The new light.
Disclaimer: Anything you recognise is obviously not mine, anything you don't is.
FourHarry wandered along the pavement taking in all the surroundings that were surrounding him.
"Okay right task one – change appearance. Hair dressers, hair dressers."
He wondered along the road a bit more and saw a young woman who had pink hair.
"Excuse me miss?" he asked her politely. She looked up at his voice. "Um, I'm new to London and I'm looking for a change in appearance, do you know of anywhere that can help me?" he smiled at her.
"I work in a hair dressers that does piercings, as well as hair I'm on my way to work now. So I can sort you out when we get there."
"Really? Thanks! My name's Harry by the way, nice to meet you." He held out his hand and she shook it.
"I'm Melanie. Come on it's this way." She turned and started walking down the street again; Harry fell in step with her.
"So Harry where are you from?" she asked him as they continued down the street.
"I was raised in Surrey." He replied. "What about you – were you born in London?"
"No I was born in Brighton – it's a city on the south coast."
"I've never been there – what's it like."
"Busy – not as busy as London is, but it's pretty busy. There are always loads of people about. It has loads of clubs and bars and pubs. As well as cinema's and stuff. It's nice there."
"So why did you move to London if it was so nice there?" Melanie's eyes darkened and she suddenly seemed sad "I'm sorry I didn't mean to pry."
"That's okay. How old are you Harry?"
"I turn 16 at the end of July."
"So you're only 15? You seem a lot older than that." Melanie shrugged "Oh, well. Here we are." They stopped in front of a bright blue building, which had green writing on a sign that proclaimed 'The Blue Triangle'.
Melanie opened the door and led Harry inside.
"Good morning Alice!" she called to a woman who was trimming another woman's hair.
"Good morning Melanie! Who's your friend?" Alice had long black hair and had half of it in a ponytail the section that was up was streaked pink.
"This is Harry – he said that he wanted a change of appearance."
Alice nodded, "This way Harry." Melanie led him over to a sleek chair and motioned for Harry to sit on it – he complied.
"So Harry what exactly did you have in mind?" she asked running her fingers through his hair.
"Um I dunno I just don't want to look like me. So maybe a different colour or something."
"Hmm. Red?"
Harry had a sudden image of him standing next to the Weasley's.
"No. Something that doesn't stand out as much perhaps."
"Blonde?"
"Would that suit me?" Harry asked her. Melanie was still running her fingers through his hair.
"You know it's nice black – perhaps we could just change the style of it."
Harry grinned, "If you can get my hair to do as you tell it then be my guest!"
Melanie laughed. "Right," she picked up a comb and sprayed some gel/water stuff over his hair, before running the comb through it. She backed combed it and made Harry, in his opinion, look very much like a dark haired Draco Malfoy. "We can make it longer if you want that might work."
"How would you do that?"
She laughed, "Extensions silly."
"Oh okay."
Melanie nodded then set about adding extensions to his hair. The entire process took over 3 hours, but when she was finished. Harry had long black hair that reached his shoulders; it was wavy and silky to his touch.
"Wow." He whispered staring at his reflection. His scar was now completely hidden by his long locks. He grinned.
"Thanks!"
Melanie smiled, "Right piercings. What do you want?"
Harry cocked his head to one side, "One in my ear here." He pointed to where he meant. "My eyebrow – I've seen people with that done and it looks cool."
"It can hurt just so you know." Melanie pointed out.
Harry shrugged, "Pain doesn't bother me that much."
Melanie looked at him then shrugged, "Okay then." She reached over to a small trolley that had a selection of earrings on it. "Pick the one you want for your ear." she showed him a selection of studs and rings. He pointed to a small silver stud.
"That one's nice."
Melanie looked on the shelf below and took out a small white box. She opened it and inside was a small silver stud identical to the one he pointed to. She then took out a metal thing that looked like a gun. Harry watched her place the earring into the gun. She then took out a pick pen and asked Harry to show her where he wanted it again. Harry pointed to his left ear.
"About there." He said grinning.
"Hmmm, about there okay." She then drew a cross where he had pointed.
"There?"
Harry looked in the mirror. "Yeah that's cool."
Melanie picked up the gun again. "Okay now don't move." She placed the gun to his ear and Harry waited. There was a loud click and he felt his ear tingle.
"There you go." She said putting the gun back into her pocket.
Harry looked in the mirror again. "Cool thanks."
She smiled and then showed him the collection of earrings for his eyebrow. He chose another silver earring and watched calmly as Melanie repeated the process.
She smiled at him, "Done."
Harry grinned at his reflection. "Cool! Thanks Melanie how much do I owe you?"
Melanie took out a pencil and note pad.
"Well that's, £12 and £15 for the earrings and £40 for the extensions. So that's £67 please."
"Okay." He reached into his pocket and pulled out the wallet. "£20, £40, £60, £70 and you can have the £3." He handed over the money and followed her to the till.
"Thanks for all your help Melanie. Bye!"
He waved to her as he left the hairdressers. Behind her Alice spoke. "He was cute. Did you give him your number?"
Melanie turned around, "He was 15 Alice!"
Alice looked at her friend, "Really? I thought he was about 18." She shrugged and wandered off, leaving Melanie to her thoughts.
Outside in an alleyway Harry stood in the dark with his wand out and his glasses in his hand.
"Change of look." He muttered before whispering a spell and changing the style and look of his glasses to that of thin silver frames. He grinned and put them on again.
"Look out Death Eaters here I come. Before focusing on the image of the graveyard and vanishing with a silent 'pop'.
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