Chapter 7. Prat's and shopping
It had been a few days since Harry had shown Draco and Blaize how to make cheesecake. He had finished his book the previous night and wanted a new one so he had agreed to go out shopping with Draco and Blaize.
Harry had sat outside on the back porch writing in his journal.
'Dear Journal,
It's been a while since I wrote anything in here. The last thing I think I wrote was that Lucius and Severus make me feel happy. Yeah sure, I work in a brothel and I have sex with my bosses but it least I am safe and happy. I met Lucius's son and his friend the other day and they are both really good-looking. And they are trying really hard to make me feel comfortable here. We had to tell them a cover story. The story has some true parts and not true parts, not true is that I'm not in Foster care. Lucius isn't my Foster parent. True is that I did come from an abusive home.'
As I was writing, I sensed somebody coming up behind me. When I looked up, Draco and Blaize were walking towards me. I gave them a smile and closed my journal. I wondered what they wanted.
(Switch to Draco's pov)
As we approached, Harry looked up.
I signed "Can we join you? There is something we would like to ask you." When Harry nodded his head, we pulled up two lawn chairs. He looked expectantly up at us. I started to sign, "We were wondering if tomorrow you would like to go shopping with us?"
Harry thought, 'why would they want to go shopping with me?' He signed his question and Draco answered with a few quick signs.
"We thought maybe you'd want some books of your own and maybe some other things." Harry chewed on his bottom lip while he thought.
After a few minutes Harry responded with his own hand signs, "I would like that, maybe we could stop at a bookstore or library." Draco and Blaise smiled at Harry. After sitting outside for a while, all three boys made their way to bed.
The next day, the boys got a lift to the alley known as Diagon Alley. This was where all the hottest and newest stores were. Draco and Blaize led Harry to a bookstore called Flourish and Blotts, where Harry bought four books with the money that Lucius gave him. The money was actually his tip money from his clients.
The books he bought were some of his favorites. As the cashier was ringing up his purchases Draco glanced at the titles. The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima, Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith, Need by Carrie Jones and Ranger's Apprentice Book 1: The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan.
"You must really like fantasies?" Harry blushed and nodded his head. After Harry bought his books they went to the next shop on their list.
After 3 hours, nine stores, and three cold glasses of lemonade from the Leaky Cauldron they decided to go to Zonko's Joke Shop, where Harry's day when from great, to hell.
Harry was looking at a package of candy that said 'Tastes like COD. Looks like bananas. Trick your friends into sucking on a fish candy!" He was so absorbed in reading about the strange prank that he accidentally ran into somebody and fell to the floor.
He looked up to see who he had run into. The boy was tall and bony looking, with black hair and two big buck teeth. Harry thought that he sort of look like a beaver.
The boy scowled down at harry and said, "Watch where you're going, you idiot." When Harry didn't reply to the beaver boy, he got angry and pulled Harry up off the floor and held him by his collar. Harry squirmed. The beaver boy was holding Harry off the floor and his breath did not smell nice either. "What are you, stupid or something? Why are you just staring? You have nothing to say?" He shook Harry a little and Harry whimpered.
The next thing Harry knew he heard a voice shout, "LET GO OF HIM FLINT!"
Harry was so very happy Draco had come to his rescue. The boy, Flint, scowled at Harry some more. When Draco reached the two boys he said, "Flint, I said. Put. Him. Down." Draco's voice was starting to get scary.
Flint finally put Harry down and shoved Draco out of his way. When Flint left, Draco walked over to Harry, "Are you all right? Did he hurt you?"
I shook my head no and signed "Who was he?"
Draco signed "That was Marcus Flint, my schools soccer captain and the schools biggest Prat." As Draco went on, Blaize handed me the box of joke candy that I dropped when I fell.
"Thanks." I told him he just nodded. Once we left the store we made our way to the ice cream shop. Once we ordered our ice cream and sat down, Draco called his father to come pick us up. By the time we were done with our ice creams, Lucius was just pulling up in the car. We climbed in and buckled up, Ready to go home.