At Corner's Grove at midnight that evening the three law partners and their spouses gathered. Stephen opened the bottle of cognac Harry had given him.
Horace joined him in sipping the muggle drink. "Not bad. Not the same kick as firewhiskey but not bad. I wonder if the gift to me and Perseus is the same."
"Perhaps." Stephen said. "Harry said his uncle recommended the gift. It is quite nice. Impressions?"
"A successful party. Having Lord Potter here, gave it a certain…" Perseus said.
"Sense of exclusiveness perhaps?" Morgana Ogden said. "He wasn't what I was expecting. I expected him to join the younger set. Not listen to Horace and Tiberius discuss Wizengamot business."
"I think he understands that when he's grown he's going to have to understand the politics, his aunt apparently gave him a solid grounding in the principles of estate management and his manners are more than acceptable." Felicia stated. "Have you noticed his dislike of the Chief Warlock?"
"Yes and I wonder the cause." Perseus wondered.
"Well we had to work for months to get the wills open. According to those he should have had no say in Lord Potter's life at all. I don't think I have all the details, but I can tell you this much based on the suits that will be filed the 23rd…" Stephen Corner explained to his partners what the goblins and Petunia Dursley had told him.
When he finished an hour and a half later, the other five people were shocked and appalled. "I think I get it now." said Horace.
"What makes it worse is I suspect there is even more waiting to be told." Stephen stated. "Harry and his aunt both know how to play their cards close to their chests."
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On the 23rd, Harry traveled to Jack Cooper's shop he was surprised that Felicia was there as well. Together they went in and saw Harry's new wardrobe.
Harry had intelligently brought his trunk with him so as things were finished and approved they were neatly stowed away.
"First morning or casual day wear." said Jack. "Your idea of long full skirted or slitted coats is perfect. I designed all of them with the idea you would probably be wearing them over trousers, shirts, and possibly jumpers. But I've also made them so from shoulders to waist they fit closely to the body, the sleeves too should fit closely. Makes them practical to work in."
Harry tried on the dozen coats. His favorites by far were the black and indigo denim ones that folded across his chest in double breasted fashion starting mid chest with the buttons ending at the waist. Both had deep full pleats resting on the front and back of the hip that when he tried; he was able to do a roundhouse kick in them.
"Now for little more formal occasions, hakamas. You've got twelve pairs that are good for almost any occasion and eight more that are more for evening or formal occasions. Tops for this part were a little trickier, so let me show you.." Harry worked his way through the mix of fifteen tops: long chinese men's gowns, long waist coats and coats worn over billowy shirts that reminded him of Georgian and Victorian clothes, kurtha of India that split at the hip that had rich embroidered patterns that formed gathers at the yoke, as well as Japanese short kimono, trying on the twelve pairs of less formal hakamas as he went.
"For tea you can go with the more formal of the hakama combinations you just tried on or you could wear one of these three dervish outfits, the dress over pants with a waist length jacket I chose the richest of the fabrics for these because they have the least detail." Of dervish dresses two were made from sand washed silk, black with a patterned silk and linen jacket, and navy with a navy and gold brocade jacket, the third was made of emerald green dupioni silk and had charcoal gray velvet jacket with narrow bands of emerald green embroidery on the cuffs and collar.
"Now for the grand finale, formal wear. Since formal wizarding wear tends to have beaucoup detail and embellishment I choose to lean heavily on the Japanese lines with multiple layers I went for texture and lush fabrics with subtle embellishment I hope you approve."
As Harry tried on, he had tried various strikes and kicks to test the movement in his new clothes and he was feeling very excited these clothes were in his mind perfect. As he tried on the last of them he asked Felicia Corner her opinion. "Mrs. Corner? What do you think?"
"I think they're fabulous, not run of the mill wizarding to be sure but enough like it I suspect you will start a new trend in wizarding fashion. Well done Jack."
"Okay. Harry all of these clothes have three size growth charms for breadth and four sizes in length. After that you'll need more clothes I figure that gives you a year and a half maybe two, possibly even three before you'll need more unless you hit your growth spurt early. All of them have comfort charms, you will stay the temperature as if you were in comfortable twenty degrees Centigrade room regardless of how many layers you wear or if the sun is pouring down or if it's cold. All of them have self pressing charms and dirt repellent charms but I do recommend actually washing them about every third time you wear them it helps them last longer. The price for this little shopping extravaganza is 2879 galleons."
Harry mentally calculated that in pounds and inwardly winced. But for a custom tailored wardrobe with the spells allowing him to wear them for that long he supposed that was actually quite reasonable. So he wrote the draft on his trust vault rounding it up to 2900 since Jack had put it together so quickly. He handed him the draft, and after saying goodbye to both Jack and Felicia, he portkeyed back to the apartment.
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