From last chapter:
Harry walked over to her and gave her a hug "Thank you for giving me a family" he said goodnight and walked out. Lillian was shocked, Harry hugged her. She sat on her bed, her arms around herself, just like Harry did to her.
"Friend…" she let herself fall unto her pillows, into a sleep were her own family joined her. Penna watched from her pedestal, after a few minutes she joined
Lillian on the bed, her head against her master's head. Soothing the dreams turned nightmares where the young Merlin would loose her family all over again.
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A few rooms away Harry Potter was having some dreams of his own. He was at Hogwarts, but it was a different Hogwarts. The walls were not grey in colour but a bright shiny marble look to them. He walked outside into the grounds, instinct guiding him. There was a man with reddish brownish coloured hair nursing some type of animal. As he got closer the man straightened up and turned around. To his astonishment he was facing Godric Gryffindor.
"Ha Harry it's finally the time" Godric began
"Time? Time for what sir?" Harry asked puzzled
"Sir? No young man, call my Godric or Grandpa"
"Grandpa!? You mean its true"
"Yes! The Potters are my direct descendents, my only descendents actually. And now I am visiting you just like a visited your father and all other members of the Potter line."
"How come my dad never told me about this?"
"Well you're gonna have to ask him when you get back. Now we must hurry, lots to do. First this is Lionise, he is the reason Gryffindor house has a lion as its symbol."
Godric step aside behind him was an abnormally large lion, his fur the colour of the purest gold, his mane a shade darker, the intriguing thing about him was that his large intelligent eyes were silver.
"His… his beautiful" Harry said
"Thank you" a voice said
"Was that him?"
"Yes, that is one of your inheritances actually, but first things first. The Gryffindor inheritance is different from other inheritances in terms of what you acquire. Because there is a war going on and you are destined to end it I must give you a few extras and prepare you for the fight ahead. While your father gained looks, maturity and magical power, you will get more than that. You will be getting the same things as your dad and more, so your looks will change, you will become more mature and your magical power will increase, however it will increase much more than your father. You will gain intelligence, knowledge, cleverness, strength, sharpened reflexes. That's just the basics. Then there are the more complicated ones, considering your mother is a descendent of Ravenclaw you have even more knowledge and power anyway. You will have 3 animagus forms: a Midnight Panther, a Silver-Eyed Lion and a golden eagle, so 2 magical ones and a non magical one. You will be able to talk to animals, both magical and non-magical, power over the Fire Element, like myself, and you will have a rather handy gift that will enable you to record large amounts of information in a very short time. Not to mention the official title of Lord Gryffindor Potter and command over Hogwarts." Gryffindor said proudly
"I'm ok with the powers and I thank you for them but command over Hogwarts Grandpa?"
"You see Harry out of the four Founders I was the last one to die, at the age of 198 I was rather old and there was a war going on at the time, so fearing the safety of my present and future students I updated Hogwarts defence system in secret, the Hogwarts you see here is the true Hogwarts, the walls aren't the grey colour and Towers are much higher up, the wards stronger than ever. When you next step onto the castle you will notice something strange, you will feel the castle, the castle has life. That is why many people feel the castle as home, because Hogwarts is like a mother to its students, protecting, preparing them for the outside world, the Heir's to the founders feel the strongest of it, for we created Hogwarts. Any questions Harry?"
"Not really, except how come you lived so long?"
"Ha ha love Harry love, I had my wife the love of my life, we were so happy together that I never thought about dying and I guess that made me live longer, we died on the same day, together we went to the Death Realm and even now we are still very much in love. Ha one last thing Harry, you will find that you will not look as old as Dumbledore when you're his age. Goodbye Harry, I hope you fulfil your destiny and live to see it."
With that Godric disappeared along with his Lionise and Harry was returned to his bedroom where he woke with such a shock that feel out of his bed. He looked at the window, rays of sunlight peeking through, his watch told him it was 7am. He went into the bathroom, took a quick shower, dried himself off, got dressed and went down stairs. When he entered the kitchen no one was there, or so he thought. In a dark area near the fire place was Lillian just finishing her glass of milk. She looked at Harry and let her glass fall and break on the floor, she made it vanish and looked up at Harry, a blush in her cheeks.
"Harry! You… I … I have… to go" she disapparated in a fraction of a second.
Harry was dumbstruck, what just happened? Why was she acting like that? At that moment his dad, his mum and Sirius came into the kitchen. When Harry turned their mouths dropped.
Lily looked at her son in shock "Harry… you look… you look"
"What is happening here, Lillian just Disapparated in an instant after she saw me and now you guys, your jaws are touching the floor!"
James smirked "Son, have you looked in the mirror today?"
"No why?"
James wandlessly made a mirror appear in front of Harry face. When Harry saw his reflection, well he didn't really react calmly.
"HA! What the hell? What hap… Grandpa! I never knew it would be this soon"
In the mirror was a totally new Harry Potter. His shoulders were broader, his hair was more dishevelled as ever but in a way that made him look handsome, and his eyes were of the more beautiful green ever. His jaw was one of a man, his body more muscled. In total Harry Potter was a complete man. He looked at the fire… without thinking he stretched his hand, the fire raced to his hand and started to dance around him. Harry let the fire go around him for a few more moment before returning it to the fireplace. He looked towards his parents and godfather they had their jaws dropping once more. Harry smiled and tried more of his powers. He called for his animagus forms. A Midnight Panther jumped onto the table and then down. An eagle flew near the high ceiling landing on top of his fathers head. Before he could show his most powerful one Hermione came into the kitchen and screamed at the eagle on James head. Harry flew down and transformed back into his human form. Hermione was silent.
Harry explained "I got my Magical Inheritance" before he could say anything else the rest of the inhabitants of the house came into the kitchen, awakened my Hermione's scream. They kept looking at Harry, demanding an explanation. So they sat down over breakfast and Harry spent about 20 minutes explaining what happened to him. When he was finished Hermione started talking.
Hermione began her usual detailed explanations "I've read about Midnight Panthers, they are really rare, they have the ability to see in the dark, sense a persons body heat, useful when they are hiding, and have the talent to blend into the shadows, they are silent too. Now Silver-Eyes Lions were extinct hundreds of years ago. They were Gryffindor's Lions, they had great big silver eyes thus the name and were feared and respected by other animal races, especially the wolves, centaurs, unicorns and lions. It was rumoured Gryffindor himself had an animagus form of a Silver-Eyed Lion. They have the ability to talk to humans and are much more intelligent than we are, they also have incredible physical strength. Wow Harry you are really lucky."
"yeah his gonna get lady lucky too" Sirius said, laughing at the blush that appeared on Harry's face as a result of his comment.
Sirius added "Look at that his blushing!"
"Sirius hush your getting him embarrassed, but I have to say Harry your more handsome that your father when he got his magical inheritance"
"My own wife is betraying me! Lily darling" James said dramatically
Lily took no notice "James don't take it to the heart, you have to admit, our son is gorgeous"
"He is, takes after his father" he said beaming.
Harry was embaressed "Can we stop talking about me? I don't like having attention drawn to myself"
Sirius chouckled "Then honestly Harry, you better start getting ugly because I think even a blind girl would go after you with your looks"
Everyone laughed and the blush crept up to Harry Potter's face once more.
