A Word from the Author: Hello friends of the night jediclonecowgirl greets you once again, with the next look into Sally Jokers diary. Basically all about Diagon Alley and shopping and stuff...hehe...
Dear Diary.
We got back from Diagon Alley just recently. Soon we will go to Hogwarts for the first time. Roland is kinda mad, because he is still too young to attend. As we got back he asked Jack to shrink him on the day, we will go and then he wanted to sneak into my trunk. Most silly idea of him...Jack is off age already, so he can do magic without getting himself punished by the Ministry of Magic. I can't tell much about this place...hell I was never interested in politics very much. Either magical or muggle politics, I was never caring about it very much. Probably never will, but I am going off-subject. You gotta be seventeen to do magic outta school, otherwise you are gonna get framed by the Ministry and if you do it too often...what happens then? I don't know...at all!
The most exciting part was wand shopping. Jack has always said, that Ollivander is the best wandmaker in all of Britain. It was a bit strange to be there. looks at you without blinking even once! Maybe that's the reason, why other young wizards and witches sometimes get nervous in there. 7 inches, Cherry and dragonheart string. That's the best way to describe my wand. The length, the wood it's made off and the core. My sister's wand has 7.5 inches, is made of Acorn wood and has a Phoenix feather as core. We almost wreckaged the entire shop, until we finally got our wands.
It was all kinda exciting. Shopping for robes at Madam Malkin's, book shopping at Flourish and Blotts and so on. I can't mention all of the shops. There are so many, that the diary probably will be half-full, when I am done. I'm kinda nervous about getting to school, fitting in and all that. We never worried about living up to the names of our mum, aunt and brother. We wanna make our own big impression, because if we do excatly the same stuff, like trying to run for Quidditch Captain or prefect, aunt Alyssa was Hufflepuff prefect, it will be no big deal, because they did it first. Word of their reputations proceed them, but we will find a way to be remembered. Everybody in our family has managed somehow. Mum managed it with leading Ravenclaw to victory in a Dueling competition, that was hosted between students back in the day. With her skills she earned herself quite a reputation, so nobody dared to mess with her, aunt Alyssa, or any of her friends. Aunt Alyssa managed, because of being made a prefect and Jack managed, because of being Quidditch Captain of Ravenclaw.
Jack has also told me a story. A story, that's actually very scary, but unfortunately also very true. Samantha and I were only one, as this story really took place, so we were obviously to young to understand it. It has something to do with dark magic. Some really nasty stuff went on there. An evil wizard, lots of dead wizards and muggles and so on. Some things were included, that you do not even write in a diary. You can say, that this was really bad, but then in one Halloween night, this evil wizard went to kill a family, who openly defied him. He managed to kill two people, but one of them, their one-year-old son, survived and managed to kill the evil wizard. He escaped with nothing, but a SCAR! This boy's name is Harry Potter. In the magical world they call him the-boy-who-lived. He must be our age now. I maybe never went to a Muggle School, but I can still do basic maths. Will be kinda cool to go to school with him, but also kinda strange. Well...I don't know, what else to write. Enough for today.
Yours
Sally
Dear Diary.
I am sitting on a packed trunk and have mixed feelings. Tomorrow Samantha and I are gonna take the train to Hogwarts. The infamous Hogwarts express. I am in a feeling-bind. One part of me wants to run through the house screaming, the other wants to hide in the bathroom and vomit, until it's time to go to bed. I better don't get too close on the vomitting part, or I really DO vomit. Heh...I am also nervous about the Sorting Ceremony, where they decide in which house we get. I am fine with every house, as long as it's not Slytherin. As a half-blood I would be sent home in a matchbox by the end of the first week...or a coffin. Scary thought I can say...
Mum always gave us that speech, that we might not be together at all. Get into separate houses and all that. Aunt Alyssa, Jack and even DAD told mum off for this. Told her not to mess up the happiest day of our lives. They say it that way, since it really IS the happiest day of a young magical kid's live to go to Hogwarts for the first time. Then Jack said, that he doesn't believe, that we will be separated. We are too much...one and the same for it...no kidding. He excatly put it that way.
Mum just said, that we shouldn't fire up our imagination too high, since there is always a chance, that we are separated. In her fifth year, twins were separated once at the Sorting. One kid winded up it Hufflepuff and the other one in Ravenclaw. Poor kids...sometimes it won't just go into people's skulls, that you don't separate twins. That's like a crime against nature people and I gotta know it, I am a twin! Samantha is quite faithful about the Sorting and she always keeps saying, that some silly Sorting can't pull us apart. She even made this clear to our mum, before she got started about us being into separate houses. She keeps the faith and I try to do so too. We both have a rough attitude, but sometimes I am a bit more open, than she is, with emotions. If I don't pay attention about this at the Sorting I will probably wind up in Hufflepuff. HAHA! Still...emotions and kindness play a big part there.
Well...shouldn't trouble myself about the Sorting and try to sleep...NAH. Even if I tried to sleep, I wouldn't be able to, without waking up all five minutes. My sister and I are still awake. We are looking foreward to start our first year so much, that we can't sleep. The rest of our family has gone too bed long ago and they are probably sleeping already. Aw man! I wish I weren't so nervous about fitting in with housemates, classes and all that.
Sally
Ending Word: So this is that. Two of Sally's diary entries should be enough for this chapter. Next time Ron, Harry and all the others will have their first appearance in Sally's Diary. One thing beforehand: I will make one person a bit OOC in this. Who this person will be? You will find out by reading on *sniggers*. I hope you liked the chapter and I hope, that you will leave some reviews behind. Now all I have left to say is bye, bye and mischief managed.
