Lunar Star

Lea and Harry secretly hung out with each other as often

as they can for the rest of the school year. Harry has been

sneaking away from Dudley's entourage every time. He has

a high success rate, but that doesn't protect him from Dudley

at home. Harry is always injured in some way, but he always

waves away Lea's worries. He says, "It will all be over soon,

I'm fine." Not like that makes Lea worry any less, especially

since she is pretty sure Harry is hiding the worst injuries from

her.

Besides planning their great escape, Lea starts teaching

Harry how to feel his magical core. However, Harry has

a hard time meditating and always ends up bouncing his

knees instead of concentrating. It seemed normal at first, not

everyone is good at meditating, but then his attention span

gets smaller and smaller as the days past. He sometimes gets

confused when Lea uses bigger words, words that he should

know. Something is wrong with Harry. Lea tries to subtly ask

and tell Harry what is happening to him in ways that would be

obvious if he was mentally an adult. When that doesn't work

she bluntly states, "Your attention span is shrinking over time.

You are becoming more childish. Are you alright? How are

you feeling?"

Harry makes a face like he is thinking about the hardest

thing in the world, "I think I'm regressing back to an actual

child for some reason. It is taking all my concentration to even

have this conversation. I don't know why this is happening."

Then, Harry's thinking face is gone and says, "Do you want to

play rock, paper, scissors with me."

Lea outwardly smiles and plays with Harry while internally

is adjusting their plans. She really hopes the goblins will know

how to fix this.

-----

It is the second to last day before school ends. Lea tries her

best to make sure Harry remembers his part in the plan. "All

you have to do is pack everything into your backpack before

bringing it to school tomorrow. Now repeat back to me what I

said."

"Pack stuff into backpack." Harry skittishly and childishly

says.

"Pack everything that is yours okay?"

"Ok, I don't have much so it's easy."

As Lea plays with Harry, she repeatedly makes sure he

knows what to do. By the time they have to go back to school,

Lea is satisfied and knows Harry will remember what to

do. Though, Lea is still nervous for tomorrow. They were

supposed to be working together on this, but now Lea has to

take care of childlike Harry while also getting to the wizarding

world. However, Lea is confident it will all work out. At least

she can use parts of their original plan and is not just winging

it.

-----

Harry never shows up at school. Lea is worried for him.

Dudley, and probably Dudley's parents, have been getting

more and more violent as Harry continues to evade Dudley at

school. She doesn't know how he survives going back home

everyday. Lea is worried what kind of state he must be in if he

couldn't make it to school. The best case scenario is if Harry

was just locked in his cupboard again, not that Harry knows

that Lea knows some details about his home life. Harry never

wanted to talk about it, even when prompted.

Lea decides it is up to her to save Harry. Her bag is already

packed and Harry's should be too, hopefully. Lea sneaky

follows Dudley home and luckily he doesn't notice. When

they get to the Dursley's house, Lea waits a bit after Dudley

enters his home before getting closer. Lea turns on her magic

sight and sees the color of Harry's magic through the wall,

where his cupboard should be. She has not experimented if her

magic sight went through walls, but she is glad it worked. She

wanted to make sure Harry was actually there. Lea decides to

wait for nightfall before rescuing Harry.

Lea takes a toy lock she got from school out of her backpack

and starts to attempt use magic to unlock it. She had planned

to learn the unlocking charm once they were settled in the

wizard world. But, like every one of her plans so far, that is

out the window. She needs to learn it before it is time to get

Harry. Ignoring that she has not successfully casted any magic

spells yet.

As Lea practices, the sun slowly goes down and it turns to

night. Lea could tell she was close to getting the unlocking

spell to work, but it needed a little more of something. Lea

thinks about how much she wants to save Harry and how

much she wants the lock to open, and the lock finally opens.

Lea makes a big smile. That was the first time she was able

to use actual wizarding magic. Lea physically locks and

magically unlocks the lock a few more times before deciding

she was ready.

It was late enough that everyone should be asleep. Lea goes

to the front door of number 4 Privet Drive, puts her hand on

the doorknob and unlocks the door. Lea tip toes to Harry's

cupboard and whispers "Please whisper. It's me, Lea." as she

unlocks the cupboard door.

"Lea? What are you doing here?" Harry weakly questions.

Lea opens the door and gets a look at Harry. It is dark so she

cannot see the true damage he is in, but she can see enough to

know he is not doing well. "I came to get you out of here of

course. Now get everything you need and lets get out of here."

Harry grabs his backpack and winces as he attempts to put it

on. Lea carefully takes the backpack from Harry and carries it

herself. Now she has two backpacks on, one on each shoulder.

Lea helps Harry out of the closet and closes it once he is out.

She helps Harry walk out if the house, also closing the house

door. They walk towards the main road, far enough that no

one in the neighborhood would see them.

The original plan involved taking a taxi with the money

Lea and Harry saved or stole. Now that money has to be saved

and hope it's enough for the goblins. Harry had told Lea how

to get to Leaky Cauldron during his few moments of clarity in

case he forgot with his regression. There was more to the plan

of course, but it doesn't matter now. Besides, they are never

going to find a taxi at this time of night.

Lea raises her dominate hand and powers her magic into it,

hoping this will work even if she doesn't have a wand. She

even calls out lumos to get a better chance of it working even

though she has not cast the spell before.

Nothing happens. Lea sighs and starts to bring Harry to find

a spot to hide until daytime.

Suddenly, there is a whoosh sound and a few honks. It's the

night bus, a magical bus for wizards. Lea makes a huge smile

and leads the fascinated Harry into the Knight Bus.

A lady stands at the door taking out a paper and reads,

"Welcome to the night bus, emergency transport for a stranded

witch or wizard. My name is Nancy and I will be your

conductor this evening." She puts away her flashcard. "Come

on in. I will take your backpacks."

Lea and Harry enter the Knight Bus and take a seat at one

of the beds. Lea tells Harry to lie down, then lies down next

to him and wraps her arm around him, making sure she has a

good hold on him. As suddenly at the bus appeared, the bus

drove off, almost causing Harry and Lea to fall off. Conductor

Nancy causally walks over and asks, "Where are you two little

children off to today?"

"Leaky Cauldron please," which comes out a little warbled

since Lea is trying to keep Harry and herself from falling.

Conductor Nancy goes to make sure the driver heard where

to go. Lea asks Harry, "How are you feeling?"

"Great!" he says, "This is so fun! I've never gotten to go on a

ride before."

Lea smiles. She looks out the window and watches as the

bus magically goes around and through traffic. Lea outwardly

is calm because she has to take care of Harry and get him to

Gringotts. Inwardly, Lea can't help feeling excited. This is the

start of entering the magical world. She will be seeing a lot

more magic from here on.

-----

Getting to the Leaky Cauldron took no time at all, even with

the occasional stop. As Lea gets their bags, Conductor Nancy says,

"Here we are, Leaky Cauldron. That would be eleven sickles

please."

Lea keeps a straight face, but internally she is worried she

wont be allowed to pay. "How much is that in muggle money?"

"£3.24" Conductor ... kindly replies.

Lea internally sighs in relief, she was worried they would try

to scam her. Harry had taught her the conversion rate between

wizard and muggle money, but she can't do the mental math

between them that well. Luckily she knows around what price

11 sickles is so she shouldn't get scammed in that way. Lea

pays and gets off the bus while saying her goodbyes. Harry

looks at Lea and then back at the bus and decides to imitate

her, waving his hand in a childish way. The Knight Bus left as

quickly the it appeared.

Lea takes off her hoodie and puts it on Harry. She just

realized she forgot to do this earlier. Lea makes sure the hood

is up and covering Harry's face, especially his scar. Since

Harry is malnourished, the hoodie is too big on him. Luckily

that works in favor of concealing Harry.

"Stay quiet, don't get go of my hand, and try to stay as close

as possible without running into me or someone else." Lea

instructs Harry. "Got that?" Harry nods. Lea grabs his hand

and leads him into the Leaky Cauldron. The place is packed.

Everyone is at least a little drunk with the majority being

plastered. Lea and Harry used their height to their advantage

and weaved around everyone until they got to the back door.

Lea exhaled, she didn't even realize she was holding her

breath. Lea goes to the brick wall to tap on the brick that will

open to Diagon alley. However, even with all their planning,

Lea and Harry forgot to account for them being too short.

They are not even as tall as the rubbish bin. Lea was originally

going to tap the brick while pouring magic into her hand,

assuming one needed magic to open the door, but Lea did

not want to ask Harry to help her up. He doesn't have a lot

of muscle and is very injured. Lea instructs Harry to get on

her shoulders, thinking might as well try tapping it normally.

Maybe it can detect when a wizard is taping it, or it doesn't

expect a muggle to get this far.

Harry gets on Lea's shoulders after convincing him that he

wouldn't hurt her. Lea tells Harry to start at the rubbish bin,

count up three bricks, then left two bricks. Once Harry has

found the correct brick, she tells him to tap it three times. The

brick wall opens, revealing Diagon Alley.

Lea gaped at how magical everything is, the movies did

not show Diagon Alley at night before. The path is lit up with

fairy lights made out of actual fairies. Each store has beautiful

signs saying they are closed. They few that were open

seemed look like they were designed for night time. Do the

appearances change between day and night?

Lea snaps herself out of her trance. She cannot let herself

be distracted, she has to carry out the plan. She looks at

Harry and sees his face filled with wonder. Still holding his

hand, Lea gently pulls Harry to where Gringotts is. Luckily, a

building was glowing with golden lights that make it obvious

that it is a bank and it is open.

Entering the bank, Lea notices that there are many tables

without a goblin working, about half. She guesses this is

because it is night time, they would probably be full during

the day. Lea is grateful that they work at night at all, it would

have been annoying to find a place to wait until morning. Also,

there currently are not wizards around to question why two

young children are here.

Lea and Harry walk up to the podium and waits for the

goblin a little farther back so he could still see her, they were

smaller than the goblins. Lea hopes this is the right way to be

polite. It will not change anything if they have to wait a few

minutes so it is worth a try.

Eventually, the goblin puts down his quill and looks up at us.

"How can I help you two today?" The goblin says gruffly but

politely.

Lea bows her head a little and says, "Hello sir, would you

please tell me how much an inheritance test costs?"

The goblin replies, "Taking an inheritance test is free. This

is to encourage finding lost blood lines so we can open their

bank again."

Lea mentally relaxes a little. This whole bank section of

Lea's plan is all very questionable, her knowledge could

easily be wrong. "Alright, that is nice of Gringotts. Does

the inheritance test show any magics done to the wizard,

like compulsions and things. Also does it show the wizards

physical shape?"

The goblins face seems to become concerned. Though, it

is hard to tell because Lea is not used to goblin features. The

goblin could easily be annoyed or something. "Only when

asked, is something wrong with one of you?"

"My friend here, he is acting differently than he was. I'm

worried about him." Lea says causing Harry to start to pay

attention after realizing they were talking about him.

"Hello." Harry quietly greets while bowing his head.

The goblin looks at Harry and gives a small frown. Does

goblin magic make them see things wizards cant? "Alright,

please follow me so we can go to a private room. This is not

normally done for an inheritance test, but since you asked for

the extended version, a room is provided for privacy."