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Chapter 45 - Chapter 45 : An Afternoon with Nicholas Flamel

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"All right, Nicholas." The boy agreed.

"I wonder if you two young men would be…" Nicholas started only to be interrupted by the merchant who returned with a box filled with delicate looking items. Not vials exactly, Harry noted as he observed the strange looking, glass-made objects.

"I hope that everything is of your liking?" The shop owner asked as Nicholas pulled out the sole bronze item from the lot; it looked like a sphere in the size of an orange. Nicholas pulled out his wand and tapped it once, causing the sphere to open and from within smaller spheres to appear and start floating around the central one as it closed and floated in turn over Nicholas' palm. The smaller spheres where green, blue, red and grey in colour, seemed to have one symbol each carved in a darker hue on their surface. Triangles? Harry wondered as he watched them rotating; before he managed to ponder on the strange symbols once more, Nicholas tapped the sphere again and it returned to its primary condition.

"Yes, everything is perfect as usual." Nicholas reassured the man who then left to greet some new costumers in the shop.

"Always at your service, Mr. Flamel." He stated and turned towards Severus. "Your cauldron will take only one more minute, professor."

"Interested in the Element Deriver Harry?" Nicholas asked with a smile; he hadn't missed the interested look on the boy's face.

"Is that how the sphere is called?" He asked in awe. "Elemental you said? That was what the symbols on the coloured spheres stood for? They looked like runes, but not quite." Harry stated blushing at the ever growing smile on Nicholas' face.

"You noticed them?" He asked intrigued. "And yes, you would be right. The symbols stand for the elements but they're not runes; they are called alchemic symbols Harry." Nicholas exclaimed. Harry's eyebrows nearly disappeared under his unruly hair.

"Alchemic symbols?" He asked confused. "Are you an alchemist then?" He asked his eyes wide. Severus chuckled.

"That would be correct once again." Nicholas affirmed. The shop employer finally arrived with the cauldron for Severus; Harry's eyes widened once again. It was brilliantly made, intricate patterns covering the gleaming silver.

"Your cauldron, professor." The shop employer stated as he placed the cauldron carefully on the desk. Severus nodded once and paid the price required -quite a costly sum Harry decided- as Nicholas observed the purchase with keen eyes, his interested piqued. "Would you require anything else?"

"No that would be all." Severus stated as he completed his careful inspection of the cauldron, casting a quick spell to assure it was solid silver. Satisfied, he turned to the shop employer. "I will send my house elf later today to pick it up." He stated and turned his attention back to Harry and Nicholas; he wouldn't risk walking around with such an expensive cauldron and he'd rather not explain why he would have to put it under a concealment charm to the owner.

"As I said before, an interesting purchase." Nicholas stated with a smile.

"I believe it is, yes." Severus agreed as Harry nodded.

"And now back to what I meant to say before we were interrupted." The alchemist continued. "I was wondering if you two gentlemen have the afternoon free." Severus and Harry turned to each other sharing a look; they could spare one afternoon.

"We do." They said at the same time, turning to look at a chuckling Nicholas.

"Lovely! Then how would you feel coming over my house for tea around five?" Nicholas asked. "Perenelle, my wife, would be overjoyed and I would like to show you exactly what this sphere does, Harry." The boy felt like jumping up and down in joy; a real alchemist wanted to teach him something! He turned to Severus -who looked slightly surprised at the declaration- expectedly. The potions master smiled.

"We would like it very much." Severus acquiesced as Harry smiled and hugged him with a soft "Yay!"

"It's settled then!" Nicholas said clapping his hands once. "You can floo over at five by simply stating you want to visit Flamel castle." Harry's eyes gleamed as he looked at Severus; yet another castle. "I will connect my fireplace to the main floo network for the afternoon."

"We will be there at five sharp." Severus reassured him and with that they exited the shop, the three wizards walking together towards the Leaky Cauldron chatting animatedly over Hogwarts. When they reached Florian Fortesque's their ways parted as the two younger wizards felt drawn to the new 'Triple Chocolate Surprise Sundae' advertised on the chalk board; of course they wouldn't be able to eat it there -for their cover's sake and all- but nothing stopped Harry from going in and buying two to go.

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