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"So mate." Ron interjected. "What about classes? You still taking the same ones?" Ron was hopeful, but this wasn’t the same Harry that he watched walk away from him after he got off the train towards his relatives at the end of last school year. This was a Harry that he had never imagined. But he should have. |
"Hell no! Defense is a joke, and Snape is a prick!" |
"Harry! He’s a teacher. Language!" |
Harry snorted. "A terrible one. Anyway, those are two classes I will not be taking this year. It’ll just be a waste of my time." Harry held up a hand. "No. Hermione leave it. Aunty was about to kill Snape when she found out about his teaching methods." |
"I’ll tell you later?" |
"You’re leaving me to the crazies?" Ron gasped in horror. |
Harry looked at him coldly. "Ron you were the first friend that I had made that was my age. I will always appreciate that. However it has been made clear to me by Sirius that I am to do my best in my studies." Harry sighed, and met Ron’s stare straight on. "You and Hermione are my best friends. I don’t want to lose tha... |
Ron and Hermione looked at each other, turned back to Harry and nodded. This was a new version of their best friend. |
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If Sirius Orion Black had known that taking Arthur Septimus Weasley on a two day trip to a Non Magical amusement park was such a bad idea, he would have shut down the whole notion. As such, if it wasn’t for Charlie and Bill gluing themselves to there father’s side, the Statute of Secrecy would have been obliterated. |
However, Sirius Orion Black could not speak on this matter. This time they were at a place called Six Flags. |
"Sirius! They have another coaster roller!" Arthur shouted, as he eagerly hurried towards the line. |
"Oh goody!" Sirius squealed, as he dropped the stuffed elephant he had just won, while he followed Arthur. |
Harry watched as Sirius and Arthur stood in line to get on the ride, and shook his head after he had face palmed. Apparently all of the training that Sirius had received on how to behave in public as a Lord of an Ancient and Noble house went out the window when it came to an amusement park. |
"Ok." Harry stated as he came up with a plan in his head. |
"Mrs. Weasley!" He barked. She nodded. |
"Arthur is your husband, you will have to keep a better eye on him. Or else we risk getting arrested by the American Aurors." |
"Aunt Andi. You’re on Sirius." She nodded amused. |
"The rest of us will meet here this spot in two hours." Harry commanded, and everyone who was not on babysitter duty ran as fast as they could. The Grangers were almost on the ground laughing, as was Moody and Tonks. |
Truth be told, it was a nice way to forget what was happening at home. |
The day after they had returned, it was decided that they would get the children’s school supplies. Sirius was having the time of his life watching as people jumped out of the way when he would get close to them. It didn’t matter that Sirius was innocent of all charges against him, wizards and witches were such sheeple... |
"So." Sirius clapped his hands once, after they came out of Gringotts. "Where to first?" |
Harry was all set to do all of his shopping at one of the stores on Hermione’s list of Muggleborn shops and say screw Diagon Alley. But Sirius pointed out that if they wanted to make changes in their world, it would help the economy grow and would help to win the hearts and minds of the people they were trying to get o... |
Harry really didn’t care, but he followed Sirius’ advice anyway. |
"Let’s go to the trunk shop. I would like a customized one instead of the generic one that I have now. Maybe something like Moody had." |
"Alright then. Crawford’s Magical Storage and Luggage Shop is one of the best ones here, let’s go in there." |
"How about I take my gaggle of red heads for robes then books, and we all meet for lunch at The Leaky at say...one. It’s 10 am now." Bill suggested. This was his last day home before he went back to work. |
Sirius nodded. "Sounds like a plan. Keep your eyes open everyone." Sirius turned to steer Harry towards the shop and made small talk. "How’s it going with your family journals?" |
"Alright. Better than alright actually. I didn’t know any of the things in there about my family magic. Did you know that your grandfather and my grandfather were actually friends?" |
Sirius actually stopped walking. "Hunh. Well that explains it." |
"Explains what exactly?" |
"It explains why there was no uproar when your grandfather took me into his home when I ran away. It also explains how they were able to retrieve my belongings unmolested. If grandfather Arcturus and papa Charlus were friends, that means he gave his permission as Lord Black to allow me the Heir, sanctuary in another Ho... |
"Greetings and welcome to my shop. I am Tiberius Crawford, how may I help you?" He gave Harry a sharp look. |
Sirius raised a brow at the man’s gaze in Harry’s direction, and moved to step partially in front of Harry. Harry for his part had already scanned the shop for threats. "Is there a problem?" Sirius asked. |
The shop owner shook himself. "Forgive me. He just reminded me of a friend that I had in my youth named Charlus. Good man he was. Helped me open this shop by giving me the start up money. Now how can I help you today?" |
Harry looked to Sirius to ask permission to tell him. Sirius gave a curt nod. Never taking his eyes off the man. |
"The man you speak of was my grandfather. My name is Harry Potter. Though I am curious how you expect me to believe that you didn’t know that?" |
To Harry’s immense gratitude, the man didn’t fawn all over him like everyone else. He also ignored Harry’s question. "It is a pleasure to meet the grandson of one of the greatest men that I knew. If you like, I could tell you some stories about your grandfather as a child." Tiberius had heard the rumors of course that ... |
Harry’s smile could light up the whole alley. "That would be brilliant! I have his journals, but I’m sure that he left some of the embarrassing stuff out." |
"Ah. I bet there was no mention of how he was caught in a broom cupboard with Ms. Sally Mercer was there?" |
Sirius barked out in laughter. "Oh we must take tea sometime!" Once Sirius was able to get himself under control, he went back to their original reason for being there. "Harry would like to get a custom made trunk. One that is fit for the Lord of the House of Potter." |
"Of course of course. Come in to the back. I believe I have just the thing." Mr. Crawford continued to talk while he walked them to the back. "After your grandfather died, your father made it a point to visit me a few times a year. He just wanted to check in on me and to see how I was doing. Never missed a Yule gift. W... |
Mr Crawford went to the back of the workshop and removed a sheet from something on a work table. It was a trunk with the Potter crest on it. |
"There are many features for this trunk that I will give you a pamphlet for, but for now let’s look inside. Then once you’ve seen the inside, you can decide on the color and finish for various things on the inside and the outside of the trunk itself." |
He sat the trunk on the floor. "At the moment it will open with a simple command of open. I strongly suggest that you not only change that password, but add blood magic to the entry ward as well. You are Lord Potter, and as such you should have strong protections over your belongings. We will set the new password after... |
He led them down a ladder that let off into a small entrance way, where you could hang coats and what not. He pointed to the right that led to a hallway that then led to a Master bedroom with enchanted windows that followed the time of day. It was a charm that kept the time and season with the outside world once it was... |
Or you could change it to whatever scene that you wanted. If you turned left from the entry way there was space for a rather large library, complete with chairs and a large desk. Straight in front of the entry way was a nice sitting room, with a small kitchenette off to the right side. To the left side were two more ro... |
Mr. Crawford realized that the other two men in the room weren’t speaking and became nervous. He cleared his throat. "I...I know the color of the walls isn’t very flashy, but I could change it if you like." |
Twin shouts of "No!!" rang out in the space |
Mr Crawford smiled. "I was beginning to think you didn’t like it. You were both so quiet." |
Harry did something that shocked both of the older men. He hugged Mr. Crawford. It was only brief but it was enough, as he looked around his new trunk. |
"Thank you so much Mr. Crawford. Thank you. You don’t know what this means to me." Harry said with tears in his eyes. "Sometimes it’s so hard to just be me. At Hogwarts they all want a piece of me in some way, and it’ll be nice to have a place to just...be me. And this place is wicked! Siri! Let’s go look at the duelin... |
Harry was so excited! They had Nomaj equipment charmed to work with magic! He could get his exercise in on the worst days of the Highland weather. |
After watching his godson take off with an amused shake of his head, Sirius turned to Crawford and grasped the man’s forearm, and Crawford did the same. "What you have given us is truly a gift and I thank you for it." |
"No thanks needed. And no payment either. I’ve been working on this to pay back an old friend, who left this world too soon." You could see the pain in his eyes. |
Sirius shook his head. "Harry will not "let that fly’, as the non magical saying goes. Charge him something, or he will just go to the bank and deposit it into your account." |
Crawford just shook his head. "Just like his grandfather." Mr Crawford mused. "I will. Now do you want anything changed? The outside perhaps?" |
Sirius watched as his godson ran from room to room while muttering random things like "Hermione will never leave here’ when he went to the library again. Sirius smiled. "Don’t change a thing. He loves it the way it is. We will need to furnish and stock it though. When can we take it home?" Sirius shot out a hand to gra... |
"If you want it as is, then you can take it now." He gave a stern look at Harry. "But not before you set the password young Lord Potter." |
"Oh. Right. But what about like regular school stuff? Do I have to go into the flat every time to grab everyday stuff? And what about..." |
Mr Crawford just smiled. "Let’s go up top and I’ll show you." |
Mr Crawford went through all of the security features including but not limited to: anti fire, anti theft, anti flood, anti summoning, emergency relocation (The heirs room at Grimmauld Place was decided), anti levitation (unless Sirius or himself did it), and a whole host of others. He showed them everything that he ha... |
"How much?" Harry asked as he dug into his coin bag. |
Sirius shook his head. "Harry. You have your Head of House ring, you may use that in the shops of Hogsmeade and the shops here in the Alley. |
"Oh right. How much?" |
Mr Crawford briefly glanced at Sirius. "Two hundred galleons. My Lord." It was a testament to how much Harry didn’t know about wizarding society. That trunk could have gone for eight hundred galleons easily. Harry pressed his ring to the ledger as Sirius showed him how. He then took out one hundred and fifty galleons f... |
Mr Crawford bowed. "It was a pleasure to meet the grandson of my old friend Charlus. And what a fine young man you are. I can tell." |
Sirius cast a Tempus. "We have forty minutes until we meet with the Weasleys. What do you say we head to the book store and get the books that you’ll be studying with this year hmm?" Sirius ruffled his hair. |
Harry moved to re straighten his hair. "Hey!" He said indignantly. "Fine let’s go. I want to see what they have on Arithmancy. I want to bring my grade up, from my...home school scores. Bye Mr. Crawford. Hope to see you soon." And with that Harry was out the door. |
"You best get after him. Youngins don’t always know when troubles afoot." He could tell in Sirius’ eyes that he wanted to say something about how cheap he had sold the trunk for, but he was having none of it. |
Sirius looked at him curiously. "The House of Black is in your debt. I thank you." Sirius gave a deep nod. |
Mr. Crawford waved it off. "No thanks needed. You just take care of Charlus’ and James’ boy." |
Sirius nodded "With my life." Sirius turned and walked out the door, with the shrunken trunk in his pocket. |
A door opened behind Tiberius. He didn’t have to know that it was his wife of fifty two years, as he watched the boy that Charlus had taken in so many years ago. "You have completed your life’s work then my husband?" She said as she grasped his right arm and laid her head on his shoulder. She was watching the same scen... |
He leaned into her head and kissed her temple. "I hear that Greece would be fantastic for these old and tired bones my lovely." |
"You old coot. I have told you time and again. If I’m with you, it doesn’t matter where we go. Now. Let’s call Mary and have her help us pack." |
Mary the devoted house elf came to her Master and Mistress as instructed. The shop would be closed until the threat was over, and for the foreseeable future the two parents, now grandparents and soon to be great grandparents would be on a beach in Santorini. With an owl redirection ward of course. She would be known fo... |
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Sirius and Harry were headed to Flourish and Blotts, unaware that the shop that they had just been in was "taking a sabbatical’ as it would later be called. The loyal house elf had just finishing packing the last of their wares, when all three of them vanished. |
Sirius walked into the bookstore, and into organized chaos. |
"Marty! Grab me five more." |
Sirius went to the nearest attendant and asked what was going on. |
"The mudbloods..." Sirius raised a brow at the low status Pureblood that sent shivers down the boy’s spine. He had heard stories of the ruthlessness of the House of Black. This particular one was supposed to be the Head of House until he was disowned. He was best friends with a Mudblood and a Blood Traitor. |
"What I meant to say was, that the Muggleborns have decided to find information on wizarding customs and society. According to them, they feel they have a right to know about our world as much as anyone of Pureblood. They’re trying to fit in better if you can believe that." His look of disdain told Sirius all that he n... |
Sirius cast a privacy ward and sneered at the clerk. "Without the infusion of new blood, magical Britain will die. We have the highest rate of Squib births in the world due to inbreeding. You may want to think about that while you’re throwing names around." Sirius took down the ward and went to find Harry. |
And find Harry he did. It looked like he was trying to furnish his new library and get his school supplies. Sirius chuckled. "Got enough there kiddo?" |
"No! Have you seen my new library? It’s huge!" Harry went back to grabbing random books that caught his fancy." |
"Well I suppose if you want to spend all of your time here, I can’t very well take you to Obscurus Books then. They have many books that are out of print, but very useful. Then of course we could stop by Horizont Alley..." |
Harry’s eyes went wide. "Don’t tease me! I’ll be done soon, and we can go!" Harry had all sixty of his books rung up and again he used his ring to pay for the purchases. Sirius shrunk them down and put them in his pocket. |
Sirius looked at Harry. "We need to meet everyone else for lunch, before we go and get you new robes. Come on." Sirius steered Harry towards the Leakey Cauldron. |
Unfortunately their nice walk was interrupted by none other than Rita Skeeter walking towards them. |
"Well hello Mr. Potter, may I call you Harry?" Rita’s perfectly fake cheerful voice purred. |
Harry Smirked. "No you may not Ms Skeeter. What can I do for you?" |
Rita was taken aback for a moment, but like any "good’ reporter she rallied. "Very well. Mr. Potter. I was hoping to get a few words from you about the current situation regarding You Know Who. It will only take a moment of your time." |
"Ms Skeeter, as it appears you have yet to acknowledge my companion, I hardly think that you are worth my time." Harry replied with his blank mask firmly in place. |
Skeeter looked to her left and could have slapped herself. "Forgive me Mr. Black. I did not see you there. |
Sirius who was grinning from ear to ear took her hand and kissed above her knuckles. "A pleasure to meet you Miss Skeeter." Sirius was in full charm mode. He hated this cow with a passion, but his training demanded that he be polite. "I must admit that I am curious as to what you wish to speak with Harry about." |
"With all due respect Mr. Black, what business is it of yours?" |
Sirius’ smile was still as charming as ever. Oh how he couldn’t wait to make his ascension to Lord Black public. "No business really, except that Harry has been staying with the Weasleys for part of the summer, and they were aware that I was friends with Harry’s father. We decided to split up the duties of getting the ... |
One of the impromptu classes that Leo held was called "The Art of Deception’. Or as Fred had so fondly called it "lying class’. Harry now believed that Sirius should have taught that class, because he could never hope to pull off the act that Sirius was doing now. |
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