(A/N: Sorry, Sorry don't kill me. I got distracted by Christmas and everything so here's chapter 3! By the way, call me Jenny.)

Chapter 3

Several hours later, Harry returned to his parents with all of his things he needed for school. As they were walking down the street, James asked "Did you decide what you wanted for your reward yet?"

"Actually, yeah, I have." Harry said thoughtfully.

"What is it?" Lily asked.

"A new set of quidditch balls. The ones we have at home have been really worn."

"Okay, sounds good" said James and they walked into Quality Quidditch Supplies.

Inside the store were many shelves of quidditch supplies and toys. Harry wandered away from his parents and over to the quidditch balls. All of them seemed the same but when you looked closely, the weights and cases were different. One of the cases was in all of the Hogwarts colors with balls that were lighter than the standard size. Another case was in all Gryffindor colors and had all of the standardized weights and sizes of the Quidditch Association's professionals. When he saw that, he decided that that was the one he wanted and walked over to his parents who were talking quietly over the quidditch gloves.

As Harry went over to his parents he saw them stop talking abruptly. "I'm ready when you are" he told his parents.

"Okay" Lily said gently, "which one did you chose?" she asked.

"This one" Harry showed his parents the box decorated in red and gold on the third shelf.

"Look, it's on sale too," James said, "30 off."

"And I have a coupon for an additional 60 off of any idem and if it's a sale idem the percentage is added on." Lily said.

"Okay then, let's go pay for it." James said.

As they walked towards the counter, James saw a model quidditch pitch that came with mini brooms. "Lils, can I get this?" He asked.

"No, James, what would you need it for anyway?" Lily asked her husband with an exasperated sigh.

"Please?" He wined.

"James, why in the world would you need that?"

"Cause its cool. Please? I'll be very good and I'll do something. I'll cook!" He exclaimed.

"Fine, but don't cook. Sorry to say this, but you in the kitchen could be a little dangerous."

"Yes!" He cheered like a little kid as his wife rolled her eyes.

"How much is it? She asked.

"Not too much, 10 galleons." James said innocently.

"Okay, bring it up to the counter." She told him.

"The brooms aren't going to drift away from the pitch too much right?" Harry asked remembering the last time they got a set of mini brooms and they all flew away.

"I hope so," James said, "but this time we have a pitch and not just the brooms."

"Right, does it come with mini equipment too?" Harry asked his father.

"Yep" he said proudly, "and it comes with little people on the brooms too."

Lily rolled her eyes as they placed the mini quidditch pitch on the counter and told Ben, the store keeper, which set of quidditch balls they wanted.

""How did you get prefect anyway, you're always in trouble?" James asked.

"I'm not always in trouble!" Harry protested. "I haven't been in nearly as much trouble as some people I could mention. Besides, I don't look for the trouble, it finds me." Harry said innocently.

"He also doesn't hold the school record for the most detentions, which wasn't broken in 15 years." Lily cut in.

"But I don't. I hold the record for the second most detentions. Sirius holds the record for the first." James said reasonably to his wife. "He had all those detentions at the end of our sixth year and our whole seventh year." James reasoned with his wife.

As Lily herd this she shook her head laughing in disbelief, "Only because you had to behave seventh year." She said playfully

"Yes, the number of times McGonagall threatened to take my badge away because she felt that I wasn't setting a good enough example for the rest of the student population."

"Come on you two" Harry said to the two of them as if they were restless 10 year olds.

"Fine" James said with a pout. "I really don't see how you treat us like we're immature little children though."

"Looking at the way you tend to act sometimes, you are like a ten year old mentally."

"Harry!" Lily said to her son.

"Both of you, let's go!" Harry said impatiently.

"47 galleons then" Ben said. "Nice to see you again Mr. Potter" He said to James, astonished.

"Really, you've known me for years and you're still astonished that I come in here?" James said trying to talk some sense into him. "Just because I play quidditch, doesn't mean that I am some famous celebrity that has cameras following me around all day. I'm a normal person really."

"James," Lily said to her husband gently, "you do have cameras following you around all day. Look outside."

"Oh" James said in a flat voice. "I'm still a normal person with a family though."

"Would you like to take home your set now? Or have it sent to your home later?"

"We'll take it home now" James said glancing outside. "Can we use your fire place, the people outside are building up."

"Yeah" Ben said. "Sure"

"Harry," Lily said to him, "Your father is going to apparate home with your trunk so you don't have to be bothered by it and I'm going to apparate home with your things. Now you don't need to worry about anything."

"Thanks Mum."

Lily pulled out a bag out of her purse that got a funny look from Ben.

"What is that?" he asked.

"Oh, this is something that muggles use. It's called a zip-lock bag. It's useful to have when you want to carry something that requires a container."

"Impressive" Ben said. "Muggles have a lot of interesting contraptions."

"Here Harry, take a pinch." She said to her son.

"Okay. You can leave first. I don't mind."

"Bye. I'll see you soon."

"Bye"

And she was gone with a pop. Harry walked over to the fire place and through the floo powder in it. He stepped in and said "Potter Mansion" and with a rush of green flames, he too was gone.

(A/N: Happy new year everyone! Over my holiday I was thinking of where I should stop as well as writing. Chapter 5 is well on its way! I was thinking about stopping when he first leaves for Hogwarts, but I was thinking at his birthday I would stop. In chapter 1 where it says he's 15, please make note of that and in your minds, make it 14. Thank you all for reading and look out for my other fics. I'm writing a sequal that is 10 years after Hogwarts and a Lily and James fic. Thank you.

Xoxo,

Jenny)