Another short chapter but its definately enough for this week's amount lols. Too much homework UGHS."



The day came for school shopping and when Rose went to the Burrow to go with them as her Aunt was working Ron noticed her staring at her booklist. 7 books for Defence Against the Dark Arts. WHAT THE HELL WAS THE TEACHER THINKING ABOUT? I thought to myself.

"You've been told to get all of Lockhart's books too?" Ron said, looking at Harry's list after taking a brief glance over his own. "This new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher must be a fan- bet it's a witch."

Recalling the handsome-yet-(In Rose's opinion)-ridiculously-appearance-obsessed face that he'd seen on one of the Lockhart books in the Burrow's kitchen- something about Gilderoy Lockhart's Guide to Household Pets, she recalled the title had been-, Rose had to admit that the reasoning sounded good; that Lockhart guy did seem like the kind of person who'd attract a lot of female attention. Normally, he might have found it funny, but given that she'd once come down early to find Hermione looking at the picture with a look on her face that somehow combined the look she had whenever the two of them were playing with the look she had when she received a much-longed-for book for her birthday or Christmas- the same look that seemed to be trying to appear on her face at the moment as she studied the list-, well…

The joke lost at least some of its appeal when Hermione was one of the people she'd be making fun of with it; some friendly teasing was one thing, but that was something she had absolutely no interest in teasing Hermione about and would far prefer to encourage her to get over the whole thing as soon as possible.

It wasn't that Rose wasn't jealous of Lockhart; By the look of the books she read they all sounded like a lot of fluff. No one would still be alive after all of that ordeals. His books events even clashed. He had poor writing skills. It was obvious he was a fake but Rose couldn't put out Hermione like that.


"That lot won't come cheap," George groaned from off to one side as he studied his own list; Rose and Harry had been so lost in their own thoughts that they didn't register that the twins had come down in the meantime. "Lockhart's books are really expensive."

"Well, we'll manage," Mrs Weasley said, trying to conceal her somewhat apprehensive expression from her children; Rose briefly thought about offering to help out with the school supplies, but decided he didn't want to draw too much attention to his financial situation and stayed silent. "I expect we'll be able to pick up some of Ginny's things second-hand while we're there."

"Oh, you're starting Hogwarts this year?" Harry asked Ginny, looking politely over at her. Ginny, however, didn't respond like he'd hoped; she just nodded, squeaked, and stuck her elbow in the butter-dish, Percy's sudden arrival in the room being the only thing that prevented Rose from noting down further material with which to tease him later.

They got to Diagon Alley and shopped after the mishap with floo powder that Harry had.


The old fake took a picture of Harry and gave him two sets of his books. Very vain old fool if u ask me. I bought all of Ginny's books and put the money Mrs Weasley gave me for them into Mrs Weasley's pocket. I didn't want Ginny to have second hand things. She was so excited for being able to go to Hogwarts so I bought her brand new stuff.

I charmed them to look secondhand to Mrs Weasley and Mr Weasley but they looked brand new to everyone else. Harry gave his two sets of Lockhart's books to the Weasleys stating he would buy his own. After the fiasco they headed their separate ways. The Weasleys to the Burrow and Rose to Crescent Lane.

Today's shopping had been fun. They had ice cream laughed at a few jokes and it made Rose feel good inside that she had some sort of family other than her Aunt left. Ofcourse she noticed that Harry looked a little more well built and healthy. She guessed it had to be the Quidditch Training.

'Why am I thinking about him in that WAY?' I have to control my thoughts I thought to myself as I shook myself out of the thoughts and got ready for bed. Tomorrow would be a brand new day and a new school year would have started.


This Chapter has come to an End expect the second year in this next chapter. CHEERS TO MY STORY! REE. - Rose Elvira Evans(: