C.10 Shopping With GASP!

Sarah woke up early that morning. Thank God Lily was ever so nice and let her clothes. So was Jasmine. But now she was going to finally get clothes of her own. No more borrowing! Of course this also meant getting the school supplies as well. She wouldn't be able to get out of it. No way.

Sarah rolled out of bed. Lily left some clothes on the chest. She was running late. Great, just fucking great! She mentally kicked herself. This was not going well. She quickly dressed and ran down the stairs to the Common Room. Sure she didn't want to get the wand and show her true colors! Of course it would only be the best if McGonagall grew furious and refused to take her. McGonagall...that's right. She was going to take Sarah shopping.

Sarah shook her head. There's no use in delaying the inevitable, she thought as she raced out of the Common Room and through the halls. It was amazing what she had learned since she came a week ago. Not really, considering her midnight rendezvous and the Marauder's Map, it wasn't shocking at all. And then she reached the giant oak doors. She walked in and headed towards the Gryffindor table. She glanced towards the teachers' table at the front of the room. Good. She's still eating. She can't be mad then. She sat down in her now usual spot: between Sirius and Remus.

'You know, you're a delightful shade of red,' Sirius slurred out, as if he was drunk.

Sarah sighed. 'I just came running down here. Today's the day I go shopping with McGonagall.'

'Oh, really,' Sirius dropped his drunken slur. 'You're going shopping with McGonagall?'

Remus sprayed his drink all over Peter (A/N: You'll see evil things accidentally done to Peter because I dislike him).

'UGHH!' Peter groaned. 'Now I've got orange juice all over me! Thanks a lot, Remus!'

Remus apologized to the sulking Peter. 'Now I have to change my robes,' Peter grumbled.

They stared as Peter walked away. Then Remus turned to Sarah and said, 'What!?'

Sarah shook her head. 'I have to go shopping for clothes and school supplies.'

Remus and Sirius both whispered, 'wand?'

Sarah sighed, 'yes.'

They exchanged glances. Lily looked over at her friend. 'Oh that's good. You can start practicing then. I can help you catch up?'

Remus interrupted her. 'I think Sirius and I will handle that. Right, Sirius?'

'Of course!' he chirped.

Sarah, in the meantime, had been shuffling down food. 'Bleh. Hopefully I didn't eat too fast and won't throw this up on the shopping "adventure!" '

Remus, Sirius and James cracked up. 'Oh man, McGonagall...covered in puke. I'd pay...to see...that. Could you...bring...along my...camera?' James laughed as he said that.

Lily hit him playfully. 'That's not very nice Mr. James Potter.'

Unfortunately, James could not flirt back or even kiss Lily as McGonagall's looming shadow hovered over him. 'It is time, Ms. Gregory.'

As Sarah was about to stand up to leave, Sirius whispered in her ear, 'Watch it! She sounds as if she's taking you to your death.'

She smiled and whispered back, 'It may very well be.'

She then stood up and followed McGonagall out to great oak doors. She frowned. 'Unfortunately, Hogsmeade does not have all of the, err, essential supplies. We will be traveling by floo powder to a place called Diagon Alley. It's imperative that you get the name right for saying it wrong could find yourself someplace you don't want to be...or worse.'

'Diagon Alley,' Sarah said perfectly. Man, I've been watching that Harry Potter movie way too much. Can't wait for the third one to come out!

McGonagall just stared at her. 'So you've heard of this place before,' she asked, eyebrow raised.

'You could say that,' Sarah responded. Then she found that they were in a room that contained a rather large fireplace. McGonagall stuck a pot of floo powder before her. She took a bit of floo powder and walked towards the fireplace. Once inside, she threw down the floo powder and said, 'Diagon Ally,' as a swarm of flame overtook her.

Sarah found herself in a pub. She looked around. Wow. Before she could get a look around, McGonagall came gracefully from the fireplace. She's like a cat. DOH! She is a cat, at least animagus-wise.

'Come.' It was all that McGonagall said. Sarah chased after her to find that she was facing a brick wall. Three up...two across...Sarah almost muttered out loud. She smiled. Man, she pottered too much in her days.

They walked in and began the shopping spree. First, McGonagall took Sarah to the robes store. Sarah spent as much time as she could in there. Maybe if she wasted enough time then she would be able to put off getting a wand. She didn't waste enough time. They were leaving the robes store.

To Sarah's delight they stopped and made orders for all of her other school supplies before going after the wand. Unfortunately, they just placed the orders. Sarah decided she'd have to be a bitch and tried window- shopping...excessive window-shopping. All that ended up was Sarah shopping with a pissed-off McGonagall. Oh well, better pissed off than pissed on. She thought glumly as they headed towards Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C. Wonder why that sounds familiar? Sarah smiled to herself.

Her stomach growled. It's probably been hours since she had last eaten. Great. She knew that the wand thing was inevitable, but man, why couldn't it be put off? She wanted to procrastinate getting her memory blanked and sent home. Great, just fucking great!

They entered the shop. She heard the sound of a faint bell as McGonagall sat in the only chair. Then a man with silver lamps (A/N: lamps meaning eyes, pplz! ^-^) approached. 'Good Afternoon, Professor McGonagall. Mahogany, dragon heartstring, 8 ½ inches. Good for Transfiguration.' McGonagall blinked.

He looked at Sarah. 'Good Afternoon. You must be Sarah Gregory. For your first Ollivanders wand, I see.'

He then produced a tape measurer from seemingly nowhere. He is a wizard after all; Sarah scolded her shock. After standing for a few minutes and feeling the idiot, Sarah noticed him staring at the markings on the measuring tape. Oh great, here it comes. She couldn't help but feel sick. 'Interesting...' Ollivander trailed off. Then he abruptly turned to McGonagall. 'It seems that we cannot supply her a wand. The wand that the measuring tape calls for is...rare. It will take about a week to come in. I will send it to Hogwarts as soon as I can.'

And that was it. Sarah had a week. She still had another week. Maybe muggles come up on the tape and they get rare wands? And when the wands don't work, they are now discovered? She didn't know. She was so happy. One more week. Hmm. This had better be a good one. She'd go down in style.

Looony Moony: well, I always thought that they called each other by their marauders' names. But I don't have him called Moony, 'cause I like the Moonmeister. Besides, Sarah knows his name is Remus; she happens to be an hp fan! She might use it or hear later on; I just move too slowly. *Sigh* we'll see, we'll see.