I am, yet again snowed in, and will probably be tomorrow as well. Yay!
I am reviewing this, so I hope you like the changes! Ten in Knockturn is like seven in the normal time zones.
Azymus awoke at ten, and was just in time for 'Breakfast' as Olivia called it. Obviously they run on a different time system. Sounds okay I suppose. He then sat down at a table, and looked at the person opposite him in shock. What the hell is Draco Malfoy doing here? Doesn't his Daddy send him to bed nice and early? Why would Malfoy Senior allow Draco here at night, when he is his little darling who is delightfully evil?
He sat down, and smiled at Olivia when she brought over the food- A stew that looked very good.
"I'm Draco Malfoy. Who are you?"
After a moment of utter confusion in his brain, Azymus pulled himself together. I am Azymus. NOT Harry. Breathe.
" Azymus Evanclear."
Draco looked shocked, then said " Aren't they all dead? Sorry, lack of tact, but really, it was announced a century ago that your family had all been killed in a raid."
" I get that a lot around here. I'm the last Evanclear. Pleasure to meet you. Now, what is the Scion of the Malfoy Clan doing in a Knockturn Inn?"
Draco laughed, and replied " I'm waiting for my Father to pick me up, as I was just getting my Hogwarts Supplies. Oh, there he is. I better go, he hates to be kept waiting. And Lucius Malfoy in a bad mood is not pretty." And with a hasty goodbye, the Blonde ran over to the elder cane wielding Blonde, and the pair left.
What was that? Malfoy being nice? If I was Harry still, i'd get heart problems!
Deciding to just go with the crazy flow, Azymus tucked into the stew, which on asking a young maid called Staze, found out that it was potato and lamb. Not a very 'dark' choice is it. I thought i'd be belladonna and liver or something. It still tastes good.
After eating two helpings, and having a mug of lemon syrup ( He'd been forced to try it) left to explore the Alley for two hours before going to work at Ion's. He wandered down the Alley once more, but stopped at a shop titling itself 'Carus Cicaro'. He looked at the display of sparking magic and pictures of animals, and then decided to go in. I need a new owl, and a familiar. Hedwig is living with Luna for now, and I can't use her without revealing who I am. I'll miss her so much, but I expect she'll vist, and Luna will look after her. I can still trust her, as the three musketeers don't even know i'm friends with her.
And indeed, this was one friendship that Dumbledore hadn't seen, or even known about.
Harry had first befriended Luna in her first year, when she had believed he was innocent of the attacks on Muggleborns. Keeping this friendship a secret hadn't been too hard, as Hermione had been petrified for half the year, Ginny had been possessed, and Ron was just too dense to notice.
The unlikely friends had become even more solid when he had stopped a group of Slytherin girls from attacking her in his third year. Somehow, all through his third and fourth year, Hermione, Ron and Ginny had not even known Harry knew who 'Loony Lovegood' was.
So, he looked at all the Owls first, and saw a magnificent grey Eagle owl, which he picked, and paid 6 galleon's for. He then sent the Owl, which he named Abluo, back to his room at the El Vive. Then, he looked at the many other creature's in the shop. There were many snakes, toads, rats and cats.
But, there was one kneazle, that was locked in a tiny cage. It had sea green eyes, and was blue-grey and white. He picked the cage up, and walked to the counter with it.
" You don't want that one boy, it's venomous, and you see those little stumps on her back? They'll be wings when she gets older. I've got a few of them, but who would want to create a new breed like that? It's a byproduct of an experimental breeding program gone wrong."
" I'll take her. She's 16 galleon's, correct? And you said there were more of them?"
"Yes, there are."
" Well, i'll take them of your hands as well then." Azymus didn't want to leave these poor animals in this place of cruelty if he could avoid it.
The shop owner looked stunned, but took the money, and brought out three more little cats, and Azymus left the shop with one creature riding on each shoulder, and the other two walking at his feet. He looked at them, and said
" I'll name the blue and white female Rima, the golden male Rama, the black male Wrath, and the little brown tabby female Sienna. Now that that's sorted-Oh shit, i'm late for work!"
Azymus ran to the Wand shop, and was on the end of many glances- as his cats was pegging it after him as well!
As he passed through the door, Ion turned around from where he'd been standing, and said
" Late."
"Sorry boss, I lost track of time..."
Then Rima, Rama, Sienna and Wrath followed him in, also panting like their new master, and Ion smiled, and waved him off to sort out the mess of wands on the counter.
After an hour of stacking, shelving and boxing wands, and placing them on the dust free shelves, the gong rang, and Ion hurried to the front. Azymus continued to sort and stack the wands, looking at them through the glass lids. He had to stack them in alphabetical order, like Apple wood and ashwinder skin at the start, and Willow and Ziz feather at the end. It was relaxing work, and he was happily daydreaming when he was called to the front by Ion. He ran there, discarding his apron as he went. There, in the shop, stood the Malfoy's.
" Oh! It's you!" Draco said. His father looked at him, then said in obvious amusement,
" I take it you are the boy my son met in the Inn this morning."
"Yes sir, I am. Azymus Evanclear."
"Well, Mr Evanclear, would you like to be introduced to the more... influential pure families? Many of them would like to meet you, and it would be a great honor for the Malfoy family to introduce you- fir both us and you."
At this point, Harry Potter was completely overcome by his alter ego.
" I would be delighted."
The elder Malfoy looked pleased, then opened his bag- a leather case- and held out a rectangular invite, which read ' Mr and Mrs Malfoy invite you to the Summer Ball'. Azymus placed it in his own bag that he'd bought earlier that day- a wizarding version of a muggle messenger bag- and placed it inside.
" I would be utterly delighted to attend."
After a few more pleasantries, the Malfoy's bought a wand holster for Draco, and a polishing kit. So, as they were leaving, he and Draco shook hands. Ion then told him to get back to sorting.
I am now going to a ball, at the Malfoy Manor. And I shook hands with Draco? I might as well deal with all this, as this is apparently my life now. Get on with stacking!
It was nine pm, and Ion let him out for the day. He then wandered around the market that had sprung up in the last six hours. He spent more money, and bought some valuable books on runes, curses and rituals. At another stall he bought a book called 'Stones and their Secrets'. He wanted to look up the opal, and why the Evanclear family seemed to have to surrounded themselves with them. He bought a green patterned bandana for work, as he was worried his hair would catch fire- A young witch named Clara Nott had come in to get a wand, and had almost set his fringe on fire! After that, he wandered into the 'dark objects' tent, and managed to obtain a pair of gloves that could transmit magic, making it out to be that you were a wandless.
He saw a stand selling cheap potions ingredients, and bought some valuable items, like boomslang skin, and clear grass. He managed to buy an animagus potion as well. All of these things he stowed in his new, bottomless third section in his trunk that had drawers and shelves in it. He could walk in all the sections in his trunk, and he'd cursed it so only he or someone he trusted could open it, or go inside it.
He then looked into his book on rituals again, and read about the ritual that made you a dark wizard. It left a mark of something on you. Like a blue dot in a brown eye. Or a new birthmark.
Now, it was eleven at night, and before going to bed, he tried to become an Animagi. He found that his form was a panther. It had green eyes, like Harry Potter. Then, he saw another animal. This one had the Evanclear eyes- a horse. He realized that each of his personalities had an animagus form, and as he was them both, he could have two forms!
Now that is cool!
Now, he was smashed, so he collapsed on his soft bed, and went to sleep on the blissfully soft mattress. He slept for an hour, only to be awoken by yet another Auror patrol. The market had luckily gone, otherwise it would have been carnage...
Azymus fell back into sleep, with one last thought.
I will make those who destroyed Harry Potter pay. Dearly.
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