Harry Potter Male Reader Insert - Book 2

Chapter 3. At Flourish and Blotts

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Harry's life in the Burrow was very different from the Privet Drive. The Dursleys liked everything neat and in order. The Weasley's house burst with the strange and unexpected. Harry got a shock the first time he looked in the mirror over the kitchen mantelpiece. It shouted: „Tuck your shirt in, scruffy!" The ghoul in the attic howled and dropped pipes whenever he felt things were getting too quiet, and small explosions from Fred and George's bedroom were considered perfectly normal. What Harry found most unusual about life at Ron's, however, wasn't the talking mirror or the clanking ghoul: It was the fact that everybody there seemed to like him.

Mrs. Weasley fussed over the state of his socks and tried to force him to eat fourth helpings at every meal. Mr. Weasley liked Harry to sit next to him at the dinner table so that he could bombard him with questions about life with Muggles, asking him to explain how things like plugs and the postal service worked.

„Fascinating!" he would say as Harry talked him through using a telephone. „Ingenious how many ways Muggles have found of getting along without magic."

Harry heard from Hogwarts one morning about a week after he had arrived at the Burrow. He and Ron went for breakfast to find Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Ginny sitting at the kitchen table. The moment she saw Harry, Ginny accidentally knocked her porridge bowl to the floor with a loud clatter. Ginny seemed very prone to doing it whenever Harry entered a room. She dived under the table to retrieve the bowl and emerged with her face glowing like the setting sun. Pretending he hadn't noticed this, Harry sat down and took the toast Mrs. Weasley offered him.

„Letters from school," Mr. Weasley said, passing Harry and Ron identical envelopes of yellowish parchment addressed in green ink. „Dumbledore knows you're here, Harry. Doesn't miss a trick, that man. You two have got them, too," he added as Fred and George ambled in, still in their pajamas.

For a few minutes, there was silence as they all read their letters. Harry's told him to catch the Hogwarts Express as usual from King's Cross station on September first. There was also a list of the new books he'd need for the coming year.

Second-year students will require:

The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2 by Miranda Goshawk

Break with a Banshee by Gilderoy Lockhart

Gadding with Ghouls by Gilderoy Lockhart

Holidays with Hags by Gilderoy Lockhart

Travels with Trolls by Gilderoy Lockhart

Voyages with Vampires by Gilderoy Lockhart

Wanderings with Werewolves by Gilderoy Lockhart

Year with the Yeti by Gilderoy Lockhart

Fred finished reading his list and peered over at Harry's.

„You need to get all Lockhart's books, too," he said. „The new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor must be a fan. I bet it's a witch."

But Fred caught his mother's eye then. He quickly busied himself with the marmalade.

„That lot won't come cheap," George said with a quick look at his parents. „Lockhart's books are really expensive."

„Well, we'll manage," Mrs. Weasley said but looked worried.

„I expect we'll be able to pick up Ginny's things secondhand."

„Oh, are you starting at Hogwarts this year?" Harry asked Ginny.

She nodded, blushing to the roots of her flaming hair, and put her elbow in the butter dish. Fortunately, no one saw this except Harry, as Ron's elder brother Percy walked in. He was already dressed, his Hogwarts prefect badge pinned to his sweater vest.