"We only have 2 days until he plans to kill you, on your birthday you'll come into your inheritance, which if what Dray's dad said is true, then you'll get wings." Blaise explained. "Now…ready to go?" Harry nodded again. Wondering just how it came to this, escaping from this hell with one of his best friends, two Slytherins, and a death eater!
A/N: I promise this chapter will be better. And will have some Drarry in it~ It also has Harry's birthday, and some flying, and as I promised, Harry finding out who Raven is.
Also! For future reference, I need baby names(NO THIS WILL NOT BE AN MPREG STORY! Here's a spoiler, they're adopting!)
"This is the safe house?" Harry looked around at a house that seemed to be falling apart.
"No. It's charmed Potter. So no one'll think of coming near." Draco growled, shoving Harry into the house. What seemed small and run down on the outside, proved to be in perfect condition and very large on the inside. Luna and Blaise followed the other two inside, the older stopping to put up a few wards to keep others out.
"They can only find it if we've keyed them into the wards." Blaise explained. "So…" He looked at the glaring boys. "I have a feeling we have to put you two in rooms far away from each other."
"Oh no, keep them near each other. You'll be surprised." Luna smiled softly. Draco and Blaise looked at her, while Harry seemed more confused.
"You and your 'Inner eye' as that crazy bat calls it." Blaise muttered before turning to Harry. "Luna's a seer. Far better than that professor ever was. That's why she's with us too. She saw the three of us rescuing you and two animals."
"One now." Draco said. "Father had to go to a Death Eater meeting." They all jumped slightly at the sound of something hitting the door.
"Will one of you open this door before I start taking house points early!" Draco looked amusedly at the door before walking over to it.
"Oh I don't know Professor. I think I might just let you stay out there. Let a stray cat find you."
"Draco Malfoy if you do not open this door in three seconds I'll take you to Dumbledore myself!" Draco laughed and opened the door, letting the bird fly into the house and land on the small table in the hallway. "Stupid wolf…" He muttered before regaining his composure. "Dumbledore has noticed the brat's absence-…" He stopped as music started to play from somewhere in the room. "What is that?"
Harry stuck a hand into his pocket, pulling out a cell phone. "It's a phone. Muggles use them." He said before answering it. "Hello? Hermione! Yea…well don't tell him that!" The other four in the room stared at him. "No- OF COURSE I DON'T WANT HIM IN JAIL! GET HIM OUT! …sorry. Use Buckbeak again. I know you hate flying. Yes. Because I'm like the little brother you never had and you love me. Thank you!" He finally said as he hung up, looking at the four confused beings in the room. "It was Hermione. She's getting Sirius out of jail hopefully with Remus and Buckbeak."
"The hippogriff who tried to kill me?" Draco asked.
"He didn't try to kill you. You just pissed him off." Harry laughed at Draco's glare.
"If you two are quite finished…" The raven started. "I believe we should hide Potter in his room. Or more preferably a cage." Harry tensed, something only Luna and Hedwig noticed.
"Listen here you stupid bird, you get him even near a cage, and you'll be his next chew toy." Hedwig stared down at the raven (A/N: Harry isn't the only one getting a growth spurt in this story ) with glaring quicksilver eyes. "Those bastards kept him in a cupboard under those blasted stairs most of his life!" Harry could see the owl's distress, not knowing what they were talking about and moved her away from the raven.
"Harry, what's your animagus form like?" Luna asked, quick to change the subject.
Harry looked gratefully at her. "A cat…what's everyone else's?"
"I'm a cat as well. A Fire Element." The girl smiled.
"Ice Element Wolf." Draco grumbled. "Only Ice Element left."
"Wind Element Hawk for me." Blaise grins. "I get to teach you the thrills of flying. And last I heard, you still haven't got your full size either." Harry shook his head, shifting into the kit form to show everyone. Luna picked him up and set him on her shoulder to keep him out of harm's way, not wanting to give Draco a chance to harm him in any way. "Woah! I heard you were small, but this is…!" The Slytherin couldn't even think of the right word. Harry looked down at the ground, his tail flicking as he leapt down, changing back.
"That's enough for today. Let him rest." Luna said as she lead Harry to his room.
"Thank you Luna." He whispered, hugging her. She hugged him back gently.
"You're quite welcome Harry. Now you should get some rest before dinner." She advised before walking back downstairs, not noticing Draco walking into Harry's room as she walked into the living room where Blaise and Snape were arguing.
"I'm telling you he added too much dragon's blood!" Blaise growled.
"And I'm saying that it wasn't enough to make the potion powerful!"
"Actually, it was the basilisk venom that was lacking. It will prove to be very bad for Professor Dumbledore." Luna said in her dream-like voice, causing both men to look at her. Blaise smirked and turned back to Snape.
"I told you having a seer would be good for us!"
"Lucius, what do you have to report?" Voldemort asked, shoving Bella out of the room and locking the door, keeping Nagini in with the crazy woman. "I hope everything went as planned?"
"Yes. Ms. Lovegood came along to get him and made things very easy." The man answered. "He'll trust her more than anyone."
"Good. Now we just have to hope that your son doesn't kill him, Severus doesn't kill him, and Blaise doesn't try to get in his pants." Voldemort deadpanned, causing Lucius to laugh- not chuckle, not snicker, full on laughter.
"I would not have told him to come if I didn't believe he could stop himself from doing that." Lucius finally said after the bout of laughter. "The rest of the plan is in motion. Remus is with the Granger girl and they are trying to free Black. Dumbledore is none the wiser, he only believes Harry has ran away again."
Voldemort nodded. "I will keep seeing Potter in his dreams, let your son teach him outside of that with magic. It's time he learned about the imperious curse as well."
"I hate you! That's why!" The three occupants of the living room looked up the staircase after hearing the yell, a hiss and sharp yelp following it.
"They're fighting…" Luna said worriedly. Blaise nodded and turned his attention back to the book he had as Snape sighed, noticing how they expected him to stop the two teens. The potions master walked up the staircase, stopping as a small kitten ran by him, a larger wolf on his heels. He watched as the kitten turned, slashing it's small claws at the wolf's muzzle as the large dog snapped it's jaws close to one of the paws.
"Draco! Potter! Cease at once!" Harry leapt back away from the other boy at the command, shrinking back against the floor. Draco snarled at him once again before walking over to Blaise, jumping on the couch and shifting back to a smirking Slytherin. "Now what part of that was funny exactly Mr. Malfoy?"
"All of it." Draco snickered. Blaise sighed and walked over to Harry, who was still flattened against the floor with his short fur bristling. It was Draco's luck that Hedwig was out delivering a letter and not able to see the dappled boy.
"Professor, he's covered in blood!"
Splash!
"hey, are you *cough* trying to drown me!" The kit wailed as he was pushed lightly under the water in the sink again as Snape tried to get the blood off of him. Harry managed to get above the water once again as Snape sneered. Harry tried to growl, ending up with a cute squeak as he was once again underwater. His paws flashed wildly as Luna took him from the "mean git" as Blaise called him.
"I don't think keeping him under the water will get the blood off, only aggravate the wounds. I'd rather see this vision not happen." She scolded in a voice Harry never knew she could have. His paws churned the water slowly as he tested them, noting how his fur felt heavy and it felt weird to be swimming. "See? And it makes it better for him." Her voice was soft again, causing Harry to purr as she got the blood out of his fur. Draco was sitting in a chair nearby pouting while Blaise fixed his hand, which had the unfortunate job of being Harry's target for attack. Luna soon took the kitten out of the water, wrapping him up in a towel. "I would've used magic, but it might be tracked because you have the trace still." She explained to him. Harry nodded before leaping down, shaking off the rest of the water and transforming back, his raven hair still a bit damp.
"You guys didn't have to do that…" He mumbled quietly. "It wasn't even my blood."
"That cut on your back says differently." Blaise told him, eyes wandering over the boy in front of him. Harry blushed, remembering that during the start of the fight Draco had transformed first, managing to rip Harry's shirt off in his first attack. "Anyway, here's some good news. The Dark Lord is holding yet another ball before the Summer ends."
Harry glanced at them warily. "Him, holding a ball? Really?"
"Yea. Everyone goes to them every year. You'll be going to if we can keep you out of Dumbledore's way."
"That's another thing I don't understand." Harry started. "Why does he want to kill me?"
"For power." Snape answered. "Of course no one would've told you…"
"Told me what?" Harry demanded.
"That you're part dragon." Blaise finally said. "All wind elements are. There's nothing rarer than us, not even Ice Elements, which is what Draco is. The most common is Water, like Luna. Then Fire, Earth- Professor Snape's one- Ice, Shadow, then Wind."
"Shadow?"
"Yes, I don't know of any, but they're really common in the States. But what's even more rarer, are Wind Element Cats. I'm a Wind Element Hawk, the most common. But cats…they're unheard of and treated like Royalty most of the time."
"So…I've been royalty this whole time, and no one ever told me?"
"I was told by Lilly to never tell you. The others never knew. I suspect Mr. Zabini just figured it out." Blaise nodded as Snape's words.
"Now, we have one day to get ready, because as soon as you turn 17, you're getting to fly fully and Dumbledore is going to try and kill you. So, Dray stop fighting with him and help me because by now he should at least have your wings, if not…" Blaise trailed off. "It doesn't matter. Go get some rest, the ball's tonight and you're going."
"TONIGHT?"
Harry watched sulkingly as the hawk and raven flew around his room. He was a bit pissed at the raven too, now knowing who it was that was giving him the potions. The cat sighed and stretched out the black wings, looking at the white feather tips at the edges of them before giving them an experimental flap, feeling the air through them. "Guys, how do I do this?" He whined. Thanks to the potions he wasn't as small as he first was, but he still had a way to go to grow into the wings.
"Just flap the wings!" The raven almost barked out the order. "Hurry up! We need to get a quick lesson in before the ball!" Harry sighed and gave the wings another flap. This time he could feel himself being lifted a bit. Blaise landed next to him on the bed and nudged him with a wing.
"Try jumping up then flapping. I'll help you after you get air borne." He said before flying back up. Harry leapt up before beating his wings a bit, being able to stay in the air before someone flew right under him, lifting him higher with the wind.
"Woah!" he looked down, wings still moving before he tried moving forward a bit. Blaise flew next to him before flying over him to his other side.
"Try landing on the perch over there!" He pointed with his beak to the small landing platform he and Snape set up before hand. Harry moved forward slowly, but was tiring quickly. His paws flashed out, trying to grip the platform and with the help of his wings he managed to get up.
"That was a poor try at best." Snape sneered, hovering a bit away. Harry eyed him, judging the distance from the platform to his professor before smirking.
"Well if I can fly…then I'll just glide!" He leapt, wings folded neatly until mid-leap when they stretched out, guiding him to the potion's master as he rammed into Snape, both of them falling the short way to the bed. Harry leapt away quickly, staying light on his paws as the raven moved to attack, Harry dodging everything. He took to the air again, finding it easier as time passed, while Blaise tried to calm Snape. Harry flew out of the room, making his way downstairs and flying around Draco for a bit while the Slytherin read a book, not paying attention to the kitten until he landed on his head laughing.
"Are you having fun Potter?" Mewls of laughter met his voice. "Alright kitten, get off my head." And onto the blonde's lap he fell. Draco sighed and set the book aside, looking down at the kitten covered by black wings. Green eyes peered back up at him before moving to the couch right against Draco's side as he transformed, Draco wrapping one arm around him. "Gone from fighting to cuddling…What else is gonna happen? Sev dressing in drag, singing Katy Perry, and pole dancing?" Harry purred in laughter as Draco checked the time. "8 P.M? Already? No wonder you're acting like this. Your animagus is taking over. So, in 4 hours you'll either be dead or flying laps around Voldemort's head." He looked at the boy-who-lived, who was currently nuzzling the hand that was petting his hair. Draco sighed. "You're more trouble than you're worth, you know that?"
"I know." Gray eyes met green in a standstill, both slowly and unknowingly leaning closer, leaping apart when the other three occupants of the safe house walk into the room. Blaise and Snape in dark dress robes, the younger having silver in spots on his, while Luna was wearing a midnight blue dress.
"Are you two ready to go- Harry lose the tail." Blaise scolded as Harry pouted, quickly losing the tail. "Now come on, enough cuddling, we gotta go before Dumbledore comes here!"
"You mean he's nearby?" Draco quickly stood up, bringing a confused Harry with him. "Where?"
"His uncle's house. Fred and George are buying us some time but it's not much." Luna said. "We should apparate now if we want to get there in time for the dance." She said before doing just that, Blaise following. Draco sighed and took Harry with him in side-along apparation. The two of them appeared in a well lit hallway. Music came from inside a room nearby as Draco grabbed Harry's hand, leading the smaller boy into the room. Wary glances were cast at them but everything seemed normal to Harry.
"Ah good. You two are here finally. We can start then." Both boys turned around to the man talking to them. Harry looked up at the man he once knew as an enemy, but now didn't know what to call him, except for once name.
"Of course I'd be here, Tom." Harry smirked.
"Figured it out then?" The man asked. Harry nodded. "Are you able to fly now?"
"Yea. I suspected when I saw the snake in the grass in my dream." Harry laughed. "I'm good to fly for a short time." They talked for a bit longer before the ball truly began.
Next time: The ball begins as the clock strikes 12. What will happen to poor Harry? And will Sirius stay in jail? Or will Hermione and Remus reach Azkaban in time to stop the dementor's kiss?