You know that moment when you have been arguing with someone about something and right in the middle of this fierce debate you realize that you've been wrong but instead of stopping to admit defeat you just continue to argue your point, just because you really don't want to lose. That's how it's been for me. For a year. Of course I've also had reasons to despise him a little still because, well, he hasn't changed THAT much and …
"LILY COME DOWNSTAIRS THERE'S SOMEONE WAITING FOR YOU BY THE DOOR!" I winced. My mom might be a really nice person and have a lovely voice … but when she screamed not even the ghouls would stay close to awe at her because of their jealousy.
When I got downstairs my best friend Marlene McKinnon was waiting for me.
"You look surprised. Did you forget? We're going SHOPPING! Because last week we received our Hogwarts letters and they told us not just to buy the regular school supplies but a graduation-gown and a ball gown for the graduation ball! You even wrote me and said we should go shopping today!" Marlene exclaimed. That had been a week ago. I actually had forgotten, mostly because I'd been thinking about the little note that came with the letter. James Potter was the Head Boy to my Head Girl. This, was a disaster.
"I did forget." I admitted.
"Then get ready because we are going!" Marlene shouted and started pushing me in the direction of the stairs.
Five minutes later we were inside the Leaky Cauldron in London. A trip that should've taken at least one hour with muggle means but only took fractions of a second with apparition.
First, we walked to Gringots. We had to change our Galleons into a large amount of pounds seeing as we were going shopping for clothes in the regular muggle stores.
After that we left through the Leaky Cauldron and into central London.
The rumor that Wizards don't wear regular clothes or go to regular stores is, as a matter of fact, false to the core. Marlene and I met several girls from our year in the stores. We decided to ditch the more common stores and go look for more expensive dresses elsewhere. In the end we came out from Banana Republic with a long ball gown each.
When we went inside Diagon Alley again we exchanged the last of our pounds into wizzarding money again.
The street was buzzing with people. There was only one week left of summer so everyone was here. The sun was shining bright, it was a hot day and all the doors to the stores were open (except for Eylops Owl Emporium) and people were hurrying in and out. Inside Flourish and Blotts it was packed. The shelves towering over us, people climbing on the shelves trying to get the right books down and almost dropping it on the heads of those below.
We made our way inside and started looking for our books. Just when we were about to leave I heard someone scream my name. I turned around, dreading who I'd find staring at me.
It was Alice Prewett, a tall scrawny girl with beautiful long brown hair and a dazzling smile who shared dorms with Marlene, me and two others.
"Lily! Marlene! It's been all summer! Why haven't we hung out?" She asked as we all hugged. This was the general question she asked at the end of every summer after not even writing us to arrange anything and if she did she'd cancel because of her boyfriend Frank. He was the main reason to why she never wrote in the first place. The three of us had been close once, but then she got together with Frank and our friendship crumbled.
"I don't know but it always seems to happen!" I exclaimed with a smile. It was a joke with an underlying meaning. She didn't care so neither did we.
We talked for a while and then Marlene and I ran off to finish our shopping and head back home.