~Harry Potter and the Wolves of the Nevernever~

~Book 1 of the Archive Series~

Woot! Another chapter up and running. Glad to see people are enjoying this story and thanks for all the reviews.

Exnavybrat89: Same here. I really hate Harry/Ginny and is why you will never see that pairing in anything I write.

HP-DG-SB-RR-HA-TD-LL-KB-AJ-NT: Yes, there will be Molly and Ginny bashing mainly with them being very obsessed with Harry.

crazyjim87: Thanks.

Kay Geez: Thanks for the advice, but trust me I have a great way this is going to go with their relationship.

Arctic White Wolf: Honestly couldn't find any reliable information on Susan or Hannah's hair color so just kind winged it. Lol.

Willy Wally: Ron is still up in the air at this point he really could fall one way or the other, but it won't be to the extremes. When I was thirteen I was around 5'6 and was 140 so it's not unusual for a thirteen year old to get that big. And I wasn't fat either.

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'Thinking'

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"Animal Speak"

Chapter 3: So It Begins.

~O0o-Sept. 1 1993 Hogsmeade Station-o0O~

The remainder of the trip was uneventful for the group, with Harry learning that their new professor was one of the people whom he was supposed to have lived with in the event of his Godfather's inability to take him in. He decided to not push things with Remus until they could be alone to discuss things more deeply and without having to censor certain topics.

Once the train came to a stop, the group split from Professor Lupin and made their way through the pouring rain to the awaiting carriages. Upon entering the school grounds, everyone began to make their way to the Great Hall for the welcoming feast. Harry had to constantly fuse with his robes since he had allowed Jace to hitch a ride since the little pup said he was hungry much to his friends' amusement.

Susan and Hannah said their goodbyes and promised to talk with the others later. Harry and Hermione took their seats at the Gryffindor table while Ron took his across from them. They each chatted silently to their neighbors until Dumbledore asked for the attention of the school. After the usual welcoming speech and warnings about certain parts of the castle, including the presences of the Dementors; the headmaster got around to announcing the two new professors that had been added to the school staff: Professor Lupin-Defense Against the Dark Arts (DADA) and Rubeus Hagrid-Care of Magical Creatures (CMC). Both professors stood to meet the applause of most of the school with the exception of Slytherin house. The headmaster then gave the customary 'tuck in' to begin the feast.

Harry and Hermione made to begin their meals trying to ignore their red-headed friend who started into the food as though he was a famine victim. Harry took some chicken off the bone and would feed some the Jace every few minutes as discretely as he could while eating his own meal. During the dinner, Harry would make covert glances over to the Hufflepuff table to see his new friend and every once in a while he would catch her looking in his direction only to turn away with a blush that would match his own. Hermione was able to see this from her seat next to her best friend and would grin every time and giggle at his flustered look.

As the feast began to wind down Harry heard a voice he had hoped to not hear on the first day of term. "Potter! Potter!" Harry turned his head to see the arrogant smirk of the bleach blonde pounce that was Draco Malfoy. "Is it true that you fainted? I mean you actually fainted?" he sneered followed by snickers from his gang of pureblood bigots.

Seeing the irritated look on Ron's face, Harry thought up a quick comeback that would hopefully knock Malfoy off his game. "I'm not sure what you're talking about Malfoy. Although I do remember hearing how you were so scared you pissed your pants while calling for 'daddy." The Gryffindors seated near Harry, and a few Slytherins, chuckled at Harry's comeback and the rapid reddening of the blonds' face as he sputtered indignantly. The trio took up ignoring Malfoy for the remainder of the feast until it ended and all the students returned to their houses.

~O0o-Sept. 2 1993 2:00 AM-o0O~

Harry awoke with a start from another dream that mirrored the one he had had earlier in August. He was sweating badly and glanced around to make sure he hadn't awoken any of his roommates only to sigh in relief before coming face to face with a worried Jace. "Are you okay Papa?"

Harry smiled before rubbing the little pup behind the ears. "It's okay Jace I just had a weird dream and it startled me." The black haired teen let out a long sigh as his mind replayed the dream that was so similar to the first, but at the same time different. While he was still in the same clearing in the last dream, this time he noticed himself to be lying down in the soft grass and that the sky wasn't clouded like last time but was still a deep grey with green and purple stars similar to those in the real world. Another change was that instead of seeing one wolf approaching him, he saw two pitch black wolves coming toward him. One still had the beautiful, deep blue eyes and the new arrival had a pair of ghostly eyes that he couldn't make out the color of. The biggest difference from his first dream however came when he looked down from where he lay to notice that he was a black-furred wolf himself. It was this shock that woke him up.

He looked around the dorm before coming to a decision and got up and slipped on his grey sweats and black t-shirt along with a pair of slippers. Making his way as quietly as he could to his trunk he was able to get his shrunken special trunk and made his way down to the deserted common room with Jace close behind. Making sure he was alone, Harry enlarged his trunk and he slipped in with Jace following. "Up and at 'em Nic," Harry called out after lighting the candles, "something's afoot."

He was answered by a drawn out yawn and the glowing eyes of Nic. "You do realize of course the time of night, right?"

Harry picked up his pocket watch that he had left on his desk and looked at it to show 2:20 AM. "Why are you complaining Nic? You're a spirit so I doubt you really sleep."

"Just cause I don't need to sleep doesn't mean I don't like to smartass," growled the skull. "Anyway I'm sure whatever is on your mind that you need to come bug me is important, so what is it already?" Harry went on to explain about his dream earlier in the summer along with his recent one in the best detail he could to Nic. The skull listened quietly until Harry had finished completely before answering whether or not it meant anything. "It would seem that your Beleren blood is starting to make itself known."

This statement confused Harry. "What do you mean Nic?"

"Your mother's line Harry," Nic cryptically stated. "How much do you know about your mother?" Getting an answer of 'not much' the skull continued, "I'm surprised you haven't been taught about the Beleren line in your History of Magic class. Your mother was a pureblood from the Beleren line. Her family had dwindled down over the years until very few were left. The Beleren were one of the Eight Families, but that is a story for another time. The family can trace its ancestry back to before Merlin himself. In fact, the first Beleren wasn't even human, but a shadow wolf from the Nevernever."

"The Nevernever?" interrupted Harry.

"The other side, the shadow realm, the world that exist next to this one. The beings that live in that plain gave it the name Nevernever." Seeing Harry's confused face Nic pressed on, "You see Harry the Nevernever is broken up into two realms with four ruling classes. The rulers of the Nevernever are the two courts of the Sidhe (shee) and the two dragon clans, while the two realms are Summer and Winter. The two Sidhe courts are each represented by the Mother, Queen, and Lady of each court along with their subjects and the two independent Kings of the two courts. Meanwhile, the dragon clans are simply the water dragons and fire dragons. To make a long story short." At this he had to stop to glare at the young wolf pup perched on Harry's lap when mumbled a 'Too late', but continued, "The four groups have a delicate alliance between them to balance out the powers. To assure this the Winter Mother, Summer Mother, Elder Flame King, and Elder Water King came together many millennia* ago to make guardians for the realm to help should any future rulers or subjects decide to steal the balance. What came into being were the shadow wolves, the Guardians of Paradise.

"The shadow wolves were given the powers over the most powerful aspects of both realms. From Winter, they were given the power over the darkness itself, the shadows. And from Summer, they gained the brightness, the flames and lightning. This allowed them to challenge either of the rulers especially the Alpha and his mate or mates. However it is known that few shadow wolves are still around thanks to a blood feud that happened long ago when two brothers were born on the night of the Hunter's moon. This told the elders of the clan that both would become Alpha, but jealousy drove them to compete and one was driven off from the pack. This led to resentment from some of the pack who sided with the disgraced brother and led to a bloody war that resulted in most of the clan dying. Some of the stragglers made it out of the Nevernever and took human form before mating with humans and three brothers went on to create the Beleren line."

Harry listened intently to Nic's story and was slowly beginning to understand his heritage. "So the Beleren line was born from the stragglers that came out into our world?"

"Yes and your ancestors were able to morph from their human forms to shadow wolf and became the first werewolves or Garou. Granted most werewolves are looked down at today, but those aren't 'true' Garou. In fact, Jace is a shadow wolf."

Harry looked down at the little pup that had fallen asleep in his lap, "So he's?"

"Jace is most likely from the Nevernever and got lost in our world. You see there are multiple places where someone can enter or exit the Nevernever, but they are hard to find if you don't know where they are. Most ways are through lay lines, I believe one is at the place the muggles call Stonehenge. He is probably getting close to ten human years, but is only about two years old as he is; but hasn't learned his abilities yet. Your powers won't come in until you make your first transformation."

"When would that be?" asked Harry.

"I'm not entirely sure since the concept of time is a lot harder on me. You may have to talk with your Astronomy professor to find out the next Hunter's moon will be. Each clan member to reach the first Hunter's moon after they had their visions would go through a transformation similar to a werewolf that you know of only instead of becoming a gaunt and starved looking they would become a large pitch black wolf."

"One last thing before I call it a night. Why was my mom thought to be a muggleborn?" asked Harry with some confusion.

"Your mother's family was killed by Voldemort in his early campaign since they wouldn't side with him, but they were able to get your mother to a family of muggles with the last name Evans who they came across on pure chance before they were murdered. Your mother was maybe two at the time so she never noticed until she took a blood test at Gringotts prior to her death. We had only met once before she and your father went into hiding." explained Nic.

With a nod, Harry carefully cradled Jace before bidding Nic a goodnight and made his way out of the trunk. As he was leaving, he noticed a charmed notebook Nic had helped him in crafting on the desk next to the skull glowing and smiled softly. He placed Jace down gently as not to wake him and picked up the note book and opened it to see a message.

Harry,

Just got done with my shift in Diagon Alley and wanted to see how the trip to Hogworts went. I heard there was some trouble with a Dementor on the train from Madam Bones. Hope you're safe and talk to you later.

Tonks

Harry smiled upon reading the message from his friend and penned a quick reply to ease her worries.

Tonks,

Sorry for not telling you when I arrived, but there was a problem on the train as you heard. A Dementor came into our compartment, but everyone is fine so no worries. I miss being able to hang out with you in the alley and hope you are staying safe with your job. Hope to talk to you soon.

Harry

Harry closed his book and picked up Jace and made his way back up to his dorm after shrinking his trunk down and placing it into his pocket. Once he made it to his dorm he tiptoed to his bed, but was stopped by one of his roommates letting out a load snore but calmed down when he realized it was Ron. Harry sighed to himself and crawled into bed to get some rest before the morning that would come.

~O0o—o0O~

The next week went by fairly quickly for Harry. Monday gave him the first classes of the week with CMC, Transfiguration, Potions, and DADA. Harry and Hermione also had their first Arithmancy class which both admitted would be difficult, but fun. Tuesday and Wednesday was short for Harry with only CMC and Potions; and History of Magic and Herbology. Thursday had the same schedule as Monday with the only difference being Harry, Hermione, Susan, and Hannah having their first Ancient Runes class instead of Arithmancy. The week finished off on Friday with Potions, Charms, and DADA.

Harry and the group of friends greatly enjoyed the first week, even though Ron did grumble about all the work that they were already being given but most people just ignored it. Harry and Susan continued to get closer even though they weren't able to spend as much time together, they were lucky enough to have a few free periods together. Harry also made sure every other night to check his notebook and talk to Tonks through it as often as they could.

The first week also brought about the first Quidditch meeting for Gryffindor and its Quidditch fanatic Oliver Wood. The meeting came Wednesday evening in the Gryffindor locker room and found Harry running late from Herbology trying to make it on time. He was immediately met by the Weasley twins with their usual twin speak, but Harry never got tired of it. He was then brought into a three-way hug by the Crimson Vixens, the Gryffindor chasers whom he had always thought as among the most attractive girls in school to the young seeker. The chasers, for their part, had to admit that their scrawny, little seeker had become quite handsome from the previous year with Katie Bell sporting a slight blush from their hug. The meeting continued from there with Wood's usual over-the-top antics for the upcoming year and hammered out a practice schedule before their first game along with a new strategy when he noticed Harry's increase in size from a year ago.

Another development that came with the first week was Harry's conversation with Remus. He had gotten a chance to talk with Remus just after the first class of the new term since DADA was luckily the last class on Monday. The talk went really well in Harry's opinion, with him informing Professor Lupin of his life at Privet Drive which nearly got Remus to head out against Harry's relatives with murder on his mind. He also explained how he knew about Remus' furry little problem after his trip to Gringotts along with what he had found out about Sirius' lack of a trial. Remus was outraged at the injustice against his friend, and if it weren't for Harry making some valid points he would have laid into the headmaster for his part in it as well as putting Harry in an abusive family. However, Harry put it best when he stated, "We can't show our hand too early especially with the fact that we are uncertain just how far the manipulations go."

~O0o-Sept. 8 1993-o0O~

The first weekend of the year brought about the first Hogsmeade Weekend; and both joy and sadness for the group. Joy for being able to go to the town, but sadness that Harry couldn't go without his permission slip signed. Amelia had tried to get Harry to let her sign it since she was technically his rightful guardian, but Harry, once again, reasoned against it with the fact of the headmaster finding out about certain things. So it was with a heavy heart that Harry waved his friends off while he took a walk around the castle with Jace at his side. He had faced a few odd looks his first week when Jace was with him especially from the staff. Filch, the squib caretaker, had nearly gotten himself hexed when he tried to take Jace by force, but was stopped by McGonagall. The elderly professor had asked Harry about the little pup to which he informed her that Jace was his familiar. Dumbledore had noticed the little pup, but had yet to confront Harry about it since there was truly nothing he could do since the students were allowed to have a familiar and the headmaster could do nothing unless the familiar was viewed as dangerous.

Luckily he found Professor Lupin on his walk and the two were able to talk for a few hours touching the topic of his parent's time at school. Remus got along great with the little pup whom he could understand just fine thanks to his werewolf blood. Jace had been wary of Remus at first since his senses originally told him danger, but he relaxed when his 'papa' promised to protect him and even started calling Remus 'Unca Moony' much to the professors amusement.

~O0o-Sept. 10 1993-o0O~

Monday's DADA class rolled around with the Gryffindors sharing the class with the Slytherins. Upon entering the room, Harry noted that the desks had been moved out leaving a lone wardrobe in at the head of the class with Professor Lupin leaning against a table with an old record player on top. Harry and the others heard a shuffling around behind them and looked to see Malfoy and his goon squad come waltzing into the class with Malfoy giving Harry what he believed to be a hateful glare. Harry chuckled at the attempt at intimidation by the blond brat since Harry had apparently foiled Draco's master plan to get Hagrid fired during the lesson earlier that day.

During CMC, Malfoy had attempted to goad Harry by faking that a Dementor was behind him, but much to his displeasure his enemy didn't even flinch and countered back with the 'train incident' which led to the class laughing at the pompous Slytherin. When class started Hagrid had decided to show his students a heard of Hippogriffs that lived in the Forbidden Forest. He had asked for a volunteer which led to Harry making a friend out of Buckbeak, as the Hippogriff was known. Upon return from an impromptu flight on the beast's back, Malfoy ignored Hagrid's warning about Buckbeak and attempted to bait an attack which did happen, however before the attack could hit Malfoy was pushed out of the way by an unknown force that got him out of attack range until Hagrid could calm the irate Hippogriff. Malfoy saw a sly grin on Harry's face, but couldn't prove how he did it and of course said something or other about his 'father' and 'hearing', really Harry couldn't remember sense he didn't pay much attention. After the class had finished, Hermione and Susan had questioned him about it only to receive an innocent look from the black haired teen that got giggles from bother girls with Hermione adding a mock glare. Hermione maybe a stickler for the rules, but even she knows when Malfoy needs to be knocked down a notch.

Malfoy continued to glare at Harry until their attention was brought to a thumping from the wardrobe. Harry and his group moved forward looking at it oddly until the class heard their professor speak for the first time that class. "Can anyone venture a guess as to what is inside?"

"That's a Boggart it is," came the voice of Dean Thomas, a tall black Gryffindor.

"Very good Mr. Thomas," Remus added as he made his way to the front of the class. "Now can anyone tell me what a Boggart looks like?"

"No one knows," came the soft answer from Hermione which startled Ron sense he hadn't seen her enter the class. Harry himself was starting to wonder what was going on with her since he had noticed that she wouldn't be in class when it started, but would suddenly appear at some point during the lesson. "Boggarts are shape shifters, they take the shape of whatever a particular person fears the most. That's what makes them so…"

"So terrifying. Yes," Lupin continued before giving her a double look and continuing forward. "Luckily, a very simple charm exists to repel a Boggart." He spun as he came to a stop at the front of the class. "Let's practice it now. Without wands please. After me. Riddikulus!" The class repeated in unison. "Very good. A little loader and very clear. Listen: Riddikulus!"

As the class repeated again, Harry heard Malfoy mumble to his group, "This class is ridiculous."

"Very good. So much for the easy part. You see, the incantation alone is not enough. What really finishes a Boggart is laughter. You need to force it to assume a shape you find truly…amusing. Let me explain."

Remus called Neville over to start the listen which led to much amusement as his Boggart turned out to be Professor Snape which he dressed in his grandmother's clothes. Then the class got rolling through the first five or so until it was Harry's turn. Harry took his place and began to think what did he truly fear? 'Voldemort? No, I've met him twice that I can remember and while I was shocked both times I never actually feared him. A basilisk? No I beat it and I can speak to them.' Then his mind drifted to that night on the train. The Dementor.

The Boggart whirled into the shape of a Dementor and shocking the class who hadn't seen one before. Lupin made to put himself between it and Harry, but as he made his way he saw the teen's eyes harden with resolve before he shouted, "Riddikulus!" The Dementor morphed into a shape of Malfoy dressed up as a muggle circus clown that Harry remembered seeing once when he glanced at the telly at Privet Drive. The class burst into laughter at the sight before Remus banished it back into the wardrobe and called an end to class.

~O0o-To Be Continued-o0O~

AN: Sorry for such a short chapter, but I wanted to get this out before I left for California to see my family and will be gone for two weeks. Rest assured the next chapter will be back to the usual 5k-10k words.

Also I have a vote for who will be Harry's second mate, but please note that this pairing won't make its way into the story until the second or third fanfic of this series. Your choices are:

Nymphadora Tonks

Katie Bell

Tracey Davies

Hermione Granger

Those are your choices and no others will be added and only one will be chosen. Results will be posted in 4-5 chapters. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah. R&R

*Millennia- a period of 1000 years.