A/N: Diagon Alley! Keep reading!

Disclaimer: JKR owns everything cept a few names, as usual.

The next day, Alex and Courtney came over at 9:00 a.m. They traveled by Floo powder to Diagon alley. Courtney was snapping pictures left and right, and receiving many funny looks from the other magical people, Lily was willing to bet that at least half of them had never seen a camera.
"Where should we go first?" Lily asked. She had never been to Diagon Alley before.
"First you will get all of your school supplies, girls. Here is some money Lily, and you can go off and get your supplies." Her mother told her.
"Ok, lets go to the robe shop first!" Courtney suggested.
They entered the robe shop. It was a lot like a normal cloths store, but it was really big and black. Lily never knew there could be so many styles of black robes! With different necks, and different sleeves, not to mention the train, or the hem, or the design on the waste. They all decided to get flare sleeves with a moon and stars print around the waist, and a V-neck.
"Pyro, the blue and gold pattern really clashes with your red hair," Alex said. It was an old tradition to tease Lily of her hair, but in reality both girls loved it.
"I know, but I like the sparkles," Lily said. They went to get fitted, Courtney was taking pictures of Lily, as she was first. "What shops should we go to next?"
"I really want to go to the Apothecary," Courtney told them, taking another picture.
"You know Courtney, I don't want you showing these to anyone, ok?"
"I'm making No promises," Courtney smiled.
"What about the book store?" Lily said, trying to get away from pictures. "I want to go there," Lily suggested. She was top of all of her classes, and was never in trouble. It was only natural that she would want to get a head start on reading the books.
"Of course, being you, Lily. Too bad that first years aren't allowed brooms." Alex lamented.
"Yah," Lily agreed. "How is this for a schedule? Because we have to come back here in about an hour, to pick up our robes, we can do all of our shopping in between. First we go to the Apothecary, to get out cauldron, and phials and brass scales. The we can go to Flourish and Blotts to get our books, and last the wand store."
"The wand store is Ollivanders," Alex told her. "That sounds good. Ready?"
The all trouped off first to the Apothecary, then the book store, and last Ollivanders.
What Lily expected when she entered the wand shop was not what she saw. It smelled like an old library, and it wasn't bright and welcoming like the others. "I guess Mr. Ollivander figures that if you need a wand, you'll go here no matter what," Lily thought.
Mr. Ollivander zoomed quickly through Courtney (Maple, 8 ½ inches, Unicorn hair) and Alex (Oak, 11 ½ inches, Dragon Heartstring), but had a bit of trouble with Lily.
Try this one. Mahogany, 9 inches, Dragon Heartstring. No? Ok, Birch, 11 inches, Phoenix Feather." By this time, Lily had been getting worried. What if there wasn't a wand that was for her? "Ash, 11 inches, Unicorn Hair." What if she really wasn't a witch, and there had been a mistake? "Hemlock, 9 ½ inches, Dragon Heartstring." What if he took all of the wands out of their boxes, but not one of them worked for her? "Tricky, are we? Well, lets try something like what your father had. Willow, 10 ¼ inches, Phoenix Feather. There! Ok, off you go now!"
He seemed relieved that Lily had gotten out of there, because she had a pile of wants on the chair next to her, and Mr. Ollivander had looked a little worried that she wouldn't find one.
"Ok Lily, we will meet you in Madame Malkins in 15 minutes, be right back." Alex told her, and before Lily could ask, they ran off.
She was left alone, with all the shops open to her. She just decided to walk along the little road. But before she had gone far, her paper bad carrying all of her books ripped, and she had to stoop down to pick them up.
"Hey, this can't be Pyro?"
Lily looked up to see Remus Lupin, A boy with brown hair and eyes, along with two boys who looked like twins.
"Hey Remus!" Lily said, standing up with her books. Remus had been and old family friend and she knew about his being a werewolf. They hadn't seen each other in years.
He conjured up another bag for her to put her books in, and she gratefully took it and dropped her books in it. "Who are your friends?"
"Oh, sorry. This is James Potter, and Sirius Black."
"Hiya." She said.
"Hello, Carrot Girl," James said to her.
"My name is Lily, not Carrot girl," She told him.
"Carrot Girl." He repeated, just to annoy her.
"Don't worry, I will think of a name for you, James," she promised him. Maybe, Goth!" she said, referring to his hair.
"James." He corrected her.
"Goth! Ha!"
"Carrot Girl."
"Goth!"
"Carrot Girl."
This was considered a normal argument between a boy and a girl in 3rd grade, they each made a point of ignoring the opposite gender.
"Ok, sorry, Goth, but I have to meet my friends in Madame Malkins. Bye Remus, see you soon! Bye Sirius!" She hurried off to Madame Malkins, wondering how Sirius could be a friend to Goth.
"Hey Lily!" Courtney said, but it was more of a signal then a greeting, but Lily didn't pick up on it.
"Oh, hi Lily!' Alex said, hovering over something.
"Hi. What's that?" She asked Courtney.
"Happy Late Birthday Lily!" Alex and Courtney said, presenting her with a cage containing a tawny owl, Courtney took a picture or Lily.
"Wow, Alex, Courtney, wow, thank you so much!" Lilt was astonished at it. "What is its name?"
"She's a girl, and we decided to leave the name up to you," Courtney told her, smiling.
"Ok, I will name her, umm, Dakota. That is a tribe in America or something," Lily chose.
"Hey, this stuff if getting heavy, lets go back to your house, Lily, and we can look through the books and try some spells! Maybe there is one for taking instant pictures!" Courtney suggested.
So they went to the Floo station at the end of the street and paid 5 knuts to travel back to Lily's house.

A/N: So James and Lily meet! Keep reading, and please Review!