I'm into this new chapter. it gon be lit.

btw the stuff I talk about is legit. I looked up the creature and I wrote pretty much what I found. "tickle fights" are actually a thing they do.

~Alex

"HARRY JAMES POTTER! WHY WOULD YOU EVER DO SUCH A THING?! YOU COULD HAVE MAJORLY HURT YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE! DON'T LET ME EVER FIND OUT FROM MADAM POMPHREY THAT YOU DID THIS AGAIN! I love you Harry. Oh and Ron, you should come and visit me soon. We all miss you both. Love Molly." The howler finished. It crumbled away into nothingness, and Harry smacked his head on the table from embarrassment. Molly found out about what he did the last moon from Madam Pomphrey. Everyone was laughing their asses off at the howler. Draco tried to comfort Harry a little, but he couldn't help laughing as well.

"Don't worry, Harry. It's not that bad." Draco said. Although he laughed while saying this.

"Ugh." Harry groaned. They finished eating, and headed outside. They had a free day since a lot of teachers were out because of vacation. Usually during the spring time, the teachers used their vacation to be with family, and Minerva couldn't find any replacements in time.

Everyone headed to the public Green Houses. Professor Sprout needed to rebuild the old green house since it was wrecked, so it was replaced with a bigger and more vibrant Green House. It looked like a big house, made entirely from glass. Inside, plants hung from the roof, and flowers were placed everywhere. It was a place that Harry really liked going to recently. The flowers looked so pretty, and the small carnivorous plants were fun to feed. Harry would often bring left over food, and feed the meat eating plants while no one looked.

"I don't know what you see in this place. It's just a glorified green house." Ron said. He put his finger close to one of the plants, and it tried to bite him. He snatched his finger away, and continued to walk around.

Draco sneezed. "The pollen is horrendous in here." He commented. Hermione walked around with Harry, and studied the plants.

"Marvelous creatures, aren't they." Harry said to Hermione. She agreed.

"They are. But I've never seen you so interested in plants. Before, the only plant that interested you, was a broom. Now you're like the plant whisperer, or something." Hermione said.

Harry just hummed in agreement. He sat down in his usual spot, which was a patch of grass, with some magical flower sprouts along the edges.

Harry took a piece of bacon out of a bag, and dangled it in front of the flower. Ron watched in horror as a mouth sprung out of the flower, and devoured the bacon strip. He never did like those flowers.

"That's mental." Ron said. Harry chuckled, and pet the flower. It moved into his touch, just like a dog would.

"The plants love you." Draco smiled. Hermione and Draco sat down on the grass, and fed the flowers, while Ron was content staying off to the side away from the weird flowers. Ron saw a really cool looking miniature tree. It was moving its tiny branches around gently. He moved his hand close to the small tree, but it smacked his fingers away.

"Bloody hell. None of the plants like me." Ron said as he rubbed his hand. Harry walked over to the small tree.

"This is amazing. It's a baby Whomping Willow!" Harry exclaimed happily. He picked up the pot, and carried it with him, back to the patch of grass. He sat down with the little tree, took out a small bottle with a dropper. He dropped a couple drops of sugar water into the pot.

"What is that?" Hermione asked, pointing to the small bottle.

"Sugar water." Harry told her.

"You just keep sugar water in your pocket all day?" Draco asked amused. Harry nodded enthusiastically.

"There are not that many plants that don't enjoy a little sugar water. The only plant I don't give sugar water to are the Magnoliophytas." Harry said gesturing to the cute carnivorous flowers. "They prefer salt water."

Draco laughed. Ron and Hermione looked around the green house, and found something.

"I can't believe they have cat nip." Hermione said. She saw the familiar plant growing in a recycled plastic bottle.

"What's cat nip?" Ron asked her. He poked it, but was relieved that it didn't move or bite.

"It's what you give to a cat to make them more playful and happy." Hermione summed up. She picked the bottle up, and carried it over to Draco, with a smirk on her face.

"Hey Draco. Can you smell this one for me?" Hermione asked. She handed Draco the plant.

Draco shrugged his shoulders, and sniffed the plant. It had a weird smell, but Draco loved it.

"What is this?" Draco asked. He kept on sniffing it. He giggled a lot the more he smelled the plant.

Hermione was on her ass laughing. Ron finally made a connection between the two, and was laughing as well.

"It's cat nip!" Hermione exclaimed while giggling. Draco laughed.

"Good one." He said. Although he still held onto the bottle, and kept it close to him.

Draco heard a little noise, although no one else heard it. He held his hand up to quiet the others, and he looked around. Ever since he became an animagus, he had better hearing. He placed the bottle down, and stood up to survey the area.

Everyone heard a bottle fall down and break.

"Show yourself." Draco echoed through the green house. They heard a familiar female laugh, and saw Professor Sprout show herself behind a giant tree.

"Caught me, didn't you." She chuckled. She repaired the bottle that dropped, and walked over to them.

"Tell me how long you were aware of my presence." She asked Draco.

"I felt someone else in here every day, but I never heard you until today." Draco told her.

She smiled. "I love watching the students watch the plants. I loved the new green house, and a couple of my more interested students would come here to feed the plants. You four and Neville are my most frequent comers. Although Neville draws the flowers instead of actually interacting with them." She told them. She picked the little Whomping Willow off the floor. "You seem to have a way with Wilda. She only seems to take a liking to you." Professor Sprout pointed out. The miniature Whomping Willow, Wilda, was swinging her branches around, trying to hit Professor Sprout. Harry took Wilda back, and calmed her down.

"You named her Wilda. It's a pretty name." Harry told her. He gently grazed her branches.

"Aren't Whomping Willows supposed to be violent towards anyone. How come Harry is an exception?" Ron asked the professor. She shrugged her shoulders.

"I've been asking myself this for a week. There's never really any records of someone befriending a Whomping Willow. They only like forest animals and other magical creatures. Even then, they can distinguish animagus from a normal animal." Professor Sprout answered.

"Well feel free to stay as long as you like. I'm going to head over to visit McGonogall for a cup of tea. I need to figure out what to do with the other Whomping Willow. He's close to his ending." She said. She left the group, and exited the green house.

"That's a bit peculiar." Hermione commented. Her mind sparked an idea.

"What if your animagus is an animal that is close to nature. Like a humming bird, or a snake?" Ron thought aloud. Harry didn't know.

"That's not possible. Professor Sprout said it knows the difference between animagus and animals. Today is my last day of training, and I trained this morning. Maybe we can find out what animagus I am?" Harry said. They agreed. Draco casted a couple charms around the green house to make themselves undetectable.

"Go on. Try it." Ron encouraged. Harry placed the Whomping Willow next to him, and he concentrated hard. He sat there for a couple of minutes, in pure silence.

Soon, Harry started to grow in size. The others backed up to give him some room. Harry got taller, but then his head started to morph into a stag skull, his body was wrapped in tree branches, he had tree trunk like feet, and he had a torn up piece of cloth loosely wrapped around his head, and a piece of cloth wrapped around his waist.

Harry looked weird, unique, and beautiful all at once. He had a couple blue and green flowers protrude out of the branches. It was like his body was just intertwined branches.

"What the fuck is that?" Ron asked aloud. Harry stood 7 feet tall, with enormous antlers that only added to his height. Harry looked around the room in confusion.

"Zašto mali?" Harry asked. He sounded normal in his own ears, but the others heard him speaking in another language altogether, and with a kind of lower voice.

"We can't understand you." Draco told Harry. Harry cocked his head at an unusual angle, which just further freaked out Ron.

"Transform. Maybe he can't understand when we're like this." Hermione told everyone. They each turned into their animagus form, and attempted to speak to him again.

"Harry! Can you understand us know!" Ron yelled. Hermione smacked her wing on Ron's leg.

"He's not deaf." She scolded. Harry crouched down to their level.

"Can you understand me know?" Harry asked them.

"Yes! Before you sounded weird. Like you were speaking in another language." Draco told him.

"Oh." Was all Harry said. He looked down at his body, and scared himself a little.

"What the fuck am I?!" Harry exclaimed. He stood up, and backed into a table. He looked behind himself, and he could hear little voices.

"Be careful, or you might crush us." He heard a little voice. Harry panicked, and turned to the others.

"THE PLANTS JUST SPOKE TO ME!" Harry exclaimed. Ron chuckled.

"I think you're hearing things. Plants can't speak." Ron laughed. Harry continued to panic. He got dangerously close to the Magnoliophytas, and he heard a loud voice.

"Be careful! Don't crush me!" It yelled warningly, in a light pitched voice.

Harry screamed, and pointed to the flower. "It just spoke to me!" He yelled. Harry sat down, and hugged his knees.

"Calm down. Just transform back into yourself." Hermione told him. Harry nodded, and breathed. Ron was still laughing during the entire ordeal. What made it funny, was Harry's voice came from everywhere, so it echoed a little. Harry's stag jaw-thing never moved while he was talking.

Harry finally concentrated, and turned back into himself.

Hermione took down the charms on the green house.

"What was I?" Harry panicked. He was breathing hard, and having a panic attack. Draco pulled him into a hug to calm him down.

"Well obviously your animagus is a magical creature. We just need to figure out what you are." Draco smiled. He wasn't as worried as Harry. Harry still looked around.

"Call me crazy all you want, but the plants talked me." Harry said. He got close to the carnivorous flowers, and petted them. They didn't talk or act any differently.

"Maybe we should see McGonogall about this. Or maybe Professor Sprout?" Ron suggested.

Hermione shook his head. "We can't while he's unregistered. We'll need to figure out what he is ourselves, then he needs to register himself." Hermione told Ron.

They agreed.

"How about we go now? No one is going to be in the library since it's a free day." Draco suggested. Harry agreed enthusiastically, and they left to go to the library.

When they got there, Hermione went to talk to the librarian.

"Excuse me. I was wondering. Where would the foreign mythological creatures be? I'm looking for one that seems Slavic." Hermione asked politely. The librarian pointed to a book case towards the back, and Hermione thanked her.

The group walked over, and Hermione started to search for the book. She found three books, one that was about Croatian creatures, one about Serbian creatures, and one about Bosnian creatures. She gave Draco the one from Bosnia, and Harry and Ron looked through the Croatian one together. Hermione looked through the Serbian one.

They spent hours skimming through the thick books, but soon, Draco found something. He pointed to an old drawing in the Bosnian book.

"I found it!" He whispered excitedly.

The caption of the picture was They use Grey Wolves to do their bidding.

"That's amazing." Harry said. Hermione read aloud the text.

A Leshy, commonly called Father Nature, is a Slavic creature from Mythology. Although Muggles do not believe in the Leshy lore anymore, Wizards and Witches have seen the creature while wandering the woods of any Slavic forest. Usually introverted, Leshies take care of a forest, and can speak to animals and plants. They speak only Slavic languages, and reside near packs of Grey Wolves. Leshies are described as tall creatures, made of mossy branches, with the skull and antlers of a stag as a head, and old cloth wrapped around their waist and head. Leshies have the peculiar skill of transforming into different animals. Leshies do not care much for travelers that litter and defile their forest. They will confuse the wanderer until they beg for forgiveness. Another trait of them, is they don't know when to stop whilst having fun. They are not aware that their "Tickle Fights" are deadly if carried on too long. This can cause them to kill the traveler. Leshies are somewhat unknown creatures, and many people are not educated on their existence. There have been a couple of recorded witches or wizards turning into Leshies as their animagus, but this is reserved for people who have Slavic blood in them. Leshies are considered "Contact Creatures" meaning wizards and witches are not allowed to have connections with them unless approached. Beast poachers and collectors are not allowed to kill or capture Leshies since they are considered endangered creatures.

Hermione finished reading the page, as that was all that was written.

"Bloody hell." Ron said.

"Damn." Draco commented. "So we must be a couple of lucky wizards to have seen a Leshy, huh." Draco said lightly.

"That's what my head looked like?" Harry said as he stared at the drawing. It looked weird, and cool.

"It's cool that you had flowers though. It made you seem a lot less threatening, given your size and stature." Hermione said.

"I wasn't too scary, right? I don't want to scare anyone anymore than I already do." Harry asked the others. They shook their heads.

"It shocked us at first, but you weren't scary. Just unique." Draco told him. He kissed Harry on the cheek. "You looked beautiful." Harry blushed.

"Well, now we should go tell McGonogall, right?" Ron said. Harry shook his head. He had a crazy idea, but he knew it would work.

"Follow me." Harry said. He placed the books back, and everyone followed him outside. He started to run towards the stone bridge that crossed the deep valley, which separated the school grounds from the villages.

"What are we doing?!" Hermione yelled while panting. She wasn't the most active person of the group, but she ran as fast as she could.

They all crossed the bridge, and were right at the border of the magical barrier.

"We leave the grounds, apperate to the Burrow, and tell Molly and Arthur!" Harry summed up quickly. He was running on adrenaline from all the exercise.

"Are you crazy? We could get in trouble!" Draco exclaimed.

"Let's do it." Ron said. He was all for leaving Hogwarts to visit home. Plus he didn't mind getting in trouble.

"Just trust me. If anything, we'll get detention. But I doubt it since Minerva doesn't know." Harry told them. He waited for them to agree, which they finally gave in.

They crossed the barrier, and they all dissaperated to the outskirts of the Burrow.

When they got to the familiar grassy fields, they saw the Burrow in the distance.

"I have an idea for a little prank." Ron said. He explained it, and then everyone but Harry ran towards the house.

When Hermione, Ron, and Draco ran to the door, they started to knock on it hurriedly.

"Mum! Dad! Open up! Quickly! Something's out there in the fields!" Ron shouted. They heard some voices, and Arthur opened the door to let the three in.

"What happened? And why are you here?" Arthur asked quickly. Hermione and Draco dragged him to where the window was.

"Look! There's something giant in the fields, and it was chasing us." Draco explained. Arthur looked, and he saw large amounts of grass move around. He couldn't see any creature or person, but he saw the grass moving as if someone or something was moving towards the house.

He whipped his wand out, and opened the door. "Stay inside." He said. Arthur closed the door, and watched the grass. George came down the stairs.

"What happened? What's wrong?" He asked. Ron laughed.

"We're playing a prank on dad. Come over here and watched." Ron told him. George stood next to them, and watched Arthur through the window.

"What's that in the grass?" George asked.

"Just wait. You'll see soon enough." Draco said with a smirk.

George nodded his head and watched his dad.

Arthur walked a little forward, and kept his eyes on the moving grass. It was getting closer and closer towards house. Arthur prepared himself, and was ready to shoot. The grass stopped moving, and Arthur waited in suspense. Then out jumped a bunny with small antlers.

The sudden movement made Arthur scream from being startled, which made everyone inside laugh. George was laughing at him as well.

"Watch. It gets better." Ron said. They all watched. Arthur started to laugh, and he pointed towards the Jackalo.

"This is what was so frightening?!" Arthur yelled to them from the grass. When his head was turned. Harry turned into a Lion. George watched as Arthur looked back, and screamed again, at the lion just standing there. Harry roared, which made Arthur start to run. Harry started chasing him. Hermione, Draco, Ron, and George ran outside to watch Arthur get chased by a lion.

"Who is that?" George asked laughing.

"That's Harry." Hermione giggled. Harry stopped chasing Arthur, and transformed back into himself.

"Arthur come back! I didn't mean to scare you that bad!" Harry yelled after Arthur. Arthur stopped and looked back at Harry.

"You got me." Arthur started to laugh. He hugged Harry, then he walked over to hug the others.

Everyone went back inside, and Hermione made some tea for everyone.

"So how did you do it? Animagus can't change into different animals like that." Arthur said. Hermione handed everyone a cup of tea, and Harry started to explain.

"Okay, so I did become an animagus. But the thing is, my animagus is a shapeshifter of sorts. So I can be any animal I want." Harry told him. "My animagus is what you call, a Leshy." Harry said. Arthur nodded his head.

"I've heard of those once when we traveled to Europe. Travelers don't go into the woods because the Leshies would confuse them or kill them." Arthur said.

"Exactly. Apparently you can become a Leshy if you have Slavic blood. Harry has always been mindful of all creatures, and he never hurt an animal to hurt one. I mean, he could've killed the werewolf, but he didn't. And Harry has an appreciation for Herbology, so it makes sense. We just have to figure out who in his family is Slavic." Draco told Arthur casually. He wasn't nervous around Arthur, just Molly was a little scary.

"Well, that's definitely a peculiar animagus. You should get yourself registered. Especially since you'll need that protection. If someone finds out that you are a Leshy, and you're not registered, they might try to collect you." Arthur told him.

Harry agreed. "You're right. I was going to register myself today. But I wanted to catch Molly as well. Where is she?" Harry asked.

"She's meeting up with her knitting club. She joined one a while ago. You can go and register yourself. By the time you come back, she should be home." George told Harry.

They said their goodbyes, and everyone filed into the floo.

Hermione grabbed the powder, and they all flooed to the Ministry.

When they got there, they moved around the crowds of people relatively unnoticed.

They walked towards the Spirit Division, and saw the familiar man that helped them out last time.

When it was their turn, the man brought them into the backroom.

"I was wondering when I'd see you again. You know what to do." He said gesturing to the 'X' painted on the floor. Harry walked over to it, and stood on it. Ron gave him a thumbs up, and Harry transformed. He ended up hunching over from the low ceilings.

"Oh my." The man said. "Try sitting down on the floor, and backing up." The man told him. Harry sat down, crisscrossed, and tilted his head down a little to avoid hitting his antlers on the ceiling. The man snapped a photo, and Harry transformed back.

"And here I am thinking Leshies were just myths made up by muggles. Sign your name here." The man gave him the paper. "Have you transformed into any other animals?" The man asked.

"Yeah. Although my scars were visible. I looked exactly as how I would want to look." Harry told him. He turned into a Stag, then a dog, then a cat, and then a Lion. They all looked normal, with no scars or marking.

"Well then. Since you are endangered, I'll need you to go to the Beasts Division again, and register yourself." The man directed him, once again.

The group sighed, but said their goodbyes, and made the trip to the Beast Division once more.

Harry went into a line while the others waited for him. He chose a different line than he chose before to avoid meeting the same old guy.

When he got to the front of the line, he was met with a pretty young lady, with long blonde hair. She brought him to the backroom, where he documented himself. The entire process was a lot more enjoyable than before. When Harry was done, he found his friends, and they all headed out of the Ministry, to Diagon Alley.

"Why are we here?" Ron asked. They all started walked.

"I wanted to find out who is Slavic in my family. And Gringotts has the records of everyone. So naturally they would know." Harry told them.

They all walked into Gringotts, and they walked to the Goblin sitting on his pedestal.

"What can I help you with?" He sneered.

"I'd like to meet with the elf that manages the Potter house. I need to look through my family tree." Harry told him. The Goblin sighed, and called for Ragnorok.

A small stubby Goblin gestured for the group to follow him.

They all went into his office, and sat down.

"My name is Ragnorok, the Goblin who deals with the Potter estate. What can I do for you, Mr. Potter?" The goblin asked Harry.

"Thank you for meeting with me. I need to figure out who in my family line is Slavic. I just recently found out that I can become a Leshy, and I'd like to know who in my family has Slavic blood." Harry asked him. Ragnorok dug a long scroll out of his desk drawer, and rolled it out on the table. There was a long list of names. He waved his hand over it, and a name lit up.

"It looks like Tom Riddle was Slavic." Ragnorok said. Everyone looked at the tree. Harry pointed out one name.

"Why is Tom Riddle apart of my family tree? And how come Tom Riddle is Slavic?" Harry asked.

"It's because Merope Gaunt married a Slavic Muggle named Tom Riddle. She became Merope Riddle. Tom Riddle was the only child of the two, and he possessed Slavic blood. When the Dark Lord unknowingly made you his horcrux, you possessed the Slavic blood that he did. The Gaunt family has always been apart of the Potter family. The Gaunts are about as common as the Pevirrel. Almost everyone is related to someone who was a Gaunt. You just happened to be a link that jumped a couple generations." Ragnorok explained to him.

"Oh." Harry said.

"Well thank you for helping me out, Ragnorok. I really appreciate." Harry thanked him. The group left, and flooed back home to the Burrow.

When they got back home, Molly immediately greeted them.

"Welcome back. If you told me ahead of time that you'd be here, I would've waited." Molly apologized. She hugged everyone.

"It's alright. We had a couple things to do anyways. But know that we are back, I can tell you the great news." Harry said. Everyone sat down, and Molly was reading to hear the news.

"I became an animagus." Harry told her happily. Molly clapped her hands together.

"That's fantastic. What animagus are you?" She asked.

Harry stood up, and moved to a cleared out area of the room. He sat down, and transformed into a Leshy. He cocked his head a little so his antlers wouldn't hit the ceiling.

"Merlin's beard, what are you?" She asked startled. "Sorry. That sounded rude." She apologized. Draco spoke up for him.

"Harry is a Leshy. It's a Slavic mythological creature. They can turn into any animal, and are pretty much the king of the forest." Draco summed up. Harry turned into a cat, then a wolf, and then back into himself.

"I can be anything. And I can talk to plants." Harry told her. Molly thought about it.

"I'm happy for you. It's just a bit hard to wrap my head around this is all." She said.

Molly didn't really know what to say, so she decided to distract from the topic.

"How about we all eat a late lunch together?" She suggested. Everyone agreed, and Molly whipped up a quick lunch of warm sandwiches and fruit salads.

Arthur and George joined, and they all ate lunch together, while catching up with each other.

It was soon time for Harry and the others to leave. They needed to get back to school early so no one would know they were gone. They failed to mention that they snuck off the grounds to be there.

The group said their goodbyes, and went outside to dissaperate near the barrier.

When they got there, Harry transformed into a Hippogriff.

"What are you doing?" Draco asked Harry. Harry bowed to Draco and he looked back to his back.

"You want us to ride you?" Ron asked, trying to clarify what Harry meant. Harry nodded his head. Draco climbed onto Harry's back, then Hermione, then Ron. Everyone held on tight, and Draco held onto Harry neck. Harry started to run towards the valley, then jumped of the cliff. Everyone screamed, but soon stopped when they realized they were flying. Harry flapped his wings, and they all soared towards the empty Quiditch Pitch. Harry landed, and changed back into himself.

"Flying is so fun!" Harry exclaimed. The rush was amazing. They all laughed together.

"It was fun." Draco admitted. Everyone headed inside to their common rooms to hang out for a bit.

They had a light dinner, and then everyone headed to their dorms for the night. Harry wrapped his arms around Draco, and Draco nuzzled into Harry's chest.

"Goodnight." Draco said.

"Goodnight." Harry repeated back.

lol doods I did research for this chapter. the only thing I improvised was the whole tom riddle being Slavic thing. but the gaunt and riddle family is present in the potter tee, and leshy is an actual myth

btw I didn't spell check or grammar checked this chapter, so sorry if theres some odd words

~Alex