Stupid physics midterm…

Disclaimer: Card Captor Sakura belongs to CLAMP and Kodansha. Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling. This fanfiction belongs to me.

Notes: <> for telepathy between guardian, Card master, and Syaoran Cards…

Chapter 31 – Syaoran

The reply from Harry comes very quickly.

Yuki,

I’m in Diagon Alley. I accidentally blew up Aunt Marge. I’ll explain. Can you visit me? It’s lonely being here by myself.

Harry.

What on earth did he do? I fold the letter up carefully and put it into my trunk. “Well, Yue, how do you feel about spending the last weeks of summer in Diagon Alley?”

“It could prove useful.”

“Yes, I know. Let’s go, shall we?”

“Your family will be worried…”

“I doubt it, Yue. You don’t need to lie to me. I’ve seen the looks and stares. I’m just a pawn. But you don’t treat me like they do, and I respect that.”

“Master Syaoran…”

“Oh…! Well, you’ll have to be a rabbit again if we’re around Harry.”

“I know.” He glows faintly, and the wings emerge, and then there’s my snow-white rabbit that jumps into my arms immediately.

“Teleport…”

What a useful new card spirit.

We land in an alley. Odd… oh, that’s right. I’ve never been to Diagon Alley before since I got a scholarship to Hogwarts last year. There must be some secret…

I take out my compass and set the coordinates to Harry’s aura. It seems that we have to go through that brick wall.

Well then… “Through…”

Both our bodies go translucent as we walk through easily, and then solidify. There’s probably some secret I don’t know… ah well.

Where’s Harry?

I follow the light down the shop to the Magical Menagerie. There, I see Harry, with a tiny snake in a glass cage.

“Hi Harry.” I smile.

“Yuki! Glad to see you!”

“So, why are you here?”

He immediately scowls. “The muggles locked me up as soon as you left.”

“WHAT?!”

They’re his relatives! But then again, mine aren’t much better. “So…?”

“How did I get out?” He grins. “See, it’s brilliant. They were watching T.V. about how this horrible murderer named Sirius Black escaped.”

“Go on.”

“I figured that since I’d already been reported for underage wizardry thanks to the elf, it couldn’t hurt, so I used Alohomora to get out. Then, I caught the Knight Bus!”

“You’ve lost me there, Harry.”

“Oh, see, there’s this thing called the Knight Bus, apparently if you stick out your wand with Lumos, they come pick you up! Cheap transportation, although it made me sick to my stomach.”

“So you escaped.”

“Yes! They didn’t even notice me climbing out the window.”

“Well, I’m glad you got away.” He’s lucky. But he deserves better. He’s younger than I am! And those…

They’re so despicable they don’t deserve the title of human anymore.

“Have you heard about Sirius Black, Yuki? Supposedly, he’s after me.”

“Why?”

“I have no idea!” He looks kind of worried. “I’ve heard that he was my parent’s friends, you know.”

“Then why would he want to kill you?”

“He’s been in Azkaban – Wizard’s prison, horrible place, for ten years. They say he’s gone mad.”

“That explains it…” Prisoner for ten years…

God, if it were me I’d have killed myself within a month I bet. “But…”

“Why didn’t I get expelled? Heh, the Minister was so worried over my escape that he didn’t bother to ask why I wasn’t with my relatives.”

Well, now, perhaps he’s grown somewhat more of a brain now. Good. I know Harry’s my friend, but sometimes he can be irrevocably dense.

Not a good combination when he’s brave. Plus, Voldemort is after him…

I know the sealing won’t last. A few years, at most, and then the Dark Lord will be back. However…

I think there’s a least a hint of truth in his actions. People should not have magic suddenly thrust on them… like Sakura.

My dear sister…

Well, I hope she’s safe in Tomoeda. She is still family after all, in a weird way. Touya will protect her. So will Cerberus.

I believe that.

“Isn’t she pretty?”

I turn back to Harry and his snake. “Oh, it’s a girl? What did you name her?”

Harry grinned. “Nothing fancy. Coral.”

“I like it.” I reach out to pet the snake, and it hisses – was that a threat? Harry laughs, then hisses back.

It’s nice to have special talents. He can talk to animals – well, snakes, I can talk to card spirits. Fair is fair.

I can sense that the rest of summer will be quite fun!

Now looking back on it, it was. We explored Diagon Alley and even snuck into Knockturn for a quick peek or two. Actually, more than that, we got thirty or so books on dark magic and Harry got a book written in snake language for free. I guess that’s useful. But to fight against darkness, you have to be prepared and know what they’re going to throw at you, right? There’s no point in ignoring the enemy, after all.

Ron showed up a week before school with his entire family. I never knew he had a younger sister…

Virginia – Ginny Weasley…

She’s also crushing on Harry Potter like there’s no tomorrow. Why am I not surprised? After all, Sakura and I were only eleven…

So it makes sense.

I wonder if she’ll still ‘love’ him when she gets to know him? Harry is stunningly oblivious though. He even gave her his entire autographed Lockhart set!

That man is a liar. I could feel it. Libra was twitching the entire time…

Poor thing.

Well, poor Harry too. It’s awful being remembered for your parent’s sacrifice and nothing else. Boy-Who-Lived… I’m so glad it’s not me.

Time passes fast, though. Today we’re off to the train… hmm… who knows what this year will be like?

Defense will be hell though, with Lockhart… incompetent git.

End Chapter

Completed 4/1/05

Whee! I don’t know what I was on when I wrote these, sometimes…