Five minutes later Harry made his way into a pizza shop to order himself some food, normally he would save money by buying something cheaper but he had just won his first fight, he had the right to spoil himself for one night. He stayed with the body he had used to fight, it made people ask less questions, such as what a four year old kid is doing by himself at night.
"Hey" A man sat next to Harry
"I'm not sharing" Harry possessively pulled his pizza a way from the man
"Relax" The man chuckled "I don't want your food, I just want to talk"
"What do you want?" Harry asked as he picked up a slice of pizza
"Just want to know why you decided that fighting with muggles is the best way to make money" The man said causally, causing Harry to stop just before the tip of the pizza entered his mouth. He internally cursed as he put the pizza down and looked at the man "You should also be more careful, I saw you transform, you could've been caught. How old are you?"
"That's not really you're concern, is it?" Harry said softly while trying to analyse the man in front of him
"It might be, believe it or not, it might be" The man pulled out a small black book and handed it to Harry "that includes some brilliant rituals, I will come and find you in a month" The man stood up, he reached into his pocket again and pulled out a huge wad of cash and placed it in Harry's hand "you should of stayed, I made a lot of money off the betting." He slid it towards Harry
"Why are you giving me this?" Harry picked up the book as he placed the money in his pocket
"You're not going to ask about the money?" The man raised an eyebrow
"What does it matter? It's my money now" Harry raised an eyebrow in return
"Can't argue with that logic" The man nodded "as for that book, ask me again in a month"
"What happens in a month?"
"I come back and I see if you're worthy"
"Worthy of what?"
"Ask in a month" The man winked before walking away
"What about your name jackass?" Harry called out "Or am I supposed to wait a month for that as well?"
"My name is Jonathon Flight, see you soon"
"I can see the questions running though your brain" Harry said to Dumbledore "questions like how can he fight at four? How can he do so much at the age of four? How does he know so much? What was in that book? What did Mr Flight want?"
"Are you going to tell me the answers?" Dumbledore glared at him
"Come now Dumbledore, you never give other people direct answers so why should I? Keeping them frustrated is half the fun, I am just giving you a taste of your own medicine. Don't say that you don't deserve it, frankly I'm not the only one who is tired of your stupid half truths and riddles"
"Harry" Dumbledore growled
"You will get your answers, just be patient. Trust me, you will get your answers. Now, where was I? Oh yeah, I had spent the night glancing through the book when I discovered something interesting, now I needed an animal. I could've chosen a random dog, cat or pigeon, Merlin knows I had enough of those around me. But the problem was they weren't good enough.
Harry had just climbed up a mountain, well, apparated up a mountain was more accurate. Searching for his target, he had a wand he had just pick pocketed from a stranger before he came here. The wand was twelve inches and had a phoenix feather, it didn't work brilliantly for him but it was good enough until he could get his own.
"Where are you?" Harry muttered to himself as he looked around
Harry waited patiently, he lost count of how long he waited. Too long, he would think later, he eventually fell asleep on top of the mountain. Awaking a few hours later.
He rubbed his sleepy eyes, as he stood up and yawned. He stretched his body out, he would have looked quite adorable to any person who saw him. Harry was brought out of his thoughts by the sound of flapping. His body tensed, he let out an involuntary gulp as he turned around to see what had just landed behind him. He found a pair of large gold eyes staring at him.
In front of him was a large, golden thunderbird. It's wings spread out, it easily towered over Harry. Harry shook his head, forcefully vanishing any fear from his mind. He couldn't have this bird see him as prey. Though he seemed to be too late in that regard. This thunderbird was not like a regular thunderbird, Harry noted, it was skinnier and had a weird look in it's eye. Harry quickly realised that any hope of this being settled in a peaceful manner was lost at the crazed look in it's eye.
The bird screeched and thrust it's head upwards as a bolt of lightning shot down from the heavens and struck the thunderbird, changing it's feathers from gold to an electric blue. The impact caused Harry to fall backwards, unfortunately he was right by the edge. He fell off, losing the wand. His back bounced off the side of the mountain, Harry with a bit of quick thinking wandlessly summoned the wand to his hand, he aimed it upwards and a rope shot from the wand and latched on to the side of the mountain, allowing Harry to stop himself from falling.
He looked down, amazed at how far he had fallen, a few more seconds and he would of hit the floor.
He was so caught up that he forgot the reason he had fallen in the first place, at least until he heard it coming towards him. He turned just in time to see the thunderbird but not quick enough to stop it. One of it's massive talons succeeded in piercing his left leg.
"AAAAHHH!" Harry cried out on pain as the thunderbird had him pinned against the mountain. The wand dropped out of his hand again and fell straight to the ground. The bird reared it's head back, preparing to snack on him. Harry regretted what he was about to do, but at the moment he wanted nothing more than to do it "AVADA KEDAVRA!" He shouted and a green light escaped from his right hand and struck the bird in the chest.
Life left the thunderbird, it's eyes closed and it started leaning backwards before pulling Harry with it as it fell down. Harry, luckily, managed to pull the birds long nail out of his leg and push himself forwards do that he was now over the birds stomach. The thunderbird crashed into the ground, with Harry landing on it's stomach.
Harry fell off the gigantic bird, he panted heavily as he summoned the wand which had landed nearby. He cast a few healing charms, they weren't good for a permanent fix but they'd at least allow him to walk for the day. He looked at the dead thunderbird next to him, sadness filled his heart, it didn't need to die. He reckoned that it might have been starving, either that or it had a mental disease judging by the look in it's eyes. Thunderbirds don't usually attack people, they avoid them more often than not.
"I'm sorry you had to die" Harry said softly "I truly wish it didn't have to be this way but you forced my hand. I'm sorry, all I can promise is I will make sure your death wasn't one of no importance. That, I promise you"
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