Shopping

"So, what do we need to get?" Ron asked Hermione.

Hermione sighed and rolled her eyes and gave Artemis a 'typical' glance. "Where did your list go Ron?"

"No where, it's lining Pig's cage," he said rapidly.

Hermione scowled heavily at him, and tutted.

"Um... Pig?" asked Artemis.

"My owl, he's tiny, Ginny named him," said Ron.

"Uh...Ginny?"

"Ron's only sister, he has five other brothers. Fred, George, Bill, Percy and Charlie," said Harry thickly.

"Okay, let's see...hey we get an optional EC subject this year. Oooh, there's a choice. We can do Elemental Magic, Spell Crafting. Oooh, or Greek Incantations." She cast a side ways glance at Artemis who was looking very intently at the quills in one of the shops. "Miss Konderas, might you have anything to do with this?"

"It was a suggestion," she said with out turning around. "Nothing more. I supervise though. Do you like this quill? I think it brings out the blue in my eyes?"

"Artemis, you have brown eyes, not blue." Hermione was reading through the Hogwarts letter absently.

"Are you sure?" She quickly cast a disguising spell and turned her eyes blue and her hair a light, complementing blond.

Hermione and Artemis giggled hysterically as Ron and stared Artemis and didn't recognize her.

"Hey Ron, how are you?"

"Do I know you?" asked Ron, setting Hermione off again. She managed to calm down enough to tell Artemis to take off the glamour, which caused Ron to go a violent shade of magenta. Artemis put her hand over her face to stop herself from laughing, but to no avail.

"What is so funny?" asked Harry, then seeing Ron's face realized his best friend had been embarrassed.

"Okay, let's get shopping!" exclaimed Ron, before hurriedly walking off, facing away from the now helpless girls.

Artemis rapidly regained control of herself and flicked her hair lightly with her index finger. It sank back to its original brown colour and her eyes changed too. She grinned at Ron in a severely flirtatious way and waved, before grabbing Hermione's elbow and wheeling her around. They giggled down the street as Harry and a thoroughly confused Ron walked behind them.

Hermione pulled Artemis into Flourish and Blott's, to buy their new books. All of them needed Miranda Goshawk's Standard Book of Spells, Grade Six, but everyone had a different time table. Everyone except Artemis and Harry, who actually had identical timetables. Harry had received a high number of O's in his owls, and Artemis had gotten an excellent recommendation from Hermes, her 'Professor'. Harry seemed to know where he was going, so Artemis followed him around the shop as Hermione gawked at countless thick and numerous volumes of leather-bound books.

They reached the Transfiguration section of the shop as Draco Malfoy swaggered round the corner, flicking idly through the pages of a book entitled Curses and Counter-Curses for Intermediate Wizards. He nearly dropped the book at the sight of Harry, and turned to slink away, but not before being seen by Artemis.

"Wait, aren't you Draco Malfoy?" she said very loudly. Harry turned to glare at him.

"Well...yes-I-...I am," he stated eventually. He had his wand in his hand and raised it slightly.

"Now, now Draco, you know magic is forbidden outside of school," Harry snapped.

"Luckily for me I no longer attend that crackpot academy, not since my father..." His voice trailed off as he looked to the floor.

"Your father what, Draco? Since he was put into Azkaban?" remarked Harry with a grin.

"Leave my father out of this you ignoramus!" Draco yelled raising his wand to point it at the defenseless Harry.

Artemis stepped forwards and faced Draco, drawing herself up so as she seemed taller. Maybe she just grew, thought Harry. She seemed to tower over Draco, but he didn't back down.

"Impedimenta" cried Draco, stepping back at the force of the spell. Artemis raised her hands and spread them out, a shield expanded from them, shimmering as it absorbed the spell.

"Accio wand" shouted Artemis. Draco's wand span out of his grasp, but, unfortunately so did Harry's and most of the other people in the shop. "Run along, Draco!" she whispered, a steely glint in her eye. Draco fled from the shop, his wand tapping his sharply on the head, emitting crimson sparks as it did so.

Artemis began to cackle maniacally, before realizing that the whole store was staring at her as though she were insane. She quieted down and charmed the wands back to their owners. She turned to look at Harry and grinned sheepishly before throwing him his wand.

"What about this book then?" she giggled nervously.

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