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CH. 11

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The rest of the day seemed to drag on and on. It seemed never-ending. He had telepathically asked Markus to come over early tomorrow so that he could explain the situation to him. He would need to explain about the wizarding world first of course, but he figured he could handle that.

He read a bit of his textbooks that he had brought with him. After all, just because he wouldn't be going to Hogwarts anymore didn't mean that he couldn't still take his Newts.

After he read several chapters, he got bored of that and started to draw.

Sky had told him several times that he was a really good artist, but he didn't really believe her. He just drew for fun.

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The next day, Harry sat on the couch in the living room looking uncertainly at Markus. He didn't really know where to start.

"Alright. I guess the best place for me to start is at the beginning." Markus nodded his head slightly, eyes conveying his confusion. "I will start off by saying that I am a wizard and that yes we do exist, just like Carpathians. There are communities of us hidden all over the world." He paused and took a breath. "There is a lot to tell, but right now I just need to get into potions, the rest can wait. The thing with potions is that there is one for almost everything. There are healing potions, lethal poisons, disguise potions, torture, contraceptive, and nutrient. Basically anything you can think of, it's out there. There is also a potion that will make an adopted child be yours genetically."

This part was hard for him to think of, let alone voice aloud again.

"My parents, James and Lily Potter, apparently found my in this mountain range, while they were on their honeymoon. They apparently couldn't bear to leave me at an orphanage, so they blood adopted me. After I met you, Markus, a spell was triggered, that led me to a room carved by my mother. She left a letter telling me that I am apparently of creature blood. They were unable to discover what kind of creature I am."

"She left me a potion that will reverse the affects of the blood adoption. She said that if I had reversed it before having met my mate, we would have been forced together and bonded immediately, and that that could have really bad consequences." He held up the scarlet potion.

"This is the reversal. I want to take it and hopefully find out who and what I am." He finished.

"Alright. What do you need me to do?"

"Just be here. I don't know how long it will take or if it will hurt. I honestly hadn't ever thought about blood adoption and what they entail. I imagine that it will be painful, as it will probably have to restructure my bones and such."

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After they finished that conversation, Harry called his parents and Skyler into the room and they all got situated. Harry took a moment to look at the potion and to smell it. Unlike most potions, this one didn't smell like dirty socks. It smelled rather pleasant actually. Sort of like… cherry blossoms.

After deciding that it didn't smell like poison, he tilted his head back and drank it in one go. It didn't taste all that bad either.

They sat in silence for several minutes, before a steady burn started to make its way through his body. It felt kind of like his insides were on fire, only not… it wasn't comfortable, but not exactly painful either. The burn in his body faded after a while and made its way to his upper back. Then it did become painful. It felt as though his back was being ripped open again and again and someone was pulling his bones out one at a time. He wasn't embarrassed to admit that he was crying or that he had screamed in pain at one point, right before passing out.

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When he woke up, he was laying on his stomach, on his bed. His back sort of ached and felt heavier than normal. That was weird… why was his back heavy?

Slowly, he sat up and looked around. He was alone in his room, and that gave him the opportunity to go look in a mirror and see what had changed.

He stared in shock at the image looking back at him. He still had black hair, but it was now a bit passed his shoulders and strait. His eyes were a dark blue that almost looked black. He sighed in defeat… he was still short. That must be a lasting side effect to his years with the Dursleys.

The biggest change though was the large pair of black feathery wings sprouting from his back. No wonder it had hurt. He ran a hand through his hair and gasped when he felt the now pointed tip of his ear. He hadn't been expecting that. He was still slender, but instead of looking skinny, he looked like he was just in great shape (At least that was something).

When he was done with his inspection, he cast a wandless tempus and saw that it was three in the morning. Last he remembered, it was only ten thirty…

He ventured out into the hallway, and then down to the kitchen at the front of the house.

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When he entered the room, Gabriel and Francesca were there with Sky and Markus. They had apparently been talking, but stopped when he entered.

"What's going on?" he asked with a tilt to his head.

"We are trying to decide what creature you are, Harry." Gabriel told him. "I haven't ever seen anything of the like."

"Gabriel, you hadn't even heard of wizards before you met me." The teen returned dryly.

He wondered if he would be able to find anything in any of the creature books at Flourish and Blotts, but decided that since the potters hadn't been able to figure it out, he wouldn't be able to either.

It didn't really matter all that much, it was just a curiosity thing really. All that mattered to him was that his family didn't mind and that Markus was happy with it.

Honestly, he had trouble believing that he and the Carpathian were getting along so well after such a short time together. But he also understood that the man was trying really hard for him to not be an overbearing Neanderthal (Francesca's' words) like most of the men were with their Lifemates.

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End of chapter 11. Yay!

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