Chapter 1: The Beginning

"Do be careful, Ron and Harry!" Mrs. Weasley exclaimed from inside the Burrow. Harry was spending the rest of the summer with the Weasley's. He was glad to be away from those awful Dursely's. Even though he had had his own room, he was stuck there until 'further notice'.

At the moment Ron and Harry were ridding the garden from the pesky gnomes. "Five so far!" Harry yelled over to Ron as he swung his 6th gnome over his head. Ron and Harry were both going in to their 6th year of Hogwarts. They were due at platform 9 3/4 in about a week. And yet neither of them had gotten their supplies yet, although the supplies list had already arrived

They were to go get their supplies soon enough. Well, that was when Mrs. Weasley was actually able to get them. "Done with my side, Harry, what about you?" Ron was approaching Harry's 'side' of the garden.

"AlmostJust one" Harry pounced on the last gnome as he then began to toss it over his head. "Done!" Harry had successfully gotten his gnome on the other side of the fence. "Shall we go inside?" Ron nodded in agreement.

As they walked in they saw Ginny Weasley sitting at the kitchen table doing a bit of reading in the newspaper A new article had appeared:

'Hogesmade Closed Down'

Due to recent events the town of Hogesmade had been closed. It seems that someone broken into the bookshop and held up the cashier up in order to get over a thousand galleons. An anonymous person had used the Avra Cadavra spell at the man at the counter. Some people were standing right outside of the shop chatting as the UN-identified man came running out. They said they only caught a glimpse of him. They said he had a long black robe on, and no face that they could see. The Ministry of Magic hopes to catch this criminal. Until then, the town of Hogesmade has been closed down for further investigation, and for the safety of the Hogwarts' students.

A picture was below the article with many wizarding officers standing by with very worried looks on their faces.

"Well, thank god it wasn't Diagon Ally!" Ron told harry in a quite unsure voice.

"Well, Ron, Ginny, and HarryWe had better be going to Diagon Ally! We need to get supplies! Not much time before your year at Hogwarts starts!" Mrs. Weasley was drying her hands off with a self-cleaning towel as she put on a slight smile.

Harry, Ron, and Ginny all went upstairs to get their money. They might as well bring it, in case they wanted to buy something at the Quidditch shop or somewhere else.

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They all arrived at Diagon Ally by Floo powder. Once all of them had gotten out of the soft flames, they headed straight for Gringotts, wizard bank.

Harry arrived at his vault first. He took out about 10 handfuls of gold galleons, bronze Knuts, and silver sickles. He still had heaps of wizard money, from what his parents had left him, before they died. At the last moment he decided to grab a couple of galleons for the Hogwarts Express.

When they arrived at the Weasley's vault, they had but only a few gold galleons, bronze Knuts, and silver sickles. He thought they must just have enough to get them their school supplies. Mrs. Weasley nearly took the whole lot of wizarding money, but she probably figured that she would need more later on.

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Once they had finished the last of their shopping for their teachers, among them, a new one (defense against the dark arts) Mr. Garb Fildyn, they decided to go to the Quidditch shop. There a new broom stood in the window, the White-Wing. This broom was the newest model, and better than ever, this broom by far was better than the Fire Bolt. This broom had everything you could want; streamline wood that polished itself, a seat cushion for those long Quidditch games, and more.

Neither Ron nor Harry ended up getting anything from the shop. Maybe some unfortunate accident would get him that broom, like before. But, if nothe would probably go get it himself that was if the price was lowered from what it was 750 galleons.