𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 - Harry Potter x Fem!Reader¹

3.. AT FLOURISH AND BLOTTS

Life at the Burrow was as different as possible from life on Autumn Avenue. The Hudsons liked everything neat and ordered; the Weasleys' house burst with the strange and unexpected. Y/N got a shock the first time she looked in the mirror over the kitchen mantelpiece and it shouted, "Tuck your shirt in, scruffy!" The ghoul in the attic howled and dropped pipes whenever he felt things were getting too quiet, and small explosions from Fred and George's bedroom were considered perfectly normal.

What Y/N found most unusual about life at Ron's, however, wasn't the talking mirror or the clanking ghoul: It was the fact that everybody there seemed to like her.

Mrs. Weasley fussed over the state of her clothes and tried to force her to eat fourth helpings at every meal. Mr. Weasley liked Y/N to sit next to him at the dinner table so that he could bombard her with questions about life with Muggles, asking her to explain how things like plugs and the postal service worked.

"Fascinating." he would say as Y/N talked him through using a telephone. "Ingenious, really, how many ways Muggles have found of getting along without magic."

Y/N heard from Hogwarts one sunny morning about a week after he had arrived at the Burrow. She and Ron went down to breakfast to find Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Ginny already sitting at the kitchen table. The moment she saw Y/N, Ginny waved happily and patted the seat next to her for Y/N to sit in. Smiling, Y/N sat down and took the toast Mrs. Weasley offered her with a polite thank you.

"Letters from school," said Mr. Weasley, passing Y/N and Ron identical envelopes of yellowish parchment, addressed in green ink. "Dumbledore already knows you're here, Y/N — doesn't miss a trick, that man. You two've got them, too," he added, as Fred and George ambled in, still in their pajamas.

For a few minutes there was silence as they all read their letters. Y/N's told her to catch the Hogwarts Express as usual from King's Cross station on September first. There was also a list of the new books she'd need for the coming year. She let Ginny look over her shoulder.

SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS WILL REQUIRE:

The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2 by Miranda Goshawk

Break with a Banshee by Gilderoy Lockhart

Gadding with Ghouls by Gilderoy Lockhart

Holidays with Hags by Gilderoy Lockhart

43 Travels with Trolls by Gilderoy Lockhart

Voyages with Vampires by Gilderoy Lockhart

Wanderings with Werewolves by Gilderoy Lockhart

Year with the Yeti by Gilderoy Lockhart

Fred, who had finished his own list, peered over at Y/N's.

"You've been told to get all Lockhart's books, too!" he said. "The new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher must be a fan — bet it's a witch."

At this point, Fred caught his mother's eye and quickly busied himself with the marmalade.

"That lot won't come cheap," said George, with a quick look at his parents. "Lockhart's books are really expensive..."

"Well, we'll manage," said Mrs. Weasley, but she looked worried. "I expect we'll be able to pick up a lot of Ginny's things secondhand."

"I can't wait to start Hogwarts," Ginny whispered to Y/N excitedly.

Just then Ron's elder brother Percy walked in. He was already dressed, his Hogwarts prefect badge pinned to his sweater vest.

"Morning, all," said Percy briskly. "Hello, Y/N. Lovely day."

He sat down in the only remaining chair but leapt up again almost immediately, pulling from underneath him a molting, gray feather duster — at least, that was what Y/N thought it was, until she saw that it was breathing.