Chapter 12

The next morning, Harry rose early at six o'clock and quietly gathered his clothes and went to the bathroom. Getting ready, he went down stairs and had a hearty breakfast of toast as no one was up yet, which was good as he was eating the second toast, he thought about the white space and he felt his vision go all blurry and found himself in the white space, 'I am getting the hang of apparating' he thought finishing off his breakfast standing in the middle of the clouds. 'If I think of a place I want to go, I end up in the place I want to be'

Brushing off the crumbs, he then thought of where he found the book and wondered where it was and his vision once again went all blurry and he was back in the what appeared to be attic room of somewhere.

Standing in among all the mess of jumbled furniture and boxes of someone's belongings, he wandered over to a box and opened it quietly and pulled out some woman's red blouse, a blue baby blanket and a picture. Picking it up, Harry saw three young women and a baby in a pram. One woman had long black hair, the middle woman had long brown hair and the other shoulder length ginger hair and they were all skinny and smiling at the camera looking happy. I wonder whom they are he thought putting it carefully back.

Moving away from the box, Harry made his way over to the window and peered outside and saw a busy street of cars driving passed with big houses. The garden below looked over grown with weeds and long grass and he wondered where he was and it certainly wasn't the safe house he mused wandering to the door he spotted at the far end of the attic room.

Picking his way through the jumbled mess, he reached out and turned the handle and opening the door he found himself on a set of stairs. Treading carefully he made his way down them and came to a hallway with four doorways and the décor looked old fashioned. There seemed to be no pictures on the walls he noticed as he went to the first door he came to and knocked quietly and when no answer came, he turned the door handle and opened it with a slight creak and found a spacious room with a double bed in the middle. And the furniture was covered in white sheets and the bed never had any covers on it.

Sighing rather nervously, Harry went in to explore and went to the closet and opened it and found no clothes in it just empty hangers. Going over to the window, he pulled back the closed curtains, and saw the same busy street.

Heading out, he went to the next room to find another double bed and it looked like the room was not in use as it too had white sheets over the furniture and the bed looked like it had not been slept in.

Wandering out of the room, he then went to the other room and saw it was a very small nursery with a white cot at the side and the rest covered in sheets. 'The house must not be in use' he thought closing the door silently.

Walking through the hallway he found another set of stairs and as he made his way down them, he saw more furniture covered in sheets and was silent with no one around.

Nearing the bottom, he spotted pictures in the glass stand and saw the same woman with long black hair wearing a white wedding dress beside a man with short brown hair both smiling happily. Going through each room, Harry saw the couches and chairs covered in plastic covers and sheets. And as he explored what looked to be a sunroom, he saw another door to the left, which he had not been in and headed for it.

Opening the door, he found a rather large kitchen with an island in the middle and a table at the side with glass cupboards at one side of the wall. Wandering in, he went over to the cupboards and found different herbs and spices set neatly in alphabet order and wondered 'what they would use the different herbs for' and as he was turning around his leg hit something and looked down to see a bin with a newspaper and gently picked it up curiously.

Looking at the front page he read todays news for San Francisco and gasped. 'Surly not' he thought reading the date and saw todays day and date. 'I cant have come all the way to San Francisco' he thought nervously reading the headline seeing it was for half way around the world making him sweat and wondered how he was going to get back and thought of the white space again.

Once again his vision went and found himself back in the white space a few moments later and his legs gave shakily away and he fell in among the clouds gasping for breath panicking that he had apparated all the way to a different city.

Rather frightened of his new abilities, he needed someone to talk to and his vision once again went and he appeared in front of his friend David who screamed in shock at the sight of Harry appearing in a swirl of blue light on his hands and knees, causing him to spill the contents of his cup over his paper work he was going over.