Harry Potter & The Messenger's betrayal

By: Rachelfan5000

Disclaimer: I Don't Own Harry Potter, Jk Rowling does and so on. But I do own the first years.

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Chapter 3: New Faces, Similar Places

Harry had to admit he had found spending half the summer at Mrs Figg's was rather enjoyable, despite the cabbagey smell that even Mrs Figg admitted to hate.

"So, you'll be meeting your friend Ron in Diagon Alley?" Mrs Figg asked, on the morning they were to be going to Diagon alley.

"Yeah," said Harry, itching to meet Ron again.

"And his family will be having you for the summer?" Harry nodded.

"I believe you've used Floo powder before," Mrs Figg asked, her eyes sparkling.

"Er…yeah, I had a bad experience," Harry said, remembering ending up in Knockturn alley three years before.

"Yeah, it's always the same on your first try, I won't tell you where I ended up when I first used Floo powder. I'll see you at Hogwarts on September the 1st then," Mrs Figg beamed.

"Bye," Harry said. He scooped up some of the floo powder with his left hand and dropped it into the fire, careful not to make a mistake like last time, he cleared his throat and said very clearly.

"Diagon Alley!"

There was a whoosh of many colours, Harry knew this feeling; the spinning made him feel sick. Luckily it didn't last too long.

Harry found himself outside the back of the leaky Cauldron, to the witches and wizards passing by; Harry noticed they didn't seem to have noticed that a fifteen-year-old boy had appeared out of the blue. Harry guessed it was normal in the wizarding world.

"Harry! Over here!" Harry looked up. Ron and Hermione were just outside Flourish and Blotts. Harry ran over to meet them.

"Hi Harry," Hermione grinned. "We've just been getting our school books this year,"

"Only one," said Ron, "At least for you and me, Hermione's just brought more books than her trunk can carry," He laughed.

Hermione slapped him playfully, "oh shut up Ron," she said.

"Everywhere's real full this year, no idea why," Ron said, his smile fading slightly. They watched as five girls walked into Flourish and Blotts together.

"Move over Sarah! I can't get through the door," A girl with reddish - brown hair and a cream fleece coat said to the girl standing in the doorway, her friend. "Oh," said the girl who was in the doorway, and she moved aside.

"Talk about it," Harry muttered. As he also followed into Flourish and Blotts to get The Standard book of spells, Grade 5 by Miranda Goshawk. Hermione also suggested that although the book was not on Harry's book list, OWL Training. Which Ron pointed out Harry didn't need as he had refused to buy it too.

"This queues going to take ages," Harry moaned, picking up the book and standing in the queue to buy it.

"Harry, you've got fans!" Ron laughed, the girl with the reddish - brown hair, Sarah's friend was now standing with her mates around Harry.

"You're Harry Potter?" she asked, before Harry could answer she said, "I'm Clair Masterson, pleased to meet you, I'm going to Hogwarts this year," Another girl, with long dark brown hair and who was pretty short in stature cleared her throat loudly.

"Oh yeah - This is my pal Susie," Clair said, pointing to the girl who'd cleared her throat, "And Sarah," The girl who had stood in the doorway waved. "And this is Gemma," A tall girl smiled shyly. "And I'm Alex," the smallest, prettiest girl said, before Clair could get to her. "Hope to see you at Hogwarts!" Clair blushed deeply, and her and her friends sweeped themselves out of the shops.

"Weirdos," Ron muttered under his breath, but at least Harry was next in queue now. A small girl with neat hair pulled back in a plait was infront of him.

"The female population seems to have increased a lot," Ron said, Hermione elbowed him.

"Oi," she said.

The girl had now finished buying quite a lot of books she tumbled over with their weight. Harry walked over to buy his book, and then turned around.

"You ok?" He asked, handing over his money to the shopkeeper.

"Harry?" The girl seemed to recognise him for a second, and then acted like someone had nudged her. "Oh, I'm fine thanks," She said quickly, and that left Harry with The Standard book of spells, Grade 5 and a very confused feeling.

"Know her?" Hermione asked as they walked out of the shop they'd spent an annoying twenty minutes in.

"No," said Harry.

"She seemed to know you," Ron took to Hermione's side.

"I have no idea who she is," Harry said truthfully, and Ron just shrugged. But their attention was diverted to something else.

"Potter!" Draco Malfoy and his Father Lucius Malfoy, fortunately, Malfoy didn't say much more as he was following his father sharply into the Leaky Cauldron.

"Wonder what's up with him," Hermione said.

"At least we know he's here and not helping you know who kill Muggles right now," Ron said darkly.

"Yeah, that's something," Hermione agreed.

Harry and Ron both wanted to stop at the sweet shop, so eventually Hermione gave in.

"We won't find anything educational in a sweet shop," She protested, as Harry and Ron raided the shelves and standing in the longer than ever queue.

"Yeah, but I prefer sweets to books, Hermione," Harry said, waiting impatiently at the end of the line. He was about to say something else too, but Hermione had left the queue to go look at the side of the shop.

"So much for protesting against going in here," Ron said. Harry laughed.

While they were in the queue, Harry told Ron all about his summer with Mrs Figg and how she was going to be Defence against the Dark arts teacher.

"And you never knew she was a witch?" Ron asked.

"Not until she told me, nope," Harry said.

"Better tell Mione, she'll want to know about the new DADA teacher," Ron said, turning his head to focus on Hermione.

"What's taking her so long anyway?"

Ron's question was immediately answered, Hermione was standing by the door, talking to a red head girl. The girl turned her head to look at Harry and Ron.

It was Ginny. But it didn't occur to Harry before now that Ginny was so pretty, with her deep blue eyes and at the moment, perfect red hair - whoah! Hold on a second! He hadn't just thought Ginny was pretty? Had he?

"Just Ginny," Ron said and he turned his head back to Harry. But Harry didn't understand how Ron could say 'just' Ginny, and Harry couldn't move his head -

"Oi!" Ron said, making Harry come to his senses.

"Just thinking about something," Harry muttered, "Hey look! We actually made it to the front of the queue!"

After an hour trying to get sweets, and any other thing Harry set his eyes on - not including Ginny - and liked, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny all went to the Leaky Cauldron, where the rest of the Weasleys were sitting around a table, discussing something or other.

"Harry, great to see you," said Molly Weasley.

A great way to spend the rest of the holidays, don't you think?

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It's me again! Rachelfan5000! Yeah this was definitely the best and longest chapter so far. I know it wasn't long really, but so you know I CAN write long chapters, read my fic Animorphs Season 2. I'm sorry for not updating yesterday like I said I would, I made it up with this Chapter? Didn't I?

Leave you to your thoughts.

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