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Harry fiddled with the paper in his hands from Griphook. A vacation. It would be lovely. He bit his lip and thought. He really would love a vacation and there was nothing holding him back but…. Finally he sighed and grabbed a new sheet of parchment. He started to write, ideas forming in his head. As he finished the letter he blew on it gently to dry the ink. Then he rolled it up and sealed it. He stood and smiled at Hedwig who was waiting. She had returned with Ron and Hermione's letters late the night before but looked eager to deliver his letter.
"Take it to Griphook darling."
She hooted and took off out the window. Harry turned back to his room and made for his charmed luggage set.
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Harry knocked softly on the door and waited patiently. Two seconds later it opened to show a blinking George.
"Harry my boy, how can I help you?" He beamed.
Harry smiled at the tall man.
"I'm going away for a few days and I was just coming to warn you."
George blinked.
"You're leaving for a few days?"
"Yes. I'm going on vacation."
"Oh." George said blankly.
Then he grinned.
"When are you leaving?"
"Tomorrow morning. I should be gone for a couple days. No longer then five."
"Good, good. Have fun. And did you want us to keep an eye on your cats?"
"No thank you. They're taken care of." Harry smiled.
He'd recently charmed a cat flap on his back door for the cat-kneazels and made sure to charm their food and water bowls to fill at appropriate times. He'd also charmed his fish tank to feed his fish each morning and night along with turning the light on and off.
"Have fun then."
"Thank you. I have to go tell Mrs. Smith now."
"Good luck with that my boy."
Harry grinned back at him and trotted away waving over his shoulder.
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Harry hung his phone up and sighed. The last notice out of the way. He'd had to phone Randal to tell him he'd be gone so the teen could tell their football coach. He glanced at the charmed suitcase and satchel by the front door and the rest of his spotless first floor. Everything was ready, he just had to wait for Griphook's portkey for tomorrow.
The goblin had sent him a letter explaining that there was a pastry competition happening that was open to all and any. You just had to pay the entrance fee which was about a hundred dollars. Easily done. The only catch was Harry would have to travel there. He'd opted for portkey instead of catching a muggle plane. Faster and easier. Griphook even said he would purchase the international portkey so he knew it would not be tampered with. Harry had agreed. Harry's hotel and everything would even be taken care of by the goblin.
Harry had questioned as to why the goblin was doing this. The goblin had informed him that all goblins were good investors and if they saw something that benefited their client they would make the client aware of it. This pastry competition, if he won, would win him a sum of money and recognition for his Café. Griphook actually thought he could win and it made Harry smile.
Now he would be off tomorrow morning to enjoy a cooking competition and just a vacation.
"I didn't think mine would be that good." He shrugged. "I didn't come expecting to win."
Jun grinned at him with a twinkle in his eyes and Harry knew the man did expect him to win. Harry glanced at his cake. Maybe he would win.
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"We now have the results of the Cake Category." The female judge smiled as she looked over all the competitors. "We would like to thank you all for your wonderful desserts and congratulate you all on a well done performance. We shall now announce the winners."
She stepped back and the tallest male judge cleared his throat.
"In third place we have Tsunade Rin." He smiled.
A short brunette woman smiled amidst the clapping and strode forward to accept the small envelope of the cash prize along with the small medal in the shape of a cake. She returned to her station and the second male judge stepped forwards.
"In second place we have Hikaru Jun."
Jun sent Harry a 'told-you-so' look.
"See kid you did beat me."
"They haven't said that." Harry protested.
"As good have. Your cake was better then mine."
He hurried to the front where he was handed the same things the woman before him was. He smiled politely as a news camera flashed and Harry groaned as he realized a newspaper crew was here.
"And finally," The last judge said, "In first place we have Potter Harry."
Harry strode up to the front of the room and put on a pleasant, polite smile. He accepted the envelope of cash along with a paper certificate and a small trophy that had a cake on the top. He smiled and thanked the judge before returning to his station where some news person cut him off.
"I'm Akira from Tokyo News. Can you please tell us a bit of yourself?" She smiled pleasantly.
She was nice enough so Harry nodded.
"My name is Potter Harry. I'm a British citizen. I live in London and enjoy cooking. Cakes are my specialty. I have a hope of opening a small cake café."
She scribbled the notes down and smiled at him as a man with a camera stepped forwards to flash a close up of his face. He gave a polite smile. When they were gone he quickly grabbed his cake which had been moved to a paper plate. He wrapped it with some plastic wrap handed around. He found himself walking beside Jun as he left the room.
"You in any of the other competitions today?" the man asked.
"Yes. I enter the healthy dessert category."
"No good at candy?"
"Never tried."
"Ah. Well I'm not in the healthy category. I'm in the candy one."
"Well it was nice to meet you."
"You too kid. Keep cooking."
Harry watched him walk away with a smile.
'Attention please. The next category will start in fifteen minutes. All competitors be ready by then please.'
Harry ran his fingers through his hair and smiled. He would be entering a parfait in this one.
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Harry stretched and heard his back pop. He had set his cake on the small table of his hotel room. He hadn't won anything in the second category but it didn't bother him at all. He saw that it wasn't late and decided to go have a meal in a restaurant he'd passed in Tokyo Alley.
Ten minutes he was entering the colourful little restaurant and being seated by a bouncy black haired Japanese girl. Almost as soon as he was seated his was drinking some real green tea. He gave the drink an appreciative look and decided he was going to be buying a lot of Japanese tea before returning to Britain. It was much better. Soon he had a meal of curry on rice in front of him with some stir fried vegetables.
He found himself silently enjoying his meal and just relaxing, catching snitches of conversation around him. He heard about a child painting his room neon green and another conversation of a man planning his wedding. He heard people talking about the latest robes and some talking about some books. One conversation though caught his attention.
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