Harry Potter: The Inventor

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A/N Finally made it to chapter 10! It took much longer than it should have due to the hiatus in the middle of may (which I explained in the previous chapter)
Anyways, hope you enjoy reading this chapter!

Chapter 10: Back to Hogwarts we go

Harry smoothly apparated into the apparition point (thankfully after remembering a ridiculously strong glamour charm which was in a duel section by both Rowena and Godric) and slipped into the growing crowds inside Diagon Alley, an unnoticeable figure lost in the sea of both excited first years and bored-out-of-their-minds fourth year and above.

Harry quickly slipped past the brightly coloured shops that would have drawn his eyes immediately before certain events and headed to the shops that had an increasing amount of grime and filth as he progressed further away from the tourist attraction. This was a more dodgier place than the densely populated Diagon but Knokturn alley had its gems hidden deep inside. Harry stepped into the most disgusting alley yet -harry was sure that the bag on the floor was something he didn't want to see ever come out- and removed his glamour without any nosy person seeing 'the great Harry Potter' entering a place to get his school supplies.

He hid himself under a strong notice-me-not charm and entered back into the buzzing atmosphere of Diagon Alley. Although he had the excuse that he was trying to avoid the public due to the new press over 'The Chosen One', Harry didn't want either the ministry or a certain Headmaster to know about his underage magic and he didn't want Dumdore to find about the founders book (he probably couldn't use it anyway). He could easily cancel the charm if someone other than Hermione noticed him (which was virtually impossible) so no one could prove that he had actually done anything wrong.

Harry was just strolling down Diagon Alley, occasionally looking in at the unique storefronts of the various magical shops when he heard a familiar raucous laughter that he remembered from countless hours spent in the common room.

"Don't worry Ronniekins; you will be back with the 'Famous and Powerful Golden trio' soon!"

"Yeah!" The other twin stated"then you can be back on one of the 'Fabled adventures' You used to constantly spew forth upon us, what happened to them?"

"I've already told you!" Ron muttered angrily, "Harry's being a prat by not writing back to me after a whole week and then, he acts cold to me like we're not even friends!"

"Awe! is the 'Golden Trio' splitting up at last?" One twin said gleefully.

"Are you finally going to start doing your own work for once?" The other twin teased.

"Shut up. It's my private life and nothing to do with you so can you just give me some peace to look at the new Irish brooms that are up for sale"

"As you wish,former golden trio member!" They muttered in unison as if to pour salt into the wound.

"Wow, I didn't think that Ron would be that upset over a small disagreement," Harry muttered as he kept a wide berth around the youngest Weasley.

As he sat down at Fortisque's for a quick break, Harry heard a familiar voice over the crowds of people which were mulling around the Alley.

"I can't see Harry anywhere, can you, Ron?"

At first, before he heard what Hermione had said, he was glad to hear the voice of his only real friend. Then he heard the mention of Ron and then the sun seemed to dim. Why, whenever he was actually about to do something h enjoyed, namely talking to his friend, did something always have to happen?

He growled, removed the charm with a wave of his hand and approached his friend, a plastic smile etched onto his face.

"I can see him! There he is Ron! By Fortisque's!"Hermione squealed after she had seen him.

Harry groaned internally as he thought of the subtle ways that she could have announced his previously hidden presence to the entire alley. Only Hermione could do that.

Whispers of "Did she say Harry Potter? THE Harry Potter?" and "Look, there is the boy that is chosen to save us from You-Know-Who!"

Harry briskly walked towards his clueless friend and a red head that was surely about to be angered by the attention he was receiving. Suddenly, crowds of people surrounded him, asking questions; some appropriate, some not so much. Harry immediately looked up at his previous best friend and saw the tell-tale sign of the angering of a Weasley.

"Did you have to Potter?" Ron snarled in a way that was alarmingly similar to one Severus Snape, "Do you have to make a scene everywhere you go? Do you really need the attention that bad?" Ron was somehow taking some of Uncle Vernon's techniques with the vain in his forehead that looked like it was about to pop out.

"Umm are you ok Ron?" Harry said, trying to at least prevent Ron from embarrassing himself in front of a large portion of the English Wizarding population.

"Don't try that with me Potter!" Ron growled, "You know what you did!" Harry was speechless. Not because of what had come out of the red heads mouth, but because of the lack of intelligence and social awareness that the boy seemed to possess.

"C'mon Hermione!" Ron muttered as he walked away from the crowd of people that gathered around the argument.

Hermione was red faced; stuck between a rock and a hard place. Who would she choose? Her longest lasting friend or the person that used her and bullied her in her first year for being better at everything. There was a clear choice. Hermione stepped over towards Harry and pulled him out of the opposite end of circle of onlookers.

Together, they briskly walked out of view or hearing from the spot of the very one-sided argument and when he was sure that Ron was not following them, Harry muttered "Well that went well."

Due to the fact that he didn't want anyone to know that he could perform magic outside of school, Harry once again apparated under the founder's glamour near platform seven. He removed the complicated charm from him as he knew, thanks to a quick analysing of the barrier in his spare time, that not only was the barrier actually a complicated rune grouping that used light repelling runes, anti muggle runes and undetectable extension runes, but it also held a small rune sequence, not nearly as powerful, or for that matter, detectable which scanned the oncoming students for residual magic. This meant that he couldn't get to the Hogwarts express with notice-me-not charms without Dumdore noticing; this was crucial for his independence to go unnoticed.

Harry sighed and traipsed along the different platforms, trying to avoid the eyes of anyone he knew. Suddenly, he felt someone hug him from behind. She just didn't get subtlety.

"Good to see you again Harry!" Hermione said brightly.

"Good to see you as well Hermione," Harry grumbled as once again heads began to turn in their direction, "Can we get through the barrier quickly 'cos we don't want another Diagon to happen!"

After he said this, Hermione looked a bit hurt due to his lack of enthusiasm but shrugged it off as they reached the barrier. Now he knew how the platform worked, he understood why everything seemed to warp outwards into blackness before light returned. He confided in this to Hermione as they approached the train and she seemed very excited as they discussed how it worked and what they would have done differently.

"If it was me, I would have made the flight rune pattern along with a charm that could momentarily remove motion senses" Harry suggested.

Hermione frowned and then said "I would have created a fidelius charm around the platform, that way, everyone could find it easily thanks to the Hogwarts letter but no muggle could access it.

"And that, Hermione is why you take runes and I take Divination!" Harry groaned as they climbed into an empty compartment. The bright whistle of the Hogwarts signalled the start of his journey back home.

A/N

Hi again!

Wow, another chapter out already?!

I must thank everyone who has reviewed and followed; the amount of support that I have received amazes me!

I hope this chapter is up to standard because I had trouble writing the dialogue in this chapter but a lot of it needed happen to further on the plot:/

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See you in the next one!