What do we do now?

Part 7 - Bertram

A/N: THis chapter introduces a new character! he's only mentioned in the books briefly but it was fun to sort of shape his character into whatever I wanted, and I accidentally made him dumb and lovable so I hope you love him as much as I do!!!

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Bertram Aubrey lived in Hastings. Y/n and Remus had begun their journey technically where Remus' small home was, which was located in Yorkshire. It was roughly a 2 hour and 30-minute direct drive from one place to the other. Y/n and Remus didn't start their adventure with this place in mind though, they had gone to small towns and countrysides, spent over a week living in the car in the forest, so once they had an actual destination in mind it didn't take long to get there at all.

Hastings runs along England's southeast coast, it's a rather nice town with a good mix of muggle and magical places alike. Specifically where Bertram lived was a seaside cottage. The cottage was small but it was probably the most ideal little home Y/n had ever seen, Remus thought it was much better in comparison to his cottage.

This cottage was on its own, a lot of grass and wildflowers surrounding it until it reached the tree line which surrounded the sides of the house. It was like a cottage out of a movie, nothing Y/n had ever pictured Bertram living in.

The front porch was nice too, it had one of those seat swings and it was situated so if you sat on it you could look straight down the empty country road that split the forest in two and led to a large field, it's exactly what Y/n and Remus were looking at right now as Bertram went inside to grab drinks.

"This place is amazing, really." Y/n commented to Bertram as he came back outside handing them both bottles of soda.

"Thanks, it was my Grandma's, I'm the only grandchild so she really had no one else to give it to. Glad she didn't sell it, it's perfect to run my business out of." Bertram mentioned his business for the second time since they had gotten there which prompted Remus to finally ask about it.

"What is your business, if you don't mind me asking?"

Y/n and Remus were sat side by side on the porch swing and Bertram sat directly in front of them on a chair he had pulled over. He leaned closer to them on his chair like somebody was nearby and could hear them.

"Okay, it's ingenious really! I buy things and resell them!" He smiled like he had just said the most inventive thing in the world.

"What kind of things?" Y/n asked in a voice full of worry. She was worried that Bertram was doing something inherently stupid, and she was right.

"Simple things, potions, charmed objects, magical creatures, if it's magic in any way you name it and I buy it and resell it!" He looked so proud as he spoke about himself.

Y/n felt worry creeping up her spine, she had thought of where this was going but she was almost worried to ask her next question. "Bertram, who do you sell these things to? Wouldn't a normal wizard just go to a store?"

"That's the beauty of it! Wizards can go to a potions store, they can go to Diagon Alley or any other store to get what they need but Muggles ? They can't apparate to Diagon Alley! Muggles can't use the Floo Network! So I go there myself," he paused and pointed through the open screen door to the fireplace in the living room, "got a fireplace right there, and I buy things and sell them to the Muggles for a much higher price, it's ingenious as I said before."

Remus sat there in silence, staring blankly at the stupid man in front of him. Y/n felt like her heart had stopped, her friend who she had known for years, a kind man with good intent was illegally selling magic items to Muggles. "Bertram, that's illegal, the Ministry will find out it's you sooner or later, they are gonna find out and you can be sent to prison for this!"