To answer a question a couple people have asked:
How did Dumbledore get Harry's records? Magic, of course! And a fair bit of forgery. Harry's first meeting with Dumbledore happens before he goes to live with the Snapes. Dumbledore was able to extract Harry's memories of reading his report cards and create new ones off of that.
Perhaps at some point I'll write a prologue but I'm not overly concerned about it yet since its really not overly important to this at the moment.
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Harry read over the school supply list:
The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 6 by Miranda Goshawk
Advanced Potion-Making by Libatius Borage
Confronting the Faceless
A Guide to Advanced Transfiguration by Emeric Switch
Advanced Rune Translation
Flesh-Eating Trees of the World
If Harry were in his own time this was the same list that he would have gotten and he wasn't exactly sure how he felt about that realization.
"Severus, hurry up!" He called up the stairs "It's time to gooooo." he added with a whine. Severus was taking his sweet time this morning and it was driving Harry mad.
"Diagon Alley isn't going anywhere." Severus said as he came down the stairs excruciatingly slow.
Harry jumped up from where he was sitting "Ok, Dad, he's here we can leave now!"
Tobias didn't even look up from his paper as he took a sip of his coffee "He hasn't even eaten yet."
Severus made his way to the kitchen.
"Ugh" Harry huffed and fell back to the couch, this was taking for-ev-er.
After what Harry thought was sure to have been a few hundred years, at least, Severus was ready to go and they piled into the wagon for the drive to London. They found a place to park not far from the Leaky Cauldron.
"I don't know how you two manage to find this place so easily, I never seem to notice it until you point it out, Sev." Tobias commented as they entered the dingy pub and headed to the back. Tom came and tapped the gateway for them and the three entered.
They had barely taken ten steps before Harry asked if they can look at the Quality Quidditch Supplies.
"What's the point?" Severus grunted.
Harry looked affronted "To see the newest brooms."
"We're never going to be able to buy one though, so way waste the time?" Severus muttered. Tobias sighed, he would love to be able to buy his boys a broom but at the end of the day food on the table and a decent roof over their heads won out.
Harry was undaunted "We could still look!"
"Maybe later, first Gringotts, I've got to exchange money into that weird currency of yours, and then school supplies. After that we can look at the more amusing stores."
"Oh, alright." Harry conceded.
Gringotts looked just as impressive as it had the first time he had seen it, he trailed along behind Severus and Tobias. Tobias kept muttering how he hoped he had brought enough money to purchase the things they needed. Severus also exchanged his earnings from working over the summer so that he had some pocket money for Hogsmeade trips.
"Robes first, I think." said Tobias once they were done, he lead the boys past Madam Malkin's shop to a little one further down that sold second hand robes.
Apparently Severus had grown several inches in the last year, unfortunately the second hand shop only had uniforms in his size but no robes, so the trio trekked back to Madam Malkins.
"Ah Welcome. Who's getting fitted today? Step on up." she gestured towards the stool and Severus stepped up, and the tape measure flitted around him for a few minutes despite Severus attempts to knock it away.
"Do you have any discounted robes?" Tobias asked discretely so other customers wouldn't hear.
Madam Malkins didn't seem to get the hint "Of course, we have some clearance and returned items in the back here, lets see if I have his size."
Severus turned bright red.
"Will you be needing anything for the little one?" she asked nodding at Harry.
"Not today, thank you." Tobias answered as he looked through the small selection of unwanted robes before pulling out 3 that seemed to be in the best shape. "We'll take these."
The next stop was for books, they walked right past the bustling Flourish and Blotts to the 2nd hand booksellers.
"Ah, Mr. Snape. I wasn't sure when you'd be in, I set aside the 6th year texts that I got in." the bookshop owner pulled out four texts from the back they had all obviously had more than one previous owner. Tobias looked through them as Severus browsed a bin of bargain books. The man made a face, one of the books had been badly defaced with notes and scribbles, he handed that one back to the seller and paid for the three others.
They made stops at Flourish and Blotts for the remaining books, the Apothecary, and finally a small stall that sold parchment, quills, and other school supplies. Harry would have liked to have known about some of these discounted shops the first time he'd been to Diagon Alley. Having to buy all his own school supplies had made him acutely aware of the expense.
"Now then, how about a bite to eat and then…"
"Tobias!"
Tobias spun around towards the voice, "Arthur!" Harry and Severus turned to the red haired man who looked much much younger than Harry remembered, two small boys were on either side of him. The men greeted each other with a friendly hug. Arthur occasionally hired on Tobias to be a muggle consultant.
"Tobias, good to see you. You remember my boys, Bill and Charlie." he put a hand on their heads as he introduced them.
"My yes, you've both grown so much! How old are you now?"
Charlie held up 3 tiny fingers while Bill proudly stated that he was 5.
"Almost ready for Hogwarts! And how's Molly?"
"Very well, I'm taking the boys out of her hair for the afternoon they've been such a big help with new baby Percy, but she needed a bit of a break."
The men talked for a few more minutes while Bill, Charlie, and Harry all eyed each other curiously. It felt quite odd for Harry to see Bill and Charlie as little kids, he'd only known them as adults after all.
"Oh I almost forgot, Harry! Arthur, this is our new addition, Harry. Harry, this is Mr. Weasley." Tobias introduced him and Mr. Weasley shook Harry's hand. "We were about to get a bite to eat, care to join us?"
Soon the little group found a place to eat that was kid friendly with a play area. Bill and Charlie were much more interested in that than their food, but after some coaxing ate enough to satisfy their father and quickly ran off to play. Tobias and Arthur ended up in a very boring conversation about Muggle interaction within the wizarding community.
"Dad" Severus interrupted "Can Harry and I go look around?"
Tobias looked at the bored faces of his two boys, he was enjoying his conversation with Arthur and didn't want to leave. "Yes, that's fine. Stay together and be back here in 1 hour. Not a minute more , Severus."
"Yes, sir." Severus smiled "Come on, Harry." and the two ran off to look at the Quidditch store.
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Harry and Severus quickly headed to Quality Quidditch supplies to see the newest brooms in the window (they weren't allowed in without an adult). The new Nimbus 1700 was significantly different than Harry's old Nimbus 2000 and he muttered under his breath about the differences.
"What was that, boy? This broom is state of the art, can't find a faster one." the owner standing by the door stated.
"If the tail was tapered with a back hook to be more aerodynamic it would be even better." Harry commented and then walked away with Severus while the shocked owner stared after him and then studied the broom in the window himself.
"Kid's got a good point." he muttered before rushing inside to write the manufacture.
Severus and Harry made their way to the sweet shop where Severus treated Harry to a Mice Pop and bought a couple sugar quills for himself before heading off to Gambol and Japes Joke Shop. Harry was shocked to learn Severus had any interest in the shop knowing how much he loathed any manner of joke as an adult.
"We only have 10 minutes, I'm going to that back section, don't break anything." Severus told Harry as he headed to the back of the joke store.
Harry perused the section with brightly colored packaging and silly gags, there was a slime station, and small toys too. He was about to take another lick of his mice pop when it was pulled right out of his hand.
Spinning around "Hey! Thats mine. Give it back." He glared at the boy in front of him and fumed inside knowing that it was none other than Sirius Black. He really was a bully.
"No." The boy idly studied the little sugar confection "Raspberry right, my favorite."
Harry looked around to see if Severus was in view, but he was still in the back of the store.
"Why don't you pick on someone your own size." Harry said.
"You were at Kings Cross with Snivellus weren't you?"
"Who?"
"Snape."
"Don't call him Snivellus. Give me my candy back!" Harry said loudly, hoping someone nearby would intervene.
"A mice pop, how fitting for a little snake like you."
"If this is how Gryffindors act I wouldn't want to be one." Harry's temper flared up and he put up his hands to shove the older boy. His magic flared and combined with the small shove and Sirius not expecting the small boy to have so much power the older teen went flying back into a display that crashed down around him.
Harry's eyes got wide and his jaw dropped down as he saw hundreds of bottles of some sort of potion fall and break, he was in so much trouble.
/
Severus heard Harry's yell and headed back to the front of the store just as Harry pushed Sirius into the display, he watched as bottles broke over the boys head and crash down around him and patrons quickly run towards the source of the commotion. He briefly saw Harry run out of the store.
"Harry!" He ran after the boy but was yanked back by his clothes.
"You're not going anywhere." said the manager.
"My little brother!" Severus pointed to the door.
"Louis, go see if you can catch the little one that ran out." he ordered to one of his stock boys "You're not going anywhere till we get this sorted out." He pulled Sirius up "You two, come with me." he barked at two other boys standing nearby. Regulus Black and James Potter.
The manager led them to a back room and pushed them all in and took their names to contact their parents "Fight or make a mess back here I'll beat your arses myself." he said and slammed the door shut and locked it.
"What the hell did you do now, Sirius?" Regulus hissed.
"Nothing, that little brat shoved me into the display then ran off."
Severus snorted "Just randomly decided to push you, did he? You didn't do anything to him first?"
"Shove off, Snivellus." Sirius snarled and then sat down, the other boys followed suit, Sirius and James sitting on one side of the room, Severus and Regulus on the other while they glared at each other.
"How much stuff do you think broke?" James asked in a bit of a worried tone. He hadn't been directly involved but he wouldn't be surprised if he still got in some trouble.
Sirius shrugged "Who cares." he said bitterly as he picked his trousers he knew if he had to his father would cough up the money.
"If father has to pay he'll take it out on your arse." Regulus chimed in. Sirius scowled if he didn't get beaten for this it would be a miracle.
Severus put is head in his hands, Dad was going to kill him, he and Harry should be back at the restaurant about now and here he was stuck in a back room with Regulus Black and two idiotic Gryffindors while Harry was who knows where, and all that ruined product, if they got blamed there way no way they could pay it back.
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Harry rushed out the door of the shop and blindly ran. He heard someone yell after him to stop but that made him run faster, he had no idea where he was going. He'd spent several weeks in Diagon Alley when he was 13, but it looked so much different now, and he was so much smaller that it didn't take long before he was completely lost. He didn't recognize anything as he wandered around. A few people gave him funny looks. One elderly witch approached him offering to help, but she scared him and he took off at a run again. Soon he couldn't even see where he was going because he was crying so much. Finally he stopped and sat down on a step outside a dingy store and hugged his knees as he looked around trying to figure out if he'd ever seen this area before.