First Year With Westin

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Now that I've for certain got the plot, chapters should be longer and better.

Chapter 2: The Best Trip To Diagon Alley

I'd never been happier to emerge from a fire in Diagon Alley. Today I was getting my school supplies, after a visit to Quality Quidditch Supplies and Pistol's Radios of course. Mum and Dad said that I could have a radio for school. Of course, I couldn't bring my broom to school, I frowned when I remembered this.

Mum was heading for Flourish and Blotts. Dad and I groaned. "Hermione, why not get...her robes first?" Mum sighed a bit, then put on her bright smile. "Off we go then, to Madam Malkin's Robes For All Occasions!" Mum pranced ahead and I gave Dad our 'look'. "What? It was the best I could do, Westin, honest!" We laughed and walked quicker to catch up to Mum. Dad and I looked hungrily at a cafe near the Apothecary, on our way into the robes shop. I spotted Rosa immediately. Madam Malkin had passed away when I was a toddler. Her daughter, Rosa Horseman, inherited the business. When we had gotten my school robes Dad practically dragged us out and steered us toward that cafe.

The little cafe was called Jane's, after the owner's mother, Jane Haff. I always knew who ran what, who they were, and everything. After Voldemort returned, again, Dad, as Head Auror, made monthly searches, with Uncle Harry, of shops in Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade, and especially Knockturn Alley for any signs, hints, anything at all. So in turn they knew everyone. Before the waitress came Mum spotted Aunt Ginny. "Ginny! Come on over and have lunch with us!" Aunt Ginny looked over at us and smiled. She walked over, hugs and kisses were exchanged and Aunt Ginny sat down.

I let my thoughts wander as Mum, Dad, and Aunt Ginny chatted. I'd seen Hogwarts a few times, but I'd never been in the castle. I'd been around the grounds and to visit Hagris though. I wondered what the class rooms looked like, what the students and teachers were like. I snapped out of my wandering thought because of a hand waving in my face. "Huh?" I said feeling very stupid. Aunt Ginny chuckled. "I said, have you spoken with Izza at all about Hogwarts?" I scratched my head guiltily and grinned. "Well I'd forgotten she's also starting school this year." Aunt Ginny gave a small laugh and took a bite of her lunch. I looked down at my own untouched lunch and laughed. When Mum, Dad, and Aunt Ginny looked at me I explained. "I'm having a terribly off day." They nodded slowly and I supressed my laughter to tiny giggles. I thought about Izza, my cousin the same age as me. Her name is actually Isabella, but that name just doesn't suit her. I would be starting school with her, been around her my whole life, and I barely knew her? How odd it would feel. How odd indeed.

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Well, that's the second chapter! The third will be (hopfully) longer and better! Now that you've read, review!!!