Chapter 10 - To fool your enemies you must first fool your friends

It's been 3 years since I started to train on my shapeshifting. it has not been easy. Learning how to walk, how to swim even how to fly. I must say that each animal have their own way of moving. You never know the differences until you learn how to do it yourself.

Lucky now I can camouflage with the environment. Ï could be the bird that is on any tree, the snake that is crawling or even a simple bug flying around. I can even become some inanimate objects but it put a heavy burden on my body both physically and magically. Most people wouldn't even notice my presence and much less know that it's me. Even my great grandfather have a hard time looking for me even when he knows where I am.

I even learn what it really means to be an animagus. The wizards that become animal don't change learning about their inner animal. They change when they see their true personalities and associate them with a particular animal and not only that I also understood that they do not acquire any of the instincts.

That is why an animagus can maintain its reasoning by transforming but at the same time the burden of the transformation is so heavy on their body that the longer they trasnform the more they resemble the animal even his mind begins to believe that they are the animal and that's where they acquire the resemblance. Also maintaining the form in a passive way consumes a lot of magic that added to the total change of the body consumes almost all the magic of the animagus.

That's why no animagus can transform into a magical being. Looks like every single one has magic coating their body and not only that but their abilities come from magic too. The burden is to heavy for the body of any animagus. Luckily my ability allow me to change to this magical beings. Sadly is only the shape but not the substance. That mean that I only look like the animal but have none of the resistances or abilities. More like a hollow shell of the animal.

Among other things. I'm almost done with this training all that remain is to scape from my great grandfather for another 10 minutes. I really shouldn't be thinking about this and focus on staying hidden. I saw my great grandfather walking amount the family's private forest.

''Appare Vestigium. Come out little bear. You can't hide for ever'' He said panting. Luckily for me the tracking spell is really complicate and he has been casting it constantly for almost 1 hour but I'm running out of places to hide. Since the revealing charm doesn't work on me everything will be defined in my performance.

After 5 more minutes, he finally reached the tree where I was hiding. He really is a good tracker I really tried so hard to lose him changing forms every two steps. And yet he never lost the clues of my tracks.

''Finally I reach you little bear. Now clim down that tree and come to me'' He said. I could see sweat and tiredness on his face but at the same time I could see a big smile. He called for me yet again but since he couldn't say certainty how I was hiding. I ignore him.

''Oh?. So you want play that game with me little bear?. Very well I will knock this tree down'' He said while pointing his wand to the tree. Suddenly a few Bowtruckles jumped right to the face of my great grandfather. Trying to gouge his eyes off. With great agility for his age, he pulled some woodlice out of one of his pockets and throw it to the side. While the Bowtruckles where distracted he concentrate on the tree again.

He then said ''I can see you now little bear. Accio'' I could see his smile. ''Well looks like is to early to stop your trainning. You almost got me but I win in the end little bear''

''Actually is my win'' I said to him while I pull his pants to get his attention from his back.