Chapter Three

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disclaimer: I wish I did own this but I don't, which is probably a good thing.

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When Harry and Sirius entered Diagon Alley, the twins were there to greet Harry. They placed their arms around his shoulders, leading him out to the alley, "Welcome mate,"

"to the one,"

"and only,"

"Diagon Alley." They chorused the last two words together.

Harry laughed at their dramatics. "Thanks for the intro."

The twins led Harry and Sirius to the Quidditch store. Once they entered, Ron walked over and asked, "Do you play Quidditch Harry?"

"How can I not? My dad plays seeker, Dave plays keeper, and I usually play chaser. We use to hold mini-tournaments. But, I think I'll wait until next year before I join the house team at Hogwarts."

Ron nodded understandingly.

After spending an hour looking at the latest Quidditch supplies, they decided to see the twins shop, WWW: Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes. (You have to have that in every decent story that involves 6th year)

Leaving Harry brought up the rear lost in thought, organizing the events so far.

'Event 1: change in appearance. I look like a girl.

Event 2: moved to england to attend Hogwarts for last 2 years of school

Event 3: Met the Weasleys...Bill, Charlie and the twins are cool. Ron could be a good friend given time. Ginny's nice. Keep an eye on Percy.

Event 4: Diagon Alley...need to write to Alex and Chase later.'

Pulling himself out of his thoughts, Harry saw that everyone (excluding him) were almost at the twins shop. Harry didn't mind, because it meant he had several minutes before his mom would worry about him-and then, once he was found, she would give him a lecture about staying with the group while embracing him with a death-like grip.

Looking around he saw that he was outside Eyelops' Owl Euporium (did I get that right?). Making up his mind, Harry went into the owlshop and began to look around.

There were eagle-owls, horned-owls, tawny owls, barn owls, and all sorts of other types of owls. But it was a snowy-white owl that caught his attention. Intelligent gold-like eyes stared back at him. Harry smiled, "Hello girl, How would you like to come with me?"

The snowy owl hooted affectionately from within her cage as a response. Harry smiled and carefully picked up her cage, went to the counter, and paid for her as well as some owl treats, and mice.

Before leaving Harry released the snowy-owl, whom he decided to call Hedwig, and told her to go to Godric's Hollow. The owl nipped him gently before leaving. Harry shrank her cage and placed it in a pocket with the rest of the stuff he had bought. He then left, waving at the lady behind the shop's counter.

Harry then carefully made his way to the twin's shop. He did his best to avoid the crowd. When he was about three shops away from his destination someone crashed into him.

"Oh, sorry about that," a snobbish voice drawled out not actually sounding sorry.

'Pureblood.' Harry thought as he carefully got into a standing position, dusting himself off. (He had fallen down.) Pushing a strand of black hair behindhis ear, Harry's obsidian-emerald eyes met silver-grey eyes.

"It's fine, no harm done." Harry stated casually, knowing his mother would kill him if she caught him being so rude to a stranger. 'Guess that's the mauraders influence.'

They both paused, studying each other. Harry knew the boy had to be a Malfoy from James' description of people that he went to school with. Pale blond hair, the silver-grey eyes, pale complexion. 'Yep, definitely a Malfoy.' harry thought taking in the expensive clothes.

"I'm Malfoy, Draco Malfoy." Draco held out his hand. The boy he had accidently walked into intigued him for some reason.

Harry took Draco's hand. "Harry Potter."

Both boys were slightly startled when a baritone voice called out, "There you are Draco. We've been looking all over for you."

A man that looked like an older replica of Draco walked towards them. On his arm (escorting for those who don't get it) was a beautiful lady that could only be Draco's mother, and behind them was...

Harry's eyes widen for a second before being hidden by a welcoming smile.