Chương 32: C31 Zonko's
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Potter Sweets Shop | 16th December 1985 | 10:45 AM
Charlus looked at the person. It was an old woman with a funny looking hat on her head. Behind her, a boy was hiding and looking at the two brothers.
"You are?" The man asked curiously. The woman said regally, "I am Dowager Longbottom. My daughter-in-law is this boy's godmother."
Charlus and Harry were surprised. They had never heard of their godmother from Sirius. Charlus tactfully said, "Yes. She is my guardian." He nodded and handed his galleon back to the man. The man took the galleon and brought two large boxes seemingly out of nothing. He handed the two the two boxes and charmed them, making them light.
"The candies rated 6 Candies and above require you to be seated or in a peaceful place for the safest experience. Do you need anything else?"
Charlus shook his head. The man nodded and said, "Thank you for shopping at Potter Sweets. I hope you will come again. Here is your card. Would you please give your kind name?"
Charlus said," Charlus."
The man touched his wand to the card and the word 'Charlus' appeared on it. He handed the card to Charlus. Charlus looked at the card and saw it was blue in color and had a pattern drawn with a black color. On it, the words, "Regular Costumer' were written. Meanwhile, Harry pulled Charlus' shirt and pointed towards the boxes on the counter.
Charlus picked up both the boxes and brought one to the level of Harry. Harry looked inside and found each candy properly organized and labeled. He shoved his hand deep and fished out a candy. It was rated 1 Candy. He opened the candy clumsily and popped it into his mouth.
Meanwhile, Charlus looked at his 'guardian'. He said, "Sirius left us for the day. If you want, you can talk with him first before talking with us."
Charlus was implying that he didn't trust the woman, and that unless Sirius was present, he wouldn't feel safe.
The woman did not show any expression and said, "I will directly come to your Manor with Neville."
She turned around and left with the boy, who Charlus presumed was Neville. Charlus watched them leave and then turned to Harry.
"What should we do now?" He asked Harry. Till then, he had been taking Harry wherever he wanted, and he felt that Harry should decide at least once or twice.
"I want to go to Jonko!"
Charlus laughed at Harry's inability to pronounce the name of the store. He took Harry and went to Zonko's Jokes Store. Harry chose that store because he was attracted by the crowd rather than the actual contents of the store. The noise had attracted him like the smell of Honeydukes had attracted Charlus.
Charlus and Harry entered the store. Charlus was simply mesmerized by the products being displayed. As was Harry. In the end, some traits were inevitably inherited from their parents. Both Charlus and Harry had inherited their mischievousness from their father, though Charlus hadn't had it as rampant as Harry. Also, all the products were flashy and eye-catchy, proving to be instant sellers to young children.
It was actually a very dangerous selling tactic, since parents had to buy stuff for their children, and so Zonko's could over charge their costumers and the customers would have no choice.
Fortunately, the person who operated Zonko's was quite simple minded and had opened the store for children like himself who would play pranks and skip classes like himself.
Charlus simply browsed the contents, but Harry quickly took a basket that was almost two thirds his size and started popping items into it like they were candy.
Charlus didn't say anything, as he also wanted to see what the pranks that Harry would pick would do. It took Harry almost 20 minutes to find the most eye-catchy pranks. The brothers had a mutual understanding – to use all of them on Padfoot. They were sick of constantly being pranked by their godfather and having nothing to retaliate.
They wanted revenge, and when a Zonko's worker saw the volume of the pranks, it was clearly obvious how much they wanted to get back. The store aid stopped Harry before he could even go to the counter and asked, "Do your parents know you are here?"
Charlus immediately said, "Sirius let us come. He said we could do whatever we want."
The store attendant, whose name card spelled Gia, said, "I am very sorry, but is this 'Sirius' your parent or guardian? It's wrong to come without your parent's permission."
"Yes. Sirius is our guardian."
Gia was surprised. It was very uncommon to find such a liberal person, who not only let their children come to Zonko's, but also left them unsupervised. Gia immediately stepped aside and let the boys check out.
The person behind the counter was fairly old. He simply touched his wand to the basket and the items inside neatly sorted into a cardboard box. He then shrunk the box and gave it to Charlus. He then said, "This is charmed to shrink. You can ask your guardian to unshrink it."
He then turned to Charlus.
"Boy, I couldn't help but overhear your conversation with Gia. This Sirius you were talking about, is it Padfoot?"
Charlus immediately nodded. "Yes! He was a part of the marauders. Do you know him?"
"Know him?" The man laughed. "Half my sales in those years were from those four! You know what? Tell your guardian that Zonko asked for him. Your bill is 23 Galleons. I'll put it on his tab. Tell him to come around and pay it."
Gia, who was in the side listening, was shocked. It felt completely unreal that the person had simply put an enormous bill of 23 Galleons on the 'tab'.
The boys simply smiled and left with the small box. They left the store and the store resumed with all it's bustling. It seemed that a few moments back the store had frozen, and had resumed just then.
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