Normally this would have caused the big hairy man to explode and it all would be over, whatever it was, but instead the man glowed for about 3 seconds and then returned to his original state. We all stared at him as he said, "Professor Dumbledore warned about your magic, how it was different, he cast a spell to protect me from it too."
"Who are you?" said Chris with a queer look on his face, one I can't even describe.
"Oh I didn' introduce myself. My name is Rubeus Hagrid and I am the Keeper of the Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts."
I let out a gasp of realization. "That's where that letter came from. Letter!" I called orbing it into my hand. My mom, being the worrier that she is, began to ask questions.
"Where is Hogwarts? What do they teach? Why are you here? What does 'We await your owl' mean? Is Dumbledore a kind man? Do they exercise corporal punishment? Who teaches? Who else-"
"Mom, let the poor man breathe!" said Wyatt.
"So…, Hagrid , right?," he nodded, " Why are you here?" I said as kindly as I could.
"Well, Professor Dumbledore had a feeling that you would be suspicious of the letter and that you wouldn't respond, so he sent me to show you that there was nothing to be suspicious of."
"Well, what now?" said Mom
"I take you get your supplies. Now we can always fly, but that will take a while. So, if you have a faster way…"
"Where are we going exactly?" I asked latching on to his arm.
"To the Leaky Caldron why-" he said as we orbed away.
We arrived to a bunch of weirdly dressed people staring at us. Wyatt, Chris and Mom showed up three seconds later.
We all stood there for about a minute before I said, "Hagrid, where do we go next?" He pointed towards the back door and before a bunch of people crowded around asking us questions about orbing, we hurried out. We found ourselves in a small room with three brick walls and the wood wall behind us with the door. All that was in the room was a trashcan. He tapped the bricks in some weird pattern above the trashcan with his frilly pink umbrella and suddenly the bricks started moving. They formed arch and through it, we could see a cobbled street that twisted and turned out of sight. On this street were more people wearing weird clothes and there were stores for everything from potion ingredients to magical ink.
"Wow," breathed Mom and Wyatt as one. Chris just stood there, his mouth hanging open in shock.
Hagrid said, "So this is Diagon Alley and it's where you and all the other Hogwarts students buy their supplies."
We all stood there in shock for a couple more seconds before my brothers and all tried to go in three different directions. We got about 10 feet before we were stopped by some sort of spell. We looked around to see my mom had cast it. "We stay together!! This is a new thing for all of us, we know nothing about strange world, we need to keep together and stay safe." She said with frantic eyes.
"Okay mom, how about we go get True's books, and then her wand, and then her potion ingredients, and then her robes, or whatever, and then maybe we can get her some sort of cool magical pet. Just chill, mom we will take this one step at a time." Wyatt took charge and figured out what we were going to do.
The first place Hagrid took us was some sort of book store named Flourish and Blots and it was amazing. There were books every where, on shelves, tables, and piles that couldn't possibly stand up. My mom went up to the counter, "My daughter, here is a first year, um… Warthog student. She needs her books."
The clerk stared at her for a minute before, he responded, "Do you mean Hogwarts?"
"Yeah that's it, Hogwarts. Sorry, I'm new at this."
"Not at all, Madam." He turned to get my books.
I quickly walked away, I wanted to get as much distance between me and my embarrassing mother as physically possible. I really do love her, but seriously. I was wandering around the humongous maze of a store and had just stopped to look at a book when a bushy haired girl plowed into me and the huge stack of books she was carrying flew everywhere.
"Bloody hell, I'm so sorry, I couldn't see over the massive pile of books I was carrying and I was moving at an excessively fast pace. You are a completely untargeted victim of my carelessness." Said the girl.
"No worries, You're obviously sorry and you like books, so we have something in common. My name is True Halliwell, what's yours?"
"I'm Hermione Granger. And although this might be an imposition, would you mind terribly helping me carry these books to the cashier? Its way too much for me to carry on my own, I'm afraid."
"I would love to help you."
I know this seems a bit excessive, but I wanted to learn as much as I could about the wizarding world, as fast as possible."
"So, I take it, you aren't a wizard."
"Well, actually, I 'm a muggle-born witch. This means that I was born of people who have no magic, in their blood, at least as far as we know."
"Cool, me too. Except not. My family is magical, but not in a wands and cauldrons kind of way, we are a old wiccan family. It was a surprise to get this letter, it means I have two kinds on magic, this type of 'Merlin magic' and wiccan magic, its kinda cool actually."
"That is 'cool' as you put it. Can I learn about wiccan magic? And do spells and such?"
"You can, but you will never have powers like I do, because I was born with them. If you work hard though, you will be what is known as a witch practioner."
Just then, we got to the front counter and my mom was just wrapping up. I set Hermione's books down and bade her goodbye. "I'll see you at school." Then we went to look for my brothers who had gone into an animal store down the street with Hagrid. They came out with 4 different animals. They had a big red beautiful bird, which I later found out was a phoenix, a rare miniature hippogriff, a black and white cat, and a spotted owl. My mom was livid.
"I told you to buy her a pet for her birthday and you bought her 4??!!!?" Hissed my mom.
"Well, they all seemed like her and I couldn't decide. They weren't that expensive, so I bought them all. I was only gonna buy the three, but according to Hagrid owls are very useful. I was just trying to look out for my sister."
My mom was visibly calming down. "Okay, I know you just did it out of love." She closed her mouth for a moment and before I could even open my mouth to ask the question that was forming in my head, she said, "Yes, True, you can keep all your new pets. Now let's go get your robes, you can name your pets later." So, we trudged off to the Madam Malkin's, to get wizarding robes, whatever the heck those are.
