Adrian and I had just entered Diagon Ally with our parents and Phantomand stood looking at the list of school supplies we'd both need. "Jesus this is a long fucking list..." Adrian muttered as he scanned the list once more "Mom, do you remember the conversion rate from USD to Galleons?" .

"One Galleon is $7.35 in USD sweetie." She said and then turned back to whatever she'd been looking at before Adrian had interrupted her. My mouth fell open as I stared at the list once more.

"Does Dumbledore just think we're made of money?" I said as I scowled at the paper then turned to our parents. "Alright y'all can come with us but...ya gotta play it cool...don't go ape shit when magic happens...cause we made that mistake last year and we got some weird looks." I said and turned to Adrian.

"Alright...I guess first stop is Flourish and Blott's cause I'd rather get our books before they sell out so..." I nodded and motioned for him to lead the way and the five of us made our way down the street while mom and dad tried to not look like tourists on vacation every time something magical happened. As we entered the bookstore, it was more crowded than the usual back to school crowd of students and parents lobbying to get their supplies.

"Oh my God, why is it so crowd-" I stumbled forward as someone shoved past me and cut me off mid-sentence.

"Hey!" Adrian called as he caught me before I hit the ground and righted me, as someone else pushed past him. "Okay...alright, alright." Just then some shoved Adrian out of the way and he immediately locked onto them. "Didn't your mother ever teach you not to shove?" he demanded as the person in question disappeared amid the throng of onlookers. "The next bastard who pushes me...I swear to God" Adrian muttered under his breath, silently I reached out and took his hand giving it a gentle squeeze. Just then someone slammed into the two of us from behind causing us to stumble forward, once we straightened ourselves both Adrian and I whirled around, wands out and came face to face with Harry.

"Oh...Hey Harry..." I said sheepishly

"Why've you got your wands out?" Harry asked cautiously.

"Don't...don't worry about that." Harry looked at the two of us then hissed.

"Were you two going to hex me?"

"No, no, it's...nothing...don't...please don't tell Dumbledore." Adrian said as he and I slipped our wands back into our pockets and Harry laughed and shook his head. "Anyways...Hey!" Adrian continued cordially.

"How are you..oh...Ron, Hermione...twins...small...presumably Weasley girl I don't know..." I said greeting them each in turn as the young girl looked at me and Adrian funnily.

"I'm Ginny." She stated flatly.

"Hi Ginny." Adrian said offering his hand.

"I don't do handshakes..." Ginny said and Adrian quickly pulled his hand back saying.

"No...no shaking...alright cool." I fought back a laugh as Adrian turned back to Harry. "So what's all hubbub...why is every wizard in Greater Britian in Flourish and Blott's?"

"Gilderoy Lockheart is here!" Hermione said practically squealing in excitement.

"Who the fuck is Gilderoy Lockheart?" I muttered as Adrian shrugged and said.

"I dunno know."

"He's the most accomplished adventuring author there is! He's done so much!" Hermione said eyes glassing over briefly as I glanced at the twins, who rolled their eyes, and fought down a smile.

"An author...adventuring author? Oh great." Adrian sighed as we waited in line. Suddenly a voice cried out.

"It can't be Harry Potter?"

"Oh Harry...I think he recgo-" My sentence was cut off when the man that had been circling the room trying to get as many photos as possible. Reached over and grabbed Harry pulling him over to get photographed as well. "WHOA! HEY HEY HEY! Don't go grabbin minors!" I screamed

"Harry blink twice if you want me to knock this asshole out...just...just twice..." Adrian said watching Harry intently and Harry looked at him as if he were insane. "Don't look at me like I'm crazy..." Adrian retorted and whirled around on Gilderoy. "Hey dick for brains...don't go grabbin people just because you want a good shot for the paper...it's fuckin rude." The man's mouth fell open as he stared at Adrian in mute shock.

"What did you?..." He finally managed to say.

"Yeah, I said somethin...get bent!" Adrian and turned his back on him only to run right into Draco.

"Bet you enjoyed that eh Potter."

"Oh...Hi Malfoy...Just gotta..." Adrian said smiling

"We've gotta work on your greeting skills...cause you're not very good at it yet." I said as another man approached, with the same platinum hair that Draco had. "Oh this must be the father who hears about everything...alright." I said glancing him over as Adrian did the same as Mr. Weasley approached.

"Well, well, well...Arthur Weasley." Mr. Malfoy said, his voice falsely pleasant.

"Lucius..." Mr. Weasley said tightly.

"What's the use of being a disgrace to the name wizard if they don't even pay you well for it?" Lucius said coldly.

"Oh? Oh, he's rude and pretentious..." Adrian muttered as I stifled another laugh. "Well at least Draco comes by it honest..." He continued as I bit my lip to keep from laughing. However when Lucius grabbed Harry's arm I reached over and smacked it away.

"Hands off!" I said putting myself between the two of them as Adrian joined me muttering.

"Harry what did we talk about with stranger danger." He said glancing back at Harry and then turning back to Lucius Malfoy. "You should know better, your an adult! Furthermore, I don't know you're out here throwing Mr. Malfoy, looking like a drowned blonde rat...You've got so much product in your hair, you look like you haven't showered in a month." I couldn't contain the laugh anymore as Lucius sneered at the two of us.

"You must be the Brown twins...I've heard of you." He sneered coldly.

"Oh you've heard of us?" I said faking innocence, "That's great...so then you've heard of our motto Talk Shit Get Hit?"

"What did you say to me?" He demanded

"Yeah we don't need a wand to knock you on ya ass..." I said

"I suggest you turn tail, tuck yours and strut the hell out of here...I've seen ya son do it often enough I know he's emulating you...Mmmhmm...that's right...alright, goodbye now...buh bye now. You have the day you deserve sir...Mmmhmmm thank you." Adrian as I laughed.

"Now I don't care how important he thinks he is...he can learn some fucking manners." I said after catching my breath.