Lex: Whoot! Fourth chapter is up!
Vex: Alright! Bring in the chocolate slide!
Lex: *steers Vex away from the chocolate* Let's wait until you get insured.
Vex: But but! All that chocolate wasted!
Lex: We'll give it to the reviewers.
Vex: *mutters* stupid reviewers…
Lex: What was that Vex? Did you say that we're sorry for the late update and we got or pictures up, the mini and normal ones?
Vex: Uh yep! That's what I said! So, uh, come and do the disclaimer Hedwig!
Hedwig: Hoot hoot hoot. These two young girls don't own the Harry Potter world.
Vex: For those who don't speak owl, we put the translation in italics.
Lex: Please remember to review after reading it!
The once busy streets of Diagon Alley were now vacant save for the small squadron of aurors who were bravely fighting off a diminishing army of miniature magical toy monkeys. Once the pigmy primates were destroyed, the shoppers slowly began to fill the streets once more. Yes, all was calm in Diago-
"OWWW! Be gentle!" Cerys snarled.
"By Francis you make a lot of noise." Thais remarked with a roll of her eyes, "Don't you think you're over reacting a bit," Thais continued unsympathetically while untangling yet another melted magical mini-monkey from Cerys's hair. "Besides, you're not allowed to whine when it's your own fault,"
"Who's Francis? And I wouldn't be so loud if you were more gentle," said Cerys with both hands clamped tightly on either side of her head. "And how was I suppose to know that they'd go bananas when released in direct sunlight?" She paused, "Haha. I said banan- Oi that hurt!"
"That seems to be the last of them," Thais conceded before quickly getting to her feet. "Now we've wasted enough time here. It's now," she paused, "an hour past noon and the only thing we've gotten done was making a mandatory withdrawal from Gringrotts." With each word Thais was growing more and more agitated while Cerys began to idly play with her hair. "I mean, we haven't even purchased the required reading yet!" Shaking her self, Thais pulled out a small beeping contraption from a pocket. After playing with the device for some time, she nodded determinedly before setting off in a seemingly random direction. Still seated on the ground, Cerys scrambled to her feet before moving to trot alongside her friend.
"So what does this thingy do?"
"It's a GPS."
"So it's a GirlPamperingSuperbot?" Cerys began poking the machine while eyeing it skeptically.
"No," Thais said slowly moving the device out of Cerys's reach, "but if you keep quiet and behave, I promise we'll get ice cream after the next shop."
"Yay!" Cerys chirped while dancing in little circles.
Hiding a smile, Thais turned a corner and began to lead the two of them on a winding path through the shops present at Diagon Alley. Cerys, with the promise of ice cream on her mind, managed to hold her tongue for the duration of their journey until Thais pocketed the GPS and stopped in front of an old shabby door adorned with peeling gold paint. The two stood there for a moment, neither making a move to open the ancient door.
"Sooo," Cerys daring to break her oath of silence, "What are we looking at?"
"…"
"Weeelll assuming this is not a magical door that sees in to the minds and souls of all, then what are we waiting for? Let's go inside." Thais still remained unmoving. With an impatient sigh Cerys opened the door to the shabby shop while pulling gently on her friend's sleeve. A twinkling bell sounded as the two young girls stepped inside.
No more than three blocks away, a young Harry Potter left Eeylops Owl Emporium carrying a cage that seemed to be at least half his size. "Th-thank you Ha-agrid," the young raven-haired boy stammered while clumsily following the giant out into the busy street. "Th-thank you s-so much."
"Don' mention it," said Hagrid while gently patting Harry on the back. "I didn' get yer a birthday yet. 'Sides," Hagrid continued gruffly, "they're dead useful, carry yer mail an' everythin'." Harry smiled as he inspected his first real birthday present. The cage contained a beautiful snowy owl, fast asleep with her head under her wing. He wasn't sure what to name it, but he was sure it would come to him in time. "Now," Hagrid said breaking into Harry's thoughts, "we'll go ter the only place fer wands, Ollivanders, yeh gotta have the best wand."
A magic wand, Harry thought in wonder as he followed Hagrid down the strip of shop. This is almost unreal, Harry thought with a wry smile, I half expect myself to wake-up and find myself back in my cot in the cupboard. Maybe I should say something, Harry thought shooting a quick look in Hagrid's direction, Hagrid's been awfully nice and I haven't said more than a couple sentences here and there to him... As Harry was thinking about how to strike a conversation with the giant a rather unsettling thought wormed its way into his head. What if he doesn't want me to talk? He could be on orders to be nice to me, a frown began to pull at Harry's lips and his pace became brisk. Of course, who would ever willingly be nice to me? Maybe Uncle Vernon was right. I'm just a worthless-
Harry was so absorbed in his thoughts that he didn't have time to react when the giant suddenly stopped. "'Ere we are 'arry- whoa there boy!" Hagrid grunted as Harry collided with his back. "Steady now," Hagrid said turning to steady a now teetering Harry. Harry desperately attempted to hide his now very prominent frown from the giant and only half succeeded. "Ay, anything wrong 'arry?" Harry felt himself go red. Looking away, he shook his head with a quiet 'no'. "If ye say so," Hagrid said with a shrug.
With another nod, Harry turned to look at the building in front of him. The building was narrow and shabby. Peeling gold letters over the door read Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C. Harry wasn't particularly wowed by what he saw but, from what he had experienced so far in the wizarding world, things were rarely as they seem.
"Would you like ter do the honors 'arry?" said Hagrid after watching Harry observe the shop with eyes sparkling excitement and curiosity.
"I think I would like that very much Hagrid," he said with a small smile. After waiting a moment more, Harry firmly gripped the handle and slowly opened the door. He could hear a tinkling bell ring somewhere deep with-in the shop as he stepped inside….
Lex: Hey you guys! I bet you're curious about what we look like in the story, right?
Vex: No they aren't!...Well maybe...Fine! Let's just tell them where to find our pictures!
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