I do not own Harry Potter or any of the JK Rowling's ideas,

THis is just My take on the story..

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Chapter 5. Diagon Alley

Ron came up to Harry and says, "Mate I am sorry Sirus died, I am sorry I got money from him but I hope you don't mind that I go spend some now."

"Ron," Harry says, "I have only one favor, don't reminded me were you got it and you can help me spend some of mine too."

Ron says, "Deal Harry, I can do that for you mate."

Remus says, "Well People I have only one question, are you all shopping together or are the couples going their own way?"

Hermione speaks up, "Remus what do you mean by couples?"

Harry looked at Remus shook his head and then says, "Hermione for being the cleverest witch in our year sometimes you are thick."

Hermione looked at Harry and says, "why do you say that Harry?"

Harry says, "Because Hermione, if you think about Remus is trying to tease us into admitting that either you and Ron are a couple or Ginny and I am, or you and me, luv."

Ron and Ginny's Heads snapped up and looked at Harry then to Hermione, Ron says, "Harry why did you call Hermione luv?"

Harry laughs and throws his arm around Hermione's shoulders, "Just because you never noticed Hermione is a good looking girl doesn't mean that I haven't noticed it."

Hermione blushed furiously, Ron turned red, as his eyes got as big around as gallons, and Ginny just broke out laughing. Before Ron or Hermione could kill Harry he says, "Actually Ron, Hermione is a beautiful girl but I know another in love with her, I just don't have the energy right now to chase a girl till I have settle weather or not I am going to live through something." Ginny looked at Harry, Remus, dropped his head, Hermione as she heard that started to sniffle like she was going to cry and hugged Harry.

Harry says, "Relax Hermione or people might think you know what I am talk about sis."

Hermione looks at Harry an says, "Sis, Harry What do you mean by that?"

Harry looked at Ron then to Hermione, "Hermione I consider you my sister in my head, I am sorry if I offend you, just like I consider Ron my best mate but also my brother in my minds eye."

Hermione hugged him, Ron just stared at Harry not sure what to say at first. Then Ron says, "Mr. Potter I do believe your saying Miss Granger and myself are part of your family?"

While this was going on, Mrs. Weasley though decided when she got Harry back home she was going to ask him what he meant by if he lived through something.

Harry says, "Yes Ron I think of you and Hermione as my real family." Harry pauses then turns to Tonks, "Tonks, I have some items that are magical in nature and I need to get them checked out to see if they still work right, do you know anywhere I could do that and maybe get some dragon hide boots?"

Tonks says, "Yes Harry There is a store that is called, Castor's Protective clothing and Items, A shop that sells Different kinds of charmed clothing and magical creatures skins that can resist spells."

Harry smiles an asks, "Well Tonks it seems I have a cloak and some holsters from My vault that I need to have checked out can this place do that?"

Tonks says, "Yes Harry, though if you want I can check them out for you."

Harry gets a glint in his eyes and says, "If I let you, are you sure you wouldn't burn it or break them?"

Tonks stopped dead, Harry could hear Ron and Ginny trying to stop their laughing, and he could hear Hermione gasp.
But the look on Tonks face, Harry wasn't sure if he should run or laugh, so he did both.
Harry sprinted right at Remus, Laughing as he goes Tonks, who was watching him go not sure what to do. Yes She looked out raged but at the same time she was almost laughing herself so she figured a prank was in order.

Remus, watched with a slight smile on his face as Harry got near he says, "Harry My dear boy you are in for such a wonderful night, Tonks was almost a marauder when it came to getting revenge."

Harry turns around and looks at Tonks who is tapping her chin with her wand, lost in thought. Harry thinks it is a good idea to get his shopping out the way so he can get away from her for a little bit.

Harry says, "Hey Hermione why don't you go to Flourish and Blotts to buy the books, Ron and I are going to Castor's, then to Quiditch supply store."

Hermione says, "Harry I want to go to Castor's too, then we will look into splitting up."

Ron says, "Harry Let Hermione come with us, she could use items to help her duel as well as you and I."

Harry sighs and moves forward, extending his arm to Hermione, "Well then come on my beautiful friend lets get the icky places out of the way so you can buy the book store."

Hermione slaps Harry's arm then takes his arm they head off followed by Ron and Ginny. Tonks moves forward and leads them while Remus and Mrs. Weasley bring up the rear.

Harry looks back and sees that Ron and Ginny are a little back so he leans over and asks Hermione, "Hey Hermione has Ron asked you to be his girl friend yet?"

Hermione looks at Harry then turns red then looks straight ahead and says, "No not yet Harry, he hasn't worked up the nerve to ask me out yet."

Harry looks straight ahead and responds, "When are you going to ask him?" He pauses and then says, "Because you know that he doesn't think he is good enough for you so he is scared to ask you?"

Hermione Shrugs and says, "I don't know Harry I am scared of the same things, I will have to think on it and work up the courage to ask him."

Harry nods and the group reaches Castor's Protective clothing and items shops, they head in. Harry makes his way to the counter and looks at the Wizard behind it and the witch that is walking around the store stocking shelves; Harry reaches into his bag and sits his cloak, 2 holster and belt with a holster on the counter.

Harry says, "Excuse me Sir could you help me for a minute?"

The wizard behind the counter turns to Harry and says, "Yes young man, how may I help you?"

Harry says, "Well I inherited this stuff from a Relative that has passed away, the cloak is supposable Basilisk skin but I don't know what is can do, the holster are dragon hide but they have been in the vault a long time I would like them checked out and see what charms are on them and the belt." Harry pauses, "Could you do that for me and give me how much it might cost me to get them inspected and fixed?"

The wizard looks up and says, "Yes sir, I can do that just tell me your name and look around the store, me and Martha can figure them out and let you know in a few minutes."

Harry says, "I am Harry Potter sir."

The wizard looks up and then his eyes get wide then he looks down then he calls, "Martha come here please." He turns back to Harry, "Mr. Potter sir, I am Gregory Castor, if you would like I could show you around the shop and recommend things that might help you sir."

Harry smiles and says, "Yes Mr. Castor that would be find though could you call me Harry sir?"

Mr. Castor looks at Harry and says, "Yes sir Harry."

Martha started to look over the items that Harry had set on the counter. When Harry remembers the ring, earrings, watch and necklaces, he pulls them out and set them on the counter.

Harry says, "Could you look at these too Madam?"

Martha says, "Oh call me Martha please, and yes I am not the best to look at them but I can maybe tell you some things about them with a few charms."

Harry says thank you to Martha then goes with Mr. Castor over to the clothing section.

Mr. Castor asks, "Well Harry do you have anything you would like, or would you like me to just explain what every thing does and we can go from there?"

Harry says, "Explain what I can use to protect myself from spells and curses Sir?"

Mr. Castor then takes out a shirt and sits it on a table followed by pants, a pair of boots and some gloves, and then he sits out a set of robes.

Mr. Castor picks up the shirt, "This Mr. Potter is a dragon hide shirt, while it looks rather rough, it would pass for leather shirt in the muggle world and protect you from most spells. Now I would recommend this, or shirt with charms placed on them to be just as well, but if you think your going into battle this is the shirt you want."

Then Mr. Castor picks up the pants, "These pants are the match to the shirt and the same thing, wear them if you have to but again charmed pants might be more comfortable but not as protective." Then he lifts the robes, "These are dragon hide robes, and though you could have any kind you want you just have to reminder that not all will protect you as well."

Just then Martha comes over and says, "Mr. Castor, do you know that cloak is Basilisk scales?"

Mr. Castor looked at Martha then to Harry, "Harry, That cloak is basilisk scales, why I would say you're a very lucky person, there are few of them in the world as Basilisks are hard to come by. The cloak can block most physical attacks and is as good as Dragon Hide, muggle guns will not penetrate it nor will knives, swords, spells that cut, or anything that cause physical damage, though you feel like you were punched when these items hit you." He pauses then goes on, "Then Harry it will block most weaker curses and hexes, it may even block stupefy and curses that match that in power."

Harry nodded, "But don't I have to have it cover my hole body for it to work?"

Mr. Castor says, "Well see that is the tricky part, yes you do have to have it do that but you can also wear it behind you and spin and block with it, you would just have to practice the moves with it." He pauses then says, "Though I would recommend that you still wear charmed or some kind of animal made Shirt and pants to protect yourself."

Harry says, "How about a set of charmed clothes that look muggle, maybe seven sets so I have one for each day of the week, then Dragon hide boots, they can pass for leather and if you have them a pair of Muggle like ten shoes. Oh and of course a set of Dragon hide robes, two sets of charmed robes, and a Basilisk set of robes if you have them."

Mr. Castor saw gallons dance in his eyes but then says, "Harry you do realize your going to spend a lot of money if I do this for you?"

Harry says, "Oh and I was wondering Mr. Castor could I charge this or do you want gallons?"

Mr. Castor looked at Harry then says, "You can charge it but you realize your talking about ten to twenty thousand pounds?"

Harry looks at Mr. Castor, "Oh I want the same for my friends though they may change some if they want I want them to have at least enchanted clothing and charge it to me no matter what they say."

Mr. Castor says, "Mr. Potter sir do you realize how much this is going to cost you?"

Harry nods, "Yes Mr. Castor and you do know that I have inherited the Black fortune right? They say with that alone I am in the top twenty richest wizards in England?"

Mr. Castor's eyes get big, "Mr... I mean Harry sir, please call me Gregory, or Greg."

Harry says, "Okay Gregory, can you do that for me though?"

Mr. Castor says, "Yes I can Harry, let me get you measured." Then a measuring tape flew from the side and started to measure Harry.

The tape measured Harry every where then went on to measure his friends who thought they were going to buy some of the clothing for themselves at first. Harry tried on clothes and settled on black and blue jeans, four pairs of each, and three pairs of dress like navy blue pants, he chose four t-shirts, two navy blue, two black. He also chose three shirts with collars and four buttons on the front for his decent shirts, and four buttons down shirts for good, again two navy blue and two black ones.

For his regular robes he got an emerald green one and a Gryffindor colored set. For his dragon hide robes they were black, his dragon boots were a brown with one set being black. He even got his ten shoes. The only thing he didn't get was his Basilisk scale robe, as they didn't have any.

Harry watched as Ron, Hermione and Ginny were all decked out in robes and some dragon hide and charmed clothing. Once it was all said and done they all complained when Harry used his seal to pay for all their purchases.

After their purchases Martha pulled Harry aside, to a table off towards the back of the store were his stuff is set out on the table.
Martha says, "Mr. Potter you have some nice things here, but some are old and I can renew the charms but it might be better to replace them." She then holds up the holster, "Mr. Potter this holster for say is an older style but the charm on the straps to make them grow and shorten depending on were you want to wear them is off, it will work it just might let it grow or shrink at the wrong time." She pauses, "I can replace the charm but I would need to keep it for a few days," then she lifts the belt and holster, "Now these are newer and the charm still work, once you put on the belt nobody but you can take it off, the holster is dragon hide and if your wand is in it they can't summon it from you either, nor the holster." She smiles, "these belts were more common when the people carried person weapons if you look here, there is a ring for a dagger or rapier to be put through, though you could hook some other thing to it like bags and such."
Now Martha is beaming as she picks up the ring, "Mr. Potter this ring, I would pay you back all that you spent on the clothing, and I know it was closet to 75,000 gallons and then I would still pay you back more if you will sell it."

Harry says, "What does the ring do?"

Martha smiles and says, "It has two properties that make it very special Mr. Potter, see the stone is a magical crystal and it has a phoenix's tear in it, but around that is some dragon heartstring, so Mr. Potter the wear of that ring would heal faster then normal from injuries, not say over night but in a few days from injuries that might take weeks." She pauses, then says, "The dragon heartstring makes it so that it can cast spells like a wand just a little bit weaker then a wand would, but the most import it that the ring once on your finger has see me not charms on it that make it hard for wizards or muggles to notice it at all."

Harry asks, "So wizards and muggle will not notice, but what about powerful dark lords?"

Martha says, "OH well if they are as strong as say Dumbledore they may notice but other wise nope, they won't and it works like a wand sort of to cast spells with it."

Harry says, "Cool, but what about the other items I gave you?"

Martha says, "Oh the necklaces are something for loved ones Harry, they have programmable escape portkeys, in other words you can stand some were use the code word and program them to take you to that spot should you need to escape from trouble."

Harry smiles and thinks he knows whom he is going to give them to.

Martha says, "The three earrings are different really one casts a protective shield around the wear, that is the one that looks like a knight's shield, the one like a fang, well that is a portkey as well that takes you to a set place, it might have took the wear home after a wild night.

The third earring does something similar to the first just a minor Protego spell though.

The group then went to Flourish and Blotts, were Harry picked up curse books, light Magic rituals to boost ones power, books on the art of dueling, books on body movement during duelist of the Oriental schools, and books on transfiguration and charms. Harry even got books on curses and hexes from books to hex your friends and curse your enemies, to advanced Curses that Aurors would use to fight dark wizards.

As the group was leaving Flourish and Blotts to go to the Quiditch supply store they were stopped by wizards that had the look of Aurors around them. Five of them squared off in front of Harry and his friends.

Harry steps forward and asks, "Can I help you Gentlemen?"

One of the Aurors stepped forward, "Mr. Potter I am Augustus McKinnon, I am hear by order of Minister Fudge to take you in for questioning on the attack at your muggle relatives house a few days ago."

Harry looks at him and feels Remus step up behind him.

"Excuse me Mr. McKinnon, But I though I could go in to answer question on the magic when I was ready?"

Mr. McKinnon says, "Mr. Potter that is to speak to the underage magic beau this is to speak to the Minister of Magic."

Harry growled and says, "I will not be dealing with Fudge any time soon. If he wants to talk to me he can send an owl and I will let him know when I am ready to deal with his incompetence. Till then Auror McKinnon I think you and your friends need to leave me alone."

Mr. McKinnon says, "Now Mr. Potter I will have you know you are going with me today, either for you free will or under arrest."

Harry says, "Well Auror McKinnon, unless you plan on having your friends help you, you'll have to wait till I am done shopping to get me to go with you."

Remus says, "Mr. McKinnon if you attempt to take Harry you will have to duel me sir, and my friends, something you might not like."

Harry however stepped in front of Remus with his back to the Aurors, "Remus take Ron, Hermione and Ginny and go back in the store, stay out of this." He hissed then turned to face the Aurors

Mr. McKinnon says, "Werewolf you would do well to stay out of this before we have to take you to the Dangerous creatures department."

Remus paled and says, "Well McKinnon..." Harry elbowed him in the gut and turned to McKinnon
Harry says, "Auror you threat my friend then expect me to go with you peacefully, I will not be going with you," He spun and says, "Remus inside now with my friends then get Dumbledore."

McKinnon didn't respond he just went for his wand but as he drew it