It wasn't that Harbinger didn't like his familiar; it's that Zèl, the chicken, constantly roasted him about being Harbinger's first attempt at voodoo. It didn't go well for either of them, but as you may suspect, becoming a mostly-dead-chicken familiar wasn't the worst thing that happened to Zèl that day.
in which our hero needed to feel comfortable posting something if was going to happen today and then made a point about art and fidelity and being a child just needing to be loved