Chapter Four - Diagon Alley
A few weeks had passed, and the siblings had gotten to know Eila very well, as well as her to them. Eila was not so surprised at every picture that she saw.
Rana was grabbing a piece of toast from her toaster as she held on to the corner with her teeth. She was holding some parchment in one hand and a glass of orange juice in the other. She read the supplies list over and over again, trying to memorize it. Just then, a fat black and white cat, who was rubbing against her legs meowed feircly.
Rana smiled as put down her juice and picked up the cat, "Are you hungry, boy, come on lets eat!"
She walked up to the cupboard and pulled out a can of cat food, opened it and put it into a silver inlaid bowl. Mrs. Black walked into the kitchen. Rana dumped the food into Sox's bowl and turned around. Mrs. Black asked, "Is everybody ready?"
Rana replied softly, "No, Sirius is still in bed, Eila's talking to her cat, Dad's still shaving, and it doesn't matter because it's six 'o clock in the freaking morning, and no body's going to want to leave that early."
Mrs. Black opened her mouth to say something, but Rana cut in, "Including you, Mom." Mrs. Black shut her mouth, scowled at Rana, and marched hastily upstairs. Rana smirked with satisfaction.
Atleast two hours later, everybody was ready to go. Everybody was wearing dark colored robes, except for Eila. Eila was wearing a bright blue muggle-jacket over a white shirt with black pants. Sirius, Rana, Regulas, Mr. Black, and Mrs. Black stared at her. She asked, "What?"
Rana said, "Come on. You can borrow my robe." She opened her trunk, that was sitting behind her, and handed Eila a black slip-on robe. Eila put it on akwardly, with everyone watching her, and sat on her trunk.
Mrs. Black said, "Let us get started if we want to get to Diagon Alley on time."
Eila blinked and stared blankly at her, "Diagonally? Why would we want to go diagonally?"
"No, no, no! Not diagonally, Diagon Alley."
"…and where is this…Dygon Alley?"
"You kids will be using side-along apparation to get there. Rana, Sirius, you go with Dad, Regulas, Eila, you come with me." Everybody walked to their adult and gripped their arms. Eila looked confused, but she did as she was told, dragging her trunk behind her. Mrs. Black disapaperated first. It was most unpleasant to Eila. It was like being forced through a small tube of toothpaste with no air for a breif seconnd. They appeared in the Leaky Culdron. Eila was gasping for breath as the others arrived as well. Rana asked, "Couldn't we have walked, I mean it's only like five blocks away."
Mrs. Black smiled ficklely at Rana and walked over to the wall. She tapped it in some special combination with her want as it begant to open. Eila tilted her head in amazement as a whole new world opened behind this wall. It was flooded with witches and wizards walking merrily along the streets. Mr. Black said to the younger kids, "Come on, let's go buy your wands."
Eila said, "But I don't have any money."
"Oh, yes. Oh, yes, my dear. Technicalities. To Gringotts!" He said as he pointed ambitiously towards Gringotts, the wizarding bank.
Once they arrived at the bank, Eila walked up to one of the sour goblins manning the desks. She asked nervously, "Err…I'de like to access my bank account…if I have one. I think my parents do."
"Do you have your key?"
"…Err…no…."
"Very well then, what is your last name?" he asked, pulling out a huge black binder.
"…Clough…"
He flipped feircly through the binder, repeating "Clough" over and over again. He finally said, "Ah, yes. Clough. What is your mother and father's name?"
Eila looked up at the ceiling, as if trying to remember something. She said, "Err…my mother's name is Vanita Clough and my father's name is Beircheart Clough."
"Ah, yes…I'de like to take DNA sample. Just to make sure."
"Uhh…okay…" she said, pulling out a strand of her hair and handing it to the goblin. The goblin went into a backroom for about five minutes, and came back with a key. He said, "Follow me." Eila looked at Rana with confusion. Rana nodded and continued her in-depth convorsation about muggle-safety with her Dad.
About twenty-five minutes later, Eila walked behind the goblin, holding a, what looked like, two pound sack of Galleons.
Rana smirked and said, "You don't need that much money, but oh well. We'll get quite a bit from the trolley."
"What's that?"
"I'll tell you back at the Leaky Cauldron." She said, following her Dad outside of the door.
