Chapter 4 ~ Happenings in Diagon Alley

Summery: The story of Voldemort's only child and her experience at Hogwarts. Will she follow her father's dark ways or will she join the light side?

Rating: Shouldn't be worse than PG but I'll say PG13 just in case.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters in the HP series. I only own my characters and the plot.

The next morning Kali was awoken by a loud buzzing noise.

*BEEP!! BEEP!! BEEP!!*

Kali sat straight up in the bed, startled, and grabbed her wand.

"What in the hell is that?!" she yelled.

"An alarm clock. Turn it off and go back to bed." Nathair mummbled sleeply. Kali turned towards the beeping noise and sure enough there sat a clock. It read 10:00 AM.

"Get up Nathair!" she hissed ,shaking him.

"Alright, alright. I'm up," he hissed, lifting his head to prove that he was no longer asleep.

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After a quick shower and drying her hair, Kali pulled on a deep violet tank top that was slightly sparkly with light purple ruffles and a pair of faded jeans. She grabbed a thin see-through pair of light purple robes and left them open. Then she added a bit of makeup including eyeliner just to make her brilliant blue eyes stand out. After checking her appearance in the mirror she announced,

"Alright, I'll be back later."

"Be careful and don't forget your list," Nathair replied before going back to sleep. Kali grabbed the list that dumbledore had sent and left. She walked down the stairs and met Tom as she was entering the store.

"Good morning, would you like something to eat?" he asked her.

"Just a bagel, if you will," she said.

"There you go," Tom replied hading her a fresh bagel.

"Thank you," Kali told him talking the bagel and heading towards the door. After a couple taps on the brick wall outside she was in Diagon Alley.

Gringotts first. I hope my dad still has an account, if not I suppose that I'm just shit out of luck.

Once inside Gringotts, she walked up to one of the goblins at a desk. "I'd like to get some money from my account please."

The goblin looked a her and for a moment looked quite startled.

"Is there a problem?" Kali asked curiously.

"No, it's just your eyes seem familiar somehow.... I feel as if I've seen you somewhere before," he answered.

"I doubt it, I just arrived here. It's my first time in London,"

she told him growing impatient.

"Forgive me, back to business. What is your account name?" he asked looking through his desk.
"Tom Riddle," she answered with fake courage.

"Riddle....ahh here it is," the goblin replied, handing her a small silver key. Kali took the key and they were soon on their way to the vault.

"Vault 316," the goblin said stopping the cart.

316?? March 16th that's my birthday. How odd...

The door was slung open by the goblin. There was a fair amount of money inside. Kali took some into her bag and they left.

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Back outside, Kali pulled out her list.

HOGWARTS SCHOOL

of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

UNIFORM

1. Three sets of plain work robes (black)

2. One pointed hat (black) for day wear

3. One pair protective gloves(dragon hide or similar)

4. One winter cloak (black, silver fastenings)

5. One pair of dress robes

COURSE BOOKS

The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 5)

by Miranda Goshawk

A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot

Advanced Transfiguration by Emeric Switch

One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi

by Phyllida Spore

Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger

OTHER EQUIPMENT

1 wand

1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)

1 set glass or crystal phials

1 telescope

1 set brass scales

Students may also bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad.

Or a small cobra? humm....Alright lets see robes first

Kali walked inside Madame Malkin's Robes for all Occasions and was instantly greeted by Madame Malkin, herself.

"Hi and welcome! What can I do for you?" a middle-aged woman asked her, smiling politely.. She was dressed in all turquoise from the hair clip supporting her graying hair down to her sparkly high heeled shoes. Kali was about to ask her about her clothing choice when she remembered what she needed.

"I need three sets of black robes and a dress robe." Kali tol her.

"Alright, that should be no problem," Madame Malkin said, summoning her measuring tapes with her wand. Measuring tapes of all sizes and colors began measuring her all over and shouting out sizes. Madame Malkin just stood there watching, nodding her head, chin in hand. "That should be enough!" She ordered the tapes and they immediately dropped to the ground lifelessly. Twirling her wand once more and saying a few well chosen words, she summoned three black robes that were suddenly altered to fit her perfectly. Madame Malkin studied her once more, up close this time. "I think we should go with a slinky, straight dress. It will accent your perfect figure. Let's see thin straps should work really well. And blue.... somewhere between a medium blue and a royal. The color will bring out your unusually pretty eyes. What do you think?" Madame Malkin asked her.

"Umm.... that's fine with me, I guess. Can it be sparkly? I love sparkly dresses," Kali told her.

"I think that's an excellent idea. Sparkly it is," she said smiling. She summoned a large piece of blue material and tapped it with her wand. Instantly it was a thin strapped blue dress. Another tap and it was sparkly and slinky. Kali took the dress as Madame Malkin had asked and tried it on in the dressing rooms. She walked out and looked in the mirror. It looked great.

Awesome.... I'll stand out for sure.

"I like it," she told Madame Malkin turning towards her. Madame seemed slightly unsatisfied.

"It is beautiful, but something just isn't right," she said thinking. "Ahh ha! I know what would work." She tapped the dress once more and the thin straps were replaced by a halter strap. "There," she said smiling.

Kali looked into the mirror. Madame Malkin was right, it does look better this way.

I look older. Score!

"I'll take it!" Kali told her. She paid for her robes while Madame Malkin put them in a bag. She thanked Madame Malkin for her time and left.

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An hour later, Kali set her bags down to look once again at her list.

Only books left... thank goodness.

Kali picked up her shopping bags and headed towards Florish and Blots. Once inside she told the owner what she needed and he quickly handed them to her.

"Will that be all miss?" He asked her.

"No, I think I'll look around for a bit," she told him and began walking down the isles stacked to the ceiling with every book that you could imagine. Kali' s eyes scanning titles and stopped on a thick dark purple book with shiny silver lettering. "The Dark Arts: Everything You Wanted to Know". Kali didn't know why she was drawn to that book but she was. She glanced around making sure the book keeper was no where in sight and began climbing the shelves in order to reach the book. Once she was three rows above the floor the entire shelf started to slight sway. Ignoring her fear of heights, Kali reached up to grab the book when someone yelled.

" What are you doing?!"

The loud voice caused Kali to jump and the whole shelf swayed violently and fell over. Kali fell backwards and hit the floor hard. Books flew everywhere covering Kali and the voice.

"What in the hell is going on over here?!" the book keeper yelled running over.

"She was climbing up the shelf and it fell over," the voice said again. A teenage boy climbed from under the pile of books and stood up, rubbing his head.

Kali pushed several books aside and pulled herself to her feet. The boy's expression immediately changed. His eyes grew wide and his mouth hung open. " Hhhi..." he stuttered. Kali stared at the boy who looked about her age. He had messy black hair and wore glasses over his brilliantly green eyes.

He's not too bad to look at . Too bad he isn't very smart. Well he's about to learn, you don't mess with me.

"Hi, yourself. Sorry for the mess mister, if he hadn't have yelled none of this would've happened," Kali said irritated. She grabbed the purple book and stormed to the register. She paid for all her books and walked out as fast as she could. It was nearly dark so she decided to head back to the hotel.

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Back inside "Florish and Blots"

"I'm sorry," the boy apologized to the owner while he helped him clean up the mess.

"It's alright, go on ahead. I can clean this up myself," the man told him.

The boy walked outside instantly being bombarded with yells.

"Harry!!!" an older Hermione screamed

"Harry, man, what happened?!" an older Ron yelled.

"It's alright right. I'm okay. This girl knocked over a book shelf and ran out," Harry told them both.

"Goodness Harry, you had us worried," Hermione told him but Harry didn't seem to be listening. Instead he was looking around wondering where she'd ran to.

"What's wrong?" Ron asked curiously.

"Nothing, I just wanted to find her and apologize for starling her," Harry told them, still looking.

"Damn, did she look that good?" Ron asked and began glancing around too, earning a hit in the shoulder from a not-so-happy Hermione. "What was that for?!" Ron yelped, rubbing his arm where she'd hit him. Hermione crossed her arms and glared. "Aww, don't be like that. I was only kidding. You know, I only want you," Ron told her sweetly, wrapping his arms around her. Hermione finally gave in and hugged him back, leaving Harry unnoticed. Harry sighed. he was happy for his two best friends but he missed the way things used to be. They'd been a couple for two months now and nothing had been the same since. He was constantly ignored, but he knew they weren't doing it intentionally. And he didn't want to loose his best friends all together so he just didn't say anything.

Those eyes.. so beautiful. But so familiar.

A/N: What do you think so far? Review please. The next chapter will be more exciting, I promise.