Glad you liked the last chapter cuz this one's where Katherine runs into Draco and her mother separately at Diagon Alley. Once she gets there you'll see that she stalks Draco for a while until he gets to Borgin and Burkes, or whatever it's called. She won't stay long and she won't get caught that's for sure. Read and review please.
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After the walk Katherine pulled out a key and unlocked a door and walked in lighting the torches around the room.
The room was decorated with red and gold; the Gryffindor colors which made Katherine feel at home because to every wizard Hogwarts felt like home. Inside was a small bed, nightstand with a red lamp, red carpet, a fireplace, a couch, shelves of books and vials of potion ingredients, along with a table and chair with a crystal ball that showed her whatever she wanted to see.
There were some pictures of her and the Weasley family and the Tonks, but only a few pictures she treasured most were her photos of her little brother she took whenever she'd had the chance. They were all kept in an album that stayed on the table holding up the crystal ball stand and it only made her love for her brother grow stronger each time she looked at it.
'This brings back so many memories, but I need to hurry otherwise I'll miss the trip to Diagon Alley this afternoon.' Katherine pulled out her wand and used a cleaning spell on the room and every inch of dust and cobwebs were gone in mid air. Yes this was just a cleaning trip since this place had been locked up for months during Kathy's return last year. Before she exited the place she grabbed a pouch from underneath her bed full of galleons, Knuts, and sickles she'd saved from her vault at Gringotts in case of an emergency. She put the pouch in her bag and left for departure to Diagon alley since everyone had probably left by now.
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Katherine had arrived in Diagon Alley through Honeydukes cellar fireplace and up the stairs through the store and into the crowded streets. The place reeked of sweet and sour smells of both delicious food and garbage still stuffed in the alleys, but it didn't bother Katherine since it reminded her of Romania and the dragons. The family was probably at Madame Malkin's dress shop getting new robes and Katherine didn't feel like going just yet so she decided to walk around a bit.
Just as she was about to turn on a street a man jumped in front of her holding out many pearl necklaces, bracelets, ruby rings, diamond broaches, etc.
"A lovely necklace for that lovely neck of yours miss, or perhaps a ring for those beautiful hands?" Katherine stared at the man and was about to speak when something on the table caught her eye.
It was a chain necklace with a golden Chinese dragon pendant that had diamond and emerald gems all along the claws and back. It had its fangs showing, made in white gold but the eyes were probably painted black with polish to make it look fierce; Katherine looked at it for a few seconds then back to the man smiling at her.
"Um, how much for that dragon pendant sir?" the man looked at her a bit confused and looked back at the pendant she'd pointed out; looking back at her he shook his head.
"I'm sorry miss but it's not for sale."
"Why not, it seems like a fine piece of jewelry to me. Are you holding it for someone?"
"No not really, but a man came and sold it to me…said he'd gotten from an old mansion, but from what I saw he could've stolen it along with all those silver goblets, plates, jewelry, all that."
"Did he have a hoarse sounding voice, and may have looked a little shrubby around the clothes and messy hair?"
"Yes as a matter of fact he did my dear, I believe his name was…Fungus Metcher, or Mudungis Fetcher…?"
"Mundungus Fletcher…did those goblets have a crest with a large 'B' on them?"
"Yes I believe so, do you know the owners?"
"Yes, I'm related to them…I'm asking you as a favor sir, to please give me that pendant."
"Why should I?"
"Because I know the owners don't take too lightly to having thieves in their home and jewelry being sold to other strangers. Plus I happen to know a few tricks that could make you give it to me, money or no money." The last tone was low and deadly, but the man didn't seem affected by it; looking back at the necklace behind him and back to her with a hint of greed in his eyes.
"Alright, five galleons one sickle; that's my offer."
"Take off the sickle and you've got a deal."
"Very well, five galleons." Katherine pulled out her pouch and paid the man his money before taking the necklace and placing it around her neck. She nodded her head in farewell and turned on her heel before someone suddenly ran into her and knocked her off her feet onto the pavement. The young man fell on her but got off quickly before he glared at her and she got up brushing herself off, until she looked back at him and recognized him as her only brother Draco.
"Woman why don't you watch where you're going?"
"Hey kid that's no way to speak to a lady; now why don't you apologize for knocking her down off her feet?" Draco just snorted until a woman came up behind him and grabbed his arm. Katherine saw by the looks of it that she was indeed her mother Narcissa.
"Draco apologize to the woman this instant. You know better than to run around in the streets like that, now tell the woman you're sorry!" Draco looked at his mother and sighed, not hiding the strain in his voice. "I'm sorry I knocked you over ma'am, please forgive my rude behavior."
"That's a start but it'll do for now, you're forgiven young man but next time watch were you're going otherwise you could run into your worse nightmare." Her last tone was low and deadly but didn't do much affect other than give a small hint of fear in Draco's eyes.
"Humph, can we go now mother? I don't feel like apologizing to this peasant woman anymore."
"Very well Draco, now come we must get your school robes and supplies." With that they left and Katherine didn't bother looking back since she was going a different way, this time to visit the twins' shop 'Weasley's Wizard Wheezes'.
"Good day sir."
"Lovely doing business with you ma'am." The man tilted his hat to her and Katherine continued walking down the street for about five minutes until she took a turn into the new joke shop where she was immediately greeted by George.
"Cecilia you finally came!" he greeted her happily with a hug and she hugged back soon to be joined in by Fred. After they let go of each other Katherine took a good look around the place and back to the two.
"Wow boys you really turned this place upside down. Look at all this stuff, your inventions I suppose?"
"Most of them, but then again we did get a few ideas from the Zonko products so we can't take all the credit. Would you like a tour of the place?"
"No thanks boys, I think I can manage on my own. Where's everyone else at?"
"They haven't arrived yet but they said they'd stop by later on after getting their school robes. If you'd like we'll let you have a 50 off discount if that's alright?"
"It is but won't it be unfair to the other customers?"
"Not if you keep quiet about it." Katherine smiled and looked around at all the merchandise, but she didn't seem too surprised since some of these things had been tested on her and the rest of the Weasley family. Just as she about passed the Pygmy Puffs, there was a sign on a shelf that read 'Love Potions', and Katherine turned around pulling George by the collar of his shirt and faced him towards the sign.
"Love potions, you're selling love potions?! Are you out of your minds?!" luckily she wasn't loud enough to disturb the other customers.
"What's the problem, they're just potions…no harm done."
"No harm done, George what if a student from Hogwarts orders a potion and gets caught? Who do you thinks' gonna get the blame most, or have you forgotten that love potions are strictly forbidden to be sold to minors?"
"Which is why we have an age rule on the potions, no one under the age of seventeen is allowed to purchase love potions at any time. Not even if a parent consents to it…"
"And if they fake a name or something?"
"Then we look it up and see if it's real or not."
"If it's real then what if those kids have ways of making it look real when it's really their idea of a joke?"
"W-Well…then we just…do you have to be so cautious about everything here?!" George tried to yank away but Katherine kept a firm grip on him.
"No I'm just concerned on what the school's gonna think when they find out kids are smuggling love potions in the school, and what they'll think when they find out that you both don't have a care in the world for their rules!"
"You wanna run the shop, be my guest." George's sarcasm was low but Katherine let him get back to work while she finished looking around. Just as she was about to turn to look at the joke books, she heard a shout of glee as the rest of the family entered the store, staring in awe. Katherine was about to go greet them when suddenly something flashed in her mind. She closed her eyes and traced the energy feeling but recognized it instantly.
'Draco, what's he up to now?' she slunk through the shelves doing whatever she could to sneak out the back shop window. Taking a quick glance around Katherine opened the window and climbed through, she walked into an alley and closed it carefully before pulling out her black cloak and slunk away to follow Draco.
'I have to keep a mild distance from him; otherwise he'll blow his cover in a matter of minutes.' She continued to follow the energy until something else came up. Another energy source, not one but three; she didn't recognize the energy signals, but since she couldn't see anyone else around it was probably some other death eaters making sure Draco was doing his job correctly.
'Great, now I have to be careful or I'm dead.' Katherine just continued following the trace until she came to a familiar alley with a sign that said 'Knockturn Alley'. 'Oh no, what's he doing down there? He knows he can get caught doesn't he?' Katherine suddenly backed away from the alley but bumped into something and ran quickly into another alley nearby.
'Oh my god what is wrong with that boy? Sneaking away into Knockturn Alley while it's public out here, he's definitely into some real trouble now. Have to get back to the hideout, gotta contact Dora and warn her quickly!' Katherine looked around for any suspicious eyes and apparated back to her hidden home at Hogwarts.
Just as soon as she entered through the path and locked the door Katherine put her hand over the crystal ball and focused her energy on contacting her cousin.
"Dora, Dora are you there?" it took a minute but suddenly Tonks's head appeared in the ball and Katherine pulled her hand back sitting down.
"What's up Kathy; any news on You-Know-Who?"
"Not yet, but I think he's on the move, this time he's using Draco to do it."
"Draco? You mean you caught him in the act?"
"Not exactly, but I followed him to Knockturn Alley. There's only one place he'd go to take care of Voldemort's business."
"You mean Borgin and Burkes? Did you find out what he was up to?"
"No, too risky in broad daylight; but I have a hunch on what it could be, I'm sorry it's not much help…"
"Every little bit helps Kat, we need every bit of information we can get. The order's having a meeting tomorrow afternoon at my parents' house, don't be late."
"I won't, I'll you then Dora bye."
"Bye."
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Sorry about the long wait but you know how things are now so I'll try to update quicker. Leave a good review please thank you.
