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Chapter 24 - spending time in the alley and train

After telling plush trap to loot the bodies Harry started back out the alley. Along the way to the exit a few of the residents tried to take him but a quick cut on the neck from the knife he always keeps on him ended the situations pretty quick, after all it's kinda hard to kidnap someone when you dead. Near the end of the alley plush trap appeared again with 4 items in his claws a small pouch that holds about 60 gallons another pouch containing about 52 gallons and a few sickles the last two items was a small note book after skimming a few pages they look to be some kind of note based off what Harry glanced at they were notes on some spells or maybe they were the spell it's self and the last item was a pendant with a decent amount of magic inside, he would take a closer look later back at the inn.

After leaving the alley Harry walked around the alley casually going into shop to look around he picked up a few books that seemed interesting or could help with building animatronics though the latter was a lot more rare the the former apparently magic and muggle electronics don't mix, in his opinion the wizards here were fools they have perfectly functioning tools such as phones to study and they can't even make their own the closest he had found was something called a two way mirror but other than allowing for to people to see and talk across a very small distance compared to modern phones the mirror had no other use while modern phones could call almost all over the world, take pictures and video, along with being able to get almost any information a person could want from anywhere. Since the wizarding world didn't have any real advancements in anything other than magic he would just make his own stuff using muggle tech as a base. Harry didn't think it would be too difficult to repurpose muggle tech to work with magic he already had some experience with his animatronic as plush trap seemed completely unaffected by the magic of the alley, that most likely was due to the remnant within him acting as a sort of buffer or perhaps a container much like a battery contains electricity and prevent it from over flowing into the device some things to think about later on, during his contemplation Harry had ended up near a few run down shops in the nocturn alley area.

After walking a few steps in the little area Harry could already feel a few eyes watching him though it seemed they may already know something or for a warning as none had made any move other than watching him the alley seemed rather uninteresting only a few objects in the shops held value but they weren't worth the cost the seller was asking and while he had contemplated just killing the shop keepers he ultimately found it too trouble some for items he didn't really care for. Harry decided after the 12th failed shop to just head back to the leaky cauldron he hadn't found anything that intresting and it was already almost night staying out too late would make that tavern keeper ask too many annoying questions. Once back in his room Harry decided to make some progress on his magical learning it wouldn't do to be unprepared and lacking in training before he even got to the school, time in the alley past rather fast with Harry mostly spending his time on the school books mainly those he though would be best in his current path that of a creator or perhaps maker these book mostly being the transfiguration, runes, and the wand book from olavander he still hadn't decided on what he would try and make most had him feel ridiculous the most interesting was hand signs as he already do most his magic similarly but the way they did magic was not very interesting to Harry for now he would just keep doing wand-less magic or perhaps it's better to call it focus-less magic given that wands are only one type of focus.

On the last day Harry decided to just spend the day enjoying the treats of the alley even though he didn't actually need to eat he still like the taste of food during the day Harry tried some of the desserts like the ice cream at Florean Fortescue's a few flavors he tryed were the butterbeer, Lavendar, Earl grey and the odd blood flavor he like all except the butterbeer to creamy for his taste he did get a minor look of confusion at the blood choice though it seem the owner didn't judge people plus he would probably be a bit confused as well if he were in his place it's apparently a very particular taste mainly for the vampire customers.

Time past rather quick that day and it was soon time to depart to the school he would be spending a long time at, arriving at the station Harry quickly notice the spot the gate for platform 9 3/4 the faint outline of magic was quite the giveaway walking through Harry quickly made his way onto the train not feeling like dealing with a bunch of annoying kids completely ignoring the fact he him self was still a kid. Over the time till the train was to depart a few students opened the compartment but annoyed qlance from Harry made many just go to another a very small few like a red haired boy and a blond one with two grunts came in to ask about him a simple haven't seen him made them leave decided it was to much effort to keep talking to people he put a notice me not on the door it would keep most students out only higher years would be able to find and remove it but most probably wouldn't care to anyways.

A silent train ride was how Harry spent the rest of the trip to hogwarts.

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