Nava thanks for the review (do u think she's really going to give that quiz tomarrow? I hope not, I'm not ready!) You too SweetieCheerie, thanks :)
Note: Just so u know, Toby is NOT Jamie's mother (he's a male dog!)
WARNING: If u do not like dogs u will probably hate this story
Disclaimer-Do I really have to go through this again?
After many long, dramatic, good-byes, to dad and my friends, and promising to write them once a week, McGonagall took me to London by flu powder, which Toby did NOT like. It was really cool, dad never let go anywhere. I had never even been on airplane! So obviously I had never been to Europe before, let alone by magic!
She took me to a pub (that's what British people call bars) called "The Leaky Cauldron". So I was pretty confused. I thought we were going shopping for my school stuff, not drinking! Besides, I was underage. I did once try a little bit of wine, just to see what it tasted like. It was awful! I still don't understand how grown-ups could possibly like that stuff!
McGonagall took me to a brick wall in the back of the shop. I stared blankly at it, wondering if I was suppose to do something. But the Professor took her wand and tapped the bricks in a long complicated order, and to my shock, the bricks rearanged, and a huge gapping hole was left. But that wasn't the strangest part, on the other side of the wall there was a street. Almost everyone there wore robes like McGonagall did. So this was Digon Alley! Professor McGonagall had told me about it. It was a place where wizards would shop for supplize.
There were people everywhere! This was like Times Square on New Year's Eve! There was an old man selling something, there was a woman walking with to small boys, there was a little girl skipping happily, while humming something to herself. It was amazing!
"Where do we go first?" I asked her.
McGonagall pointed to a building that read: Gringots.
"What's Gringots?" I asked.
"It is the wizard bank, you need money after all to buy your school supplize."
"Um...I all I have is $27.89 in U.S. dollars, how many pounds is that worth?"
"No, not pounds, wizard money." She explained to me about a gallion, sickle, and a knute.
"But...I don't have any."
"Of course you do!"
"Huh?"
"Come with me, leave it outside."
"It?"
"The dog, Moby."
"Toby. It's short for Tobias."
"Yes, well, they won't allow animals inside the bank."
Reluctantly, I tied the leash outside. "I'll be right back," I promised.
Toby whimpered as he watched me leave, but he did not struggle.
I followed her inside, into a very large room. There was a numerous amount of desks, each with a creature that looked like something I had seen in story books. "Are...are those..."
"Goblins. Yes, they work at the bank."
A goblin showed me to my vault, where there were, hundreds of thousand of those wizard coins Professor McGonagall had shown me!
I took a sack full, and went back outside to find my lonesome dog there waiting for me.