Changing our Mistakes

7. Shopping Time | part 2

"Vol-, sorry - You-Know-Who was at Hogwarts?"

"Where do you think he would have been." Walburga raised her eyebrow.

"Why don't you shut up!" Sirius and Lysander snapped in unison.

Walburga's steely gaze swept between them as she stated, "No wonder you two end together."

Walburga surely knew how to make others shut up.

"Years an' years ago," said Hagrid.

"On the brighter side this was years ago," Astra mused, "on a darker side we are going to school where this dark wizard learned what we are going to."

"Don't people usually list the brighter side over the darker?" Peter asked.

"What did you expect of Blacks?" Fiana rolled her eyes.

"I only listened to the brighter side part."

They bought their schoolbooks in a shop called Flourish and Blotts, where the shelves were stacked to the ceiling with books as large as paving stones bound in leather; books the size of postage stamps in covers of silk; books full of peculiar symbols and a few books with nothing in them at all.

"Even Dudley would have wanted to read some of these." Harry whispered, "And let me tell you he usually runs away at the sight of books."

Lily surely looked disturbed at that, "That boy didn't know what he is missing."

"Indeed." Hermione agreed.

Hagrid almost had to drag Harry and Astra away from Curses and Counter-curses (Bewitch Your Friends and Befuddle Your Enemies with the Latest acts of revenge: Hair Loss, Jelly-Legs, Tongue-Tying and Much, Much More) by Professor Vindictus Viridian.

"Why am I not surprised," Euphemia asked her husband like she didn't know to smile or cry at the thought.

"Honestly speaking, it isn't our problem in future."

"I was trying to find out how to curse Dudley."

At Harry's answer, Hagrid expectantly looked at her.

"Have you ever lived at Wools orphanage, moreover with Bianca Madley?" She spoke.

"I'm not sayin' that's not a good idea, but yer, not ter use magic in the Muggle world except in very special circumstances," said Hagrid. "An' anyway, yeh two couldn' work any of them curses yet, yeh'll need a lot more study before yeh get ter that level."

"You shouldn't have challenged her," Draco said exasperatedly.

"Why does that bother yeh?" Asked Hagrid.

Draco raised his eyebrow, "Who do you think she practised those curses on?"

"Watch me," Astra told Harry quickly.

Harry was already getting bad vibes from it, he wanted to ask what that Bianca Madley thing was about but decided against it.

"You were afraid of her." Asked James.

Harry frowned, "You wouldn't want to be on her bad side."

"Ask Draco, he knows." Ron grinned.

The said blond rolled his eyes, "I wasn't on her bad side."

"You were afraid of her." Lucius scoffed, looking at the hologram Astra critically.

"We should continue," Dumbledore said in his best authoritative voice.

Hagrid wouldn't let Harry buy a solid gold cauldron, either ("It says pewter on yer list"),