Meeting Luna Lovegood

Suchita's POV

It's 10th June, and we are heading to this place called Leaky Cauldron, as the letter told us that we would get my things and apparently money there. I am just so excited. I always wanted to do magic and now i really can! The peoples -- or rather wizards -- at the Leaky Cauldron are very helpful. We entered the Gringotts -- The Wizard Bank -- next where we exchanged our money to wizard money. More like dad did that.

After collecting our money we went to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. Madam Malkin took me to the back of the shop and made me stand on a stool and then slipped a long robe over my head. As she began to pin it to the right length I started looking around the shop. There really were robes for all OCCASIONS. Soon my robes were done and we left the shop. Next we stopped to buy parchment and quills and here I met a girl. She had quiet a dreamy look on her face.

She turned suddenly and looked at me. I tried to smile and said, "Hello, I am Suchita Patil. Hogwarts?"

"Yes, I am Luna Lovegood. It's my first year and yours?"

"Mine too."

I could feel a fast friendship developing here. She was a pretty girl with long dirty blonde hair.

My parents met her dad and then we were off shopping together. We talked a lot. She told me everything she knew about Hogwarts, Magic, etc. After buying everything except our wands we headed to the wand shop which read, Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B. C.