Disclaimer: Sorry for delays and a bigger apology for this being a shopping chapter and not even all of it. I just want to give a bit of a view on how Harry's introducing them to the muggle world, and well...it will become apparent a bit more why muggle things are mentioned more readily in this. Also because taking kids shopping is interesting. If you recognize it, I dont own it.
As they left the house and went to the store which was a fifteen-minute walk, Fred switched boys for a bit to give there little legs a break. They all seemed too excited by everything muggle to be bothered by the distance and a part of them wished it was longer though their amazement did not end at the walk, it just grew at the store, something that was very different then in the wizarding world and outside their experiences. "Wow," Sirius said as he saw the stores and the people. Rudulphus clung to Harrys hand a bit tighter. "There is so much stuff."
"Yep," Harry said as she got a carte and sat all the kids in it. Except Bella who was quite content in Georges arms. "So, we need some cloths."
Rudulphus pouted but did not dare protest, "what's wrong," Harry asked.
He seemed very nervous about giving his dislike but answered the question anyways. "No like cloths shopping," He admitted.
"We will be quick," Harry promised.
The twins, despite most of their cloths being hand-me-downs, knew a bit more about the struggle that most wizard raised had with cloths shopping. "What about it do you not like Rudy?" Fred asked pretty sure he knew the problem.
"So long, poking and poking."
Harry realized now what the issue was as well and was happy Fred thought to ask. She remembered the amazement of the first time she got wizard ware and the tape measures and the pins. But for children their age, all that nonsense would be hell. "That is why we are shopping muggle bud," Harry said gently. "No poking and prodding," Harry said taking them to the boy's cloths section. "Okay, so do you boys like dragons."
"Yes," Sirius said excitedly. Rudulphus nodded quickly.
"Good, so do you like this shirt," She asked as she showed them one with a cartoon dragon getting nods. Muggle or magic, boys liked dragons. Some things were universal which made picking clothing they would recognize much easier. She got them each one in their sizes, all three boys, luckily there were different colors.
"Don't they got to make it fit," Sirius asked inquisitively. "Where is the worker lady. Pins and pokes."
"Muggles make a whole bunch of sizes so you don't have to get fitted," Harry said. "You just find one in your size and all the annoying poking is already finished. It won't be a perfect fit but it is much much easier then having to get it made special for each outfit."
"That is so cool," Rudulphus said amazed. "No poking."
"No poking," Fred agreed giving his stomach a bit of a poke causing him to giggle before hiding the laugh quickly.
Harry through in seven pairs of pants for each boy of different designs and three pairs of shorts. She did not want to have to be out here longer then necessary since even without poking and prodding, she knew that kids only had so much patience for cloths shopping. Her cousin had dozens of fits over it. Though she doubted even little Bellatrix would act as crazy as her cousin could when he was unhappy. "So you like Dragons, how about lions?" There were nods. "Snakes." Sirius didn't like snakes, so she only got that one for the two youngest boys adding an extra lion one in Sirius's. They got different animal designs, a couple with goofy sayings like "Cool kid" and some with dinosaurs though they didn't know what they were. That fact startled her. Did Dinosaurs not exist in the wizarding world? Did they not acknowledge their existence? She knew they were real but did the magic world have a different explanation. She would need to ask eventually especially as the twins looked a bit confused over the strange creatures. She was satisfied when each child had ten shirts, a couple fancy ones added in. She tossed packages of underwear and socks in the carte for each boy before they went into the girls section.
"Pretty," Bellatrix said seeing a pink dress.
Harry added it into the carte, "We will get one right for you."
"Tixie get dress," Bella asked amazed.
"Yep love," Harry said getting four other dresses and then a half dozen pants and cute shirts, she didn't really care for specifics, she wanted to get them to the toy section.
"Shoes," Harry said as she got them fitted and bought three different types for each child. She didn't know what a normal amount was but since she spent her entire life with duck taped shoes, these children were having everything"
The children were each amazed at how simple and painless shopping seemed to be. In absolute awe over the different shoe designs, especially as one sort had dragons on the side. Even the twins were pretty amazed and she realized she had never seen wizarding shoes with designs like the muggle ones had before. She wondered what other differences she had missed over the years.
Then the toy section of the shop. She knew that they would enjoy that, but she was amazed at just how speechless the children became looking around. The children were left in absolute awe. Wide eyed and speechless as they looked around at everything available unable to even bring themselves to reach out for the isles of toys and games. Fred and George looked just as excited. "So...we are going completely overboard right," Fred asked practically vibrating in excitement. "Like crazy crazy right?"
Harry couldn't help but join in the crazy, "Oh hell yeah," Harry said grinning.
"Building blocks," Fred said seeing some toys that caught his interest. "Build it up and knock it down. Big ones so little Bassy over there can't eat the pieces. This kit has 100, it is like 20 something, is that muggle galleons."
"No, it would be about four galleons. Its pound sterling."
"Oh," Fred said having been fairly worried about the price. "That is not bad at all."
"Nope, buy two," Harry said grinning. "So, they get lots to play with, there is four of them after all. Neither twin needed to be told twice as they added the kits to the carte.
"Wow," Sirius said. "We can really play with these. Don't they make noise."
"Louder the better kiddo, louder the better," George said but he was too distracted to say much else. Harry remembered being afraid to make noise. How similar were there childhoods. It was a bit overwhelmingly painful imagining. She vowed to never get angry if they were too loud and messy.
"Why do they have a dog on a string," Fred asked confused. "What is the point of this toy?"
"You pull it, it is for kids Rabastan's age," Harry said. "Since it follows them. Here Bas, you like."
He looked at the dog in amazement and when he got it, he held it tightly clearly having no interest in letting it go.
"What about this," Fred said touching something else and it made a clinking noise. He almost jumped at the noise before pressing it again. Harry laughed since they were more excited than the kids. "Huh...is it like a piano…no I don't know. Harry, what is it."
"It is a xylophone. You hit it with those stick's and it makes music. Put it in the carte."
"Wow," Sirius said hitting the spots hearing the musical clink before looking to see if he was in trouble. When he saw her grin at him, he quickly hit another.
"Huh, your pretty good at that," Harry teased.
"Is that a dragon without wings," Rudulphus asked. "Like our shirts. They had them too."
"It is a Dinosaur which is like a dragon without wings," Harry said putting the toys in the carte as well as a couple books she saw with dinosaurs. "I'll teach you about them."
"Do Dinosaurs talk."
"Some of them roar like dragons, others tweet like birds and some just make a weird yelping noise," Harry said trying to remember cartoons and classes she had on the creatures. She also quickly made sure to grab a package of plastic animals that had them all amazed.
"Huh, rubber duckies," George said returning, Harry hadn't even realized he was gone. "Maybe we can figure out what they are used for.
"You have like ten," Harry laughed.
"So...how many duckies should they have?"
Harry just grinned, "tens okay."
"Quack quack," Sirius said giggling. She gave him a grin at the animal noises.
Harry added four or five animal puzzles, the ones with wooden pieces to put together. They also got Bella a couple dolls and the boys stuffed animals and action figures of superhero's though they had no idea who they were. Bella also got the stuffed animals and action figures since she liked them as well. Harry also added balls of all different sizes including one bigger than most of the kids which had them staring wide eyed in awe.
"We done," Fred asked.
"No, I want to get them some child friendly books and some arts and crafts."
"What's that," Sirius asked curiously. "Art and and…"
"Arts and crafts," Harry said gently as they went to the section. There is paints and crayons to color with, coloring books, paper," Harry said as she tossed each thing she mentioned into the carte. She bought them everything she wanted when she was a kid.
She heard Rabastan's stomach growl, "lets pay for this and get lunch," Harry suggested as she shelled out a near fortune but didn't even blink. She did however, wonder how the hell she was getting these things home but bet that the twins would have a way. For now, she wondered how the purebloods would react to muggle fast food which was in the food court down the shopping center. She was quite excited to see there faces.