I"Ummm, not to be rude or anything but... Who are you?" Arianna asked the rather large man curiously. He let out a short, bark-like laugh. "Oh that's right, fergot ta introduce meself. Me name's Hagrid. I'm from Hogwarts." He said in his thick Scottish accent. "So what are you? A wizard or a giant?" Arianna questioned bluntly. Hagrid chuckled nervously. "W-well I'm a wizard of course!" He inched closer to the door.
"Wait. You mean to say this whole magic thing is real?" She asked disbelievingly. This couldn't be. All her life she had been punished for doing anything out of the ordinary and now here this man was, telling her that there was some school for people like her. "Well Arianna, as much as I'd love to stay here and chat we really must be going. Now where's Dursley?" Hagrid looked around the room, like he was just noticing now that the house was silent.
"They're gone" Arianna said. She walked over to the couch and laid down. "What? Where did they go?" Hagrid asked frantically. By now Arianna was flipping through one of Petunia's magazines. "Dunno. I'm just going to enjoy it while it lasts." Arianna replied. Hagrid shook his head to clear his mind.
"Doesn't matter, I don't think Dumbledore will mind if I just take ye to Diagon Alley now." Arianna perked up. "Diagon Alley. What's that?" She inquired. Hagrid grinned. "I'm about to show ya."
Arianna walked through the streets of Diagon Alley, transfixed by the people wearing long cloaks and holding what seemed like sticks. They strolled through the streets for what seemed like hours but in reality was just mere minutes until they stopped at a shabby old shop with a crooked sign that read Ollivianders. A little bell tinkled as they entered the shop and an old man with stark white hair came out of the back.
"Hello, hello! Welcome to Olliviander's wand shop. I'm Mr. Olliviander and you are?" The man looked at her expectantly. "Arianna Potter, sir." Arianna told Mr. Olliviander. He raised an eyebrow. "Arianna Potter? Well then Ms. Potter, I assume you'll be needing your first wand?" Arianna nodded mutely. The man took a pile of boxes marked unicorn hair.
Arianna tried on countless other wands before coming across one labeled phoenix tail feather. She waved it in the air and the ground began to rumble. She dropped the wand, startled and the ground stopped shaking. Mr. Olliviander and Hagrids' mouths were hanging wide open. The white haired man cleared his throat first. "Well Miss Potter, it seems you have found your wand." He handed it to her in a box, saying "free of charge". When Arianna looked behind her as they were leaving the shop she saw Mr. Olliviander with a bewildered expression on his face, muttering 'curious, curious.'
"How did you do that?" Hagrid demanded as soon as they were out of the store. Arianna shrugged, "isn't that what magic is? Can't everyone do that?" Hagrid shook his head in reply. "Only wizards with a high level of magic can make an earthquake." Arianna was shocked. "Wow! That's brilliant, isn't it?" Hagrid shrugged it off. "Guess so."
They stopped at a nice shop with purple walls and gold writing."Now, you'll be needing some school robes. You go into Madam Malkin's and I'll just run over to Gringotts." Hagrid slipped a heavy pouch filled what looked like gold coins into Arianna's hand. "Here's some money from yer vault, it should cover yer expenses." Hagrid told her and walked off waving to her.
Arianna took a deep breath and opened the door to the shop. Robes of all size, shape and color were flying around the shop and and old squat woman with gray hair scurried over to her. " Hello and welcome to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions!"
