Ferinus Consanguinitas

beta'd by Night The Storyteller

"Well I guess we should start with introductions, my name is Lyra Rayner, and I have been sent here by the Order to help you with your occlumency." She looked up at him with a hesitant and sort of guilty looking smile, "I hope I haven't gotten you into too much trouble with your relatives, it was not my intention." She said in a soft voice.

"Help with occlumency? I'm sorry Miss Rayner, but Order or not, I really don't want anyone in my mind again, especially someone I don't even know." Harry shuddered to think of more of those horrid lessons and the even more horrid greasy haired traitor they were with. Those thoughts brought him back to the night on the tower and Dumbledore's pleading voice, the pure hatred that he saw on Snape's face, even the obvious fear on Malfoy's fine features. He had pushed these thoughts out of his mind since he returned to Privet Drive, but now they were rushing back in like water from a broken damn and he could only be swept away with the flow. How was he going to do this alone? He needed the headmaster's guidance to defeat Voldemort, to find the remaining horcruxes and to figure out a way to destroy them, but he was alone. Only his two best friends knew anything about the soul pieces and he had made a promise to Professor Dumbledore not to tell anyone else, and so the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of three seventeen year olds (well almost 17 anyway). And that thought broke him out of his inner musings.

"Did you say that you were going to be here until my birthday?" he questioned Lyra, who was currently looking at him with a slightly worried, possibly a bit bemused gaze. Perhaps he had been thinking longer than he realized.

"Yes Mr. Potter, in addition to occlumency, I am here to keep a watch on you" she raised her hand in a placating gesture as Harry looked ready to argue the fact that he didn't need a babysitter. "Please Mr. Potter, you know how important you are to this war and you and your family must be protected, I do have to go home today to gather some things I will need but it will only take a few days and I am not the only one that will be here, though everyone else will probably remain on guard outside. Severus Snape knows where you live, so we now must assume that Voldemort knows as well." Harry sighed in defeat, he knew precautions were necessary, but it would be so much simpler if they just went to headquarters instead of worrying about protecting a muggle house.

"Wait, did you just say his name?" Harry was surprised that anyone but him, Hermione and Dumbledore would say that name out loud and without a shudder of fear. This most definitely ruled Miss Rayner out as a death eater, that lot were too afraid to even say his name in the safety of their own minds, much less out loud, unless she knew he would think that and said it on purpose.

"Who's name do you mean Harry? Oh may I call you Harry? I’m really not used to using people's last names, I know it’s popular here, but is just so tedious, you may call me Lyra as well if you wish." Harry gave a small smile that she took as an okay.

"You said Voldemort, not he-who-must-not-be-named or you-know-who."

"Oh, opps, yeah I get in a bit of trouble at Order meetings for that, but I wasn't raised in this country, I haven't lived here since I was five and over in America we just didn't get the same amount of fear of him as you all did here. Anyway, why should you fear a name, it all seems rather silly to me, though I know my dad would have given me a good lashing if he ever heard me say Voldemort's name out loud." She still talked with much of the same calm tones that she had used with the Dursley's earlier, but the last part was said with a deep sadness in her voice that reached all the way to her dark eyes.

"Anyway Harry, I'm not actually here to plunder your mind, but instead to help you with a potion that will strengthen your natural resistance to mind based attacks, I have been told you are able to throw off an imperius curse?" Her face no longer showed any of the sadness that was briefly there and Harry wondered if he had really seen it.

"Yeah, though not something I want to try again, so what kind of potion is it and why wasn't I given it before?"

"Well the potion itself was originally not intend for strengthening the mind, but for combining the blood of certain magically powerful creatures into the next generation without having to resort to mating with said creature."

"You are going to make me into a creature?" What if he ended up hairy or scaly? He could only think of his hair and body looking like Hagrid and although he loved the half giant, he didn't want to look like him.

"Not really Harry and people's aversion to its description are the probable reasons why you weren't given it before, when the potion is taken you will take on a few of the traits of the target creature, but none that will be very noticeable, the potion was originally given to a woman before she conceived so that her child would be born with the blood and magic of the creature."

"So if I ever have kids they will be part of whatever is in the potion?" He really didn't think that he would survive long enough to have the benefit of children, but he could dare to dream right?

"Well probably not, if you only contribute your seed to a female. The fetus needs to grow in the body of the one who took the potion to get the full effect, don't worry Harry, this potion has been used for centuries, all those haughty inbred purebloods aren't quiet as pure as they like to spout." An evil looking smirk crossed her face as she gossiped about the "royalty" of the wizarding world.

"What!! You mean they aren't fully human?" He could only imagine what Ron and Hermione's reaction would be to this news, he snickered at the thought.

"Only a few families that I know of for sure, but I speculate that the Malfoy's are one of them, of course they deny it, but their looks just scream veela don't they." She said and her evil smirk took on a more amused air to it.

"That would be rich, all their pureblooded pride and they aren't even fully human." he laughed a few more times at their expense but couldn't really put his heart into it as Draco's fearful face flashed into his thoughts. He shook his head to try to clear the image before returning to his questions. "So what exactly would be the result of this potion and what will you be infecting me with?"

"Well there are a few side effects that we will have to be wary of and as to what creatures’ blood we will use we can talk about after I ask you a few questions, then we will see if we have anything to worry about."

"Oh, okay then" he wondered what kind of side effects being infused with creature blood could have. "Some of these questions might be a bit embarrassing, but please answer truthfully." Her cheeks turned a bit red at this comment and Harry got a bit of an uneasy feeling in his stomach.

"Okay, first of all, are you attracted to males?" Harry sputtered a bit before he could answer the question.

"What!? What kind of potion is this that you would need to ask that question?" Of course he didn't find males attractive, he liked girls, girls with big boobs and soft skin. Males were just large and often smelly, obnoxious and strong. Though there may have been one time when he accidentally walked in on Charlie Weasley in the shower, but he only looked cause he was curious about how he compared to the older male, nothing wrong with that right?

"Please Harry just answers the questions, this is uncomfortable enough for me without your reactions." She rolled her eyes as she said this.

"Uncomfortable for you? You’re not the one getting asked if you are gay" Harry was getting a bit loud even to his own ears, he hoped the Dursley's hadn't heard that comment.

"Oh Harry get over it, your sexuality is nothing to be ashamed of whether you are straight or gay or perhaps a little of both." Well that comment seemed a bit hypocritical, seeing how embarrassed she was about just asking Harry if he was gay or not.

"Fine then I will only ask you one question and if you answer that one then there will be no more questions, OK?"

"Well I guess that depends on the question." Harry replied and Lyra let out an annoyed sigh.

"Alright then, have you ever bottomed or planned to bottom in a sexual encounter with another male?" While her voice remained steady and professional, her pale cheeks were tinged with pink and she couldn't meet his eyes as she asked the question.

"NO, I haven 't nor do I plan to." said Harry in a very annoyed voice with death glare to match.

"Alright then, we will go over a bit on what the effects of this potion will have on you, and then we will decide if you would like to proceed." She finally looked up to meet his eyes and smiled warmly, though the pink still remained on her face. That was when the Dursley's decided to make their grand reappearance from the dining room. Both Harry and Lyra looked towards them as they came into the room with small but forceful steps. Vernon stood in between his wife and son, the three forming an imposing wall of meat.

"I want you both out of my house this instant, I will not have you freaks invading my home!" His second and third chins jiggled with every word and spittle went flying. Harry lifted his arm to the back of the couch so the wand rested in plain view of his family.

"I don't want to be here just as much as you don't want me here, Uncle Vernon, but I have no choice in the matter and you are just going to have to deal with that." He was still a bit angry over the line of questioning he had just gone through and it showed in his voice. All the Dursley's looked ready to explode at his tone and his horse faced Aunt then spoke in a slightly quivering voice.

"We may have to stand you boy, but I will not have any more of your kind in my home. That thing" her gaze passed over Lyra, who's glare at his Aunt was one to rival Harry's own. "will leave my house this instant and never return!" Lyra stood, her gaze only leaving Petunia as she walked out of the room, Harry quickly followed, his hand still wrapped around the unfamiliar wand. She stopped in front of the cupboard under the stairs and with a swift movement, kicked the small door. The screws from the locking bar ripping out of the frame and the door itself hung strangely on its hinges from being forced the wrong way. She pulled the door back out of the way as the Dursley's screamed obscenities at her, before leaning into the cupboard and opening Harry's school trunk. She emerged a few second later, Harry's wand in hand.

"Here you are Harry, your minister has decided in these dark times that underage wizards may use magic within their homes without the fear of retribution, but it must only be within the house and please try to limit what you do." She held out his wand to him in the same manner as she handed her wand to him earlier. She than rummaged through her pocket and pulled out what looked to be a tiny book and a newspaper article from the Daily Prophet.

"This book has some information about the creature that we will be using the blood from for the potion, there are also some notes in there about the potion, you can owl me if you have any questions or concerns. As I said earlier, I have a few things to take care of at home and I will be back in a few days, so that we may start on the potion, well that is if you want to go through with it."

She had composed herself while she had been looking for his wand, and now seemed to be back to the calm person she was before. Harry held out her wand to her, she once again smiled brightly at his show of trust and took it from his hand. She then turned back to the cupboard and cast a reparo spell on the door hinges, but left the lock broken.

"I will see you soon Harry." She gave one last glare at the Dursley's who had been cowering ever since she had pulled Harry's wand from the cupboard, and walked out the door.


a/n a special thanks to thrnbrooke you are my first reviewer ever :)