Chapter 6: SHOPPING
It had been a late night last night the movies ended two in the morning. Now everyone was up bright and early six o'clock the Wizards and Witches went out side with Ancient to call their Familiars so that they new what they needed or wanted to buy for them. "Alright now to call a familiar is simple there is no need for wands all you do is say the following. Familiaris comedo. But first let me tell you something when you call a familiar you will receive an animal that is meant to be with you for life. Now just because you call a familiar does not mean that you will not be able to get another one later, you just can not call another one. You may befriend an animal and then they by choose to become your familiar or your friend. Also you might not get a animal that you are familiar with, for instance you may pull a animal from another dimension, so be prepared for anything. Another thing for you four True Animagus when you call you familiar you will find out what your primary Animagus for is, as it will be your familiars form. Alright now everyone Familiaris comedo."
Everyone one said the incantation and suddenly there were 11 animals in the courtyard Brian went to each of person and told them their familiar and waited for them to name them. First he approached Tanya Smith next to her stood Timber Wolf with yellow eyes its fur was a salt and pepper color this a touch of brown on it head and hindquarters. Tanya named him Brutus. Next was Natasha Irons she had a proud Siberian Tiger with Golden Eyes she named Khan. Ginny Weasley has a Lion with white eyes but the lion himself was white as well, that she named Mufasa. Next to Ron was a Black Jaguar with yellow eyes that he named Bagheera. Hermione had a Cougar with Brown eyes named Sasha. Luna received a King Cheetah with brown eyes it looked almost like a regular Cheetah except its spots where larger she dubbed him Mitus. Neville had a Asiatic Black Bear next to him with black eyes it was black all over except for a small patch of brown in the shape of a "V" on his chest Neville called him Baloo.
The four True Animagus were in love with their Familiars. Conner's was a Liondragon or in some circles a Chinese Fireball he called him Kung. Dawn Summers had a Pegasus that she named Sterling. The only two to pull from other dimensions were Harry and Draco. On Harry's shoulder was a Ice Phoenix it looked like Fawkes but it has ice blue in color and its eyes where a Deep Sapphire Blue. Harry looked it him for a while and called him Achilles the bird seemed to really like the name. Draco's animal was the most surprising of all it was and Ice Blue Griffin, it looked just like a lion but it was a brilliant white with a sky blue mane then it spread it wings and it had two large eagle wings that spanned 11 feet. It eyes were a light blue and on the tip its tail it was fur color red. Draco looked at it for a long time trying different names before it agreed to Kumal as a name.
After figuring out what they had to buy everyone gathered in the room where Ancient had pulled the people to Camelot. Brian said, "Now we are going to start at Diagon Ally you will have the whole morning for there, we will have lunch at the Leaky Cauldron, then we will go to Blackwell's Bookstore on Charing Cross Road, then we will walk up Oxford St. to the Dixion's by Marble Arch here we will purchase all the necessary items for your computers. Then we will hop a bus to Harrods for Muggle Clothing. After that you will have the rest of the day for sight seeing, when you are done just touch your pin and come back here no later than 11 pm tonight. Frank, Alice we need to disguise yourselves so that no one knows that you are back to full health. Also those of you that are not use to the Wizardry world stick close to those that are they will be able to answer any question that you have. Lagoon Boy, we are going to place a concealment charm on you that will make you look human. Red Tornado, Spike and Illyria have decided to be stay behind. Another thing I will be going by Brian while we are out, superheroes please use a secret identity. Does anyone have any questions?"
No one said anything waiting for his or her list of things to buy. "Now I am not going to give you all a list because you will not be paying for anything everyone will receive a small amount of spending cash if you are not from that world in other words Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Ron, Draco, and Neville will not receive any in Diagon Ally but would if they desire in the Muggle world and everyone else vise versa. Now lets go. Everyone touch this piece of rope."
When the appeared in Diagon Ally the non-wizards where surprised at what they saw a few of them where able to school their faces not to show the surprise that they felt. Ancient hurried them all to Madam Malkin's Robe Shop. When they entered McGonagall, Harry, and Draco went up to talk to Madam Malkin.
"Minerva what a surprise what can I do for you?" the proprietor said.
"Well two things everyone behind me needs 2 sets of Battle Robes, 5 Dress Robes, 2 Ceremonial Robes and 20 everyday robes, they are all part of a special class that Hogwarts is doing this summer. Also I need to get Mr. Potter, Mr. Malfoy, and Mr. Longbottom set up with everything appropriate for their statures, in our society. If you could take care of them personally it would be greatly appreciated." Minerva said with all seriousness.
"Okay let me call the girls that are in the back to help with the measurements of everyone else and I will gladly take care of Mr. Potter, Mr. Malfoy, and Mr. Longbottom myself. Could you get everyone else selecting the color, type of material and patterns for their Dress Robes and Everyday Robes. I would greatly appreciate it."
"Of course."
"Great Mr. Potter, Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Longbottom please follow me to a special room. Miss Bell please call the other girls to help with the measurements of the others."
"Of course Madam Malkin. It is good to see you again Harry be sure to stop by and see me before you leave," said Katie Bell giving a pointed stare from behind the counter.
"How could I deny a pretty face like that," Harry said with a sweet smile before following Draco and Neville into the special room.
"Now boys you three are either the Heads of or Acting Heads of three of the oldest families in the world. This means that you are required to attended many social occasions and ceremonies to represent your families. So we must get you set up with the appropriate robes. Also when you are out in public you are required to show a certain amount of dignity and this is reflected in your clothing so lets get started."
They spent the next hour trying on different robes finally Madam Malkin said that they were done.
"Madam Malkin, please let me know the amount what everything coast as I will be paying for everyone today," Harry said.
"Mr. Potter do you realize how much that is going around 20,000 Galleons."
"I understand that Madam Malkin. Please let me know and I will pay for it. Also how long will it take to get all of the robes completed."
"Well for this many robes it will probably take a week. I can owl them to you."
"I am sorry to say that where we are going to be at owls will not be able to reach us. Take this pin, when all of the robes are done bundle them together and put this pin on top of it. Just tap the sword and say return and it will transport them to us."
"Not a problem Mr. Potter."
"Thank you Madam Malkin for your expertise today."
"It was my pleasure."
Harry, Draco, and Neville walked out of the special room and found that almost everyone had completed picking out their robes and being fitted. Harry walked over to Katie and talked with her while everyone was finishing up. When everyone was done and everything was rung up Harry walked over with the large key the Gringotts had given him yesterday and to hear how bad the damage was going to be.
Madam Malkin was rang everything up said "well Mr. Potter the total is 20,000 Galleons but I am going to give you a 10 discount so the total will be 18,000 Galleons."
Harry thanked her and after retrieving his key they were on their way. Their next stop was Blatemores: Luggage Makers of Fine Trunks, Bags and Baggage for All Occasions where they picked up 40 7 compartment trunks each trunk had three regular compartment sized 1.5' wide, 4' length, and 2 foot deep. The forth compartment was a library compartment in which you could put all your books and they would automatically sort how you wished them and when you needed a book all you had to do was either state the name of the book or if you were doing research state the topic and all the books would appear. The Fifth compartment was a dueling area complete with practice dummies and targets. The Sixth compartment was a personal flat with washroom, bedroom, kitchen, and sitting room. The final compartment was an open compartment for anything the owner wished to use it for. In the fifth, sixth, and seventh compartment was porthole to access the other parts of the trunk. The trunks had a command shrinking charm and featherweight charm on them, to activate all you had to do to was use the command words. To access the trunks you first had to be coded to them first. Everyone also got a backpack of their choice all of which were bottom less and feather light. Harry and Draco chose a black one made of the hide of a Hungarian Horntail, it had two main compartment with three interior and a dozen exterior as well. Harry also picked up 40 money bags.
After they left Blatemores they went to Flourish and Blotts were Hermione and Dawn seemed to have a field day they were all told that they had 45 minutes to pick up any book that they wanted Professor McGonagall even got them access to the restricted area of Flourish and Blotts by the time everyone was done the shelves would have been cleared if it were not for the magical nature of them. Harry spent 150 thousand galleons in there and the owners even had given him a 25 discount on everything. The bulk of the books were going to Hermione.
They next went to the stationary shop where they picked up quills, parchment, and ink. They next went to Quality Quidditch Supplies here they got Quidditch pads, and balls for two teams and all the witches and wizards got a Firebolt XS, the newest and best broom on the market. Ron seemed to be a little nicer to Harry after that but he was still pissed. They then went to the Magical instruments shop and picked up sneak-a-scopes, and other magical items. After they left they began walking to Ollivander's. Harry noticed that the Weasley twins shop was on the corner of Knockturn Alley but also right next to Florean Forescue's Ice Cream Parlor, Harry also notices that it was also in sight of there rivals Gambol and Japes Joke shop. As they passed Knockturn Alley no one noticed a set of eyes on them that as soon as they were passed hurried deeper into the dark alley. They spent an hour in Ollivander's while Frank, Dawn, Natasha, Conner, and Tanya tried to find their wands. After they left Ancient gathered them all together and said. "Now it is 11:30 we have a lunch appointment at 1 o'clock at the Leaky Cauldron. I have to go pick up some things for the castle now Harry has a money bag here for everyone. You all get 50 galleons Harry also informed me that he is going to give everyone money both here and in the muggle world so as you leave get your bag from him. Also if you are unfamiliar with the wizardry world please stay with someone who is. Thank you." Harry handed everyone a moneybag and the last two to get their bags where Stephanie and Tim.
"Harry do you mind if me and my girlfriend tag along with you?" asked Tim.
"Not at all," Harry said with a smile, "but what is your names there have been so many flying around that I am still trying to sort them all out."
"Well I am Robin and this is Spoiler but are real names are Tim Drake and Stephanie Brown." Robin said and then realized what he had just done. He had never let his real name slip to someone before but he really felt like he could trust this young man.
"Very well let me introduce you to everyone that is coming with me first this is Draco Malfoy, Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, Ron… hey were did Ron and Hermione go?" Harry demanded.
"I think they are still mad about you and Draco I saw them heading towards the Magical Menagerie probably to pick up stuff for Pig and Crookshanks." Ginny said looking towards where the two went.
"Okay then let them be that way." Harry said clearly peeved at his best friends. "Everyone this is Stephanie and Tim they are going to be joining us." Everyone said hello.
"Do you mind if we join you too, I am Dawn Summers and this is Conner Stephens," said a petite brown haired girl standing next to a well-built black haired boy.
"No not at all the more the merrier," Harry stated. Remus decided to tag along with them so that they would have some adult supervision.
Everyone else in the large group remained with Professor McGonagall and the others. This perked Harry's curiosity so he asked Tim why no one from his group came with him.
"While it is an unusual place that is here but me and Stephanie are used to seeing the unusual and going it on our own. The other are really used to fighting as a team now don't get me wrong they can fight by themselves, but they prefer to fight as a group. While Stephanie and I were trained to fight by our selves and rely on no one."
"Oh, I see you are not afraid to take things on that you do not know about while the others are still trying to comprehend what is going on."
"That is one way of looking at it," Stephanie said with a smile. "You see the way we were trained made us relay on ourselves not others. We have also fought some of the weirdest supervillains around." With that Tim and Stephanie explained about their battles with The Joker, Two-Face, The Riddler, Mr. Freeze, Killer Croc among others, while Harry told them about his battles with Voldemort and Dawn and Conner related their adventures in Sunnydale and Los Angelus. Around 12 o'clock they walked into Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes to look around. Fred and George were stocking the shelves while Lee Jordon was manning the counter. When the twins saw Harry they immediately rushed over to him.
"Aah, our biggest investor and salient partner has finally graced us with his presence, and he has brought us our very own guinea ferret to test items on," the twins said with glee.
"You touch Draco and myself and Moony will show you a thing or two about tricks," Harry said with a mischievous grin as the watched the twins mouths fall open.
"You know the great and powerful Moony?" "Who is he?" "What about the others?" "Yeah, Prongs, Padfoot, and Wormtail?" the twins alternated
"Yeah, I know who all of them are two are dead and the other is no longer a Marauder if he ever was. Besides you know them all as well. Lets see the Traitor a.k.a Wormtail a.k.a. Scabbers a.k.a Pettigrew, Prongs was my dad, and Padfoot was Sirius, and Moony is in your presence now."
The twins started looking around before they set their eyes on Remus and their eyes opened wide in realization. They both fell to the floor on their knees and bowed their heads saying "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"
Everyone began to laugh at their antics before Remus, who was beat red from laughing so hard as he tried to drag them to their feet. They next half hour was spent in WWW laughing and joking everyone loved the twins jokes, Tim even said that he might be able to use some of them in apprehending criminals.
As they were leaving the twins shop they decided to head next door and get some ice cream, when they were suddenly surrounded by ten figures in black robes and white mask. Harry also began to feel really cold so he shouted "Dementors, Death Eaters" and the battle began.
Harry immediate focused on the Dementors as they were the larger threat especially to Dawn, Conner, Tim and Stephanie who had never encountered them before.
While Harry and Remus were conjuring Patroni, Conner, Tim and Stephanie though seemed to have the Death Eaters well in hand throwing kicks and punches at them before they could even fire a spell in their directions. The others also fell into a defensive position firing curses, hexes and jinxes at the Death Eaters. Ron and Hermione had heard the ruckus while they were walking out of the candy shop and ran towards the fight Hermione immediately cast her Patronus to help word off the attacking Dementors. Ron saw a very familiar figure trying to sneak up on Ginny and began running in that direction but saw Draco fire a curse at the traitor. Pettigrew could do nothing as his wand flew from his hand and landed in Draco's as another spell bound him tightly in ropes that he could not get out of. Hermione saw who had been captured and immediately sent a Petrificus Totalus preventing him from even turning into his Animagus form. The Death Eaters were soon bound and stunned. All that was left was the Dementors and three Patroni were not doing much but holding them at bay. Ancient walked out from Knockturn Alley and saw the Dementors and became very pissed off.
"REAPERS! THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU WHERE CREATED FOR! You where not created to serve evil you were created to destroy it." Ancient yelled as he raised his hand towards them. "Now I will have to undo you for good. PATRONUS DESTRUCTIO." The Dementors stood shocked until a massive silvery white wave descended over them making them screech with agony until all but one was destroyed. Ancient then looked at it and said "go back to the others and tell them that the creator is back and he demands your obedience." The final Dementor fled the area as fast as it could.
Just then Aurors started apparating in ready to fight anything and everything, when they saw the Death Eaters already bound and stunned they realized that the attack was already over and that they were too late to do anything but take the prisoners in custody. Kingsley Shacklebolt was leading auror and headed over to Harry and Remus to find out what happened as they finished talking Ron and Hermione walked up to them with a bound death eater in between them. "Auror Shacklebolt I would like to present to you a dead man," Hermione said as she pulled of the Death Eaters hood and mask off and proclaimed "Peter Pettigrew." Immediately Harry and Remus lunged at the no good rotten rat ready to strangle him Conner and Draco had to hold them back while Kingsley hurriedly asked for two other aurors to take Pettigrew to a holding cell and not to let him talk to anyone and added to included the Animagus ward to the cell before dispelling him after Hermione stated that he was an unregistered Animagus. When Pettigrew was no longer in sight of the two pissed off men they began to calm down and both demanded for Sirius' name to be cleared posthumously Kingsley said that he would do all he could. After everyone was debriefed they left for the Muggle World instead of eating in the Leaky Caldron as before planned instead they went to a Pizza Hut on the way to Blackwell's Bookstore, Ron and Hermione sat with Harry, Draco, Ginny, Tim, Stephanie, Dawn, Conner, Neville, Luna and Ancient also joined them. Hermione and Ron apologized to Harry and Draco for their rude behavior.
"Harry, why did you go after that man that Hermione and Ron turned over to that police man?" Asked Tim quietly. Harry explained how Pettigrew had betrayed his family and framed his godfather for Murder. Tim nodded his head knowingly and did not ask anything else.
"What I want to know is how the Dementors were destroyed," said Harry looking at Brian.
"Well you see the Dementors, as you call them, where created by the founders to fight against the forces of evil," Brian started. "When we created them we built in a flaw in case they ever did join the Dark Side. It was called Patronus that is why Expecto Patronum holds them back. But the founders designed a kill switch if you will called Patronus Destruction that will undo the spell that we used to create them. So when I saw them fighting for Voldemort I just snapped and used the destruction charm on them. I left the one so that we have a possibility of bringing the others back. But I will teach you all the spell to destroy them in case they do not rejoin our side."
After that everyone settled down and ate their fill of pizza, salad and breadsticks. After lunch everyone trumped up Charing Cross Road to Blackwell's Bookstore again everyone was an hour to collect all the books that they would need for their schooling, research and leisure. Harry began by browsing the fiction area and but he also picked up advanced books on astronomy, science, mathematics, a lot of classical books, Shakespeare, Dickenson, Twain, and Melville to name a few, Hermione, Tim, and Dawn seemed to go hog wild in the store. When they were done Harry ended up spending 10 thousand pounds there. They left Blackwell's they ducked into a dark alley and put all the bags in their backpacks. They took a nice long stroll up Oxford street to the Marble Arch and stopped at Dixion's to pick up the computers. On the walk up Brian, Tim, Conner, and Dawn discussed what computers to get and what other items were needed. It was decided that the computers would be a HP Laptop DV1049 - Intel Pentium M710 1.4Ghz, complete with Microsoft Windows XP Professional, case, mouse, web cam, DVD/CD-R Drive, external 3 ½ Floppy Drive, Tumbdrive, and all-in-one Printer/scanner/copier. Also everyone would get a HP Ipaq H6340 - Color Connected Handheld with all the accessories, pre-paid mobile phones with all the accessories, and top of the line scientific calculators. Everyone was also given the time it took to collect all of this to find any software they wanted or might need. When the store manager rang up the total it came to 137,197.60 pounds the manager decided to give them a 25 employee discount it still came to 102,898.20 pounds.
Next everyone went to Harrods for clothes shopping they arrived there at 4:45pm and everyone was given and hour to collect formal, informal, pt, and any other clothes that they might need. Everyone swarmed into the store and started to find what they needed the guys had all their items and were back in half an hour but the girls took all the allotted time they had. The girls with boyfriends in the group even had items for them. Harry spent another 20,000 pounds when all was said and done. When they all left Harrods Brian had everyone gather around him. "Alright everything that was needed to be purchased now has been. You all now have the rest of the night until 11 pm tonight to do as you wish. Remember you will need to be back to the hotel by 11 as that is when the time shift will start. Harry has an envelope for each of you that contains 500 pounds for you to spend as you wish. Also no fighting if it can be avoided. Now off you go."
Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, Neville, Luna, Ginny, Tim, Stephanie, Dawn, and Conner decided to stick together and do some sight seeing and also stop at some Occult shops for miscellaneous items or books that they thought they might need for their training. As they were walking away Oz and Donna asked to join them, which they all agreed to, and they were on their way.
Harry and his group went around London talking and joking. They made their way to Vauxhall Road where there were a lot of Occult shops and purchased a lot of books and mystical items there. They also went around and saw all the major sight such as Big Ben and took a ride on the London Eye, which looked like a giant Farris wheel, where they got to see one of the oldest cities at night from high above. When night descended though Harry noticed that Dawn, Conner and Oz seemed to be more in their element, he also noticed that they where always watching the shadows. Draco noticed this and asked what was wrong. They all explained that nothing was wrong, yet, but they were just used to being extra cautious at night as that is when vampires and most demons come out. Tim also added that most criminals do as well. They got back to Camelot a little before 11 pm. They all went to bed shortly there after.
When they all awoke up in the morning the first thing the Witches and Wizards did was go outside to see their familiars. Draco ran out with Harry eager to see Kumal who was by far the most majestic animal anyone had ever seen. When the Ice Blue Griffin saw Draco approaching it turn its back on him.
"Kumal what is wrong?" asked Draco.
The Griffin gave him a sideways glance and then turned away again. "Are you mad at me for something?" The Griffin stayed turned away. "Is it because I left yesterday?" Kumal nodded his head. "I am sorry I had to go and get things for the training. But while I was out I did get you something see here it is." Showing Kumal a magnificent Diamonded studded Collar that had winged lions all around it. This seemed to cheer up the Griffin and he let Draco put it on him.
After returning to the castle to get cleaned up they went down to breakfast. Ancient stood up and said. "I have a few announcements the first is that the time has not changed yet. This is because I have talked to the American Department of Magic. First of all none of them have any clue about the merger and they were not affected by it as you where either. They do know about the slayers and superheroes. They are proposing to absorb the slayers into the magical world at the next meeting of the International Confederation of Worlocks meeting. Also they told me that they have ties to the CIA, NSA and OSS and told me that each of these agencies now have junior agencies associated with them. Now that being said I went and talked with each of them and got us ten junior operatives to help us with reconnaissance. So here is my second announcement two new teaches Special Agent Ronica Miles, CIA, and Special Agent Derek Bowman, CIA and new students Special Agent Johnny "Bender" McCloud, CIA, Special Agent Cody Banks, CIA, Special Agent Emily Sommers, MI6, Special Agent Austin Black, NSA, Special Agent Gus Turner, NSA, Special Agent Madeline "Maddy" Phillips, NSA, Special Agent Carman Cortez, OSS, Special Agent Juni Cortez, OSS, Special Agent Garry Giggles, OSS, and Special Agent Gerti Giggles, OSS will be here with in the hour. They are all bringing everything that they need for their training and also specialized equipment. Also they will not be at Hogwarts as they will be working on other things and keeping you informed as to movements of the enemy and supervillains. Now when they arrive please make them feel welcome and help them to understand everything that is going to be going on. I will initiate the time displacement as soon as they arrive. Thank you."