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Dumbledore watched the young Gryffindor speak with Remus about the 'alters' that his personality was split into. The headmaster was concerned about the damage he may have inadvertently done to the boy. When he had first heard of the events that night in Godric's Hollow he had first grieved for the lives of two of his favourite pupils and most loyal friends, but as the leader of the Order of the Phoenix he knew he must keep his head whilst there was still work to do.

Firstly the survivor, and apparent vanquisher of Tom's attack must be kept safe. Dumbledore knew that his choice to seize Harry before a full Wizenagamot meeting and court case was technically illegal, but he was also sure that no good would come of delaying. Death Eaters were abound looking for any chance to restore their Lord, and Politicians were abound looking for any chance to restore their former power and Harry would be in far too much danger in a climate like that.

So the headmaster placed Harry in the muggle world, with the strongest wards he could offer backed up by the undeniably powerful Dark magic blood wards that the clearly 'not so Light' Lily Potter had sacrificed her life for made Number 4 Privet Drive the most impenetrable fortress in the country save for Azkaban Prison, Gringotts and Hogwarts. Albus confessed to himself at the time that perhaps Vernon and Petunia Dursley would not treat Harry quite as well as their own son, but nonetheless he did not foresee the abuse that was beginning to become apparent.

It had been later, after Sirius' conviction (and perhaps Dumbledore could admit that he should have followed up with a trial for the Black but he knew Voldemort was far from dead and if Harry was the key to his final downfall then it would be necessary to have control of the boy, something Sirius would not allow) that the headmaster decided to leave Harry at the Dursleys permanently.

He was aware that the young saviours Aunt and Uncle would neglect him a little, possibly even stifle his confidence, but anything to make the young boy hesitant and give him a need to prove himself and thirst for attention would help in the grand scheme of things, besides it would do the boy good to ensure he didn't inherit his fathers' arrogance. At least that was how he justified himself.

Sometimes Albus wondered how he slept at night.

The Headmaster was startled from his thoughts as the alter, Daniel seemed to pause in his description of his companions in Harry's mind as if wondering to impart this latest piece of information.

"Even having spent most of the last 4 years searching we've found no reference to just how different we are to the average wizard. The next bit might be hard to believe but you have to trust me, even though I have no way to prove this too you. The alter who holds most of Harry's magical ability is different from the rest of us and possibly the most damaged." He paused.

"Freak is too scared to prove this too you, but he was born from something that happened the night Harry turned 6. You have to understand that the majority of Harry's magic is hidden behind the persona of Freak who lets our host access only the smallest amount at any time. How much more impressive is everything Harry has achieved if you take into account he's done it with little more magic than the average squib. Freak was so terrified to how his relatives reacted that he may never heal if you react in a similar way. You have to understand the trust I'm putting in all of you telling you this, but it's a risk we have to take if any of you have any knowledge of this, even rumours."

The teenager took a deep breath. The kitchen of Number 12, Grimmauld Place frozen, waiting for the boy to speak.

"Harry has wings."

For a single heartbeat there was no sound in the room after Daniels declaration. Then as though to make up for the silence a wave of noise so fierce it would sound like an explosion to anybody outside the room, or indeed outside the house, resounded off the walls as all the occupants of the room tried to speak at once.

The younger children seemed astounded and unsure with the twins sharing excited grins, whilst Hermione was clearly planning out research methods and going over any information she might have on the subject. Ron appeared disbelieving and jealous in equal measures, whereas Ginny looked conflicted.

Moody was shouting about lies and a set-up, possibly this was a Death Eater plot and his wand was trained on Harrys back once more. Kingsley was countering each of the ex-aurors arguments with his own in his calm, reassuring voice. Sirius was shouting back at Moody, and looked as though he was about to launch himself at the one-legged wizard in animagus form. Surprisingly Lupin was not calming his friend down as he normally did, in fact the werewolf was staring hard at the grain in the wood of the table with intense concentration.

Molly and Minerva were both trying to calm the children down the little success, whilst Nymphadora appeared to be trying to grow wings herself. Arthur was clearly trying to get the argument at their end of the table to settle down and was taking on Remus' job of retraining the Azkaban escapee.

Albus witnessed all of this in a few seconds before noticing Harry's crumpled form. The boy's body was shuddering as though having some sort of seizure and what the wizened wizard could see of the young Gryffindor's face appeared to be flickering between Daniels calm open visage, a wide eyed terrified look that would not be out of place on a mouse and a shameful but panicked look.

The Headmaster decided to break up the fights before Harrys condition worsened and fired a mass of bright purple streamers from the end of his wand. "QUIET!" he called out in the clear loud voice he used for gathering the attention of his students at Hogwarts.

The room quietened almost instantly once more however it had the unfortunate effect of pushing the young Gryffindor into action. Harry shuddered once more before throwing himself bodily off of his seat and back against the old stone wall of the kitchen. His form was racked with shakes and sobs and he seemed to have settled into the terrified, wide-eyed look that Albus had seemed him flickering through earlier.

"Boy is sorry Uncle! Don't hurt Boy! Don't hurt Boy!" he said in a quiet almost-whisper that was heard throughout the now very quiet room. Mad-eye had reacted the sudden movement and his half-aborted stunner spell ricocheted off the wall above the boys head. This led him into further power as he yelped and scrabbled along the wall away from Mad-eye who now looked equally shocked. The children, Molly, Minerva and Nymphadora were all trying to crowd Harry which caused him to hyperventilate and curl up into a ball shuddering as they tried to calm him down unsuccessfully.

It was Sirius who seemed to know what to do. He pushed the crowd out of the way and back towards the table telling them firmly but softly to give him some space before sitting down in front his shaking godson and talking quietly to him. Albus couldn't hear what the animagus was saying at first as the assorted witches and wizards all seemed to have something to say but as they noticed what Sirius was doing the quietened down again, and the headmaster could hear Sirius' ramblings.

"…and then James had this great idea to try and turn the entrance hall into an ice rink one morning during the rush to get to lessons after breakfast. It was a great idea but man did it take some planning! We eventually (after many unsuccessful attempts) decided to flood the entrance hall with water from the two nearest bathrooms, whilst we set a freezing charm on the floor so the water froze as soon as it touched it, and then there was a charm on the doorway that transfigured everyone's shoes into ice skates. It did seem to all work out and students were sliding over on their arses within minutes! Course it soon went horribly wrong 'cos your dad decided to conjure 1000 roses and shower your mum in them but she was not impressed and she hexed him pretty hard…"

As Sirius had been telling his story – that had most smiling, the twins looking as though they were plotting and Minerva and McGonagall narrow-eyed – Daniel appeared to have managed to phase out. He was looking much less relaxed than earlier as it had clearly been a struggle to pull himself back into the forefront of the wizards mind. Nevertheless he smiled at Sirius quite widely as the animagus trailed off his story, having noticed that the alter was back.

"Thank you." Daniel said, sincerely. "How did you know what to do?" he asked the animagus whilst giving him a quizzical look.

"I used to have panic attacks." Sirius replied nonchalantly, though even Ron could see he was acting more confident than he was. "I didn't have the kindest of upbringings in this house, and the dementor's hardly helped that. Daniel nodded distractedly before Dumbledore finally broke into their conversation.

"Would you like to sit back down again … Daniel was it? I believe Mr. Lupin has some information on your recent news." Albus motioned where Remus was now looking up at the two Gryffindor's on the floor but his face showed he had some information that was making him visibly nervous.

As Daniel retook his seat and Sirius pulled up a chair next to him Remus turned from them to Albus quickly, before looking back at the alter.

"You are aware, of course that your parents knew they were being hunted by Voldemort?" the werewolf looked even more nervous now, and glanced at the headmaster again before continuing. "Your mother was an incredibly gifted witch, and was also probably one of the least prejudiced people I have ever had the good fortune of knowing. Whilst your father put his faith in friends and the Order, Lily was always a little more Slytherin about defending her family. She knew, that you were the most vulnerable of the three of them and so she researched a great many types of obscure magic to find a way to protect you.

"We know, of course, that her final charms worked fully, as you sit here today; but I didn't think she even put her other theories into practice. Lily came to me a few months after your birth, just before you went fully into hiding to ask about an old myth of the Potter family and the creature it was about. I've always been something of an expert in creatures as they've interested me, but the Potter family is well known, as all old families are, for being descended from extraordinarily powerful 'Mages' whose were said to be part wizard, part creature.

"It's fairly common knowledge that the Potters are distantly related to Godric Gryffindor – they've all been born in Godric's Hollow for over 1000 years. And we know that Slytherin wasn't the only Founder with the ability to speak to his house mascot. Gryffindor was renowned for being able to speak to Lions, and if the legends are true; Griffins. And this is where fact becomes theory as it all gets a little murky.

"It's said that Gryffindor, like Romulus and Remus was raised animals. In the case of my namesake – amusingly enough – a wolf goddess known as Lupa, however Gryffindor was said to be raised by Griffins, hence is Surname. But legend says that he wasn't just raised by them, but that his Father enchanted a Griffin to carry his heir because he believed it would make him more powerful, planning to trick the Griffin and leave with his child. The Griffin discovered the plot however, and tore the wizard apart with its talons and raised the son for herself.

"Lily theorised that if you truly did carry the blood of the Great Griffins of old, that finding a way to access it would not only increase you magic but protect you from most curses, perhaps even the unforgivable as most purely magical creatures are resistant to any wizard magic that could cause them undue harm. I agreed that her theory had merit but she would have had to do several complex rituals to bring the magic forwards, and even so as you were already born it is likely only some parts of you took to the change.

"It is possible that the Griffin heritage cause your animagus form to be a Griffin of some description, and if your parents did start the process of giving you the animagus potion to bring out your Griffin blood to protect you from Voldemort's attack; then the magic inside you could have begun to act in a hostile manner, thus attempting to change your form. But without your mind to direct the change it got confused, which resulted in wings."

Daniel was blinking in mild confusion as he tried to process all that, and it seemed he was not the only one as many of the others in the kitchen were showing a similar look. Minerva was nodding along with Remus' explanation however, as though she agreed with his hostile animagus magic theory.

Albus was astounded, as he had been many times in the old days, at Lily Potter's genius. There was no denying she was a skilled and intelligent witch, and had worked tirelessly to protect her son. The headmaster couldn't help thinking that this would make Harry all the more likely to conquer Voldemort, if he could get the boy back in one mind. He felt sick after this thought that he would reduce Lily's brilliance to a simple sharpening of his weapon, but nonetheless Albus Dumbledore had long ago given away his morals in the fight against the dark. Let as many of his students remain innocent as if he manipulated them, surely only he would be at fault for being power-hungry, and not them for having blood on their hands. Let him take the blood for them, so they might have the goodness to rebuild the world when this dirty war was done.

"I believe that is quite enough for tonight, my dear boy." The headmaster commented, interrupting everyone's thoughts on the information Remus had just revealed. "I will speak with Severus tonight – it's quite clear he has the most expertise in this matter – to see if I can't persuade him to help come up with a 'game plan' I believe the muggles call it. Of course Poppy as well has some knowledge of this I'm sure. I wonder if perhaps we wait to inform Mr. Potter himself, of this."

Daniel nodded, before replying. "I agree. As much as I hate lying to my host, if he finds out to soon he might panic and try to block us out, which even I know isn't a healthy thing. We alters will have a meeting tonight as well – me and Cobra did take action without Alex and Alias' permission and it's going to be hell to persuade them this was the right thing to do! Maybe if we spoke again in the morning Headmaster?" the alter looked very nervous about the thought of his mental companions reactions to the decision to speak out.

"Very well, tomorrow it is! Minerva, Alastor, I wonder if you would accompany me to my office, there was something I wished to speak to you of." With that remark, the Headmaster, the Deputy Head and their old friend the ex-auror left through the fire.

"Goodnight then. It would be best if you pretended none of this happened." With that the teenager shut his eyes and relaxed back into the recognisable face of Harry Potter.

The following discussion on Voldemort's movements, and the 'weapon' he wanted to find seemed almost normal in comparison to the previous one. Nonetheless, even Ron kept his word and did not even hint that anything else had occurred between Harry finishing his meal and the conversation Sirius had started with him. As the children finished discussing the implications of this 'weapon' they Weasleys and Hermione couldn't help thinking that their friend may be so broken that the war was already lost.

Heyy! Hope you enjoyed it!

Too anyone who noticed either the lack of mention of fire, or the fact Harry's wings are black, bare with, all will be explained!

I hope you liked the big reveal, and to anyone who is worried- never fear, the creature stuff isn't going to compltely take over this fic, and their not all going to be coming out in fur, feather and scales, IT IS JUST HARRY!

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