Harry Weasley

Chapter Twenty Four: Meeting the DADA Teacher in Diagon Alley

The students went through the fire floo into the Leaky Cauldron to get their school supplies. They made their way through the bar to the back entrance to Diagon alley. When they made the wand movements on the brick, they were approached by an elderly woman who didn't notice Harry at first, and ask if she could go through with them also. She explained that her Nephew was going into his first year this year, and that she was a Squib, so she wasn't able to get through without help.

Mrs. Weasley said that it would be fine, and gave the lady a strange look when she had let out a gasp when she saw Harry. "Is there a problem? You look like you have seen a ghost." Molly was a bit frightened for her children and their friends when she saw the look on the ladies face.

"No I'm fine, I just thought I saw something that I thought would be impossible." She looked over at Harry and asked, "may I ask your name young man?"

Harry thought that the lady seemed to be a nice enough lady. "My name is Harry ma'am, nice to meet you." Harry was a very polite young man, and shook the ladies hand.

As they walked through the alley, they were going into Gringotts, and the lady led went in with them. "Excuse me Mrs. Weasley, but can I speak to you for a few minutes. I think that Mr. Weasley can go with the children, can't he?" She had a pleading look on his face when she asked, so Mrs. Weasley nodded and herded her children with her husband down to the vaults.

"Now how may I help you ma'am? I don't think that you wanted this to be a social visit."

"I don't know how I am going to put this, but I guess that I should start by introducing myself. My name is Marge Dursley, and that is my nephew Dudley. I am watching him because his parents were killed earlier this summer by wizards. I don't know whether you know of me or not, but is young Harry actually Harry Potter?" She asked with a bit of nervousness.

"How did you know my adopted son's last name?"

"I'm his Aunt, and Dudley is his cousin. We thought that he was killed when his parents were killed is why we didn't try to come find him. Dudley thinks that his cousin was killed with his parents. I know that Dumbledore, McGonagall and Hagrid know who Dudley is, and probably will be a bit surprised when he comes to school this year. You see, his father didn't know that he was a Squib, and his mother disliked the wizardring world when she found out that her sister was a witch and she wasn't. Please don't tell him who we are, I'm sure that he will find out during the school year himself. Has he been a good boy growing up?"

"Yes he has been a great son, and my husband and I love him and always have like one of our own. Please don't tell me that your going to try to take him with you, because I will fight it to the death."

"Don't worry, I would never separate a child from the ones he knew as his parents for all of his life pretty much. I just want to know that he will be able to get to know his family, and we will be able to get to know you all also once he finds out. I hope that the two of them will get along well during their time together in the school."

"So do I Marge, so do I. Would you two like too join us for lunch once we're done with our shopping? You are more than welcome to."

"That sounds great, we would love to."

The two ladies were joined 20 minutes later by the children and Mr. Weasley. They went off to get there supplies and went into Flourish and Botts last and found it bustling with patrons. When they finally made there way to the front, they found that the DADA teacher was signing autographs of himself and copies of his books. "Now now ladies and gentlemen, I will be here for about 2 hours and will be signing autographs the hole time. Ah I see someone else that is a celebrity in the wizarding world, Mr. Harry Weasley. Come up boy, you will be getting all your books for the school years DADA for free, and all your friends also. All I want is a picture of the two of us together for the paper."

While Harry was going through this, someone slipped up behind Ginny and slipped a book into her bag of books. She didn't notice him, and was to preoccupied til later to find it. She noticed it, and figured that it was something that was required for her this year. She figured that she would look it over later.