I'm so sorry, I haven't been writing. I had it down on my notepad app on the Ipad but I never got time to upload it and then I couldn't find a good place to end it so it just kept on going and going.

Atless I wrote a lot?

Once again, I do not own Harry Potter. I would love to though.

I wake up to the sound of tapping against my window.

Looking over, I see a brown tawny owl outside with a note tied to his leg.

The owl was so cute! Hit has these big eyes. I listen to make sure no one was awake and open the window. The bird graceful flew in and made itself comfortable on my beds headboard. He hoots and held out his leg. I gently take the note off his leg. He stayed there and looked at me.

Opening the letter, it reads.

Dear Ms. Alice,

I am sorry to say I cannot come to see you. Something at Hogwarts have just recently came up and I have to attend to it immediately. I hope you understand.

Don't you worry! I found a wonderful family to pick you up. They are much more interesting than a old bat like me. Their names are Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. They have five children of their own going to Hogwarts this year. One of them is a girl your age named Ginny. I hope you become great friends with them. They will be happy to answer any of your questions.

You are also going to meet their son, Ron's friends. They are only a year older than you and will be able to tell you about the latest news of Hogwarts. They have a knack for getting in trouble and their stories will make you smile.

The Weasley's have twin sons who love to joke around, don't be afraid to push them back.

I hope you have a wonderful time.

Please get ready at 11. I will see you at the Start of the Term Feast.

~ Headmaster Dumbledore

I put down the letter.

Well, I was not expecting this but I was very thankful. I never met any magical people let alone families and I would love to have a firsthand experience with them before I have to go to school. I already have so many questions for them.

I cannot wait to see them! I looked at the click. It's 10:45! O dear, I must have slept late again and since its Sunday no one bothered to wake me up.

I run to my closet. What should I wear? I want to look normal and presentable. Is wizard fashion different? What if I stick out? Since first impressions are key are I need to nice. Mr. Summers always tell us that. "Remember children, first impressions are key, it will determine your future!" I never thought something she said would be so true.

I picked out a simple white cotton top. It had long sleeves and a square collar. It wasn't low but it wasn't like a turtle neck. I laid it on my bed. Now I looked for a pretty bottom piece to go with it. I was deciding on the red and black plaid pleated skirt that was slightly above my knee or a simple flowy navy blue skirt that was a little lower. I placed both skirts next to each other with no luck. None of them looked right.

The plaid skirt was nice and it had some white in it but is it a bit too rockfish? What if they don't like rock or the color combination? The skirt is kind of short and I don't want them to think I am slag.

The navy skirt made my look like a prude and is very plain. It makes me blend in. There is really nothing to it.

I decided on neither, all that work for nothing! I ended up picking a black tulips skirt that is the same length as the plaid skirt but didn't look as short. I accessorized with a bright red bow for a belt. I also checked my neck to make sure my key was still there.

I looked in the mirror semi-satisfied. I picked out white knee socks with my favorite pair of ballerina flats. Black with just a slight heel, perfect.

Looking back at the clock, I still have 5 more minutes left. I decided to skip breakfast because I was too nervous for anything. My thoughts travel to that boy again. He made water turn to ice. Everything about him still fascinates me, his bleach blonde hair, melting grey-blue eyes. His pale complication. He must be magical! He lived in England, he spoke English. Hopefully someone will know him. He is only a year above me like Ron. Maybe they are even friends.

My thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Alive, Mr. Weasley is here to pick you up for your back to school supplies."

"Yes, Ms. Summers, thank you."

I get up, looking back, the owl must have left when I was in deep thought.

"You look very nice Alice. I see you have been listening; first impressions will determine your future."

"Yes, Ms. Summers."

We walk in silence until we get to the door. She opens it. I was stunned to see he had fire for hair! It was bright red and sticking up slightly. I've never seen red hair so bright as his.

I must have been staring because Ms. Summers asked "Alice is something wrong?"

Snapping out of it I replied, "I am fine, thank you and I will be seeing you soon."

She smiles, gives me a little push and closes the door. Leaving me with Mr. Weasley.

"Hello, Alice. I am Mr. Weasley. It's very nice to meet you, now the strings coming from the pole to the orphanage, is that electricity?"

Weird, doesn't the wizard world have electricity?

"It's, very nice to meet you. Yes, the string that you see is called wires and they transfer electricity back forth between the buildings and poles. Do you now have electricity?"

"We don't, see we have our wands, which can be used as lighted up. We have candles and gas lamps. Electricity is so interesting, I love the muggle world. I work in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office at the Ministry of Magic. It's very interesting."

We stopped at an old tattered hat.

"This dear is a port key. We hold on to it and it takes us to my house, there you will meet everyone and then we will be off."

I had so many questions to ask but we were in hurry so I just nodded and grabbed the hat with Mr. Weasley.

We were spinning around, I was so dizzy. It was such a awful feeling, like I was in a tornado. I closed my eyes waiting for it too stop.

I opened up my eyes; I saw the cloudless blue sky.

"Are you ok?"

I get up, looking over at Mr. Weasley; he seemed to be able to land on his feet. It must take a lot of practice.

I opened my mouth to speak when a plump shortish lady wearing a apron came running at us.

"O, my goodness, is she ok? Arthur what happened?" She had frizzy read hair. The same color as Mr. Weasley.

"Molly dear, she is alright." He pointed at me; I was already getting up, brushing myself off.

"I am alright, it was just an abnormal experience" I said.

"O, well alright. Hi, Alice. I am Mrs. Weasley, you can call me Molly. It's very nice to meet you." She smiles.

"Hello, it's wonderful to finally meeting you! I have so many questions about -

"I'm sorry dear but we have a lot to do today and we have to get started but don't worry, you will have a lot time to ask your questions on the way." She hurried to the house

I follow; I looked up at the house. It was so odd for better terms. It was like rooms connected to rooms of other houses. It had such a homey feeling to it.

"I do not mind"

I hear Mrs. Weasley, I mean Molly calling to her kids. The thumping of feet followed soon after. It reminded me of the orphanage.

"She is pretty, I call-"

"-dibs, sorry George got there first"

"Not fair! I saw her first"

"so I said it first"

"Fred, George! Where are your manners?" Molly says.

"Sorry mum" they says together

"Why hello there beautiful, you must be Alice I heard you were coming, I am Fred" he takes the back of my hand and kisses it. When you bent down I saw his flaming head of hair.

"And I am George. Ignore the git, he only the uglier half" he smiles and takes my other hand, kisses it I think my face went on fire.

"It's very nice to meet you." I smiled at them. I blushed.

"Stop bugging her, your embarrassing her"

I turn to see a boy with the same hair as them, they must be related. This is Ron.

"Hello Ron it is nice you meet, and it's ok, Mr. Dumbledore warned me beforehand about your bothers" I smiled again.

I so badly wanted to ask him about the boy. Hopefully I'll get the chance later today. I looked behind Ron there was a girl with bushy brown hair and a boy. He was so cute! His black hair was messy and his eyes were green. It was a nice combination. He was also staring at me! I hope I look ok.

"Hi, my name Hermione Granger, I am Ron's friends. It's nice to meet you Alice." she waves.

"It's nice to meet you too!" I smiled; she seemed like a nice girl.

Hermione nudged the boy to say hi.

He snapped out of his trance.

"It's very nice to meet you, I'm Harry, Harry Potter." he also waved.

"It's nice to meet you Harry." I waved back.

He seemed relieved with my answer. I wonder want he thought I was going to do.

Harry's POV

I am glad she is a muggleborn. She didn't make a big fuss and she is not like Hermione and read bokes on me.

"Are you ready for Diagon Alley, Alice?"

"yes I am, I cannot wait to see what's it is like." she smiled again. She is so cute when she smiles.

"It's amazing" I smiled back

I felt like we were the only ones here. She lights up the room. Really, she a glow around her.

"Let's go kids! Mr. Weasley said. "goodbye Molly dear"

"now Alice, we are going to use the floo network." he turned to Fred and George "Fred. George would you like to demonstrate.?"

"sure "

They both graves the floo power, they went in the fire place and said "diagon alley" through the powder in and burst into flames.

I looked to Alice, I was shocked when I first saw it.

She looked so calm. Just staring at the fire. Her eyes sparkle in the fire.

"i understand Mr. Weasley" she said

"you, you do?" Mr. Weasley looked taken back "I mean. That's a very good, I'm glad"

She smiled, I wish she would always smile.

Alice POV

I understand what I have to do. Very simple, grab that powder get in the fire place and say the place you want to go and bam! Your there. I love fire, so this is so exciting! I mean who would have thought fire can be your transportation!

Grabbing the powder, I step in.

"diagon alley" while throwing the powder.

I am moving through a tube really fast but I can make out other houses from there fire places. So strange, I thought it was going to be like a burning feeling. Pity I was hoping to feel the licks and kisses fire gives me.

I land erupt on the floor of some building.

"Welcome Alice to diagon ally!" one of the twins say to me, I think he was George.

He gently pulled me up from the ground.

"Thank you"

"Bloody hell! George she is the same age as Ginny!" the other twin, Fred yelled.

I just noticed how close we were. Practically touching.

"Fred, it's not like that he simply helped me up" I explained as I backed away from George.

"Besides, I know you would've wanted to be in my position" George said to Fred

"well, maybe I -" Fred was cut off by his mum. She must have decided to come along.

"Now, Let's not embarrass the poor girl. Let's go to gringotts first, I don't want to wait in line."

We follow her to roman style building.

There were these weird looking human? I don't think they were even humans. They were short and wrinkly with the most ugly faces.

"Excuse, Mrs. Weasley -"

"it's Molly, dear"

"Molly, who, what are they?"

"they are goblins. Goblins are magical beings. They run gringotts. Don't be frightened be them."

"I'm fine, Molly."

We walked up to the goblin in the front. He leered at us.

"Your key"

"excuses me?"

"Your key" the goblin repeated, pointing at the my key around my neck.

I reluctant gave it to him. I'm not used to the feeling of the absence of the weight of the key.

He took Molly's key and Harry's key. Hermione went to the exchange booth. She had muggle money so she had to exchange it.

He brought us to a cart. It looked like a mine cart with seats. Getting in, it was very uncomfortable. Too many people, the twins went to a different store.

He pulled a lever and whoosh! We were off! This must be what it feels like on a roller-coaster! So much fun, the wind whipped in my face. I loved it!

We stopped at the Weasley's vault first. It had had some bronze, some silver, and one gold piece. I forgot to ask what the coins meant. She scooped all of the coins in a bag.

We go further down the tunnels, twisting and turning until we made a rupture stop. He had so much! I could tell he was trying to hide it. So I looked away.

"Ms. Sterling's vault is very far below. Please get comfortable."

Molly shuffled a bit in her seat.

We started to go downwards.

"So Molly, what are the coins?"

"We never told you! I'm sorry dear. Well there are three types of coins; the gold is a galleon, the silver sickle and the bronze nut. The galleon is the most expensive, one of those is 17 sickles, 1 sickle is 29 knuts. Knuts are the less expensive ones."

I never knew they used different money than muggles. Paper is so easier, you can fold it and its lighter. I guess with magic you do not have to worry about that.

The next stop was Harry's vault. I could tell he was trying to cover it up as he put coins in his bag. I got a small glimpse of what was in it. There were shiny sparkly coins piled high above his head. His parents must have a high paying job to have so much.

"Harry, why don't you go shopping with your parents?"

All conversation stopped.

I looked around; no one would look me in the eye. I looked at Harry, he looked so sad. It didn't take long before I knew why.

"O, Harry, I am so sorry. I didn't know."

Harry's POV

"O, Harry, I am so sorry. I didn't know." Alice said.

She looked so guilty and sad, but not the pity type of sad. She looked so understanding. She could understand my pain the pain of losing someone you love.

"It's ok Alice, you didn't know."

She gave a small smile. The cart stopped again this time for her. The goblin beckoned her forward.

Alice for up looking at a huge door. It had a beautiful phoenix on it, its head arching to the sky, wings outstretched. You could see the flames lick the metal door.

Alice looked at the door with deep aw and love. Running her hand along the smooth cut metal.

"Ms. Sterling may you please step aside" the goblin impatiently said.

She snapped out of it, nodded and slowly move.

The goblin opened the door.

My eyes got huge at the first glimpse of the coins. I looked over at Alice, she seems surprised and confused.

Alice's POV

What the. How could I have this? I never knew about any of this. All this money just sitting here and there is other items, a beautiful dining set, carved rose wood inlaid with mother pearls. There were gold silverware. The chamber was lit with lamps. The fire dancing within. Many jewels scattered on the floor. At the end of the hall was a beautiful mosaic. A caged Phoenix. It's eyes were rubies, the fire dancing within.

"Your key miss." the goblin handed it to me. Breaking through my thoughts.

"Alice, dear. I know this is a great surprise to you. But we need to get going." Molly started to quickly scoop up some coins in a brown leather bag.

I turned ready to leave when something caught my eye. A simple bracelet made out of gold. Walking to it I picked it up to get a better look.
It was a simple chain with a feather as the clasp. The feathers detail was so life like, like it was plucked from a bird. It was as light as a real feather too.

Quickly, I run back with it clutched in my hand.

Harry's POV

Alice gets in the cart. She looks down at something in her hand.

"What's that?"

She turns to me and blushes, looking back down at it she says "It's a bracelet that caught my eyes."

Alice held it out to me to look at.

"Could you put it on me?"

The car jolted and the bracelet almost feel. I just caught it in time.

Her eyes were frantically looking around, tears in her eyes.

"I got it" holding it up, like I just won a prize. Her eyes got wide and she smiles. I love it when she smiles. It's the best prize ever but she did something even better.

"O thank you Harry! I thought it dropped below" and hugged me.

She let go too quickly to roll up her sleeve. I gently unclasped the feather and put it on her. We both gaze at it with awe at its beauty.

"What you guys looking at?" Ron interrupted our thoughts.

"O, that's so beautiful!" Hermione said. She took Alice's arm and studied the bracelet.

"It must be goblin made, its fine and delicate." She stated.

"Wow! Goblin made, you sure Hermione? It must be worth a small fortune." Ron eyes got big.

Alice looked confused for a second but I guess she decided to not ask.

"If you don't mind, I think I know one of your classmates. Do you think if I described him, you would know his name?" She asked instead.

I looked down. Of course, there was another guy in her life. It doesn't seem like she remembers a lot about him though.

"Probably, tell us?" Hermione said.

Her eyes got far away.

"Well, I was not always in a orphanage…"

O, I forgot she was in a orphanage, it must not be so nice there.

"…I had a wonderful family and we lived behind a forest. There was a river there. I loved to explore and one time I saw this boy there. He is one year older than me. He was able to turn the water into ice. It was the most amazing thing I ever saw. Well, he had pale bleach blonde hair, his eyes were a melting grey-blue and he had pale white skin.

I remember playing with him, we promise to meet again tomorrow but we never meet up. Every time I think of the next day, I just remember walking there and then nothing. It's so blurry."

We all knew who she was talking about, we just wished it wasn't true. Bleach blonde hair, eyes that were grey-blue. It was Draco Malfoy.

"You mean Draco Malfoy!" Ron yelled.

Alice's POV

After I spoke I looked at them. Harry had his head down. Hermione looked back and forth between the boys guilty. Ron looked like he was pink.

"You mean Draco Malfoy!" Ron yelled.

It was not a question, more like a statement. Draco, Draco Malfoy. I finally know his name. Finally.

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