Okay people! The first and second chapters aren't very interesting, I know,
but please keep reading! To let the story stand on itself, I needed to
start it like this.
Rachel R.: thanks for your encouragements! Very appreciated!
Natalie: Thanks! I will use that tip . . . but the first and second chapters are still not quite interesting.
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Chapter 2:
It was late in the afternoon and Harry sat on his bed, quill in hand and parchment close by. Munching on his quill's end, he tried to think. He was stuck with his muggle relatives, Ron was not giving him indication of an upcoming invite to the Burrow, and Death Eaters were on the loose.
"I could run away, take the Knight Bus and hide out in Diagon Alley for a while," he told Hedwig. "And then I could find out what the Death Eaters are after . . . so I need to find them first."
~Can't you stop acting like a hero?~ Hermione's voice echoed in his head, making him frown. ~Don't leave Privet Drive under any circumstances,~ he could remember Dumbledore telling him.
"Well, sorry, but I need to do something about this mess," he said out loud. "Any suggestion to get out of here?" he asked Hedwig, evidently not awaiting an answer. "I could fly . . ."
A smile illuminated his features as he thought of his Fire Bolt.
"Yes!" he exclaimed. "I'll fly away!"
Hedwig hooted disapprovingly, as if understanding what he was saying.
At the same moment, aunt Petunia's voice was heard downstairs, saying that dinner was ready.
"Comin'," Harry mumbled, rising from his bed and walking to his door.
He walked down the stairs, down the hallway and to the dining room, where his relatives were already sitting, ready to eat an appetizing-looking shepherd's pie.
"Sit down," Petunia barked, serving him a plate.
"I just wanted to tell you that I was leaving," Harry said, taking a first bite of his pie.
"What?" uncle Vernon asked. "I thought you were supposed to stay until your kind of people came to get you."
"There's been a change of plan," Harry said coldly. "I'm leaving shortly after dinner."
"That's fine with me," Dudley said, playing with his food.
Harry glared at his cousin, but didn't say anything, returning to his plate.
~~~
After having finished eating, Harry returned to his room to make his bags. Knowing very well that he wasn't allowed to use magic out of Hogwarts, he couldn't bewitch his school trunk to bring it with him. He was forced to leave it, and so would have to come back to get it once his business was done.
He took a simple backpack and stated choosing things he was going to bring with him. Muggle clothes, wizard robes, a few galleons, muggle money, his wand, the photo album Hagrid had offered him at the end of his first year at Hogwarts and the key to his safe at Gringotts, that Hagrid had finally given him as his birthday present, that had arrived the previous week because he was returning to Europe and wouldn't have the time to send it for the thirty-first. He had also sent some sort of blue compass able to render invisible things, visible. Harry decided to bring it with him too.
He grabbed warm clothes, black, in order not to be seen in the night sky. He grabbed his Griffindor cloak that he quickly placed on his shoulders, and finished with his father's invisibility cloak, after verifying that his perceptoscope was turned off. He grabbed his Fire Bolt and headed for the window.
"Come on, Hedwig!" he yelled, rising up in the dark sky.
~~~
"Remus!" Mad Eye Moody yelled, running down the hallway of number Grimalkin Place. "Remus! REMUS LUPIN!"
The werewolf appeared over the staircase just as Sirius' mother started to scream horrors to them. Remus rushed to her painting and tried to shut the drapes on either side of it while Moody tried to reach him.
"What is it?" he asked, once he had succeeded
"The boy's gone!" Mad Eye yelled. "Left on his broom."
"We need to catch him!" Lupin said, his eyes widening.
"Of course we do!" Moody continued. "Tonks is waiting outside with our brooms."
Lupin followed the Auror outside the enchanted building and found the woman with short pink hair waiting for them with three broomsticks, and holding some sort of compass in one of her hands. Right now, it was pointing east. She told them to hurry up and they all took their respective broom, checked that they weren't being watched and flew off the ground, straight off into the sky.
After thirty minutes in a straight direction, Tonks approached their brooms as they passed under the wet mist of clouds.
"He's turning north!" she yelled, as they all turned ninety degrees left, speeding up.
~~~
Harry, unaware that he was being tracked, was flying normally, enjoying the scenery bellow and following Hedwig who would lead him to Diagon Alley. He was just thinking about how a great idea it had been to simply get away Privet Drive.
After an uncertain moment of flight, Hedwig started hooting and turning around him in circles. He turned around and noticed the three forms approaching. Of course, instead of stopping, he sped up, diving towards the ground.
"I'm not going back, I'm not going back," he kept repeating, speeding up while keeping Hedwig by his side to show him the way. "I'm not going back."
Soon enough, he reached Diagon Alley and had completely lost his followers, he had now recognized as Tonks, Mad Eye and Lupin, and even Hedwig. His first destination was Gringotts, and he was surprised to see how much activity there was in the building, even at night.
He took off his invisibility cloak and headed for a counter behind which was sitting a goblin with rather pointy teeth.
"Yes?" he asked, looking up at him.
"My name is Harry Potter and here is my key. I would like to deposit this broom in my safe, and take out twenty-five galleons, please," Harry said, taking his Gringotts key out of his pocket. "Could you do that for me quickly?"
"Yes, yes, of course," the goblin said. "And so no need for you to go down to your safe. Your broom will be brought down after sunrise. For the money, we give you twenty-five galleons from the main vault, and take out twenty- five galleons from your safe, after sunrise, of course, and replace it in the main vault. Please sign here."
Harry took the quill he was being handed and signed the piece of parchment allowing the goblins to take out twenty-five galleons from his vault and place his broom inside.
Without another word spoken, he was handed a pouch in which were his twenty- five galleons, and his broom was taken from him.
"Good night, sir," the goblin said, disappearing under the counter after handing him his key.
Harry walked to the main door and jogged down the not so empty street. He couldn't stay at the Leaky Cauldron since it would be the first place Mad Eye would think of going to check on him.
Hedwig had finally caught up on him and was now following him from the rooftops. She hooted loudly when she saw Tonk's pink hair, alerting Harry, who started running.
He turned around from time to time, catching a glimpse of his followers. They evidently didn't seem too happy. He kept on running, arrived at the end of the alleyway and turned in Knockturn Alley. He ran and ran, and finally, he recognized the shop he had appeared in at the beginning of his second year, Borgin and Bukes. He ran inside, slamming the door shut.
No one was behind the main counter, not even the owner, Mr. Borgin, and so he ran through the passages until he reached a fireplace near which was a flowerpot full of floo powder. He heard the main door of the shop open.
Without turning around to see if they were getting closer, Harry took a hand full of glittering floo powder and stepped into the fire. He saw Lupin arriving in front of the fireplace just as he threw the powder to the ground.
"Malfoy Manor," he said, without any form of second thought as he disappeared in a puff of bright green smoke.
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Did you recognize Harry's lack of common sense?
The next chapter will be more interesting. It's very fun. Harry's going to have to face Death Eaters and then he will find Tom's diary.
Please review!
Rachel R.: thanks for your encouragements! Very appreciated!
Natalie: Thanks! I will use that tip . . . but the first and second chapters are still not quite interesting.
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Chapter 2:
It was late in the afternoon and Harry sat on his bed, quill in hand and parchment close by. Munching on his quill's end, he tried to think. He was stuck with his muggle relatives, Ron was not giving him indication of an upcoming invite to the Burrow, and Death Eaters were on the loose.
"I could run away, take the Knight Bus and hide out in Diagon Alley for a while," he told Hedwig. "And then I could find out what the Death Eaters are after . . . so I need to find them first."
~Can't you stop acting like a hero?~ Hermione's voice echoed in his head, making him frown. ~Don't leave Privet Drive under any circumstances,~ he could remember Dumbledore telling him.
"Well, sorry, but I need to do something about this mess," he said out loud. "Any suggestion to get out of here?" he asked Hedwig, evidently not awaiting an answer. "I could fly . . ."
A smile illuminated his features as he thought of his Fire Bolt.
"Yes!" he exclaimed. "I'll fly away!"
Hedwig hooted disapprovingly, as if understanding what he was saying.
At the same moment, aunt Petunia's voice was heard downstairs, saying that dinner was ready.
"Comin'," Harry mumbled, rising from his bed and walking to his door.
He walked down the stairs, down the hallway and to the dining room, where his relatives were already sitting, ready to eat an appetizing-looking shepherd's pie.
"Sit down," Petunia barked, serving him a plate.
"I just wanted to tell you that I was leaving," Harry said, taking a first bite of his pie.
"What?" uncle Vernon asked. "I thought you were supposed to stay until your kind of people came to get you."
"There's been a change of plan," Harry said coldly. "I'm leaving shortly after dinner."
"That's fine with me," Dudley said, playing with his food.
Harry glared at his cousin, but didn't say anything, returning to his plate.
~~~
After having finished eating, Harry returned to his room to make his bags. Knowing very well that he wasn't allowed to use magic out of Hogwarts, he couldn't bewitch his school trunk to bring it with him. He was forced to leave it, and so would have to come back to get it once his business was done.
He took a simple backpack and stated choosing things he was going to bring with him. Muggle clothes, wizard robes, a few galleons, muggle money, his wand, the photo album Hagrid had offered him at the end of his first year at Hogwarts and the key to his safe at Gringotts, that Hagrid had finally given him as his birthday present, that had arrived the previous week because he was returning to Europe and wouldn't have the time to send it for the thirty-first. He had also sent some sort of blue compass able to render invisible things, visible. Harry decided to bring it with him too.
He grabbed warm clothes, black, in order not to be seen in the night sky. He grabbed his Griffindor cloak that he quickly placed on his shoulders, and finished with his father's invisibility cloak, after verifying that his perceptoscope was turned off. He grabbed his Fire Bolt and headed for the window.
"Come on, Hedwig!" he yelled, rising up in the dark sky.
~~~
"Remus!" Mad Eye Moody yelled, running down the hallway of number Grimalkin Place. "Remus! REMUS LUPIN!"
The werewolf appeared over the staircase just as Sirius' mother started to scream horrors to them. Remus rushed to her painting and tried to shut the drapes on either side of it while Moody tried to reach him.
"What is it?" he asked, once he had succeeded
"The boy's gone!" Mad Eye yelled. "Left on his broom."
"We need to catch him!" Lupin said, his eyes widening.
"Of course we do!" Moody continued. "Tonks is waiting outside with our brooms."
Lupin followed the Auror outside the enchanted building and found the woman with short pink hair waiting for them with three broomsticks, and holding some sort of compass in one of her hands. Right now, it was pointing east. She told them to hurry up and they all took their respective broom, checked that they weren't being watched and flew off the ground, straight off into the sky.
After thirty minutes in a straight direction, Tonks approached their brooms as they passed under the wet mist of clouds.
"He's turning north!" she yelled, as they all turned ninety degrees left, speeding up.
~~~
Harry, unaware that he was being tracked, was flying normally, enjoying the scenery bellow and following Hedwig who would lead him to Diagon Alley. He was just thinking about how a great idea it had been to simply get away Privet Drive.
After an uncertain moment of flight, Hedwig started hooting and turning around him in circles. He turned around and noticed the three forms approaching. Of course, instead of stopping, he sped up, diving towards the ground.
"I'm not going back, I'm not going back," he kept repeating, speeding up while keeping Hedwig by his side to show him the way. "I'm not going back."
Soon enough, he reached Diagon Alley and had completely lost his followers, he had now recognized as Tonks, Mad Eye and Lupin, and even Hedwig. His first destination was Gringotts, and he was surprised to see how much activity there was in the building, even at night.
He took off his invisibility cloak and headed for a counter behind which was sitting a goblin with rather pointy teeth.
"Yes?" he asked, looking up at him.
"My name is Harry Potter and here is my key. I would like to deposit this broom in my safe, and take out twenty-five galleons, please," Harry said, taking his Gringotts key out of his pocket. "Could you do that for me quickly?"
"Yes, yes, of course," the goblin said. "And so no need for you to go down to your safe. Your broom will be brought down after sunrise. For the money, we give you twenty-five galleons from the main vault, and take out twenty- five galleons from your safe, after sunrise, of course, and replace it in the main vault. Please sign here."
Harry took the quill he was being handed and signed the piece of parchment allowing the goblins to take out twenty-five galleons from his vault and place his broom inside.
Without another word spoken, he was handed a pouch in which were his twenty- five galleons, and his broom was taken from him.
"Good night, sir," the goblin said, disappearing under the counter after handing him his key.
Harry walked to the main door and jogged down the not so empty street. He couldn't stay at the Leaky Cauldron since it would be the first place Mad Eye would think of going to check on him.
Hedwig had finally caught up on him and was now following him from the rooftops. She hooted loudly when she saw Tonk's pink hair, alerting Harry, who started running.
He turned around from time to time, catching a glimpse of his followers. They evidently didn't seem too happy. He kept on running, arrived at the end of the alleyway and turned in Knockturn Alley. He ran and ran, and finally, he recognized the shop he had appeared in at the beginning of his second year, Borgin and Bukes. He ran inside, slamming the door shut.
No one was behind the main counter, not even the owner, Mr. Borgin, and so he ran through the passages until he reached a fireplace near which was a flowerpot full of floo powder. He heard the main door of the shop open.
Without turning around to see if they were getting closer, Harry took a hand full of glittering floo powder and stepped into the fire. He saw Lupin arriving in front of the fireplace just as he threw the powder to the ground.
"Malfoy Manor," he said, without any form of second thought as he disappeared in a puff of bright green smoke.
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Did you recognize Harry's lack of common sense?
The next chapter will be more interesting. It's very fun. Harry's going to have to face Death Eaters and then he will find Tom's diary.
Please review!