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Chapter 17

December 15th 1988

Hogwarts

Christmas was morning in mid-December,Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow with the lake freezing solid.

No one could wait for the holidays to start with their being roaring fires in the Common Rooms and the great hall the drafty corridors had become icy and a bitter wind rattled the windows in the coldest place of all was in Professor Snapes Potions class where down in the dungeons where thre breath rose in a mist before them and they had to keep as close as possible to their warm cauldrons.

The Great Hall especially looked spectacular with frestoons of holly and mistletoe hung all around the walls and at least twelve towering Christmas Trees stood around the hall with tiny icicles and hundred of candles.

Harry and Daphne spent a lot of time enjoying themselves by the Christmas decorations as well with Daphne enjoying a particular couch in the Slytherin Common Room.

It was only a few days until they all would be leaving for the Christmas Hollidays,

The Potters ever since the events of October 31st 1981 had gone into total and complete isolation in order to "protect"and train his brother Micheal Potter.

Of course he was offterd none of those perks.

Thankfully his friend Daphne was just amazing offering him a invitation from her parents to spend the holidays with them.

And now he had something that he wanted to do.

He wanted to get christmas presents for the Greengrass family and for Edmund Spiers who had helped him a lot so far with his goal of bridging some gaps wtht the other houses.

Harry decided that in order to do that he would go to Diagon Alley.

He had been spending a few weeks planning this out using the Mauraders Map

There was a passage beneath a one-eyed witch statue by the stairs to the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom that went to the cellar of Honeydukes and was opened up by tapping the hump with a wand and speaking aloud the word Dissendium to the witch made the hump on the statue open just wide enough for a small person to slide down to the hidden passageway.

Once he got to Hogsmede he would use a Ageing Potion that he had made a bit ago.

The Aeging Potion was complicated and required newt spleens,Bananas,An orange snake and a green leaf.

Those ingredients took a bit of time to get by owl post but he was able to get them and make the Potion.

He decided then after he got to Honeydukes he would ask too use their Floo Network to make it to the Leaky Cauldron and then Diagon Alley.

And then to find some good gifts.

SCENE CHANGE
It was a Saturday and Dapbnee was in detention with Professor Sprout for accidentally knocking over one of the important plant displays.

Harry told her when she got done that he would be doing something else and that they would meet later.

And now standing near the statue he tapped it and whispered Dissendium

As the statue slid open Harry crawled down into the passage.

Walking along the passage Harry thought about what he wanted to get for Daphne,her family and probably Edmund Spiers.

And preferably gifts that did not cost a lot of money.

He had access to a Potter Trust Vault that was refiled on his birthday and the Greengrasses had graciously given him some money which in total ended up to be a couple hundred galleons for him to use throughout the year but Harry did not want to use it all up on stuff that wasent the most important.

Exteing the passage Harry swallowed his Aeging Potion and waited a bit as his body went through the unpleasant and a little bit painful process of making himself look older more about twenty or so instead of eleven.

Finishing up with his transfiguration and gathering his berings Harry walked into Honeydukes and gasped.

"There were shelves upon shelves of the most succulent-looking sweets imaginable.

This being his first time in the store Harry was astonished but nonetheless was able to gether himself and find the owner of Honeydukes Ambrosius Flume.

Finding Flume Harry was able to pass himself off as a young adult who just was wondering if he could use the Honeydukes Floo connection to get somehwhere.

Flume asked for a sickle in exchange for using his floo connection but allowed him to use it none the less.

Breathing in Harry threw in the Floo Powder.

"The Leaky Cauldron"

SCENE CHANGE

Well what do you know,

During his trip to Diagon Alley for Christmas shopping he had run into Master Dao who saw through his disguise.

Talking for a few minutes Harry disclosed what had happened a few months ago when he escaped the closet but preaty much exploding it with fire.

Intrigued Master Dao said that had recently purchased a place in Hogsmede and to visit their before they went home for the holidays.

And thats how Harry ended up a few days later at Master Daos place in Hogsmede as he gave Harry a lecture on and Harry listened and wrote down things about the art of elemental control.

"Ok listen up"Master Dao said

As Master Dao went on explaining the forms and preforming them Harry felt overwhelmed.

Wow it was just so much.

And this was only one of the elements.

Harry now understood why he was putting a lot of work into learning the Martial Arts before learning how to control the elements.