It was the first Saturday of term, which meant that it was the first trip to Hogsmeade. Security was now tighter than usual so even more teachers accompanied them, Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Professor Sprout and Hagrid went.
The first shop Amy with purple hair Rachel, Clare and Kirsti went to was Zonko's Joke Shop. They stocked up on dungbombs, stink pellets and Dr Fillibuster's Fireworks. They then ran into Fred and George who were appalled that they hadn't been to see them first but were also bogged down with Zonko's bags themselves. Rachel asked if they had any Skiving Snackboxes and said if they didn't give them to her half price she'd tell Mrs Weasley. They promptly gave her them, including some extras.
They then went to Honeydukes Sweetshop, to buy loads of Chocolate Frogs, firstly because they're tasty and secondly because Clare was obsessed with collecting the wizard cards. They also bought Fizzing Whizzbees, Levitating Sherbet Balls and Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. Rachel scurried off to Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop to buy some colour changing ink and new quills.
They then all went to the Hog's Head to have a drink of Butterbeer, they didn't even bother trying to get into the Three Broomsticks because it contained all the teachers. Clare didn't trust the food in the Hog's Head so she suggested that they went to Madam Puddifoot's Café for lunch.
After lunch they went to the Post Office because Amy wanted to send a letter to Tonks, one of her Godmothers, Clare wanted to send a letter to her mother and Rachel wanted to send in the answers to the Quibbler crossword, which Amy thought was very boring!
After this they went to Dervish and Bangs, the repair shop, to fix Clare's cauldron as she had melted it in her first Potions lesson. Snape had delightedly taken 20 points from Ravenclaw because the potion that melted her cauldron also melted through one of his tables.
Later that evening Rachel, Clare, Amy and Kirsti had their first extra Defence Against the Dark Art Lesson with Professor Lupin. They arrived at his classroom at 6.30pm
"Ah...hello. Today we are going to start on the Patronus charm to defend against Dementors and to learn how to repel a Boggart."
After an hour of the Patronus charm Rachel was the only one who really improved. She had managed to get her Patronus to take some sort of shape that slightly resembled a phoenix. Amy and Clare had only managed to produce a wisp of smoke, which Lupin seemed to be happy about. Then there was Kirsti. Her wand seemed to just fizzle a bit when she shouted "Expecto Patronum." Lupin said that they should begin the work on Boggarts and summoned a trunk that seemed to be shaking
"I want each of you to approach the Boggart individually and then shout Riddikulus!" said Lupin.
Clare was the first to have a go, the Boggart turned into a huge scorpion, she pointed her 10 inch, Holly and Unicorn hair wand and shouted "Riddikulus!" The Boggart began inflating and flew back into the trunk. Kirsti was next to have a go, the Boggart turned into a giant spider, after pointing her 11 inch, Maple and Hippogriff feather wand and two attempts at shouting "Riddikulus!" the Boggart turns into a bouncy ball. Amy then stood up to take a go, the Boggart then turned into Sirius' dead body, she shouted "Riddikulus!" almost immediatelyand the Boggart jumped up and started to sing and dance, very badly. At this point Lupin was in hysterics seeing his old friend sing "I'm Every Woman" while doing an Irish Jig. Rachel then took her go, the Boggart turned into her father, she shouted "Riddikulus!" and theBoggart exploded.
"Well done, you have all made progress." Lupin said.
Rachel was raging about coming face to face with her father, even though it was just a Boggart, "I hate that man, he is a... No I won't say it, I spare your ears that."
"Will you calm down, I don't want to leave this room with half my arm missing, thanks." Clare said calmly and they walked to the library to do Transfiguration homework.