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Chapter 6
A hell of a lot of shopping
They stopped 20 minutes later in a huge hall and as Harry looked at the numbers on the doors he gasped. The door they where in front of was no. 2!
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"Key please?" said Griphook!
"Yep here ya go!" She said as she handed him the key he walked over and opened the door. A hissing came from the door and then a picture of a lion appeared on the door. The lion looked down at them and spoke
"Who are you?" It asked them
"Me? Or him?" askeded Allanah smiling as she pointed to Harry.
"Ugh…both of you what are your full names?" growled the lion in annoyance
"He…he…he Well my name is Allanah Angelica Aphrodite Gabrielle O'Farrell Rood. And this is Harry James Potter!"
The lion looked at her closely and then said "you've got his sense of humour you know?"
"So I've heard!" she replied with a grin.
"Alright you may enter but he cannot! Only one of the Gryffindor family bloods may enter. No boyfriend's!" he hissed looking at Harry suspiciously
"Hey I'm not her boyfriend!" Harry said back blushing slightly
"My mistake. If you wish to enter all you have to do is send a burst of magic at the door. The wards will sense your magic and then open."
"O.k. thanks" She said and then sent a burst of her energy at the door. They make a grumbling noise and then opened to reveille a massive room that literally could have fit Hogworts in it filled with gold silver and bronze along with huge piles of precious stones and gems. It was decorated in reds and gold's. Harry stared slack jawed while Allanah let out a low appreciative whistle.
She turned to Harry and said, " So how much do you think I'll need for the school supplies?"
"Emm about 50 galleons. Give or take."
"Right! So I'll just go nuts and fill up this bag here then!" she went over and picked up a leather pouch and began chucking in heaps of galleons.
Then she went over to the back of the room to where there was loads of weapons and ran her fingers over a beautiful red and gold pair if twin battle axes with intricate designs of lions and rubies on them. Then a set of 5 throwing knives that where designed like the axes.
She strapped the axes to her back and two of the daggers to her wrists and two to her ankles. The last one she strapped to her upper arm. Smiling she went back outside and closed the doors behind her.
They all got back in the cart and her smile suddenly faded. "Oh god no! Why does everything have to be high?" she moaned
"We have to get rid of that fear of yours!" said Harry with a mischievous look in his eye "Me and Griphook here where just talking and we decided that the only way to beat your fear is to face it!"
"What! Are you mad! I don't want to face it! I want to blow it up then run far away!" she said not liking the look in his eye.
"Now remember we are going to catch you! So don't worry to much!" he said grinning.
While she was inside Harry and Griphook discussed it and decided to make Allanah face her fears. How? By throwing her out of the cart and then racing down to catch her. At first Harry thought Griphook had gone mad but then he told him that goblin miners do it all the time as a game and that she would be fine! What neither of them thought of was whether either of them would be fine when she was done with them!
"What! What do you mean catch me? Why would you have to catch me?" she asked moving over to the other side of the cart.
"Have fun!" he said and then he pushed her outside the cart and waved as she started to fall. Then the cart sped up and whizzed around so fast even Harry adrenalin junky was kinda scared.
Allanah screamed as she fell but after about a minute she realised she wasn't going to hit the bottom for about an hour and started to enjoy herself. You see Allanah had a bird animagus but was always to afraid to use it but now…so she changes into her animagus which just so happened to be a war phoenix. A war phoenix is white and gold with a black beak and claws.
The war phoenix was thought to be a thing of legend. Not real!
As she changed her perfect phoenix vision saw Harry and the cart whizzing down to catch her. She smiled as she remembered that Griffindor had one more thing for protection. A 2000 year old dragon named Paragon but most people just called her 'Para'. She changed back into her human form and called to 'Para'.
Two seconds later she saw her flying towards her! She roared when she saw her mistress falling. Allanah looked at her and sent her a thought saying hello and telling her what happened. If possible the dragon smiled and then sent Allanah a message on how she was not just a high Banshee but also a royal one.
The princess and heir to the thrown to be exact and that all royal banshees have massive white wings. Allanah broke out into a huge grin and released a pair of breathtaking white wings that reached about 8 feet each side mad of snow white feathers that shimmered and seemed to radiate light from her back. She spread them and made herself come to a halt in the air.
She looked at 'Para' and sent her the idea of playing a little prank on Harry and Griphook!
Meanwhile Harry and Griphook came to a stop where Allanah should be falling any second but when they looked up the cavern was all clear. Harry gulped and said" Oh god! Where is she?"
The sound of a light laughter filled the air and then it suddenly got a lot warmer. Harry turned to see a huge dragon right beside the cart. But the thing that really shocked him was that the dragon had a rider! And not just any rider but Allanah who now had the most amazing pair of white wings.
"Why Harry I'm right here!" she said smiling "I just want to tank you for getting rid of my fear of heights! Oh yes and to tell you that you have 60 seconds before I come after you and Griphook with 'Para' here and kill you painfully and slowly. Starting now!"
And they where off! Moving so fast Harry found it hard to breath! They twisted and turned and got to the top just in time to hear a mighty roar. He and Griphook both looked at each other and jumped from the cart and ran for the door.
Just as Harry turned the handle, opened the door and had two steps inside the entrance hall Allanah shouted "Harry Potter! How dare you push me out of that cart! You are so going down mister!" Followed by an earth-moving roar from 'Para'.
Everything just stopped. The whole hall just stood there looking at Harry with shocked expressions. And then all the attention turned to the door where Allanah now stood minus the wings looking absolutely furious.
She looked at Harry with a look that clearly said 'you are dead' and walked up to him.
Everyone was watching as she said calmly "Harry? Why did you feel it necessary to push me out of the CART!"
"W…w…we…well…Erm…it was Griphooks idea!" He said pointing at a less than impressed Griphook.
"Oh really!" she said rounding on Griphook "Well in that case…thanks I haven't had that much fun in ages and I finally got to meet 'Para' too." She said smiling as she shook his hand. Griphook looked very confused but was glad to still have his head so hastily left.
"What?" asked a very confused Harry "no screaming, no pain just a thanks!"
"Well you see Harry I decided to take all of my anger out on you! So there was no need to be mad a Griphook now was there?" she said with a coy smile
Harry gulped "And just how are you going to do that?"
"I'm going to make you train with me!"
"What!"
"Yep that's it that's all I'm going to do to you! But all the people who are listening to our conversation might be on the side of some nasty stinging hex!" And with that everyone got hastily back to what they where doing.
"Oh and Lucius could you tell your master Tommy that I think I'll be joining Harry's side but thanks for the offer anyway. Bye!" She shouted over her shoulder to a very pale looking Lucius Malfoy.
Looking out of the doors down onto Diagon Alley Allanah asked, " Where too captain?"
Harry smiled and said, "Well I thing robes are in order seeing as everyone is looking at you!"
They walked down into Madam Malkines(sp?) and where greeted by he lady herself who said " Hello Harry dear same again? Hogwarts?"
"Yes and we'll also need some robes for Allanah she's joining Hogwarts this year." Harry told her and she got Allanah to stand on a stool and took her measurements. Allanah asked if the uniforms where set and madam Malkines said no, it was just the colour and that they had to have a school crest but most people just got the usual.
So Harry waited looking through the different fabrics while Allanah and madam Malkines talked about stitching and colours and shapes for 30 minutes and when Allanah finally came back Harry was looking very bored!
"Good God! Woman how long does it take to pick a robe?" he asked
"Oh don't be such a baby! You should go shopping with Artemis then you'd be begging to come back to me!" she replied folding her arms
"Fine come on! Lets go get your books!" Harry said as he pulled her out the door walking down the street Allanah saw a shop with broomsticks in the window and pictures of people flying on them.
"Wow! Forget the books I already know everything in most of them anyway, I want to go in there." She said pointing at the store.
"Do you even know what that is?" he asked
"Yup it's a flying broomstick!" she said looking at the window. "But how do you play?"
"Well the games called Quiddich! You have 3 chasers 2 beaters a keeper and a seeker…." Here he went on to explain the rules of Quiddich and how you fly and all that stuff..
"O.k. I so gotta have one of those!" she said beaming at the broom in the window a Lightning Rod XL.
"Ha! Yeh me too! I wanted to get a new broom anyway. Come on." They went into the store and they shopkeeper nearly had a heart attack when he heard they wanted two of the most expensive brooms in the shop!
Next they went to the bookshop and even thought she only needed 13 books Allanah proceeded to buy 75 on all sorts of different subjects from arithmacy to potions! The thing Harry found interesting was that they were all heading into the master's degree.
Next they went to the pet shop and Allanah got a black Irish owl and a magical basilica the cousin to the basilisk. They shopkeeper nearly died when he say Allanah and Harry pick up the deadly shake out of its tank and start to pet it!
The magical basilica has the ability to read thoughts and changes colour to react to the people it comes in contact with along with being very deadly. At the moment it was a soft pink. The sign of deep affection.
The last shop they went to was Olivanders as they walked in Allanah's eyes darkened. She could literally feel someone watching them. She casually positioned herself between Harry and the person watching.
Then she felt the air move as they came closer. Just as they where about to reach them Allanah swerved around and unsheathed the daggers holding them to the mans throat. The man being of course a very shocked Mr. Olivander.
Harry spun around and told Allanah she could relax and that it was the shops owner Mr. Olivander.
Allanah blushed and said "Sorry but why where you sneaking up on us in the first place it's kinda freaky ya know?"
"Ah yes my apologies it seems to be a bit of a habit I have picked up but I dare say you are the first to have noticed me!" he said looking a her thoughtfully
"Well I'm sorry if you where going for a record or something but I need to get a wand!"
"Yes well of course but am I to assume your old wand is broken then, for it is illegal for me to sell you a second one."
"Well since this will be my first wand you don't have to worry about that!"
Mr. Olivander looked shocked at that but didn't ask questions he handed her a wand just to have it snatched away again and again and again until they had been there a good 45 minutes.
"Interesting little one aren't you?" he said, as he looked at her curiously again "you wouldn't happen to have a relation who is part veela or something like that would you?"
"Yes my grand mother was half banshee!" she replied looking at Harry who was sitting in one of the chairs looking on.
"Well then that explains it! I will have to find a wand that has a core similar." Said Mr. Olivander as he went away to the back of the shop.
"Alright" said Allanah as she pulled out 4 of her hairs and handed them to him. He said he would be back in 12 minutes and when he came back out he was looking very serious holding what appeared to be a 12-inch long wand made of almost purple coloured wood with a black handle.
He looked at her again and then to the wand and said " Never in my life! Do you know that wand had an owner before you? After she died it was left in the care of my great-grandfather. I dare say it hasn't chosen a holder for a thousand years.
She took the wand and the feeling of greeting an old friend engulfed her. She waved it blue and black sparks shot out of the tip and danced around the room.
"Oh well isn't that funny? How much is it?" she asked
"It is the most interesting thing my dear. The lady who left it, said that, once it found it's owner it was to be given free of charge"
"O.k. thanks very much! Come on Harry" she said as she took his hand and dragged him out.
Just as she was about to step outside he called out to her " I would expect a wand of that power to be used wisely!"
She turned to look him in the eye and he gasped as he saw. Her eyes glowed a soft blue and then cleared to show what looked like fireworks going off behind her eyes. She blinked and they returned to normal.
She closed the door and looked out to the busy street. Then to her watch it was 5:59. "Come on Harry we better go meet Remus and Tonks " she said as she smiled and they walked down the street and saw Remus and Tonks at the ice-cream parlour.
"Hey guys" greeted Harry as they walked up to them.
"So?" asked Remus "Anything interesting happen while we where gone?"
Harry and Allanah looked at each other and said "Nah nothing! You?"
"Nope" said Tonks "We got what we came for. Everyone ready? Right lets go we're flooing back!"
They all walked back to the Leaky Cauldron. Tonks grabbed some floo powder threw it into the fire and yelled '12 Grimmauld Place' and disappeared in a swirl of green next went Remus and then Harry. Allanah went last and her last thought before she vanished was ' God I wish someone would come up with a better way to travel!"
There was a swirl of green and then she stepped out the other end just in time to see the pile on the floor that turned out to be Remus and Tonks.
"Hey" said Tonks "No fair how come we get thrown out like trash but you two just get to walk out like nothing happened!"
"Oh it is fair! We just have better balance then you so we can stay on our feet. Now I don't know about you but I'm sooooo hungry so come on lets eat. Who wants pizza?"
"I do!" "I do" came the chorus from Harry and Tonks where as a mumbled "Ido Iwantsome " came from Remus who had Tonks's coat over his head.