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Chapter 4: Shopping in Diagon Alley
Lily couldn't absorb all…this. It was amazing! And she Lily Rose Evans was a part of it, sort of. They walked fro a few minutes and turned a corner to come face to face with a gigantic white building, "What's that?" Lily asked when Hagrid headed up towards the building.
"That's Gringotts the only wizarding bank, we'll need to set up an account for you and change that money you've got." Hagrid answered Lily couldn't help but notice that he looked slightly green.
"Change money?" Lily asked before remembering the conversation they had had when they got on the bus.
"Yeah, that money won't do you any good in the wizarding world, we have a different currency." Lily nodded understanding as they entered the building; Lily glanced over at the poem on the door before following Hagrid into the building to put it simply the poem wasn't very good:
If you steal something
We'll lock you up
Lily made a mental note to think of a better poem for them because the guy who had written this poem was probably mentally unstable; she began mentally composing something more intimidating.
Lily grabbed a piece of paper out of her bag and began scribbling furiously not taking much notice whilst Hagrid talked to the… GOBLIN!! Lily couldn't help but stare,
"Hello, I need to set up an account for Miss Evans here." Hagrid said cheerfully (AN: if you must know I wanted to say whilst Fluffy the evil kitty emperor stabbed the king of Rhinoceros) The goblin looked down at Hagrid (he was on a REALLY big chair) "If Miss Evans could sign here." The goblin pointed at a line of the sheet.
Lily looked up from the paper and signed her name before returning to her work. Hagrid moved to the second thing they needed to be done, "We also need to swap from Muggle to wizarding, we have 100 Muggle pounds" The goblin nodded taking the money and swapping it for a lot of weird gold coins with a few silver coins mixed in, the goblin also handed over an instant-money swap, which is a small pouch that instantly changes money from Muggle to Wizarding or vice versa.
Hagrid turned to leave; Lily handed over the sheet of paper before following Hagrid, the goblin raised an eyebrow before reading it;
No offense but your poem is stupid, try this one much more intimidating
Enter stranger, but take head,
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn,
So if you seek beneath our floors,
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief you have been warned, beware,
Of finding more than treasure there.
The goblin called to his assistant, "I believe we've found a replacement for that pathetic poem that's on the door!"
"But I wrote that poem!"
"…"
"Alright, first stop Madame Malkins for your uniform, it's a relatively new store but it should do the job" Hagrid said stopping outside a small building, "Uh, Lily," Hagrid looked like he might plead, "I was wondering if it would be alright for me to go back to the Leaky Cauldron, whenever I go near Gringotts I feel ill." (AN: You know I'm watching Mulan the cartoon so far this is what I was thinking during random parts of the movie: SEXIST BASTARDS!! OH yeah bow down to my superior brilliantositty! You fight good? You should have bloody snogged her mate she would have been much happier)
"That's okay Hagrid" Lily shrugged and went into the building alone, a woman appeared and smiled at her, "Hello, I'm Madame Malkins Senior, Hogwarts right?" Lily nodded stunned by the woman she was very in you face really. "Another student is being fitted right now by my daughter, so come on and I'll get you sorted" Madame Malkins gestured for her to step on a small pedestal type thing next to someone else, a tape measure floated to Lily and began measuring randomly, whilst a pen noted it down.
Lily watched all this fascinated not noticing the guy who stood next to her getting the same treatment, after a while Madame Malkins gestured for her to get down and come pay. Lily jumped down and went over to the counter. "Okey dokey first year Hogwarts student package; 5 gallons."
"Those are the gold ones right?"
"Yep." Lily paid and walked out barely five steps away from the shop she felt a hand on her shoulder, she turned and saw…
I would love to do a cliffhanger now but I haven't gone passed 1000 words so...
James Potter, Lily gasped in surprise, James grinned; without warning Lily slapped his arm,
"Hey! What was that for?" He said rubbing his arm where she had hit him
"You lied to me!" Lily said angrily "You told me you went to school in the north of England!"
"Hogwarts is in the north of England!" he protested,
"It is? How do you know?"
"My entire family are wizards."
"Ohhhhhhh! I'm sorry."
"You hit hard for a girl!" Lily grinned happily until she was rudely pushed out of the way by a long haired boy of around her age that began talking animatedly to James,
"You will not believe what just happened, this fit blonde girl was chatting me up and she has a friend so come on LET'S GO!" he then tried to drag James over to "fit blonde" and friend, James at him,
"Sirius do you mind? I'm trying to talk to a friend of mine." Lily blushed at being called a friend when they'd only had two conversations; Sirius choose then to notice her, this time he pushed James out of the way, "Hellooo, so where did you come from? Heaven?" Lily raised an eyebrow at the rather pathetic pick up line James glared at his friend, Sirius shrugged and successfully dragged a rather reluctant James away.
James mouthed to Lily "Help me" Lily shook her head struggling to stop herself from laughing at his pained expression.
Lily took out her list of school stuff she needed to get; she needed to go to Flourish and Blotts according to the note Hagrid had added next to the list of books. Lily walked around for a bit, stuffing a fist in her mouth to stop herself from giggling when she walked past James and Sirius talking to a woman of about twice their age.
She walked for a bit coming to a book shop; this was probably Flourish and Blotts, Lily walked in bumping into a small group of three "Watch it!" the middle one snarled at Lily, they were all girls and the middle one seemed to be the leader. She glared at Lily as if demanding her to apologise, "I'm sorry didn't see you there." Lily muttered as they pushed passed her, Lily was getting real sick of people pushing her around today.
Lily went into the store and picked out the books she needed as well as some extra books including Hogwarts: A history, Quidditch Through the Ages, 1001 Hexes and Jinxes to use on Enemies and Ancient Runes for Beginners.
Lily went to the Apothecary's and bought her cauldron, a set of crystal phials, a set of brass scales and some basic potion ingredients that didn't rot. She only had to go to two other shops now. Lily stopped off at the Leaky Cauldron and dropped of her stuff next to Hagrid and headed to Olivanders.
Once Lily walked in she felt…different somehow, this place seemed more magical than the other places, Lily jumped as a wiry middle aged man suddenly appeared, "Ahh, Miss Evans I suppose."Lily's eyes widened,
"How did you know-?"
"That is not important; now shall we find you a wand?" Lily was speechless so she just nodded. Mr Ollivander Lily assumed this was him; got out another tape measure not unlike the one Madame Malkin had used, it busied itself by measuring random places, Mr Ollivander started taking out boxes from different shelves, he examined one box and walked back to her.
He clicked his fingers and the tape measure folded itself up, "Try this wand, seven inches, oak with dragon heartstring," Lily picked up the wand only for it to be snatched back "No, that won't work," he handed her another wand, "Nine inches, maple with unicorn hair." This time Lily had barely touched the wand before it was taken from her, "Nope, eleven inches, holly and phoenix feather." This time the wand gave a half hearted burst of sparks. "Now isn't this strange?" Lily looked at him curiously, "It seems you are half compatible with this wand, the strange thing is a young man came in here an hour ago and also was half compatible with this wand, hmm, very curious."
Lily didn't understand what was going on and it didn't seem that Ollivander was going to tell her. (AN: You guys must know who that is after all the wand Lily used was Harry's!! Also if she is half compatible with the wand it means it's her future kid's wand)
"Okay, how about eight inches, cherry with Dryad hair." Lily took the wand and a burst of sparks came out followed by a ribbon inscribed with "congratulations". Lily smiled "It seems your wand has a mind of it's own" Ollivander remarked with a smile, Lily made to get out some money but Ollivander stopped her, "Customers who find they are half compatible with other wands don't pay, when I give that wand away, that will be reward enough." Ollivander smiled he seemed to know something she didn't.
Waving a thanks Lily headed over to a pet shop; she'd never had a pet before and she really wanted one, she went through the door and looked around in interest, on one counter three rats were skipping with their tails! Lily's eyes were attracted to a snowy white owl; she put a finger in the cage for the bird to sniff. "May I help you?" asked a voice from the right, Lily turned and was greeted by a smiling witch,
"I'm just looking." Lily said shyly; she moved away from the owl and came to a sleeping black kitten; as Lily approached the animal its eyes snapped open Lily gasped, the kitten's eyes were a deep, piercing emerald green; the exact same colour as Lily's eyes. "How much for the black kitten?"
"She's deaf I've been trying to find an owner for a while, I found her alone with her mother dead, she's free if you want her. However I recommend getting an owl, much more useful." Lily considered this for a moment,
"I'll take the kitten and that owl over there." Lily said pointing to the snowy owl she had looked at before, the woman shrugged and took down the cages adding a few weeks supply of food into a bag as Lily paid.
Lily left the shop, she had already thought of some names, the kitten became Emerald and the owl became Blanche.
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