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Chapter 6:
On August 31st, the Dumbledore family found themselves in Diagon Alley. Mia and Harry hugged each other tightly when they saw each other and chuckled to themselves while Hermione and Ron started bickering yet again. The source of their enmity this time was Hermione's new cat, Crookshanks, who had taken a liking to attacking Scabbers. "When will those two every learn to get along?" Mia asked with a smile.
"Come on, Lia, you know that will never happen."
"I guarantee that those two will fall madly in love with each other. That's what always happens."
"Why did you have to go and ruin it?"
"Because I'm a romantic." She said dramatically while pretending to swoon into his arms causing Harry to laugh rather loudly.
"Hey, Mia, mom wanted to know if you needed anything else from the Alley?" Aria asked.
"Umm, can you just have mom get me some more quills?" Mia looked to Harry and said, "I don't think you met my younger sister, Harry, this is Aria."
"Nice to meet you." Harry said with a smile.
"Nice to meet you too. Sorry we couldn't meet last year but I got the flu and my uncle stayed behind to take care of me."
"That's alright. What do you still need to get from the stores?" Harry asked.
"Oh well, Mia's books were sold out but they got some more in today so they just need to go and pick those up. Otherwise she got everything else."
"Well that and mom said that I could get an owl or a cat if I wanted one so we are going to look at the ones they have. She said if you wanted one, you could come and get one too."
"You might as well, with the amount of letters you send me, poor Hedwig must get so tired." Chloe said walking up to them.
"I think she rather enjoys it, every time she comes back, she is a very happy mood." Harry said with a smile.
"Harry, this is my mom, Chloe Dumbledore. Mom, this is Harry-"
"Potter. You don't have to tell me who he is. Hello, Harry nice to see you again."
"Nice to see you too."
"I'm sorry we weren't able to properly talk the two times we met each other last year, but the circumstances surrounding the events were not ideal."
Harry nodded knowing exactly what she was talking about. The first time, they met was only a brief interaction of pleasantries before the Malfoys showed up and ruined it.
Flashback
"Well if it isn't famous, Harry Potter, can't even go into a bookshop without making the front page."Draco growled. At this point, Fred and George came over with Percy and Addie. George put his arm around Addie's shoulders to keep her close.
"Leave him alone, he didn't want all of that." Ginny defended Harry.
"Look, Potter, you go yourself a girlfriend." Draco sneered.
"Why don't you just shove off, Malfoy?" Mia asked.
Before Draco could respond, a cane with a silver snake attached to it, came down on his shoulder. "Now, now, Draco, play nicely." Lucius looked them over with a sneer before putting a smirk on his pale face. "Mr. Potter, Lucius Malfoy. We meet at last." He looked intently at Harry's scar and said, "Forgive me, but your scar is legend as is the wizard who gave it to you."
"Voldemort killed my parents. He was nothing more than a murderer."
"You must be very brave to speak his name. Or very foolish."
"Fear of a name, only increases fear of the thing itself." Hermione piped up.
"And you must be, Ms. Granger. Draco has told me all about you and your parents. Muggles, aren't they?"
Lucius then looked at the Weasley children and his smirk returned to his face."I suppose this is the best your father could do. You must go hungry for a month with the amount of money he had to spend." If it was even possible, his smirk grew even more when he saw the Dumbledore girls gathered there. "Well it looks like there is more than Lockhart and Potter here that are celebrities. The Dumbledore sisters are here as well." Lucius drawled putting emphasis on the Dumbledore. "Where is your mother she is an old friend."
"Don't act like we were anything more than passing acquaintances, Lucius." Chloe said coming up to the group.
"Well, Chloe Dumbledore, good of you to grace us with your presence." He cleared his throat before continuing, "Your daughters are just as beautiful as their mother, although the youngest clearly favors her father." He stopped when he noticed the murderous look that Chloe gave him. Just then Arthur Weasley came over and tried to usher all of the children out of the store.
"Busy time at the ministry, Arthur. All those raids, I do hope they are paying you overtime, but judging by the state of this I would say not." He pointed to Ginny's second-hand books. "What is the point of being a disgrace to the name of wizard, if they don't even pay you well for it?"
"We have a very different idea of what disgraces the name of wizard, Malfoy."
"Clearly, and I thought your family could sink no lower."
Just then Arthur, lunged at Lucius. Both of them fell to the ground and started fighting being encouraged by those around them except for Chloe and Mrs. Weasley who were trying to break them up. Hagrid was the only who was able to break up the two.
When Arthur fell, Amelia fell as well dropping all of her books. Hermione started to help her clean everything up but they had trouble finding one of her books. Lucius picked up the book and said, "Here, girl, hold onto it, you never know when someone might try to steal something away from you." Lucius dropped the book into her cauldron, but what no one noticed was that another small black book was placed into her cauldron. This book set many things into motion including Harry discovering that one of his best friends was a relative of Voldemort's. However, Harry had yet to tell anyone.
End Flashback
"I knew you when you were just a baby. Even back then, the two of you were inseparable. Whenever, it was time to go home, you would start wailing. The only way we were able to leave was when the two of you fell asleep." She looked at Harry and continued, "I always knew that you would be as handsome as James. But you still have Lily's beautiful, expressive eyes."
"You were close to my parents?"
"You never told me that, mom."
"You're mother was like a sister to me. And your father became like an unofficial, annoying older brother. He liked to tease me to no end."
"Really?"
"Mhmm. Come one Aria, we have to get your stuff. Why don't you two come along? I can tell you more about your parents if you like Harry."
"That sounds wonderful, Ms. Dumbledore."
"Please, call me Chloe."
They went to Flourish and Blotts to pick up Aria's books and then went to Eeylops Owl Emporium. Aria chose a Brown owl and Mia chose a Tawny one. The entire time, Chloe told Harry about her friendship with James and Lily. The final story of the night was, James pulling a prank on Dumbledore himself. "He then put the potion into Dumbledore's morning tea. Ten minutes later, His beard turned into different colors of the rainbow. My uncle Albus thought it was hilarious. He didn't punish James but he did get even with him."
"What did Dumbledore do?" Harry asked eagerly.
"That is a story for another day. I'll tell you about it the next time I see you. Now you two need to get to bed. You have a big day tomorrow. Third year will be harder with the extra classes you need to take. Get some rest and I promise you the next time I see you, you will hear the rest of the story."
With that Harry and Mia went up to bed. "Your mum is amazing."
"She is pretty great." Mia replied proudly.
Chloe smiled watching the two friends walking up the stairs.
Arthur came up to her and asked, "How are you, Chloe?"
"I'm fine. What about yourself."
"The same. We haven't really had a chance to talk since last year."
"I know, it was just a bit overwhelming."
"I understand. This year must be the even more so."
"It is, but I know him, he would never hurt me."
"I know you like to believe that but all those years in prison with no human contact can drive a person mad. Just promise me that you won't do anything to put your life in danger."
"I promise. You are a good friend." Chloe smiled up at Arthur. When Arthur left, she let her smile fall off her face. She should have told him about her interaction with Sirius but she was afraid and ashamed. But tomorrow, her girls would be at Hogwarts and they would be safe there.