A Day in Diagon Alley

The next day the group were in Diagon alley, they had just brought their supplies and the adults had agreed to let the kids go off on their own for a while. Harry, Daphne, Astoria and Rose went to the ice cream shop first.

After that they began walking around, they stopped for a while to view the quidditch sore where they saw the new Firebolt broomstick, which was currently the fastest broomstick in the world. They then continued walking.

"Where do you guys want to go next?" Harry asked

"Hmm, I don't know" Daphne thought about it "What about you two?" She asked Astoria and Rose

"I'll go anywhere" Astoria shrugged

"Same" Rose whispered

"Let's go and look in the pet shop" Harry suggested

"What for?" Daphne asked

"Let's just look around, if we like something then we'll buy it" Harry replied

The group made their way into the pet store, they looked around and looked at the many animals. They didn't buy anything but it was basically a free zoo for them.

"Daph" Harry said, holding a dog collar and a leash "look after Rose and Astoria, I'll be back in a sec"

"What are you doing?" Daphne asked, wondering what he was doing

"I'll explain later" Harry said and made his way out of the shop. Daphne sighed and turned her attention back to her sister and Rose.

The trio left the shop a couple of minutes later where they found Harry standing next to a large black dog, the dog was probably a German shepherd but looked a lot like a grim in Daphne's opinion. It was wearing a blue collar and a leash that Harry was holding.

"Harry" Daphne said slowly "why have you stolen a dog?"

"Stolen, you wound me" Harry said with a fake hurt face "this is my dog, always has been"

"Oh yeah, what's his name?" Daphne asked just as realisation hit her

"Yeah it's him" Harry nodded "I'm going to call him Snuffles"

"Snuffles?" Daphne asked with surprise in her voice

"Nobody would suspect 'Snuffles'" Harry grinned

"Hmm" Daphne made her way over to the dog and knelt down next to it "you're him? You're him, aren't you?" she whispered. The dog barked and nodded, Daphne smiled and ruffled the dog's head. "It's nice to meet you Mr Padfoot, Harry has told me all about you. I'm Daphne Greengrass"

"My girlfriend and fiancée" Harry whispered

"He's so cute" Astoria made her way over and started petting Snuffles "you said his name was Snuffles?"

"Yeah" Harry nodded "he's coming with us to Hogwarts" Snuffles barked happily

"Uh…hello" Rose whispered shyly

"Go on Rose" Harry encouraged "he doesn't bite"

"O…okay" Rose nodded, she slowly walked up and gently patted Snuffles on the head. When Snuffles didn't react badly, she slowly began petting him more. "I…it's nice to meet you"

"Oh god, what are you lot doing here?" A voice said

The group turned to see the golden trio standing in front of them. Hermione Granger was standing whilst holding a ginger cat that Harry had presumed crashed face first into a wall, Adrian Potter was standing and glaring at them, next to him stood Ron Weasley. He was holding a rather pale looking rat in his hand, Harry's eyes widened as he saw it. He couldn't believe he'd never seen it before but then again he'd never seen Ron with his rat. He quickly composed himself.

"We're taking Sirius Black out for cookies and milk" Harry said sarcastically "What do you think we're doing in Diagon alley?"

"Don't talk to me like that!" Adrian replied

"You going to stop me?" Harry challenged "We ain't in school little brother, Dumbledore ain't around to protect you here. You may have your friends but I doubt the bookworm or the red headed waste disposal machine would be of much help."

"Hey, don't insult us!" Hermione said "There's no reason to be so rude!"

"There is a reason and it's because I enjoy being rude" Harry responded

"Harry" Daphne said "come on, let's just leave the Gryffs alone. I'm not really in the mood to play with them"

"Yeah, why don't you go listen to the listen to the little snake?" Ron spat

"Watch yourself Weasley" Harry warned "physically and magically you have no chance against me. And in terms of intelligence your basically unarmed, but my lady is right, we have better things to do than deal with you"

Snuffles at that point had seen the rat that Ron was holding, he growled and tried to run towards it but Harry kept a strong grip on the dog leash. He tugged Snuffles to bring his attention back to him.

"Down boy" Harry said firmly, Snuffles continued growling "We'd best be on our way. Come on guys" Harry lead the group and Snuffles away from Adrian, and his friends. "Patience" Harry whispered to Snuffles "not yet. Trust me, I have a plan"

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