Dad kissed me goodnight and I went to bed. The thought to tomorrow was more exciting they ever!

The next morning I woke up and began packing, I had been to Hogsmeade before but only once, father bought me some traveling robs there and they still fit, to my surprise I had only grown an inch. I put them on and closed my sutecase.

I ran down the stares with my bag and set it by the door, "Morning Sunshine!" I said as I kissed mum and dad on the cheek.

"Good morning dear, we will leave after breakfast," father said as he turned a page of the Daily Prophet. "I need to go to the bank first, got to pick up some muggle money to exchange for wizarding money… oh Ireland beat Itay 190 to 60 last week…"

I ate my waffles ravenously. Then when we were finished dad said, "Alright," he folded his newspaper under his arm, kissed mum goodbye, "Goodbye sweetheart, we will be back in 3 days." Then Sara and I kissed and hugged mum.

Dad put our cases in the car and grabbed his owl, Zeus. We started for the muggle bank he worked for. We got there and he went in and came out with 3 money sacks, "Alright we may go now!"

Sara and I sang to muggle songs all the way there. We stopped outside a hotel and dad grabbed our bags out of the back and we began walking to a black building only a block away. It had "Leaky Cauldron" written on the side in grungy ink. It seemed that people looked at the shop next to it then their eyes jumped to the other side, I thought for a moment that they couldn't even see it.

We walked in and a tall, slightly graying haired man walked up to us and gave father a hug. "Steven!" He yelled happily, "These must be the youngens!" He grinned.

"Tom! My good friend, yes, Rikki is the one with the red hair and Sara is the blond." Father smiled.

"Wow, almost identical, these two. Never had kids myself."

"Don't you need a wife for that?" I asked and everyone laughed.

"We need a room, Tom. Three bedroom, three bath, and if you can handle that, a kitchen, and a study." Father said.

"Room 12 ok?" Tom asked. "It is fully furnished and the study is complete with books, cauldron and perch." Dad nodded and handed him the money. Tom handed us 3 keys, "Here you go." He looked at dad, "You remember how to get the Alley, don't you?"

Father nodded, "Up three, cross two, down two" Tom nodded and showed us to our room.

He opened the door for us, it shouldn't be called a room, it should be called a flat or a house, but not a room. It was very big, I choose the light orange room and Sara had chosen the yellow one. I unpacked and dusted off my robs.

"Ready when you are dear," father said.