DISCLAIMER: All Harry Potter characters, places etc… in this story are the property of Ms J.K.Rowling etc… etc… unless otherwise stated.

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Malfoy awoke next morning without a care in the world. Yesterday he had received a letter containing a prefect badge and his O.W.L results, and today his father was taking him to Diagon Alley to purchase a new racing broom. Naturally, Malfoy didn't need a new racing broom he just wanted one. Malfoy turned over and looked at his alarm clock, 7:48am, he didn't have to get up for another 2 hours! 'Ahh well' he thought, 'no point going back to sleep now.' A few minutes later Malfoy was up and about.

When fully dressed, hair and all, Malfoy glanced at the clock. It was 8:13am.

"Huh!" he exclaimed, "I never knew it took me that long to get dressed!" Malfoy snatched one last glimpse of himself in the mirror before heading downstairs for breakfast.

As Malfoy entered the dinning room, his father, having finished his breakfast some time ago, was sitting at the table reading The Daily Profit. Malfoy walked around the table, sat down, pulled the eggs and bacon towards him and started filling up his plate. Lucius folded up his paper and looked at his son who had already transferred half of the eggs and bacon onto his own plate.

"Draco" said Lucius "I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I was wondering if you were planning to leave any of that for your mother?" Malfoy, who's plate was almost hidden under eggs and bacon, returned what remained of the food to the center of the table. "Hmm………" sighed Lucius and waved his wand in the air. The two plates switched leaving Malfoy with a suitable amount of food. "I suppose that will have to do" he said, and turned to leave the room. "Oh, by the way Draco there has been a change in plans. We shall be leaving for Diagon Alley in half an hour, so do be quick. I'll meet you in the lounge." Malfoy nodded and continued eating his breakfast.

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Half an hour later the Malfoys' were toppling out of the fireplace at The Leaky Cauldron, a wizarding pub in London. Lucius performed a clever little spell that cleaned them off, and then led the way to an empty alleyway behind The Leaky Cauldron, and walked over to the far wall.

Lucius started tapping a series of bricks on the Alley wall and those bricks started to rearrange themselves. 2min later the alley wall had become an archway. They walked straight through the archway into Diagon alley, about 35 feet up the road and headed down the side street that was Knockturn alley.

Malfoy followed his father down the street into Borgin and Burkes where Lucius as usual, told him not to touch anything and Malfoy, as usual, went around touching everything he could. They left the shop about 20 minutes later and headed back towards Diagon Alley. Lucius took the list of school books out of his cloak and headed off to buy everything on the list leaving Malfoy standing alone in the middle of the street. Malfoy looked around. He hadn't been here for a long time but it looked just like it always did excluding a small shop on the corner that he'd never seen before. Malfoy walked over to the shop and looked inside. In the display window there were a number of things including a big bowl filled to the brim with what appeared to be multi-coloured sweets, some small yellow cakes and another bowl of caramel coloured sweets. Obviously thinking it was a sweet shop, Malfoy walked inside, but after only a few steps he knew he was wrong. Malfoy had stumbled into Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, a joke shop owned By the Weasley twins. When Malfoy entered Fred and George were trying to convince a 8th year Hufflepuff that the effects of the Skiving Snackboxes were not permanent by eating them one after another, but when they saw Malfoy, they stopped dead in there tracks, George nearly choking on one of the Fainting Fancies he was cramming into his mouth.

"Well look what we have here!" said Fred, looking in Malfoys direction.

"Indeed Fred, what do we have here?" George chimed in. Malfoy looked shell-shocked. The last thing he wanted was to see these two gits again. He turned to leave but before he'd gotten even two steps Fred had raised his wand.

"Petrificus Totalis!" he yelled, and Malfoy fell to the floor as stiff as a board. Fred and George hopped over to Malfoy forgetting all about the Hufflepuff girl they had left on the other side of the room.

"Sorry 'bout that" Said George, sounding quite unconvincing.

"Yeah" Fred nodded in agreement, "it's complementary. We have to jinx everyone who comes in the store looking like a stupid git." Even though he was paralyzed Malfoy still managed to fix them with a look that could have stopped traffic. At this moment the door flew open and Lucius stormed inside. He took one look at his son, pulled out his wand and performed the counter curse.

"Come Draco" he said, "we haven't got time for this, we still have to buy you a new broom." Malfoy smirked at the look on the twins faces got up and followed his father out of the shop onto the street outside.

Malfoy and his father spent the next 45 minutes looking for a broom. They finally selected one called "The Quasar". It was a beautiful broom with a polished mahogany handle and dark brown twigs that made up the tail. On the tip of the handle were the words "Quasar" sticking out 2mm from the wood and stained a shade of dark brown. They then returned to The Leaky Cauldron, broom in hand and went home, Malfoy gloating at every opportunity.

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