I'm sorry I have left this so long, I have had writers block, I just couldn't figure out how to start the next chapter. Today I will update a couple of chapters. I had 2 reviews last time, which made me quite happy! Thank you. This chapter will be from Harry's PoV, shortly before Albus discovers his scar. Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 2 - Diagon Alley
Harry Potter had his arm around Ginny Potter's shoulder as he watched his ten-year-old daughter skip ahead in front of them. "Come on slowpokes!" Lily yelled from half the way down the cobbled street.
Ginny sighed "We're coming dear."
She apparated beside he daughter and Harry followed a few moments afterwards and the family made their way down the street once more until they reached a colourful shop. This shop happened to belong to the Weasley twins, Fred and George. You could say they were…crazy, well you had to be to run one of the best joke shops since Zonkos Joke shop and Gambol and Japes. You had to admit it, the twins were doing rather well.
"Harry, mate!" cried Fred as he noticed them walk through the door to Weasleys Wizard Wheezes, he signalled over to George with a strange whistle.
"More victims!" George exclaimed, gleefully, before then realising that he had said 'victims' instead of customers and correcting himself and saying, "I-I-I mean customers…Anyways, I have a contract for you to sign!" George said, grinning nervously and conjuring up a contract.
"Hang on a minute!? What will this particular contract do if I sign it? The last one made me fart bubbles for a week!" Harry complained, blushing a deep red as he recalled the memory. Fred and George howled with laughter and Ginny snickered. Lily was rolling on the floor, tears streaming down her face as her sides split laughing. Harry growled.
"Don't even start me on the noises!" Ginny reminded them all, laughing much harder than before.
"Ginny!" Harry exclaimed in anger.
"Sorry Harry, but it was funny." Ginny said in between trying to stop laughing.
"Don't worry, Harry. It won't do anything…" George said.
"…too serious." Fred finished smirking, watching the colour drain from Harry's face.
Then, somewhere in the distance a clock signalled 11:30, and the last thing Harry saw was Fred and George's faces pale as he blacked out.
15 minutes later, Harry was awoken by a healer. He recognised his surroundings instantly, he was at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. "W-W-What happened?" Harry spluttered as he looked around at everyone and noticed the look on their faces. They were pale grey, and Ginny looked as though she had been crying.
"H-H-Harry, it was awful! Y-Y-You b-b-blacked out and I-I-I was so w-w-w-worried!" Ginny sobbed, as she hugged him, and she opened her mouth to speak once more. "Th-Th-Then your sc-sc-scar vanished and w-w-we g-g-got an owl fr-fr-from J-J-James." Ginny gasped in between her sobs. She handed the letter to Harry, who immediately recognised his son's scrawling handwriting:
Mum, Dad
Albus has a scar, like yours, he sent me with this letter before he passed out. The healers on the train sent him straight to Hogwarts. The professors asked me to tell you that they want you to go to Hogwarts. They would have done it but seeing as I was already sending you a letter.
Hope to see you soon,
James S. Potter
Harry looked up, after being cleared by his healer, and set off to Hogwarts. 'Could it be a coincidence?' Harry wondered. 'That Albus and I both fainted, I ended up with no scar and he ended up with one?' he lost his train of thoughts when Ginny patted him on his shoulder and smiled a small smile at him.
Their attention turned to Fred, George and Lily. The twins had jumped at the chance to re-enter Hogwarts, they had left Ron in charge of the shop after an argument, this argument was caused because Ron had wanted to come instead. Fred and George obviously won that argument and, so they left a very disappointed and dismayed Ron. As they had left they cried "We'll bring you back a Hogwarts toilet seat!" This cheered Ron up very slightly for he remembered that was the very line that they had told Ginny the very first year Ron had entered Hogwarts. So here they were now. Fred and George were telling Lily of the time that they had set fireworks off in the corridor in their 7th year. "…and so, we told Peeves to give her hell from us! He actually listened to us, well no wonder…we did tell him to give her hell!" Fred concluded. Harry remembered that event fondly. He had set up the DA, also known as Dumbledore's Army. This was to try and make the Ministry afraid. They were in denial of the fact Voldemort had returned and when Dumbledore said that he had returned, the old wizard was thought to be making a secret army. Thus Harry, Ron and Hermione had set the group up to instil this fear into the Ministry worker's minds. It had worked considerably well…maybe too well.
The group could see Hogwarts now. Since they had had to apparate into Hogsmeade and the carriages weren't ready, they had had to walk. "I think I took the carriages for granted." Harry announced, chuckling lightly.
"We did suggest the Honeydukes passage." Fred said, glaring back at the couple.
"But you didn't listen to us, did you?" accused Fred and George in unison.
Harry huffed, "There was a good reason for that…" he began, "We don't want to be breaking into a shop! I am an Auror, what would that say about me?!" he continued, "Especially in front one of my children *cough wife cough*!" Harry argued, in fact sometimes Ginny was really scary, so he never dared to do give a bad example to his children in front of her
"Don't worry, dad, they've already corrupted me!" Lily piped up, grinning, "In fact I am their apprentice!" Lily announced, proudly.
As the young girl turned to face forward once more, Fred and George turned around and blew (what the muggles call) a raspberry. Harry scowled and stuck his tongue back out at them, he too, blew a 'raspberry'. He suddenly felt a sharp slap on his shoulder to see Ginny staring at him with a stern expression.
"Harry James Potter, stop that at once!" Ginny commanded, "That goes for you too as well! Now stop it, we are almost there!" Ginny scolded, when she saw her brothers smirking, those smirks slowly faded from their faces.
"Yes mum." They said at the same time. Once again Ginny had a stern expression and so the twins calmed down. It was just as well, the group had reached Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall was standing at the entrance, waiting for them. Her expression was very worried.
