Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Almost Perfect ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

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Who's there?

Someone

Someone who?

Someone who doesn't own this

 

So I suppose that I'm going to be killed because I'm going on a 20 day vacation (well not really a vacation but…) on June 19th and I won't be back until July 8th and I don't think I'm going to be finished with this by the time I leave good thing is school's out so I can write more. If you haven't noticed by now I update my profile about 5 days or less before I post a new chapter and if not I tell why I can't put up a new chapter and one of these days I might get around to putting something else besides info about my stories in there.

 

And I realize that this is getting really long so I'll just say want I wanted to say in the first place. I thought a long time about whether or not I should say who took Harry or not and then when I wrote the whole chapter without saying anything I was so confused it wasn't funny so I have figured out that mystery isn't really my thing even though I enjoy reading it so you'll find out who took Harry sometime in this chapter you just have to be patient and read to find out because if I tell you where at in the chapter you find out I know at least one person reading this will skip down to that part. Because I know that's something I'd probably do, as I am not a very patient person myself.

 

(FINALLY) Chapter 3:

 

A couple of days after he had received a hastily written letter from Dumbledore he received one from a gray owl who looked like as though he had been yanked out of a tree, shoved into a storm with fifty mile per hour winds and then dunked into a bucket of water. The owl also looked as though it would rather be anywhere else than where it was.

 

As soon as the man untied the letter the owl turned and flew off as fast as it could. The man shook his head a little amused at the bird and unfolded the paper he had untied from its leg and read it. It was very short and judging by the handwriting whoever wrote it had been shaking. `She probably was,' he thought after reading the letter.

 

He sighed and stuffed the letter in his pocket and looked around at his house, it was relatively small he called it a `cabin' but even though it was small it was extremely messy. He had everything lying around clothes, paper, books lots of books, and a table covered in papers and inkbottles and quills. The one thing he didn't leave laying around was food.

 

He also had old copies of the `Daily Prophet' the one that had the article about Sirius escaping looked like someone had spilt something on it and someone probably had.

 

The man waved his wand and everything became neater, the reason it wasn't neat before was because he never had any visitors and if he did they usually stayed outside. Except his landlord who was a nice old woman and always came in for tea and to talk to him to make sure everything was okay.

 

 

He walked back into his room for a few minutes and came back out with a duffel bug full of clothes and other things he would need.

 

He stopped and grabbed one of the quills which were now in an old empty ink bottle and then dipped it in some blue ink and left his landlord a note so she wouldn't worry when she came a few days from now and didn't find him.

 

Bianca,

I won't be here for a while a friend is in a predicament and I will be staying with her for a while. I'm sorry I won't be here for tea, but I left enough money for this months rent I should be back by the time rent is due again if not I will mail it to you.

 

He quickly signed his name at the bottom of the note and walked out the door and disappeared.

 

A few minutes later Arabella Figg opened her door and ushered him in. She brought him to a table and but his bag on one of the chairs and then made sure he had taken a seat. She then fixed him a cup of tea with her hands shaking, while she was fixing tea a couple of her cats were content to curl up in her guests lap and turn his bag into a scratching post.

 

When she was done with the tea she returned to two cups of tea one for her guest and one for herself. She sat one of cups down in front of him on the table and then she took a seat herself, she then shooed several of her cats away except for one very stubborn one that refused to leave her guest's lap.

 

After a few minutes of silence she spoke, “ I'm glad at least you take me sincerely even if Albus doesn't I mean really…” she was cut off by her guest.

 

“ I know that Sirius is capable of things that Albus wouldn't think he could do.” Said her visitor trying to calm her down.

 

“ Well,” she said starting into a nervous rant again,” I'm glad you came anyway and I'm sorry because it's so sudden and all and it was very kind of you …..” again she was cut off by her guest.

 

“ It was no problem, Arabella, really I have nothing to do anyway and to tell you the truth I needed to get out of my house for a little bit anyway.” He said softly still trying to calm her down.

 

“ Yes, yes,” she said taking a sip of her tea and calming down a bit.

 

“ Now you also said you wanted me to check on Harry?” he said trying to change the subject.

 

“ Yes, but not right now they're home now.” She said not bothering to explain and it didn't make a bit of sense to her guest.

 

Her guest looked confused and was going to ask what she had meant by that when someone knocked on the door.

 

Her guest followed her to the door and stood quietly beside her as she answered the door and was shocked to hear a women yelling and a few seconds later he was even more shocked when something small or rather someone small was shoved through the doorway and the door was slammed. A few seconds after the door was slammed he heard the sound of a car driving off really fast.

 

Arabella was muttering under her breath and shoving a little boy into the kitchen. The little boy didn't very happy. She made him some tea and some biscuits and gave him a photo album to look through.

 

The little boy however wasn't interested in the photo album he was more interested in Arabella guest. “ Who are you?” he asked her guest while grabbing a biscuit and eating it, “ you look familiar.” He added after he had eaten the biscuit.

 

The man was about to answer when Arabella interrupted him, “ oh don't you worry about him he's just one of my friends, now you just drink your tea and have some more biscuits, and let me and him talk.” She said turning around to talk to her guest.

 

The boy however was no longer interested in the biscuits either and asked her guest another question. “ How long have you been here I haven't seen you before?”

 

This time her guest was able to answer “ a few hours,” he said answering the boy's question “ so,” he had to ask, “ Who are you?”

 

The boy looked at him weird before answering, “ I'm Harry but most people don't want to know about me they want to know about my cousin.”

 

The man looked shocked when the boy told him his name he had expected him to be a little `underfed' as Arabella had put it, but this was ridiculous the boy looked three years younger than he was. He was also shocked at the state of Harry's clothes they were so big that it looked like he would be able to get lost in them if they didn't fall apart first.

 

The man decided to talk to Harry for a while or at least until someone came to get him. “ So why are you here Harry?” he asked.

 

“ Because my cousin, Dudley, got mad and threw his new toy at the T.V. and broke it so Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon had to go get a new one and they didn't want to bring me so they left me here.” He said, “ they do that a lot.” He added.

 

The man looked shocked again and laughed when Harry said, “ that's ok cause most of the time I don't want to go anyway.”

 

The man continued his conversation with Harry until his Aunt came back to get him two hours later.

 

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Two days later Arabella had to go shopping to get more cat food for her many cats and left her guest home even though he tried to go with her to help her carry the food back.

 

So her guest was sitting outside when he heard yelling coming from down the street and then a few minutes later he saw Harry's aunt coming up the street along with Harry's cousin but Harry wasn't with them.

 

He watched them walk down the street and right before they crossed the street he heard the little boy say, “ Mom I want Ice cream get me some Ice cream.”

 

About ten minutes later he decided that it was safe to go see Harry and walked down to find him sitting outside the yard underneath a tree in the shade. “ Hello Harry.” He said smiling.

 

Harry looked up at him with a scare look on his face he obviously thought he was going to be in trouble. “ Oh,” he said recognizing the man, “ it's you.” He said smiling and then frowning, “ you're not gonna tell on me are you?” he asked

 

“ Tell on you for what?” he asked sitting down beside Harry.

 

“ For being out of the yard.” Answered Harry quietly.

 

“ No,” said the man smiling, “I won't tell on you Harry.” He said wondering why he was outside on such a hot day especially when there was no one out here to watch him.

 

He sat and talked to Harry for a long time because Arabella came looking for her guest wondering where he was and she said she had been back for at least two hours.

 

She brought them something to drink and eat and went back home the man was surprised when it got dark and no one was home yet and decided to ask Harry about it.

 

“ Harry why isn't any one home yet and do they leave you alone like this often?” the man asked.

 

Harry just shrugged, “ they leave me alone a lot and sometimes don't come back until really late, why?”

 

“ I just wanted to know Harry.” Said the man quietly frowning ` they shouldn't leave him outside like that anyone could take him Arabella was right to worry about Sirius kidnapping Harry it would be too easy.'

 

They sat for another thirty minutes in the dark and in silence before someone spoke again, “ Harry do you like it here?” he asked he couldn't see how anyone would like living with the people Harry lived with.

 

Harry was quiet and didn't answer and then suddenly said, “ If I say no am I going to be in trouble?”

 

The man looked at Harry shocked for a bit before answering, “ no Harry you're not going to be in trouble.” He said softly.

 

“ Oh,” said Harry, “ well then no I don't like it here but I have to stay here.” He said not looking too happy about it.

 

“ Why do you have to stay here?” he asked wondering what his relatives had told him about his parents.

 

“Because my parents died in a car crash when I was little.” Said Harry

 

The man for the first time in the three days he had been there was actually angry he had been shocked and disturbed but this was the first time he was actually angry.

He sighed and calmed himself down so he wouldn't yell when he went to say something.

“ Harry your parents didn't die in a car crash.” Said the man softly having calmed himself down.

 

Harry looked at him like he was crazy. “ Yes they did Aunt petunia said so.”

 

The man smiled at this and said, “ your aunt lied Harry.” He said sighing he knew he was going to have to explain a lot of things so he stood up and walked into the Dursley's yard and up onto the porch. Harry got up and followed him curiously watching the man as he pulled something out of his pocket and muttered something and was shocked when the door swung open he had watched his aunt lock the door earlier that day.

 

“ How did you do that?” asked Harry socked and then,” can I do that?”

 

The man laughed and turned around to face Harry after he waved the thing in his hand and turned the lights on. “ Magic Harry magic and yes you can do it too you just have to learn how. Your parents knew how,” said the man smiling and pulling out a chair from underneath the table and then getting one for Harry.

 

“ They did really and where can I learn how to do that?” he asked and was getting ready to ask more questions when the man shushed him.

 

“ Yes they did and you learn how to do magic at Hogwarts.” Said the man smiling,” but you have to turn eleven first,” he said not wanting to get Harry's hopes up.

 

“ That's not fair.” Said Harry pouting

 

The man smiled again and started to explain everything to Harry and was finished when he heard someone come up the steps.

 

“ There's someone in our house Vernon.” Hissed a female's voice it sounded worried.

 

The man quickly hid his wand and whispered to Harry, “ don't tell your Aunt and Uncle that you know, okay Harry.” He said, “ and don't forget to think about what I told you.”

 

Harry just nodded he wasn't going to tell them anyway he knew they would just get mad anyway.

 

The man strolled over and opened the door and explained to Petunia that he didn't think that Harry should be out so late at night so he `picked' the lock and let him in. he stayed to make sure Harry wasn't in trouble and then left to go back to Arabella's house.

 

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A little over a week later Arabella had went to London with about 10 of her cats so she could give them to the pet shop and she left her guest alone again. She said that she would be back later that night around midnight or so.

 

A couple of hours after Arabella had left there was a loud knock on the door. The man stood up and went to open it, when he opened it he was surprised to see Petunia standing there with Harry. “ Yes?” he asked wondering what she could possibly want.

 

“ Where's Arabella I need her to watch Harry.” She said looking behind the man.

 

“ She's not here right now she went to London to find homes for some of her cats and won't be home until late tonight, but if you would like me to I could watch him.” Said the man softly and more politely than he should have.

 

Petunia just shrugged and shoved Harry through the door and then shut it behind her.

 

The man just sighed and turned around to look at Harry, this had happened almost every day he had been here so far. “ What did your cousin do this time, Harry?” he asked.

 

“He threw eggs at the car because Aunt Petunia wouldn't give him any chocolate and she's taking the car to get washed off.” said Harry smiling and sitting down on the floor.

The man chuckled and sat down beside him.

 

Harry looked at the man and then blurted out, “ did you really mean what you said the other day?”

 

The man looked at him and smiled, “ of course I meant it, does that mean you've been thinking about it?” he asked Harry.

 

Harry nodded and then smiled, “ so I can come live with you until I'm old enough to go to Hogwarts.”

 

The man laughed again, “ yes Harry but you would have to stay with my landlord for a couples of night a month is that ok?” he asked.

 

Harry instantly nodded and then paused halfway through shaking his head yes, “ is she nice?” he asked he didn't want to stay with anyone who wasn't nice.

 

The man nodded “ she very nice, she's like Arabella without all the cats.”

 

Harry smiled at that and then said, “ that's good, no cats.”

 

The man looked confused for a second and asked, “ Why? Don't you like cats Harry?”

 

“ Yeah,” said Harry, “ but I don't like looking at pictures of them, she doesn't have photo albums of cats does she?” he asked quickly.

 

“ No Harry not that I know of.” Said the man standing up,” well if you're sure let's go get your things.”

 

“ Ok” said Harry standing up and following the man over to his aunt and uncle's house.

 

An hour later Harry and the man that was staying with Arabella Figg were gone. The man left Arabella a note telling her that he had to leave and would be back as soon as he was able to.

 

The man took Harry to his house and it was fortunate that even though it was quite small it had an extra bedroom the man conjured some furniture for Harry and shrunk his clothes so they would fit right and went and dug out an old photo album from one of his storage closets.

 

He brought back the photo album and opened it and sat it down if front of Harry.

 

“ Who are they,” asked Harry pointing at a picture of five people smiling and waving.

 

“ Those two,” said the man pointing to two of the people in the picture, “ are your mum and dad.”

At this Harry's eyes lit and he looked at the picture for a few minutes in silence before asking, “ Who are the other people?”

 

“That lady standing behind us all is Professor McGonagall it took us a while to talk her into taking that picture with us.” Said that man smiling, “ and that's Peter Pettigrew.” Said the man pointing at the picture again, “ that's Sirius Black,” he said trying to keep his voice neutral while talking about him.

 

“Oh,” said Harry looking at the picture after a couple of minutes he started flipping through the photo album about twenty minutes later. He found a picture with a name under it and it only had one person in it and he was sitting under a tree reading a book. So Harry tugged on the man's sleeve to find out who it was. “ Who this?” he asked when he had gotten the man's attention.

 

The man looked at the picture that had the name Remus Lupin written neatly underneath it and answered, “ that's me, Harry.”

 

 

……… Yeah well sorry guys I lied I know I said that it would be up before now but I'm rushing around trying to get last minute things for my trip so it was kind of late Sorry and seeing as I leave in ……5 days I don't think there is going to be another update until after I get back but I'll take a notebook with me an write by hand so I can type the chapters when I get back hope you enjoy this chapter though the last part of it was kind of rushed you can probably tell… and I hope I surprised at least one person with who it was that really took Harry.