Kapitel 8: *Chapter 8*
July 31, 2006 (London)
Harry was currently sitting in the café by himself pretending to read a newspaper. He was getting a few strange looks but he did not care. Today was the day that he would take out a constant thorn in his side. On the chair across from him, he had a cup of tea set out in wait. He had felt himself be followed here by a magical signature just as he planned when he came back to London. The magical signature confirmed that it looked like he was staying at the café for an extended period of time before popping away with whatever way wizards seemed to teleport. He hated there way because it was so sloppy. It wasn't even teleportation and more like moving really fast through the air. The person soon popped back with another magical signature. This one seemed to be a lot more powerful than the other was. The original person that had been trailing him popped away as soon as he led the more powerful one to the café he was currently residing at. The person who he was assuming was a man, walked over to the doors of the café.
An old man soon walked in and Harry finally got a good look at the person who presumably had been following him for years. Non-magicals didn't seem to see the old fossil of a man walk through the café in a robe with yellow moons all over it. The man walked right up to him and stood right next to him.
"Hello, Harry. You are a very hard child to find." Dumbledore said as he looked down at the person who he had been trying to track down for years. Harry didn't look up from the newspaper he was pretending to read.
"You gonna sit down or we going to go straight to the part where we're at each other's throats," Harry asked unconcerned about the supposedly very powerful wizard in his presence. Dumbledore looked slightly confused before he took a seat across from Harry.
"I'm afraid you might be misinformed why I came here, Harry. You see, I'm here to take you back to your family as well as welcome you to Hogwarts." Dumbledore said with a grandfatherly smile as he pulled out a letter and slide it across the table to Harry. Harry finally set the newspaper down and looked at Dumbledore.
"That is literally ten times worse than the reason I thought you were chasing me for. It seems I was right to avoid you." Harry said as he looked Dumbledore right in the eye before sliding his gaze down to the letter in front of him.
"Not sure what Hogwarts is but I'm not going there and I'm most definitely not returning to Lily and James." Harry continued as he started to sip his tea now that it had cooled down. Dumbledore frowned slightly before speaking again. "Harry I'm afraid you ha-." Dumbledore tried to start before he was cut off,
"Look, old man. I don't know who you are or why you so insistent on trying to get me to return to those people, but I'm not going to do that so if you try and force me to. I swear I'll make this get really ugly really fast." Harry said as he leaked some of his magic out. Dumbledore looked startled at Harry, not because of the magic he was released, although it was a very impressive amount, but because Harry's eyes had turned blood red. He hadn't seen such eyes since he last faced Voldemort. He quickly considered the possibility that somehow, Voldemort was possessing Harry and had been hiding in him since he was a child.
"Your eyes…" Dumbledore said quietly as he continued to gaze at them in shock. Harry looked at him and smirked.
"If being able to change my eye color is all it takes to scare you old man, then you're going to shit your pants when you see the rest of the things I can do to you," Harry said before turning his eyes back to green. Meanwhile, Dumbledore was having an internal battle. He needed to get Harry to Hogwarts now more than ever. Especially if there was a possibility that he might be possessed by Voldemort.
"Harry, I'm afraid I must insist. Hogwarts is the only place you can learn how to control your magic. Perhaps we can come to an arrangement about your living conditions but we will have to do that at a later date." Dumbledore said back in his grandfatherly, all-knowing voice with the customary twinkle trying to regain control of the situation.
"Learn how to control my magic? Let me explain something to you…" harry started. Just as he said that all conversation in the café stopped. Every person at the exact same time stood up and stared ahead blankly as Harry took over every single one of their minds. Dumbledore looked around in horror. He had never seen someone able to take over so many minds at once. It was like watching someone perform 40 Imperios at the same time on 40 different people.
"…a god does not need to learn anything from peasants. That is why he is a god. I do not need to learn anything from a man who since this conversation started, has been trying to manipulate me, poorly I might add, into going to his school where I will be directly in his sphere of influence." As soon as Harry said the final word, he let go control of the other people in the café and watched as they all sat down and continue whatever they were doing not being any the wiser.
"So why don't we cut the bull shit. I really don't care why you are trying to get me to go to your stupid ass school, but I'm not going there and I'm not going back to the Potters." Harry said as he finished his last sip of tea.
Dumbledore sighed. This was not how he was planning for this to go. The boy was being extremely difficult. He would have to play his trump card.
"I'm afraid Harry, that you don't have a choice. You are bound by a magical contract created after your birth by your parents to go to Hogwarts. Should you continue to be stubborn and choose not to go, you will lose your magic." Dumbledore said as he pulled a copy of the said magical contract from his robes and handed it to Harry so he could look over. Harry read it over with suspicious eyes. This sounded awfully convenient to him. He read it over and confirmed what the old man had said. For a while, Harry just stared at the contract. Then, all of a sudden, he threw his head back and laughed. This, of course, gained the attention of the entire café. Dumbledore looked surprised. Was it possible that the boy had found a loophole in the contract? His fears were put to rest a second later.
"All right you old turd. You win. I guess I have no choice but to go to your school. Just remember that you were the one who forced me to go. I hope you don't live to regret that decision." Harry said as he got up dropping the contract and picking up his letter.
"Oh, and I'm still not returning to the Potter household," Harry said as he started walking towards the door. Dumbledore got up and tried to follow him out the door.
"Wait a minute Harry. You need to…" Dumbledore started to say but as soon as Harry exited to the cafe, he seemed to absorb into the air with a white flash and was gone. Dumbledore blinked. He had never heard of that kind of mode of travel before. Another mystery to put together with Harry Potter it seems. Dumbledore pulled out his wand. It seemed he would need to go inform the Potters of this latest development. With that thought, he pulled out his wand and apparated away.
Same time, (Potter Manor)
All was quiet in the Potter household. The family was up and about but Lily was watching to make sure little Rose ate all her food while Arthur was currently reading a book on spells he would learn this year. Much had changed since the Potter household since we last visited. For one, James and Lily had told Arthur about his brother's disappearance. Arthur confessed that he already knew about it. While he rarely spent much time with his brother before he left, he did see him enough to know around the time he had left home. Arthur however, in his child-like mind, believed that Harry had simply gone on a trip of some kind and would be back soon. As soon as his parents told him otherwise he got confused. Why would Harry try to leave home permanently? Sure he didn't seem to ever play with him and his parents much, but he was still family and he was told that family never abandoned one another. So Arthur made is a goal in life to find his brother and bring him home. Lily and James were proud of their son for having such a Nobel goal
Another big change around the household was the birth of Rose Lilian Potter on April 22, 2002. Rose was an adorable little girl that seemed to take after Lily in looks but seemed to have James's ability for troublemaking, much to Lily's dismay. She was a sweet little girl though who liked to question the world around her a lot.
Lily, however, had to watch her every time she ate because she liked to throw away her vegetables rare cases, simply making them disappear. As she was watching her daughter finish the last of her food, she heard the fireplace roar to life signaling someone's arrival. She walked into the living room and saw Dumbledore dusting himself off.
"Hello, Professor. What brings you here today?" Lily asked as she greeted him.
"Ah, Lily. I hope you find you well. I have brought news about young Harry." Dumbledore said to her gaining a serious expression.
"Harry! Is he alright? Did you find him?" Lily said as she started to ask questions rapidly.
"I have good news and not so good news," Dumbledore said with a solemn expression. Lily looked at him expectantly.
"The good news is that Harry will be attending Hogwarts this upcoming year. I had to resort to using the contract to force him to go sadly but he is still going so that is good. The bad news is that he has refused to return back home. I had tried to stop him but he seems to be able to access his magic without a wand a disappeared in a flash before I could stop him." Dumbledore said seeing how Lily would react. At first, Lily looked delighted to hear that Harry would be attending Hogwarts but then her face got sad to hear that he wasn't going to come home. Hearing this, she got teary-eyed.
"I'm sorry Lily. I tried but he was to fast for me. While act Hogwarts, I swear I will do all I can to convince him to come back home." Dumbledore said as he looked at the woman with sadness. Lily nodded silently as she tried to control the tears in her eyes.
"I'm sorry but I must depart. I have a business to attend to at Hogwarts. I'm sure I will see you soon." Dumbledore said as he left the Potter household leaving a crying mother in his wake.
August 15, 2006 (Diagon Alley)
Harry was not going to lie to himself and pretend that he wasn't a little upset by the situation he was forced in. He had dealt with enough dirty politicians to know that Dumbledore wanted him at his school for a certain reason. Not that he cared too much about that. He wasn't one to let himself be manipulated so easily. He wasn't planning to take this school seriously either. There were a few loopholes that Harry could exploit in the contract given enough time to analyze it and make plans; sadly he did not have that time. He was simply going to go with the most obvious loophole. He was going to get himself expelled. He read up that the ministry broke your wand when you were expelled, not that he cared since he didn't even need a wand. All he had come to this alley for was books. He had lost all his books….in the accident a year ago. After going to all the safe locations that he is Nick used, Harry had quite a bit of weapon and a hell of a lot of cash. He and Nicks combined cash was around 20 million dollars. The first thing that Harry did with that money bought a private island in the Caribbean. It cost 5 million and the left him with only 15 left but he was happy with the purchase. After much practice and time, he had finally been able to put an illusion over it so no one could find it. If anyone including wizards got too close then they would simply get lost and be turned around and forget what they had been looking for. That had been a tricky procedure that he had to actually use runes to accomplish. Once he got there, the first thing he did was bury Nick. Nick loved the Caribbean so Harry figured that it was the perfect place to lay him to rest. He named the island Wolfe's Cove after his mentor.
Coming back to the present, Harry walked into the magical bookstore and immediately began perusing the aisles. There wasn't much stuff, to be honest. The government seemed to block way more things here than they did in the U.S for whatever reason. He did find a book on different obscure magic which seemed to be a reasonable price. That along with some different potions books and a book about Herbology was all he decided to get since there was such a lack of quality books. He walked up to the counter and saw a middle-aged man at the counter.
"Hello, young man, off to Hogwarts this year?" He asked.
Sadly it would seem so. The next seven years of my life seem doomed to be dreadfully boring." Harry said as he looked down and pretended to be actually sad by the fact that he was going to have to attend the school.
"Oh cheer up lad. Hogwarts is fun I promise. It's where you get to start to learn how to use magic. Aren't you excited about that?" The man asked Harry seemingly trying to make him feel better as he checked the book prices.
"I already know how to use my magic. The only reason I'm going is that an old lecherous man backed me into a corner one day and forced me to go." Harry said as he shivered. "It was awful," Harry said as he dropped the necessary coin on the man's desk and grabbed his books while the man looked at him dumbfounded with a slight look of concern on his face. That was until he saw Harry walking out.
"Wait young man. Don't you need to get your Hogwarts books as well?" he yelled after Harry. Harry didn't even look back as he answered.
"No thanks. I shan't need them." Harry said as he left the book store with his purchases." Harry said
Now back in the alleyway, Harry had one last stop to make before he was on his way. The pet store. He was told the most people brought owls, cats, or toads as pets. Harry wanted to see if that was all that was available. He had been researching animals all his life after all. He wanted to have one for his own. As he walked in, the first thing he smelled was poop. As he looked around at all the animals crammed into the shop, he wasn't surprised. There were quite a lot of birds in here and not all of them were owls. Not that they interested Harry. He was after something a little more exotic. He looked around the shop until something caught his eye. He finally came to the back of the store was there were many glass cages. That's not what attracted him to this area though. What attracted him to this area was the quite hissing voices he could hear. As he made his way there the voices got louder. When he finally arrived he saw that the hissing was unsurprisingly coming from snakes. He briefly wondered if these were magic snakes that could speak somehow. As he approached, the snakes focused their attention on him and started hissing among themselves again as if he weren't there.
'Ugh, another one of these annoying two legs'
'Wonder if this one thinks he can tame one of us to bring to school.
'Dibs on the first bite of his flesh should he come near my pan'
Harry sweatdropped at the last remark.
'I can hear you, you know' Harry said snidely. With that sentence, all the conversations between them stopped. After a second, all pens were filled with whispers that all said the exact same thing for the most part
'A speaker? A speaker is here?'
Harry looked at them strangely. What did they mean a speaker? Was that another name they called humans? No, because they had already called him a two-leg earlier and grouped him in with that category which he assumed was normal humans. Was he part of a special kind of human and the snakes could somehow tell? This seemed more likely to him. He decided to ask before their annoying whispers grew out of control.
'What is this speaker that you keep speaking of?' Harry asked at the snakes.
'You are. You are a speaker of snakes or what the humans call a Parseltongue. It is a very rare and unique gift.' One of the snakes said in response to Harry. Harry thought about that for a second. What a rather odd ability to have.
'I see well, I am here to purchase one of if that is all right.' Harry said. Not that he cared whether it was all right or not. These were random snakes he had just met. He couldn't give two shits about what they thought. As soon as he announced that he was purchasing one, all of them started hissing and asking him to purchase them. Harry sighed and started to zone the snakes out since they were being pretty disruptive and annoying. He perused through the snakes and looked for any that stuck and the only one did. A black snake that looked to be about a meter long. The snake seemed to be resting while trying to ignore its brethren who were all trying to clamber for his attention. Harry shrugged and flicked the cage, getting the snake's attention.
'Hey do you mind if I take you with me bud' Harry said as he talked to the now awake snake.
'I'm not your bud. I'm a girl dipshit. I could care less about what you do human.' The now identified female snake said to Harry. Harry smiled. He liked this one.
'What's your name?' Harry asked.
'Don't have one.' the snake hissed back.
"Mind if I name you Samael or Sam for short. It means Poison of God.' Harry said, looking at the snake expectantly. The snake just looked back at him.
'I suppose that's fine as far as human names go.' The snake said.
At this point, you were supposed to go get the store owner to retrieve the snake for you. Harry, of course, didn't do that. He popped the top and put his arm in the tank.
'Hop on so we can get out of here.' Harry told to the snake. The snake regarded the arm for a brief second before slithering up his arm and around his neck. Harry closed its container before heading to the front desk. He grabbed the salesman's attention before gesturing to the snake wrapped around loosely on his neck.
"I would like to purchase this snake," Harry said. The man paled as he looked at it.
"Son that's a-" The salesman started before Harry cut him off.
"Black Mamba yes I know. Will you sell it to me or not. It seems she likes me well enough." Harry told the man. The man just shook his head and said something about crazy youths. He rang up the purchase and brought some which consisted mainly of dead rats. As Harry finally purchased the snake and left the shop, he smiled.
'Come Sammy. I'm going to show you your new home.'
With that, he flashed away.
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