THUNK.
My body landed with a loud thud as it hit the grate of a filthy looking pub full to bursting with women with tall pointy hats reading strange newspapers and magazines and men talking and mumbling about who knows what. No one seemed to notice that an eleven-year old girl had just come swirling out of the fireplace.
I stood up and brushed the ashes off my clothes and stepped away from the grate. This was an amazingly smart thing to do as Lily flounced out of the fireplace next.
"Mum and Petunia are coming soon." she said, a happy little note in her voice. Personally, I didn't see what was so great about traveling through a fireplace just to get to some filthy little bar full of strange people.
Moments later Petunia arrived and after her came mum.
Mum just stood up as if none of this was new and led us to a very tiny courtyard holding nothing but a brick wall and a trashcan. She walked over to the trashcan, lifted the lid, reached in and took put a long, thin, stick of wood. She tapped some bricks above the trashcan and threw the piece of wood back in.
To Lily, Petunia, and I's surprise the wall seemed to melt away. After we got over the shock we noticed that it opened up to a colorful alley full of shops and cafes and everything else in between. At the end of the seemingly never ending alignment of shops was a giant marble building that read "Gringotts". This was all to amazing to take in as strange as it was, this place was actually quite beautiful.
"Welcome to Diagon Alley girls!" Mum said happily. When I looked over at her I could see the twinkle of happiness in her eyes. They hadn't looked like that since daddy died. "Come on," she said and we followed her down the array of shops to the wonderful marble building.
My body landed with a loud thud as it hit the grate of a filthy looking pub full to bursting with women with tall pointy hats reading strange newspapers and magazines and men talking and mumbling about who knows what. No one seemed to notice that an eleven-year old girl had just come swirling out of the fireplace.
I stood up and brushed the ashes off my clothes and stepped away from the grate. This was an amazingly smart thing to do as Lily flounced out of the fireplace next.
"Mum and Petunia are coming soon." she said, a happy little note in her voice. Personally, I didn't see what was so great about traveling through a fireplace just to get to some filthy little bar full of strange people.
Moments later Petunia arrived and after her came mum.
Mum just stood up as if none of this was new and led us to a very tiny courtyard holding nothing but a brick wall and a trashcan. She walked over to the trashcan, lifted the lid, reached in and took put a long, thin, stick of wood. She tapped some bricks above the trashcan and threw the piece of wood back in.
To Lily, Petunia, and I's surprise the wall seemed to melt away. After we got over the shock we noticed that it opened up to a colorful alley full of shops and cafes and everything else in between. At the end of the seemingly never ending alignment of shops was a giant marble building that read "Gringotts". This was all to amazing to take in as strange as it was, this place was actually quite beautiful.
"Welcome to Diagon Alley girls!" Mum said happily. When I looked over at her I could see the twinkle of happiness in her eyes. They hadn't looked like that since daddy died. "Come on," she said and we followed her down the array of shops to the wonderful marble building.