Chapter 4: Diagon Alley

When Harry awoke again someone was running their fingers through his hair, he quickly opened his eyes to look up into the worried blue of his Godfather, Sirius, seeing that Harry had awoken, woke up James and Remus, who were lying near by on a sofa that they had conjured. James smiled at his son and handed him some water before helping him to sit up,

"We are going to Diagon Alley today," James told his son, "We need to get your new books,"

Harry smiled weakly and asked his father,

"Has the headmaster brought the booklist over yet?"

James frowned at him,

"Yes, but I would like to know when you are going to get all of that work done, because you are going to have a reasonable amount of sleep each night,"

Harry smiled, "You'll see, you'll see, how about you tell me now how you and Sirius are alive, not that I mind of course, in fact, I love having you back, but I was once told that no spell can bring back the dead."

James looked down at his son, he had known that this was coming,

"Ah yes, well I think that it maybe best if Sirius tells you, he is the best person to explain this, after all,"

Sirius came over and smiled down at his godson, and sat by his side on the bed.

"When I fell through the veil I fell through an innocent- as in I had a light soul, had never killed or used dark magic- and the veil 'sensed' that, you see the veil had been made to execute dark wizards when Azkaban got to full many years ago, the magic of the veil also sensed that it was not supposed to be my time to die yet. I was, well, told, I guess, A voice came through my mind and said that I was allowed to go back to earth to help my Godson, and then to live out the rest of my natural, or unnatural life, however long that might be, I was also told that I could take one other with me- I quickly narrowed it down to James and Lily- I was then told that to bring back Lily would remove any of the protection magic that was still on you, as I did not wish for that to occur I chose James, the veil 'spat' the two of us back out into the department of mysteries, we then made our way back to Grimmould Place and I went in first, found one of the pieces of paper with the instructions to find the house and gave it to James so that he could show himself in, the Order of the phoenix found out the next day and the rest of the wizarding world soon after. Now if you want to get your school supplies today you need to get washed and changed and meet us in the main room as soon as you are ready."

With that the three adults left the room and Harry quickly showered and pulled on a shirt, some robes and a pair of trousers, used a spell to neaten his hair before pulling on his shoes and rushing out to join the others.

James smiled at his son as they landed in the leaky cauldron,

"First stop, Gringotts," he announced, when they got there they all showed their keys to the goblins piled into a cart and went to each of the vaults in turn, when they got to Harry's, James looked on in shock as Harry grabbed around 2000 gallons, they then went to the Black family vaults, Remus' private vault, then the Potter vaults, Harry got out with James here and entered the first vault which was full of money and jewels, there were doors around the rooming leading and it was through one of these that James lead Harry, into a room full of books and family heirlooms, James ran and fetched a necklace with a golden griffin on it and placed it around Harry's neck, fastening it up at the back and tucking it into the robes at the front. James then led Harry out of the vault, grabbing a couple of piles of money on the way, and headed back to the cart.

Once outside again they headed to Madam Malkins to buy new robes for Harry they got him school robes, and every day robes in red, blue, green and Black, they also got him a new dress robe in Emerald green with a cloak in the same colour both had a silver and gold trim and were made of silk, Harry also got 2 new school cloaks and 4 everyday cloaks, one each in red, blue, green and black. Once they had finished in Madam Malkins they headed to Florish and Blotts, where Harry brought himself lots of books, and paid for them with his own money when the adults were not watching, as his father had insisted on paying for his robes earlier, he asked the shop assistant to shrink them before going to meet the adults outside. They then went to the quidditch shop where James insisted on buying a quidditch set and 4 new firebolt extremes.

They got back at 5 O'clock and a picnic tea was waiting for them in the shack, James seated Harry down at one end of the blanket, then sat next to Sirius while Remus unpacked the food, Remus gave Harry a cheese sandwich and told him to eat it before he sat down leaning against James. While Harry nibbled on his sandwich the others wolfed down theirs, as soon as Harry had finished his sandwich he was given a packet of crisps and then an orange to eat, then they all walked up to their rooms in the castle, on the table in the main room there was a letter for Harry, in the envelope was a time turner and Harry's schedule, Harry placed the time turner around his neck and placed his timetable in his pocket. James, Remus and Sirius stared in shock at the time turner, but then blinked and sat down on the sofa.

After James, Sirius and Remus had got over the shock and Harry had explained to James how he knew what a time turner was, which led to an explanation of his third year James insisted on being told what had happened in Harry's other years. James spent the evening listening to the tales, holding his son close to him and being held in his lover's arms.

While James got over the shock of what his son's life had been like Harry slipped back into his room, did his exercises and got out a set of books to read on potions theory, warded an area of his room, pulled out a cauldron, conjured a workbench and started updating his stock. He made 3 batches of dreamless sleep, 3 batches of bruise-no-more, 3 batches if blood replenisher, 3 batches of skelegrow, he also made 5 batches of a common anti-dote which would counter-act most poisons, once he had added all of the ingredients to the cauldrons he bewitches the stirrers to stir the correct pattern at the correct speed for the right amount of time until the potion was done, at which point the flame would go out, and an alarm would alert Harry that a potion needed to be put into vials.

When he had done that he sat down with Salazar's book on the cure for were-wolves and got to work on seeing how the potion could be made easier and translating it into English, so that others could read and understand it. A few hours later- 3 O'clock in the morning- he had made it as simple as he could, so he started to translate into English, when he was done he wrote at the bottom who had originally created it and then who had translated it, he then changed into his pj's, climbed into his bed and took one of the lighter sleeping potions to make him sleep for 2 and a half hours before falling asleep.