131 Hogsmeade exploration (1/2)
They first went to honey dukes, a sweets shop.
Inside, there were shelves upon shelves of the most succulent-looking sweets imaginable. Creamy chunks of nougat, shimmering pink squares of coconut ice, fat, honey-colored toffees; hundreds of different kinds of chocolate in neat rows; there was a large barrel of Every Flavor Beans, and another of Fizzing Whizbees, the levitating sherbert balls that Ron had mentioned.
Along yet another wall were ”Special Effects” sweets: Drooble's Best Blowing Gum (which filled a room with bluebell-colored bubbles that refused to pop for days), the strange, splintery Toothflossing Stringmints, tiny black Pepper Imps (”breathe fire for your friends!”), Ice Mice (”hear your teeth chatter and squeak!”), peppermint creams shaped like toads (”hop realistically in the stomach!”), fragile sugar-spun quills, and exploding bonbons.
The three of them had a fun time choosing sweets to buy.
”Damn, this is good.”
”Bloody Hell, this is fantastic.”
”Should we get some for Harry?”
”Probably, we should buy the whole lot.”
”Wow! My parents would love these toothflossing stringmints! I should buy them some.”
”oh right, your parents are dentists aren't they?”
”Yep!”
”Dude! Arth! look at this!”
”Wow.”
”We need to buy all of this for Harry!”
”Gotcha. Excuse me miss! Can I buy all of these?”
Arth, Ron, and Hermione left honey dukes with their bags filled to the brim with sweets. In fact, they had bought so many things that Arth had to place an undetectable extension charm on his bag for everything to fit comfortably.
”Blimey Arth... I didn't know you had so much money on you.”
Arth gave a cheeky grin.
”I got some extra change from working on the Knight bus during the summer with the addition of my monthly allowance. You could say I have a couple coins.”
”A couple is an understatement,” said Ron with a grin.
Ron no longer had to be jealous about money as Arth's parents had given him a load of Galleons also including the fact that they had won the lottery.
”It would be nice if Harry was here with us though...”
”It wouldn't be safe.”
”Yes it would,” said Ron before pointing at a notice pasted on the inside of the sweetshop door.