A/N: Thanks to PheonixFire; sk8reagle; Lirael; iknowitall; brady2003us; Lei Dumbledore; and Avlyn!!!

Yay!!! I'm already on chapter 10!!! I know it's taking forever for them to get to Hogwarts, but they leave next chapter.

CH10: The End of Summer (I'm running out of good names for the chapters)

~Harry sat, contemplating what he now had. He was closer to his parents then he could remember. Smiling slightly, he looked at the clock. He put his box with the rest of his school things and headed down to dinner.~

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The rest of the week went by and Harry barely thought about what Manda meant by 'We could have fun with this.' He flipped through his books and started learning all the spells he could use for pranks at Hogwarts. He looked up what an Animagus was - a person who could change into an animal - and knew he wanted to be one someday. From a newspaper Hagrid had given him in Diagon Alley, he took out a subscription using Circe* (his new owl). And when he did think about their conversation in Miss Weston's office, he figured it couldn't affect him. Until one morning.

Harry was having a very pleasant dream. There were two unicorns, running through a forest, jumping over streams, everything was green and....wet?

A bucket-full of water hit the sleeping boy. He sat straight up in bed, sputtering.

"Good morning, sleeping beauty!" said a voice above him. Harry glared at Manda, the owner of the voice.

"What was that for?"

"We have to get going. Come on, get dressed."

"Where are we 'going'?" Manda was smiling way to brightly for Harry's tastes and there was a glint in her eyes.

"You'll see. Hurry up!" She left the room so Harry could get ready. After he was dressed, he sluggishly made his way out the door. Manda was waiting.

"Why are you so cheerful?" he grumbled.

"We are going shopping!"

"What?" She looked impatient. "I took the liberty of using this," She took out a copy of the Daily Prophet (wizarding newspaper) "and taking a mail order form for - what is it - Gringotts? Anyway, I got some money out of your vault for you and had it exchanged for our money, so we could go shopping. Oh, and I hope you don't mind, but I borrowed Circe."

Ignoring the complexity of her entire plan, Harry just when to the part that worried him. "Why?"

"Like I said, we're going shopping. Lets go!" She pulled on his arm to the front steps of Oakwoods where Elle was waiting for them. The two girls both had evil smirks on their faces and Harry, very reluctantly, followed. They were headed to the bus station, when Elle pulled them into a side alley.

"First, Harry, you need to change into Evan." Knowing he would never get a straight answer, the Boy Who Lived complied. They set off towards the bus again and rode to the Surrey Mall. There, Harry asked again,

"What's going on?"

Manda turned to look at him. "Well, you said that you were getting a whole new life, right?"

"So, we thought - ," Elle began.

"That's never a good sign," Harry grumbled.

She continued as if she hadn't heard him. "- that you need a 'whole' new life. You know, new clothes,"

"New hair," Manda put in.

"New everything," they finished together. Harry looked from one sweetly smiling girl to the other.

"Why did I even tell you?" The two girls didn't respond, just dragged him off.

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By the end off the day, Harry had new contacts, new clothing ( mostly black, white, gray, green, or blue), new shoes (he still didn't know why he needed new shoes when no one looks at shoes anyway, but his friends had glared at him when he asked, so he bought them), and, for some odd reason, a small hoop earing. Loaded down with bags, the trio started back to the Orphanage.

"Remind me never, ever, to go shopping with you again," Harry muttered, unloading all his new things in the Headmistress' office where he was keeping all of his school things. "Are you satisfied now? I'm a totally different person. I can't even recognize myself." Manda gave him a wicked look.

"Do you think we're done?" Harry whimpered and fell into a chair.

"Alright. Just a couple finishing touches," Elle said. "You change how you look with magic, right? Well, there are a couple other things you need to change." And under the instructions of the fashion maniacs, a.k.a. Manda and Elle, he found his spiked hair tipped in gold, bronze, and silver.

"There," said Manda. "Now, we are done." Harry changed back and hit his head against the wall in response.

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* = I figured chances are he wouldn't find the name Hedwig like he did in the real book, so his owl has a different name. It's from 'HP and the PS' English Version pg 78