Harry Potter & the Power of the Eclipse

"Like this is speech." Like this is written words. Like this is thoughts. Like this is telepathic. Like this is different language.

Chapter 11

They waited patiently for Remus to change back after the group had returned and told the headmaster what had happened. Albus was interested but still wanted to know more about Shadow. He shook hi head sadly as they turned down his offer of lemon drops. He really needed to find a new way to sneak trusting draught into those he wanted to talk to. It seems the lemon drop isn't that good anymore.

They had told him about being stopped by the winged wolf and Remus being on Shadow's trail but they would need Remus to give them anymore information. And thankfully the moon set about that time. After getting dressed behind a screen he looked at Albus.

"Sir I'm sorry. I let the wolf take over when it saw another alpha. I was not expecting to find any others out there."

"It is alright my boy. Lemon drop?" He held up the yellow candies to Remus. He shook his head.

"So werewolf, are you going to tell us about your perspective from last night?" Sneered Snape.

"That wolf's scent was familiar. For some reason it's nagging at me. As for the trail it seemed like it disappeared a short distance ahead of us. I can get us to that spot in human form. From there we can see what we can."

"Good. Today is Saturday and he should be where ever he sleeps. If you find him, I want you to watch what he does. If he finds you, stun him and obliviate him of the incident." Ordered Albus.

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Ginny met Hermione in the great hall with Neville and Luna, who had started dating just the other day.

"Hey Ginny, you look better. What happened?" Hermione asked as Ginny sat down.

"Huh?" She seemed to have been thinking to herself.

"I asked what has you in a better mood. Last year you barely ever came in here. Now you seem to have come back to life… ever since our American friend came." Ginny sensed that Hermione was meaning that it had to do with Shadow.

"No it's not like that!" She said a little to fast.

Hermione nodded with an 'ahhuh' which meant she wasn't buying it. At that moment the male in question walked into the great hall.

"Hey Gin. Where have you been Hermione? I mean you only visited me once while I was in the wing." He said as he sat down next to Ginny.

"I was busy."

"Oh." He turned back to Ginny. "I was wondering if you would like to see where I sleep. I know you've asked about it a few times seeing as how I don't sleep in the castle."

"Sure." She answered happily. I just wish he was a werewolf, but that would still mean that he wasn't Shade. And that would just be wrong to cheat on either of them. What am I going to do. I mean I like him but even with him liking werewolves I don't know.

Breakfast was quieter than usual and people kept glancing from Malfoy to Shadow. Finally Malfoy got up and walked over as Shadow got up with Ginny. His gang followed.

"Hey Grim, we need to talk."

"What ever." Shadow just kept walking.

"You do not walk away from me!" Malfoy snapped his fingers and Crabbe and Goyle stepped in Shadow's way. "Now then you are going to come with us if you don't want anything to happen to your ugly freak of a girlfriend." Shadow spun around and Malfoy took a step back as he looked into glowing emerald eyes with slitted retinols that turned back to normal so fast he didn't know if they had really been slitted. There was pure anger in the eyes glaring at him.

"Malfoy, you have done something I find unforgivable. So I challenge you to a duel as you British do. You pick the rules, but the one I want in there is no unforgivables. I will see you this evening after dinner." With the duel declared he walked past the two apes of human teens, and out of the great hall with Ginny in tow.

Once he was out the front doors what he had said finally sank into Ginny.

"Shadow, what did you mean by Malfoy doing something that you find unforgivable?" She asked, even though she had a good guess.

"Nothing, just don't listen to him, ok?" Well I guess I was right. But was it because he called me ugly or because he threatened me? Or both?

"Come on, my tent is this way." He walked into the forest and took the path that Ginny recognized as the one Tonks and the others had followed before Shade stopped them. When they past that spot it was only a few minutes more before coming to a well lit clearing with grass and a small stream off to the side. In the middle there was a tent that looked like it would fit four people. Going inside she saw a sleeping bag and a large camping backpack. As Shadow sat down he pulled on a pair of black gloves with no fingers. She looked at him more closely. He was wearing the usual black jeans, the black shirt that had a saying on itToday's said 'Get off my case before I go off on yours'., and the combat boots that he had started wearing shortly after coming. With the gloves on it looked like he would follow what the shirt said.

Of course he was already going to do that this evening.

"Shadow, do you really have to go through with this duel? I mean he didn't do anything."

"Still, I can't just back down. One he would most likely hunt me down after wards and corner me. So I am going to go through with it."

Ginny noticed there was no use fighting with him about it, like she really did anyways, so she changed the subject.

"What do you do out here when your not at the castle?"

"Check my emails, surf the internet, and read up on some of my personal books."

"What's the internet and email?"

"Oh yeah sorry, I forget that I'm in a place that isn't non magic oriented, no offence. The internet is like a planet that is in the computers and links them together. You can find games, pictures, animations, and music. As for email it's like normal mail only on the internet." He reached over to his stereo that Ginny only just now noticed and hit play. Shadow started nodding his head to the beat as '69 Tea' started playing. Ginny found she liked it, though it was her first time listening to muggle music, it fit how Shadow felt about most of the people around him. He had mentioned his taste in music but couldn't get his CD player while in the hospital wing, and she didn't know where his tent was. They talked for a while until a beep sounded from a small object near the door. Shadow pulled the CD out and put it in his CD player.

"Crud. Gin I know I was going to show you my sleeping quarters some more but some one is heading this way and I need to hide my tent. But I need us to leave."

"I understand." She thought back to last night. After they were out side he pulled out his pistol and shot his tent with a bullet shaped spell. Upon contact the tent shrank and folded itself. Shadow picked it up and pulled out his mage phone.

"Lets go some place nicer. Today's a Hogsmeade weekend right?" With her nod he set the position and took her hand then they were gone in a pulse of light.

The next instant they were on the edge of town, near the cave where Sirius and Hagrid had once hidden, though in separate years. After she got her bearings she led Shadow into town and showed him around. At one point he acted like he knew where he was going when he headed towards the Shrieking Shack. She followed curiously. When he reached the fence he looked out at the twisting structure.

"Shadow?"

"Huh? Oh sorry. I heard that that building was the most haunted structure in England and wanted to look at it."

"It's not haunted. Back when Remus was in school he used it during the full moons."

"Oh." Then after a few minutes of silence he turned to her. "Hey Gin, I was wondering if you would like to come to America over Christmas Break. If you needed an excuse you could say that you want to learn more on non magical things, that is if you want to."

"I'd love to!" She said with glee. She had been wanting to ask him about the same thing for the past two minutes. Then she remembered her lypocrothy. She almost immediately felt a nagging from where Lara usually stays in her mind when there is no full moon. "Have you ever heard of eclipse wolves?"

"Yeah I have a pack of 'em living on my land. How did you know about eclipses? I mean every one who I tell asks what I'm talking about."

"I don't know I had a dream with the name in it." She lied. He bought it though. They talked for a bit before heading back towards town where he bought them drinks, she got a butterbeer, while he got a moon pool, which when she tried it, tasted like some kind of purified water with a hint of sweetened minty flavor and something else that she couldn't place but nagged at her like when she forgot something important. She set it aside and handed him his drink back.

"What's in that?"

"I honestly don't know, for some reason it doesn't have a label even though it's an American drink. But I think it is made of water filtered by moon rays and mint leaves grown on sugar."

"Interesting idea. Care to back it up?"

"I don't make 'em, I drink 'em."

She just shook her head as he bought a crate of the drink. He shrank it with a quick shot from his pistol and stuffed it in his pocket next to his tent. They walked around the town some more, running into Hermione, Luna and Neville, but when they passed the jewelry shop, Ginny couldn't hold back her wishful look at the beautiful necklace in the window. She had never had much in that area, just a ring and a simple chain. But she also got the vague thought that Shadow saw her look as well. She must be imagining things.

Finally the five headed back to the school when it was due time for dinner.

Dinner was normal, with Neville and Luna discussing things that couples do, Hermione reading from one of her super large books that she kept god knows where, and Shadow and Ginny discussing things from the eclipse wolves to muggle devices to American citizens and their differences from European muggles.

"So let me get this straight, Shadow, eclipse wolves can move through shadows over lengths of distance quickly, switch from a dark shade of grey to a lighter one at will, become invisible, understand most languages, and perform wandless wizard magic?" Asked Hermione, having heard him explain it all to Ginny.

"Yeah." He said dully.

"But that's not possible for an animal to do wizard magic. They don't have a soul to produce human magic."

Shadow seemed offended by this some how. Ginny noticed he was clutching his fists so tight that the dark tanned skin turned white.

"One Hermione, just because an animal is not human does not mean it can not have a soul, I thought you would realize that after befriending a werewolf, a half giant, and who knows what. Every thing has a soul, even demons, though theirs is dark and corrupt sometimes. And they don't use human magic, they only use the spells. Their source is the moon. It is one of the strongest magical entities with in the solar system next to the sun. Why do you think werewolves change when it is full? Lypocrathy is not a curse, it is a channaler of the moon's power to humans. Americans have known this for years. You British people wouldn't listen, letting your prejudice ways block your sight. We have the means to end the supposed curse of lypocrathy but we will not do such a thing just for one group, when it will affect thousands all over the planet."

"Then tell me how you cure a werewolf."

"Destroy the moon. But that would effect to many things in a negative way. For one, any werewolf who has excepted their gift would feel empty when the wolf in them dies of a lack of nourishment. To them it would be like loosing half their body. Even a werewolf that thinks the gift a curse would feel empty when the wolf dies. But it would also kill off the eclipses, which does not just include wolves; there are demons, spirits, mammals, reptiles, birds, and even fish. That is just a small amount of the things that would suffer for one just act." Hermione looked shocked for a long while, as did Ginny, Luna and Neville. Finally Hermione found her voice.

"Wh-where is the proof?" Shadow pulled a book from his backpack. The title was 'The Moon's Magic and Its Children, by Spike Dante'.

"The man who wrote this book devoted his life to the study of the moon. He was a mage scientist and a werewolf who had accepted his gift. In his studies he discovered a way to make the body, mind, and magic of someone think the moon was no more. He tested the spell on himself, after making sure its effects would reverse in an hour. If you read the last section on werewolves, he describes the feeling of the spell. 'It is like I have lost my wife, children, parents, and even my will to live. The spell has just caused Jack, my wolfish and better half, to die and even though I know it will reverse with in fifty minutes, I can't help but feel the loss. To those who are reading this and do not have the gift of lypocrathy, you will never understand the loss of the wolf. I pity you who does not have its company, even though I myself do not have that pleasure at the moment.' He never told anyone the spell. He didn't even say it aloud, having a focus even back then. He died with it not wanting non lypocraths to use it against werewolves as a form of torture, as it would be used here. I agree with him and would gladly take on such a gift of lypocrathy if I knew a werewolf who was willing to give it to me." As he finished Hermione looked like she had been struck by ten bludgers and a stunner at the same time. Ginny herself was crying silently at the sentiment behind all of his words and the thought of loosing Lara, who was like a twin sister, but closer.

Shadow will be very good as a mate for you Ginny. Even I am thinking of turning him, just to get at him. At times I think he is Shade. Said Lara from her place in Ginny's mind.

I would love to do that, but I still fear the pity people would give me. I do not mind the hate, I get it even being a normal human. And besides, now I know that you are more than just part of me, you are a gift to me from the moon. I wish I could have accepted you sooner than I did, Lara, I truly am sorry now that I waited such a long time to do so while suppressing you with my own depression.

Dinner soon ended and Shadow left the school to go change.

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Declaimer: Don't own HP, and if I really have to say it one more time, which would mean you are deaf(reading wise), I will break into a military weapons storage facility and shoot myself with any gun I can until I die and can no longer write this story.

A/N: I hope you all liked this chapter. The lypocrathy theory is just that. Stuff I blew out of an orifice. I like it. And the next chapter will be up soon, I just hope I can get it the way I want it. Also I have realized that some thing went wrong with the previous chapters in the way of my translation of the wolf talk. I will be fixing that as soon as I can so I hope you will bare with me. R&R please.