DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING YOU'VE SEEN IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS. THAT CREDIT GOES SOLELY TO J.K. ROWLING, MY FAVORITE AUTHOR. I DO OWN HENRY SHAYDE, ANNE SHAYDE, ALYSSA SHYDE, MY TILBET(ALSO KNOWN TO HARRY AS KORRY XORA) AND THE NAME AIDEN DEJAN SHAYDE. THE PERSON BEHIND THE DISGUISE IS NOT MINE. TAMMY IS MINE TOO!!

A/N: This point almost seems to have no point. It's going to be Diagon Alley and the first day(or two) at Hogwarts. For those who are unaware and don't like slash stories, this isn't one, so it's safe. I personally can't stand them and I avoid them as much as possible.

A/N2: I'm not sure if everyone got my notice, but I made a small mistake in Chapter Four about Alyssa's age. Though I said she was eleven, she's really only nine, the same age as Aiden was at that time. Please remember, both Aiden and Alyssa are now eleven years of age and off to Hogwarts posing as twins to avoid suspicion. I've talked enough now, let's get on with this story.

Since I haven't put these anywhere else yet, I might as well post them now. I need to put these for those who are wondering, though I think they're the same for almost ever story.

'thoughts'

"Speaking"

Parseltongue

Chapter Six: Good-bye

Aiden took much less time to get over the initial shock than the rest of his family and took the time to enjoy the looks on Henry, Anne, and Alyssa's faces. It was rather comical, but after a few minutes of them standing in the archway, with wide eyes no less, he began to get annoyed. By the look on Tom's face, Aiden had a feeling this was a common reaction to all those who'd never seen it before. Nonetheless, he still looked as though he was becoming irritated. From Aiden's own personal experiences with Korry, he knew you didn't want to get on a wizards bad side.

"Hey, mum? Dad? Alyssa? Don't you think we'd better get out of the archway now and get looking around for the stuff we need for school? The list is long and I don't think we want to have to take too much time with this. And," he added, when they didn't react, "if this is a real wizarding place, then I'm sure there are plenty here who can make you move if you fail to do so yourself."

They blinked and looked at him, shock still covering there faces. In truth, he didn't blame them. If he hadn't been prepared by Korry's explanations, he would have probably ended up being the one jinxed to move out of the way. Alyssa slowly regained her cool and took a deep breath. "Yeah, come on mum, dad. This place is awesome and I really want to see some more of it." She took a glance behind her and noticed the bartender giving them an odd look and knew exactly what her brother meant. "And he is looking a little riffled for my liking. Sorry sir!."

She grabbed her fathers hand and pulled him gently through the passageway and into the world of wizards. After a minute or so of hesitation, he did the same with Anne, who recovered next, blushing deeply. "I'm sorry." She said, looking embarrassed. "I wasn't expecting it to be so...different. I mean, I knew it was for wizards, but I really couldn't believe it. Came as a small shock to me, that's all. Nothing to worry about." Aiden couldn't help but notice it sounded like she was comforting herself rather than them, but he couldn't care. This place was all behind a run down pub that most people weren't' able to see! It was an amazing feat. 'I wonder who created this place. It seems so magical...' Aiden scowled at his own thoughts. Of course it was magical! Wizards did spells and curses here!

Henry quickly regained himself, even more embarrassed than Anne had been. It took Aiden a good five minutes to stop him from muttering about being 'The man of the house' so 'he should be able to not go to pieces from seeing something unbelievable'. "Snap out of it!' Alyssa finally yelled at her father. "I really want to get going and if you ask me, sitting here muttering doesn't seem like something the 'Man Of the House' should do."

When they all finally manged to get Henry up off the bench, which really needed a new paint job. Aiden's fingers itched to do even the simplest cleaning spell on it so it wasn't so nasty, but he didn't dare give away what knowledge he did have. Right now he was an invisible and he wanted to stay that way for as long as possible. "Where do you think we should go first, Aiden?" Alyssa's voice broke through his mind and he focused on her face, a little discouraged by all the shops around him.

"I really have no clue. Do you think we should do what no one has ever done before and follow the list we have in order?" He took the list from his back pocket and tried to piece together what little information they had. "If so, then first on the agenda would be uniforms." He wrinkled his nose. "On second thought, let's give up the idea. How about we go look at books?"

The gleam in both his mothers eyes and his sisters told him that he'd just doomed himself. "Brilliant," he muttered to himself as the two clothes obsessed females dragged him towards a shop barely visible called Madam Malkins Robes for All Occasions. As they got nearer to the tidy shop, Aiden had an idea and he put it to effect right away. "You know, we don't know if they accept our money." Both Anne and Alyssa stopped right away, and began to glare at him. "I mean, it's almost like a whole other world here." He looked around quickly for the one bank Korry had ever mentioned and zoned in on it. "See there's a bank right over there. Don't you think we should check so we don't make total fools of ourselves?"

Eventually, when the glares stopped, they finally admitted he was right. Then the two discouraged females of the family trudged towards the grand building while both Henry and Aiden were relieved that they didn't have to go through with this quite yet. One thing was for sure, they didn't care to go fuss over clothes for hours at a time. As the family neared the large bank Alyssa forgot her anger towards her brother for distracting her from her goal, which was to get some new clothes.

"Wow." She whistled as her eyes tried to find out how tall it was. Since it stretched out of her eyesight, she decided it had to be much taller than any other bank she's seen before. "What is this place, other than a bank I mean." She glared at her brother again. His answer would have been, no doubt about 'it's a bank'.

"It's called Gringotts." Aiden muttered to her sister, also taken aback by the large building. Korry had made sure Aiden had seen a lot of surprising stuff, but a building as massive and grand as this one took the cake." "Look." Alyssa followed his finger to the spot he was pointing at, eyes wide. There were words engrave on the silver door. At first Alyssa thought it was just a famous quote that the founder of the bank must have liked, until she read it;

Enter, stranger, but take heed

Of what awaits the sin of greed,

For those who take, but do not earn,

Must pay dearly in their turn.

So if you seek beneath our floor

A treasure that was never yours

Thief, you have been warned, beware

Of finding more than treasure there.

"Amazing work." Anne said as she read the warning herself. Alyssa and Aiden rolled their eyes in turn. It was just like their mother to turn back into a bookworm the second they were faced with something that was actually good in their opinion.

"Mum, let's go on now, before you ruin our thoughts of an actual good poem, okay? And mum, can you, like, not act, you know too weird when we're inside?" Alyssa was begging, but Aiden knew she wasn't hearing a thing. "Mum. Maybe dad should be the only one to come in. You can just stay here..."

Anne's eyes flashed daggers. "No way. I"m your mother, therefore I'm going in with you. I don't trust Henry with financial issues." She shivered. Alyssa and Aiden could only imagine what problems they used to have when Henry controlled the money.

"Mum?" Aiden still was a little uncomfortable with calling Anne mum, even two years later, but it was beginning to get easier. "It can't be that different, otherwise other people with parents who aren't wizards wouldn't be able to get by with it. I mean, we can't be the only ones, you know?"

She promptly ignored him as she opened the second set of doors and entered the building, getting another stunned reaction from the family. The first room was massive, with impressive golden walls with flecks of carving set deep into the walls. Every so often they would move, as would some of the portraits on the walls. Smallish creatures that only reached up to Aiden's waist sat at desks and did the paperwork. Harry knew these were goblins, as Korry had told him that too, but he hadn't been told that the goblins actually ran the bank itself. Aiden had just thought that they worked there, but that wasn't the answer. "What are those?" Alyssa asked, awe in her brown eyes. "They're so different."

"I think," Aiden said, not really wanting to give out his knowledge lest they figure out his secret. "they're those one creatures from the fairy tales we used to read a long time ago...Goblins."

"Goblins? They're not real."

"You thought magic wasn't real until you got that letter. Obviously, there's a lot of things that we thought were just tall tales, but are real and have places in the world. Personally, I think it's cool that a bank is run by goblins. Maybe they have special magic or something."

Anne recovered quicker than when she'd first seen Diagon Alley, because she'd expected there to be something shocking about the bank. Of course, she hadn't expected to see little creatures she thought never existed running it. "Come on, we might as well get this deal over with. I've got to accept that both my kids are wizards and now I'm going to have to pay who knows how much to buy stuff that I didn't even know existed before today. Other than that, I think everything is going to be fine."

"Hello." Anne smiled at a goblin who was sitting in a chair rather high off the ground, scribbling notes on a sheet of paper. Aiden stood on the very tips of his toes and he still could barely see over the desk. "My son and daughter are attending...umm...Hogwarts this year and we only have well, not wizard money. My husband and I've never even heard of this place before today, and we're wondering how we buy anything."

"Ahh," The goblin said, setting his quill down and pointing behind him at another goblin across the hall. "Muggleborns, I suppose you are? Proceed to Yerlose over there and he'll help you get everything sorted out." The goblin, Aiden took a look at the name tag which said Griphook, and stayed behind for a second as his sister and mother practically ran to where to Yerlose was already over talking to another set of parents, who had a bushy brown haired girl by there side. She wasn't paying any attention to the conversation, however. Instead her nose was buried deep n a book. "What is it you need, Mr. Shayde?"

Aiden jumped and turned to address the goblin with his question. "Err, Griphook, sir? I never wanted anyone to know-"

"Mr. Potter," Griphook continued, once more setting down the quill. Aiden paled suddenly and looked about, hoping no one heard " Follow me to my office if you will. I'm sure we can get you back here in time to meet with your family."

The goblin steeped down from the desk and another filled his place almost instantly, replacing the name tag with his own name. Griphook led the boy farther back into the bank and through a door with a dragon symbol carved deep in the magnificent wood. When the door was closed firmly behind them, Griphook motioned for Aiden to sit down. "I know you're Harry Potter, so my first advice is to stop proving yourself otherwise in front of goblins. Glamour charms are useless, we can see right through them. Since you are Harry Potter," he continued, not seeing Aiden's scowl, "I believe I have something to discuss with you."

"Yeah?"

"Yes, Mr Potter, or if you will Mr. Shayde, You are aware that your parents were wizards?"

"No."

"Not surprising, since you've been brought up by muggles. Well, your parents, Lily and James Potter were quite wealthy in their days, and I'm sure you'll be happy to hear that you have plenty of money in your trust fund to last you through all seven years at Hogwarts."

"What about Alyssa? She's my sister now. I mean, they did adopt me and I owe it to them."

"There's plenty for her too, if you wish to do so. However, I believe your main problem would be telling them how you got the money to buy her and yourself everything. From what I gather, they know nothing of your true self, am I correct? Do you have any chance at making it out of their wrath unscathed?"

"They're not nosy people. They'll wander where I got enough to buy everything, but they aren't the type to just ask straight out. They probably won't even notice until after we're back at home. Is...how do I get down to my vault without them knowing though? They're going down there too, right?"

"No, Mr Shayde." He rummaged through a drawer and pulled out a small box. "From what I gather about you, you already know quite a few spells from a teacher, correct? Wandless magic is a useful talent, very useful. Here, if you need any money, then simply pull out this box and think the amount you need, and it will appear inside. However, you need to know the password, which is patefacio."

"That's it?" He took the small box, now having a new fear. "It's so small...what if I drop it and lose it? Will others be able to get into my vault?"

"It's password safe," Griphook reminded him, "And if it's ever to get lost by ways of someone stealing it, then I can do a quick Gringotts summoning charm. Go now, I've made this conversation as brief as I could. Your family is getting a little worried about you. They're making a quick a bot of ruckus out front. "

" That's my cue to leave."Aiden pocketed the box, made a mental not to himself of the password (patefacio), and made his way to where his sister was practically screaming his name. "AIDEN! WHERE ARE YOU! I'M GOING TO BLOODY WELL KILL YOU WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!!"

"Erm, Alyssa, mind telling me why you're screaming. Don't you ever get embarrassed by anything at all?" Aiden bit his lip and smiled at his sister, noting that his mum and dad didn't look unembarrassed either.

"Aiden!" She sighed, relieved. "I've been looking everywhere for you! You disappeared before we got into one of these really odd carts and the goblin, the one called Yerlose, said not to worry. So we had to go though all these chambers in this cart that steered itself. Eventually we got to this one vault where there were all these small piles of coins and the goblin told us that this certain pile was mine, because of magic or something. Then I asked him where yours was and he said you didn't have one. Mum and dad are worried about paying for it."

He waved away her concern. "I've got it handled okay? Don't worry. I have a way to get plenty. Just trust me okay, Alyssa?"

She grinned mysteriously. "Well, I think you owe me now...how 'bout a trip to dear Madam Malkins Robes for All Occasions?"

Aiden groaned, but he knew it was a hopeless cause to think that he would be able to avoid the horror forever. "Fine," He snapped. "But after that we get to go to Flourish and Blots, which is the book store. And that means you'll hate it."

It was her turn to groan. "You and your books! I don't see how you can stand to sit around all day and stare at a bunch of nonsense writing when you could be doing something useful."

"Talking on the phone with your friends isn't considered useful."

"Well it should be."

A couple of minutes later both Aiden and Alyssa stood awkwardly in Madam Malkin's shop while she scrambled around, muttering their new acquired measurements under her breath. She showed them several materials, which Anne gently turned down. "What about secondhand robes? Do you have any of those we could have instead?'

Aiden gritted his teeth, determined to keep back the words that he wanted to say so badly. It was a worthless fight, because a second later he still managed to get the words out. "Don't do that. I have enough. Give us nice robes, if you will."

Anne and Henry stared at him, shocked that he would say something like that."Aiden dear, you don't have any money at all. Henry and I have to pay for your admission and school supples."

"No, you don't. Just don't ask questions, okay?" Aiden muttered the password under his breath, opening the box while it was still in his pocket to avoid even more suspicion. He took out the requested amount of galleons and put them in Madam Malkin's hands. "Will that be enough for what we need?"

She turned the galleons over in her hands and pocketed them, nodding. "You'll get them by owl within the week."

Next, the small family went to Flourish and Blots, just as Aiden had requested. Once again, Aiden had paid for the necessary books that both he and Alyssa needed. Aiden grabbed a couple of books (Quidditch Through the Ages, The Dark Arts and Their Uses, Light Vs. Dark, the First War) not on the list to his ever growing pile. They didn't ask questions. They had decided to turn a blind eye from their son and ignore it.

"Aiden!" Alyssa squealed a short time later. By this point, most of the list had been bought. "Look! A pet shop! It says here that we can bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad. Oh, do come on already! I've got an excuse to get a pet now. Mum and dad can't say no!"

The pet shop was a mess. Owl droppings were scattered everywhere, a couple of loose cats jumped from cage to cage in an effort to stay away from a particularly nasty looking ginger cat. Aiden decided to stay as far away from that cat as possible. Because of his wolf animagus form, cats didn't tend to like him that much. He strode down the aisles, determined to find an owl that would accept him. Toads personally disgusted him and well, cats just plain didn't like him.

Aiden leaped out of the way as a fearsome looking hawk peered at him through its chilling yellow eyes. "You're not really a owl, are you?" Aiden asked, coming closer. The hawk looked out at him, but made no move to attack. "My letter says it has to be an owl. I wonder if I could get away with you?" Aiden shivered at breaking the rules right from the start. "Never mind. Sorry." He backed away from the hawk and instead chose an owl the very opposite. It was a white owl he named Hedwig, a person stated in A History of Magic.

'"Right," He told his sister as he looked at the crumbled list. He looked back at the place where their parents had decided to wait for them and keep the bags so they didn't get tied up. "since we've got that done, we only need to get our wands now."

So here's your update! Now, don't expect another chapter for quite some time. I had this chapter all planned out in my head, so I just had ot type it. Now, I've got a serious case of writers block...nothing ever goes right for me!!

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