Better Potter

Redheaded Allies

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No one, even Harry, realized that a barrier around Harry was destroyed ...

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"Once I get this in place I won't worry." Adrian said quietly as he went into the Leaky Cauldron.

Thankfully, the place wasn't busy. He was easily able to sneak up to the counter without being noticed. After making so many charms and bookmarks he knew that certain rune sequences by heart. It was easy to draw the sequence under the counter before walking out into the muggle side of the place.

Adrian looked up and down the street, "Ok ... I remember they said that they were moving around here ... but where?" He pondered as he wondered where the Dursley family lived now. "Never mind. This'll take too long. I'll try searching when I don't have work."

Reluctantly Adrian turned around and headed back into the Leaky Cauldron. It wasn't long before he was standing in front of Borgin and Burkes, but he wasn't alone. There was a red haired man waiting there and the man perked up once he saw Adrian.

"Hello, Adrian. I'm Arthur Weasley. My sons told me you had some information I should know." The man asked hopefully.

"Of course, but let's go inside first." Adrian said and pulled out a key to unlock the door to the store. He noticed that Arthur was looking at the key when he was shutting the door and decided to explain. "Mr. Burkes and Mr. Borgin have some personal things to do first so they said I could open up."

"Oh! That makes sense." Arthur commented cheerfully as the young wizard went behind the counter. "About that thing I'm here for ... How did you come across it?"

Adrian took a deep breath to calm down as he pulled the medical orb and little glass bottle out of the blue bag. He had spent most of last night very close to a panic attack because of this question, which he knew would come up. After all, how should he explain this?

The young wizard's fingers played with the bottle. When his eyes landed on the very hard to see tiny etchings on the base of the bottom of the bottle. It was a detail he only just noticed the night before, but now wasn't the time to think on this matter. Hopefully, his excuse will be enough.

"I ... I visited my grandma's grave not long ago." Adrian said softly, his heart racing in his chest as he handed Arthur the bottle. The kind ministry worker, who looked saddened for Adrian, waited for the young wizard to finish explaining. "I honestly don't remember exactly where ... I wandered around before finally visiting grandma's grave. All I know is that I found it stuck in a tree branch. With everything going on I only remembered it existed recently, but I studied everything in there ... in my defense I didn't know they were banned until after."

Arthur chuckled and shook his head, "You aren't in trouble. Now you told my son something else ... about Harry Potter." The older wizard gently urged, hoping the teen would feel safe enough to open up to him.

"It was actually when my grandma was still alive ... Unfortunately, something happened during the attack that killed her and I might not be able to trust my own memory." Adrian placed his fingers on his face and the mask appeared. Arthur gasped when the mask was removed revealing the scar. "It's something you should know, but I can still tell you what I do remember ... It didn't seem like much. Just a kid using a fire spell." Adrian legitimately flinched as recalled very real cursed fire. " ... but as I recovered from the attack I remembered ... My grandma and I lived in a muggle area so when no one came I assumed that person was an adult under a transfiguration spell, but then I saw the paper and I realized who I saw ... I was suspicious. I gave you the addresses if it helps and the rune sequence I made that seems to work against the barrier in the book is ... in the bookmarks and these charms here." Adrian gestured to the box of pretty charms he made and shrugged sheepishly when Arthur stared at him absolutely gobsmacked.