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Chapter 2
Finding Her
Last time:
As Harry signed the paper he had two more questions. "Will time remain the same and when am I getting sent back to?"
"As everything else in this world, the decisions you make are what sets you down certain paths. And as for the matter of when you are getting sent back to, it was the time in where your life changed. Oh and see you soon." Nick rolled up the parchment put it in his shirt and snapped his finger.
BOOM!
BOOM! Harry snapped up as he heard the thunderous pounding on something close by. He took a look around and noticed his whale-of-a-cousin staring at a door. Oh. Now I know what he meant by the time where my life changed. It's when Hagrid came busting down the door at the cottage on the rocks.
"Wh…wh…who's there?" Uncle Vernon stuttered while pointing a double barreled shotgun at the door. With one final boom the door fell off its hinges and there stood the half-giant Hagrid. He came in and apologized and put the door in front to block the wind and rain.
"Get out at once sir. You are breaking and entering." Hagrid walked over to the bigger whale and bend the gun barrel while Harry melted the ends together into one solid mass.
Hagrid walked over to the pair of them, but he couldn't see Harry due to the fact that he had pressed himself into the shadow. "I haven't seen ye since ye were a baby Harry. You're a bit more long than I would have expected, especially right in the middle." He chuckled.
"I…I…I'm not Harry." Dudley stuttered.
Harry stepped out of the shadow and announced. "I am."
"Well of course ye are. I've got something for ye. 'Fraid I might have sat on it a little but it'll taste fine just the same." He handed Harry the box with a cake to him. "Baked it meself words and all." He said proudly.
"Thank you." Harry set the box down and then turned back to him then he remembered that he shouldn't know who he is. "You know who I am, but may I ask who you are?"
"Rubeus Hagrid. Keeper of keys and grounds at Hogwarts and of course you know all about Hogwarts don't you?"
Of course I do. I went there for six years and died there. "I'm sorry, I don't."
"No? Blimey Harry don't you know where your mom and dad learned it all?" Harry just kept a questioning look on his face because they had already had this conversation and he just wanted to get it over with. "You're a wizard Harry and a thumpin' good one, once you're trained up a little."
More like left to fend for myself, but that is all going to change. All I need is to choose the right people to trust, and that doesn't include a third of the Weasleys. Hagrid handed Harry his letter and opened it and just scanned it but did say, "Dear Mr. Potter you have been invited to attend Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry."
"He will not be going." Uncle Vernon yelled. "I will not pay to have some crack pot old fool teach him magic tricks."
Wait, what does he mean by he'll not pay? That's a good question, him being my guardian he should have to pay for my schooling. Harry then saw Hagrid point his umbrella at Dudley's fat behind when a tail popped out and Harry decided to add some and pushed his magic to add to it. Nothing happened so Harry guessed that melting the barrels of the gun were a fluke when he noticed that Dudley's nose flattened into a pig's snout. What's going on this never happened in the past.
Harry. This is the true strength of your power.A voice that Harry recognized said.
Nick? Is that you? Harry asked.
Yes Harry. And until you get all of your blocks taken care of you won't be able to see me or any other spirit that Dumbledore doesn't want you to see. When you go to the Leaky Cauldron take a look around you and check for anyone doing anything strange with a wand. Nick stated.
"Harry, are ye alright." Hagrid asked. "You looked like you were gone for a minute there."
Harry did a double take. Uh oh I need to lie. "Sorry, it's just a lot take in at the moment."
"Well I was going to ask if you wanted to stay here for tonight or do you want to leave right now."
Harry took a look around but he already knew the answer to the question. "I want to leave right now." Together they headed out and sitting there were two boats, the one that they had used to get to the island and the one that Hagrid must have used. They grabbed the one that Hagrid used and headed back to the mainland. "Can this go any faster?" Harry asked.
"As long as you don't tell anyone about what you see." After Harry nodded Hagrid tapped the side of the boat with his umbrella and it started going faster. When they arrived on land they returned the boat to the dock where it was borrowed from and headed off towards London on a large motorcycle. I wonder why Sirius needed such a big bike. I wonder what he was compensating for.
In a few hours they arrived in London and Headed to the Leaky Cauldron to get some rooms for the night so that they could get a little sleep so that they weren't as tired in the morning. When Hagrid went to his room Harry went back downstairs and asked for a pen and some paper and, heeding Nick's advice, took a look around and saw someone sitting in the corner putting something in a pocket of their cloak and then got up and left out of the Diagon Alley exit. Hmm. I wonder?
When Tom came to him Harry asked for some parchment and something to write with. Harry decided that he would get some questions and thought together for tomorrow when he could meet with the goblins alone tomorrow. "Hey, Tom, do you know if any of the shops are open? I know that they probably aren't but I thought that I would ask."
"I'm sorry but they aren't. Why, what were you hoping to go looking for?" He asked.
"I was hoping to find a bookstore so that I could get some information on goblins."
"So you're going to go see the goblins tomorrow, eh boy?" Tom stepped away from the bar and went back into his office and came out carrying a small book. "Normally I use this for when I need to get some sleep, but I guess that I could lend it to you."
Harry went up to his room and immediately went to his bed and cracked the book open and looked at the table of contents and looked for anything that could tell him of proper greetings and the way that he should act around him. After he found the chapter he read it all until morning and made sure that he had everything down so that he could make friends with them seeing as the last time he was there he had busted out of the roof of the bank on the back of a dragon along with his one true friend and the fake friend that was only in it for the money.
When he finally fell asleep it was about four o'clock in the morning. Realizing that he would only get a few hours of sleep he laid his head down on the pillow and immediately fell asleep.
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The next morning he was awoken by Hagrid knocking on his door and then opening it and coming over and shaking him awake. "Come on Harry. Wake up there is a lot of things that we need to take care of today."
Oh yes there are. And a lot of things are going to change starting today. Harry smirked as he started to get dressed. And this is the last time that I wear these rags. After Harry got dressed he headed downstairs to where Hagrid already had breakfast waiting. After eating Tom came and grabbed their dishes and Harry handed Tom back the book he lent them. "Thank you for this it was very helpful."
"What was that book Harry?" Hagrid asked.
"Just a book on Goblins. I had a hard time sleeping so I went down and asked Tom if he had anything that would help me sleep. He handed me that book and said that it would help." They got up and started heading to the entrance to Diagon Alley.
Hagrid tapped on the bricks that would open it and the doorway opened. "Welcome Harry, to Diagon Alley."
Harry looked amazed to keep up the charade that this was the first time seeing the magical world. So he put on a look of shock and amazement at everything that he saw but he actually was calculating the things that he would need and how he would go about doing it.
Together they walked into the bank and walked up to one of the tellers. Hagrid cleared his throat and the teller looked up from his book. "Mr. Potter would like to make a withdrawal."
"Ah." The teller leaned over the counter. "And does Mr. Potter have his key?" he asked.
"Oh got it here somewhere." Hagrid said while pulling things out of his pockets. "Aha there's the little devil. Oh and there's something else." Hagrid handed him a letter. "Professor Dumbledore gave me this. It's about you-know-what in vault you-know-which."
"Very well. Griphook will be right with you." A goblin came up to them and motioned for them to follow them into the bowels of the bank. After a short time on the carts that take people everywhere they arrived at Harry's vault.
"Vault 687. Key please." Hagrid handed it over and when he opened the door and tried handing it back to Hagrid but Harry grabbed instead. "Mr. Potter the key needs to be with your guardian." Harry handed it over and when Hagrid put it in his pocket Harry summoned it to his pocket with a push of untraceable magic. He then went inside and grabbed enough coins to get the few things that he needed before he would come back for a meeting with someone a lot higher than Griphook.
That's odd. The key is supposed to be with the person who owns the vault. At least that is what the book said last night. The goblin motioned for them to follow. "Excuse me, Griphook, what was the tellers name so that I can thank him for showing me to such a helpful goblin." Harry said with a fake smile.
The goblin looked ecstatic at what he said. "Yes his name is bloodfang and he is a good friend of mine."
That explains everything. They must be in cahoots with a few undesirable people.
They arrived in front of a vault and Griphook announced, "Vault 713." He waved his hand in front of the door and it opened to find just one package.
The sorcerer's stone. But why keep it in a bank, I mean Hermione and I proved that their protection isn't infallible. Something must be up. Not only is it here, but Dumbledore sent Hagrid to come get it while he knew that I was going to be here. Harry his hand in his pocket where he found the small notebook and pen that Tom had given him the previous night and wrote down a few small notes.
They left the bank and Harry pulled out his letter and Hagrid asked, "What do you want to go get first?" Harry asked the time. "It's about ten o'clock."
Harry figured that he still had a few hours until Hermione would be running out of Madam Malkin's crying because of Malfoy. "Let's go get my cauldron first." We headed off to the cauldron shop and there I got a cauldron with spell protection so that Snape wouldn't be able to vanish any of his potions along with getting unbreakable tubes so that Snape couldn't accidentally drop them and give him bad grades.
Next they went to the Apothecary to go get his standard potion ingredients and made notes on his notepad a few others he would have to come back for. He next went to Flourish and Blotts to go get his school books and when he paid for them he told Hagrid that he was going to hang around and look at a few other titles so he could go do whatever he needed to do. Harry immediately went to the defense section and pick up a few titles and then slipped into the transfiguration section to pick up a book on animagi.
It was when he turned the corner that he bumped into someone and they both fell over. Harry took a deep breath to get air back in his lungs when he smelled vanilla and old book pages. Wait, I know this scent. He looked up and saw a young bushy haired girl in front of him. Hermione! "I'm sorry about that, I wasn't looking and bumped into you."
"No it's alright I kind of have my books stacked a little high." Hermione looked at the books in Harry's stack. "First year at Hogwarts, mine too." Hermione stuck her hand out which Harry took. "My name is Hermione Granger. "What's yours?"
"Harry Potter." Harry whispered.
"Why are you whispering?" She asked.
"I'm supposedly famous for something that I don't even remember." Harry answered. "People supposedly rejoice that I defeated a dark wizard with the price being losing both of my parents."
"Oh. Sorry, would you like to join me so that we can finish the rest of our school shopping."
Harry smiled. "Sure." Together they left and went to Ollivander's to get their wands and finished up getting their school uniforms at Madam Malkin's. When they arrived they were in the middle of their fittings when the bane of Harry's existence arrived.
"Mom why did we have to go here when we could have gone to the other shop to get my uniform?" The boy asked.
"Because Draco this is where I decided that we come." The boy's mom said.
"But mom you saw those muggles outside. One of these kids are probably a mudblood. Though my money is on the boy in the horrible clothing." The boy snickered.
Harry had heard enough. He walked over to the boy. "You know you probably shouldn't make fun of someone just because they wear different clothing, or they don't have the same type of lineage as you. And you know I would rather stay a half-blood wizard than be a pure-blood bigot like you."
Draco went to throw a punch at him but harry just side stepped the punch and stepped in and dug his fist into Draco's gut. "I'll get you for this." He got up and tried to throw another punch only to get a fist to the face.
"Now apologize." Harry threatened.
"Never." Draco said and then ran out of the store holding his nose which had just started bleeding.
Harry turned around to see Madam Malkin and Hermione staring at him. "I'm sorry about that I'll pay for cleaning that needs to be done."
"That's alright dear. You don't need to pay for cleaning. Seeing you stand up for others was enough, but I have to ask what your name is?"
"My name is Harry Potter."
She gasped. "You're Harry Potter. Oh these robes are no good. I'll make you some new ones, but I'll need a week to make them, is that alright?"
"Why do you need a week?"
"All Potters were known to wear robes of dragon hide." Harry's eyes went wide hearing this, not even in the past time line had he heard this.
"Alright, can I also get my good friends robes like that too?"
Hermione gasped. "Harry." Harry looked over and it looked like she had tears forming in her eyes.
"Is she your vassal?" Madam Malkin asked.
"I don't know what a Vassal is, but she is a good friend that I want to protect."
Madam Malkin nodded and went to her desk and wrote some notes on two sheets of paper. "Here are the receipts I will need a week and a half to make them. Should I send them to you or will you come and pick them up or do I need to send them to you?"
"I'll come pick them up." With that they left and Hermione turned on them.
"Harry you didn't need to do that. And you didn't need to call me your friend. I mean that I…"
Harry stopped her by putting his hand over her mouth. "Yes I did. You are my first friend and like I said I will do anything to protect you."
"Oh Harry." Hermione jumped into his arms and gave his a big hug only to hear clapping coming from behind Hermione. When he looked behind her he saw the only thing that scared him worse than anything that could happen to him but not as much as what Hermione could do. Hermione's parents.
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