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'Hey there, you two!' Hermione screamed over the babble of all the voices in the cobbled street of Diagon Alley. Harry and Ron, Hermione's two best friends from school whipped around to locate the source of the oh-so-familiar voice. Their faces broke into huge grins as they spotted Hermione coming over to them. 'Finally she finds us!' Harry enunciated as he moved forwards to greet her. Hermione hurried over and hugged both of them.

'Where have you guys been?' she asked eagerly. 'I'm so sorry I couldn't come at your place Ron. I was on vacation with my parents. They keep complaining how I never spend time with them you know' she said apologetically.

'Where have we been? Where have you been?' asked Ron. 'No letters, no nothing for the whole two months. And now you meet us, you're blaming us?' he accused.

'I told you, I'm sorry!' said Hermione. 'I just came today. Where have you guys stayed this time? I checked in on the Leaky Cauldron, you weren't there!'

'Oh, there's this new hotel down the lane, next to Gringotts. 'Steamy Closet' it's called. Pretty good service and I heard a lot about it, so I decided to stay over there. I tempted the Weasleys too!' said Harry.

'Oh?' said Hermione.

'Anyways, have you done all your shopping?' asked Ron, cutting in.

'No!' said Hermione exasperatedly. 'I told you, I've just come today. I have loads to buy. I was hoping to run into you two so you can carry around my stuff!' she said truthfully.

Harry laughed, but Ron frowned.

'What things are left?' asked Harry

'Oh, the important thing...' Hermione started

'Your books, no doubt!' Ron finished the sentence for her.

'You're right there!' said Hermione jubilantly.

So they set off for Dervish and Bangs to get Hermione's books. There were a couple of new series introduced for Defense against the Dark Arts. As they had a different teacher each year, the trio hardly found this surprising. They had fun exploring some new shops around Diagon Alley and then returned to their hotel by night. They had to get their trunks packed as they were to leave for Hogwarts tomorrow morning. Hermione met up with all the Weasleys in the Steamy Closet. Like everyone else, she too, thought that Harry's discovery was really good. The Steamy Closet surely had better service and certainly better food. The Weasley twins were also there. Having their premises for Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes, they were more than likely to be over there most of the time. Their business was getting them big bucks and they seemed to be enjoying all the attention they were getting. Their joke shop had certainly had more profit than even Zonko's and this for them, was nothing short of a world record.

That's just the start, tell me how you like it and I'll think about continuing it or not.