Flourish and Blotts

Flourish and Blotts Bookseller is a bookshop in the north side of Diagon Alley. Established in 1454, it is where most Hogwarts students purchase their books, such as The Invisible Book of Invibility which cost a great deal of money though they never found them, and The Monster Book of Monsters which tore each other up as well as biting the manager who tried to get one out. Flourish and Blotts also runs a service, which enables purchasers to buy books with owl delivery. They also take advance orders for books that are in high demand, such as The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore.

Sometime in early 1992, Flourish and Blotts was closed as it attempted to locate its order of Disappearing Ink. In August of 1992, famous wizard author Gilderoy Lockhart held a book signing at the shop and used it as an oppurtunity to announce his taking of the post of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that year. In an efffort to gain more publicity, he dragged Harry Potter into the spotlight against his will and gifted Harry a complete set of his book: Magical Me. That same day, a fistfight occured between Lucius Malfoy and Arthur Weasley, and Lucius Malfoy secretly gave Tom Riddle's diary to Ginny Weasley.

In the summer of 1993, the front window of Flourish and Blotts held an iron cage filled with hundreds and hundreds of copies of The Monster Book of Monsters. To deal with vicious books, set for the third year Care of Magical Creatures class taught by Rubeus Hagrid, the harassed manager had to gear up with thick gloves and jab at them with a knobbly walking stick, as the books tend to rip each other apart. When Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley went to the shop to buy their schoolbooks, the manager almost cried when Ron and Hermione said they wanted 2 copies of The Monster Book of Monsters, but was very relieved when Harry noted that he had already had a copy. Harry also asks for a copy of Unfogging the Future to which the manager leads them to a small corner in the back of the shop where a small table lies for books on fortune telling, such as Predicting the Unpredictable: Insulate Yourself Against Shocks, Death Omens: What to do when you know the worst is coming and Broken Balls: When Fortunes turn Foul.

In the summer of 1994, Molly Weasley went to Flourish and Blotts to get three copies of The Standard Book of Spells Grade 4 for Harry, Ron, and Hermione