Harry Potter and the Charm of San Francisco

By Charming Marauders

Chapter Five: Leo Visits

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, Charmed or any related syndicates and settings. However, the plot is mine, as are any characters and settings you do not recognise.

A.N.: Hey guys, this is the un-betaed version so sorry if there is any mistakes.

A.N.2: As we are nearing the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince i have decided to call this a 'Pre-HBP-Fic' but if there is anythingin HBP that doesn't mess with my plot then i will put it in. Also this fic is Charmed AU from about mid-way through season seven as i had most of this written before I saw the end of Season seven so it doesn't comply with Leo not being n Elder and all that. Any way enough with the rambling. On with the story...

Harry woke late the next morning with a different feeling than the morning before, he had had a really good nights sleep and felt that his senses were sharper than ever.

Then he heard a creak and grabbed his wand from the top of his bedside cabinet and ran through to the sitting room.

"Stupefy," Harry yelled pointing his wand at the uninvited visitor.

They fell to the ground with a thump and Harry walked over to turn them on to their back to check that they were still alive (he had no idea what part of the body he had hit with the spell, into the heart could be fatal.)

"Damn!" Harry cursed as he turned the body over. "Oh fiddlesticks! What's that wake up spell? Erm, enty? No. Er, energy? Nope. Oh yeah, Enervate." He said, pointing the wand at Leo's body.

"Urgh, What did you do to me?" Leo asked when he had stood up.

"Erm, yeah, sorry I stunned you. It's an automatic reaction, if you don't expect guests and someone intrudes you stun them." Harry answered apologetically.

"Oh, please refrain from doing it again."

"Okay, what did you come for?" Harry asked.

"To see how your practice is going. Have you read the handbook yet?"

"Yeah, I finished it last night and I've been practicing too." Harry told him happy that he had finished before Leo turned up.

"Good, can I see?" Leo asked looking like he didn't think anyone had read the entire book and practiced.

"Erm, yeah, sure," Harry said as he straightened himself up, whilst inwardly hoping that he did not make a fool of himself, or worse.

He closed his eyes and thought of himself flowing through the wall to his kitchen and when he opened his eyes he was standing by his fridge. Mmm food, I think it's time for some breakfast. He thought and grabbed an apple from the table; then orbed back in front of Leo.

"You took a while." He said as Harry appeared before him.

"Mmm, sorry I wanted to grab breakfast." Harry explained holding up the apple as proof.

"Ok you eat that and then you can show me that you can heal it back together."

"Does that mean I can eat it again?" Harry asked amazed.

"If you want to," Leo told him smiling.

"Cool!" Harry sat down and gestured for Leo to as well.

As Harry ate Leo looked at the way Harry had arranged his flat in the 2 days he had been living there.

"Right, I'm done." Harry informed Leo as he placed the apple core on the table.

"Okay, show me healing." Leo told him.

Harry placed his hands on either side of the apple core and thought about the many pranks he had played on the Slytherins in his sixth and seventh years at Hogwarts. His hands began to glow and he lifted them over the apple, which promptly started to sparkle and grow to proper apple shape.

"Well done Harry. That worked really well. What's your trigger?" Leo asked thinking Harry must be the quickest learner ever.

"It's, erm, amusement." Harry said wondering what Leo would say about his obviously strange trigger, it hadn't even been in the handbook. "I tried anger and just ended up wanting to break stuff like I was 16 again. Then I tried thinking of Ginny and James and my love for them but that just made me think of them, I tried to hate thinking about Malfoy and Snape and then I remembered all the pranks Sirius told me about and my hands started to glow." Harry said wondering why he had just told all that to an almost complete stranger, although he felt Leo would understand.

"Well, that's very interesting." He said yet again amazed that Harry could heal perfectly and with such a different trigger. "I suppose that you can't sense as you don't have a charge so …"

"I can, I tried to sense my son James, and knew where he was."

"Oh, well then try on another person you know really well."

Harry closed his eyes again and thought of Ginny, where she was, what she was doing and he felt a part of himself flowing to her body. He flowed over the sea to London and into Flourish and Blots in Diagon Alley.

"Ginny's in Flourish and Blots in Diagon Alley." Said Harry, coming out of the trance to talk to Leo, and wondering hat she was doing there.

"Well, it sounds like you're ready for the test," he said bemused that Harry knew the exact place only the second time he had ever tried sensing. He must have an extreme bond with his son and Ginny, hmm, is that his wife? I must ask when I get beck up there. "Ill come some time tomorrow. Practice and be ready."

"Okay, see you then." Harry said in a far off voice still thinking about Ginny.

Oh no if he's too caught up in his death and loss of his loved ones like I was then he'll never pass the test he thought. To Harry he said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked you to do that you're not ready to think about her yet.

"No, it doesn't matter I've got to get used to it. I want to go to buy some food and stuff. I found my way to the shop yesterday but I don't remember how to get there, could you give me some directions?" Harry answered him in a voice that did not sound quite as happy as he was trying to make out. "Oh and how can I get some money? I don't think I've got any muggle stuff," he added with a slight laugh.

"Yes, it's not far, turn left out of the front door, right at the end of the street, straight over into the next part of that street then it's on the left about 200 meters down." Leo reeled off the directions like he was a portable map. "Just give them this card when you get to the checkout." He said giving Harry a purple card, credit card size.

"Thanks, well I'll see you tomorrow, then."

And with Harry's answer Leo orbed out, his reply of "bye," echoed around Harry's sitting room.

Harry looked at the card and saw what it had on it.

Harry James Potter

Elder Card

For All Your Home-ly Needs

He smiled at the writing and went into his room to look for his wallet, or rather an exact copy of his wallet and contents.

He found it in his bed-side cabinet, opened it and found his pictures of Ginny, James, Ron, Hermione and their daughter Amber. There was also a small amount of Muggle money, wizard money and some Weasley's Wizard Wheezes Funky Flavour Gum. He put the in the wallet then that into his pocket and picked up his keys.

He left the flat and followed Leo's directions, and walked into the supermarket.

"Hello Mr. Potter, what can we do for you?" Terrence Norris asked as Harry walked through the door of his shop.

"Hi, can you tell me where the tomatoes, pasta and beef mince are please? Oh and some chewing gum, crisps and chocolate please?" Harry asked reeling off a list of what he had used, and junk food he just couldn't live without.

"Yes, of course, follow me."

After thanking Terrence Norris, Harry, with a full basket, joined the end of a huge checkout queue.

Looking around Harry saw that Adam Travers, the Whitelighter who had helped him home, was standing in front of him. "Hey Harry. You found your way here again!" He joked when he turned around seeing that it was Harry he had felt looking at him.

"Yeah, I couldn't remember the way so I asked Leo for directions." Harry explained.

"Leo Wyatt? The Elder? The Avatar?"

"Leo, the Elder, yes. Is he an Avatar as well?" Harry asked.

"Well, yes that's what people have been saying. He had a sort of breakdown of his marriage with one of the charmed ones, than he killed an elder and then about a year ago it all got better for him because he 'found peace' and supposedly became an Avatar." Adam explained.

"Oh I didn't know that, it didn't say the names of any avatars in the handbook." Harry mentioned.

"They weren't in it when I became a Whitelighter, how long have you been one?" Adam asked.

"Erm, the night I died, yesterday and today." Harry said counting on his fingers.

"Oh, sorry. When are you going to take the test?"

"Leo said tomorrow, is it easy or not?" Harry asked hoping it wouldn't be too hard.

"Yes it probably will be for you if you're taking it after three days!"

By this time they were at the front of the queue so Harry said: "Why don't you come round tomorrow and bring some friends, if you want. We could celebrate if I pass the test."

"Course you'll pass, I'll come by around six." Adam said as he paid for his groceries. "Oh, and good luck!"

Harry paid for his food, walked out of the shop and reversed Leo's directions to find his way back home.

When he got back Harry decided to start cooking some food for a light meal so he set a sachet of rice in the microwave and put some bacon under the grill. It felt weird to be cooking for one; it could be over six at the weekends in Grimmauld place, so he decided to look for something to read while the food was cooking.

After checking round the sitting room for a bookshelf/cupboard he vaguely remembered seeing books or magazines piled up somewhere out of the corner of his eye the night before as he was thinking about sleep.

He walked into his bathroom and noticed a pile of his favourite magazines, Quidditch Weekly, and The Quibbler among them. There was a note stuck to the front cover of the top Quibbler.

Harry, it said in purpley-blue, curly writing, not unlike Dumbledore's, your wife- here Harry felt his stomach knot up, has cancelled your magazine subscriptions, but Mr. Norris of the supermarket has said that he will buy in any of these is you wish to keep reading them.

Also the Daily Prophet will be sent to you as normal from Monday if you wish.

Yours, Leo Wyatt

'Aw, that's nice of them,' Harry thought making a mental note to thank Mr. Norris the next time he was at the supermarket.

Harry re-read the note and felt tears well up in his emerald eyes. The shock of becoming a Whitelighter was wearing off and Harry, confronted in such a concrete form as Ginny having to cancel his magazine subscriptions, was beginning to realize just what might be happening over the ocean.

In 12 Grimmauld Place Ginny was crying she had been doing it a lot recently. Well that was to be expected when your soul mate had just died.

Without being able to understand why his mummy was crying the three-year-old James was hugging her.

"Oh … James baby … what are we … going to do?" she said between hiccups as he crying slowly subsided.

"Mummy," said James trying to determine why she was crying so much.

James clambered down from his mother's lap and toddled off to find his dad.

"Daddy, where yooo?" James' yell echoed through the empty house.

RRRING! The doorbell rang making James jump and caused Ginny to notice her son had disappeared.

"Jimmy, come to mummy," Ginny called in a voice much more confidant than she felt.

"Mummy, where Daddy?" The babe asked as he ambled up to the front door where Ginny had gone just about to open it.

"Oh, James, baby," Ginny said sadly, crouching down to his level. "Daddy's gone away but don't worry, he's still with you in here," She said pointing to his heart.

"That was sweet," said a masculine voice behind her. "He's going to be thankful he's got you when he's older."

"Ron?" Ginny questioned turning to face her brother. "How did you get in?"

"Harry gave me a key, in case of emergencies and since you didn't come to the door I figured you might need some comforting." Ron said a little embarrassed.

"Yeah I guess I do, although James has been a great kid 'though I don't think he understands he's never going to see Harry again." She said, quietening a lot as she spoke about Harry.

"Come here," Ron said, pulling his sister into a hug. "It'll get easier, don't worry. Remember what Harry was like when Sirius died. He nearly had a breakdown. Merlin only knows what happened to him then but he got better and could live his life."

"Do you really not know what happened to him that summer, once we got him from the Dursley's that is?" she asked him surprised that Harry had never told his best friends what caused him to accept his godfather's death.

"No, we never pestered him about it. Me and 'Mione got together that summer and we thought it would bother him so we weren't with him. He holed himself up with Buckbeak lot of the time. Why? What do you know?"

"Well, it was me. I found him crying in Buckbeak's room about two weeks after he got here. We talked, he cried, a lot, and I kissed him. I think he really just needed someone who he could rely on not to go weird if he cried. I mean how would you've reacted if he started crying and needed a hug or whatever?" she said into his chest where she was trying not to cry on him, knowing he wouldn't like it.

"Yeah, I see what you mean. I'm not that good with crying girls let alone a crying bloke," he said, glad that she wasn't crying. "Did you just say you kissed him?" he exclaimed holding her out at arms length.

"I don't know, did I?" Ginny said trying to act the innocent while the twinkle in her eye and the slight mischievous smile playing on her lips was a giveaway.

"Yes you jolly well did and you know it. I thought you two got together about half-way through the first term in sixth year."

"Well, we didn't, I just wanted to make sure you would be okay with it so we pretended that we were friends and just found a better friendship, which progressed to more that term, because of what happened in the Department of Mysteries. Hermione noticed but you've always been a bit of a plank!" She explained to him.

"Well, yes I suppose I was I didn't notice my feelings for Hermione 'till that summer." He said thinking about that first week in headquarters with just Hermione and him.

"Right," he said coming out of his thoughts. "I can see that you're going to be fine, so I'd better get back to work. See ya sis." He said letting go of her shoulders. "Bye Jim."

"'Cle Ron," said the baby holding his hands up to his uncle.

"Hey baby," Ron said picking up James. "Now I'm going to work so you look after Mummy for me, okay?"

"'Kay," the babe replied, "bye," he said as Ron handed him over to Ginny.

"See you Gin," said Ron going out the front door.

Harry was shocked out of his thoughts by the oven timer telling him that his food was ready.

After eating Harry walked through to his bedroom where he found a bookshelf in the far corner next to the window.

All his favourite books were on it held up by ornate Gryffindor lion bookends. Also there was a set of six books that he didn't recognise. He picked up the first book and gasped when he saw the title included his name.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling he read "Wow, this book is all about me," Harry exclaimed to himself after he had read the first page or so. He then skimmed through all the titles in the row, "Each book is a year in my life, but where's seventh year? I must get in touch with this J. K. Rowling. I'll ask Leo about them later"

Taking the book in his hand over to his bed he settled himself and read the first four chapters.

Well, this is strange, he thought, reading about myself. Although this is one of the few books about me that seem to have been written by someone who can write and not just put over their opinions about me.

He put the book back on the shelf and, deciding to practice, orbed all over his flat, this time with objects to see if he could, like he had with the apple, sensed everybody he could think of and broke and healed anything he thought he would be able to heal back together.

Exhausted he went to bed happy he would pass the test in the morning.

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Charmed Ones are in chapter 7 as is his charge!
He will see his family…eventually!
Ooh … Halliwell manor now that would be telling wouldn't it!
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