Chapter Three: Fun in Diagon Alley

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Ok. Everyone Listen Up.. This chapter is dedicated to my own personal Hermione. Dana. this one is for you kitten.

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A big yawn escapes Harry's mouth as his eyes fully start to open. He opens then fully to see 4 sets of eyes staring at him.

"AAAAHHHHHH" screams Harry. A scream comes out of his shocked friend's mouths.

"Stop doing that" yawns Harry. He then looks at them. They all have great big smiles on their faces.

"What?" He cocks an eye again. Hermione looks at the others and nods.

"Happy Late Birthday Harry Potter" screams everyone in his ear.

"What the hell. Who am I. Charlie Brown?" says Harry to Hermione.

Ron looks at Harry and said deadpan to him "who's Charlie Brown?"

"Good grief" moans Harry. Hermione just giggles again as Neville pulls Harry out of his bed.

"Come on Harry, we have a surprise for you." They pull Harry out of his bed. Hermione and Ginny leave to let Harry change. They then pull Harry down to the training room that they went to before.

"Ok you big prat. close your eyes" Ron says to Harry. He closes his eyes and waits, and waits and waits.

"OK. Open them" he slowly opens his eyes to see a two practice dummies. One dressed up as Malfoy and the other one dress up like Voldemort. Harry had to hold on to his knees to stop himself from falling over from laughter.

"HA.. Thanks you guys" Harry says as Ron claps a hand on his shoulder.

"You get the first hit Harry" Ron says to him.

Harry slowly strolls over to the Malfoy dummy. He looks him up and down. He then stands right in front of the dummy. He cocks his head and the places a very hard kick right in the crouch area of the dummy. At the same time as the kick landed, Ron and Neville winced.

"Damn Harry" both said in unison. Harry just strolled over to them and looked at them in the eye. "Damn that felt good" he sighed to him. He then walked over to Ginny and gave her a slight hug. "Thank you Ginny" she smiled at him. He turned to Hermione and he then felt a hard SMACK on his ass. He turned around and looked at Ginny.

"Someone had to spank the birthday boy" the others just started laughing at Harry as he massaged his bottom.

He now turned to Hermione and hugged her. He felt that she hugged him more than she would ever had. He also thought he saw her wink at him. Hermione's eyes all of a sudden eyes went round.

"Harry I think you have another present" Hermione said softly as she pointed towards the wall of weapons. In the middle was something wrapped up in a cloth. Harry as well as everyone else walked over to the wall. He slowly picked up the clothed object. It felt light but strong in his hands. He slowly started to unwrap it. As the object was almost about to be shown. A note popped up in the cloth. Harry read the note out loud.

" Dear Mr. Potter,

I believe this finally belongs to you

Dumbledore"

Harry finally unwraps the object. Its the Sword of Gryffindor.

A cascade of whispered "holy shit" rang through the room.

Harry held it in his hands again. He felt the same weight and the all to familiar strength of it. He could feel it grow in his hands until it looked like one of the swords up in his bedroom. Everyone continued to look at the sword.

"Harry, is that?" asked Ginny. Harry just nodded. He slowly put it up in the wall where there was a spot for it. They all stepped away from it and continued to look at it.

"Well. who wants breakfast" said Hermione which made everyone else jump and then laughed.

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(Later that afternoon)

Mrs. Weasley showed up around 1:00 while Harry and Ron were playing chess, Harry of course losing. Ginny was cuddled up next to Neville and Hermione had her nose in a book. None of them noticed Mrs. Weasley.

"HEM HEM" Mrs. Weasley cleared her throat. A second later all of them screamed and stood up and looked at her. they all looked shocked and scared. A big sigh of relief was made when they saw it was Mrs. Weasley. There was a sight smile on her face

"Ok everyone. its time to go to Diagon Alley" she said politely.

Ron was first to floo to Diagon Alley, then Hermione, and then Ginny, then Neville and at last Harry. Harry stood up and dusted himself off.

They first visited the books store, which made Hermione smile every much. While Mrs. Weasley got all the books. The teens wandered the store. The Trio were walking down an aisle when Ron stopped and placed a hand to both stop Hermione and Harry. He pointed his head down the aisle. There stood Draco Malfoy. Ron's eyes sparkled as they saw that his back was turned. Ron looked at Harry and then whispered something into his ear. Harrys face broke into a wide smile. He then nodded. They both started to walk slowly towards him.

"What are you doing" whispered Hermione.

"We are going to go bother him" snickered Ron.

They both stood right behind Malfoy. Harry nodded to Ron and they both started to bump and slightly push Malfoy around while saying "BOTHER, BOTHER, BOTHER, BOTHER, BOTHER." They then ran out of the store, while Malfoy looked around wondering what happened.

Ginny, and then Neville came running out laughing out loud. The Trio were already laughing hard.

"God that was great" said Ron. They all stopped laughing as Mrs. Weasley came walking out. They spent the rest of the day going through various stores getting what they need for Hogwarts. They then flooed back to The Manor where Mrs. Weasley made supper for them before they left. After dinner, they all retired to there rooms. As Ron, Ginny and Neville were walking up the stairs. A hand pulled Harry back down the stairs. It was Hermione.

"Did you have a good birthday Harry" said Hermione.

Harry smiled at her "Of course I did" Hermione looked at him again and hugged him. she then looked at him and said

"I have one more present for you" she said to him

" Oh yeah? wha..." Harry's words were cut off by Hermione kissing him softly on the lips. He was tense for a second, but then he relaxed and placed his hands on her back. The kiss lasted for 10 seconds but it felt like 10 minutes to Harry. Hermione pulled away and whispered into his ear "Happy late birthday" he just swallowed while she walked up the stairs. Giving Harry a good sway of her hips as she walked. He just walked back up to his room and slowly laid in his bed. He closed his eyes and dreamt of the best 10 seconds ever.

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Next Chapter: Training Begins

Harry and the gang come to a decision. and Harry and Hermione get caught kissing by someone.

Until then, I Remain. The Real Dark Lantern

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and remember this chapter goes to Dana. the kitten who I love