At Flourish and Blotts
In which Harry and friends travel to Flourish and Blotts and happen across the infamous Gilderoy Lockhart.
It's Harry's first time traveling by floo powder, and as impressive of a wizard as he is at twelve years old, he still gets nervous and ends up in Knockturn Alley, the sketchiest of all wizardly alleys. He ends up in a store called Borgin and Burkes, which specializes in creepy objects and hides himself in a sarcophagus thing so that he isn't seen by the Lucius and Draco who happen to walk into the store at that moment.
Lucius is selling something. I'm not sure what. It probably doesn't matter, but he does possess some very sketchy objects, one of which he gives to Ginny about five pages later. The diary. Malfoy has this obsession with Harry that kind of carries on throughout the books. I think that he wants to fit in so much with his dad's crowd of Death Eater types that he constantly talks about the only things he knows about, that being Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
Hagrid finds Harry in Knockturn Alley and returns him to Diagon Alley. Who knows what he was doing there. Oh yeah, Flesh-Eating Slug repellent ahem gamblingproblem ahem. Actually it probably was the slug repellent, who knows.
Reunited at last, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and rest go to Flourish and Blotts and find dear old Gilderoy Lockhart doing a book signing there. He announces that he will be the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and pretends to be buddybuddy with the famous Harry Potter.
You know who else is in Flourish and Blotts? Draco and Lucius. And they start something.
See here, Ginny is not some shy fangirl. She is the first to defend Harry when he's insulted by Malfoy. It only cost her a year of being possessed by a horcrux, but hey. After that, Lucius and Arthur get into a tussle, which is kind of weird, because Arthur is usually the calmest of the Weasleys and I can't imagine Lucius lowering himself so low as to fight with a "blood traitor." I guess Arthur has that "Weasley temper" everyone talks about, and Lucius forgot to eat his Wheaties for breakfast so he was cranky.
This chapter is the only chapter in the entire series in which Hermione's parents are there in the flesh. I don't know if you noticed them in the movie or not, but they're cute parent-types.
Until next time.
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