The night before they had to leave to Diagon Ally, the Potters were having a hard time in controlling Teddy as it was two nights before the full moon after all. Teddy started throwing up a fuss all of a sudden, wriggling and crying, constantly crying Mama and Dada. It was a Herculean task for Harry that night, as the Potters left early to bed to give the two privacy.
After a long, fruitless effort of calming down Teddy, Harry took some ice cream from inside and carried Teddy to his room. It was true that only Andromeda and Harry could calm Teddy down at these times apart from his parents.
Anyways, Harry carried him upstairs to their room and cast a lot of silencing, locking and privacy charms before turning to Teddy and cooing at him to calm down as he accioed his goblin bag and brought out the Tonks family album and started telling him tales about the family to Teddy, who was starting to calm down while eating the melted chocolate ice cream.
After Teddy finally calmed down by looking at the moving pictures and stories, Harry gently rocked him to sleep, whispering sweet things about his parents to him and singing a lullaby. After placing a sleeping Teddy back on the crib, he silently vowed to not let anything happen to him while he was nearby.
Soon, he did some of his research work on the past and his abilities, rechecked his plans on what actions he was going to take. He was definitely going to accompany Remus during his changes from the beginning whether the said person liked it or not, keep Peter company all the time so that he wont feel useless, improve the Sirius Regulus relationship, get the Marauders to befriend Severus and Lily, try to make them see that all the Slytherins are not bad... That was a lot.
The most important was that plan which Severus had explained in detail in his letter. He still hadn't figured out how to execute it yet but kept it off for the time being as even though it was important, there were more important things like how to keep up his appearance and all after all. And the plan will only happen if there are no drastic changes in the future.
Else, he wouldn't be able to prove Albus guilty or make sure Voldy is destroyed for good. And this will only happen if James and Lily dies, Sirius is in Azkaban, Peter is imperioused again, Harry is in the Triwizard tournament, he kills the Basilisk, finds the stone, Sirius is dead... as much as he hates it, he knows that these events must happen in chronological order, like he had done it last time.
After looking over it until midnight, he took out the keychain Ginny gave him along with the lockets given by his loved ones and stared at the pictures and talking with the portraits in it until he fell asleep out of sheer exhaustion, only to witness the battle haunt his mind once again.
Harry woke up the next morning, still feeling tired after the last night as he had after all stayed up over midnight calming down Teddy and researching. But his sleepiness was washed away as soon as he looked at his snow globe and was reminded that they were going to Diagon Ally today.
After getting ready and dressing up Teddy, he went down, praying that he wouldn't meet Sirius or Remus today as he was still unsure on how he will react on seeing them again today. Sighing, he went downstairs where the whole Potter family were waiting for the duo.
"Today we are going to use the floo to go to Diagon Ally. It might be a little uncomfortable to use it but you will get used to it." said Charlus as he demonstrated to Harry on how to use it. When Harry went up next, he was determined to not end up in Knockturn Ally like the last time and luckily succeeded, but was slightly queasy.
After everyone had arrived, Charlus just said "Welcome to Diagon Ally. There are a lot of shops here but I suggest that you don't spend a lot of time as we need to finish all the shopping today!" James and Harry just looked around in awe, Harry had no reason to hide his awe as that ally always seemed to surprise him.
What really made him glad was that it was full of activity and not destroyed due to the death eater attacks. They first went to Gringotts, where Charlus had suggested that they create a vault for the Parker Lupa family, but was surprised when he found out that there was a vault already created. 'Probably Dumbledore' thought Charlus while the goblins winked at Harry, who muttered a silent thank you to them.
After collecting the money from Gringotts, they headed to Apothecary first to buy all their potion ingredients and then headed to buy the quills, cauldrons, parchments, ink and other stuff like candies as the kids, including Teddy made a huge fuss about it.
In the end, the Potters and their guests left with a lot of licorice wands, chocolate frogs, Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, Pumpkin Pasties before the things that were finally left to buy were books, robes, wands and pets. Harry was glad that they hadn't met up with Sirius or Remus yet, but unfortunately seemed to have jinxed it as when they entered Madam Malkin's, he was standing face to face with a grumpy looking Sirius.
Harry went pale, not expecting to meet Padfoot so soon and his hair started turning white before Harry could get control of his emotions. He quickly changed his hair colour though, before anyone saw him doing it
"Hullo! I'm Harry" he greeted after he got his emotions under check. Sirius, who had finally noticed him just said "Hi, I'm Sirius". Harry, deciding to lighten the mood just said "Hey! I just asked for you name and not how you are!", knowing that his godfather loved that kind of jokes.
As expected, Sirius cracked a smile and said "Really mate! My name is seriously Sirius. Sirius Black" "Harry Parker. Nice too meet you" said Harry as they shook their hands. "First year to Hogwarts?" Sirius asked when Madam Malkin started measuring them up (James had already finished buying his robes a while back, taking Teddy along with him). "Yes I am... and I take it that this is your first year too?" asked Harry.
"Yes it is. What house do you reckon you will be in? My parents want me to be in Slytherin but I don't care which one I go to. Stupid pureblood beliefs" said Sirius. Harry had a hard time to control his laughter at this. 'Same old Padfoot' he thought as he replied "Well... I don't care wherever I am placed in but... I think I will be placed in Gryffindor or Hufflepuff most probably" Harry said.
"Good for you. So... we will meet on the train then I guess as I have almost finished shopping except for my wand... See you in the train Harry!" Sirius said as he rushed to his parents as his robes were finished. Harry's robes were ready a minute later and he went to join the Potters at Florean Frotescue's Ice Cream Parlour.
After finishing their ice creams, they went to Flourish and Blotts where Harry met Remus, who had just started shopping. There was another pang in his heart as he saw Remus carrying all the books, looking slightly pale. When the books were about to fall over, Harry rushed over and caught them to the counter.
"Thank you for your help. I'm Remus Lupin, first year" Remus introduced himself. "No problem Remus. I am Harry Parker, also a first year. Nice meeting you Remus. Hope we will meet soon!" Harry said before rushing inside to the store to buy his books for the year and more books on metamorphing, occlumency and other things which he was interested in.
They next went to Eeyelops Owl Emporium where Harry bought a snowy owl that looked just like Hedwig but with green eyes and few black feathers on his wing. Since he was informed it was a male owl, he named it Fred while James bought a grey barn owl and named it Cicuma and said that it was the Latin translation for owl.
He himself sounded confused on how he translated it but shrugged it off. Finally they went to Ollivander's wand shop. Harry had a minor flashback to the time when they were at the Malfoy Manor, the news on kidnapping that old man and all but quickly pushed it out to the back of his mind.
James went on first, trying out many wands before he ended up with a mahogany wand 11 inches which was good with transfiguration. When it was Harry's turn though, he was nervous. 'Will the same phoenix core wand choose him or will it be some other wand?' thought Harry as he tried many wands before Ollivander came to him bringing some queer wand.
"Will this be your wand? You seem to be a trick customer. Let's see if this wand will chose you as it is very rare and powerful. It has been unclaimed for a long while in this shop. Will it be seeing the world in your hands?" Ollivander asked as he passed on the wand to Harry.
Harry, still nervous, took the wand and felt the magic rush through him. Hesitantly, he gave the wand a flick, only to witness a beautiful scene in front of him. The whole store lighted up, clean and tidy, everything that was damaged before was fixed, and a rainbow was created out of the wand.
"Curious. Very curious indeed" Ollivander said, making Harry nervous again. 'Now what? Last time I got Voldy's brother wand for him to tell this comment. Now what?' thought Harry. "It is a very powerful and rare wand as I mentioned before Mr. Parker. There is only one wand that is made out of this wood until now. Zebrawood, very rare and powerful, 12 inches, delicate and Holy Chicken is the core..."
A/N: And that was chapter 8. Only Harry will get these queer wands... don't you think? Chicken cores and all... All comments and criticisms accepted. Hope you all liked it!
Thank you all for reading!
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Published on 2 August 2018