Authors's note
I want to give a thanks to lucj, pinkiekeen for following the story and Little Green Faerie Of Doom for favoring the story. You will not be disappointed in this story and I hope you'll stay here till I finish this story. I already have ideas for future chapters. I'd be very pleased if you can review my story so I can improve the writing and what would you like to see happening? Harry learning how to defend himself without magic? Doctor Strange helping the trio free Sirius from the dementor's kiss with the Eye of Agamotto? Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy this new chapter
Now on with the story!
Harry walks to the car and the door opens. His face lights up when pops out and walks to Harry with arms wide open. "Oh Harry, how I've missed you, how you've been dear?" she asks. "I've been great , how's ?" starts walking Harry to the car. "He's fine but so caught up in all his work, he's at the Ministry for so long that I'm starting to believe he lives there." says with a smile. Harry puts his luggage and broom in the trunk of the car and carries Hedwig's cage under his arm. Harry then opens the door to the back of the car and sees his two best friends, Ron and Hermione. "Harry!" Ron and Hermione say in unison. "It's been forever since I've seen you mate!" Ron exclaims. Harry climbs into the car and they drive off. "So did you two do anything interesting?" Harry asks. "You won't believe where I went to over the summer, tell him Hermione." Ron says. Hermione rolls her eyes and says to Harry. "Ron and his family went to Egypt to see his brother and stop rubbing it in Ron." Harry's eyes widen. "You went to Egypt! HOW!" Ron puffs his chest up and straightens his back. "We won a drawing for a raffle and my Dad somehow won 50,000 Galleons!" Harry is in shock. Harry looks at the driver and the car and sees somehow driving okay considering he lost his Ford Angelina. looks at Harry through the rear view mirror and nods. "It's true, I put my name in the raffle and through someway, I won. We spent two weeks with Charlie to see him work and we saw pyramids and mutated grave robbers who tried to steal from a tomb. We wished you came though but we left so fast that we didn't have any time to tell you." says with sincere in his voice
"It's alright, I'm glad you went there." Harry says. "So what did you do Hermione? I don't think you spent your summer in your room reading right?" Harry says with an eyebrow raised. "Actually, I went to visit my grandparents for a month, they live in Ireland and it's been ages since I seen them, I think the last time I saw them was when I was eight. I had a good time" Hermione says. Harry and Ron nod together. "So Mr and , I'm assuming we're heading to the Leaky Cauldron, right?" Harry asks. "We are dear, everyone is already there, they haven't gotten their school supplies yet, they've been waiting on us. So the moment we get there, we'll get all the supplies you'll need for the new term." smiles. then chimes in and says "speaking of new term, you three have a new subject right? The Mystic Arts. I've never hear about it till now, I wonder why." Hermione leans towards everyone and says "because no one is really a fan of it. The person who made it was a muggle." The moment she finished that last word, slammed on the brakes. He turns to Hermione with excitement on his face.
"A muggle invented it! HA! I wonder how? How did he do it, invent a new form of magic, it must've been extremely difficu-" was about to talk more but he was interrupted by 's fist to the arm and about a dozen car honks behind him telling him to move forward. turns his attention back to the road but continues his sentence. "Well sounds like this year will be exciting for you three." The trio look at each other and they know it is. They continue to drive to the Leaky Cauldron and while they are, Harry looks out the window and makes mental notes on how to get to the Leaky Cauldron. They have been driving for ten minutes and they're already in the city. About another five minutes, Harry sees the Leaky Cauldron. They get out of the car and everyone grabs their luggage from the trunk. gets out but doesn't. "I'm going to park the car somewhere, I'll meet you inside." peaks her head in the passenger window and says "you'd better not try and parreel park, the last time you did that you went forwards instead of backwards and nearly hit someone!" nods. "I wasn't going to hit him, it was a close call but I didn't hit him. And it's parallel park. I'll be back in a mo." looks ahead of the road and sits in driver seat like a 7 year old on a sugar rush.
waves at the car and turns to the trio. Hermione and Harry are on the verge of bursting while Ron's face is tomato red. "Let's get inside dears." dropped them off a few stores away from the Leaky Cauldron so they have to walk a bit. Harry looks at his surroundings and makes mental notes of the street. "I always thought the Leaky Cauldron was miles away from the Dursleys and I'm just learning that it is barely 20 minutes from there to here" Harry says. "I thought it was far from my home too but when my parents drove me here for the first time, the drive was a little over 25 minutes." Hermione says. Harry's face lights up and turns to Hermione. "Hey, maybe you and I could walk together here next time! It sounds like you and me live close together and maybe I could have someone talk to while I'm at the Dursleys during the summer holidays!" Ron turns to Harry with a confused look on his face. "Hey, you have me to talk to!" Harry turns to Ron. "I mean talk to someone in person, it's not the same when I write to you." Hermione smiles and is in awe at the idea. "That's a great idea, my neighborhood has no witches or wizards, it's just me." Harry turns back to Hermione. "Me too!"
The trio and enter the Leaky Cauldron and Harry sees a table at the center of the main room the rest of his favorite family. At one end of the table, he sees Fred and George playing with something golden and shimmering. On one side of the table, Ginny is reading eating some toast and reading an old issue of Witch Weekly. Harry stares at the magazine, trying to figure out what she's reading but then snaps him out of that trance and motions him to move forward. "Harry dear, Ron and you will be sleeping in the same room, follow him to the room to leave your things and we'll go to Diagon Alley." smiles. "Okay , we'll be back here in a few minutes. Well Ron, lead the wa-." Harry looks ahead and Ron is already halfway up the stairs. "Hey, wait for me!" Harry makes his way to Ron while carrying his trunk. He catches up to Ron and follows him to the room.
"So tell me, what did you see in Egypt? Mummies? Egyptian wizards?" Harry says. "Oh me and Scabbers saw a lot of things. First we saw old tombs where King Tu-."Harry is confused and stops Ron mid sentence. "Waitwaitwaitwait. Whose Scabbers? Is he another Weasley?" Ron scoffs and says "no, he's a rat." Harry is taken aback. "That's a little harsh, what did he do?" Ron silently chuckles and says "He doesn't really do much, he just sits there and eats." Harry nods and says "oh, so he's a freeloader, can't wait to meet him." Ron and Harry finally make it to the room and Ron says "well you're in luck because you're about to meet him." Ron takes out a key from his pocket and opens the door. Although the Leaky Cauldron looks like a little dodgy from the outside, their rooms aren't so bad. The room the two are staying at has two twin beds, a nightstand with a candle lamp, a dresser with a big mirror and a window that shows a market down below. The only downside to the room is the dull gray walls and creaking floor boards. "This is cozy" Harry thought. Harry looks around the room and doesn't see the other Weasley, just Ron's trunk and a something covered with a old rag of a cloth on Ron's bed. "So where is the rat? Don't suppose he has little teeth?" Harry clicks his teeth together like a mouse. "Turn around and I'll bring him out." Ron says. "Oookay" and Harry slowly turns around. He was half expecting Fred and George to pop out of a closet and jump scare him.
Harry hears some a small squeak of a door and scurrying of feet. After a minute of waiting, Ron taps on Harry's shoulder. "Okay, you can look." Harry turns around and sees a small fur ball in Ron's hand. "You're joking!" Ron burst with laughter and Harry is about to laugh too. "You actually thought AHAHAAAHAAHA I had another broAHAHAHAHAAAA!" It's an actual rat. Harry doesn't laugh but Ron's laugh is really infectious and Harry starts laughing as loud as him. "You arse! HAHAHAHAHAH!" After 5 minutes of constant laughing, they calm down. "So you got a rat, did you get him in Egypt?" Ron nods no and says "No, I got him from Percy, because now he's a "big time Ministry employee" he can't keep using Errol to send letters so he got himself a owl." Harry isn't very fond of Percy, he is alright but he's too serious and doesn't joke as often as the rest of the family. "Percy was going to give him to Fred and George but he knew they would just use him for pranks." Ron says. Harry figured that if Scabbers was in the hands of the twins, Scabbers would never have peaceful night sleep.
"Percy then wanted to give him to Ginny but she isn't a fan of rats, so Percy turned to me and I accepted." Ron says while taking Scabbers out of his cage. Ron puts Scabbers on his bed and Harry sits on his knees so he can see Scabbers face to face. At a distance, the rat looks alive and healthy but upon closer inspection, the rat looks old and worn out, his body has patches of missing fur and he has missing toe on his right paw. "But why did you take him, you're not a rat person, are you?" Harry says. "I wanted to get an owl but mum wouldn't let me, she says Errol is fine but when Scabbers was given to me, mum said if I can take care of Scabbers for a year, she'll agree to get me an owl." Ron would always get hand-me-down clothes, his entire wardrobe is either previously owned by his brothers or handmade by his mum. To get something to call his own must means a great deal to him so he's taking extreme care of him. "I think we should head back to your mum now, from what I remember, you still need a new wand, after our incident with a certain tree." Harry says getting up. Ron chuckles but Harry knows that Ron is somewhat traumatized. "And while we're getting our stuff, you can browse for an owl, maybe you can get one like Hedwig."
Ron quickly puts Scabbers back in his cage and puts him in the center of the bed. "I hope I can get a Tawny Owl, I like those kind." Harry and Ron walk out the room and make their way to the rest of the family.