A different kind of life

By KerrianneLupin

Chapter Six

A meeting

DISCLAIMER – None of the characters mentioned in this story or chapter belong to me in any shape or form.

AUTHOR NOTE – What can I say except I'm sorry I took so long to update. It was hard to know what to do in this chapter but hopefully I've done an ok job.

I'm thinking of splitting this story into a two parter. The first one when Harry is young and the second when he's a teenager. What do you all think? Let me know

Anyway enjoy the chapter and hopefully it shouldn't take me that long to update.

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"Where are we going Uncle Mooney?" Harry asked staring at the fireplace with a look of dread and mistrust on his face. He could still remember all the bad things that had occurred there already, all of them being connected with that open space. Firstly there had been the horrible warm twisty thing with the bright green light that had made him feel sick and then there had been that old man's head in it, the head that had no body to it. Harry gave a small shiver as he pulled his jumper over his head just like his uncle Moony had told him to, no he definitely didn't want to have anything to do with that space, he just wanted to go back to his room and look at that game Uncle Mooney had brought for him. He had never seen anything like it before, little figures on broomsticks flying round faster than anything he had seen before. That was a lot more fun then anything he had seen before.

He looked away from the fire and instead focused on Remus, an anxious expression on his face. Remus was looking round the place with a frown as if he had forgotten something and was mildly irritated with himself because of it. He turned and looked down at Harry though with a smile on his face. Harry felt an answering one come across his face. No one had ever smiled at him so much in his life. His Aunt and Uncle had normally looked at him either in disgust or with a glare while Dudley made faces at him all the time, even the old woman who looked after him rarely looked at him nicely, not until Uncle Moony had come alone anyway than she had been real nice but Harry didn't trust her, he didn't really trust anyone.

"We're going shopping today Harry" Remus replied, turning away from Harry and looking round the room again like he had been before Harry's question. Harry frowned, fidgeting slightly from one foot to another. He didn't understand what Remus meant. Aunt Petunia always took Dudley shopping and every time they came back they had several bags full of stuff which had always looked interesting or exciting but which had always been out of limits for Harry to touch, even look at in some cases.

"Why?" he suddenly asked, surprising himself, normally he never spoke his thoughts out loud, the beatings from the few times he had, had made him learn his lesson well. He carried on staring at Remus though taking his courage in both hands, he couldn't see the point in going shopping, if none of the stuff was for him and he wasn't allowed to touch or look at it then why did he have to go? Especially when he wanted to go and watch his game again. Remus walked across the room picking up the piece of paper he had been looking for with a grin and replied back

"You need to get some new things Harry, clothes and items like that and" an amused look came over his face "I don't see why you can't have a few magic books as well to look at either, you're never to young to start learning after all" Remus turned and smiled at Harry, his eyes twinkling. Harry felt his eyes widen, not even Dudley had ever had a magic book.

"Me?" Harry repeated "A magic book? Do you have them?" he asked tilting his head slightly. Remus laughed quietly

"Yes Harry even I have magic books" Harry's hands interlocked with each other and he squeezed them in excitement. He was actually going to get stuff; he was going to end up with his own plastic bag, just like Dudley always did. "Ready Puppy?" Remus asked stepping up to him and leaning down slightly. Harry's smiled faded as he cast another distrustful look at the fire place, he really didn't want to go there. He looked back up at Remus who was smiling gently at him. "Harry the fireplace can't hurt you" he said softly "It's my fault you don't like it, the thing that happened last night when I brought you here was magic Harry. It's something which enables magical folks like us to travel quickly by the use of floo powder"

"Floo powder?" Harry repeated, glancing again quickly at the fireplace before looking back at Remus who was nodded

"Floo powder, this is floo powder" he walked quickly to a pot on the mantelpiece and opened it, reaching in and taking something out, Harry watched him curiously. Remus walked back and dropped to his knees in front of Harry, holding his hands out and opening them. Harry frowned as he watched the green powder in Remus's hand shimmer in the day light. "This is what helps us travel. It seems scary I know but it can't hurt you"

"Really?" Harry asked slowly feeling the fear inside him lessen slightly. Remus nodded

"Really" he replied back. "I'll hold you ok so if you get scared you can just bury your head in my shoulder ok? And I promise that I won't let go of you" Harry nodded slowly a slight smile coming to his face

"You promise?" he said and Remus nodded

"I promise, cross my heart" Harry sighed out loud and held his arms up above his head.

"Good puppy," Remus said, getting to his feet and picking Harry up with one arm, the other hand was holding the floo powder. He steps into the empty fireplace and spared a smile for Harry before he dropped the powder shouting "Diagon alley," as he did so. They sped along in the heat and Remus smiled as he felt Harry's head bury itself into his shoulder, within seconds though they were out and in a busy pub "We're here Harry" Remus said lowly, Harry slowly removed his head from Remus's shoulder and looked around him with wide blinking eyes. They were in a large room with more people than Harry had ever seen in his life; they were also wearing the strangest clothes Harry had seen as well.

"What this?" he asked with a frown, Remus began walking to the door

"This is the leaky cauldron Harry, this leads onto the wizard street Diagon alley, this is where we buy all our stuff" Harry nodded barely noticing the fact that Remus was flattening Harry hair to his forehead with his hand and that he was watching the crowd with almost a dangerous look on his face. All Harry cared about was the buildings. There were several of them, some gleaming like Aunt Petunia's house, some so dirty that Harry could barely see in the window. There were even some buildings which tilted to the side in a way that made them look like they were going to fall over any minute. Harry eyes widened though as he saw all the people. If he had thought that the Leaky cauldron had a lot of people than it was nothing compared to this. There were so many it was like a swarm.

"Moony" Harry said burying his face in Remus's shoulder again. Remus looked down with a soft smile.

"Now Puppy, there's no reason to be scared, none of these people can hurt you, especially when I'm around and you don't want to miss all the shops do you?" Harry seemed to think about it for a second before he shook his head looking up and Remus.

"No" he said quietly. Remus smiled

"Good, now let's start by heading off to the bank shall we?" Harry nodded his head, he had no idea how anyone was meant to start a shopping trip but he was pretty sure that Uncle Moony did. Remus walked swiftly down the street to the building that was in front of them. Harry stared at it wide eyed; it was huge and looked really old, nothing like the banks he had occasionally seen when Aunt Petunia had been forced to take him shopping with her.

"Wow" he muttered, watching as Remus opened the doors in front of him revealing a large room with large desks surrounding it. Harry gasped as he saw the things sitting on the large stool. He didn't know what they were, only that they looked scary.

"They're Goblins Harry" Remus said quietly as he joined a queue behind a woman wearing a large hat with fruit on it

"Goblins?" Harry repeated, Remus nodded

"Goblins, you keep quiet pup and leave this to me" Harry nodded and after a second lost interest instead staring up at the ceiling, he didn't listen to Remus talking and so missed the look of shock that crossed the Goblins faces. He also missed the dangerous look that Remus gave the Goblin and the way it looked away from Harry as if he had been burned. It was only when Remus placed him on a seat in front of him in a wooden cart that Harry realised that something was different

"Where we going?" Harry asked, twisting round in his seat and looking at Remus through large eyes, Remus smiled at him even as he put his hands on Harry's shoulders and turned him back round to the front

"Look ahead Harry" he commented before answering Harry's question "We're going down to the vaults, that where our money is kept" Harry nodded but didn't have time to do anything but shriek in excitement as a Goblin jumped in the cart and pressed a button making it come to life beneath them. Remus smiled as the cold air smacked him in the face, thankful that Harry wasn't frightened by this new experience. He frowned. There was a part of him that was desperate to question Harry about everything that the Dursley's did to him since he was pretty sure that it was more than he thought but at the same time he had enough sense to know that he had to wait.

It didn't take them very long to collect their money and pretty soon the pair of them were blinking in the bright sunlight, Harry clinging to Remus's hand as if it was his lifeline. They had walked a few steps when two blurs suddenly collided into Remus almost knocking him to the floor, perhaps if he had been a normal man they would have succeeded but Remus was tougher than other men so other than a few steps back he was fine. The same couldn't be said for the blurs who crashed in a pile on the floor watched by a startled Harry. Both boys looked up at the same time and gave identical grins. In fact. Harry noticed, they were both identical with each other with bright red hair, grey looking eyes and cheeky grins. Harry had never seen anyone like them before.

"Are you ok?" Remus asked, pulling Harry to his side as he bent down and looked at them with an amused look on his face "That was quite the fall you took" Both of the boys extracted themselves and stood up looking at Remus

"Our mum told us never to talk to strangers" one of the said confidently "But I guess since we knocked into you then it would be ok"

"She'll probably still yell at us though" the second twin said with a loud sigh, the other one nodded looking sad.

"She always does"

"And we never deserve it, not really, it's Charlie and Bill who are the bad ones not us" Remus smiled at the pair of them.

"Charlie and Bill?" he repeated "They're your brothers? Are you with them now?" The first one who spoke nodded.

"Yeah them, and our other brother Percy and our Mum"

"Here she comes now" the other one said cutting across his brother as he looked back.

"Fred and George Weasley" a screeching voice cut across the crowd which seemed to melt away instantly. Harry suddenly tugged on Remus's sleeve, Remus glanced down to see Harry holding his arms up so he leaned down and picked him up before looking back at the figure which emerged. A fairly plump woman with a kind face and red hair the same colour as her son stormed up, followed by three other boys, two of each looked highly amused. "Where have you been? Do you know how worried I was about you? Of course you didn't because you never think. What if someone had taken you away?"

"But mum" either Fred or George said "You're always saying how you wished someone would take us away" The woman stood there for a second mouth opening and closing at the cheek of her son when Remus spoke.

"Afternoon Molly" Molly Weasley looked up startled at Remus before she smiled.

"Remus Lupin, I don't believe it how are you?" she asked eyes scanning his face with the same motherly concern she gave everyone "You look quite thin, are you eating right? A few meals at our new home the Burrow will put you right" she went to say more when her eyes dropped and she noticed Harry for the first time. More importantly she noticed Harry's scar and her face suddenly took on a watchful look as she transferred her gaze from Harry to Remus in a questioning manner. Remus glanced down and mentally cursed himself even as he flattened Harry's hair down. He really had to be careful about letting other people see that scar He shot her a quick look which she seemed to interpret as a warning because she nodded subtly and spoke.

"And this must be your son" she said brightly "What is he called?" Remus rolled his eyes at her but answered.

"Harry" he said quietly, Molly leaned down and stroked Harry's hair for a second smiling warmly at him as he lifted insecure green eyes to her.

"Hello Harry it's lovely to meet you, very lovely indeed"

"Say hello Harry" Remus prompted, Harry glanced at him for a second before he spoke in a very quiet voice.

"Hello" after that he buried himself in Remus's shoulder, well aware of the fact that 5 red headed boys were looking at him in interest.

"Remus why don't you come round for dinner one day this week, There's something I'd like to discuss with you" Remus bit back a groan and instead nodded politely smiling as he did so.

"Fine, Wednesday ok with you?" Molly nodded

"Lovely so we'll see you and young Harry there. I have a son called Ron who is Harry's age so…" she left the rest of her sentence stand in the air and smiled at him "Goodbye Remus, Bye Harry"

"Bye Molly" Remus replied watching with a smile as she took Fred and George's hands in her own and began dragging them away telling them all the things that would happen to them if they ran away again.

"Come on Harry" he remarked with a smile "Let's go and get you your new stuff"

A/N – There you go, sorry it took me so long to update but now you have it, Please review but no flames and I'll try my best to update sooner this time.

NEXT CHAPTER – What would you like to see, I know what I'm writing but it's always nice to know!