Harry Potter: Shadow Warrior
The return
Harry Potter was excited, you see, for a boy that had been training most of his life to become a shadow warrior, would take a lot to excite. Yet Harry Potter was not in a battle, nor was he in his homeland of the Shadow Elves. No, in fact he was back where he had been born, back in a place he dreaded so much. This place was the wizarding world. Harry Potter had long ago left the wizarding world, a wizarding world that had most probably forgotten who he was now, he assumed. The only person he had any contact with from this world was his girlfriend Ginny Weasley. To say she was his girlfriend was putting it lightly, no, she was more then just that, she was his soul mate.
He remembered back to when they met, almost 9 years ago. The day he had gotten lost in the forest.
Flashback
"Hello, Harry! I'm so glad to see you" she exclaimed, this did not help his state of shock, it did however do the opposite and made it worse.
'How did this girl know his name, why was she acting as if she had known me for so long and why do I feel like I know her' he asked himself.
"Ummm… who are you and …do I know you" he finally spoke up, after he recollected his thoughts.
"OH, sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm Ginny Weasley" she replied, embarrassed when she realised that he did not know her.
"Ginny Weasley?" he repeated her answer, still unsure of this person that was standing in front of him.
"Yup, Ginny Weasley and you are Harry Potter" She replied with a cheerful tone in her voice, a tone, Harry thought, that did not suit the situation he was in. I mean who would be cheerful when such a confusing event was taking place.
"And… how do I know you, or should the question be how do you know me?" he asked again, still getting more confused as the conversation continued.
"uhh… that's a bit harder to answer, I guess you could say I dreamed about you, but not a normal dream you know, like I was dreaming inside of your head" she explained to him, hoping he would understand from her crude answer.
"Inside my head?" asked Harry, what did that mean, this conversation was just getting more confusing as it carried on.
"Ya… like I was you in my dreams" she explained again, desperate to find the words that best described it so he would understand. Upon seeing that the confused look on his face deepened she hastily tried to explain further. "I was there when you sneaked peeks at your parents who ignored you in favour of you brother, I was there when you learnt all those spells and I can tell you that the first spell you ever learnt was a spell to make things fly, I was there on your birthday, when you would be so happy to receive just a chocolate frog when your brother got many presents… I was even there when you would cry and ask why your parent loved your brother more then they did you. I remember after those times I'd try so hard to hug you."
Harry's eyes were wide open as she described her dream, nobody, not even the elves knew what his first spell was nor the fact that most times he had asked the question of why his parents never loved him did he feel a comforting force, a force that almost seemed like a hug, engulf him, calming him down. In fact the calming effect of the force was most probably the only thing that made him able to take the neglect that was brought upon him by the Potters.
End Flashback.
He was here now, against all his better judgement, because her birthday was soon, just eleven more days to go, he was going to surprise her on her birthday and he wanted to get her something special. She was turning fourteen and he wanted to get her something special. Yes, today was his birthday, but he really didn't care. The elves, his new family did celebrate his birthday before he came here, but to him his birthday was nothing special compared to Ginny's, that alone a testament to how much he cared for her. It was odd though because when he left the elves to come to the wizarding world the elves acted sad, more so was his mentor and adopted father Ulthias. He wondered about this all the way here to the place where wizards did most of their shopping, Diagon Alley.
He had been to Diagon Alley before, when he was still living with the Potter's, he had always thought that it was an amazing place, a place where wizards could go to get almost anything they wanted from potion supplies to pets of all kinds, and rumours were that if you ventured into Knockturn Alley, an alley which was connected to the ever famous Diagon Alley, that you could get human body parts, for what use, he had no idea though.
So, with great excitement, he reached to tap the brick, the brick which when tapped would open the doorway to Diagon Alley, three up and two across. For any normal wizard you would require the use of a wand to tap the brick so that the doorway would open, but Harry was no ordinary wizard, he was a shadow warrior, and as that was the case, was trained in wandless magic.
To no surprise to him, the doorway did open and as he stood at the entrance of Diagon Alley, a place he had last visited more then ten years ago, he could not help but stare in obvious wonder of the place. Overrun by wizards and witches, all busy going from shop to shop, it was still an amazingly wonderful place. He stood there for several minutes just gawking at the splendours this place had to offer.
His eyes then ventured to the signs in front of the shops, the first being the cauldron shop then the apothecary. He could see gold cauldrons, silver cauldrons and bronze cauldrons displayed in the window of the cauldron shop, turning towards the apothecary, he laid eyes on ingredients such as spider legs, bezoar's and aconite. He was good with potions but it was not something that he was passionate about, yet seeing these two shops still amazed him.
As he walked down the alley towards his first destination he could not help but to look at every shop there was. His destination was Gringotts wizarding bank, a bank that was entirely run by goblins. The wizards had been using goblin banking for centuries as it was the most secure means to keep their money. Unknown to them though was the fact that goblins had been in the banking business even before wizards had kept their money with them. In fact it was the High elves, the first and most powerful kinds of elves that had entrusted the protection of their treasures too the goblins in the first place. A long time ago when the shadow elves were still part of this world they had started an account with the goblins, and account so old that it was estimated that with interest building up for several centuries that the balance in the vault was in the thirteen figures value. Probably, if not the richest then one of the richest vault that Gringotts had. The vaults itself would only let a Shadows Warriors threw, it was charmed by both the shadow elves and the goblins with protection spells of many different kinds and was one of the most secure vaults that they also had.
Finally, Harry reached Gringotts. It was pretty early in the morning so the lines were still not that long, and so he lined up among one of the shorter lines. It did not take long before he reached the goblin teller. The goblin teller took one look at him before his eyes widened, he noticed the power radiating off him, the power he had been thought a long time ago, a power thought to be lost forever, the power of a shadow warrior. Immediately he pressed a button below the counter, a button that would only alert the boss about a object of interest being shown to the teller, he was hoping the boss would come soon.
Harry of course saw what the teller was doing but paid it no heed. He just wanted his money so that he could go and buy Ginny a present for her birthday. He knew that the button would alert someone, be it the goblin warriors or the head of Gringotts, but he didn't want to have any trouble and wanted to settle this fast. He walked up to the teller and noticed the shocked look he had plastered on his face.
"Excuse me but could I go to my vault" he tried to ask, only to receive silence as a reply. It was mere minutes later that another goblin came out and approached him, the teller still staring at him in shock.
Unfortunately, and to no surprise to him the other goblin which had just approached him did not take him to his vault. The goblin had approached him with a request from the head of Gringotts to see him immediately. Anyone from the wizarding world would have thought this odd, because the head of Gringotts had never even allowed the Minister of Magic to see him, he had used representatives to relay any request he had ever had to the Minister and any other wizard. Harry, however was no ordinary wizard, and due to the fact that he did not know much about the customs of the wizarding world or eve the goblin world thought this to be fairly normal as he had see the recognition of what he truly was from the goblin at the teller. So, he had thought that the head would want to meet the long lost shadow warrior.
The goblin he was following was walking pretty fast, not even slowing down at corner to look if he would bump into something. The corridor he was walking through now was, like everywhere else made of stone walls, however there were portraits of goblins on the wall, the portraits were the wizard kind, which meant that they were moving and talking to each other. At a glance anyone could see that the pictures portrayed goblins of great importance. He assumed that it was probably previous head of Gringotts, and the portraits were a tribute to them.
He was so distracted by the portraits that he had barely noticed the goblin he was following stop. Luckily for him, the years of training had built his reaction time to such an extent that he managed to stop mere inches away from the goblin. In front of him was a door, a door clearly different from all the other doors he had passed since walking here. The door was made of what appeared to be oak, framing the door was bronze plating with intricate designs engraved on it. The door itself was carved with pictures of goblins fighting away dragons, snakes and many different creatures, and if you looked closely there was one even fighting a human. Before he could completely observe the door, it opened.
"Hello the shadow warrior" he heard a voice from the other side.
A/n: sorry I haven't updated for a while but I had to move house and also I just finished my exams. Ill try to update sooner. And thanks for all your reviews too.
