CREATING CHAOS
Harry Potter Fanfic:
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I do not own any part of the Harry Potter franchise. The following story is to simply entertain and/or amuse those who should happen upon it. Any similarities to other fanfics are circumstantial or part(s) of a story so well written they stuck in my mind, and towards that end I must give the storyteller my compliments and any apologies believed needed.
CREATING CHAOS
CHAPTER 2
Harry spent much of that summer reading through the papers and scrolls in the trunk, he got from Potter Vault. As turns out, they once belonged to his grandmother Dorea Potter nee Black. One book was just a very extensive Black family tree, that magically updated itself. It explained who married whom and listed all the births and deaths, according to this book, Harry had two cousins that would start Hogwarts the same year as him, and one cousin that would be in her final year.
Harry corresponded with Ripjaw a few times, and received a set of news clippings, showing the announcement and some clippings about the responding fall out, not that Harry or his family cared what the wizards felt about the announcement. Since a new school year was starting Harry decided to put the Magic books away for awhile or he would never be able to concentrate on his Muggle schoolwork. He got one of the matching trunks he bought, unshrunk it and opened the lid. He was about to put some things inside when he noticed a small scroll in the bottom of the trunk. Harry opened the scroll and read what turned out to be instructions on using the trunk. As luck would have it the trunks were much more complex than they appeared. When both handles on ends of trunk were rotated 90° degrees counter-clockwise the trunk would extend to twice the length and a recessed handle would popup from a closed lid, after rotating this handle 90° degrees counter-clockwise the trunk would extend upwards five feet, the trunk owner would now have a full sized wardrobe.
The scroll also explained that if both doors were opened, and then the bottom drawer pulled out, the drawers would become steps and the back of the cabinet would open into a multi-room wizarding apartment. With a fireplace connecting to the other three trunks. As a final note the scroll explained that the only way the trunks could be separated was if the wizard that purchased the trunk would need to put a drop of blood on each of the three handles of the trunk he was giving away, and then he could only give any of the three remaining trunks to a blood relative and have them do the same.
Harry did all this, then went inside, the first room was a decent sized living room, with two couches framing the fireplace on the right, a table with four chairs on the left. There was door in the center of both left and right wall, and the back wall had a door left of the fireplace. Harry decided to take the door on his right first and check things out. This room was divided into two, with a potions lab on the left and workroom on the right. There was a sign on wall in the workroom stating the room had temperature and climate control so that it could be used as a greenhouse. Harry went to the door next to the fireplace, opened it to find a spacious bedroom with an adjoining bathroom. Harry went to the last door, this room appeared to be a library, there were bookshelves along the walls, a long table in the center with a six chairs on each side.
With his curiosity satisfied, Harry shelved all his books and scrolls on an empty bookshelf in the library, including his mother's books and settled everything else on the library table. He would leave most of it for next summer. It was time to pretend he was a Muggle.
Years passed, Harry and Dudley continued to do well in school, and Harry had been advanced ahead twice more. Dudley was offered the choice, but decided to stay with his friends, besides he knew, that Harry was pushing himself so hard, because he wanted his high school equivalency before going to Hogwarts. What Dudley didn't know was that after he refused the option to advance, Harry used a Magic Spell on himself, for photographic memory.
Harry has been advancing his Magical studies also. He has visited Diagon Alley each summer buying first through third year, Potion supplies and Herbology plant seedlings. He judged himself to be between second and third year for most subjects. He has also moved many books from The Potter Vault to his own library, sometimes when he finds multiple copies in his Vault he adds them to the other trunks as well.
The summer of his eleventh birthday, Harry wrote his GCSE or General Certificate of Secondary Education and passed with record scores. He asked Mrs. Dursley to help him get his Muggle Emancipation. She agreed and within a few weeks it was granted. On his birthday he received his Hogwarts Acceptance Letter in the Muggle post, he wrote his response, then sent it to Ripjaw, who would forward it to Hogwarts. Having received the letter got Harry thinking about the Wizarding World's fixation with his scar. Harry decides he would get plastic surgery done to remove the scar.
The doctors were unsure why, but something happened during the surgery, and for five and half minutes, Harry was technically dead, before being resuscitated. The Specialist's ran some other test and tell Harry that he has a deteriorating eye condition, usually hereditary, if left unchecked he would need eyeglasses, but if treated now in the early stages he would have perfect vision. Harry agreed to have the treatment.
Once again Harry has and overwhelming urge telling him there was one more thing he must do, before going to Hogwarts. Harry sets up a meeting with Ripjaw and asks that Ted be there. In the meeting Harry stated that he wanted his Magical Emancipation. With the Goblins help it only took a few minutes to grant, after all Harry has proven to be responsible, and he's been managing the Potter Estate for years. With many investments in Muggle Stocks, Harry has even added to the Potter fortune. Although Harry was given the Potter Lord Ring, he did not wear it, he instead chooses to continue wearing the Heir Ring, Harry felt it was enough that he had it and knowing that he could put it on if he needed to. So, he placed it on a Goblin-made neck chain and hung it around his neck. The fact that the Chain was Goblin-made, meant that it would be invisible to others as long as Harry wanted it to be.
Harry did some shopping with Ted along so that he wouldn't look out of place with the other children doing their school shopping. He bought some ready made Potions and Magical First Aid supplies, four pouches of floo powder, and then went to the Leaky Cauldron and bought a dozen cases of Butterbeer and a bunch of prepared meals. (He discovered that the cupboards in small dining area of the trunk apartment had Preservation Charms). Ted eyed some of his purchases with curiosity, as Harry slid each purchase into his schoolbag, but Ted didn't say anything. Harry said farewell to Ted and headed home.
While Harry was putting his purchases in the trunk, his eyes fell on some objects that once belonged to grandmother Dorea. According to his grandmother, they were six Magical Locks, that could only be opened by a Black family member or their Oath Sworn (meaning those who have sworn an Oath of Fealty to at least one member of the Black family). The Locks work by simply sticking them on a closed door, then the door could only be seen or opened by a Black family member or their Oath Sworn, it also prevented or rather shielded against eavesdropping and other monitoring Charms.
The morning of September first, Vernon drops Harry off a King's Cross Station, before heading to work. While approaching the train station, Harry saw a red haired lady, yelling quite loudly about Muggles and Platform 9¾.
Harry wondered, 'Why would a witch with older kids not know her way?'
The lady is constantly scanning the people around her, and has even grabbed a few small boys with dark hair, spinning them around and starring at their foreheads, then rudely pushing them aside.
Harry now wondered what she must be thinking, the oldest boy she grabbed couldn't possibly be even nine years old and why is she so obviously endangering the Statute of Secrecy with all her screeching. Harry had all four trunks shrunk and in his backpack, after seeing that lady, who was obviously looking for him, and he did not even want to know why, he just really hoped that his Grandmother's Locks worked.
Harry boarded the train, found an empty compartment, he goes in, turns around, closed the door and then sticks one of the Locks on it. Harry settles in and makes himself comfortable, pulling out a book and pretending to read. Ten minutes later he hears someone opening the door, he looks up cautiously, sees a somewhat nervous dark haired boy. Harry invites him in, then got up, closes the door, and settles back down. The boy says he boarded the train to get away from his overbearing grandmother, then introduces himself as Neville Longbottom. Harry then watched as Neville opened his trunk, carelessly throw his wand in and then Neville pulled a second wand from his sleeve with a smug grin, before taking a seat.
Harry knows from studying the book on his lap that Neville is a Black cousin, and legal papers from the Potter Vault, that Neville and he are god-brothers. Harry doesn't say anything about this yet. He talks a bit with Neville, and finds out that he really likes Herbology, and so Harry opens his trunk in its basic form, searches around a bit, then takes out an old book about rare plants and gives it to Neville. Neville starts reading the book, Harry goes back to pretending to read his book with the Black Crest on the cover.
Harry checks the time, realizes the train should be pulling out soon, then the compartment door opened again. A blond haired boy with a bruised cheek and bloody lip, wearing scuffed pants, and drops of blood on his shirt, was standing in the opening. Harry invites him to sit down, even though Neville is shaking his head.
"Its okay," assured Harry and once again closes the door. Neville goes back to reading, Harry goes back to pretending to read.
The blond boy speaks up, "How did you get a Black family book?"
"From my family Vault, it used to belong to my grandmother." Harry answered.
"Who is your grandmother?" The blond boy asked.
" If you both swear an Oath, promising that everything said and shown in this train compartment stays between us, I will explain and I promise to swear the Oath as well." Harry said.
"I, Neville Longbottom, do hereby vow to keep secret, everything said and shown in this train compartment. So Mote It Be."
"I, Draco Black, do hereby vow to keep secret, everything said and shown in this train compartment. So Mote It Be."
"I, Lord Potter, do hereby vow to keep secret, everything said and shown in this train compartment. So Mote It Be."
Neville and Draco really want the explanation now. Harry tells the story of his life, then shows them the Family Tree in the book. Now all three know that they are cousins. Harry stated that he had known that he had two cousins the same age as him, and started explaining the Black Family Lock.
"I knew as soon as each of you opened the door that you were family." said Harry with a smile.
"The reason, I said that my name is Black, is because ever since I was five, Lucius Malfoy has been forcing me to learn the Dark Arts, and whenever I got a Spell wrong he would beat me. I hate everything to do with the Malfoy name. This mornings beating was so I would know what was waiting for me at Yule Hols, if I don't get into Slytherin. I just know he'll find a reason to beat me no matter what house I'm in, so I'm going to try and go in Ravenclaw. If I'm in Slytherin, Lucius will ask his friends to have their kids, spy on me and report everything back to him," explained Draco.
"Ever since I was small, my Great Uncle would always try and force me into dangerous situations, hoping to see great spurts of Accidental Magic save me. I've been secretly using magic for a couple years now, but my family all thinks that I'm a borderline Squib. My grandmother wanted me to use my father's wand, she doesn't know that two years ago I secretly bought a wand with my allowance, while I pretended I got lost in Diagon Alley," explained Neville.
After they each tell their tale, Harry shows them his trunk, fully extended, he lets them explore the rooms, then gave them both a trunk, a schoolbag and a Black family lock, and told them how the trunks work.
"This way if we're put in different houses, we can floo each other, and hangout together or study together and in Draco's case, he'll always have a place safe from spies," Harry said.
Then Harry took Draco into his bathroom and showed him the medicine cabinet, fully stocked with Bruise Creams, Pain Potions, and Healing Salves.
Draco gave Harry a grateful look, then fixed himself up.
"You can help yourself to clothes from my closet too, they are all Charmed to magically adjust sizes," Harry said. Draco promptly did as Harry suggested.
Harry checked his watch, "We should be pulling into Hogsmeade soon."
They exited the wardrobe, Harry folded it down, shrunk it and put it in his schoolbag, just as the train came to a stop. The boys held back for a few minutes, Harry collected his Lock, they exit the train and followed along at the end of the group of first-year students being led to the lake. The three cousins got in the last boat together.
A short time later they are lined up with the other anxious students, all trying to peer over everyone's head hoping to get a glimpse or hint of what was to come next. A witch steps out, introduced herself as Professor McGonagall, the Deputy Headmistress and Head of Gryffindor. She explained how the sorting worked and then began the sorting.
After only a few names were called, they had the first surprise of the evening when the name "Black, Draco" was called. There was brief commotion in the hall, Snape definitely looked confused. Draco gave a small smile and stepped forward, Harry and Neville cheered him on, Draco went to the stool and sat down, the Sorting Hat barely touched his head when it announced Ravenclaw. Draco smiled even more and raced to the Ravenclaw table, making sure to save space next to him, he was certain that his cousin Harry would be joining him, especially after seeing Harry's library.
The sorting continued, and when Neville's name was called, it was Harry and Draco doing the cheering, Neville was quickly sorted into Gryffindor. Not long after, "Potter, Harry" was called.
Harry calmly walked to the stool. Draco and Neville's cheers, were drowned out by the uproar in the hall. There were a lot of calls of "That's not Harry Potter" "Where's the glasses?" "Where's the scar?" "We want the real Harry Potter". Harry simply waited for things to die down.
He held up his hand with Heir Ring, "Many of you know that only a wizard of Potter blood could wear this ring," he said.
Harry then reached in his pocket and pulled out a handful of newspaper clippings, all declaring the Harry Potter books to be full of lies. He went to each House table, placed a dozen clippings on each, waited a few moments while they were passed around, he then calmly sat on the sorting stool. Harry was quickly sorted into Ravenclaw, and took a seat next to Draco.
The sorting continued until there was just a few students left soon the third ruckus of the evening started, Harry watched as red headed boy seemed to be arguing with hat, 'That he had be in Ravenclaw with his best mate Harry Potter'.
Harry stood up and speaking clearly, "Young sir, I have never met you before. I don't even know your name. But I would guess, that your related to that lady, that was prancing about King's Cross, shouting about Muggles, and not being able to find Platform 9¾. Does she know that she was clearly in breach of the International Statute of Secrecy?" Harry shook his head in disgust and sat back down.
The Sorting Hat, still on the boys head announced Hufflepuff. The sorting was quickly finished. Dumbledore stood made a speech, mentioned something about a corridor being off limits. Harry wasn't really listening, he was too busy trying not to laugh at the stories Draco was quietly recanting about the Weasley family. as it turns out, was the red headed boys last name.
Later after being dismissed, Neville was taking great delight in setting up his new trunk, as he extended it to wardrobe size, he simply stated to his roommates, Seamus Finnegan and Dean Thomas, that it was an Ancient Longbottom Heirloom. He then went about removing his things from his regular trunk to this new one. It was not an easy task, he had to constantly remind himself not to have the doors open when he pulled out the drawers. When he finished, he placed a Black Lock on the front.
In the Ravenclaw dorm, because so many boys were sorted to Ravenclaw, they had be divided into two rooms, a second boys dorm was opened, and to their delight, Harry and Draco were given a room separate from the other boys. After they entered Harry closed the door and placed a Black Lock on it. The boys set up their Wardrobes, placing another lock on each of them. They started to discuss why McGonagall may have called out Draco's name as Black. Harry soon drifted to sleep, but Draco stayed awake for awhile, revelling in the fact that he truly felt safe for the first time, since his fifth birthday when Lucuis announced that Draco had to start learning Family Magic. It was also the first time Draco had friends.
The next morning, Draco was informed by a Prefect that he was to report to Professor Flitwick's office. Draco asked if Harry could go with him, and Harry was soon granted permission. The boys got directions, and were soon sitting across a desk from Hogwart's smallest Professor.
Professor Flitwick stated "The Heads of House, and the Headmaster consulted with the Sorting Hat, who explained that the Magic of Hogwarts is tied to the Magic of The Hogwarts' Express, and during the trip to Hogwarts, Magic saw that Mr. Black did not think himself as a Malfoy in any form, and the Magic of Hogwarts changed all paperwork concerning Mr. Black to his chosen name, even the Great Book of Names, and from now on all of Hogwarts' Professors will follow Hogwarts Policy and address Mr. Black accordingly."
~~ second chapter of ten ~~