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Chapter 3- The Dog of Diagon Alley
Draco walked through his private garden in the morning. He just got his reply from Ginny, wanted him to meet up with her in Diagon Alley outside of the bookshop. As he traveled along the stoned path, he heard two different voices in a distant.
"Madam, are you positive that I won't hurt madam with these weapons?" a squeaky voice quivered.
"I'm sure. Throw them the hardest you can," a very familiar voice replied. Soon, the sound of glass breaking echoed throughout the garden. Draco ran to the noise and noticed it was Jamie and her temporary house elf, Ixi. Jamie appeared to be blindfolded with a long wooden stick with dark green tape wrapped in the middle twirling it around her fingers. Ixi was using her elfish magic to toss old plates and pottery Mrs. Malfoy let Jamie have for the practice. Every time Jamie smashed the pots and plates to bits, they would conj our back together and float back to Ixi. Draco watched at a distance and in secret amazement at the American girl's skill.
"Maybe my mum had something on this girl after all," Draco said to himself. As he turned around to leave because he was getting bored with that practice, he was smacked in the back of the head. "What the bloody hell..." Draco placed his hand on the bruised spot on his head and searched around for the object that hit him. He noticed on the ground was the stick Jamie was smashing with. He looked at the girl again and noticed she was catching the pots and throwing them back like a Keeper in a Quidditch match.
"Jamie, I didn't know you could play Quidditch!" Draco yelled out to the blinded teen. Jamie jerked her head to the sound only to have an unfortunate impact with a large pot crashing on the side of her head.
"SON OF A BITCH!" Jamie yelled, removing the blindfold and rubbed her pounding forehead.
"Ixi sorry! Ixi Sorry!" the house elf scampered to her tempt. Master's side in distress.
"It's not your fault, Ixi. Somebody interrupted me." Jamie gazed at the direction of the voice and noticed Draco was there. "What did you want, Mr. Malfoy?" she asks in annoyance.
"We're going to Diagon Alley right after breakfast, which is in about a few minutes. I hope you bathed."
"Didn't even break a sweat, and you need to apologize," Jamie said as she picked up her rigid stick and shrunk it down to size.
"Malfoys do not apologize," Draco smirked.
"You're going to be so surprised with my powers before I leave for America this summer," Jamie patted the blonde on his shoulder.
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"Come on Ixi, let's have breakfast."
The morning of the Diagon Alley trip has finally come. The sound of birds chirping, the gnomes running back into the Weasley's backyard, the smell of the morning dew hitting the grass….
"GINNY WEASLEY! COME BACK SO I CAN KILL YOU!"
…the sound of Ron screaming bloody murder?
Mrs. Weasley was finally finishing breakfast when she hears crashed and loud footsteps coming upstairs. When she was about to call the 5 teenagers down, 3 out of 5 (Harry, Hermione, and Coby) came down the stairs and into the kitchen.
"Morning Mrs. Weasley," the three said in their own different way as they sat down to grab a bite to eat.
"What is going on up there?" Mrs. Weasley questioned.
"You remember when Ginny kept badgering everybody about waking up on time so we can go to Diagon Alley today?" Coby asked. Molly nodded.
"Well, Ron didn't wake up on time so Ginny splashed him a bucket of ice water," Harry finished the explanation.
"Good morning everyone," Ginny ran down the stairs to the kitchen fully dressed with a pink shirt and jeans. "Why isn't anybody dressed! I want all three of you to get dressed this minute!" She sharply pointed her fingers to the stairs with a glare on her freckled face.
"I'm going to eat while I'm going upstairs to change. You guys coming?" Coby hastily grabbed a plate of eggs, biscuit, sausages and jelly and rushed up the stairs.
"I'm coming," Hermione followed Coby's breakfast plan and ran up the stairs as well.
"Yes, mother. I'll be ready in 5 minutes, tops," Harry followed as well.
"Ginny, why did you dump water on Ron's head?" Molly demanded.
"Mom, I warned everybody to wake up on time or else I'd drop something on their heads," Ginny whined like a 5-year-old.
"Whatever your rush is, eat your breakfast and wait patiently for the others to come down," Mrs. Weasley eyed her only daughter as she floated a plate in front of Ginny.
"They should hurry up," Ginny place eggs and jellied toast on her plate and started eating.
Diagon Alley was, as always, busted with witches and wizards of all sizes rushing in and out of shops trying to do last minute shopping for their children's days for school. Draco and Jamie pushed through the crowds as they exited the bookshop with piles of books in their hands.
"Whomever this DADA teacher needs to get hexed," Jamie complained as they both shrunk their books to fit inside their pockets and continued through the Diagon Alley. As they continued their travels, Jamie kept turning around every two minutes in great suspicion.
"What is it, Sprits?" Draco asked annoyed of her antics.
"Is it me, or is that redhead guy staring at me and turning away?" she asks. Draco turned to her direction and notice two redheads, a bushy hair girl, a black-haired dude, and a muscular guy near the Pet shop through the crowd.
Ginny, Draco thought. "That's just the Weasels, Potter, Granger, and I have-no-clue."
"Hey, that's the family Coby's suppose to stay with this summer, the Weasleys. Let me introduce you to him," Jamie attempt to drag Draco over there but Draco freed himself from the grasp.
"I don't talk with the Dream Team. You can reunite with your brother and I'll meet up with you around lunch," Draco compromised.
"Alright. Later," Jamie pushed through the crowds once more to reach her brother.
"Oh hell, she's coming over," Ron poked at his best friend's head.
"Who? The girl you've been staring at?" Harry swatted Ron's jabbing finger away from his forehead.
"What girl?" Coby asks. They looked into the direction of Ron's eyes and noticed a girl with a black skullcap on her head coming this way. "That's Jamie!" Jamie and Coby hugged and talk for a minute and Coby introduced everyone to her.
"Where's the Malfoy kid you's watching?"
"He went off somewhere. You can meet him at lunch."
"That reminds me," Ginny thought of a quick lie to leave and see Draco, "I promised a friend of mine that I'd help her with her shopping. That's why I rushed you guys, didn't want her to get lost. See you at lunch." With that, Ginny rushed through the crowd and disappeared.
"We should start our shopping as well," Harry said. "Let's go find some dress robes, Hermione."
"Oh, I promised Jacob that I would show him this great I was telling him about at the bookshop today," Hermione grabbed Jacob's hand.
"You guys wanna come with us?" Coby asks politely.
"We'll see you later," Harry grinded his teeth through his answer.
"I'll stay with these two," Jamie told her brother.
"Narg…" Ron managed to speak out.
"Ron right?" Jamie whispered to Harry.
"Yep. I think he likes you or something," Harry whispered back.
"M'Kay…" Jamie slowly nodded her head. She turned to the pink-eared Weasley and smiled. "You're… coming… with… us…?"
"I said he likes you not slow," Harry yelled/whispered.
"Sorry," Jamie said in embarrassment.
"See you guys at lunch," Hermione gripped onto Coby's arm and they left the three to shop by themselves.
"Buye…" Harry said with his teeth tightly closed together. Harry stomped in the other direction, forgetting about Ron and Jamie.
"Wait up!" Jamie caught up to Harry. She then realized that they left Ron blocking the entrance to the pet shop so she went back to retrieve him. "Sorry again." She grabbed Ron's hand, which made him turn a nice shade of red, and attempted to catch up with Harry again. "What's wrong? Why so grunty all of a sudden?"
"Tell me, is Coby always flirty with girls?" Harry said with small rage.
"Flirty? How is he 'flirty'?"
"Did you NOT see how he was hitting on Hermione!"
"You're angry because Coby's being nice to Hermione? Is she his girlfriend or something, Ron?" Jamie turned her attention to Ron.
"Sure, whatever you want," Ron finally spoke quickly.
"M'Kay… So you're jealous that Coby's hanging about your girlfriend?"
"She's not my girlfriend," Harry's cheeks turned red.
"So you're just jealous. It's all right. Hormones do that to growing boys. Just think of something else."
"Well, there was a time at a Muggle school I got free lunch and the cool kids beat me up… Now I wanna hex those guys."
"And the rich kids has convertibles and we had to ride the bus." Jamie started to sing.
"What?"
"Like the time we made the baseball team but they still laughed at us.
Like the time that girl broke up with me cuz I wasn't cool enough."
"She sings, too. Just like our exchange student Jacob," Ron replied stupidly.
"Little things, little things They always hang around!
Little things, little things…"
"Okay Jamie." Harry shook Jamie.
"Sorry. If anything that has the slighted piece of a lyric of a song, I just lose it."
"M'Kay…"
Else where in Diagon Alley, Draco and Ginny walked about the alley hand-in-hand enjoying their company. Luckily, no one from Hogwarts saw them together or else they would have been very suspicious and ran off to tell a Weasley brother.
"I'm glad we're able to spend some time together during the summer. Even though it's only for a couple of hours," Ginny rested her head on Draco's shoulder.
"Me too. It also get a chance to get away from Jamie for a few hours," Draco smirked and gave Ginny a kiss on her forehead.
"She seems like a nice person, Draco. You should have seen Ron's blushing face.
'Maybe this can work out,' Draco thought to himself. His scheming shortly stopped when he heard the cry of an animal close by. A small light brown puppy with a bleached spot on its back and long floppy ear ran around in circles, trying to get away from two small boy hexing it with magic.
"Burn puppy burn!" one of the boys said excitedly throwing another spell at the dog.
"Hey, leave that dog alone," Ginny rushed over to the puppy's aid. "What's it done to you?"
"It's just a mutt, like anyone would miss it," the other boy said, continuing to hex the puppy.
"What the bloody hell are you gits doing to my dog!" Draco pushed the two boys away from the puppy and picked it up.
"D-Draco Malfoy? That's your dog?" one stammered at Draco's presence. Draco scooped the dog up in his arm and glared at the young boys.
"I lose something for ten seconds and you idiots come around and hurt him."
"We're sorry. We're sorry!"
"Get out of here. And you better pray you don't get sorted into Slytherin." Draco gave them another trademark glare before the two ran off in fear.
"I never knew you liked animals," Ginny giggled to herself as she took the dog from Draco's grip and started petting it.
"I don't like animals. Nothing should be treated like that." Draco said with pure hatred. "You can keep him if you can."
"My mom wouldn't let us keep a dog or cat. Besides, Hermione's cat Crookshanks wouldn't enjoy it either," Ginny said with disappointment. "Why won't you keep it?" She handed the puppy to Draco once more. The animal looked at Draco and wagged its tail.
"I don't know how to keep dogs. My house elves take care of my owls. Besides-" Draco was cut off by the puppy licking his nose. "I'll figure something out." Draco gave in and stuffed the dog into his coat pocket. Ginny smile and gripped onto Draco's arm once more and continued that little shopping.
Evening struck when Draco and Jamie made it back to the Malfoy Manor with their school list completed. They sat down to dinner with Nacrissa and told about their day.
"Jamie, why did you bring your owl to the table, dear?" Nacrissa looked at the duo-gray owl on top of Jamie's head.
"Oh, I dunno…" Jamie looked up and saw the owl leaning like a vulture. "Ixi, would you mind…"
"Certainly Master Sprits," Ixi snapped her fingers and the owl was transferred to the Owl Barn.
"Oh, before I forget," Draco reached into his pocket, pulled out the puppy from earlier, and tossed it across the table to Jamie like a ball. Jamie fortunately caught him. "You can have him."
"I can call you Benji after my second favorite rocker twin," Jamie petted the Benji with great delight. "Where did you find him and why the heck did you just toss him to me?"
"He followed me when I was doing my errands," Draco lied.
"Can Benji stay here, Mrs. Malfoy?"
"How can I turn down such a cute face? Of course," Nacrissa picked up the puppy and placed him in her lap. Benji just arfed and lay peacefully in her lap.
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Song of the Chapter- "Little Things" By Good Charlotte