Towards the end this just kinda... faded out, sorry

"Harry! Harry! Hello, Harry!"

This was Colin Creevey, a second year who was always in awe of Harry and never let a chance to speak to him pass.

"Aren't you going to Hogsmeade, Harry? Why not? Hey-" Colin excitedly looked for his friends (apparently including one Peter Kirkland), "-you can sit with us if you want, Harry!"

"Uhm - no thanks, Colin", said Harry, who wasn't in the mood to have people gape at the scar on his forehead, "I have to work on something at the library."

Then he had no other option but to leave through the portrait hole again.

"Why did you even wake me up?" the fat lady called after him.

Harry listlessly made his way towards the library. Halfway there he realised that he didn't really want to study so he turned around and came face to face with Filch, who had probably just finished seeing off the last people to visit Hogsmeade.

"What are you doing?" he demanded.

"Nothing", said Harry.

"Nothing", Filch hissed and his jaw vibrated promising nothing good. "Great excuse! Roaming around here alone, why aren't you at Hogsmeade buying dung bombs and burp powder and whistling worms like your mean little friends?"

Harry shrugged.

"Now, back to your common room where you belong!" Filch barked at him and waited with an angry stare until Harry was out of his sight.

But Harry didn't go back to his common room. With the vague idea to visit Hedwig in the owlery he climbed some stairs and walked down the hallway. Suddenly he heard a voice from one of the hallways:

"Harry?"

Harry quickly walked back to see who it was and met Professor Kirkland who was leaning out of his office door.

"What are you doing here? I thought you'd be at Hogsmeade."

"I didn't get permission, Sir." Harry admitted.

"Oh… You should come in. I was just talking to Leon about getting some supplies for me."

Harry entered the room and sure thing there was the older Gryffindor drinking out of an almost antique looking teacup.

"Heya Harry!" he greeted with a smile.

"So, as I was saying" Professor Kirkland said bestowing Leon with a serious look, "I want you to go on a supply run in Hogsmeade and I thought maybe you could take Harry here with you?"

Harry's mood started to skyrocket at that but it was dampened just as quickly.

"Sir," he said tentatively, "aren't you worried about Sirius Black?"

"No, Harry, I'm not." A smile played on the Professor's lips. "And if you are worried I can assure you that Leon is fully capable of protecting you from criminals and dementors."

The teens chest seemed to puff out a little at that sentence.

"O-okay." Harry agreed, it didn't take long to convince him, he really wanted to go after all.

"Let's go then!" Leon exclaimed, bringing his teacup down with a little too much force and jumping up from his chair. He ran towards Harry, grabbed him by the arm and started dragging him down the corridor. With an amused smile Professor Kirkland closed the door behind them.

They were halfway to the village when Harry noticed something.

"Hey Leon?"

"Yeah?" The other acknowledged him but never faltered in his semi-run.

"Where is Emil?" Outside of classes Harry almost never saw the two apart. He had expected the two of them to visit Hogsmeade together. Suddenly he had a very clear image of Leon smiling at the white haired teen while nursing a drink in some friendly looking pub while Emil himself was not-quite-smiling into his own beverage.

"Oh, Ice went with his bro…"

"I see…" Harry hadn't even known the Ravenclaw had a brother, much less one at Hogwarts, considering his status as a transfer.

Harry didn't know it but he should get the answer to his question soon enough because they had barely made it into the village when Harry head the sneering voice of a too familiar blonde Slytherin: Draco Malfoy.

"So the great Harry Potter needs a mudblood babysitter now? Or are you his backup boyfriend now that his first choice is out on a date with a teacher?"

"50 points from Slytherin for such abhorrent language Mr. Malfoy. And FYI: I'm not muggleborn and Emil and Lukas happen to be brothers. Now if you would excuse us, me and Harry have a job to do. Good day." And with that he dragged Harry along into Dogweed and Deathcap.

"Oh Merlin! That was brilliant!"

"Wasn't it? Oh I wish we couldave seen his face after walking away." Leon doubled over laughing.

After he had composed himself he glanced around the store and quickly bought some dried herbs. It seemed a bit random to Harry but he didn't comment on it.

"Sooo… wanna go to Zonko's next?" Leon grinned at him.

"Yes please!" Harry managed to get out, he had wanted to go there ever since he had first heard about it from Ron.

"Let's go then!"

Thus Harry was dragged around by an over excited Chinese boy yet again. And because he was Harry Potter his entrance into the joke shop didn't go unnoticed, especially by his two best friends who quickly made their way over to him.

"Harry what are you doing here?"

"How did you get out of the castle mate?"

"I'm at the things that go boom, either find me there or meet up at the door K?" said Leon and went MIA in the thick crowd inside the shop.

"Uh, Professor Kirkland made Leon take me out on a 'supply run' but I think that was just an excuse to get both of us out the castle… Emil is out with Professor Bondevik so I guess Leon was lonely or something."

"Why would he choose Bondevik over Leon?"

"Professor Bondevik, Ron."

"They are brothers", Harry quickly said over Ron grumbling something about another Lockhart.

After assuring Hermione that the Professor was very confident in Leon's ability to protect Harry against every danger he might encounter they went around the store looking at the items. They didn't actually buy anything after Hermione reminded them that all of the items were on the list of forbidden items in Filch's office. Eventually they met Leon in the magical fireworks aisle. He bought about three galleons worth of it.

After stuffing it all into an enchanted Zonko's bag he lead them towards Honey Duke's. Just like most Hogwarts students Hermione and Ron had gone there first so now the store was comparatively empty. So it didn't take them long to spot Emil and his brother in front of one of the many shelves ladened with sweets.

They talked quietly to each other in what Harry could only assume to be Norwegian or Icelandic so it did surprise him when Leon chimed in in what he could only assume was some form of Chinese. The only thing Harry could make out from their conversation were the names Mathias, Tino and Berwald. After a while the Professor nodded and made his way over to the counter, a variety of sweets in his arms. After that Harry paid full attention to the store's wares and aware that he had enough money to afford it, bought everything that caught his fancy (with some helpful input from Ron that was).

As a group of six they continued to the Three Broomsticks where Harry first hand witnessed the exact scene between Leon and Emil he imagined earlier.

I don't want to give Leon that 'valley girl' speech pattern that makes him sound too much like Poland. So I'm just trying to make him sound a bit more colloquial without going straight (lol me doing anything straight) to America's duuudeee which results in things like me and the donkey and couldave so yeah...

ooh and look i made a cover pic lol