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Recap: "To Madame Steffon's," she said, skipping ahead of the other three towards the large clothing store.
Sighing, Draco looked at the other two who shrugged and followed her. Hermione waited for them at the door, when they had caught up, she opened the door and they stepped into the well lit shop.
"Hello dears, how can I help you today?" asked the nice elderly lady who ran the shop.
" We need new clothes, lots of them." Hermione said excitedly. She had never been much for shopping sprees, but today felt like a great day for one.
"What kind of clothes are you looking for dear?" asked the woman. Giving a smirk to rival Draco's she said "intimidating ones." Smiling like she didn't even notice the smirk, the older woman motioned for them to follow her. Perhaps it's true that when you get old nothing scares you, Hermione thought. They walked into a back room which was fairly dark. A small woman with long dark brown hair and determined eyes was working on what looked like beginning of a black leather jacket.
"Elaine," the elderly woman said. Which made the woman stop and look up at the five.
"Can I help you?" she asked softly looking slightly confused as to why they were all back there.
"These people are looking for some clothes, I believe your styles would be more to their tastes." she said with a knowing gleam in her old eyes. Much like a Dumbledore look, actually. The girl nodded and the woman nodded and then returned to the front of the store, leaving the four children staring at the girl. Making a small squeak, she stood up and walked quickly to a door even farther back. To their surprise, instead of another small back room, there was another well lit shop that had everything a normal shop needed, except doors.
"Miss," she said to Hermione, acknowledging her as the person in charge. Hermione smiled at her reassuringly, at least she hoped that is what it looked like. "Follow me, umm I'll take your measurements and we'll see what I have that you might like," the woman said with a slight tremble in her voice.
Looking around the store she couldn't help but ask, "did you make all of these by yourself?" The woman nodded and her tape measure made all the necessary measurements and rewound itself.
"I've never see anything quite like them, they are all so intricate and beautiful," Hermione said softly making the woman look at her.
"You're not Slytherin are you, you look like one, but you are nice and softly spoken, you just can't fit in with them," said the woman.
"You're right, I'm no Slytherin, I'm in Gryffindor. My name is Hermione, I'm Head Girl at Hogwarts," the woman blinked at this sentence.
"Hermione Granger, but you can't be, she's short, brown hair, always with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley," she said obviously perplexed.
"Yes, that is who I was last year, umm may I ask your name?" Hermione asked.
"Oh, of course, my name is Elaine Steffon, my grandmother owns this shop," she said smiling. Hermione racked her brain for something about this girl, Hermione knew she had attended Hogwarts but she couldn't remember much more than a few glimpses of her in the hallway. Then, as if it slapped her in the face, she remembered and started talking again.
"Elaine Steffon, Ravenclaw, graduated from Hogwarts two years ago, second highest grades in your year, best friend to Micheal Dunstan," she stated. Elaine, and everyone else just stared at her, everyone knew she was bright and payed close attention to everything, but no one quite knew the extent of her attention. Elaine who didn't really know what to say just stared at her some more, Hermione just smiled back.
"Wow, no wonder they call you the brightest witch of our age, not very many people know those things." This made Hermione blush. Elaine smiled and kept going, " Oh clothes! We need to pick some out for you."
"Sounds good to me!" Elaine took her over to a large section of clothes that were beautiful in every aspect of the word.
"These clothes should be jut your size. Just pick out something you like, there are some fitting rooms right over there," she said and pointed across the room that had five fitting rooms lined up against the wall. All with purple drape curtains that were all tied back with silver cords. Hermione nodded and looked at all the clothes inspecting them, when done she looked up at Elaine then smirked.
"Elaine?" she asked quietly, other girl looked at her with worried eyes.
"Yes?"
"All of them, I'll take them all," she said, then nodded again for conformation.
"What!? Hermione no offense, but you can't seriously buy them all, these clothes are not exactly cheap." This statement made Hermione frown slightly.
"I can afford them, do you think you could have them sent to Hogwarts for me?" Elaine stared at her, but then nodded slowly.
"Yes, of course Hermione." Then Hermione smiled and grabbed one of the outfits and ran into the fitting room in the middle. Elaine was still standing by the clothes Hermione wanted and was staring at them when Hermione came back out wearing blue jeans with black dragon hide on the back pockets and winding up the outer seams. She was also wearing a low-cut black shirt and a black dragon hide jacket, the sleeves of which came down to her knuckles, and the collar flipped up. The silver necklace hung out in everyone view and the emerald shimmered in the bright lights of the room.
"Wow," was all Elaine could say. The outfit was better than she had thought it was, it made Hermione look even taller and skinnier.
"That good huh? That's what I thought, you are a really good designer, if you would, I'd like you to design me a dress for the school's next dance," Elaine smiled widely at the proposition.
"I would love to design you a dress!" she said happily.
"Oh, could you design Arista one as well? I want her to be happy too!," Hermione chirped with glee.
"Of course, I should get the other three some clothes too!"
"OoOo I want to help them pick out their clothes, put the two smaller ones bills on mine, Draco can pay for his own clothes."
"So I wasn't dreaming, I did see Draco Malfoy?" Elaine asked, paling slightly at the thought.
"Yes that's him, but don't worry, he's quite nice to be around now, nothing like he used to be." Hermione said happily and grabbed the small woman's hand and pulled her toward the other three.
"Guys, guys, what do you think?" Hermione said when she got to the other three who were looking at some clothes towards the front, she spun to show off the whole outfit. The three just stared at her for a while. Arista was the first to get her words together.
"Hermione, you look great," she said with a big smile. Hermione grinned down at the little girl, then she looked at the two boys who were still staring at her. Ugh boys.
"Thank you Arista, lets go find you some clothes now!"
"Oh, but Hermione, I don't need clothes!" she said in protest.
"Nonsense, Elaine, work your magic," Hermione said grinning. Elaine just nodded and a few moments later she smiled and motioned for them to follow. She stopped at another large rack of clothes.
"These ones should fit you dear, if you grow out of them all you have to do is send them back here with your new measurements and I can alter them so they fit," Elaine said. "I'm going to help Draco and the young boy now, you two pick out whatever you like," she said then turned and walked toward Jayson and Draco who were stilling staring blankly. Elaine smirked at this.
"You two better get used to seeing her like that, she just bought everything I had in her size and asked me to design her a dress, as for the little girl also, Arista right?" Both boys snapped their attention to her and the little one nodded in response to her query.
"So what's your name then?" she asked Jayson, looking at her with wide pale eyes he said softly.
"Jayson Mince, Ma'am," Elaine smiled at him.
"Call me Elaine, ma'am makes me feel old" she said giving the boy a pat on the head. "Let me get your measurements and then we'll find you some clothes." Once again the tapes sprung to life and wound themselves around Jayson. When they were done they just floated in the air, Elaine shrugged and pointed her wand at Draco. "Might as well get yours too." she said and the tapes wound around his waist. When done Elaine smiled and started walking away turning her head she said, "Well come on," to the boys. They blinked and walked after her. Biting her lip she looked at the numerous outfits in front of her, taking a deep breathe she grabbed one of the rolling racks then pulled it over to one a couple racks down and grabbed it with her other hand. She pulled them over to Draco and Jayson.
"These ones should fit you Jayson" she stated and pushed the one in her left hand to him, "And these ones should fit you Draco." Draco nodded and looked at the clothes closely. He smirked and looked over at Elaine who was biting her lip in obvious nervousness.
"These are wonderful Miss Steffon," he said and walked up to her. "You said Hermione bought all the clothes in her size?" he asked to clarify, Elaine nodded.
"She is going to pay for Arista and Jayson's clothes too" said with a slight smile. Draco's eyes widened.
"Oh no she's not," he said matter of factly.
"But Hermione said she was going to pay for them," she said trying to keep the disappointment from her voice.
"She may pay for Arista's clothing, but I am paying for Jayson's," Draco said with a small grin.
"Oh! That's wonderful." Elaine said, her face brightening.
"By the way, we'll take both racks if you think they'll fit properly," he said absentmindedly, making the small girl gasp. "Oh umm, why don't you go help Arista find some clothes," he said as he picked out an outfit from the rack, Elaine nodded and headed over to Hermione and Arista. Draco shook his head as he watched the woman walk away, he looked at Jayson who was still staring at the clothes and said. "Well grab one and go put it on," giving a slight nod Jayson grabbed a outfit and ran to a fitting room.
"Hermione, Draco is going to buy two racks of clothing, he said he's going to buy Jayson's clothes and you can but Arista's." Hermione scowled at this comment.
"He's trying to outdo me!," she said indignantly.
"That'd cost so much money!" Arista stated with wide eyes. Hermione looked over at Arista and almost laughed.
"Well two can play at that game, Arista keep that outfit on, it's yours. Elaine, have all those clothes sent to Hogwarts, please." She said brightly. "Now Arista, we need accessories," she said and grabbed the small girls hand. After running toward the door, then straight back to Elaine she asked. "Elaine, about how much is the cost of all these totaled?" Elaine made a thoughtful face while doing the math in her head making both Hermione and Arista snicker.
"About a thousand galleons, maybe a little less." Grabbing a piece of parchment Hermione wrote her vault number, name, amount owed, and her signature on the paper and handed it to Elaine with a smile. Walking out the door, only to come back a moment later.
"Elaine, why don't you own your own store?"
"Umm, well I didn't have enough money, but that's not the case anymore," she said with a blinding smile. Hermione nodded.
"I hope to see you have your own store soon," said Draco who had walked up beside her, looking drop dead gorgeous in a black and green dragon hide suit. He handed Elaine a piece of parchment then walked out the door, the other three followed suite. When the three left she all but shrieked with happiness. Looking at both the slips of paper, she almost died of shock, both without knowing the other had had given her double the amount due.
Arista and Hermione were running around the two boys like three year olds in a candy shop. There were many 'Oohs' and "Awws' coming from them. Spotting the store the two girls wanted to go to Hermione looked at Draco and smiled. For the sake of his sanity she would send him to do something her would enjoy.
"Draco, would you like to go get the brooms while we look at accessories?" Draco gave a surprised look before nodding. Hermione smiled and gave Draco with a paper with her vault number and signature.
"Just fill in the amount of the broom, and Draco, I want the best available," she said as she turned and wen into the store called 'Matrice's.' Shrugging Draco looked down to see Jayson, clad in a suit similar to his own with red instead of green, still staring at the place Arista had previously been. Draco smirked and patted the kid on the head, making him snap put of his trance.
"You're not going to get her if all you can do is gawk at her, besides, how would you feel if your best friend couldn't talk to you because she was to busy oogling you?" Draco said with a chuckle.
"I-I don't like Arista li-like t-that!" Jayson squeaked at the older boy. Draco just smirked and shook his head.
"Don't try to lie to me, do you remember who I am?" Draco asked and the boy nodded. "Well I'm glad, because you'll remember that I know how to win over just about any girl."
"I thought you could get any girl," Jayson said with a smirk of his own. Draco's own smirk fell slightly at this statement.
"No, not every girl, one doesn't even take notice of me, to strong minded to fall for someone's good looks and charms." He said shaking his head. "Mom always was bull headed like that." Draco said with a frown, and Jayson just shook his head with a laugh.
-A/N Err well there is still lots more shopping and visits to old friends to proceed. However, I still need to write that, should do that sometime soon. Well hoped you liked it. What do you guys think of my OC's? Like them, hate them?
B/N: Fanfiction needs a spell check function. You would think they could pull something like that off; they've got a search engine and an in site dictionary, why not spell check? So many of my issues could be solved right there.