A Nundu for A Pet

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Ted

"Ted, I would appreciate it if you could visit a place for me." Minerva requested. She knew she could do it herself; she remembered that bloody neighborhood but didn't want to draw attention. Ted was a muggle-born, so he could do it without drawing attention from anyone.

"A Place? Where? and Why?"

"Number Four, Privet Drive, located in the Surrey town of Little Whinging. There's a house there. I want you to check it for me. Since you are Muggleborn, you can do that without drawing attention, I would do it myself, but I can't do that during the night, and during the day. I'm supposed to be at Hogwarts."

"Check what?" Ted asked, sounding confused. He didn't understand what was so special about this particular neighborhood.

"We left him there. I want you to check the House and tell me if you see anything unusual."

"Who did you left?"

"Harry Potter." Ted looked taken aback upon hearing that that was a muggle neighborhood, and he was certain the boy who lived wasn't a muggle. He was able to kill the Dark Lord after all; he didn't know for sure what happened that night, but whatever it was, it involved magic, so he didn't understand why Harry was in a muggle neighborhood. No one knew where he lived, but they figured a family of wizards was raising him; some even speculated that Dumbledore was raising him to be the best Wizard, but he highly doubted it. The man was too old and was a headmaster; he had no time to raise a baby.

Ted looked at the Professor with a curious expression, his mind swirling with questions. "Why there?" he asked, gesturing towards the small houses in the distance. "Surely, there must be hundreds of wizard families who would gladly take in young Harry," he added, remembering the countless inquiries he and his wife had received about the boy's whereabouts. They had become a clearinghouse for information on Harry Potter, with many families wanting to send gifts and tokens of gratitude for his brave defeat of the Dark Lord.

"You speak the truth, Edward, but Dumbledore wanted him to be raised there, saying he needed to be raised with the only family he had left." The gasp he heard made him flinch; he quickly looked at his wife with concern, ready to ask what was wrong.

"His only family left?! McGonagall, please don't tell me that you left him with Lily's sister." His wife looked horrified; he wondered what was wrong with leaving him to grow up with his aunt; sure, it would be better to be raised as a Wizard, but perhaps Professor Dumbledore had a good enough reason to want him amongst his last relatives.

Professor's expression turned sour as she frowned at her trembling hands, grasping tightly onto the delicate porcelain cup filled with steaming tea. With each sip, her hands shook uncontrollably, causing the liquid to ripple and dance within the cup. Suddenly, she looked older than she was.

"Dumbledore told me that he wanted Harry to be raised there. I watched them the whole day and didn't really like them. I told him as much, but he refused to listen, telling me they were the only family he had left and growing up without knowing about his fame would be better than being spoiled." She spoke the words with a hint of venom in every word she spat. Ted still didn't understand what was so wrong about Lily's sister; he had known James, but he hadn't really known Lily.

"Spoiled by fame. Professor, you saw yourself what kind of Neighbourhood that was, and you still decided to leave him there. Lily's sister hates our kind. Did you not realise that?" She almost shouted at the end but quickly looked away in guilt; shouting at the old Professor wouldn't do her any good.

"I'm sorry." She quickly followed, realizing that she had perhaps gone a little overboard. Ted placed a hand on her shoulder, rubbing her back, before looking at the old Professor. Her face showed guilt, but it wasn't the time for that right now.

"Professor, if Lily's sister hates our kind, you left him there anyway. What changed now? It's been eight years since Dark Lord's downfall. What changed that only now you want to check on him?" Upon hearing that question, she scowled, her eyes flashing with anger. Ted was taken aback; he had never seen her look so angry.

"I had a meeting with Dumbledore, but after I left. I heard him discussing something with a woman, she told him that Harry wasn't treated well, I didn't hear everything, but that convinced me that I needed to check." She explained with a strained voice, trying not to sound as displeased as she felt.

Dumbledore was still Dumbledore. A man she greatly respected, someone she considered as the pinnacle of what a Wizard should be, but if Harry Potter was really being mistreated, and he knew all along, then— her trust would be broken. Perhaps he had a reason that she couldn't see, but no reason was good enough to let a child grow up like that amongst people who hate his kind.

"Why did Dumbledore leave him there?" He asked, feeling confused and lost in a way. From what he understood, Lily's sister hated their kind, so why leave a child with them?

"Andromeda knew Lily, we would have gladly taken him in." He quickly added, knowing his wife would be more than willing to raise Harry, and it would have given Nymphadora a little brother, and she wouldn't feel as alone as sometimes she used to feel before her letter from Hogwarts came.

"Professor McGonagall, you should have told me right away." Andromeda quickly added, feeling a little betrayed that the Professor she respected the most had kept quiet about such an important matter.

"Perhaps I should have, but--I'm going to be honest. I was against his decision, but in the end, I went along with it because it was Dumbledore, and I thought that perhaps I couldn't see the bigger picture. I don't know, but I'm starting to regret it." I already regret it, but if he is indeed mistreated, then- how can I ever look at myself in the mirror ever again, McGonagall wanted to say but held her tongue. Right now, they needed to check on him as soon as possible.

Andromeda seemed like she wanted to say much more to her old Professor, perhaps to criticize her, but a look from her husband made her decide it wasn't worth it.

As Ted parted his lips to speak, a deafening boom suddenly erupted from the second floor of the house. The air was filled with the acrid scent of smoke and dust while tiny fragments of debris rained down upon the startled occupants below. Amidst the chaos, Ted could make out the word "Bombarda" being shouted from above.

"Nymphadora! Accio!" Andromeda shouted, enraged; suddenly, their daughter was right in front of them; she quickly pouted, with the wand in her right hand, that she moved around like a toy.

"What were you doing, Nymphadora?" She demanded, still keeping her daughter afloat, while saying her name louder, causing their daughter's hair to turn red like flames; now, she was the one enraged.

"That's not my bloody name, and I was trying to use Bombarda. I was doing good until you decided to ruin my fun." She pouted even more before crossing her arms. Ted wasn't sure if he should be proud that his daughter wasn't allowing anyone to metaphorically step on her, but at the same time, she needed to listen to them, especially to Andromeda.

"Oh, I ruined your fun. You are lucky Professor McGonagall is here, or you would be grounded young lady." "Don't mind me, Andromeda. Just act as if I'm not even here." McGonagall quickly added with what seemed like a smug smirk before she frowned quickly as she looked at his daughter; now, she looked like a proper Professor.

"Ten points from Hufflepuff."

"We are not in school." Nymphadora quickly added with a smile of triumph.

"Twenty points from Hufflepuff. Congratulations, Nymphadora. You are the first student to lose points before the year even started." McGonagall added with a smile of smugness across her face; his daughter's hair turned bright red in anger.

"I Hate That Name!!" '

"Come in." Ted walked inside, looking around the house. It was a simple, beautiful house, but he couldn't help but feel something strange; he didn't know what it was, but something about the air inside the house felt strange. It felt heavier and dirty like he was underground.

"Do you want a cup of tea?"

"Oh, no need to bother yourself; we won't be here long." Upon saying that, he heard the sound of a door opening; he turned to see a young boy walking out of the cupboard under the staircase.

While that caught him off guard, something else immediately grabbed his attention, something sitting on the boy's shoulder; at first glance, it appeared to be a normal cat, but her eyes, her size, the color of her fur, her tail similar to that of a lion, his heart stopped when he realized at what kind of creature he was staring at.

A Nundu, he thought, getting panicked. Without realizing it, he quickly got hold of his wand while pushing his daughter behind him. A part of him knew this was foolish. A Nundu was one of the most powerful Magical Creatures in the World. It's beaten only by a Basilisk in some areas.

"Get behind me!" He bellowed, brandishing his wand at the fierce Nundu. But as he cast the Depulso spell. Instead of the creature being pushed back, the magic seemed to turn against him, hurling him into the wall with a resounding thud. As he struggled to catch his breath, a searing pain shot through his back. In the chaos, he could hear the cries of someone and the sound of shattering glass as the framed photos crashed to the ground.

"What are you doing?" He heard someone shout as he heard people running away. Ted ignored the back pain as he quickly aimed his wand at the Nundu, whose eyes now were red like blood; she had jumped from the boy's shoulder and was now standing on the floor; he wondered why she seemed bigger now.

"Harry, stay away from her. Nym, leave now!" He ordered frantically as he aimed his wand at the approaching Nundu, trying to think of a spell that would work against her.

"Get Away! Bombarda!" His daughter suddenly shouted, aiming her own wand at the Nundu, but Harry was still near her.

"Accio!" Ted quickly shouted, pulling Harry close to him as a series of explosives happened all around the Nundu; fire and black smoke engulfed the entire kitchen; he tried to get a hold of him, but seeing what happened to the Nundu made Harry gasp in shock.

"Itisa!!" He cried out, sounding heartbroken, as he fell on his knees; suddenly, all the smoke and the fire slowly sank inside the Nundu's skin, which had changed; instead of spikes, now she had plates like Armour around her body, her body had grown to the size of a normal Tiger, as black as night.

The Nundu glared furiously at his daughter; suddenly, she was thrown across the hall before smashing against the door that led outside, and the girl cried out in pain.

"Itisa. Stop Attacking Her!" The boy shouted as he tried to escape his grip, but Ted knew he stood no chance against this beast. What he needed to do was take Harry, his daughter, and use Apparition to go back to his house. The Nundu would perhaps destroy the entire neighborhood with her Black Breath of Death, but he knew he didn't have time to save everyone.

Suddenly, the entire house started shaking violently, causing the sturdy walls to crack and the delicate windows to shatter like mere toothpicks. The ground trembled beneath their feet as the force of the Nundu rattled everything in its path. The fire that Itisa had consumed from the spell was on the bottom of her throat; the air suddenly felt heavy and extremely dry in his throat; it felt like he was swallowing a handful of sand, his organs burned, and suddenly his knees were weak, Ted clenched his ribs tightly, he tried to stand up and reach his daughter when suddenly all the pressure disappeared.

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Just like that.

Ted and his daughter were both taken aback, their breaths catching in their throats as they collapsed to the ground, their bodies trembling with exertion and adrenaline. Beads of sweat dripped down their flushed faces, their chests heaving as they struggled to compose themselves. Ted didn't understand what had just happened or why the Nundu wasn't already destroying the entire place. As he looked up, the sight almost made him gasp.

Harry was hugging the magical creature like she was his pet. Ted saw her features softening slowly; now, she didn't look as dangerous.

Ted stood up, but it seemed the boy heard him; he quickly turned around and faced him; he stood in front of the Nundu, using his body like a shield, glaring fiercely at them both; his green eyes glittered like emeralds.

"Stay away from Itisa. Get Out!" Harry shouted angrily, his voice echoing through the house's walls like thunder. The Nundu still was the size of a Lion, but her plates of Armour had disappeared, and black spikes engulfed her body, except for the part around her head where Harry's hand was resting.

Ted couldn't understand how this was possible. Nundus were known as extremely violent creatures; they attacked everyone and anything; there were even cases of Female Nundus attacking their own cubs, yet this one seemed 'tamed' in a way. Was this just another miracle that Harry Potter was capable of? He didn't know, but he knew she was still watching them closely; her red eyes made it clear she was waiting for the opportunity to strike.

Ted opened his mouth to speak when a shot of sharp pain shot through his neck like flames. While Tonks seemed to be doing better as she ran up to him.

"Father, what is happening?" She asked, but unlike him, she didn't seem as afraid that a Nundu was right before them.

Ted grasped his wand, but that was a bad move; before he knew it, his wand was blown out of his hands, flying outside through the window as The Nundu roared, causing the entire house to shake violently. Ted raised his hands while Tonks slowly put her wand inside her hostler.

"You, you are Harry Potter?" Ted questioned, already knowing the answer. The boy looked at him with even more suspicion now as he gazed at him.

"How do you know my name?" Harry questioned firmly, his voice seeping with suspicion, and it seemed this got the Nundu even angrier as she growled in fury towards them; Ted noticed the red mist accumulating deep into her throat. He didn't know what that mist could do; he knew what the black one could do, but not the red one.

"You are the Boy Who Lived; everyone knows you," Tonks answered swiftly as if the answer was obvious, but the confusion on his face made it clear that he didn't know what they were talking about.

Ted wished they had time to talk, but they needed to leave right now; while the Nundu wasn't trying to kill them, they were extremely dangerous creatures, and there was a reason they were considered Extreme Threats by every Ministry around the World. They were powerful enough to desolate an entire city, but the number of times they used the Black Breath was very low.

Ted didn't know enough about them; at a time like this, he wished Hagrid was here to explain something about them since he knew everything about Magical Creatures, almost everything.

Ted knew he needed to alarm the Ministry about this; a creature like her needed to be either put down or put in a safe place. They couldn't allow her to roam freely; he wondered how she even got here. Nundus were usually found in Africa.

"Harry, you need to come with us," Ted said with a soft, inviting voice, extending his hand towards him, but Harry shook his head while still using his body like a shield to protect the Nundu.

What he was doing made Ted sweat in concern; he still didn't understand why a creature like her was not attacking them and seemed to like Harry's company. Perhaps she was tamed, in a way, but all she needed was to change her mind and desolate the entire place. Ted knew he couldn't just pray that she wouldn't do anything to anyone.

"Harry, she's dangerous-" "She's my friend. She's Itisa. I want you two to leave." Suddenly, the entire house shook once again, but Ted was sure this one time the one responsible wasn't the Nundu, but the boy himself.

"She's your friend!" Nym gasped with amazement, trying to get closer; his daughter seemed to have forgotten that she had been attacked a minute ago by the same creature. "That's amazing." She added, taking a step closer, but the growl from the Nundu made it clear that she shouldn't get closer.

"Come here," Ted demanded; his voice made it clear that now wasn't the time to disobey him. Reluctantly, she walked up to him; his hand reached down and grasped her shoulder, and his eyes remained on the boy and the Nundu.

"Harry, I know you don't know us, but I need you to come with us. The Nundu is dangerous." Ted tried to reason, but it seemed his words only confused the boy even more.

"What's a Nundu?"

"The thing behind you," Nym answered once again with a tone as if the answer was obvious. Ted wondered how she knew that since students were supposed to learn about Magical Creatures of her Rank in the very last year of Hogwarts.

Harry looked at the Nundu behind him, patting the top of her head, before turning to look at them; the smile went away. "Get Out. I don't want you two here." He said firmly, still keeping the Nundu behind him with his right hand, using his body as a shield.

"But Harry-" "You attacked, Itisa. You almost killed her. Leave Now." Harry interrupted Nym with a shout at the end, causing the entire house to shake once again; the place seemed ready to fall down.

"Reparo." His daughter suddenly said that Harry was distracted at the sight of everything broken and out of place and was slowly going back to the previous place before Itisa started destroying the place. Ted slowly and silently used Accio, his wand again in his hand, but it seemed the Nundu had noticed his move.

But before she could do anything, Ted quickly used Apparition. He and his daughter appeared near enough to their house, but since it had anti-Apparition spells around it, they couldn't appear inside.

"W-What about Harry?" His daughter quickly asked the moment she realized they were back home as she stood up and dusted off the dirt from her clothes.

"We won't leave him alone," Ted told her before grasping her hand. Soon enough, they reached their house. He walked inside, and much to his relief, Andromeda was in the kitchen. Ted only now realized how tired he was, but there was no time to rest; he needed to contact Dumbledore and the Ministry. A Nundu was in Britain and could easily cause a huge devastation.

"Mother, We Saw Harry and a Nundu." His daughter screamed, running into the kitchen. Ted wished he had been the one to break the bad news, but his daughter seemed too excited to wait for him.

"A Nundu! Nymphadora. How many times have I told you not to lie?" Ted heard her scolding their daughter as he stepped into the kitchen. He didn't know why, but he felt exhausted as if he had been fighting for an hour without stopping, yet it had been only ten minutes in that house.

"I'm not Lying!" Their daughter shouted, her hair not turning red this time; it seemed the excitement of seeing a Nundu made her forget that her mother just called her by the name she hated. While Ted usually enjoyed it whenever his daughter would start bickering with Andromeda, right now, he had no time to waste.

"Nymphadora. To your room. Now." He commanded firmly, fixing her with a look that made it clear that it was not something to be discussed; hanging her head down, she walked upstairs while pouting loudly.

"I Hate That Name." He heard her shout before hearing the sound of a door closing with force.

"Ted, what happened? What is she talking about?" Andromeda questioned, seeing the concern on his face. He gestured for her to stop cleaning the plates and sit at the table with him.

"Ted, how was Harry Potter? Did you see him? What was he like?" She questioned frantically, wanting to know everything she could about Lily's son.

"Fierce," Ted answered right away as he filled a glass with cold water; he drank it all with one breath, now feeling much better. He knew what he was about to tell her would shake her world. Hell, he still couldn't really believe what he just saw.

"But we have bigger problems. Our daughter wasn't lying, Harry has A Nundu for a Pet." He didn't know how else to describe it; from what he saw, that creature had been there before he visited them, and the fact that the entire Neighbourhood wasn't already in ruins made it clear that the Nundu was perhaps tamed. Somehow, Harry saw her as a pet.

Now that Ted was thinking more clearly and wasn't trying to fight with a creature that was said to be stronger than a hundred wizards. Only now he was able to realize that he had made a mistake. When he had seen the Nundu, he had attacked without thinking; who wouldn't, after all? His daughter was there, and so was Harry; both were children, but now that he thought about it. Not attacking right away would have been better than blindly attacking.

"A-A Nundu! Ted, are you drunk? No Nundu is kept in Britain, are you sure you saw what you saw?" Ted took a deep breath; he grasped her hands tightly before explaining everything that happened in the house. After he was done, Andromeda's face had gone as pale as a ghost.

"Y-you left Harry there with her." She shouted, feeling absolute rage; she sprang to her feet, carelessly toppling the chair that had been her seat just moments before.

"Is she alright? Nymphadora." She shouted; their daughter ran downstairs, reaching the kitchen. She was quickly checked by her mother, who used her wand, but when the wand's tip flashed green, she sighed heavily in relief before turning to face Ted.

"Mother, can we go to Harry again? I really want to see Itisa." Their daughter asked excitedly, jumping up and down. Ted was tempted to ask who 'Itisa' was when he remembered that Harry had called the Nundu by that name; Andromeda ignored her daughter, and suddenly, she had a look of realization.

"We need to tell the Ministry. A Nundu is considered a danger to the whole country. We need an entire battalion of Wizards to restrain her." Andromeda said, ready to send a letter to the Ministry, but Ted had been thinking about this and wasn't sure anymore if that was the best possible action right now.

"No. If we tell the Ministry, she will know we are trying to either capture her or kill her. She might decide to use her Black Breath, Harry might have survived whatever The Dark Lord tried to do that night, but the Black Breath is said to be strong enough to destroy an entire city." Ted reasoned, stopping his wife dead in her tracks.

"What then? We can't just keep quiet, and pray that she won't massacre Harry in his sleep." Andromeda questioned frantically, trying to find a way to fix this as soon as possible.

"I don't think she will do that, when I first saw her, she was sitting on Harry's shoulder, and she had many, many opportunities to use her breath, but she didn't. She got hostile towards me only because I attacked her first. If an army of Wizards suddenly show up in front of the Dursley's house. She will feel cornered and might just decide to use everything to protect herself. No, send a letter to Professor McGonagall, and Dumbledore."

"Dumbledore? You think he can defeat her by himself."

"We don't know yet if we have to fight; perhaps, as impossible as it sounds, Harry Potter has truly tamed the Nundu," Ted said. He knew that was crazy talk. He wasn't an expert in animals; that role belonged to Hagrid.

"Tame! Ted, if taming them was possible, Vol- You Know Who would have used them during the War. They are not cats, neither owls. But, you are right. We need to tell Professor Dumbledore. He might fix this." She said as she started writing the letter. Ted hoped he was right; while the Creature did attack them, he was certain that if he didn't attack first. Nothing would have happened.

"Father, can we go back to Harry?" His daughter questioned once again. Ted kneeled to her level before hugging her tightly; he looked at her and was relieved to see there was no damage as if the Nundu wasn't really trying to attack to kill but only to protect Harry.

Wait, Harry was there the whole time; if she had used her dangerous attacks, it would have affected him too. Is that why she refused to really fight them, Ted wondered, when he heard someone knocking on the door.

Opening it, he saw it was Professor McGonagall. "Well, how was Harry?" She questioned right away as she stepped inside with a look of expectation in her eyes. Ted cursed his luck as he opened his mouth to explain.

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