Harry Potter and The Sword Of The Phoenix

Title: Harry Potter and the Sword of the Phoenix
Chapter Title: The Woe of Harry Potter
Author: Ash Knight
Pairings: Harry/Draco
Warnings: Lemon Spoilers from book 5, and Sap . . .
Disclaimer: I don’t own Harry Potter and I do not make any money from these stories. So I’d like to see anyone try to sue me, lol.
Synopsis: This story takes place after my previous story “For it May Come True.”



The burning wouldn’t stop throughout the day as Harry took his classes. He was glad Draco and Hermione had to go to thier other classes while he took his. He didn’t want to keep assuring them that he was fine. By the time dinner came Harry wasn’t hungry and decided to go to the library instead. Sure enough, not too long after he sat down Draco and Hermione came in with a load of books.

“So how were your classes Harry?” Hermione asked

“Ok” Harry replied weakly.

“What’s wrong?” Draco asked.

“Nothing, I’m just tired.” Harry replied.

Draco knew there was something wrong, after all, he knew Harry inside and out, but he decided to let it go for now. They studied quietly in the library, going over notes and books, barely saying a word the whole time.

“Harry Potter sir?” said a new voice.

“Dobby?” Harry asked as he looked down to see the house elf before him.

“Professor Snape wishes to speak with you in his office.” Dobby replied.

“I’ll see you guys in class later” Harry said as gathered his things and went down to the dungeon.

Harry didn’t know why he had been summoned by Snape, and his thoughts kept taking a turn for the worst with each step he took. As he knocked on the potions masters door, he couldn’t help but feel like he was about to face the firing squad.

“Come in” Harry heard the cold voice call out.

“You wished to see me Professor?” Harry asked nervously.

“Sit Potter” Snape replied.

Harry did as he said, but as he did, he noticed the pensive was back in his cabinet, filled with thoughts.

“Professor Dumbledore has been called away on an emergency by the ministry, along with Kingsley Shacklebolt. So for the next two hours before your animagus training, Professor Dumbledore has told me that I am to continue your Occluemency for tonight since he won’t be back in time.”

“What happened?” Harry asked.

“If Dumbledore wants you to know he will tell you himself” Snape snapped back. “Now let us begin.”

Harry stood up and drew out his wand. They just stared at each other for a moment until Snape attacked breaking into Harry’s mind with full force. Draco and him were lying together naked in there room . . . the wind was wiping his face as he rode Tenebrus over Hagrid’s hut, a small boy yelled in the darkness as a woman smashed a shoebox with a shovel, sending spray’s of blood everywhere.

Once again, Harry found himself on the floor of the potion masters office, only this time there was a fire above him on the desk.

“What happened?” Harry asked as he jumped to his feet and saw Snape waving the fire away with his wand, leaving nothing but the smoke.

“You threw a fire spell at me, and I only had time to deflect it before it hit me!” Snape answered, clearly angry.

With another wave of his wand the smoke was gone.

“Let’s try that again!” Snape snarled.

Once again Harry braced himself for the attack that was coming, breathing deeply and emptying his mind.

“LEGILLIMENS!!!”

Harry was weeping beside Draco’s hospital bed . . . he was running through the dark forest with a heard of dementors closing in on him . . . his hand was bleeding with the words ‘I must not tell lies” carved into his skin . . . Sirius was fighting Bellatrix on the dais by the veil . . . Snape was standing in front of him with his wand raised. He could see Snape and Sirius as the same time, but he kept trying to push the memory back and focus on Snape. Snape was still trying to push in further, watching Harry’s memory of the battle, but Harry kept pushing back until finally he broke free, making Snape stagger backwards.

He was breathing deeply as if he had just run a mile in two seconds, and his scar was burning even more. As he reached up to rub it, for the first time he noticed his face was wet with tears.

“Impressive Mr. Potter! Perhaps there is hope for you yet” Snape declared as he gathered his bearings.

Not giving Harry a chance to regroup he broke into Harry’s mind again. Harry forced him out again, this time faster. The session continued like this for the next two hours. Harry’s face was never dry and his scar continued to burn even hotter, but he kept going regardless, through the physical and emotion pain, he just kept pushing back. Completely unwilling to back down from Snape. Snape was clearly trying to make Harry give up or cry out, but he failed with each time. Harry kept forcing him out faster with each time and with more force, until he could no longer break in at all.

“Very impressive Mr. Potter” Snape said as he finally put his wand down. “I will inform the headmaster of your progress. You may go now” Snape declared.

Harry quickly grabbed his bag and left the office. He went into the first bathroom he saw and began to splash cold water on his face. He was still breathing heavily, and continued to splash the cold water on his face until the pain in his scar subsided a bit. As Harry turned off the valve and grabbed his bag to leave something stopped him from moving. He looked into the mirror but only saw his reflection, but whatever was in the mirror just a second ago wasn’t his face. He shrugged it off, thinking it was only his imagination and left for his training.

Hermione, Draco, and Ron were already there along with McGonagall.

“Harry you look awful, what happened?” Draco asked as he watched Harry come in.

“I’m ok, I just had a rough day” Harry answered as Draco wrapped his arms around his waist.

“Well now that you are here Mr. Potter we can begin your training. The headmaster returned a few minutes ago and you are to go to his office when this class is over” McGonagall began. “Alright, now have all of you read what I assigned?”

Everyone nodded nervously to answer.

“Good then lets begin. First, I want you all to transform one at a time as much as possible, and then transform back. Afterwards you will say what you found out about the animals you transform into. Now how about you start Mr. Malfoy?”

Draco nodded and moved to the center of the room. He screwed up his eyes in concentration and his bones suddenly began to crunch. His back began to twist and he was soon on the floor on his hands and knees. When he finally stopped, he was on the floor covered in a bit of fur and his tail sticking out of his back side. After another five minutes he forced himself back into his normal form.

“Does transforming always hurt?” Draco asked as he stood up.

“Only in the beginning. Once you master the abi, yo, you will be able to transform at will, quickly and painlessly. Now what did you learn about your animal form?”

“Well the tiger itself is a symbol power and royalty. The Chinese see the tiger and not the lion as the king of animals, and is revered with great fear and respect. They are said to be creatures of great strength and ability, but how it used can vary greatly. They are either born leaders or born rebels, and are very protective and rely greatly on instinct. In fact in china, the people born in the year of the tiger are said to be peaceful in appearance, posses very strong wills, seek attention, are very smart and elegant dressers, demanding, vain, arrogant, selfish, loyal, sensitive, protective of those weaker than them, and . . . are know to be very passionate lovers.” Draco said giving Harry a wink.

Harry couldn’t help but laugh, along with Ron and ioneione, while McGonagall gave Draco a stern look for his last revelation, which only made everyone laugh even harder. When the laughing finally died out it was Hermione’s turn. With the same expression on her face as Draco had she stood in the front of the room. It took her much longer then Draco to begin to transform, but when she did her face had grown whiskers and overly large sharp teeth. But, when she tried to revert back to her normal form she couldn’t. Professor McGonagall used her wand to help her change back, and told her how to better control the transformation. Then it was Hermione’s turn to reveal what she had learned.

“The lion is known as a symbol for royalty, and bravery. Lions are know to be very aggressive when they want or need to be, or when they are under great pressure or in a battle. But, they are also know to be very intelligent in thier own way. They rely on thier very sharp instincts to make decisions and will be very protective of thier young. They are also very competitive, hot headed, and can be vicious to anything who tries to hurt any member of there pride.”

“Very good Ms. Granger.” Professor McGonagall nodded approvingly. “Now Mr. Weasley, your turn.”

Ron walked to the center of room confidently and began to transform. His legs began to loudly break and change shape. His legs were totally transformed and he kept pushing on, trying to keep transforming.

“Ron stop!” Hermione yelled, but he didn’t listen.

He continued to transform until he was half way to his waist only that was not a smart move. As he continued to transform his torso stuck out of the horse’s body in a 90 degree angle making him lose his balance and fall flat on his face with a hard thud, leaving his huge horse’s ass waving in the air. Professor McGonagall was outraged that he tried to transform completely, while everyone just laughed. It became even funnier when Ron couldn’t transform back, and it took McGonagall at least twenty minutes to sort it all out.

“Oh shut up Harry! I don’t have it easy like you do!”

Harry and everyone else stopped laughing.

“What the hell is that supposed to mean?” Harry demanded.

“It means that unlike you I don’t have everything handed to me” Ron snapped back.

“HOW DARE YOU!!! I NEVER ASKED FOR ANY OF THIS!!! I WOULD GIVE UP ALMOST ANYTHING JUST TO SEE MY PARENTS FOR JUST FIVE MINUTES!!! I WOULD GIVE AWAY EVER LAST KNUT I HAVE TO HAVE SIRIUS BACK, AND TELL HIM HOW MUCH I CARED ABOUT HIM. BUT BECAUSE OF THIS STUPID SCAR ON MY HEAD I CANT HAVE ANY OF THAT!!! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH I JUST WANT A NORMAL LIFE?!? WHAT I WOULD GIVE TO JUST BE A NORMAL SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD WIZARD?!? HOW MUCH I WANT TO BE IN A NICE COZY HOUSE TALKING TO MY DAD AND SIRIURS ABOUT QUIDDTICH OR HAVE AN EMBARSING MOMENT WITH MY MOTHER ASKING ME ABOUT WHO IM DATING. MAYBE IF YOU WOULD TAKE YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS FOR ONCE YOU’D SEE THAT YOU’RE THE ONE WHO HAS IT EASY!!!” Harry screamed at the top of his voice, startling everyone into silence.

Withouokinoking at anyone, Harry grabbed his bag and stormed out. He was half way down to his room when he remembered Dumbledore was waiting for him. He quickly dumped his bang in his room and went up to the headmaster’s office.

“Chocolate cherries!” Harry yelled making the gargoyle move out of the way.

He ran up the spiral steps and knocked loudly on Dumbledore’s door.

“Yes Harry come in” Albus called out.

“You wanted to speak to me?” Harry asked sitting down.

“Yes Harry, I’m sorry I couldn’t be here to help today but I was called away.”

“What happened?” Harry asked.

“There were several attacks on some employees of the ministry and while we did manage to save a few, I’m afraid some seem to have been kidnapped.”

Harry hung his head down as if defeated.

“It wasn’t your fault Harry. In fact you helped greatly today.” Dumbledore declared.

“I didn’t do anything helpful! I was here all day!” Harry snapped.

“Perhaps but I do believe you know Susan Bones, am I correct?”

“She was in the D.A. Is she hurt?” Harry asked worriedly.

“Her family was one of the families attacked today. She was just getting home from a friends house when she noticed the door was blasted open. Two Death Eaters had knocked her mother unconscious with very strong stunning spells, just as Susan got there. Susan then sprung into action and fought the two death eaters until a team of Auror’s arrived. She is now in St. Mungo’s with her mother. When they asked her how she was able to keep them from taking her mother she said she used what you taught her in 5th year to defend herself. Needless to say the people from the ministry were very impressed with her skills. Not to men hen her teacher. Now the people in the ministry who protested me appointing you are now convinced I made the right choice” Dumbledore informed Harry with a large smile.

“I’m glad she’s alright” Harry stated weakly.

“Harry, because of you Susan was able to save her mother’s life, not to mention her own. You should be very proud.”

Harry knew Dumbledore was right, but he still felt guilty.

“Harry, I’m afraid we have much more to discuss” Dumbledore said, sounding somber.

“What’s wrong?” Harry said quickly.

“It’s about your animagus form. You see Harry, Hermione was wrong about two things. First Harry you are not a phoenix, or at least not completely. You seem to be a strange hybrid of a phoenix, like Fawkes, and the bird known as the RavQuel.”

“What’s a RavQuel?”

“A RavQuel is sort of like the opposite of a phoenix. You see while the phoenix is a light creature, the RavQuel is a very dark creature. It was thought to be a complete myth until Grindelwald himself captured one. He used its dark powers for his own purposes and tried to take over the wizarding world. It was said that the RavQuel was elemental in nature like how the phoenix is with fire; only instead of fire it uses lightning. It’s tears can melt through anything like acid and is also a deadly poison, and its song can cause great storms and bring about great discord and hate. After I defeated Grindelwald with the help of Fawkes, the RavQuel vanished and was never seen again.”

“So what does my form mean then?” Harry demanded.

“You see Harry, the other thing that Ms. Granger was wrong about was, that you are not the only person to ever transform into a magical animagus. You see the last magical animagus that ever existed, was Salazar Slytherin himself.”

“What?”

“It was rumored that Salazar could transform into a Basilisk, which is also said is how he gained the power to speak parseltongue. But, it was never really confirmed so it was never recorded in any history books and such, which is why no one really knows about it today. I believe that since Voldemort is the heir to Slytherin and passed on some of his powers to you; it is now combining with your own.”

“So what do I do about it?” Harry asked.

“I doubt anything can be done Harry. All I can say is that I have faith in you, and I know that you will use your abilities for the greater good. I myself do not believe that power in itself is evil; it is the intent and its use that makes it dark. And, now that you know about this I will also like to share something else with you. But, I must ask you to not reveal what I am about to show you to anyone, not even Draco.”

“I promise” Harry answered faithfully.

Dumbledore smiled and stood up. He walked over to bookcase with the glass case with the Gryffindor Sword and tapped it with his wand.

“I, Headmaster of Hogwarts command you to open!” He declared, and suddenly the book case began to move to reveal a large dark passage way. “Come with me Harry.”

Harry walked up to Dumbledore and they both went through the opening. Harry found himself walking down a long spiraling staircase lit by large candles. When they reached the bottom Harry saw cavernous library.

“This Harry is the library of the Headmasters. It was originally created by the four founders but after they were gone the headmaster after them began to put in some of his own discoveries. Ever since then, every headmaster of Hogwarts has added to the library, recording thier own discoveries and deeds and so on. I myself have added to it, and now over a thousand years, it has grown quite substantially. I have used this library many times and found many things to help me defeat Grindelwald as well as deduce many things about Voldemort and yourself.”

“But why are you showing me this?”

“Because Harry, I am going to give you access to this library. I want you to learn as much as you can. Knowledge is power, and I know I can trust you with it.”

“Thank you Albus” Harry smiled.

Dumbledore left Harry alone as Harry looked for a few more minutes, and chuckled when he realized what Hermione might do if she ever found this library. After Harry looked around he went back upstairs and the opening closed behind him. Before Harry left Dumbledore gave him a book to read on Phoenixes and RavQuel, so he may better understand his form. Harry thanked him and went back to his room. He stopped in the hall for a moment as his scar began to burn even hotter and almost fell over in pain.

After a few more minutes he was able to gather his bearings and walked to his room still clutching his scar. Draco was already there waiting for him looking worried.

“Harry, are you ok?’ Draco said as he rushed to his side.

“I’ll be fine, its just my scar again” Harry said as he sat down on the bed and put the book aside.

“Where did you go?”

“I came back here to drop my bag off and went to Dumbledore’s office” Harry answered.

“Are sure your ok?” Draco pressed.

“I honestly don’t know” Harry replied with a sad smile.

Draco said it was late and they both undressed and got into bed. It was obvious Harry was still feeling bad from his scar, so Draco hugged him tightly to him and kissed his scar gently. The world seemed to drift away suddenly at the touch of Draco’s lips and Harry fell asleep in his arms, never wanting to be anywhere else. . .

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Authors notes:

Cultural Reference’s: For information on Draco’s form I went to the Chinese zodiac and looked up some info, as for Hermione I just made up most of it from what I remembered reading a long time ago. As for Harry’s form you’re going to get more info on that as well in the chap as well as info on Ron’s. Ron’s I am going to get from the Chinese zodiac while Harry’s I’ll make up, lol.

Also, I’d like to thank my beta mikochef for helping me find out some info about Susan Bones before I put her in this chap.

Roxy: I’m glad you reviewed and I’m glad you like Harry having 3 elves now. As for What Remus and Snape are doing, you’ll see much later.

PC: Harry isn’t going to get pregnant in this story but he will have a child all on his own. How? Well read on and see, lol.

Jennifer: It’s great you like the story and I hope you like the scene in the end.

Mei: Thanks for the review, and as for Remus and Snape, you’ll have to wait and see.

Mikoechef: I’m glad you liked the creatures Hagrid, and the Hermione riding Tenebrus scene. The binding might have been simple but it was a pain in the ass to write, lol. As for Winky getting better, she is on her way at least. As for Remus and Snape, you have to wait and see. Am I being a tease? If I am then mission accomplished, lol.