Disclaimer: Err, I guess I don't own the adorable little munchkin but then again J.K brought him to us at 11…he's four now…#rubs chin thinking before grabbing him# MINE! MINE! MINE! Muahahahahahha!

Rejected Runespoor

Chapter 21

The only thing he hadn't been scolded over was his trunk. His normal, thrifty trunk. That he'd also managed to get off that shopkeeper in Knockturn Alley, from a dark corner of the shop. It hadn't been searched properly by Dumbledore, since the trick bottom hadn't been found. That had cost a good thirty galleons that had been charged to his Gringotts vault. Knockturn Alley businessmen and goblins did do business. Jut out of the ministries' eyes.

He'd gone straight into his bedroom, Potty slithering on the floor behind him.

:Good shopping:

:Yes. Have you been fed: Harry gave her a concerned look.

:Yes. The creature has left a tray for you. I'll be by the fire if you wish to speak later.: His mother finished with a snake-smile.

:Yes you're obviously busy.: The right head hissed amusedly. :Hide your stash well.:

:Don't I always: Harry replied with a smirk and watched her slither off before opening the closet and sticking his trunk far into the back. He pulled out the fake bottom and then went back outside and started unloading his robe pockets. The crates, the books, the clothes, the school supplies. The only thing that hadn't been shrunk was his wand and with a tap to every package and bag they went back to their proper proportions.

Back inside the closet, the schoolbooks were packed innocuously on top of the fake bottom of the trunk. And then Harry pushed and shoved the crates into the closet with the trunk. With a heave he lifted one of the crates and dropped it into the trunk. There was silence for a moment then a BANG as it landed, making Harry cringe. The other followed the same way.

His innocent little trunk had an unnoticeable room inside. That was about to become his living space until school started. He could read down there undisturbed and it was said to be cloaked, so if he wished magic could be practised. One of those expensive flat-in-a-trunk trunks would have put him out about three hundred galleons and he didn't need all that so instead he'd got this hidden room trunk and really, it was better for him. He was used to living in small tight places after all.

Harry looked back out into his bedroom where school supplies clothes and everything he'd bought was scattered about. Dumbledore had just finished scolding him so he didn't expect the man to be back for more lectures this evening and besides after Professor Snape returned to his chambers from wherever he was, Salazar would give up here a look out for him. So Harry shut the closet doors behind him and wand in waistband, stepped into the trunk…and fell. He twisted in mid-air and landed in a crouch on the dusty floor. He stood and wiped his hands off on his jeans walking over to the crates. He was really interested in what could be in here. It must have been really good for someone to want to shuttle them off to not be found with them. He frowned at the crate before holding a hand over one. He didn't know any magic with his wand yet so he was back to what he did best. Willing.

With a thump the sealing charm on the box broke and when he pulled off the top about thirty books were revealed inside the crate. He pulled the first off the top of the pile and again carelessly willed the light he needed.

Ancient Dark Arts Rituals. Harry blinked. That sounded a bit advanced. He sat on the ground and laid it next to him pulling out another book. Curses And Spells Of The Great Lord Grindelwald. Harry placed that beside him too and pulled out a third. Squiggles. A bunch of squiggles. Harry frowned at the book cover before flipping open a page. More squiggles. But as he stared at the book pages words started to form.

Parseltongue! The book's written in freaking parseltongue! Harry grinned suddenly. Oh this was a good buy. Definitely worth fifty galleons. He giggled softly replacing the three books before standing and bursting open the next crate. This was just too perfect! This was more the magic he needed now. Wizarding World History: The Dark Point-Of-View, Beginner's Dark Magic, Minor Gray Hexes And Dark Jinxes, Welcome To The Gray Side. Harry replaced the cover on the first crate and pushed it into a corner of the room. The second he hefted on it's side and shook the books out before tossing aside the crate. He sat for the next half-hour sorting the books into history, spell books, ritual books, stories and autobiographies. Those too pushed safely against the wall in their piles Harry took out his wand, Welcome To The Gray Side in hand, and lifted it.

"Out."

There was a moment of disconcertment as he swayed in front of the trunk, back in the closet before he shook his head gently and replaced the fake bottom, shutting the trunk.

He went out, ate, put his clothes all away in the closet, empty bags strewn around the floor with his trunk to hide it. He settled his school books in the front room on the bookshelves and put the other things randomly around his room like decorations before kissing Potty goodnight with the promise to talk tomorrow and shutting himself into his bed, hangings closed, he started to read.

AN: Vain? Vain! My Harry? My darling sweet lovable huggable Harry vain? Neverrrr! #hugs little Harry while he primps in the mirror#

Is this better than Snake Boy/moves faster?And Serpentine/sex scenes? There's another with the PxW challenge too...but I haven't seen it myself...if anyone knows the name...