It wasn't till Harry's birthday that he got any reply from Hogwarts.
The letter stated that later in the day one of the professors from Hogwarts was going to come and collect him and help him get his school supplies.
Harry had told the Dursley's about him getting a letter from this magical school and he had accepted the invitation, he was suppressed however when it seemed they already knew about the school. To which harry got a little angry and blew half off the living room up causing a fire to breakout meaning that the firebrigade had to be called, luckily the fire hadn't spread therefore only the living room was destroyed, the Dursely's were livid, but they were to scared to do anything to harry incase he blew up anymore things.
It was around 10 o'clock when the doorbell rang, harry got up out of the chair he was sitting in, in the front room and went to answer it.
There was a man around 6 feet tall with shoulder length black hair, and a strict and impassive face.
"Hello" spoke harry "May I help you?"
"Yes", the man replied, he had a deep powerful voice "I'm looking for the residence of Harry Potter, is this it?"
"Yes it is Sir" replied Harry, he noticed how the man's eyebrows twitched upwards when he was referred to sir.
"And are you him?" Asked the man
"Yes I am sir, and may I ask you if you are the Professor that Mr. Dumbledore said was coming today?" replied Harry.
"Yes I am, my name is Severus Snape, and I shall be escorting you to diagon alley for you to get your school equipment, are you ready?" he asked while craning his head so he could sneak a glance inside the house.
"Yes I am, give me a minute while I go tell my Aunt and Uncle that I'm leaving. Please come in"
Snape's eyebrows jumped up again at the politeness of the boy, he quickly followed him into the house, he looked around the house, it was typically muggle. Severus thought that it looked boring, he followed Harry towards the stairs expecting Harry to ask him to wait here while he went upstairs to collect his thing, but was taken aback when he saw him go to the cupboard under the stairs, he was even more surprised when he saw that there was a bed in there.
"You – You sleep in there?" questioned Snape not quite believing what he was seeing
"Yes" replied Harry "It's not much, but its all I've got" his smile hitching a bit. "Now if you would follow me ill just tell my Uncle that I'm going, and then we can go!"
Harry walked towards the kitchen and told his Uncle that he was going now and wouldn't be back until later. And with that he turned to Snape and gestured to go thought the front door and they left.
Snape told Harry that they were going to travel to Diagon Alley via a magical bus called the knight bus.
He explained that all you had to do to call it was to raise your wand into the air and it would appear right in front of you.
"Does all magic have to be preformed by a wand?" Asked Harry
"Yes" replied Snape "however there is a thing called wandless magic which is extremely rare, and almost impossible to achieve"
Harry was a bit miffed by this information because it seemed that he was able to do magic without a wand. However he put this down to the fact that he was also a vampire.
Snape raised his wand and a gigantic purple bus appeared in front of them causing the lampposts and hedges to 'jump' out the way.
As they entered the bus a elderly man greeted them and led them to so seats around a window.
The bus then launched forwards again. Harry felt an odd build up of magic around the bus, he was just about to ask Snape what it was going to do and then with a terrific BANG. Harry was launched back into his chair that toppled over catching Harry by surprise he flipped over backwards and landed on his feet.
Snape eyed Harry with an air of surprise at his acrobatics and balance Harry glanced up at him and gave him a sheepish smile. "Wasn't expecting that to happen"
The rest of the ride was uneventful, they arrived outside a dingy little pub which was shouldered by a huge Bookstore and a Record shop. It seemed to Harry that the people around them could not see the pub at all.
The pub was giving off another scent of magic. Harry turned to Snape and asked whether the people could se it.
"No" he replied "The pub has anti-muggle charms over it"
"Anti-muggle?" he questioned "What's a muggle?"
Snape let out a exasperated sigh "A non-magical person" he then muttered under his breath "I didn't know this was going to be so hard, he knows nothing!"
However due to Harry's acute hearing he heard him, and his head drooped.
They made there way into the pub past all the funny looking people dressed in robes and out to the back where there was a dustbin lying next to the wall. As soon as harry looked at the wall a strange orange glow in the shape of an arch, wondering what it represent he watched Snape pull out his wand and taped a brick three times, the brick shrived and then one by one the bricks sank back into the ground leaving a huge archway in the same position that Harry saw the orange glow.
Harry followed Snape into diagon alley, there was loads of shops crammed tightly next to each other, each selling magical items.
Harry's eyes were working overtime, it seemed that all the magical objects held some sort of glow, he assumed that the different colour represented what type spell on it.
Wondering where they were heading he asked Snape
"Ermm, excuse me Professor Snape, where are we heading?"
Snape turned round and said "Gringotts, we need to get your money to buy all your equipment"
Harry's stomach plummeted. Money, he didn't have any, how was he supposed to get money out if he didn't have any!
"Professor, I – I don't have any money" he blushed out "I have always had to get money from my Aunt and Uncle"
"Don't be silly Potter" snapped Snape "Don't you think your stupid parents left you any money?"
Harry was taken back by the harshness of Snape's words he fell silent.
Walking up the marble stairs they entered into a very well polished floor with odd creatures holding large round discs of gold.
"Are those Goblins?" questioned Harry.
Snape sneered down at him with confusement etched into his face, "Yes they are, how did you know that?"
"Ermm' stuttered Harry 'I just knew?"
With one last glance at Harry, Professor Snape stopped at a counter, a very large counter with a goblin perched onto.
"We are here to withdraw some money from Mr Harry Potter's Vault" said Professor Snape
"Very well' replied the goblin' do you have his key?"
"Yes its right here, we are also wanting to retrieve the artifact in vault number 713, I have a letter here from Albus Dumbledore" said Snape handing over the key and the strange envelope.
"All seems to be in order, Griphook"…. (You know the rest I hope…)
Harry departed Gringotts with as more money than he had in his entire life, as they walked down the steps Snape said that they were to head to Florish and Blotts, which turned out to be a bookstore.
Harry bought all the books on his school list, he also asked Professor Snape if he could buy some extra books, Snape said he didn't mind as long as one of them was a advanced potion's book. It turned out that he was the potion's master, so along with the potion book he got an Advance Curse book, a book on mythological creature, and a book on vampires. He thought the book on vampires would help him understand what he could do, and what was expected of him.
Snape questioned the book on vampires and harry replied by saying that they had intrigued him for a long time.
Next was the robe store where harry got a variety of school robes, as well as some formal robes as Snape suggested that they mite come in handy.
They next went to enlope's owl emporium, where harry bought a beautiful black raven. Snape thought his choice of messenger bird was a bit extreme, but harry pleaded so much that Snape said it wasn't his fault if he couldn't take it.
Their next stop was Ollivanders, makers of fine wands since 326BC.
As soon as Harry stepped foot in the store he was nearly blasted back with the amount of magic stored in the room, he blinked several times trying to get adjusted to the amount of different lights glaring from the wands.
"Ah yes, yes Harry Potter I was wondering when I would be seeing you. And Severus Snape what a pleasant surprise, dragon heart string and beach wood was it not?" asked Mr Ollivander
"Yes" was the only answer Severus gave leaving a disappointed look upon Mr Ollivanders face
"It seems just yesterday' he continued 'that you're mother and farther were in here buying there 1st wand, now what is your wand arm?"
"Ermm, I can use both hands" replied Harry
"Ambidextrous excellent" exclaimed Mr Ollivander "now try this beech wood and unicorn tail"
As soon as he placed the wand into Harry's hand he snatched it off him again "Nope definitely not, now this one oak wood and dragon heart string" this pattern continued for quite some time, Harry noticed that Professor Snape was becoming more and more irritated.
"Hmm, I wonder… Holly and Phoenix feather"
Harry could literally see the magic flowing of the wand, as soon as he took hold of the wand a blinding red light engulfed the room.
"Well give it a wave" persisted Snape who now looked thoroughly excited
With a flick of his wrist Harry watched in amazement as the rest of Mr Ollivanders shop suddenly became utterly spotless with no trace of dust anywhere and also all the wands had re-arranged themselves on the shelves.
"Oh bravo' chanted Ollivander' ive been meaning to do that for a long time, however that's very curious, very curious"
"Excuse me Mr Ollivander but what is so curious" inquired Harry
"It seems… you see Mr Potter that the phoenix feather that resides in your wand gave only one other, and its curious that you are destined to have this wand as its brother, its brother gave you that scar"
Harry noticed that Professor Snape gasped loudly and his right hand went straight to his left forearm as if it hurt him.
Mr Ollivander noticed this aswell and quickly wrapped the wand.
Snape lead harry back to the Leaky Cauldron, and asked the bartender 'Tom' if he had a room vacant for harry, but before everyone could turn round to see who wanted the room, Snape had pushed harry up the stairs and into a room, he dumped the bags at the foot of the bed and turned to speak to harry.
"It's been nice meeting you harry, you are to stay here until the 1st of September, which then u are to go to platform 9 ¾, if you get used to the wizarding world quick enough u could flu there, but until then, see you later". And with that he left
The letter stated that later in the day one of the professors from Hogwarts was going to come and collect him and help him get his school supplies.
Harry had told the Dursley's about him getting a letter from this magical school and he had accepted the invitation, he was suppressed however when it seemed they already knew about the school. To which harry got a little angry and blew half off the living room up causing a fire to breakout meaning that the firebrigade had to be called, luckily the fire hadn't spread therefore only the living room was destroyed, the Dursely's were livid, but they were to scared to do anything to harry incase he blew up anymore things.
It was around 10 o'clock when the doorbell rang, harry got up out of the chair he was sitting in, in the front room and went to answer it.
There was a man around 6 feet tall with shoulder length black hair, and a strict and impassive face.
"Hello" spoke harry "May I help you?"
"Yes", the man replied, he had a deep powerful voice "I'm looking for the residence of Harry Potter, is this it?"
"Yes it is Sir" replied Harry, he noticed how the man's eyebrows twitched upwards when he was referred to sir.
"And are you him?" Asked the man
"Yes I am sir, and may I ask you if you are the Professor that Mr. Dumbledore said was coming today?" replied Harry.
"Yes I am, my name is Severus Snape, and I shall be escorting you to diagon alley for you to get your school equipment, are you ready?" he asked while craning his head so he could sneak a glance inside the house.
"Yes I am, give me a minute while I go tell my Aunt and Uncle that I'm leaving. Please come in"
Snape's eyebrows jumped up again at the politeness of the boy, he quickly followed him into the house, he looked around the house, it was typically muggle. Severus thought that it looked boring, he followed Harry towards the stairs expecting Harry to ask him to wait here while he went upstairs to collect his thing, but was taken aback when he saw him go to the cupboard under the stairs, he was even more surprised when he saw that there was a bed in there.
"You – You sleep in there?" questioned Snape not quite believing what he was seeing
"Yes" replied Harry "It's not much, but its all I've got" his smile hitching a bit. "Now if you would follow me ill just tell my Uncle that I'm going, and then we can go!"
Harry walked towards the kitchen and told his Uncle that he was going now and wouldn't be back until later. And with that he turned to Snape and gestured to go thought the front door and they left.
Snape told Harry that they were going to travel to Diagon Alley via a magical bus called the knight bus.
He explained that all you had to do to call it was to raise your wand into the air and it would appear right in front of you.
"Does all magic have to be preformed by a wand?" Asked Harry
"Yes" replied Snape "however there is a thing called wandless magic which is extremely rare, and almost impossible to achieve"
Harry was a bit miffed by this information because it seemed that he was able to do magic without a wand. However he put this down to the fact that he was also a vampire.
Snape raised his wand and a gigantic purple bus appeared in front of them causing the lampposts and hedges to 'jump' out the way.
As they entered the bus a elderly man greeted them and led them to so seats around a window.
The bus then launched forwards again. Harry felt an odd build up of magic around the bus, he was just about to ask Snape what it was going to do and then with a terrific BANG. Harry was launched back into his chair that toppled over catching Harry by surprise he flipped over backwards and landed on his feet.
Snape eyed Harry with an air of surprise at his acrobatics and balance Harry glanced up at him and gave him a sheepish smile. "Wasn't expecting that to happen"
The rest of the ride was uneventful, they arrived outside a dingy little pub which was shouldered by a huge Bookstore and a Record shop. It seemed to Harry that the people around them could not see the pub at all.
The pub was giving off another scent of magic. Harry turned to Snape and asked whether the people could se it.
"No" he replied "The pub has anti-muggle charms over it"
"Anti-muggle?" he questioned "What's a muggle?"
Snape let out a exasperated sigh "A non-magical person" he then muttered under his breath "I didn't know this was going to be so hard, he knows nothing!"
However due to Harry's acute hearing he heard him, and his head drooped.
They made there way into the pub past all the funny looking people dressed in robes and out to the back where there was a dustbin lying next to the wall. As soon as harry looked at the wall a strange orange glow in the shape of an arch, wondering what it represent he watched Snape pull out his wand and taped a brick three times, the brick shrived and then one by one the bricks sank back into the ground leaving a huge archway in the same position that Harry saw the orange glow.
Harry followed Snape into diagon alley, there was loads of shops crammed tightly next to each other, each selling magical items.
Harry's eyes were working overtime, it seemed that all the magical objects held some sort of glow, he assumed that the different colour represented what type spell on it.
Wondering where they were heading he asked Snape
"Ermm, excuse me Professor Snape, where are we heading?"
Snape turned round and said "Gringotts, we need to get your money to buy all your equipment"
Harry's stomach plummeted. Money, he didn't have any, how was he supposed to get money out if he didn't have any!
"Professor, I – I don't have any money" he blushed out "I have always had to get money from my Aunt and Uncle"
"Don't be silly Potter" snapped Snape "Don't you think your stupid parents left you any money?"
Harry was taken back by the harshness of Snape's words he fell silent.
Walking up the marble stairs they entered into a very well polished floor with odd creatures holding large round discs of gold.
"Are those Goblins?" questioned Harry.
Snape sneered down at him with confusement etched into his face, "Yes they are, how did you know that?"
"Ermm' stuttered Harry 'I just knew?"
With one last glance at Harry, Professor Snape stopped at a counter, a very large counter with a goblin perched onto.
"We are here to withdraw some money from Mr Harry Potter's Vault" said Professor Snape
"Very well' replied the goblin' do you have his key?"
"Yes its right here, we are also wanting to retrieve the artifact in vault number 713, I have a letter here from Albus Dumbledore" said Snape handing over the key and the strange envelope.
"All seems to be in order, Griphook"…. (You know the rest I hope…)
Harry departed Gringotts with as more money than he had in his entire life, as they walked down the steps Snape said that they were to head to Florish and Blotts, which turned out to be a bookstore.
Harry bought all the books on his school list, he also asked Professor Snape if he could buy some extra books, Snape said he didn't mind as long as one of them was a advanced potion's book. It turned out that he was the potion's master, so along with the potion book he got an Advance Curse book, a book on mythological creature, and a book on vampires. He thought the book on vampires would help him understand what he could do, and what was expected of him.
Snape questioned the book on vampires and harry replied by saying that they had intrigued him for a long time.
Next was the robe store where harry got a variety of school robes, as well as some formal robes as Snape suggested that they mite come in handy.
They next went to enlope's owl emporium, where harry bought a beautiful black raven. Snape thought his choice of messenger bird was a bit extreme, but harry pleaded so much that Snape said it wasn't his fault if he couldn't take it.
Their next stop was Ollivanders, makers of fine wands since 326BC.
As soon as Harry stepped foot in the store he was nearly blasted back with the amount of magic stored in the room, he blinked several times trying to get adjusted to the amount of different lights glaring from the wands.
"Ah yes, yes Harry Potter I was wondering when I would be seeing you. And Severus Snape what a pleasant surprise, dragon heart string and beach wood was it not?" asked Mr Ollivander
"Yes" was the only answer Severus gave leaving a disappointed look upon Mr Ollivanders face
"It seems just yesterday' he continued 'that you're mother and farther were in here buying there 1st wand, now what is your wand arm?"
"Ermm, I can use both hands" replied Harry
"Ambidextrous excellent" exclaimed Mr Ollivander "now try this beech wood and unicorn tail"
As soon as he placed the wand into Harry's hand he snatched it off him again "Nope definitely not, now this one oak wood and dragon heart string" this pattern continued for quite some time, Harry noticed that Professor Snape was becoming more and more irritated.
"Hmm, I wonder… Holly and Phoenix feather"
Harry could literally see the magic flowing of the wand, as soon as he took hold of the wand a blinding red light engulfed the room.
"Well give it a wave" persisted Snape who now looked thoroughly excited
With a flick of his wrist Harry watched in amazement as the rest of Mr Ollivanders shop suddenly became utterly spotless with no trace of dust anywhere and also all the wands had re-arranged themselves on the shelves.
"Oh bravo' chanted Ollivander' ive been meaning to do that for a long time, however that's very curious, very curious"
"Excuse me Mr Ollivander but what is so curious" inquired Harry
"It seems… you see Mr Potter that the phoenix feather that resides in your wand gave only one other, and its curious that you are destined to have this wand as its brother, its brother gave you that scar"
Harry noticed that Professor Snape gasped loudly and his right hand went straight to his left forearm as if it hurt him.
Mr Ollivander noticed this aswell and quickly wrapped the wand.
Snape lead harry back to the Leaky Cauldron, and asked the bartender 'Tom' if he had a room vacant for harry, but before everyone could turn round to see who wanted the room, Snape had pushed harry up the stairs and into a room, he dumped the bags at the foot of the bed and turned to speak to harry.
"It's been nice meeting you harry, you are to stay here until the 1st of September, which then u are to go to platform 9 ¾, if you get used to the wizarding world quick enough u could flu there, but until then, see you later". And with that he left