For the 'Why? Oh Why? Challenge' over at HPFC. I hope you enjoy it and please review! :)
Note: I do not, and never will (sadly) own anything to do with Harry Potter. J.K Rowling just allowed me to borrow the characters and I promised to return them back safe and sound
Anyway here we go:
July 1981
Diagon Alley was packed, even more than usual. It was the annual 'back-to-school' rush, the time when all the young witches and wizards buy all their new supplies for their next year at Hogwarts. Business in all shops was bombing, the usual for this time of year, with demand for new equipment higher than ever. Out on the street, everyone was rushing around, trying to fit in a stop for every shop. However, there was one man standing in the doorway of an abandoned shop, taking in his surroundings, as people passing-by glanced at him. This man was about to introduce these ordinary witches and wizards to the most powerful weapon in the universe. Soon a group of people came out of the abandoned shop, and started to clear a space in the middle of the alley. Then they conjured up a small stage, just wide enough to cover the width across the alley. The crowds immediately came pouring in; clearly everyone wanted to know what was happening. After all, it's not every day you see a stage in the middle of Diagon Alley, especially not on the busiest day of the year. The sound coming from the crowd of people, on both sides of the stage, was deafening. It seems as if everyone was trying to hazard a guess at what was going on. In fact, some people were so busy talking that they never noticed a box coming onto the stage. Well, I say it was a box, when really it was a glass case. The case sat there, in the middle of the stage, covered over with a white sheet, for all to see. More people started talking, even louder this time. It seemed to take forever, but finally the strange man that was lurking in the doorway of the abandoned shop stepped on to the stage. He glanced round at the crowd, taking in each and every person. The crowd stared back.
"Now, I know what you're all wondering", he began "What is a stage doing in Diagon Alley? Well, I'm going to answer that question. But, you've all got another question, don't you? What is in this glass case? I'm going to answer that as well. Firstly, I am going to introduce myself. I am Alphard Terence, the head of The Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic"
A few gasps were heard from the crowd. The Department of Mysteries? No one ever talked about that, well not in public anyway. Did that glass case have something to do with it? No, it can't. The Department of Mysteries is, well, it's a department, full of mysteries, it says so in the title. A buzz of excitement was heard throughout the crows. Now this is going to be interesting.
Alphard smiled as he waited for the crowd to calm down before continuing "I have been doing some work with dragons, and it turns out they can do things. Extraordinary things. Things we probably would never even of thought of. They can invent powerful, powerful weapons that no wizard would ever think of using. Powerful weapons that are associated with muggles. Now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I bet you are all dying to see what is under this white sheet. Well, it is one of these powerful, powerful weapons"
Alphard walked over to the glass case and put his hands on the sheet on top. He yanked the sheet of, revealing the weapon. A loud gasp was heard from the crowd. This was the most amazing thing any witch or wizard had ever seen. It wasn't like any other muggle weapon they had seen or heard of, in fact it wasn't like anything they had ever seen or heard of.
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you, the most powerful weapon in the universe, created by dragons, a chocolate and vanilla ice-cream sword!"
Well I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Sorry it's so short, the next chapters will definitely be longer. I will try and get the next chapter up shortly, may take a couple of days depending on how much time I have. Like I said at the start please review! :)