Directly after chapter 8:
Coming out of the floo, Dumbledore moved with large steps towards the international port-key station. Seeing his team he moved forward, and started to question them. But his hopes fell as all three members of his snatch team had failed to track down Harry Potter via Remus Lupin. Even with a tracking charm on him, Remus Lupin seemed to vanish from Godric Hollow's graveyard. His team was at the place and found faint traces of port-key transportation. Using a tracking charm, they got a reasonable loacation and traveled to the location of Remus Lupin. When Dumbeldore asked about Harry Potter, all three men got a blank look in their eyes. Using his legilimency skills, Dumbledore found out that, if any memory of Harry Potter had been there, had been scrubbed clean. The location of Remus Lupin was also cleaned from their minds. Who ever did this must be a very powerfull witch or wizard. Or maybe a dark creature. Dumbledore moved away from his team, but not before Mundungus Fletcher demanded to pay his fine.
Pacific Academy, November 10th.
Harry and his class were standing around a table where Professor Logan from Care of Magical Creatures had laid an odd coloured egg, a bit larger than a normal chickens egg. "Yesterday, our headmistress's phoenix Florida jumped from her nest, where he had been sitting for the last few months. She had been guarding this egg. She didn't return, so we all assumed that the chick has died inside." Said Professor Logan, with a sad voice and a lone tear moving from her eyes.
"The headmistress believed it would be a good idea, to see how special coloured this egg is, so she gave it to me, and now I will give it to you." The teacher held the egg in her hands, and each student was allowed to hold the egg for a moment, before they passed it on to the others. Harry was one of the last to hold the egg, He looked at it, and saw a deeper red band appearing on the egg. "Professor?"he asked.
As the professor turned to Harry, the egg started to catch fire, and with everything Harry did, he couldn't remove the egg. It seemed like it was sticking to his hands. The fire burned brighter and brighter in Harry's hands, and he howled in pain, as the flames started to lick his flesh. The howl was only for a second, for Harry felt no heat from the egg, only a pleasant warmth. Then the fire burned out, and all that was left was a pile of ash.
"Professor, I'm so sorry, I never... " began Harry, but the professor held up her hand to silence Harry. "Mister Potter, look at that pile of ash" Said Professor Logan with a touch of awe. Harry looked again to the pile of ash in his hands, and as he looked better, he could see some movement in the ash. Holding on to the pile of ash for several seconds, a gust of wind blew the pile of ash away, leaving for all the students and the professor to see, a small baby phoenix.
It had few feathers, and was considered ugly by most, but the most funny thing that Harry could see were a few feathers that had a red colour, sticking out like a crown. It's eyes, pearl white, were looking at Harry with what could be considered hope, love and protection. "Class dismissed" Said Professor Logan, as she held Harry back from the rest of his classmates. "Mister Potter, headmistress office, now" She said, and Harry had the feeling that he had done something very wrong.
Both student and teacher walked in silence towards the headmistress office. Harry still had his hands around the small phoenix, to protect it from the colder sea wind.
"Excuse me, Headmistress. May we come in?" Asled the Professor after she had knocked on the door. A "Yes, enter" was heard by Harry and slowly he followed his teacher inside the office. "Mister Potter, what brings you here?" Asked the headmistress with a sincere smile. "Place it on her desk Harry" Said Lois Logan, as she sat down in one of the chairs.
Harry slowly placed the baby phoenix on the headmistress's desk, and as soon as the baby was on the desk, the phoenix Florida landed from it's perch and started to pech the baby softly on the skull. "Hey, cut that out" Said Harry, as he tried to get Florida away. Florida then pecked Harry on the fingers once, and a small cut was drawn. Trying to remove the phoenix from the baby, Harry held the baby again to his chest close. "Mister Potter, what Florida tried to do was to prepare the phoenix chick for bonding. It is a perfect natural apperance." Said Lois Logan.
"Bonding? Professor, it didn't look that way to me. It looked more like Florida wanted to kill this little one." Harry said, as he started to pet the baby phoenix. Although he didn't notice it, Harry's injured finger came into contact with the beak of the baby phoenix. Because of the red blood that was slowly dripping from him, the small baby bird drank some of his blood. The moment that Harry had seen that the baby bird was drinking some of his blood, was the time that the baby phoenix had drank the seventh drop of blood. Then it started glowing, and as it did, Harry started to glow to.
As the glow dimmed, Harry looked at the small bird. Now it had drunk some of his blood, it seemed very content to be in Harry's hands. Harry somehow felt very right, as if a part that he didn't now was missing was found.
Sitting in the other chair, Harry started to use a bit of his sleeve to clean up the small wound upon it's tiny head. As Harry used a bit of spit, he came in contact with the phoenix blood. The moment that Harry's tongue tastes phoenix blood, was the moment that his scar started to sting. Scratching slightly on his lightning bolt shaped scar, Harry still was cleanig the phoenix baby's head.
"Did you hear what I said, Mister Potter?" The voice of the headmistress brought Harry back from his own thoughts to reality. "Sorry, mam. I wasn't listening."
"No, that was appearant" Said the Care of Magical Creatures professor. Harry could hear a tone of curiosity, and pride in her voice.
"Mister Potter, whether you want to or not, it seems that you have bonded with this little phoenix. I want to make something clear to you. Since the headmistress and I both agree and know that the removal from a bond between human and animal is a very dumb thing to do, we have no other choice than to allow this young creature to be in your care."
Harry was stunned. The rules around Pacific were hard, and one of those rules that he had read in the rulebook/diary was that first and second years were not allowed animals. Now he was the owner of a young bird, that he had no idea of how to take care of it.
"Take this pass, and ask Maxine to gather for you all books that have any reverance to Phoenixes." Said Alexandra, while she held out a pass. The pass stated that 'by permission from the headmistress, Harry Potter is entiteled to any and all research books and journals that make mention of raising a Phoenix.'
"Harry, can we come in?" asked Damian as he and Bianca were waiting in front of Harry's door. "Yeah, but be quiet, okay?" Said Harry as he opened the door a little. Harry had taken of his school shirt and pulled one from his 'free hours' pile. For some reason, the shirt called Harry the 'village Idiot', with a big pointing arrow to his face.
"So Harry what did happen after we were dismissed?" Asked Bianca, while she looked around in Harry's room. Even though the rooms had all the same basic furniture, Harry's room was Harry's. It was somewhat special. "Well, we went to the headmistress office, and we were allowed to enter." Said Harry, beginning with his story about the little phoenix, that slept now peacefully on Harry's bed.
"And that's the story, This little one is now my responsibility, and I need to make a start with all those books over there." Harry pointed to a large pile of books that he had placed in is own bookcase. One book was open at chapter one, with a new book open at the first page.
"Harry, what are those two books for?" Asked Bianca, as Damian went to the bookcase, and looked at the titles. Harry sighed. "The first book with it's chapter open is the only account of raising a phoenix. It is over three thousand years old and written in ancient egyptian. I already asked the Runes teacher, Dora Vector for a translation charm, but she needs to some research before she can cast it." "Hey Harry" Said Damian, loud enough to call Harry and Bianca, but soft enough to let the little phoenix chick sleeping.
"What did you found?" Asked Harry, as he and Bianca came over. "Look at this book."Said Damian, as he handed the book to Harry. Harry looked at the front. "The Phoenix, from egg to infinity, by Owen Potter?"
Harry looked at the book that was in his hands, it seemed almost to good to be true. A book over phoenixes, by one of his ancestors. Harry got a determined look on his face, and sitting at his desk, he started to read, while he was making notes. "See ya, Harry." Said Bianca softly as she and Damian left his room.
It was an hour later before Harry was disturbed again. "Enter" Harry called. He looked up from his book and shot out of his chair as one of his best friends of all time came to see him. "So Harry, I heard you had a exciting day" Said Remus, as he sat down on the floor. Harry joined Remus on the floor, and started to tell about his day so far, and the amazing wonder that the little phoenix was.
Flashback.
Remus Lupin sat in a chair at the headmistress office. He was trying to be patient, but the inner wolf became very inpatient. It became even more difficult to keep 'moony' under control as the deputy headmistress entered the office, followed by Harry himself. "Mister Potter, please be seated." said Alexandra, as Alex stepped from the shadows behind Remus. Alexandra herself held a close eye on Remus's movements. As an extra precaution, They had removed any magical items from him, including his wand.
"Mister Potter. This man who you see, has something special to say" Said Alexandra, and with a nod gave Remus permittion to speak. Remus turned to Harry, who looked at him with a bit of wonder and a bit of distrust. It was only the day after the day that three people had tried to kidnap him, and returning him to a man called Dumbledore. "Harry Potter, born at Godric's hollow, number 21 Godric's lane. You have grown so much since I saw you last time."
"I'm sorry sir, but have we met?" asked Harry. Remus's face fell, as he had hoped to bring back some memories. Looking at the headmistress, Remus made contact with her eyes and seemed to ask for something. She nodded, once. Remus pulled very slowly a small box from his left robe pocket, and gave it to Alex who stood behind him. Alex placed it on the desk of his sister and undid the shrinking charm. Knowing that he had to win Harry's trust, Remus slowly made the trunk open, and removed a plushy wolf.
Harry's eyes locked on the wolf, and everyone could see that he started to remember some things. As final gesture, Remus slowly gave the plushy wolf to Harry, who took it in his arms. "Moony" Harry said, almost to soft to hear. "Yes, I am Moony." said Remus, slowly getting out of the chair and on his knees in front of Harry's chair. "I'm your uncle Moony" he repeated softly.
Through tear filled eyes, Harry looked at the man. Then, to everybody's surprise and Remus's delight, Harry jumped out of his chair and jumped in Remus's hands, who waited but a moment to hug him. "Uncle Moony. You're back, you're back." Shouted Harry. Tears filled the office as long lost family had fount each other.
Flashback ends.
"So Harry, do you already know what you need to feed your little bird?"asked Remus. Harry nodded and returned to his notebook. He showed it to Remus. It appeared that a newborn Phoenix needed to have several small meals per day. The meals were made of a mixture of Grapes, Pineapple, Apricot, Banana, Apple, Carrot, Sweetend red Paprica, Yams and Sweet corn. "Very well Harry, well done." Said Remus, and as he saw Harry Smiling, Remus smiled to.
"Do you have a name for your little baby bird?" Asked Remus, as he and Harry, who was carrying the baby bird, to the great hall for dinner.
"I've done some research, and I have chosen a name for her." Said Harry. Remus looked curious.
Harry smiled. "I've decided to call her Hedwig, after the saint Hedwig of Silesia."
(A/N. Tears were made and lost during the making of this chapter)