Diagon Alley

Chapter 4:

Harry looked out the window. It morning, it was Friday morning. He started ot get dressed and while he did he thought of the day ahead of him. He was going to be picked up at 11:00 o'clock and he would come home at 7:00 o'clock tonight. He glanced at the clock; it was only 8:30. He could hear Aunt Petunia in the kitchen preparing breakfast.

"Well, if I'm going to be walking around all day I should at least have a good breakfast." He thought and with that he started to get dressed. After he was dressed he bent down to the loose floor board. He started to sort through what he would eat when he felt something in his pocket. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a crinkled piece of paper. It was the ticket stub from Monday. He started thinking of how Monday had gone when he was disturbed by Uncle Vernon yelling up the stairs

"Boy! Stop dilly-daddling and come help your aunt fix breakfast!" Harry reluctantly got up and started out of his room and down the stairs.

11:05 A.M.

Harry was waiting in the sitting room staring at eh fireplace.

"Where could they be!" he thought to himself. He glanced at his watch, it was 5 after 11:00.

"Hurry!!" he thought again," I can't stand to be with them any longer than I have to.

"How will they be coming boy?" Uncle Vernon asked," They better not come the way the y did last time! It cost a fortune to clean up." Harry chuckled to himself remembering the last time that Weasley's picked him up.

"I don't exactly know." Harry stammered. It looked as though Uncle Vernon was about to say something nasty to him, but he was unable to do so because a loud BANG! Was heard through out the house and probably the whole neighborhood. Harry looked out the window and to his surprise saw the knight bus come down the street and stop in front of the Dursley's house. He continued to look for a minute and after a moment he saw Mr. Weasley wobble off the bus and trying to walk the best he could after the ride. He started out the room, but at the arch way leading out turned to see what was wrong with the Dursley's. All three of them were dumbstruck. Harry smiled smugly to himself and walked out the front door and up to a dazed Mr. Weasley.

"Hello, Mr. Weasley." Harry said somewhat amused at Mr. Weasley's expression.

"Why hello there Harry I didn't see you there." Mr. Weasley replied. Harry looked to the right and saw that an elderly lady was watering her lawn about to houses down totally oblivious to anything going on around her.

"Um.... Can she see us and the bus?" Harry asked nodding his head in the direction of the women.

"Oh.... Her no, no, no muggles can't see the knight bus." Mr. Weasley replied. It looked as though he was about to say something, but he was interrupted by a MMPH! Harry and Mr. Weasley both turned to where the sound had come from only to see Stan.

"Um...shall we get going?" he asked. Without waiting for an answer he turned and walked into the bus. Harry and Mr. Weasley followed suit and got onto the bus. Many times on the way to Diagon Alley it seemed as though Mr. Weasley tried to say something to him, but after his third try he gave up and just let himself be thrown aroung the bus.

When they arrived they staggered off bus and into the Leaky Caldron Harry was automatically engulfed in a humongous hug and he automatically knew who it was.

"Harry, dear I'm so glad you got here safely."

"Hello Mrs.Weasley it's nice to see you again too." Harry said standing straight up after the hug .

"Hello Mate." Harry turned and saw Ron. He was taller if possible and looked a bit more muscular.

"Hey, long time no see." Harry replied. Harry said hi to Ginny who looked prettier than Harry had ever seen her before and had also grown taller. After telling hi to several people as well who had bombarded Harry with apologies and telling him that they had believed him the whole time he and Ron finally escaped to the back alley where the entry way to Diagon Alley was.

"Finally," Ron muttered as they walked outside," It took forever to get out of there." Harry nodded while he tapped the bricks and once they were open they walked in to the magnificent sight that awaited them every single time they walked in.

"Where should we go to first?" Ron asked as they started walking and looking at all the wonders.

"Um... let's head to Gringotts I need to get some more money." Harry said. They walked to the gigantic bank and went to Harry's vault. After getting his bag full and managing to stick a few sickles in Ron's money bag they left and started to head to Flourish and Blotts when Harry saw a new store.

"Hey, wait! Ron what store is that." Harry asked pointing to a store that looked new, but you couldn't see it's name due to a latter standing in front of the store.

"I don't know" Ron said," But let's go check it out." They started making their way through the crowds to the store when all of a sudden Ron said,

"Is that what I think it is? It is, its Fred and George's shop! They weren't supposed to open this soon." Harry and Ron ran as fast as they could in a crowd to the store where they walked in. The place was swamped with kids of all ages and in all sizes. It looked as though the twins had perfected the Skiving Snackboxes because there wasn't a kid in line who didn't have one.

"Harry!"

Harry turned his head and saw the Weasley twins in very stylish clothing heading towards them.

"Hey Fred, George I didn't think you would open your shop so soon." Harry said.

"Well we weren't planning to, but we decided too. You know we wouldn't want kids to go to Hogwarts with out being prepared." Fred or was it George said. Harry still couldn't tell them apart.