Familiar

A/N…To my wonderful reviewers thank you all for reviewing, to those of you who asked about Draco, don’t worry it wont be long. To everyone who wondered about Hermione, somethings will be mentioned in this chapter but there is a lot more going on than meets the eye…

I may not be able to update again for a week or two, I start my exams tomorrow (final year at Uni, wooo). I wrote this chapter the same week as the last, so that I’d be able to update. Hope you enjoy it.

The final thing I want to say is to

Sheree…I am very sorry you think that my story is getting boring. If you have a problem with Harry and Krai being the only main characters so far, then I will stress to you that the title of this fic is ‘Familiar’. Which means that Harry’s relationship with his familiar is important (especially if I decide to write the sequel I have planned). The story is Harry/Draco, and like a lot of other stories out there, it is not a quick hook up. That works in some stories but not this one. However I have one more chapter to post (with Draco’s letter) and then the story skips ahead to the night before Harry returns to Hogwarts (meaning that almost a month has passed and Harry’s changes are more evident). Which means that Draco will be there also. There is a reason for the lack of Draco so far in this fic and that will become apparent. If you have a problem with the way I write this then that’s too bad, I do however think its strange that you complain that about Krai being the only one hanging with Harry, when a lot of the original characters have made an appearance. Lastly, if you don’t like don’t read…

Thank you to everyone who reviewed…

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Chapter 11: The Burrow, then Home.


Harry and Krai spent only an hour or so at the Burrow and Harry didn’t leave in the best of moods.

When he fell out of the fireplace, he surprised Mrs Weasley so much that she lost control of the spell she was using and the potatoes she’d been pealing instead of landing in the sink like she wanted, rocketed off the walls and pelted both of them and Ron, who had come through the floo after Harry.
“Bloody hell Mum, what ya doin!” Ron exclaimed after a particularly large potato smacked him in the nose.
“Sorry dear, Harry startled me is all.” She then gave Harry a bright smile. “You look so much better than you did the last time I saw you dear.” The next thing he knew she was hugging him. “Oh Harry, we were so worried about you, disappearing like that, not knowing where you were and you not answering your letters. Oh, let me look at you.”
She pushed him back and looked over him critically.
“Well, you’re still thinner than I liked but not as bad as you have been. At least you’re getting better meals wherever you are. Your hair dear is really very long, would you like me to cut it for you?” she fingered her wand lovingly just as she had done in fourth year with Bill.
“Er, no Mrs Weasley I like it as it is, thanks though.” She looked a little disappointed but I guess all those years of arguing with Bill had helped her cope with his decision.
“Well if you ever change your mind Harry, let me know won’t you dear?” Once he had assured her that he would, she continued preparing dinner, after all she had to fatten him up while she had him.
“We’ll have to get Arthur to put one of the spare cots in Ron’s bedroom for you Harry.”
“Thanks Mrs Weasley but I need to go home, I’ve got a few things I have to do.” At this she looked extremely disappointed, so he quickly told her that he’d visit and he knew a charm that would allow Ron’s owl Pigwidgeon to find him, so she could write and make sure he was ok.
“Now you boys get out of my way, shoo. Go down to the paddock, play some quidditch.”


“D’you really have to go back mate?” Ron asked him as soon as they were in the hall.
“Yeah, sorry Ron. I can’t stay.”
“Why mate?” Deciding to be honest with Ron, he pulled him through the back door and into the yard.
“I can’t risk Dumbledore finding me Ron. That’s why the Owls can’t bring me letters, not because it’s warded but because of him. And the easiest way for him to find me is to put a tracking spell on an owl and send me a letter.”
“I thought you liked Dumbledore mate, what ‘appened.”
Harry sighed and sat down on a rock by the little pond at the back of the garden. There were no gnomes about, there must have been a recent de-gnoming.
“Fifth year, after Sirius died, Dumbledore called me to his office…He told me something.”
“What did he tell you Harry?”
“The reason why my parents died, whose fault it was that Voldemort killed them.” At this Ron gasped (he still couldn’t hear the dark lords name without doing so) and Krai from his place beneath Harry’s coat, hissed at his Master. “It was my fault Ron. They died cos of me.”
Ron just opened and closed his mouth, he didn’t know what to do in a situation like this. Krai for his part didn’t say anything he just wound slightly tighter around Harry’s neck, letting him know he was there. Letting Harry talk would be the best. Hopefully when the angry one realised his friend was crying he’d comfort him. It was hard for a snake to offer comfort to a Master, he had tried with words but his Master needed human arms.
“There’s a prophecy Ron. I know the wording by heart…” And in a monotone voice he recited the words.

‘The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches… born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies…and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not…and either must die at the hands of the other for neither can live while the other survives…the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies…’


He finished and just stared into space for a moment. Ron who had sat down next to him after he began, slipped his arm around Harry. After a moment he spoke to him.
“I always knew there was something, you know. Someat he wasn’t telling us.”
Harry just nodded for a moment.
“I never thought he’d keep something like that from me though.”
“No.” Next second, Ron had slapped his hands on his knees, stood and faced Harry. “Right, we’ll have to get even with him for this won’t we Harry.”
Harry smiled and shook his head at Ron’s antics.
“Much as I’d love to Ron, that aint gonna happen.”
“Why mate?”
“Simplest reason, Dumbledore is the figurehead of the light. We can’t even argue with him, or people’ll think we’ve joined the dark side.”
“Yeah, suppose you’re right. What ya gonna do then mate?”
“For now stay away from him. Now that I’m recovered from my transition, I’m gonna work and work hard. I’m sick of being left in the dark and I won’t be manipulated any more. Not by Dumbledore or anyone.”
“I wont let that happen to ya mate.”
“Thanks Ron.”
They sat for a moment together, quietly. Ron still had his arm around Harry’s shoulders.
“Listen mate…” he took a deep breath. “I don’t know if you still think of this. But I do. You know in fourth year when I was jealous?”
“Yeh.”
“And we fell out?” Harry nodded. “I’m sorry. I was jealous that things always seem to happen to you. But then when I really thought about the tasks, I knew it wasn’t a good thing. I was gonna apologise, it wouldn’t have lasted half as long as it did if Hermione hadn’t told me what you said. And I gotta tell you Harry, it hurt.” Harry who had sat up straighter at this turned and asked…
“What did I say Ron?”
“Come on Harry you know what you said, lets just leave it at that and forget about it.”
“No Ron. What is it that I’m meant to have said?”
“Well if you need to dig it all up again. Hermione told me what you said. How you’d talked about me after I walked off. What you said about my family and all. That was why I was mad at you…”
“Ron I never said anything like that.”
“Sure you did mate. Listen it doesn’t matter anymore. Just ignore it.”
“I won’t ignore it Ron, because it did not happen.”
“That’s it Harry, I’m trying to be nice and everything but if you can’t even admit it then I don’t want to talk to you.”
“Ron…”
“Get out, Harry. Just get out!” Ron shouted, walking off and leaving him in the garden. After a moment he followed.

Mrs Weasley was alone in the kitchen when he got there.
“Hello Harry dear. What’s wrong?” Deciding that the best thing to do would be to leave quickly before she could ask too many questions, he told Mrs Weasley he was needed at home and before she could protest he took some flew powder, whispered the words ‘Potter Manor’ and disappeared.

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They landed in the entrance hall surrounded by soot. The force of Harry’s impact with the floor jarred Krai loose. Harry didn’t even realise Krai had fallen before he took off up the stairs.
The next second a tiny little house elf named Lynny appeared next to Krai with a little dust pan and brush and a feather duster.
“Master Krai, Lynny has something for you. Took it from Hedwig sir, just as you ordered sir.”
Krai smiled a snakish smile and using Harry’s magic vanished the letter. Right now he had to comfort his Master. He nodded to the elf and slithered slowly up the staircase.
Things are definitely getting interesting. he thought. Hhhmmm, the angry one wont believe Master unless Master has proof. I will have to think of something.


A/N…There you go guys another chapter.

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A/N…If you’re wondering how Krai talked to Lynny when she obviously doesn’t speak parseltongue. The answer is he wrote it down when he did the letter and showed her.

Also if your wondering how Draco’s letter got through the wards its quite simple:
1 Hedwig brought it through, she’s the only owl Harry lets in and he puts a different glamour on her everytime she goes out (even to hunt).

2 Krai is considered a Master of the house due to the familiar bond, so that means if Malfoy uses his own owl Krai will allow it to pass the wards.

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