Still don’t see it doing me much good Harry thought to himself. It’s not like i’ll have access to most of these ingredients back home. Even then, I get the feeling that half of what I ‘could’ find, won’t work exactly the same.
Harry wandered around the Alley a bit, stopping for a quick bite at a nearby ice cream parlor, before he headed for Flourish and Blotts.
Maybe I can pick up a few books, maybe get some new spells, or some books on magical theory. Harry thought to himself, excitedly.
Unfortunately, when Harry got there, while he ‘did’ find Hermione and the Weasleys, he also found a rather large crowd.
Harry noticed that most of the crowd was made up of women in their thirties or fourties, who were all muttering about ‘Lockhart.’
Stretched across the upper windows of the store, was a large banner:
GILDEROY LOCKHART
will be signing copies of his autobiography
MAGICAL ME
today 12:30pm to 4:30pm
“Well, this guy is either very good and likes to toot his own horn, or a very good con-artist.” Harry muttered to himself. “Not sure... though I have a pretty good idea which it is.”
Harry quickly joined the Weasleys as they tried to squeeze in. It took some effort, but finally Harry, Ron, and Hermione were able to make it. Hermione was going crazy of being able to possibly meet Lockhart. Harry simply rolled his eyes, and kept his opinion to himself.
After all, it was possible he was wrong...
wasn’t it?
They each grabbed a copy of Standard Book of Spells Grade 2 though Harry glanced around to see if there was anything interesting. He quickly found a book on accidental magic, and on the Dark Lords of the past century (Grindlewald and Voldemort.)
Next time we meet Voldemort, Harry thought, I won’t let you run away! You’re going to pay for what you did to my parents, me, and everyone else you’ve hurt. I seriously doubt you’ll be able to come back from a Ra-Tilt to the face!
Harry smirked as he remembered Lina and Luna’s reaction to Voldemort. He had seen his sisters mad before (usually when Lina pulled something on Luna, or when someone made comments on Lina’s breast size) but the sight of the two was enough to send shivers down Harry’s spine. You better hope Lina and Luna never get a hold of you. I wouldn’t wish those two on my worst enemy, but for you, Voldemort, I’ll make an exception.
The three went to get their books paid for, when a comment by Ron brought them to the attention of Lockhart.
“It can’t be Harry Potter!” Lockhart exclaimed!
“I prefer to go by Inverse.” Harry said. Maybe I should stop acknowledging the fact I was ever Harry Potter in the first place. Telling everyone I go by Harry Inverse is getting to be a real pain.
Lockhart tried to drag Harry over to get their photograph taken together, but Harry successfully held him off.
“Now, don’t be shy.” Lockhart said with a forced smile.
“When young Harry here stepped into Flourish and Blotts today, he only wanted to by my autobiography - which I shall be happy to provide to him free of charge.” The crowd applauded.
“Honestly, I just wanted to buy my schoolbooks.” Harry commented, though this was unfortunately drowned out by the applause fo the crowd, and Lockhart explaining he was going to be the DADA teacher at Harry’s school of Hogwarts.
Ceipheed and Ruby Eye! Harry swore to himself. If this guy is as bad as I think, I’m going to apply McGonagall and Dumbledore to see if I can’t take the course by independent study!
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