Chapter 11 Harry's new Trunk
The journey to Diagon alley was the same, passing through the archway leading from the Leaky Qualdron, Harry first picked up his clothes from Madam Malkin's.
Thanking both Angelina and Madam Malkin for their wonderful work Harry left the shop to move onto Mr. Edwards shop for his trunk.
Edward was very excited to see Harry; he took him to the back of his shop, where Harry saw a cloth-covered trunk, Edward moved in front to of the trunk and was acting as if it was an unveiling ceremony of an important monument.
"Harry this is my life's greatest work, I don't think I will ever be able to replicate this, I want you to know it has been an honor to work on this, and I don't think anyone other than yourself rightfully deserves it" Edward was looking at him as if Harry was the king of England, and Edward was presenting him a gift, the man was excited to see his reaction.
Harry half expected some trumpets to go off the moment Harry nodded for Edward to remove the cloth, and as if time itself had slown down. The cloth was removed slowly by slowly giving Harry a peek of the beautiful trunk that lay before him.
When Edward mentioned that fairy oak was quite magical, Harry had just expected a normal oak but magically stronger in properties, but the material in front of his eyes just felt magical, it was giving an ethereal glow.
Edward had carved patterns of griffins, phoenixes, stars, and runes everywhere, the griffins looked like they were about to jump in the air, and had their wings spread, the phoenixes looked like they were soaring in the sky. The wood was sleek, and very well polished, instead of using some metals for the patterns; the wood itself had been cut out that way.
Harry ran his hand on the wood, enjoying the warm, smooth feeling the wood gave under his hands. He was sure this must have cost a lot, but he didn't care, it was worth its weight in gold.
Edwards let Harry admire his work, and after a while when Harry looked satisfied with the outer body, Edward thought he might as well go and shock him more with the inside of the trunk. .
"Now Harry normally I would just use finger print scanning, or a special made key for trunks of these kind, but with yours I thought I would try something different, I asked Gringotts, if it would be possible to key your ring for opening this trunk, this way absolutely no one would be able to get in without your family ring, which of course only you can wear."
Harry nodded and smiled
"Gringotts said it was quite possible, and they sent me an imprint of your ring, which I have placed on the front, you will just have to put your emblem on it, and the trunk will open." Harry nodded impressed with the man's work so far.
Edward continued, "Now I wanted to put in everything I could think of in the trunk, so without further adieu why don't we go inside and check it out"
Edward opened the trunk and said, "Right now the trunk can be opened by anybody, but once you key in your ring signature only you can enter. So if you would please Harry climb down the ladder and I will give you a tour of your trunk"
Harry climbed down and noticed white marble flooring under his feet, he looked around the room, which looked like a sitting room, with some sofa sets, and other sitting arrangements put here and there, an empty bar, there was also a dining table for twelve set up on the other side of the room, overall this was quite impressive to be made able to fit in a trunk.
"Now what we have here is the sitting room, where you can entertain your friends and guests, I have left the walls bare, so you can include whatever paintings you would like to put on them, though I would advise using sticking charms, and not nails."
Harry nodded and thought he would stick a copy of his parents and Sirius's portrait on these walls.
Edward motioned for Harry to follow him; he was led to a door on the other side of the room from the ladder, Edward showed him a control panel which looked quite muggle in origin, because it had lights and some buttons. Edwards explained on seeing Harry's confusion.
"You must be wondering why this looks like a muggle switch, well this is one of my new ingenious ideas, now you will notice that each button corresponds with a name of the room, and a light." Harry noticed that the top button had the words "Room 2" followed by a green light. The other below it had red lights.
"Now this control box doesn't include the Room 1 because you are standing in it, and the button Room 2 has a green light next to it Lets go through this door to Room 2 shall we" Edward opened the door and motioned Harry to enter.
The room that Harry entered was the master bedroom, everything was luxurious, and expensive looking, there was a chandelier on the ceiling, the room had a double bed, and a sofa on the wall opposite the bed, there was a small bookshelf on the right side of the bed. The Cupboard, in the room itself was like a walk in closet, Harry realized that he didn't have enough clothes to even fit inside the humongous wardrobe.
I wonder what the girls would think of this, thought Harry with amusement. He would expect them to drag him to the nearest shop to purchase clothes enough the fit at least half of the space here in one day.
"Edward you have outdone yourself, I am speechless. I had expected a normal trunk but the two rooms you have shown me are mind boggling." Edward smiled at this.
"Well then you should ready yourself because there is more shocking moments to come Mr. Potter" said Edward while his eyes were twinkling away merrily.
He again stood in front of the control box and pointed that the green light that was next to the label of "Room 1"
"Now Harry listen carefully, the green light is next to the label of the room from where we came, now I want you to press the button next to the label Room 3"
Harry nodded and did so as asked, the green light moved to the Room 3 label. Edward opened the door, and they entered what appeared to be a kitchen. Harry gasped,
"That control box controls the doors from one room to another Harry, at one press of a button, you can move around without the confusion of what door you need for which room"
The other rooms included a guest bedroom, a library, a well-stocked potions lab, a practice room with some dueling dummies, and the last room shocked Harry the most, it was a dungeon, with separate cells, with enchantments which self cleaned the cells, anti-apparition wards, anti-spying wards i.e. preventing any homing charms, anti-animagus wards, to name a few.
Overall Harry was most impressed by the work and thought Edward had put into making his trunk.
They both stepped out of the trunk, and Edwards performed the proper enchantments, for using Harry's ring to enter the trunk. The ring would also be needed to use the control box, and Harry could also rename the labels to suit his needs, as well as password-protect his rooms.
Harry paid the man a little extra for his work, and Edwards made a couple of requests from Harry, "Firstly Harry I would like to ask you that if it would be possible for you to lend me your trunk for displaying purposes after the war is over, I don't think I would ever have a chance again to make a trunk like this one in my life, and I want to display it so the world can admire and appreciate my work."
Harry didn't find any problem with that, and it was the least he could do for Edward. The man had practically poured his blood and sweat to make this trunk for Harry.
After Harry nodded Edwards face changed into a scowl, "Harry I want you to catch those assholes who call themselves death eaters, and I want you to swear to me that you would make them pay for every single crime they have committed in the name of their so called dark lord, the cells have many more surprises that I haven't mentioned to you verbally, but it is included in the manual present in the library, and your bedroom bookshelf, which can only be read by you. There are passwords that can be used at certain places in the trunk for some surprises I have installed. In the end I would like to say is that" Edward stopped himself to control his breathing and said
"Kill that fucking bitch who calls himself Vvvol-Voldemort" Edward said that with soo much venom in his voice, that Harry was taken aback a little, but shook Edwards hands and said in an equally venomous voice
"I will do it even if it is the last thing I do"
Harry shrunk his trunk with password, which Edward had told him, and walked out of the shop.
He went to a nearby alley and spoke the words "Master needs to visit his vault" while projecting the image of the Ancestor room towards the ring.
The ring glowed and Harry disappeared without a sound from the alleyway.
Authors Note: Sorry I haven't included the conversation that was supposed to take in the vaults, I will cover them next time, I am rather sleepy right now so good night everybody, Hope you like this chapter as well
Athenakitty: You have to learn the meaning of "Patience is a Virtue" I am sorry but I can't answer your questions, you will have to wait for the updates.
SeekerTLK: Ya well sorry Harry already has loads of Fire whisky with himself, so he doesn't to party anymore, if he and Ginny get drunk together, they can have a private party of their own ;)
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