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Chapter 4

Towards the end of the summer break, we finally received our letter from Hogwarts that told us all our supplies. They all came in by owl and we also received a letter from Hermione asking us to meet with her a week after our letters came in to go and by supplies in Diagon Alley. However, we had all found it rather odd that we were required to own 5 different sets of Gilderoy Lockhart books, much to Mrs. Weasley's delight.

Then the day came around that we planned on going shopping and we all stood around the fireplace, waiting to travel by Floo Powder, something that Harry and I had never done.

"Just watch Fred," Ron said as his brother stepped forward.

Fred walked over to his mother and took some glittery powder out of a flowerpot and stepped inside of the fireplace. When he was in there, he threw the powder down causing the fire to turn green and Fred shouted, "Diagon Alley!" and then disappeared from sight.

"It is very important that you speak clearly!" Mrs. Weasley said.

After a few more people went, Harry went up next. He took a little bit of the Floo Powder and threw it to the ground.

"Diagonally," he said nervously just before vanishing with the green flames.

"Did he just say-?" Mr. Weasley said as his wife nodded.

"I hope he's okay," Mrs. Weasley said as I stepped forward.

I took the Floo Powder into my hands and stepped into the fireplace. When I threw it to the ground, I made sure to say the words loud and clear.

"Diagon Alley!" I shouted.

Then I felt myself spinning around into what seemed like a drain. When I stopped, I fell facedown onto the ground right in front of Fred and George.

"Hello there!" George said.

"Have a nice fall?" Fred laughed helping me up.

I laughed and then looked around. I noticed something, or someone, was missing.

"Where's Harry?" I asked them.

They looked at each other and back to me with a confused face expression on.

"Did he go before you?" George asked.

I nodded and they began to look around the general area. After a few minutes, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley appeared.

"Everyone ready to go?" Mr. Weasley smiled at us all.

"What's wrong?" Mrs. Weasley asked looking at all of us.

"We can't find Harry," I told them. "He wasn't here when I got here."

Mrs. Weasley started to panic and told everyone to go searching for him.

"He's probably scared to death!" Mrs. Weasley said. "Who knows where he's turned up, he could be anywhere!"

"He's okay, Mrs. Weasley," I told her without really thinking.

"How do you know that?" Mr. Weasley asked me with a curious expression on his face.

"I can just tell," I said. "It's just one of those things…"

I wasn't really sure why, but I could always tell whether or not my brother was safe and always knew how he was feeling about something. It was almost like a sixth sense or something.

After a few minutes or so, we decided to split up and look for a while, if we couldn't find him then we would meet back up where we had originally landed.

I began to walk through the street, looking in Ollivander's, Madam Malkins, etc. Then I heard a very familiar voice.

"Hey Emily!" someone called out to me.

I turned around and saw Neville Longbottom standing nearby holding his toad and standing next to his grandmother, who happened to be talking to someone else.

"Hey!" I smiled as I walked over to him. "Have you seen Harry?"

"No, why?" he asked. "What's wrong?"

"We traveled by Floo Powder and now we can't find him," I said.

"Want me to help?"

Then his grandmother seemed to notice my presence and turned over to me.

"Why, look who it is!" she said.

I looked over to her, almost embarrassed. It had been a while since anyone has freaked out over the mere sight of me, which wasn't really a pleasant feeling. It was rather awkward.

"Neville here has been talking about you all summer," she croaked as she beamed at me. I couldn't help but notice Neville's face that was slowly gaining color. "I've also noticed that you haven't been writing back, young lady."

"Oh," I said. "That's actually a long story, buy I'm actually in a rush . You see, my brother is missing and-"

"Go on, go on," she said as she turned back to the person that she had been talking to.

I grabbed Neville's arm and pulled him along. We walked a little while down Diagon Alley, searching every store for any sign of my brother - we didn't see him in any store that we looked in. We then decided that it was best to just go back to the meeting spot.

We weren't the first ones back either. Hermione had met up with Ron during his search and Mr. Weasley and the twins stood there also.

"There he is!" Hermione said.

I felt a sigh of relief escape me as I saw my brother coming towards us with Hagrid walking alongside him.

"Where did you end up?" Ron asked him.

"Knockturn Alley," Harry said.

"Excellent," Fred and George said, apparently impressed.

"Lucky!" Ron said. "We're never allowed to go there."

Then Mrs. Weasley found us and when she saw Harry she ran over to him, making sure that he was okay.

"Well, I should probably go back to Gran," Neville told me. "She told me that she was going to be leaving soon."

"Oh, well thanks for helping me," I said. "Sorry for not returning your letters, it really is a long story. I'll tell you at school."

"It's fine," he said. "I was just worried that something happened to you, that's all."

I smiled at him and gave him a hug goodbye and he went back to his grandmother.

"Ah, young love," Fred said putting his arm around George.

"It's so innocent, isn't it," George said sighing.

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"Oh nothing," Fred said.

"Nothing at all," George said.

"I was just worried, that's all," Fred imitated.

"Shut up!" I said, pushing him backwards.

The twins, still laughing, walked off towards another store. The rest of us went off towards Gringotts to get some money.

"Guess who I saw in Borgin and Burkes?" Harry asked Ron, Hermione, and me. "Malfoy and his father."

"What was he doing there?" Mr. Weasley entered into the conversation.

"I think that he was trying to sell something, I know he wasn't interested in buying anything.

"He's worried then," Mr. Weasley smiled.

"Arthur," Mrs. Weasley threw him a look that said stay out of it.

After we left Gringotts, we met up with Hermione's parents and Fred and George. The twins were carrying all kinds of things from the joke shop.

"It's going to be a good year," George said admiring all of his purchases.

"Hey, Emily!" Fred called over to me. "Where's your boyfriend?"

I ran at him and he dropped everything in his arms trying to escape me, laughing in the process. I knew that as soon as I caught him, I was going to choke the life out of him. However, right when I was about to catch him, I was caught by none other than his twin brother.

"Get off me George," I told him as I went to squirm out of his arms.

"You forgot the magic word," George laughed.

"Fred and George!" Mrs. Weasley scolded. "Leave the poor girl alone."

"Whatever you say Mum!" George said.

Then, after a couple of seconds, Fred returned to the group, all of his stuff in hand. I smacked him in the side of the arm when his mother wasn't looking.

"You know you love me," Fred said with a huge grin on his face.

I couldn't help but laugh. Fred was such an idiot.

"Gilderot Lockhart is here!" Mrs. Weasley squealed as we reached Flourish and Blotts.

Sure enough, there was a huge banner on the store that said that Lockhart would be signing copies of his autobiography, Magical Me today.

"We're going to meet him!" Hermione said. "I can't wait! He's written our entire booklist!"

It took a few minutes, but we all managed to squeeze into the store that was filled with Lockhart fans that were waiting to meet him. I saw Mrs. Weasley out of the corner of my eye fixing her hair, obviously preparing to meet this celebrity.

Then, we saw the man himself, looking absolutely ridiculous wearing brightly colored blue robes and smiling all over the place. Surrounding him were several pictures of himself on various books of his. He stared out into the crowd, admiring his many fans. Then, his eyes found Harry and me.

"Harry and Emily Potter!" he said.

He jumped out into the crowd and grabbed the two of us by the arm and pulled us to the front of the room. Much to my embarrassment, and assumingly my brother's also, the entire crowd cheered as the photographer took pictures of us standing with him.

"Smile, you two!" he said. "This is going to be the front page, no doubt!"

He put on a cheery smile and I looked over to Harry who looked as terrified and embarrassed as I undoubtedly did.

"What a grand moment this is!" Lockhart smiled out to the crowd. "I believe that this is the perfect opportunity to announce some wonderful news! When these two delightful children entered this store, they had no idea that I would be giving them both my signed autobiography - free of charge! Not only that, the two of them will have the pleasure of having me as their new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts!"

After the crowd went wild, we managed to escape Lockhart. When we made it to the front of the store where the Weasleys stood, Harry handed his book over to Ginny and I handed mine to Mrs. Weasley.

"You can have this," I told her. "I have no interest in it."

Mrs. Weasley looked thrilled with her new book and I was happy for her. I had literally no interest in any of this man's books. To me, he seemed to be a total fake - all about the publicity. He was an absolute fool that I wanted nothing to do with. Too bad that I would have to put up with him at Hogwarts.

"I bet you loved all that Potter," Malfoy said waking over to Harry. "The famous Harry Potter, he can't even go into a bookstore without getting noticed."

"Leave him alone!" Ginny said from behind Harry.

"Oh, isn't that cute?" Draco sneered. "Potter has himself a girlfriend!"

I looked over at Ginny, who went completely red in the face. Then Ron made his way over to our crowd at the edge of the shop and looked disgusted at the sight of Malfoy being there.

"Surprised to see Harry in the shop, are we?" Ron taunted.

"It's more surprising to see you here actually," he sneered. "Can you even afford books?

Ron went to hit Draco, but was stopped by Mr. Weasley when he saw what was going on.

"Let's go," I told them all.

"Why, if it isn't Arthur Weasley," someone said in front of us.

It was undoubtedly Draco's father - they looked exactly the same.

"Lucius," Mr. Weasley said coldly.

Mr. Malfoy looked into the cauldron of books that Ginny was holding, picked up an old book, and shook his head. Then he saw Mr. and Mrs. Granger near by and had a look of pure disgust on his face.

"Just when I thought that your family couldn't sink any lower," he snarled as he looked at Hermione's Muggle parents.

Then, out of nowhere, Mr. Weasley attacked Mr. Malfoy. Apparently, he had insulted him too much.

"Get him, Dad!" I heard from Fred and George across the room.

Then Hagrid burst into the room and broke up the fight - Malfoy had a large mark on his head where he had been hit in the eye by Mr. Weasley.

Malfoy threw the book back into the cauldron and left the store, his son trailing behind him.

"That was…AWESOME!" Fred said patting his father on the back.

"I didn't know you had it in you, Dad!" George said smiling.

When we left the store, Mrs. Weasley still lecturing him, I couldn't help but notice the look of triumph that remained on Mr. Weasley's face all the way to the Leaky Cauldron.

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