This story is based on Harry Potter written by J.K. Rowling
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I wake up in my room in the leaky cauldron and groan, why does wakeing up have to be a thing? Ugh, and don't even get me started on how i'm supposed to get cleaning and repairs done today. It will probably lead to another slept through morning see as i have slept until noon today. Not the worst thing of the day so far just a slight set back.
Well first thing's first shower, then breakfast. I pick up my small bag and pull out one of my new outfits, since im doing work after breakfast it will be my sweats and tank top, the other customers can deal with it for all i care right now.
And so after my shower and getting dressed i head down stairs for food. Once i'm at the bar i am greeted by a smiling John, "hello, have a nice rest?"
I smile as best i can, not the best of morning people regardless of the fact that it is noon, "yes i feel much better, thank you, what are your specials?"
"We have a beef stew, fish and chips, and shepherd's pie for today."
"Alright i'll have beef stew", shepherd's pie does sound good but maybe another day, "and a butter bear please."
John nods, "coming right up."
While i wait for my food i think of the house and thinking of a good time to get tom, there isn't much to do besides fix and clean the house and paint the inside white and my rooms everything else tom will have to be there for and some other erands i need to do will have to wait for him too, the will give me an excuse to expose him to the magical world so he has time to learn all he can before hogwarts, i'll make sure he is prepared and that will give both of us a chance to learn the other, hopefully he won't hate me too much, thats probably the best to hope for at this point.
I look up and John is bringing over my order, "here you are, enjoy."
"Thank you." And i dig in because food is the best thing in the world right now. When i finish i pay and head out, lets go check out the house.
When i first step up to the property i get a feel for how big the land is, the house itself is about a football field away from the medium sized cliff, i can work with that i'll just put a fench near it to slow tom down if he ever wanted to go over there maybe like a bench 15 feet away or something.
The rest of the property was land it the other direction, with a dence forest, not so dence that light can't get in, but dence enough that someone could get lost in there if they are not careful. It does have lots of shade though, and there is about a 20 yard gap between the house and the start of the tree line, i can plant a garden, everyone needs a hobby i guess and if i'm going to be in department of regulation and control of magical creatures, i will be working with magical creatures of all types, one of which is werewolves, i'll have to grow some potions ingredients, and practice my potions skills, i wonder if wolfsbane potion has been invented yet.
And looking at the house i can already tell this will be work, i need to repair the foundation, support beams, windows, roof, walls themselves outside and inside probably, the porch, the balcony that looks about to fall off, and there is even a broken fountain in the back yard, not that either yard is very distinguished from the other.
Well lets start on the outside first i suppose, first i start repairs on the foundation useing reparo and on the beams and walls, erecto and reparo, then the same on the fountain, balcony and roof, and an additional impervius, meteolojinx recanto, and tergeo over whole house.
I then changed the colors of the house a little bit, the main color being sky blue and the trim being pastel/honeydew melon green. That should work now onto the property.
I'm going to hire gringotts for warding later but for now i'm decent with warding spells, i start off with a repello muggletum, salvio hexia, cave inimicum, a weak confundus, and a modified homenum revelio to alert me if someone walked over the property line, that should be just fine for now.
Walking inside isn't much better and i end up doing erecto, reparo, and tergeo a countless amount of times, there were no furniture so the only things i had to dispose of were the kitchen appliances that no longer worked, when i go shopping i'll most likely stick with muggle kitchen appliances, magic isn't always needed.
My office, i have decided is going to have one desk, chair, file cabinet, and as many book cases i can fit in there. With the rooms being painted a lilac purple with light green trim.
My bedroom will have a king sized bed, well deserve by now, night stand, dresser, balcony chair since my room is attached to it, a huge lounge chair for reading, book cases that didn't fit in the office, and a mirror next to the bathroom door, the room will be a blue/grey color.
The bathroom consists of a large tub that reminds me of the prefect's bath just about half the size, which is still alot of room, a shower in the corner, not to small but not big enough to take up space, though you do have to walk around the tub to get to it, and there is also a sink with a long counter top and one cabinet, above it is a mirror with a medicine cabinet. The room being a bronze/golden brown with a few red things theme with the walls being a tan color.
Hopefully tom will have fun decorating the rest of the house. Because i am done once i buy my funiture, i should probably plan to get him around next week, i'll have to stop by the ministry to get the adoption paper work going hopefully there won't be too much inquiries as to why all of a sudden the transfer wants to adopt, is 24 old enough to be considered a spinster in this time? Maybe by magical standards i suppose. Durring my own time people at 24 get comments about how the aren't getting any younger and that they need to settle down, yea it should be fine, i can just claim infirtility or somthing if all else fails.
Oh and can't forget about applying for that job, i'll do both of those things tomarrow. For the rest of today i'm buying furniture since it is only 4 pm. Plenty of time.
Leaveing the muggle furniture store i am finally done with my shopping, having previously gotten the appliances done at a different store, and its already dinner time at around 7 pm.
Not particularly wanting the leaky cauldron food tonight, lets try somewhere else. I wonder if Aberforth Dumbledore owns hog's head, probably does and it should be an ok place to go, and since i changed before i went shopping i'm good for now.
As i walk into the hog's head i notice that Aberforth does indeed own this place and that he still serves the same customer type, the don't talk to me im laying low kinda people. Perfect, i should always eat dinner here, maybe i will.
I walk up to a bar seat near Aberforth and he comes over, and says neutraly "what'll it be?"
I give a polite if small smile, its very weird seeing him younger, "are you still serving specials?"
He nods, "only have fish and chips left."
"I'll have that and some cider."
He nods and walks away to prepare the order, the Aberforth of my time wasn't even really that polite, and not much better than rude, so i'm not surprised he wasn't very talkative. If he had a jolly disposition i would have wondered what could have happend to sour him over the years so much, but it doesn't look like he changed much from what i can see.
After i recieved my order i just ate without conversation, silent company is hard to come by, most people i knew have been chatter boxes most of the time, silence is very nice to have.
Though it didn't last quite long enough, few more minutes and i would have been home free but oh well i guess, and this new development walked through the door in the form of Albus Dumbledore, should have known he would have visited his brother every once in a while even though they didn't speak in the future, i sigh, of course today of all days. He better not talk to me long enough for me to leave, he does always make it a habbit to put his nose into whatever business he was interested in, at least i'm not taking a hogwarts teaching position, he would have never left me alone.
He comes over to sit at the bar, but thank merlin he doesn't even notice me, so he sits pretty far away, lets hope he is more concerned about what he is here to talk to Aberforth about, whatever that could be since he is probably supposed to be at hogwarts right now.
Aberforth walks over to him with a scowl on his face, still don't like eachother i see, "what do you want albus?" Yep not happy visit.
"I just wanted to come say hello and check on you", he said in fake sincerity, i wonder why he even bothers with a attitude like that.
"Well you have accomplished your self appointed mission, if you are not buying somthing, leave."
Albus sighs, "why must you be so stubborn?"
Aberforth gets a look even more angry on his face now, "if you don't already have the answer to that question by now, you never will, you don't even deserve the wasted breath it takes to explain it to you."
And albus just sighs again.
At this point i'm finished so i decide to give Aberforth a break from albus and i wave him over to pay for my meal.
I give a smile, "thank you for the food, it was great."
He tries to return the smile but grimaced for most of it, "your welcome, have a goodnight and come back soon."
"Of course." And then i leave, no need for me to stay longer, i csn always talk to him later. And with that i head over to the leaky cauldron.
