Hey everybody! Thanks for all those who gave reviews, added me to their favourites and alerts! In this chapter, you'll see if Albus likes Harry. ;) Oh, I forgot to write what Harry's and Albus' animagus form is! I'm sorry, I thought I already posted it...
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Chapter 9: The Calm Before The What?
Hogsmeade...
" Isn't Hogsmeade great, Harry?" said Albus.
Albus, Majeya (The fifth year Gryffindor that asked Harry if he had sex in the library or not), Malena (Albus' friend) and Aberforth (fifth year Gryffindor, Albus' younger brother) offered to give Harry and Tom a tour in Hogwarts, Tom was with them earlier, but said that he forgot his money pouch and was going back to the castle and will just catch up later. So now, Harry, Majeya, Malena, Aberforth and Albus, without Tom, was seated around a table in Three Broomsticks, sipping butterbeer. The group can barely hear each other because of all the racket the crowd inside was making.
"Yeah, it is." said Harry, smiling. "Say, what brand of brooms do you suppose is better? Silver Arrows or Comets? I'm planning on buying a broom, but I don't know which broom is better."
The group happily chatted on about brooms, quidditch, the losing streak that the Cannons were having and rumors.
Beneath Harry's jolly exterior though, was anxiety coiling in his guts.
'Where was Tom going? Did he really think that I would believe his stupid excuse? He's planning something, I know it!'
As the others chatted happily, Albus whispered into Harry's ear.
"It's finished."
Harry's eyes widened. The potion for human transformation! They can see what their animagus forms already!
He smiled and excitedly whispered back "When are we going to drink it?"
Albus shrugged. "Whenever you want, Harry."
"Does tonight sounds good?"
"Of course."
At that, Harry forgot all about Tom's plots.
After drinking, they went to Honeydukes.
"Hey, Harry! Check these out: cockroach clusters! It's the best of the lot, trust me!" said Malena, shoving some incredibly icky-looking things at Harry.
"No, try the Blood Pops! They are absolutely amazing!" said Majeya.
"Erm, no thanks." said Harry, wrinkling his nose.
Shaking his head and grinning crookedly at his friend's antics, Albus asked "What do you prefer, Harry?"
"Well..." looking around the shop for some food that looks to be made for human beings, Harry pointed "That one!"
"Lemon drops?" Albus asked with a raised eyebrow.
"What's wrong with that?" Harry asked with a defensive tone and a smile on his face. 'Albus Dumbledore, not having lemon drops? Impossible!'
"If you want sour things like that, go on ahead! I'll go for chocolate hog heads- they're amazing!" said Aberforth.
"Don't you want to buy something for Tom, Harry?" said Majeya.
"Oh, right." he replied. He bought more for Tom.
In the end, they all bought what the others think are great, including the cockroach clusters.
They went all around Hogsmeade, having fun with each other's presence. Even though all of them were fun to be with, Harry still prefered his best friends' presence. After having fun, Harry and the group also bought presents for each other. Harry had even bought Tom a gift- a necklace with an animated silver snake coiling around a moving black snake as a pendant.
The group of fifth years and sixth years were soon tired after roaming around Hogsmeade and buying Christmas gifts in advance. They dragged themselves into the Gryffindor Common Room. As the others fell soundly asleep on the couches, Albus and Harry sneaked out.
Entering an empty room and warding it, Albus excitedly placed two pieces of parchment, two daggers and two vials of the Animae Potion on a table.
"Ready now, Harry?"
"As ready as I'll ever be."
Harry and Albus both drank the potion at once, then immediately sliced their index finger and let their blood drop into parchment.
Harry's blood is moving counter-clockwise, then it turned black and formed the shape of a black...
"A cat." Harry said in a dead-panned voice. "No, scratch that. A cute, black, furry kitty!"
"It's okay." said Albus, trying hard not to laugh.
'Will wonders never cease? Harry's a kitty! That's so adorable...so adorable that I can't help but...but what? I don't know... am I incredulous? Disappointed? Relieved that he's not a very powerful animagus? Hoping that my animagus form is better? I don't know...'
Harry sighed and crumpled the paper, placing it in his pocket.
He asked "How about you?"
Meanwhile, Albus' blood was still moving counter-clockwise. It turned black...
and promptly vanished.
"Nothing." Albus said in a dead voice.
"I can't be an animagus."
"Albus..." Harry said, concerned. Albus just shook his head, disappointment written in his face.
"I'm fine with it, Harry. I'm okay." Albus' eyes were shining, and he left the room in a hurried pace.
Harry just stared, not knowing what to do.
Harry just sat there for awhile, staring glumly at Albus' blank paper. After a while, the door opened. Harry thought Albus had come back, but it was actually Aberforth. Aberforth looked a lot like Albus, but for some reason they are both just so different from each other.
"Hiya Harry...did anything to my dear old brother?"
Harry gulped nervously. He doesn't know what to expect of Aberforth, really. He barely had any decent conversation with him. " What? Erm...He got disappointed."
"That so?"
Harry eyed him warily and slowly nodded. Seeing Harry's nervousness, Aberforth laughed hysterically while Harry gaped at him.
" 'm not mad at ya, Harry. In fact, ye got me impressed! What the hell in the world did ye do to make the jolly fellow so glum? What, rejected him?"
"Erm, no. I didn't. He was just disappointed in...something. And for your information, he doesn't fancy me."
Aberforth snorted. "Ha! He can't fool me! I'm Aberforth Delagarius Marion Dumbledore!"
Aberforth grinned knowingly at him and patted his shoulder. "Don't ya worry, I won't tell anyone."
Harry raised an eyebrow. He knows what we were doing here earlier?
Aberforth grinned again at him and left the room, waving goodbye and muttering "Bye, kitty."
Harry sighed. ' Oh well, that certainly wasn't what I expected...A kitty? He took the parchment out of his pocket again and dropped it to the floor in shock.
What the hell?
On the parchment was a drawing of a phoenix...that changed into a fish, then to a butterfly, to a squid, to a leopard, to some type of bird, to a dog, to a snake, and so on and so forth...The drawing was changing so fast that Harry can barely distinguish the drawing before it changes to another again.
Harry picked it up again. The drawing was still changing- he doesn't even know the name of the birds it was showing anymore. 'This must be a joke...How can this be possible? Does this mean I can change to all of these?' Harry shook his head. 'Well, if that really is the case...then no one must know.'
He raised his wand and pointed it at the parchment and muttered "Incendio."
I'm a freak again.
The parchment burned to ashes, with no one but Harry knowing it's secret...Even though Harry thought it impossible, there was still a tiny hope in his heart that it may be impossible and it was just not working right...Hah! When did "impossible" ever remained "impossible" in his life anyway?
Harry seeked Tom out, wanting to give the sweets he bought. He sneaked into the sixth year Slytherin dorms and found Tom reading a book.
"Tom." Harry whispered.
Tom sat up in his bed and patted the space next to him.
"Just the boy I was looking for. Set up the wards, Harry." Harry nodded and did what he was told to do. After that he dumped all the sweets he bought for Tom. Tom simply nodded his thanks and placed the sweets on his desk.
"So, I have found a book about Alternate Realities."
"Really? Where?"
"in Knockturn Alley, after being allowed to go to Hogsmeade and escaping from there. The book said that a person can transfer from a reality to another by huge amounts of magic that can go through the globe which keeps the realities apart, cross through a space of nothingness and tear into another reality. We probably got here because of our combined magic."
"Erm...What are we going to do now?"
"We must do an ancient ritual first, so that we can combine our magic again and successfully travel from one reality to another and not get separated from each other."
"When?"
"Tomorrow night."
"Oh, okay...I'll be going now." Tom nodded to him and Harry sneaked out, going back to the Gryffindor Dorms...
Tom smirked to himself. 'Life is just so easy with unquestioning idiots...'
End! Oh, Malena, Majeya and Aberforth are just extras, don't worry! They would probably appear in some chapters again, but only just as fillers.
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