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How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Jesse S Harris

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

by

Jesse Steven Harris

aka

The Only Potter With A Brain According To Snape

This was perhaps the best summer vacation ever. It started with a trip to London because my Aunt Faith got remarried to her husband Bill, who is a cursebreaker for a bank run by goblins which I also got to see later when we went to Cairo.

Everything started off fantastic. I got to see my cousin Lexa who had been at boarding school in Scotland learning witch craft and meet Lexa's twin sister Ronni and the horde of redheaded relatives on her dad's side.

My Dad Xander and I were invited to go to Scotland to stay at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for the summer by Headmistress McGonagall for whatever weird reason, probably prophecies or demons since my Dad Xander kept saying "Don't worry about it" when I'd ask exactly what we went there in the first place for.

I met Professor Snape who is a Potions master and brewed several potions. Including one that revealed my other dad is none other than the hero of the Wizarding World and my dads had been married for eleven years by an Anasazi ritual. It was news to them too.

That was also the day that my Pop Harry got custody of my cousins Jack, Annie and Jorie because they are magical and their father hates everything magical, including his own kids evidently.

One of the Cairo vaults my Dad Xander inherited squished a 3/4 demon and we had to go to Cairo so dad could release the ward and unsquish the demon who works for the goblin bank. We had to wait until two days after the full moon because my Pop is a werewolf and had a particularly bad transformation. Evidently the potion he takes doesn't mix well with firewhiskey. It was a lucky thing that the squished guy was 3/4 demon and that some sort of stasis spell was tied to the squished spell so he didn't starve or anything while he was squished.

We visited with my cousin Lexa and her twin sister Ronni who were being watched by Ronni's Aunt Tonks while Aunt Faith and Uncle Bill were on their honeymoon. We also toured the vaults that my dad Xander inherited at the Gringott's Cairo bank. We spent four days in the vaults with Lexa, Ronni and Ronni's Aunt Tonks.

While we were in Egypt the demon who left me with my dad Xander showed back up and gave my Dad and my Pop my new baby brothers. James is an Empath/Seer and Sirius is a Healer, we're not sure if they're going to be magical enough to go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where my Pop Harry teaches things like turning matchsticks into needles. Beldaria the demon also said there would be four others to make it 'a dozen or more' but they couldn't be delivered until both my dads were outside of England because of the werewolf laws there and only one at a time. In age order at the moment, counting the cousins Dad and Pop are adopting and my not-sisters, there are ten of us: Me, Jack, Annie, Tara, Jorie, Kenna, PJ, Ricky, James, Sirius. Dad and Pop are freaking and Dad is convinced that this is definitely the 'nasty demony side effect thing'. Even with my not-sisters left out there's eight, so four more will make a dozen.

Jack, Annie, Jorie, Jamie, Siri and I stayed with Aunt Tonks, Ronni and Lexa for three days without Dad and Pop because the demon also locked Dad and Pop in a pocket dimension where about two three years passed for them while only three days for us, though they didn't age any while in the pocket dimension thing.

While Dad and Pop were in the pocket dimension we hung out in the trunk I found in one of our Vault Halls in Gringotts. Potions and spells had been used to make some really neat rooms inside the trunk even a huge park with swings and carousels. Lexa and Ronni did their summer homework and we practiced making potions. I also really freaked Aunt Tonks out when I was talking to a Snake Charmer's Cobra at the Wizard's Bazaar in the Wizarding section of Cairo. The Snake charmer gave me a purple snake egg, said he thought it would hatch for me eventually. It's some kind of magical snake that only hatches on the Spring Equinox if the egg is owned by the right person. So I could have a really cool Magic Snake in March.

The first day Dad and Pop were in the pocket dimension thing, Tonks friend Zahira helped with James and Sirius and we went to Gringotts and then we went to the Bazaar in the Wizarding section of Cairo. We got a bunch of clothes and all sorts of things for the babies.

Also While Dad and Pop were in the pocket dimension we got two house-elves, Winky and Dobby. They're kind of weird.

After Dad and Pop got out of the pocket Dimension we went back to Hogwarts. Hagrid, one of the teachers at Hogwarts, was planning a trip to Romania to the dragon preserve to visit Norbert--who is a Norwegian Ridgeback dragon--and Norbert's mate Lulu who is a Amazonian Water dragon and see Norbert and Lulu's first clutch of babies. He took me and Ares Malfoy with him. Ares is the son of the Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts and one of my cousins Lexa and Ronni's best friends, and mine too now I suppose.

It was really something because Norbert and Lulu's babies are thought to be the first cross-breed dragons ever. Dragons tend to only like they're own breed as mates though the Dragon preserve has lots of Ridgebacks, Ironbellies, Opaleyes, and Welsh Greens Lulu is the only Amazonian Water dragon in Europe so that might be part of it. There were seven babies in the clutch and they were absolutely gorgeous. Lulu and Norbert both really liked me and would let me get close to the babies. One tried following me around even though it couldn't walk very well, her name is Tassie. Dad says he hopes she doesn't decide to come visit when she's big enough to get from Romania to Cleveland.

The Dragon Handlers offered me a job--even in writing and gave me a copy of the job proposal--once I get my NEWTs taken I can go and have a job at the Romanian Dragon Preserve anytime I want. Even after my OWL tests I could go for the summers Lexa was kind of jealous about that which was cool. What made Lexa all the more jealous is that Ronni has had the Goblins of Gringotts working on an employment package to tempt her for years because they want her to be a Cursebreaker for their bank like Uncle Bill is.

After the week with Hagrid in Romania we went back to Hogwarts and Professor Snape, the Potions Master of Hogwarts, grabbed Ares, Jack, Annie, Jorie and I and practically locked us in his laboratory for a week while Dad and Pop were fighting with Pop's nasty cousin Dudley. In the end though it was proven that PJ (Petunia Jane, poor girl) was a Slayer and that Ricky (Vernon Richard) was going to be a Wiccan Witch so Dumb Dudley didn't want them anymore just like he didn't want Jack, Annie and Jorie.

After Snape let us out of the Dungeon we still had a month of vacation left. We went to the Wizards village of Hogsmeade which isn't far from Hogwarts School and got lots of neat stuff from the joke shoppe--Weasley Wizard Wheezes. We got to see the unicorns. They didn't like me so much, probably the H-mouth factor, but they let me watch them. Jorie and Annie were able to go right up and pet them Hagrid said Unicorns usually like girls better anyway.

Hagrid's little brother Grawp carried us around on his shoulder which freaked Dad and Pop out some because Grawp is a Giant.

We spent the last four days before school started in Los Angeles so Aunt Cordelia, Nic, Uncle Gunn, Aunt Fred, Alanna, Charlie, Uncle Wes, Uncle Lorne, Uncle Spike and Uncle Angel could meet Pop and the babies.

Jorie cried the first time she saw Uncle Spike slip into Game Face and was scared of Uncle Lorne for a little bit because Uncle Spike is a vampire and Uncle Lorne has green skin and red eyes and red horns. But Uncle Lorne is really nice and Uncle Spike made it up to Jorie--though he did a lot of grumbling about stupid souls and crying girls and having gone so soft it wasn't funny.

We also found out that our House Elf Winky is going to have an Elfling. She and her mate, our other House Elf Dobby, are planning on naming the Elfling Scooby.

Dad and Pop figured between the Porter Cars that it would work and we can be a two-country family for now because the Slay School is the best place for PJ at the moment and Dad doesn't really want to leave Kenna and Tara behind yet and Aunt Willow does need the help so until things get settled for the Slay School and everything here.

We went back to Hogwarts over Labor Day Weekend for the Sorting Feast. Lexa and Ronni's Weasley/Thomas cousins were all sorted into Gryffindor. Lexa and Ronni were disappointed since all their cousins are in Gryffindor House and they're in Slytherin House but they'll spend lots of time together even if they're in different houses.

It was a very fun summer.

The End.