Ok every one, first I would like to apologize for not updating the story for two whole weeks and more, I was having my mid-semister exams, and incase you guys didnt know, I've got subjects like physics, technology studies, maths B, maths C, english and IPT.
But I'm free now, so stand back and relax as here comes the next part of the story!!!
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were all sitting at the long kitchen table three days later when their letters from Hogwarts arrived.
‘Now that was early’ said Ron ‘remember last year it came just before the term started?’
‘Um, Ron, you seemed to have dropped one envelope over there.’ said Ginny.
‘Blimey, it must be that owl. He was shuffling around so much. Who could that be for eh?’
His brows furrowed a bit as he picked it up.
‘It says “Torch Porter”. I didn’t know that Torches last name was Porter! Oh well, better give it to her.’ And he pottered off to give her the letter.
Torches room was at the very top floor of the house, when Ron reached it he saw that the door was slightly ajar. He hesitated, then knocked.
‘Come in.’ said a soft voice.
Ron pushed open the door, stepped inside and ducked just in time as a plate came charging at him.
‘Oh! I’m so sorry about that!’ said Torch in a n anguished voice ‘I was just trying to cope with the environment of this world, and I was just distracted, apparently I still need a bit more practice.’
‘Yeah, no problem.’ said Ron straightening up and rubbing his head, he saw that several plates were circling around Torch who was still sitting in the bed cross legged, her back facing him.
‘Hey, wow!’ said Ron suddenly impressed ‘your allowed to do magic outside school?’
‘Yes, Dumbledore said that I’m the only person under in our year who is allowed to do magic outside school. So what brings you here?’
‘I came here to give you your Hogwarts letter. It’s just arrived’ he said suddenly nervous.
‘Ah, and about time too.’ she said, and finally turned towards him getting out of the bed.
And that was the first time that Ron had ever saw a naked girl in his whole life. When Torch had been sitting with her back to him draped in a robe, Ron didn’t realize that it was completely see-through. When she turned to face him, he could see every tiny bit of her body. Her breasts were round and full (though Ron didn’t know what it meant at that time) her figure was tall, slender and graceful and her most valuable asset that was in between her legs was triangular in shape.
Completely unaware that being naked is not very common in this world, she took that robe off. Many braver man than Ron would have immediately gotten on their knee, or else jump at this extraordinary beauty in front of them now, but something held him back (though it might be that his legs has become stony).
‘I suppose that you already know that I’m going to be in 6th year just like you three.’ Torch was saying as she put on some warm clothes ‘I’m also going to be at the Gryffindor House. Finding a lodging for me wasn’t very difficult you know. Apparently there’s one empty room at the top of the girl’s dormitory. Its smaller though, it was used for storing toilet papers and other such things, but Dumbledore says it will all be fixed by the time school starts, I could have the whole room to myself!’
‘D-Dumbledore seems to-to think a lot about a-about you.’
‘Yes he does,’ she turned towards him smiling, then her expression got serious ‘but he cares about Harry a lot more. He’s very proud of him, seeing as all those horrible things he had to go through at such a young age, and specially loosing Sirius a few weeks ago was the last straw.’ she smiled ‘When I was battling him, he was so determined to get what he wanted…to save his friends life that he was ready to sacrifice his own. Your very lucky to have a friend like him Ron.’
She was moving closer, ‘He likes you very much Ron, take good care of him wont you? And I like you too Ron. Very, very much.’ And wit that she kissed him passionately on the cheek.
*
‘What took you so long?’ asked Ginny when Ron returned ‘did you give Torch her letter? And why are you all red?’
Ron was indeed very red in the face, the moment Ginny had said this Hermione’s head had snapped towards his direction.
‘Oh, its nothing,’ he said ‘just forget it.’ And he left the room.
‘Now that was something,’ Ginny muttered staring at the back of a retreating Ron ‘he usually gets that red whenever Fleur Delacour was around. D’you think Ron fancies Torch?’ she looked around at Harry and the pair of them burst out laughing. Hermione gave each one of them a very angry look but otherwise said nothing.
*
That night was a cause for a celebration as Ginny had been made the new Gryffindor prefect. Even Mr and Mrs Weasley who usually stays at The Burrow because Mr Weasley now has to hold continuous press conference managed to come to visit Ron, Ginny and Bill who were staying at Number 12 Grimmauld Place to celebrate this joyous occasion. Harry realized that both of them were becoming thin at an alarming rate but somehow managed to look cheery.
The food was delicious thanks to the three house elves that use to stay at Hogwarts but now would be staying at Grimmauld Place permanently.
‘I swear this food is heavenly.’ George was saying as while Fred shovelled everything in his mouth and pipped in ‘we’re so busy with the business that we don’t have any time for ourselves; even Lee is forgetting to do his dreadlocks now. Poor bloke, we left with the business today, bet tomorrow he’s gonna be really cranky.’
Even Fred and George who stays at 93 Diagon Alley managed to spare sometimes from their hectic schedule, but were regretting it instantly.
‘Well let him be,’ Ginny was saying ‘I thought I was suppose to be your only sister, how can you not spare some time for me?’
‘Yeah, but your not our income source.’ said George while Fred nodded vigorously.
‘You two are really selfish you know that!’ said Ginny looking disgusted.
The party was held at the huge living room where 50 people could walk around carelessly.
Harry was talking animatedly to Sirius; Bill, Lupin and Mundungus was listening to Hestia Jones talk; Mr and Mrs Weasley and Kingsley Shacklebolt were immersed in a deep conversation; Tonks was talking to Hermione when Ginny joined them, while Ron was cornered by Torch. Though he seemed highly nervous at first, he was loosening up a bit right now and was staring at her face non-stop as if being enchanted by her. Torch seemed to be thoroughly enjoying his attention; she was tossing her hair and touching him.
‘I really like your shirt’ she was saying ‘its so white, specially the collar.’ she reached and fumbled around Ron’s shirt collar,
‘But what are this?’ she asked, as her hand left his collar and was tracing the part where his freckles were peeking from between his collars all the way up to his face. Her fingers were soft and warm and were tracing his mouth, ‘this little brown spots? They are so cute!’
‘They are called freckles.’ Ron was saying in a barely audible voice, Torch giggled and moved closer. Hermione who had been watching the pair of them felt all the blood rush to her head as Torch had been fumbling around Ron’s collar, and Tonks who had been trying to get her attention forever gave up as Ginny joined them.
Hermione came charging at them just in time and planted herself firmly in the middle-causing Torch to step back a few paces.
‘Ron!’ she snarled menacingly ‘you haven’t fed Pigwedgeoen yet!’
‘But I fed him this morning!’ he said indignantly, Hermione’s sudden appearance seemed to have broken the enchantment Torch had cast upon him ‘ I fed him one full rat!’
‘And you think that is enough! Go feed him again!’
Ron couldn’t understand why Hermione was so angry with him, he had done nothing wrong! And he had never seen her this angry before. Nevertheless, he shook his head and retreated to his room. Hermione stared at his back with some satisfaction then without a backward glance at Torch, went to rejoin Tonks and Ginny.
‘So he was just standing there and sneering at Ron and I slowly crept up behind him and scooped up a large handful of mud and threw it at his direction!’ Harry was saying ‘and his cronies were spinning around stupidly!’ Sirius laughed as Torch joined them.
‘What are you talking about?’ she asked politely.
‘My second ever visit to Hogsmead’ said Harry brightly.
‘Oh, really.’ she said gloomily.
‘What’s up with you?’ asked Sirius.
‘Um, nothing…well its just…Hermione…I don’t think she likes me much.
‘Why, what happened?’ asked Harry as Lupin joined them.
‘It’s just that whenever Ron and I are together, she’s always coming in between us and getting angry at him, but for some reason I think it’s me she’s angry at.’
‘Ah, say no more, you see Hermione is what you call ‘in love’ with Ron, she has always been ever since our first year. Hermione-even though she’s very outspoken she could never tell Ron about her true feelings. She might’ve tried to or hoped that Ron would figure it out all by himself…but apparently he didn’t, I think. So anyway, now she doesn’t allow any other girl to come near him, you see, she’s been waiting for him for so long that she’s very frustrated right now. So there you have it.’
‘Is that so?’ she said doubtfully.
‘You guys aren’t talking about love now, are you?’ asked Lupin.
‘Well, I was just talking about Ron and Hermione’s endless love agony.’ said. Harry
‘Ah yes I use to remember about your mother and father’s love agony, she never use to show that she liked him either, Lily. And you wouldn’t believe what your father use to do to get her attention.’ Said Lupin heartily.
‘But did they ever use to fight?’
‘Well, no but your mother use to get angry on him sometimes.’ said Sirius.
‘So how did they ever come around?’
‘In our sixth year when your father had completely given up hope of ever having Lily as his girlfriend, he started to see someone else-a girl from Hufflepuff, Tina Murphy-she was in seventh year and very pretty. Your father had his first kiss with her. Anyway, she broke up with him when she left, and poor James was left broken hearted and nothing we ever did would ever cheer him up-he was thoroughly depressed. And Lily seeing that James was going out with someone else got really jealous and when Tina left she made her first approach, and so it was the other way around now-Lily was chasing your father, asking him out on every Hogsmead weekend, sitting besides him on every lessons and during breaks-believe me she made me very jealous of her!’ said Sirius ‘but then suddenly James was getting over Tina and was his usual cheerful self again. And of course then they got married.’
‘Now that’s what I call impressive!’ said Torch ‘Now tell me Sirius have you ever fallen in love?’
‘Let me answer that for you,’ said Lupin solemnly ‘back in our old days when Sirius didn’t have a care in the world, he use to go around and sleep with any gorgeous girl he wanted or would meet-of course he didn’t use to go chasing after them, they rather came chasing after him. It was pretty boring to tell you the truth-he would meet a girl and they would give him that look, which if it was translated into words would mean “oh, please, pleasaaaaae sleep with me, if you don’t I swear in the name of Merlin that I would kill myself!” so what could poor Prongs do but sleep with them. But there was one girl that he had set his eyes on for the first time in his life that he never got.’
‘Oooooh, really who was it? Said Tonks coming over to join them.
‘Hestia Jones.’ said Lupin dramatically.
‘Hestia Jones??’
‘Oh, come on your not going to tell them that!’ said Sirius.
‘Yes, people Hestia Jones’ said Lupin
‘You mean that girl over there?’ said Torch gesturing at the tall woman with long black hair and slightly pink cheek who was now talking to Kingsley Shacklebolt.
‘She is not a girl, she happens to be 34 years old. Anyway, you see, while James had Lily to criticize his every move, Sirius had Hestia. She was in her first year when we were in our third, she got sorted into Gryffindor and as James and Sirius’s custom, every new students had to perform some sort of an act in front of the rest of the older Gryffindors. They were naturally all terrified but did their bits anyway-except for Hestia, when we first saw her we thought she was a boy for sure-‘
‘What with short black hair and green shirts and grey pants’ said Sirius sighing ‘I wanted her to lift weights, I was thinking of making her carry my bags to classes then she refused point blank.’
‘Such a nerve! Sirius had never before anyone talk to him like that! Then she challenged him to a duel!’
‘Of course she lost-’
‘But that was just the beginning of her crusade against him.’
‘She really didn’t like me much.’ said Sirius.
‘Well she would if you had just treat her nicely and had left her alone you know.’
‘Well I tried-‘
‘But he just couldn’t. I never thought that it would be possible, but he became worse than James. I mean he only use to show off disturbing stuff in front of Lily-stuff he was really good at, but Sirius-he use to torture Hestia. At one time he started what did you use to call it?’
‘A “Get rid of Hestia Jones Act”’ said Sirius.
‘Yeah, he would sneer at her whenever he would get the chance, scare away all of her boy friends, hide all for her stuff and mostly bribe or influence other people to do the same. Then one day she just cracked and charged at him-he got hospitalised-had a huge crack in his head; and she got expelled. That was in our seventh year. Then when Sirius left school he forgave her and had her re-enrolled. I mean I didn’t know that you use to like her that much until then!’
‘Did I?’ said Sirius impressed.
‘Yes you did!’ said Lupin ‘you went through all those troubles just to have her undivided attention to yourself.’
‘So how did she join the Order?’ asked Torch.
‘Because she knows Kingsley Shacklebolt,’ said Tonks ‘apparently he’s a family friend. They both joined last year.’
‘And imagine Sirius’s surprise when he saw who it was that joined the Order! His dear old Hestia!’ said Lupin heartily.
‘Do you still like her?’ Torch asked Sirius eagerly.
‘I don’t know I still haven’t thought about It.’ he said.
‘Well you should!’ urged Lupin ‘unless you want it to happen like before-too many girls surrounding you where ever you go and you getting all embarrassed and not able to say what you feel about her and end up doing stupid things to her. You’d better hurry up you know, I heard that she’s single-’
‘Ladies and gentleman,’ said Mr Weasley in a loud voice, he and Mrs Weasley were holding a toast ‘as you all know that our youngest child and only daughter has been made the new Gryffindor prefect. It is a very proud moment for us as her parents, and therefore we congratulate her, and wish her all the best. So to Ginny-may you make us all proud till days to come.’
‘To Ginny, may you make us all proud till days to come.’ chorused the rest of them, Ginny beamed.
Nothing more eventful happened after that except George turning his and Fred’s head into pumpkin for their entertainment.
*
The next day was almost another cause for celebration as Harry, Ron and Hermione’s OWL results have arrived, accompanied by a fourth unfamiliar letter which they haven’t opened yet. With no surprise at all, Hermione had received the highest numbers of 11 OWL’s (she had got an A on Defense Against The Dark Arts). Harry and Ron had had both got 6 OWL’s on the same subject and miraculously they managed to scrape an A in Potions, and their worst was predictably Divinations.
‘Well who gives a damn about Divinations anyway,’ Ron was saying gleefully ‘we’ve got an A in Potions! That means we can take it now in our NEWT level and with that Snape gone, there will be no one to criticize us anymore. What d’you reckon Harry?’
‘I think your right,’ he said ‘that means we can train to become Aurors after we leave school.’
Harry just couldn’t believe how happy he felt this days, everything seemed to be going on according to the way he wanted it too.
Hermione was now trying to look not too pleased with herself, but with the 11 OWL’s she got, it was proving to be very hard, as everyone would congratulate at least once every hour.
‘Well thank you every one,’ she would say heartily ‘I would’ve gotten 12 OWL’s ofcourse had it been in another circumstances!’
‘What do you mean “in another circumstances”!’ retorted Ron.
‘Well you know with Umbridge running the school and Hagrid and Dumbledore gone and everything?’
‘Oh.’
Professor Umbridge was their ex-Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher-a very horrible woman who had banned Harry from Quidditch, gave him several detentions in which he had to slice his own hand open, almost discovered Sirius, sacked Hagrid and had sent two Dementors to kill Harry.’ Hey, by the way Hermione what subjects are you taking this year? You do know that what ever we take now is going to act as our basics later.’
‘Well I have been giving Arithmancy a lot of thoughts lately, but then again I sometimes think about all those poor house-elves-’
‘So Torch what subjects are you taking?’ said Ron loudly turning to look at her. Hermione seemed stricken.
‘Well I was thinking of getting the same subjects as Harry, Dumbledore thinks it’s a good idea too you know.’
‘Yeah, and about that how are you going to attend the NEWT levels considering you’ve never studied before?’ Hermione asked nastily.
‘You seemed to be forgetting something,’ said Torch mechanically ‘I use to share Harry’s mind back in the other world, so I know pretty much everything he does, so it seems only logical to take the same subjects as his, because honestly I would only be good at those.’
‘And how did they admit you without your OWL results?’
‘Dumbledore fixed it all up, just like he fixed Sirius’s consent to allow Harry to visit Hogsmead.’ Said Torch shrugging.
‘And why exactly are you attending Hogwarts?’
Didn’t you hear what Dumbledore said? I’m going to help Harry control both of our powers, apparently he only has control over his when his very angry or frustrated, I’m going to change that-I’m going to help him summon his powers whenever he wants to, after he’s done that he can control my power’s and then we can kill Voldemort.’
‘It seems like a long plan, how long is it going to take anyway?’ pressed Hermione.
‘Are you going to stay here for the rest of your life?’
‘Why don’t you ask Dumbledore.’
‘Why does all of-’
‘Hermione!’ said Torch turning towards her with her eyes closed ‘I’m sorry to say this but I really don’t have all the answers to that OK. Now Ron come along, you said you were going to show me the latest instalment of the Nimbus broomstick, lets go.’
Torch grabbed hold of Ron and together the pair of them stalked away. Hermione glared after them.
‘Well,’ said Harry trying to cover the awkward silence ‘lets go and have some lunch shall we?’
‘Wait a moment, you didn’t open this letter Harry.’ Said Ginny handing him the fourth envelope.
‘Oh, yeah right.’
Harry tore open the envelope, unfolded the parchment, read the letter and then stared at it.
‘What does it say?’ asked Hermione snatching the letter out of his hand… then ‘NO WAY!’
‘What? What happened?’
‘It’s from Azkaban,’ gasped Harry.
‘What? Why would an Azkaban letter be delivered by a Hogwarts owl?’
‘It’s from McGonagol,’ gasped Hermione ‘she says that Lucius Malfoy and the others have broken out of Azkaban!’
‘WHAT!’
‘Not only that, they killed three of the Aurors!’
‘But how could they escape? The Dementors aren’t guarding Azkaban anymore, how could they help them break out!’
‘The Dementors didn’t help them from inside, they helped them from outside.’ Said Harry.
Ginny gaped at him.
‘This is just terrible, we’ve got to tell the others.’ Squealed Hermione.
That day nobody seemed to care much about anything else. Everyone was thinking about the escaped Death Eaters.
‘Well this news shouldn’t be such a shock at all,’ said Ron forcefully ‘some of them were Voldemort’s most loyal supporters, he was bound to get them out anyway.’
‘Its just that everything had been going on so smoothly for a while that this came as a real shock.’ Said Ginny in a small voice.
‘Well cheer up everyone, there isn’t much that those scumbags could do; they happen to be a bunch of very famous Death Eaters-everyone knows their face. Voldemort was just trying to do his bit for his most loyal followers.’
They were all sitting at the long kitchen table, each with the look on their face as if some one had died.
‘Sirius is right, you know,’ said Lupin forcefully ‘there isn’t much that they can do right now, what with the 10,000 Galleon prize on their head.’
‘Yeah your right,’ said Bill slowly ‘we should try to pull ourselves together.’
*
There seemed to be a lot of hustle and bustle inside the large number 12 Grimmauld Place after that. The members of the Order seemed to hold constant meetings, even Fred and George seemed too busy to sneer at Ron and the others for not being allowed at the Order. Whenever Dumbledore was too busy either Mr Weasley or Mrs Weasley or Sirius or Kingsley Shacklebolt would preside over the meeting. Try as they might Harry and the others couldn’t hear a word they were saying.
July the 31st came and saw Harry and Torches 16th birthday, which was always a small gathering.
August might have passed as total bore had Harry not been with Ron and Sirius.
Midway through the month it was time to receive another piece of information. Hagrid had come on over, Harry had been thrilled at the mere sight of the part giant with his tangle of unruly black hair and beard. Then midway through talking to Harry, Ron and Hermione he began looking at Ron
‘s’I suppose tha’ yeh and yer sister are happy now knowin’ tha’ another Weaslley’s goin’ ter re-enter ter keep yeh two company?’
‘What!’
‘Blimey, didn’ yeh know?’ said Hagrid raising his eyebrows.
‘Who is it then?’ asked Ron.
‘Why Bill o’course.’
‘Bill??’
‘Yeah, hes goin’ ter be yer new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher.’
‘Bill teaching us Defence? I cant see him teaching us that!’
‘Well I suppose I can see Bill teaching us Defence, I mean he’s had all sorts of experience working as a Gringotts’ Curse breaker,’ said Hermione ‘and maybe he isn’t such a bad idea after all.’
‘Yeah tha’ bu also he’s goin’ ter be there ter keep an eye on yeh all. See ter it tha’ nothin’ goes wrong.’
‘But couldn’t you do that?’
‘I could, bu McGonagol also needed a new Defrence Against the Dark Arts teacher.’ Said Hagrid shrugging.
‘Oh yeah, talking about McGonagol and Defence, we’re going to Diagon Alley tomorrow, wanna come with us?’ said Ron
‘Why are yeh goin’ there tomorrow, yeh’ve still got 15 days ter school.’
‘We cant go there after a week because that is going to be the rush hour season then,’ said Hermione patiently ‘and we don’t want to get caught up in all that because of Harry. People will be all swarming up to him now more than ever.’
‘Thanks a lot Hermione.’ Said Harry sourly.
‘Your welcome, so there you have it.’
‘Good thinking.’ said Hagrid frowning slightly ‘Well in that case count me in, I’ve got nothin’ ter do anyway.’
*
The next day they all woke up early and when they went to have their breakfast they saw Torch and Ginny fully dressed and waiting for them to come.
‘Finally,’ said Ginny I thought you lot were going to sleep the whole day.’
‘What are you doing here?’ said Ron raising his eyebrows.
‘We were waiting for you offcourse. Hagrid told us, Torch wants to come and see Diagon Alley and later we could go and see the new Sorcerers Mall!’
They all sat down, Hermione looking highly displeased. They were half way through their bacon and egg when Hagrid appeared. Ron who had been talking to Torch finally looked up and said to Hermione,
‘Hey Hermione, remember when we went to the Yule Ball in our fourth year?’
‘Yes.’ Said Hermione eagerly.
‘What was the name of the first song that the Weird Sisters were playing? I was just telling Torch how very boring it was.’
At this Hermione let out a snarl like noise, stood up and marched angrily out of the kitchen.
‘Whats the matter with her?’ said Ron looking perplexed.
Ginny gave him a side look before returning to her list.
When they had all finished eating, they gathered around the fireplace at the kitchen.
‘Well at least I’ll get to buy some new books today.’ Hermione muttered to herself (Ginny had called her back to the room a minute ago).
‘So Torch,’ Ron was saying ‘we grab a pinch of the Floo Powder and throw it at the-’
‘You don’t have to tell me, I know all the rules.’ Said Torch smiling.
‘You do?’
‘Yup, and its all thanks to you.’
Ron beamed, Hermione scowled.
; All right every one here we go’ said Ginny grabbed pinch of the Floo powder, stepped into the fireplace, said very clearly ‘Diagon Alley’ and dropped the pinch of powder. A whooshing green flame appeared and a second later both the fire and Ginny had vanished. One by one they stepped into the fireplace and vanished as well.
They all came out of the fireplace of Diagon Alley, which was just near the archway that also happens to be the entrance to the Leaky Cauldron.
‘So where do we go now?’ said Ron looking around.
‘How about the book shop?’ said Ginny brightly ‘and then we can go to the new Sorceres Mall that’s just opened and do some shopping’s there.
Everyone agreed to that. It took them half an hour to buy all of their books, (with Hermione pulling randomly any book that came in front of her) and then they headed towards the Sorcerer’s Mall.
‘Is the new Mall huge?’ asked Hermione.
‘Oh yes, its really huge.’
‘But how could they fit in a huge Mall inside Diagon Alley?’ asked Torch.
‘Its under the ground actually,’ said Ginny ‘just like the Ministry of Magic.’
‘So where’s the entrance?’ asked Ron
‘It’s beside Gringotts, so we can collect some money on the way. Anyway they’ve got this four storied building in there that’s as large as The Burrow. They’ve got this “Gate Tube” in there through which you can enter and exit he mall.’ Said Ginny. It was half an hour later and a couple of cart riding that they arrived at the building that Ginny was describing. It was huge, each floor was about 800 square foot in area, the whole space was filled with large transparent tubes that was suspended in mid air, it was only a couple of centimetres above the ground, yellow colored sparks was glittering at the bottom and the top of the tube, they could only make out a transparent door leading to it The building had completely no walls, just moving staircases leading to and from each of the floor.
‘So how do we get in there?’ asked Harry.
‘Its easy. First we get inside the tube and close the door, then when your ready for the teleportation it will automatically lead you to the mall.’
‘But what happens if someone is trying to come up through the same tube?’
‘Oh, that won’t happen, because the first two floor is only used for entering, while the last two are used for exiting the mall.’ said Ginny brightly.
The first to go was Ron. He opened the door, stepped inside, closed it along with his eyes, and then as if the floor had given away, he slid out of sight. Harry was the last to go. He had the strange feeling that he was sucked through the tube to the mall and luckily the journey was pleasant.
The mall was very big; a Gate Tube platform just like the one above had been crammed spaciously crammed inside it. People were getting inside e and outside through it.
The floor of the mall was a gleaming marble; the mall itself must’ve been 6 storeys high, the entrance to the mall was situated near the huge food court; chairs and tables were placed just a bit inside. They could see the very top of the mall, which seemed to stretch on forever. It was a very beautiful place, they went past lots of jewellery which had a lot of single pieced diamonds weighing at least 10 kg, the clothes department had all sorts of fashionable muggles and wizards wear, some of which were dating back to a thousand year. Then there were those automobiles shop that had all vehicles with special (obviously magical) features added. The bookshops had books written both by muggles and magicians. It seemed that the mall had everything made by both the muggles and magicians.
‘How long is this mall anyway?’ Ron asked.
‘Each of the floor is half a kilometre in area’ said Ginny. ‘Anyway, here we are at the Witches Department, me and Hermione will be here for a while, why don’t you three just go and look around, in that shop specially since that new Nimbus instalment that got in the market last month? And Hagrid weren’t you saying you needed to buy some collars for Fang’s birthday, you can come with us, they also sell pet related goods.’
In the end they all agreed to meet in an hour and a half.
‘What do they do in the Witches Department anyway?’ said Ron frowning as they walked back to the Quality Quidditch store.
‘I heard that they do something called facial or similar.’ Said Torch.
‘Hey, isn’t that the new Nimbus 2002? Said Harry suddenly.
There just on the display was the new Nimbus 2002, there was assign next to it.
NIMBUS 2002
This state of the art racing broom sports a streamlined super-fine handle of mahogany, treated wit an iron hard polish and its own carefully selected birch twig in the broom tail has been honed to almost an aerodynamic perfection. The new Nimbus 2002 outstrips the previous Nimbus instalment by a hundred fold. The Nimbus 2002 has an acceleration of 0-90 miles in an hour in 10 seconds and incorporates an unbreakable charm that can withstand most major hurricanes.
PRICE: 4999 Galleons.
‘Bet I’d like to have one of those!’ exclaimed Ron with a longing.
‘Yeah me too, said Torch staring at the broom ‘lets go and see if we can reduce the price.’
Ron stared at her as if she was crazy.
‘Are you mad, they’re never going to reduce the price, never. And besides if the dii it will be only a couple of tens, where are we going to get the rest of the money?’
Torch was frowning slightly as if thinking, the suddenly her face cleared and she snapped her fingers exuberantly and turned towards Harry.
‘Harry, I think I’ve got an idea! Come with me. Ron you stay here we’ll be back in 20 minutes!’
With that she marched off grabbing Harry’s arm.
Harry had no idea what she was doing. First she went to a pottery shop and bought a sack full of rubbles. Why did she go into a pottery shop and by a sack full of broken pottery-
‘Hey Torch,’ Harry began ‘why is your last name Porter?’
‘I wanted it to be Potter but then Dumbledore said people will get suspicious if suddenly a sister of Harry Potter materialized out of thin air, so now it’s Porter, I mean it’s the closest thing to Potter, no suspicions there and my wishes are fulfilled at the same time.’
She then magicked the sack so that it hovered after her and headed straight to the girls toilets, which was near the entrance. When Harry started to protest she marched inside the mans room instead. People gawked at her as she passed by and Harry had turned red in the face, and thought he would die of shame as she closed the cubicle door with him and the sackful of broken rubbles inside.
‘Ok Harry,’ she said turning towards hi ‘this is going to be our first ever lesson.’
‘What?’
She reached down, slit open the sack with a small pocketknife, and turned the sack up side down so that all the broken pieces fell to the floor. Then she straightened up and looked at Harry.
‘Now Harry we’re going to be turning this rubbles into Galleons.’
‘What!’
‘Now give me your hands.’ She commanded.
‘What are you talking about!’
‘I said give me your hands.’
‘Whoa! Wait a minute sister; I’m not going to be something into something else! I got expelled last year!’ he said outraged.
‘Good idea.’
She reached inside her robes and pulled out her wand, Harry goggled at it.
‘Where did you get that wand?’
But she wasn’t listening. She had her eyes closed and was muttering something very fast under her breath. Suddenly thick white gas emerged from the tip of her wand and them surrounded all around, she stopped muttering and opened her eyes.
‘Well now that should do it.’
‘Wh-What did you just do?’
‘I just conjured up a shield charm that would prevent the underage wizards to report the fact that you would be doing any magic right now.’
‘How did you know how to do that?’ said Harry suddenly impressed.
‘When one gets to be the ruler of any world, one has to learn this sort of spells for one of those just in case times.’ She said smiling, then she looked intently at him and began ‘Now Harry when I say ‘go’ you will concentrate hard on this pile of rubbles and imagine them to be turning into Galleons. You got that?’
‘Hang on are you saying that we are actually going to be turning this piece of junks into gold?’ he said stunned.
‘No, Harry you are going to be turning them into gold, not me.’
Harry gawked at her, she made an impatient sort of noise.
‘Trust me.’ She said grabbing his hand.
When Harry still continued to stare at her unbelievably, a mild electric like charge passed through her body to his, whish caused him to yelp angrily.
‘What did you do that for!’
She shook her head smiling, then said ‘Ready?’
‘Yeah-yeah I guess so.’
It was a miracle about how Torch seemed to be the only other person apart from Sirius and Ron that Harry can never stay angry at for too long.
‘Ok, here we go!’ She closed her eyes and began whispering something very fast. Then they were both lifted up in the air and a strong win somehow was blowing all around them. Several green like bolts were issuing from Torches body, after a couple of minutes when they seemed to be surrounded by nothing but green bolts, she said ‘GO!’
Harry concentrated hard on the of pile rubbles, imagining them turning into Galleons and as he did so, he watched amazed that the pieces were indeed turning into Galleons right before his own eyes! He quickly looked around at Torch and was surprised to find that her beautiful face was screwed up in pain through all those muttering. The green electric bolts that seemed to be issuing from her body were now passing on to Harry’s. Then it hit him; she was giving him his energy.
‘Torch.’ He said urgently.
She couldn’t hear him. Harry tried to break away but found that he couldn’t. then she said through pain, ‘concentrate on what I told you Harry, it will be much less painful.’
Still horrified, he did as he was told, and watched as all of them turn to gold. Torch let go of his hand and slumped to the floor, while Harry landed gently beside her, the shield charm had vanished as well.
Harry was immediately on all four and was prodding her.
‘Torch, Torch!’ Torch stirred and opened her eyes,
‘Did you manage to do it?’
‘Yes! But-’
‘Good.’ She said sitting up.
‘Are you all right?’
‘Yes, just a bit out of breath.’ She said with a wan smile ‘I’ll-I’ll be ok, why don’t you go and find Ron and I’ll see you guys 10 minutes later.’
‘Are you OK?’ he said again
‘Yes, I told you, I’m just a bit out of breath now go on.’
‘How come I didn’t feel the same pain as you did?’
‘You wont in this world I suppose, and neither will I. Now go on!’
‘You sure you’ll be ok?’
‘Yes!’
‘If you say so.’ Said Harry.
He shoved all the Galleons back in the sack and tried to hoist it up but immediately stumbled.
‘Oh, here’ said Torch pulling out her wand and giving it a wave ‘now try.’
He did, the sack had become weightless.
‘Thanks.’ He said.
‘No problem.’ She said smiling.
With a last glance at her Harry opened the cubicle door and marched out of the man’s room and proceeded to find Ron, clutching the now weightless sack.
*
When Harry and Torch lefts Ron in front of the new Nimbus 2002, he only got 15 minutes of his peaceful inspection of the broom. Draco Malfoy along with his large and stupid cronies Crabbe and Goyle also decided to pay the new mall a visit.
‘Well, well well, look who it is,’ said Malfoy softly ‘Weasel King!.’
Ron whipped around.
‘Malfoy!’ he spat malevolently.
‘Whats the matter Weasley, afraid a bit outnumbered?’
‘No,’ he said ‘afraid of whats going to happen to you when I’ve finished with you!’
‘You’ve got some nerves Weasley!’ hissed Malfoy.
‘Yeah, I suppose after Harry put your scumbag of a father father in Azkaban its no wonder that I should have so much nerves!’ said Ron pulling out his wand.
‘What did you just say Weasley! Said Malfoy dangerously softly as his face started to become red.
‘Didn’t you hear?’ said Ron fiercely ‘I was just insulting your horse shit of a father.
Crabbe and Goyle were cracking their knuckles threateningly, Ron and Malfoy were staring into each others eyes as if about to charge, just then Harry appeared.
‘Hey Ron guess what-’ he stopped suddenly following Ron’s gaze to see what he was staring at with such a loathing, then spotting Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle he said softly ‘Malfoy.’
Malfoy’s eyes had snapped at his direction.
‘Whats the matter scar head?’ Malfoy called at Harry ‘Brain all right sure its not gonna burst out any second?’
‘Funny coming from you Malfoy whose father burst out of Azkaban! Too bad his got 10,000 Galleon prize for his head! Bet your excited! You always wanted to be popular, now you’ve got the chance, everybody would be swarming up to you now, eager to know about your fathers whereabouts so that they could get the prize money! Bet Voldemort’s really pissed now, there isn’t much that your father and his chummies could do right now! All those efforts just wasted!’ snarled Harry.
Malfoy whipped out his own wand.
‘You sure you wanna do that Malfoy?’ yelled Ron ‘your already unpopular now! Don’t give the Ministries anymore chance to expel you!’
‘That’s what you think Weasley. Crabbe, Goyle, ATTACK!’
Crabbe and Goyle lunged at Harry and Ron who managed to dive out of the way just in time.
People were screaming and darting out of the way. Now Harry, Ron, Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle were surrounded by a bunch of onlookers.
Ron suddenly came up behind Crabbe and had punched him in the head. Goyle than came up behind Ron and had him by his throat. Harry meanwhile had lunged at Malfoy who had both of his hands in his hip and was laughing with his eyes closed and his white blond head thrown back. But before he could get to Malfoy, Cragge had thrown himself on top of Harry had him flat on the floor.ron managed to elbow Goyle in the stomach who immediately let go of him.
Crabbe who had been punching Harry was toppled backwards as Ron had lunged on him. Together with Harry, Ron managed to break Crabbe’s nose.
‘AAAHHH!’
Harry turned around and managed to kick a charging Goyle in the crotch, he immediately dropped to the floor. Meanwhile Crabbe had somehow managed to throw Ron off him despite his broken nose.
Malfoy seeing that Goyle was down flew at an unsuspecting Harry and had pinned him to the floor. He raised his hand which was clenched in a fist, ready to strike at Harry’s face, when someone behind him yelled-
‘IMPEDIMENTA!’
Malfoy and Grabbe were knocked back to the floor.
‘What’s going on around here?’ demanded the same voice.
Malfoy stood up and turned to see the person who had used the Impediment jinx on him and Crabbe.
It was a girl; she was wearing a long grey robe over a blue shirt and a pair of black long pants. Her long black hair was tied back in a ponytail, and her beautiful green eyes were screwed up in anger. Then she looked at Malfory and her eyes suddenly seemed to be filled with the purest of loathing.
‘Malfoy.’ She said softly
‘Huh?’
‘What do you think you are doing! Why are you attacking Ron and Harry!’
‘Who the hell are you?’
‘None of your damn business!’
She then walked over to Harry and helped him to his feet.
‘Thanks Torch.’ Harry muttered.
‘Torch?’ said Malfoy looking at her.
‘You’ve got some nerve Malfoy,’ she said in a dangerously cold voice despicable cowardice! Three on two! You think you can do whatever you want now don’t you! Hope you rot to death! Come on Ron lets go!’
She grabbed hold of Ron and clutching Harry in her other hand she stalked away, while people in the crowd were parting away to make way for them, and some were almost knocked to the floor as the sack full of Galleons hovered dangerously behind them. Malfoy gaped at her retreating back.
Torch had led them near the entrance of the mall where all the floor shops were. They all sat down, glaring and breathing heavily.
The day would’ve been a complete waste had Torch not told Ron what she and Harry did in the man’s room. Ron was very impressed and seeing the look of happiness on his face, Harry managed to cheer up too.
‘Yeah, that means we can both have a new broom, right Torch? Said Ron excitedly.
Torch whose head was still filled with her unpleasant encounter with Malfoy, gave a smile which given its way, seemed to take a lot of her effort.
After they had eaten something and paid for their food and made straight for the Quality Quidditch shop, while Ron was firing away all sorts of questions about the sack full of gold.
The crowd that had gathered during the fight were gone, so were Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle, they tried hard not to look at that spot.
When they entered the shop, they were immediately beared down by one of the salesman who started showing them all the models of the Nimbus series.
‘There hasn’t been any new instalment in the Firebolt has there?’ asked Torch as they passed by a displaying model of the Firebolt.
‘No miss,’ said the man displaying his most charming smile yet ‘the Firebolt remains the top broomstick of the world, and as you can see that’s why its still so expensive. Only a couple of thousand of Galleons had been reduced since its first introduction almost three years ago.’ He added pointing at a sign beside the broom, which showed the Firebolts price: a whooping 57,990 Galleons.
Harry stared at the price, he knew that the Firebolt was expensive, but he didn’t know it was that expensive; meanwhile Ron was whistling and moving round and round the Firebolt as if he had not in so many occasions ridden Harry’s one, and Torch was smirking at Harry and muttered in his ear,
‘I suppose your affection for Sirius has increased even more, huh?’
the she said to the salesman ‘Lead us back to the new Nimbus 2002 broom we’ll have two of those I think.’
But the man was now staring at Harry.
‘Wait a minute, your Harry Potter!’ he exclaimed.
‘Er, yeah I am.’ He said doggedly.
The man couldn’t believe how stupid he was, he was so busy staring and impressing and paying all the attention to the beautiful girl that he had completely been vague about her other two company. He continued to goggle at Harry who found his face steadily becoming red.
‘Er, shall we get going?’ said Ron coming over, having finished his inspection of the Firebolt. The man rounded on him next.
‘And you-your Junior Minister for Magic Arthur Weasley’s youngest son-Ron Weasley!’
‘Er, yeah, I suppose I am.’ Said Ron looking alarmed as if the man was about to attack him ‘Um.’
But in truth the man just couldn’t believe his luck at having at meeting Harry Potter and Ron Weasley that his brain seemed to have clogged and the fact that goggling non-stop at somebody was rude seemed to have completely flown out of his head.
Harry and Ron both shot a desperate look at Torch who immediately came to their rescue.
‘Excuse me sir, shall we get going then?’
The man stared at her instead; she raised her eyebrows.
‘Yes, yes lets do that first.’ He said.
He led them back to the Nimbus series and thrust two of the Nimbus 2002 at Harry and Ron.
‘Er’
‘How much would that be?’ asked Torch.
‘9998 Galleons.’ He said still gawking at Harry and Ron.
‘Here’ said Torch tipping the sack upside down so that all the coins fell to the ground.
The man gave a wave of his wand and all the Galleons immediately staked up neatly in front of a weird looking device, which was at the back of the shop. It was making some weird ‘beep, beep’ noises and a second later some of the coins had flown to the other side of the machine while the ones at the machine vanished.
‘Here’s your change’ he said handing them the remaining coins ‘and-‘ he then pulled out several official looking letters ‘so whose names shall I put in here?’
‘Make it Torch Porter and Ron Weasley.’ She said.
The man wrote that down and shoved two of them under Torch and Ron’s nose
‘I’ll need you to sigh those.’ They did as the man started wrapping the brooms in brown papers and thrust it into their hand when they had finished. He then pulled out three more parchment and demanded Harry and Ron’s auto graph, then Torches.
‘But I’m not famous or anything.’ She protested.
‘Miss,’ he said ‘you’re the most prettiest woman, girl or whatever you call it, I’ve ever met. Surely a person like you deserves to give away autographs!’ At which Torch beamed and gladly signed the piece of parchment.
‘Well that wasn’t was so bad was it?’ Ron was saying as they headed back to the Witches Department ‘Still hey Harry how come you’ve never told me how very awkward and frightening it was when people came and ask for your autograph?
‘I suppose it just flew out of mind what with all the weird stuff happening every year.’ He said.
They only had to wait fore a couple of minutes before Ginny appeared, looking the same as always.
‘How come you haven’t changed?’ Ron demanded ‘and where’s Hermione and Hagrid?’
‘Ladies and gentleman, I give you the all new Hermione.’ Said Ginny.
And out walked Hermione. Her bushy hair was no longer bushy anymore but straight and shiny, Harry was forcibly reminded of the time when Hermione had used a liberal amount of some Sleakezey’s liberal hair potion in their fourth year for the Yule Ball. Her skin seemed to be tanned all of a sudden. She had done something to her nose, which looked just like one of those gorgeous women who usually ends up being in the cover of the Witch Weekly’s. Ron gaped at her.
‘Hermione,’ he said in a hoarse voce ‘you, what did you do to yourself?’
Hermione smiled at him happily.
‘I did a makeover you silly.’ She said smiling still more fondly and sweetly at him.
‘How much did it take you to do that?’
‘Oh, just 50 Galleons.’ She said excitedly.
‘Hermione, you-you look old!’ Ron groaned abruptly, then, ‘Anyway, look at this new Nimbus 2002 that Torch bought me today! Cool isn’t it? Its wort 5000 Galleons! Its got a lot of special-’
Harry’s heart sank and seeing the look on Ginny’s face he knew that she was feeling the same thing as he was. Poor Hermione, she had been in love with Ron for so long that she even went to a great length as to transform herself completely so that Ron would notice her, but now-
Hermione had at first looked shocked seeing the broom in Ron’s hand, but the moment she had gained control of herself, she smiled so happily at him that it broke both Harry’s and Ginny’s heart. They couldn’t bear to look at her aymore as Ron chatted away happily about his new broom.
Luckily Hagrid appeared a few moments later; apparently he had been having a relaxing massage and showed them all the collar he had bought for Fang.
*
That night even though most of the people had excused themselves early to go to bed, nobody went to sleep until it was well past midnight.
Harry and Ginny both went to bed early because they just couldn’t bear to look Hermione acting all happy when in truth her insides were tearing apart. Ron went early because people were teasing him about the fact that he was examining his broom almost obsessively. Hermione excused herself for having a slight headache and was thinking of taking some muggle paracetamol, when in fact the moment she had closed the door, all the humiliation and pain seemed to come pouring in. she told herself firmly that she wouldn’t cry, that she was strong, when suddenly she burst into tears and cried silently and for so long that in the morning she had really developed a headache.
Draco Malfoy had meanwhile excused himself to bed early so that he might not think about his encounter with Harry Potter or Ron Weasle but the mysterious girl Potter had called ‘Torch’. That was a pretty weird name for a girl, huh, Torch, who on the world would ever name their children Torch? But he had to admit, she was the most pretties thing he had ever seen, even prettier than those Veela’s he had seen at the Quidditch World Cup two years ago, and definitely prettier than that blond French girl Fleur Delacour. Oh, how her large beautiful green eyes were so inviting and her long silky black hair…if he could ever dig his face into those hairs…He finally fell asleep two o’clock in the morning-after fantasizing about Torch for nearly six hours. Then he had a dream, he was running along a long passageway, there was a door at the end, which flung open the moment he got near it. This door led to a very large room, which had no furniture’s in it except for a large four-poster bed right at the middle.
He approached the bed, and there laying on the middle of it was her-Torch, but she was fast asleep now.
Malfoy climbed the bed and carefully crawled towards her and began to kiss her tenderly in the lips until she woke up. Then she started to caress his hair, which made him super horny. All the blood seemed to be screaming into his ears, he could stand it no longer. He immediately began to tear at her clothes, and then in about five seconds had managed to extract himself from his own as well. He began to caress at her breasts, simultaneously pushing himself inside her, he then started to move in and out of her in a steady rhythm…
Crabbe and Goyle who were having a sleep over at Malfoy’s room looked at each other with open mouths. Malfoy was having an erection in his sleep; his penis had become twice its normal size and had sprung to a standing position underneath his pants!
His two cronies decided to NOT to confront him in the morning about this when he woke up all flushed. Malfoy meanwhile was thanking his lucky stars for secretly having an access to the muggle Internet from which he downloads lots of porn and sex-related advice almost everyday.
*
Oh pleeeeese you seem to be getting stupider by the day! I have already said at the beginning of the story that people would be getting this sort of stuff in it, and I really hate to say this but there is practically nothing that you can do about it, don’t believe me then ask some one else. I have already rated the story you see so people know what they are getting; don’t believe me then go and see the first post of this thread! And another thing, a lot of people seem to love my story and their number is more than you definitely, let me see, hmmm, about 20 people and more have sent me pm’s telling me what a genius I was, if you don’t believe me again, I can tell a few of them to send you a pm or post their message in here, think how humiliating that would be! Anyway, most of them have also asked why I haven’t written anything sexual yet, people fantasizing and everything is a part of a people’s REAL life. I don’t know how old you are but if you are more than 13 then I’m sure you found how silly your last comment was, and if you are less than 13 then let me just say this kid: you will be getting a lot more of that in the future, so grow up! And I’m not a sex fanatic because I do have sex with my boy friend so I wont be like, writing anything like, all the characters are having sex every few second or anything, no, my one will be perfectly logical. Anyway I’m sure your already reddening at this point after having read such a long post of insults, so I’ll just say good-bye for now.
Oh, and people you will be expecting a lot more of what goes on around other peoples at this stage of their age in the future, so don’t be a bit annoyed about Freddy’s post. With lots of love, from your dearest jenny, people!!!
MY STORY.....
hey i took your advice jenny Anderson....and started "my" harry potter and the green flame torch, this is only the beginning and hey i think your story rocks! so maybe u can gimme some advice....here it is
oh and my calligraphy sucks!
HARRY POTTER AND THE GREEN-FLAME TORCH
-SIRIUS! don't leave me, please!!
-harry, harry! the neighbors may
heard you! Harry did not understand but when he open his eyes it
all made sense, he was in his room talking in sleep, and uncle Vernon
in front of him, with face of a scared toad.
-I will not tolerate anymore you talking in your dreams boy! he
snarled.
-I'm sorry sir, I'll try to keep it down. harry said while he was
trying to remember what was that he was dreaming.
When uncle Vernon left the images of harry's dream seemed very clear,
he was fighting the death-eaters and he heard Bellatrix Lestranges
laugh and sirius fell into a hole and scrammed-HARRY!!!!
When harry decided to go downstairs get some breakfast the dursley
family was already on the table, -joy..., harry whispered.
Dudley can you give me the bacon? harry asked
Dudley seemed not to hear him.
DUDLEY...will you PLEASE give me the bacon? harry asked again.
and Dudley without saying a word give the bacon plate to harry.
Thank you, harry told Dudley which Dudley's face turn to the same color
of Ron's hair.
After harry had some breakfast he decided to go for a walk to the
park near Privet Drive.
Once harry got there he sat on the swing.
-harry? harry potter? a voice asked.
harry looked up and he saw Mark Evans face.
-Hello, harry greeted.
-wow....I know all about you, evans lowered his voice and said- You
know I am a wizard as well.
-really? harry asked with bit of excitement on his voice
-yes...my parents prohibited me to tell you that I am from a wizard
family till they know for sure that I am a wizard, you see for a lot
of years nobody in family thought that I was a wizard they all thought
I was a squib, cause I never showed any clues that I had magic inside
me.
-Wow... my friend Neville's family thought he was a squib as well.
-oh, hey I was wondering since my parents allowed me if you would
like to come to my home to have dinner tonight all my family would
kill to meet you.
- Yes I would like that very much, harry answered.
Harry was really exited about it.
It has been already two weeks since I left Hogwarts, harry thought,
and on Saturday of the third week he will go over to Hermione's!
Hermione invited Harry to go over to her home for the holidays.
When harry arrived to Privet Drive 4, he told Uncle Vernon that he would
go out for dinner, uncle Vernon didn't answered so Harry thought that
there was no problem.
All right FVJ, I’m getting really sick and tired of having to answer your silly questions. And I have also sent some of those pm’s that I was talking about, and they said that they would be delighted to say how marvellous and great and all my story is, why don’t you just sit back and relax as they post their replies in the next few hours or in a couple of days, huh?
Oh, I forgot, and remember whatever the people wants they gets it! Or in other words like they say 'the customer is always right' in this case I am the sales person, and people reading this story are the customers, and you are pretty much in the minority, sorry but thats what really your position is in here.