The Wrong Twin

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"You have heard, of course, that the Ministry is conducting more raids," Lucius told the shopkeeper, taking a roll of parchment from his inside pocket and unraveling it for Mr. Borgin to read. "I have a few - ah - items at home that might embarrass me, if the Ministry were to call..." 

"Certainly Mister Malfoy..." 

~

A few minutes later, the three reached the front of Flourish and Blotts. They were unfortunately not the only ones making their way to the bookshop. They saw to their surprise a large crowd jostling outside the doors, trying to get in. The reason for this was proclaimed by a large banner stretched across the upper windows: 

GILDEROY LOCKHART

will be signing copies of his autobiography

MAGICAL ME

today 12:30 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.

"Is he for real?" Remus asked out loud, finally managing to make his way to Harry. 

"Come with me Harry." Draco said, pulling Harry into the crowd. As soon as they entered, Harry, to his surprise, was being dragged by Draco to the second floor of the bookstore, looking at the chaos from above. 

Whilst Draco was busy scanning the crowd, Harry was busy buying the books needed, including extra ones, for his potions examination tomorrow. 

He nearly jumped when Draco tapped on his shoulder. 

"You done Harry?" 

Harry nodded before handing off the books he picked for his blonde haired friend. The duo made their way down the stairs just in time to intercept the Weasleys, Potter, along with Granger. 

"Bet you loved that didn't you Potter?" Draco drawled out, leaning against the banister of the staircase.

"Famous Evelyn Potter, can't get into the bookstore without making the front page." Harry continued, standing next to Draco. 

"Leave him alone, he didn't want all that!" said Ron. 

"Look at that Potter! You got yourself a boyfriend!" Harry scoffed, watching as Ron's face turned as red as his hair. 

"Ron!" said Mr. Weasley, struggling over with Fred and George. The twins sent the two Slytherins a discreet wink. "What are you doing? It's too crowded in here, let's go outside."

"Well, well, well - Arthur Weasley."

It was Lucius. He stood with his hands on either sides of Draco and Harry's shoulder, sneering in just the same way.

"Lucius," said Mr. Weasley, nodding coldly.

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

He reached into Ginny's cauldron and extracted, from amid the glossy Lockhart books, a very old, very battered copy of A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration .

"Obviously not," Lucius continued. "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 flushed darker than either Weasel or Weaslette. 

"What is going on here?" James Potter asked, strutting into the shop as if he owned it. 

"None of your business Potter." Lucius sneered. 

Sirius and Remus quickly reached the group, taking a look at it. 

"It's Mr. Potter to you Malfoy." James drawled, ignoring his two ex-best friends. 

"And it's Lord Malfoy to you Mr. Potter." 

Harry and Draco hid their laughter behind their hands as Potter's face turned as red as his daughter's hair with anger. 

"Oh shut it Malfoy. You're just jealous we're richer than you!" the Potter girl sneered at Harry and his family. 

"Oh I wouldn't worry about that... Try checking your accounts, you'll see that Draco's family is much richer than you." Harry suggested. 

"Is there a problem here?" 

Harry nearly sighed and relaxed at the voice. Tom was known to calm down the atmosphere, or make the tense atmosphere become more tense. But whatever it is, Harry knew that Tom will be able to talk some sense into both Potters. 

"Who are you??" Weasel asked rudely. 

"Someone who has better things to do than to talk to you, especially after seeing you hang around the half-blood and a ... " Tom ended his statement to turn to Granger, who blushed red due to being under Tom's intense gaze. Tom was a handsome man, with his high cheekbones and tall figure, no wonder he can wrap everyone around his finger.

"Let us go. We need to go now..." Remus ordered. 

And with that, the Malfoys, Riddle, and Lupin-Blacks left Diagon Alley.

A/N: I'm Back!! Yeyy! Can someone try to guess which movie/book the phrase 'Oh, I wouldn't worry about that.' comes from? Good luck guessing..

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