"What was that?" Ron asked as they heard the glasses breaking and shattering.

"Everyone get down!" Harry shouted, and within moments people were all on the floor. When the blasts subsided a few moments later, they looked up to see no one was hurt, but there were plenty of angry people around.

"Crawling on the floor, Weasely? That's just to be expected of you," a familiar, nasty voice said. He seemed unaffected by the blasts. "You commoners are afraid of every little thing," he remarked spitefully.

"We're not the ones whose father is being pursued by the Ministry of Magic," Hermione said, brushing her hair as though dropping to the floor on a moment's notice was normal for her.

"Draco!" a melodic voice called out to him, and Draco Malfoy could do nothing but sneer at them as he went to his mother. Since his father was on the run his mother had taken over his duties at home. She was never suspected of being in the Death Eaters, despite what others said.

"Run!" they heard a voice saying from their back, and the trio could hardly move to the street side fast enough as several people, most in jeans and T-shirts, ran past them. The composition of the angry mob led the trio to believe that those running were the ones who had caused the glasses to shatter.

"My, my. This is a fine mess!" Arthur Weasely said as he, his wife, and Ginny came out of a nearby shop. "The Ministry wants me to track those people down, and I'd guess I'd better get started. Say hullo to the twins for me, will you, dear?" he said to his wife. Molly nodded, catching hold of Ginny, while warning Ron with her eyes that he had better not disappear now.

"If you're talking about the people who caused the sonic boom just now, we're right here. Actually, it was Shuura's fault," a girl with dark brown hair said from the direction the mob had came from.

"Sonic boom?" Mr. Weasely was saying when one of them protested.

"How was I to know that the wand would have such an effect?" the second shortest of the group of five said.

"Jagan Hiei, Naoko Kensaku, Yomi Shuura, Sukina Toriyama, and Youko Kurama. Sorry for the trouble. We didn't realise that getting a wand would be this much trouble," the man with silken red hair and mesmerising green eyes said. Hermione and Ginny were staring open-mouthed at him.

"You're the teachers and students Professor Dumbledore has been waiting for," Arthur Weasely said.

"The mob's coming back. Is there a place we can hide? Better yet, we should go to the train station now. Su's got her wand," the dark-haired girl whom Youko Kurama had introduced as Naoko said. Her eyes were closed and she seemed to be concentrating on something far away. "My Shikigamis and I are at our limit," she said, beads of sweat on her forehead.

"You'll be at Hogwarts then?" Arthur Weasely asked. Kurama nodded. "I'll see you there then. You'd better go," he said, and the others were gone.

The mob was very puzzled when the people they had been chasing disappeared into wisps of smoke.