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Harry Potter and the Black Phoenix
Book 1
Chapter 1 - It Began with a Diary
Puck Silverbreeze

Disclaimer : This is a work of Fanfiction. No disrespect is made to the owners of the original works. Please do not sue me. I am not making any money from your property and am giving you free exposure.

Pairing : Harry/Hermione(Ravenclaw) Or Harry/Tonks(Griffindor) Or Harry Fem!Blaise Zabini(Slytherin) Or Harry Susan Bones(Hufflepuff)I don't know yet it might no be set until deep into the story I might even do a Brides of Power fic here. If I do the adult or adults in the bond will probably be one or a combonationcombination of the following : Narcissa Black (Yes Draco's mom) and/or Harry's Elven attendant(Belladonna Bellatrix Black) or even the Pureblood Elven Princess Rowena Ravenclaw . Draco Evil Ginny , Evil Ron Pansy

"It was in his tenth summer that my Lord gained the first of his Knowledge. From a Book of his bloodline, The Seer Queen's Journal and the presence of Lilyth of the Skys, prepared my Lord for his future before any knew what fate held."
- Lady Belladonna Black of Avalon
Lady Knight of Shadow
Hand-Maiden of the Mage Lord
Lady Guard of Princess Rowena Ravenclaw
Lady Guardian of Hogwarts


Number 4 Privet Drive - Little Whinging, Surrey


Harry Potter was a smallish boy who had just reached the age of ten. On this mildly cloudy day that marked the passing of yet another year, Harry had snuck out from the cupboard under the stairs and out the door as quick as a stag streaking into the forest. Harry too went seeking the solitude of the green woody places. This he found in a mildly over grown park not far from Privet Drive.

Suddenly a large raven with strange red feathers intermixed with her black ones flew overhead. In her talons was clasped a black book which she dropped into Harry's lap with a loud call that woke the boy out of his daydream.

Harry sat up and found a black leather diary in his lap. The cover bore a strange emblem. The emblem on the cover was a silver snake encircling a red and gold phoenix holding a lily in its talons with the Seer eye emblem on its breast. In Gold letters under the emblem are the words Lily Diana Dora Evans. As Harry moved to pick up the book the raven flew down to sit on a branch above him. Harry traced the name on the cover recognizing his mother's name with a sense of both shock and happiness. The silver snake moved when Harry touched the Emblem and whispered "Mama" to himself.

"Who wakes me" hissed the snake, "Speak thy Name thee who dares to wake the Silver Snake".

Without thinking about it Harry answered but instead of words hissing left his mouth, "Harry James Potter"

The silver snake hissed before returning to sleep, "I welcome thee Master Harry, Son of the Mistress".

The Phoenix on the emblem opened its beak in song, " I welcome you my beloved son, Here in the pages of my diary, which I have seen true you will find on the day of your tenth birthday in the claws of my raven Lilyth. Take care of her for me baby. You will find the secrets of my life. Know always my beloved son, my heir, your father and I love you dearly and will watch over you always>".

Harry began to cry softly, his fingers tracing his mother's name on the soft worn leather of the cover. The raven flew down to his side and hopped toward him softly calling out. Harry looked up and still unaware of the fact that the book did not once speak in English, nor even truly realizing that the book somehow spoke at all, opened his mouth to speak to the strange raven like bird, and out of his mouth flowed phoenix song, " Will you stay with me, will you be my companion as you were my mother's? Will you be with me, Lilyth of the Skys?"

The raven not being a normal muggle raven and in fact being an odd bird even among the magical beings of feather and sky flapped her wings once and landed to rest on Harry's shoulder. Her beak opened in a wordless phoenix song of comfort.

Harry opened the book and began reading of his mother, and her time at Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft. He had just barely reached the end of her first week when the sky began to darken with clouds brewing a storm. Harry closed the book and hiding it under the baggy hand me downs from Dumber then Dumb Dursley, officially named Dudley Dursley. As Harry neared the back yard he saw his cousin trying to open the sliding patio door so that he could get out from under the rain, the small awning that would of protected Harry from the rain if Harry was in the same position could do nothing for Dudley whose immense size made his hippopotamus like rear end the perfect target for the coming down pour.

Harry began to softly chuckle, a sound that somehow did not reach Dudley. Harry slowly backed away from Dudley moving toward the kitchen door, a door much too small for Dudley's use.

On Harry's shoulder Lilyth tilted her head looking at the large bloated being first with one eye then the other. She opened her beak and imitated the hoot of an owl, "whooo." This caused Dudley to start causing him to fall flat on his back in a puddle just behind him.

Harry softly covered Lilyth's beak with his fingers, he softly whispered to her, "I will tell you in a bit, quiet now." As he eased the kitchen door open and sneaked back under the stairs he heard the television in the living room giving the play by play for the Wimbledon Croquet Championships that were played earlier in the day while Uncle Vernon was working, which Aunt Petunia had taped for him using the new video cassette recorder they had bought along with a Sony video camera for Dudley on his birthday a few weeks earlier. Harry opened the door to the closet like space where he slept and was about to try to get Lilyth transferred to the cot when the bird flew from his shoulder and sat on the broken toy chest Harry had been given to use as a dresser. Harry changed into dry clothes before stretching carefully and turning back to Lilyth. The raven had hidden his head under one of her wings, Harry smiled at the raven and rubbed her breast feathers with the back of one finger, "I will be right back, I have to let my whale of a cousin in, there is no way either of his parents can hear him knocking with the telly on that loudly."

Lilyth being a smart bird nodded her head and settled down one of the spots of the chest where the wood had been worn smooth through seven long years of use.

Harry stepped out of his closet like room and walked to the patio door in the dining room. He raised his voice, " Dudley, what are you doing outside in the rain? Its pouring out there, I thought you were in your room!"

Aunt Petunia's voice carried over from down the hall, "Duddidums, didn't we ask you not to leave the house today." Her voice came closer, "That crazy Mrs. Figgs keeps thinking you have been terrorizing her cats you know. We would rather avoid her whenever possible, her only real use to normal people like us is watching Harry when we take you somewhere."

While his aunt was walking down the hall towards them, Harry unlocked the patio door and let the Human Killer Whale in. He leans in and whispers, "Go jump in the shower quick."

Harry chuckled behind his cousin's back as the large boy tried to waddle up the stairs quickly to avoid his mother. Harry shook his head as he slid back in his closet room under the stairs.

Lilyth opened her beak and soft Phoenix Song slid out, " That was rather Slytherin of you Harry, and just a touch mean.>" The raven tilted her head to watch Harry's reaction with one eye.

Harry smirked softly but without any malice, "I will probably end up in Slytherin if my mother's entries are anything to go by." Harry shrugs, "I am not really a book worm, nor am I full of courage and fool hardy. The house of snakes might fit me as it did my mother. I will have to wait and see."

Lilyth bobbed her head in agreement and spread her wings flying to Harry's knee as he started to read from the diary softly. For about two hours Harry read from the diary before the sound of a fist banging on his wall threw him out of his reading trance.

A loud male voice called out and Harry's walls shook, "Boy! Come cook us dinner. It won't cook itself you know!" Loud footsteps lead away from the wall.

Harry sighed softly and stroked Lilyth's feathers "Stay here girl. I will come back with food later." He got up after Lilyth flew down to sit on the diary and walked out of the room, "Coming Uncle Vernon!" Harry called out as he closed the door.

Lilyth seemed to sigh as she thought to herself, 'They treat him like most wizarding families treat house elves. This is not good not good at all. I am glad I found him before he received this letter. Foreknowledge will make his life in Wizarding England and the Wizarding world much easier.' Lilyth tucked her head under her wing and settled on the diary, its guardian until Harry returned.

Harry returned about two hours later. He smiled as he sat down on the cot and looked over at the sleeping bird. In his hands he carried a padded box and something wrapped in foil. Harry put the foil down and smiling put the box on the shelf over his head. Harry tried to lift the diary without disturbing the bird, to put both in the box.
"CAW", said Lilyth as she was startled awake and flew to the broken toy chest Harry used as a dresser.

Harry shook his head and spoke softly, "I was just trying to put you in your temporary nest area without waking you I know that there is a bird cage that is missing a top in the attic and am planning to bring it down tomorrow for you."


(A few weeks later)

Harry had spent his time working hard making his way through the diary. When he reached the beginning of his mother's sixth year he had a shock and looked up to stare at the raven with green eyes sitting on his knee one again. His emerald eyes narrowed sharply and he looked deeply into her eyes, "Hello Mother Dearest. Do I warrant an explanation of where you have been and why you are in Raven form and not human?", he hissed in the language of serpents.

The raven hopped a bit closer and tilted her head to look Harry in the eyes with a one of her own, "Secrets within secrets, my beloved son. But the time for you to learn is now. My mother is a phoenix, one well known to the staff of Hogwarts. Although none of them seem to realize that she is female." The raven hopped up closer to Harry as she hissed and tilted her head to see if he understood so far.

Harry closed his eyes and thought a moment, "Fawkes does sound like a male name. I am guessing that is not her real name and definitely not her human name. Which means Grandfather has not been found worthy of her secret or ours.", he hissed to himself as he thought about his grandmother and grandfather logically. He looked at his mother, "Where have you been though, mother?"

Lily in her raven form hopped down to settle in her son's lap. She opened her beak and hissed out, "You are more Raven or Snake then Lion my beloved son. You are correct. Father knows none of the truth about his bloodline. He has not checked the Dumbledore Family Tree since he entered the War with Grindelwald. He truly believes that Uncle Aberforth and himself are the last of the Dumbledore line. The last of the good aligned children of Slytherin blood. In myself the blood of Slytherin does flow. In your father did the blood of Griffindor and Hufflepuff flow. You have within you the blood of three of the Great Four. This is how it is that you speak the tongue of flames and the tongue of snakes."

Harry tilted his head and smirked at his mother, "While that might be useful in the future mother. And I find it most interesting that I do not have any of the blood of Ravenclaw. That does not answer my first question."

Lily bobbed her head in agreement and changed the topic back to Harry's question. She hopped up to his shoulder and rubbed her head on his cheek as she hissed in his ear, "When the Killing curse did strike me, my mother's heritage saved me but I found myself reforming in the form of my normal animagus form, that of a large raven. I can not change back, and have spent the last nine years trying to find a way to do so. I have been all over Europe and Most of Asia. Yet I can not find any wizard I can trust who speaks the language of Snakes or the Phoenix. "

Harry listened and nodded, "I take it your mother could not help, and your father can not be trusted with the secret because he would wonder why dad didn't come back the same way?"

The raven bobbed her head and preened her wings proud that her son had worked it out for himself. She knew he wouldn't be Griffindor unless something forced it, but she was not sure if he would follow her into the house of Snakes or maybe enter the house that did not share his blood. Lily also found it odd that Ravenclaw's blood had not found its way into the line of Dumbledore or Potter at all, it was almost as if Fate had a plan for her son and an heir of Ravenclaw.