False Prophecy
By: Sirius Potter
Chapter 1
Of Age
The alarm clock in the smallest room next to the smallest bed at number 4 Privite Drive rang loudly as it was now midnight. The Boy Who Lived was no longer a boy. Harry Potter was now legally a fully fledged wizard.
Harry rose out of his bed happy now that he could leave this place for good, but still there was no joy on his face. In the past two years he had lost his godfather and now his beloved headmaster. If that wasn't bad enough it was now time to start his journey to destroy arguably the most powerful evil wizard of all time.
Harry pointed his wand at his trunk and murmured the charm to shrink it under his breath. He slowly walked over to the small barley an inch long trunk and put it into his pocket. He then walked over to Hedwigs cage, told his faithful owl to wait for him at the Weasley's, she left and he repeated the much useful charm and shrunk her cage and placed it in his other pocket. "Accio Firebolt" Harry said softly he did not want to disturb the last of his relatives.
Harry walked over to his window opened it, right before he jumped out to take off he paused for a second 'There is something different about doing magic now, it seems easier, but yet harder and more powerful at the same time. Oh well' Harry thought to himself and shrugged it off.
It was another cold summer for England, Harry along with every other non-muggle knew the answer to this, Dementors were at large, probably more so then ever now that Dumbledore was gone, and thus that would mean that The Order of the Phoenix would be in disarray. Luckily for Harry the large cloak he was wearing to conceal his identity also worked very well to keep him warm.
The journey was very long and uneventful, still Harry preferred it to any other means of transportation. He touched down in an abandoned alley close to the leaky cauldron. He shrunk his broom down and walked very briskly to the Leaky Cauldron. The place was virtually empty except for a couple of dark evil looking figures where occupying a small table at the far wall, they paid no attention to Harry. "I would like a room" Harry said to the young attractive barmaid, one whom luckily Harry had never seen.
"It is a little more because of such the late time 2 Galleons for tonight, one more for each night."
Harry threw down five galleons "I only want 2 nights, the extra is to make sure I'm not disturbed."
She took the money and said "You got it honey room 8, my name is Jane by the way, if you get ah shall I say lonely I will be done here all night." She then winked at Harry
"Ah, thanks I will keep that in mind." Harry said awkwardly he couldn't help but think of Ginny, and Hermione when she said that. 'Why Hermione though' Harry thought to himself. None the less he headed up to his room.
There was nothing special about room eight, a bed, a fireplace, a small desk and chair and that was about it. Harry pointed his wand at the door, and then the fireplace saying softly the only locking concealing charms he knew, which wasn't much. He made a mental note to himself to buy a couple books tomorrow on it along with the rest of his much needed supplies. With his wand in hand Harry climbed into bed and went to sleep.
Harry woke up very late in the morning the next day, he slowly rolled over in the small but yet comfortable bed and stifled a small yawn. As soon as he glanced down at his watch and realized he over slept and that he better get his arse in gear if he wanted to get all of his shopping done, and pass his apparation test. Harry threw his large cloak over him placed his wand in his pocket and set of to Gringotts
The newly adult wizard couldn't help but feel the tenseness inside Diagon alley, there were very few visitors, even of those people there Harry couldn't help but noticed that they seemed to have an almost evil aura surrounding them. There was also an occasional group of Aurors standing guard at various corners they stuck out like a sore thumb in their bright blue uniforms, Harry couldn't help but almost feel sorry for them, surely they would not stand much of chance being paired in only twos. As Harry finally reached the doors to Gringotts he noticed that it was busier then he had ever seen, he scanned the crowd and noticed a flaming red head and knew it must be Bill. Harry quietly sneaked up behind him and stuck his wand in Bills back and said softly "Gotcha buddy"
Bill jumped and spun around quickly ready to fire a curse off, but instantly recognized the voice and said "Harry?"
"Hey Bill is there someplace we can go that is a bit more private?" Harry asked immediately feeling stupid for his small prank as he was now starting to get noticed.
"Yeah follow me" Bill said and lead Harry into a small back room and as soon as he knew they were left alone he continued "What in the bloody hell are you doing here by yourself!?!"
"Don't worry about me I'm fine no one noticed me and I am only going to be here long enough to get some supplies then I am going to go take my apparation test."
"I guess your concealed pretty good in that giant cloak of yours, well at least until you pulled that stupid prank back there." Bill could tell Harry felt pretty silly for his lapse of judgment and quickly added "Happy birthday, when are you coming to the burrow?"
"I will be there in time for breakfast tomorrow, but Bill what are you doing here? Why aren't you off breaking curses somewhere?"
"Oh that's a very simple answer Harry, I am here standing guard for extra security, or at least I'm supposed to be" Bill flushed and his ears turned red just like Ron's do.
"Its ok Bill I promise not to tell anyone that I managed to sneak up behind you like that." Harry said with a small chuckle.
Bills face immediately lit up and responded "In that case…" He then pointed his wand at the door and small disgruntled goblin immediately busted in.
"Yes Mr. Weasley what can I get for you?" The disgruntled goblin asked with a lot of sarcasm in his voice.
"Could you please get my friend Mr. Potter some of his money so he doesn't need to wait in line?"
"Certainly Mr. Weasley anything for you sir." The Goblin almost spit his answer out and then continued with a more pleasant attitude toward Harry. "How much would you like Mr. Potter?"
"Ah… well kind of a lot I guess, I really don't want to make any extra trips, so how about fifty Galleons, Sickles, and knuts?" Harry asked and then quickly added "If that isn't to much trouble." He then handed his key over and the Goblin left.
"Sorry for his attitude Harry he really doesn't like wizards or any humans for that matter."
"Its no problem, from what I can remember of History of Magic almost all Goblins are like that, it must be tough working with them all the time."
"Oh it really isn't much of a hassle, once you work with them long enough you earn mutual respect for each other, you have to be careful Harry, Goblins are tough, they are at least as strong as any wizard some more some less."
Harry opened his mouth to respond but before he could say anything the goblin returned with a large sack of money for Harry, and then quickly parted.
"Well as long as you got that now I am sure you must be on your way, and I need to get back to work come on I will walk with you to the door."
Harry left Gringotts feeling a little better, it was always nice talking to Bill, he really didn't get much of a chance to talk to him last holiday since Fleur was always around him, and occupying his time. Realizing that he was running short on time he bought a lot of potion supplies at the apothecary (He couldn't help but think that carrying a couple of healing potions around with him would be useful). He then bought four books at Flourish and Botts basically about advanced defensive magic. He even snuck into Knocktern alley and bought two books at a very dark, dirty, and dangerous shop. After all of the shopping was done he set off back to his room, opened one of the books from Flourish and Botts to look for a couple of spells to prevent anyone from breaking in. Not sure how much good it would really do considering anyone could buy the books and then know the protection spells, still Harry figured it was better then nothing and put them in place. He then grabbed some of the complimentary floo powder and stepped into the fireplace and yelled "Ministry of Magic."
After the sickening sensation of traveling by the Floo Network subsided he nearly crashed to his knees but managed to catch himself, and stepped into the Ministry of Magic Entrance. Harry noticed that there were about a dozen fireplaces to each side of the one he just stepped out of, people were getting out of a few of them and entering other ones. Once he had fully collected himself he walked toward the nearest information desk, and approached a rather large mean looking middle aged witch.
"Excuse me madam, but where can I go for my apparation test?" Harry asked
"One moment please." She told Harry not even looking up at him, she was to busy listening to a show on her wizard radio. "Ok, I'm sorry but there are no tests until October 31'st." She responded once a commercial came on.
"But I can't wait that long!" Harry quickly responded
"I am sorry but you are going to have wait, all you can do is go sign up for it now." She added but then quickly lost interest in Harry and went back to her programs.
"Excuse me but where do I go for that." Harry figured it would do him no good to argue with her she couldn't do that he would wait tell he was in the right department.
The middle aged witch did not respond, she was too busy with her programs.
"Excuse me….. Excuse me….. EXCUSE ME!!" Still nothing, Harry sighed and then pulled his wand out "REDUCTO!" Her radio blew into a million pieces.
"WHAT THE BLOODY HELL! SECURITY!!!" She yelled and instantly there were three loud pops, and three aurors surrounded Harry and sent stunners at him.
Harry instinctively rolled away and avoided two of them and a quick shield charm blocked the third. Before they could fire anything else Harry quickly said "Hold on a second!" He then removed his giant cloak and reveled to everyone that it was Harry Potter whom they had just tried to stun.
"MERLINS BEARD! We're so sorry Mr. Potter, what can we do for you sir?" The lead Auror asked
Harry hated using his name to get what he needed, but sometimes you have to take advantage of what you have. "I am trying to find out where I can go to sign up for apparation lessons but this lady here" Harry paused and pointed his wand at the large middle aged women, he then continued "Is too busy listening to her programs to help me!"
"I am very sorry for any inconvenience sir, please follow me I will take you there." The lead Auror said and started to walk and motioned for Harry to follow.
"Wait hold on one second." Harry said, then turned pointed his wand at the fragments of the large middle aged witches radio and said the incantation and it instantly repaired itself. "There no harm done, now lead the way." Harry said he was really surprised at himself for how confident he felt today, he figured it was just because it was his birthday.
"Yes sir." The lead Auror said and lead Harry to the apparation department office, as soon as they got there he then added "Sorry about trying to stun you back there, great job avoiding them back there like that, I have never seen reflexes like that before, you should consider joining the International Dueling League."
"International Dueling League? Never heard of it." Harry responded he was rather intrigued.
"Oh its really great, they just started it a couple of years ago, its growing really fast in popularity, I'm a ref sometimes on the weekends, if you want I can have my boss send you a letter or a catalog or something."
"Yeah sure that would be great." Harry said a little awkwardly, he couldn't believe any Auror would have free time with Voldemort on the loose, and he really didn't have time to duel for fun himself, but some information on it could always be useful.
"Again sorry for about earlier and I will get that stuff out to you as soon as possible, good bye Mr. Potter." And with that the Auror walked away.
As soon as his conversation with the nameless Auror was finished he knocked on the door to the apparation office. After about a few minutes of waiting, a small and very old looking wizard appeared.
"What can I help you with young man?"
"I turned seventeen today, and I need to take my apparation test."
"We have no open test days until October 31'st, you may sign up now and reserve a spot but either way you will have to wait tell then, there is a sign up sheet in the main entrance. Thank you." And with that the man started to close the door.
"NO!" Harry yelled, he was determined, he had to start his mission, that his former headmaster had entrusted to him.
"You can't just say no" He then glanced up at Harry's scar and continued "I don't care if you are the chosen one, you must follow the rules!"
"GOOD FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE!!!! NO ONE CARES IF IM THE CHOSEN ONE!!" Harry roared, but then calmed down and kindly added "I am taking my apparation test today, I am on a mission from the late great Albus Dumbledore."
"Well tell me what it is and I can see if I can help you."
"It's a secret one."
"Well then I can't do anything to help you, sorry"
"I'm not going to get mad at you because, you have no say over it, so just put this down, and in my file or whatever you need too. Write down that I can apparate just fine, won't take test, already have Voldemort after me so a couple of Aurors trying to get me for breaking this dumb rule can't hurt. Thank you very much good bye." And with that Harry turned and disapparated.
There was a loud pop, and Harry appeared in his room at the leaky cauldron. The sensation was as sickening as ever, he couldn't believe that he had fought for the right to do something that he hated so much. He also couldn't believe how he acted today, he was more direct and even cocky. Was it wrong? No not really he thought, he wasn't in school so he didn't need to follow the professors rules, and its not like he was mean, he tried being nice at first each time, and he was doing it for good, this was for his mission to kill Voldemort. Oh well its all for the good, he finished up his reflecting and opened up one of his new books to the section on dueling multiple enemies at once, and read that tell he drifted to sleep.