Harry Potter : A New Start
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. Harry Potter is owned by J. K. Rowling. I am making no money from this story. I only own the plot and any characters that I have created.
Chapter 2 : The New Home
With a bright flash of light Harry appeared in his new world, his new home. Harry shook his head while blinking the bright spots out of his eyes. Whe could finally see again he looked around at his surroundings.
Harry was in the headmasters office at Hogwarts. Did the spell not work, he wondered. Did I do it wrong? Only when he calmed down did he realize that he wasn't in the same office he had been in only moments before.This new office looked clean and used. He noticed that Professor Dumbledore's portrait wasn't hanging anywhere.
"Bloody hell," Harry said in shock. "The spell really did work." A sudden noise outside the office brought Harry out of his shock. He could hear voices getting closer to the office and he knew that in a moment he would be caught.
I can't be found yet, Harry thought. I don't know anything about this world. I can't let them find me until I know more. What if my other self is dead? How could I explain who I am? Would they believe me? No. I'll hide, and the first chance I get I'll sneak out.
Finally making his decision Harry quickly hid behind a small table that was off to the side. He couldn't have been quicker because the moment he hid, the door opened to reveal a group of witches and wizards.
Over the next five minutes Harry counted 25 people enter the office. Harry almost had a panic attack when he saw Mad-eye enter the office. Harry breathed a soft sigh of relief when he realized that 'Mad-eye' had two normal eyes, and was no longer 'Mad-eye'. When Remus Lupin entered the office, Harry cast an anti-scent charm on himself so that Remus couldn't smell him with his werewolf senses.
Harry's breath hitched when he saw the last three people enter the room. Leading the small group was a younger and healthier looking Sirius Black. It took all of Harry's willpower not to run over to him and give him a hug.
Next to him was Harry's father, James Potter. I guess that people weren't kidding when they said I looked like him, Harry thought. James was about 5' 8" tall, had brown eyes and messy jet black hair that stood up in the back.
The last person to enter the office was Harry's mother, Lily Potter. She was 5' 4" tall, had long red hair that went down to her waist, and had bright emerald eyes, the same as Harry. She was laughing at something Sirius had said. After she entered the room, she closed the door and put a silencing charm and a notice-me-not charm on the door.
When everyone had taken seats around the large table in the middle of the room, Professor Dumbledore stood up and spoke to everyone, "I thank you all for coming tonight. I call this meeting of the Order of the Pheonix, to order."
This is an Order meeting, Harry thought. I definitely better not get caught now. They'll probably use veritaserum on me to find out who I am, then modify my memory or send me to prision for performing that spell. Albus never told me if that spell was illegal or not. For all I know it could be illegal. Harry was brought out of his thougths when Dumbledore started speaking again.
"Does anyone have anything to report," he asked.
Moody stood up, and when he was aknowledged, said, "Minister Crouch is still trying to increase the Auror ranks. So far he has only managed to get 15 new recruits. The still need to be trained before they can go into the field. They need a lot of work. The ministry is recruiting everyone to be aurors, regardless of experience."
Minister Crouch? Harry wondered. Barty Crouch? I wonder if his son was discovered as a Death Eater yet. Probably not, or else he wouldn't be minister. Pushing those thoughts aside, Harry returned his attention back to the meeting.
"Thank you for that information, Alastor. Please keep us informed of whats going on in the ministry," Dumbledore asked him. When Alastor nodded, he continued, "Does anyone have any other information?"
Mundgus Fletcher stood up and said, "There is talk of You-Know-Who trying to increase his ranks, in preperation for a big attack. The Death Eaters have been sneaking around, recruiting people. People are starting to get nervous. There hasn't been a recruitment this size in years."
Harry gasped. Voldemort is still alive, he thought angrily. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to deal with him here. Harry was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he didn't notice the room suddenly go silent. Harry started when he heard Remus say, "Someone is here that shouldn't be."
"What do you mean Remus," Professor McGonagall asked.
"I just heard someone gasp and it wasn't one of you," Remus replied. Suddenly Order members were standing up and drawing there wands.
Shit, Harry screamed in his mind. What am I going to do now? I guess I'll have to run for it. If I throw a spell at them, it should distract them long enough for me to get out the door. I'll have to wear my hood so they don't see my face. So Harry pulled his hood up and prepared to run.
When the order members weren't paying too much attention to the area he was hiding in, Harry made a run for it. He fired a silent spell in Dumbledore's direction. It had the desired effect. All of the Order members focused on blocking the unknown spell.
While the Order was focused on blocking the spell Harry was running as fast as he could away from the office. Harry could hear the hurried footsteps running after him. When Harry reached the enterance hall, spells started raining down at him form the Order members on the floors above. Harry had to dodge several spells before he finally made it out of the castle. He didn't stop running until he was outside the Hogwarts grounds. There he stopped and caught his breath.
After a minute Harry straitened up and looked around. All he could see was darkness around him. I guess it's night, he thought. Looking at all the darkness Harry suddenly realized that he could have shadow traveled out of the castle. "Dammit," He said aloud. "I ran the whole way for nothing. I could had just left strait from that room. How could I forget?"
Harry walked over to the darkest part of the area he could find and sat down to think of what he was going to do now. I should have planned all this out before I came here, he thought. It would have made things much easier. We'll to late now. I guess I'll just go to the Leaky Cauldron and rent a room for the night. I'll figure everything out tomorrow morning. I better apparate, since barely anyone knows about shadow travel. So Harry apparated to the Leaky Cauldron.
When Harry apparated into the Leaky Cauldron with his hood up, everyone stopped what they were doing and watched him worriedly. It was not everyday that someone managed to apparate through the anti-apparation wards around the Leaky Cauldron. Combine that with the fact that he was hooded, people were, understandably, nervous.
Harry approached Tom, the innkeeper, and said, "I'd like a room for tonight."
Tom nervously looked up at the hooded man and replied, "That will be two galleons for the one night." Harry rummaged through his pockets for a minute before pulling out two galleons. He handed them over to Tom, who said, "Room five is yours." Harry nodded to him and headed up the stairs to his room.
The moment he was out of sight, the room burst into conversation about they hooded man that managed to do what no one should be able to do. Apparate through anti-apparation wards.
When Harry reached room five, he cautiously opened the door. Being the main target of a crazy dark wizard, made one very cautious. When the door was opened all the way, Harry entered the room. He immdiately checked for any spells in the room.
When he was sure that the room was devoid of any spells, he closed the door and sat on the bed. He pulled out his seven compartment trunk, which he carried with him where ever he went, and enlarged it. He rummeged through it and pulled out a muggle notepad. He had decided that he was going to document his entire experience with the Altero Reata spell.
After writing in the notepad for about ten minutes, Harry put it in his seventh compartment. The seventh compartment help Harry's most valuable things, mainly heirlooms and all of his money. Harry had transfered all of his money to his trunk just before the goblins joined Voldemort in the origional world. Tomorrow Harry was going to go to Gringotts and talk to some of the goblins. If he thought it would be safe, he would open his own account there, if not, than he would just keep all of his money in his trunk.
When he closed his trunk and secured it, he laid back on the bed. A few moments after his head hit the pillow, he was out cold.
The next morning when Harry woke up it took him a few seconds to remember where he was. When he did, he relaxed back into the pillows and let out a sigh of relief. After laying there for a few minutes he got up and walked over to the mirror.
Looking at himself, he took inhis appearance. Harry was 6' tall, had messy jet black hair, and emerald eyes. He was muscular, but not too muscular. He was built more for speed than strength.
I look too much like my dad, he mused. That will draw attention to me. I need a haircut. Maybe I can get muggle contacts. I can finally get rid of these glasses. I'll deal with that later. Right now I need a shower and some food.
Twenty minutes later, Harry, dressed and fresh from the shower, descended the stairs in the Leaky Cauldron with his hood up. He couldn't let anyone see his face until he got his haircut and got contacts. He approched Tom and said, "I will like the room for another night. I will also like one of your breakfast specials."
Tom looked at the Harry and said, "That will be three galleons, sir." After Harry handed him three galleons he left to go get Harry's breakfast.
After eating a full breakfast, Harry headed into Diagon Alley. Once he was there he headed strait for the only hair salon there. When he arrived the young witch eyed him nervously before asking, "Can I help you, sir."
Duh, Harry thought before replying, "Yes, I would like to get a hair cut." Harry then lowered his hood. The witch, upon seeing that he was a young and handsome wizard, immediatly lead him over to a chair.
"What kind of haircut would you like," she asked him.
"I don't really know," he answered her honestly. "I've never had a haircut."
She looked shocked. "Never," she asked.
"No," was the reply.
"Okay. Let me think," she told him. "I got it! I know just what to do. Just sit back and let me take care of it. I promise you'll like it."
Ten minutes later, she spun the chair around so that Harry could look at himself in the mirror. "Wow," he said. "It's perfect." Harry's hair was now about an inch in length. It was also spike up.
After Harry payed her, he stepped out of the salon without wearing the hood. He immediately headed toward Gringotts. When he entered the bank, he walked strait up to the goblin at the front of the hall. "I would like to talk to Ragnok," Harry said.
The goblin looked at him in shock for a moment before he burst out laughing. He looked down at Harry and said, "Ragnok doesn't just meet with anyone, especially humans. Go both someone else human."
"Fine," Harry sneered up at him. "I guess that it's your fault this bank wont get the largest deposit in it's history." Harry turned around to leave, but was stopped by the goblin.
"What do you mean, human? How large is this deposit," the goblin asked.
"About 178 million galleons," Harry said casually. The goblin nearly fell out of his chair in shock.
"178 million galleons," the goblin repeated stunned. When Harry nodded the goblin said, "I'll arrange a meeting immediatly." The goblin left the desk and schurried off through a door behing the desk.
A few minutes later the goblin returned and said, "Ragnok will see you now." Harry nodded and followed the goblin through the door and down the hall. When they reached the right room, the goblin knocked. A voice inside said, "Enter," so the goblin lead Harry into Ragnok's office.
Hanging on the walls of the office were several kinds of weapons. Swords, knives, axes, etc. There was a large desk in the office and behind the desk sat Ragnok. Ragnok motioned for Harry to take the seat in front of his desk, so Harry did so without question. Ragnok dismissed the other goblin and turned to Harry. "Farnoc tells me that you wish to make a very large deposit," he said.
"That is correct," Harry informed him, "but I wish to know which side the goblins are on, in this war."
"Side," Rognok asked. "We do not choose sides."
"That may be true now, but what about in a few months," Harry asked. "What then? Will your decsion remain the same? I want to make sure that you will not join Voldemort before I trust you with my money."
Ragnok laughed, "A straitfoward and honest human. Most of your kind would treat us as though we were dirt, but you are honest and appear to respect us. I can assure you that your money will be safe here and that we will not join Voldemort. If we join anyone, it will be you."
"Me? Why," Harry asked shocked.
"You are honest. You treat us with respect. If we joined Voldemort he would use us, then kill us when all is done. I don't think that you would do that," Ragnok told him.
"Well I guess that I'm making that deposit then," Harry said.
An hour later Harry stepped out of Gringotts. Harry had set up his vault, got a look at it, and had several galleons changed to pounds. Harry headed back to the Leaky Cauldron. Before he entered he pulled his hood up. He wasn't quite ready for a lot of people to notice him yet. If someone wanted to get noticed, all they had to do was go to the Leaky Cauldron and cause a scene.
Harry quickly made his way through the pub and into muggle London. He quickly found the nearest eye doctor and went there. Twenty minutes later he left the doctors office with his new contacts on. He decided to keep his glasses just in case he needed them.
On his way back to the Leaky Cauldron, Harry heard screaming ahead. He quickly ran foward to see what was wrong when the Dark Mark was fired in the air. Harry put his hood on, so that no one could see his face and he ran towards the commotion.
When he got there he saw Death Eaters torturing some muggles, so he decide to attack them from behind. "Stupify," Harry yelled at a Death Eaters back. The Death Eater fell to the ground stunned. This, of course, alerted the other Death Eaters to his presence.
"Well what do we have here," mocked one of the Death Eaters. "A hero. We like hero's don't we? There more fun to torture." All of the other Death Eaters laughed.
"Avada Kedavra," yelled another one of the Death Eaters. Harry simply stepped aside and let the curse pass right by him. He looked back at the Death Eater and fired a spell back at him.
"Serpensortia," Harry yelled. A large green snake came out of the end of his wand. The snake was 10 feet in length. Harry hissed at the snake to attack the Death Eaters. This frightened the Death Eaters, since they thougth that only their master could talk to snakes.
The snake bit one of the frozed Death Eaters. His scream caused all of the other Death Eaters to snap back to reality. They quickly gathered there fallen comrades and portkeyed away.
After they portkeyed away Harry vanished the snake. Right when he vanished the snake there was a series of cracks. That meant that wizards and witches were apparating in.
"Stop," yelled one of the aurors that just appararted in. Harry looked at him for a moment before apparating away.
Harry apparated directly outside the Leaky Cauldron. He removed his hood and stepped into the pub. Tom looked at him in suprise when he realized that he had his hood down. Harry breifly said hello, before he headed upstairs into his room.
When he was safely inside his sealed room, he laid back on the bed. I need to find out more about this world, he thought. I'll do it tomorrow. And with that thought he fell into a deep sleep.
A/N: Please Review. I'm going to try and update at least once a week. Thanks to all of you who did review last time.