Ok I do not own Harry Potter Lord I wish I did thou it would be a blast to own rights to such a great character. Sadly thou I do not so I write fan fiction so for a little while I feel like they are mine. Ok saying this I will not be able to update as much anymore for I have a job at Six Flags over Texas and will start work shortly. The hours are long and I will be tired but I will strive to update as much as humanly possible. Have no fear this story is hear to stay and not to stray I will not leave my faithful readers wondering what is going to happen next ok ok enough with my ramblings hear is the next chapter enjoy.

Shopping In Muggle London

When Harry and Ginny returned to the Burrow, it was lunchtime. Harry ate hastily and went upstairs for a quick shower. He knew that his Aunt Emma would appear shortly even though he had only talked to her for a few minutes. Harry had quickly realized Hermione was her mother's duplicate. He knew that even though she had said that she would not return for a couple of days, that she would be there this afternoon and he was preparing himself to have to go shopping. He had never been to a muggle shopping center except the grocery store. Harry was excited to be getting some clothes that would fit him properly. Harry was not vain about his looks but he would appreciate having some outfits that did not make him look like an elephant. He finished getting ready and went downstairs to wait.

He did not have to for long not five minutes had passed before a knock was heard on the back door. Harry ran to open it and standing on the stoop was his aunt. She beamed when she saw Harry dressed and ready to go.

"Well obviously you have figured me out." She said with a grin. "Why don't you go get Hermione and the others?"

Harry stilled. He knew that Hermione was coming but who were the others? Emma saw the look on her nephew's face and replied to the question in his eyes.

"Ron and Ginny. I invited them as well. I thought they might enjoy seeing muggle London. In addition, I bet you will want a guy's opinion on your clothes. So grab them and let's go I don't think your guard is enjoying the hot summer sun at the moment."

Oh Man! He could not even go shopping without being in danger. Like any of Moldy Volide's puppies were going to be caught dead in Muggle London. Harry knew that the guard was for his own good but it did not make it any easier. He hated not being able to do things like a normal teen.

"So, who is coming with us?" Harry asked resigned.

"Well Remus, Kingsly, Moody and some others." His Aunt said with a smile. "Now go grab the others the sun will not shine all day. We need to leave they want us back before the moon brakes through the clouds."

Harry nodded his head and ran upstairs yelling- "Get ready guy's, my aunt said you get to come too! Meet down in the kitchen when you are ready but make it fast."

Before long, they had all gathered in the kitchen and walked out the door. The group piled into the car and headed to a new adventure.

After the initial excitement had calmed a little, Ginny asked, "Where are we going?"

"The mall." Said Mrs. Granger.

"What is a mall?" asked Ron and Ginny together.

"The Mall," Hermione explained, "is a place where a bunch of stores are in one place."

"Oh," said Ginny. "It's like Hogsmeade right?"

Hermione smiled, "Sort of Ginny, all the stores are in one building not spread out on the street."

"Oh I get it!" said Ginny excitedly. "I can't wait to see it.

"You will see it soon," Mrs. Granger uttered from the driver's seat. "We will be arriving shortly."

Harry glanced at Ron. He still looked confused about what a mall was.

He nudged Ron with his elbow and whispered. "Don't worry. You will understand in a few minutes," he grinned. "If it helps I have never been to a mall either, so I don't know what to except either."

Ron smiled and whispered back, "That does help a little."

They all fell silent again and waited for the building to come in to view.

Hermione looked over her shoulder trying to read her friends faces. She looked at Ginny's face and saw a dreamy look. She knew her best friend was thinking about Harry and the Kiss. Hermione knew that she had not approached him about it, she had decided that she would continue with the flirting and hopeful that she would not have to bring up the kiss. She glanced at her cousin then. The boy, her friend, she was slowly starting to fall back in love with. He had grown again this summer; his green eyes were brighter than ever but held a new kind of weariness in them. The knowledge of what he was going to have to do hung around him like a gray mist. His messy black hair, never tame, was growing long. She would have to talk to her mum about giving him a trim.

At last she looked at the boy whose heart she had broken earlier in the day. She still felt bad about hurting him. However, she did not like him. Hermione hoped that when school started that Ron would discover that special girl that she had told him he would find. After all, he should have no problem finding someone to snog this year. He had grown handsome his hair had darkened to an auburn red his body had become toned with all of the Quidditch he had been playing. He was still a goof ball but she knew he would make some girl happy one day.

She glanced back at Harry. He was thinking hard about something and she read the question in his eyes. Of course, he would be worried about who was going to pay for this expedition.

She gave him an amused grin and stated, "Harry, my mum is paying for this shopping expedition. She is going to have fun dressing up a boy she has only ever been able to buy clothes for girls. Your Uncle Chandler has never allowed her to go shopping with him. So don't worry about it."

Harry grinned he should have known that his cousin would know what was wrong with him. He was worried about the money. In the Wizarding World he was rich, but in the muggle one he was poor as dirt.

He smiled, "Thanks Aunt Emma." He told the woman in the front seat.

"It's no problem Harry. Now Ron and Ginny, if you look to your right you will see the mall."

They parked and entered the building Hermione laughed at the look on Ginny's and her brother's faces. They were priceless.

"'Mione," said a bewildered Ginny "I don't think we're in Ottery St. Catchpole anymore."

Hermione kept laughing as she turned to look at Harry thinking that he would find this as amusing as she did. She stopped giggling when she saw the look of awe on his face. She wished she had a camera. This was priceless nothing caught the Famous Harry Potter off guard. Hermione's mum looked at the trio behind her and smiled at the look of bewilderment on the redhead's faces. Her nephew's face was just as priceless, but it did not make her feel amused like the other two. It made her feel bad. Harry had never seen a mall before. He was a muggle. He was from her world for goodness sake. He had a right to have seen this place before. The boy was so undernourished but not from food, though, he could stand to gain a few pounds. However, he was for Love. It hurt her to realize that this innocent child had never had a family who loved him. Hermione had told her some about her other sister and her son. She knew that she would have to meet them even if she did not like them.

"Well guys let's go shopping." she said.

"Mum, where do you think we should start?"

"Well I was thinking we would start at Old Navy, they always have good things. After that we can hit Tommy and then The Gap. We will stop to get a snack. Then we can go into Hot Topic. I know you like to go there, darling."

"Let's go. Old Navy is this way," Hermione said enthusiastically. She loved to shop. The girls in her Dorm would not believe it because of the way she dressed at school but the mall was her favorite place, next to the Library or a Potions Lab.

The group arrived at Old Navy and scattered throughout the store. Hermione was the first to approach Harry with a Green shirt.

"I think this will match your eyes nicely," she said.

His aunt approached him next with a couple of pairs of jeans and a red and black shirt. "I think these are perfect they will make you look even more handsome," she said with a smile.

Ron and Ginny were looking but did not find anything they thought he would like. Harry walked towards the changing rooms and tried on the first outfit, a pair of black jeans and the green shirt.

He came out and asked, "Well how do I look?"

Hermione had to hold Ginny up and tell her to shut her mouth, because she was drooling.

Ron said, "You look good mate." He was oblivious to Ginny's reaction as usual.

Harry tried on the rest of the clothes and liked them all except the red shirt. He decided to get it anyway because his aunt made such fuss over it and he wanted to make her happy.

They paid for his things and left to go to the Tommy store. Harry walked in and immediately found some outfits he liked.

He found some awesome jeans and shirts that fit him perfectly. He also found some cologne that he liked and asked if he could get.

His aunt said, "Yes it's odd that you and 'Mione like the same brand of Perfume."

They left Tommy with bulging bags and entered The Gap. Harry walked in, turned around, and walked out the place was full of sweater vests and preppy things.

He said, "Sorry Aunt Emma I can't shop there it's not me."

"It's ok Harry. Let's get something to snack on."

They stopped at a pretzel stand, bought some cinnamon sticks, and sat around munching on them.

"Hermione, Harry would you like to go with me next week to visit my sister" I would like it if you would both be there it would give me a little confidence."

Hermione smiled, "Of course mum, I will come." She looked at Harry. He did not want to go back, she could tell, but he took a deep breath and spoke.

"I will go too it may help Aunt Petunia if I am there. I doubt it. But she may find my presence comforting."

They finished eating and headed for Hot Topic they entered the store, and Ginny looked at Hermione this was not a place she pictured Hermione shopping. It was dark and almost had an eerie feeling about it. They walked through the store and surprisingly enough Ginny found shirt that was perfect for the group of them the shirts said Wizards R Us and they had them in all of the 4 house colors she dragged Mione away from the jewelry to show them to her. She laughed and managed to get her mum to buy them all.

Hermione walked away with a couple of new mini skirts and some bright pink pants. She just smiled at the groups quizzing looks. It was getting late, so the group decided to head home. First they stopped in the bathrooms to put on their new shirts and left to go home wondering about the looks they were going to get when they got back to the burrow. Harry Potter walked along with his friends to the car. For once he was just another kid in the universe and forgot about the guard that was following them and enjoyed the time with his buddies and his new clothes.

This chapter has been a little work because I don't like to shop so It was a bit harder to write then usually. Oh well review click the button on the left side of the screen and send an owl my way.

Dramaqueen.