He opened the book to where chapter one should have been, all that was there was the outline of a human hand and a single sentence harry read the sentence aloud "Place hand on markings to encounter" "encounter what does it mean encounter." 'oh well here goes nothing' harry thought to himself lining up his hand with the outline and felt the too familiar tug behind his naval "Damn Portkey" said harry as he arrived in a strange octagonal room.

"well it's about damn time Harry Potter I presume" said a slender teenage girl about 17 , petite in size around 5'3 with straight blonde hair with strands every so often that were light blue , here eyes were a matching blue, she was beautiful...no other word for it

"WOW" harry managed to choke out afterwards he felt the embarrassment of his last statement. "Very good Mr. Potter I have been waiting for you for nearly 15 years and you manage to get on my good side with one word." she said smiling obviously flattered by Harry. "excuse me miss but who are you and where am I? jeez IM getting tired of asking that he thought aimlessly. "You Harry potter are not at anywhere you are in your book gifted to you by a sage no doubt, and I am Ashley Moore , I was once an Ice elemental , and I will be your elemental guardian and teacher for a little while too." she smiled showing off a row of white teeth. "y..yo..you.. your my elemental guardian I was expecting a abdominal snowman looking beast or something , Not a beautiful girl .....I mean ...well..nevermind." said harry looking really embarrassed now "Well thank you Harry your not so bad yourself"she said blushing slightly "I hope your not too disappointed by my not being abominable, I only appear when you summon me out side of the book, I take on the form of a Ice Golem , like a woman made of ice , I can appear in my true human form outside of the book but only if you will it, and my animagus for is a snow leopard." she said getting back to business at hand. "umm how did you get to be a guardian?" asked Harry sheepishly "You will be one someday too Harry, all elemental become guardians after we die." she said quite proudly "you died awfully young ..I mean how did it happen?" asked harry "I died fighting at the side of Merlin the greatest wizard this world has ever known and also my father. we were fighting Queen Mab an evil sorceress, she cast a disintegration spell ant my father while his back was turned fighting off her minions , I tried to freeze the spell first but it wouldn't stop I did the only thing I could to protect him. I knew I wasn't strong enough to defeat her I was a only a child, I took the curse for him, and he destroyed her and her evil." she said slightly crying now her tears freezing when they left her face and shattering on the stone floor "IM sorry Ashley ..I shouldn't have asked." "No Harry , I am proud of my life and proud of my death. I still serve the light side. I merely miss my dad." she sad sadly "I met him less than a week ago you know , he is a sage and if it helps you any the world still recognizes him as the greatest wizard to ever walk the earth." Harry said while taking her hand she looked at him and kissed him gently on the cheek "Thanks Harry , IM glad I am your guardian" she whispered "me too" said harry

They talked more about Merlin , the Founders of Hogwarts , and Harry clued her in on the situation about Voldemort and the situation the world was in now, how he had killed Harry's parents. They talked for hours until finally Harry yawned "Look at us haven't even began wandless training yet, Harry go back to your world and sleep , come to me tomorrow evening some time and we will get you trained up a bit eh?" she said "oh okay Ashley how do I summon you to me if I need you? she smiled knowing from Harry's stores that he was lonely and said" well your suppose to do the chapters in order harry but I guess I'll make an exception. Hold your hand to the ground and whisper the incantation 'icloiri polymio' and I will appear at your beck and call." she smiled "but don't you get any ideas Mr. Harry Potter." again she smiled this time brighter and with that harry was back in his room at the leaky cauldron. "wow" he whispered before drifting off to sleep his last thought was wondering if he said 'wow' just a little to much.

Harry awoke the next morning feeling great. He grabbed a fresh set of school robes, and a shirt and cut off jean shorts that were both about 8 sized to big for harry , "shopping today , definitely shopping" he thought about it quickly and showered dryed off and then headed downstairs for some breakfast taking the steps two at a time. "sorry Tom I guess I was more tired than I thought IM heading to Gringots right now though." harry said to Tom the barkeep as he came to take his breakfast order. "No trouble at all Harry, If times weren't so tight I would just let ya stay for free ya know." he said looking almost embarrassed at taking money from the harry potter.

After finishing off his French toast and orange Juice harry hurried out the back door of the cauldron, tapped the third brick up and was reviled to the shops of diagan ally. "ha great day" said harry to himself as he hurried to gringots the wizard bank. He walked up to the a idly sitting goblin and asked to go to his vault. once there he took a bag full of galleons and back out to the same goblin he saw before "I have some shopping to do in muggle London would you mind converting my galleons to pounds please." he said hastily he had been warned not to deal with goblins for to long. the goblin looked him over and said "very well Mr. Potter, but there is a fee." the goblin said excitingly "how much" hissed harry "depends on how much your converting?" the goblin asked " 1000 galleons sir" harry answered "WHAT?"asked the goblin stunned before continuing "son that will convert to more than 20,000 pounds." this shocked Harry as well "That will be fine I will find something to spend the money on I'm sure" he said "hmm very well, we will take a 25 Galleon processing fee then..." he was cut off by a female voice "YOU WILL DO NO SUCH THING...HOW DARE YO..." it was her turn to be cut off by Harry "Mrs. Wesley what are you doing here?"

"Hi harry dear, don't let this goblin take you for a ride." she said before gulping him in a motherly hug. "You will take your 1% , Harry dear hand the thing 10 galleons grab your pounds and lets go, and you,"she said to the goblin who now looked terrified " be glad I don't report you to the ministry."

"yes madam" the goblin said looking quite taken.

"Thanks Mrs. Wesley" said Harry looking embarrassed for not knowing he was being scamed. "think nothing of it Harry , nothing at all" she said motherly before continuing "now how bout you come with me to Madame mailkins to get some new robes for Ginny she's grown quite a bit over the summer,"she said smiling at harry "and I want to get her some nice ones since she works so hard in school, Top of her year you know." again smiling at Harry. Harry smiled back knowing exactly what she was going on about Ginny and Harry was glad to know that Mrs. Wesley wanted him to take an interest in her only daughter. knowing this gave him some courage and he spoke up "uhmmm Mrs. Wesley" he asked as they walked to Malkin's robe for all occasions. "Yes" she said smiling knowingly at harry "well its just that I know Ginny always had a crush on me , and well at the end of last year I couldn't help but notice how nice and smart she was," 'nice and smart good one harry' he thought inwardly to himself before continuing "and I was wondering what you and Mr. Wesley would think if I were ask her on a date so I could get to know her better?" 'wow' harry thought 'that was horrible, totally muffed that one up' his thoughts were interrupted by Molly Wesley snapping him in a bone crushing hug "is that a yes Mrs.Wesley he groaned out?" she smiled like Harry had never seen her smile before "Of course Harry, of course I was wondering when you were going to come round to her."

They went into the robe shop and Mrs.Wesley gave the attendant Ginny's sizes , the attendant told Moly that they would be ready latter this evening. "Harry you have a room at the Cauldron right?" she asked him "um Yeah I do" harry asked wondering why she asked " okay I'm sending Ginny to pick up her robes this afternoon, and I will tell her to stop by and see you and your room in the cauldron. You can ask her out and if she says yes, which I know she will after she stops laughing at you cause you'll be so embarrassed , then you can take her to a nice dinner and have her floo home." she smiled every so often as she said this and at different parts in the sentence her smile grew larger. "is that okay with you Harry" she finished "yeah that would be great Mrs. Wesley what time will she be coming to get her robes?" he asked getting excited "at 6 dear, I hope no one gets suspicious we usually eat around 5 so I will have to make something up why dinner is postponed and tell Ginny she can eat when she gets back!" Molly said now getting more excited than Harry. "Mrs. Wesley would it be okay If I bought her a nice muggle dress to wear tonight I want to take her someplace nice you know, first date and all I want it to be special?" Now she was really smiling "Oh your gana have her really smitten after tonight Harry, I hope your ready, and of course it will be okay she's a size 4 Harry." and right before she hugged him and apperated away she said one last thing to Harry "hurt her Harry and I don't care how much I love you....I'll let her brothers kill ya, she is my only daughter after all." she said all this still smiling, 'great now IM really nervus' Harry thought.

'icloiri polymio' He whispered holding his palm out towards the ground, within a moment before him stood a figure made of pure ice, harry could faintly make out that it was a womans form, her features were jagged and rough and she looked quite dangerous. Harry thought for a second and Ashley Moore appeared in her human form. "Hello frosty" said Ashley smiliing brightly. "Oh so now your a comidien, cute" Harry said returning her smile. "well I thought so , What can I help you with Harry?" She asked getting down to buisness like she always did. "I was wondering if you would like to go shopping with me today in muggle London? I have been wearing my cousins' hand me downs for years and he is the size of a small elephant?" he said all of this getting kind of embarrassed "Sure Harry I would love to go with you." she said obviously quite happy to be going out. "ehhhh Ash well ....what size are you?" he asked now very embarresed "Ha what kind of question is that harry, you should learn there are two things you don't mention in front of a lady, Her weight, and her age?" She this faking a angry look on her face about the question of size before responding again " I am a size 3 for your information, now why do you ask?" Harry still looked nervous "I want to buy Ginny a dress for tonight, and she is a size 4 so I thought you could try some on to see what dress would look best on her" he said. "sure Harry I'll be a stand in for your girlfriend." she said pompusley "she's is not my girlfriend Ash." he said pointedly "not yet" she snickered under her breath.

They spent the day shopping for Harry's new clothes, and every so often Harry would watch Ashley model a dress that she liked. 'God she really is amazing.' he would think to himself 'absoultly gourgeous, head to toe.' It was at this thought that he saw her blushing like mad, and giggling as she was twirling in a a white spagatti straped dress. "Thanks Harry, but you better not let your girlfriend hear you say things like that." she said still red in the face and smiling "WHAT THE....." harry started but was cut of "yes I can read your thoughts, I have to know what form you want me to take after all when you summon me." she said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "SO YOU HEARD EVERTHING I'VE BEEN THINKING WHILE YOU WERE TRYING ON ALL THOSE DRESSES AND DIDN'T SAY A WORD TO ME ABOUT IT?" Harry was getting a little agitated now, he didn't like when things were kept from him. "Sorry Harry, but I was having fun. You know theres know rule that says I have to tell you at all." she said finially loosing the coloring in her cheeks. "FINE lets go I think the red dress you tried on before the last one will do fine , don't you think?" he said still trying to sound course but smilng while doing it, now the embarrasment of those thoughts were comming to him. Ashley saw this and started grinning at him "Oh shut it , how would you feel if I could read your embarasing thoughts huh?" "ehh Chapter 4 Harry. You will learn more about our connection together then," she paused to smile at her own joke to come before going on. "you will know how good I think you look in a dress!" she said "OHH your on a roll today aren't you you." he said also laughing "Yes I am thank you , and I think the red dress will look lovely on her."

They shopped a little longer, Harry sent Ashley on her way to.....well whever she goes when she's not with me, I'll have to make a point to ask her where she goes. He went to the register and purchased the red dress, and also the white spagetti straped one that he was going to give to Ashley. He then headed back to the Cauldron to prepare for Ginny Wesleys immenent arrivial, the nervousness was really starting to kick in now..."What if she says no?" harry said comming out of the shower with a towel over his head trying to dry his black unmanagable hair.