The Moon and Stars.

23- Muggle Style

It wasn't a mystery as to who that was. Harry and his friends turned and found himself face to face with Malfoy, who had a disgusted sneer on his face. Typical.

"Famous Harry Potter. Can't even go into a bookshop without making the front page."

"Leave him alone! He didn't want all that." Snapped Ginny, the others looking at her in shock, as this was perhaps the first time she had spoken in front of Harry. And she was kinda kickass, too.

"Potter, you've got yourself a girlfriend." Malfoy laughed. Ginny blushed scarlet.

"And you've got yourself four pissed off friends of Ginny and Harry." Snapped Cass.

"Are you upset that Harry is here, shopping for Hogwarts?" Snarled Ron, subtly accusing Malfoy of sending Dobby after the poor boy.

"Not as surprised as I am to see you
in a shop, Weasley. I suppose your parents will go hungry for a month to pay for all those."

Ron saw red, and Selena did as well. The two most impulsive and protective members of the friend group immediately started for Malfoy. Cass drew Selena into her chest, buckling her arms around her friend to keep her steady. Ron, on the other hand, was being held back by Hermione and Harry, who took hold of Ron's jacket.

"Ron!" Came a voice. It was Mr. Weasley, who was struggling to reach them. He was also accompanied by the twins. "What are you doing? It's too crowded in here, let's go outside."

"Well, well, well." Came a nasty voice. They all looked to see a tall and imposing figure, dressed in all black. He had long, silky white-blonde hair that was the exact color of Draco's hair.

"Arthur Weasley."

"Lucius." Said Mr. Weasley with a cold nod.

"Busy time at the Ministry, I hear. All those raids... I hope they're paying you overtime?" He said.

The man reached over and dipped into Ginny's cauldron, pulling out a very old, used, and tattered copy of A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration.

"Obviously not. Dear me, what's the use of being a disgrace to the name of wizard if they don't even pay you well for it?"

Mr. Weasley's face turned a darker shade than either Ron or Ginny's had. Selena thrashed in Cass's grip, as the Weasley family was the closest thing to parents that she had. Madame Violet was amazing, and very dear to both girls, but neither of them viewed her as a mother, and she didn't view them as daughters. More like a close family friend, or something of that sort. Like an unofficial Godmother or something of the sort.

"We have a very different idea of what disgraces the name of wizard, Malfoy." Said Mr. Weasley in a very tight voice.

"Clearly." Said Mr. Malfoy, his cold, gray eyes straying to Mr. and Mrs. Granger, who were watching apprehensively. He then turned his eyes to Hermione. The way he looked at the three of the muggles and muggle-born only made Selena's blood boil more. And Cass, Ron, Harry, and even Mr. Weasley were feeling the same way.

"The company you keep, Weasley.... and here I though your family could sink no lower."

There was a loud thud of metal hitting the floor as Ginny's cauldron was thrown aside. Mr. Weasley has leapt at Malfoy senior, sending them crashing into a bookcase.

"Get him, dad!" Cheered on the twins, much to the protest of their mother.

"Come on, Cass, let me at Malfoy!" Hissed Selena as she watched her classmate point and laugh at Mr. Weasley while cheering on his Dad. "We aren't in school, I have no consequences!" She pointed out, wanting desperately to get back at him for disgracing the name of two of her closest friends.