"Stay, together the two of you. Yes?" Clark said sternly, looking from James to Harry. "Yes, dad." They echoed, perfectly obedient. Clark rolled his eyes and took off. "Come on Harry, let's go to zonko's . I'll need some pranks for when I go to school" James said. Harry followed him to zonko's but quickly grew bored. Pranking was not his cup of tea, it was James' territory and being excluded from James pranks on account of being his little brother, left little options for a prank wars, and so he trotted around in the store until he saw a young red haired girl walking past the window. He shot a look at James to see him occupied and got out to meet her. "Hello, I'm Harry." He said, holding out his hand to her. "Oh, hello, I'm Lily." She replied. Her dark haired friend frowned at him. "I'm Severus." He said, curtly. "Are you here with your parents?" Harry asked looking around. "Yes, my mother and Lily's parents are just in that store. Aren't you a bit young to be walking around alone though? What are you: six?" This made Harry scowl. "No, I'm nine. I'm only a bit underdeveloped." He snapped. "Well, I think you look nine." Lily said, giving Severus a look. "Thank you." Harry said. "Whatever, come on Lily. Let's leave the baby to it." Severus said.
Harry scowled angrily. "I'm not a baby. Take that back." Harry said angrily, stepping forward into Severus personal space. Snape raised a brow and pushed him away. Harry tripped over a rock and fell on the ground scraping his arm. "Hey, go pick on someone your own size. Slimy Snake." A tall kid with black hair said. He helped Harry up and turned around to face Severus and Lily. "Now scam." He said raising his wand. Lily tugged a scowling Severus with her. The kid turned around and grinned. "Good, thing they fled. I don't know any good spells." He said, winking at Harry. Harry grinned and stuck out his hand. "I'm Harry." The tall kid laughed. "You're supposed to give your last name too, kid, like this. I am Sirius Black." He said while taking Harry's hand. Harry chuckled. "Harry Potter." He winced when Sirius shook his scraped arm. "Are you hurt?" Sirius asked. "You know what the perfect remedy for any pain is? Ice cream."
Not much later Harry was innocently eating his ice cream (chocolate and raspberry flavoured with chopped nuts) and talking to Sirius, when he was hauled out of his seat and got a hard smack to his behind. "Ow." He complained. "Are you absolutely barmy? Do you have any idea how worried I was. I had to go find dad and tell him I lost you and you are sitting here eating ice cream?! Dad's going to murder you, do you know that? Heck, if he won't I will." Sirius got up and held out his hand. "I'm afraid it might be my fault. Some kid was picking on him and he scraped his arm so I offered to get him some ice cream." He said. James deflated. "Well, alright then. Thanks for saving and taking care of my brother. I hope he wasn't a bother." He said, shaking Sirius hand. "No, it's alright. Are you going to Hogwarts this year to?" Sirius said. James nodded. "Yeah, listen I'll see you there alright. We need to go before my dad explodes."
They quickly left and as soon as they were out of Sirius view, James turned around and smacked Harry around the head. "Idiot. Don't you think I didn't know you left the store?" He hissed. "It's not like I asked him to lie for me." Harry complained, rubbing his head. James grabbed his arm and landed smack in rapid succession, before turning and leaving to find their father. Tears stung in Harry's eyes as he followed a step behind James. He felt guilty and upset. James was angry at him. His dad was probably angry at him and as soon as he was home his mom was going to be mad at him too.
"Dad!" James called out. Harry rubbed the tears out of his eyes as well as the sting out of his bum, as he walked slowly over to his dad. "Harry, where have you been? We were worried sick about you." Clark said, holding his arm out to take Harry in a hug. "I just stepped out of the store because I was bored and talked to some kids, then one pushed me down and I scraped my arm, this big kid came and chased them of and bought me this ice cream." Harry said, licking at his now dripping horn. Clark ruffled his hair and sighed. "Share with your brother. Once you're done we'll go home."
(N/A: Oops it took me some time, but it's up now. Now i know i don't deserve it but: Please Review?)