Chapter Two

Professor Dumbledore showed up at eight a.m. on the dot on Friday for our trip to get the supplies that I needed for school.

My dad decided that I could go along with the Professor alone to go pick up the supplies……

"Hey Maria you ready to go?"

"Yes.'' I said.

My Father had already left for his meeting today. They called him last night to ask him to come in for morning meeting.

My father apparently thought I was old enough to go with a stranger alone.

I love my father but sometimes he just doesn't make any sense.

Like the other day when he accused me of hiring this man as a spy for the family.

To be quite honest when my father got that call yesterday I didn't think I was going anywhere today. (He would never trust anybody to take his daughter anywhere).

I have to admit I was a little nervous when I closed the door behind me that morning.

"I have a question Professor?"

"Ask away Maria."

"How are we getting to the place?"

"You have an advantage a lot of kids at Hogwarts don't have, you live right here in London. That means you don't have very far to travel to get the supplies you need to go to school. We will take a taxi to another part of London that will drop us off in front of the secret passage to the wizarding world."

"Will there be other's like me out buying school supplies today?"

"Most likely," said Dumbledore.

Professor Dumbledore fell silent for a while; I guess he was concentrating on the task at hand.

After hailing a cab we climbed in, Dumbledore gave instructions to the cab driver before sitting back and enjoying the ride.

We arrived at our destination twenty minutes later. After paying the driver, Dumbledore grabbed me by the hand and lead me down the street.

We reached where we need to go, and after checking to make sure no one was looking he led me into a pub that wasn't there a minute ago.

The apparent owner of the pub came over.

"New student to Hogwarts Dumbledore?" he asked.

"Yes Tom, I am taking her to get her school supplies."

He looked at me then, "Well I hope you have a good year Miss, you are under the best headmaster that Hogwarts ever had."

He showed us to the back door; Professor Dumbledore pulled out his wand and made some strange tapping movements on the brick wall.

The bricks moved magically sideways making a whole big enough for the both of us to pass through it.

I saw for the first time what would eventually become my home away from home. What will take away the sorrows; I have endured for the past eleven years a place I where I would no longer be afraid of what was to happen to me.

I saw hundreds of people moving around, men, women and children some were my age some older, some younger.

I couldn't wait to get started on my shopping but first the money.

"Professor, I meant to ask this earlier, but I forgot how we spend money in the world. I mean is it just the same or different."

"We have different money from the muggles therefore we need to go to the bank first and get you an account opened and change you money into wizarding money."

My father who is a very rich man give me half of my inheritance when he found out I was a witch and needed money to go to school. This is well over 20 million dollars which I was carrying in a suit case that I guarded with my life.

"The wizarding bank is called Gringotts, and we can switch money there and make and draw up a bank account for you."

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An hour later we were out of the bank I had a new bank account with my key, to keep and my money.

"So were do you want to go now Maria?"

"Here there everywhere," I replied with a little too much enthusiasm.

"How about we go and get you a wand from Ollivander's?"

Since we were right outside of the shop I said sure since that was probably one of the most exciting things I will be getting today.

Mr. Ollivander was helping another customer so we had to wait a minute before it was my turn.

"Hi how are we doing to day?" asked Mr. Ollivander as he was coming over.

"Everything is fine. I am just bringing in a new Hogwarts student to get her wand."

"What is your name little girl?" He asked.

"My name is Maria."

"Well Maria. I must say you are under one of the best Headmaster that Hogwarts has ever had."

Professor Dumbledore was blushing. "Now, now I wouldn't say that."

"It is true, now of the other headmasters or headmistress's can even compete with him he is absolutely brilliant."

Professor Dumbledore whose face was still bright red, interrupted him now. "I don't mean to sound rude but, we have a lot to do today Ollivander, if you could just get on with it."

A half hour later we left with my brand new wand. Ten inches long with a string of unicorn hair in it.

Next we went to Madam Malkin's for my school robes; this is where I met another Hogwarts student.

"Hi I my name is Lavender Brown what is you name?"

"My name is Maria Davis, and this is my first year at Hogwarts to."

"So where is your parents, are they wizards to?"

"It is just me and my dad, and no he isn't a wizard he is a muggle. I think that is what the professor said a non magical person is called. But no he had to work today so he let Professor Dumbledore take me around."

"You met Professor Dumbledore already you are so lucky. Most people don't meet him until they get to school."

"Yeah he came to my house and told me that I was a witch and everything I couldn't believe it at first but now I do."

"That must have been really exciting. Since you were muggle-born you really would have know why that was so exciting but now that you know he is the most famous wizard today aren't you so excited."

"You know it is funny my father who is a really high priced lawyer. Know his stuff, told me that if this was a hoax he would go and find him and fill him for getting my hopes up and all."

Lavender just stared at me like I done lost my mind or something.

"You know now that I think about it, it wasn't all that funny," I said really fast.

Great now she is going to think I am really weird or something PERFECT.

"You know," she said. "That father's tend to be over protective of their daughter's especially the muggles. My father says it is because they don't want their daughter 's to get hurt."

"Can we be friends?" I ask.

"Yes of course friends."

The rest of the day went in kind of a blur. We went to get my books and everything. Then the professor asked me was I allowed to have any pets I said yes.

We went and found me this perfect owl, it is big and brown and I named him Hero.

Guess what Hero, can actually deliver letters and stuff for me so he is like my own personal mailman.

Isn't that so cool.