Love Lost is Love Gained

Chapter 6: Knuts, Sickles, Galleons, Oh, My!

"Ah! Remus, there you are," said Dumbledore motioning to a tall man with sandy grayish blond hair and light brown eyes. Artemis looked at him and thought, 'Remus, what a fox.' Author's Note: This Remus is the book Remus, not the funky looking movie Remus.

"Artemis, this is Remus Lupin, he'll be your escort today." Dumbledore's words broke her semi-daze, she now felt very embarrassed.

"Hello," Remus said. "I've been looking forward to meeting you." Artemis didn't know what to say, so she just nodded.

"Well, I'd best be off," said Dumbledore, and he walked back out of the pub.

"So," said Remus, "Shall we begin?"

Meanwhile back on Privet Drive, Harry was making his way toward Artemis's house, hoping that Paris didn't tell him to leave.

"What do you want?" Paris asked when he opened the door.

"I need to talk to Artemis."

"It seems like everyone does today, I honestly don't know what's so interesting about her. But she's not here."

"Where'd she go?"

"Umm....her boyfriends house."

"She has a boyfriend?"

"Yep, they've been together for a long time. His name is...Jake."

"Oh," Harry was a little depressed now, "Well, when she gets home tell her I stopped bye."

"I can't do that. She's not going to be home until Christmas."

"Oh, okay then. Bye."

"Yeah, bye." And Paris shut the door, Harry stood there, a little in shock. Author's Note: FYI Paris was making it up based on Artemis's crush on Jake Gyhlenhaal. Get it? 'Of course she'd have a boyfriend,' he thought, as he walked away; completely unaware that on the other side of the door Paris was laughing his head off.

Remus and Artemis were walking down the crowded road in Diagon Alley.

"So," said Artemis examining the Magical Menagerie, "This is were wizards shop?"

"Yep, now what else do you need?" he looked down to check a sheet of paper in his pocket. "We have your robes, cauldron, parchment, quills, ink, books, wand, anything else you need?"

"Can I get an owl? The list says I can."

"Sure," and together they walked into the crowded Magical Menagerie. It was very small, and kind of dirty looking, there were feathers and food all over the ground

"Excuse me," Artemis said, walking up to the clerk at the counter. "Do you carry owls?" She thought the question sounded kind of stupid, but she couldn't seem to find an owl.

"Huh? Owls? Oh yes, there out back. Shall I take you to them?"

"Yes please." The lady walked around the counter and out of a back door, Remus and Artemis followed. "Here we are," the clerk said when they reached the outdoors. There was ever color and breed of owl imaginable. She looked around the mass of feathers, and after what seemed to be an hour, she finally found her owl, a pure black owl, that when in the right light looked navy blue; it was nested between two tawny owls.

"I'll take this one," said Artemis to the clerk, who the coaxed the owl onto her arm and walked it back into the store. And once again Remus and Artemis followed. When inside the clerk placed the owl into a cage and told Artemis, "That will be 13 galleons." Author's Note: Owls are expensive, aren't they? She paid the clerk and made her way out of the dark store, and into the bright sunlight.

"It's a beautiful owl," Remus said. "What do you plan on naming it?"

"Well, the clerk said it was a male so, I really like the name Igby."

"Igby? Is that even a real name?"

"I'm not sure, it's from a movie. I just really like it."

"Okay, so where to next? I think you have everything, unless you want a broom. I think you might have enough gold with you." Author's Note: Okay, so Sirius and Aiedail left her a bunch of cash, but she and Remus already went to Gringotts in the scene where I was talking about Harry. So, she has cash, also she has rightfully inherited Grimmauld Place, because she is technically the last of the Blacks now.

"A broom?" she asked, "I can hardly see myself flying, so no broom. I'd end up killing myself." He smiled and asked if she was hungry. "Kind of," she said, "is there a good place to eat?"

"How about Florean Fortescue's Ice cream Parlor?" Remus suggested.

"Molly," said Dumbledore, "where is Miss Granger?"

"Oh, hello Dumbledore, she's upstairs. I think she might be in Ron or Ginny's room. One of the two anyway," she said distractedly while making tea. "Would you like some?"

"No thank you, Molly, I am just here to find Miss Granger." He then turned to walk up the stairs. By the time Dumbledore had met the second landing, he heard screams of fury.

"HOW DARE YOU LIE TO ME!".... "OH YES YOU DID, RONALD! I KNOW THAT IS NOT HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED!"

Dumbledore looked at the door from which the screams were coming, a lopsided sign on the door read, "Ron's Room."

"Hermione," said Ron, his voice sounded weak and kind of defeated, "I swear I didn't cheat."

"I KNOW YOU DIDN'T CHEAT, YOU MADE ME CHEAT! HOW DARE YOU REARANGE THE RULES TO LET ME WIN, I SAID I WANTED AN HONEST GAME!"

Dumbledore knocked on the door and said quietly, "Is that you Miss Granger?" Hermione appeared at the door, looking extremely embarrassed.

"I-I'm so sorry, sir," she said meekly, her cheeks flushing.

"Now, it's quite alright, but I was wondering if you would be able to do me a favor?"

"So," said Artemis, "Remus, how did you get this lovely job of escorting me for the day?"

"I volunteered for it," he said simply.

"Why? Surely you have better things to do than to take me school supply shopping."

"You'd be surprised at so little I have to do these days."
"Oh, so why did you volunteer?"

"You are inquisitive, aren't you? Just like your father."

"You knew my father?"

"Yes, actually he was one of my best friends. Which was my I had been looking forward t meeting you."

"Wow, I had no idea. So, the two of you went to school together? Did you go to Hogwarts?"

"Yes, we did. We were both the same year in Gryffindor."

"Gryffindor?"

"Yeah, well at Hogwarts there are four houses that new students are sorted into. There are Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Lets see if I remember correctly: Gryffindor is for people who are brave; Ravenclaw is for the very smart people; Hufflepuff is for the honest hard workers; and Slytherin is for the cunning Pure Bloods."

"What house do you think I'd get?"

"My guess would be either Ravenclaw or Gryffindor. I mean you couldn't be in Slytherin because your not Pure Blood and I'm not sure of the exact criteria for Hufflepuff. Either way, I think you lean more into Ravenclaw or Gryffindor."

"Oh, so is that good?"

"I would like to think so," he said, looking at her over the top of the menu.

"Did that little brat send you away, too?" Dudley asked Harry when he walked in the door.

"You do know she doesn't fancy you." Harry said, feeling depressed.

"You don't know that."

"She has a boyfriend, you idiot."

"No she doesn't! Who?"

"I don't know, some guy named Jake."

"Dammit," Dudley's smile faded, as he turned to go up the stairs. Harry followed him. 'What,' he thought, 'did Paris mean 'she'd be home at Christmas'? I don't buy that, there's no way she'd be at her boyfriends for that long. Maybe he was being sarcastic...well, I have nothing to do but believe him.'

Just then a tiny gray ball zoomed through his window and collided with the wall. Harry walked over the find a dazed looking owl, by the name of Pig. "What did you do that for?" he asked while untying the small scroll from his leg. The little bird hopped up and down on the ground and then zoomed around his ceiling. He unrolled the scroll and read:

Harry,

The weirdest thing just happened. Dumbledore came to the Burrow and took Hermione, said he needed a favor. Have you heard anything? I think it's kinda weird. Anyway, anything new happening with you and that girl? Well, I've got to go.

Bye,

Ron

'Dumbledore took Hermione?' he thought, 'that is kind of strange.' He grabbed a roll of parchment and wrote EVERBODY DANCE NOW! Author's Note: Not really, he didn't write everybody dance now, that's the song that's on the Simpson's. By the C&C Music Factory and wrote:

Ron,

You have no idea why he took her? What kind of favor would he need from her? You shouldn't worry, as long as she's with Dumbledore nothing can get her. So she's going to be safe. As for Artemis, she has a boyfriend named Jake, so nothing had or will ever happen. Oh well, I don't think she would have liked me anyway. Tell your family I said hi, and ask when they're going to come get me. I can't stand it here,

Harry

"Get over here, Pig," he said and tied the letter to his leg, and let him zoom out the window. Author's Note: Because let's face it Harry's no George Clooney. I love Little Nicky 

"So what do you do for fun?" Remus asked after they both had their food served.

"Not really spectacular, I like to write, and I like music and stuff like that. I also am interested in photography. Nothing special. How about you?"

"What do I do for fun? I like to read a lot."

"Seems like you're just as interesting as I am." He smiled at her and nodded.

"So, are you almost done?" He asked looking at her almost finished .

"Yep, are you?"

"Yeah, so after we pay where do you want to go?"

"I think I might like to look at number ninety three."

"Store ninety three? Why there?"

"It looks like a joke shop, and I promised Paris that I would buy him stuff."

"Oh, alright. Ready then?"

"Yep, let's go," she said as she pushed her chair out and stood up, Remus did the same. Remus paid for both of them at the counter, Author's Note: Aww, Remus is so chivalrous. and they progressed down the main road to a small shop with a large green sign that read, "Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes"