Harry was on his way to muggle London, Oxford Street. Harry promised the Minister For Magic that he would stay in Diagon Alley, but he was bored of the town. Harry told Tom before he left that he was feeling under the weather. And not to disturb him. He hoped he would stay out of his room. Tom worked as the innkeeper at The Leaky Cauldron.

Harry was a slim boy, he had untamable black hair. There is only one thing that is unusual about Harry's appearance. He had a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. Harry was a wizard, he had gotten the scar when an evil wizard named Lord Voldemort tried to kill him. Harry lost both his Mum and Dad in the same attack. This was the reason that he had grown up with the Dursley's. From the age of one until just after his eleventh birthday. After he turned eleven, he went off to study at Hogwarts, school witchcraft and scholl his best friends at school were Ron and Hermione. They were on holiday right now. Ron was in Egypt and Hermione was in France.

Harry made his way to Oxford Street. Once there, he went to a few decided he would have a light lunch before he continued his shopping. He read the Daily Prophet while he ate. In the paper, he read an article about Sirius Black. He still not been caught. Sirius Black had recently escaped from prison, and he had still not been caught. He was also meant to be extremely dangerous. Black was one of the other reasons why he was supposed to stay in Diagon Alley. He had also heard rumors in passing that Black was believed to be on the hunt for someone, he had also heard that the person attends Hogwarts. Harry wondered was he that he doubted that he would run into Black, and if he did, he had his invisibility cloak to hide under if needed.

He read a few other stories. Including a story about what was going on at Hogwarts. Hogwarts was currently experiencing many problems. The main problem the school was experiencing was a power shortage. The grid was no longer producing enough power. All the school's power is generated by the Grid, the Grid was located deep underground. After he finished reading, he left and continued shopping.
Harry also had another reason he for coming to muggle London. He had to buy a birthday present for Hermione, he had still not got her anything. He heard there was a used wizard bookstore In Oxford Street. So he thought he would check there. He had already looked in many shops in Diagon Alley, but he found nothing of interest. It took Harry a long time to find the shop, as the shop itself was hidden. The shop was made to look like it was an abandoned shop, the same as The Leaky Cauldron. He knew roughly where it was, but still, it was difficult to find.

When he eventually found it, it was well into the afternoon. The shop was huge, he saw many books, the bookshelves went to the ceiling. There was a massive pile of books in the center of the shop, there was no organization to it. Harry did not even attempt to look in this pile. The shop was very dusty, and the books looked to be very old. Harry begun searching for a book for Hermione. He started in one section, but found nothing of interest. He changed to another section. In this section he Found Ron's birthday present, it was a book on The Chudley Cannons, the book was ancient, and said on the back that it had a detailed history of The Chudley Cannons. From there first match in the 1400s till the present day, but the book was published in the 1920s, so it would have no recent history. Harry would not normally purchase Ron a book. But he thought he would get Ron this book, as it was on his favorite team. He searched on, he eventually came across a promising section, it had many books on potions, charms. It also had books on Gilderoy Lockhart, who had been disgraced a few months prior. Lockhart's books were going extremely cheap these days, you can get his entire collection for one Galleons, in his heyday, you would have had to spend 100 Galleons for his whole collection. He also saw books on magical plants, animals, a few books on the dark arts, he saw a book called ''Hogwarts Curse'' he might have looked at the book, but in the next moment he saw Hermione's birthday present. The book was a potions book, it was the same book they got the recipe for the Polyjuice Potion, that Hermione brewed last year, when they had to investigate Draco Malfoy. Harry thought she would find the book interesting, there were many other advanced potion recipes in the books as well. He paid for the books and left.
Harry ate in a muggle cafe before leaving Oxford Street. He then began his long walk back to Diagon Alley. As he approached The Leaky Cauldron, he got under the cloak, went to the entrance of Diagon Alley and waited for someone to open it. He could not open it himself as it requires magic, and he was not allowed to as he was outside of Hogwarts. After 10 minutes the entrance was opened by someone. In Harry's hurry to make it back to the wizarding world. He nearly bumped into a man, he had to dive out of the way. The man he almost bumped into was none other than Lucius Malfoy. A man who Harry suspects is a supporter of Voldemort. Harry wondered were the Malfoys missing Dobby. Dobby used to be the Malfoys slave. But Harry freed him.
Once back at his room, he had a quick read of The evening edition of the Daily Prophet. He finished reading, and he did his homework the rest of the night.
The next day he did his homework outside Florean Fortescue's ice cream parlour. Mr Fortescue brought him free ice creams. One of the supposed perks of been the boy who lived.
Harry wondered when he would see his friends. He saw many friends from school. Harry had seen Dean, Seamus and Neville. But Harry did not see Ron and Hermione until the day before term started. Ron informed Harry and Hermione that his family is staying in the Leaky Cauldron tonight. Hermione upon hearing this decided that she would stay there as well. Everyone had dinner in the Leaky Cauldron that night.
After dinner, the conversation took a more serious note.
''Arthur what is your opinion on what is going on at Hogwarts?,'' Asked Hermione.
''You mean the power shortages,'' he asked.
''Yes,'' she said.
''Well Dumbledore has every teacher working on fixing the problem,'' he said.
''Could the school possibly close down,''said Hermione. ''it said in the paper it was a possibility.''
''I doubt it,'' said Arthur. ''I am sure they will figure it out before it comes to that.''
''What's causing the problems with a grid,'' Said Fred.
''''Well I have been hearing rumors in the ministry since this all began that its caused by a curse,''said Arthur. ''But it's only a rumor.''
''Does Dumbledore Know,'' said Hermione.
''Of course,'' said Arthur.

After dinner, the twins Fred and George Weasley came up to Harry, as he was going to bed.
''Harry, me and George have been wondering. Would you take us down into the chamber of secrets,'' Said Fred. ''When we are back at school.''