Chapter Two: This Is Too Cool
Me and Vi stared, open mouthed, motionless, at the now regular-appearing book lying on my bed.
"Sooo…." Vi said, lost for words possibly the first time in her life. I tried to collect my thoughts, but they were scattered all over the place.
"Umm…" I tried to help myself by thinking out loud. "It said…umm…enter a world…change history…one hour…" Suddenly I jumped.
"Vi! Get up! Quick! One hour! We only have ONE HOUR!" I scrambled out of bed, grabbed my overnight bag, and stuffed anything within reach into it.
My sister was still staring at the book. "Vi!" I yelled at her. "Get up!" No reaction.
"Vi!" I shouted again. "VICTORIA GERTRUDE OSTLER! GET DOWN HERE NOW!" That snapped her out of her reverie.
She scurried down and seized her bag too. "So, let me get this straight. You want us to pack our bags, hop into a book, and just see if it takes us to the Wizarding World?" she asked. "Yeah, basically." I replied. Vi grinned at me.
"Okay, I'm in. So what'll we need?" I thought for a moment, and then said "Shirts, pants, pajamas, underwear, money, anything you want to bring into your dormitory, and the rest we'll get in Diagon Alley."I said, counting on my fingers.
We raced around the house in a mad frenzy, packing everything we needed and more. 45 minutes later, we were back in our room and waiting for the book to initiate.
While we waited we checked each other's things, "You have outside clothes…..inside clothes…inside inside clothes…." Vi muttered as she made sure that I had everything.
"Little trinkets…money…whoa that's a lot…" She finished inspecting my bag and I handed her back hers. Then our attention shifted back to the book lying on the floor.
"Umm…when's the book gonna activate?" I asked. At that precise moment, the book lit up. We had placed it on the floor, thinking the portal would be the book itself, and that it would be hard to enter it on the top bunk of our bed.
Suddenly, the book stopped glowing and instead of letters, the book had an image of a Muggle street (I was already thinking like a witch). "Ok," I said excited and terrified at the same time.
"I'll climb in, and I'll wave to you when I get inside. You drop our bags in and follow me after." With a deep breath, I climbed in.
As my head went under, my room changed to millions of words, and then to a street, presumably in London.
I looked up. There was a book floating above my head, with an image of our room in it. I waved to Vi. She grinned and dropped down our bags, then followed soon after.
As she lowered herself in, I scanned our surroundings. We had landed in front of the Leaky Cauldron. I mean, the Leaky Cauldron! I tapped Vi."Vi, turn around and try not to scream."
Her back was to the pub. Upon my words, she slowly turned around. I watched as her eyes widened and her mouth turned into a perfect O. She bit her lip as a small squeal escaped, trying not to scream.
She looked as if she were trying to look like she were excited about the huge bookstore next to it, because it would be strange to the Muggles if she was gaping at nothing
While she fangirled, I turned around and picked up the book that had transported us here. It lay on the sidewalk, seeming to be a regular old book. I put it into my bag.
By now, Vi had stopped freaking out and walked over to me. "Let's go inside." She said, wearing a huge smile.
As we entered, I saw something so amazing, so magical, that I had to rub my eyes to make sure that it was true. In the middle of the room stood a giant man with a large, hairy beard, and next to him stood a skinny boy with dark, messy hair, bright, almond-shaped, green emerald eyes, and most important of all, a lightning scar on his forehead.
"Too. Cool. It's Harry and Hagrid!" I breathed. "Don't you think I noticed that?" Vi hissed back. "I think we should ask Hagrid if we can come with them into Diagon Alley." She said.
We waited for the crowd to disperse, and then approached the two of them. "Uh, hi! I'm Willow Ostler! I was wondering if, uh, me and my sister could come with you? We're orphans from America. We, uh, came with only our bags and, uh," I trailed off.
Vi glared at me, as if to say Really? Is that the best you can do? I glared back, trying to say Oh, and you can do better? with my eyeballs.
Luckily, Hagrid said, "Okay, yeh' can come with me an' Harry here." I smirked at Vi.
We followed him out back. As we walked, me and Vi muttered "Three up, two across," to Harry and grinned at each other.
When we got there, Hagrid counted the bricks above the trash can. "Three up…two across" He said to himself absentmindedly. Harry gaped at us in turn, while I just grinned, Vi smirking beside me.