Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Almost Perfect ❯ Chapter 9 ( Chapter 9 )

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10 points goes to Phoenix Heart 1968 for guessing the right name.

 

Chapter 9:

 

Remus was very shocked to hear what Harry had decided to name his puppy and had actually thought he was hearing things at first. He had asked Harry about it and Harry had said that he named the dog after his mom, and then he asked if there was anything wrong with that.

 

Remus had chuckled when he asked that and said, “ No Harry there's nothing wrong with that.”

 

Harry was happy with his answer and had gone out to play with Lily. Now though Remus was running out of supplies such as ingredients for some basic medicinal potions and he needed to go to Diagon Alley soon and that was a problem.

 

He had been trying to figure out all week what to do because the next full moon was getting closer but he didn't want to leave Harry at Bianca's house while he went to Diagon Alley and he also didn't want to bring him and have someone recognize him.

 

He sighed softly and watched Harry, who was trying to give Lily a bath. `I guess I'm going to take him with me,' thought Remus the only reason he didn't want to leave Harry at Bianca's was because he didn't want to leave him there two times in one month.

 

While Remus sat pondering what to do, Harry was trying rather unsuccessfully to give Lily a bath. “ Lily,” Scolded Harry trying to keep the puppy still. She had rolled around in the mud and had gotten dirty and now she didn't want to take a bath.

 

Harry however either didn't care that she didn't want a bath or didn't notice and he was getting more of a bath than she was.

 

“ Harry,” Remus called out after deciding on what he was going to do.

 

“ Yeah Uncle Remus?” asked Harry who was now chasing after Lily who had bolted into the house because Harry had let go of her when Remus had started talking to him. Remus however just pulled out his wand and flicked it as the puppy ran by and cleaned all the mud off of her that way.

 

“ Awww, Uncle Remus I wanted to do that.” He said almost pouting but not quite.

 

“ Well you'll have plenty more chances to do that Harry. I was wondering if you would like to go on a trip with me.” The words were barley out of Remus' mouth and Harry had already started asking tons of questions.

“ Where are we going, can Lily come, how long are we going for?” asked Harry and was about to open his mouth to spill out more questions when Remus stopped him.

 

“ Diagon Alley, no not this time and for a day.” Said Remus answering all of Harry's questions he looked a little disappointed when he was told Lily couldn't come but otherwise he seemed pretty excited.

 

Harry was happy and was ready to go but Remus said that they weren't going until tomorrow, which made Harry calm down a bit but also disappointed because he had wanted to go today.

 

That night Remus had a very hard time trying to get Harry to sleep because the boy was just too excited to calm down and sleep. Which resulted in Harry being very tired the next day when he woke up only two hours after he had fallen asleep.

 

Remus shook his head when he saw how tired Harry was, ` oh well it will stop him from running off anyway.' Thought Remus as he was applying some of the muggle makeup he had acquired onto Harry's scar.

 

He also used a one-day hair dye bottle on Harry's hair and explained to Harry, who had upon seeing his red hair panicked, that it would come out when he washed it tonight. Harry however was still not used to his hair being red and jumped at his reflection sometimes when passing a mirror or some other object that showed his reflection.

 

So at 1:00 pm four hours after Harry had woken up he was on his way to Diagon Alley. Even though he had only gotten two hours of sleep he was still bouncing about like he had gotten ten or twelve.

 

When they first arrived at Diagon Alley Harry was trying to look around at everything at the same time, he looked like he was trying to imitate an owl by making his head spin almost all the way around. Remus was chuckling to himself watching Harry look around and finally he finally had to tell the boy that they would look at all the shops after Remus was done with his shopping.

 

Harry followed Remus who was looking for potion ingredients, but that didn't interest Harry at all but he found something that did and he also made Remus panic because he thought that he lost him. However he had just wondered off to look a display, a display of brooms that is.

 

Remus shook his head, ` he looks like James and acts like James,' thought Remus amused that the first thing Harry became interested in was brooms, ` lily would throw a fit,' thought Remus and chuckled slightly imagining it.

 

Remus finally had to promise Harry that this would be the first place they would come back to after he had gotten what he had come for.

 

However Remus had to go back on that promise because Harry spotted something else that he wanted to look at on the way back from getting Remus' potions ingredients, because Harry had spotted Florean's Ice Cream Parlor and wanted to stop for ice cream, so now that both Harry and Remus had enjoyed an ice cream cone they returned to the Quidditch store.

 

Harry spent almost two hours wandering around the store with his mouth open in awe. Remus had to practically drag him out of the store and he promised Harry that maybe they could come back and get something for Christmas.

 

That seemed to cheer Harry up a bit because he was quite disappointed about having to leave the Quidditch store but he wanted to look around in the other stores before they had to leave so he had reluctantly agreed to leave.

 

Remus shook his head as another store, Magical Menagerie caught Harry's eye, “ Can we go in please, please, please?” asked Harry almost begging but not quite.

 

Remus laughed at him, “ You have Lily do you want another pet?” asked Remus teasing the boy.

 

“ No,” said Harry, “ but I want to look and see what kind of animals are in there.” He said with genuine curiosity in his voice looking toward the shop he was asking to go in.

 

“Alright,” said Remus smiling at Harry, “ we can go in but we aren't getting any animals.” He said already walking over to the entrance of the shop.

 

Harry laughed and ran up behind Remus and gave the older man a hug, “ Thank you Uncle Remus.” He said running into the shop.

 

Remus quickly followed Harry inside he had been careful the whole day not to say Harry's name aloud just in case people where looking for him. ` If they are they probably think Sirius did it.' He thought as he watched Harry run from one cage to the other looking at the animal inside of it. Harry would occasionally shout out to Remus wanting to know what kind of animal was in the cage.

 

Remus noticed that the shopkeeper was rather amused at the way Harry was running around looking at everything. Remus also saw that she had a pile of discarded `Daily Prophets' he wondered if the woman would mind he looked at them while he was in there.

 

“ Excuse me,” said Remus walking up to the counter, “ would you mind if I take a look at some of these papers?” he asked politely as possible.

 

“ No,” she said looking at him weird, “ but they are a few weeks old I don't see why you would want to see them.” She said shrugging.

 

“ Oh, well I haven't been keeping up with the news lately that's all.” Said Remus, which was true he had canceled his Daily Prophet subscription after he learned that Sirius had broken out he didn't want to hear about the man.

 

So imagine his shock when the first paper he picked up had James and Sirius on it and the headline read, ` SIRIUS BLACK CLEARED' underneath the title was about how the trail went and how both James and Sirius were planning on searching for Harry.

 

Remus' mind refused to comprehend what had he had just read for two reasons, one James was dead and dead men don't suddenly come back to life and start looking for their sons and two Sirius would have to be crazy by now having been in Azkaban for the amount of time he had spent in there.

 

He read though more old articles of the Daily Prophet and found out more and more information and what he had missed. Thought his mind was still refusing to comprehend what he was reading.

 

Eventually though Remus managed to make his mind work and the first thought that popped into his head was, ` maybe it wasn't a good idea to cancel the ` Daily Prophet prescription.' He knew what he what he had to do it was plain and simple take Harry to Hogwarts and stop everyone from panicking.

 

The only problem with that theory was how on earth was he going to explain to Harry that his father was alive and was looking for him. ` Remus,' he thought to himself, ` what on earth have you gotten yourself into,' and then, ` well I guess Minerva was wrong I'm perfectly capable of getting in trouble without Sirius and James talking me into it.

 

He watched Harry who was still looking around the store and he had even talked the shopkeeper into letting him play with one of cats.

 

Remus cleared his throat to get Harry's attention, it worked, “ it's time to leave.” Was the only thing he had to say and Harry looked disappointed but followed anyway, but not before saying goodbye to the shopkeeper and the cat he had been playing with.

 

“ I thought you didn't like cats.” Said Remus smiling even though he was nervous as hell.

 

“ No I just don't like looking at pictures of them. I like playing with them though.” Said Harry smiling. “ Are we going home now or somewhere else?”

 

“ Somewhere else, where do you want to go Harry?” he asked the boy wondering what he meant by somewhere else.

 

“ I mean are we going home or to another store.” Said Harry and Remus wondered how he wasn't tired he had gotten six hours more sleep than Harry, but somehow he still Harry still had more energy than him.

 

“ Well I think we've seen all of the shops so I guess we would usually be going home but I thought that we could take a trip to Hogwarts.” Said Remus wondering what would happen once they got to Hogwarts.

 

“ Really?” asked Harry his eyes lighting up Remus could tell he really wanted to go to Hogwarts and he couldn't blame him.

 

Remus nodded but first we have to go home and wash this junk out of hair okay?” asked Remus, though it wasn't necessary because Harry had wanted to wash it out since the moment it had been put in.

 

So twenty minutes later both he and Harry had all of the muggle dye washed out of their hair and all of the muggle make up off of Harry's face. Remus pulled his wand out of wherever he kept it grabbed an old plate muttered something and told Harry to hold on to it.

 

“ Why?” asked Harry curiously wondering why on earth was his Uncle telling him to hold on to an old dinner plate.

 

“ Because it's a portkey Harry,” explained Remus gesturing for Harry to grab a hold of the plate, which he did just in time.

 

The next thing Harry knew he and his `Uncle' were in the middle of a really large room with all kinds of people eating. The first thing out of Harry's mouth however was, “ hey isn't that Sirius?” he asked pointing at the man who was in some of the Pictures that Remus had dug up for Harry to look at.

 

Everyone in the Great Hall turned to look at Remus and Harry and now Remus really wished that Harry would have stayed quiet, because now not only was the whole hall staring at him but also Sirius and James.

 

Sirius' head was the first to spin around at the sound of his name in an unfamiliar voice.

 

James had a look on his Face, which was a cross between angry, disappointed, and disbelief.

 

Dumbledore stood up and walked down to where Remus and Harry sat on the floor in the middle of the Great Hall.

 

James got up and followed Dumbledore, Sirius behind him. James couldn't say anything he was in too much shock to say anything at all, and the same was true for Sirius.

 

Dumbledore however was not any of those things, he was actually smiling, though he didn't say anything he was waiting for Remus, James or Sirius to say something.

 

Surprisingly Harry was the one who broke the silence, “ Dad?” was the only thing Harry said he looked very, very confused.

 

This brought James out of whatever state of shock he had been in, he picked Harry up and hugged him without saying anything and then turned to Remus with a scandalized and hurt look on his face, “ Why?”

 

 

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I never thought I'd get this Chapter Finished it just kept dragging on and on and on but now it's finished and it's 4:34 am and I was wide awake ten minutes ago now I want to crawl in my bed an not wake up until noon tomorrow. So enjoy the Chapter. The next one probably won't be up until next Saturday or Sunday because 10th grade sucks a lot and I have Homework from Hades ………………