"Fine, fine, I'm up," our savior grumbled as he rolled over and sat up.
"Why are you sleeping on the couch?"
"That thief is in the dorm room," Harry answered, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, wondering where his glasses were, since he didn't take them off last night. He squinted around and spotted them on the floor near Hermione's foot. He held out his hand and thought at them. They winked in to his palm, and he held them up looking for damage. They were only smudged, so he thought them clean.
"Harry, you don't know…" she hedged, biting her lip and looking away, missing his use of wandless magic. She really didn't want to believe that Ron would steal anything. It had kept her up all night. Was he really so mad at Harry that he would act so completely out of character?
"Right," he interrupted her and he put his glasses on, "and until I do, I'm not sharing a room with him."
"I guess that makes sense," she said, letting it go for now.
"It does. Look, I'm hungry, let's go eat. I'm thinking breakfast in the kitchen today. I want to ask you and Luna, maybe the twins, more about this… world, I guess is the word I'm looking for," he said and pulled off the trunk necklace, expanded it and rummaged through it for clothes.
He picked out his attire, which he was going to have to fix since they looked too big and holey. He looked at Hermione and said, "I meant after I get changed. I might be awhile in the shower, so you don't have to wait for me," he said with a small smile, negligently shrinking and putting the trunk back around his neck.
He was looking forward to a long, hot shower. It was only two days ago he was cold and dirty. No, right now scrubbing clean sound luxurious.
"I'll be here for about an hour, so try not to take that long, and you will show me how you just did that," she said as she pulled out a book from her bag.
"Right," was all he said as he turned and ran up the stairs.
Exactly fifty-five minutes later, a clean and well-dressed Harry Potter came down to the common room. Now there were many other students gathered there, and they all looked at him as if they were fascinated at the change. They had been so caught up in his little speech and argument yesterday that they hadn't noted his clothing.
Now though, they could see this was not the teen they knew before. Gone were the baggy hand-me-downs and in their place were some nice black jeans and a royal blue button-up shirt. Not to mention the awesome shiny combat boots.
"Quit fucking gawking at me like I'm some bloody zoo animal," our hero snarled as he pushed his way to Hermione and the Weasley twins.
"Let's just go eat," Hermione said as she laid a hand on his arm.
He smiled, threw his arm over her shoulders and said, "Yeah, I'm starved."
Luna had been waiting for them at the half-way point and the now five students were eating breakfast in the kitchen. Harry made sure to make her feel welcome with cheek kiss and an arm around her shoulders. They were having a full English breakfast and Harry delighted in the spread. He made sure to load his plate with a bit of everything and all but inhaled the food.
"You know, you'll taste more of it if you chew," Luna reprimanded kindly, knowing that he still worried about starving. She wondered if part of that was subconscious conditioning, from his childhood. Not that she knew anything about it, but just from observing him these past two years, she concluded his homelife was not ideal. Now, with his memory gone she may never know.
Hermione was also thinking along those lines, and she put a hand on his arm and said, "No one is going to take it from you."
"Right, sorry," he said as he slowed down.
"How did it go last night?" George asked Harry, changing the subject and taking those pitying looks away from the amnesiac.
"Yeah, did anything exciting happen?" Fred added, concurring with his brother.
"I went to the bank, did a blood test, got some gold, built a library and came back here," the dark-haired teen answered evasively, not wanting them to know the full extent of his magic. Not that he didn't trust them, but it was better to keep some secrets to yourself.
"How many vaults do you own?" Fred asked casually as he lifted his glass to take drink of pumpkin juice.
"Three."
"You built a library?" Hermione asked excitedly.
"Well, my mum started it, I just finished it. It's in Gringotts for now, but I'm thinking on moving it when I have my own place."
"Oh," she said disappointedly.
"I have ta tell you, those goblins didn't impress me at all," he stated firmly. "They come off as racketeers to me. I don't trust them one bit."
"It's all the wars we've had with them," explained Luna gently. "Not that you'd remember, but the goblins rebel every hundred years or so. They really don't want to be bankers, they just want our gold."
"Then why is there a Gringotts?" the confused boy asked.
"It was part of a treaty," George said, making Harry look his way.
"What, they were winning a war, or something?"
"No, losing actually. I don't remember the wording, or the reason for the rebellion, but they got far less than they demanded," Fred stated as he paused eating his eggs. "But, one of those demands was the right to run a bank." He shrugged and took up his fork again.
"That just doesn't make sense," Harry snarled in frustration. Putting his plate to the side, to irritated to eat.
"The magic world rarely does," Hermione said with an exasperated sigh. She too got upset with how things were sometimes.
"I'm not sure I like that. I mean, I get this is a different culture, but is it adapt or leave scenario?" he asked, looking at the purebloods at the table.
"Well, magicals are slow to change, but we do try and keep up with what's going on in the muggle world. We know that technology is close to magic sometimes, well the more openminded wizards do. And we know that muggles can do things we can't. However, the governing body of the Ministry would never let those they think lesser then themselves make laws or changes," Luna once more took up the explanation.
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