Chapter 51 - First Hogsmeade Weekend (2/2)
He bought a Sneakoscope which is a type of dark detector that looks like a glass spinning top. It lights up, spins, and whistles if someone is doing something untrustworthy nearby.
Next, they went to Dominic Maestro's Music Shop run by Dominic Maestro, a musician, who once got an award at Hogwarts, for excelling in music. Tracey wanted to buy the piano but then Neal reminded her that there's no place in her room to place such a large piano.
She looked at him and asked, ”can't I keep it in your room? Your room has a lot of space, anyway”. At first, he coldly rejected her but after she asked nicely two more times, he sighed, ”fine. But I'm telling you, Isle has a habit of roaming inside the room. Don't blame me if she damages your instrument”.
She nodded, ”fine. I understand. Let me buy it”. After paying the money including the delivery charges, they came out of the shop and looked at other shops. When Tracey saw a fancy looking shop from the outside, she said, ”Neal, let's go to that Tea and Cakes shop.
But just when they entered the shop, they saw a lot of couples sitting inside the shop holding hands and a couple of them are even kissing. Tracey and Neal blushed and immediately turned back and exited.
When they came out, as his heart is beating quickly, Neal commented, ”what kind of a shop is that?”. As both of them looked at each other closely, they turned away and Tracey left his arm and stood a bit away. She cleared her throat, ”ok, let's go and look for other shops”.
After going and purchasing a few funny items at Zonko's Joke Shop, both of them went to Gladrags Wizardwear, a clothing store that was founded in 1750 and run by Gladrags Wizardwear Group Ltd, with branches in London, Paris, and Hogsmeade.
There he saw a lot of girls trying out different clothes. As Neal was embarrassed to stay to be the only male in the shop, he said, ”Tracey, you go and buy the clothes. I'll be waiting at Honeydukes” and exited the shop.
As Tracey was trying to convince him to stay and try out new clothes while he's saying he'll go, Pansy who spotted them said, ”It looks like Slytherin is on a date with Davis. Are they a couple, already?”. Daphne who heard that instantly looked at her in a frown, ”what are you saying?”. As Pansy pointed both of them, Daphne got a bit irritated but then as Neal left her, she scolded, ”don't talk nonsense. Neal doesn't look at her like that”.
Pansy replied, ”well, didn't you say they stayed together under one roof in the summer? Who knows what happened”. When Daphne was feeling uncomfortable and was about to reply, Tracey waved her hand and called her, ”hey, Daphne, Pansy, it's great that you are still here”.
After trying out some beautiful clothes, Pansy exclaimed, ”Wow, you look beautiful in this dress, Tracey. Your boyfriend will be amazed when he sees you in this”. Tracey asked with a surprise, ”boyfriend? I don't have one though”. Pansy then asked, ”wasn't it the boy who came with you, earlier, your boyfriend?”.
Tracey replied, ”it's just Neal, Pansy. He was just embarrassed to come into the shop as it's filled with girls”. When Daphne heard her reply, she sighed in relief but suddenly her expression changed when she heard Tracey's next sentence.
Looking at herself in the mirror with her brown eyes, as Tracey let her jet black hair loose, she playfully smiled at Daphne, ”so, do Neal and I looked like a couple to you too? Hmm, should I also buy a matching dress for him too, then? What do you think, Daphne?”.