A/N: From this point on, all text messages will be as followed so as not become confused. Harry text Ginny: You complete me. Notice the (:)? That means text message. Just thought I would clear that up. Italics will continue to be Harry's thoughts. Thanks for all of the reviews too! Enjoy!
Harry woke the next day early in the morning to the quiet beep of his phone. There was a new text from Ginny. Harry smiled wiping the crap out of his eyes and putting on his glasses: This is really cool, I read the manual and my text to you is the first one ever!
Harry chuckled and wrote back to her: Oh, you only like it b/c it's sneaky. He got out of bed and took a shower. It was around eight when he went down for breakfast and found Dudley watching the news. "Hey Harry," he said looking up. "Nothing new that looks suspicious."
"Yeah, I think he's laying low and just getting some support. He's sneaky like that, mate." He went into the kitchen to be met by Winky.
"Sir, would you like bacon withs your pancakes sir?"
Harry smiled. "That would be lovely, Winky. Thanks." The elf went to make his breakfast. Harry's phone vibrated and he read the latest text from Ginny: Oh how right you are, Mr. Potter. Anyway, I finished the book yesterday and forgot to tell you. We have to talk soon about Feathers, mister. Harry smiled. Feathers? Yeah, I think I like that. Feathers. Better than Puffball or something the twins would come up with. Harry wrote back to Ginny: Well when you can sneak away give me a call.
After he finished breakfast he decided to check up on Pugnar and Ruffy. "Guys?" he called out when he walked onto the deck. Ruffy ruffed a hello and sprinted very quickly up to Harry. Harry opened his arms and stumbled back as Ruffy pounced on him.
"Good boy! I woke up and you were gone. Where'd you go?" Ruffy ruffed in response and licked Harry's cheek. He laughed. "Good boy, Ruffy. Who's a good guard dog? You're a good boy!" Ruffy yelped and jumped out of Harry's arms.
Pugnar landed on the path in the garden and trotted up to Harry. "Hey Pugnar, how was your night?" Harry pet Pugnar for a few minutes. It was a beautiful day.
"Harry Potters is enjoyings the sun, sir?" Dobby said walking from the side of the house looking quite dirty.
"Dobby, good morning. Yes, it is very nice out today. Why are you so dirty?"
Dobby wiped off his body thoroughly. "Dobby was doing somes gardenings, sir. Theres is tons of magical plants heres, sir!" Dobby jmped up and down, excited.
"Glad to hear it, Dobb-"
"WAARHAGGGHAAAAAAH- UUF!" Harry turned quickly with his wand out to see Dudley fallin on his arse, Pugnar leaning dominantly over him. Harry started howling with laughter, even more when Ruffy joined him laughing. After a good minute of Harry and Ruffy screaming their lungs out in laughter, Harry tried to get a grip on himself. "Pugnar, don't eat him, that's Dudlikins." Pugnar didn't free his gaze as he walked slowly back over to Harry, who pet him graciously.
Dudley scrambled quickly to his feet. "It was going to kill me…" he mumbled. He pet Ruffy when the cute ball of soft fluffy energy ran over to him to say good morning. After a few moments he seemed to have realized why he had come out back in the first place. "Do you want anything from the store? I was going to get something for tomorrow…"
Harry thought for a minute. "Yeah, get as many frogs as you can?" Duly gave him a WTF? look. "I need them to fee the snow snake in the pond." The look grew. "So he won't be hungry for bloody human flesh," he said, exasperated.
"Oh, that's what you were getting at." Harry walked over and took a few hundred pounds from his wallet. "In case you don't want to use that card of yours."
Dudley left not long after. Harry decided to take the time to go inside and talk to his parents.
The portrait was hanging in the study. He looked over at it and waited for his parents to notice. "Harry!" his mother called. Harry grinned and walked over.
"Hey Mum, Dad." They smiled at each other for a few moments.
"Harry, how is school?" his father began.
Harry pulled up a chair and went into all of his best and greatest school stories. His parents cried and told him their own best few stories. Around one Harry's mum told him he should go eat and that they would have plenty of time to talk during the summer. Harry agreed but thought about a story his mum had told him.
Apparently, James had known that Lily was the woman of his dreams ever since he looked into her eyes that first time he ran into her on the train first year. Lily had disagreed, completely, for the next six years of their schooling. James had tried to do everything he could think of to get Lily to go on a date with him. In his third year he had even begun trying to prank her into going on a date with him. Not one to be duped, Lily countered the prank by one of her own.
Lily's skills in school were known as being the best at Charms and Potions, unlike James who was amazing at Transfiguration and Ancient Runes (thanks to his father James started learning Ancient Runes before he even began attending Hogwarts). Late that night, Lily had a pack of muggle cards that she had brought from home. She charmed all of the cards to move around like in the movie, Alice in Wonderland. When she finished, the plan was to get all of James' robes into the common room. Once that step was finished, Lily poured a few drops of the most wretched smelling potion, that served no other reason for existing than that of having a vile smell, on everything. Then the cards put everything back in the room. All in all, the prank was a huge success.
Harry thought about the cards for a while. He decided to give Dudley a ring, telling him to go to a toy store and buy a couple packs of cards, a bunch of boxes of the tiny plastic army men, and some sets of the air force planes. Dudley had no idea why Harry would want any of those little kid toys, but agreed on buying them.
Harry wasted no time. He ran back in the study and found all of the books on charms he good, then went to the kitchen to eat.
Winky made up sandwiches and muggle lemonade. This surprised Harry, but then again, almost everything about the house elves surprised him. He went outside upon finishing lunch. It was one of the hottest days of the year, and he found that after only a few minutes of laying in the grass he had to take off his dark t-shirt. Pugnar ended up laying down and Harry found him to be very comfortable to lay against.
Reading for a while, Harry found a bunch of spells that would be amazing to use. "Dobby?" he called out. Dobby was in front of him a few seconds after. "Do you know if there are any clean journals lying about?"
"Yes, Harry Potters sir, Dobby founds a small stock of black note books wivs nothings written ons them. Would yous likes for Dobby to gets ones?"
Harry smiled at the small elf. "If you don't mind. And, can you bring the auto-filled quill?" The little elf hurried away. In no time at all his was in front of Harry with the book and quill. "Thank you a lot Dobby, your too good to me."
Dobby did what Harry thought looked like a blush, bowed, and then left. Harry looked around and saw Ruffy pouncing on something in the distance, then chasing it. He couldn't see what it was but it looked very amusing from where he was laying with Pugnar.
Harry wrote down all of the charms that would help him. There was a charm to have nut-crackers and similar toys walk around. Another charm had the toys doing as you pleased. The next charm Harry wrote down was a spell gave the toy the ability to talk to the caster in whichever language the caster had been thinking of while doing the spell. Harry also wrote down a spell that was a combination of the levitation charm, order following charm, and the language charm. He doubted that it would work, but from what his mother said, she had been able to create spells by being inventive and combining the wand movements and words so they all flowed nicely.
Shortly after, Pugnar got up and shot into the air. Next, Dudley's car drove into the drive. Once he opened the door and got out, Pugnar landed right in front of him, scaring Dudley quite well in the process. Harry laughed and walked over. "Pugnar, don't you remember Dudley?" The griffin squinted his eyes and took off into the air again.
"Can't you do anything about that…?" Dudley asked him, blood finally going back into his face.
Harry snickered, "Griffins are usually very stubborn, sorry." Harry and Dudley took all of the bags into the house.
"So, why did you want me to buy toys?" he asked.
"Oh, you'll see later. Anyway, are you ready for the fun-friday-workout?" Dudley perked up. "We are going to go into a trunk in my room. You are going to cast spells… but not with a wand…"
They continued and went in the room. After Harry did as he was supposed to, Dudley standing next to him, a new room appeared. It seemed like they were in a very old work house. Harry pointed to a door with a bulls eye on it. "That, my dearest cousin, is all of your ammo. Behind that door you will find the best guns, pistols, grenades and bombs that you could think of. The movie you were watching gave me the idea. You are going to try to shoot me down and be able to pin me for ten seconds there after to win the game. This is simply a defense game for me.
"All of the guns and such are loaded with spells, jinxes, and anything that I have learned that isn't harmful that could possibly be used in a duel. Each gun is like a normal gun in that the more powerful ones have longer lasting effects, and more effective spells. The pistols mostly contain stinging spells and very ineffective stunning spells that will only be able to do as much damage as a dead leg, while the snipers and hard core guns will have very effective stunners that will keep me down for a few seconds to a minute depending on if it would be a fatal hit on a muggle or not. All of the semi-auto's in there are the ones with the main jinxes. They vary on the position of the hit as well.
"The bombs and grenades are made to temporarily confuse and distort everything in that area." He looked at Dudley. "Do you think you can shoot?"
Dudley grinned wide. "You know, magic is awesome." With that he took off to the room. Quickly Harry ran away and hid in the corner, putting a disillusionment charm on himself. Dudley ran out of the room, loaded down with everything he could possibly hold on his body, chucking bombs every which way.
Finally, after an hour of Harry jumping to lower levels and climbing across tight wires, even climbing a wall at one point, Dudley sniped him with a hardcore stunner and pinned him.
The room transformed back into the comfortable sitting room and the two boys were laughing like they had been friends forever. "I have to admit, Harry," Dudley said when they were calmed down, relaxing on the sofa, "that was fucking amazing."
Harry laughed. "Yeah, and all this time you thought I was a freak." They laughed again. "So did you enjoy it then?"
"Yeah, that was a great idea." He turned and looked at Harry. "Why was it that you wanted me to buy you toys?"
"Well, you see when my mum, your Aunt Lily, was attending Hogwarts, she found that she had a gift with Charms. She did this thing where she made some cards come to life sort of, like the way they did in that movie Alice in Wonderland?" Dudley nodded. "Well I figured if she could make cards do that, then I would be able to. And then, if you could make cards to what you want, why not just make an entire army be able to do what you want?"
"Oh, that's a great idea…" He stood up. "Let's see what we can do!" Harry helped Dudley out of the trunk and the two got the toys and the book and got to work.
It took a long time for Harry to get all of the spells working right, but once he got them down he was able to do it to the entire sections or army men at the same time. Next he moved on to the Airplanes and Air force toys. Those took much longer because every single one had to be done individually, along with Harry figuring out how to use his new invented charm on the toys. Dudley had also bought similar models from star wars and super hero movies that he noticed. Harry finished with all of them in about three hours.
Dudley was having a great time commanding all of the troops and giving them different assignments to complete within the room. They had troops wrestling each other and running laps so they were all up to tip top shape. Considering they were made that way, it didn't take them too long.
Harry saved all of the cards for last. There were ten decks in total. Harry used ever spell he could on them, including anti-detection spells, waterproof spells, indestructible spells, everything that wasn't too hard that he had previously tried in the past. He noticed that the jokers worked as watchmen and foresaw everything else that was going on in the room. Harry told the cards that he wanted to see an elaborate fortress built, and they did just that. It was amazing, really. Then he did the finally charm, one his father he told him how to do. It was similar to the charm on the map. The cards would just be regular, normal cards unless you said "Animagus Flush". Then they would become the new magical cards. To make them normal muggle cards you had to say "Sirius Jack". He had no doubt that his mum, dad, and Sirius would be proud of these. Especially of the related names.
Dudley decided that he was getting hungry and Harry agreed. All of the cards went back into their boxes, all in order to Harry's surprise, and Harry conjured a box to place all of the toys in so they could take them easily in the house and store them if need be. Harry gave Dudley a box of charmed cards and decided that he would give a pack to Ginny as well. She would be able to do some great pranks on the twins with these ones! He chuckled thinking about it.
In stead of having dinner at the house, Dudley and Harry thought that pizza would be perfect and that a man's night out was in order. Instead of having dinner, they decided to shower. Harry put in his contacts and gave himself short, spiky hair again. This time he left it alone figuring that he didn't recognize himself if it weren't for the wretched scar. He looked in the mirror again. He wasn't wearing any clothes and noticed that he really didn't have hair anywhere else on his body, except for the minimal amount on his arms and legs. He thought it would look nice if he had slight stubble on his face, not enough to be considered a beard by anyone's means, but just enough to look like the guys on the telly. He concentrated really hard and opened his eyes. He was again not disappointed. He applied some lotion from yesterday on his scar and it disappeared. He put on some tan kaki shorts and a collared polo t-shirt. He looked in his dresser and thought that it would be a good idea to wear the black under armor baseball cap he had bought with Dudley.
Harry and Dudley left the house shortly after six. Harry had his cloak, wallet, wand and iPhone with him. He figured he would stop by headquarters and give Ginny her cards later. The two took the top down, Harry told Pugnar they would be back later, and the two took off, blasting music as they went.
After pizza, Dudley drove to the game store and picked up the newest games that Dudley had been told about, and a whole bunch of extras as well. Harry had to admit that he was getting excited after buying all of the latest stuff. Running through the sidewalks, Dudley and Harry were having a mock chase where Harry would attempt to jump from wall to wall and get away from him. Some kids noticed and stopped them.
"Hey, yo!" A thin boy around Dudley and Harry's age shouted. He walked over to them when they turned. "I saw what your two were doing, that was pretty sweet."
Harry waved him off. "It's just for fun."
The kid looked at Dudley and Harry for a moment then turned and waved his friends over. He extended his hand to Harry. "Names Prince. This here is Jack,"he said nodding to the kid next to him of similar build with bright blue eyes, "and that there is Joker," he finished talking about the kid standing on his other side who was shorter than the others by a little more than two inches. Each of the boys had a similar look, t-shirt and jeans. Prince had highlighted hair that stuck up in all directions, Jack's brown hair was in a fo-hawk, Joker had his ear pierced and longer, blond, straight hair. Harry shook there hands. "I'm Feathers," Dudley snorted slightly, "and this is my cousin, Aced." They all shook hands.
"You from around here?" Jack asked them.
"Yeah, we live a bit away, you from around here?" Dudley asked them. The boys nodded their heads.
"Just moved from the states," said Joker, "we're brothers."
"Interesting, I was going to ask where you accents were from," Harry said.
"Yeah, well at least we speak better than you, Feathers." Everyone laughed. "Ever hear of a thing called Street Running?"
Harry looked at Dudley. He shook his head. "No, what is it?"
Jack chuckled. "It's what you were just doing, Feathers. Jumping from wall to wall, trickin' in your shoes. No board or wheels needed."
"It isn't really popular, but there are a few groups of big street runners where we came from. We practice jumping from roof to roof, diving into flips, those sort of things," Joker explained to them.
"That's interesting. Do you do it often?" Harry asked them.
"Yeah, we used to do it every day, but we had to stop this week because of the move. Anyway, we were wondering if you would want to go street running with us tomorrow or something. You're really good at it already, and we'll show you all our moves." Prince was taking out his phone.
Harry looked at Dudley. "Your call, Aced."
"Yeah, I think it's a good idea. I can't do all the stuff Ha- Feathers can, but I'll give it a go." He took Prince's phone and handed him his blackberry. Everyone started trading information.
"You guys doing anything tomorrow besides that?" Joker asked them.
"Aced here's got a date," Harry was elbowing him. Dudley punched him lightly. "But, otherwise, no. Want to hangout after the run?"
The boys looked at each other. They all nodded. Prince spoke up. "Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. We can't really do anything at our house though, so should we go to your house?"
Dudley got a nervous look, Harry just laughed. "Yeah, that sounds good. I'll have Aced drop me off and you guys can follow us to our place afterward."
The boys agreed and set up a meeting point for tomorrow. Harry and Dudley left to continue on their way to the car. "Reckon that was a good idea?" he asked.
"Yeah, we can just ask Dobby to keep Pugnar busy and Winky will love making food, I'll just ask her to help out Dobby before they go inside." They got to the car and Harry turned to Dudley again. "I have to go take care of something quickly, it shouldn't be more than ten minutes, but can you drive me over a few streets? I have to go to Grimmauld Place, but it would be better if I'm not seen."
Dudley nodded. "Alright, I'll just make a call to Mum to tell her I'm fine. That should give you plenty of time." With that, Dudley started up the car and Harry took out a pack of cards. He put them on the floor as he transformed. Once he was Feathers again he became completely visible. Dudley parked in an open spot on the corner after passing the sign for Grimmauld Place. Harry picked up the cards and Dudley started his call.
Harry quickly soared through the sky, loving the feeling of being so free. He reached the house and soared through the same window as last time. Ginny was in the room, playing with her new iPhone. She jumped slightly when Harry landed on her legs. "Oh, Feathers, you scared me," she said petting him. He nibbled on her finger playfully and moved off her legs. She went and shut the door. Once it was closed Harry changed back and removed the cloak. He smiled at Ginny and she went over and hugged him.
She just molds to my body… Harry thought. And, wow this is nice. Wait, what are you talking about? Ginny moved back. "What did you bring for me today?" she asked him, snickering.
Harry chuckled. "Well, I figured you could use a bit of help pranking the twins. These muggle cards will do the trick." He tossed her the pack. "Open them up."
She opened them up. "Wow, Harry, you REALLY went out of your way this time."
He laughed. "Now, they look like just plain, muggle playing cards, right?" she nodded, her eyes narrowing. "Well, once you say 'Animagus Flush'-"
Ginny gasped. "They come to life!" she finished.
"Not only do they come to life, but they do what ever you want. Watch." He turned to the cards. "Alright, I need you to get all of the ink bottles in the room and stock them on the table. Sound good?"
The ace of spades answered. "Sir, yes, Sir!" He turned to the other cards. "Evens are the stairs, odds are the carriers. Move OUT." The cards started a march to clear the room.
Ginny turned back to Harry, laughing. "This is really amazing, Harry." She looked at him. "I like the look by the way," she leaned in causing his heart to race as her lips touched his ear softly, whispering, "Makes you look rouge, Harry."
Harry had no idea what to say. That probably had something to do with the fact that there was no blood going to his head. His hand found Ginny's back without his knowledge, gently pressing them closer together. "Why thank you, Ginevra." They were staring at each other for a few seconds. Then Harry's phone vibrated. Ginny chuckled, hiding her disappointment when Harry coughed and moved back a few steps. "I have to get going," he told her, "but when you want them to go back into the box, just tell them." He turned around, then snapped back. "Oh, to make them muggle cards again, just say 'Sirius Jack'." He didn't realize that he had stepped closer to Ginny, and he didn't realize how close they were until he gently kissed her on the cheek. "Enjoy."
Harry whipped on his cloak, transformed, and flew out the window leaving a very confused and very red Ginny behind.
Harry flew back into the car and Dudley started it up, not looking at him until after he was completely changed back. "How did it go?" he asked when Harry pulled off the cloak.
Harry sighed. "I think it went well. I don't know, Ginny is Ron's little sister, but she is just so much better to talk to, and, my body keeps wanting for her to do those little touches and stuff." He turned to his cousin. "It's so frustrating."
Dudley nodded. "Yeah, I know. It was horrible for me to get a girl until I thinned out and started working out. Now I'm starting to get a little bit bigger, but that's all muscle, no fat. You're growing too, so it must be something in Mum's genes."
Harry thought for a few minutes, then decided he was going no where with his thoughts and changed the subject. "Hey, Aced," he said laughing.
"Oh yeah, thanks for THAT one, FEATHERS!" he started laughing. "At least you gave me a name that fit, but I get why you would rather be called Feathers than King."
"I have to say, I am excited as to what they want to do. But for now, I'm just excited that I will be WHOOPING your ARSE all night, Aced. No way you are going to beat me in these games."
The bantering continued until they were driving through the gates. "Do we have to add those kids to the list?" he asked Harry.
Harry nodded. "Yeah, but we don't even know their full names. Reckon it'll work still?"
Dudley shrugged. "I have no idea." He yelped getting out of the car.
Harry laughed. "Oh, that never gets old," he said wiping a fake tear away. "Pugnar, everything good?" Pugnar looked smug and trotted over to Harry who scratched him behind his ears.
They brought the stuff inside and Dudley said he would take care of it. Dobby brought them some butterbeers form the cellar. Harry signed the paper for the S.R.'s who would be stopping by tomorrow. He put the paper on a shelf in the study and turned to his parents before he left. "Tomorrow we will be having some muggle guests, is there any way you two could stay still tomorrow?"
"Sure, honey. That's easy. We won't move an eye." Harry waited for his dad. "Oh all right, I'll be good also." They laughed and Harry went back out to Dudley.
Harry and Dudley played for a while, but Dudley asked Dobby to bring up some of the liquor from downstairs which led to them deciding to stop playing video games and watch one of the movies after a while. It was late when they each staggered up to bed, laughing about how Dudley had better aim than Batman.
He checked his phone before laying down. He had a picture message from Ginny. He opened it and almost died in laughed. Ruffy had climbed into bed with Harry and he too started bark-laughing. Fred and Gorges' underwear was covering the portrait of Mrs. Black in an interesting design, while the rest of the clothes were intricately hidden throughout the house.
Harry text Ginny back: You're so funny, Ginevra. Always so smart with the best ideas. Harry went to the bathroom and took care of nightly hygiene. He walked back into the room in his boxers and picked up his phone. There was another text from Ginny: Yeah, but smarts don't count for everything… guys usually don't notice when your smart.
Harry text her back quickly: Yeah, which is why your lucky since your so hot. I can't imagine a guy not noticing you. Especially when your on a broom.
After that he fell asleep quickly.
Harry woke up with Dobby and Ruffy jumping on his bed. Harry groaned when his pounding headache hit him full blast. "Dobbys made Harry Potters some medicine, sir!" said the elf, placing the bottle in Harry's hand and bouncing out the room. Ruffy ruffed and licked Harry good morning.
"Hey boy," Harry said after downing the potion. Ruffy jumped off his bed and ran out the room. Harry got out of his bed and brushed his teeth examining his new, short hair in the mirror. It wasn't his normal hair do, but he thought he liked the way it looked wet or gelled. His hand ran through the new short length. He looked at his scar. It had been tingling him since the Department of Mysteries and last night had brought on a strength that he hadn't felt since before then. Nothing had happened, but it had still hurt enough for him to notice that it was hurting more than normal. He put in his contacts and played with his new scruff on his face before walking out.
He grabbed his iPhone off of the night table and groaned. Oh Merlin, that happened last night didn't it. What has been wrong with me? I never told Cho she was hot or any of those things…
He checked his messages and noticed a new one that had been sent last night from Ginny: You're not so bad yourself. He thought about what that could mean before shaking his head and walking outside. It was 7:45 and another beautiful day. Pugnar was down in the garden chasing Ruffy. Harry laughed and transformed into Feathers.
Pugnar saw Harry and did what looked like a grin to Harry, then took off after him. The wind rushing under his wings felt glorious. It was better than flying on a broom. He started doing twists and turns, and then started following Pugnar around his land. Apparently they had quite the acreage in the back. They flew over the pond and dipped in slightly. They flew over all of the trees and the fields. Harry could see even the tiniest critters from so far away. There were other wild animals but nothing so huge that he had any reason to be afraid. Across from one of the fields was a large wild garden with fruits and plants. In the trees he could see a couple other small snakes and plenty of tree animals. Hedwig had found them at some point and started flying with them. After a while, Harry turned back to go home. It was funny, but after all of that flying he wasn't even that tired.
Harry flew in through the kitchen window and transformed mid stop, stumbling, but staying on his feet. Dudley smiled at him. "That must be outrageously fun."
Harry laughed. "I'll show you some time. I'll get you a broom to fly with me on. As long as you don't gain all your weight back, you'll be fine."
Dudley threw a piece of bacon at him. "Ay, shut up. Anyway, are you almost ready? You said you were going to meet the Runners around ten."
Harry checked his iPhone. It was almost nine. "Yeah," he said sitting down to eat, "just let me eat and grab a shirt and we'll go. Are you excited?" Dudley looked like he was about to faint. Harry laughed. "Don't worry, she agreed to go out with you, so I'm sure it will go fine."
"Yeah, but it's just that this is my first date ever…" he shrugged. "I told Dad and he told me that if I didn't make a move by the end of the night, I just wasn't a man."
"Not a man," Harry scoffed. "Your father is a big headed bigot. Don't listen to him. A man would make a move when the girl is ready. Not before then, trust me. It's horrible when you do." He nodded toward the study. "You can ask my Dad if you want, that's what he told me when I told him about the girl I kissed last year and the other one who kissed me when I went to get the goblins."
Dudley nodded. "Yeah, I guess your right."
Before they left, Harry told Dobby and Winky what was going to happen today. "Here's what's going on. Dudley is going out on a date and I'm going to meet some new mates from London. Were going to be out until after lunch, but they are going to come back here with us."
"Does your wants Winky to makes some dinners, sir?" asked Winky.
Harry shook his head. "I would, Winky, but these mates are muggles. They don't know about house elves." He looked from Dobby to Winky. "I was wondering if you two wouldn't mind not being here until after they left? I need you to watch Pugnar so the muggles won't see him…"
Dobby jumped up and down. "Yes, sir, Harry Potters has much land pasts the ponds, sir. Winky and Dobby will goes through the garden and keeps sir's griffins well kept!" Winky nodded in agreement.
Harry smiled at the two. "Brilliant! Alright, now I only have to get Pugnar to be alright…" he mumbled, walking outside. "Pugnar!" he called out.
A minute later the great creature landed near Harry. "Hey boy, that was fast!" He pet Pugnar as the griffin puffed his chest out, proud. "So this is what's going to go down… We have some muggle friends coming back home later. DO NOT go near them." The griffin huffed. "I don't care what you think, these are muggles. They don't know about griffins. I can hold my own if any of them try to pull anything." He pet Pugnar again, softly. "I need to you to protect Dobby and Winky later anyway. Just because we haven't seen any bad creatures doesn't mean there aren't any." The griffin gave a reluctant nod. "Thanks. And hey, if you want to hid in the tree over there when we first come back, that's fine. Just don't be seen." Harry pet the griffin again before walking away.
"Ready to go then, Feathers?" Dudley asked.
Harry put his black baseball hat on. "Don't hate," he said in an american accent. They laughed and left to go to the city.