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Chapter 1:
Harry’s thoughts are going blank from the sight in front of him. He didn’t expect to find him after all what had happened or because of the rumors he had heard over the years.
After his fourth year and Voldemort’s return, many things had changed. It was some month later, that he found out, that he is a creature, to be exact, a dragon. It wasn’t Cedric who died that night, but Harry.
The moment of Harry’s death was short; everyone thought that Voldemort had killed Cedric at first, because it was Harry who stood up after half a minute and not Cedric. They weren’t sure who Voldemort had hit with the killing curse. It was later, when Harry returned with a still unconscious Cedric that rumors spread, Voldemort had missed both boys, after all even Harry couldn’t survive a second time, right?
The next thing, he had heard that Professor Snape was missing. Nobody knew where he went or why he suddenly left, although there was a rumor that Voldemort summoned his followers and Snape went to see his master, but never came back.
At that time, Harry thought nothing of it, he hated his Potions professor, but after some days he slowly began to worry, though he didn’t knew why.
Some days later, after he returned to his relatives, Harry felt strange, his body hurt, his senses became sharper and he almost grew a head over night. He had the same high or was even bigger as some of his classmates. When someone asked or wondered, he just told them it must be a growth spurt; after all, he was a teenager.
Now, almost seventeen, he was even taller, broader, nothing showed that he was a starved or neglected child anymore. It’s not that he made no exercises, after all, he had to train his body for Quidditch, but starving during his childhood and the summers, didn’t help to gain weight or grew tall, but that stopped when his creature side came out and he had to leave his relatives after the Dementor incident. Not even Dumbledore could argue against it and so Harry got enough food in Grimmauld Place or at the Burrow.
In his fifth year they got a new Potions professor or should you say, the old one from before came back, which was Professor Slughorn. To no one’s surprise, they again got a new DADA professor, but when they got the news who it was, many had thought it was a joke. Unfortunately, it wasn’t.
Dolores Umbridge was a nightmare and Harry couldn’t wait for the year to end. Although, by using the blood quill, Harry found out, he was no longer a human. As soon as he had left Umbridge’s office, Harry went to the ROR (Room of Requirement), his blood was hot, his body felt wrong and he could feel how something tried to come out of his back.
In the ROR, it took only minutes until Harry roared in pain and was changing into a dragon. It took him a while to register what had happened. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw no longer hands, but huge claws and a long tail as he looked behind him. Thank Lady Magic that the ROR was big enough and knew what would happen and Harry didn’t enter in a small room or something.
Harry had walked through the ROR, found also a mirror where he could take in his new form. He was bigger as those dragons he saw during the Tri-Wizard-Tournament, his scales where hard and a mix of black and a deep blue, though mostly blue. His tail end was sharp and Harry was sure, he could split a tree without problems. What surprised him even more were his eyes. Normally, dragons had golden eyes, but his like his tails had a deep blue shade with a silver ring around it. He didn’t had a clue which kind of dragon he was, but was sure it must be something very rare.
On one weekend, he went to Gringotts without telling anyone. Since his senses had sharpened, he had the feeling that some people kept secrets, even Hermione and Ron.
At Gringotts, Harry got the next shock. As it seems, since he entered the Tri-Wizard- Tournament, he automatically received the state of a wizard of age, what also means, he had the right to take on the Lordship of his family name. However, that wasn’t the worst thing, no, the news that Dumbledore stole from his fortune, which he had no idea about, and transferred a large number of money to the Weasleys, Lupin and to Hermione each month, let Harry’s mouth hang wildly open.
The goblin, Silverclaw, who was Harry’s account manager, explained to him, that he as new Lord Potter has not only a lot of money, but also three different houses, one of it Potter manner. But, that wasn’t all. Silverclaw told Harry to make an inheritance test and after it, Harry couldn’t remember exactly what he felt, surely he was even more shocked than before, because the test stated the following:
Name:
Harry Silvanus Draconis Potter
Father:
Silvanus Draconis (deceased)
Mother:
Lily Potter nee´ Evans (deceased)
Adoption:
James Potter (deceased)
Sirius Black (alive)
Kind:
Creature, Dragon (dominant)
Title:
Lord Draconis (father)
Lord Potter (through adoption)
Lord Peverell (father)
Lord Slytherin (conquered)
Heir Black (through adoption)
Abilities:
Dragon Shifter
Dragon tongue
Dragonmagic
Parselmouth
Parselmagic
Mind Magic
Healing Magic
Fire elemental
Influenced by:
Compulsion (by Albus Dumbledore)
Suppression magic (by Albus Dumbledore)
Love Potion (by Ginevra Weasley)
Former Horcrux (by Tom Marvolo Riddle Jr., Lord Voldemort)
Harry needed a long time to take it all. He had asked Silverclaw, what he could do to remove all the magic from him that wasn’t his own and was glad when the goblin told him they could do a cleansing ritual immediately. Of course, Harry didn’t hesitate. It took almost one hour to remove the magic, but Harry felt the change inside him. It’s like a heavy chain got removed from around his body, also it might had been already weakened, because he died in the courtyard.
The Horcrux was no problem and it let him took a breath of relief at the time. He wasn’t sure how worse would it had been if he still would have a piece of the Dark Lord inside of his head. Harry had ask many questions, which Silverclaw happily answered; finally there was a wizard who saw that Dumbledore wasn’t any better than Voldemort. Both were ruthless and didn’t care about the creatures, although without them the wizarding world would end up in chaos.
What would wizards do, if there were no creatures left to gather ingredients from them for their potions or who would manage their money, if the goblins would have to close Gringotts? Right, most wizards were blind to their surroundings and that’s why especially Dumbledore had it so easy with his grandfather attitude.
However, Harry had decided to make his own plans. It wouldn’t be easy, Harry has to play Dumbledore’s game for a while longer, so the old coot wouldn’t get suspicious. He let Hermione gather all the students to ground the DA, after all Voldemort was a great threat to the students and Harry wouldn’t let them down. Therefore, he still trained them.
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In the summer after his fifth year, Harry left Britain. He had ask the goblins, if they could help him to create a golem or if they knew someone who could be trusted and help him. Fortunately, the goblins were a very capable race and have many talents. It took them only a week to create a golem to replace Harry, so no one would miss him while he’s gone.
He made his way to Romania, where he contacted Charlie Weasley, who he knew could help him with his dragon inheritance. Furthermore, he had told Charlie from his findings in Gringotts and that some of his family got payed to be his friend. Charlie wasn’t really surprised at this revelation. He always wondered how his parents could effort all the school supplies, after all seven children cost a lot of money and Charlie new that his father didn’t make so much money.
Harry had known that he could trust Charlie, same with Bill and the twins. Charlie left as soon as he could, because Molly didn’t agree with his sexuality and tried often to get a woman for her son. Bill and the twins had no problem with it, but Ron often made disgusted comments or gestures. Harry didn’t understand why Ron had so much trouble with it. What was the issue, if two boys or girls are interested in each other? Harry himself didn’t knew what he preferred. Charlie told him, because of his dragon nature, he would have a mate, which could be either a woman or a man.
After a month in Romania and learning his dragon nature, Harry searched to find other people like him or someone who knew about dragon magic. On his way he met other creatures, did even help some vampires to fight against another coven, who slaughtered muggles for fun or befriended werewolves from who he learned that it wasn’t an illness, how Lupin is thinking. If the human and wolf side can find an understanding and let the other part take control if needed, live in harmony, then the transformation would be less painful and it would be really a wolf in front of you and not this monster, which he saw after Lupin transformed.
Shortly, before the start of the six year, Harry returned, relieved that nobody found out about the golem. There were new rumors that his old Potions Master had been killed, because Voldemort lost it and used a strong Cruciatus curse to punish Snape, but didn’t stop until he killed him. The thought, Snape was dead, disturbed Harry greatly and he had to hold back a growl when Ron and Sirius made comments like ‘Snivellus deserved all of it’ or ‘This greasy snake surely screamed and begged like a coward” and more. Harry felt his fingers sharpened and sting his palms until he bled. He didn’t understand the feeling, after all he himself hated the Potions Professor, but since he found out about his dragon nature, an instinct woke up every time somebody mentioned Snape. However, Harry didn’t knew what it meant and pushed the thoughts aside.
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In his sixth year, Dumbledore told Harry about the Horcruxe, not surprised the old coot knew about them. Harry told nobody about his little chat with DEATH after he had died and where he find out, he himself had a soul piece from Voldemort inside him, but not anymore.
Harry didn’t correct anyone, he had told that Voldemort was back, but never that he used his blood for a new body. Of course, nobody believed him, except Dumbledore and his ‘friends’. DEATH hadn’t told Harry about Dumbledore’s game or his so called friends, only a little warning and that many things would change now. DEATH explained what Voldemort had done and that Harry has to destroy all the Horcruxe, so DEATH could take the Dark Lord with him, but that was all he could reveal without getting into trouble.
That’s why Harry wasn’t surprised about Dumbledore’s revelation, but acted like he was nonetheless. The headmaster showed Harry the ring, which he had found and explained how he could find out that this was a Horcrux and how to destroy it. Harry had ask where Dumbledore had found it and if he knew how many Horcruxe existed. He could see how pleased Dumbledore was, what let Harry inwardly scoffing. That old fool could be glad not to be dead, if it’s was true about the curses he heard from him. Now he wanted a child to send after these Horcruxes, how pathetic.
Hermione and Ron didn’t realize how dangerous this mission would be. Harry had at least thought Hermione would be smart enough, but it seems the money they got was worth the risk. At least they hadn’t to move out from Hogwarts and run for they life while searching for the Horcruxes.
Harry had asked, why Dumbledore couldn’t search for them, but he told them that he couldn’t risk Voldemort to find out that he searched for his soul pieces. Furthermore, he had to prevent Voldemort to take over the ministry or even Hogwarts. Harry couldn’t argue that and nodded, maybe it was for the best anyway. Harry knew Dumbledore had his own plans to take over the ministry, but for the moment, they both shared the same goal.
When Harry heard that Voldemort attacked the ministry and all went on their way to help, Harry decided to make a complete other move. He knew Voldemort’s familiar Nagini was a Horcrux and that the Dark Lord wouldn’t take her with him. The whole year Harry made plans what to do, should Voldemort make a move, and now he went to his own mission, no matter what the others would say later. He was even sure Dumbledore would be pleased to hear he killed the snake.
However, what Harry found let his blood run cold. He already had a strange feeling as he arrived at the manner. The wards were no problem, so he easily sneaked inside and begun with his search. His instincts got stronger with each step he went farther inside, it was as would something call to him.
Then he found his target in one of the rooms, but it wasn’t the snake what let Harry freezing on his spot. There, lying on a bed, he saw no other than his old Potions Professor, Severus Snape, with a little toddler on his chest, both sleeping and Nagini curled up around them.