Summary- The Wizarding world is at the verge of an impending war. Wizards have been threatened by enemies far more powerful than they. They need help. Muggle Help. The Ministry of Magic joins forces with the muggle authorities. Muggle authorities have the perfect weapon to finish Voldemort off……Lara Croft. /Tomb Raider Xover Post HPB
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Disclaimer- Harry Potter and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider belongs to J.K Rowling and Eidos Interactive respectively.
Chapter 3
Various Wonderings
The Leaky Cauldron was right in the middle of a very ordinary looking street in London. It was neatly obscured by the bigger shops surrounding it, but not to a careful observer. Lara walked inside to a small dark pub. She has to stay here? She walked to the counter. "I'm looking for a room to stay the night?" she told the bartender. He gave her clothes a funny look and then pointed to a door and said "Ask, Tom". Lara thanked him and went in the pointed direction.
Tom was a big man with a hump. Tom too looked at Lara's clothes in a funny way and gave her a toothless grin. "Looking for a room?" he asked her still smiling. "Yes, I'm staying the night" She was doubtful that she was able to stay in this place for more than couple of hours. "What kind?" Tom asked. "Pardon?" Lara was confused. " I mean what kind of a room. We have family rooms, single rooms, expensive, cheap, luxury, honeymoon…" He was going on an on. "Umm… a single luxury room" Lara said uncertainly. She didn't think that the Leaky Cauldron had penthouse suits. "Well, follow me" Lara followed him to what looked like an elevator. Lara saw that the elevator had buttons up to two hundred floors. This grubby pub had two hundred floors! Tom pressed the button labeled 'two hundred'. The penthouse floor? The doors closed and opened again. Broken elevator doors. To her surprise Tom said "We're here, madam" What? Lara stepped out of the elevator to a nice carpeted corridor. This floor was nothing like the pub downstairs. "Follow me". Lara followed Tom to the only door at the end of the corridor. Tom took a golden key out of his pocket and unlocked the door.
The room was incredible. It was large and had a shining silver floor. The ceiling matched the floor. Its walls were white and shiny. There were all kinds of decorations on the walls. The room had a sofa and a settee set. There were other couches and tables everywhere in the room nicely placed. "The bedroom is to the right" Tom led her to a door at the right side of the room. The bedroom was beautiful. It had a big bed in the middle with shiny white sheets. One of the walls of the room was complete glass. The glass showed the busy streets and buildings outside. "It is a one way glass. You can see outside, but the outside can't see you" Tom said noticing her looking at the glass wall. There were tall lava lamps on the corners of the room making the room all the more elegant. There was a big walk in closet, which had mirrors for walls. The bathroom was the best part of the room. It had a big round bathtub in the middle with lot of taps. Kind of like Lara's bathroom back home. "We don't get many guests in this room, too expensive. Thousand galleons a night. Complete with meals delivered to the room and other room services." Tom said. "I'll take it for two months" Lara said turning around to face Tom. Tom's eyes went wide with surprise. "You sure ma'am. Thousand galleons a night for two months!" He said with even more surprise. "Of course" Lara said not seeing what the big deal was. She was used to for spending that amounts of money. And the room was totally worth it." But I only have muggle money, Can you keep the room until I go end exchange it from Gringotts?" "Of course ma'am" Tom said still surprised. No one had ever purchased the luxury room for more than a night.
On her way out Lara received more funny looks. 'It must be the clothes' Lara thought. 'Everyone else is dressed in robes. They probably think muggle clothes are unusual' People looked her way all the way to Gringotts. Lara had no choice. She couldn't change her clothes in the middle of the street!
At Gringotts the goblins treated her like a convicted criminal. They asked her all kinds of questions. Her clothes were affecting her image more than she thought. However Lara managed to exchange her money without letting it slip that she was in fact a muggle.
Back in her SUV she called Winston to tell him to get her car back into the mansion safely. She gathered her luggage and went back into the Leaky Cauldron.
She told Tom to get her the newspaper everyday. And of course get her some black robes immediately. Then she went on to accommodate the room for herself.
She spent the night reading all recent Wizarding newspapers. She read articles about this and that Death Eater attacks. There were series of attacks at a place called Hollow Alley. Lara threw away the newspaper and started thinking. 'What's the best way to attract Vol's attention? An attack. An attack on his followers. Of course. Death Eaters. Attack Death Eaters. Maybe they are still lurking around that Hollow Alley.' Lara yawned aloud. She felt tired, it was a busy day. Still she couldn't help but wonder about Voldemort. 'There must be something in the guy's past that will eventually be helpful. Of course his greatest secret, Hocruxes, was revealed. But still. There must be something more…personal. After all he was human. Like, maybe he had a sibling. An unknown twin. Maybe his mother is still alive. What about a girlfriend, wife, schoolboy crush, at least a diary…………..
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