We're in Diagon Alley now: My parents, Logie and I! I know 'Logie' sounds stupid, but I love to tease Logan, anyway he teases me too (more often).
Well, we're going in to the robes shop. Logan and I both need new ones, for school and for at home. Oh yeah, Logie needs dress robes! For his dances at school! Just hope he chooses a pink one!
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Logan and Elenna stepped into 'Madame Malkin's Robes for all occasions.
Elenna looked around. She had been in here lots of times before, but it had never been as crowded as it was now. There were people on stools everywhere. Women were taking measures. It looked like there were only Hogwarts kids.
Logan grabbed her arm.
"Come on, El! We've got to find someone who'll help us. You don't want to hang around here all day, do you?" He nearly 'dragged' Elenna over to a woman who was standing near a wall, apparently bored.
"Hi, um...We need new robes and dress robes, please."
The woman smiled. "Right then, who wants to go first…" Logan and Elenna looked at each other. "You go," Logan said, pushing Elenna towards the tall, smiling witch.
Elenna looked around while she was standing on the wooden stool, while the woman was measuring.
There was a girl standing next to her, on another stool. Elenna thought she looked very haughty. The girl smiled when she saw Elenna looking at her. The girl had very light blond hair twisted into a tight bun and icy blue eyes. "Hello, good morning!" the girl said in a high pitched, haughty voice.
Logan bit his lip, looking at the girl and Elenna, trying hard to keep his face straight.
"Hey. Um…what's your name?" Elenna asked the girl, smiling weakly.
The girl stuck her head high in the air and then said: "Well, of course you must have heard of my family name. Oh, I don't think I know yours though, you don't seem the type. My name is Annika Phinny-Whitton."
Logan then did burst out laughing. Annika looked around at him. "You think my name's funny, do you?" she stuck her head even higher in the air, if that was possible, "Don't you know? I'm the daughter of the Minister for Magic himself!"
Elenna shrugged her shoulders at Logan and mouthed: "Why are you laughing?" Logan stopped laughing and grinned at her. "I'll tell you outside," he mouthed back.
Annika tuned back to Elenna. "So, what's your name then? I suppose that's your brother," she said, pointing a long nailed, pink polished finger at Logan.
"You two have got the same eyes." Elenna smiled. "I'm Elenna Potter and this is Logan Potter. The girl seemed completely abashed. "P…Potter, did you say?" she asked. "You mean you're the son and daughter of Harry Potter?" Elenna just nodded her head, getting bored of this girl. "Wow..." she said.
Elenna was sure now that she didn't like her. Annika frowned. "But Mr. Potter's very rich, isn't he? I mean he's an important head of department at the Ministry and was a brilliant Quidditch player in his twenties. I've heard you live in a manor. But you don't seem that rich, when I look at you." Elenna looked down at her clothes. She didn't see anything exactly wrong with them. They were her midnight blue dress robes, the ones she always wore when she went shopping. They were made of satin and she loved them. She looked at Logan. He was looking down at his emerald green robes. Then he looked at Annika, as coldly as he could.
"What do you mean?!" he snarled at her. "You mean our robes don't match your stuck-up ones at all? I'm glad they don't!!" Annika seemed so shocked at the way she was spoken to, that she looked down at the floor and didn't say another word.
After they had bought their robes, gloves, cloaks, hats and Logan's new dark blue dress robes, they walked out of the shop.
Logan was still angry with Annika. "Who does she think she is, talking to us like that?" Elenna looked at her brother. "Well, you know, she is the Minister's daughter." He looked angry. "That's no reason to say all those things!" He grinned suddenly. "Lazarus Phinny-Whitton is so stupid, he can't do anything on his own, and everybody else has to help him. And that girl was actually proud of her daddy!" Elenna laughed.
"And her own clothes," Logan went on, "She should take a good look at herself in her Barbie-robes!"
Logan and Elenna walked on to 'Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour.' Logan and Elenna's parents and Lee and Katherine would meet there, have a nice ice cream and then go buy their books.
After a minute or so, when their parents were waiting there with them, Elenna saw Lee and Katherine running towards them.
"El! Logie!!" Katherine called. She hugged them both. "KATIE!!!" Elenna screamed. "I thought you would never come!" Logan laughed and looked at Elenna, grinning. "There's no need to be so dramatic about it!" Elenna frowned. "Oh, can't you just keep your comments to yourself for a change, Logan?!"
After they all had had an ice cream, 'the kids' were allowed to go buy their books, wands, potion ingredients, phials, telescopes, scales, cauldrons and animals together. First they went to get wands for Elenna and Katherine, then the telescopes, phials, scales and cauldrons, then their books, quills and parchment and after all that, to the Eeylops Owl Emporium.
Elenna looked around. There were all sorts of owls in cages everywhere. "Are you getting an owl too?" she asked Katherine. Katherine nodded. "Yeah, of course!" she said.
Elenna called Katherine. "This is exactly how I imagined Mississippi would be!" She pointed at a very small, pure white, snowy owl in a cage. He was so cute. Katherine chose a little barn owl she christened 'Eustace'. They bought the two owls, plus some owl food and treats. They carried their new owls in cages, as they walked out of the shop.
Then they went to the Quality Quidditch Supplies. Logan and Lee both needed new brooms. They were the best chasers on the Gryffindor Team. They saw the brand new 'Skyfighter' in the window. Everybody was talking about it. It was the best broom of the moment. It was quite expensive though. But as Logan and Lee both had got a lot of money from their parents for a new broom, they bought it anyway.
"We're not allowed new brooms!" Elenna said, disappointed.
They walked back to the Leaky Cauldron, where their parents would come in about half an hour, so they could have a drink before that.
Logan, Lee, Elenna and Katherine all sat down at a round table with a mug of hot butterbeer each.
It was quite busy. Lots of Hogwarts students were there, but adults too.
Elenna turned on her chair and saw... Annika and another girl right behind them. She nudged Logan and pointed.
"Oh my god…" he sighed, rolling his eyes. Annika had just noticed them too. She came over to their table with her friend. "Hi everybody!" she said.
Emma groaned. Luckily, Annika didn't notice. She was too busy talking to Logan, who she surprisingly seemed to like. "This is Melina Avery." She said, pointing to the very petite blond girl, behind her.
Annika and Melina sat down at their table and started talking. Katherine & Lee didn't seem to like them much either.
"We've really got to get going," Logan said after some time. Elenna could see her brother had had just enough of Annika and Melina.
Logan, Lee, Elenna and Katherine stood up abruptly. They decided to wait outside for their parents.
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Well, I'm home again by now. It's September the first tomorrow! (Wow)
I've got to get up early and set off. I've finished all my packing, so as its eleven o'clock now, Dang it, I'm going to bed.
Bye, Elenna