Chapter two! Please review! And I just rhymed. How lame am I? =D

I woke up to light pouring through the thin plastic layer covering the unfinished wall on the house. I stretched my arms, cracked my knuckles, and stood up, grabbing my hat and mitts I was using as a pillow. My mind was just clearing from he fogginess of sleep, when I remembered the strange dream I had.

An owl had delivered me a letter of acceptance to some school with a funny name. Something else happened, I was struggling to remember.

I went to the front of the house, and was about to open the door when I realized that the window on the door wasn't letting any light in. Terrified, I walked three steps backwards, but that's when the plywood ended and the hardwood started, and I tripped.

I landed hard on my back. It took me a good five seconds to recover from being winded. I was sure that was going to leave a large, painful bruise. I had just stood up when whatever or whoever was behind the door knocked.

"Adira! Open the door!" A gruff voice asked.

"Who are you? Why do you know my name?!" I asked in a panic.

"Rubeus Hagrid, gamekeeper and keeper of keys of Hogwarts." Hagrid replied proudly.

That name, Hagrid, it seemed somewhat familiar. But Hogwarts, that name, it was the name of the school in my dream. And there's no way he knew my dreams, unless... my dreams weren't dreams.

I opened the door slowly, and standing there was a man twice as tall as the average man and nearly five times as wide, with shaggy hair and a great, large beard that desperately needed to be combed.

"Hagrid, eh? Well a man named professor Dumbledore told me that a large man named Hagrid would be coming to take me to London, but how do I know that you're him?" I asked cautiously.

"That's a good point, but, er, I could tell yer 'bout him" He said.

"Fine. But I'm asking questions," I started with asking, "What shape glasses does Dumbledore wear?"

"Erm, Dumbledore 'as half-moon glasses"

I nodded. "Okay, next question," Hagrid looked fairly confident that he'd get it right. "What is professor Dumbledore's full name?"

Hagrid looked slightly less confident. "Does it hav' ter be in order?"

I nodded and said "Uh huh."

"Uh, Albus, Percival, Wulfric Brian Dumbledore?" he said the last part very fast and almost as one word.

"Okay. Last question. How many plane tickets did you buy and you have to show them to me." I said with a cheeky smile.

"I bought three," He said returning my smile, "An' they're aroun' here somewher'."

He pulled out three tickets for Air Canada airlines to Toronto, and three for Toronto to London.

"Okay, I'll come with you, as long as you have money to buy me food on the plane." I said jokingly.

"Alrigh' lets go," he said, pointing to the airport across the city.

"Hagrid, I don't have any money, and we definitely can't walk across the city in two hours." I protested.

"No pro'lem Adira, I've enouf for a bus ter the airport."

I started off to the nearest bus stop, and we sat on the bench beside the post.

"Hagrid, can you tell me about Hogwarts?" I asked.

Hagrid began explaining all about the school, which is apparently a castle, thousands of years old, it's founders and it's history, the houses; Gryffindor , Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. But the bus interrupted him after ten minutes about the school's history.

"Hagrid, the bus is here," I told him, pointing at our ride.

We both stood up, and boarded the bus. Hagrid had quite a bit of troubles with 'muggle money' as he called it. After I paid, and we found some seats (we had to find a spot with three seats for Hagrid, one for me)

After a five second silence I asked him, "Hagrid, what's a muggle? I heard you call the money that, and I was wondering if it was like, some kind of wizard swear that I shouldn't use or something."

Hagrid chuckled and said, "Adira, muggles are non-magic folk."

I felt quite stupid now that I know what it meant, so the bus to the airport was pretty uneventful. So was going through security, except for when Hagrid didn't fit through the metal detector. We boarded the plane and found our seats at the very back. The plane was small and had a row of two on either side. Hagrid took the left and I took the right.

I sat down, buckled myself in, and looked out the window. Until now I hadn't really thought about my being a witch. I looked at my Hogwarts letter again, at the list of things I was to bring to Hogwarts.

HOGWARTS SCHOOL

of WHICHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

UNIFORM
First-year students will require:
sets of plain work robes (black)
plain pointed hat (black) for day wear
pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar)
winter cloak (black, with silver fastenings)
Please note that all pupil's clothes should carry name tags.

COURSE BOOKS
All students should have a copy of each of the following:

The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1)
by Miranda Goshawk

A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot

Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling

A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch

One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi
by Phyllida Spore

Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
by Newt Scamander

The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection
by Quentin Trimble

OTHER EQUIPMENT

1 wand
1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)
1 set glass or crystal phials
1 telescope
1 set brass scales

Students may also bring and owl OR a cat OR a toad.

PARENTS ARE REMINDED THAT FIRST YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED THEIR

OWN BROOMSTICKS

I turned to ask Hagrid where we were going to get this stuff, and I was greeted by the hilarious sight of Hagrid not being able to fit in his two airplane seats. I tried my best not to laugh by holding my breath, but as soon as I needed air I burst into laughter.

"Not enough room for you eh Hagrid?" I said between giggles.

"Shut it!" he joked.

After Hagrid was able to uncomfortably squeeze in between the seats, Hagrid pulled out a pink umbrella that sparked when he tapped his spot. The seats doubled in size but the isle way didn't seem any smaller, and I highly doubted he would make the outside of the plane bigger.

Hagrid made the universal shh symbol and said, "I'm not suppos'd to use magic, so let's keep this b'tween you and me."

I nodded and went back to watching the plane climb higher and higher into the sky.

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After we got off the plane, went through security again, watched Hagrid be too big to go through the metal detector (which I must say, is just as funny the second time around), boarded the plane to London- which would take seven hours, but we had first class tickets, so I couldn't complain- and sat down, I asked Hagrid the question I had meant to ask three hours earlier.

"Hagrid, where are you thinking that we're going to find this stuff on my list? I've never been to London, but I don't think they sell - I looked at my list- cauldrons or dragon hide gloves in the usual shops!"

Hagrid looked at me and said with a twinkle in his eye, "That's why we aren' goin' tuh the us'al shops, we're goin' tuh Diagon alley. But we 'ave one stop b'fore we go."

"Where? I asked, all curiously.

"Firs', we're gettin' Harry Potter."

I was thinking from here I could go into Adira meeting Harry and going to diagon alley, but I'll take recommendations and see what I can do!