Chapter 3
I'll Take the Demon Owl Over the Demon Cat!
The next morning I woke up to Ivy shaking me.
"What's going on? Is Voldemort taking over" I asked opening my eyes.
"No, you said you'd come with me to the Owl Emporium." Ivy said, continuing to shake me.
"Oh, yeah, right." I said, getting up and attacking my hair with the brush "Let's go."
Ivy grabbed June and put her on her arm and waited for me to get out of the bathroom.
I was having problems with my clothes…because of the fact I had…developed over the summer. And I was just getting used to a bra. The bra Petunia gave me was literally, the bra from hell. I couldn't get the damned thing on!
I grunted as I tried to do up the clasps.
"I'll meet you downstairs!" Ivy said walking out.
"K!" I shouted when I heard the door close. "Screw this crap. I'm going sports bra." I said, digging around my trunk until I found my blue bra I wore for Quidditch and put it on. After a quick clothes change, I was ready to go.
I raced downstairs to find Ivy talking to someone in the main room.
"So he's sick now?" she asked the redheaded figure of Ron Weasley.
"RON!" I shouted, running down the stairs to wrap him into a hug.
"Hey, Han!" Ron said, returning the hug "Mind if I join you and Ivy? Scabbers hasn't been feeling too great since we went to Egypt." he asked, pulling his fat grey rat out of his pocket.
"Sure." I said before dropping my voice and turning to Ivy "V, is there a place in Diagon Alley I can get a not-crappy bra?" I asked.
"No," Ivy said "I'll show you something later." she said, entering Diagon Alley in the back of the inn.
We took a short walk to the Owl Emporium and entered it. The first person I saw was the bushy brown haired girl I only knew as Hermione Granger.
"Hey, Mione!" Ivy said cheerfully as she put June down on the counter.
"Oh, hey, Ivy. Hi, Ronald. And hey Hannah!" Mione said turning to face the three of us.
I smiled and hugged her.
"We're going to see what's wrong with June and Scabbers." Ron said, holding up his rat as Harry walked over to meet us.
"Hey, Ron! Hi, Hermione. Hi, Ivy!" Harry said, smiling at the three of them. "Getting June checked out, V?" Harry asked, turning to Ivy.
Ivy nodded "And Ron wants to see what's wrong with Scabbers. What are you doing here?"
"Getting Owl Treats for Hedwig." Harry said, pulling out some money and giving me some.
"Thanks, Harry." I said, putting my half in my pocket "I need to get Owl Treats too, two packages, one for me and one for Draco. He's been out since last summer."
…
We all walked into the Owl Emporium and I walked straight to the Owl Treats and picked up two boxes and got in line for checkout behind Ivy.
"Excuse me, could you check my owl? I think she has a broken wing." Ivy asked one of the two ladies behind the counter as Ron talked to the other one about Scabbers.
The lady taking care of Ivy nodded and began to check June's wing as I listened into Ron's consultation.
"He's just old." the lady said pulling out a vial of red liquid "Just give him this, and he'll be fine." she recommended handing it to him.
Ron muttered a quick thank you before tucking the vial into his robe's pocket when a large ball of dull red fur jumped onto the counter, meowing loudly.
"Crookshanks, no!" the lady who gave Ron the vial shouted, trying to grab the cat to no avail. It started to claw at where Ron put Scabbers.
"Hey!" Ron shouted, jumping back, holding onto his breast pocked.
"Aww, he's so cute!" Hermione said, picking the demon cat up.
"If you're adopting it, keep it away from Scabbers!" Ron shouted.
…
Sure enough, Hermione did adopt Crookshanks and took him back to the Leaky Cauldron, where I met up with Fred and George Weasley, Ron's older twin brothers, and Ginny, who smiled at Harry and I before looking away.
I could see why. She for one, had a crush on Harry, and two, Harry and I were responsible for saving her life last term.
Once the boys all went looking for Quidditch supplies I turned to Ivy, Mione and Gin. "Guys, I still need a not crappy bra!" I said, twirling some of my hair around my finger and tugging it.
"Oh, I know a spell to tighten your other bra." Mione said, smiling.
I smiled back "Do you also know a spell to change the colour?" I asked, taking the girls up to my room and showing the horrid piece of fabric and the lousy excuse for a bra.
"Yeah, but that'll wait till we get to school." Mione said, taking the bra in her hand "Until then, I guess you're stuck with sports bras. Sorry, Han." she apologized, noting the shocked look on my face "But I can't do anything yet. I'm not of age, and neither are you and Ivy."
I groaned and went back downstairs with my friends. I knew that there were three demons in my life now that I was thirteen:
1) How I felt towards Draco.
2) Mione's cat, Crookshanks and Ivy's owl, June
3) PUBERTY!
