"Go me! I beat Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets! YEAH!" I jumped around my living room after throwing down my game controller. Kavie rolled her eyes.
"You need help, Kacy." She said to me. I turned to her.
"So do you!" I said childishly.
"I know!" Kavie laughed. Great! Now I didn't have an insult! Oh well. I decided to change the subject.
"Wanna go to DQ?" I asked. Kavie laughed and pushed her shoulder-length blue-black hair behind her ears.
"Do you even have to ask?" I nodded. We put on our shoes, told my dad where we were going, and headed out the door.
We got to the crosswalk in between my house and Dairy Queen, and Kavie pushed the button.
"So, how many times have you exactly beaten that game?" She asked me.
"A few." I grinned. It was when we started to cross the street that we noticed a weird man behind us. He was wearing a black cloak and he kinda creeped us out. I started walking a little faster, and Kavie followed suit. I told her to look behind us. The man had sped up too. We started full out running, and again, the man did as well. We were almost at the other side, when we heard him yell something funny. Neither of us could really understand what he had said, but the next thing we knew, we had fallen onto the sidewalk. Except, it wasn't the right sidewalk.
"Kace, where are we?" Kavie asked, as she stood up and looked around. She helped me up, and I dusted of my jeans.
"What do you mean where ar-" I stopped myself as I looked around. We were standing outside of the Leaky Cauldron. "Bloody hell." I said in awe.
"KACY! Where are we?" Kavie was getting seriously worried. I turned to her, and she must have thought I was insane with the smile I had plastered on my face.
"We're in London!" I laughed. However, what seemed to be good news to me, turned out to be a worst nightmare for Kavie.
"London! LONDON! How is this a good thing, Kacy? We told your dad we were going to Dairy Queen! IN CANADA!" I put my hand on her shoulder.
"Kavie, Kavie, Kavie." I said. "We're in Harry Potter land!" And I swear, if looks could kill, I'd be dead and buried.
"Not helping, Kacy!" She yelled.
"Kavie! Listen to me! For some reason, we're in London, in front of the Leaky Cauldron. Now let's go to Diagon Alley!" I didn't really give Kavie a choice. I led her through the Leaky Cauldron (which is tres cool!), where we had tons and tons of witches and wizards, and someone who looked a lot like a hag looking at us funny. We went out into the back yard, where I grabbed a stick. "Okay, let's see if I remember this right." And I tapped the third brick from the left above the trash. Before our eyes, an archway appeared in the wall, and Diagon Alley was revealed.
"You've gotta be kidding me." Kavie piped up. If this was a prank, it was brilliant. The streets were lined with shops and they were crowded with tons of cloaked witches and wizards. I even recognized some of them! I noticed Neville Longbottom being told off by his grandmother near Florean Fortescues, and Seamus Finnigan was near Quality Quidditch Supplies. They both looked around the same age as me and Kavie. We were making our way to Flourish and Blotts to check out some of the books, when we heard someone call our names. We turned around, and were greeted by, well, a stomach. We looked up.
"Where've you two been? I've been lookin' for yeh ev'rywhere!" Hagrid smiled.
"Hagrid!" I smiled back. He looked shocked.
"Yeah. How'd yeh know? Tha's not the point. Anyway, yeh are 'ere 'cause yeh're special. Yeh're both witches." We both laughed. Technically, we'd already known that. We were both wiccan! We tried to humor him, and acted surprised.
"Really? I would have never known!" I smiled. Kavie nodded. Hagrid looked as if he had accomplished a life-long goal.
"An' Dumbledore wan'ed yeh to come tah Hogwarts this year. So, here's yer money, and yer lists. Yeh need to buy ev'rythin' on them, so don' go wastin' yer money on the newest broom. Yeh've got some at school so yeh can take flyin'. Jus' get yer books and ev'rythin, and the train leaves on Monday at 11:30am. Oh yeah! Here're yer tickets." He handed us each a ticket. We pocketed them, thanked him, and headed off to go shopping. First, we headed to Flourish and Blotts, where we were going anyway.
"This is sooooo cool!" I laughed.
"I hate to admit it, but it is!" Kavie smiled. This was going to be fun. We walked into the shop, and it turns out it was flooded with students! Every now and then, I'd point one out to Kavie, and she'd stare at me. I think she was wondering when we should book me into St. Mungo's. We walked up to the front desk, where a very disgruntled wizard was rubbing his forehead.
"Um, excuse me?" Kavie cleared her throat. "Do you work here?" The wizard nodded. He couldn't be much older than 25, and he was really cute!
"Um, we need some books." I said.
"Hogwarts?" He asked. We nodded. "What year?" I didn't actually know. I quickly checked my list. My books were grade 6. Wait, what? I was only 15, and Kavie was 14! How were we in 6th year? I checked Kavie's letter. Hers said 5th. Okay, so apparently we were breaking the rules.
"Fifth and sixth." I smiled. He nodded and busied himself with our books. We leaned against the desk and waited. I caught a glimpse out the window, and saw a very familiar character walking in the door.
"Now, Ron, do you have your list? What about you Harry?" Molly Weasley asked. In unison, Ron Weasley and Harry Potter nodded. I nudged Kavie.
"Black hair, glasses. Harry Potter." I said under my breath. She looked, and saw them.
"And the red-head?" She asked. I noticed an odd twinkle in her eye.
"Three guesses." She had a crush on Rupert Grint, who played Ron. Now I wanted to know if she'd get a crush on the REAL Ron.
"Ron?" She asked. I nodded. They walked up to the desk, and Kavie and I moved aside. I noticed Ginny Weasley, tailing behind her mom.
"Hi." I said as she looked at me. She smiled. Molly turned to us and looked at us funny (we were beginning to get used to it).
"Are you two girls from around here?" She asked us.
"No. We're from Canada." Kavie said.
"What in Heaven's are you two doing so far from home?" Molly asked.
"Well, we're actually going to Hogwarts this year." I smiled. Molly followed suit. By now, Harry and Ron had caught sight of us.
"What year?" Ron asked. I could almost feel Kavie melting.
"She's in fifth and I'm in sixth." I said. I still didn't really understand why we were in the wrong year. And why we were in different years. We wanted to stay together!
"Cool." Harry piped up. His voice could only be described with one word: ORGASM! My god he sounded hot. Mind you, his voice did no justice to what he actually looked like. "Ron and I are in sixth too." I almost died inside. YAY! I'M IN THE SAME YEAR AS HARRY POTTER! WOOT! Was all I could think.
"And I'm in fifth." Ginny said. She sounded so cute. She sounded really shy too. It was kind of funny.
"Oh! Where are my manners?" I laughed. "I'm Erika. My friends call me Kacy. And this is Caveena, or Kavie."
"I'm Harry, this is Ron, and this is Ginny." Harry said. I think this time Kavie could feel me melting.
"And I'm Ron and Ginny's mum, Molly." Mrs. Weasley smiled. She shook our hands, and I so wanted to tell them that I knew. The cute guy who worked at the shop brought me and Kavie our books. We paid, and before we left, we turned to the little group that we had just met.
"We'll see you around, I guess!" I smiled. Then we left. It was off to Madam Malkin's and then Olivander's.
A/N: I must leave you for now, but alas, I shall be back! You can review this if you like, and show me that you actually read it. If you read this, you are just as insane as me! Grabs your hand WE CAN BE INSANE TOGETHER! YAY!