บท 130: Ginny's crush
"How do you like it?" Harry asked and Mia gave a nod before closing the book in her hands.
"It's good. A bit on the boring side and a heavy on the facts but overall the book is rather good." Mia replied "This Hermione girl had really overdone herself with this book. And the whole idea of it is so simple that even now I'm cursing myself for not thinking about writing such a book."
Harry gave the woman a smile but didn't said anymore because her words were the truth.
Just about every Billion dollar company in his past life originated from simple ideas.
Amazon was born from the simple idea of delivering products to people's homes.
KFC, Starbucks, McDonadl's, etc were born from the simple idea of providing food and beverages for people in a comfortable place.
Nike, Adidas, Puma, etc were born from the simple idea of providing better sports gear for the masses.
Facebook was born from the simple idea of connecting friends over the internet.
So frankly, there was nothing spectacular about him opening a company on simple ideas.
Or having Hermione write a book on a simple topic.
But these simple things are what truly change the world if those ideas are executed properly.
Even now his mind was constantly thinking about what else would he be able to provide people when he gains more employees in his company.
Opening a home delivery branch in his company like Amazon would be ridiculously easy for him.
Especially because the people who would be delivering the orders could simply apparate to the homes of the customers and deliver the order within a few minutes.
Similarly, he could also open a restaurant that could deliver food like this.
The ideas were all there. Now he just needed his company to launch so that they would be able to afford more employees and deliver on those ideas.
And after the company becomes a success, he could always open branches of his company on other Magical communities like the ones in France and Italy.
"Is everything ready?" he asked, trying to hide the excitement from showing on his face.
A few parents had already started to come to Diagon Alley to buy the books and clothes for their magical children.
And tomorrow, they would be launching the company and the shop to the world.
He would be lying if he said that he was not feeling a little bit nervous as well but he knew that his company would succeed.
The advertisement posters had done their job and everyone in the wizarding community now knew about his new company and the products.
"Yes." She replied "And that was the third time you asked me that question. Don't worry. We've handled everything and are ready for whatever the world will throw at use. Just sit on your chair and trust us to do our jobs properly, okay?"
"Okay." He replied and took the book from her before keeping it on top of a pedestal near the entrance of the Mall.
The book will be published tomorrow as well and he and Hermione were rather excited about that as well.
As he left the mall and apparated back to Hogsmeade, he wondered if he'll able to sleep at night with all the excitement that he was feeling.
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Ginny entered Diagon Alley and felt her heart skip at the sight of Harry Potter's moving image in a poster floating around in the air above Diagon Alley.
Well, some of those posters also had Albus Dumbledore's moving images but she was too enthralled looking at Harry's face that she didn't even bother with the Dumbledore posters.
It was a surreal feeling for her to witness the image of her first crush being displayed around like this and for a moment she felt jealous because she was not the only girl who would be able to witness this sight.
Oh well, you can't have it all.
She came out of her thoughts regarding the boy hero when Ron came out of the Floo from behind her and they both stumbled onto the ground.
"Ron. What are you doing?" she shouted, coming out of her trance from looking at the Boy-who-lived's image.
She distinctly realized that it was her own fault for not moving away from the Floo's entrance but she would a fool to allow her elder brother to get one over her for that.
"It's not my mistake. You're standing right in front of the entrance." He complained as he stood up and started cleaning himself before his gaze fell on the many posters floating above the street of Diagon Alley.
"Blimy… that's Harry Potter." He said as if it was not the most obvious thing in the world.
Those messy spiky hair. Those mesmerizing green eyes. That focused expression. That lightening scar on the forehead.
Who else could this attractive boy be but the Harry Potter from her dreams. The boy whose story she has been listening to ever since she was a child.
Who boy whom she aspired to marry one day.
Her gaze fell back on Ron who was by now looking at the floating posters with mixed expression of envy and desire.
She knew that Ron was envious of Harry Potter because of his fame and fortune. Well… Ron was usually envious of just about everyone who had something that he didn't.
She sometimes wondered if anyone else in her house even realized how deeply his issues went.
Living in a house with 5 elder brothers who are all very accomplished in something was very hard for him and he had developed an inferiority complex because of it.
Just how living in a house with 6 elder brothers had made her rather tomboyish and headstrong.
But those thoughts were thrown into the back of her mind as she once again fell into a trance at the sight of her crush.
A trance that she only came out of once her whole family arrived.
She was lucky that the elder twins had come in last and had not seen her in that state otherwise they not stop teasing her about it for the rest of the day.
She loved her brothers, she really did but they could get really annoying sometimes. And she would rather not destroy this beautiful moment that meant so much to her.
"Come on now. Don't wait around in front of the Floo. Let other people use it as well. Go on George, Fred. Keep moving." Her mother said as she and the rest of her brothers were herded away into Diagon Alley.
It was not the first time she had visited the magical street as her parents often brought her with them when they went to buy the necessary school supplies for her elder brothers.
But it was the first time when she would get to buy her own school supplies.
It was her first year at school.
And it was also the first year when Harry's posters were seen floating around in Diagon Alley.
It was as if the world was telling her that they were destined to be together.
That this was his way of welcoming her to her first year in Hogwarts.
She distinctly realized that such a thought was rather silly but ignored that thought.
She knew a long time ago that she incapable of forming logical thoughts when it came to Harry Potter, the boy of her dreams. So she stopped trying to do so.
It was such a pity that he was not in Gryffindor like the rest of her brothers.
If he had been and had somehow formed a friendship with Ron then maybe he would have come to join them in the Burrow during the holidays.
She wondered if she should go to Ravenclaw just so she would get more chances to talk with him.
Her line of thoughts was broken as she and her brothers were told to wait outside Gringotts by her mother as her father went in to take out the necessary funds for their school supplies.
She knew that her family was poor and that buying new clothes for her would be rather taxing for her parents. So she would most likely have to make do with second hand girl clothes that are kept in Madam Malkin's shop.
That's how Bill and Charley got their first set of Hogwarts robes as well.
Except that this time, her parents had set aside additional funds in order to buy a Magical Phone that was being sold in the new shop in Diagon Alley that Mrs Diggory was telling her mom about last evening.
It was said to be a whole chain of shop which sold magical things that were never seen before in Diagon Alley.
And the good thing was the all those shops were owned by Harry Potter.
That shop was also the main reason why she and her family had come to Diagon Alley three days ahead of the schedule.
Her mother had feared that the Magical Phones and other contents in that shop will be sold out because of the amount of people visiting that shop and have decided to come to Diagon Alley at an early date.
She tried to look for the new shop from her place and saw the glimpse of a long line of children and adults waiting outside that new shop but the shop itself was hidden from her sight because of the other shops in front of it.
After waiting for about half an hour, her father finally returned from inside the bank and they were finally able to start with their shopping.
In an almost ritualistic manner, her family went from shop to shop just like every last year, buying second handed things for herself and her brothers.
Books, Robes, Cauldrons, quill, etc.
But when they were about to go to the next shop in order to buy a trunk for her, her mother stopped them.
"We'll be checking out the trunk store inside the new shop before we decide to buy anything from here." Her father explained to all of them "I've heard from some of my ministry colleagues that the trunks there are much easier to carry and have more space inside them while having the same price as the ones sold in this shop."
That was all the incentive they needed to join the line that lead to the doors of the new Shop that was simply named 'Magical Goods'.
Author's Note- Sorry if I'm not able to properly demonstrate the story from Ginny's POV. I've never written a POV of a teenage girl with a huge crush before.
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