Harry Potter the Founders Heir

CHAPTER THREE-

Shopping with Dumbledore

On the way to London Harry contemplated his clothing and how he did indeed look, this was probably the first time he noticed the changes his body have gone under and the ragged clothes that hung like a limp colourless spider web over his frame. He needed some new clothes- fast.

It took little less then ten minutes to reach London with all the enchantments which had been placed on the cars speed and ability to move though traffic. London was as chaotic as ever with people and cars everywhere trying to rush to their next destinations, there were homeless men, women and children on the streets, the city had an air of excitement to it but sadness was there to. It reminded Harry of what humanity was- the good the bad and the ugly. The car made its way to an exclusive shopping district in the city centre where there seemed to be more room to walk and there were no bums anywhere or that they were at least well hidden.

After exiting the car Dumbledore walked right into the nearest shop, which sold muggle casual wear for the younger 'gentleman' and Harry followed him in. They soon left the shop after buying nothing and headed out of the district to a more suitable not one were the only thing they sell were polo shirts and starched pants. Surprisingly Dumbledore also seemed more comfortable in this new area even though he was the odd one out and been stared at in his finery. Dumbledore must be used of getting stared at wherever he went in both the wizard and muggle world (muggles often stare out him trying to figure out exactly how old he is!!!!). They soon found a promising looking shop were Harry ended up buying most of his clothes which consisted of 3 pairs of jeans, 2 pairs of black trousers, 10 T-shirts with varying colours and designs, 3 button up shirts (1 black, 1 green and 1 white), a pair of doc Martins, a leather jacket and numerous pairs of socks and underwear. Harry was happy with his new purchases.

For the next hour or so Dumbledore and Harry continued shopping buying Harry a new bag and all the essential toiletries including a razor which Harry was in desperate need for. Dumbledore paid for all these purchases but Harry promised to pay him back when he had a chance to get to his Gringott's vault, he was worried how much this had cost Dumbledore and how much he had spent exactly. Dumbledore said not to worry about the cost but Harry promised to pay him back.

They got to Diagon Alley by their own means walking the four blocks to the Leaky Caldron with relative ease. The pub was crowded with bust and no one noticed the probably two most famous wizards of the day pass through unnoticed. The familiarity of Diagon Alley was comforting and there was a feeling that it would never change. First stop was Gringotts were Dumbledore turned down a ride in the jolting, high speed cart.

When Harry returned from his exhilarating ride which travelled far beneath London he was short of breath with his hair like an afro' around his face with his prize of an overflowing bag of gold in his hand. He looked like a cat that had just gotten the cream. Dumbledore had to laugh at the expression on his face. Harry handed Dumbledore a bag of the coins but he refused to accept them and Harry eventually gave up trying to ply them on him.

When they headed back into the alley they when to flourish and blots where Dumbledore gave him his OWL results and booklist. Harry was stunned by the results he had gotten- he got four out standing's- defence against the dark arts, potions (although he had hoped for this it still surprised him), transfiguration and in care of magical creature for the rest of his marks besides astronomy (which he has an excuse for) he got 'exceeds expectations'. He got a dreadful in astronomy.

For the NEWT's course he's keeping DADA, potions, transfiguration and CoMC as well as picking up the new duelling class been offered. He was ecstatic but Dumbledore seemed really sombre about the whole thing like it meant nothing to him which offended Harry greatly. He would have thought Dumbledore would at least pretend to care. Somehow Harry got the feeling that something was going on which he did know about and he was certain it revolved around him and Dumbledore had always had a thing about keeping things from him until the last minute. Maybe if he had told Harry about the prophecy earlier Sirius would still be alive. Harry knew he was been unfair almost as soon as the thought came into his head, if it was anyone's fault for Sirius' death it was his own and no one else's.

Harry was about to enter Madame Malkins when Dumbledore pulled him back saying they would go another day which confused Harry greatly, know he knew something was going on, there was a look in Dumbledore's eyes, a kind of expectations for things to come. What would Harry having or not having robes have to do with this?

After finishing their shopping at Diagon Alley (after Harry bought Dumbledore a huge plie of socks to repay Dumbledore for the clothes he had bought him) Harry and Dumbledore returned to Hogwarts through a special floo system into a only accessible by giving a code which changes daily and during especially hard times every hour. Dumbledore said it was a good system but due to his failing memory he could rarely remember the codes but due to Harry's presence and his inability to apperate this would have to do. It would take them into Dumbledore's tower office in the castle.

When arriving in Hogwart's Harry felt himself scrunch up with pain and he toppled over wondering what was going on, was he dying, was Dumbledore doing this, was he under the imperious, was he someone in polyjuice form. Dumbledore just stood back and let Harry scream and have mini-fits on the 200 year old carpet laid in his office. Harry's pain hurt and worried him, he didn't think the change would be as bad as all this

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