Chapter 12: Diagon Alley

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The next morning Harry woke early. He had slept well, for once, but he still was unsure how he ended up in his pajamas. Draco it seemed had the same question because he kept looking at his outfit and back to Harry.

Harry shrugged and went for a shower. He went to breakfast in better spirits than he had fallen asleep with. Surprisingly enough, it appeared that he and Draco were the last ones up. Harry looked at his watch to double-check the time.

"Is it just me or is it extremely early for everyone to be awake?" he asked Draco.

"No, my watch says 8:00 as well." He looked around.

"Ah good you're up. This meeting concerns you anyway. Here sit down and have some of Molly's delicious pancakes." Dumbledore gestured them to some free seats. "So have you two thought about who you would like as your guardian?"

"Sir I was wondering if we could have two guardians?" Draco asked.

"What do you mean?" Dumbledore looked at the young man curiously.

"Sort of like duel custody that muggles have when they get divorced." Harry supplied catching on.

"Well I suppose we could arrange it. That is of course if the two parties agree. Who do you have in mind?"

"One more question. Can Dudley stay with us? I mean if he has to get a new guardian can he at least stay with us?" Harry was the one to ask.

Dudley stared shocked at him. "But-I was always mean to you. You want me to come with you to a new home?" Dudley was shocked.

"Look. I suggested it. I know what its like for everything to suddenly change. You're going to need an anchor when the whole world flips so you really should stay with us." Draco answered before looking at Dumbledore for the answer to Harry's question.

"If that is what you wish." Dumbledore nodded.

"Alright then we want you and Remus to be our guardians." They had talked about it on the way to breakfast and had decided.

"I accept the position." Remus said with a smile. "I had my fears but a few people slapped some sense into me." Remus smirked while muttering a "literally" sneaking a glance at Tonks.

"Bloody right I did." Tonks didn't care who knew she had smacked him. She was proud of it.

Harry was grinning at the two knowingly.

Dumbledore looked at each of the three boys in turn.

"I will be your secondary guardian but that does not mean that you will be favored during the school term."

"Yes sir." Harry and Draco responded.

Dudley was still stunned at the thought that Harry and Draco wanted him with them. He grinned happily.

"Now if you kids hurry and eat you can go to Diagon Alley for the day." Dumbledore told the group of teens.

They all began eating.

"Alright everyone settle down." Remus instructed the group.

"Shut up all of you." Tonks said loudly.

They were all quiet. Tonks opened her mouth to say something to Remus when he rolled his eyes but thought better of it.

Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Draco, Harry, and Dudley listened as Remus explained how they would do this. Tonks would pose as a teen (at which point she transformed to look like someone their age) and they would attend the stores in a group.

"Absolutely no wondering off. I know you all want to do what you want but at the moment it is too dangerous. Order members are wandering throughout the alley so that you are safe wherever you are. We can stop at whatever stores you want." Remus looked at the suddenly deflated group.

"You act like you have strict members assigned to you. Honestly you have me and Remus here. I'm not what you would call mature and Remus was once one of the greatest pranksters of all time." Tonks cheered the kids up.

"Once? I still am." At her look he sighed. "Ok ok so without the group I'm nothing."

They headed out towards the little town. There they called for the Knight Bus. Remus' three young charges were sent to the top while Tonks and the others stayed on the bottom. Soon enough they were there and were stopping at Gringotts. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were unable to come with them so they had left Tonks in charge of buying for the kids.

Remus headed with his group to the Potter safe while Tonks went to the Weasley's. Hermione had some money to exchange afterwards but Tonks would take care of that after they collected the money.

Dudley looked as if he would be sick by the time the ride down finished. When the goblin (which he was terrified of) opened the safe they all gasped. The money had doubled since they had been there a week ago. A note had been added to the pile, which Harry climbed up to get.

"Dear Harry and now Draco as well, we noticed the store was making quite a bit of money so we decided to open a new vault just for each of our shares of the company. You should have seen mom's face when she opened the vault. We left a little gift for her there. Swing by the shop and we'll give you the key. Your business partners, Gred and Feorge"

Harry read aloud.

Dudley was shocked at the amount of gold. "Dad would kill you if he saw this." He said simply.

"That's why I never told him. Draco fill your bag. Dudley, here's a bag, you might find something you like here." Harry handed him a full bag.

"Well paying for stuff for you shouldn't be a problem." Remus commented amazed.

"This is more than mom and dad left me." Harry stated as he withdrew from the vault.

They met up with Tonks and the others in front of the bank and made their way to the bookstore.

"Well if it ain't Potter and his little friends." Crabbe pushed Harry into a bookshelf.

Draco looked as if he wasn't sure what to do. He couldn't take them on by himself and the others seemed to have disappeared. All except for Dudley.

"Hey leave my brother alone." Draco stepped in front of Crabbe.

"Look Potter has a fan." Goyle stated.

'How did I ever deal with such stupid bodyguards?' Draco asked himself.

Dudley was frozen as the second big lug grabbed Draco and threw him into the bookcase.

One of them threw a punch at Harry making the books fall on Draco when Harry dodged.

Draco was now out cold. Dudley knew he had to do something because now there was nothing standing between Harry and those two big idiots.

Dudley stepped in front of them. They were smaller than him and probably had less experience in bullying.

"Let my cousin go or I smash your face in." Dudley stated while pounding his fist into his open hand.

Crabbe and Goyle didn't know what to do. They sneered (or tried to) like Draco would and continued to pick on Harry who was for once without the ever-present friends.

Dudley slammed into one of them and watched as he fell into the other.

Harry fell to the floor with a thud. By now the noise had reached the rest of the group and they had managed to get to the scene. Dudley helped Harry unbury Draco.

Draco groaned. "Remind me not to do that again."

Remus glared at the two bullies and watched their eyes widen at being caught by a teacher out of school.

Tonks repaired the bookshelf with a wave of her wand and sent the books flying back onto it.

Harry was busy making sure his brother was ok and thanking Dudley.

The two bullies got up and ran off so the adults couldn't curse them.

After leaving Flourish and Blotts, they decided that they needed a quick rest and headed for the Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.

Upon entering they were shocked to see that they had to fight their way to the counter. Fred must have spotted Ginny and Ron's flaming red hair from the front because he yelled out to George. "Hey George! Over there by the Ton Tongue Toffees!"

George looked and spotted them. "Hey guys. Hold on a second." He jumped down and made his way to them from where he had been restocking shelves.

"Hi guys. This way. I'll take you to our office." He grinned as he led the way.

Fred soon joined them. "Hi. We make enough now that we can pay employees to do some of the work. Here's your key and vault number Harry. So what would you like?"

"Somewhere to sit would be nice." Remus said holding his head from the noise.

"Go sit on the couch over there and rest for a bit. The rest of you feel free to look around and whatever you want bring it in here. Family gets discounts as well as Order members. Draco, Harry's cousin, you can have discounts as well." Fred got up and made his way back to the front.

The teens all smiled and hurried into the store making their way toward the shelves. They stocked up on Skiving Snackboxes, Ton Tongue Toffees, and extendable ears. They grabbed some various other items as well. Just as they were heading for the back room with the pranks the door burst open to reveal a rather large group of Dementors. Dudley looked scared as the cold rushed over him again. Ginny whimpered and the twins were shaking as much as the others. Harry drew his wand and thought of the happiest thing, he didn't have to live with the Dursleys anymore!

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" he yelled along with Lupin. A white stag as well as a white wolf chased the Dementors away. That's when Harry heard it. Chaos and screaming. Through the windows you could see Death Eaters tormenting the shoppers. Harry pushed Dudley into the back room. "Stay here. They hate Muggles and you will be a big target." Harry instructed closing the door.

He made his way to the alley and began firing curses that he knew. Ron, Hermione, and Ginny joined him in stunning the Death Eaters. Draco went with the twins to help shield the customers inside the shop.

Remus and Tonks guarded the exits from the alley after casting an anti- apperating charm. The other order members were casting and dodging curses as fast as they could.

Soon it was all over. Ten death Eaters had been stunned the rest had gotten away. Harry quickly made his way to his terrified cousin.

"Wh-What w-was th-that?" Dudley asked as he shook with fear.

"That, was a test of our strength." Dumbledore supplied from the fireplace he had just come out of.

A/N: Wow 2 chapters in one day. See a treat! A suspenseful one but a treat all the same. 1,823 words if you are interested.