Chapter 2: Shopping in Diagon Ally
AN: I know that 99.9% percent of the prank probably would not have worked, but it's my story and things work if I say they do. I also know that I am incredibly lazy 'bout getting the new chapters up. Oh well shame on me. I almost had this finished, when our incredibly stupid computer decided to delete all of our documents. I would like to add the rest of this story will be written in my notebook with an authentic Harry Potter pencil from Wal-Mart!!!!! Woo-Hoo!!!! Anyhow Lily finally meets the gang. YAY!!!!!
Disclaimer: Basically same as last chapter, not mine.
Ch. 2: Shopping in Diagon Ally
For the next week and a half all Lily did was talk about Diagon Ally, Hogwarts, and the magical world in general. Aunt Laura had come over several times to talk to Lily about magic so she wouldn't be confused.
Finally August 28th rolled around. Lily got up at five, got ready, and biked the three miles to her aunt's house. She found her aunt sitting downstairs drinking coffee. She was definitely not awake. Lily got her aunt semi-conscious and at seven Aunt Laura handed Lily a bent up soda can.
"Do you want me to throw this away, Aunt Laura?" asked Lily, puzzled.
"No, dear. It's a Portkey. In just a second it will transport us to Diagon Ally," replied Aunt Laura, yawning.
Just then Lily felt a huge jolt and then her aunt's living room faded out of sight. Lily felt another huge jolt and a large room came in to view. Aunt Laura appeared beside her.
"Welcome to the Leaky Cauldron, Lily. It's a very famous place," said Aunt Laura.
A young man walked up to them and introduced himself as Tom the bartender.
"Can I get you ladies anything today," he asked.
"Not now," said Aunt Laura, "we have shopping to do. Lily, do you still have your list of supplies?"
Lily checked to see if the list of odd materials for school was still in her pocket.
"Yep," said Lily.
"Okay, first we'll go to Gringotts to change the money your mom gave me. We can also set up an account for you to use while you're at Hogwarts."
They walked up to a white, marble building and went in through the huge doors. The doors had something engraved in them, but Lily didn't have time to read it as she stepped inside.
"Um, Aunt Laura, what is that?" asked Lily, pointing at a strange creature standing behind the counter.
"That is a goblin. Gringott's is run by goblins," replied Aunt Laura.
Aunt Laura went over to talk to one of the goblins. Soon Lily had plenty of Galleons, Knuts, and Sickles (wizarding money) and a vault with the rest stored inside.
"Let me see your list, Lily," said Aunt Laura, "Hmm, we need your books and Flourish and Blotts is just the place."
Lily and her aunt walked over to a rather crowded store. Inside, a clerk helped Lily find all the books she needed. While she waited in line she read through her Charms book, which looked most interesting and listened to a blue-eyed, blonde haired boy arguing with the cashier about publishing his autobiography. (AN: Hmm, sounds like someone we know.:))
"No, Lochhart, I'm not doing it! Hello miss, will this be all for today?" he asked when it was Lily's turn.
"Yes," she replied.
"There you are then and have a nice time at Hogwarts," he said.
"I will," said Lily but he was already helping another customer.
Lily's aunt took her around Diagon Ally to various shops to get things like her robes, potion ingredients, a cauldron, a jet-black owl that Lily named Middie, and some other stuff. Then Aunt Laura said it was time to get her wand and that Ollivander's was the only place to get it. A sigh above the door said "Ollivander's Fine Wands Since 382 B.C."
Lily went in and sat down in a large chair that looked like it would take a giant to break.
"Hello, Lily Evans, a wand for you today?" said a voice.
Lily looked around quickly. A man with gloomy, gray eyes was standing there. He wondered how he knew her name.
"Yes," she said.
Wand after wand was handed to Lily. She waved them all around feeling pretty stupid. She did not know what Mr. Ollivander was looking for.
"Tricky customer, eh? We'll find one here for you. Here try this one. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wand for Charm work," he said.
"Not another one!" snapped Lily, who was getting pretty annoyed.
"You had better watch your temper or it will be Slytherin for you girl," replied Mr. Ollivander.
Lily, who knew all about Hogwarts houses and that Slytherin was quite evil frowned. She decided that she did not like Mr. Ollivander. She would have to leave a pleasant surprise, otherwise known as a stink bomb, when she left. Lily took the wand from Mr. Ollivander. She felt sudden warmth in her fingers. She raised the wand above her head brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light onto the wall.
"Good," said Mr. Ollivander, taking the money Lily handed him, "You can go now."
Lily proceeded to do just that, though she stopped near the door, dropped a stink bomb, stepped on it to set it off, and then ran like mad out the door. Aunt Laura was waiting outside.
"Dear, your mother and I decided to let you stay at the Leaky Cauldron by yourself until you go to King's Cross. While I set things up with Tom, why don't you wander around yourself," said Aunt Laura.
"Awesome!" yelled Lily, and she ran off.
Lily wandered around Diagon Ally, going into various shops such as The Chocolate Frog (a candy store) and Constant Vigilance (a Defense Against the Dark Arts store). Then she came across a store called Zonko's Joke Shop. She immediately went in. Lily wandered through aisle after aisle of amazing wizarding pranks. She came to what seemed to be a magic version of stink bombs.
"Dungbombs! Wow!" whispered Lily.
"Yeah, they're pretty amazing," said a voice behind her.
"Quite useful too," said another.
They startled Lily so much that she dropped the dungbomb, which exploded all over herself and the mysterious twosome behind her. Lily whirled around and saw two boys standing behind her. (AN: Guess who!! :))
They were both pretty tall with black hair and brown eyes, though one looked like he had completely missed the invention of the hairbrush.
Oh my god, I'm so sorry," said Lily.
Both looked like they were trying not to laugh. They both failed miserably. Pretty soon all three were laughing so hard they couldn't breathe. The manager of Zonko's kicked them out for disrupting customers.
"I really am sorry," said Lily, still choking back laughter.
"It's really okay," said one of the boys, "Sirius Black, and the one who missed the invention of the hairbrush is James Potter, head prankster's of the world."
Lily laughed again at the greeting and at the fact that Sirius had the same idea about James's hair.
"Lily Evans," said Lily, "Are you first years?"
"You had better believe it. At the moment every teacher at Hogwarts is preparing for the worst because they know that that two Potters and a Black are coming. But then again they're happy cause they're getting three of the best Quidditch players in the world," said James.
"Quidditch?" asked Lily, slightly puzzled. Aunt Laura didn't like sports of any sort, so she had probably forgotten to mention it.
"Are you muggle-born?" asked Sirius, curiously, "not that it matters to us."
"Yeah, my aunt is a witch though. She told me about magic after I got my letter and brought me here. She doesn't like sports at all so she didn't say anything about Quidditch or whatever you call it," said Lily.
"We're going to Quality Quidditch Supplies now. Do you want to come?" asked James.
"Sure," said Lily.
On the way to the Quidditich store, James and Sirius told her everything they knew about Quidditch, which was quite a lot.
Awesome," said Lily, "I can't wait to see it played. Oh, and James, earlier you said that there were two Potters going to Hogwarts. Who is the other Potter?"
"Oh that would be my twin sister, Alex. She is the only girl I know who likes Quidditch and pranks other then you," said James with a grin.
"How do you know I like pranks?" asked Lily.
"Easy, you rarely see someone so fascinated with Dungbombs," said Sirius.
"Oh," Lily said grinning.
Lily, James, and Sirius walked into Quality Quidditch Supplies. Lily looked around in awe.
"I can't believe I didn't know about this for eleven years!" said Lily.
"What are you, some sort of Mudblood?"
said a cold voice behind her.
Lily spun around to see an ugly, greasy haired kid who now had a black eye and a bloody nose. The boy ran. Lily realized that James and Sirius were looking very smug. She laughed
"Who is the idiot?" asked Lily.
"Severus Snape," said James, as if the words tasted disgusting in his mouth.
"What the heck is a mudblood?" asked Lily.
"It's just a really mean name for a muggle-born witch or wizard," said Sirius.
"Oh, then I don't blame you for nearly knocking him out."
Lily and the boys walked through the store looking at stuff, while James and Sirius explained things to Lily. She decided to buy a broomstick with her birthday money. It was a state-of-the-line model, the Silver Arrow.
"Hey Lily, do you want to meet my sister Alex? We're supposed to meet her at Florean Fortesque's Ice Cream Parlor," said James.
"Sure," sad Lily, "Love to!"
Lily, James, and Sirius walked over to a slightly crowded outdoor ice cream parlor. Sitting at one of the tables was a girl with short brown hair and brown eyes, a tired looking boy with really light brown hair and hazel eyes, and a short girl with blonde hair with blue-green eyes.
James and Sirius walked over to the girl with brown hair and brown eyes. Lily followed.
"Hey Lexy, how cute! My sweet little sister found some little buddies!" said James, putting on a mischievous grin.
"Little sister, my butt!" said Alex, "I do believe little Jamsie-Wamsie that I am six and a half minutes older then you."
"Sweet, my butt," said Sirius. "That girl broke my nose once just because I accidentally turned her hair blue!"
"Siri, dear, if I know anything about you it's that nothing is an accident where your involved. Besides Jamsie, it looks like you found a friend too," said Alex, putting on a grin so much like James's it was scary.
Lily grinned as well. "Lily Evans, prankster and recent Quidditch fanatic."
"Glad to meet you," said Alex.
The boy beside Alex cleared his throat loudly.
"Oh sorry! This is Remus Lupin and Katrina Johnston, who refuses to be called anything but Kat," said Alex.
After everyone had been introduced, they sat down and ordered ice cream.
"If you don't mind me saying so James, Alex, except for your eyes and that grin you look nothing alike," said Kat.
Alex and James's faces lit up with the now famous grin.
"Yeah, but in personality they're the exact same. Both are obsessed with Quidditch and playing pranks," said Sirius, also grinning.
"I think I like you people!" said Lily.
James started laughing, but stopped abruptly. He was now covered in ice cream. Everyone else was laughing now, except for Sirius who as on the floor howling with laughter.
"Shut-up Sirius," said James, turning around to see who had dumped ice cream on him. He saw a short, chubby little boy apologizing to a girl with black hair and blue eyes.
"I didn't mean to bump into you, I'm sorry, really I am!" he begged. (AN: That's right, beg for mercy you slimy rat!!!! So has anyone guessed who the clumsy one is?) The girl was glaring at the boy. (AN: GO HER!!!! Alright I'll shut-up.) They both turned around and saw an extremely angry; ice cream covered James who was glaring at both of them. They tried to look apologetic, but they both burst out laughing. Kat took a hand mirror out of her back pocket and showed James, who laughed as well.
"Sirius, my friend, we have met three people today by having stuff dropped on us," said James, grinning at Lily. To the other boy and girl he asked, "What are your names?"
"Peter Pettigrew."
"Bella Jones."
"I'm James Potter, and this is my twin sister Alex, Sirius Black, Lily Evans, Remus Lupin and Kat Johnston," said James.
AN: NO!!!!!!!!! Sirius, James, Alex, Lily, everybody!! Walk away, don't be friends with the evil rat. Please!! Writer breaks down in tears. It is amazing how little control I have over my own story. Anyhow does anyone know who Carolyn Dawn Johnson is?? Well that's kinda what Kat looks like except much younger obviously. Alex looks likes me and is sort of based on me. Anyhow there is no telling when I'll get the next part out, but I'll try. TTFN!!
AN: I know that 99.9% percent of the prank probably would not have worked, but it's my story and things work if I say they do. I also know that I am incredibly lazy 'bout getting the new chapters up. Oh well shame on me. I almost had this finished, when our incredibly stupid computer decided to delete all of our documents. I would like to add the rest of this story will be written in my notebook with an authentic Harry Potter pencil from Wal-Mart!!!!! Woo-Hoo!!!! Anyhow Lily finally meets the gang. YAY!!!!!
Disclaimer: Basically same as last chapter, not mine.
Ch. 2: Shopping in Diagon Ally
For the next week and a half all Lily did was talk about Diagon Ally, Hogwarts, and the magical world in general. Aunt Laura had come over several times to talk to Lily about magic so she wouldn't be confused.
Finally August 28th rolled around. Lily got up at five, got ready, and biked the three miles to her aunt's house. She found her aunt sitting downstairs drinking coffee. She was definitely not awake. Lily got her aunt semi-conscious and at seven Aunt Laura handed Lily a bent up soda can.
"Do you want me to throw this away, Aunt Laura?" asked Lily, puzzled.
"No, dear. It's a Portkey. In just a second it will transport us to Diagon Ally," replied Aunt Laura, yawning.
Just then Lily felt a huge jolt and then her aunt's living room faded out of sight. Lily felt another huge jolt and a large room came in to view. Aunt Laura appeared beside her.
"Welcome to the Leaky Cauldron, Lily. It's a very famous place," said Aunt Laura.
A young man walked up to them and introduced himself as Tom the bartender.
"Can I get you ladies anything today," he asked.
"Not now," said Aunt Laura, "we have shopping to do. Lily, do you still have your list of supplies?"
Lily checked to see if the list of odd materials for school was still in her pocket.
"Yep," said Lily.
"Okay, first we'll go to Gringotts to change the money your mom gave me. We can also set up an account for you to use while you're at Hogwarts."
They walked up to a white, marble building and went in through the huge doors. The doors had something engraved in them, but Lily didn't have time to read it as she stepped inside.
"Um, Aunt Laura, what is that?" asked Lily, pointing at a strange creature standing behind the counter.
"That is a goblin. Gringott's is run by goblins," replied Aunt Laura.
Aunt Laura went over to talk to one of the goblins. Soon Lily had plenty of Galleons, Knuts, and Sickles (wizarding money) and a vault with the rest stored inside.
"Let me see your list, Lily," said Aunt Laura, "Hmm, we need your books and Flourish and Blotts is just the place."
Lily and her aunt walked over to a rather crowded store. Inside, a clerk helped Lily find all the books she needed. While she waited in line she read through her Charms book, which looked most interesting and listened to a blue-eyed, blonde haired boy arguing with the cashier about publishing his autobiography. (AN: Hmm, sounds like someone we know.:))
"No, Lochhart, I'm not doing it! Hello miss, will this be all for today?" he asked when it was Lily's turn.
"Yes," she replied.
"There you are then and have a nice time at Hogwarts," he said.
"I will," said Lily but he was already helping another customer.
Lily's aunt took her around Diagon Ally to various shops to get things like her robes, potion ingredients, a cauldron, a jet-black owl that Lily named Middie, and some other stuff. Then Aunt Laura said it was time to get her wand and that Ollivander's was the only place to get it. A sigh above the door said "Ollivander's Fine Wands Since 382 B.C."
Lily went in and sat down in a large chair that looked like it would take a giant to break.
"Hello, Lily Evans, a wand for you today?" said a voice.
Lily looked around quickly. A man with gloomy, gray eyes was standing there. He wondered how he knew her name.
"Yes," she said.
Wand after wand was handed to Lily. She waved them all around feeling pretty stupid. She did not know what Mr. Ollivander was looking for.
"Tricky customer, eh? We'll find one here for you. Here try this one. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wand for Charm work," he said.
"Not another one!" snapped Lily, who was getting pretty annoyed.
"You had better watch your temper or it will be Slytherin for you girl," replied Mr. Ollivander.
Lily, who knew all about Hogwarts houses and that Slytherin was quite evil frowned. She decided that she did not like Mr. Ollivander. She would have to leave a pleasant surprise, otherwise known as a stink bomb, when she left. Lily took the wand from Mr. Ollivander. She felt sudden warmth in her fingers. She raised the wand above her head brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light onto the wall.
"Good," said Mr. Ollivander, taking the money Lily handed him, "You can go now."
Lily proceeded to do just that, though she stopped near the door, dropped a stink bomb, stepped on it to set it off, and then ran like mad out the door. Aunt Laura was waiting outside.
"Dear, your mother and I decided to let you stay at the Leaky Cauldron by yourself until you go to King's Cross. While I set things up with Tom, why don't you wander around yourself," said Aunt Laura.
"Awesome!" yelled Lily, and she ran off.
Lily wandered around Diagon Ally, going into various shops such as The Chocolate Frog (a candy store) and Constant Vigilance (a Defense Against the Dark Arts store). Then she came across a store called Zonko's Joke Shop. She immediately went in. Lily wandered through aisle after aisle of amazing wizarding pranks. She came to what seemed to be a magic version of stink bombs.
"Dungbombs! Wow!" whispered Lily.
"Yeah, they're pretty amazing," said a voice behind her.
"Quite useful too," said another.
They startled Lily so much that she dropped the dungbomb, which exploded all over herself and the mysterious twosome behind her. Lily whirled around and saw two boys standing behind her. (AN: Guess who!! :))
They were both pretty tall with black hair and brown eyes, though one looked like he had completely missed the invention of the hairbrush.
Oh my god, I'm so sorry," said Lily.
Both looked like they were trying not to laugh. They both failed miserably. Pretty soon all three were laughing so hard they couldn't breathe. The manager of Zonko's kicked them out for disrupting customers.
"I really am sorry," said Lily, still choking back laughter.
"It's really okay," said one of the boys, "Sirius Black, and the one who missed the invention of the hairbrush is James Potter, head prankster's of the world."
Lily laughed again at the greeting and at the fact that Sirius had the same idea about James's hair.
"Lily Evans," said Lily, "Are you first years?"
"You had better believe it. At the moment every teacher at Hogwarts is preparing for the worst because they know that that two Potters and a Black are coming. But then again they're happy cause they're getting three of the best Quidditch players in the world," said James.
"Quidditch?" asked Lily, slightly puzzled. Aunt Laura didn't like sports of any sort, so she had probably forgotten to mention it.
"Are you muggle-born?" asked Sirius, curiously, "not that it matters to us."
"Yeah, my aunt is a witch though. She told me about magic after I got my letter and brought me here. She doesn't like sports at all so she didn't say anything about Quidditch or whatever you call it," said Lily.
"We're going to Quality Quidditch Supplies now. Do you want to come?" asked James.
"Sure," said Lily.
On the way to the Quidditich store, James and Sirius told her everything they knew about Quidditch, which was quite a lot.
Awesome," said Lily, "I can't wait to see it played. Oh, and James, earlier you said that there were two Potters going to Hogwarts. Who is the other Potter?"
"Oh that would be my twin sister, Alex. She is the only girl I know who likes Quidditch and pranks other then you," said James with a grin.
"How do you know I like pranks?" asked Lily.
"Easy, you rarely see someone so fascinated with Dungbombs," said Sirius.
"Oh," Lily said grinning.
Lily, James, and Sirius walked into Quality Quidditch Supplies. Lily looked around in awe.
"I can't believe I didn't know about this for eleven years!" said Lily.
"What are you, some sort of Mudblood?"
said a cold voice behind her.
Lily spun around to see an ugly, greasy haired kid who now had a black eye and a bloody nose. The boy ran. Lily realized that James and Sirius were looking very smug. She laughed
"Who is the idiot?" asked Lily.
"Severus Snape," said James, as if the words tasted disgusting in his mouth.
"What the heck is a mudblood?" asked Lily.
"It's just a really mean name for a muggle-born witch or wizard," said Sirius.
"Oh, then I don't blame you for nearly knocking him out."
Lily and the boys walked through the store looking at stuff, while James and Sirius explained things to Lily. She decided to buy a broomstick with her birthday money. It was a state-of-the-line model, the Silver Arrow.
"Hey Lily, do you want to meet my sister Alex? We're supposed to meet her at Florean Fortesque's Ice Cream Parlor," said James.
"Sure," sad Lily, "Love to!"
Lily, James, and Sirius walked over to a slightly crowded outdoor ice cream parlor. Sitting at one of the tables was a girl with short brown hair and brown eyes, a tired looking boy with really light brown hair and hazel eyes, and a short girl with blonde hair with blue-green eyes.
James and Sirius walked over to the girl with brown hair and brown eyes. Lily followed.
"Hey Lexy, how cute! My sweet little sister found some little buddies!" said James, putting on a mischievous grin.
"Little sister, my butt!" said Alex, "I do believe little Jamsie-Wamsie that I am six and a half minutes older then you."
"Sweet, my butt," said Sirius. "That girl broke my nose once just because I accidentally turned her hair blue!"
"Siri, dear, if I know anything about you it's that nothing is an accident where your involved. Besides Jamsie, it looks like you found a friend too," said Alex, putting on a grin so much like James's it was scary.
Lily grinned as well. "Lily Evans, prankster and recent Quidditch fanatic."
"Glad to meet you," said Alex.
The boy beside Alex cleared his throat loudly.
"Oh sorry! This is Remus Lupin and Katrina Johnston, who refuses to be called anything but Kat," said Alex.
After everyone had been introduced, they sat down and ordered ice cream.
"If you don't mind me saying so James, Alex, except for your eyes and that grin you look nothing alike," said Kat.
Alex and James's faces lit up with the now famous grin.
"Yeah, but in personality they're the exact same. Both are obsessed with Quidditch and playing pranks," said Sirius, also grinning.
"I think I like you people!" said Lily.
James started laughing, but stopped abruptly. He was now covered in ice cream. Everyone else was laughing now, except for Sirius who as on the floor howling with laughter.
"Shut-up Sirius," said James, turning around to see who had dumped ice cream on him. He saw a short, chubby little boy apologizing to a girl with black hair and blue eyes.
"I didn't mean to bump into you, I'm sorry, really I am!" he begged. (AN: That's right, beg for mercy you slimy rat!!!! So has anyone guessed who the clumsy one is?) The girl was glaring at the boy. (AN: GO HER!!!! Alright I'll shut-up.) They both turned around and saw an extremely angry; ice cream covered James who was glaring at both of them. They tried to look apologetic, but they both burst out laughing. Kat took a hand mirror out of her back pocket and showed James, who laughed as well.
"Sirius, my friend, we have met three people today by having stuff dropped on us," said James, grinning at Lily. To the other boy and girl he asked, "What are your names?"
"Peter Pettigrew."
"Bella Jones."
"I'm James Potter, and this is my twin sister Alex, Sirius Black, Lily Evans, Remus Lupin and Kat Johnston," said James.
AN: NO!!!!!!!!! Sirius, James, Alex, Lily, everybody!! Walk away, don't be friends with the evil rat. Please!! Writer breaks down in tears. It is amazing how little control I have over my own story. Anyhow does anyone know who Carolyn Dawn Johnson is?? Well that's kinda what Kat looks like except much younger obviously. Alex looks likes me and is sort of based on me. Anyhow there is no telling when I'll get the next part out, but I'll try. TTFN!!