Inheriting a Draconian Mantle – Book 1

By Stargatesg1fan1

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the recognized characters or universes within. If I did…I would have ended the Inheritance Cycle with Arya and Eragon in love and entangled in a heated, naked, and sweaty mess in their bed. Harry Potter would have been smarter and taken every opportunity he had to make love to the gorgeous Miss Granger and when they were old enough he would have made her the next Mrs. Potter.

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As time drew on Hermione began to stress somewhat about the upcoming final exams. Even though the exams were ten weeks away Miss Granger was studying as much as she could for them. Harry, Tonks, and their other friends all found ways to distract the blossoming bookworm from her self induced stress. Harry's method of pleasuring Hermione so that she couldn't think straight seemed to be most effective. The teachers had increased the homework load accordingly but Harry still did not find the work much of a challenge given that he had memories from several people completing the same assignments.

One night Saphira discovered something quite surprising.

"Harry…I believe the groundskeeper, Hagrid, has a dragon in his hut," Saphira announced.

"A dragon," Harry replied in surprise.

"A baby but a dragon none the less. I can smell and hear it. I think it just hatched. My own scent was masking the little one while it was in its egg but now that it has hatched I can smell it," Saphira explained.

When Harry teleported onto Saphira's back the dragon flew down to the groundskeeper's hut. The structure was already smoldering because the baby dragon had set the structure ablaze on the inside. Draco Malfoy was peering inside the hut through one of the small windows. The Rider reached into the Malfoy heir's mind and caused the blonde to go away and forget any knowledge of dragons.

Saphira gazed in through the window with her Rider and the pair saw Hagrid cooing over a small black dragon with stubs where horns would eventually grow and large orange eyes. The groundskeeper was unaware that his hut was on fire but became aware moments later when the flames rushed up an entire wall. Hagrid turned to confront the blaze and at the same time Saphira relaxed her collar's concealment of her scent. The baby dragon immediately picked up the elder female's scent and rushed towards the window.

"Norbert," Hagrid shouted in dismay as he turned to see his new dragon escaping.

"Take him into the trunk Saphira," Harry urged his companion as Norbert, a dragon the wizard now recognized as a Norwegian Ridgeback, followed its nose right up to the invisible larger dragon.

Saphira waited until her Rider was off of her and the baby dragon was touching her before activating the portkey feature of her collar, taking her and the smaller dragon into the forest within her wizard's trunk. Harry had already disillusioned himself and watched as Hagrid took off into the Forbidden Forest searching for Norbert. The invisible wizard put the fire out before teleporting into his trunk. Hagrid would spend the next week fruitlessly searching for the dragon but couldn't exactly tell anybody what he had tried to keep as a pet. Raising dragons in Britain was illegal without Ministry authorization.

Norbert took to Saphira and Saphira took to the baby dragon. The trunk forest provided plenty of space for the baby dragon to grow and thrive without threat of a larger predator eating it. The same could not be said for the Forbidden Forest given some of the dangerous creatures that lived in that wooded realm.

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Harry learned during his nighttime excursions with Saphira that Quirrell had been drinking the blood of unicorns. Unicorn blood would stave off death if imbibed but the life gained this way would be a shadow of true life. Dragon and Rider began making excursions into the Forbidden Forest, exploring further and further. With the ability to teleport through Hogwarts' wards the pair could go quite a distance into the forest and still get back in time before the other students were up. There were quite a few strange magical creatures in the forest, both monstrous and beautiful.

"I bet I'd have fun setting that giant spider nest ablaze," Saphira observed one night as she and her Rider tracked several of the acromantulas back to their nest.

The perceptive pair could smell and hear the greater number of the giant arachnids inside the thick growth of trees the spiders had pulled together via webbing.

"You had best wait until you are bigger," Harry cautioned. "Acromantulas are highly poisonous."

The dragon and her Rider also discovered species that weren't listed in any magical tome. There were creatures of fire, water, and air. These elementals were very good at hiding but Harry and Saphira were quite perceptive via their sense of smell and hearing along with their magical senses. Whenever the draconian pair got close the elementals would merge with the Earth or some other natural structure and hide. There were many other undiscovered species. The dragon and her companion decided that they would study these creatures more in the coming years.

Sometimes Saphira took Norbert into the Forbidden Forest on these excursions but she never let him out of her sight. The smaller dragon was growing quite rapidly. Harry was working on enchanting a collar for the Norwegian Ridgeback similar to Saphira's. The spells were provided by the golden tome Merlin had created.

An interesting aspect of the Forbidden Forest and one reason why it was forbidden was that the wooded realm sometimes shifted and changed shape, grew and expanded. This could be quite confusing for most visitors. The forest was saturated with magic. Hogwarts and the forest were at the intersection of many ley lines, natural conduits of magical energy. Dragons of Saphira's breed had impeccable sense of direction and location. Once she had visited somewhere Saphira could find her way back there with ease. Harry shared this directional sense because he was connected with his dragon on a deep level.

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A Smut Scene was here (See hpfanficarchive or ficsite for erotic version)

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Soon enough the end of year exams had arrived. Harry found the anti-cheating charmed quills amusing. The Potter male and his group of close friends did exceptionally well on the practical portion of their exams due to the extensive practice they had been through with Tonks. History of Magic was the last exam for the first year Gryffindors.

"That test was far less difficult than I had assumed it would be," Hermione declared before going through a detailed summary of the harder questions.

Harry debated the correct answers with his younger girlfriend as Neville followed them out onto the grounds where they joined their friends from other houses. Partway through the term Harry and Hermione had convinced their other first year friends to use the time spent in Binns' classroom to actually read proper history texts instead of listening to the ghost drone on about goblin rebellions. Due to this belated studying of History of Magic Susan, Hannah, and Neville did not do quite as well as Harry and Hermione but the three did a lot better than most of the other first years. Tonks and Cho soon joined the first years under the large tree near the lake.

"That feels good," Nym declared in reference to the cooling charm encircling the area around the tree as she sat beside her boyfriend.

"It's my magic…of course it would make you feel good," Harry whispered to his lover.

Nym shivered at the closeness her mate provided along with the sexy sound of his voice.

"Someone is wound up," Hermione teased Tonks. "Perhaps you need to go for a swim in the lake in order to cool off."

"That sounds like a capitol ideal," Harry declared before concentrating on his power to remotely teleport objects.

The Rider had learned there was an advanced spell that did something similar but it wasn't supposed to work on entire living beings. But the younger magicals did not know about that restriction even though they had likely observed their parents using the spell.

"Harry Potter," Hermione screeched as she surfaced from her dunking in the lake.

"Oh you are going to get it Potter," Nym added.

"Let's get him," Susan suggested while drawing her wand.

"There is no reason to fight Susan. I will gladly come closer to you when you are all wet," the Rider purred before he ran and dove into the lake.

"You have made her blush," Saphira informed her companion while swimming lazily around the lake, unknowingly scaring the giant squid which resided in the body of water even if it couldn't exactly consciously sense the dragon.

"I am going to make them all blush dozens of times more before the day is over," the Marauder's heir declared before transfiguring the outfits of his friends into swimwear, quite revealing non-magical swimwear.

Harry would prove a man of his word as he played in the water with his friends for the rest of the day.

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The last Quidditch match of the year was Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw. The results were the same as all of Gryffindor's previous matches. Harry did not give the opposing Seeker any chance and caught the snitch within minutes of the game starting. Cho said she was thinking about trying out for the team the next year to give him a challenge. The Quidditch Cup belonged to Gryffindor for the first time in years. The party held in the Gryffindor common room the evening of the victory was epic. Fred and George kept on suggesting a Gryffindor Quidditch team orgy until Angelina threatened to hex their bits off. They were rather subdued after that declaration from the Chaser.

At the leaving feast, Harry sat at the Gryffindor table between Neville and Hermione. The rest of the members of the Potter male's group of friends were sitting at their own house tables for the night. The Great Hall was decorated in Gryffindor colors of red and gold to celebrate that house's accomplishment of winning the House Cup in addition to the Quidditch Cup. When Dumbledore arrived he began what seemed like a well practiced speech.

"Another year has come to a close. The house points stand as follows: Slytherin with three hundred and twelve points is in fourth place; Hufflepuff with three hundred and fifty-two points is in third place; Ravenclaw with four hundred and fifty-seven points is in second place; and Gryffindor with eight hundred and twenty-three points is in first place," Dumbledore announced garnering much cheering from the winning house.

Soon the food was on the table. Almost from the moment his drink appeared in his glass the perceptive Rider sensed the potion it contained. The magic of the fluid combined with his keen sense of smell alerted Harry that something was not right in his drink.

"Harry," Saphira sent in a warning tone because she too could smell the unusual liquid.

"Do not worry…I sense it as well," the wizard assured his bonded.

Channeling his magic through the mark on his palm saw the liquid surreptitiously vanish while the Rider feigned drinking. When the contents of the goblet were emptied it refilled itself with the same potion laced beverage. Throughout the sumptuous meal Harry was able to identify the potion from the scent of the ingredients. The potion was a concoction meant to enslave the drinker to the will of whoever had cast a spell on the mixture as it was being brewed.

"Dumbledore and Snape are gazing at you periodically with smugness written on their features," the invisible dragon informed her partner just before the feast ended.

"Those two wankers are in for a surprise when they try to use that potion's capabilities," Harry replied.

Dumbledore's attempt came that night shortly after the other boys in Harry's dorm fell asleep. The old man snuck into the first year dormitory under an invisibility charm and whispered in the Rider's ear.

"Harry, tomorrow you will return to Privet Drive and stay with the Dursleys for the entire summer. When you come back to school you will show me the proper respect befitting my station. You will never disobey me again. You will show Professor Snape the proper respect befitting his position and listen to the instructions he gives you. Over the summer you will write down in detail an explanation of how you were able to do what you did when you confronted me in my office earlier in the year and give it to me when you return next school year. I will have further instructions for you that you will obey next year," Dumbledore commanded.

Shortly after the old man had left Snape showed up with some rather simple instructions.

The greasy bastard whispered, "After you get home this summer you shall make a trip to Gringotts and withdraw half of your money and mail it to me inside of a weightless bag."

It seemed Dumbledore had told his spy what he planned on commanding Harry to do without realizing that spy was planning on skipping the country with half the Potter fortune. If Harry had been under the effects of the potion then he would have had to obey Snape's command. As it was the green eyed sorcerer was tempted to slaughter Snape. But Harry did not want the creature with a great deal of blame for his parents' death to escape so easily.

"We will have to devise some even more painful ways to make those two pay for what they have done," Saphira suggested.

"Next year we will make Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape aware of why you don't mess with a dragon Rider," Harry agreed.

The end of year exam results were given to the students the morning of leaving before they departed for the train. Harry was in first place for his class followed closely by Hermione. Susan, Hannah, and Neville tied for third place out of the class of 1997. Great mirth was gained in the compartment the Potter wizard and his group of friends (and mates) shared when he revealed the results of Ron Weasley's grades. Ron had failed first year utterly and completely and therefore would have to repeat the grade if he wished to remain at Hogwarts.

"You will be over in the morning?" Hermione clarified, addressing her best friend.

"Yes, after I pick up the others. It will be fun to swim in your pool every day," Harry confirmed.

Leaning into her wizard's ear, Nym purred, "Hermione's pool most definitely is not the only wet fun thing you will be diving into this summer Mr. Potter."

Hermione and Nym were standing on either side of their boyfriend.

"Wench…just for that I will be paying you a visit tonight," Harry promised while using his telepathy to ensure nobody else was paying too much attention to him as he gave his girlfriends' bums a squeeze.

"Make sure you pick me up first Harry," Hermione whispered with a grin before both beauties gave a parting kiss to their man.

"It's going to be a great summer," Harry informed his dragon while climbing onto her back, disappearing from sight immediately.

"It will most definitely be interesting," Saphira confirmed before taking flight out of King's Cross station and heading towards Surrey.

Dragon and Rider would later prove to be equally correct.

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The End of Book One

Posted: 6/4/2013 (Edited Version)

Author's Note:

I hope you have enjoyed this different version of the Harry Potter tale. Look for further stories starring this unique Harry Potter and his lovely ladies and friends in the near future. Please leave a review if you have enjoyed the story.

~Deserdi Etere Lume

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