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Harry giggled into his cup for no reason and sipped the warm drink.
"How old are you truly?" The man asked.
"I turn fourteen in a few days." He grinned widely. "Fourteen and free."
Harry swayed slightly to the soft music playing and then grinned as he staggered to his feet. He dropped his cup onto the table and stumbled past Koji. He pulled himself up next to Rena who grinned at her new companion as she twirled. Instead of dancing though Harry opened his mouth and started to sing, enjoying the freedom of the night.
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July 24th
Sunday
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Harry woke with a groan as he felt the pounding in his skull. He had enjoyed the night of drinking, but not the morning after. He moaned softly at the pounding in his head when suddenly something was pressed to his lips. Liquid slid into his mouth and he had to drink or choke. He coughed and spluttered at the vile liquid and sat up. As soon as the potion was in him though, his headache vanished. His eyes snapped open and he jerked his wand from the holster on his left calf.
"Calm." Came a soothing voice. "It was just a hangover potion."
Harry whipped around to find Koji sitting cross legged next to him, back against a wall, a cigarette between two fingers. Harry himself was sitting on a futon, just under the cover. His eyes narrowed and he kept his wand pointed at the man. Koji looked at him with an amused looking expression.
"Now, now. Is that any way to treat your host?"
Harry twitched.
"Where am I?"
"My place." The man said exhaling a cloud of smoke. "You were wasted last night and no one knew where you were staying. I volunteered to take you."
Harry calmly checked that his portkey necklace was still on him before slowly standing. He'd sent his luggage home the day before intent on heading back after dinner the night before. He hadn't thought he would get completely drunk and fall asleep. He looked down at his rumpled clothes and wrinkled his nose at the smell. He turned his wand to himself and cast an array of cleaning charms. Within a minute he looked and smelled fresh.
Harry found himself staring in awe at the building. It was beautiful. It was painted a nice sky blue on the outside, framed in white and violets. A large metal wok sign hung over the door that led into the store. Large windows took up the front of the store giving a wonderful view in and out of the store. Right now though, white paper on the inside blocked that view. Likewise, the sign was covered in some heavy tarp.
A human disguised Griphook gave Harry a vicious smirk and pushed the front door open for him. The door's window was also covered. As Harry stepped inside he stepped into a large rectangular room. The floor was just wood and the walls were a plain white but it was nice. The far left hand corner had an indent into it. A small hall led to a set of plain bathrooms. Across from the hall containing the bathrooms was an open door way into an unfurnished kitchen. Between the hallway that divided the kitchen and the bathrooms was a large mirror that took up the wall. It was just out of sign from the main room.
"It's perfect Griphook." Harry smiled looking around.
"It needs to be furnished of course." Griphook smirked. "But I thought you would wish to do that yourself."
Harry nodded. Then he frowned.
"About the magical part…"
"Already taken care of." Griphook smirked.
Harry blinked but followed the goblin to the hall and the large mirror. To Harry's shock Griphook stepped into the mirror and sunk through like it was a wall of water. Harry tentatively reached out and pushed his arm through the mirror. It felt like the barrier at Platform 9 ¾. He stepped through completely and fell into the same hallway. Or what looked like the same hallway. The only difference was that everything was reversed. Harry stepped into the main room and found that there were actually a few more differences. All magical.
"This is the second part of the store. It's not visible from the street. This part of the building looks like an old office from outside on the muggle street." Griphook smirked.
Harry could remember seeing a an old greying building next to the store that looked used, but looked like one of the buildings no one ever needed to really go to. The wall inside the store still contained large windows looking out on the muggle street but there was no front door. Instead the door had moved to the wall across from the front one. Harry opened it and peeked outside to find himself looking into an alley of red brick that was quite wide, but not used as a street.
There's an area in a ten feet circle right outside the door that is used for apparation. It's the wizard entrance. It has some wards around it and the door to make muggles walking down the alley skirt around it without noticing." Griphook chuckled.
Harry turned back into the store and gazed around. The room looked exactly like the muggle side except instead of being one store, the ceiling was two open stories high. A wide balcony floor ran around the edge of the room one story up. It would be a bird's eye view of the store up their and a great place to set up some tables. A winding metal stair case led up to it near the entrance door. Back by the mirror there was the hall for the bathrooms and kitchen. Harry stepped into the kitchen and found that the wall with the mirror that divided the two store fronts didn't divide the kitchen. Instead the kitchen was larger then it appeared on either side of the store and had two open door ways, one leading to the magical side, one leading to the non-magical side. There was also a staircase tucked away in the corner of the kitchen that led to a room above the muggle side of the café. It could be used as a staff room and there was also a single bathroom adjoined to it.
"This is perfect Griphook." Harry whispered softly as he looked around.
Griphook gave him a wide smile, showing all his teeth.
"The mirror had a ward around it to stop any muggles from noticing it or any who go through. The kitchen has all the standard charms around it; pest-control, fires, flooding, explosions, gas leaks, and such. Your cook can use magic also as notice-me-not spells are around the entrances. The store contains the same wards on both sides. There are also some protective wards around the store that will mute the power of any offensive spells cast inside."
"It's perfect." Harry repeated.
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