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not earning anything from this so please don't sue me.
*****I'm really sorry about the long wait. I had to perform for National day and the practices took up everyday.
*I know that my story's very slow, but it will build up soon. Every little thing I write here relates to the ending. For those who are still following it, I thank you for your patience and I'm sure you'll not be disappointed at the end.
***CHAPTER13***
The air in his room cackled and when he finally opened his eyes, he found himself staring at... 'AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!' a disheveled, messy person covered in dust screaming in agony.
Harry stood rooted on the ground not moving an inch. He can hear his heart pounding. Holding on to his wand tightly, he wondered 'Who is this? What's going to happen to me? How can I get out of here?'
'Stupid me. How idiotic can I get? Frankly forgetting about the shield. Now, where is that boy? Harry? HARRY???'
Harry couldn't move. He wanted to scream and run but he felt as though he has been hit by 'Petrificus Totalus.'
She looked up curiously after dusting herself. 'Where is that boy?' she wondered. Seeing him standing there with his eyes daze and his shoulders strutted up in fear, she stretched and brought her arm towards him, as she did so, she saw him inch away, brandishing his wand. Seeing that, she stopped moving.
'Stand back if you don't want to get hurt. If I can defeat your master, I can definitely do so to you.'
'What???' Lifting her hand up once again. Wrong move cause that brought an immediate reaction from Harry.
'EXPIELIARMUS!!!!!' He cried.
'Damn him. He just has to get James Potter genes.' She thought to herself as Harry stepped towards her.
'Who are you?' she heard him ask. She shivered at the tone. She has not seen much of Harry lately but hearing it, she's definitely aware that Harry is not one to mess with.
Looking up into his eyes, she was curious. 'Harry, what do you mean?' she asked lightly.
'Who are you?? What do you want with me???' Again, a shiver ran down her spine. How can someone so young sound so cold?
Her thoughts flew rapidly. 'Oh, it must have something to do with the shield. How I wish I paid more attention to this particular topic. Let's see, it blocks apparation but I got in because I'm connected to Harry because of the fidelius charm. It must have some side effect since I forgot to neutralize it. That must be why I felt pain for the moment there. Turning towards a mirror nearby, she caught her reflection.
'No wonder he freaked. I am nothing but a black shadow.' She thought quietly.
'Harry, don't worry. It's me Arabella.' Continuing quickly after seeing Harry's disbelief. 'You told me to come remember, about the trip to Asia. Just clean me up with a cleaning charm.'
'I can't use magic out of Hogwarts.' He replied in an even colder tone. 'I am sure you will know that, Arabella. You did come from that school, remember.'
'Oh that, I've blocked the ministry from knowing that magic is being used in this house. I'm able to do that. How do you think I was able to do magic that day? Do you see any letters swarming in from your last spell?' She could see the relief wipe his face. 'Can I have my wand back now?'
Harry stepped towards her and surprised her by giving her a hug. 'Am I glad to see you. Why are you in a mess? What are you doing here?
In the commotion, he had forgot all about his asking her to drop by.
'Well mister Potter, I'm in a mess thanks to my stupid, malfunction memory cells.' Getting a curious look from Harry, she continued. I forgot to neutralize the apparition shield around this house, did it last minute before I got burnt completely AND I believe that I'm here because somebody needed my help and also invited me here.'
Something in Harry's head clicked, his face looking very much his age presently broke into an excited smile. 'Can I go? Will you do it? Can you? Please.'
'Get me cleaned up and we'll negotiate.'
'Huh??? Oh that.'
'Thanks. My wand please, thanks. Yes, you can go. You deserve the trip, although it is with the Dursleys. I'll act the part you want me to. on one condition. you must bring me along.'
'Huh, how?'
'Like this.' With that, she changed into her animagus form, a cat, with sparkling blue eyes and strawberry blonde fur.
'You're an animagus.'
'Yep! Became one after Sirius.forget it' she said, darkness glazing over her eyes again.
Harry didn't need to ask; he could guess what had happened. The marauders must have helped her become animagus after they did.
'So, are you agreeing to my little condition?'
Without a thought, Harry answered with a confident 'YES.'
This is where his most memorable adventure started.
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Everything went according to what he and his godmother planned and not long later, the Dursleys were unhappily taking him along. Although he was treated like a slave, made to carry their luggage, bring things back and forth and so on, it was a piece of cake to him as he got a lot of help from Arabella.
Overall, the trip to, he later learned that it was called Malaysia was very enjoyable. As outsiders surrounded them, he wasn't treated too badly. There were times when his uncle and aunt had to order both he and Dudley around or none of them at all for fear of showing too obvious favouritism between the two boys. That was good, but the best was Arabella's presence. He always had someone to talk to when he gets lonely and also that Dudley will never know that while the later was on diet, Harry was eating like a king. That wasn't all, as while Dudley carry heavy luggage, Harry's portion of it weight barely anything, thanks to Arabella of course. Only after a couple of days with her, Harry realized that his godmother is as much a marauder as his godfather is.
They planned to spend about two weeks in Malaysia. For those two weeks, they visited most of the popular sites of the country, going from the northern states like Perak to the southern states like Melaka and Johor. They experienced both the histories and the modern technologies of the country. As Harry had heard about the place before, he knew what to expect while the Dursleys didn't. It was after visiting it that he found it quite odd what his uncle, aunt and cousin's initial expectation of Malaysia was. They thought that it was like the caveman era. Where humans live on trees and in caves like beasts. It is hard to believe that that was their view of the place when after seeing it, the people here seems to live an even more luxurious life that they themselves do back in England. The country had almost everything. The high-rise buildings, the tropical forest, the amusement parks, the national parks, the highest twin tower, the tallest trees, the biggest mall, the tall waterfalls and so much more. To Harry, it was the best combination of modernization and nature.
It was at the last few days of his holidays where something happened.
They, no, the Dursleys only, were shopping at the mall for souvenirs they could bring back to show off to their friends back in England. They were hungry after that so they went to a nearby restaurant to have a meal before going back to the hotel. I guess it is considered thumbs up to Uncle Vernon that he has not really screamed at Harry for nine days already but this was the tenth day and Uncle Vernon had apparently gotten feisty.
Harry let his aunt, uncle and cousin walk into a rather large café in the mall they had been in. Seeing that there was a rather large crowd, he slowed down behind and stopped to talk to Arabella. Kneeling down on the floor pretending to tie his shoelaces, he kept attentive to voices at his surroundings and spoke to her.
'How about you change back to your human form and try out some of the food here.' His reply saw to a cat shaking her head.
'Come on, Bella, he has taken to calling her that, you've been charming food for yourself for days, the food here is good.' He was returned a glare which he knew meant 'you haven't had that much yourself, who are you to say anything?'
'But.'
'Daddy. Daddy, Harry's doing you know what again. He's talking to a cat outside.' He has no idea how he heard it seeing that they were in the café among the crowd, but well, he heard it.
'Hide, Bella.' Arabella took off to a nearby corner while Harry straightened his back slowly to face his raging uncle.
'HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THAT MA.MA. SPEAK TO ANIMALS. IT IS IDIOTIC. YOU AND YOUR KIND.
Without waiting for a reply, he took Harry by the arm and dragged him up from the floor, not at all caring if he was hurting the boy or not. He never noticed a cat snarling by the corner eager to pounce but trying hard to stay put.
Arabella was eager to give that man a piece of her mind, but sadly, her promise to Dumbledore and more importantly, Harry refrained her from doing so. She had on one occasion during the trip promise Harry to keep her temper in and not do a thing unless it causes his death.
Arabella watched the scene in front of her intently, silently cursing her fiancé. no, her ex-fiancé for the misery he caused Harry, for the misery he caused half the wizarding world, for the misery he caused her. She was brought out of her reverie when she heard Vernon's shouting stop.
What she saw next left her frozen to the ground.
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'YOU.YOU UNKINDLY SOUL!!!! HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO A SMALL KID, HE WAS JUST TALKING TO A CAT.'
Harry, who had looked down when he found Uncle Vernon's hand coming towards his face look up in surprise. He found himself looking at a lady around her mid-thirties reprimanding Uncle Vernon with a disappointed tone.
'WHAT DID HE DO TO YOU???' Turning to Harry she continued,
'Oh, You poor, poor boy, are you okay?'
Turning back to Uncle Vernon, she started again, this time in a softer voice,
'Please Mr. Many out there would like to be you. You have a cute little boy. He might be naughty and mischievous, but that's every little boy's nature. I have been watching him and he has been so sweet to the little cat. Not many kids are nice these days.'
As the bickering was going on outside, Aunt Petunia was getting impatient inside. No one was there to help with the trays and the line was getting shorter and shorter. Sighing knowing that she'll have to line up again, she stepped out of line and walked towards the entrance.
Sighting Vernon, she called 'Vernon darling, what's taking so long?'
'Uh, Oh, nothing much, just the boy.'Seeing a glare on the woman's face, he quickly corrected his mistake, '. Harry.'
Thinking that Harry caused trouble with a lady, Aunt petunia wanted to apologize to the lady in hope of not causing a scene. Turning to the lady, she stop short, apology forgotten as only one word flew around her head.
'Lily!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!'
'Petty, Petty darling, what's wrong? Are you okay?'
Turning to her husband, she said quickly.
'Vernon, let's go.'
'Yeah, let's go back in.'
'No, I mean, let's get out of here.'
'Why???'
Dudley who was listening at the back broke out in a wail.
'BUT MUUUUM, I'M HUNGRY!!!! WE HAVEN'T ATE.'
'We can go somewhere else, come on.'
'BUT MUM, I WANT TO EAT HERE!!!'
'Come on, Dudley.' As she said that, it was quite obvious that she was going to lose her temper soon. Being the daft boy he is, Dudley noticed none of the signs.
'I DON'T CARE, I WANT TO EAT HERE, HERE AND NO WHERE ELSE!!!!!'
This was the max for Aunt Petunia,
'DUDLEY DURSLEY!!!! YOU WILL DO AS YOU'RE TOLD OR ELSE THIS WILL BE YOUR LAST TRIP EVER.'
Dudley stopped and stared at Aunt Petunia stunned. Never in his life had his mum screamed at him. She had always been the one who spoilt him, even when his father lost his temper at him.
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Harry did not hear Aunt Petunia's gasp his mum name, seeing that he was still watching the scene unfold in front of him intently, but someone else did.
It might have been a whisper, but Arabella heard it. Her head whipped from Petunia and back to the lady.
'I'm not the only one who sees the resemblance.' She thought excitedly.
'The hairstyle is different, but it is still the fiery red. That's not vital, anyone could have died it but her features.her features are still the same. The emerald green eyes, knowing and understanding but fierce, the way she carries herself with confidence and elegance yet still modest.'
Shaking her head, she looked at the lady again.
'Nah, It's impossible. I must be spending too much time with Harry, and starting to have wishful thinking.'
'Pssst.Bella.Bella.'
Arabella tore her gaze from the lady and turned to Harry who was trying to gain her attention.
'Come on kitty, we have to go, Aunt Petunia left hurriedly.'
Grateful for what the lady had done for him, he turned to thank her.
'Thank you, Mrs.. erm.Mrs..'
'Oh, Coal, I guess you could call me Mrs. Coal.'
Harry attention was immediately grabbed. He took in the sight of her and felt knocked off his feet. She is the lady at the wedding.
'Are you okay?'
'Uh no, I'm. fine. Thank you. again Mrs.. Coal.' He managed to stammer out.
Finishing that, he bolted from her sight, wanting to sort out his thoughts as soon as possible.
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NEXT TWO CHAPTERS: HARRY MEETS AMY. WHAT HAPPENS THEN?
Will he figure out the connections?
What will Arabella do?
The story will be much faster now.
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I hope to get a few reviews for this. GOOD or BAD.
I'm hoping to get about ten reviews for this. I realize it's not up to my usual standard. But well, I've been busy with that stuff I mentioned above that I have to stop in the middle.
Thanks for the patience and support.
*****I'm really sorry about the long wait. I had to perform for National day and the practices took up everyday.
*I know that my story's very slow, but it will build up soon. Every little thing I write here relates to the ending. For those who are still following it, I thank you for your patience and I'm sure you'll not be disappointed at the end.
***CHAPTER13***
The air in his room cackled and when he finally opened his eyes, he found himself staring at... 'AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!' a disheveled, messy person covered in dust screaming in agony.
Harry stood rooted on the ground not moving an inch. He can hear his heart pounding. Holding on to his wand tightly, he wondered 'Who is this? What's going to happen to me? How can I get out of here?'
'Stupid me. How idiotic can I get? Frankly forgetting about the shield. Now, where is that boy? Harry? HARRY???'
Harry couldn't move. He wanted to scream and run but he felt as though he has been hit by 'Petrificus Totalus.'
She looked up curiously after dusting herself. 'Where is that boy?' she wondered. Seeing him standing there with his eyes daze and his shoulders strutted up in fear, she stretched and brought her arm towards him, as she did so, she saw him inch away, brandishing his wand. Seeing that, she stopped moving.
'Stand back if you don't want to get hurt. If I can defeat your master, I can definitely do so to you.'
'What???' Lifting her hand up once again. Wrong move cause that brought an immediate reaction from Harry.
'EXPIELIARMUS!!!!!' He cried.
'Damn him. He just has to get James Potter genes.' She thought to herself as Harry stepped towards her.
'Who are you?' she heard him ask. She shivered at the tone. She has not seen much of Harry lately but hearing it, she's definitely aware that Harry is not one to mess with.
Looking up into his eyes, she was curious. 'Harry, what do you mean?' she asked lightly.
'Who are you?? What do you want with me???' Again, a shiver ran down her spine. How can someone so young sound so cold?
Her thoughts flew rapidly. 'Oh, it must have something to do with the shield. How I wish I paid more attention to this particular topic. Let's see, it blocks apparation but I got in because I'm connected to Harry because of the fidelius charm. It must have some side effect since I forgot to neutralize it. That must be why I felt pain for the moment there. Turning towards a mirror nearby, she caught her reflection.
'No wonder he freaked. I am nothing but a black shadow.' She thought quietly.
'Harry, don't worry. It's me Arabella.' Continuing quickly after seeing Harry's disbelief. 'You told me to come remember, about the trip to Asia. Just clean me up with a cleaning charm.'
'I can't use magic out of Hogwarts.' He replied in an even colder tone. 'I am sure you will know that, Arabella. You did come from that school, remember.'
'Oh that, I've blocked the ministry from knowing that magic is being used in this house. I'm able to do that. How do you think I was able to do magic that day? Do you see any letters swarming in from your last spell?' She could see the relief wipe his face. 'Can I have my wand back now?'
Harry stepped towards her and surprised her by giving her a hug. 'Am I glad to see you. Why are you in a mess? What are you doing here?
In the commotion, he had forgot all about his asking her to drop by.
'Well mister Potter, I'm in a mess thanks to my stupid, malfunction memory cells.' Getting a curious look from Harry, she continued. I forgot to neutralize the apparition shield around this house, did it last minute before I got burnt completely AND I believe that I'm here because somebody needed my help and also invited me here.'
Something in Harry's head clicked, his face looking very much his age presently broke into an excited smile. 'Can I go? Will you do it? Can you? Please.'
'Get me cleaned up and we'll negotiate.'
'Huh??? Oh that.'
'Thanks. My wand please, thanks. Yes, you can go. You deserve the trip, although it is with the Dursleys. I'll act the part you want me to. on one condition. you must bring me along.'
'Huh, how?'
'Like this.' With that, she changed into her animagus form, a cat, with sparkling blue eyes and strawberry blonde fur.
'You're an animagus.'
'Yep! Became one after Sirius.forget it' she said, darkness glazing over her eyes again.
Harry didn't need to ask; he could guess what had happened. The marauders must have helped her become animagus after they did.
'So, are you agreeing to my little condition?'
Without a thought, Harry answered with a confident 'YES.'
This is where his most memorable adventure started.
***********************************************************************
Everything went according to what he and his godmother planned and not long later, the Dursleys were unhappily taking him along. Although he was treated like a slave, made to carry their luggage, bring things back and forth and so on, it was a piece of cake to him as he got a lot of help from Arabella.
Overall, the trip to, he later learned that it was called Malaysia was very enjoyable. As outsiders surrounded them, he wasn't treated too badly. There were times when his uncle and aunt had to order both he and Dudley around or none of them at all for fear of showing too obvious favouritism between the two boys. That was good, but the best was Arabella's presence. He always had someone to talk to when he gets lonely and also that Dudley will never know that while the later was on diet, Harry was eating like a king. That wasn't all, as while Dudley carry heavy luggage, Harry's portion of it weight barely anything, thanks to Arabella of course. Only after a couple of days with her, Harry realized that his godmother is as much a marauder as his godfather is.
They planned to spend about two weeks in Malaysia. For those two weeks, they visited most of the popular sites of the country, going from the northern states like Perak to the southern states like Melaka and Johor. They experienced both the histories and the modern technologies of the country. As Harry had heard about the place before, he knew what to expect while the Dursleys didn't. It was after visiting it that he found it quite odd what his uncle, aunt and cousin's initial expectation of Malaysia was. They thought that it was like the caveman era. Where humans live on trees and in caves like beasts. It is hard to believe that that was their view of the place when after seeing it, the people here seems to live an even more luxurious life that they themselves do back in England. The country had almost everything. The high-rise buildings, the tropical forest, the amusement parks, the national parks, the highest twin tower, the tallest trees, the biggest mall, the tall waterfalls and so much more. To Harry, it was the best combination of modernization and nature.
It was at the last few days of his holidays where something happened.
They, no, the Dursleys only, were shopping at the mall for souvenirs they could bring back to show off to their friends back in England. They were hungry after that so they went to a nearby restaurant to have a meal before going back to the hotel. I guess it is considered thumbs up to Uncle Vernon that he has not really screamed at Harry for nine days already but this was the tenth day and Uncle Vernon had apparently gotten feisty.
Harry let his aunt, uncle and cousin walk into a rather large café in the mall they had been in. Seeing that there was a rather large crowd, he slowed down behind and stopped to talk to Arabella. Kneeling down on the floor pretending to tie his shoelaces, he kept attentive to voices at his surroundings and spoke to her.
'How about you change back to your human form and try out some of the food here.' His reply saw to a cat shaking her head.
'Come on, Bella, he has taken to calling her that, you've been charming food for yourself for days, the food here is good.' He was returned a glare which he knew meant 'you haven't had that much yourself, who are you to say anything?'
'But.'
'Daddy. Daddy, Harry's doing you know what again. He's talking to a cat outside.' He has no idea how he heard it seeing that they were in the café among the crowd, but well, he heard it.
'Hide, Bella.' Arabella took off to a nearby corner while Harry straightened his back slowly to face his raging uncle.
'HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THAT MA.MA. SPEAK TO ANIMALS. IT IS IDIOTIC. YOU AND YOUR KIND.
Without waiting for a reply, he took Harry by the arm and dragged him up from the floor, not at all caring if he was hurting the boy or not. He never noticed a cat snarling by the corner eager to pounce but trying hard to stay put.
Arabella was eager to give that man a piece of her mind, but sadly, her promise to Dumbledore and more importantly, Harry refrained her from doing so. She had on one occasion during the trip promise Harry to keep her temper in and not do a thing unless it causes his death.
Arabella watched the scene in front of her intently, silently cursing her fiancé. no, her ex-fiancé for the misery he caused Harry, for the misery he caused half the wizarding world, for the misery he caused her. She was brought out of her reverie when she heard Vernon's shouting stop.
What she saw next left her frozen to the ground.
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'YOU.YOU UNKINDLY SOUL!!!! HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO A SMALL KID, HE WAS JUST TALKING TO A CAT.'
Harry, who had looked down when he found Uncle Vernon's hand coming towards his face look up in surprise. He found himself looking at a lady around her mid-thirties reprimanding Uncle Vernon with a disappointed tone.
'WHAT DID HE DO TO YOU???' Turning to Harry she continued,
'Oh, You poor, poor boy, are you okay?'
Turning back to Uncle Vernon, she started again, this time in a softer voice,
'Please Mr. Many out there would like to be you. You have a cute little boy. He might be naughty and mischievous, but that's every little boy's nature. I have been watching him and he has been so sweet to the little cat. Not many kids are nice these days.'
As the bickering was going on outside, Aunt Petunia was getting impatient inside. No one was there to help with the trays and the line was getting shorter and shorter. Sighing knowing that she'll have to line up again, she stepped out of line and walked towards the entrance.
Sighting Vernon, she called 'Vernon darling, what's taking so long?'
'Uh, Oh, nothing much, just the boy.'Seeing a glare on the woman's face, he quickly corrected his mistake, '. Harry.'
Thinking that Harry caused trouble with a lady, Aunt petunia wanted to apologize to the lady in hope of not causing a scene. Turning to the lady, she stop short, apology forgotten as only one word flew around her head.
'Lily!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!'
'Petty, Petty darling, what's wrong? Are you okay?'
Turning to her husband, she said quickly.
'Vernon, let's go.'
'Yeah, let's go back in.'
'No, I mean, let's get out of here.'
'Why???'
Dudley who was listening at the back broke out in a wail.
'BUT MUUUUM, I'M HUNGRY!!!! WE HAVEN'T ATE.'
'We can go somewhere else, come on.'
'BUT MUM, I WANT TO EAT HERE!!!'
'Come on, Dudley.' As she said that, it was quite obvious that she was going to lose her temper soon. Being the daft boy he is, Dudley noticed none of the signs.
'I DON'T CARE, I WANT TO EAT HERE, HERE AND NO WHERE ELSE!!!!!'
This was the max for Aunt Petunia,
'DUDLEY DURSLEY!!!! YOU WILL DO AS YOU'RE TOLD OR ELSE THIS WILL BE YOUR LAST TRIP EVER.'
Dudley stopped and stared at Aunt Petunia stunned. Never in his life had his mum screamed at him. She had always been the one who spoilt him, even when his father lost his temper at him.
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Harry did not hear Aunt Petunia's gasp his mum name, seeing that he was still watching the scene unfold in front of him intently, but someone else did.
It might have been a whisper, but Arabella heard it. Her head whipped from Petunia and back to the lady.
'I'm not the only one who sees the resemblance.' She thought excitedly.
'The hairstyle is different, but it is still the fiery red. That's not vital, anyone could have died it but her features.her features are still the same. The emerald green eyes, knowing and understanding but fierce, the way she carries herself with confidence and elegance yet still modest.'
Shaking her head, she looked at the lady again.
'Nah, It's impossible. I must be spending too much time with Harry, and starting to have wishful thinking.'
'Pssst.Bella.Bella.'
Arabella tore her gaze from the lady and turned to Harry who was trying to gain her attention.
'Come on kitty, we have to go, Aunt Petunia left hurriedly.'
Grateful for what the lady had done for him, he turned to thank her.
'Thank you, Mrs.. erm.Mrs..'
'Oh, Coal, I guess you could call me Mrs. Coal.'
Harry attention was immediately grabbed. He took in the sight of her and felt knocked off his feet. She is the lady at the wedding.
'Are you okay?'
'Uh no, I'm. fine. Thank you. again Mrs.. Coal.' He managed to stammer out.
Finishing that, he bolted from her sight, wanting to sort out his thoughts as soon as possible.
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NEXT TWO CHAPTERS: HARRY MEETS AMY. WHAT HAPPENS THEN?
Will he figure out the connections?
What will Arabella do?
The story will be much faster now.
====================================================
I hope to get a few reviews for this. GOOD or BAD.
I'm hoping to get about ten reviews for this. I realize it's not up to my usual standard. But well, I've been busy with that stuff I mentioned above that I have to stop in the middle.
Thanks for the patience and support.