Beware of the Fat Muggle In Love

------------Beware of the fat Muggle in love part "Training Day"----------------------

Harry stepped out in the cold winter wind with his Firebolt in his hand, trying to spot Colin through the heavy snowflakes falling to the ground.

He could´nt see him anywhere.

"I´m up here, Harry!" Colin´s strange echoe-voice startled Harry.

He looked up and saw Colin fly around in a circular motion.

Harry got on his Firebolt and took off in Colin´s direction.

When Harry got closer he saw that Colin had grown wings! They stretched out of his armpits all the way down to his thighs and his wrists like bat wings!

"Where the hell did those come from? I didn´t see them before!" Harry said.

"I can hide them pretty good! I just relax when I don´t want them visible," said Colin smiling, showing his vampire teeth.

Harry shuddered at the sight of them.

"Try to follow me!" said Colin suddenly and flew off towards the Forbidden Forrest, spiraling and doing an occasional loop.

Harry lost him from sight a couple of times because of the snow, but saw him again when Colin had done some trick.

"Incredible! He´s at least twice as fast as my Firebolt!" Harry thought to himself.

When they were a good hundred meters into, and above, the Forbidden Forrest, Colin stopped and dove down among the trees.

Harry followed him and after about two minutes of flight, he spotted Colin sitting on a large rock the sixe of a small cottage.

Harry hovered next to him.

"You fly fast!" Harry started but Colin shushed him and stared into the bushes.

"There! Do you hear them?" Colin said and pointed to the bushes.

Harry strained to hear something, but could only hear the wind above them, as the pine trees around them were too close together to let any wind in through the forrest, so there was only a slight breese now and then, with the huge snowflakes falling all around.

The snow is starting to increase, both in size and amount, Harry thought smelling a snowstorm or a blizzard coming.

"I think we should leave, Colin. I think there´s a snowstorm coming and..." Harry said but was again shushed by Colin.

"There´s one of them!" Colin exclaimed suddenly and lept into the bushes.

Harry jumped off his broom onto the rock and tried to spot Colin.

He heard an absolutely spinechilling scream and grabbed his wand, ready to incinerate anything that would come at him.

Suddenly a limp body came flying through the dim light of the forrest and landed, obviously dead, next to the large rock.

It´s stomach was missing and so was it´s left arm.

"A Vampire?" said Harry and felt scared.

What the hell is Colin doing? Why did he get me out here? Harry thought.

"That´s better!" Colin had appeared right next to Harry on the rock so fast that Harry jumped and almost fell off the rock.

"AAH!! Don´t do that!" Harry said.

"Sorry," Colin answered and wiped a massive trail of black blood from his face.

"What did you do?" Harry asked him.

"I don´t know why, but I felt an urge to go here and when I smelled it I knew what I had to do," Colin said.

Harry still didn´t understand.

"I think I need to drink Vampire blood as well as human blood," Colin continued.

"Because you´re half of both?" Harry asked.

"I guess. It sure was tasty!" Colin said and laughed in his creepy echoe-voice.

The wind had picked up and it was starting to get difficult to see more than a couple of yards in front of you, so they decided to leave.

"Harry? Can I ask you a question?" said Colin just when they were about to rise into the air, both in their own special way.

"Sure!" said Harry.

"How come you were so friendly to me now?"

"What do you mean?"

"Before I was transformed, you mostly wanted me to get the hell out of your way,"

"No I didn´t!"

"Yes you did! I know you did, but it´s allright, really,"

Harry felt bad and guilty.

"But now that I´m half and half, you want to be my friend. Why?"

"I guess it´s because I feel guilty for not treating you right before you turned. I want to make it up to you,"

Colin seemd to think about what Harry had said.

"Will you come hunting with me now and then?" Colin asked suddenly.

Harry thought about it.

"Ok, when I have the chance. I have a lot of other things to worry about, like Quidditch and my extra training, so I can´t promise I can go everytime," said Harry.

Colin nodded.

"Thanks. Now let´s get out of here."

"Wait. I just want to say something. Don´t be pissed at Dudley for what happened, ok? He´s changed so much since that night," Harry said.

"I´m not pissed at him. I never were. But Malfoy, however! I knew Dudley was under his influence and I´m not done with Malfoy yet," Colin said and shot off into the air.

Harry sighed a sigh of relief and kicked off the ground with his Firebolt, joining Colin as fast as he could.

"A Werewolf! Definately a Werewolf!"

Ron, Neville, Dudley and Harry were walking around aimlessly through the castle talking about their Animagus training and what forms Neville and ROn was going to choose.

"Are you sure? It´s not really an inconspicous animal your choosing," Harry said.

"Neither are any of the twohundred and fifty other Magical animals on the list, Harry!" Ron answered.

Harry felt dumb.

"Besides I know how it feels to be turned into one since last Halloween," Ron continued.

"And you wouldn´t belive how many different types of werewolves there are! There´s about seven different humanoids and three fifty fifty forms and five Lupos!" Ron said excitedly.

The others looked at him funny.

"What the hell does that mean?" said Dudley.

Ron sighed as if he was dealing with total idiots.

"The humanoids are Werewolves that have a more human appearance than wolf. The fifty fifty´s are an exactly even mix of human and wolf, making them more smart and more powerful, and the Lupos are more wolf than human," Ron said as if he was talking to children.

"Remus is a Lupos Werewolf in his trasnformed shape, that´s also why he´s so dangerous if he hasn´t been drinking his potion to calm him down,."

"Why is one more dangerous than the other?" asked Neville.

"It´s all about brains! A Lupos has more of the wolf brain and goes more by instinct and hunger than a humanoid, who has more of a human brain and can still use reason and logic, but is still under some control of the Werewolf hunger," Ron said and scratched his nose.

"But the fifty fifty are the best kind! They think like humans but have superior strength to the other kinds, plus its claws are harder than steel! I´m definately choosing that Werewolf!" said Ron and snickered.

"What have you chosen, Neville?" asked Dudley.

"Nothing as elaborate as Ron´s, I´m afraid," Neville said.

"I´m sure it´s a good choice anyway," said Harry.

"A Bald Eagle," said Neville.

"Well that´s a nice animal," said Dudley.

"Yeah, but it isn´t a killer like Harry´s Wolverine or has metal claws like Ron´s Werewolf! It doesn´t even have a cool name like Hermione´s Black Panther!" Neville said.

"But it does have dignity!"

They all turned around and saw Colin crawling out of the shadows like a spider on the wall behind them.

"And it is one of the most beautiful non-magical birds and you can fly in it´s form, which none of the others can and believe me, flying under your own power is the best!" Colin continued.

Dudley was very nervous, thinking Colin had come to take his revenge.

"Relax, Dudley. I´m not here to kill you. I know it was all Malfoy´s fault and I don´t hold you responsible," Colin said.

He gracefully climbed to the floor and patted his head.

"I know what has happened. I´ve read your minds and I know you will defeat the Dark Lord," Colin said and walked by them.

He stopped and stared at the floor.

"Ah, Malfoy!" he said and smiled.

"Excuse me, I have some revenge to pass out to a certain someone," He said and turned into a green mist before the boys eyes.

The mist found a crack in the wall and passed through it.

The boys stood there for a good minute in silence.

"He´s creepy!" said Ron.

The others agreed and they walked on.

After dinner, Harry, Neville and Ron went to the Underground for their first Animagus training.

Harry would be acting as McGonagalls assistant.

They took the same way as they´d done before and soon found themselves inside the huge domed room again.

"I hope you two have chosen each an Animal to transform into?" said McGonagall in her strict voice.

Ron and Neville nodded and told her which animal they´d chosen.

"Oh, nice choices! Especially if you are to battle Evil Wizards in your forms," she said.

They went on and learned how to make their bodys shrink and grow and alter itself.

They were each following the step by step books and made, according to McGonagall, incredible process.

"If you keep this rate up, you may very well be finished by the third Quidditch match of the year!" she said.

Neville and Ron smiled.

Ron learned how to change halfway into his Werewolf form, but it was still naked and he had some diffifulty in growing the fur.

Neville had no problem with the feather part, but didn´t quite get the hang of turning his head into an Eagles.

After a good two hours of training, McGonagall gave them their homework and dismissed them.

On the walk back to the Gryffindor Tower, they talked about it and Harry tried to help them with some visualisation tricks they could use to get the fur and head thing right.

The next morning was Christmas Day and they found their Christmas present in the common room.

Ron had gotten another sweater from his mother, green and orange with a big black R on it, and he´d gotten a whole bag full of joke candy and false wands and other things that Fred and George had invented themselves.

He got a big basket of candy from Ginny, Bill and Charlie and from his father, he got a Nimbus 2001!

It had been on sale as that was the only way to sell them as the new Firebolt Electric had just been released.

Hermione had sent him a book. A very special Muggle book called the KamaSutra.

Along with it she´d sent a note telling him to read as much of it as posible until school started again.

Harry got another shirt from Ron´s mother, black and red with a white H on it.

He also got a big bag of stuff from Fred and George and the bag of candy from Ginny, Bill and Charlie and Arthur Weasley had chipped in on that one also.

Hermione gave him a necklace with a little silver character hanging in the silver chain; it was the Marvel superhero Wolverine.

A note told him she thought it was absolutely perfect for him.

From Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon he got a little blue and black box with a note attatched.

"If anything happens to Dudley, you are the one who gets it!"

Harry laughed and opened the box.

It was a Gillette Blueblade razor for shaving. It was one of Uncle Vernons old ones, but it was still the most decent present he´d gotten from them in years.

Neville had gotten a fruitcake and a book about plants from his grandmother.

Hermione had sent him a necklace also.

It was in a gold chain and a jade frog with a silver ring around it.

In Neville´s pile of presents was a also little spellbook on how to confuse teachers( a gift from Fred and George)

Harry and Ron had given him a whole pack of condoms(some actually whispered encouraging words) mostly as a joke, but he liked them alot.

Even though his ears went bright red.

They went down to eat breakfast and met Dudley, already sitting at the Gryffindor table eating ham and eggs and sausages.

He´ll gain all that weight he´s lost over the holiday if he continues eating like that, Harry thought and noticed for the fisrt time that Dudley had actually lost alot of weight.

When he'd first come to Hogwarts, Dudley had been massively overweight, but now he was just a little bigger than Neville and Neville wasn't that fat; just a little pudgy, actually.

"Hey, Dudley!" said Ron and sat down next to him. Neville sat on the other side of Dudley and Harry sat right across them.

"Hi! How was the training?" Dudley asked, almost in a whisper and very excited.

"It was pretty fun, really! But difficult at first. I still can't get the fur to grow correctly," said Ron and frowned.

"It'll work out in the end. Or you'll have to battle The Dark Lord as a naked Werewolf!" Neville said and everyone, except Ron, laughed.

Remus Lupin heard them laughing as he entered the Great Hall and walked over to them.

"Hello, guys! What's so funny?" he asked and smiled, waving his hair out of his face.

"Ron is!" said Dudley, still giggling.

"Oh, well I get the joke now," Remus said sarchastically, but in good tone.

"Well, Ron's Animagus form is a certain form of a Werewolf..." Harry started saying but was interrupted by Neville.

"But he can't get the fur to grow the way it's supposed to, so..." Neville was cut off by Ron, looking very not amused.

"So, they find it very funny that I might have to fight the Dark Lord as a naked Werewolf! Haha bloody Ha!" Ron said and took a bite out of a meatball.

Remus looked at them a bit crosseyed.

Then he laughed.

"That is pretty funny!" he said as he walked away to take his place at the teachers table.

The boys continued their meals.

Harry was still baffled about his present from Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia and got to think about Dudley.

What had they given him now that they knew he was also part of the Wizarding community.

"Erh, Dudley? What did you get for Christmas?" Harry asked.

Dudley swallowed a bite of cheese omelette before he answered.

"Let's see now. I got your presents," he said. Harry had bought him a Sneakoscope to help him against Malfoy who had found it immensly funny to cover Dudley's bed with a new variety of nasty slugs or insect every night.

Ron had gotten him a talisman to protect him from Malfoy.(But Dudley wasn't convinced that a pair of ocelot testicles were all that much protection.)

Neville bought him a leather thong and a bottle of massage oil. No alterior motive there, Dudley had thought when he saw them.

"And from Hermione I got a book. It was a novel by Stephen King..." Dudley said but was cut off by Ron.

"King? What country is he king of?" he asked.

The others didn't answer him as they all knew it was such a dumb question.

"Which novel?" said Neville.

"IT," said Dudley.

"Oh, the one were there's this really creepy clown who kills kids, right?" said Harry.

"Yeah, that's the one," Dudley said.

"And from mom and dad I got a whole bunch of presents!" he continued.

"And a note wishing me a happy Christmas and...and...Well, they said something about forgiving me for the unnatural ways that had developed. I don't really know what that means."

"It's about you going to Hogwarts! Remember how they have treated me for being a wizard?" Harry said.

"Oh. Yeah, forgot that," Dudley said sheepishly.

"I'm sorry for not getting you guys anything," Dudley said.

"That's ok! You don't have any money like Harry does," Ron said.

Dudley looked funny.

"You have money?"

"Well, yeah. My parents left me a pretty big pile of money when they were killed," Harry said feeling guilty about being rich when he had not one but two friends that were poor now.

"How much do you have, really?" Dudley asked on.

"I've never counted it, but I suspect it's well over three million Galleons," Harry said.

Neville and Ron choked on whatever they were eating and looked up at Harry with huge eyes.

"Three million Galleons?!?" Neville said.

"Yeah, but that's not counting the piles of Knuts and Sickles," Harry said reddening.

"Harry? Will you marry me?" Ron said and Neville and Dudley laughed, but Harry thought he saw a flicker of honesty in Ron's eyes before he laughed too.

They finished their meals and were about to exit The Great Hall when Dumbledore called out Dudley's name.

"You guys go. I'll meet up with you in an hour or so outside Gryffindor Tower," Dudley said and walked over to Dumbledore.

"I thought it was time to consult the Sorting Hat about your house belonging, don't you think?" Albus said.

Dudley's heart jumped up into his throat.

"O..Ok!" he said and followed Dumbledore to his office.

Dudley sat down on Dumbledore's suggestion as he himself took down the Sorting Hat and put it on his own head, seemingly talking to it in his head as he'd done the first time Dudley had been in Albus Dumbledore's office.

"Well, alright then," said Dumbledore and took off the Hat.

"It seems that old Sorty here might have made a mistake with you after all! He says he was a bit drowsy when you tried him on at the start of the year and he is willing to reconsider your placing," Albus said and placed the Hat on Dudley's head.

Dudley heard the Sorting Hat's voice instantly in his head.

"Hello again, Dursley! It seems that I might have made a mistake for the first time since I started this job. But let's fix that shall we?"

Dudley nodded.

"Hmmm, yes. You've changed a great deal in these past months, I see that clearly! You now have a love in your heart that wasn't there before, and your care for others has grown immensly!"

Dudley didn't know what this meant but he was hoping for the best.

"And your friends are Gryffindors, as is your loved one! But you still have unfinished buisness in Slytherin, I might add!"

Dudley was afraid he would have to stay in Slytherin, but sighed a great sigh of relief at the Sorting Hat's following words.

"But nothing you can't take care of in another house! I say that you belong in..."

"GRYFFINDOR!!" the Hat cried out and scared Dumbledore so he fell backward over the desk.

"Oh my! Does he have to do that every time? He always makes me jump halfway out of my skin!" Dumbldore said.

"But there was that one time when one student actually did jump out of her skin! Poppy had her work cut out for her that week I tell you!" he continued.

"So, I'm a Gryffindor now?" Dudley asked smiling.

"It appears so!" Albus said and smiled too.

"The password for Gryffindor Tower is Chocolate Strawberry."

Dudley ran up to him and hugged him before he ran out of his office and practically skipped to the Gryffindor Tower.

He walked up the marble staircase and said the password to the Lady in the Pink dress, and walked up the stairs.

But the person he found there was not the ones who he expected to find.

-------------to be continued in part 16 "Gryffindor VS Ravenclaw"-----------