Chapter 3
Harry slowly got up and turned off his alarm clock. He rubbed his eyes then walked over to the bathroom. He washed his face brushed his teeth, changed and then put his cloak over his Muggle's clothes. Harry was going to meet Ron and Hermione at Diagon Alley so he can do some errands there. He was preparing to disapperate to Diagon Alley when the phone rang.
"Hello?" Harry said into the phone.
"Hi Harry! Good thing you're up." He heard Anne's excited voice on the other line. "Harry I'm really sorry about yesterday so I'll make it up to you. Do you want to go to the beach? We can go sailing or."
"Look Anne, I'm not mad about yesterday, but I can't go with you today ok?"
"You're still mad aren't you?"
"No I'm not. I just have some stuff I got to do today. I got t go so talk to you later."
"But." Click! Harry shook his head, and then quickly disapperate to Diagon Alley before receiving any more calls from Anne. In a second Harry was standing in front of Grongotts, the wizarding world bank in Diagon Alley.
"Hey Harry!" Ron and Hermione were waiting for him across from Gringotts at a café. Harry quickly went over to them.
"What took you so long?" Ron questioned him as he got to them.
"Got stuck on the phone with Anne." Harry said with a look that said 'what can I say?' Hermione just shook her head a little amused.
"That girl just doesn't know when to stop." She kinds of mumbled but then changed the subject. "Harry, here's the plan, we split up to do our own errands then meet back at the Leaky Cauldron for lunch." As Harry nodded the three split up in their separate ways, all needed to do some shopping. Since Harry needed to get some money from his vault he went back to Gringotts.
After Harry had given a goblin his key to his vault, he spotted someone wearing a black cloak. He instantly recognizes the person as the girl form last night. Harry called out to her as he began running to where she was standing, but before he reaches her, she went on a car with a goblin to the underground vaults. Harry stopped running; disappointed he walked back to the goblin that was assisting him, whom was already in a cart waiting for him, impatiently.
****** Carmen has sworn Harry Potter was here and had called out to her, but on the other hand she doesn't even think that he would even remember her. So she let it go by deciding that the voice calling her was just in her imagination. She then sat back in her cart to enjoy her ride.
Last night she had slept on the street near the Leaky Cauldron, because she had gotten there really late and the place was already closed. Carmen had no choice but to sleep on the street, it doesn't really matter to her though since she's been doing this for some weeks now. In the morning, as soon as the Leaky Cauldron was open, she quickly got in and went to the back of the place where she found a stonewall. Carmen remembered that she had once read a book telling how to open the gateway from the Leaky Cauldron to Diagon Alley. There were other ways to get there but this was the safest way for her because it doesn't really require any real magic to open this gate. Carmen quickly got out her wand and tapped the bricks that were needed to open the gateway. Slowly the bricks opened up and there was Diagon Alley in front of her eyes. She had never seen anything like this place with so many wizards and witches dodging their ways around to do their shopping. Feeling excited she got started on her way at once. Luckily for her the place was so crowded that no one paid attention to this lonely girl. Carmen got into Gringotts to get some money from her mother's vault. Her mother had given her the key before she died. She told Carmen to use her money to survive during her task, but now that she also have her father's money she decided to use her mother's first and her father's only when necessary.
When the cart stopped, the goblin got off the car and opened the vault for Carmen. She stuffed as much coins, as her pocket would allow, then she headed back up to Diagon Alley. Carmen got out of Gringotts, and then hurriedly headed for the wand store. She was going to buy her own wand now, since the other one was from her mother. Then she would go buy some new clothes, spell books, and get information of Dumbledore's where about. While she was going over her plan in her head she accidentally bumped into someone.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." Carmen apologized. She had bumped into a girl with busy brown hair, but the girl didn't seem to be much older than her.
"It's ok, you didn't mean to." The girl said politely and smiled at Carmen. The girl didn't seem to mind that Carmen was really dirty and smelly. Carmen nodded at the girl then headed for the wand store.
No sooner had the girl left Ron came up to Hermione. "Who was she?" Ron asked his girlfriend.
"I don't know she just accidentally bumped into me. Poor soul, she looked so lost and lonely." Hermione said sympathetically.
"Well we still have a couple more hours of shopping to do before we go meet up with Harry for lunch, so let's go." ****** "May I have a room please?" Carmen asked politely to Tom, the Leaky Cauldron's owner.
"Sure thing Miss, you need a hand with those?" he asked pointing to the packages by Carmen's feet.
"Yes please." She answered. Once she got in her room, Carmen ripped open the package containing her new clothes and cloak. She went into the bathroom, stripped, and got a nice hot bath that she's been craving for the past weeks. After she put on the new clothes and cloak she looked at her self in the full-length mirror. Looking at her now you'd never guess that she's been on the street for weeks now. Carmen went back downstairs to get some lunch. She sat at the bar and ordered some food. While she waited for her food, she over heard two witches sitting next to her, talking.
"Yes, the Qudditch World Cup is in two weeks." Said the first witch. "And I also heard that a lot of important wizards and witches are going to be there, even Dumbledore."
"Oh! But how am I going to get tickets? They're probably all sold out." Said the second witch.
"Not to worry, I heard that the Ireland team is going to come here today. They're gong to do autographs and sale the remaining tickets." 'This witch seem to get all the news around here,' thought Carmen. 'But this is just my luck, I finally know where Dumbledore will be.' When she was about finish with her lunch, she noticed the bushy haired girl she bumped into earlier. The girl entered the Leaky Cauldron, but with her were two guys, one with flaming red hair and the other one.Harry Potter! Carmen quickly paid for her lunch but when she was about to bolt upstairs a hand was on her left shoulder, stopping her from moving. She reluctantly turns to the girl.
"Hi! Do you remember me? We bumped into each other earlier." The girl said. When Carmen nodded she continued. "My name is Hermione, and I just wanted to get to know you better, cause you seemed really nice when we bumped into each other."
"I'm Carmen and I'd be glad to be your friend." She said sincerely. In all her life no one had liked her enough to actually want to become her friend.
"Would you like to have lunch with me and my friends? You can get to know them too." If Hermione's friends were only that red haired guy then she would agree but there was also Harry. She can't get too close to him; there might be a chance that he'll delay her mission. Just looking into his eyes once, yesterday, had her heart fluttering like crazy. She couldn't get attach to him, this is a mission not a time to go looking for romance.
"Um.Sorry Hermione, I really shouldn't cause.I already ate." She made it sound like an excuse even though it was true. "It's ok, you don't have to eat, just sit with us. And I won't take no for an answer." Before Carmen could protest Hermione steered her into an empty table.
Once Harry had entered the Leaky Cauldron, he and Ron went upstairs to find Ron's room, and Hermione had went off muttering something about finding them a table. Ron and Harry placed all the stuff they had just bought on the bed then headed downstairs. When they found Hermione, she was sitting at a table with this stranger, but as Harry got close enough to his friend he recognized the person sitting next to Hermione. Ron and Harry sat down on the other side of the table as Hermione introduced them to her new friend.
"Guys this is Carmen. I bumped into her earlier this morning."
"So we meet again," Harry said not taking his eyes off her. Hermione looked at Harry then at Carmen.
"You guys know each other?" she raised her eyebrows in confusion.
"We kinda bumped into each other," Carmen said, looking up to meet Harry's eyes. When they locked their gazes, it seemed like everyone else had vanished. Feeling her face burning to a red crimson, Carmen quickly looked away and turned to Ron. "So what's your name?"
"Ron. Nice to meet you."
"Same here." Carmen said, trying not to avoid Harry's deep gaze. Tom then approached the table to take their orders. Having already eaten, Carmen only ordered herself a drink. All the time Harry was watching, this girl that he's so taken with, her every move. He could tell that at first she was really nervous, but she slowly relaxed when they began to start conversation. He remembered the way she had looked at him, but he can't seem to describe how it was like. She had the beautiful emerald eyes like his own, but her consist of this mysterious look within it.
"Do any of you know when the Ireland team will be here?" Carmen asked when her new friends were finished with their lunch. 'I guess she doesn't know that I'm in the team,' he thought as he smiled to himself.
"They'll be here in about half an hour. Why do you ask?" Harry said, curious.
"Oh, I just want to get a ticket," Carmen replied.
"Who are you going with?" asked Hermione.
"Um.no one. I'm going alone, because I have some business to do there. I wasn't really even planning to go, so this is a last minute thing," Carmen explained hoping that they won't ask what her business is, but Harry on the other hand was just happy that he'd be able to see her again.
"Well Carmen, it's going to be a long line so we should go now." Harry said as he escorted Carmen out of the Leaky Cauldron and to the area that the Ireland team would sale tickets and give out autographs. Hermione and Ron just sat at their table and watched them leave.
"He likes her." Ron started and Hermione nodded in agreement.
When Carmen and Harry got to where the Ireland team would be, someone came up to Harry and tapped him on the shoulder. "Harry we've been looking for you, we need you up there." Said Harry's team captain.
"Ok." Harry whispered back to him then turned to Carmen, whom was busily searching for the ticket line in this big crowd. "I got to go so I'll see you later." He said to her and turned to follow the captain up the stadium. 'She'll probably know that I'm on the team once I get on that stadium and my name get announced,' he thought. But Carmen didn't hear anything because when the announcer started to introduced the players, the crowd made such a racket that she was holding her ears to keep from going deaf. Carmen wasn't used to this kind of noise, she had always been in the quietness of her room. She also couldn't see the stadium because the witches and wizards around her were much taller than she was, but she didn't really care because she did come here just to buy the tickets not to admire the players. Finding a way to meet Dumbledore was much more important right now then some Qudditch game.
When the crowd died down, two lines were made for the tickets buyer and the fans that want autographs from their stars. Carmen quickly got into the ticket line, which was way shorter than the other one. As soon as she bought her ticket, she headed straight for the Leaky Cauldron.
"No need to stay in this big crowd." She muttered to herself, while trying to get around the hundreds of crazy teenage witches trying to get their pictures autographed. 'I wish I could be like them.' Carmen thought to herself sadly as she passed the crowd and walked back to the Leaky Cauldron.
Harry slowly got up and turned off his alarm clock. He rubbed his eyes then walked over to the bathroom. He washed his face brushed his teeth, changed and then put his cloak over his Muggle's clothes. Harry was going to meet Ron and Hermione at Diagon Alley so he can do some errands there. He was preparing to disapperate to Diagon Alley when the phone rang.
"Hello?" Harry said into the phone.
"Hi Harry! Good thing you're up." He heard Anne's excited voice on the other line. "Harry I'm really sorry about yesterday so I'll make it up to you. Do you want to go to the beach? We can go sailing or."
"Look Anne, I'm not mad about yesterday, but I can't go with you today ok?"
"You're still mad aren't you?"
"No I'm not. I just have some stuff I got to do today. I got t go so talk to you later."
"But." Click! Harry shook his head, and then quickly disapperate to Diagon Alley before receiving any more calls from Anne. In a second Harry was standing in front of Grongotts, the wizarding world bank in Diagon Alley.
"Hey Harry!" Ron and Hermione were waiting for him across from Gringotts at a café. Harry quickly went over to them.
"What took you so long?" Ron questioned him as he got to them.
"Got stuck on the phone with Anne." Harry said with a look that said 'what can I say?' Hermione just shook her head a little amused.
"That girl just doesn't know when to stop." She kinds of mumbled but then changed the subject. "Harry, here's the plan, we split up to do our own errands then meet back at the Leaky Cauldron for lunch." As Harry nodded the three split up in their separate ways, all needed to do some shopping. Since Harry needed to get some money from his vault he went back to Gringotts.
After Harry had given a goblin his key to his vault, he spotted someone wearing a black cloak. He instantly recognizes the person as the girl form last night. Harry called out to her as he began running to where she was standing, but before he reaches her, she went on a car with a goblin to the underground vaults. Harry stopped running; disappointed he walked back to the goblin that was assisting him, whom was already in a cart waiting for him, impatiently.
****** Carmen has sworn Harry Potter was here and had called out to her, but on the other hand she doesn't even think that he would even remember her. So she let it go by deciding that the voice calling her was just in her imagination. She then sat back in her cart to enjoy her ride.
Last night she had slept on the street near the Leaky Cauldron, because she had gotten there really late and the place was already closed. Carmen had no choice but to sleep on the street, it doesn't really matter to her though since she's been doing this for some weeks now. In the morning, as soon as the Leaky Cauldron was open, she quickly got in and went to the back of the place where she found a stonewall. Carmen remembered that she had once read a book telling how to open the gateway from the Leaky Cauldron to Diagon Alley. There were other ways to get there but this was the safest way for her because it doesn't really require any real magic to open this gate. Carmen quickly got out her wand and tapped the bricks that were needed to open the gateway. Slowly the bricks opened up and there was Diagon Alley in front of her eyes. She had never seen anything like this place with so many wizards and witches dodging their ways around to do their shopping. Feeling excited she got started on her way at once. Luckily for her the place was so crowded that no one paid attention to this lonely girl. Carmen got into Gringotts to get some money from her mother's vault. Her mother had given her the key before she died. She told Carmen to use her money to survive during her task, but now that she also have her father's money she decided to use her mother's first and her father's only when necessary.
When the cart stopped, the goblin got off the car and opened the vault for Carmen. She stuffed as much coins, as her pocket would allow, then she headed back up to Diagon Alley. Carmen got out of Gringotts, and then hurriedly headed for the wand store. She was going to buy her own wand now, since the other one was from her mother. Then she would go buy some new clothes, spell books, and get information of Dumbledore's where about. While she was going over her plan in her head she accidentally bumped into someone.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." Carmen apologized. She had bumped into a girl with busy brown hair, but the girl didn't seem to be much older than her.
"It's ok, you didn't mean to." The girl said politely and smiled at Carmen. The girl didn't seem to mind that Carmen was really dirty and smelly. Carmen nodded at the girl then headed for the wand store.
No sooner had the girl left Ron came up to Hermione. "Who was she?" Ron asked his girlfriend.
"I don't know she just accidentally bumped into me. Poor soul, she looked so lost and lonely." Hermione said sympathetically.
"Well we still have a couple more hours of shopping to do before we go meet up with Harry for lunch, so let's go." ****** "May I have a room please?" Carmen asked politely to Tom, the Leaky Cauldron's owner.
"Sure thing Miss, you need a hand with those?" he asked pointing to the packages by Carmen's feet.
"Yes please." She answered. Once she got in her room, Carmen ripped open the package containing her new clothes and cloak. She went into the bathroom, stripped, and got a nice hot bath that she's been craving for the past weeks. After she put on the new clothes and cloak she looked at her self in the full-length mirror. Looking at her now you'd never guess that she's been on the street for weeks now. Carmen went back downstairs to get some lunch. She sat at the bar and ordered some food. While she waited for her food, she over heard two witches sitting next to her, talking.
"Yes, the Qudditch World Cup is in two weeks." Said the first witch. "And I also heard that a lot of important wizards and witches are going to be there, even Dumbledore."
"Oh! But how am I going to get tickets? They're probably all sold out." Said the second witch.
"Not to worry, I heard that the Ireland team is going to come here today. They're gong to do autographs and sale the remaining tickets." 'This witch seem to get all the news around here,' thought Carmen. 'But this is just my luck, I finally know where Dumbledore will be.' When she was about finish with her lunch, she noticed the bushy haired girl she bumped into earlier. The girl entered the Leaky Cauldron, but with her were two guys, one with flaming red hair and the other one.Harry Potter! Carmen quickly paid for her lunch but when she was about to bolt upstairs a hand was on her left shoulder, stopping her from moving. She reluctantly turns to the girl.
"Hi! Do you remember me? We bumped into each other earlier." The girl said. When Carmen nodded she continued. "My name is Hermione, and I just wanted to get to know you better, cause you seemed really nice when we bumped into each other."
"I'm Carmen and I'd be glad to be your friend." She said sincerely. In all her life no one had liked her enough to actually want to become her friend.
"Would you like to have lunch with me and my friends? You can get to know them too." If Hermione's friends were only that red haired guy then she would agree but there was also Harry. She can't get too close to him; there might be a chance that he'll delay her mission. Just looking into his eyes once, yesterday, had her heart fluttering like crazy. She couldn't get attach to him, this is a mission not a time to go looking for romance.
"Um.Sorry Hermione, I really shouldn't cause.I already ate." She made it sound like an excuse even though it was true. "It's ok, you don't have to eat, just sit with us. And I won't take no for an answer." Before Carmen could protest Hermione steered her into an empty table.
Once Harry had entered the Leaky Cauldron, he and Ron went upstairs to find Ron's room, and Hermione had went off muttering something about finding them a table. Ron and Harry placed all the stuff they had just bought on the bed then headed downstairs. When they found Hermione, she was sitting at a table with this stranger, but as Harry got close enough to his friend he recognized the person sitting next to Hermione. Ron and Harry sat down on the other side of the table as Hermione introduced them to her new friend.
"Guys this is Carmen. I bumped into her earlier this morning."
"So we meet again," Harry said not taking his eyes off her. Hermione looked at Harry then at Carmen.
"You guys know each other?" she raised her eyebrows in confusion.
"We kinda bumped into each other," Carmen said, looking up to meet Harry's eyes. When they locked their gazes, it seemed like everyone else had vanished. Feeling her face burning to a red crimson, Carmen quickly looked away and turned to Ron. "So what's your name?"
"Ron. Nice to meet you."
"Same here." Carmen said, trying not to avoid Harry's deep gaze. Tom then approached the table to take their orders. Having already eaten, Carmen only ordered herself a drink. All the time Harry was watching, this girl that he's so taken with, her every move. He could tell that at first she was really nervous, but she slowly relaxed when they began to start conversation. He remembered the way she had looked at him, but he can't seem to describe how it was like. She had the beautiful emerald eyes like his own, but her consist of this mysterious look within it.
"Do any of you know when the Ireland team will be here?" Carmen asked when her new friends were finished with their lunch. 'I guess she doesn't know that I'm in the team,' he thought as he smiled to himself.
"They'll be here in about half an hour. Why do you ask?" Harry said, curious.
"Oh, I just want to get a ticket," Carmen replied.
"Who are you going with?" asked Hermione.
"Um.no one. I'm going alone, because I have some business to do there. I wasn't really even planning to go, so this is a last minute thing," Carmen explained hoping that they won't ask what her business is, but Harry on the other hand was just happy that he'd be able to see her again.
"Well Carmen, it's going to be a long line so we should go now." Harry said as he escorted Carmen out of the Leaky Cauldron and to the area that the Ireland team would sale tickets and give out autographs. Hermione and Ron just sat at their table and watched them leave.
"He likes her." Ron started and Hermione nodded in agreement.
When Carmen and Harry got to where the Ireland team would be, someone came up to Harry and tapped him on the shoulder. "Harry we've been looking for you, we need you up there." Said Harry's team captain.
"Ok." Harry whispered back to him then turned to Carmen, whom was busily searching for the ticket line in this big crowd. "I got to go so I'll see you later." He said to her and turned to follow the captain up the stadium. 'She'll probably know that I'm on the team once I get on that stadium and my name get announced,' he thought. But Carmen didn't hear anything because when the announcer started to introduced the players, the crowd made such a racket that she was holding her ears to keep from going deaf. Carmen wasn't used to this kind of noise, she had always been in the quietness of her room. She also couldn't see the stadium because the witches and wizards around her were much taller than she was, but she didn't really care because she did come here just to buy the tickets not to admire the players. Finding a way to meet Dumbledore was much more important right now then some Qudditch game.
When the crowd died down, two lines were made for the tickets buyer and the fans that want autographs from their stars. Carmen quickly got into the ticket line, which was way shorter than the other one. As soon as she bought her ticket, she headed straight for the Leaky Cauldron.
"No need to stay in this big crowd." She muttered to herself, while trying to get around the hundreds of crazy teenage witches trying to get their pictures autographed. 'I wish I could be like them.' Carmen thought to herself sadly as she passed the crowd and walked back to the Leaky Cauldron.