A/N: Did you like the other two chapters? Soon, Laurie will get to met the Golden Trio!

"There's no such thing. You know that, or at least you should. I'm starting to believe you mental and belong in some sort of facility. Now if you excuse me, you are blocking my way out." Laurie said, standing up.

Dumbledore chuckled, "Your clever. You would do well in Slytherin. Please sit down Miss Broden, it's no use in trying to leave, the doors are locked shut. Now, where was I? Ah, yes...witchcraft. Although it sounds absurd, I can honestly say that I am telling the truth. I should like to take you to Ollivanders as soon as possible. In fact..."

Just then the women with the tight bun burst in.

"Did you modify her memory yet? I should like her to leave soon. The students are getting out of control and are already lead to believe that she is some sort of ghost...well, she sure looks like one..." McGonagall said, gazing at Laurie's once pale with fright face and now pink with embarassment.

"Menerva, I was just explaining to Laurie about what it is like here at Hogwarts. Laurie, this is Professor McGonagall. She is the Transfiguration teacher here at Hogwarts." Dumbledore said pleasantly.

"Nice to properly meet you." Laurie muttered, half to herself.

"I am planning to take her to Ollivanders to find a wand so she may continue her education here at Hogwarts." Dumbledore said.

McGonagall looked bewildered.

"Surely you are not serious! She is a muggle! What will her parents say? What about her school? And her classmates? You have thought this through, haven't you? Professor, if you don't mind me saying so, this idea that a muggle can attend to Hogwarts, school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is a bit farfetched."

"An excellent point, Menerva. Laurie, how may we contact your parents?"

Laurie shifted her feet, "I...haven't got any. My mother died when I was three, and my father got cancer and died shortly after my eigth birthday."

Dumbledore looked sympathetic, "A terrible loss, indeed. I suppose you live in a foster home?"

Laurie looked at the floor.

"Well, I live in an orphanage." Laurie said.

"Pardon?" McGonagall said.

"You know, where orphans sometimes live if they don't have any relatives to take care of them. I hate it there, I would rather stay here with a bunch of lunatics then back at the Orphanage. Nobody will miss me if I go, I can assure you that." Laurie said without a trace of pity for herself.

"Well, that settles that, Menerva. But thank you for your concern."

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"Now, Menerva here has written a few letters and you are now free to be educated at Hogwarts for five years. Since this year has barely just started, you will be able to join Hogwarts without much disagreements. You will be joining your fellow third years tonight when you are aquainted to the common room of your house. There are four houses; Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and of course Hufflepuff. You will be decided which house you are in in my office while the students attend to the Great Hall for supper. Menerva has volenteered to take you to go shopping in Diagon Alley for all your school supplies." Dumbledore informed Laurie.

"You will need a wand, a cat, owl, or toad, textbooks, robes, and if you wish to fly, a broom. Menerva, I suggest you take Miss Broden to Ollivanders first, as I am so eager to get her started on magic. Then her robes, pet, books, and so on."

McGonagall straitened her hat. "Follow me, Miss Broden."

"Sometimes I get the feeling that McGonagall does nothing but give orders. I suppose she thinks she a queen." Laurie thought to herself.

"Take a pinch of this powder. It's called floo powder. What you're going to do is scatter the powder in the fireplace. Then step into the fire and talk in a loud and clear voice, 'Diagon Alley'. Understood? Oh, It won't hurt you!" she said after she glanced at Laurie's shocked face.

"Honestly, you'd think this girl was afraid of anything that has to do with magic." McGonagall muttered to herself as she threw down the powder and yelled

"Diagon Alley!".

It was quite a sight, seeing a women being engulfed by bottlegreen flames.

Laurie glanced around the room.

"I can see it now. Headline of the newspaper reads 'Girl kills herself by throwing herself in a fire accidentily'" Laurie thought.

She threw down the powder and yelled "Diagon Alley" the same way McGonagall had.

Hot ashes found their way up Laurie's nose. She stifled her sneeze with difficulty so she wouldn't get ashes in her mouth.

Then when the swirling of the walls around stopped, everything came out of focus.

Then she saw a women smoothing out her robes about three feet away in a city.

"P-p-professor? I'm a bit lightheaded." Laurie managed so say, staggering this way and that.

"Yes, well...we best be getting a move on. Professor Dumbledore will want us back soon so you can be sorted. Follow me." McGonagall said, walking stiffly to a store across the street from where Laurie stood.

"If that revolting women says 'Follow me' one more time, im going to chuck my shoe at her head and hope she gets a whiff of its foul odor. That should be enough to put her out cold for a bit." Laurie thought as she followed McGonagall across the street.

A/N: Hehe, Laurie would be good in Slytherin, huh? She's kind of evil, if I do say so myself. But who wouldn't want to chuck their shoe at McGonagall? XD