Disclaimer- Harry Potter does not belong to me; all characters belong to her brilliant little mind. But it's my plot! ALL MINE! MINE!
A/N: I hoped you liked the last chapter, please review!
Harry Potter and the Monster Within
Settling In
Harry Potter hopped straight into the car as it pulled up near where he sat, he looked odd to the Dursleys, and after a day of shopping shouldn't you at least have one bag of new items? Especially shopping for school things?
"Didn't you go shopping boy? Suppose they didn't let you in! Ha!" Said Uncle Vernon as he sat down, with only one tiny item in the crook of his arm. "One thing! I thought you needed a bit for that school."
Harry was bursting to say he had had a great day and bought loads of great things, but he knew that if he did him or his treasures would be locked in the cupboard under the stairs for the rest of summer. So he stayed quite while Dudley sniggered while listening to his new MP3 player.
"Bet ya don't got one of these," Dudley teased
"Here had a look," pulling another MP3 from his pocket
Dudley looked like he had been slapped in the face, then he said "What else did you get?"
"I got my ear pierced, and my tongue." said Harry as he pulled back his hair from over his ear, "It's a skull made from a dragons tooth with rubies for the eyes."
"Awesome, Dad I want my ear pierced!"
"Get real, son, only girls get their ears pierced,"
"No they don't, it's cool for guys as well!"
Harry tuned out of the arguing session and stared out of the window for the rest of the journey.
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Harry rushed up to his room and bent over his old trunk, he pulled out everything he needed and then pushed all the stuff he didn't want back in it and put it in his cupboard. He then started reorganising all his stuff in his new trunk, first held school stuff, second held clothes, third held books and the fourth contained all his good, secret stuff. This fourth compartment was big enough to climb into and hide, even with his stuff in there. He had put his new, gorgeous white and ginger female kitten in this compartment, only when he left the lid open, of course. He had decided what he was going to name her, Alida; it had been in his mind ever since he got her.
"How about that? Do you like your name?" His question was answered by a small 'meow' and a purr as he scratched her behind the ears and under her chin.
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Errol flew through the window with a letter; Ron's untidy scrawl soon noted who the letter was from.
Hey Harry,
Are you coming to my place soon? I haven't heard from you much, are you okay? I'm fine. I'm still prefect
I think sixth year will be great! Hermione is also still prefect, Big Surprise, I wonder who the new Quidditch
Cap is? Hope they keep me on the team even though I'm not that good.
Please come over my place soon, I'm sure Dumbledore would approve and we could pick you up or send you
Some floo powder or something, I dunno.
Write back.
See'ya, Ron
Harry folded up the letter and placed it on his desk, he wondered, should he go to Ron's? Or should he stay here and learn new spells and also learn to Apprate? He could practice more at Ron's because they would not be able to know it is he who is doing magic but he wouldn't get much time by himself. What he went and booked a room in Diagon Alley? He could do magic and buy new books and… he also could do the things he hadn't had time to do… Yeah, he'd book a room in Diagon Alley, but how would he tell Ron? He would understand, or maybe Harry might not tell him.
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Hi Ron,
Sorry, I'm not going to come to your house this summer, I'm going to get a room at the Leaky Cauldron for
This summer, just to stay in touch with it all, Hope you understand.
From Harry.
That should be enough. Now, broomstick, invisibility cloak and trunk; all set.
Harry walked down the stairs and took some food from the kitchen and walked outside, he placed his invisibility cloak on while he was behind a bush and then hopped on his Firebolt and kicked off with his trunk in his pocket.
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"Can I book a room till the end of the holidays?" asked Harry.
"I guess, so 2 weeks. Paying in advance?" asked Tom the barman.
"Ummm, no, so can I have a key?"
"Here you are Mr Potter." said Tom, handing over a key, "Room 11."
"Cool, thanks,"
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Harry stretched out on his bed after he had enlarged his trunk. He was thinking… What should he do first? He decided and quickly grabbed his wand and his money pouch from the bedside table and locked the door as he walked out of the room.
He walked through Diagon Alley checking the street signs looking for what he wanted… Where can I get it done? He finally found that there were no places in Diagon where it could be done, s he slipped into Knockturn. He turned the corner and found a likely looking place. He entered into the dark room, the walls covered in Tattoos. (A/N: I know it's been done before, but I like it.)
"Hello?" called Harry into the darkness
"Just a sec," A voice answered. "What do ya want?"
"I want a tattoo, but I'm not sure what of."
"Well we got this special potion, and ya drink it and a tat comes up in little bumps on ya skin, we do the picture that it makes in a special ink and dey can move and everything, dey even 'ave special powers."
"Sounds good, so how do you do thins?"
"Well when ya drink the potion little bumps rise up where ever the tat will be and the different kinds of lumps mean different colours."
"Okay and everyone's different?"
"Yep,"
"Alright, I'll give it a go."
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Harry later emerged with a brilliant white and gold stag on one side of his back, a black and grey grim looking dog on the other and a Hungarian horn tail on his chest. The stag and dog were on the smallish side but the horntail was splashed across his chest between his nipples and above his belly button.
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A/N: I know that has been done so many times but I like it! Love me or hate me it's still my story, I will only take suggestions to improve it. Please Review! Press the little 'go' button down in the left hand corner of the screen, I dare you, go on. Write down your thoughts on the little pop up screen.
