Disclaimer: I don't own HP but I do own Carmen and Carmen's mom.
Chapter Two
Diagon Alley
The next morning Carmen got up two hours earlier then she normally would have, thus meaning she got up at 8:00 am instead of 10:00 am. She walked downstairs to the breakfast table to find her mom already there reading the news. She poured herself a bowl of Cheerios (it's the worldwide cereal!). As she ate it, she began to wonder if this was all some sort of joke. But if it was, who had set it up? True Carmen didn't really have any friends at school, but she didn't have enemies either. And her mom wouldn't do something like this.
'So it must be real.' thought Carmen. She looked at the newspaper's front cover, to find the pictures were moving!
"EEEKKKK!" screeched Carmen as she watched the people in the pictures look up at the noise. "MOM, WHY ARE THEY MOVING?!" exclaimed Carmen.
"Calm down, this is a wizarding newspaper. The pictures move and everything. I subscribed last night, they're really fast at getting your mail to you. And if I were you, I would try to expect the un-expected. Because today, we are going to get your new school things. Do you still have your letter?" said Mrs. Jemison, looking up to find Carmen nodding, but still looking shaken about the newspaper. "Good, look inside and there should be a list of things you need and your ticket onto the train. Don't lose them, all right? Come on, time we left, you'll need a lot of things." They stood up, cleared away the dishes and left for the heart of London, to the grimy pub known as the Leaky Cauldron.
When the reached the pub, they found it already full, despite the fact that it was only 9' in the morning.
"Excuse me," said Ms. Jemison, catching the attention of the bald innkeeper. "Would you please let us through to Diagon Alley? It's just that I have no wand and-"
"Say no more!" said the innkeeper with a toothless grin. He led them out to a small courtyard like place with a single trash can. "Watch closely," ha said. He whipped out a very old, very battered looking wand. He counted the bricks out loud, finally tapping the one that was three up and two across from the trashcan. It wriggled, and then slowly, the whole wall turned into an archway, big enough to fit an extremely tall man. Carmen and her mom walked through it while the old man went back to his tavern.
Diagon Alley was wonderful! There was everything imaginable! (I won't bother describing inn detail of what she did; just the basic stuff. You'll know what she did if you read HPSS) First they went to Gringotts, where Carmen got her own vault and she learned the simple rules of the wizarding money. Next, to Flourish and Blotts where she got all of her school books, plus From Muggle to Wizard (learn everything you need to know about being a witch or wizard) By Rachel Turkey (in honor of THE Cheese Turkey). It turned out to be a very interesting book. It had everything, from a summary of Quidditch, to the most famous candies (chocolate frogs). It also had a large section just on the history of wizards.
After the book store, they got Carmen some robes, potion supplies, a telescope, and, at last, a wand. It only took a few minutes to find it, much to the displeasure of Mr. Ollivander. It was a cedar wand with a dragon heartstring core, 12 ½ inches. And although Carmen was to busy too notice, her mom got a few surprise items for her daughter. After that, Carmen got one last thing, a WWN (Wizarding Wireless Network (a.k.a. wizard's radio)). It looked pretty old. The thing was about the 5 inches by 8 inches and 4 inches in depth. It was a dark green, with a circular speaker, and those yellow bars across it and a black handle. It had all sort of channel things. But by far Carmen thought that the Quidditch station was the best. It pretty much like lessening to baseball on the radio, but Quidditch is MUCH better.
In fact, when they got home at 5:00 pm she was still listening to it, cheering for the Holyhead Harpies, who were (at the moment) losing by 20 points. However, the Holyhead seeker caught the snitch, thus winning 200 to 70. In less then one day, she had found her team. Wow that was fast. Moving on!
The next few weeks passed quickly. Before she knew it, it was the day before September the first, and all most time to go to Hogwarts. After Carmen had packed her things into her trunk and gone to bed, her mother came in and packed a few more items into her daughter's trunk, hoping Carmen would like them.
The next morning flew by and before Carmen knew it, she was at the train station. She took out her ticket and looked at it.
'9 ¾? What kind of platform is that?' Carmen thought to herself. 'A good one' replied the voice on her head that manly quoted stuff. She looked around, trying to find the platform, but she couldn't. However, her mother pushed her in the small of the back, forcing her to keep going so she was in between platforms nine and ten. Then her mom did something most people would laugh at. She pushed her into the barrier on purpose, so Carmen fell right into platform 9 ¾ where the sparkling train sat, with ten minutes to spare until departure.
And "Wow," was all she could say.
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