Harry Potter and the Triangle Prophecy - Sahits

When he was lying back on the lawn sunning himself after lunch, he thought he caught Katielooking at him once, and lay back again, fighting a smile breaking out on his face. He glancedat Draco Malfoy, lying nearby with his shirt off too, but she wasn’t looking at him. ThenHarry did a double-take. Draco wasn’t wearing the basilisk amulet. Harry laid back again andclosed his eyes. What had he done with the pair of amulets? he wondered.When Aberforth was driving him and Draco home, Harry felt like every bone in his bodyached, his muscles unused to the hard work again. He knew that would go away, but the firstday was always rather hard on him. And now he had to rip off a roof. When he mentioned thisin passing to Aberforth, the old man turned to Draco and said, “We’ll help you out, won’t weDraco? And I’ll call the lads--they’ll be happy to pitch in.”“No--wait--I didn’t mean--” Harry tried to say, embarrassed that Aberforth might think hewas fishing for help when he was merely grousing about his uncle taking advantage of him.But by the time Aberforth had put away his telephone, it was too late. Only a few minutesafter they arrived at number four, Privet Drive, Sam and Katie pulled up in Sam’s oldVolkswagen and Nigel and Trevor parked behind them in an ancient van which had a ghost of“Williams Plumbing and Heating” on the side in faded white lettering. Harry couldn’t help asmile creeping across his face. He couldn’t quite believe that after the same sort of long dayof work he’d done, they were willing to come help him, all because his uncle was the cheapestperson on the planet.Uncle Vernon had already set up the ladder against the side of the house. Nigel climbed upand happened to have his face right at the bathroom window when Harry’s aunt was evidentlyusing the commode, and her scream almost sent Nigel tumbling to the ground. This broughtVernon out the back door, screaming in turn at Nigel.“Here now, what the hell do you think you’re about, peeping at my wife while she’s doingprivate things in the privacy of her private bathroom? Never hear of privacy? And who thehell are you lot?”Aberforth walked up to Vernon Dursley and held out his hand. “Ah! Mr. Dursley. How niceto see you again,” he said, as though Harry’s uncle hadn’t just been yelling at them verycrossly. He shook his hand while Uncle Vernon frowned at Aberforth, as though mystifiedabout why he should know this person. Aberforth saw this. “Dick. Dick Abernathy.Abernathy Landscaping.”“Oh!” Harry’s uncle responded, finally remembering. “Right, right.”“Anyway, Harry told us about his little roofing problem. Seems he has a leak right over hisbed, yeah? We told him we’d pitch in. We don’t mind, do we, lads?”They answered with a chorus of nahs as they moved about, getting the various tools neededfor ripping off the old roof. Harry smiled at Katie; she didn’t seem to mind being lumped inwith “the lads.” Her hat was on backwards again and now her blue shirt was buttoned, whichhid her body almost as effectively as a Hogwarts robe; it was possible that Vernon hadn’tnoticed that she was female.Harry’s uncle looked like he would have liked nothing better than to require Harry to do thejob alone, but in that Harry had absolutely no experience, he looked like he also was hopingthat this would mean someone who actually knew what they were doing might be working on32