An omake: i swear i plan to write on this story again life has just been painful. This is canon to my tale and i may rewrite a chapter to add this scene in.
But unlikely.
Hagrid smiled as Professor Kettleburn lead the students down to the empty paddock.
The first years of all four Houses were together for this event, the yearly Unicorn progression as they moved from the forest northeast of Hogwarts and into the Southwest portion of the Forbidden Forest.
It began.
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Harry and his friends were leaning up against the magical paddock, designed to herd the unicorns as they exited one part of the forest.
The sound of the herd was soon heard by the students and the whispered conversations died away abruptly as the first unicorn was revealed.
Silver with a muted rainbow mane and a shimmering rainbow horn, he strode majestically into the opening of the paddock, seemingly nodding at Professor Kettleburn.
"This is the herd's leader. The most powerful male in the forest, he is followed by most of if not all the female unicorns in the forests. He seems to accept being called James."
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Harry looked around. The girls had stars in their eyes as they looked at the creature. The other boys seemed interested but less so than the girls. He wondered why girls liked horses so much.
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The rest of the herd began to step out of the forest. Uncountable numbers of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet unicorns surrounded snow white foals and were followed by five pure black unicorns and one gold unicorn that was a hand larger than the king.
"Every color of unicorn lends their magic to something different. And as you can see, they're all born white. They'll begin to darken to a silver if male or a different color if female as they age. By two they'll have their full colors and be full growm at four.
"The black unicorns are different in a way we still don't understand. We're not sure why but they rarely are able to breed but when they do, they always breed a male.
"The gold unicorn is the matron of the herd. The oldest and wisest of the unicorns, she is in charge when the king is away. I call her Gertrude."
At hearing her name, she trotted towards the professor.
After he bowed, she bowed back.
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Once the golden one got near a human, the younger unicorns began to approach the children.
Massive sighs and squeals of excitement filled the air as the students were granted the chance to scratch or pat the foals.
Save Harry. They all avoided him.
He knew why—most unicorns feared the Darkness in him—but it still hurt. He had hoped to pat one as well, having dreamt of riding horses so often due to the Darkness.
Other students noticed that he was the only student to be avoided by the unicorns and the only conclusion for them was the obvious one.
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Sirius was savoring his first drink of tea when he saw the headline.
WHO'S HARRY POTTER'S LOVER‽
At Hogwarts on Monday, the students had the chance to see the yearly progression of unicorns and like every year, they allowed the first years to see them up close.
This reporter was there, watching from a distance when she saw it. The unicorns avoided Harry Potter. We all know Unicorns will attack Dark Creatures and Wizards on sight. And won't allow nonvirgins to touch them.
As he wasn't attacked, who is the witch who's captured an eleven year old Harry Potter's heart?
Sirius's tea splattered the newspaper as Remus walked in. "Sirius! Sid you see this front pa—ah. You have."
"First we verify it's the Darkness for why he can't, then we kill this Skeeter woman," Sirius growled.
