Chapter 5 -

The Gryffindor's arrived for breakfast, they sat at the Gryffindor table. James sat to Harry's right with Sirius on James right, Remus sat opposite to Sirius. Bellatrix sat opposite to Harry with Andromeda on her left, making her opposite to James, and Narcissa on her right. Lily sat on Harry's left, making her sit opposite to Narcissa. Alice sat next to Lily while Ares was on the floor, behind Harry. Soon the food appeared and after a brief bit of shock from Lily, they all began eating.

"Oh look" Lily pointed at Snape who was sitting at the Slytherin table "after we've finished eating I'll go and say hello to him"

"Whoa red" Harry said "I wouldn't do that if I were you"

"Why not?" Lily asked

"Well, you're a muggleborn and while Snape might not have a problem with it" Harry suspected that Snape did have a problem with it but made exceptions for Lily "the rest will."

"He's right" Bellatrix said to Lily "most of the people in Slytherin are taught to hate muggleborns"

"Why?!" Lily asked, looking very surprised and shocked, also a little bit horrified

"The same reason some white muggle people hate black people" Harry answered "in the muggle world there are some people who judge you by your skin, in the magical world it's your blood. All you can really do is prove them wrong" Harry added the last part encouragingly

"Oh no" Andromeda whispered as an owl arrived, thanks to the colour of the letter they could easily tell what it was

"A howler" Sirius gulped.

The owl dropped the letter on the table, the Slytherin's looked on in anticipation, hoping to enjoy the embarrassment of the Black children. Embarrassment they felt was well deserved as they had gone to Gryffindor instead of the noble house of Slytherin. The letter began floating up into the air, it began shaping into a mouth at an agonisingly slow pace, almost as if it delighted in raising the tension.

"HOW..." Was all the howler managed to get out before a knife sized blade made of wind cut it in half, the blade circled around and cut it in half again, it repeated until the howler was nothing but little shredded bits of paper. The paper landed in Harry's hand, he closed it, forming a fist. A small flash followed, Harry opened his fist and revealed the dust that was left from the letter's destruction.

"I'm sorry, did you want that?" Harry asked the children of the Black family, all four slowly shook their heads to say no even in their absolutely shell-shocked state. The Slytherin's were halfway in-between awe at Harry's magical power and disappointed that he managed to stop the howler. Meanwhile James looked unimpressed, it was nothing he hadn't seem before. Remus, Lily and Alice looked amazed by his casual use of magic

"T...thanks" Bellatrix was the first to recover

"It was my pleasure" Harry grinned

"Will we be learning that?" Lily asked

"Probably not this year" James said

"You are insanely powerful" Andromeda said to Harry

"Thank you for the compliment" Harry smiled "I am what I am, might as well enjoy it"

"Is this the right classroom?" Bellatrix asked as they entered the transfiguration room

"Positive" Harry nodded

"I think we're early" Sirius commented

"Oh look a cat" Alice pointed at the cat on the desk

"Hello Professor" Harry greeted the cat

"Professor?" Remus blinked as did the others, before anyone could say anything, the cat jumped off of it's desk and transformed into Professor McGonagall

"I must say that I'm impressed Mr Potter, how did you know I was an animagus?"

"I have a connection with animals, didn't feel that connection with you. Also he told me" Harry gestured to Ares

"Ah yes, your familiar" McGonagall nodded "I have no problem with you bringing him to class, however if he causes disruptions or behaves in a way that would cause problems then I will have to ban him the next time"

"He'll behave, won't you boy?" Harry rubbed Ares behind the ear and the wolf happily nodded

"Hmm" An idea suddenly formed in McGonagall's head "Mr Potter, would you mind if I use your familiar as part of my demonstration?"

"Fine" Harry nodded "just don't use any painful spells on him and don't try to change him into something else, he won't like that and neither would I"

"Very well" McGonagall smiled "what shall I call...?" She gestured to the wolf

"He's called Ares" James supplied

"Ares?" McGonagall looked at the wolf who looked much to tame to be considered a threat, so she was a little surprised to hear he was names after the god of war

"You've never seen him angry" Harry gave Ares a wink "Ares, follow the pretty lady up to the front"

"Pretty lady?" McGonagall raised an eyebrow, Harry merely responded with a smile, McGonagall shook her head om amusement and walked towards the front of the classroom and Ares followed after her. As she reached her desk, she looked back at Harry "he won't attack me in my cat form?"

"Nah, you wouldn't be what he considers a threat and he doesn't attack unless I tell him too"

"Good" McGonagall nodded shortly before turning into a cat and landing on her desk, Ares looked at her for a few seconds before he chose to lie down on the floor, evidently not interested in hurting her. The kids sat down and waited for the others to arrive, when the other students came they were more than surprised to see a cat sitting on a desk and a wolf lying on the floor.

"Hi Sev" Lily greeted Severus as he came in

"Lily" He nodded "how are you?"

"Great!" Lily beamed "Gryffindor is brilliant and I've already made friends, what about you?"

"Early days" Snape gave back a small smile

"Hey" James greeted him "your name was Snape, right?"

"Yes" All of a sudden Snape's mood turned foul, he turned and walked off

"What did I do?" James whispered tp Harry and Lily

"Sorry" Lily said apologetically "Sev is probably just not used to you yet"

"Give him a year" Harry said to James "if he hasn't warmed up to you by then, then we'll ignore him" Harry personally doubted that would happen but he sadly was supposed to be the nice one here. Pretty soon the class began and so did McGonagall's usual round of applause and shock after transforming back into a human.

"As you can see" McGonagall said midway through a lecture "I am an animagus, that is a witch or wizard with the ability to turn into a specific animal. On very rare occasions they can have multiple forms but those are very, very rare. If you look to the wolf at the front of the classroom, that is not an animagus, but a genuine wolf. One way to check for animagi is to work it out by noticing various things such as unique marks or behaviour, but there is also a revealing spell. Will I be allowed to use it on him?" She directed her question to Harry

"Ares, she's going to use a spell on you" Harry said to Ares "don't worry, it won't do anything"

"Thank you" McGonagall turned and cast a spell on Ares, Ares briefly shined blue "as you can see, this is not an animagus. If it was, the light would be orange then we would know it was an animagus. Now, we will not be studying Animagus's for a few years at least, today we will start with something simpler." The lesson continued and by the end of it McGonagall was fairly impressed with the Gryffindor's and a few Slytherin's. The Potter twins and Sirius Black specifically, the three seemed to be naturals at the subject. She would definitely be watching their progress

"Yep" Harry said as he helped his fellow Gryffindor year mates with their homework, the last few days had been good. The teachers all seemed to be happy with their work, Flitwick and Slughorn especially, and he and his friends were currently doing their homework. Though Sirius and James only joined in because Harry threatened to hang them out off the astronomy tower if they didn't. "That looks fine for the most part except you've forgotten to add the wand movement" Harry was saying to Alice

"Oh thanks" Alice said as she began correcting her work

"You're a genius, as always, can we go now?" James groaned

"Are you done?" Harry raised an eyebrow

"Yes" Sirius and James quickly nodded

"If I checked your work would I say well done or would I slap you both twice and make you continue?" Harry kept his eyebrow raised, James and Sirius exchanged a glance

"Give us a sec" They said and continued writing

"Done" Bellatrix said proudly and showed it to Harry

"Brill" Harry nodded "it's good"

"Thank you" Bellatrix smiled, she then noticed that Andromeda and Narcissa were already done "wait, when did you two finish?"

"About five minutes ago" Andromeda answered

"Well, why didn't you help me?!"

"You were in the zone sister" Narcissa said "and we know from past experience to not bother you when you are in the zone, neither of us would like to be struck again"

"That was one time!" Bellatrix blushed

"And our faces are too perfect to risk it happening again" Narcissa immediately replied and Andromeda nodded in agreement.

"I hate you"

"No you don't" The two sisters said confidently

A.N: Hey guys, I'm sorry about this being such a short chapter but I have some bad news. I cannot apologise for this enough but I am sad to say that I am putting this story on hold.

Now before you all start complaining and cursing, I just want to say that I write on this website for two main reasons. The first is because I love getting reviews from you all, letting me know what I could do better and what I've done that is good. The second reason is because I love writing stories. I originally started this story because I had some good ideas involving character interactions between Harry, the marauders and the sisters. But I just feel like it'll take a lot of effort to get to that point. In I'm not a hero I was starting to lose my drive for that story around the ending of it, by that point I had finished it off because it was near the end.

I just can't continue writing a story if I don't feel like doing it, I would rather write a story I love instead if a half-arsed one and give you guys another twenty or so half-arsed chapters. In the future I might return to this story but for now it's put on hold. I am very sorry, I gave you one last short chapter to make up for it.

As of the moment I am considering writing a Harry Potter/avengers crossover but I haven't decided yet. Let me know what you think.

Sorry again for this but I hope you all understand. Thanks for reading