Again, sorry for short chapters. Curse my computer font! This one will be much longer, I promise! Thank you for all the good feedback! It means so much to me to see you like it! Anyway, here's Chapter 3!
Cassandra had wanted to go alone. She was going to meet Death Eaters who recognised her, (She did look like her mother after all), and it would not do to have Dumbledore getting in the way. She arrived outside The Leaky Cauldron and observed how dull it was. She didn't think they needed to put Anti-Muggle charms on the place: muggles would probably never enter. Cassandra went inside. The barman gave her a grin. "Hogwarts shopping? Who's with you?" he asked. Cassandra replied, "Nobody sir. I live at an orphanage, and the professor who came with me said something about a Statute of Secrecy. If I wanted an adult to come with me, sooner or later the whole orphanage would know about magic. Now, can somebody help me through?" she added politely.
After being let through, Cassandra immediately went to Gringotts. She had no key, but knew her name would sort things out. She marvelled at the Gringotts hallway, thinking it looked like a palace. She went up to the counter and said that she had a vault but no key. The goblin asked her to write her name down, which she did. It was quite clear there on the piece of parchment, and the goblin paled considerably when he read it.
Cassandra Vanessa Riddle
The goblin called for another, and gave Cassandra a list of vaults she was the heir to. She fought off a grin, as she knew that these vaults were full of gold. She wasn't going to use the charity money Dumbledore had given her. She was a descendant of Salazar Slytherin, for Merlin's sake! She collected money from her mother's vault and left the bank. She could hear the goblins inside whispering about her. She smirked. If this was what it was liked to be feared, she wanted to be feared by everyone below her.
Cassandra had done most of her shopping in Diagon Alley. Her wand, books, robes and other items were stashed away in her shopping bag. She was sitting outside Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Shop with an empty ice cream tub when she noticed a man with long, blonde hair walk down Knockturn Alley with who could only be his son in tow. Cassandra recognised them immediately. It was her uncle and cousin. She paid for her ice cream and ran down Knockturn Alley, only to be greeted with the grimmest place she had ever seen. Apart from Chloe Pikes' bedroom of course. She spied Borgin and Burke's not too far away and dashed off.
Borgin and Burke's was an unpleasant shop to say the least. Cassandra couldn't understand why her father would ever work here. While trying to work it out she bumped into a 13-year-old boy. "Watch it!" he said. Thankfully, neither of them had fallen over. "Sorry," Cassandra replied. "Nah, it's ok. My name's Draco, what's yours?" "Cassandra. Have you finished school shopping too?" "Yep. I have to go now, see you on the Hogwarts Express!"
Cassandra left Diagon Alley with a smile on her face. She didn't know what to expect at Hogwarts, but she was glad to have made a friend.
And that's Chapter 3! I am so glad that people like my story! If this chapter is too short, then blame the computer font! Review if you like it! I read every one! Thanks!
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