"Harry, no, why don't you come back over here," Remus said sternly as Harry crawled on the floor in the gringotts lobby after getting out of James's arms. He had walked Swiftly towards Harry, who was crawling fast almost reaching the door which lead to the vaults. He bent down quicly and picked Harry Up who started wailing and immediately try to get out of Remus's arms. James had handed over the key to his vault to the goblin, who was getting up from the counter to go take them down to their vault. James turned around from the counter towards Harry who was still struggling in Remus's arms.
"now, Harry, we don't want you go getting yourself lost in this place, now do we?" James asked jokingly with a wide grin on his face. Remus raised an eyebrow and gave james a look. They all walked off after the goblin out of the long hall in to the area where they took the little carts down to their vault. Remus got in to the cart with Harry in the back of the cart, while James and Lily climbed in the front. Remus held Harry tightly as they started off forward. Harry was initially excited, but got scared and frightened in the middle clinging to Remus tightly as if his life depended on it. He also shrank in to remus not liking the cold air that rushed at him and tried swatting it away.
"It's alright, Harry," remus said softly to him holding him tightly. After a few more minutes, they reached the vault and the cart drew to a stop. Harry was still crying hard in Remus's arms as Remus stepped out on to the ground. The goblin Unlocked the door and James walked in to the vault to grab a bagful of gold.
That's enough, Harry. There is nothing to worry about. I will not allow you to be hurt. You are safe," Remus said sternly as they stepped back in to the cart. Harry struggled in Remus's arms trying to get away and out of the cart. James chose to sit in the back with Harry and Remus. As they traveled quickly back up to the entrance of gringotts, Harry started to wail loudly, while clinging tightly to Remus for dear life. Remus said many comforting words, trying to get Harry calmed down that way, and James tried to distract Harry, attempting to make him laugh. Nothing seemed to do for the upset and frightful little boy, who by the end of the ride back up to the entrance was still screaming loudly and crying excessively in Remus's arms.
"It's alright Harry. Look, we're out of there. There's no need to be upset. Will you please calm down," Remus reasoned with the one year old as they stepped out in to the bright morning sun outside of gringotts. James was Repocketing his key and still holding the bag of gold. Lilly was walking out behind him.
"Right, well, I was thinking that we could go down to the toy store first, and get a few new toys for Harry," James said to the little crowded a little loudly and emphsizing the word toy, so that his crying son might be able to notice and cheer up. Lily was now beside Remus as she trying to cheer Harry up as well.
"Yes, I think we should, that sounds like an excellent idea, James," Remus agreed nodding and smiled widely at Harry. James who was now finishing tugging the bag of gold in his bag he had brought with him now stepped a little closer to Remus. Remus, James, And Lily took a few more minutes, but they finally managed to get Harry to stop crying. Remus pulled a chocolate frog out of his pocket and unwrapped it. Harry reached out and attempted to grab for it, but Remus held the chocolate away from Harry, who looked like he was about to cry again as if he wasn't going to get any chocolate afterall.
"Don't, Harry." Remus said trying to calm him down quickly unwrapping the chocolate and eating as those rides down to the vaults were always rough for him.
"Here," Remus said as he held up the chocolate frog card to distract Harry, "look, It's Albus." Harry grabbed for the picture excitedly. Remus smiled and allowed Harry to Hold on to the card, but kept a hold on it as well. As he expected, Harry attempted to put the piece of paper in his mouth, but Remus stopped him. Harry stared interestedly at the picture a little more, until Lily suggest they got a move on. Remus pocketed the card and they headed up the street. Harry was a little upset that Remus had took the chocolate frog card, but soon forgot all about it as he was distracted by all the people walking by and items displayed in the various shop windows. Harry babbled away animatedly to his father and Remus who both pretended to listen, but they also pointed out interesting things displayed in the window of the shops, which Harry looked interestedly at and babbled back something excitedly. A few times, Remus and James had to distract Harry by another item at another shop, because Harry really wanted something that looked interesting in a shop window, most of which wasn't suited for a one years old and started to cry. Finally, they reached the toy shop and they went inside. James lead the way as Remus and Lily followed behind.. Harry looked around and noticed all the toys got excited. He struggled to get down from Remus's arms, but Remus wouldn't allow him to crawl on the ground. He tried reaching for boxes and knocked a few over.
"harry, don't, here," Remus said persuasively putting his hand on Harry's arm as he was about to knock down another box. Lily stooped down to grab the fallen box. Remus picked up the box Harry was interested in and glanced at it, while stepping back from the shelf. It happened to be a puzzle of Hogsmead for older kids as it was paper, contained smaller pieces, and required some degree of thinking. Remus placed the box back on the shelf and Harry Looked upset at remus.
"here, lets go and look at the toys you can play with," Remus said trying to distract Harry as he walked over to the section that sold toys which was more suited for Harry's age. On the way, however Harry attempted to grab at more boxes and to play with items on the shelf. Remus was able to stop Harry from grabbing any of the boxes, because luckily enough, they were walking far enough away from either shelf, and so, Harry was unable to knock anything_ over. He attempted to distract Harry as much as he could.
Finally they reached the section which was more suited for Harry's age. Remus knelt down with Harry allowing him to look at the different toys, but kept a tight grip on him. Lily was following behind looking around at the different toys and games..
"Oi, Moony, why don't you bring Harry over here, I think he might like these," James called from two rows to the left of where Remus was standing. Harry's bright green eyes looked extra bright as he looked in at the direction his father's voice came from and tried to get out of Remus's arms so that he could reach his father.
"Da! da! daaaa!" He exclaimed loudly while remus tried to stand up. Remus was trying to keep a tight grip on Harry, while he got up from his kneeling position and walked towards James.
"Look at the racing broom models, Harry," James said excitedly as Remus approached. Harry, however, wasn't paying any attention whatsoever to his father's words, but instead was trying to climb in to his fathers arms.
"Here," Remus said quietly as James finally realizing what his son was most interested in turned around towards Remus. Harry quickly climbed in to his fathers arms and put his arms around his father.
"da, da, da!" Harry said drewling all over his father. James grinned down widely at his son and then turned back to the shelf with all the toys. He allowed Harry to look around at the shelf and pointed out the model of the racing broom which Harry as his father predicted took great interest. He reached out to grab hold of the box and stuggled in James's arm to reach it. Harry looked longly at the box sitting on the shelf.
James asked excitedly while lifting the box contining the quidditch from the shelf, "You like the Racing brooms?" Harry held on to the box bringing it close to his body as if to hug it and padded his other hand. James smiled at Harry, who was looking fixedly at the boox watching the characters race around the box over and over again. He happily babbled something to his father. James watched harry, while looking around for more toys Harry would be interested in.
He found a few sets for Harry over the next forty-five minutes Remus held all of the boxes that Harry was interested in that james would buy, that Harry was done staring at animatedly and had moved on to look at something else. The proceeded on in this fashion for thirty-five more minutes until Lily looking at the large pile suggested that they had enough toys and should move on to shop for something else. The piles of toys had grown so much that now it was placed in a large basket Lily had conjured which was besides Remus. Lily picked up the basket as James and Remus followed her. Lily reached the counter first and placed the basket on the counter. As James approached the countern Harry attempted to reach for the boxes of toys. James held Harry back gently, so as to hold him back until the toys were payed for. The witch smiled at Harry.
James smiled and said gently, "You can play with them after in a few minutes." The witch looked quickly at the boxes and told Lily the price of all the toys. James who the gold shifted Harry in his arms and put his hand in his picket. Seeing the opportunity, Harry tried to free himself from his fathers arms to grab at the toys.
"here," Remus said quietly taking Harry from James so that he could properly get the gold out of his pocket. James grinned thankfully at Remus, who nodded. James counted out the cash and handed it to the witch.
The rest of the morning went by uneventfully. As soon as they got out of the shop James htook the toy tlescope out of the box and gave it to Harry to play. They went to a few more shops. toward noon when they were in Madam Malkins when they were shopping for new robes Harry became moody and upset. He threw the the crystal ball wich he was playing with and started to kick remus who had him at the time. Remus tried to make Harry comfortable and try to calm him. after about ten more minutes of crying Harry finally fell asleep in Remus's arms. Remus sat down with Harry outside of Madam Malkins while James and Lily finish shopping for clothes. Remus looked down on Harry fondly as Harry slept on peacefully his breaths study his chest rising and falling slowly.
"want to eat at the little cafes over there? I think the leaky cauldron qill be to loud for Harry, it might wake him up." James said as he and Lily walked out of Madam Malkins and approached Remus