Chapter Three
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A/N: Sorry that I have taken so long but I am so stuck. I can't write. I know exactly were I want this story to go I am just having a heck of a time trying to get there. I decided to add a quote from one of the books before each chapter because I like a lot of the quotes from the books.
"They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer..." ~Harry HPSS p.309
On with the story. It has been way too long.
Chapter 3
It was a couple of days later, Sirius and Harry were back in their flat. The rest of the evening at the Burrow was pleasant and enjoyable. After they had finished eating, Harry opened gifts from all of his friends.
He had gotten: a box of the latest goodies from the 3W from Fred and George, a bag of Everlasting Jawbreakers from Ron (although Harry couldn't figure out why he needed a bag if they were suposed to be everlasting), a poster of quidditch players from Ginny. From Colin Creevey he got a scrapbook of himself and his friends from year two to six, (Harry really liked this and Colin was overjoyed that he made The Harry Potter happy), Betty Williams gave Harry a keychain the shape of Wisconsin in cheese from the United States. Bill and Charlie bought Harry real golden snitch that he could practice with. Percy gave Harry a book on Prefects and Headboys of the past and where they have gone.
And Hermione gave Harry a book. The title was very difficult to make out but the book itself was or at one time completely black with a set of bright green eyes on the cover. The book looked very old and when he opened it he saw that every thing was hand written. Hermione had a thing for old books. She said that this one had to be very old because of it being hand written and that there might only be one or two others every made because it was so expensive and difficult to make books that long ago. Harry thought he might actually read this book it attracted him for some odd reason.
Currently Harry was in his bedroom deciding where to hang the poster that he got from Ginny. Finally he decided to put it on his closet door.
There was a knock on his bedroom and Sirius walked in.
"I was wondering when you wanted to go school shopping? Or if you already had plans."
"Umm no I don't have any plans, I figured I would go with Ron and Hermione like usual."
"Oh, well, maybe you should owl them to see when they would like to go and maybe spend the rest of the day over here with you."
"Really invite friends over here hmm.. there's a new one, never had a place where I could do that, I've always been the invited not he invity sounds great. I will owl the straight away."
"Alright then just let me know what your final plans are."
"Sure thing."
Harry then went over to his desk and grabbed two sheets of parchment out of a drawer. He then wrote a letter to Ron.
~Ron~
I was wondering if maybe this comming Friday, you and Hermione would like to go school shopping around 2 and then spend the rest of the day here at Sirius's and my house. It would be a lot of fun. Hope you can make it. Owl back soon.
Harry
He then took the second sheet of parchment and wrote a very similar letter to Hermione.
Dear Hermione,
Hope you're well, I was wondering if you and Ron would like to go school shopping with me on Friday around 2 and then spend the rest of the day at Sirius's and my house. It would be a lot of fun. Hope you can make it. Owl back soon.
Love Harry
Harry then tied the letters to Hedwig and sent her off. He then went to find Sirius to tell him what was happening. While Harry was waiting for Hedwig to return with their responses he wrote thank you letters to everyone that gave him gifts.
Later, Hedwig returned with the responses. Harry looked at Ron's first.
~Harry~
Sounds great. Can Betty come too, please?
Ron
Harry quickly wrote back and said that Betty could come too. Then Harry started to open Hermione's letter.
Dear Harry,
Of course I'll come. This will be so much fun. Our last year how sad is that? I hope nothing bad happens this year. But if anything does happen I'm glad that you'll be there with me to get through it all. See you soon.
Love, Hermione
When Harry was done reading both of the letters he went to tell Sirius about his plans. A few days later it was Friday and about 1:30. Harry was waiting patientially for Hermione, Ron, and Betty to arrive. Hermione arrived first. She was early around 1:45.
"Hey Hermione." Harry greeted Hermione.
"Hey, Harry, has Ron arrived yet?"
"No, not yet. He is bringing Betty with him."
"She seems nice doesn't she?"
"Yeah, I think so. I didn't really get a chance to talk to her much."
"Me neither."
"So Harry, how are we getting to Diagon Alley?"
"Floo powder." Harry responded gloomily way.
"To bad we aren't allowed to apparate yet, huh?"
"I know that would be nice."
Just then Ron arrived with Betty a couple of seconds behind. They greeted each other and set off through the fire place to Diagon Alley. Once they arrived they decided to go to Gringotts first to get their money. Once they each had their money, they went to Flourish and Blotts to buy the books they would need this year. They all then traveled to Madam Malkins' Robes for All Occasions to get knew robes as theirs were all to small and Betty needed to get some Hogwarts robes as she was an exchange student and had no robes for Hogwarts. Once they were done with that they had to go to the Apothecary to replenish their store of potions ingredients.
As soon as they were done buying the supplies that were on their supply list, they went to Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor to have ice cream.
"So, Ron, what did you think of the U.S.?" Harry asked.
"It was great anyway what I saw of it. Someday I want to go back there and travel the west a little maybe."
"That would be fun maybe we will have to take a trip after we are done with school, because I've always wanted to go their also." Harry replied.
"Yeah, I want to go too. I've never been there. You would think with all the trips that my parents and I go on over the summer you would think that we would have ended up in the U.S."
"That would be great if you all could come there. Once my family and I went on a trip out west. We live in Wisconsin so that is where we started our trip of course. We traveled south to Texas the West to California north to Oregon and then back east to Wisconsin."
"Wow! How many siblings do you have?"Hermione asked.
"I have an older sister and a younger sister and a younger brother. It was kind of crazy with us crammed in a van for two and a half weeks. I'll tell you, you get sick and tired of your family by then."
"I bet." said Ron.
"Betty, are any of the rest of your family witches or wizards?"Harry asked.
"My mom and Reba Rose, my younger sister, are, but Tim, my brother, and Kira, my older sister, aren't."
They continued to talk for quite a while until Ron announced that he wanted to go to Quality Quidditch Supplies. Betty also wanted to go there as she loved quidditch just as much as Ron did. Hermione didn't want to go there and said she would rather go back to Flourish and Blotts because she saw some books there that she wanted to look at. Harry who would have rather gone to the Quidditch store went with Hermione because he didn't want her to go by herself. They decided to meet back at Florean Fortescue's in about a quarter of an hour. Harry and Hermione started off towards the Book store.
"Harry why aren't you going to the Quidditch Shop you love quidditch." Hermione questioned.
"Because I figure as Head Boy I should be setting a good example by being seen in a bookstore."
"Good for you Harry." Hermione smiled, "You will be quite the role model."
"And there's the fact that a new quidditch book came out and it is cheaper here than at the Quidditch Store." Harry grinned.
Hermione gave Harry a shove and glared at him. "I should have known that you had ulterior motives."
Harry smiled and said, "Well, that's me, always looking for a way around things. And you never know I might actually find a book that I want to read that isn't related to quidditch."
"That'll be the day." Hermione scoffed.
"What was that?"
"Nothing, nothing at all." Once they entered the store they both went off in their own directions. Harry quickly found the book he wanted and indeed it was cheaper. He then went to go find Hermione when he heard a few words of what somebody was saying an aisle over. And stopped dead in his tracks.
"You know what you must do if you want to succeed don't you?"
"Yes of course but are you sure there is no other way?"
"No there is no other way. The Potter boy must know." Harry was just about to round the corner to see who was talking about him when.
"Harry!" Harry turned to look at who called his name it was Hermione. "There you are I wondered where you wondered off to." Hermione said. Harry quicklly looked back and around the corner to find out who the people were that were talking about him but they had already gone.
Hermione looked confused at the way Harry was acting. "Harry what is up with you? Why do you have this were look on your face?"
"It is nothing. Did you find the books that you were looking for?' Harry asked changing the subject.
"Y-e-a-h." Hermione said slowly. Obviously still curious about whatever was on Harry's mind.
"Shouldn't we start to head back. Our time is almost up." Harry asked.
"I suppose so." Hermione replied. They payed for their items and left for the Ice Cream Shop. They got there before Ron and Betty. In a coulple more minutes they arrived and then they all left to go back to Harry's house.
A/N:I guess this is the end of my third chapter. Please tell me what you think or want to happen. It would be extremely helpful. I want to thank my reviewers: JediHermione, sbys, and Winkybunnion1. (yes I do admit to having a notebook with a list of all the charactors and questions from all the books. I'm currently adding spells, passwords, and quotes from the books. (hey it is something to do while waiting for that darn 5th book to come out.) For the record I have only had to replace my ink cartridge 3 times!)