James face is pale the next day and Lily is looking at James with rage in her eyes and whenever James tried to talk to her, she'll ignore and walk away from there, Alex on the other hand who is an indirect cause for this is felling sympathy for his father and tried to Console him. even house elves ran away as soon as they see Lily because they are afraid of her rage.
James somehow coaxed her the next day and Lily is back to her calm demeanor, Alex is experimenting with his Alchemy, and invented some tools like enchanted tailsman that can block dark arts for a single time, he also played with his pheonix in his suitcase and also transmitted some messages to Cassandra, they talked for a while about their schools before ending the conversation when Harry poked his head into the suitcase to call him.
they are having lunch when a pheonix appeared from the front gate with a letter, it's Fawkes, after handing the letter Alex fed fawkes some pet food and Fawkes circled around Alex, it looks like Fawkes noticed Nile's breath from him.
Fawkes seeing the pheonix didn't appear confused and then apparated away, Alex gave Nile command not appear since he decided to keep Nile as a secret.
Lily observed Fawkes behaviour and frowned, then pick out the letter from Alex and read it, then looked at Alex with a dumbfounded look, the letter says Dumbledore told Nicolas flamel about Alex and Nicolas want to see Alex and his talent in alchemy, he even mentioned if he perform well, Nicolas might take him as a disciple. Dumbledore told Alex to study alchemy well and impress Nicolas , he also mentioned he'll be there tomorrow to take Alex to Spain for visiting Nicolas, Dumbledore congratulated Alex for winning the championship, except the last sentence everything is well, the last sentence is: hope you'll find another girl in this holidays, Lily burst into laughter after reading that.
James also read the letter and frowned , he didn't expect Alex to got the attention of a famous alchemist, then he read the last sentence and burst out laughing like Lily, Harry also did the same but he is envious of his brother as Alex is getting fame wherever he went.
Alex read the letter and cursed Dumbledore in his heart for this, he didn't know whether Dumbledore knew about Cassandra or tried to make a joke. Lily, James asked him how Alex attracted a famous alchemist, it's now Harry's loose tongue that brought a headache to Alex as Harry revealed everything they did before house cup, this made Lily and James to be frightened after they heard voldemort's involvement, Lily hugged Alex with concern and asked if he got hit by any evil curse and had any injuries.Alex said he is alright.
Lily is now thinking whether to send him to Spain or not after hearing about the philosopher stone incident at Hogwarts and Alex dropped knuckle on Harry's head for this.
Harry smiled wryly and escaped from there before Alex got even mad and Alex is now convincing his mother to allow him to go to Nicolas flamel, though hesitant Lily agreed as Nicolas flamel is one of the best alchemist and the inventor of philosopher's stone.
the next day, Dumbledore apparated to the front gate mansion of potter's as potter manor is protected by a special type of array that'll prevent even a pheonix apparition ability, so that's why Fawkes apparated near the manor and flew towards Alex.
Dumbledore asked," hello James and Lily , long time no see , how are you?, hello there Harry hope you are enjoying the holidays!,is everything ready Alex? the time is tight we need to go or the entrance might disappear from there?". Lily and James greeted Dumbledore , Harry just nodded his head.
Alex brought his suitcase and said," everything is ready professor, we can good to go". Alex said bye to his family and also told them he will visit before a week to end of holidays as they need to buy this year's needs along with meeting Cho, Hermoine and Daphne.
he then grabbed Dumbledore's hand and apparated away, they arrived at Paris and Dumbledore approached a cafe which looks like there is no one, and muggles are walking infront of it as it never existed. he immediately knew it was fidelius charm.
Dumbledore opened the door and a house elf greeted him," welcome, sir Dumbledore, master flamel is waiting for you and for sir Alex, please follow me". Dumbledore and Alex followed the house elf to the back of the store and when browny opened a refrigerator door, the scene on the other side a huge garden with 2 statues with the height of 10 meters gaurding it along with many armours on the side , the house elf motioned them to come along and after they entered the castle guarded by the statues.
an old man's voice sounded," looks like our guests are arrived, thank you browny for bringing them here, can you go and call perenelle here?, hello Albus , hope you're doing weel?, is that young man beside you is the Alex boy that you've mentioned, hello, there child!".
the old man look like a bag of bones and sat in a floating chair, the chair moved towards Alex and Dumbledore, Alex said," hello, mr. flamel, it's an honour to meet you, I'm Alexander James Potter". Nicolas looked at Alex with a smile and Dumbledore said," hello Nick , I'm doing well , how is you and perenelle?" Nicholas replied," as you can see Albus, I'm just sitting in this chair all day and perenelle is much better than me atleast she can walk now."
then the door opened and a woman in similar condition to the old man in chair appeared though she looks old her charm is still there and she said," hello Albus! when did you arrive? and this young man is?". Alex introduced himself again," hello mrs. flamel, I'm Alexander James Potter, how do you do mam?". perenelle looks at the boy and said," oh! so you're the lady killer Albus is writing about in his letters to Nick, you certainly match his description as yours looks may enchant many beauties boy".
Alex stunned for a moment before glancing towards Dumbledore who has a wry smile and coughed. then Dumbledore took out his watch and said," oh! have to go now, meet you again at school Alex, Nick and perenelle sorry I can't stay now, there are some things that need to done, I'll excuse myself".
Nicolas and perenelle asked Dumbledore to stay, but he rejected and said bye to them before grabbing his pheonix and apparated away. perenelle motioned Alex to sit in the sofa while she goes to kitchen to make something for them.