Harry Potter and the Heir's Staff

by s h l o m o 1 1 1

After the events of his fith year, Harry comes to a decision in his life. Events in the summer cause him to realise his feelings for someone and discover information about his real family and heritage. (HHr, RL, GN)

6. surprise! and a will

Harry potter and the Heir's staff

Chapter 5

After half an hour the three of them went down into the kitchen were professor Dumbledore was sitting in the chair by the table still drinking his Tea, when they entered He smiled brightly at them and greeted Ron. "Good morning to you Mr. Weasley, sleep well?"

"Actually I did professor, thanks for asking and good morning to you too" Ron replied as he took a seat next to the professor and across from Harry and Hermione.

"Why thank you my boy". Answered Dumbledore cheerfully.

"Now are you all ready?" he asked once he finished his Tea. When they nodded he got up from the table and motioned for them to follow him to the Room where everybody was gathered last night.

When they got there Dumbledore did a few flicks of his wand and suddenly al the furniture in the room vanished and all that was left was the carpet on the floor.

"Now before we begin our lesson for today I wanted to ask you three a few things". Dumbledore said as he sat himself in a chair the he conjured for himself and for them as well.

"first of all I wanted to ask you if you three would like to spend the rest of your vacation at Hogwarts, because the other question I have depends on this one, so what do you think?" he asked the three teens sitting in front of him.

After a few minutes of thinking the three coursed together, "yes!"

The elder man chuckled slightly and then continued "ok, now for my other question. In light of the prophecy I have decided, -well that is if you will accept- that you three should join the order and start training this summer instead in school, so what do you say?"

The three friends were a little stunned at this unexpected offer. But before any of them had a chance to answer the question Ron suddenly jumped up and exclaimed. "Hey! wait a minute. What prophecy? It was destroyed back then at the Department of Mysteries. Don't tell me there's another one?"

Mentally Harry slapped himself for forgetting to tell Ron but not wanting to waste any time he sighed and said "No Ron it is the same one from then, Albus was the first one who heard it. Don't worry I will tell you later". To Harry and Hermione's amazement Ron just nodded and turned his look back to Professor Dumbledore.

"Well I don't know that about you guys but I really don't have much choice in the matter if I want a chance against Voldemort" explained Harry to his friend and girlfriend, he then turned his face to Dumbledore and said "I except Grandpa, and thank you for allowing me to join the order. I think it will really help".

"You are quite welcome my boy" answered Dumbledore with a grin. "And what about you Mr. Weasley? I know I don't have to ask Miss Granger as I am sure that she has already made up her mind added Dumbledore.

Ron looked startled for a moment, but quickly answered with a determined tone "Of course I will come, don't you dare think for one moment that I am going to let Harry and Hermione Have all the fun by themselves". He finished with a smile.

"Very well than". Said Dumbledore, "We will go to Hogwarts in four days time after we have finished our business here".

"What business do we have here Albus?" asked a bewildered Harry.

"Well Harry", Began Dumbledore with a sad look on his face. "Tomorrow we have an appointment regarding Sirius's will, and the day after that we need to go to Diagon Ally to purchase your school things, and after the attack on the Durslys residence I'm afraid that we have a few more things that we need to buy".

After that last sentence Harry's Head suddenly snapped towards Hermione, and he smiled a little sheepishly.

"Err…Hermione?" He asked.

"Yes Harry?" answered Hermione, a little surprised at Harry's look.

"Well, I forgot to give you something after we came here…." He finished trailing off.

"Well what is it Harry?" she asked.

Mean while unknown to them Professor Dumbledore just sat there smiling brightly at the couple's exchange.

Instead of speaking Harry just took the stack of Hermione's books from his pocket and waved his hand so they returned to normal size.

The minute Hermione saw Harry pull a stack of books from his pockets, Hermione recognized them the books that she always kept in her trunk, and she gasped and jumped on Harry strangling him in a bear like Embrace that would make Mrs. Weasley proud.

"Oh Harry!" She said as she started planting kisses all across his face and muttering 'thank you' over and over again.

After Hermione quieted down she settled in Harry's lap and turned her face back to look at a smiling Dumbledore.

"Well, it looks like we have fewer things to buy now". Said the great wizard, Ron just snickered next to Harry and Hermione.

"Ok, now. On with the lesson, Harry I want you to start the basic set of occlumency exercises, while I will instruct Ron and Hermione on the basics of occlumency."

"Ok Albus" replied Harry. He then gave Hermione a quick peck on the cheek and murmured a 'good luck' in her ear, and got up and walked across the room to find a place to practice.

As he was walking to one of the corners of the room he casually waved his hand in the air, and suddenly a comfy chair exactly like the one that Professor Dumbledore conjured for them appeared out of thin air. Harry's eyes widened as he saw the chair appear and he stood rooted to the spot.

"Harry?", Came the soft voice of his grandfather from behind him. The voice snapped Harry out of his dreamland and turned around to face his mentor. "Yes Grandpa?" he asked, a little embarrassed that he forgot to tell him about his ability with wandless magic.

"How did you do that?" asked Dumbledore, his face sporting a huge smile while his eyes twinkled joyfully.

"Well…I…Err….". Harry took a pause to relax and then looked back at the eyes of Professor Dumbledore and sighed, he didn't want to tell them how he made his uncle lose control like that but he knew that he had to.

After he told them everything Dumbledore just grinned at him and said "Harry there is nothing to be ashamed about the way you acted in front of your uncle, if anything, you did nothing wrong considering the circumstances, now in regards to your special gift, well I cant say I am surprised, but you will need to take a few lessons in it as well. Wandless magic is not an easy thing and can drain your power very quickly if you are not careful. Now back to occlumency…"

Later that night….

Harry was lying in his bed in the room that he shared with Ron, staring at the ceiling while Ron's snores echoed in the background, for some reason unknown to him Harry could not go to sleep. After about another half an hour of turning from side to side Harry glanced a look at the watch beside him and almost fell from his bed when he saw that watch blink the number '4:00', apparently Harry was laying in his bed for more the four hours.

Harry figured that today he will not manage to go to sleep, so he just sighed and got out of bed, He walked slowly to the bathroom just across from his and Ron's room and splashed some water on his face, he shivered slightly from the cold. He shrugged it off and went downstairs for a cup of tea or maybe a bottle of warm butterbeer.

When Harry pushed himself through the door to the kitchen he was a little surprised to see Professor Dumbledore, His grandfather sitting at the table sipping at a cup of steaming tea.

Upon seeing Harry Dumbledore's broke in a smile. "Harry my boy, what are you doing here at this hour? You should be sleeping" said Dumbledore as Harry popped open a bottle of butterbeer and sat down across from his newly found grandfather.

Harry took a sip from his butterbeer and said "I couldn't sleep so I thought I will get me something to drink and maybe it will help". Dumbledore smiled brightly at him and took another sip from his tea before speaking again, "You know, Harry, you could have just asked for a sleeping potion. That would have fixed you right up".

Harry smiled and said "I guess I could have done that, I just didn't know anybody was awake at this time of night,

But you know, now that we're both here I kind of wanted to ask you something".

"Go right ahead Harry, I promise not to keep anything from you", answered Dumbledore before taking another sip from his tea. "Well I was wandering, if you are my Grandfather than how come my last name is 'Potter' and not 'Dumbledore'?"

Dumbledore's smile turned upside down into a frown before he spoke. "well you see, Harry when Abby, my wife gave birth to James the Mediwitch and her midwife took the baby to another room and came back a few minutes later telling us that the baby had died, and we believed them because they took the baby so we had no way of knowing if they lied or not, later we discovered that they were actually Death Eaters working undercover for Tom".

Professor Dumbledore sighed and continued. "about eighteen years later, when I was sill a transfiguration Teacher at Hogwarts a man visited me and said that my son actually did not die and that he had saved him from the Death Eaters because of a prophecy that he had heard regarding that baby's child, well I will not tell you the prophecy right now but let's just say that after hearing it everything the man said to me started to fit and I believed him, His name was John Potter and he told me that he took the boy and raised him as his own and that he came to tell me as soon as he managed to track me down.

As it was the beginning of the summer vacation, James and Lily moved in together to Godric's Hollow. I was heading to my office to flu to their house when all of a sudden Minerva and Hagrid came to me and said that they were killed and that only you survived, well the rest of that story you already know I guess". When Dumbledore finished Harry was shocked to see a silent tear sliding down his face. "So … you mean, my dad never knew?" asked Harry. Dumbledore only nodded.

Harry rushed from his chair, making it fall backwards and hugged his grandfather in a bone-crushing hug.

After a few minutes Harry yawned, stood up and headed for the door of the kitchen. "Well I still have a few more questions but I am sure they can wait until we get to Hogwarts. And I am getting really tired so I think I will head back upstairs and try and get some sleep". Dumbledore smiled at the young man in front of him and smiled at him and said "very well Harry and have a good night". Harry just grasped the handle of the kitchen door as he turned around in his place to face Dumbledore and said "Good night to you too Grandpa, and thank you for telling me".

"You are quite welcome my boy, now off you go, you need your sleep"

"Thank you grandpa, bye" said Harry pushing the door open and stepping out of the kitchen and heading back to his room, as he was walking to his room he felt really relaxed and calm, as if a great burden was lifted from his shoulders.

The minute he put his head on the pillow he was fast asleep.

A good few hour's later Harry woke up In his bed. The first thing that he became aware of was the quiet, everything was quiet.

He glanced a look to the clock on his bedside cabinet and saw that it was already '10:00' in the morning. Wow!. That talk with Albus sure did help me sleep, I feel like I have slept for two days straight. Thought Harry to himself as he got out of bed and started to get dressed he put on a pair of his blue jeans, a white T-shirt and a black turtleneck on that.

Today he had to look nice because it was the day he was going with Professor Dumbledore to the finalizing of Sirius's will, on his way out he looked at Ron's bed and saw that he was not there and that the bed was already made. Weird, usually Ron wakes up allot later then me he thought. As he was going towards the stairs leading down to the kitchen he couldn't help the feeling that somebody was watching him, he quickly turned around and peered at the blackness of the hallway behind him, but just shrugged it off when he saw that there was nobody there, he still kept a tight grip on his wand and held a hand forward.

As he was descending the stairs that led to the main hall across from the kitchen door he started to hear whispering coming from the kitchen – he couldn't quite hear what they were saying, but across from all the voices he could hear the voice of Mad-Eye-Moody, He relaxed and lowered his wand and hand. He assumed that they were having an Order meeting or something, so he thought that he could just go in and see for himself. When he put his hand on the handle of the door he could Hear Hermione whispering to someone in the room "shhhhh". Shrugging, he pushed the door open…

"SURPRISE!". Yelled everybody in the room. Harry was stunned he couldn't help the silent tear that was trailing down his face at the sight of the entire order, the Wesley's and the Granger's sitting at a table filled with Mrs. Weasley delicious food and in the middle of it was a big cake in the shape of a quidditch field. Above the table was a huge banner with flashing Gryffindor colors that read 'Happy Birthday Harry', and to Harry's astonishment to the right side there was a table stacked with piles of presents. Another tear slipped sown Harry's cheek right before he was crushed in a bear like Hug by both, Mrs. Weasley, Hermione and Ginny. Hermione though, lingered a little longer with the hug and whispered in his ear "Happy Birthday Harry", and gave him a small kiss on the lips.

At the time Harry didn't quite trust his voice to function properly from all of the excitement, but he tried to talk anyway.

Unfortunately the only thing he managed to say was "this…I-is…for me? Really guys you shouldn't have gone to all this trouble". Just as Hermione laced her hand through Harry's and stood by his side, Ron stepped forward and gave Harry a strong handshake. "Really Harry, this is your first Birthday ever, you couldn't expect from us to just sit by and do nothing".

Harry had to chuckle at this. "Well you do realize that my birthday was three days ago don't you?".

At the ashamed looks his friends wore at his statement Harry gasped, "You didn't forget my birthday did you?"

Ron was the one to answer. "well actually we didn't Harry its just that we wanted to make sure that house was ready before we brought you here, and it sort of took more time than we thought it would to deal with Kreacher…." He finished trailing off.

At the mentioning of his name Harry's eyes Darkened for a second, and than he sighed and the same sparkle that was there before returned, only this time in full force.

At the sudden change in Harry's eyes all the people present at the party cringed a little, expecting one of the all too familiar 'Harry-outbursts' that happened allot last summer, but as they heard him sigh everybody visibly relaxed and returned to the party as Harry was led by Hermione and Ron to the head of the table so the party can begin.

Just as Harry was finishing eating the food that Mrs. Weasley had prepared for the party, Harry felt a pair of hands cover his eyes, judging but the soft texture of the hands and there small size Harry immediately knew that they were Hermione's hands and a smile started making his way across his face as she, for the second time tonight whispered in his ear "count to ten".

When He reached to ten Harry could feel Hermione's Hands lift themselves from his face and he gasped as he saw the huge quidditch field shaped cake from before right in front of him with sixteen candles on top of it.

"Make a wish and blow out the candles Harry Dear" Called Mrs. Weasley from across the table.

Just as Harry was about to blow out the candles, he saw from the corner of his eye that Fred and George were looking quite expectantly at him and at the cake. Wanting to be on the safe side Harry raised his hand and muttered a silent "Protego" on himself. As Harry blew out the candles suddenly there was a loud bang and all of the candles that were on the cake jumped out of it and made their way towards Harry. Harry in the mean time gave Fred and George a Glare just as the candles hit his shield and headed towards the red haired twins who looked a little horrified that their own prank got turned around against them.

After everybody finished eating the cake Hermione again came behind Harry and steered him in the direction of the pile of presents on the small table to Harry's left. "Here Harry, open my present first" said Hermione as she handed him a small velvet box. What Harry found inside the box was, to his astonishment. The most beautiful silver chain he had ever seen, and in the end of it there was a golden snitch with the initials 'hp+hg' carved on it. "Hermione this is beautiful!" exclaimed Harry while putting the chain on his neck. "Open the snitch Harry" whispered Hermione in his ear after he finished with the clasp of the chain, Harry slowly opened the golden snitch and gasped at what he saw in there. The snitch in fact was a two sided locket, on one side there was a picture of Harry's parents, while on the other side there was a picture of Harry and Hermione of them standing near the lake, taken by Collin Creevy from their fourth year. Harry was speechless to say the least, so he just gave her a big kiss on the lips and whispered in her ear "thank you, love".

After that the rest of the presents opening went allot faster, while Harry received a wide verity of gifts ranging from books on quidditch and pranks from Ron and the Wesley's to a few Defense against the Dark arts books from Moony and a few others members of the order and a wand holster from Mad-Eye-Moody which he quite liked because of his very useful features, the first were that was long as the wand was in the holster no one but the owner could remove it, and the second was that you could summon the wand to the palm of your hand with just a thought. And lastly, a pair of Dragon-hide boots from Hagrid

After about half an hour later where the guests began moving around and having fun, Harry was having a talk with the Weasley boys about quidditch Harry suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder, when he turned around he was greeted with the site of a smiling Albus Dumbledore. "Harry could I have a word with you for just a minute?" asked the white bearded wizard.

"Sure" answered Harry as he got up from his chair and headed to an adjacent room. When they reached it Harry sat down in a chair and turned to look at his grandfather whose face's expression turned to a frown. "What happened grandpa?" asked Harry, the concern evident in his voice. "Nothing happened Harry, its just that I wanted to remind you that we have an appointment today at Gringotts regarding Sirius's will, and as much as I would have wanted to have it postponed, it can't be because it is bounded by a magical contract signed by Sirius. So we have to go today, ok?" finished Dumbledore with a sigh.

"Its ok Albus, I understand. And even if you could postponing it would not have accomplished anything", Answered Harry.

Dumbledore just smiled at his Grandchild and gave him a quick hug before they returned to the party that was still going on at full speed at the kitchen. After the entertainment of the party which was George and Fred's wide Varity of fireworks had ended the guests started leaving No.12 Grimmuald place, after they all left the only people that remained in the house were Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Remus, Dumbledore and of course Hermione's parents. Just as they finished cleaning the kitchen from all of the mess, and took Harry's presents to his Room Dumbledore addressed everyone. "ok, Harry and I Have an appointment at Gringotts in order to read Sirius's will, now I am sure that the rest of you wouldn't like it If we left you here so what do you say that we all go and after that we can go to Diagon ally and do our shopping for the next school year, so what do you say?"

"Of course I will go with Harry" exclaimed Hermione and Remus together.

"Me too!", coursed Ron and Ginny at the same time.

Dumbledore chuckled at the kids' enthusiasm and said "Well then everything is settled than", he than turned to Remus and said. "Remus would you please hop over to Molly and inform her where her kids are, going so she will not worry too much?"

"Of course, Albus" answered Remus, and a minute later he was gone, accompanied by a soft 'pop'.

Not five minutes have passed and Remus returned from 'The Burrow', where he informed Molly that they were going to Gringotts and than to Diagon Ally to do their school shopping, which she agreed to, but only because Remus and Albus will be with them.

Half an hour later when everybody was ready, they gathered in the main hall of the house, and Professor Dumbledore pulled an old and used table cloth and held it out for everybody to hold on to. "ok now, everybody grab an end…ready, ok, one…two…three" , said Dumbledore and then everybody felt the usual pull around the naval area, and the next second they all landed at the main hall of Gringotts bank. A few seconds later a weird looking Goblin came towards the Group, unlike all of the other Goblins he was a little taller and wore a black bowler Hat just like the one that Mad-Eye has and he also wore a red Muggle Tie. When the Goblin arrived, he and Professor Dumbledore exchanged a few Words in a Language that none of the other could understand, and than the Goblin started walking in the direction he came from. As the Goblin Started walking Professor Dumbledore motioned the rest of them to follow. After walking for a few minutes in which the Goblin led the group through the many twisting halls of Gringotts, he stopped in front of a small door, gave Professor Dumbledore a look and entered the door. Once the door closed Professor Dumbledore turned to Harry and Said, "Harry could I have a talk with you, for a minute?". Harry just nodded and they walked a few steps away from the group so as to not be heard.

"What is it Grandpa?" asked Harry. "Well Harry", started Dumbledore. "I just wanted to tell you about the wizarding wills, for you see there are special cases in the wizarding world where family members couldn't say their goodbye to the deceased so a charm was created to allow for the family members to talk to the deceased one last time, I just wanted to tell you so you wouldn't be shocked once we got there" finished the Professor. Harry just stood there for a minute thinking to Himself what could shock him so much that he would need further warning, but nothing came to mind so he just turned to Professor Dumbledore and asked "ok Grandpa, can we go in now?".

"of course my boy but it is customary that first you will go alone so you can talk with him but if you would like I can arrange so that Hermione can walk in with you, what do you say?" said Dumbledore

"I would prefer that" answered Harry as they made their way back to the Group of people still standing in front of the door.

Just as Harry and Professor Dumbledore neared them the door opened and the same Goblin from before came out and said something to Dumbledore in a weird language and walked away. As he walked away Dumbledore turned his face to Harry and said "they are ready for you", and then turned his look to Hermione and said " Miss Granger would you like to accompany Harry inside, the rest of us will wait right here until you will call us". Hermione just nodded, took Harry's Hand in hers and, together they headed for the door.

Once inside he room Harry spotted to large chairs facing a desk, as they sat in the chairs Harry noticed that on the desk was a big round stone basin, just like Dumbledore's pensive and to Harry's shock above it was floating a transparent image of Sirius's Head. "Sirius!" Harry almost yelled. A few seconds had past before Sirius's eyes snapped open and he grinned at Harry.

"HI Harry, how are you?" he asked

Harry was almost too shocked to answer but he quickly snapped from his daze and said "I am fine, Wow Sirius I cant believe Its actually you, how can this be?"

"Well just for the record I don't believe you when you say you are ok but we will take care of it in a minute, as for you question I thought Albus would have explained it to you by now, he did, didn't he?" answered Sirius.

"Well he did, I just didn't think that this is what he meant" said Harry a little sheepishly

Just as Harry finished his sentence, Sirius' eyes caught the sight of Harry and Hermione's joint hands and he smiled a knowing smile. "So Harry since when have the two of you been a couple?" he asked, unable to stifle his laughter at the sight as both of the teens' cheeks turned a bright shade of red. "Well since a month ago" answered Harry.

"Is that So ?" said Sirius, "excuse me for a minute" and then his left vanished but you could still hear his voice.

As they waited for Sirius to return Harry could have sworn that he heard Sirius Say "I'll get you for that James"…

A few minutes later Sirius's Head reappeared and he said "well Harry we don't have much more time before I need to read my will so let me just say what I need" Sirius took a deep breath and continued "ok, for starters Harry, I am a grown man and I make my own decisions, and I was my decision to go out from the house with the rest of the order to the ministry, now for the main part, Harry it is not your fault that I am dead and don't you dare think that for one single bloody moment, as I said before I make my own decisions, and except for that the one that killed me was Bellatrix, NOT YOU ok?"

As Sirius was talking silent tears started making their way down Harry's cheek and Hermione, who saw this gave his hand a slight squeeze and smiled at him. "Ok Sirius" Harry said with a shaky voice and smiled slightly and the hologram that was his Godfather.

"ok Harry we only have maybe a minute or two before I will have to go and you will stay stuck with the recorded will, so before I go I just wanted to tell you Harry that I am here with your parents and that we are all very proud of you and watching after you all the time, I love you Harry and goodbye" finished Sirius as his head started to disappear.

"I love you too sirius" said Harry as a fresh wave of sadness came upon him, just then Sirius's Head vanished and instead of him appeared another Sirius, only this one had allot more hair and he said nothing.

"Hermione could you please call the rest of them from the outside" asked Harry as he wiped away the remaining of the tears with the sleeve of his robe. "Of course Harry" she said with a smile "be right back".

Once everyone was seated in front of the Image of Sirius it began to speak and an almost robotic voice.

"I Sirius black of sound mind and all that bla, bla hereby state my last will and testament.

To Mr. Albus Dumbledore I grant parental rights and guardianship of Harry

To Mr. and Miss Weasley I grant 25,000 Galleons each which are to be transferred to their own vaults no. 241 and no.242

To Miss Hermione Granger I Herby Grant all of the books that are in the library at No. 12 Grimmuald place and all of the books that are currently stored at my Flourish and Blotts account.

To Mr. Remus lupin I grant 250,000 Galleons and the Guarantee that he will always be able to live at no. 12 Grimmuald place should he ever need it

And last I herby grant Mr. Harry James Potter the entire Black Family fortune which includes: The property of No.12 Grimmuald place, the property of No. 5 Godric's Hollow and all of the black Family gold which includes Vaults no. 001, 002,003 and 004.

To say that they were shocked by Sirius's will would be an understatement, Of course Professor Dumbledore was not surprised at all because he was the one who witnessed the signing of the will, When Ron and Ginny Heard how much money they Had gotten their jaw hit the Floor and when Hermione Heard what she got she was rendered speechless, but the most stunned of them all was Harry, not only had he received Sirius's House but he also Received HIS PARENTS house and another three more vaults which were filled with money , when the party arrived to the third vault , in order to see what was in it, they found that it was a little different then the other vaults, yes it had a huge pile of money but this one also had a trunk in one side on the floor close to a wall, as Harry opened it he saw in there allot of sirius' and his parents personal stuff like photos and journals, but in the bottom of the trunk Harry found what was supposed to look like a broom, a book on broom making and a parchment with what looked like building plans to Harry . "Say Remus, what is this?" He asked showing the broom to Remus whose eyes widened at the sight of this Broom. "By Merlin's beard… I had no idea that he kept it, you see Harry." Remus started to explain. "Your father, Sirius and I started making our own Broom at school, but we never got around to finish it" he finished with a sad sigh. "You think we could finish it together?" asked Harry.

Remus' eyes looked like he was about to cry any minute. "I would be honored to help you Harry, but what about your firebolt?" said Remus. "It was destroyed on the night of the attack on the Durslye's" answered Harry with a sad look on his face that the only gift that he had ever gotten from his Godfather was destroyed.

Half an hour later, where Harry had to sign a bunch of papers for all the stuff that he had gotten, the group was standing outside of the Bank, staring at the bustling crowd of Diagon ally.

After the gang finished their shopping for robes and potion ingredients they were making their way towards Flourish and Blotts, suddenly Harry put his hand on Dumbledore's shoulder, startling him for a minute.

"Harry, my dear boy what can I do for you?" asked the ageing Headmaster,

"Hi Grandpa, I was wandering if you could come with me for that store" he said pointing to a store just behind them. "I want to make it a surprise, if you know what I mean". Finished Harry, Harry didn't know why he asked professor Dumbledore to come with him to the store. But, for some reason he just knew that Dumbledore had to come with him.

Dumbledore just chuckled and nodded, he then turned his head to the group and announced that he and Harry will be in a few minutes and turned again his head to Harry, "lead the way".

As they neared the shop the sign became clearer and it read 'special things for that special someone' and in the front window you could see a wide variety of earrings, necklaces and things from that kind. As they entered the door, a bell chimed above them to inform the store owner of their arrival. A few minutes later a tall looking women came from behind the counter and headed towards them, when she stopped in front of them, she was about to say something as her eyes stopped on Harry's scar and they widened. "Mr. Potter, it is a pleasure having you Here, and who might you be?" she asked turning to Professor Dumbledore.

"He is Albus Dumbledore" Answered Harry who couldn't suppress his laughter as her eyes widened once again.

"Oh, I am sorry Mr. Dumbledore for not recognizing you" she answered in a squeaky voice, "so what can I help you with, you must have gotten in here for some reason?".

"As a matter of fact we do have a reason for coming in here" answered Dumbledore with a chuckle. "You see Harry Here wishes to buy something for his 'special someone' "he continued while his eyes were twinkling with mirth.

"Of course, how stupid of Me. Come this way I know just the thing" replied the store owner and headed for a place to the right of the counter where there were an assortment of fine rings and necklaces.

As Harry and Dumbledore stood in front of the display of jewelry, the store owner went to the back of it only to return a few minutes later carrying a small velvet box, "Here you go dear" she said Handing the Box to Harry.

Harry opened the box, took one look at it and asked "how much?"

Both the store owner and professor Dumbledore chuckled, after she regained her composure the store owner answered

"I will get to that in just a sec dear, but first I need to explain a few things about that ring".

"What is there to explain?" asked a bewildered Harry

"Well you see this is a magical ring and has quite a few charms on it, well lets see.

First it is unbreakable, than every time the owner of the ring holds her hand over it she will see where the one who gave it to her is, next we have that every time that the owner of the ring is in trouble the one that gave it to her, in this case you, will instantly know and last of them all it can absorb part of the power of curses and hexes cast on the owner thus making them weaker. " she finished explaining.

"Wow" said Harry. "That really is a lot of charms on it, but still how much?"

A few minutes later Harry and Professor Dumbledore headed out of the door, just as Harry stepped out side of the shop the lady put her hand on Dumbledore's shoulder. A little surprised he turned around a watched as the lady was looking intently at the retreating form of Harry "he is exactly like his father" she said

Dumbledore chuckled and said "yes he is".

Now the lady turned her head to Dumbledore and asked "is everything going according to plan?"

Dumbledore only nodded.

"I told you he will be coming here sooner or later" continued the woman.

Dumbledore just sighed and looked at the woman before speaking.

"I know, I just didn't think it will be that soon, compared to the year he is going to have the last five will look like child's play" finished Dumbledore and headed out of the store back to Harry and the group.