Harry Potter: The Witty Wizard

Seeing Harry in the kitchen and cooking dinner, Sirius declared, "It's done. Your future father-in-bond is a hard man to negotiate with, but I'm now the owner of the little building out back I shall now and forevermore call the 'Doghouse'."

Wendell, shaking his head, said, "It appears Lord Black does not truly know the concept behind 'negotiating'."

"Why's that?" asked Harry.

Wendell snickered and replied, "He kept trying to talk the price... up."

Sirius struck a pose and declared, "Never let it be said that Sirius Black does not pay fair value."

Before anyone could say anything else, he said, "Now, give me a few minutes to duck out to my new property and set things in motion."

With that he strode from the room.

"What did he mean by setting things in motion?" asked Monica.

Harry replied, "He's gone out to permanently transfigure the inside of the shed into a welcoming room with a floo."

Before he could go on, Hermione quickly said, "I want to watch this." And hurriedly left the room.

"A... floo?" asked Monica.

"Yep," replied Harry. "It's a magical form of travel that requires the use of a large fireplace and what's called 'floo powder'. However, such floos are not permitted in non-wizarding dwellings; so, Sirius bought the shed out back to use that.

"By him buying it, it's now wizarding owned. Which means, he can have it connected to the floo network.

"Can this way be used by muggles?" she asked.

Harry thought about it and replied, "I've no idea. Though they cannot apparate, I know they can be side-along apparated; they can use the Knight Bus, but cannot call it; and I'm pretty sure they can use a portkey, but again cannot activate it.

"It'll actually be interesting to see if you can use a floo, or not, without someone using the floo powder for you first. We can test it once it's activated by flooing from here to the Tonkses' place and back again."

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Out in the 'Doghouse', Hermione watched as Sirius first completely stripped the single room bare. And then used an overpowered cleaning charm to rid it of everything that wasn't 'building'. He even explained as he was working why he was doing things the way he was.

Next in went the fireplace, together with a small chimney. It was of black marble.

"The chimney is not needed for the floo," he explained. "However, for the floo to work properly you actually need a bit of a fire. And the fire needs the chimney."

Then he started putting up a proper interior.

The walls were simple plain one-course brick, barely scraped of mortar on the inside surface as the bricks were laid. To cover that he put up battens and attached plaster board to line the entirety of all four walls. Then went repairs to the roof, repairing any cracked tiles or the like; a ceiling, with properly affixed light (even if it was magical); and cornicing. Finally, he put up better window and door treatments, blending them in with the current wood, so that the plasterboard was properly 'edged'.

Satisfied with constructional changes to the building, he asked Hermione, "What colours, do you think? Or, would your parents prefer it if the inside here matched the inside of the house?"

Hermione didn't just blurt out anything. She took her time and thought it through, as Harry had been teaching her.

Finally, she replied, "How about... Burgundy carpet, a light plain pastel gold for paint on the walls, white for the ceiling and cornices, and burgundy window and door treatments?"

Smirking, he asked, "Curtains?"

Shrugging, she replied, "A pastel red?"

Sirius thought about all that and waved his wand about. He started with the white ceiling and cornicing, then the gold walls, the burgundy trim to the window and door and finished with a deep burgundy for the carpet.

Looking around, he then changed the façade of the fireplace to a pink tinted white marble. It fit the décor a lot better than the black tinted marble he'd first chosen.

With a satisfied nod, he turned to her and asked, "What do you think?"

She was quite surprised. "It looks great!"

He gave a light chuckle and said, "Now comes the hard part; making it permanent."

He pulled a set of rune-stones out of his pocket and went around the corners of the small room, planting them into the corners as he worked. The last one he put on the mantelpiece before then pumping his magic into it.

He stepped back about thirty seconds later, when the five stones gave a strong glow, and staggered a little. "Whoa!" he sighed. "That takes a lot out of you."

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