Everyone needs schoolbooks, and there's no finer place to go than Flourish and Blotts bookstore. Find cauldrons, textbooks, leisure reading, and everything else for school, or the perfect gift!

Whether you're looking for robes for school, dress robes for the Yule Ball, or just something to wear in your everyday endeavors, Madam Malkin's has the finest wizarding robes around. Custom tailored to your measurements and specifications, you are guaranteed satisfaction.

The Magical Menagerie is a magical creature shop that, besides selling magical creatures, also offers advice on animal care and health. The shop is very cramped, noisy and smelly, due to every inch being covered with cages. Among the creatures in the Magical Menagerie are enormous purple toads, A Firecrab, poisonous orange snails, a fat white rabbit the can turn into a silk top hat and back, cats of every color, ravens, Puffskeins, and a cage of sleek black rats that play skipping games with their tails.

Mr. Ollivander, the pale-eyed, white-haired shopkeeper, makes and sells the magic wands to witches and wizards as they enter school or break their old wands. He remembers every wand he has ever sold. To determine the best wand for a witch or wizard, Mr. Ollivander measures various body parts and then checks the reactions of various wands to the buyer, a process her refers to as "the wand choosing the wizard."