Chapter 7: chapter:7
"It looks fine Kara, it fits well, can we have a break now?" he asked again. "In a minute Harry" she said absently as she saw Zatanna coming back with a dozen shirts in their arms. This pattern repeated itself all morning as the sales ladies looked on with undisguised amusement. Poor kid, he can't escape.
Zatanna was a fashionista, and bought Harry designer shirts pants and shoes, while Kara picked up sweat shirts and jogging pants so that Harry could still exercise in school. The only thing Harry bought for himself was a pair of cool shades, so that he could hide his astonishing green eyes that glowed when he was feeling strong emotion. He learned from Wally that it was a bit disconcerting to talk to him, with his green eyes pinning him on the spot.
Harry was very far from a normal eleven year old, having a foster family like the Justice League would do that to you. He was tall, and had begun to develop a broadening chest like that of Bruce's frame, but appropriate for his age. His body was almost meta human, as he learned to perfect his in martial arts to augment his Lantern capabilities.
Like Bruce he wore an impassive mask and an intimidating posture, he can now do the bat glare with 80 % intensity. The trademark batman brood also passed down to Harry, as he developed the habit when feeling negative emotions or a confusing and puzzling scenario. He would sulk in a corner or an empty room, and come out feeling fine again.
Harry has also learned how to charm women, as he observed his foster dad do so many times in parties and events to gain information, much to Diana's disapproval. After his 11th birthday, the couple announced that they would get married, to the obvious delight of the league, except for some of the females who still had a crush on Batman.
Arms full of shopping bags, they left Harrods and went to the park and sat on the bench to decide where to go next. "Harry you know the shrinking charm right?" Zatanna asked and Harry nodded tiredly, he waved his hands and all the bags shrunk, and the three pocketed their respective loots. In the month heading to Hogwarts, Zatanna now became his primary instructor, with Dr. Fate popping in to give him lessons in Astronomy and Divination, as well as History.
As Zatanna declared Harry a prodigy in wandless magic, this also proved true in the various subjects. Harry's favorite subject was Transfiguration, it was very similar to how he uses hi Lantern Powers. Like Bruce, Harry was a bookworm at heart and read all the books he could find, and soon with the daily tutoring of Zatanna and Dr. Fate, he had knowledge of a third year wizard.
"Ohhh I know there's a lovely ice cream shop inside the magical street, Florean Fortescue's ice cream parlor!" Zatanna said, and Kara eagerly nodded she loved ice cream. Passing through the Leaky cauldron was no problem, except for a group of red heads in front of them, who were now gawking at Kara. Indeed Kara was very pretty, with blond hair and blue eyes, wearing a tight fitting blouse and skirt.
Harry loved Kara dearly, and almost thought of her as his adorable sister. They had grown up together, and spent long hours at the tower as junior leaguers. "Hey Kara, you got fans" Harry whispered to Kara, and the girl just shrugged, unconcerned. In truth it was very hard to get close to Kara, for she only trusted very few people since she was brainwashed by Lex Luthor as a pre teen to hurt Superman. Harry was one of the few that Kara trusted fully, and Harry always brought her out of her moody shell.
"Nice" Kara said sarcastically, as they stopped in front of a blank wall. "You have no patience Kara" Zatanna chided as she tapped a few random bricks in a particular order with her finger. The bricks started to fold away as an archway slowly opened before them. Zatanna used their awed expressions to wipe her finger dirtied by the breaks on Harry's sleeve. It was payback for when he dumped frogs on her stall when she was showering. She rushed out of the shower and into the hallway screaming, forgetting she had magical power to remove them, and became quite popular with the male leaguers. Especially Wally.The two superheroes squealed as they spotted so many flavors on display. They were having a hard time deciding what to order, while Harry picked a simple scoop of vanilla. His eyes looked around the alley looking for escape routes, as was his habit growing up with batman. Spotting a magical bookstore, he grinned and finished his scoop quickly. Zatanna and Kara arrived with their orders, colorful scoops of every discernable color placed on a huge platter. He indicated the bookstore with a nod of his head as the alley was now noisy with children, and Zatanna nodded her head to say she understood. That boy and his books, like father like son. Cute nerd though, shame Diana bagged him.
Daphne wrinkled her nose at the sight of hundreds and hundreds of wizards packed inside the alley. She tugged her mom's dress and pointed to the bookstore, and Astoria Greengrass nodded, mouthing take care and handing out a pouch of galleons. Daphne went inside the bookstore, and headed to her favorite spot where tables and chairs were for customers who would like to browse a book before buying them.
She was on a bitchy mood from earlier this morning when her kid sister spilled juice on her dress, and then some red headed kid slammed into her without looking and at last she got even more irritated when she spotted someone in her favorite seat. She walked toward the person, a boy near her age, deeply immersed in a book. She walked to the front of the boy and that cast her shadow over the book the boy was reading. The boy looked up, and Daphne admitted he was cute with stunning green eyes, but she was still bitchy. The boy raised an eyebrow, and that prompted her to say "You're in my seat." She waited for his response to argue, eagerly expecting for a fight.