It all started about six years ago. Jess was at home with her parents. She hid in her room like usual especially when they were fighting. It seemed like it was all the time now. As they fought Jess would sit and listen to them and just get so pissed when her dad would hit her mom but, there was nothing she could do. She was ten years old, what could a ten year old do...nothing but sit there and take it.
A few days went by and her parents still fought like crazy but this day was different. Jess got her letter of acceptance at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She wanted to tell her parents but knew otherwise. If she was to live her room her fate would be in her father's hands. So she stayed where she was and didn't tell them.
The next day she got up early and made sure her parents weren't up yet so she could leave. She grabbed her key to her Gringotts account and some floo powder. She threw the powder into the fire and it turned a beautiful shade of green. She stepped inside and said 'Diagon Alley' and from that moment on she felt sick to her stomach. She finally landed in 'Diagon Alley'.
She pulled out her list of things she needed for school. She made her first stop at Gringotts seeing as she needed money. The goblins seemed very agitated today but that didn't bother her. They took her to her vault and she got her money out. She headed out to her second stop which would be Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. She figured this would be less full. To her surprise it was just about empty. Madam Malkin pulled her to the footstool on the floor and measured her and got her, her robes quickly. She paid and left without another word.
The next stop on her list was Flourish and Blotts to pick up her school books. She had to wait in line because there were many people there but she was glad to be out of her house away from her parents. But little did she know what was going on at home. She paid for her books and as she walked out she saw another book called 'Potions and Beyond' by: Maddalena Guesstoffnon. She said to herself 'If I have enough money after I get all I need I am going to come back and get this book'
She headed off towards the cauldrons and picked up her pewter cauldron, telescope, and brass scales and left. She didn't like the owner very much he was a little strange for her taste. She headed for the Apothecary to pick up the phials she needed. She walked in and kind of went into a daze because of the smell of everything. She picked up the phials and a few other things she wanted and left.
Once outside she could breathe again she headed towards Ollivanders. She entered but saw no one. She called out "Is anyone there?" She almost jumped out of her skin when a guy popped out in front of her. He walked to back through the shelves sacked with assorted wands and such and walked back out holding a box. He set the box on the desk in front of him opened it and pulled out the wand. He then handed to her and said 'Give it a wave' so she did it was perfect. Her wand was a six inch mahogany unicorn hair. She paid for it and thanked him. She walked outside and counted out what she had left and she had just enough to buy the book she wanted.
She walked back towards Flourish and Blotts which was empty now. She walked in and picked up the book and paid for it. She headed back towards the fire place got her pouch of floo powder out. Threw some in and the flame became the brilliant green as it had before she stepped in and said 'Black House' she felt sick to her stomach again but pushed it out of her mind she was still wondering what she was going to find when she got home. She landed hard on the floor and noticed her parents weren't in there fighting yet. She set her things down in her room and started to call out to her parents but no answer. She went to their room but they weren't in there. Then she heard something down in the basement so she went down there to see. But when she got down there she thought maybe it wasn't a good idea to go down there at all because what she saw scared her. Her parents were laying there dead no one else was around.
She ran to her room packed as much of her stuff as she could and as quickly as she could. She knew she had to get out of that house as quickly as possible. She took one more look at the house she had lived in for the ten years of her life and turned away and left. She had no idea where she was headed but she knew that wherever she went it had to be far away.
She dragged her trunk as far as she could but that was getting her no where then she remembered the knight bus and she dug in her trunk for her wand. She finally found it and held it out and the bus appeared she was so happy. They asked where she wanted to go and she said the Leaky Cauldron. Well just her luck that was there next stop. She was put in a room for a couple of days until it was time to go to King's Cross to get on the train. Boy was she ready to get to school she thought that maybe she would be safer there.
"And that is what happened before I came to Hogwarts" she said as she lay in the hospital wing.
Fear overcame her she ran upstairs as quickly as she could. She ran to her room got her trunk