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Chapter 2 Lord Harry Potter

Day One The Castle

Harry awoke quite happily though a little stiff form sleeping in the car the next day at around 9.00. He opened his eyes looked around and remembered the events of the early hours of the morning, the though of not having to live with the Dursley's was enough to send him saying "Yessss" at the top of his voice.

"Pardon" said a voice to his left

"Sorry Professor, its just I'm so happy to have finally left the Dursley's for good"

"We'll were nearly at the castle so you should start to get up."

And so Harry slowly arose and soon they turned the bend and caught sight of the castle, it was rather a large 4 storeys high and a football oval long it looked rather nice Harry thought until the got near enough to see the front gate which was lying in a rusted heap in the middle of the driveway.

"Ah well I didn't expect that" said Dumbledore repairing them with a wave "Well we best keep going"

And so with a crunch of gravel they stopped at the front door where Harry quickly realised that the gates weren't the worst of the problems, the doors were rotting slowly and the windows were broken in most places and the green which he had thought from a distance was a nice climbing vine was in reality moss all over the place and the field of blackberries was actually the garden.

Dumbledore was silent for a while before "Well obviously I expected a bit of dirt after so long with no occupants but this is a real fixer upper, ah well a little clean I'm sure things will seem better after a clean." came the headmaster opinion while searching his pockets for a key "Aha" and as he turned it in the lock it gave a click a thunk (and well a few other sounds very difficult to type) and the door swung open with a creak and a groan to reveal a cloud of dust.

"Welcome Harry to your new home" Albus announced "Well what do you think?"

"I think the Dursley's wasn't such a bad idea" replied Harry looking around at the dust covered floor and the rickety stairs "This will needs a lot of work"

"That it appears it does but how about I make us some breakfast? Everything seems worse on an empty stomach. Will bacon and eggs do?" he asked and with a nod from Harry he flicked his wand and muttered an incantation and there on the dust covered floor appeared a checked picnic rug, a bowl with a small glittery blue flame and a packet of bacon, a loaf of bread and a dozen eggs. Harry's stomach gave a small growl at the sight of some proper food, back at the Dursley's they'd been eating nothing but healthy fruits and vegetables as Dudley was back on his diet once more.

By the time Dumbledore had cooked the food and they were happily eating the sandwiches Harry had looked slowly around at what was once probably a very nice house, there was a big chandelier on the ground were it had fallen and broken, beside the picnic rug was a once huge carpet which had dissolved into a pile of moth eaten mould.

"Well obviously now we've eaten we'll probably have to clean up a little Harry I'm sorry I didn't expect this kind of mess but I did bring you a present for your birthday, Here you are." Dumbledore said as he passed Harry a book titled "Household Hints and Charms By Mrs V.Cleaner"

"I have a feeling were going to need it"

"Thankyou professor this will help but at the looks of this place so would a bulldozer"

"Yes it does seem daunting and there's probably hundreds more rooms in this house. I think we'll need a little help"

"A LITTLE HELP" groaned Harry

"Alright a lot of help" and a click of his fingers and two small "pops" The house elves Dobby and Winky appeared.

"You summoned Master Dumbledore" squeaked the two elves.

"Yes thankyou for coming, this is Mr Potters new house and I'd hoped perhaps that you two might help Mr potter and myself clean it up a bit." Said Albus waving at the dirt.

"Offcourse sir, anything sir, we are at your service sir, and would be happy to help Mr Potter too sir."

"Excellent I knew I could count on you well we best get cracking, where do you think we should start Harry?"

"A kitchen might be best followed by at least one bathroom and bedroom"

"Yes that's an excellent place this cleaning will be a hungry work"

After looking for the kitchen for a good half hour dobby managed to find it on a ground floor level there was dust every where and a funny plant growing in the sink the fireplace in the corner had droppings everywhere and the oven had mice in the wiring.

Dumbledore was cleaning the fireplace with magic and trying to light a fire at which soot feel down the chimney and covered him form head to toe and while Harry was trying not to laugh albus mumbled "It's going to be a long day. Dobby was cleaning a pantry with odd clicking sounds every time he banished a pile of dirt and Winky set to the stoves tinkering with the wiring with her head in the oven and Harry (aside from laughing) was trying to charm two brooms he'd found into sweeping with a spell he'd found in his new book.

After hours of toil the four stopped for lunch of sandwiches which dobby had prepared form thin air and latter still at 5 pm they had finished the kitchen and a bathroom which dobby had been fixing the plumbing in.

"I think that we should call that a day, well just have some dinner and I think a nice bath" Dumbledore admitted though when Harry tried to turn the tap of his bath on an odd gurgling started and no water arrived, to which Dumbledore made a fountain of water spurt from his wand filling it. All clean and well feed on a stew of dobby's they turned to sleep in purple sleeping bags on the kitchen floor.

"Dumbledore tomorrow I think we will need to collect some supplies, groceries and the such and getting the water and power on is a must the floo network will need connecting and ill need to get some muggle money from gringots and this house is huge I think were going to need some more help so I'm going to invite Ron and Hermione, and Luna and Neville too if its alright and I think I'll advertise in the daily profit for a Gardner, clearer and general repairer" Suggested Harry

"Those are excellent ideas Harry and very important ones tomorrow is perfect and if you want to send invitations to your friends now with Hedwig we might pick them up tomorrow afternoon we will have to leave around 6am for London though as we'll have to drive until the ministry can connect the floo and I'm sure Dobby and Winky can clean up a bedroom or two for us while were in town. It's been a very long day now and I think sleep is needed for an early morning. Goodnight Harry."

"G'Night Professor."