Chapter 4-Locating the Order and free time before Work

It was now two hours since the attack on Diagon Alley by the Giants and free Dragons, and the occupants of Lio Mansion were at a loss especially Harry, as he thought once word got out about the attack, Dumbledore and his band of idiots should have arrived, but they hadn't and Harry, along with Ginny were forced to take action, oh sure they'd won but as far as Harry was concern it wasn't his fight yet and he only fights because no did, while Ginny had not wanted him to do it alone.

So it came to the day that Dumbledore was located, by Arthur whom discovered that Dumbledore had not gotten word of any attack on the Alley, while he kept all concern off his face and had the appearance that said, 'losing the Alley would have been an acceptable loss, there are other magical markets in Britain and the rest of the United Kingdom,' yet it was barely noticeable. Meanwhile back with Harry and the rest of the Weasleys, as well as Hermione, why Arthur reported to the others what he discovered, before the others went their separate ways: Harry, Ginny and Hermione headed for the Potter family library to read/study the coming classwork, Ron headed for the kitchen and the fridge full of food, the twins ended up in the Marauder prank planning room to make stuff explode and the Weasley parents got comfortable reading the newspaper or a cookbook authored by Harry (she knows this time). Now in the library, after Hermione had gone off on her own, Harry and Ginny started to study more into the depths of animagus magics and what they would need to start the process.

Time skip the book reading and them heading for the potions lab

After an hour of preparing the ingredients for the Animagus revealer potion (A/N while Harry knows he a shifter, he still needs to know what they look like), Harry and Ginny began the potion by bringing 1 L of water to the boil, before they started adding the first ingredient. After a while, the last ingredient was added and the potion was stirred 4 times in a clockwise direction, before been left to reduce. Then at the 2 hour mark, potion had reduced to a milky consistency and was ready for consumption.

Now Harry and Ginny had drunk the potion and went into trances, in the trance they together received a vision, vision of a black panther stalking threw an underbrush for Harry and a golden red lioness lounging a rocky outcropping for Ginny, telling them that they were their first forms, and then before long then scenes began shifting, showing them their other forms, for you see Ginny was also a canine and feline shifter animagus as well. Coming out of the trance, Harry and Ginny had seen their forms; what looked like, how they moved and more importantly which one their default – their main form: a panther for Harry and a lioness for Ginny, and so they then began their research into their forms for the transformations.

Back in Grimauld Place, as Dumbledore address what was left of the Order of the Phoenix, but his heart was not in the war anymore, because as far as he was concerned he believed that Harry was the only one to kill Voldemort and that was only possible with Harry been under his mentorship, though it was a mentorship he himself was not ready to start, you see Dumbledore had designed this war when he felt the fame he had was dying out and he wanted it to return, so with the creation of Voldemort a hypocritical Dark Lord bent on blood purification of the world and eliminating the taint of the world, where then he would fight and defeat him, only for the prophecy to be told and ending his full blown fame, for a famous role as Harry's teacher, but it was not to be when Harry had discovered that he was being played like a chess piece, so he rebelled.

Six hours later, found Harry and Ginny, being approached by Hermione, whom said, "Mrs. Weasley has called and dinners on the table waiting," so with that said, Hermione helped them put their books away, knowing it was about their animagus training and it was not illegal until they completed their forms and not registered, however given the state of things she was not going to push them until after the war's over. After dinner, Harry and Ginny returned to the library and preformed extra research on their other forms, knowing they will be making the change to them after they master their first and primary forms.

Now in the days leading to September 1st, Voldemort had begun to keep a low profile and the random attacks lowered to zero, allowing for the recovery of the good side (A/N I say good side, because a person could be a light wizard/witch and still be evil, while the opposite is also true) and get them to ready for the trip to Hogwarts. It is now the end of the school holidays (the day before the 1st of September) and the Potter estate, was in a state of unrest, as the lazier members of the Weasley family were now - at the insistence of Molly – packing their trunks, while those whom are like Harry and doesn't even unpack his trunk after his school term, with the exception of his homework which is placed to the top of things or Hermione whom occasionally packs an item or two, as she finishes reading/working them, into her trunk, watched as Ron, Fred and George cram clothes, books and homework into their trunks.

With the Weasleys now fully packed and ready to head to the station, Harry filter the mansions wards to temporary allow for the departure of them threw the floo network. So after the shout of, "Diagon Alley," and a flash of bright red fire, they all vanished from Lio Mansion and appeared in the tavern called the Leaky Cauldron. At the Leaky Cauldron, the Weasleys, Hermione and Harry, headed to Gringotts wizarding bank and withdrew some money for the Hogsmeade weekends, though Harry had not needed to as he had a linked money pouch, one of two actually, as the second was configured to allow Molly to use if she is doing Harry's shopping. Back to the Leaky after they withdrew their funds, dragged Fred and George away from the Alley's Joke shop, they were ready to head for the train station and so they crammed into a ministry proved car, before heading towards the station.

Then with a perilous car ride over, the whole entourage was now running, they were only 30 minutes away from missing the train and it was a long walk to platform 9, let alone to the third of the four pillars or to the door (at least) of the train. So they had booked it to the platform, not even both to check if the coast was clear, before charging threw the barrier and raced for an open train door.

(Finally authors note: in my mind, Platform 9 and ¾ is as follows; form the step down to platform 9, third pillar for that entrance. Is where you enter threw.)