As he turned around he saw Hagrid grinning at him.
"Hiya Harry, I thought I could get yer a pet fer yer birthday. They'll be right in this shop overhere." Hagrid led him to a small black shop with large storefront windows filled with cages of various creatires. They stepped into the shop, it was bright in the front bit the farther back you went the darker it got. Hagrid and Harry started going through the shop peering into cages of owls, toads, and even strange creatures called House Elves.
" I met somebody my age going to Hogwarts." Harry stated.
"What did he look like?" Harry thought this was a weird question but answered it anyway.
"Well, he was my age, but he was in a wheelchair, and he had the blondest -almost silver- hair I've ever seen."
" Ah, Malfoy, the little bugger." Hagrid mumbled. "Make sure you avoid him, the entire Malfoy family is rotten. Nottin but a great bunch of cowards, you'd do good to avoid him, that family is pure evil!"
"Have you ever met him?" Harry asked. The boy he met didn't seem evil at all.
"Well, no but everybody knows that family is just rotten, hasn't known a good Malfoy yet?" Harry didn't know what to say so he turned at the next aisle and wandered deeper into the store. Harry was scanning the aisles when he came across a cage with a snake in it. Harry thought back to the day in the zoo when he had talked to the Brazilan Boa. 'Could he talk to other snakes?' Harry decided to try.
"What is your name" Harry hissed. The snake lifted its head, Harry could now see the belly of the snake was a bright yellow.
The snake slowly lifted its head and hissed "Sacha, what is yours young speaker?"
"My name is Harry, what type of snake are you?"
"I am a tiger snake, I hail from southern Australia."
"Are you venomous?"
"Very" Sacha replied.
"Are you for sale?"
"Yes but few want such a deadly companion"
"I think we'll be okay"
"Hagrid" Harry called out, "I know which one I want"
Draco's Pov
'Darn, I forgot to get his name' Draco thought as he exited Madam Malkins. 'Oh well, at least he knows my name, he will be easy to reconize later. I've never seen eyes that shade of green." Draco shivered at that thought. He started to maneuver his way through the crowd, he had to find father. He quickly parted the crowd and made his way to Flourish and Blotts.
As he wheeled himself inside he could see his father talking to Mr. Weasly by the register. Draco knew Mr. Weasly wasn't someone his father interacted with. Draco told himself he just didn't want to interrupt ad he wheeled himself behind some shelves and crept closer untill he was in hearing distance.
"If you and the rest of the ministrywould just mind your own buissness there would be no problem." Lucius ground out. Draco was shocked. He had never heard his father speak so harshly in public.
"Please, we all know your alliances during the war Lucius, I know you're hidding something in that mannor of yours. The Aurors may believe you've turned over a new leaf but I know you're still a smug bast..."
"Enough! You have already caused enough damage to my family." Lucius then composed himself and called out in Draco's direction, "Now Draco, you know it's rude to eavesdrop, cease this behavior immediately. "
'Shit' Draco thought, 'How did he know?'
Draco wheeled himself from around the bookshelves as his father finished paying for his books. Mr. Weasly had already slunk out of the shop, face red as his hair. Draco followed his father in silence as the left the shop.
'What had his father ment when he said that Mr. Weasly had already caused enough damage?' Draco pondered this the rest of the day. He was so deep in thought that he didn't recognize the looks of concern his parents were shooting his way.