Sure, he knew them thanks to his family, but he preferred using "Light" spells. While his siblings married or joined the Death Eaters, he became part of the Order of the Phoenix. Yet, despite his deranged mother blasting his name off the tapestry, his father never made the disownment official. Part of him wondered what his parents and siblings would think of the large ostrich eggs with cloned extinct dinosaurs in them due to those so called "worthless muggles". Robotic arms would hold onto eggs and occasionally rotate some in order to better heat them. Scientists were writing notes about the eggs and making inventories of what species were there.
"The dinosaurs bred for the park are all female, to prevent unauthorized breeding." John said, watching a baby Triceratops make eye contact with him after emerging from the egg, "I don't understand it, but there is a simple protein not given during development in these dinosaurs that make them male." This detail echoed in Sirius's ears as he stared at a rocking egg and he felt his magic flaring as he watched the egg rocking. "Mr. Black..." John stated, and the and the others watched as he approached the egg and gently stroked the top of it where something was pushing against it. "It's happening again...a familiar bond!" John whispered excitedly.
This feeling...Sirius hadn't felt it since he held Prongslet (Harry) after he was born. Cracks formed at the top of the egg and Sirius leaned over. "Push...push...you can do it." He cooed softly. A little silvery gray nose poked through the cracks and took in a deep breath. The snout pulled back into the egg and a yellow eye stared into Sirius's gray eyes. The world fell away from him, as all sorts of scientists were scurrying as John pulled a few that were trying to get Sirius's attention away from him. The yellow eye turned gray and even more cracks formed as two little black claws pushed through the egg shell and the head of the little creature the size of a bulldog broke through, the top of the shell sitting like a little helmet as it groaned in annoyance. Sirius lifted the shell off the little dinosaur's head and it crooned in appreciation and the shell fell apart as it wobbled and stood on it's hind legs. It's body was silvery gray with dark blue sideways tiger-like stripes faintly across it's body. It's head you could clearly see the impression of the sinus's on it behind the nostrils and chisel-like teeth lined it's mouth as it's eyes stared at Sirius. It was a Theropod, and had a tyrannosaurus-like body structure with spikes going down it's back from the back of it's head to just before the middle of it's tail. Sirius sat down in a nearby chair and lifted the newly hatched dinosaur into his lap as some scientists brought in some ground up beef and he gently fed it to the baby.
"What species is she?" Sirius asked, not taking eyes off the baby lest she accidentally bite a few fingers off with her teeth.
"Tyrannotitan." A Scientist said, "At first we thought she would be a Tyrannosaurus Rex until we noticed some differences with her DNA."
"Tyrannotitan..." Sirius muttered, "Tyrant Titan." The baby Tyrannotitan looked up at and tilted her head in confusion as she moved closer to Sirius's chest and bathed in his body heat.
"Nova." Sirius said, and the little Tyrannotitan lifted her head and gazed into his eyes, the two pairs of gray eyes staring at each other, "My family named members after stars and constellations. Your name is Nova." The newly named Nova gave a squeaky roar of approval at her name. Sirius set Nova down as Eris walked over an sniffed at the baby. Sirius noted that the baby was looking between Eris's eyes and Harry's before turning her head to make eye contact with Sirius. Eris let out an accepting huff and returned to Harry's side and Athena just yawned as she dropped a scratched up, yet still living, anole into Jamie's lap. Artemis stood beside Andrew, watching the bonding with interest.
"Brings back memories, eh?" Andrew asked, making Athena, Chomper, Jamie, Wes, and Artemis nod in agreement. "John's not stupid. Eccentric and excitable, but not dumb."
"Excuse me? What do you mean by that?" Hermione asked.
"There's a reason John's been having wizards familiar bond with carnivores." Wes said, his blue eyes peering over his sunglasses, "It's a precaution. John only has the best interest in mind bringing back dinosaurs, to create a preserve so people can see them and remind humans just how little we truly are...but there are those at InGen who don't think they deserve rights...that these are just 'assets'...just numbers on a spreadsheet. Eventually, someone on InGen will look at a carnivore and decide it would make a good military weapon."
"John doesn't want that." Jamie said, picking up where her husband left off, "The accidental discovery that they can imprint and familiar bond with Wizards gives him an excuse to sign ownership over to others and separate some of the assets from InGen and prevent them from being destroyed or militarized if something DOES happen."
"John's been contacting a Masrani Corporation in case there is an utter disaster...but it would be VERY unlikely that it would happen...first, there would have to be an complete tragedy at Jurassic Park, then InGen would have to do something completely stupid...like letting a T-Rex loose in a large city." Andrew said, "I may not agree with InGen completely on all things, but working here lets me get a decent paycheck while letting me interact with dinosaurs. I love it."
Sirius knelt down and stroked Nova between her eyes, which made her rumble in contentment.
"Which is why when the board shot us down for checking out the park and finding any potential flaws in it, he brought us here!" Hermione realized.
"To find a familiar, yes." John said, walking over leaning heavily on his cane, "Even though I may have the 'best' security systems for our current technology, anything can happen." He sighed and sat down, "I was worried when Eris's egg was stolen, with a small shipment having passed by a while later after being delayed. I was afraid she would become a weapon or unloved asset. Yet, seeing her...seeing the young boy care for her, I knew she would be in good hands."
Harry listened intently, as did Sirius, both stroking the top of Eris and Nova's snouts respectively. "I had now witnessed a second familiar bond, once again between a human and Spinosaurus." John continued, "This got me thinking, there could now be a way to protect the carnivores from being weapons of war...but not all carnivores accepted the bond. One wizard tried to bond with a Velociraptor and...they didn't quite click...and she killed the wizard. Millions of years of instincts run strong in these creatures."
"But they are not monsters." Andrew added, stroking Artemis's snout, "With a gentle, kind, yet firm hand, we could refocus those instincts to let them better interact with society as familiars...and with a legal transfer of ownership, be safe from use as military assets."
Neville felt overwhelmed by everything he was seeing. Dinosaurs cloned from blood and brought back by muggle methods when wizards only had extremely dark rituals that only had a mockery of the life he was seeing restored. Now he wondered as he saw Gallimimus, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus wander outside the windows, if there was something they could do to reverse the damage done to his parents, tortured extensively under the cruciatus curse until their minds seemingly broke. He gazed at his new cherry wood and unicorn tail hair wand before tucking it into a holster his grandmother bought alongside the wand for "living up to his father" and staring down a Basilisk.
All his life, he had been told stories of his parents, but they were now in a long term care of St. Mungos and unable to recognize him. It hurt, he loved them so much, but they were nothing but strangers. Until recently, he was unworthy of affection from his grandmother or uncle, a stain on the Longbottom family's legacy. His magic had turned inwards and had refused to come out until it was needed...alongside with trying to push his magic through his father's wand, it gave him a lot of trouble with spell casting. Now that he had his own wand, it was like a piece of him he didn't know he was missing had returned. Still, there was a large hole in his heart caused by his parent's injury. As he watched two Stegosaurus care for a young, he felt guilty and jealous...it wasn't their fault that he hadn't known parental affection. The only one who could relate to that was Harry. He glanced back to the group and turned away from the parents helping their young choose the best plants to eat.
As he was about to walk back, the glass lifted over an incubation chamber and the group's heads turned towards him as his heart thumped in his chest. Out of nowhere, he felt a sense of longing and turned to see an egg held by a robotic arm shaking wildly. His breathing quickened as that feeling intensified. Whatever was in the egg was calling out to him. It sensed his distress. It too longed for a parent's love. A crack formed in the egg and he nearly jumped back as a bead of sweat rolled down his face. A chunk fell away from the front and a piercing yellow eye stared at him, rounded pupil scanning his face. Then, a tiny black claw broke through the egg and it let out a keening call. Nevile gulped and stepped forward and helped pull chunks away from the egg and it stumbled out before wobbling and hitting it's chin on the incubator's nest. It let out another keening call and Neville lifted it's head and their eyes met. Veins of brown appeared in the yellow eyes, and the shape and coloration of the body made Harry, John, and Hermione recognize her species immediately. She was various shades of brown, and obviously a Tyrannosaurus Rex. She was also the size of a bulldog, but stood up and rubbed against Neville's hand while simultaneously taking in his scent.
"Themis. Your name is Themis." Neville said as she gave a loud cry of approval. Themis was the name of the Greek Goddess of divine justice, order, and customs. Quickly, Sirius handed Neville the bucket with the leftover meat from feeding Nova. With a cheerful cry, it dug into the meal Neville spilled in front of it.
"A Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Tyrant Lizard King." Hermione gaped, "Shy, quiet Neville bonding with the most iconic carnivore among all dinosaurs. Now that is something that I wouldn't have believed without seeing it with my own eyes." Despite being there for when Harry bonded with Eris, she couldn't believe it would happen again. Now Sirius had a Tyrannotitan and Neville had a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and there were InGen employees bonded to a Spinosaurus, Irritator, and Suchomimus.
When she was young, she found solace in books. In fact, her name was in one of Shakespeare's works. She was always eager to learn, and thus didn't quite fit in with other children. Then, she found out she was a witch and hungrily dove into that knowledge in order to have a better chance to fit in. Instead, she had found a world outdated and filled with bigotry among it's wonders. It needed to change or else the wizarding world would go extinct...like dinosaurs once were. She had met Daphne Greengrass and Susan Bones on the train when she was helping Neville find his toad Trevor. Despite her pureblood family raising, not once did she utter the "mudblood" word older Slytherin students had learning she wasn't from a magical family. In fact, Daphne turned out to be a good source of information, provided she trade knowledge with her.
Seeing Sirius and Neville bonding with their dinosaurs with Harry and Eris watching over them left her feeling...jealous and upset. Once again she was not fitting in with her friends, and she was afraid of being alone again. She took a deep breath and felt the magic within her flare wildly, reacting to something nearby. Nothing could compare to the relief she felt when Harry grasped her shoulder with John Hammond grasping her right, leading her over to a shaking egg held in a robotic arm. Her heart thumped in her chest as she mentally recited everything she had read on dinosaurs.
"Watch" Harry whispered, as Eris growled slightly and he looked at her as she rumbled something to him. "No I'm not getting another familiar!" He said in shock to Eris, "I'm just guiding Hermione on how to bond with her partner." Eris growled out her acknowledgement and he turned away from the egg as John Hammond moved to another shaking egg. Despite being a squib and unable to form a familiar bond, John liked to be the first thing any potential dinosaurs to the park saw in order to imprint on him.
Now Hermione was alone, with a shaking egg held by a robotic arm. The world seemed to fade away from her as a crack formed and a yellow eye stared through an opening to gaze into her brown eyes. The creature in there blinked before there was a crooning call coming from the egg, as if pleading for help. With a mental reminder that 'Gryffindors charge forward', she approached the egg and helped peel away the cracked sections of the egg from the creature. Left standing there was a long creature the size of a bulldog, with 1/3 of it's length being it's tail. It's skin was a pattern of various mottled splotches of shades of brown, gray, and yellow, with a teal stripe going from above it's eyes, past the sides of it's eyes, and ending at the bottom of the lower jaw. It's crocodilian snout had a half-circular design extending down just past it's nose, and the entire snout was filled with crocodilian teeth. It's yellow eyes now had veins of brown. It was a Theropod, and had three clawed hands with feathery quills on it's arms and powerful teeth. There were also feathery quills going from the top of it's head to the top of it's neck. While it didn't have a sail, there was a prominent ridge-like hump from it's shoulders to the base of it's tail.
Instantly, Hermione's mind went into overdrive analyzing the chirping dinosaur. Baryonyx. species name: Baryonyx walkeri. Family: Spinosaurdiae. She knelt down by the baby dinosaur as the nostrils above the semicircular portion of it's upper jaw flared and took in her scent. "Rosalind. The heroine of Shakespeare's play 'As you like it' known for her intelligence, quick wit, and beauty." She said, as Rosalind let out a proud hiss at her name. Eris rumbled seeing the young Baryonyx and Chomper proudly lifted her head, for once without the now mangled boot as it lay in tatters at her feet. Taking another bucket of raw beef from a scientist, she held it out and let Rosalind dig into her first meal.
Once Rosalind finished her first meal, she stumbled to Hermione's side and took in a deep breath of her scent. A small pleased roaring chirp eased Hermione's tension as Rosalind finished the imprinting and bond with her. She gently stroked Rosalind's head, but peace was not to last as a loud, growling hiss-like roar echoed nearby and the herbivores grazing nearby took off. Andrew, Harry, and Hermione's hearts plummeted as they recognized that roar.
"Asesino's testing the fence again!" A scientist ran in and yelled, making Harry and the others run outside to see the gigantic head of an adult Spinosaurus growl at them with murderous intent in her eyes as she leaned forward and her snout hit the electric fence. Sparks flew and it reared back and roared, pressing it's head against the wires and metal. Even more sparks emerged from the fuses and fence and it finally backed up, gave one last angry roar to the group and turning back and heading back into the forest.
"The first Spinosaurus was created by mistake." John said, making Eris and Artemis lower their heads, "But the others made after her are way better behaved than her. Still, I don't think I can take the risk of featuring a Spinosaurus at the park just yet."
Harry's eyes stared at where Asesino had pressed against the fence, a dent in one of the metal bars was obvious. "How smart is she?" Harry asked.
"She's very smart when it comes to hunting. She doesn't have quite the raptor's problem solving abilities, but she is very dangerous." John answered.
"Raptor?" Hermione asked.
"Velociraptor." John said, "You may know the exact species as Deinonychus nowadays, but we name them after their old scientific name Velociraptor antirrhopus...that and Velociraptor will be easier to pronounce for kids than Deinonychus. They're quite clever and are very efficient pack hunters."
Hermione gazed at the nervous Rosalind next to her as Neville and Sirius placed a hand on Nova and Themis respectively. Seeing Asesino was a VERY real reminder at the respect these creatures commanded. The very thought of someone trying to militarize one as a weapon of war was very unsettling, and Asesino was a reason why John was having some of his carnivores familiar bond with trustworthy wizards and witches...
It wouldn't matter which side you were on, if dinosaurs like Asesino were unleashed, she would eat everyone around her; ally, enemy, and civilian alike.
Author's note: The design of Chomper the Suchomimus and Rosalind the Baryonyx comes from the trailer for the upcoming movie "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom". The design of Artemis and Eris the Spinosaurus, and the design of Athena the Irritator comes from "Jurassic World, the game".
