Chapter Three
Dear Aunt Petunia
I have made this parchment into a Portkey, when you have finished reading it, make sure you have hold of all your stuff and simply say 'Hogwarts' and it will bring you to the entrance hall.
Hoping to see you soon
Harry
Collecting her belongings she gripped the parchment and murmured "Hogwarts" as she shut her eyes tightly and winced as she felt what seemed to be a hook behind her navel. She could feel herself whirling around till she landed with a 'Crump' onto someone.
"What in Merlin's name do you think you are doing you imbecile!" Thundered the furious Potions Professor. "Petunia Evans! What on earth are you doing here!"
"And hello to you too, Snape, What are you doing here? And I am not an imbecile, I just happen to be on top of one.
Soon they had untangled themselves amid much cursing and sly knocks to the other. When they had Petunia stood glaring at Snape.
"I thought you fought for Voldemort? And where is the Great Hall?"
"I fought for the light, for Lily, and you're stood right next to it."
"I knew it, I knew you loved her, is Harry in there?"
"Always, Petunia, Always and yes he should be finishing his supper with the rest of the clean up crew. And with that swept into the hall like a great overgrown bat. Petunia, unimpressed by this display, followed him only stopping when she heard a loud voice shout "Aunt Petunia! Over here" Looking to the souce of the noise she found her nephew sitting next to two boys who appeared to be grappling with each other, only when she got with a few yards did she realise they were kissing and that Harry was very embarrassed. So she decided to distract him and showed him the designs she had begun for the new Wizarding buildings. They matched the style of the Wizarding World as they were quite quaint and looked more like the old thatched houses with wooden beams and low celings. She had began several designs for Shops and Pubs as well.
"But where are you going to put all of these new buildings? There's nowhere in Wizarding Britain to do it. Diagon Alley is already too large and Hogsmeade is surrounded by Marshland." Harry queried, he knew that the way the Wizarding World was designed was awkward and too small for the now rapidly increasing population.
"Why not just buy several acres of land somewhere desolate and disguise it and hide it from Muggles? A completly new, completly hidden, completly magical Settlement? It would give us much needed space and keep us and muggles away from the other. And you could connect it to the Hogwarts Railway Line so you can take the Hogwarts Students straight to the town or to London. And you can take goods between the two." Draco and Seamus had finally come up for air and had overheard the conversation. "I think the Malfoy Holdings might contain some, but I'm not certain."
"I'll set Kreacher on it, he's been quite bored recently with Grimmauld being so clean and empty he has nothing to do. Kreacher!"
"Crack!" "Yes Master Potter," Regulus' Locket swinging foward as he bowed deeply.
"First off, I'm not 'Master' Harry, just call me Harry and secondly, could you search Britain for somewhere remote, but easily accessible, with decent weather and preferably large?"
"Of course Mas- Harry. I will be doing so now." And with that he bowed again and vanished with another sharp "Crack!"
"Miss Evans, ya've got a lot of bruises coming up, do ya want ta go to Madam Pomfrey?" Seamus asked, a look of concern on his mischevious face.
"I suppose I might as well, can someone show me the way?
"C'mon Miss Evans, I want to go see my mum anyway, she's probably still up there with the War Orphans." Ginny called as she set off for the Hospital Wing
