Harry Potter and the Gift of the Phoenix
Chapter Four: A Day at the Mall
As noon approached Privet Drive, one would find Mr. Potter walking through the upstairs hallway, a tin in his hands.
"Dudley," Harry called. He had not seen his cousin since he had scarfed down a bowl of corn flakes and then ran out the front door, without so much as a 'Good morning Harry!'.
A few minutes ago, however, Dudley had ran into the house, sprinted up the stairs, and slammed the door to his room.
"Wait a tic, Harry," Dudley gasped through his bedroom door, which was open a crack.
As fast as a humming bird flaps its wings, Dudley came out of the room, shut the door and locked it.
"Yes?"
"Er, I just wanted to know if you wanted these toffees," Seeing the look on Dudley's face, he quickly added, "Don't worry, they shouldn't make your tongue grow!"
"Er, sure I suppose so. I suppose I could eat them," He suddenly perked up, as if he had remembered something. "Here, I bought you some decent clothes, Medium, right," Dudley tossed Harry a package and said, "You have ten minutes, so make it snappy."
With that said, Harry stared after Dudley as he unlocked his door, went in, shut it, and locked it.
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Harry walked out of the bathroom wearing a pair of jeans that weren't to tight and weren't to baggy. He was wearing a navy blue Billabong hoodie, and his hair was gelled so that it didn't look as messy as usual. All in all, this was the best fitting muggle outfit that he had worn his whole life.
Harry walked down the hall, stopping to knock on Dudley's door. Dudley came out, wearing almost and identical outfit to Harry's. However, instead of a blue sweater, he was wearing a green hoodie with Hurley scrawled across it in silver. His hair was also gelled. (Dudley had lost over 50 pounds in the last few weeks, and didn't look so much like a pig in a blanket.)
"Ready to go," Dudley asked.
"Er, I guess, where are we going?"
"My secret. Here, you're going to need this," Dudley replied, tossed Harry a fat envelope.
Peering inside it, Harry gasped. The envelope contained fifteen twenty pound notes. More muggle money than he had ever held in his entire life.
Taking the notes out of the envelope, another item fell out.
Picking it up and flipping it over, Harry saw that it was a fake ID, the kind muggles used to get them into clubs.
Confused, Harry jogged to the car. Harry opened his mouth the ask about the ID, however, Dudley responded first.
"Don't worry, we aren't going bar hopping! The place that we are going has gotten tight on security lately, and its just a precaution. You probably wont even need it. The money is obviously for you to spend, I knew that you probably wouldn't have anything but wizarding money. Now, we really need to get going."
While opening the door, slipping into the seat, buckling up, and grabbing a magazine that was laying on the dashboard, the Weasleys were the farthest thing from Harry's mind.
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(Two hours later)
"Oh gosh. Dudley, I just remembered that the Weasleys were going to pick me up at your house in three hours," Exclaimed a very distraught Harry.
"Don't worry, the place that we are going to is only about two more hours away. Settle back and read your magazine. Oh, where did you get the idea that they were picking you up at my house?"
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(Two more hours later.. {a/n – LMAO Its more like… two weeks later for me..})
"We're here! Now, meet me back here in about 45 minutes. Don't be late," Dudley walked the doors to his car and jogged to the entrance of the towering mall.
Harry was shocked. Why were they at a shopping mall when he needed to be at the Dursley's at five to await the arrival of the Weasley's?
Harry started to the entrance, after all, he had three-hundred pounds to spend.
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As Harry emerged from the mall forty-five minutes later, he was amazed at how much stuff muggles could pack into such a small space.
Inside the mall was an ice rink, multiples of restaurants, specialty stores, chain stores, and an extremely large movie theatre (Twelve screens).
After he had gotten over the enormity of it all, Harry had gone to a clothing store and bought one hundred pounds worth of extremely well fitting clothes.
Next, as he'd been walking through the mall, he had seen a store that made teddy bears exactly the way you wanted them. You got to pick everything, such as the color of the fur, the amount of fluff inside the fur, the outfit, and your own personalization(if you wanted it).
Remembering that Ron's sister, Ginny's, birthday was coming up, Harry decided to get one of the bears for her.
He picked out a white suit for the bear, which felt like velvet. He told the lady behind the counter to fill it until it was light and fluffy.
After she had filled it with just enough fluff, he picked out a plain robins-egg blue sweater for it.
He had then asked her if she could personalize it for him, and, after she said yes, he had her sew 'Kia' on the front of it, and stitch 'Happy Birthday Ginny – From Harry' on the inside of it.
After it was finished, he went to the bookstore to buy Hermione a gift. As he was searching through the books, he found one called PaperQuake that looked interesting. He also bought Hermione and Ginny large books filled with poems by a muggle author named Edgar Allen Poe. He paid twenty pounds and was almost out of the store when he saw a book about the West Ham Soccer Team and bought it for Seamus.
Then, stopping in a sports supply store, Harry bought a pair of sweat pants for Quidditch practice and two nice pairs of jogging shoes. (One for him and one for Ron.)
With five minutes left, he ran out of the mall, ran to the car and saw Dudley frowning at his watch.
"Are you ready to go?"
"Yes," Said Harry, getting into the passenger side after stuffing all of his stuff in the trunk.
"Good. Buckle-up, we've only got ten minutes to get to the other side of the town."
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A/N – Kudos to anyone who knows who the bear is named after! Acctually, I'll give you a nice spoiler! Except for Rose.. You can't participate.. Muahaha.
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