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Chapter 4: The Mega Shopping Trip
Harry felt warmth spreading out into his body from his left shoulder where Echo was still perched, once the warmth had spread to every corner of his body he felt it begin to dissipate, and with this feeling his vision also began dissipate leaving black dots, until there was only black…
The whole experience only took only a second, the next second Harry and Echo found themselves in a dark alley in London in front of the Leaky Cauldron.
"What was that" Harry asked feeling slightly dizzy.
'That was Flame Travel young Harry'
"Oh… I think I like it more then the Floo… by the way don't call me 'young'" Harry muttered
'So what now? What are your plans? What are you going to do? Why don't you go for a haircut? You really need it! Why is the sky blue? Actually I already…'
"Okay, Okay, calm down! I don't know what I'm going to do, umm… I'll go get some money first… I'll go for a haircut and then I'll go and get new clothes and some books and stuff…" Harry trailed off thinking of what could come under the 'stuff' category.
'I'm not sure… but will humans find our sight, I dunno… slightly unusual?' asked Echo teasingly
"Uhhh, yeah" answered Harry "could you 'flame' me near Gringotts but somewhere where none will see me?"
'Ok, am I coming in with you'
"No, It's not a great idea… I think it would be better to draw as little attention as possible" Harry answered
'Well I guess that also depends on you haircut, if it shows your scar or not…'
Harry was silent for a few minutes pondering his options. Yes, he wanted a haircut, but he didn't want to cover his scar. When he had decided that he would train, before he wrote the letter to Dumbledore, Harry decided that he would be proud of who he was, he was in a position to change the wizarding world, what he thought, what he did would make a difference. People all around the world wanted to make a difference, to make life better and most of those people never got a chance. Harry however did have that chance and he was determined to make the most of it even though he hated the media, hated what he thought was undeserved fame, but he knew that right now the media could be a tool which he could use it to change the wizarding world and he would use it knowing that one day he could and would be free from the media to live his life how he wanted to. And he promised himself he would make sure of it…
But now there was the problem with the wizarding world, they all probably thought him to be dead, it would not be a great idea to walk into Diagon Alley and cause a panic.
Echo who had been following Harry's train of thought decided to interrupt 'Harry no time has passed. Five minutes ago you were in the Dursley's home fighting off death eaters'
"What? You can't be serious!" Harry exclaimed
'Oh, but I am'
"Well that changes things…"
Harry continued on his previous train of thought. ;So if I walk into the alley right now people won't really recognize me, but after the haircut my scar will be visible, and I can't use any magic to hide it either' Harry said remembering the time in his first year when he had asked Hermione to cast a concealment charm on his scar, the spell failed and so did every other glamour charm Hermione used, eventually Harry had gone to Dumbledore asking for a solution. Dumbledore had said that there was a field of magic around his scar that prevented any sort of charm to hide it.
'So, that's out of the question… ummmm… well I guess the news of 'my death 'will probably take a while to get out, especially if the Ministry wants to keep it under wraps. But… what if people do find out? What if everyone thinks I am dead? Will Dumbledore lose hope… Will people lose faith in the light side?'
'If people have no hope, no faith then even the strongest Light supporters will join the Darkness…' said Echo wisely
'So what should I do?' Harry asked
"I think you should do what you want without worrying so much about consequences… be yourself, I know you don't know who 'you' are but just do what you think and feel is right, do what you want that's what's best'
'Thanks… I guess… I don't know if that's good or bad advice… But I'll take it anyways… It's kinda what Sirus would say' Harry sighed
"Ok let's go but I think that you should stay hidden, I'm gona go into Knockturn Alley as well and I don't really think that it would be such a good idea to go with a phoenix" Harry said
'White Phoenix' replied Echo irritably before flaming both of them to a dark deserted area near Gringotts…
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"I definitely like flaming better then the floo" was the first thing Harry said once they had reappeared in a brilliant white burst of flame.
'Who wouldn't? by the way where should I go?'
"I dunno, I don't even know where I'm gona go… I don't want to go to Grimwald place, I need to train… by myself" Harry answered
'You know, I can turn invisible…'
"Serious?"
'…and I bet I could make you invisible'
"Wow, that'd be handy" Harry said as the Phoenix turned invisible
Harry walked out of the dark alley into Diagon Alley and headed to Gringotts. On his way there Harry realised that he was the object to many peculiar stares 'I guess that'll never change' Harry thought with a small sigh
'I have feeling that you're going to have to get used to them'
Harry sighed again in agreement and entered Gringotts
As soon as he had taken a step into Gringotts he was again the object of many stares, some unfriendly, others however like the goblins were just curious. Harry looked around and found a goblin that was free and was staring at him, he made his way over to the goblin.
"How may I help you" asked the goblin
"I would like to access my Gringotts vault" Harry answered
"Key please"
"Sorry, I've lost my key…" replied Harry
"Dabura!" called the goblin
For a moment Harry thought that he was going to be kicked out but when another goblin arrived and did not make any move to throw him out he sighed in relief.
"Dabura, please take this gentlemen to the Key Archive" said the first Goblin
Dabura nodded curtly to the first goblin and then turned to Harry
"Follow" Dabura ordered
Harry followed Dabura down to a door on the far left of the room and then through a series of twists and turns in gloomy corridors before he suddenly stopped at a door, he opened it and gestured Harry to go in first, Harry did so and was followed in by Dabura who closed the door behind him making Harry feel more nervous then he already was.
Dabura walked past Harry when Harry stopped. He watched Dabura curiously as he made his way over to a wall, more specifically towards a green rock that was sticking out at goblin arm level.
"Please put your hand on the green rock" Dabura said
Harry nodded and walked over to the rock that stuck out of the wall, kneeling down Harry thought that the goblins must have purposely put it low down so that witches and wizards had to kneel down 'Degrading, but fitting for families like the Malfoys' smiling slightly Harry put his hand on the smooth rock which was about the size of Hagrid's hand.
The Rock glowed green before a name appeared on the section of wall above it.
Harry James Potter
Both of them stared at the name, Harry patiently while Dabura opened mouthedly.
"R-Right Mr Potter, just a moment your key will arrive here shortly" Dabura said
Harry wondered what the goblin ment when he had said 'your key will arrive here' but found out soon enough as a few seconds later the top section of the wall opened up and a key flew out, without a second thought Harry grabbed the dark red key out of the air, just like a snitch in quidditch Harry thought to himself as he looked at the key he realised it had the Name Potter incrusted on the handle.
"Thanks" Harry said
"Follow me back the lobby Mr Potter" Dabura said
Harry nodded before turning around; just as he took a step towards the door something solid hit the back of his head
Tlack!
"What the hell!" Harry yelped as he turned around looking for the offending object, hearing a Clang! He looked down to see another key except this key was black…
"What the hell?" Harry said as he picked up the key
"May I have a look" asked a perplexed Dabura
"Umm, yeah sure" Harry said handing the key to the goblin.
!Hmmm, the Black family Key… I believe that it belongs to Sirus Black…" Dabura trailed off as he looked up at Harry
"S-Sirus died a while ago…" Harry whispered
"My condolences Mr Potter, well then that does make sense… It seems he has given…" again the goblin trailed off as he waved his hand above the key whispering some strange words that Harry had never heard before. The key turned a bluish colour and the Goblin nodded to himself
"You and Mr Remus Lupin are both heirs to the Black
Family Fortune… 50 each" The Goblin said as he handed the key
back to Harry "follow me" the goblin said
Harry followed the
goblin to the door, as Dabura stretched his hand out towards the door
knob
Tlack!
"Danm! Not again" Harry said frustradely as he rubbed the back of his head and bent down to recover the shiny purple key and handed It to the even more perplexed goblin.
"The kakash 2nd vault key… interesting…. But why you…" Dabura muttered to himself as he walked over the green stone.
Dabura muttered some more words in what Harry remembered must be the goblin language gobblygoop, he then turned the stone 90 degrees clockwise and then 270 degrees anti-clockwise.
"I suggest you might want to get ready to catch any more keys that may come" Dabura said as he looked at the hole on the wall over the green stone.
Harry nodded numbly thinking about how much it would hurt if he missed one.
'Your probably going to have a few bruises' Echo commented
'Your still here? I forgot about you' Harry replied
'How could you! sob' Echo said in fake mortification
'You wouldn't happen to know anything about this would you' Harry asked suspiciously
'I might do…'
'Tell me then…'
'Later'
'This better be a good explanation ending with Voldemort drowned in the shower'
'Unfortunately, No'
The only thing that saved Harry was his lightening fast quidditch reflexes because if he didn't look up in time he surely would have been hit by a yellow key, and then a Green, then a blue, then another darker green, then a light blue, bright pink, dark red, bright red, neon turquoise, yellow, pink, black, white…
Soon Harry dropped the keys in his hand to the floor as he couldn't hold anymore. A few seconds later Harry was on the floor panting with 24 keys around him and one in the hand of a wide eyed Dabura…
"Wha… what was… all that" Harry gasped out rubbing his forehead where a key had previously hitten him
'It's not funny Echo'
'y-yes it-t is'
The goblin mutely conjured a black mettle box and waved his hand making all the keys fly into the box, as Harry stood up the goblin jerkily handed the box to him.
"Thanks" Harry said, Dabura muttered something inaudible before moving towards the door, opened it and gestured Harry to go through. Harry walked through taking one more look backwards, luckily there was nothing else flying at him.
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As soon as they had re-entered the Lobby Dabura lead Harry to a door on the top left of the room, he knocked and a few moments later
"Come in"
Dabura opened the door and gestured Harry to go in first, Harry again did so
"Griphook?" questioned Harry as he looked at the familiar Goblin
There was a moment of silence as the two wide eyed goblins looked at each other, finally
"And you are…" asked Griphook who was now peering at Harry with interest
"It's me Harry, Harry Potter" Harry said thinking about the goblins reactions if he had said that he was a muggle secret agent named Bond, James Bond… he'd probably be kicked out and his memory wiped out.
Harry surveyed his surroundings, he was in another what looked like a reception area, behind the blood red desk to his right sat Griphook and in front of him was another door with the some strange symbols on it, under it was what Harry guessed to be a translation which spelt 'Ragrack's Room'.
"Mr Potter…" asked Griphook looking intently at Dabura
"Yes, he will need to see Lord Ragrack, He seems to have… Inherited 25 vaults" Dabua said carefully
Griphook had gone rigid and looked wide eyed at Harry and the black box "One moment" was the last thing he said before he hurried to 'Ragrack's room'
A few minutes of silence later Griphook walked back into the room
"Ragrack is ready to see you Mr Potter" said the goblin
Harry nodded and walked towards the door, opened it and walked in closing the door behind him.
"Mr Potter" Ragrack greeted gesturing to a chair in front of his desk
Harry looked around the room as he sat down, The room was quite large, and was decorated with a red carpet and red walls but a slightly darker colour. Everything else in the room was also a dark red colour with gold trimming; even the suit Ragrack wore was trimmed with gold trimming, altogether it was hard to differentiate between anything.
Harry sat down and looked towards Ragrack…
"Mr Potter may I have a look at at the keys?" politely asked Ragrack
Harry suddenly realised that he was still holding the black box
"Yes sir" Harry said handing the box over to the old goblin and at the same time thinking it'd be best if he was as polite and respectful as possible after all Dabura had addressed Ragrack as 'Lord' Ragrack
Ragrack was silent as he examined the keys, each time he had finished examining a key he placed it to the side. Once he was done he turned back to Harry and looked at him searchingly.
"Mr Potter… The best way to do this would be… one moment" the goblin tapped his finger on his desk. One moment later Griphook opened the door and walked to stand besides Harry in front of Ragracks desk
"Griphook, could you move the contents of vaults 1, 2, 3, 5. 7. 11 .16. 21. 25, 52, 89, 106, 167, 287, 374, 375, 376, 377, 490, 570, 681, 1,007, 1,495, 1,502 and vault 3,607 to vault 1,600… but also have a look at the inheritance information as you will need to know the ratios and shares" Ragrack listed choppingly.
"…1,502, 3,607 to 1,600… Yes sir" Griphook said as he wrote it all down
"Good, now Mr Potter, this to a wizard is likely to be truly amazing, but for us Goblins it is just business. Now the vaults you have inherited are the vaults of Agazes, Delica, Anda, Bakana, Sitoka, Sizozu, Adthe, Sintanus, Mitakl, Gepad, Erica, Nonsum, Carmen, Sebastian, Louise and Potter. The others you have a share of one eighth in are Le Fay, Grimwald, Aziku, Uzumaki, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Gryffindor and Merlin they are all secret vaults as in were supposed to be passed down to a certain Ligh or Dark Lord." Ragrack paused for a few moments to allow the now gaping Harry to process the information "If you add your assets together you are by far the richest person to have ever lived, you have 538,228,957,107,294, 295, 275,285,968,485, 576,397,287 gallons, 584,975,372,574,2937,482,485,411 sickles and 594,264,376,587,250,476,763,298,4756,873 knuts… your liquid assets are 495,609,138,193,205,609… you have a momentous collection of jewels, metals, rare artefacts, Books and many more… You also own 1,012 Estates, 9,632 Houses, 111 Castles, 368 mines, 206 business and 981 more properties."
Harry was open mouthedly staring wide eyed right through the goblin and he bet Echo was too
'No! I'm not!' Echo said indigently
"Wha… Wha, You have to be joking! I would be richer then the Malfoys richer then WOW Bill gates!!!" Harry said in amazement
"Ahh, we will have to inform Mr Gates that he is no longer the richest alive…" Ragrack muttered to himself
Harry sat there silently willing feeling to come back to him. Eventually he began to wonder about what the rare artefacts where and why he had inherited a vault from dark witches and wizards not to mention the founders of Hogwarts and Merlin… It seemed as if that the rules of reality were being re-written.
"Mr Potter, did you realise that one of the vaults you have inherited is from a goblin?" Ragrack questioned
"No, Wow, Really?" Harry asked
"Yes, having inherited a goblin vault you are in our eyes considered an adult therefore will be given full access to vault 1.600 the Potter family vault." Continued Ragrack
"Potter family vault?" questioned Harry
'Yes… didn't you know of it" inquired Ragrack
"No…" answered Harry
"Well you had permission to take anything out from it that was not money, Albus Dumbledore I believe was the one supposed to tell you" explained Ragrack
"H-He didn't tell me" Harry said as anger slowly began to creep into him
'HARRY STOP! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT GETTING ANGRY WILL DO? WITH YOUR POWER, IF YOU GET EVEN MILDLY ANGRY YOU COULND END UP DESTROYING ALL OF GRINGOTS AND THE WORLD!!! NOT TO MENTION THE ELEMENTS WILL GO COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL!!!' screamed the phoenix in his head
"OK! OK! I'll be calm" Harry exclaimed with his hands over his ears
"Mr Potter, are you alright" asked Ragrack
"Uhh, yeah sorry…" Harry said
"Well then, would you like a Gringotts card and Money bag?" asked Ragrack
"Ummm… I don't know what they are" Harry said
"A Gringotts card is equivalent to a muggle credit card and is used in both the magical and muggle worlds and the money bag you can use to draw physical money muggle or magical in any form e.g. Pound, Dollars, or the Wizard universal gallon. You would use it by stating how much you want then putting your hand in your bag and withdrawing the money… the fee for every time you use the bag is 1 knut if your withdrawing under 1,000 gallons and 5 if you withdraw more. For the card you will have to pay 0.05 of what you buy with it to Gringotts bank" the goblin explained
Harry nodded thinking that it would be a good idea
"And I suggest that you get another account manager, it would be best to have more then one…" Ragrack trailed off waiting for Harry's answer
"Ok… Is it possible for the goblins and Remus Lupin to manage my account?" asked Harry
Ragrack stared at Harry for a few moments
"Are you sure about your decision, do you want any advice from any of your friends exetra… because wizards do not generally have goblin account managers" Ragrack stated
"Of course I don't mind, I would prefer a goblin account manager and I trust goblins" Harry said 'It would be a good idea having a few goblin friends, allies'
"Interesting… Ok and you would like Remus Lupin as well" asked Ragrack
"Yes" Harry replied simply
Ragrack nodded before taking out a gold card and a small black bag with a blue tie-sting, he also took out a few forms. The elderly goblin waved his hands above the papers in deep concentration and writing appeared on the forms and the cards.
"Mr Potter please read through these, when you are ready place your hands on these and say your full name and that you accept.
Harry nodded and began to read threw the forms, everything seemed to be ok and fair so…
"I, Harry James Potter accept" Harry said clearly, there was a small flash of light before his name appeared on the top of the form
"Now Mr Potter I suggest you go and visit your account, I will send a letter to Remus Lupin asking if he will accept the job and that you have specifically requested the job, here is the key to the Potter Family vault, everything has been moved there" Finished Ragrack
"Thank you for your time sir" Harry said as he stood up and went over towards the door, he opened it and left.
"Thanks and bye Griphook" Harry said as he left to lobby
Harry walked up to the nearest free goblin
"Can I help you Mr…" the goblin asked
"Potter…" Harry answered
""Do you have your key?" asked the goblin
"Yes" Harry said handing the key over
"Dabura" the goblin yelled
"Yes" Dabura answered as he came over
"Please take Mr Potter to his vault" said the goblin
Dabura nodded
"Follow me" he said
"sure, why not?" Harry muttered to himself
Harry and Dabura silently made their way over to the carts, a moment later there was a loud scream of "WWAAAAAHHOOOOOO!" from Harry as they made their way over to the vault.
The cart ride was exhilarating to say the least, after what Harry considered to be a very long weak but was actually less the one day Harry was tired, very tired but the ride seemed to have relieved him of a lot of stress.
"Mr Potter, please walk towards the doors place your hand on the door and state your name" said Dabura as soon as the cart came to a stop
Harry walked over to the door and put his hand on it "Harry James Potter" he said clearly
A brilliant flash of light and Harry felt as if his soul was being jerked forwards the feeling soon subsided leaving Harry feeling numb, a second later Harry was standing rooted to the spot gaping in shock at what lay before him…
The vault must have been at least 500 times the size of the Great Hall at Hogwarts… to the Right of the vault covering the whole section of the vault were momentous mountains of Gold, Silver, Bronze and Gems all reaching up so high that you couldn't see the peak in the dark abyss above. To his left was what could only be described as artefacts, hundreds of them, suits of armour, chests, books, furniture and other various items of which Harry had no idea what they could be. The back of the vault was lined with desks which were littered with old important looking documents.
"Holy… Shit…" Harry muttered in awe
'I don't really think that's possible… but I must say it is magnificently amazing if not breathtakingly awe aspiring…' Echo commented
"Daba-Dabura! What the hell! WOW!" Harry said blinking as he tried to get used to the golddish sparklish hue that was covering the vault.
"I don't think anyone has EVER seen so much money…" Harry muttered
"You are probably right… There has never been a documented fact of anyone even having a quarter of how much you now own…" Dabura said
Harry stumbled his way into the vault, hoping that his now weak feeling legs would carry him long enough to reach there.
'Where…'
'Where should you go first?'
'Yeah…'
'I suggest you have a look at the documents first'
'Yeah, good idea'
Harry slowly made his way to the back of the vault towards the desks which held the worn out documents. He walked to the middle of all the desks which seemed to be made of a dark red wood or had been charmed to look like it had.
"Mr Potter I think it would be better to start with the desk on the furthest right as that desk has the contents document of the vault" Dabura advised
Harry nodded at the goblin and then walked over to the desk to the furthest right; it felt like an age until he finally reached the desk. Harry picked up the role of parchment, which he was still expecting to only have a few things listed on it, but he was wrong. The list seemed to stretch forever, Harry pulled the parchment upwards revealing exactly what he had suspected. The parchment was charmed so that it would never end and would not take up much space, he was sure no matter how much he pulled out that when he let go the parchment would roll itself into a small role of parchment.
"It is going to take me ages to finish reading this… Dabura is there another way that I can know what is in this vault?" Harry questioned turning back to Dabura
"I believe there is" Dabura said as he moved towards Harry "but… Mr Potter this is likely to hurt a lot"
Harry considered this for a moment 'I don't really like pain, but then again it's not something new to me. I guess it would be best after all who knows what could be in here that I might miss when reading the list plus it saves time, what do you think Echo'
"Well, I think that you've got the right idea, just go for it! I doubt it'll take that long'
Harry nodded to himself before looking back at Dabura
"I don't really mind, pain isn't new to me" Harry said
Dabura nodded, looking at Dabura Harry noticed a slight gleam of anticipation in his eyes…
'That does not look good'
'Don't worry Harry, Goblins are worrier creatures, they love fighting and are very vicious, It's only natural for a goblin to want to test other worriers especially if they respect them. Basically, it's a good sign'
'I never understood why goblins work in banks and are not competing with wizards for the dominant role in society'
'That is a very long story, involving elves and other magical creatures who all put an end to a war of cataclysmic proportions. Not going in depth but this is just the gist of what happened. All magical creatures lived together, not exactly peacefully but they lived under rules of a council of the most powerful creatures of each species, evidently there was a huge argument in the council and the council was disbanded. Things went down hill from there and each species fought for power and domination, many lives were lost and the elves decided that it had gone on long enough and the balance in magic was becoming dangerously unbalanced. So the elves sent a treaty for peace and equality to every other side of the war. Every side apart from the wizards agreed, the wizards being their arrogant selves refused. Thing's were going really bad and the elves managed to convince the other sides to accept the wizards conditions or magic would leave all of them. It was the only way to survive, and so they accepted and all sides signed a contract, but what they did not know was that it was the first magical unbreakable contract. Once the contract was signed the elves left and went into hiding trying to make sure that the contract remained safe. Each side had agreed to never again declare or act in a war against any other species…'
'Wow!'
"Mr Potter are you ready?" asked an impatient Dabura
"Oh sorry, yes I'm ready" Harry answered
"Good now let us begin" Dabura said
Dabura closed his eyes and pointed one hand palm facing forwards towards the role of parchment and the other palm forwards towards Harry, he then started whispering in the goblin tongue and the next thing Harry new that he was clutching his head in pain.
"Crap…" Harry gasped out before a Echo sang a soothing Phoenix song in his head. Harry stopped trembling and stood still with his hands on his head and waited for the pain to subside, after a few minutes it did
"I must say Mr Potter, I am impressed" Dabura said when he had finished the ritual
Harry was awed by the amount of information that had been stuffed into his head, because that was what it felt like.
"Umm, why are you impressed?" Harry asked
"Do not worry" answered Dabura evasively
'He's worried, he just put you in enough pain to be classified as a weak cruciatus curse, not to worry though the information was more then worth it'
'SAYS YOU! YOU weren't the one who felt it!'
'Well think of it this way, you have a higher pain tolerance and I helped with the phoenix song remember…'
'I don't like Dabura anymore….'
'Oh sure. Just because he put you under the cruciatus curse you don't like him anymore!'
'Can you please stop being so irritating?'
'No, I can't help it! It's like some invisible force is making me say these things… Get it! It's me making me say these things, you know, I'm invisible!'
'Shut up!'
"Mr Potter, I will need to return to the lobby, when you are done here walk out of the vault and say 'A Potter Shall Return'. It is the closing password for the Potter vault; once the door has closed I will arrive a few minutes later. I suggest you do not go wondering off…" Dabura left the sentence hanging making Harry sure that if he did wonder off he would most likely be endangering his life.
Harry nodded, and then Dabura turned and walked out of the vault.
"So, I guess I'll go get some stuff…" Harry muttered before trying to remember what was in the vault
"Amazing! No way! Wow! Seriously!" Harry muttered in awe as he looked around the room thinking of what was in it, it was unbelievable… So much knowledge, so much power.
"It's gona take me ages to look for this stuff" Harry said as he made his was to the closest stack of books
'Well then summon it!' Echo replied in exasperation
'I'm not allowed to do magic…' Harry deadpanned
'You can do use wandless magic' Echo explained
'I can…?' Harry questioned nervously
'Of course, try it! it'll be easier then using a wand or a staff…' Echo said thinking of the many advantages a Staff had, he would have to make sure Harry remembered to make one.
'How come none told be before?' asked Harry feeling slightly annoyed
'Because Harry wandless magic is not as simple as I made it sound now, it's just because with the amount of power you have, at the moment your magic is barley being kept in check by mother earth otherwise you would be overflowing with magic which would basically keep you doing accidental magic through thought and emotion alone! It usually takes a very long time and a lot of hard work which involves becoming more in tune with your magic, you will need to learn this very soon Harry so you can control your magic and learn new spells, and so on easily. Just act as if your hand is your wand for now ok?' Echo explained
'Ok' Harry replied
"Accio 'Gravity and Time, Time and Gravity'" Harry tested, but was still surprised that a thick dusty book flew at him.
'You can do magic silently, just will what you want to happen step by step. For example the Accio charm like the one you just performed you would need to will the book to float up into the air and then fly towards you' Echo explained
'Thanks Echo, you're a really good teacher' Harry praised before willing 'Ravenclaw Ring' to come to him, again it worked.
'Good Harry! Now I suggest you hurry this up we are running out of time' advised Echo
'Do shops stay open at nigh?' inquired Harry
'Some do, mostly in Knockturn alley' Echo answered
'I think I'm gona be shopping for about a day or maybe even more…'Harry groaned at the thought
"Well, then I think it would be best if we got started! Now what do I need" Harry said
"The 'Vapour Trunk', 'A secret within another', 'Magic and More Magic', 'Potter Ring', 'Black Ring', Darakus Battle Robes" And on and on it went, one after the other the items flew into the Vapour Trunk, a few hours later he was done. He waved his hand over the trunk and willed it to shrink, it worked and he put it into his pocket.
The Vapour Trunk had been made by Lady Ravenclaw, it was an ingenious idea. The Trunk was made of water vapour and anything that went into it would also turn into water vapour, the trunk had unlimited space. What you had to do to get things out of the Vapour trunk was simply stick your hand in and think of the object you wanted, and vola, just pull your hand out and you have the item.
'Ready to go'
'Yeah, I think that's everything we need for now. I was thinking about getting an apartment trunk'
'A what?'
'It's a trunk that you can basically live in'
'Interesting... I think you should get one it may be useful in more ways then one'
Harry walked out of the vault, turned back to face the doors and said the password
"A Potter Shall Return"
The doors closed slowly leaving a resounding Clang! When they shut.
"Well, now I guess we wait for Dabura" Harry muttered
'What time is it?' Echo asked
"Umm, Idonthaveawatch" Harry said blushing slightly
'What?'
"I don't have a watch, it's broken…" Harry said
'Great'
Harry swore that he felt the invisible Phoenix sigh, but could Phoenix sigh?
'Yes, we can! We do many things that Humans cannot!'
"Ok, Ok sorry" Harry said defensively
A minute or so later they heard the sound of the cart rolling down the tracks; and less then a second later they were staring once again at the familiar goblin, Dabura!
Just as Harry seated himself in the cart, it shot off at a high speed heading for the lobby.
To soon for Harry's liking the exhilarating cart ride was over and he was once again standing in the lobby. They walked out of the doors and Harry headed for the same alleyway they had flamed in to.
'So, Echo can you please flame us back to London, where we left?'
'Yes, I can'
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Ragrack was sitting in his office pondering over their richest account owner, usually he would be busy working but he had told Griphook that none should disturb him. This was very odd for a goblin, but Ragrack needed some time to think.
Ragrack was stunned by Mr Potter, one so young, though he didn't look it was acting unbelievably mature and that was more then what could be said for any wizards he had ever met. He was stunned by the teenagers attitude to his race but most of all he was stunned that the Hero of the wizarding world was willing to have a goblin as his account manager, let alone a werewolf.
But the most spectacular characteristic of the boy was not his sudden change In height, or his overly long hair problems, but the amazing sense of power he could feel from the boy.
He knew Mr Potter had just left Gringotts bank, he could feel it, the immense sense of power was gone leaving only the residue of enormously powerful magic.
But for now the only thing he did know was that Mr Potter was a very interesting person, maybe one that could change the society of the wizarding World… maybe… maybe he was, no he couldn't be could he?
"Mr Potter… you may have more expectations then you can even imagine…" Ragrack muttered to himself as he went back to the stack of parchment on his desk.
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In a brilliant bust of flame Harry reappeared in a dark alley in London.
"I love flaming, wish I could do it." Harry said in a wistful tone
'Unfortunately you are not a Phoenix, but you do have full control over the fire element, not to mention all the others as well. I am sure that with time you will learn how to teleport usin elements if that is even possible' Echo said
Harry nodded and walked out of the alley, some people stopped around him and stared others walked past giving him peculiar stares as they went. Harry stood there for a moment ignoring the stares and started to look around for somewhere to cut his hair.
"Oi, how in the hell did you get all that hair?" someone shouted out
"Go get a hair cut!" Someone else shouted
Harry stood there stunned staring at a group of teens who were insulting and laughing at him, but he was used to it. So he decided to try another approach.
Harry walked over to the teens who now seemed to have sobered up and seemed to be awaiting his response.
"Well, you see I'm kinda new around here and was actually looking for somewhere to get a hair cut. I speed growed my hair for a movie" Harry said
"Wha?" said one of the boys
"Speed grow?" asked a girl
"You take these drugs that make your hair grow longer really quickly" Harry explained
"Never heard of it" said one ot the other boys
"It's kinda new" Harry replied
"Whatever, anyway, you can get a hair cut down the road at a place called 'Neu Styles' you seriously need one. Why would you be working in a movie?" said the first boy
"Umm, I dunno maybe because I'm a actor, anyways It's called Harry Potter and something or the other you should go and see it, anyway thanks" Harry said grinning, he then turned and made his way down the street looking for 'Neu Styles'.
'Nice, I see your going for the idiot look, are all humans as weird as you?' questioned Echo
'Pretty much' Harry replied
'God help us' Echo muttered.
While they walked down the streets Harry was looking to his right and left at shops that he might like to go in, he had found a few. Shops for electronics mostly stuck in his mind along with a few clothes shops. Finally they reached Neu Styles.
Harry opened the door and walked in, as the door closed it made a chiming sound, some of the occupants looked up at Harry for a few seconds with mixed emotions before turning back to what they were previously doing.
Harry walked over to the receptionist who was watching him approach.
"Do you have an appointment Mr-" She asked
"No, I just arrived and needed a hair cut, I was told by someone that I could get one here" Harry answered
"Sorry, sir but we're fully booked, the on-" she was cut off by another women who was cutting someone's hair to his left
"Hold on a minute, Cours" said the women looking at the receptionist "I think I'll take my brake later, I don't really have challenges these days and this one looks like he'll be a challenge." She then turned to Harry "No offence or anything Mr…"
"Potter" Harry answered "But it'd be easier if you just call me Harry"
"Ok, Harry. Give me ten minutes while I finish Joseph's hair"
"Would you like to have a look at the styles book" asked the receptionalist
"Yes, thanks" Harry answered as she handed him a thick turquoise book.
Harry walked over to a free seat and sat down, looking to both sides he realised that he wasn't the only one waiting, and some of those who were, were giving him annoyed looks. Harry ignored these and had a look through the hair styles book.
As he looked through the fist few pages he couldn't decide what hair style he wanted. Three minutes later he still could not decide, eventually he had looked through the whole book and had found some hair styles that he liked but he didn't know if they would suit him or make him look stupid… Before he knew it 10 minutes were up and the women who had said that she would cut his hair was done.
She called him over and Harry obliged, he walked over to the chair and sat down. Once he was seated she rapped a cloak thing that Harry didn't know what was called around his neck.
"So, what would you like" She asked
"… I'm not sure, I don't really know what would suit me" Harry replied after a brief pause
She was silent for a few moments as looked at Harry's reflexion in the mirror.
"How old are you?" She asked
"16" Harry replied
"Well, ok, ok… right then. You have thick hair so spiked up would be quite good…" She said to Harry
"Ok, thanks…" Harry said
So she started cutting Harry's hair…
'So, what happened in Gringotts?" Harry asked
'The Fates have planned everything in such a way that you would inherit the other vaults like that of Agazes for example. You inherited his vault by being the first Parselmoth to kill a Basilisk.' Echo said simply
'So, it was the Fates?'
'Yes…'
Harry sat there thinking about what surprises could still be in store for him, while the hairdresser cut his hair. Eventually she was done and snapped Harry out of his random thoughts of surprises which may be ahead, like Dobby being his grandfather.
"Ok, Harry your done" She said in a self satisfied tone.
Harry looked up at the mirror in front off him. His hair was two centimetres long, spiking upwards at odd angles making his scar visible and his eyes seem to shine brightly.
'Your, eyes already shine bright as it is'
'Seriously?'
'Yes, your magical power is making your eyes shine'
'So I'm a walking, night like!!!'
'Yes…'
'Damn!'
"What do you think?" She asked
"It's great!" Harry said enthusiastically, he felt lighter with shorter hair…
"Now, what about that beard? It'll be £4 because you have a lot of hair" She said
"Yes, please" Harry said
A few minutes later, Harry no longer had a beard.
"Great, you look quite good now" said the hairdresser
Harry remained silent, but had to agree. He looked much better then he had ever looked before, he looked healthy and athletic.
"Wow, thanks" Harry said rubbing his chin, it was a weird feeling.
"Good, it will be £22 altogether with all the long hair and all" She said
Harry handed her the money and bid her and the receptionist goodbye as he opened the door and left.
"Well now I need new clothes" Harry said looking down at Dudley's old hand-me-downs, which were still too big for him.
'It's getting late' Echo said
'This is London Echo, it's only about 4-5 o'clock but it's already really dark, anyway, shops won't close for another hour or so' Harry explained
Harry entered a large clothes store, He looked around at all the clothes and started to feel slightly nauseous.
'Why do they have to be so many? Why'
'Because people like choice?'
Harry sighed and started to wander through the ails every now and then he would stop and pick random clothing from a rack and put it back, this was hopeless.
"Ok, so there's loads or clothes… Well, I do need everything" Harry muttered to himself as he picked up a thin black army Blazer, he looked at it for a moment and made a mantle image of himself in his head, he could ware it with a pair of blue street jeans and white Armani shirt… ok, now he needed something similar to what he had imagined, and so he set off on the adventure of a life time… he would find the clothes, even if he had to die…
Forty minutes later Harry had selected a full wardrobe and went to pay for it at the front desk. The cashier rang up all the clothes
"That will be £1,272" He said looking at Harry suspiciously.
'£1,272!!! That's bloody expensive... I guess, I am in a expensive store buying expensive clothes' Harry thought as he reached for his money bag.
'Why don't you pay with the card?'
'What card?'
'The one from Gringotts'
Harry moved his hand away from the Gringotts bag and pulled out the card from his pocket, he then handed the card over to the cashier
"Here" Harry said handing the card over
The cashier swiped the card, pressed in a few numbers and handed the bags and card back to Harry.
Harry took the card and bags then left the shop amazed at how much he was carrying, now the last stop in the muggle world that he would need to go to was to get electronics. He walked into an alley and put everything in the vapour trunk.
Harry walked into the store and then walked up to the desk as there was no line
"What's the best Laptop you have? And what are it's specs? Also, I want to buy it" Harry said confidently
"George!" Called the man behind the desk, a moment later a short women with brown hair came out of a door to the back of the room.
"Yes, can you show this gentleman the Sony VAIO dual core?" Said the man
"Of course, Fred" said George
Harry stood there for a moment in bewilderment thinking about meeting two people called Fred and George in an Electronics store… Crazy and scary as it was he would love to see the real Weasley twins around a hole load of electronic technology… 'Wait, till they see an Xbox 360, hay Echo can we go to the twins shop later'
'next time'
"Follow me then" said George
A moment later they were standing next to a slim dark silver laptop which had extremely good graphic card.
"Ok, this is one of the few laptops out there with dual core technology, combined the Sony VAIO technology and the Windows Vista it is one of the best laptops around. Mostly, the laptop is used by people that need a high performance PC on and Gamers, of course it has the latest Nivada Graphics card. This Laptop has 500 Gigabits memory" She explained
Harry nodded dumbly in reply not understanding half of what she had said, was it even English? He was doubting it at the moment…
"Does it have a database program?" Harry asked
"Yes" George asked looking at Harry as if he were crazy
"I'll take it!" Harry blurted out
"Good, but do you have £2,250?" She asked
"Yes" Harry answered
"Ok, head over the desk, I'll just go get one" she answered
Harry walked over to join the line that had formed in front of the desk, a few minutes later George came back with a box with the picture of the VAIO on it and placed it behind Fred, she turned to him and pointed at it, Harry nodded and she walked back to what Harry assumed was the store room.
After a few minutes where an old Indian lady was haggling with the cashier to lower the price on pack of DVD-R's only to find out that they were a set price, pay and leave the shop. Harry walked up to the counter when it was his turn
"So, I'm guessing the VAIO behind me is for you" Fred said as he reached for the box behind him
"It is!" Harry asked in fake excitement
"what?" Fred asked staring at Harry in confusion, Harry sighed at his bad joke
"Yeah, here" Harry said handing Fred the card.
"Thanks" Fred said as he swiped the card, punched in some buttons and handed the card back to Harry and pushed the box toward him. Harry picked up the box and left the store. He walked into another Alley and enlarged the vapour trunk and put the laptop in, then shrunk it and put it into his pocket.
'Well, now we're done' Harry sent to Echo
'Most shops in Diagon Alley will probably be closing soon'
'Knockturn alley then?'
'Only option, I'll get ready to flame you in case anything happens. Where do you want to go if something does happen' asked Echo
'Here if I'm hurt or you could heal me if I am and if you can't St Mungos'
The Phoenix sent a mantle nod and flamed Harry to an alley near the entrance to Knockturn Alley. Before Harry even reached the exit of the alley he had Echo Shouting at him…
'WHAT DO YOU thin your doing?'
'…Going to Knockturn alley?'
Echo sighed
'In muggle clothes?'
Harry could swear he heared sniggering, but passed it off…
'Yeah… No… Where can I get changed?'
'I don't know this place well! The information I give you about it is from your own mind!'
'Leaky Cauldron, I guess'
'Let the dog have a biscuit!'
'Oi!'
Harry made his way over to the Leaky Cauldron, tapped the wall in the right places just like he would if he were entering Diagon alley and entered the Inn/pub.
There was silence and the place was deserted….
"Ummm…. Hello?" Harry called
'There's one person in the backroom they should enter this room on your right' Echo informed him, Harry mentally nodded and was on alert… this could not be good.
Tom the bartender walked into the room looking slightly perplexed, he spotted Harry near the entrance to Diagon Alley
"Hello, I'm surprised anyone is even out…" Tom said
"What happened?" Harry questioned
"What! You don't know?" Tom asked incredulously
"Know what?" Harry continued
"Harry Potter… He's dead…" Tom said looking at Harry for his reaction.
"What? I…" Harry started but then stopped himself
"My God!" Tom exclaimed clutching his chest "Harry Potter!"
"Ummm… Hi?" Harry answered nervously
"But… You died in an attack today!" Tom whispered
"Uhhh, No, I didn't die… It's not that easy to kill me" Harry started dumbly and ended in a Heroic tone, which confused the barmen even more.
"What happened to you? Your more Adult…" Tom asked looking at Harry again
"Confidential, If I told you I would have to kill you" Harry said smugly. But judging from the expression on Tom's face, the man had actually taken him seriously and paled…
"Not Really!" Harry said hurriedly "I just can't tell anyone! But, don't tell anyone!" Harry said
"…Of course, Mr Potter, I will not tell anyone and none will gather the information from me" The barmen said "You see one of my friends Aberforth Dumbledore is teaching me Occlumency which is an art to protect the mind from intrusion and Control"
"You're learning Occlumency?" Harry asked incredulously
"I started the lessons about a week ago. You see being a barmen of a popular Inn I hear a lot of information I should not, thus I may be tortured for information or may be controlled to help in a plan. So it is necessary that I know the art" Tom explained
'Don't ask him to teach you…' Echo said 'You can trust him, but don't ask… It's best if you learn yourself and none should look into your mind… Right now, I am guarding it, but you will need to learn quickly especially so that you can learn more advanced magics…'
"Tom, can I use a spare room for a few minutes?" Harry asked
"Of course Mr Potter, may I ask where you are going to stay? As your previous home was destroyed and if you do not have anywhere to stay you can stay here?" Tom asked
"No, sorry. I do have a place to stay but I can't tell you" Harry answered
"Do not fret, Follow me" Tom said and walked up the stairs.
Harry quickly followed, Tom lead him to a room with the number 16 on it opened it and gestured Harry in.
"If you need anything I will be downstairs" He said as he left the keys to the room on the dresser next to the door and left, closing the door behind him.
'Echo, I was thinking that the order dosen't know I'm alive, can I give you a note and can you deliver it?' Harry asked
'Sure, but keep it short and simple, you don't want to give too much away'
Harry nodded and went over to a table which already had an clean piece of parchment, an ink bottle and a quill. He quickly wrote a short letter to the order, singed it and went to tie it to Echo's claw
'What are you doing?'
'Tying the letter to your foot…'
'A it's not a foot, it's a claw. And B just put the letter in my beack'
'Ok then… Are you going to show yourself to them?'
'No'
'Good, because I didn't include you in the letter'
'Thanks a lot! Don't worry I'm just joking'
Harry put the letter into the Phoenixes open beak. The Phoenix snapped his beak and flamed in a brilliant burst of flame to Grimwald place while Harry went to change his robes into something suitable for Knockturn Alley…
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Echo appeared in a brilliant burst of invisible flame in the entrance to Grimwald Place. He flew towards an open door at the end of the corridor which led to the sitting room, there was no one there, but there were noises coming from another open door.
Echo flew into the room to find a large group of people crying, well except for a few which Echo realised to be Albus Dumbledore, Mad-Eye-Moody and Snape. Most of the other people in the room had red hair and Echo guessed that they were the infamous Weasley family, Echo could also feel a presence of a dark creature but knew that it was only Remus Lupin.
On Albus's shoulder perched Fawkes who was looking at him in shock. Echo stared into Fawkes's eyes and started up a mantle conversation.
'Hello Fawkes' Echo greeted
'Greetings, White Phoenix' Fawkes replied 'What are you doing here?'
'I am delivering a letter of my bonded' Echo answered as he watched Fawkes smugly as he put the pieces together.
'Harry Potter…?'
'Yes
'Where is he?'
'That, I can not tell you and must ask that you do not tell your bonded' Echo said almost forcefully 'I sense that he is not One?'
'Alas, it is so, it has been so since the war with Grimwald. I have my suspicions that they have somehow merged into one but are still two parts, I also believe that Albus is not aware and only is at most emotional times. Grimwald is in control most of the times and Albus does not realise what is happening, his mind is too manipulated by Grimwald… He does not even remember his bonded's…' Fawkes replied angrily
'And you have not been able to tell anyone as they cannot understand… We will get him back…' Echo answered 'Well, I best set a few things done; I need to head back soon…'
'Good day, White Phoenix, I see hope in the coming future'
'Good, because it is what we need most…'
Echo flew over the table, dropped the letter and flamed back to Harry…
Sososososososososoososososososososososososososososososoososososososososos
Again and Again, it never stopped… this was his life.
Harry was gone, just like Rachel, James, Lilly and Sirus. Was this how it was always going to be? No, he would die soon. One way or another…
He had failed again, after he had promised to protect Harry, He was Harry's Godfather… He was…
"What the…" Mad-Eye exclaimed…
Everyone's heads snapped up and started at Moody for his outbreak…
"Don't look at me like that, do I effing look like a Basilisk? There on the table" Moody said in annoyance as he pointed towards the letter.
Remus bent forwards and picked up the parchment, unrolled it and nearly dropped it in shock and worry.
For the second time that day they had received a letter from Harry, the first was about the death eater attack… so what could this one be?
Remus snapped his head down again and started reading
Dear Everyone,
Hay, It's me Harry. You remember me right? Well, I'm alive! Contrary to belief.
What happened is well… I CAN'T TELL YOU! So don't ask…
I just wrote this so you know I'm alive, not dead.
Okay, so this is how it is, don't try contact me or even look for me, I'm safe but I'm not going to tell you anything. I don't want no letters nothing, the letters won't even reach me… again I'm not dead!
Well, that's about it…
See Ya, Whenever!
Harry J. Potter
P.S. How are the Dursley's? Not that I care! Just thought I'd ask…
P.S. Oh yeah, so you know that I wrote this… ummm… Tom Riddle is a Half Blood and is a basterd literally, also Hagrid gave a pigs tale to Dudley when we first met! Well, that's it…
Remus just stared at the letter, a huge smile stretching across his face.
"Well, Lupin what does it say, or has the death of you pathetic godson scrambled your head even more then we first thought?" Snape snapped snidely
"Well Snape, as funny as your voice is I'd still prefer it if you kept your mouth shut… And, I think your brains are gona be scrambled if they're already not. The letter's from Harry…"
Silence…
"What!" exclaimed every single voice in the room, even Snapes funny one
"Here" he said handing the letter to Molly instead of Dumbledore who also had his hand stretched out.
None was happy with Dumbledore…
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Echo flamed in just as Harry finished getting ready. Harry was wearing a Black Cloak with a hood pulled over his face so that his face would be hidden.
'Ready?'
'Yeah, how'd it go?'
'Dumbledore seems to be possessed by Grimwald…'
Needless to say, Harry mouth had dropped open…
"Wha… You gota' be kidin me?"Harry asked stupidly
'Nope, Fawkes told me'
"Great, just Great" Harry sighed "What do we do about Grimwald?"
'Well… I think that the best solution will be… Master Occlumency and legillumency, then brake into Albus Dumbledores mind and explain the situation. He needs to brake out of it himself… and before you ask, I don't know what will happen to Grimwald"
"Ok, lets go Knockturn…" Harry said as he headed towards the door
Back downstairsHarry walked over to Tom and handed him the room keys
"Thanks, Tom" Harry said
"Mr Potter, you are always welcome here" Tom replied
Harry nodded and left for Knockturn Alley.
There were hardly any people around as they made their way over to Knockturn alley, and any who were, were hurrying trying to get everything done as quick as possible.
Finally they reached Knockturn alley and entered. Contrary to their previous thoughts all the shops in Knockturn Alley seemed to be open.
Harry pulled the cloak tighter around himself and continued walking. He looked to his left and right for any shops that would be useful for his training… and too his surprise most of them just seemed to be for supplies for potions, rituals etc. They weren't useful… yet…
Harry walked into a dark shop to his right which by the sign at the door was called 'Glacialis Pectus pectoris' which Echo told him ment 'The Frozen Heart' in Latin and was also a dark arts spell.
'What does the spell do' Harry questioned intrigued
'Freezes the heart and slowly and painfully kills a person within 3 days' Echo answered
As Harry opened the door it made a loud screeching sound which was weird as the door opened easily, 'must be charmed' Harry thought to himself.
"Can I help you with something, Mr.?" questioned a medium height man with black hair and dark brown eyes.
"Mr. is fine, or sir if you prefer" Harry replied smoothly
"Of course" answered who Harry suspected to be the shop keeper.
Harry walked around the isles looking for anything that stood out or may be of some use to him. He continued looking around until something caught his eye
"A Time Turner? I thought they were all destroyed in the ministry" Harry asked
"Yes, the ones that were in the ministry were destroyed. But there are those which were in use…" Said the man
"How much?"
"It is the last one left"
"How much?"
"50,000 Gallons, we take the Gringotts card"
Harry handed the card to the man, the man walked over the counter and placed the card on a black stone, he then preceded to hand the card back to Harry.
Harry reached out towards the time turner, but the man quickly gestured him to stop.
"It is charmed so that only I may be able to remove it" the man said as he picked up the time turner and handed it to Harry
"Anything else?" He asked
"I think I'll continue looking around" Harry replied
Harry moved slowly around the shop taking his time to observer everything around him and what the objects did. As he walked past a small bookcase something caught his eye.
Serpentine Power…
'Think I should get it?'
'As a phoenix I would say no, but as I know that you need to train and know as much about the dark arts as possible, I would have to say yes. That and you're a Parsalmouth'
Harry picked the book up and moved on. A few minutes later he had a few books and an interesting potion that would help in Occlumency.
"How much?" Harry asked the man
"2,368 Gallons" The man replied
'This place isn't cheap, no wonder only the richest and most powerful families go here' Harry thought as he paid the money.
Taking the bag from the man Harry left the shop.
'I think you should also stock up on some darker potions, rituals as well as books on amulets and other such charmed objects' Echo instructed.
'I'm getting bloody tired of this, I mean how many things can I need! I just inherited about a hundred vaults!'
'Just have a look OK?;
Harry continued shopping around different shops picking up various things he thought could help him, 2 hours later he was done.
'Let's use the time turner, you still need to buy things from Diagon Alley so you may as well do it now when none will recognise you and take some money out of your money bag to use and shrink it'
'How much?'
'You'll need a lot so take what you think is right'
'Ok, let's get out of here then I'll find an alley and use it'
Harry made his way out of Knockturn alley and into a small alleyway to the side.
'How did Hermione use this again?'
'She turned that glass thing, I think that one 90 degree turn clockwise is half hour so turn it 360 four times'
"Ok, here goes nothing…" Harry did what Echo had instructed and a few moments later they were standing in the same spot except now it was day time and there was loud chatter outside of the alley.
'I guess we're here, let's go'
'Do you want to go out wearing that black coat?'
'Well, Snape does… good point'
'Get some robes from one of the shops'
So they left the alley and entered the crowds of Diagon alley.
Harry made his way to Madam malkin's and selected a few robes he could ware for general occasions, formal and something if there was another ball he walked over to the counter.
"Excuse me how much will these be?" Harry asked politely
"312 gallons and 7 knuts please" the women replied
Harry handed her the money and made his way over to the changing room, once he had changed he left the shop.
'I hate shopping! Where the hell do I go now'
'Have a look around you might find some place useful'
'You can't be serious! This place's massive!'
'Just go and stop whining or I'll release moaning Myrtle and you can go shopping with her'
Effectively that shut Harry up.
So, like most guys are when shopping he wandered around aimlessly until he found a shop that looked pretty interesting.
'I didn't know wizards had opticians, but it makes sense'
'You don't need an optician! You're fine now'
'Yeah but I just want to have a look'
They walked into the opticians (apart from Echo who just stood there, or sat or perched… on Harry's shoulder).
The shop was definitely small compared to a muggle opticians and it didn't have a showcase for hundreds of different types of glasses, it just had shelves with objects and descriptions etc.
"May I help you?" Asked the man sat behind a small desk.
"Thanks, ummm I'm looking for something that can improve my eyesight" Harry replied
"Ok, well do you need glasses or sight enhancers, sight abilities…"
"The sight enhancers and abilities, what do they do" Harry questioned him
"Sight enhancers basically make it easier to see further away and sight abilities are things that able you to see in the dark or be immune to blinding spells…" The man replied staring at Harry's scare.
"Can I get both?"
"You can have sight enhancement but not sight abilities their only for aurors"
'I remember seeing a similar shop in Knockturn alley'
'Ok I'll go there instead'
"Ok, forget it" Harry said and left Diagon alley, a few minutes later he was standing in a similar shop in Knockturn alley.
"I'm looking for eyesight improvement" Harry told the man here
"D'ya need enchanted glasses o' sight enhancers o' sight abilities" the man asked
"The last two" Harry replied
"Ok, wha d'ya wan in eye sight abilities"
What is there?" Harry asked
"Night vision, eye nullers they stop blinding spells, Interes ability to see through things, spotters ya can spot invisible things, heat vision o'…"
"or?" Harry asked in intrigue
"Or… magic viewers but it'll cast ya'"
"All..." Harry answered simply
The man stared at Harry.
"It'll be… 160.000 gallons"
'Do you have enough?'
'Yeah I thought it'd be expensive here. You know I don't even think the Malfoy's would'a spent that much on these, but it'll be useful but I'm a bit worried about this…'
"Fine, but I'll give you half now and the other half after you've done it" Harry said
"Ok, Mr…(pause) ok les begin, follow me to the back" With that the man turned around and walked into the back room.
'Echo I'm trusting you'
'Don't worry I'll be on guard'
With that Harry followed the man to the back room
"Ples sit down on that chair" The man said pointing to a dentist like chair thing
Harry sat down
"Money"
He handed the man 80,000 gallons
"Ok d'ya want anaesthetic?"
"No" Harry replied calmly
"This will hurt a lot…" The man said before aiming his wand at Harry's eyes
"Quomodo Sententia Vita" the man said waving his wand around in a complex way leaving trails of white lines in the air which joined together making a rune like shape. A second later Harry could hear Echo's soothing phoenix song in his mind.
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Harry was still amazed at his eyesight when they re-entered Diagon alley, in one day he had gone from needing glasses to see properly to being able to see better then most of the people on earth.
'WOW! I can see so much! This's brilliant! Let me try seeing with the magic view… Ow'
'Hard to cope?'
'Yeah, its bright and seriously multi coloured. I really need to learn how to use these they'll be helpful'
'Yes you will but I suggest you stop for now we have work to do'
Two hours later Harry was now the owner of a magical watch which had shield spells buit into it, a few books including one on how to built your own magical instrument like a wand or staff and a book on how to make a broom. He was also the owner of a customizable compartment trunk which he would need to make his own rooms for.
"Finally we're done!" Harry shouted making a nearby Hag jump at least 10 feet into the air.
'Let's head to Potter Palace'
'Potter Palace? Sure thing, can you just flame us?'
'Lazy, but ok if you insist'
Mid step Harry and Echo disappeared leaving behind a bewildered Hag.
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AN: I am making this AN from the inside of a fortified bunker because of you points accusingly the readers might kill me for my long delay in updating! anyways this took a while but it's finally out, sorry for making everyone wait but life was hectic and I hardly had time, plus I wasn't going to bother finishing this chapter anytime soon if it wasn't for my great reviewers.
Btw
Quomodo Sententia Vita – Open see way
I'm not good at ships so I took them off, anyways this will make the story flow better as well (the ships play no real role in the story).
Next Chapter:
Hazel Dursley and Potter Palace.