a/n: Author's note at the end of this chapter. Also this appears to be the longest chapter as of yet, what do you think of it?
disclaimer: well it's about time i did one of these, but i think you all know that if i owned harry potter, i would first of all not be going to school for computer science, and second of all, why the bloody hell would i be writing this story? Be glad i dont own the harry potter. world. Alisa is my own character, but everyone else is j.k. rolling's.
chapter 4, the alley After Harry and his party left number four, Dumbledore turned to Harry, "Harry, I know all of this is a shock to you, but I have a few more things that we must do to get you ready for school"
Harry, looking up at Dumbledore blushing said, "all nice sir, but I have a small problem. My aunt and uncle will not give me any money, and I need some books, according to your er, um, my letter. What do I do"
"boy, boy" said Dumbledore patting harry on the shoulder, "Did you think your parents did not leave you any money in the event of their death"
"But", said Harry, "I thought my dad was a drunk and mom did not do anything with her life"
"Oh", said Dumbledore, "your parents were not poor. Trust me Harry, your not a poor wizard"
"I'm not"
"Not by far, you will see, just hold on to my arm." and with that Harry grabbed onto Dumbledore's arm and with a crack they left private drive. Harry, hoping that it would be for the last time, but for some reason he doubted it.
Arriving with another crack in front of a ran down set of buildings, harry looked around. "You know," said harry turning to dumbledore, "If your playing a prank on me, this is not very funny. If you all are wizards, wouldn't your shops look nicer"
"Harry, this is disguised so that the muggle's can't see our world. If you look carefully right over there," pointing to his right, "you will see the leaky caldron, our portal to the wizarding world"
Harry looked over and saw a rather nice looking building that all the other people appeared to just look over. It seemed like they did not even know that it was there, "ingenious Dumbledore sir"
"Oh, it was not my idea, but alas, we must be going, come lets enter," and with that dumbledore grabbed harry by the hand and walked confidently with harry right threw the front door. Looking around harry could see tables around the room with pillars placed what appeared to be randomly around the room as well. There was not a large group of people in at this time, but the one person harry noticed was the person standing behind the bar, and the very person dumbledore was headed toward. "Tom," said dumbledore, "how are you on this gloriously beautiful day"
"I'm doing rather well professor, the normal"
"No No No, I'm helping Mr. Harry here with his shopping. He had muggle guardians and knows nothing about the wizarding world. I just wanted to say hi to you before we headed in"
"always the thoughtful one, thanks a lot, and may you be safe. By the way Mr. Potter, thanks for everything," and with that tom turned to help another customer.
Walking out the back door, harry turned to dumbledore, "Um sir, i have 2 questions for you"
"Yes," asked dumbledore removing his wand from the inside of his robes.
"What is a muggle, and how did Tom know my last name when you did not tell him it"
Tapping what appeared to be a random brick dumbledore responded, "I'm sure you will know soon enough, but right now is not the time for me to talk to you about it. A muggle is a non magical person, it's what we call people who can not do magic"
All thoughts of muggles and random people knowing his last name left Harry's head when he saw what had happened. It appeared that the brick dumbledore had tapped on had moved and took the bricks around it with it. There was not a portal into a new lain with lots of odd looking shops. There were a lot of people in robes hurrying from shop to shop, stopping to talk to there friends, and even little kids running around with ice-cream cones. "Wow," was Harry's only .
"Come harry, we must go to the bank," said dumbledore slightly pushing harry forward. They walked down the middle of the lane. Harry was looking all around trying to take all there was to see in at once. They approached the largest building with large doors and ugly things standing outside. Dumbledore nodded at the ugly things and ushered harry in, "goblins", said dumbledore to harry in explanation. When Harry and Dumbledore entered the building that harry assumed was the bank, Harry was astonished to see about fifty goblins sitting behind a counter and lots of people in robes talking to the goblins. Dumbledore walked up to one of the free goblins and said, "We wish to visit Harry Potter's vault"
"Key?" Asked the goblin.
"Of-course," said Dumbledore nodding at the goblin. He removed from his cote pocket a little key that was red and gold colored.
The goblin took it in his hand and to Harrys astonishment poked his self with a needle and dropped a drop of blood onto the key. The key turned completely gold and the goblin gave a very toothy smile, "go with grip hook, he will take you down to the potter vault," said the goblin nodding at a slightly shorter goblin to his right." Come with me," said Grip Hook walking off to a door at the far end of the counter. Harry and Dumbledore silently followed Grip Hook. Then entered the door and Harry saw what looked like a train station. Grip Hook climbed into a shorter looking train and gestured for Harry and Dumbledore to get in as well. They did and with a jolt they sped down into tunnels. Harry was thrilled and said, "Faster," and with that Grip Hook sped up even faster. Looking over at Dumbledore, Harry noticed Dumbledore was slightly pink. About three minutes later, and a lot of turns, , they came to a complete quick stop, "The potter vault" said Grip Hook with another one of those toothy smiles.
"Thanks," said harry to Grip Hook, "That was fun"
"Really," asked Dumbledore to Harry, "you live dangerously"
"How do i open this," asked Harry.
"Put your key here..." Dumbledore explained to harry how he had to open the door and when he did.
"Wow," said Harry. There was nothing but rows of gold, "This is grate, how much should i get"
"Well," said Grip Hook, "if you use this bag, it will give you any amount of gold you request. It will also turn into a muggle wallet if you say "Wallet" and give you any amount of Muggle Pounds you desire. It is free for all customers of ours who have amounts of gold as large as yours"
"Thank you, sure I'll take one of those," said Harry.
"Then nothing more is required here," said Dumbledore as they climbed back into the cart and sped back to the surface.
a/n: I know it's been a while since i've updated, but i do have reasonable reasons... First of all the hard drive in my mac went out a week and a half ago so i didn't have a computer really to write with. Second of all i have to get ready for finals, and am getting ready to move to alaska in 14 days (smile). This is also the reason that i might not be updating to often for the next to weeks, but you know if i get a lot of reviews i may find a bit of time to update sooner. smile I was not going to end this chapter here, but figured it wasn't a bad place to stop this chapter. I do assure you a bit of, lets just say there is going to be a predicament that Harry and one of our little favorite red heads may get into. Memories play interesting tricks on the mind don't they?
random song for you to listen to is "rehab - walk away.
well, r&r please.
Mike
disclaimer: well it's about time i did one of these, but i think you all know that if i owned harry potter, i would first of all not be going to school for computer science, and second of all, why the bloody hell would i be writing this story? Be glad i dont own the harry potter. world. Alisa is my own character, but everyone else is j.k. rolling's.
chapter 4, the alley After Harry and his party left number four, Dumbledore turned to Harry, "Harry, I know all of this is a shock to you, but I have a few more things that we must do to get you ready for school"
Harry, looking up at Dumbledore blushing said, "all nice sir, but I have a small problem. My aunt and uncle will not give me any money, and I need some books, according to your er, um, my letter. What do I do"
"boy, boy" said Dumbledore patting harry on the shoulder, "Did you think your parents did not leave you any money in the event of their death"
"But", said Harry, "I thought my dad was a drunk and mom did not do anything with her life"
"Oh", said Dumbledore, "your parents were not poor. Trust me Harry, your not a poor wizard"
"I'm not"
"Not by far, you will see, just hold on to my arm." and with that Harry grabbed onto Dumbledore's arm and with a crack they left private drive. Harry, hoping that it would be for the last time, but for some reason he doubted it.
Arriving with another crack in front of a ran down set of buildings, harry looked around. "You know," said harry turning to dumbledore, "If your playing a prank on me, this is not very funny. If you all are wizards, wouldn't your shops look nicer"
"Harry, this is disguised so that the muggle's can't see our world. If you look carefully right over there," pointing to his right, "you will see the leaky caldron, our portal to the wizarding world"
Harry looked over and saw a rather nice looking building that all the other people appeared to just look over. It seemed like they did not even know that it was there, "ingenious Dumbledore sir"
"Oh, it was not my idea, but alas, we must be going, come lets enter," and with that dumbledore grabbed harry by the hand and walked confidently with harry right threw the front door. Looking around harry could see tables around the room with pillars placed what appeared to be randomly around the room as well. There was not a large group of people in at this time, but the one person harry noticed was the person standing behind the bar, and the very person dumbledore was headed toward. "Tom," said dumbledore, "how are you on this gloriously beautiful day"
"I'm doing rather well professor, the normal"
"No No No, I'm helping Mr. Harry here with his shopping. He had muggle guardians and knows nothing about the wizarding world. I just wanted to say hi to you before we headed in"
"always the thoughtful one, thanks a lot, and may you be safe. By the way Mr. Potter, thanks for everything," and with that tom turned to help another customer.
Walking out the back door, harry turned to dumbledore, "Um sir, i have 2 questions for you"
"Yes," asked dumbledore removing his wand from the inside of his robes.
"What is a muggle, and how did Tom know my last name when you did not tell him it"
Tapping what appeared to be a random brick dumbledore responded, "I'm sure you will know soon enough, but right now is not the time for me to talk to you about it. A muggle is a non magical person, it's what we call people who can not do magic"
All thoughts of muggles and random people knowing his last name left Harry's head when he saw what had happened. It appeared that the brick dumbledore had tapped on had moved and took the bricks around it with it. There was not a portal into a new lain with lots of odd looking shops. There were a lot of people in robes hurrying from shop to shop, stopping to talk to there friends, and even little kids running around with ice-cream cones. "Wow," was Harry's only .
"Come harry, we must go to the bank," said dumbledore slightly pushing harry forward. They walked down the middle of the lane. Harry was looking all around trying to take all there was to see in at once. They approached the largest building with large doors and ugly things standing outside. Dumbledore nodded at the ugly things and ushered harry in, "goblins", said dumbledore to harry in explanation. When Harry and Dumbledore entered the building that harry assumed was the bank, Harry was astonished to see about fifty goblins sitting behind a counter and lots of people in robes talking to the goblins. Dumbledore walked up to one of the free goblins and said, "We wish to visit Harry Potter's vault"
"Key?" Asked the goblin.
"Of-course," said Dumbledore nodding at the goblin. He removed from his cote pocket a little key that was red and gold colored.
The goblin took it in his hand and to Harrys astonishment poked his self with a needle and dropped a drop of blood onto the key. The key turned completely gold and the goblin gave a very toothy smile, "go with grip hook, he will take you down to the potter vault," said the goblin nodding at a slightly shorter goblin to his right." Come with me," said Grip Hook walking off to a door at the far end of the counter. Harry and Dumbledore silently followed Grip Hook. Then entered the door and Harry saw what looked like a train station. Grip Hook climbed into a shorter looking train and gestured for Harry and Dumbledore to get in as well. They did and with a jolt they sped down into tunnels. Harry was thrilled and said, "Faster," and with that Grip Hook sped up even faster. Looking over at Dumbledore, Harry noticed Dumbledore was slightly pink. About three minutes later, and a lot of turns, , they came to a complete quick stop, "The potter vault" said Grip Hook with another one of those toothy smiles.
"Thanks," said harry to Grip Hook, "That was fun"
"Really," asked Dumbledore to Harry, "you live dangerously"
"How do i open this," asked Harry.
"Put your key here..." Dumbledore explained to harry how he had to open the door and when he did.
"Wow," said Harry. There was nothing but rows of gold, "This is grate, how much should i get"
"Well," said Grip Hook, "if you use this bag, it will give you any amount of gold you request. It will also turn into a muggle wallet if you say "Wallet" and give you any amount of Muggle Pounds you desire. It is free for all customers of ours who have amounts of gold as large as yours"
"Thank you, sure I'll take one of those," said Harry.
"Then nothing more is required here," said Dumbledore as they climbed back into the cart and sped back to the surface.
a/n: I know it's been a while since i've updated, but i do have reasonable reasons... First of all the hard drive in my mac went out a week and a half ago so i didn't have a computer really to write with. Second of all i have to get ready for finals, and am getting ready to move to alaska in 14 days (smile). This is also the reason that i might not be updating to often for the next to weeks, but you know if i get a lot of reviews i may find a bit of time to update sooner. smile I was not going to end this chapter here, but figured it wasn't a bad place to stop this chapter. I do assure you a bit of, lets just say there is going to be a predicament that Harry and one of our little favorite red heads may get into. Memories play interesting tricks on the mind don't they?
random song for you to listen to is "rehab - walk away.
well, r&r please.
Mike