Shopping!

(A/N: As always, tell me what you think, if anything can be improved, suggestions for the next chapter, etc. If you're wondering why sexytimes haven't started, it .... scares the daylights out of me to write intimate scenes, and my anxiety over how it will be received stops me from ever publishing it. So, I will give the promise I gave on the Cassandra black storyline. Smut will be coming .... eventually.)

The bricks rotated out of the way, allowing Harry and Luna to enter the shopping center of Magical Britain. The alley, however had changed quite a bit since last year. Posters and advertisements covered the area, warning of dark wizards, inferi, fake protection products, and all manner of other things. People no longer greeted each other in the street, and an awful lot of the stores were shuttered. People who previously stuck to knockturn alley were peddling in front of famous shops. Harry shuddered to think what it must be like at night.

Luna quickly pulled her into Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. The racks, changing and fitting rooms, and fabrics were all too familiar after years of being fitted, even if they all felt unnaturally cold now. Madam Malkin almost immediately came around to find the two girls.

"Hello, dearies, what will you be needing today? You're a little early to be looking for Hogwarts Robes, aren't you?"

"Yeah, but I had a kind of ... wardrobe emergency. I'm borrowing Luna's clothes right now, but I think I need all new clothes." Harry explained.

"You really should have seen her previous clothes, though, they were really impressive in how much they didn't fit, though." Luna teased.

"Had a bit of a growth spurt then?" Malkin questioned as she pushed Harry to a tailoring station.

"In a way, but like you couldn't even imagine." Harry smiled and stepped up as the station automagically told the size of almost everything on her body.

Harry and Luna were eating ice cream for lunch. And no one can stop us! Best shopping trip ever! Harry thought. She had her new robes in bags with her. She had ultimately gone with a basic set of robes similar to the female student uniform. She wasn't the best at fashion, and she had to keep the number of Luna's more eccentric suggestions she went with to a minimum, although her taste in colors was excellent.

Now, Harry needed to go Lady Femare's lingerie. Luna assured her that enchanted bras are sooo much better than their muggle counterparts. Support charms, especially, were apparently a must.

"Can you believe muggle bras have wires in them? ow!" Luna exclaimed.

"I honestly don't know" Harry responded. "But I rather like the idea of not getting poked in that area, thanks."

"Yeah, well maybe add a gender-specific minor stinging hex too, it'll stop boys from groping you."

"I'm not so sure, Luna. I'm not sure it will recognize me as a girl."

"I know, I just wanted to see you rubbing sting cream into those." She poked Harry's breasts. Harry looked mortified, but Luna just skipped through the shop, giggling.

"Ohhh, I absolutely have to see you in these!" Luna pointed to a group of lacy matching sets. Further looking, each of the colors had a pattern shifting around. The red one was a dragon, breathing fire to guard the 'treasures inside'. Harry was laughing as she saw all sorts of silly designs, including one that that wrote sexy puns on the wearers bum. OK, maybe not those, she thought, before grabbing a few plain comfortable sets, along with some red, black, white, and emerald lacy sets. After finding some nightwear and a bookbag/purse, she took them to the shopkeep to get them charmed and altered to her exact size.