Chapter 4: Diagon Alley

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Harry was laying on his bed, in the Leaky Cauldron. It was the 31st of August, and he was staying there with the Weasleys and Hermione Granger. The young man finally stood up and got ready to go and buy his things for the coming year.

Strangely, his dream came back in his mind. Through the summer, it had become clearer and clearer. Now, he saw five people and six strange creatures standing on Hogwarts's towers. Curiously, the only thing he could really see was a pair of bright green eyes, exactly like his own, looking at him from the Astronomy tower.

A small knock on is door broke his reverie.

"Harry? Time to go."

"I'm coming Mrs. Weasley."

Grabbing his bag, Harry checked he had the key of his vault before heading out.

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Sakura turned abruptly round, staring at Eriol.

"What's that?" She was pointing at a curious sign, saying 'The Leaky Cauldron'.

"This is the way in Diagon Alley." Eriol answered with a smile.

Then he stepped inside. Shrugging at Sakura's questioning glance, Touya followed with Yukito. Syaoran and Tomoyo smiled to their friend.

"You should know better than trying to question Eriol."

With a sigh, Sakura followed inside. The place was dark and shabby. The room went quiet as they looked up at the new comers. Sakura looked around, to see people wearing long robes and staring at them with odd looks. The barman, an old and quite bald man, quickly came from behind his bar and straight to them.

"Can I help you kids? You seem lost. You know that you aren't allowed in places like that." The man was obviously trying to shoo them away.

"No. We're here to buy our supplies for school. We know where we're going."

The old man looked down at Eriol before gasping.

"Of course, sir. I'm sorry; I didn't recognize you right away."

Eriol only smiled and led the others through the room. Sakura stepped closer to him.

"Why all these people are staring at us like that? And how comes that you know this man?"

"They aren't staring at us, but rather at our clothes. And I'm known here because of Clow Reed. Just follow me."

The whole gang walked across the room. Suddenly, Sakura stopped on her tracks and turned round, looking for the stairs that led to the rooms. Tomoyo looked that way too to see four young people, about their age, coming down with two adults.

"What's the matter, Sakura?"

The others turned round as Tomoyo spoke, but Sakura made quickly her way through the room and put a hand on the shoulder of a boy with dark hair, smiling slightly to him.

"Nice to finally meet you."

Harry turned round as he felt the hand and only stared at the girl in front of him. The green eyes from his dream were now looking at him. Harry fell silent, wondering how this was possible. Noticing his look, Ron decided to speak.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Sakura Kinomoto. And what's yours?" she asked while looking at Harry.

Only silence and astonished looks answered her question.

"You mean you don't know who he is?"

Ron's voice was more than puzzled. And he looked more than shocked when Sakura shook her head, still smiling.

"But you've just said 'Nice to finally meet you'. You must have known about Harry before." Hermione said.

"We met in our dreams."

Hermione, Ron and the rest of the Weasleys turned to look at Harry as he said these words.

"I'm Harry Potter. Nice to finally meet you too."

Behind Sakura, Eriol cleared his throat and Sakura looked over her shoulder before slightly stepping aside and allowed her friends to come in view.

"Let me introduce you to my friends and family: Tomoyo Daijoui, Syaoran Li, Yukito Tsukishiro, my brother Touya and Eriol Hiiragizawa."

Hermione and both Mr. and Mrs. Weasley gasped at that last name. Eriol only smiled to them. Harry noted but decided to ask later.

"Well, this is Hermione Granger, and the Weasley family: Ginny, Ron and their parents."

All the Japanese bowed politely in front of them, much to the English confusion. Still smiling, Eriol explained.

"My friends are from Japan. They are here to attend to Hogwarts, as foreign students. I decided to go with them."

Again, Hermione and Molly and Arthur Weasley gasped. Touya looked at his watch and sighed a bit.

"I think we should go, if we want to be back at the manor before tonight."

"You're going to buy your things?" Harry asked. As Sakura nodded, he went on. "Well, I will gladly show you around if you need. We were about to do some shopping too."

The Weasleys urged their new friends to come with them and the Card Masters accepted.

"Well, the first stop is Gringotts, the wizard's bank." Arthur Weasley said as he led his now bigger group of children to the courtyard outside the Leaky Cauldron.

Taking out his wand, Mr. Weasley counted bricks before tapping three times the wall in front of him. The Card Masters stared in awe as the wall moved out of the way and revealed a whole street. The group walked their way to a big and white building. And once again, the Cards Masters gasped as they took their first sight of what a goblin was. Eriol chuckled a bit before walking behind Mr. Weasley to the counter. Arthur Weasley put both his and Harry's vault keys on the counter. He was about to say something to Eriol when the young man produced four keys and put them on the counter next to the two others. Sakura sighed and walked to stand beside Eriol.

"Let me guess. Clow knew that this day would come."

Eriol only smiled and Sakura sent him a mock-glare. After the goblin finished examining the keys, he called for one of his colleagues and gave him the keys.

"We will wait here. No need for the whole of us to go down." Mrs. Weasley said with a smile. Hermione and Ginny went to stand next to her. They were soon joined by Touya and Yukito. Taking a look at to the sleeping forms of their guardians, Sakura and Syaoran gave their bags to the boys.

Then the goblin led the group to the cart. After everyone got in, the goblin sped up deep down underground. They first stopped by Harry's vault, where once again, Harry tried to block the door so no one would see the large amount of gold that were lying inside. Then, coming back upward a bit, they stopped by the Weasleys' vault, where Mr. Weasley took all of the coins that were here. Then, the goblin sped upward for so long that Harry was beginning to think that he had forgotten about the others. They finally stopped and the goblin led all of them to the remaining vaults.

"Vaults 20, 21, 22 and 23." The goblin held out a hand for the keys and Eriol gave them to him.

Three more goblins were there, waiting for them and the first goblin gave to each a key, keeping the last one. Together, the goblins came nearer to the doors and Eriol turned to his friends.

"I have the 20," he whispered quickly, "Sakura the 21, Syaoran the 22 and Tomoyo the 23."

The Card Masters took place in front of each of their vault and waited for the goblins to open to doors. As the doors finally moved, everyone, safe from Eriol, gasped in surprise: in each vault were mountains of gold Galleons, silver Sickles and bronze Knuts. Eriol had already taken what he needed and stepped outside of his vault. Syaoran and Tomoyo hurried to follow his example and entered their vaults. Sakura stepped inside her own vault, looking around in amazement.

"The gold coins are the most important. Fill your bag with them."

Sakura turned round to look at Eriol.

"Why did you do that? I mean, why Clow did do that? Why did he leave so much money for us?"

With a smile, Eriol pointed at a table, just next to the door and stepped outside, to go and help Tomoyo. Sakura sighed and put three large handfuls of gold coins in her bag. Then she looked at the table. On it were a box and two letters, one for her and the other to someone called Ollivanders. She tore open her own.

'My dear Sakura,

I'm happy that you are here, in England. I know that you will succeed in your new mission. For once, I'm not the one who threw you into this, even if I knew this day would come to pass. I left you and your friends some money, so you wouldn't have to worry about that. Consider that as a present from your loving father.

Give the other letter to Mr. Ollivanders. He is the man who will give you your wand.

In the box is another little present for you. I hope you'll like it.

Don't forget: you have your own magical formula and it makes you invincible.

With all my love, Clow Reed'

Sakura sighed and smiled, nearly able to see Clow smiling at her from above. She took the other letter and put it in her pocket. Then she took a look at the box. She opened it and smiled. Inside were long robes, looking like the robes that these people were wearing in the Leaky Cauldron, except that it was obviously something far more expensive. The robe was white, with gold and silver ribbons falling from the shoulders and the waist. She put the robe back into the box and took it with her as she stepped outside of the vault. She was the last one. The goblin closed her vault and gave her the key. All together, they made their way back to the entrance of the bank.

There, the group split. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley decided to take Ginny to the second hand robe shop, as she was in need of new robes. The Dream Team and the Card Masters began with the school robes, in Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions, then the books in Flourish & Blotts. They bought some quills and parchment at the stationary shop before going to buy the Card Masters their cauldrons. They finished in the Apothecary for the potion ingredients. It was noon when everyone arrived in a crowded Leaky Cauldron.

Tom, the barkeeper, settled them in a corner and gave them huge plate of pasta. As they began to eat Ron turned toward Hermione and Eriol.

"So Mione, why were you so surprised when you heard Eriol's name?"

Eriol chuckled as Hermione rolled her eyes.

"Really Ron, I think you should pay a bit more attention in class and work a bit more. Eriol is the reincarnation of one of the first students of Hogwarts. And it has been said that he didn't even need to study with us because he already knows everything." Hermione had said this last part looking at Eriol with awe in her eyes.

"This is mostly true. I've inherited of Clow Reed's memory and part of his powers. He was one of the first four students, the first Ravenclaw. I don't know everything, but I know probably most of the things that you're learning. However, I'm only one of the two reincarnations of Clow."

"Why did he split himself?" Ron asked, quite puzzled.

"Clow had a big problem with his powers. He knew everything that would happen, so it took away his fun for life. He decided to die and rise again, but splitting himself in two. He did split his body but I'd received all his memory and powers. Sakura helped me to put that back the way Clow wanted it to be."

"So who is the other reincarnation?"

"Our father." Touya simply stated, pointing to Sakura and himself.

"So, technically, you're Clow Reed's children." Hermione gasped slightly at that.

"And mine too." Eriol said with a smile.

"And where do you fit in this?" asked Harry while looking at Tomoyo and Syaoran.

"I'm Sakura's best friend. We've known each other for quite some time." Tomoyo smiled at her friend, who smiled back.

"And Syaoran is my cute little descendant." Eriol chuckled as Syaoran glared at him.

"Clow Reed's mother was Chinese and the Head of the Li Clan, at that time. I am a Li and it's now my mother who is Head of the Clan."

"What about the three of you?" asked Sakura with a smile.

"Well, my family is an old wizarding family. I've got 5 brothers and a sister. You already know Ginny. Fred and George finished school last year and are trying to open a joke shop. Percy is working for the Ministry of Magic, Charlie is studying dragons in Romania and Bill is working for Gringotts."

"I'm a Muggle-born and only child, so there isn't much to say about me. My parents are both dentists."

"What's a Muggle-born?" asked Tomoyo.

As the Dream Team looked at her with confusion in their eyes, Eriol decided to answer for them.

"It means that Hermione is the first occidental witch in her family. Remember that I told you that the occidental wizarding world is keeping itself strictly away from those who haven't powers. Well, they called those who haven't any power 'Muggle'."

The Card Masters nodded but looked a bit surprised.

"You mean that it doesn't work like that in Japan?" asked Hermione, eager to learn something new.

"In the oriental world, magic is known to everyone." Syaoran said. "Some families, like mine, are known to be powerful magic-users. We just live together with those who don't have powers, helping when we can or when we are asked."

"That's why we're here." Sakura added. "My power kind of heard Harry, asking for help. So, here we are."

Harry was now looking straight at Sakura, remembering this night when he has asked for someone to kill Voldemort. His dreams had begun this same night. He was about to say something when a shout cut him. An orange blur shot past his eyes and went straight to Syaoran's plate.

"Hey, back off! That's mine. Ouch!"

Now, Harry could see a bit more clearly a strange white-winged orange cat hanging at Syaoran's finger.

"Kero! Stop that right now."

The cat spat Syaoran's finger and went flying to Sakura.

"You could have told me that it was time for lunch."

The Dream Team gasped loudly, earning them the attention of their new friends.

"This cat's just talked." Ron muttered, amazed.

"I'm no cat. I'm the mighty beast-guardian of the Sakura Cards."

Before anyone could say anything, Sakura snatched Kero and stuffed a big piece of bread in his mouth.

"Sorry about that. He's a show-off." Sakura smiled to everyone.

The rest of the meal was spent exchanging knowledge about occidental and oriental magic. Finally, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley stood up and excused themselves.

"We are awaited at the Ministry. We'll be back here in some hours. You stay here and away from Knockturn Alley."

Molly Weasley gave a hug to each of the Dream Team and smiled warmly to the Card Masters before hurrying to the door. Arthur just smiled and followed his wife.

"Well, I think we should go and buy your wands, now." Harry said, standing up.

Everyone followed his example and they all walked back in Diagon Alley. They finally arrived in front of Ollivanders. The group went inside.

"Ah, Mr. Potter. I'm pleased to see you again. Holly and phoenix's feather, eleven inches. Pretty powerful one."

Harry smiled to the old man, now quite used to him.

"Yes. I'm here with some friends in need of a wand."

Mr. Ollivander turned to the Card Masters and bowed slightly his head to them. He waved Tomoyo forward and took her measurement before going to take a wand from one of his shelves.

"Here is something that could be suitable for you. Fourteen inches, yew and phoenix feather. Just give it a wave."

Tomoyo went to raise her arm but Mr. Ollivander snatched the wand from her fingers.

"No. Try this one: ten inches, mahogany and unicorn hair."

Tomoyo has just taken the wand that a bright blue light surrounded her. Mr. Ollivander took back the wand, put it in a box and gave it to Tomoyo with a smile. Eriol pushed Syaoran forward after that. Again, Ollivander took his measurements. After several tries, Syaoran was chosen by his new wand, fifteen inches, ebony and dragon heartstring. Finally, Eriol stepped forward, Sakura by his side.

"Mr. Hiiragizawa. I believe that you already have a wand. I've got it in the back."

"Yes, but Sakura is still in need." Eriol smiled.

"I've got a letter for you." Sakura said with a little voice, taking the letter from her pocket and giving it to Ollivander.

The old man read it carefully. He finished with a knowing smile on his face, before waving his right hand. Three boxes flew from the back of the shop. Ollivander took them and presented the first one to Eriol.

"I think that this belongs to you. Fourteen inches, ebony and sphinx hair."

Eriol took the box and opened it, taking his wand out. He gave it a switch and black and blue sparkles shot in the air. With a smile, he put the wand back in the box. Then, Mr. Ollivander gave Sakura her own box.

"This is yours. Seventeen inches, yew and griffin feather."

As Sakura took the wand, white and gold little stars shot from the tip. She looked at Eriol, who was still smiling at her. With an exasperated sighed, the Card Mistress turned to Mr. Ollivander, who was giving the last box to Touya.

"I don't have any magic left." The young man said.

"Any oriental magic left, for this was the only one you knew about, so the only one you could gave to Yue. You still have your occidental magic. Why do you think I insisted that you should learn with the others during the holiday?" Eriol said.

"I suppose this has something to do with Clow, once again." Sakura said.

"As a matter of fact, yes." Ollivander answered. "Your, your brother and Eriol's wands were created by Clow Reed. He used the one that, now, belongs to Eriol and gave the three of them to my ancestor for safe keeping. Now, I gave them back, as promise, to Clow's reincarnation and his children."

"I think I'm a bit lost with the reincarnation thing." Ron muttered.

"Don't worry. I was there from the beginning and I'm as lost as you." Tomoyo said with a smile.

Soon, everyone was laughing and they stepped outside Ollivanders to go back to the Leaky Cauldron. There, they talked again before the Card Masters had to go back.

"We'll see you tomorrow in the train." Hermione, Harry and Ron shouted as their new friends were going back into the Muggle world.

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A/N Sorry about my lack of update but the RL keeps getting in the way. Tell me if I should keep writing or stop here.