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``Hello Kids, meet my daughter Ginny. She's going to be joining you at Hogwarts this year.'' Jack and Harry already knew Ginny but she was shy of all of their friends and was thus very quiet unlike her usual loud behaviour. ``Ginny, why don't you go and chat with them while I go and get your books.'' Not hearing her daughter's answer, Molly just walked into Flourish and Blotts while Ginny stood there looking at her Mother's back like she had been abandoned. ``Come on Ginny, we aren't that bad, are we?'' in an attempt to ease her tension, Harry joked while looking a bit sad and, it worked. The future Mrs. Potter came over and introduced herself to the group who all made her feel welcome and at ease. ``Come on Ginny, how about we go in and take a look at some other books while we wait for your mother.'' Just like Molly, Hermione and the girls didn't wait for Ginny's response and just took her inside the store. Meanwhile, the boys looked at all this played out and visibly sweat dropped at the situation. ``Man, she is having fun with them! I wonder what they are talking about.''

Harry's words interested all the boys and they found that the boy who lived was interested in a girl, romantically. Jack and Ron already knew that the two liked each other, even now Ginny was stealing looks at him while she thought the others weren't looking but they were. But just because they knew, it didn't mean they were going to help him. Ron and Jack remembered how Harry was one of their group who made the most jokes about their relationships. Although they were harmless but who told Jack and Ron to be petty. ``Why do you care so much?'' Ron asked in an almost interrogative voice while Jack added to Harry's anxiety by adding questions to the interrogation, ``Yeah! It's girl-talk. I doubt you would be interested in that. Right?!'' all the other boys were controlling themselves and were doing their best to not laugh out loud while Harry was not only blushing but also became flustered while trying to answer their questions, ``Of course.. I am not. I was just making small talk. What's with all the questions man?!'' looking at the red flustered face of their friend, the whole group burst out laughing and Harry smiled embarrassedly at his actions and words, ``Come on guys! Don't laugh, she will hear you!''

When they heard the concern in his voice, the boys reeled themselves in while patting Harry on the back and giving him congratulations as well. ``Thanks, I guess!'' were the only thing that came out of Harry's mouth who just saw his friends go from laughing at him to congratulate him in an instant. ``It seems the great Harry Potter and his friends feel like they have the right to everything. Just standing in the entrance to a public shop, Humph!'' when the boys heard Malfoy's words at first they were about to get angry when they remembered something and they all burst out laughing again. Which offended Draco instantly and he almost said some words that he knew he would regret and instead asked a question in his trademark spiteful tone, ``What's so funny? Have you all finally gone mad or something?'' thinking he had come up with a great insult, Draco stood there proudly while Neville barely spoke a single sentence in between laughing that resulted in Draco to freeze in shock, ``Jack Owns this shop.'' But Dean felt like that wasn't enough and continued where Neville left off, ``In fact, he owns this entire Mall!'' Draco's soul almost left his body but his `Daddy' came in to save him.

``So Draco, mind introducing me to your friends?!'' it was clear to Jack and friends that Draco was very afraid of his father as he hurriedly gave a answer but somehow still kept his spiteful tone, ``Yes Father! This is the `famous' Harry Potter and these are his friends.'' Lucius acted like he was surprised and when he tried to use his cane to bring Harry closer to him like in the movies and the books, he instantly regretted his actions as Harry took it out of his hands so fast that Papa Malfoy stood in shock at what had happened. ``Oh My, Mr. Malfoy, I wonder what you were thinking of doing with this weapon?'' Draco's face was pale while Lucius had gone from shock to anger as he furiously spoke towards Harry, ``Boy, if you don't give me my cane back, you..'' it was at those words that Lucius found himself incapable of speaking further. Not because he was under a spell but because he felt as if he spoke further, he would die. ``What were you trying to say to my Godson Lucius?!'' Sirius hadn't released his Phantom and neither did he have his wand out but his voice made Lucius feel like he was already in Hell. ``Yes! What exactly were you about to say to Little Harry?!'' Arthur's voice was calm but Lucius could feel as if the air around him had become hot and it was getting harder and harder for him to breathe.

``It's alright, Sirius, Uncle Arthur. He just wanted his cane back, isn't that right MR. Malfoy?!'' Harry gave back the cane to Lucius who snatched the cane expecting it to give him a sense of security but he found nothing of the sort. Even with his wand in his hand, he found that he still couldn't withstand the pressure from the adult wizards of the opposite party. ``It seems that the famous Harry Potter has found some backers!'' Lucius found Ginny glaring at him in anger and took this chance to take her books and put them back with a nasty surprise, ``Hmm, it seems the Weasley's have finally gotten out of poverty. Come Draco, Let's leave this place!'' somehow, he managed to say those words like the place was beneath him, like he hadn't just been humiliated mere seconds ago and he hadn't just left a dangerous dark artifact with a young girl. ``I can't believe we save his life and he still acts arrogantly in front of us!'' Sirius words shocked the girls who were standing a bit further away from the boys when Lucius was almost killed but was saved by the Parents of all people. ``We wouldn't have killed him!'' Jack acted like they were innocent kids who would never do anything like that but Ron who was next to him ruined the fa?ade in a second, ``Yeah! At most we would have grievously injured him!'' even worse was the fact that the other boys, including Harry were nodding their heads in agreement as if what was spoken was the natural and correct thing to do. `Sigh!'