A very crowded pet store, noisy with the sounds of all the animals, where Hermione bought Crookshanks. The proprietor is a witch who wears heavy black spectacles. She offers advice and sells things like rat tonic. Other creatures for sale included:
enormous purple toads gigantic tortoise with jewel-encrusted shell poisonous orange snails a fat white rabbit that changed into a top hat and back cats of every color noisy cage of ravens custard-colored fur balls sleek, black rats, rather more intelligent than normal
