A/N: I've been forgetting to put the disclaimer! :O
Disclaimer: Sadly, and it truly pains me to say this, I do not own Harry Potter. Otherwise Jamie would be an ACTUAL Harry Potter character. But, no such luck. XD
Chapter 4 - Diagon Alley
Jamie was laying in her bed in the Leaky Cauldron, thinking of how Diagon Alley would be. Just by looking out the window, Jamie could sense the thrill and excitement that radiated off the place. It seemed like all you could do there was have fun.
She sighed. She hadn't seen Severus since he dropped her off, but he did write her a letter saying that they would be going to Diagon Alley on the 29th. He had explained to her the basics of Hogwarts, Albus' history, and the way the Hogwarts Houses got along. Apparently, Slytherin and Gryffindor have had sort of a eternial rivalry. She didn't think it was really necessary to carry on a rivalry that has gone on for ages, so she decided to at least confide in one Slytherin friend.
Her room started to shake and rumble. Jamie rolled her eyes and sighed. It was the eighth time that day that a train had done that to her room. She sat up and reached for a book on her nightstand. Severus had given it to her, saying if she had any more questions, the answers were in there. She had guessed he meant questions about Hogwarts, since the book was entitled, Hogwarts: A History.
She was flipping through the pages when Tom knocked on her door. Jamie got up and opened the door to find Tom standing outside with a excited expression etched on his face.
"Yes, Tom?" Jamie asked cautiously. She had never seen the bartender so happy.
"Miss Dumbledore, if you would follow me, there's someone waiting to meet you."
"Who is it?" He had now perked Jamie's curiousity.
"Oh, I think I'll let you find out on your own," he said with a smile. He then extended his arm down the hall, motioning for her to lead the way. She gave him one last curious glance, then headed down the hallway.
When she arrived to the bar, there was barely anyone there but a few people reading the Daily Prophet. But one man did stick out more than the others. He had a long, fluffy white beard that caressed down his front. He also had long, white hair that went down his backside. He wore a pair of half-mooned spectacles over his twinkling blue eyes. Jamie felt a familiarity for this man, like he was family.
He smiled warmly at Jamie, and motioned for her to take a seat. She did so, but not before she gave him a curious glance.
The man turned towards her. "Are you Jamie?" he asked.
"Yes. Who are you?" Jamie questioned bluntly.
The man chuckled. "I'm Albus Dumbledore. I expect Severus has told you about me?" Jamie nodded.
"So you're my cousin?"
"It would seem so."
"Um, Albus? May I call you Albus?" Jamie asked.
"Yes, but when you attend Hogwarts, it would be more appropiate to address me as Professor Dumbledore," he replied politely.
Jamie nodded. "I was wondering, could you, um, tell me some stuff about my parents?"
"Yes, if you'd like. Your father was my nephew and your mother was on one of Hogwarts' most brilliant students. It was not a shock when they announced their relationship. But, I do feel partially at fault for their deaths." Jamie stared at him wide-eyed. "I let them choose their Secret Keeper, when I should have just offered myself as their Secret Keeper."
Jamie smiled slightly. "Don't worry, I don't blame you. I blame that phsycotic lune, Barty Crouch Jr."
"But, that is not what I came here to talk to you about. The reason I have come is to inform you that Severus won't be able to chaperone you on your trip to Diagon Alley on the 29th. So, I came to ask you if you would like me to escort you to Diagon Alley today?" Albus gave her a warm smile as he said this.
Jamie's eyes widened in surprise, but just for a second. "Yeah, sure. I don't mind," she breathed out.
"Excellent! Well, shall we get going?" Albus stood up from his chair. Jamie glanced down at her outfit. Her purple sweatshirt with a panda eating a cookie and her red skinnys could count as acceptable, right? She nodded and Albus lead her towards a blank brick wall that was missing at least three bricks. Albus tapped his wand around the three empty brick spaces. Suddenly, the bricks were winding, twisting, and turning away from each other, making an archway.
"Wow," Jamie breathed out. There were shops that lined the alley, in all different shapes, too. People were bustling about with excited expressions on their faces, while little kids dragged their parents into their favorite shops. It was one of the most beautiful places Jamie had seen in her premature life. She quickly followed Albus down the crowded alley towards one of the shops.
It had to be the biggest place in Diagon Alley. The building was made or smooth marble, and was slightly crooked in some places. Jamie followed Albus up the steps towards the big doors in front of them, which Albus politely opened for Jamie.
Once Albus and Jamie were both inside, Jamie's eyes became the size of saucers. Inside the building were creatures sitting at desks all down the hallway. And not one of those creatures looked the same. Albus, noticing her staring, answered her question.
"Those are goblins, the creatures who work here at Gringgots, the wizarding bank."
Jamie nodded and followed him all the way to the end of the hall, which had the tallest desk there. A goblin, who didn't look very friendly, was sitting there. The goblin looked up at Albus, then at Jamie. The goblin seemed to recognize Albus, but not Jamie. The goblin then started to speak to Dumbledore about going to the Dumbledore vault.
Once they finished, Albus and Jamie were brought to a little cart with two benches on each side of it. it seemed old, and barely sturdy, so jamie sat as far away from any 'danger' spots she saw. The goblin, Liak, started moving the cart down towards the darker and more protected vaults of Gringgots.
Down there, they past through a giant waterfall, known as the , before they reached an archway with a winged beast through the archway. It looked like it had been abused for a long time, with cut and bruises all over its body. It looked pretty mad when Liak, Albus, and Jamie pulled up and stood by the archway.
Liak then picked up a small metal instrument, and started shaking it. "It's been trained to expect pain when he hears the sound." Jamie swore she saw a glint of enjoyment in his eyes.
"That's not nice at all," Jamie said over the dragon's whimpering.
Liak just smiled menacingly and led them towards the Dumbledore vault. On their way, they passed the Lestrange vault. Jamie felt chills run up her spine as she passed it. She felt a feeling of forboding coming from the vault. Jamie just shook her head and continued walking.
They reached the vault, finally. Liak opened it and let Jamie step inside. There was galleons, sickles, and knuts towering up to the ceiling. Rubies, emeralds, and saphires could be seen in the mass of gold, also. Jamie quickly put a few handfuls of money into a little sack and left the vault. After exiting the vaults, Albus and Jamie left Gringgots. They headed towards the next shop that Albus lead Jamie towards.
It was a large shop, with books stacked up all the way to the ceiling and books lying everywhere. There were books on the staircase, books on the floor, even there were books on the two ceiling fans! The store was called Flourish
Jamie was actually starting to get bored here. Of course the vast selection of books were incredible to look at, they just really didn't catch her interest. As she pondered what would catch her interest, she came across a book with the title "101 Ways To Prank Your Friends and Foes". Jamie picked up the book and started flipping through the pages. She laughed at the pranks she read in there, imagining herself doing those pranks either on Karen or Roger. As she was flipping through the pages, two red-headed boys came up on both sides of her.
"Ah, lookie here, Fred," said the boy on Jamie's right.
"Am I seeing what you're seeing, Georgie?" the boy on Jamie's left asked.
"If we're both seeing a gorgeous young lady looking through the only other copy left of the book that made us us, then yes Freddie, we're seeing the same thing." The two boys then moved to stand in front of her. Jamie had shut her book by then and was looking at the two boys, who seemed to be twins. The two boys stuck their right hands out in front of themselves, grinning.
"Hello," they both said in sync.
"My name's Fred Weasley," said the one on Jamie's left.
"And I'm Geoge Weasley," said the one on Jamie's right.
Jamie grined and shook both their hands, then said "Hi Fred and George, I'm Jamie, Jamie Dumbledore." Fred and George's grins just widened and she put her hand down back by her side.
"So, Jamie, how would you like to learn all those tricks from that book, by the masters of the book themselves?" Fred asked.
Jamie's grin remained as she replied. "Oh really? You two are the 'masters' of this book?"
"Yes." Fred and George both were smirking by now.
"Well, then yes, I would like to learn from the 'masters'." Jamie gave a dramatic bow for emphasis.
"Cheeky, eh?" said Fred.
"Perfect," Fred and George said together.
Just then, Albus came up to Jamie carrying a pile of books. "I see you've befriended the Weasley Twins, Jamie. Just for your benefit, look forward to plenty of detention if you act with these two. However, I must be off. Do you think you can manage?"
"Yeah, I'm good here. And was that suppose to not convince me? Because it just made me want to 'act with these two' even more," Jamie said.
Albus just continued to smile as he sat the pile of books into a bag for Jamie. "I expected you to. Well, I must be off. Goodbye Jamie." And with that, Albus left the shop.
"Well," said George. "If you want to come with us, you can."
"Yeah," Fred said. "But be careful of our Mum. She just might hug you to death."
Jamie chuckled. "Sure, thanks. And I think I can handle a hug."
Fred and George then guided Jamie towards the front of the shop where a whole bunch of red-heads were paying for a load of books. One boy looked to be Jamie's age, and the girl looked to be at least a year younger than her. Fred and George introduced them as Ron and Ginny.
"That's Percy, the know-it-all Prefect," said Fred pointing towards the taller boy with glasses on. Percy sent him a glare and then walked away, towards a bookshelf.
"That's Mum and Dad," George said pointing to the two red-heads paying for the books at the counter.
"We have two older brothers too, but they've already graduated Hogwarts. Bill works in Egypt for Gringgots and Charlie's in Romania studying dragons," George continued.
"And there you have it. The whole Weasley family. Ron's in your year, and Ginny will be starting next year," Fred said before he tripped over a book and onto a little girl that also looked to be in Jamie's year.
"Ouch!" They both said and tried to get up from the floor. The girl had a big bushy mane of brown hair, bucked teeth, and warm brown eyes. Well, eyes that could be warm to some people, but right at the moment they were cool.
"Watch where you're walking, would you? You could have hurt me, or worse, ruined the book I was read or the one you tripped over!" Said the girl. Jamie smiled, she had seen someone like her before. She knew she wasn't acting rude on purpose, she was just scared.
"Well watch were your standing! If you weren't there, there would've been one less book I could've ruined!" Fred said sarcastically.
She huffed and then casted her attention towards Jamie. Jamie sent her a nice smile, and the girl returned it.
"Hello," said the girl. "My name's Hermione Granger. You?" Hermione extended her hand out in front of her. Jamie shook Hermione's hand and replied,
"I'm Jamie, Jamie Dumbledore. It's nice to meet you, Hermione."
Hermione looked gobsmacked. "Jamie D-dumbledore? As in relative of Albus Dumbledore?"
"Um, yeah. Why? Is there a problem?" Jamie said, worrying that there already was someone who hated her.
"No no! No problem at all! It's just that it's amazing to have met a relative of someone as powerful as Dumbledore!" Hermione grinned.
Jamie laughed lightly. "Oh ok. Well I've got to get going. It was nice to meet you, and I guess I'll see you on the train."
"It was nice to meet you too. Bye!" Hermione said before the two girls parted ways. Jamie spent the rest of her day buying her school supplies with the Weasleys. After she bought all her supplies, Jamie tagged along with Fred and George as they went into a joke store.
"Oh man! This stuff is great!" George said as he looked around the shop.
"Yeah, but we better go. Mum will have our heads if she finds out we've bought anything that isn't on our lists," Fred told George. Jamie smirked as an idea popped into her head.
"Wait," Jamie said, which stopped Fred and George in their tracks. "Your mom said you guys couldn't buy anything on your lists. That doesn't mean I can't buy you boys anything from here."
Fred and George looked at each other, then back at Jamie. "Clever little thing aren't you?" Fred comments.
"Do you even have enough money? We couldn't ask you to buy us anything, really. We just met you today! I mean, if anything, the proper day we should ask you to buy us anything is the second day we've known you," said George.
"Trust me, I've got more money than I need. You boys have five minutes to get what you want, starting now," Jamie told them. Fred and George darted through the store, grabbing almost everything in their sights.
"Times up!" Jamie announced. Fred and George came back with two armfuls of goodies. After paying for them, they headed towards Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour.
"So Jamie, we've been thinking," said Fred.
"And we've decided to let you join our little group," George finished.
"Oh really? And who says I want to join?" Jamie asked.
"Oh, we know you do. Now, the perks of being in this group are that you get to hang out with us, pull pranks, and get an amazing reputation at Hogwarts," Fred encourages.
"But sadly, there is a con. And that is detention, but you'll get used to it. And you get to meet our friend, Lee," George said.
Jamie thought about it for a moment. "Fine," she said. Fred and george shared a grin with each other, and they had finally reached the parlour.
After they were done with their ice cream, the Weasley's headed home and Jamie went back to the Leaky Cauldron. Two hot chocolates and a pumpkin pasty later, and Jamie was upstairs, fast asleep in her room. Her dreams consisting life at Hogwarts with her new-found friends.
I'm so so so so extremely sorry for never updating. So much has happened, and my writer's block has finally gone away. You can all thank my best friend for that one. And I've changed the name, and the description. After Jamie's sorted, I'm going to turn it to her p.o.v. Well, leave reviews and the next chapter will be up soon!
Love ya guys .xx
P.S. - This is now all one chapter, so the beginning is the one I posted before, and then halfway through it is the new stuff. :)