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Author's Note: Another chapter is finally up. Sorry it's so short. The next chapter is a lot longer, so it may not be up for a while. Sorry about misspelled words. I try to fix them all, but sometimes I miss them.

Chapter 5: Diagon Alley With Dad

Harry awoke early the next morning to the smell of breakfast coming from the kitchen. He got up and walked into the kitchen. Lily was at the stove; she turned around when Harry walked in.

"Good, you're awake," said Lily. "you must be hungry."

Harry agreed and Lily placed a bowl of oatmeal, a glass of orange juice and two slices or toast in front of him. Harry had finished half his bowl of oatmeal when James walked in.

"Smells great, Lily." he said making himself a bowl of oatmeal. He kissed Lily on the cheek and sat down beside Harry.

"What time do you want to leave for Diagon Alley?" Lily asked. "I found our key last night, James."

"In an hour or so I guess," said James. "Harry and I need to get ready."

Ten minutes later, Harry and James left the kitchen to get ready. Harry took a shower and pulled on a clean black T-shirt and jeans with a black robe. He brushed his teeth and attempted to make his hair lie flat before walking into the living room. Lily and James were already in there waiting.

"Have you key, Harry?" James asked.

"Er- I'll be right back." said Harry running upstairs into his room to get it. "I got it, dad…" said Harry holding up the key as he breathed hard from the running.

"Floo powder?" Harry asked.

James nodded. They stepped into the fireplace and threw down the floo powder.

"Diagon Alley!" Harry yelled.

Harry spun around in the flames and landed with a thud inside an abandoned room. Lily and James walked out the door and turned right. Harry followed. They walked into Gringotts and Lily stepped up to the counter.

"Excuse me. Lily, James and Harry Potter wish to make withdrawals." Lily said clearly setting the keys up on the counter.

Once again Harry was riding in a cart through the many tunnels of Gringotts Bank. They stopped at Harry's vault first. He took a handful of galleons, sickles and knuts and placed them in his bag.

"Looks like you haven't been wasting your money." James said happily.

They walked back into the cart and stopped and James and Lily's vault. Harry's eyes widened as they opened it. They had at least four times as much gold as Harry! They filled their bags as Harry had done in his vault and left the bank.

"I need to stop in Flourish and Blotts to get my new books," said Harry. "and the Apothecary to replenish my potion supplies."

Harry walked into Flourish and Blotts and came out twenty minutes later with his new school book. James was looking in the window of Quality Quidditch Supplies.

"Why don't you just go in there?" Lily asked James.

"Go where?" James asked trying to sound innocent.

"Don't try to fool me, James. You've been looking in the window of Quality Quidditch Supplies for fifteen minutes."

James' face went red, "Was not!"

"Yes, you were, and you still are." answered Lily. "Why don't you and Harry go to a few places on your own while I go get Harry's supplies at the Apothecary? We can meet back at the Leaky Cauldron around one O'clock to get lunch."

"Well… okay, Lily." James said excitedly. "C'mon, Harry!"

James walked into Quality Quidditch Supplies and Harry followed.

"I haven't been in here for over fifteen years!" James exclaimed.

The store had Quidditch books, brooms, balls sets, servicing kits and many other Quidditch related items. James glared at the brooms and noticed the oldest model was the Cleansweep 7.

"Looks like my Cleansweep 5 is a bit older than I thought." James laughed.

Harry smirked, "Looks like my Firebolt is still in style though."

"Show off," James mumbled when he noticed Firebolts were still the best broom.

Harry interested himself in a toy version of a golden snitch while James looked around the shop.

"Well, we better get going, Harry." said James. "before I buy one of these broomsticks."

James made his purchases and walked out the store. Harry followed behind him.

"I heard from your friend Ron that his brother's own a joke shop here in Diagon Alley. So… er- you want to go check it out maybe?" James asked hopefully.

"That would be fun. I've been dying to see it!" replied Harry.

James smiled and they walked to number ninety-three, Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. They walked in the door and were greeted by Fred and George Weasley themselves.

"Welcome to Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes!" said Fred.

"I never expected to have the great Prongs himself in my shop. Did you Fred?" asked George.

"Never," Fred agreed. "Or even you, Harry for that matter."

"Can I help you two find anything?" George asked.

"Just looking around," replied James.

Harry looked up at the counter and saw a boy with dreadlocks running the cash register.

"Hey Lee!" said Harry.

"Hiya Harry!" replied Lee Jordan.

"Look at these, Harry! Brillant!" said James pointing to the Skiving Snackboxes. "I wish these two were around in my days at Hogwarts, we would have been great friends."

"Only twelve sickles a box," said Fred. "but since we're friends you can have them for only ten sickles."

James didn't need more persuasion than that. He grabbed three Skiving Snackboxes off the shelf in a hurry. Harry walked around the shop and noticed the twins' newest products.

"These capsules make the person laugh uncontrollably until you say the counter-curse." said Fred as Harry picked up a tiny capsule with a little red button. Harry grabbed a few off the shelf immediately thinking of how much fun these would be to use.

Harry also passed by some of the older pranking items like the Portable Swamps, Canary Creams and Invisible Hats. He also came across many new items.

"A few drops of that in your friends drink and their hair will turn rainbow for a few days." George said as Harry looked at a tiny bottle.

After about an hours of enjoying the creations of the twins, Harry and James paid for their purchases and left with a wave to Fred, George and Lee.

"Amazing!" James said after they left the shop. "If you eat this pastry, you'll turn into a canary for a minute! Er… Harry, don't tell your mother I bought all this stuff, she won't be happy about it."

"I won't tell her unless you tell her I bought all this stuff." said Harry. James and Harry exchanged grins.

"We still have about an hour until we have to meet your mother." said James. "Want to go in here?" he asked pointing to a candy shop.

'Sure!" said Harry happily.

They walked in and saw rows and rows of chocolates, jelly beans, lollypops and more. It was just like Honeydukes. James filled up a few bags of chocolates and candies and went to pay. They left the shop and sat down on a bench in front of it.

"Congratulations on making Gryffindor quidditch caption, son!" James exclaimed proudly.

He handed Harry the candy and a wrapped package. Harry opened the package to find two books- The Best Quidditch Plays of the 21st Century and The Professional Guide to Quidditch Captioning. There was also the toy snitch Harry had been playing with in the store.

"I bought this stuff while you were looking around," said James. "It's not much, but I didn't know what to get you…"

"This is more than enough, dad! I love it!" Harry smiled. "Thank you!"

James ruffled Harry's hair, "We've got to get the Leaky Cauldron now, Harry. It's nearly one O'clock."

Harry and James got up and started walking to the Leaky Cauldron. Harry hid his bag from Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes inside his robes. Lily was already there when they arrived.

"Did you boys have fun?" she asked.

"Yes!" exclaimed Harry. "Look what dad bought me!" Harry showed her the quidditch books.

Lily smiled, "Just like your father… anyway, I thought we could go to Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor before heading home."

They went to get ice cream and headed home.

"So, your birthday is coming up, Harry." James said casuallly after lunch.

"Yup," said Harry unenthusiastically.

"You don't seem very excited.' James frowned.

"Am I suppose to be?"

"Yeah, I think…"

"Oh… sorry, I'll be more enthusiastic about it next time."

James got up from the couch and walked into the kitchen where Lily was. He sat down at the table.

"Lily, I'd like a word with you." he said quietly so Harry couldn't hear.

Lily walked over to the table and sat down beside James.

"I'm listening." she said.

"Well… I think we should throw Harry a surprise birthday party for his birthday next Saturday… I mean, he seems really down about his birthday and all. I don't think your sister ever celebrated his birthday."

"That's a great idea, James! He'd love it!" Lily whispered. "But how would we know who to invite?"

"I was thinking we could ask Ron and Hermione, they probably know who his other friends are."

"Good thinking, James. I'll send an owl to them tonight."

James kissed Lily's cheek, "Thanks, honey!" and walked out of the room.

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