A Possible New Titan? Chapter 21 To Diagon Alley and the Disaster to Follow
A/N: I'm on a roll! I haven't written these many chapters/stories in a week since I first started writing this story! This chapter marks the semi-transition to Harry Potter… I can't honestly say that it is more Harry Potter than Teen Titans or the other way around. This chapter is focused on Molly I think. Yeah, it is her lesson. Keep in mind that Molly doesn't actually know her teacher's name so no one actually knows who her teacher is, for all you know it could be Crabbe or Goyel, though I seriously doubt that because they are rather on the slow side. You find out in this chapter though. This sadly is the last chapter of this story... I'm gonna miss it :'(
Anyway… on to the chapter, yay chapter, but lets say the Disclaimer first!
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans or Harry Potter, or whatever I might refer to in this chapter.
To the Chapter, the longest and last chapter!
The rest of the day went quietly and in truth was rather boring. Molly left at five to go to her class, but not before giving Beast Boy a good bye kiss. She entered her apartment and noticed it had been transformed into an empty classroom. At the teacher's desk sat a young man, the same age as Molly. This was her teacher. He smiled and said, "Do you have your wand?"
"You bet," Molly said grinning and pulling it out of her jacket pocket.
"Awesome! So are you ready to start the lesson?" Her teacher asked.
"Of course," Molly answered grinning, 'I'm such a nerd' she thought, 'but this is magic, and it is fun so it is ok.'
"Alright, I thought we could work on a few simple spells, you'll need to read chapter 12 of Standard Book of spells year one."
"Ok, be right back," Molly got up to retrieve the book from her bedroom returning a second later. She sat down and began reading, well, more like absorbing the information, the whole book in a minute, "Finished," she stated as her teacher goggled at her.
"You read the whole chapter already? It's 25 pages long!" Her Teacher exclaimed obviously not believing her.
"Actually I finished the book, it's a gift really, I can read about 1000 pages in less than ten minutes, and can remember the whole thing afterward," Molly grinned happily.
"Ok, then levitate that feather," her teacher suggested.
"Wingardium Leviosa!" Molly said pointing her wand at the feather and doing the proper swish and flick wand movements. The feather instantly began floating Molly beamed with pride.
"Excellent!" Her teacher exclaimed, "It took me a week to learn that!" Molly's smile widened. They went over about ten more charms before her teacher changed the room back to normal and apparted out of the room.
Molly placed her wand under her bed so no one would find it and began reading Standard Book of Spells Year Two to save a few minutes the next day; she finished and put the book down. Sighing she turned off the lights and fell asleep.
Molly woke early the next morning and quickly got ready for work, she grabbed her jacket and wand before walking out of her apartment running right into someone, "I'm so sorry," she said backing away to see who she ran into, she noticed there were two people, both boys smiling at her. She noticed one as her teacher, the other she didn't recognize, he had brilliant red hair.
"Hi," the boys said in unison.
"Um hello," Molly said back she noticed she didn't know her teacher's name, or his friend's. "I'm sorry, but I don't know either of your names." She said politely.
"Oy, I'm sorry!" Her teacher said hitting his head with his hand, "I'm Harry Potter, and this is Ron Weasley."
"Nice to meet you both, I'm Molly Keeper." Molly shook both their hands hastily.
"Nice to meet you too," Ron said politely.
"I'm sorry, but I'm in a bit of a rush, I have to get to work, and then I'm having lunch with someone." Molly explained.
"Can't you cancel? We were going to take you to Diagon Alley to buy you some wizarding supplies." Harry pleaded his emerald eyes making it impossible for Molly to say no.
"Ugh, fine, but I need to make to phone calls, and change, be right back." She unlocked her apartment and called sick to work calling Beast Boy was the hard part.
"What? You are canceling why?" Beast Boy screamed through the phone. Molly pulled the phone a few inches away from her ear before saying, "I need to get some supplies Beast Boy."'
"I can go with you," Beast Boy said.
"I need to get magical items nothing you could help me with," she answered.
"FINE!" Beast Boy screamed and hung up.
"Wow, someone's grumpy today," Molly muttered hanging up the phone and going to her room to change. She grabbed two hundred muggle dollars out of a drawer before locking her apartment and walking outside to meet Harry and Ron.
"So, how are we getting there? I know it is in London." Molly said.
"We are going to apparate there," Harry answered, "alright hold onto my waist tightly, and I'll apparate us there. Ron will follow," Molly did as told and Harry waved his wand. They landed in Diagon Alley, it appeared that Harry and Molly were hugging by the way she had her head against his chest. Molly backed away examining Diagon Alley when a cold voice spoke.
"Well, Well, Well, it appears that Potter has a new girlfriend." Molly turned to face the person who was talking noticing a blonde hair boy with two heavy boys standing behind him. "He's not my boyfriend," Molly answered simply.
"So what are you? A whore, or are you a muggle?" The boy smirked
"Shove it Malfoy." Harry said glaring viciously at him.
"I'm not a whore, what's a muggle?" Molly asked looking at Harry and Ron.
"Non magic folk," Ron answered lazily then he added, "You're not a muggle."
"Yeah, I'm aware of that," Molly answered.
"You look too old to not know what a muggle is, you aren't a first year, and you apparently don't go to Hogwarts." Malfoy sneered.
"Technically I do go to Hogwarts," Molly said coolly.
"Then what house are you in, I bet you're in Hufflepuff, and I bet you're a mudblood." Malfoy said snottily.
"I'm not in Hufflepuff, but I sense the last thing you said was an insult. I don't like insults, but lucky for you, I'm in a good mood." Molly stated her gray-blue eyes flickering orange before calming down.
"So you're new, where are you from, what school did you got to before?" Draco said with a smirk.
Harry answered before she did, "She's from Durmstrang, she transferred." Molly looked at Harry questionably, he just nodded. Malfoy smiled at Molly before saying, "See you in Slytherin then," He waved his arms as he walked away his goons following behind him stupidly.
"But Harry, I'm not going to Hogwarts," Molly explained.
"You still have time to decide." Harry shrugged as they started walking towards Gringotts to convert Molly's money.
"You really should go to Hogwarts you know," Ron pointed out.
The money was converted in no time; Molly was fascinated by the goblins, even though they sneered at her. Harry grabbed some money from his vault before they walked out of Gringotts.
"Where should we go first?" Molly asked.
"Hm… I think we should go to Flourish and Blotts, you probably want some more books," Harry answered thinking of where Hermione would go.
"You read my mind!" Molly exclaimed, "Where is it?" Harry and Ron hooked arms with her leading her to the book store. Molly was amazed by all the books, she searched through the shelves quickly picking about spells, you don't mind if I read these real fast? I don't want to carry these around all day."
"No problem," Harry said Ron looked at his in disbelief.
"Are you mad Harry?" He asked," We will be here forever; those books aren't the shortest books in the world you know."
"Chill Ron, look," he pointed to Molly who was quickly reading the books; the pages were glowing yellow and turning extremely fast. She finished thirty minutes later and placed the books back on the shelves. She grabbed the Standard book of Spells volumes five through seven and bought them with the help of Harry, she wasn't quite used to the currency yet. At that moment a girl walked into the store. She saw Harry and Ron and instantly ran to them and hugged them.
"Hey Hermione," The boys said hugging back; they looked at Molly who was watching them and smiling.
"Oh, Hermione, this is Molly Keeper, she is new to Hogwarts. We're helping her buy some supplies. Harry's teaching her over the summer." Ron explained, Molly shook Hermione's hand.
"I'm Hermione Granger; you should really buy Hogwarts a History." Hermione suggested.
"Oh, I just finished reading it," Molly answered smiling.
"Really, what do you think about it?" Hermione asked eagerly.
"I really like it, it is very informative, I didn't know you couldn't apparate on Hogwarts grounds," Molly returned eagerly as Hermione had.
"Oh great, another Hermione," Ron mumbled causing Hermione to scowl.
"So have you decided whether or not to actually attend the school in the fall? I'm sure you wouldn't be too far behind, though you still haven't taking your OWLS, plus there is NEWTS this year," Hermione explained.
"I'm not sure yet, I mean I have a lot going on in Jump City, I'm helping out some friends with their work, and I have my own job. Seeing as I have no parents, I can't easily pay for my apartment without my job," Molly went through the list.
"I'm sure mom would let you stay with us," Ron said, Molly smiled.
"You can easily keep in touch with your friends," Hermione added.
"You can always find another job," Harry added, "Plus, after that little conflict with Malfoy, you really should come, you would love Hogwarts."
"I'll think about it," Molly said.
"Good, now let's go to Weasley Wizard Wheezes, it's my brother's shop," Ron said Molly nodded once again and followed Harry, Ron, and Hermione through the crowded streets.
"What kind of shop is it?" Molly asked as she followed.
"It is a joke shop," Hermione answered frowning a bit, "But Fred and George are really nice, you will like them," She assured. They walked into a rather crowded shop when a man jumped out in front of them who was unmistakably related to Ron, the only question was if it was Fred or George.
"Welcome to Weasley's wizarding … oh it's just you," he faulted then noticed Molly, he looked at Ron, "Who is your friend?" He asked.
"Her name is Molly Keeper," Ron explained," she transferred from Durmstrang.
"I'm Fred Weasley, one of the owners of Weasley Wizarding Wheezes." He shook Molly's hand smiling at her. 'Is he crushing on her?' Harry wondered. Molly burst out laughing, she had been reading Harry's mind, she leaned toward Harry and whispered into his ear, "Why Harry, I should hope not! I already have a boyfriend… wait do I feel jealousy?" Harry jumped, how did she know? Hermione had heard and questioned, "Are you skilled in Occlumacy?"
"I don't even know what that is, but I've been able to read minds all of my life. One of my few interesting powers," Molly answered.
"Powers," Ron asked.
"Shit," Molly said under her breath, she noticed Fred who was blushing, obviously hoping she hadn't been reading his mind because he was thinking about how hot she looked in her form-fitting jeans and her I love Pirates shirt.
"Um… actually I was using a metaphor," Molly lied rather badly; everyone looked at her uncertainly but dropped the subject.
"Molly where did you live when you attended Durmstrang," Fred asked, 'why did everyone have to ask the same questions?' she thought fast, "Too many places to remember, I was in a lot of foster homes, but none let me stay too long, I caused too much trouble." Fred's eyes lit up when Molly said trouble.
"As in mischief and pranks?" he asked, Molly smiled mischievously, she had played a lot of pranks in Dazarath.
Fred laughed, "I'll take that as a yes. We are hiring, you would be perfect for the job if you wanted it," Fred said causing all to beam.
"Perhaps…" Molly answered.
"Great! When can you start?" George asked coming up behind Fred, having heard half the conversation, he had just closed the store for lunch.
"I dunno, I still need to quit my other job, and I live in the United States, so I need transportation here when I would need to work. If I could find a place to live it would be easy. But then there is my boyfriend that I would need to worry about… he was really upset when I cancelled lunch with him today… For some reason, Fred's and Harry's faces blanched that she had a boyfriend. Molly guessed it hadn't registered in Harry's brain when she had whispered it to him earlier. 'But perhaps she could always dump him… There was always hope wasn't there?' Harry thought.
"I'm sure we could always arrange something." George said, "And we would have not trouble finding you somewhere to stay. Our mom wouldn't mind if you stayed with our family for a while."
"That's awfully nice of y'all," Molly answered.
"We'll let you think about it," Fred said smiling, Molly nodded.
"Until then, let's get some lunch, I'm starving!" Ron exclaimed his stomach growled as if on cue causing everyone to laugh.
"Alright, let's go then," Harry said. They all left the shop and went to a restaurant well more like a café. Molly noticed that Ron easily put Beast Boy's and Cyborg's quick eating to shame. She couldn't help but laugh, almost having pumpkin juice to come out her nose. Fred leaned over at the same time to Molly and said, "Yes, he always eats like that."
Molly giggled," Um…maybe you should feed him more often." It's a good thing that she was joking because everyone at the table started laughing except Ron who asked what they were laughing about, but because his mouth was full the words were incomprehensible.
"Ok then…" Molly said stretching out the words.
"So Molly, why did you leave Durmstrang?" George asked.
"I didn't like the reputation it has," Molly answered having read bout it in one of the books in Flourish and Blotts. Harry nodded smiling.
"Yeah, they are known for their interest in the dark arts," Fred agreed nodding.
"I'm sure you learned some fun spells though, correct?" he continued.
Molly who was eating her salad nodded, she swallowed the lettuce she had been chewing said, "plus, it was dreadfully cold there."
"So did you know Victor Krum?" George asked
"No, he wasn't in my year though I saw him a lot at breakfast and junk," Molly lied.
They visited many other stores where Molly bought a cauldron and some potion ingredients. She also put a down payment on what was called a Pocket Clothes Company which could manufacture any type of clothing with the push of a few buttons, which was sold out at the time. It was really expensive, but Molly knew that is she converted some Darzens (1000 Dazarathian dollars) she would have enough money for it.
After saying goodbye to Fred, George, Hermione, and Ron Harry apparted Molly back to the apartment. It was only 3:00; there was no reason for Harry to leave since he would have to come back in two hours.
"Want to go for a walk? There is a park about two blocks over." Molly asked wanting to get out of her ugly apartment desperately.
"Sure," Harry answered dropping Molly's bags on the floor and following her out the door, locking it behind him.
They had walked most of the trail when Molly spotted a teen making out with a brunette on a bench. This was no random teen; this boy was without a doubt Beast Boy. Molly froze and began shaking.
"How could he?" she whispered anger boiling inside of her.
"Are you ok?" Harry asked.
"Harry, if you could just step about ten feet behind me, I don't want to hurt you," Molly answered her voice shaky.
"What?" Harry asked but did as he was told, but not before noticing that Molly's eyes were turning orange.
"Molly ran faster than the speed of light at the bend punching right between the two she knocked them apart sending both flying off the bench, she continued running as if not to be seen.
"Molly?" Beast Boy asked. Molly stopped right in front of him, her eyes orange, and her hands in fists. She slammed her fist into his face, "how could you?' She asked again.
"Molly I can explain." Beast Boy said frantically.
"I'm sure you can," Molly said sarcastically. Fire began pouring out of her eyes and flowed like tears sliding down her cheeks. She kicked Beast Boy in the stomach, he was sent into the bushes giving him time to call Robin on the communicator.
"Robin, back up now," was all he said before another angry, "How could you?" was heard in the back round.
"Be right there," Robin answered getting the titans and speedy in the room before telling them to go to the park. "Beast Boy is in trouble."
Harry stood watching the scene, pondering whether he should interfere. He pulled his wand out about to cast a stunning spell on Molly when Fred and George instantly appeared next to him as if seeking that Molly was in danger.
"Invisibility charm," they said simply. At that time the titans had pulled up and stood with their mouths open as they saw who Beast Boy's attacker was. They saw that she was definitely angry.
Cyborg ran behind Molly and grabbed her around the waist dragging her back toward where Raven was muttering, "Azerath Metrion Zinthos," Molly was bound with a black aura.
"Calm down," she said sternly to Molly.
"I can't," Molly answered crying more.
"Yes you can!" Raven said back
"Let me go," Molly screamed.
"Not until you calm down!" Raven said. Fred stepped forward with his wand out, he walked over to Molly, "excuse me," he said to Robin.
"Who the hell are you?" Robin asked.
"Doesn't matter, I know a spell that will calm her down." Fred answered he muttered a spell under his breath. Molly sighed, her eyes going back to gray-blue. The tears that were once fire, changed to water.
"You," Molly said pointing at Beast Boy, "you cheated on me, we are over. It obviously isn't working out. I'm sorry Raven; do you think you can put me down now?' Raven let her arms fall and Molly fell from the aura, being caught by Fred. "Thanks," Molly said standing up, "Um… since y'all are here, I think I can tell y'all that I'm moving to England to go to school. Plus, I have a new job; I'm going to miss you all deeply. I hope to keep in touch with all of you… well most of you," Molly said nervously. "I'm sorry for hurting your face Beast Boy, but you can probably tell why I left my home…"
"You are leaving us friend Molly?" Starfire asked almost in tears.
"I'll visit over the summer next year," Molly said hugging Starfire to keep her from crying.
"We are going to miss you," Robin said hugging Molly.
"I'll keep in touch; perhaps I can buy y'all and owl so I can easily contact you and vise versa." Molly said.
They went through the hugs and good byes for what felt like forever. Harry and George emerged from the shadows.
"Come on Fred, we need to tell mo that we have a friend who needs a place to stay till term though I bet Ron already has." George informed Fred nodded, "We'll meet up with you at Molly's apartment I few, we closed the shop for the rest of the day." He said to Molly and Harry before he (Fred) and George disapparted.
"Well I guess we better get your stuff packed," Harry said to Molly who nodded hugging each of the titans (excluding Beast Boy, but including Speedy) before walking out of the park with Harry.
Beast Boy watched her disappear with a heavy heart, "and to think, because of me, we lost another possible New Titan." He turned around and walked down the path course. His hands in his jean pockets, he kicked the ground stirring up the dust, "a possible new titan," he mumbled chuckling quietly, "I'd like to see the day."
Finé
A/N: There you have it! It is all over, please review, I hope you like the story. Keep an eye open for the sequel which will be in the Harry Potter category/section whatever you want to call it. I've already handwritten a lot of it, it will be called First and Final Year…
Until Next Time,
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