"Might as well get yer uniform," said Hagrid, nodding toward Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. "Listen, Harry, would yeh mind if I slipped off fer a pick-me-up in the Leaky Cauldron? I hate them Gringotts Carts." He did still look a bit sick, so Harry entered Madam Malkin's shop alone, feeling nervous.
Madam Malkin was a squat, smiling witch dressed all in mauve.
"I love Madam Malkin," Lily says happily
"She's a sweetheart," Adeline agrees with the redhead
"Hogwarts, dear?" she asked when Harry started to speak. "got the lot here---another young man and a young woman being fitted up just now, in fact."
In the back of the shop, a boy with a pale, pointed face was standing on a footstool while a second witch pinned up his long black robes with a small brunette girl next to him. Madam Malkin stood Harry on a stool next to them, slipped a long robe over his head, and began to pin it to the right length.
"Aw it's ickle Cellikins," the twins chorus as Celestia cringes at the name
"Stop or you won't be seeing this pretty face for two months," Cel tells them with a sarcastic smile as the twins immediately stop talking
"Hello," said the boy, "Hogwarts, too?"
"Yes," said Harry.
"My father's next door buying our books and mother's up the street looking at wands," said the boy. He had a bored, drawling voice. "Then I'm going to drag them off to look at racing brooms. I don't see why first years can't have their own. I think I'll bully Father into getting me one and I'll smuggle it in somehow."
The brunette girl snorts at his words
Most of the future gen also laugh at Draco's words
Harry was strongly reminded of Dudley.
"Hey! Don't compare me to that whale!" Draco exclaims offended
"I'm sorry, but you did remind me of him," Harry shrugs although he didn't seem sorry at all
"Have you got your own broom?" the boy went on.
"No," said Harry.
"Play Quidditch at all?"
"No," Harry said again, wondering what on earth Quidditch could be.
James put a hand on his heart dramatically, "You didn't know what quidditch was? I will kill your sister and her husband, Lilyflower"
"Be my guest," Lily shrugs
"I fucking love your parents, Harry," Celestia exclaims as the two smile at her
"I do---Father says it's a crime if I'm not picked to play for my house, and I must say, I agree. Know what house you'll be in yet?"
"No," said Harry, feeling more stupid by the minute.
"I didn't mean to make you feel stupid," Draco says apologetically
"It's okay, I just wasn't brought up in the wizarding world and I didn't understand what you were saying. That's not your fault," Harry shrugs
"Well, no one really knows until they get there, do they, but I know I'll be in Slytherin, all our family has been---imagine being in Hufflepuff, I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?"
"Draco! Don't be rude!" The girl next to him exclaims
"Mmmm," said Harry, wishing he could say something more interesting.
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Enchanted
Fanfiction"I was enchanted to meet you" In which the golden quartet and their friends find themselves in the past with eight movies about their lives to watch "Please don't be in love with someone else. Please don't have somebody waiting on you" Harry Potter...
