Deciding she had waited long enough Hermione began to make her way towards the nearest book shop, deciding she could spend her first hour buying her school books and maybe if her father had given her enough money she could buy some extra reading materials, for leisure reading. Lucky for Hermionie her parents had insisted on coming early to beat the morning traffic this idea seemed to also apply to the wizarding world as the streets of Diagon Alley were almost empty, a few early morning shoppers but most where shop owners setting up for the day ahead, as a result when Hermione arrived outside a bookshop called Flourish and Blotts, she was surprised to see it so busy. Walking in she was taken aback by the sheer scale of the place, there were shelves stacked to the ceiling with book as large as paving stone bound in leather; books the size of postage stamps in covers of silk; books full of peculiar symbols and a few books with nothing in them at all, feeling slightly overwhelmed Hermionie decided to go to the front desk and ask for help finding her first year books, at the counter she found a middle aged man sat, reading from a newspaper and much to her shock the pictures in said paper appeared to be moving, "Excuse me sir" the man looked up from his paper "My name is Hermionie Granger and I am attending Hogwarts as a first year. I was wondering if you could help me find my required reading materials"