Chapter 7: Confronting
Harry had retrieved a heap more cash from his vault and exchanged the majority into muggle pounds. He and Draco were going to go to Flourish and Blotts to see if they had a book on the Fallen and then they were going to go back into muggle London again, then as he could access his money at any Gringotts around the world they were going to spend some time travelling around to Harry's different properties and assessing their conditions and working out which were still liveable.
When they entered Flourish and Blotts it was nearly empty being the middle of a workday and the Hogwarts letters were still away off. Harry approached the counter even though he could not see anyone working there.
"Hello?" Harry called out towards the back of the store. Draco was walking around the store looking at all sorts of books.
"You called?" said a girl about 20 years old walked out from the back of the store.
"Um…yeah I'm looking for a book on a race of creatures known as the Fallen, would you happen to have any?"
"You a serious buyer?" an older man asked sticking his head out from the back room.
"Yea I dead serious about buying a book on it. Why?"
"Because the only book we got on them is expensive, not a common topic and the only books on them are hundreds of years old." The girl explained.
"Come back here boy," the old man said gesturing for Harry to come to the back of the store. Harry cautiously made his way around to the back room of the store following the old man who he now realised was hobbling around with the aid of an old wooden cane.
"So you have the book I need?" Harry asked taking a seat where the old man gestured.
"I believe so Mr Potter. Yes I know who you are, your mothers eyes give you away as well as the way you carry yourself. Ah here it is 'Hidden Secrets of The Fallen' by Diedrich Frelitzer. This book should contain everything you need to know."
"Thank you so much sir, this looks perfect." Harry said after looking at the first few pages.
"Let's take it out the front shall we."
They re-entered the front room of the store where Draco was purchasing a few books. When they exited the store they headed to The Leaky Cauldron to deposit their books before they headed out to the muggle world.
"So what are we going to do out here today Harry?" Draco asked as they stepped into the muggle world and looked around.
"Well I want to buy a couple more things and then I want to find a tattoo and piercing parlour."
"Well I'm not sure about the stuff you want to buy but there a place in Diagon Alley where you can get tattoos and piercings and there's no healing time cause they heal 'em up." Draco explained as the wandered towards the mall they had already shopped at. "So what are you after buying?"
"A laptop and an MP3 player I really need to get some new glasses and also I wanted to get some other stuff that I really don't want the wizarding world to know I'm buying."
"Now that sounds like my kind of stuff. So shall we find an optometrists first then we can get the other muggle stuff and after that we can go to the pallor I know for your tattoo. How's that sound for a plan?"
"Brilliant."
Harry and Draco were just leaving the optometrists when they were spotted by none other than Ronald Weasley, he began stalking towards them looking furious although with the combination of his hair colour and the way his face was turning red the effect was simply comical.
"HARRY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING STANDING NEAR THAT FERRETING SNAKE?" Ron shouted when he was 10feet (3metres) away.
"Getting new glasses." Harry replied in a very relaxed way. Draco wanted to laugh at the way Ron was looking and acting.
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? HAVE YOU FORGOTTON WHO THAT IS? HE'S A DEATHEATER!!!!!! HE'S PROBABLY ALREADY CALLED YOU-KNOW-WHO AND HE'S ON HIS WAY TO KILL YOU. QUICK COME WITH ME WE'LL GET YOU OUT OF HERE BEFORE HE ATTACKS YOU." Ron grabbed Harry's arm and started trying to pull Harry away.
"Let go of me now Weasley." Harry said in a quite and dangerous voice.
"SHUT UP MALFOY!" Ron said without thinking, then it dawned on him it was Harry who had said it.
"Let go now and I won't hex you into oblivion." Harry's voice had gotten even more dangerous if that was possible, so Ron let go of his arm and started stalking towards Draco.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HARRY YOU FERRET?!?!?" Ron yelled grabbing Draco and throwing him against a wall.
"That's enough out of you," Said a security guard who grabbed Ron by the scruff of the neck.
Ron paled when he say the guy who was holding onto him. The guard was 6'11" and built like a wrestler.
"Now what's this all about?" the guard asked looking at Harry and Draco for answers.
"Just an ex-friend of mine who can't get past the fact that I'm now friends with an old school enemy sir." Harry replied politely.
"Which one of these boys started the fight Emmy?" the guard asked the receptionist of the optometrists who had called security.
"The red-head started it John, well the red-head you're holding by the scruff of the neck." Emmy replied.
"Thank you. Sorry this boy started trouble for you two, I'll make sure he gets at least a six month ban from the Mall." John said to Harry and Draco.
"Thank you," Harry and Draco replied in unison. John carried Ron away towards the security guard station. And Harry and Draco turned and walked in the other direction towards the electrical goods store.
"Well I think I am going to request a resorting after that disgraceful display," Harry said while he and Draco were looking at different laptops.
"So seen one you like?" Draco asked he was confused about all this stuff.
"That light green apple with a 640gb hard-drive looks good. But I've been thinking about it and I dunno whether it's going to be worth it with school and everything it's not going to work there so I dunno."
"I suppose you got a point there but CD players can be modified to run off the ambient magic around Hogwarts. If you're after music maybe you should get one of those."
"That doesn't sound like to bad of an idea. Then we go raid a music store." Harry replied really liking the idea.
They walked over to the area that displayed all the CD players that the store sold. They browsed for a good half an hour before finally deciding on a simple and classic CD player. Then they made there way to the nearest music store. They separately browsed the store so that Draco could enjoy the experience of a muggle music store. Every now and then Harry would let out an excited squeak but this was only noticed by Draco.
When they left the store they had a large collection of music including; heavy metal, pop, jazz, swing, classical, rock and just about everything else you could think of. There was a large selection of bands from both Harry's and Draco's selections.
"So lunch Harry? Then we can go track down these last things you want in the muggle London then we go back and we go find you a tattoo and some peircings." Draco said grabbing the backpack they had bought to put the CDs in cause there were simply so many.
"Sounds pretty good to me." Harry replied leading them again the food court. "So same as last time?"
"Yeah that wasn't bad." Draco replied looking for an empty table.
"Alright, you find us a table I'll go get us some food." Harry instructed.
Lunch was a fun event for the two boys, just laughing about all the different arguments they had, had at school and at Ron's antics that day.
After they had finished lunch they began walking back to Diagon Alley when Harry spotted the exact store he needed to visit before disappearing into the magical world.
"Hey Draco I wanna grab a couple of things from the supermarket here before we go back to Diagon Alley." Harry said as they approached the store.
"Okay." Was Draco's reply and he followed Harry into the store.
When they exited the supermarket Harry had bought; three 36-can slabs of coca-cola, four boxes of mars bars, two 20 packet boxes of chips and two 40's packs of cigarettes plus another backpack to keep all this stuff in.
"I think I need a bigger trunk." Harry said as they walked up the stairs in the Leaky Cauldron to deposit the purchases in Harry's room.
"I think we should talk to the Gringotts goblins about getting you a vault card." Draco said with a laugh.
