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Third Person POV
Diagon Alley.
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Diagon Alley was bustling as usual on the weekend, with people hurrying and strolling back and forth, eager to buy some item or something they needed.
"Hey, are you reading the newspaper about the attack that happened two days ago?" An older wizard spoke to a lady in a corner.
"Yes... You-Know-Who, sent his group to rob a shop of the Berk family's artifacts?" the woman replied cautiously while looking around to see if anyone was listening.
"That's why there are so many Aurors here today..." He spoke while there were some men from the Ministry of Magic in the crowd and some keeping watch from the tops of the buildings, overseeing the area as a form of security.
"They are getting bolder..." the woman murmured.
"I hope the Ministry of Magic puts an end to this... my business is becoming less profitable with fewer wizards daring to go out on the streets for fear of being attacked by these thugs..." the man complained.
In different areas of Diagon Alley, the discussion turned back to the events of recent days, while they showed a newspaper featuring a shop torn apart with dark smoke emerging from the hole created in the wall.
The Death Eaters were not very active yet, with Voldemort waiting and planning his force to dominate the entire magical world of England, so their actions were calculated and not so frequent before launching a full-scale attack.
Meanwhile, although Diagon Alley was still very busy, perhaps not as much as at the beginning of the school term, but still crowded, in a teleportation house, where people used fireplaces with small fees to travel to any part of England and the world, one of the fireplaces exploded into green flames as a young man walked calmly out of the flame explosion.
"A Hogwarts student?" A man looking at the day's newspaper, closed it while raising an eyebrow.
"Here." Snape spoke as he handed over the paper to the man, who nodded while taking and reading it.
"Alright... a Hogwarts hall pass." He said and handed it to Snape.
The latter nodded, leaving the shop and entering the midst of the crowd, following the flow of people, staying discreet as he could hear some people murmuring about him with suspicious glances.
He continued until he stopped at a shop that interested him, with the sign saying, Slughorn's Apothecary, a small shop filled with dusty bottles and jars containing basic and even rare ingredients, but even though he couldn't take the latter, he would still find many ingredients he wouldn't find at Hogwarts.
He entered the place, with a man just finishing serving some people, as soon as these people paid the man, he came over to Snape, looking at what the shop could offer. "Young man, what brings you here today?" asked Mr. Slughorn.
"Asphodel root, belladonna essence, Unicorn Hair, and Valerian Root." Snape replied.
Mr. Slughorn nodded, he started looking through his boxes around the shop, while speaking as he searched for the ingredients. "You don't seem to be someone who's graduated from Hogwarts yet..." He already supposed.
"I'm in my fifth year if that's what you're asking, but I have a hall pass to leave the castle this weekend..." He spoke while the man nodded, finishing picking up the last pieces and placing them on the table for Snape. "I bet you'll make all kinds of potions with this... sounds interesting." The man didn't fail to comment, seeming like Mr. Ollivander according to Snape's memories from many years ago.
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