Chapter 3 – Ron
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As he saw light he was briefly aware of still being around Diagon ally before asking. "What Happened?" Harry asked Tonks as he sat up on the rough cobblestone street.
"Well Ron punched you" A new hesitant voice that belonged to Herminie proclaimed and a angry lump began to boil in his chest.
"Why!" He demanded starting to get angry and rip Ron's throat out.
"I'll tell you later" She replied in a tone that suggests it would be a stupid idea to talk about it here.
For the first time during this exchange Tonks spoke up. "Ron's gone now we should just continue to Gringotts" Slightly raising her voice to cover the noise from the shoppers around them.
Hermione piped in quickly "Yeah we can tell you about it later" Almost pleading with him.
While walking through Diagon ally he realised lots of people where filling in around Gringotts and many was walking out with extra weight.
"Ugh Tonks" He questioned "Why are people filling in around Gringotts?"
"People are scarred that the goblins are going to go over You-know-who's side" Giving a glance at Harry she went on "It's stupid though, you-know-who killed lots of goblin family's that refused him"
"Yeah" Hermione joined in "Bill told me about the old bank manager, he was killed along with Gregory Forbs. He was the Minister of Magic back then. Since then the goblins have been neutral.
As they walked up to one of the goblins he got thinking. Had he got any other accounts? He remembered Hagrid telling him that Dumbledore had kept his key. Maybe he had more?
"Hello?" He asked the goblin. The gobbling gave a grunt of welcome so went on.
"Err do you keep records on peoples accounts cause I would like an account overview of all the accounts in the name of Harry James Potter?. He enquired awkwardly as Tonks gave him an inquisitive glance and Hermione had left to set up her own account.
"Yes we do" He must have just realised who he was serving because he looked up straight for his forehead where the lightning bolt scar was located. "Right Mr Potter" He adopted a superior tone "Mr Tantook requests your presents and would like to discuss some business" He replied leading the way across the smooth tile floor and to an old richly stained door with a golden name tag of Mr Tantook.
"Who's Mr Tantook" He whispered to Tonks. "The bank manger" She replied happily "You must really be important to meet him or belong to an old family"
An old family in the Wizarding world is a pureblood family. They are a family consisted of wizarding blood with no Muggles (Non wizarding) relatives. Tonks with a muggleborn father must feel it an honour to be in here, however he felt it to belong to a group of people closely resembling Death eaters.
As he entered the office he saw how eloquently designed it was with old artefacts. He saw an elderly goblin up at the front of the desk which was the same colour of the large stained doors at then entrance to the office.
By this time the goblin had excused himself and made for his unattended desk leaving Him Tonks and Mr Tantook alone.
"Right Mr Potter" The goblin started in a pleasant voice that was very unlike the goblins that attended the vaults. "Here is all the Deeds artefacts and money you own" Mr Tantook said holding out a light folder with Harry James Potter of the outside in fine elegant gold writing. He opened the front page and on the first page was an elegant crest with a golden Phoenix on it surrounded by fiery red smoke. There was an elegant patch of writing on the bottom but he couldn't make out what it said.
He opened the second page and it was entitled The Family Tree. He looked up and couldn't believe it he was a direct descendant of Godric Gryffindor, tracing it downwards he saw that after him was a direct line and surrounding were light wizards but with dark wizards closely related to them.
He saw on one side was the Dumbledore's, is Dumbledore married he wondered? As he saw a gold and red line connect him and a witch called Miranda Hopkirk. He wondered where he heard the name and recognised it from somewhere.
Figuring he could read it later he skipped the first few pages of it where he saw a few family's he was closely related too. Apparently his family did not shun out family members due to the choices they made.
He stopped at the page of deeds before being briefly distracted by Tonks sitting innocently twirling a pink strand of hair round her index finger. He realised what she had done when he saw a few shreds of cracked glass on the floor.
Continuing to read the deeds he could only find 3 homes and 1 plot of land which from revising History magic realised it was very uncommon to only have this amount and pureblood family usually had ten or more properties.
He didn't mind though, at least he wouldn't get extra attention.
He had a villa in an old city off the coast of Spain that he was pretty sure didn't even exist must be an untraceable charm he thought.
He saw Tonks starting to get restless so called her over. "Tonks wanna help me over here?" He asked.
"Yeah sure I wanna see how much money Mr boy-who-lived has" Mocking him then walking over tripping over the elegant red rug.
"Ok sure" He answered absentmindedly going back to reading the characteristics of his properties.
He saw Godrics hollow was the smallest of the properties while he had an old manor up north that he should be worth a lot.
Flipping the page over to artefacts he saw a long list of them and there locations, the one that caught his eye was the sword he had retrieved from the sorting hat down in the Chamber of Secrets.
Flipping the page over to money and vaults he found a little list of 5, one he thought was only his only had 650 gallons which was probably around 800 before he started spending from it.
In total it was around 2 million gallons in total.
2 Million gallons from people that have died for me he thought harshly.
While reading what he owned he didn't notice Mr Tantook returning before his stern warm voice interrupted him.
"Mr Potter" He said then spoke softly again when Harry's attention was on him "I have an offer for you. You see we are losing a lot of favour towards the public. We ask you to give several interviews to get our ratings in return we will give you the contents of the Death Eaters vaults that are about to be seized."
"Why would I giving interviews help?" He asked uncertainly the thought wasn't too bad getting his hands on gold from people he put rightfully in jail than from people that had died for him...
"Well you see" He said honestly "People look up to you, you are a symbol for the light your like Dumbledore before he faced the last dark lord if you show yours views that Gringotts is safe for there money they will store there money here."
It made sense he thought so decided to agree "Will I get any other perks for agreeing for this?"
Trying to get more out of this. He knew he was being greedy but wanted more out of this if he was going to be going into the public eye.
"A full sized top security vault as well as a bottomless money bag with the new muggle mode, no insurance rates either but you will still get interest, just sign here"
Handing a black feather quill out with an official piece of parchment with fine black ink.
Once Harry and Tonks got out of there it was 2 in the afternoon and they realised Hermione had probably gone shopping without them cause they had took so long. The bottomless money bag was a black silky pouch with 2 coins on the outside to change from muggle money to wizard money with security charms so that only he can get into it.
"Tonks I need to get a new trunk" He asked her thinking of the limited space in his trunk and the new equipment he needed to get from his list he got this morning from Tonks as they where waiting for a goblin to show them a top security vault that was deep underground and very cold and damp, he could make out flashing lights every now and then and thought that it was a dragon that Hagrid told him guards the vaults.
"Umm ok" She replied looking round for a good shop "Ok let's go there" Dragging him to the left of the ally through the busy shoppers. Tonks had said they where going there to beat the students shopping for new equipment. She was right, they had missed the students completely, they had been replaced by many shoppers stocking up if worst things came to worst. They entered the new shop called Luggage through the ages and walking through into the shop thought it was a good store to open to stop things getting broken into as he saw a very small box with the lid opened.
He reached out and closed it only to notice it disappear. He read the tag on it and found out it was an safe key box for storing little trinkets like keys to there Gringotts vault.
He picked it up thinking it would be good to have and walked into the area that Tonks was looking at with highly polished and expensive trunks.
"I know your not poor Harry, and you deserve one of these" She stated when he drew nearer and looked at the trunks.
Seeing he was only going to spend the Death Eaters money he didn't care how much it cost.
A big trunk caught his eye, with 3 locks on it. He thought it must be like Mad Eyes trunk so bought it and they headed out along Diagon Ally only stopping for some owl treats for Hedwig as they headed to Flourish and Blots.
Here he was out fast because Tonks had reserved all the Books he had needed while he slept and he noted seeing some advanced texts that he was sure wasn't on the equipment list.
They headed towards an old shop that sold cauldrons and had to get a solid Gold Cauldron and an expensive set of potion ingredients, he bought two sets of them so that he could walk into Snapes class with experience.
He knew it was very rare to get into his group because he only accepts a level O and seeing Hermione only got an E and he only got an O because of Fudges interference he was afraid he would be the only one in his class.
As he walked past Quality Quidditch a new broom at the front of the shop caught his eye. "Hey Tonks can we go in there" He asked eagerly "Yeah sure" also mesmerised by the broom.
The tag next to it read: The Star Spark New in the line (Ok not sure of Firebolts specs just say it's a little better at turning and same speed) Extra security charms and solid unbreakable golden case.
He thought with all the money he had he may as well spend it. "Coming through Coming through" He yelled to get through to the old fashioned till.
"Ok I'll take two Star Sparks and 3 snitches." He asked loudly as everyone gasped
"Egh ok that's 3024 gallons each for the brooms so 6048 and 1000 for the balls so 7048 please" Said the shocked salesman.
"Why did you do that Harry" Tonks exclaimed as they left "Oh yeah I heard your birthdays next week so here" He said giving her one of the brooms
She knew it would be pointless arguing so just kept walking with a smile on her face.
By the time they reached the Leakey cauldron they where tired so decided to stay at Grimmauld place because the trip back to surrey would take a long time and they where tired. The wards had been replaced since he had got word they had failed.
Once they got outside he couldn't see number twelve anywhere.
"Remember focus on the memory of the parchment" Tonks explained.
Once number 12 appeared.
"Tonks not" BING BING "The bell" He tried to tell her.
"Sorry" She said her eyes downcast but then realising there was no screaming inside looked up hopefully as Molly opened the door.
Immediately he was grabbed in a bone crushing hug "How are you Harry dear, you look so thin?"
Thinking this was true, he didn't eat much cause of his and Tonks cooking because of the dinner was usually micro waved. "I'm fine Mrs Weasley" "Call me Molly dear, why are you hear anyway" She asked looking at Tonks for an explanation and ushered them into the kitchen where the Grangers and the Weasley family was seated except for Charlie and Percy. He noticed Ron was staring daggers at him at an empty table while the Twins was beckoning him over to the table they where sitting at over in the corner of the room.
He approached the twins giving greetings and asking how there summers where when they told him about WWW there new business that he was the sole benefactor for.
"Harry you see"
"We feel bad about not"
"Paying you back"
"And we know"
"You have all the money you need" "So we have decided you"
"Get all our products free"
"OF Charge!" They both coursed.
"And"
"We won't"
"Take no for an"
"Answer" They continued.
Once he had agreed he went over to talk to Hermione.
"Hermione can I have a word?" He asked her while her Parents where talking to to Molly and Arthur.
"Yeah sure" She replied following him into the drawing room.
"What's wrong with Ron?" He asked starting to get agitated for having to sit through dinner with Ron staring daggers at his head.
"Well you see" She said quickly "Ron and I had an argument, he liked me and sort of claimed that I was his and got rather annoyed when I said I didn't even like him like that. Then I told him how I felt about you and he got really mad and hasn't talked to me since" She was crying freely now on his shoulder. (Won't be Harry/Hermione) "He said he was only your friend because of me since 4th year" She proclaimed.
He started to feel angry then saw Ron in the mirror standing in the hallway and before he knew it Harry had jumped over to him and landed a punch square into Ron's face but he didn't stop punching until Hermione dragged him off.
When she had pulled him upstairs he felt he needed to talk to her. He didn't feel this way about Hermione.
"Hermione you know he deserved it" Trying to stop her tears "I'm sorry" Dreading this moment "I don't feel the same way about you, you're my best friend and I don't want to ruin that" Most of her tears had gone now but the redness around them still lingered 2Yeah I understand"
"Do you?" He retorted doubtfully.
"Yes" She started in her know-it-all voice "You want someone that is aware of the danger around you and that they can and have to fight"
"Yeah I guess" He replied putting names of people through his head "I'm going to bed" Walking towards the door. "Where's your room" Hermione asked "Downstairs with Tonks but where not staying here." As he got to the landing he turned to face her "I probably won't see you tomorrow so see you on September the 1st" He shut the door before he could see Hermione's all-knowing smile.
As he approached his room he heard a heated argument from the kitchen as he felt a bit thirsty he decided to head there before going to bed.
"WE'LL HE WAS THE ONE WHO STARTED IT" H e heard Ron yell "HARRY BLOODY POTTER GETS EVERYTHING HE WANTS" He walked in casually and headed for the fridge grabbing some pumpkin juice and pouring himself some of it from the pitcher into a glass.
Ron saw him first and headed over trying to punch him but Harry was quicker dodging it but before he could hit back he was hit by Fred or was it George (Does it really matter he thought). "OH AND NOW HIS GOT MY BROTHERS" Ron yelled picking himself up off the floor. "WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YOU RONALD WEASLEY" Molly bellowed as Fred and George took Ron out of the room and Molly followed.
"Wotcher Harry" Tonks said offering a seat to Harry next to her "What happened" She asked
And so he told her what Hermione had said then Tonks handed another letter out with the Hogwarts crest on it. "Well this also came with the other letter" She explained awkwardly.
He opened it curiously.
From the desk of the Gryffindor head of house.
It is my pleasure to inform you that you are the new Gryffindor Quidditch captain. Enclosed is the Captains pin, when you arrive at Hogwarts I would like you to pick up the Captain pack with all details of the captaincy. Enclosed also is a Prefects pin, the last person to wear it didn't follow the procedures and has been relinquished of there position.
"Oh" He thought this probably sent Ron over the edge not only missing out of the captaincy of the Quidditch team which was his dream he also lost his prefects place. "I guess this explains it" He responded.
The next day they made back to privet drive and life went back to normal if normal is getting up at 5 o clock every morning for training or going to train Mark and Dudley.
Dudley was going to go to one of the less publicised schools in Ireland to be in his 5th year due to them starting a little later.
Finally the weekend rolled around for his first Animagus lesson with Professor McGonagall.
"Mr Potter" She started sternly "We are here to learn the art of Animagus. It is not a subject that should be taken lightly" She lectured giving the expression that they were in a classroom instead of Tonks's front room. "We need to brew a Conflexious potion, but first we need to see what your form will be. No one can have more than one form. More than one form may present itself to you but you can only be one." She started sternly.
"We will have to get a part of that animal and enter it into the Conflexious potion. The potion itself is similar to the Polyjuice potion but instead of temporarily turning you into the main ingredient it blends with your DNA allowing you to merge your magical cells into it to transform into it." She let the information set in then continued.
"You will have to put some of your blood into the sliver liquid" She said motioning a flask on the table "Then pour it over a Visual Ball" Motioning to her brown leather case where he assumed it was kept. "Prick yourself and put it into this flask" Handing him a needle she had just transfigured from a strand of hair.
"Ok then" He said grabbing the offered needle then pricking himself with it in the tip of his finger and allowing a droplet of blood fall into the silvery substance.
"Ok now Mr Potter" Grabbing her trunk and placing a blood red orb onto the glass table.
"Drop it onto the orb" She instructed "Ok now look into it and define the animals shown"
Handing him a notepad and a muggle pen, when he looked at her in question she replied that she was half and half from Scotland.
He looked into the orb as the silvery substance hit it. Within seconds there was smoke flying around inside the orb. He looked closer and saw an Eagle, a large brown Eagle with a lightning bolt scar on it's forehead.
"It's a big brown eagle" He told Professor McGonagall.
"What sort of Eagle?" She asked sternly.
"I don't know" He replied lamely realising he should have looked closer.
"No matter" She sighed "Follow me outside, this will be painful but it is needed to fin out your form"
"Drink up" She said offering a new rich red flask to him once they was in the back garden.
He drank it with one big gulp of the strong smelling black liquid. "That tasted worst than polyjuice" He exclaimed as white hot pains erupted inside him.
He could feel his skin burning and within a minute he was spiralled out onto the ground too weak to get up.
"Mr Potter?" McGonagall's stern voice asked him "When did you drink polyjuice? Never mind I don't want to know. You will be pleased with your results" She proclaimed leading him back into the front room.#
"Mr Potter, you are an Royal Eagle." She continued "A Royal Eagle is very rare now days, they battled large dark creatures many decades ago but now days have hidden. The ingredient is only a feather so we should be able to get it by next weeks lesson"
"Yes professor" He replied thankful not to have a overly rare animal.
"I'll send you a book with Professor Snape. Bye Mr Potter" She excused herself at the front door leaving him dreading his first Occlumens lesson.
In fact the lesson wasn't too bad until he called him to practice Legilimens against Tonks.
"Yes sir" He replied to Snape looking at the nervous Tonks standing next to him.
"Legilimens" He said pointing his wand at Tonks. Instantly he was reliving memory's of Hogwarts but they weren't his memory's they where Tonks's memory's coming faster
When the memories stopped he looked over at the sobbing figure of Tonks on the floor and rushed to sooth her totally missing the presence of Snape until a loud couth behind him made him realise it.
"Are you ok Tonks's?" He asked As she nodded her head he helped her downstairs only to return to a frustrated Snape.
"Sir?" He asked.
"Potter" He spat obviously trying to control his temper "Now we have no test subject you cannot learn Legilimens until school time where we can use a teacher" He growled.
Harry may have argued back if not for the fuming potions master looming over him.
"Practice Potter" Snape said before striding out.
He walked down to find Tonks crying in the dining room.
"Do you want to talk about it?" He asked her "I'm sorry" He said apologetically.
"Don't worry" She sobbed clutching to his chest as he got closer to her and sat on a chair. He was briefly aware of Tonks sleeping soundlessly as blackness took him into sleep.
He awoke with a big pain in his nose. "Ouch" He yelled "Sorry" Tonks mumbled clutching her head.
He figured she must have banged her head on his nose when she awoke.
"S, ok" He replied then added "Wanna go flying today, I've got a snitch" "Sure!" She exclaimed happily trying to jump up then tripping not remembering Harry was under her.
After catching the snitch they went in to find a unfamiliar black owl. "It's an Order owl watch" As she untied the blank letter.
She tapped it with her wand and said "Orders Orders" She handed it to him and it was addressed to.
Mr Harry Potter
It was addressed to him so he opened it.
To Harry Potter
On August the 3rd be at the Daily Profit building in Diagon Ally
Mr Tantook
"Hey Tonks" He called to her in the kitchen
"Yeah" He heard
"Can you take me to Diagon ally for my interview?"
"Hmm I'll have to ask Dumbledore"
"Why his not going to control my life I'm going I'm just asking if you are coming with me" He replied angrily settling himself down to read Animagus through the ages.
"Harry" She said softly "You know his only trying to protect you"
"Yeah, but people have to meddle in my life too much. Going to Diagon Ally is nothing there's loads of Wizards and Witches around if anyone attacked I could get out and even if I couldn't I can defend myself"
"Ok I guess I'll go then"
"Where?"
"You don't want me meddling in your life" She replied hurtfully
"I want you though" Standing up caressing her cheek and blushing when he realised what he had done.
"Thanks" She replied softly getting up and heading back towards the kitchen.
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As he saw light he was briefly aware of still being around Diagon ally before asking. "What Happened?" Harry asked Tonks as he sat up on the rough cobblestone street.
"Well Ron punched you" A new hesitant voice that belonged to Herminie proclaimed and a angry lump began to boil in his chest.
"Why!" He demanded starting to get angry and rip Ron's throat out.
"I'll tell you later" She replied in a tone that suggests it would be a stupid idea to talk about it here.
For the first time during this exchange Tonks spoke up. "Ron's gone now we should just continue to Gringotts" Slightly raising her voice to cover the noise from the shoppers around them.
Hermione piped in quickly "Yeah we can tell you about it later" Almost pleading with him.
While walking through Diagon ally he realised lots of people where filling in around Gringotts and many was walking out with extra weight.
"Ugh Tonks" He questioned "Why are people filling in around Gringotts?"
"People are scarred that the goblins are going to go over You-know-who's side" Giving a glance at Harry she went on "It's stupid though, you-know-who killed lots of goblin family's that refused him"
"Yeah" Hermione joined in "Bill told me about the old bank manager, he was killed along with Gregory Forbs. He was the Minister of Magic back then. Since then the goblins have been neutral.
As they walked up to one of the goblins he got thinking. Had he got any other accounts? He remembered Hagrid telling him that Dumbledore had kept his key. Maybe he had more?
"Hello?" He asked the goblin. The gobbling gave a grunt of welcome so went on.
"Err do you keep records on peoples accounts cause I would like an account overview of all the accounts in the name of Harry James Potter?. He enquired awkwardly as Tonks gave him an inquisitive glance and Hermione had left to set up her own account.
"Yes we do" He must have just realised who he was serving because he looked up straight for his forehead where the lightning bolt scar was located. "Right Mr Potter" He adopted a superior tone "Mr Tantook requests your presents and would like to discuss some business" He replied leading the way across the smooth tile floor and to an old richly stained door with a golden name tag of Mr Tantook.
"Who's Mr Tantook" He whispered to Tonks. "The bank manger" She replied happily "You must really be important to meet him or belong to an old family"
An old family in the Wizarding world is a pureblood family. They are a family consisted of wizarding blood with no Muggles (Non wizarding) relatives. Tonks with a muggleborn father must feel it an honour to be in here, however he felt it to belong to a group of people closely resembling Death eaters.
As he entered the office he saw how eloquently designed it was with old artefacts. He saw an elderly goblin up at the front of the desk which was the same colour of the large stained doors at then entrance to the office.
By this time the goblin had excused himself and made for his unattended desk leaving Him Tonks and Mr Tantook alone.
"Right Mr Potter" The goblin started in a pleasant voice that was very unlike the goblins that attended the vaults. "Here is all the Deeds artefacts and money you own" Mr Tantook said holding out a light folder with Harry James Potter of the outside in fine elegant gold writing. He opened the front page and on the first page was an elegant crest with a golden Phoenix on it surrounded by fiery red smoke. There was an elegant patch of writing on the bottom but he couldn't make out what it said.
He opened the second page and it was entitled The Family Tree. He looked up and couldn't believe it he was a direct descendant of Godric Gryffindor, tracing it downwards he saw that after him was a direct line and surrounding were light wizards but with dark wizards closely related to them.
He saw on one side was the Dumbledore's, is Dumbledore married he wondered? As he saw a gold and red line connect him and a witch called Miranda Hopkirk. He wondered where he heard the name and recognised it from somewhere.
Figuring he could read it later he skipped the first few pages of it where he saw a few family's he was closely related too. Apparently his family did not shun out family members due to the choices they made.
He stopped at the page of deeds before being briefly distracted by Tonks sitting innocently twirling a pink strand of hair round her index finger. He realised what she had done when he saw a few shreds of cracked glass on the floor.
Continuing to read the deeds he could only find 3 homes and 1 plot of land which from revising History magic realised it was very uncommon to only have this amount and pureblood family usually had ten or more properties.
He didn't mind though, at least he wouldn't get extra attention.
He had a villa in an old city off the coast of Spain that he was pretty sure didn't even exist must be an untraceable charm he thought.
He saw Tonks starting to get restless so called her over. "Tonks wanna help me over here?" He asked.
"Yeah sure I wanna see how much money Mr boy-who-lived has" Mocking him then walking over tripping over the elegant red rug.
"Ok sure" He answered absentmindedly going back to reading the characteristics of his properties.
He saw Godrics hollow was the smallest of the properties while he had an old manor up north that he should be worth a lot.
Flipping the page over to artefacts he saw a long list of them and there locations, the one that caught his eye was the sword he had retrieved from the sorting hat down in the Chamber of Secrets.
Flipping the page over to money and vaults he found a little list of 5, one he thought was only his only had 650 gallons which was probably around 800 before he started spending from it.
In total it was around 2 million gallons in total.
2 Million gallons from people that have died for me he thought harshly.
While reading what he owned he didn't notice Mr Tantook returning before his stern warm voice interrupted him.
"Mr Potter" He said then spoke softly again when Harry's attention was on him "I have an offer for you. You see we are losing a lot of favour towards the public. We ask you to give several interviews to get our ratings in return we will give you the contents of the Death Eaters vaults that are about to be seized."
"Why would I giving interviews help?" He asked uncertainly the thought wasn't too bad getting his hands on gold from people he put rightfully in jail than from people that had died for him...
"Well you see" He said honestly "People look up to you, you are a symbol for the light your like Dumbledore before he faced the last dark lord if you show yours views that Gringotts is safe for there money they will store there money here."
It made sense he thought so decided to agree "Will I get any other perks for agreeing for this?"
Trying to get more out of this. He knew he was being greedy but wanted more out of this if he was going to be going into the public eye.
"A full sized top security vault as well as a bottomless money bag with the new muggle mode, no insurance rates either but you will still get interest, just sign here"
Handing a black feather quill out with an official piece of parchment with fine black ink.
Once Harry and Tonks got out of there it was 2 in the afternoon and they realised Hermione had probably gone shopping without them cause they had took so long. The bottomless money bag was a black silky pouch with 2 coins on the outside to change from muggle money to wizard money with security charms so that only he can get into it.
"Tonks I need to get a new trunk" He asked her thinking of the limited space in his trunk and the new equipment he needed to get from his list he got this morning from Tonks as they where waiting for a goblin to show them a top security vault that was deep underground and very cold and damp, he could make out flashing lights every now and then and thought that it was a dragon that Hagrid told him guards the vaults.
"Umm ok" She replied looking round for a good shop "Ok let's go there" Dragging him to the left of the ally through the busy shoppers. Tonks had said they where going there to beat the students shopping for new equipment. She was right, they had missed the students completely, they had been replaced by many shoppers stocking up if worst things came to worst. They entered the new shop called Luggage through the ages and walking through into the shop thought it was a good store to open to stop things getting broken into as he saw a very small box with the lid opened.
He reached out and closed it only to notice it disappear. He read the tag on it and found out it was an safe key box for storing little trinkets like keys to there Gringotts vault.
He picked it up thinking it would be good to have and walked into the area that Tonks was looking at with highly polished and expensive trunks.
"I know your not poor Harry, and you deserve one of these" She stated when he drew nearer and looked at the trunks.
Seeing he was only going to spend the Death Eaters money he didn't care how much it cost.
A big trunk caught his eye, with 3 locks on it. He thought it must be like Mad Eyes trunk so bought it and they headed out along Diagon Ally only stopping for some owl treats for Hedwig as they headed to Flourish and Blots.
Here he was out fast because Tonks had reserved all the Books he had needed while he slept and he noted seeing some advanced texts that he was sure wasn't on the equipment list.
They headed towards an old shop that sold cauldrons and had to get a solid Gold Cauldron and an expensive set of potion ingredients, he bought two sets of them so that he could walk into Snapes class with experience.
He knew it was very rare to get into his group because he only accepts a level O and seeing Hermione only got an E and he only got an O because of Fudges interference he was afraid he would be the only one in his class.
As he walked past Quality Quidditch a new broom at the front of the shop caught his eye. "Hey Tonks can we go in there" He asked eagerly "Yeah sure" also mesmerised by the broom.
The tag next to it read: The Star Spark New in the line (Ok not sure of Firebolts specs just say it's a little better at turning and same speed) Extra security charms and solid unbreakable golden case.
He thought with all the money he had he may as well spend it. "Coming through Coming through" He yelled to get through to the old fashioned till.
"Ok I'll take two Star Sparks and 3 snitches." He asked loudly as everyone gasped
"Egh ok that's 3024 gallons each for the brooms so 6048 and 1000 for the balls so 7048 please" Said the shocked salesman.
"Why did you do that Harry" Tonks exclaimed as they left "Oh yeah I heard your birthdays next week so here" He said giving her one of the brooms
She knew it would be pointless arguing so just kept walking with a smile on her face.
By the time they reached the Leakey cauldron they where tired so decided to stay at Grimmauld place because the trip back to surrey would take a long time and they where tired. The wards had been replaced since he had got word they had failed.
Once they got outside he couldn't see number twelve anywhere.
"Remember focus on the memory of the parchment" Tonks explained.
Once number 12 appeared.
"Tonks not" BING BING "The bell" He tried to tell her.
"Sorry" She said her eyes downcast but then realising there was no screaming inside looked up hopefully as Molly opened the door.
Immediately he was grabbed in a bone crushing hug "How are you Harry dear, you look so thin?"
Thinking this was true, he didn't eat much cause of his and Tonks cooking because of the dinner was usually micro waved. "I'm fine Mrs Weasley" "Call me Molly dear, why are you hear anyway" She asked looking at Tonks for an explanation and ushered them into the kitchen where the Grangers and the Weasley family was seated except for Charlie and Percy. He noticed Ron was staring daggers at him at an empty table while the Twins was beckoning him over to the table they where sitting at over in the corner of the room.
He approached the twins giving greetings and asking how there summers where when they told him about WWW there new business that he was the sole benefactor for.
"Harry you see"
"We feel bad about not"
"Paying you back"
"And we know"
"You have all the money you need" "So we have decided you"
"Get all our products free"
"OF Charge!" They both coursed.
"And"
"We won't"
"Take no for an"
"Answer" They continued.
Once he had agreed he went over to talk to Hermione.
"Hermione can I have a word?" He asked her while her Parents where talking to to Molly and Arthur.
"Yeah sure" She replied following him into the drawing room.
"What's wrong with Ron?" He asked starting to get agitated for having to sit through dinner with Ron staring daggers at his head.
"Well you see" She said quickly "Ron and I had an argument, he liked me and sort of claimed that I was his and got rather annoyed when I said I didn't even like him like that. Then I told him how I felt about you and he got really mad and hasn't talked to me since" She was crying freely now on his shoulder. (Won't be Harry/Hermione) "He said he was only your friend because of me since 4th year" She proclaimed.
He started to feel angry then saw Ron in the mirror standing in the hallway and before he knew it Harry had jumped over to him and landed a punch square into Ron's face but he didn't stop punching until Hermione dragged him off.
When she had pulled him upstairs he felt he needed to talk to her. He didn't feel this way about Hermione.
"Hermione you know he deserved it" Trying to stop her tears "I'm sorry" Dreading this moment "I don't feel the same way about you, you're my best friend and I don't want to ruin that" Most of her tears had gone now but the redness around them still lingered 2Yeah I understand"
"Do you?" He retorted doubtfully.
"Yes" She started in her know-it-all voice "You want someone that is aware of the danger around you and that they can and have to fight"
"Yeah I guess" He replied putting names of people through his head "I'm going to bed" Walking towards the door. "Where's your room" Hermione asked "Downstairs with Tonks but where not staying here." As he got to the landing he turned to face her "I probably won't see you tomorrow so see you on September the 1st" He shut the door before he could see Hermione's all-knowing smile.
As he approached his room he heard a heated argument from the kitchen as he felt a bit thirsty he decided to head there before going to bed.
"WE'LL HE WAS THE ONE WHO STARTED IT" H e heard Ron yell "HARRY BLOODY POTTER GETS EVERYTHING HE WANTS" He walked in casually and headed for the fridge grabbing some pumpkin juice and pouring himself some of it from the pitcher into a glass.
Ron saw him first and headed over trying to punch him but Harry was quicker dodging it but before he could hit back he was hit by Fred or was it George (Does it really matter he thought). "OH AND NOW HIS GOT MY BROTHERS" Ron yelled picking himself up off the floor. "WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YOU RONALD WEASLEY" Molly bellowed as Fred and George took Ron out of the room and Molly followed.
"Wotcher Harry" Tonks said offering a seat to Harry next to her "What happened" She asked
And so he told her what Hermione had said then Tonks handed another letter out with the Hogwarts crest on it. "Well this also came with the other letter" She explained awkwardly.
He opened it curiously.
From the desk of the Gryffindor head of house.
It is my pleasure to inform you that you are the new Gryffindor Quidditch captain. Enclosed is the Captains pin, when you arrive at Hogwarts I would like you to pick up the Captain pack with all details of the captaincy. Enclosed also is a Prefects pin, the last person to wear it didn't follow the procedures and has been relinquished of there position.
"Oh" He thought this probably sent Ron over the edge not only missing out of the captaincy of the Quidditch team which was his dream he also lost his prefects place. "I guess this explains it" He responded.
The next day they made back to privet drive and life went back to normal if normal is getting up at 5 o clock every morning for training or going to train Mark and Dudley.
Dudley was going to go to one of the less publicised schools in Ireland to be in his 5th year due to them starting a little later.
Finally the weekend rolled around for his first Animagus lesson with Professor McGonagall.
"Mr Potter" She started sternly "We are here to learn the art of Animagus. It is not a subject that should be taken lightly" She lectured giving the expression that they were in a classroom instead of Tonks's front room. "We need to brew a Conflexious potion, but first we need to see what your form will be. No one can have more than one form. More than one form may present itself to you but you can only be one." She started sternly.
"We will have to get a part of that animal and enter it into the Conflexious potion. The potion itself is similar to the Polyjuice potion but instead of temporarily turning you into the main ingredient it blends with your DNA allowing you to merge your magical cells into it to transform into it." She let the information set in then continued.
"You will have to put some of your blood into the sliver liquid" She said motioning a flask on the table "Then pour it over a Visual Ball" Motioning to her brown leather case where he assumed it was kept. "Prick yourself and put it into this flask" Handing him a needle she had just transfigured from a strand of hair.
"Ok then" He said grabbing the offered needle then pricking himself with it in the tip of his finger and allowing a droplet of blood fall into the silvery substance.
"Ok now Mr Potter" Grabbing her trunk and placing a blood red orb onto the glass table.
"Drop it onto the orb" She instructed "Ok now look into it and define the animals shown"
Handing him a notepad and a muggle pen, when he looked at her in question she replied that she was half and half from Scotland.
He looked into the orb as the silvery substance hit it. Within seconds there was smoke flying around inside the orb. He looked closer and saw an Eagle, a large brown Eagle with a lightning bolt scar on it's forehead.
"It's a big brown eagle" He told Professor McGonagall.
"What sort of Eagle?" She asked sternly.
"I don't know" He replied lamely realising he should have looked closer.
"No matter" She sighed "Follow me outside, this will be painful but it is needed to fin out your form"
"Drink up" She said offering a new rich red flask to him once they was in the back garden.
He drank it with one big gulp of the strong smelling black liquid. "That tasted worst than polyjuice" He exclaimed as white hot pains erupted inside him.
He could feel his skin burning and within a minute he was spiralled out onto the ground too weak to get up.
"Mr Potter?" McGonagall's stern voice asked him "When did you drink polyjuice? Never mind I don't want to know. You will be pleased with your results" She proclaimed leading him back into the front room.#
"Mr Potter, you are an Royal Eagle." She continued "A Royal Eagle is very rare now days, they battled large dark creatures many decades ago but now days have hidden. The ingredient is only a feather so we should be able to get it by next weeks lesson"
"Yes professor" He replied thankful not to have a overly rare animal.
"I'll send you a book with Professor Snape. Bye Mr Potter" She excused herself at the front door leaving him dreading his first Occlumens lesson.
In fact the lesson wasn't too bad until he called him to practice Legilimens against Tonks.
"Yes sir" He replied to Snape looking at the nervous Tonks standing next to him.
"Legilimens" He said pointing his wand at Tonks. Instantly he was reliving memory's of Hogwarts but they weren't his memory's they where Tonks's memory's coming faster
When the memories stopped he looked over at the sobbing figure of Tonks on the floor and rushed to sooth her totally missing the presence of Snape until a loud couth behind him made him realise it.
"Are you ok Tonks's?" He asked As she nodded her head he helped her downstairs only to return to a frustrated Snape.
"Sir?" He asked.
"Potter" He spat obviously trying to control his temper "Now we have no test subject you cannot learn Legilimens until school time where we can use a teacher" He growled.
Harry may have argued back if not for the fuming potions master looming over him.
"Practice Potter" Snape said before striding out.
He walked down to find Tonks crying in the dining room.
"Do you want to talk about it?" He asked her "I'm sorry" He said apologetically.
"Don't worry" She sobbed clutching to his chest as he got closer to her and sat on a chair. He was briefly aware of Tonks sleeping soundlessly as blackness took him into sleep.
He awoke with a big pain in his nose. "Ouch" He yelled "Sorry" Tonks mumbled clutching her head.
He figured she must have banged her head on his nose when she awoke.
"S, ok" He replied then added "Wanna go flying today, I've got a snitch" "Sure!" She exclaimed happily trying to jump up then tripping not remembering Harry was under her.
After catching the snitch they went in to find a unfamiliar black owl. "It's an Order owl watch" As she untied the blank letter.
She tapped it with her wand and said "Orders Orders" She handed it to him and it was addressed to.
Mr Harry Potter
It was addressed to him so he opened it.
To Harry Potter
On August the 3rd be at the Daily Profit building in Diagon Ally
Mr Tantook
"Hey Tonks" He called to her in the kitchen
"Yeah" He heard
"Can you take me to Diagon ally for my interview?"
"Hmm I'll have to ask Dumbledore"
"Why his not going to control my life I'm going I'm just asking if you are coming with me" He replied angrily settling himself down to read Animagus through the ages.
"Harry" She said softly "You know his only trying to protect you"
"Yeah, but people have to meddle in my life too much. Going to Diagon Ally is nothing there's loads of Wizards and Witches around if anyone attacked I could get out and even if I couldn't I can defend myself"
"Ok I guess I'll go then"
"Where?"
"You don't want me meddling in your life" She replied hurtfully
"I want you though" Standing up caressing her cheek and blushing when he realised what he had done.
"Thanks" She replied softly getting up and heading back towards the kitchen.
"Ok no cliffy but still" Dreams of cliffys "NOT THE CLIFFYS NOT THE CLIFFYS" Anyway I have a back log of chapters now so I can keep up with updates. I'm averaging 1 chapter a day and hopefully I can finish this within a month to start on the sequel. The sequel will follow the motto "When I feel like it"
Thank you. Review if you feel like it.
Aalikane: Piss off, I did not ask you to flame me I am going to revise the whole fic once it's finished, which is a long way away. It's ok to flame people if they beg for reviews but I don't beg for reviews in other words If you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything and if you even want to put a good review in it's good thanks As I said at the beginning Read and Review if you like I do not pressure people for reviews unlike most people so if you have anything bad to say tell me on AIM or YIM not through Reviews. You don't even have a good fanfic I mean Harry Potter and The Burden of Babies? I mean come on the pairings are just lame in it and it's not even original but I'm not going to put a flame review in am I so piss off.
Hopefully I will have more time but from now on I'm going to update when I feel like it. I may just write the whole fic then update it all in one go.
I have got a life a girlfriend friends and last but ot least Schoolwork (Saved the best till last didn't I?) I didn't post this chapter on time cause had a problem and I couldn't add it. I'm not giving up.
Thank you bye.