Chapter 1 – The Decision

The hope that this year was be a quiet and wonderful year was destroyed on the worst day of Harry's year, every year, the Samhain, or also Halloween, or even All Hallows Eve, the 31st of October, and the anniversary of the Death of his parents. But this year, the things were worse than the usual. First, the Death Tournament, called Triwizard Tournament, who was banished until this year because of the death toll. Second, the day the champions of the schools were chosen, 31st of October, which always had estrange incidents on previous years. Third, miraculously someone entered Harry's name and made sure that he was selected as the fourth champion, thing that never happened before. And worse, there was supposedly to have an age line, who prevented every student under the age to submit his own name, and yet, his name got off the damn goblet, the amulet who chose the champions. And the last, and the worse of all, when the Potter reached the Gryffindor common room, he faced the most unexpected reactions from his fellow housemates, some of them were celebrating, some looking at him with jealously, some of them with anger, but the most unexpected reaction Harry faced that night was from his two best friends, Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley, from the long time friendship, the Potter boy could understand exactly were the two are thinking when they look at him, and he knew, neither of them believe he didn't submit his name to the goblet.

Irritated with all the situation that happened with him that night and hurt from the betrayal from his two only friends, Harry couldn't hold up when the questions reached his ears, all of them asking the same fuck thing. 'How you managed to put your name on the goblet?' The possibility of him threw himself willingly for life and death situations even after all the trouble he passed inside Hogwarts' wards made Harry sick, and extremely angry. Exhausted with the lack of confidence his own housemates put on him, the Potter turn his back to them and marched out of Gryffindor Common Room, without looking to anyone, although they had seen his angry face while he turned.

In his anger, Harry absolutely forget to take his map and his invisible cloak from his trunk. The curfew was on about an hour, and he knew nothing could save him from receive a detention and lose house points if he were caught. Although he do not care about the house points system, because of the biased professors of the school. He had only two options, going back to the Gryffindor Tower or find an abandoned classroom, and the first option was completely out of the line. Walking quickly through the familiar Hogwarts corridors, Harry reached on the third floor after taking two shortcuts, and suddenly remembered of the prohibited corridor of his first year, which no student had the courage to venture until now.

To the contrary believe, in the corridor were a great number of classrooms, obviously all abandoned through the years. Cautiously opening each door, it don't took long to Harry find a appropriate classroom to him use as provisional dorm. The room had 16 foot 5 width and 32 foot 8 length. Coincidentally, this classroom faced Fuffly's room. After entered and close the door, Harry take an old chair and sit down, after using the scourgify charm, and put his face on his hands, and let some tears to fall down to his face.

After 30 minutes looking down, Harry look up and dried the tears from his face, and took some more minutes to breathe, trying to hold back his temperament. When he finally had succeed, the Potter begin to thinking about some of his attitudes regarding to his studies, and his own temperament.

The first matter, his studies, to the disbelieve of the great part of the Hogwarts body, Harry was not the 'dunderhead' he act, because this was nothing more than an act. Obligated a holding back on his own results since his youngest years, that had become a natural side from Harry, after that, if he had a better result than Dudley, he was heavily punished. However, every time he had, the Potter use all of his potential to learn the things he suppose to known, because even if he couldn't show this to the others, knowledge was power. So, Harry used his bedtime to learn properly all the things he supposed to know, since he discovered he couldn't do better than his cousin. In Hogwarts, that was a different matter, the reason he hold back on his results was because of his two only friends, he could remember very well on the beginning of his first year, when his results were great, Ron's scowl to him and Hermione's jealously face, but after establish his friendship with both, he hold back on his results and said to them that was just luck, and both accepted easily. The second, his temperament, after discovered his own parents, the only people he believe who loved him, Harry did his better to be the perfect Gryffindor, to made his parents proud of him, even if he had to throw away all the things he could held back in safety and his own personality.

But now, after thinking about everything that has happened lately in his life, Harry finally decided that the time to him pretend to be someone he was not was over. He was sick about always being killed year after year on the supposed safest place on the earth, and sick of made himself a fool, that was time to learning for his own, of course he loved his parents, but they gave their lives to let him live proudly, and not the miserable life he had living until now. But he need someone who can help him with things no other can, and his options were insanely shortly. McGonagall 'no way, the two times I tried to talk to her I was shut down easily.' Though him; Dumbledore 'Nah, too much secretly, besides he made myself go back to the Dursley every final term, even when I begged him to not do.'; Hagrid 'Too much loyal to the Headmaster'; Sirius 'My best option, but he was on the run from prison, he can do almost nothing to help me.'; He had no other friend in the school, so who can help him?

When the question was answered when he remembering about one episode of his second year. "Dobby!" He cried astonished to remember of the house elf he had helped to be freed from Malfoy's claws, but the raven haired boy yelped loudly when a noisy CRACK! had echoed on the abandoned classroom. After jumped from the chair ha was sit and draw his wand and appointed to the reason of the noise, Harry saw himself surprised to see Dobby cringed on the floor, with the eyes wide open, with fear mirrored on his great green eyes. "Please Master Harry Potter, Dobby don't be a bad elf anymore, please." Taken aback by the elf reaction, the Potter boy pocked his wand to look better to the elf. "Sorry Dobby." Said the wizard sheepishly for scared the creature. "What you were doing here anyway?" Asked Harry, trying to get some answers from the, now excited, elf. "Great Master Harry Potter sir has called Dobby! So Dobby comes." Answered the house elf proudly for this.

"So…" Started the boy, unsure of how to ask. "I had some real problems in the school right now Dobby, and I need someone to help me with some matters, who cannot be discovered for anyone." Dobby nodded enthusiastic. "Said to me… you are bonded with someone else?" To Harry's surprise, Dobby jumped to the wall and started to hit his head on it, while screaming "Bad elf, Dobby's a bad elf!", the same way he had did on the Dursley's house back on the summer before his second year. When he founded his voice, Harry said to him. "Dobby stop!" Surprisingly, the elf stopped on the moment the order left the boy's mouth. "Alright Dobby, said to me what's wrong." Said the Potter.

Dobby looks dejected, looking down to his feet, and Harry, not knowing what to do keep looking himself to the elf, waiting for his answer. "When Master Harry Potter freed Dobby, Dobby needed a new master. Without a new master Dobby would slowly go insane and then die. Therefore, Dobby bond himself secretly to Master Harry Potter. Dobby wasn't sure if Master Harry Potter would want Dobby, so Dobby didn't tell. Because of that the bond was not completed and is not as strong as it should be." He explained while looking down the whole time.

"So it's true." Spoke Harry to himself airy, thinking about what he has read about the bound between a house elf and a wizard, he though which will be the Granger's reason when she discovered about it, but to be honest, he wouldn't care less about it, since she didn't do anything which could harm the elves of Hogwarts. When the Potter suddenly remember about Dobby, the elf look like he wanted to drown himself into his own tears, and he wanted to curse himself for forgetting about the little creature for the moment. "Don't worry Dobby!" Assure Harry to him, which suddenly looked up, daring to hope about being accepted by the boy, he knew how great wizard Harry was, but he never could hope to be accepted as his elf after did this stunt.

Seeing the elf looking to him half with hope and half with a little regret, Harry kneel on the floor and put a hand on the tiny shoulder of the elf, sending a small smile to him. "You could have said this to me on the day I freed you, Dobby. I always have accepted you as my elf." Dobby looked at Harry with awe, but with a sad smile, because he was sure he had throwed his chance on the mud, but before his tears began to fall, the raven haired boy continued to talk. "As the same way I will accept you right now. Just explain me how to do, my friend." With this statement, the little abused elf couldn't help, but throw himself on Harry's feet and cry with joy and relief.

After some minutes, which were necessary to calm the elf, Dobby finally get up to his feet and look at Harry, with his eyes shining with happiness, which looked like especially strong lightning spell. Chuckling with glee at Dobby's joy, Harry asked to him. "So Dobby, how I complete the bond?" "It is very easy. Everything Master Harry Potter has to do is to take Dobby's hand and say that he wants Dobby to be his elf." Explain Dobby hopping with excitement. Without losing more timing, Harry take Dobby's hand and complete the bond the way the elf explain to him.

Before either of them could talk something a white fire, that looked like snow, appeared between them, which made them jump with a little fright. After the bright and peculiar fire turn off, a phoenix appeared on the thin air, she looked similar to Fawkes, but so much more beautiful, and the color of the feathers were different too, rather than the common scarlet with the golden tail, this phoenix were white with the light blue tail. Harry was thinking in who the owner of such beautiful creature could be, when he saw the gorgeous amber eyes and the brown tip on some feathers in the two wings of the phoenix, his eyes open wide in recognition.

"H-Hedwig?" He asked in awe, he was absolutely sure the creature was his faithful and loved owl. The now Phoenix thrilled softly to her master, the emotion who came together with the sound made him in awe again, he could remember easily when he heard Fawkes' thrill on the chamber, and the hope he feel, but with Hedwig were something more than hope, that was the strength enough to face every enemy and the deepest love he had ever felt, and the last feeling made some tears fall on his face, but this time, they were of joy. No longer being able to held himself, Harry went and embraced his loved owl, or better, phoenix. His first friend rubbed her tiny head on his, showing her affection and love towards him, making more tears to fall.

After a little moment, they separated themselves, and Harry showed a brightful smile to her. "What's happened to you, girl?" The bird look to the boy exasperated and, if she can, she would be rolling her eyes, which made him chuckle slightly, and he finally noticed a letter attached to Hedwig's leg. The Potter boy look to his familiar, who was looking him with expectation. Without more waiting, he opened his letter just to find a convocation from Gringotts to him.

Dear Lord Potter,

Since you have an important matter with us, we, Gringotts Bank, expect you on the earliest possible to see one of our tellers to resolve this matter.

May your gold flow and your enemies die painfully.

Regards,

Silverspear

Potter Account Manager

Gringotts

After read the letter two times, Harry's eyes open wide. He not expected to receive a letter from his Account Manager, sincerely he never knew he had an Account Manager. The only thing he knew about his family was they were a Most Ancient and Noble House, his father was the last Lord and one day he would be the next Lord of the House Potter, nothing more. A little anxious with the letter he almost run to write a letter, when he stopped cold. He felt a thing in his read, and with fear, he looked rapidly on the room to try to identify what was causing it. He couldn't find the source of this, and suddenly the thing became stronger and he heard a voice in his head. "Stop your foolish child!" The melodious voice said.

Like a command, he stopped at the moment and blinked a few times. He never heard that voice, but sound with something he had heard in somewhere, when it finally hit him. That voice sounds exactly like he always imagine Hedwig's voice, and he turned back to his familiar, who nodded to him. Smiling he walked back to her and stroke her head's feathers. "Why your voice sound exactly like I ever imagined?" Asked him with humor. The phoenix shake her head before talk to him in his mind. "You really are an idiot. You don't remember me?" She asked, and his eyebrows rose up with surprise. "What you talking about Hedwig?" "We met in the first time when you are just a baby." Said her, which for him was a new surprise.

"We can talk about this later, you need to do two things now." Explain her to him, who blinked his eyes dumbly. "What is it, Hed?" Asked him after recovering of the two recently surprises from his new companion. "We need to finish our familiar bond." "And how I do this?" Asked him expectantly. The phoenix let a sound escape, which sound much like a chuckle. "I don't know why, but something is telling me to do this later, so when it's the right time, I explain that to you. And the second thing is go to the Bank right now." Said Hedwig, looking around the room. "What! I can't go right now, the Bank is closed." "Don't be dumb, the Gringotts is open right now, but only for some exclusive people, and you are one of them." Explain the creature to the boy, who opened his eyes wide, finally understanding. "Now send your elf away and hold tight on my tail." He did what she told him to do, and those two vanished in a wave of white fire.

Two minutes later, the Headmaster Albus Dumbledore enter on the same room just to find it empty.