Chapter 2
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On Tuesday, exactly one week after meeting the professors, Harry wakes for his eleventh birthday and decides to spend the day with Hermione. Opening a gate to Hermione's location using an experimental beacon created with a blend of wizarding magic and Aurorian magic, Harry informs his adoptive mother of his plans and steps through the gate to receive a surprise present in the form of a bushy haired girl taking a bath.
"HARRY!" Hermione shrieks as he quickly turns away from her to avoid causing her excessive embarrassment.
"Who and what are you and how did you get in my daughter's bathroom," a woman who looks a lot like Hermione demands as she opens the door and spots Harry standing in the middle of the bathroom facing away from the tub and a red-faced Hermione while his tail gently sways behind him.
"My name is Harry and I'm a future schoolmate of Hermione's. I popped over here to meet her parents and invite her to spend the day with me to celebrate my eleventh birthday. Regardless of if it is in your world or mine, you are welcome to come along." Harry says as he uses multiple senses to judge the woman is likely Hermione's mom.
"I'm Hermione's mother, Emma Granger. Perhaps we should take this into the livingroom to meet my husband Dan so Hermione can stop blushing and finish her morning bath," the now named woman says as Harry hears the sounds of Hermione curling into a ball to hide her prepubescent breasts and genitals.
"Very well. I happen to know a few places where Hermione could learn to not feel any shame about her body while still learning how to be safe but first, we need to come to an agreement about if she will spend the day with me," Harry says as he walks around Emma and into the hallway so Hermione's mother can close the bathroom door. Once in the livingroom, Harry sits in front of the couch and watches the muggle news playing on the television. After a few news articles, Hermione enters wearing jeans and a sleeveless blouse with her mom and a man who must be her father.
"So, you're the boy Hermione has been talking about ever since she went shopping with that Sprout woman. Not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't for you to pop up in the bathroom during Hermione's morning bath. Emma and I need to go to the office and work as dentists, but we've decided to leave it up to Hermione if she wants to spend the day with you. Just try to have her back for dinner if she does go with you," Dan says to Harry as they shake hands in greeting.
"Dentist? I grew up in a country that tends to be far less advanced than this house suggests," Harry responds as he notices Hermione checking how much money she has on hand.
"It means they inspect teeth for damage and patch or replace them as well as some cleaning if the customer hasn't been cleaning properly," Hermione says as she finishes counting her money. "Where would we be going if we don't stay in here? I get the feeling you don't know many places in the Wizarding world."
"I can create a gate like the one used to enter your bathroom to reach Diagon Alley without being seen by the non-magical world, or use the same type of gate to reach a place called Traveler's Spring where I can get you a change of clothes and introduce you to the world I grew up in. A few miles south of Traveler's Spring is a popular open-air hot spring resort and spa where I can teach you to fight if you're not too busy being pampered by the soothing waters," Harry answers as he pulls his Teleport book out of thin air.
"Wait, you've never had a dental exam? I'll give you a free exam when you bring Hermione back or we return from work depending on what Hermione decides," Dan says before Hermione can answer where she wants to spend the day.
"Traveler's Spring sounds like an interesting place to spend the day," Hermione says as Harry writes a new entry into his Teleport book.
"Uh... thanks for the offer of a dental exam. I guess I'll see you again this evening Mr. Granger," Harry says as he flips to an older entry in the Teleport book and uses it to open a Gate. Both Hogwarts students quickly jump through the gate and land in a small desert town filled with people from a handful of different races.
"Why are those people stripping in the middle of the street?" Hermione asks as she spots a group of Harani upgrading their undergarments.
"There's no law against it as long as they are only switching to a new set of undergarments or upgrading a set. Particularly in small towns, there aren't any private changing areas. If you do want a little privacy, the tarp at the interior corner of the community center should have a decent space behind it, but you'll draw attention to yourself if you head there too often," Harry replies as he walks to a tailoring station and pulls blueprints and other materials out of thin air and begins crafting a set of Noble Scholar garments. After roughly half an hour, Harry finishes his tailoring and gives the garments to Hermione who immediately ducks behind the tarp to change where random passerby won't see her in her underwear or less considering Harry crafted Noble Scholar Swimwear to go with the rest of the clothes.
Just as Hermione comes out from behind the tarp wearing all of the Noble Scholar clothing, a Shadowhawk Bladedancer supported by three Shadowhawk Reapers appear with seven Shadowhawk Destroyers on nearby rooftops and demands Harry hand over the scholar or die. "You are all idiots," the Doombringer of the North Seas says as he triggers Crippling Mire against the Bladedancer and his Reaper allies. A quick Mend takes care of the scratches to Hermione from the Destroyers before Harry triggers Serpent's Glare and kicks a string of Mana Waves at the Destroyers. Despite arrows piercing his arms and legs, Harry quickly kills off all eleven Shadowhawks before casting any healing spells on himself. Just as his injuries finish healing, Hermione cries out the beginings of a warning only for Harry to pull a staff out of thin air and enhance it with Poisoned Weapon before shoving it so far up the twelfth Shadowhawk's pubic region without looking that it comes out the idiot's mouth before pinning the corpse to the wall of the community center.
"Y-y-you..." Hermione stutters at the sight of Harry casually killing a man in such a brutal manner.
"Killed an idiot who aspired to be an assassin when he tried to kill me. He was likely a Shadowplay Novice given how easily he was killed. That attack should have only poisoned him the way his dagger would have had it cut me," Harry says before summoning his Snowmane Snowlion and placing Hermione in the passenger saddle. As the two future Hogwarts students ride the Snowlion south, Hermione sits and thinks about morality and the young boy with six pack abs in her arms.
On reaching Sylvina Hot Springs, Hermione removes her outer clothes, thankful the design of the Noble Scholar swimwear is reasonably modest, before turning to Harry with a questioning look. Harry takes the Noble Scholar garments from her hands and stores them in a pocket dimension like the one he got his supplies from and leads her to the lower hot springs where there is a higher proportion of bathers wearing swimwear along with a great view of the Water Elemental infested beach of Ashbreath Shore and the ocean beyond that. Hermione clearly enjoys the warmth of the hot springs for the next couple hours even submerging herself enough for her wild mane of hair to be tamed by the water. Unfortunately, all good things must end as the Crimson Army of Anthalon makes a surprise appearance from the coast and attacks the resort.
As the first Crimson Infantry disembark from the enemy ships, Harry lets loose a string of Mana Bolts even as he summons a Striped Saberfang to lend combat support. Seeing his actions, a handful of other resort guests start using their own ranged combat abilities while a few others literally go toe to toe with the invaders and most of the resort staff herd non-combatants into the main shelter at the top of the terraced hillside the resort is located on. Unfortunately for Hermione, the sheer numbers of undead combined with her reluctance to go where there will be a large number of nude people allows one of the undead soldiers to attack her directly. Her scream as the Crimson Brawler pulls her closer by the strap of her Noble Scholar Swim Top is cut short when the undead creature bites her throat out, but Harry retaliates with Antithesis and casts Revive on Hermione followed by a few other healing spells that restore her to full health but do nothing for her wardrobe. Hermione quickly blushes when she realizes she is now topless but gets into a basic martial arts stance and continues to stick near Harry to take advantage of the steam from the hot springs to minimize how many people see her pubescent breasts.
As the last of the Crimson Army invasion is destroyed a few hours later, Hermione's blush which had faded over time despite the loss of her Noble Scholar Swim Bottoms returns at the rumbling of her stomach since it has now been around eight hours since she last ate. "Would you like to put on your Noble Scholars Garments before grabbing a late lunch Hermione," Harry asks as the resort guests and staff start returning to the lower hot springs.
"Um, no thanks Harry. Just what kind of food do they serve here? I somehow doubt they have mac and cheese." Hermione replies as her blush gets only slightly worse at the reminder, she is actually wearing less than him at the moment.
"Pale Razorbeak Eggs, Shark Fin Soup, Pangolin Steak, and the regional specialty is Solis Salad," Harry comments as the two walk along the path to the local Café. On reaching the Café, Harry orders a serving of Pale Razorbeak Eggs for himself and Hermione decides to try the Shark Fin Soup. Amusingly, the meal is disrupted repeatedly by Hot Springs guests in full leather or plate armor coming up to Harry and Hermione to thank them for dealing with the Crimson Army invasion despite the British born magic users both wearing much less. This actually helps Hermione get over her aversion and embarrassment regarding nudity much faster than she would have otherwise.
Once Harry finishes his eggs, he quickly writes a letter to Weissika and sends it to her through a gate since the mail owls have a severe aversion to Northern Auroria much less the seas north of Auroria. By the time she finishes her Shark Fin Soup, Hermione is actually comfortable enough that she doesn't blush at all when requesting another hour at the hot springs in the upper springs where only the guard staff are wearing anything. With an un-noticed smirk at how comfortable Hermione is with mixed gender nudity now, Harry removes his only item of clothing and stores in a pocket dimension like the rest of the supplies and clothing. Harry actually has to remind Hermione that she needs to go home once dinner arrives and Hermione is actually surprised when Harry retrieves their clothes from the pocket dimension as she completely forgot she wasn't dressed yet she still doesn't blush having become used to being naked.
"Where are the clothes you were wearing when you left, Hermione? And how expensive is what you are wearing now?" Dan Granger says in greeting as the two young magic users appear from a Gate just in time for dinner.
"Oops! I left them at the Traveler's Spring community center," Hermione replies as she turns to Harry with a questioning look.
"I don't know about your textile capabilities or your currency, but Hermione's old clothes would probably only fetch a few coppers but if I find them, I can use them to make something higher quality like her current attire that would sell for a few hundred gold easily, Mr. And Mrs. Granger." Harry says after only a moment's thought.
"What size gold are we talking about? You seem to be suggesting those robe-like garments are worth thousands of pounds," Emma says.
"That sounds like it could cause a lot of confusion. Isn't a pound a unit of weight? I believe one gold is roughly the diameter of your thumb and a tenth as thick. Isn't it about time we started dinner though?" Harry replies as he glances towards the smell of food.
"Yes, it is about time we sat down to eat. Given your feline nature however, a possible problem just came to mind as we are having chicken tikka masala and most felines that we know of have an aversion to hot or spicy foods," Dan says as he leads Harry to the dining room where the table is already set for four with a bowl of white rice next to a bowl of chicken tikka masala.
"I'll be fine eating the chicken tikka masala. Any time I try a new food I always cast Mend to deal with any potential negative effects though I will say I've never had problems with peppers or spices in the past," Harry says as he sits opposite Hermione at the table and waits for any indication of a pre-meal prayer. Emma nods her head in acknowledgement before positioning her hands in a praying position and reciting a simple prayer in the name of Jesus Christ thanking 'the Lord' for the food on the table and requesting continued safety and good health. After the first bite, Harry proves to enjoy the spicy food even more than the Grangers.
The rest of the evening goes well with Hermione failing to blush when Emma tells her to leave the door open when she will be in a room with Harry like when Hermione teaches Harry how to use a toothbrush. Both Dan and Emma are surprised when the dental exam shows no sign of cavities or any other problems at all though both admit part of the reason could be that they aren't used to giving exams to Firran patients. After the exam ends, Dumbledore drops by to inform Harry that the Wizengamot is meeting so it would be a good time to claim his seats and perhaps designate a proxy to attend meetings for him during the school year. At the meeting, Harry and Dumbledore both discover Harry has control of so many seats that the Wizengamot shrinks by roughly two fifths though it doesn't help when the magic of Harry's seats turns the toad-like bitch of a senior undersecretary into an actual toad that no one can restore to human form.
August goes smoothly for the most part with lots of reading and an interrogation from the elder Grangers after they discover Hermione's teeth have been magically corrected. (Side effect from either the Mend during the Shadowhawk attack or the multiple healing spells after her throat was ripped out.) On September first, Harry Gates to the Leaky Cauldron as planned and then uses Stealth to walk over to Kings Cross Station without being spotted by the muggles. Stealth is broken however when a quickly moving trolley knocks Harry through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10 onto Platform 9 and three quarters. "Oh Merlin! Are you alright?" a plump woman with red hair asks from her position next to a very confused looking teen boy with matching red hair.
"Nothing a simple spell won't fix," Harry replies as he casts Antithesis on himself to heal the few scrapes picked up from being thrown through the magical barrier. Nearby, he hears a conversation about a lost toad (hope it's Umbitch), a few girls screaming about a 'giant' tarantula (Harry can smell the arachnid and its size of only two fists), and a different group of girls insulting a familiar bushy haired girl. Waving bye to the redheaded family of which there are another five members on the platform, Harry walks passed Neville (the boy who lost the toad, so it probably wasn't Umbitch) and up to his only non Aurorian friend. "We can sit together Hermione, though I suspect part of the trip will be spent helping Neville find his toad," he says with a slight chuckle when Hermione literally jumps three feet at the sound of his voice. At her agreement, Harry and Hermione board the Hogwarts Express and find an empty compartment where they settle down for the estimated eight-hour journey to school.
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