Diagon Alley
The little cobblestone street, usually full of witches and wizards looking at various things in the windows, little kids staring in awe at toys and magical objects asking there parents for one, there was always laughing, smiling and colour. But now, it look as if no one had inhabited this place, if witches or wizards were ever around, they were in groups, looking very scared and suspicious of everyone. Harry and Ginny looked around,
"What a gloomy place this has become," said Ginny, hugging herself with her arms,
"This is what a want to stop," said Harry, "this is the whole point! Voldemort is turning everyone different! Look at everyone; they are even scared to walk down Diagon Alley by themselves! This is what I am stopping," he finished kicking the bin to his right, everyone gave him suspicious looks and huddled even closer,
"Thought we heard someone kick something," laughed Ron, coming out of a store with Hermione,
"So we immediately thought it was you," he said smirking, "I mean, look at these people! None of them would have the courage to kick a rock let alone a bin,"
"Where are we going first?" Said Hermione,
"Let's go to Fred and George's place," said Harry, they set of down the street, a few shops had newspapers covering their windows so no one could see out or in, some still had the security advice pamphlets on their windows, one or two places had gone out of business because of the lack of people leaving their homes these days, it was one of the gloomiest places Harry had ever seen. They came to Fred and George's shop, it was a dash of colour in the gloomy street, there was an owl flying over head shooting glitter saying "You-Know-Hooo, You-Know-Hooo," a few kids were looking at toys, but it was nothing like it was back at the start 6th year, Harry went to the counter and called out the back,
"Fred, George!" And two boys with bright red hair came out the back wearing dragon skin boots and red leather jackets,
"Harry!" Said Fred taking his hand,
"What brings you here?"
"Well we came here in need of supplies,"
"Say no more, say no more, come out the back and I'll show you our new stuff we are about to bring out," Said George, "And Ron, if I see you take one thing you are going to be mutilated," he added, Ron rolled his eyes, Harry went out the back with the twins,
"Now this, Harry my good friend, will help you defeat Voldemort!" He said pulling out a small black box,
"What is it?" He said looking at it,
"George would you like to demonstrate?" Said Fred,
"I sure would!" Said George,
"Harry we are going to act like this is a dual, but don't do anything, just watch the box, and don't worry, George won't hurt you… much," grinned Fred,
"Ok," said Harry, looking at the box,
"In five! 5-," began Fred, on the little box said 'expelliramus, disarming charm,'
"4! 3! 2! 1! GO!"
"Expelliramus!" Yelled George, Harry's wand fell out of his hand,
"Oh, that's really smart!" Said Harry,
"That will definitely come in handy, especially for Snape!"
"It doesn't only do that!" Said George,
"Oh no my dear friend you get 3 things for free!" Said Fred,
"It goes hot when someone is going to use an unforgivable curse," Said George,
"And cold when someone is going use a spell when you don't know about it," Said Fred smiling, "So what do you think?"
"It's brilliant, thanks guys!"
"No problemo," said Fred, Harry pulled the money pouch out of his pocket,
"So how much is it for four?" Asked Harry,
"For goodness sakes Harry! How many times do we have to tell you? Everything we give you is free! You gave us a starter off and we aren't going to forget it, business is booming, even though we don't have many people out the front, we are still getting massive orders from the Ministry and everything, so you get this, (he grabbed Harry's money,) and you put it here (he put it into his pocket,) Ok?" said George,
"Thanks,"
"It's fine! Now we have some more stuff to show you," Fred said, walking over to a shelf with a glass case over it containing very dark looking objects,
"That's our dark shelf, some things we can't sell, because well, they are dangerous," said George, standing next to Harry with his hands in his leather pockets, Fred withdrew a key from his pocket and slipped it into the lock, it clicked and swung open. Fred picked up a small dark grey ball, about the size of a marble, with a hole in the bottom,
"What's that?" asked Harry,
"That's the main cause of explosions in our rooms lately," Said Fred,
"In muggle terms it's a bomb, I'd hate to think what Voldemort would do if he got his ugly hands on it. I won't demonstrate because… well Fred and I like it here, and we don't wish for it, or anyone to be blown to smithereens, but we do have a small one, that does nothing but smoke," Said George, grabbing an identical one to the one in Harry's hand but white,
"You just stick your wand into the bottom and twist it, then…" George chucked it to Harry, it stuck to his t-shirt, Harry tried to pull it off but it wouldn't budge, it climbed up onto his arm and stayed there,
"No point trying, it won't come off," said Fred, shaking his head, then the little ball exploded into nothing,
"Now try that times 10,000 times worse and you have this one," said George taking the black one from Harry's hand and holding it up,
"But just in case of accidents," he grabbed a cork and shoved it into the hole,
"Safety first," said Fred, passing it to Harry, George grabbed a small container with three of the black ones in it and passed it to Harry, he put the one in his hand in the container also, and put it into his pocket. Fred walked over to the glass covered shelf again,
"Why can't someone just break the glass?" Said Harry
"We put charms on it of course, you saw our fireworks! Try any charms or curses and they become stronger, or the shelf disappears, you can only open it with a key," said George. Fred came back with what looked like hairspray with a scull on it,
"Care to demonstrate George?"
"Love to," he said putting on a huge stupid smile, and grabbing the hairspray and aiming it away from everyone, he pressed the button on the top and a huge flame came out,
"Pretty basic," said Fred,
"But gives the person who is the victim of this a massive burn," said George chucking it to Harry, Harry caught it,
"Great, thanks again,"
"It's finey Mc fine!" Said Fred smirking and passing Harry an extra three in a bag, Harry put all the objects from his pocket into the bag also,
"Ok let's go see if Ron has decided to steal anything yet," said George going out the front of the shop Harry followed, Hermione, Ginny and Ron were looking around still.
"Hey Harry! What did you get?" Said Ginny, looking at the bag in Harry's hand,
"I'll show you a bit later, but they will definitely help!" Said Harry going over to a shelf and getting a few bottles of instant darkness powder, which he put into the bag, Ginny went over to the twins and gave them a hug,
"Mum isn't too pissed at me is she?"
"Well… let us put it this way," Said Fred as Ginny let go of him,
"I wouldn't go back there, not until," Said George eyeing the little kids in the store,
"Everything is… better," Said Fred, Ginny smirked,
"Well lots of places to go," Said Ginny hugging them again, "we will see you again!"
"I bloody well hope so!" Said Fred,
"And we will see all you again as well!" He added smiling at Ron, Harry and Hermione,
"You will, and thanks again, couldn't have done it without you!" Said Harry,
"You're welcome," said George smiling, and they all left the store,
"Now where to?" Asked Hermione,
"Does Flourish and Blotts sell books dark magic books?" Asked Harry,
"Well, only a few, I know a much better place, barely anyone knows about it, I only found it because I needed to go to the bathroom and I thought it was a cubicle or something. Of course it has a lot of good books as well, but the 2nd story is all dark magic books," Said Hermione,
"Why is it hidden?" Asked Ginny,
"I think it's because some of the books are illegal," said Hermione, turning right,
"I… think it was this way," she said,
"Why haven't you talked about it before?" Said Ron
"It never came up," replied Hermione, "Ah yes! Here it is!" She said stopping in front of something that did look like a cubicle, it was all wood, old and broken down,
"You were going to go in here to go to the bathroom?" Said Ron
"I was desperate ok?" Said Hermione blushing, she walked into the small run down shop and they followed. Inside it was beautiful, the bottom level had books lining the walls, all alphabetically in order, a handsome red rug was neatly places in the centre of the wooden floor, and tables were laid out where a few people were sitting and studying, there was a staircase on the right hand side, leading up to a generous collection of dark books, most black, and one table with four chairs, at the counter on the left side was a man, who looked slightly insane, with dark messy hair down to his shoulders and wide brown eyes, he walked over to his new customers,
"Why hello!" He said in a bright Scotsman voice, which seemed like it didn't match his appearance,
"My name is Ned! If you need any help I'll be at the counter," He said smiling, his eyes flicked up to Harry's scar, but said nothing and walked back to the desk,
"Hermione, Ron can you look down the bottom story for any useful charms?"
"Yeah sure mate," said Ron, walking over to the shelves with Hermione,
"Ginny do you want to help me look at the dark magic books?"
"I guess," she said shrugging and walked up to the second story, where she went into an isle of books, hiding her from view.
Harry walked up the stairs also; the man at the counter eyed him suspiciously. Harry walked into the isle of books Ginny was in and started to look under "C," for curses, Ginny was looking at a book which has spines sticking out of the front called, "Curses for the cursed," she flipped through a few pages then folded down a corner and put it on the floor. Harry went to "D" near the end of the isle and found, "Dangerous Curses," which was just a plain black book, he put it on top of Ginny's and kept on looking, he would read it later.
Harry kept on glancing at Ginny, and Ginny kept on glancing at Harry, then Harry cracked and gave into temptation, he turned to Ginny and kissed her passionately on the lips, Ginny put her hand around Harry's head and kissed back, Harry pushed her up against the wall at the far end of the isle so no one could see them, Ginny stuck her tongue into his mouth, and Harry did the same, they kissed for fifteen minutes before breaking apart,
"Wow," said Ginny quietly, smiling, Harry thought the same thing; Ginny laughed and started to look at books again with a huge smile planted on her face.
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