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Champion Chapter 2
🕑 Added 2016-09-09 04:18:36 +0000 UTCHe smiled as he worked on looting his parent’s library. It wasn’t nearly as impressive as the library at the Black’s house but it was a lot better than what he had currently which was a single fire spell or ability as it wasn’t even a real spell. Once he had everything he could loot safely secured in his inventory he gave the place a second search. He grinned as he found a star under one of the chairs out of sight unless you were lying on the ground.
He glanced at the counter in the corner of his vision that told him how much longer his flame freezing potion would last. ‘Fifteen minutes.’ He touched his nose. “Save game.”
“Game saved.”
He used the star so that he could fly then flew up into the air and played around with his power for a couple of minutes before he flew back up the chimney then down to test if the flames tried to kill him, sadly they did though they weren’t all that effective thanks to the potion. He flew over the roof then dropped his flight power and fell to the ground.
“Acrobatics increased by 1.”
He smiled as he stood up and dusted himself off, thankfully his Evan’s power kept him from being injured by a fall as long as he was conscious. ‘I guess that’s one way to grind the skill which might be helpful if I end up somewhere I can’t do magic.’ He walked over to the shed and smiled when he saw the toolbox was closed. He opened it and picked up the spool of wire and the old slightly rusty hacksaw he found. He put the hacksaw in his inventory then cut a lockpick and went back to picking the cabinet door.
He smiled after three minutes when the cabinet opened and he saw a star inside along with a roll of duct tape. He grabbed the star then put the duct tape in his inventory and looked at it. “Endless roll of duct tape… nice.”
He turned and flew back up to the roof. He touched his nose. “Save game.”
“Game saved.”
He flew down the first chimney into the kitchen.
Lily shouted, “Harry James Potter!”
“Eek!” He flew back up the chimney.
“Stealth, the parental units have been alerted to the fact that you’re not in your room, using stealth mode can help avoid detection.”
Harry grinned as he flew up and out of the chimney then down the other chimney. He ducked behind the couch as the door opened and crouched for stealth. He blinked as several dozen squeaky toys appeared out of thin air. ‘What the hell is wrong with this tutorial?’ He held as still as he could.
Lily shouted, “James! I’m going to kill Sirius!”
James called out, “Why?”
“This is obviously his fault.”
“Let’s worry less about that and more about how Harry got back up the chimney. I mean I knew he hated naps but this is a bit extreme.”
Lily snorted. “Which is why this has to be Sirius’s fault. There’s no way he should be able to apparate outside.”
“I’m sure he’s just trying to give us a good laugh,” James replied as he headed up the stairs.
Lily sighed as she walked out and shut the door behind her.
Harry glared at the squeaky toys. He reached out and picked one up carefully.
“Find Traps skill increased by 1.”
Harry stuffed the ‘trap’ in his inventory then touched his nose. “Save game.”
“Game saved.”
He worked on ‘disarming’ the various ‘traps’ until one went off which caused a loud squeaky sound that had his mother running. He waved at his mother as she burst through the door then flew up the chimney. ‘Sure, maybe he couldn’t talk with her but he could at least have some fun before the tutorial ended. He flew over to the other chimney and down it thankful that the second chimney didn’t have a flame trap on it as he didn’t have a lot of time left on his potion. He glanced around the kitchen then flew over to the door and peeked out. He saw his father dart past so he dropped back into stealth mode and scowled at the crazy number of squeaky toys that suddenly appeared in the hallway most likely thanks to his horrible stealth skill. ‘Screw it.’
“Stealth increased by 1.”
He carefully worked his way to the couch picking up squeaky toys as he went. He ducked behind the couch then tossed a squeaky toss back down the hallway then waited for his parents to rush out and into the kitchen.
“Stealth increased by 1.”
He flew up the stairs and retraced his father’s earlier path staying off the ground so that he could avoid the annoying toys. He grinned as he flew over to the door to his room and unlocked it.
The ethereal voice said. “Unlocking doors from the other side can clear obstacles and make movement easier.”
Harry touched his nose. “Save game.”
“Game saved.”
Harry opened the door to his room and looked around the room, nothing had reset. He headed back down the hall then ducked into a potions lab when he heard footsteps coming up the stairs. He hid behind a chair just in case someone peeked into the room and stayed as quiet as he could. ‘Okay, I’m going to need to figure out a way to kill Riddle.’ He held his breath as the door opened then shut after five seconds. He waited a minute just to make sure that his mother had left then he stood up and looted the room of everything he could fit in his inventory. He smiled as he found four shrinking potions mixed in with the random potions. ‘Okay, if I can get them small enough, I can fit them in my inventory.’
He frowned slightly as he tried to open the desk and found that it was locked. He tried his unlock ability on it and frowned when it didn’t open. ‘Paranoid magic users. You’d think they didn’t trust me to stay out of stuff.’ He pulled out his spool of wire and wire cutters and cut a couple of picks. ‘I’m going to have to grab some actual tools at some point.’ He went to work and popped the lock on the desk after three tries. He climbed up on the chair and looked into the desk drawer. ‘Quills, paper, color changing ink and a set of glowing keys.’ He grinned as he took the keys.
The ethereal voice said, “Congratulations you have acquired wizard keys, these ancient artifacts create a pocket dimension where you can store your loot and go through portals to lands of adventure. Be careful as misaligned portals lead to Diggle-hell.”
‘Right, because you can’t be more specific?’ Harry jumped as the door opened and a younger Sirius walked in. “Padfoot!”
Sirius stared at the lockpicks in Harry’s hand. “Right… I found him!”
“No! Bad Padfoot!” Harry charged Padfoot then slid between his legs. He briefly considered tagging him in the nuts for the snake but he was going to be in enough trouble anyway. “Free!”
“And I lost him!” Sirius laughed as he followed Harry at a fast walk.
Harry felt the pit of his stomach drop as the front door exploded and he saw Voldemort. He charged him, readied his weapon which caused it to appear in his hand and slid between his legs smashing his rock ‘sap’ into Riddle’s family jewels. “Nut shot!”
Riddle let out a high pitched squeak as he went down with a look of intense shock on his face.
Harry raised his hands and channeled fire magic into Riddle’s face to distract him then brought his sap down on the wizard’s head repeatedly as he worked on setting him on fire.
“Critical hit, boss is stunned.”
Harry used his star and selected giant’s blood for the strength increase and the magic resistance, he flailed at the pop up that appeared and hit ‘Potter’ then grabbed the stunned wizard by the back of his head and proceeded to bash his face into the floor while burning him with the other hand.
“Critical hit, boss is stunned.”
James ran around the corner with his wand out and stopped and stared as Harry twisted Voldemort’s neck 180 degrees with several loud cracking noises. “What the hell?”
“Bad man!” Harry continued pounding the man’s head in until he got the notice that he’d leveled.
“Level increased by 12. Error, server reset in fifteen minutes.”
James shouted, “Stupefy!”
Harry dodged his father’s spell then grabbed Voldemort’s wand, twisted it the same way that James had just done and shouted, “Stupefy!” pushing as much magic into it as he could. He was relieved his spell actually formed and struck James much to his shock.
“Stupefy Learned.”
Harry twisted the wand and hit Sirius with a stunner mostly because Sirius was too shocked to block it. He grinned as he turned and zapped his mother as she came running to check on him. He pulled out his shrinking potions, gave each of them a dose then stuck them in his inventory along with their wands. He reached up and touched his nose. “Save game!”
“Game Saved.”
Harry turned and ran for the stairs leading to his parents’ room. He pointed his wand at the family cat and stunned it then ran over and picked it and put it in his inventory. He ran toward his parents’ room, rather happy that it was unlocked so he didn’t have to waste time unlocking it. He flew over to his mother’s dresser and looted her jewelry box then grabbed the brooms propped up against the dresser and stuffed them in his inventory. He took a quick look in the closet and grabbed two shimmering obviously magical dresses and what might very well be a dragonhide jacket then grabbed a familiar shimmering cloak and put it in his inventory. “I thought Dumbledore had that... must have looted it after they died, fucker.”
Harry saved the game then went room by room, looking for important artifacts.
“Five minutes until server shutdown.”
Harry stuffed the pensieve from the den in his inventory then headed down the stairs and opened the door to the closet. He gave it a quick look, grabbed the star in the boot then headed out to see if he could find Sirius’s bike. He frowned as he didn’t find the bike in the front yard then ran around the back and smiled as he saw the familiar bike with a star sitting on it. He ran over, grabbed the star and picked up the saddlebags and stuffed them in his inventory. He reached up and touched his nose. “Save game.”
“Game saved.”
He used his three stars and dropped them into charms for the boost to learning and for the unlock so that his magical skills since his last save weren’t reset by loading the game. He touched his nose and saved the game again.”
“Game saved. Server resetting...”
Harry blinked as he found himself back in the black void looking at a large screen. “Patch notes… Voldemort’s death was unexpected and judged to be an error therefore the server has been reset. Oh, fuck you! How the hell is me killing him unfair?” He blinked as he found himself back where he started in his room. “That sucked…” He trailed off as he opened his inventory and realized that he still had everything including a copy of his parents and Sirius. “Okay, maybe that’s not so bad.” He floated up off the ground. “Okay, yeah, I could get used to this.”
He floated over to the door and checked it only to find it locked. “I was hoping that part hadn’t reset.” He flew over to the dresser and opened the second drawer then jumped back as the cloth snake jumped out at him. He brought his hands up and lit the snake on fire. “Fuck that.” He walked over and stared at the star in his dresser. “They… they completely reset it, oh hell yeah.” He grabbed the star and frowned as there wasn’t a flame freezing potion unlike the last time. “What the hell? Weird luck?”
He quickly searched through the clothes and found a slightly glowing pair of jeans. “That works.” He equipped the tough guy paints that gave him a boost to vitality and stamina regeneration then looted the rest of the clothes and saved his game just to make sure that something unexpected didn’t kill him. He flew up to the window and opened it then flew out. ‘This almost makes up for stealing my kill.’ He flew over to the chimney and grabbed the star then flew over to the other chimney and looked down at the second star. He touched his nose, “Save game.”
“Game saved.”
Harry used both stars in his inventory dropping them into dragon blood for fire immunity and magic resistance. He blinked at the popup that appeared. “Which parent has dragon blood?” He selected his mother as he was fairly sure he’d selected his father for the giant’s blood in his scramble against Voldemort.
“Updated.”
Harry flew down and grabbed the star in the chimney then flew back up and over the backyard then stopped using his flight power and dropped the two stories to the ground.
“Acrobatics increased by 1.”
Harry grinned as he walked over to the shed and pointed at it. “Unlock.”
He opened the door and flew over to the cabinet and started working on the lock. ‘Being able to fly almost makes up for being small.’ He grinned as after several tries the cabinet opened revealing a star and a pair of small glowing work gloves. He took the gloves and put them in his inventory then looked at them. “Casting gloves, 20% extra magic damage for wandless magic.” He shook his head. “First I’ve ever heard of someone pulling off something like that.”
He equipped the gloves then used both his stars and dropped them in the giant bloodline for more magic resistance and strength.
The ethereal voice said, “Updated.”
“Okay… there’s at least two more stars, under the chair and in the closet and maybe three if Sirius shows up with his bike. I should probably figure out what the wizarding keys are before I do anything too crazy.” He touched his nose. “Save game.”
“Game saved.”
Harry opened his inventory and pulled his glowing ‘wizarding’ keys out. While he’d heard of charmed keys before, he’d never heard any stories about artifact level keys or items that could create pocket dimensions, just expanded space. He pushed some magic into the keys and blinked as the world twisted and he found himself in a large stone room with four stone pillars with goblets of purple fire mounted on each pillar. He frowned slightly as he saw an almost technological looking device next to an archway. “That’s different.”
He flew over and looked the strange device, other than the runes on the ‘keyboard’ it looked more technological than magic. “Too much to ask that the keys were in English. They don’t even look like any of the runes Hermione studied.”
He reached out and pushed one of the runes then the off colored button trusting in his save game in case something went drastically wrong. To his surprise the arch lit up with a twisted mix of black spots and crimson light. “I guess that means it worked.”
He walked over to the ‘portal’ then stepped through. To his mild surprise he didn’t end up dying horribly or anything, he merely appeared in a large stone chamber with strange looking monsters, they reminded him of penguins with fat almost comical drills in place of a muzzle. “What the hell?”
The ethereal voice said, “Funny that you should mention hell, this is Diggle Hell, a random monster filled dungeon you get sent when the proper coordinates aren’t entered correctly. In order to get back to your storage vault you must reach the end of the maze and exit via the portal.”
He blinked as all of the monsters started moving toward him at once. He screamed as a creepy blue Diggle killed him with a blast of lightning. “Okay… that sucked.” He reached out and carefully hit the load game ‘icon’. He sighed as he found himself back in ‘his’ backyard. ‘Okay, let’s try that again.’ He opened his inventory and pulled his wizarding keys out of his inventory then pushed magic through them.
He smiled as he found himself back in his storage vault. He pulled one of his stuffed animals out of his pocket and dropped it to the ground. He pulled a squeaky toy out of his inventory then tossed it in the air and pushed magic into his keys. He smiled as he found himself back in ‘his’ backyard. He reached up and touched his nose. “Save game.”
“Game saved.”
“Might as well work on training for a bit.” He flew up two stories then let himself fall and hit the ground.
“Acrobatics increased by 1.”
He flew back up, dropped and repeated the process a couple of dozen times as he considered his next couple of moves. “If this isn’t a dream and I don’t just skip the next ten years or something then I’m going to have to grow up all over again. Maybe this time I’ll have a chance at a normal life, yeah, who am I kidding, I’d be bored to tears in a normal school and I was almost done at Hogwarts which puts me at fourth or maybe fifth year by international standards considering how bad some of the classes were.”
Now that he had a chance to step back and think of it, he wasn’t sure what the hell had happened, he’d entered the magical world wanting to learn everything about magic he could and then he’d met Ron and slacked off and given up doing anything other than the basics. “Not this time.” He flew up as far as the ‘game’ would let him which was only about twenty feet above the top of the roof then dropped.
The ethereal voice said, “Acrobatics increased by 1. Acrobatics maximized. Double jump enabled.”
Harry grinned as he saved his game then shook out his legs to make sure he hadn’t injured himself. “I could get used to that.” He jumped into the air then jumped off the ‘air’ and tucked and rolled as he hit the ground because he could and he figured he might as well get something out of his acrobatics skill. He snickered as he flew up to the roof and over to the chimney. He flew down the chimney and then shrieked when his clothes caught on fire thanks to the flame trap. “Crap!”
Harry dropped to the ground and rolled to try to put the flames out. “Okay, that sucked.” He scowled as he looked at his damaged equipment then looked up at his very surprised mother who was in one of the chairs. “Hi!”
“Harry James Potter!”
“Merlin, load game.” He blinked as he found himself back in the backyard where he’d just saved the game. “Okay, let’s avoid that.” He flew up then over to the first chimney, flipped over then carefully flew down it so that he could peek to make sure that no one was inside. He flew out of the chimney then dropped into stealth mode to work on his stealth skill. He made his way carefully through the house over to the cupboard under the stairs. He quietly opened the cupboard then grabbed the star. He closed the cupboard then carefully made his way to the den to grab his family’s pensieve again. He frowned as he heard his father muttering to himself in the den from the other side of the door. ‘Crap, okay, I’ll grab the cloak first.’
He snuck down the hallway and stopped in the middle as he realized that the ‘trap’ in the chimney was magical and he might be able to remove it for some type of skill boost. ‘I’m going to have to test that.’ He frowned slightly as he found his parent’s door locked. ‘Must have opened it when they were looking for me.’ He pulled out his lockpicks and went to work.
Almost an entire spool of wire and several skill ups later he managed to unlock the door. He snuck in and over to his mother’s jewelry box. ‘I’m just borrowing, Mum, I’ll give it back.’ He looted the jewelry and brooms then looted the closet. Strangely enough this time there were other expensive looking shimmery dresses and his father’s invisibility cloak. He stuffed them in his inventory then headed up the stairs so that he could unlock his room.
He unlocked his room then saved his game and headed back down the stairs to the library.
Lily turned and looked at Harry. “What do you need pumpkin?”
“Hungry?” Harry would have rather said something else but the tutorial wasn’t letting him.
“Did you have a good nap?”
Harry nodded.
“Okay, stay right here and I’ll be right back.” Lily stuck Harry to the chair with a sticking charm then left to grab a sandwich for him.
Harry blinked. ‘What the hell Mum? Sticking charms, really?’’ He unequipped his pants which resulted in them being stuck to the chair but he was free. He flew down and grabbed the star from under the chair then flew back up and wiggled back into his pants. ‘That’s just sneaky.’ He used the star on wandless summoning charms then started looking around the library as he waited for his mum to get back with a sandwich. He blinked as the door opened revealing a blue haired girl of around eight or nine. “Nym!”
Tonks scrunched up her face into a pig snout as she smiled at Harry. “‘Arry.”
Harry giggled then sighed as he couldn’t actually say anything useful.
Tonks let her face return to normal then sent her hair through a rainbow of colors.
‘Fine, what the hell.’ Harry clapped excitedly.
Lily laughed as she walked back in. “Ah, good, he’s still in his seat.”
Harry pouted. “Sticky bad.”
Lily flicked her wand and canceled the sticking charm. She handed Tonks the plate of sandwiches. “See if you can get him to follow you.”
Tonks grinned as she headed out. “Let’s go.”
Harry smiled as he ran over and gave Lily’s leg a hug then over to hug Tonk’s leg. “Hug.” He knew he was being silly but he was trapped in a game or a nightmare or something, he might as well get some good memories out of it.
Tonks hugged him then led him into the living room so they could eat. She set the tray of sandwiches on the end table then sat down on the couch and turned the television on. “Let’s find some cartoons.”
Harry frowned slightly as a glowing question mark appeared over the seat next to Tonks. ‘Okay, that’s not ominous.’ He walked over and climbed up on the couch.
The ethereal voice asked, “Would you like to complete the tutorial?”
“No.” Harry moved away from the question mark.
“No cartoons?” Tonks asked curiously.
“Tory?” Harry asked, a little annoyed that he couldn’t say the s.
“Find your favorite book and I’ll read you a story.”
“Quest alert: Completing quests can give rewards, experience and unusual skills in easy, normal or difficult modes. Bring Nymphadora Tonks the perfect book and enjoy the reward. Completing this quest will end the tutorial.”
Harry blinked as a popup window appeared asking if he wanted to accept the quest. He glanced at the clock on the wall. It was still frozen in time. He reached out and touched yes on the popup then glanced at the clock again and sighed in relief when he realized the clock was still paused. ‘I can work with this.’ He reached up and touched his nose. “Save game.”
“Game saved.”
He headed for the stairs and scowled when he ran face first into an invisible barrier.
The ethereal voice said, “Everything you need is in the living room.”
‘Great, I shouldn’t have saved the game.’ Harry pulled a large magic book off the shelf.
Tonks looked over with a frown on her face. “Nope, I’m not reading that.”
Harry frowned as the book floated back up and reshelved itself. ‘That’s cheating.’ He waited until Tonks went back to watching the television then dropped into stealth mode and grabbed the book off the shelf.
The ethereal voice said, “Pickpocketing skill unlocked. Pickpocketing or sleight of hand, is one of a stage wizard’s most valuable skills. Successful use of this skill allows the user to pocket or ‘produce’ an object without getting caught. A failed skill check has three results, getting caught with the item, getting caught before you can successfully grab the item and having to abort the attempt before you’re caught. Sneaking increases the chances of successfully stealing items.”
Harry frowned slightly as he stuck the book in his inventory and noticed a red hand icon in the corner of the book’s inventory slot. ‘What the heck?’
“Stolen items will sometimes be marked as stolen with a red hand in your inventory, not only will legitimate businesses refuse to buy them, they’re subject to confiscation anytime the user is caught committing criminal activity. The red hand will vanish after a set period of time depending on the rarity of the stolen item.”
Harry sighed as he ‘stole’ the next book only for Tonks look over and say, “Not a chance, put it back.” with amusement. He sighed as the book he’d just ‘stolen’ floated back to the shelf. He scowled as he checked his inventory and realized that his ‘stolen’ book was also gone. ‘Great.’
He carefully ‘stole’ another book and smiled when he got a saw the popup notice that his pickpocketing skill had just increased. He touched his nose. “Save game.”
“Game saved.” 999
‘Okay, let’s see if I can get any special abilities for maximizing my pickpocketing skill.’ He wasn’t sure he’d get anything particularly useful for maxing out his pickpocket skill but it was worth a couple of hours to find out.
0o0o0
“Pickpocketing increased by 1. Stealth increased by 1.”
Harry stuck the book he’d just ‘pickpocketed’ into his inventory then touched his nose. “Save game.”
“Game saved.”
Harry glanced at his book tab. He’d been saving and reloading the game for the last fifteen minutes trying to build up his collection of magic books. ‘Twelve normal books and four magic books. Great, at this rate I’ll go crazy before I empty half the shelves…’ He blinked as he realized that he was probably looking at things the wrong way, all he needed to do was put the books somewhere they couldn’t be recalled. He switched tabs then focused on his wizard keys and pushed magic through them.
He blinked as the squeaky toy he’d tossed before he left dropped the last foot and hit the ground. “That could be useful.” He carefully set the four magic books and eleven of the normal books on the floor, leaving a rather boring looking book on flubber worms in his inventory then pushed magic into his keys and reappeared in the living room. ‘Let’s see if this works.” He walked over and tried to pickpocket one of the books. He smiled as the shelves rearranged themselves leaving fifteen open spots on the shelf. ‘Okay, let’s see if that worked.’
Harry pushed magic into his wizard keys and reappeared in his storage vault. He broke into a smile when he saw the stack of books on the ground. ‘This should make things easier.’ He glanced at the portal machine. “I’m going to loot the shelves then I’m going to come back and kill the monsters one way or another.” He pushed magic into his keys and appeared back in the living room.
He saved his game after looting his first three books then again after he got two more normal books and a magic book. He jumped to the vault and unloaded his books then jumped back to the living room and went back to grinding his skill. By the time he looted the entire shelf he was getting a touch bored with jumping back and forth but he’d managed to empty the shelves so he was calling it a win. ‘Okay, time to see if I can cheat my way to a victory in Diggle Hell.’ He activated his keys then walked over to the machine and entered an invalid code and hit enter. He smiled as he looked at the red and black portal. He touched his nose. “Save game.”
The ethereal voice said, “Game saved.”
Harry tried to equip his father’s cloak.
“This magic item requires a taller user,” the ethereal voice replied almost smugly.
Harry scowled as he was fairly sure the ethereal voice was amused at his pain. “Fine, that just means I need to get taller.” He looked inventory for any potions that would help him get taller, sadly none of the potions he’d swiped helped with that. “Okay, how would the twins deal with this? By being sneaky and thinking outside the box. If I can’t make myself taller and I don’t want to destroy my cloak or damage it with a shrinking potion, I’m going to need help.”
Harry jumped back to the living room then walked over to the platter and picked up one of the sandwiches. He stuck it in his inventory and looked at it. ‘Mum’s sandwiches completely restore health and mana, at least during the tutorial. Go Mum.’ He picked up another sandwich and pouted as it vanished and reappeared on the platter.
Tonks absently said, “No reason to hoard food, eat the one you have first.” without looking away from the television.
‘Okay, that’s annoying.’ He waited a few moments then pickpocketed another sandwich and put it in his inventory with a smile when Tonks failed to react. He touched his nose and said, “Save game.”
“Game saved.”
He ‘stole’ the rest of the sandwiches then saved his game and walked over to the couch and grabbed her pants with his hand. “Mine.”
Tonks shook her head. “Nope, they’re my pants.”
“Tonks mine.” He focused on his wizarding keys and pushed magic into them.
Tonks jumped in shock as she found herself in a strange stone vault with a glowing red sheet of light in an arch next to a strange device. “What is going on?”
Harry pointed at the portal. “Monsters.”
Tonk glared at the portal. “What do you mean monsters?”
He pulled a copy of his father’s invisibility cloak out of his inventory and handed it to her. “Ride.”
Tonks shivered as she looked around unsuccessfully for an exit. “How did we end up here?”
Harry smiled as innocently as he could, “A’venture?”
Tonks gulped. “Maybe we’ll be rescued.”
“Nope, a’venture,” Harry replied even though part of him really wanted to explain about time traveling and being stuck in a game. He was hoping that after going on an adventure in Diggle Hell she’d be more likely to believe him.
Tonks sighed as she picked Harry up and put him on her shoulders. She put James’s invisibility cloak over Harry and her. “Put the hood up. I wish I had a wand.”
Harry grinned as he reached into his inventory and pulled out Sirius’s wand and handed it to her.
“You’re not supposed to steal wands Harry. Scratch that, where were you even keeping the cloak and the wand?”
“Magic! Padfoot!”
“Great… okay, let’s see what is through the strange red portal, I’m going to kick Sirius when we get out of here.”
“Padfoot.” Harry giggled. Normally he would have been embarrassed about giggling but he was fifteen months old, it was probably allowed.
“Be very quiet, we’re hunting monsters,” Tonks replied with amusement. Her amusement vanished as she stepped out of the portal with Harry and saw a small army of drill faced penguin like creatures of various colors. She whispered, “I need you to be very, very quiet, Harry.”
