the escape
It was decided that myself and Harry would be escaping and running away the next day when we went out for the groceries for the Dursley family. So once we finished finalising the plan we started to pack up our stuff. There wasn't a lot to do considering Harry only had a teddy and blanket which was left with him when he was dumped on the doorstep of number 4 privet drive that fateful night and i only had unpacked a few books and the baby picture of my parents and i. So it only took a few minutes to put the things in my trunk and grab some sandwiches before we headed to bed.
The next morning we woke up early to scavenge any things we could that would be useful and took the money from Petunia Dursley that was in her eyes going to be used for their grocery shopping. I ran up stairs and shrunk my trunk and put it in my pocket before meeting Harry outside.
“Are you ready to never come back to this dreadful house?” I asked Harry as we walked along the road. “Definitely!” Harry smiled, chuckling. We continued to walk for about 15 minutes before we came to an alleyway. Harry gave me a questioning look as he followed me down to the dark end that was out of sight of the main road. “Take my hand and hold on tight and don't let go no matter what. We are apparating” i said stretching out my hand for him to take. “apper- what?” he asked and before I could answer we were apprating and having the familiar feeling of getting pulled through the tube. When we landed I couldn't help but laugh as while I landed gently on my feet, Harry on the other hand landed in a dishevelled heep. “Haha, you'll get used to it.'' I said pulling him up into a standing position and smoothed the creases out of my red, green and black check skirt.
“Umm.. Blaze, where are we? I thought we were going to the wizarding bank.” Harry asked, looking around the room we were standing in. “Welcome to my home. This is where me and dad were living when all this chaos kicked off." I said, spreading my arms and spinning slowly. I am half Sirius Black's daughter after all, so I have to be a little dramatic don't i? “ Ok, but that does explain why we are here.” Harry asked, still sceptical. “Well you don't have any clothes apart from those merlin offal rags you have on so I'm going to shrink some of the clothes my dad has to fit you. Plus i want to grab some bits that are special to both myself and my dad before the evil old cot ransacks this place.'' I said moving over to the mantelpiece. Once I had un-shrunk my trunk I grabbed all the family pictures off the fireplace and a few books of the shelf that may come in handy before closing the trunk again. Meanwhile Harry had gone to explore the house. Rolling my eyes I called for him to meet me upstairs in a few minutes. Once I was upstairs I went into my room and grabbed the only thing in there that I couldn't bare to leave behind, the necklace my Nana Hope bought me when I was a baby. It has a photo of her and I when I was only a few days old on one side and a picture of my parents on their wedding day on the other, and left to the only other room on this floor, my dads bedroom.
As I left my room I met Harry and we both went into my dads room. I went to the wardrobe and grabbed a pair of jeans and a gryffindor hoodie from my dads school days. “Here. go put these on. The second door on the left is the bathroom.” I said, handing the pile of clothes to Harry. He nodded and walked out of the room and I started to take all the clothes out of the wardrobe and the two boxes labelled 'sirius' and put them on the bed. Harry came back in and started to place the clothes on the bed in easy to grab piles as I crawled under the bed to grab the two trunks for us to put everything in. Once we finished shoving everything into the two newly got out trunks I shrunk them to put in my backpack I found on the floor with my previously summoned and shrunk one. As i was placing a weightless charm over the whole backpack wandlessly the was a loud bang come from downstairs.”shit! We got to go! Grab on!” I whisper yelled at Harry before apperating the two of us and the backpack to an alley not far from the leaky caldron.
“Right. We should be ok for now as I don't think whoever that was knew we were there. But we have a new problem. You look too much like you." I said, looking at Harry thoughtfully. “Ok, and what do you mean by 'Ilook to much like me’?” Harry questioned his arms looking like a kicked puppy. “You Are famous in the wizarding world, remember and that scar is like a beacon for people to recognize you! Hold still i'm gonna apply a glamour to use to hide our identities.'' I say waving my hand over him. His hair went from a black mess of curls to straight cropped honey blonde and his scar disappeared. Harry's glasses were now a more modern square shape and he became taller. I waved a hand over myself after I finished Harry's look. I became paler with long blonde hair similar in colouration as Harrys and my bone structure became more like Harrys also. “There. Now we look like two normal siblings out for the day in Diagon alley.” I said re-adjusting my skirt before waving to Harry to follow me and head to the leaky caldron.
When we finally entered the wizarding street I whispered to Harry “right, we have got to keep a low profile now so follow me and try to act normal. And for merlin's sake don't react too much to the goblins when we enter the bank” walking towards the large slightly wonky white building that is the gringotts bank. Once we entered I walked up to the teller right at the end coughing lightly to get the goblins attention in the politest way possible. “Excuse me sir I would like to enter my vaults please” i said to the goblin which by his tag was named Raghook. “And does Miss have her key?” Raghook answered in the normal goblin attitude of indifference. I nodded and reached into my pocket to retrieve said key. “Excellent if you would follow me then” raghook replied walking over to the weird miners carts that take you to the vaults deep underground.
Once we had visited my family vault and taken every last knut out I put a forgetful jinx on Raghook so he could not tell anyone we were there. By the time we exited the bank it was around 3pm and since neither Harry or i had eaten anything since breakfast this morning at 5;30 we choose to return to the leaky cauldron to have something to eat and rent a room for the night so we can drop the glamours, as they will drain my magic if we leave them on for much longer. We also needed to discuss the plan of action for finding my papa/ Harry's godfather.
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The next morning we packed up and applied our glamours once more before venturing into the main alley once more to grab some food before finding an abandoned area to apparate away, after all using magic under the age of 17 outside of school is illegal. We had come to the conclusion that going to stay in the old black family holiday home that my papa had inherited when his uncle Alphard had died, would be the best option. It was a small cottage on the outskirts of Kent, my dad told me about how they had their honeymoon there and how the roses that climbed the wall around the front door were a beautiful orange colour. The Tulips mixed with magical flowers lined the flower patches either side of the path and the white picket fencing would glisten in the late afternoon sun. sounded beautiful.
When we arrived it was just like in the stories my dad told me. We entered and started to look around, surprisingly there was no dust to be found and everything was clean, also the gardens were all well attended to. “Hey Blaze, is this house got a spell on it or something to keep it clean?” Harry asked as he rounded the kitchen door from where he was looking in the dining room to find me. I waved my hand around and closed my eyes to see if I could find any magic residue. One of the perks of my condition is that I'm sensitive to magic. There was magic in the air but not any spells, charms or jinxs, it was familiar to me though. It was the same magic I had felt when aunt minnie and i would sneak down to the hogwarts kitchens… house elf magic. “It's not a spell, it's a house elf” i told Harry before calling out “house elf?” Before anything else could happen there was a cracking sound and a small house elf in a white dress with yellow spots appeared. “What can Daisy do for you, miss?” the small elf said. “Hello Daisy, I'm Blaze and this is Harry. Is there anyone else here if so could you get them for me please? "I said introducing ourselves. “Daisy can do that miss, Daisy happy to serve a member of the black family” the elf said before snapping her fingers and disappearing. I laugh and shake my head, house elves are such funny creatures.
Daisy appeared once again with two other elfs. “Daisy brings Miss, Tulip-” pointing at the elf in a pink dress “- and Rose” Daisy points at the elf in a red dress then. “Nice to meet you all, you may continue your days as normal. We are just going to be staying here for a while and wanted to meet you all” i smiled at the three small beings before turning to Harry and whispering to him “you may want to cover your ears.” as the three nodded and apparated with a loud crack. “ What were those?” Harry laughed. “Those were house elves i explain what they do and are after we are settled in. Come on let's go and unpack” i said smiling make my way to the stairs where i assume the bedrooms are situated.