Quidditch Camp by Jeremiah2006
Disclaimer: I don't own HP I am not JKR. I got this idea from two stories Summer of Independence by Redfrog and Time to live by Loralee. Both are fantastic stories and writers and can be found on my favorites list.
AN: First of all sorry for the long wait for the update I had PMed both Redfrog and Loralee for permission to use their ideas. I have not received a reply from either so the above disclaimer will have to do.
Second thank you for all the reviews, many mentioned pairings and the nature of the relationship between Harry and Victor. For now the pairing is undecided. Harry and Victor have a brother/mentor bond for now. As I see it Harry is emotionally stunted due to his upbring, Victor is helping him come out of his shell and so are the Weasley twins. The camp will help also.
Chapter 1: Arrival to Camp (Located in the USA)
The portkey had them land in the front lawn of the main house. Harry having gone through the horrible experience at the TWT with his last portkey promptly fell to his knees and emptied his breakfast onto the lawn. When he was done he stayed there hugging himself and rocked back and forth with tears sliding down his face with a glazed look on his face. Victor was shocked to see Harry react this way and was at first bewildered as to why then he remembered what had happened. After banishing the mess he knelled down in front of Harry to get his attention. When he had it he pulled Harry into a hug and comforted him. After about five minutes Harry had calmed down and had composed himself; he pulled away from Victor giving him a sheepish smile and thanked him. Harry had been comforted by Victor before when he had broken down during their talks about his home life but he was still not use to someone being there for him. When they got up to go into the front office they saw the director waiting for them having witnessed the whole thing; he had been alerted by the portkey arrival alert charm. He wisely decided to ask Victor later about what had happened.
With a smile on his face the director greeted the duo, "Mr. Krum and Mr. Potter welcome to the Quicksilver Quidditch Camp, I am the director of the camp. My name is Austin Quicksilver but you can call me Aus, my family owns and runs this facility as you can tell by my name. If you follow me I'll show you to your rooms."
As Harry and Victor followed, Aus continued his welcome speech. "Victor these will be your rooms for the whole summer and Harry they will be yours between the different camps. During the camps you will stay in the cabins with the other campers. You of course can still visit here during those times but you should keep the visits to a minimum. We don't want the other campers complaining about you getting special privileges especially if you want to be treated like just a normal kid while you are here." They had arrived to the rooms then. Aus told them to settle in and then join him in his office, which had been pointed out to them on the way to the rooms, to go over the schedule for the summer.
The rooms were like a hotel suit. The door opened into a living room, kitchenette, and dinning room combo. There were three doors on the back wall; two were bedrooms, one a bathroom. They spent a half hour looking around and unpacking.
They were now in Aus's office. "Okay you two lets go over the general schedule for the summer, Harry's, and then Victor's. The schedule is as follows:
Week 1: Set-up for staff
Week 2: Youth Camp (Ages 12 to 17)
Week 3: Kids Camp (Ages 7 to 11)
Week 4: Seeker and Beater Camp
Week 5: Staff break and set-up
Week 6: Chaser and Keeper Camp
Week 7: Amateur Camp (Ages 18 and up)
Weeks 8 & 9: Pro Camp (Have to be on a pro team or
invited by a pro team)
Week 10: Clean-up
Harry you will be able to participate in the youth camp, the seeker camp and if you want the chaser camp. We'll see if you can help out with the kids' camp if you want to. The Pro camp is when the pro teams come here to train so it will be up to the pros and the coaches to determine if you can participate. I have here your camp pack which has schedules for all three camps that you can attend. There are team activities which you are required to attend and optional workshops and activities. This week you need to choose your optional workshops and activities that work around your team activities for at least the first camp. I would look at all three camps worth of optionals to decide when to do what so that you don't try to fit to much in the first camp when you could do some stuff at all three. You'll turn in the sign-up form on the first day of camp during registration with the rest of the campers. Now do you have any questions?"
"Yes. Can I use my wand here?"
"Yes why wouldn't you?"
"Well in England those who are under 17 can't use them out of school. There are monitoring charms on our wands that let the ministry know if we are using them. Although the charms don't work in an areas that are heavy with magic so the purebloods get to practice during the summer but those that live in muggle areas don't. I was just wondering if this place would block the monitoring charm."
"Well the laws here are different, all students are allowed to use their wands at home; they just aren't allowed to use them where muggles who don't already know about magic can see. May I see your wand to see what charms are on it?"
"Sure," Harry said as he handed over his wand. Aus checked and was shocked to see the charms that were on it.
"Well Harry, there is more than the ministry charm on here, there are two placed on here by Albus Dumbledore, one that lets him know when you use your wand and one that lets him know where you are at all times. The ministry charm will not work here because our wards will prevent that, as for the other two, I can put a block on those so they don't work. Our wards will prevent the location charm from working but if you leave here to go to one of our malls he will be able to find you. The other charm will work through our wards. The block will prevent the charms from working for the summer without him being the wiser. I will have to remove the block before you go back though."
"Could you please put the block on?"
"Yes." And so Aus put the block on and handed Harry his wand back.
"Thank you, Aus. You said there were malls here that I could go to. Do you think it could be arranged for me to go this week some time? I would like to get some clothes that fit me and I wanted to get contacts. Also is there a Gringots here because I need to get the money to not only to pay for my shopping trip but to pay for camp?"
"There is a mall that is equivalent to your Diagon Alley here that has a Gringots. I will arrange a day that you, Victor, and a camp councilor can go. I want a councilor to go just in case Victor needs to escape. In the camp pack is a list of the fees for being here. Also in the pack are the rules about what you are allowed to use your wand for, please read those first. Any other questions?"
"No I'm good."
"Okay then, you can go back to your room and go through your camp pack while I talk to Victor about his schedule and his duties here."
"Okay, great thanks, I'll see you two later, bye." With that Harry got up and left to go to his room.
After Harry left Victor explained to Aus about Harry's reaction to portkeys and then went over his schedule and duties.
The week passed quickly for Harry, he spent most of the week deciding on what he wanted to do during the camps, finished most of his homework, helping Victor set-up for camp, and spent one day shopping.
Two councilors went with Harry and Victor to go shopping. Harry was able to get his banking done quickly with a money pouch that was enchanted so that only he could get his money out of it and was connected to his vault so he didn't have to go to his vault each time he needed more money. Harry got a whole new wardrobe; new glasses and contacts; a new multi-compartment trunk; a new backpack; stocked up on parchment, quills, ink, and notebooks; a few books; and restocked his secret art supplies. He had to spill the beans so to speak about his hidden artistic talent with a promise to show his companions his sketch book. The two councilors were LJ and Sam, who became friends with Harry kind of like an older brother and sister for him, and they became friends with Victor also. The four of them took to hanging out together for the rest of the week during their down time and for the rest of summer too. The three were very impressed with Harry's art talent. Harry liked drawing many things but was the best at dragons and Quidditch. He would later be asked to design some logos for camp souvenirs.