(A.N: Thanks 4 your reviews the realy help and no the charmed ones were not in america at the time.)

The Trip To Diagon Alley

The next morning, I awoke with the light of dawn. I sat up and examined my suoundings. A smile formed on my face. So it wasn't a dream. My smile grew wider as visions of the day before flashed before me. As my eyes wandered around the room, they settled on a familiar, wavy-haired, girl in the bed across from me. I pushed the covers off of me and quietly got out of bed, as so not to wake anyone else in the room. I tip-toed over to the bed across from mine. As I reached the bed, I noticed that a blonde girl was staring at me in the bed next to mine.

"What are you doing?"I asked her, alittle over a whisper.

"What am I doing?"she whispered back."What are you doing?"

I thought a moment and realized that I was the one sneaking around.

"Oh, um...I was just."

"Oh,"she interupted. "You must be the new girl."

"Oh...um, yeah, I am."

"Well I'm Lavender,"she said, seemingly proud of herself for it."Lavender Brown."

"I'm Nicole, Nicole Wright."

"Nicole?"

I looked back at the wavy-haired girl and realized who it was.

"Oh, morning Hermione."

"What are you over here for?"

"Oh, I..."

"She was going to wake you up."interupted Lavender."You know, classes?!"

"Oh I totally forgot!" said Hermione as she jumped out of bed. Hermione ran back and forth, getting changed, brabbing books, brushing her hair. Lavender and I just stared. Finally I walked back over to my bed and looked at Lavender. I mouthed her a 'Thank you' and got ready. I put on a pair of my Tommy Hilfiger jeans and a light grey t-shirt. Then I folowed Hermione to the common room, where we meet Harry and Ron.

When we entered, they bid us 'Good morning', and we then headed down to breakfast. When we reached the Great Hall, we were greeted by the Gryffindor house ghost.

"Don't worry,"said Hermione, looking at my wide eyes."He's our friend,...Good day Sir Nicolas."

"Good day Miss Granger,"he said, then looked at me."And who is this lovely young lady?"

"This is Nicole Wright."said Hermione."Shes new."

"Oh, I see, well good day to you all."

"Good day!" we replied.

We continued into the Great Hall, and took our seats. For breakfast, there was: Eggs, omlettes, bacon, sausage, buttered toast with jam, pancakes, waffles, sweet potatoes, house fries, hashbrowns, and more. It was great! We pilled the food on our plates, as we had done the night before. After my second serving, I turned to Ron to ask him a question, but he was busy chewing the rest of his waffle, so I turned to Harry.

"Harry?"

"Yeah?"he smiled as he turned towards be.

"Who was that boy on the train?"

"Oh," his smile faded."That was Draco Malfoy, a no good Slytherin." he said pointing at the table near the south wall."Why?"

"Huh?" my attention turned from the Slytherin boy, back to Harry."Oh, nothing, just wondering thats all."

After breakfast, I headed up to the staff table.

"Um, Professer Dumbledore, sir, I was wondering when I would start classes?"

"You will start tomorrow."he replied."But first you must go to Diagon Alley to get your school supplies."

"But sir, I don't know where Diagon Alley is."

"Don't worry, Hagrid will take you."

Hagrid gave me a smile and got up."Well, better be off now."he said."Come along Nicole."

I followed Hagrid to the front steps and he took out a pink umbrella.

"Oh don't worry."he said, looking at the confused look on my face."I have permission to apperate." and with a flick of his wand we dissapeared off school grounds and... We stood in the middle of what looked like a pub of sumsort.

"Follow me." was all he said.

I followed him to the back of the pub, where an old brick wall was. He took his umbrella and tapped a few brickes. The wall seemed to split in half and move to each side. I followed Hagrid into...well what I guessed was, Diagon Alley. It was amazing! Wiches and Wizards were all over, shopping, and eating in restaurants. We stopped at a pet store and Hagrid told me to choose an animal. I chose a black and white tabby cat. Hagrid pulled out a huge sack of what looked like gold, silver, and bronze coins.

"Here."he said handing me a handful of them."Give these to the clerk, it should pay for the tabby as well as his food and supplies."

I took the coins in surprise and looked at them.

"The gold ones are galleons, silver ones are sickles, and the bronze ones are knuts."he explained. I nodded as the confusion went away, and a sigh of relief washed over me. I gave the clerk 10 silver sickles and he gave me a cat carrier, some toys, and a large bag of cat food. I was surprised to see the clerk put the cat food and the toys into a small bag. He said a charm and the bag shrunk down to the size of my hand. I picked the bag up and handed it to Hagrid who put it into his pocket. Then he took the carrier and put the tabby into it. When we were finished, I followed Hagrid to a another store, 'Flourish & Blotts'. It was a bookstore. When we walked in, Hagrid turned to me with a piece of parchment.

"Now, I will get your books,"said Hagrid."Go down a ways and you'll come across 'Madam Malkin's Robes' store, go in and buy a couple sets, OK?"

I nodded. He took out the bag of coins and told me to grab a handful and put them in my pocket, so I took a large handful and carfully stuffed the coins into both pockets, as to they wouldn't all fit in one. I then left Flourish & Blotts, and headed down to Madam Malkins robe store. I walked a bit before stopping in front of a store window. It had a black robe, new, displayed in it. I looked up at a sign that read, 'Madam Malkins Robes for All Occasions'. This must be the place. I walked in, and was greeted by an elder lady.

"Good Day,"she said."I'm Madam Malkin."

"Hello."

"Hogwarts?" she asked. But before I could answer, she was getting out fitting tape and was measuring me.

"OK,"she said finally."Folow me please."

I followed Madam Malkin to a fitting stool and she motioned me to stand on it. When I got onto the stool, she flung a robe over me and started fitting it to my size. When she was done she asked me how many I needed.

" I'll take six please." I told her. She told me I could wait in a chair, by the counter. I waited for about five minutes until she finally arrived. She handed me the robes and I handed her the amount of 10 galleons and 2 silver sickles. I carried my new robes back to Flourish & Blotts wher Hagrid waited patiently. When I walke up, he smiled.

"Well, now all you need is a wand." he said. A what?!!!

Hadrid led me to a store called 'Ollivander's Wands'.

"OK, now hand me your things."he said, as I handed Hagrid my robes."OK, now go inside and Mr. Ollivander will see to it you get the right wand."

I walked in and saw an elderly man standing at the counter. He looked up as I approched him.

"Miss Wright, I presume."

I nodded.

"I have been expecting you."he sad taking down a coulpe of boxes from the back shelf. He opened one of the boxes and took out a thin pieces of wood, Cool a real wand!"Here, try this one." he told me. I took it, but what was I supposed to do with it?

"Well, give it a wave!" he told me. I gave it a swish and a flick. WHOOSH! A burst of lightning came from the wand and hit one of the many shelves.

"OOPS!"I yelled in appoligy."My bad!"

"NO, NO, definitly not!" he said, taking the wand from me and handing me one after another. It wasn't until the sixth one that I finally found the right one.

"Here, now try this one." he said handing me another wand."Now I must warn you, I have only givin two of these away, one to He-who-must-not-be-named, and the other to Mr. Harry Potter."

"I know Harry Potter." I told him."I meet him on the train."

"Well then I supposes you know his story then, eh?" he asked in wonder.

I nodded.

"Well go on and try it."he said, pointing at the wand I had been holding for quite some time now. I gave it a swish and a flick, and watched it in awe. The wand let out a stream of beautiful color.

"Well, what now?" I asked.

"The wand has chosen." he said."Now, off you go."

I gave him four silver sickles and 7 bronze knuts, and went on my way. Out side of Ollivanders I saw Hagrid waiting patiently once again.

"Get your wand?"

I nodded and showed him the thin pieces of wood I was holding in my hand.

"OK,"he said."Lets go."

I followed Hagrid back through the wall and into the pub, where we sat down to have dinner. When we started eating, I turned to him.

"Hagrid."I started."Who is this, Voldemort."

"Shhh, shhh,"he motioned me to lower my voice."People 'round here don't like to hear tha' name, Voldemort was a dark wizard..."he continued to tell me about Lord Voldemort and how he tried to gather up followers, but not all would join him."...So he killed 'em."

"How awful." I said with a sobb.

"Well, I guess we'd best be goin' now." he said, standing up and grabing my things. I picked up the cat carrier and walked over to Hagrid. He flicked his wand and we dissapeared from the pub. Next thing I knew I was in front of the castle again. Hagrid bid me goodnight and I took my things up to the Gryffindor tower. When I reached the portrait of the fatlady, I said the password.

"As you wish." she said to me. Did she just speak?! I shook my head in utter confusion and walked through the portrait hole. Once I was inside, I noticed a familiar face sitting on a chair by the fire.

"Ron?" I asked. The boy turned to me and smiled.

"OH, hi,"he said greeting me as I sat in the chair across from him.

"Get all of your things?"he asked nodding toward my pile of robes and my bag of books.

"Yeah."I said nodding. He then noticed the carrier I had been holding.

"What's in there?" he asked.

I opened the carrier door and out came the black and white tabby. The tabby jumped right into Rons lap.

"I think he likes you." I said with a chuckle.

"Uh, yeah." he said a little uneasy. After a while he calmed down. "So,...what are gunna name him."

"Umm..., I kinda thought speckles was a good name." I told him."What do you think?"

"I like it." he smiled, stroking the tabby's sleek fur.

I yawned.

"You should probibly go to bed." Ron suggested. I nodded.

"Good night."He said, giving me a smile.

"G'night."I said, returning the smile.

We bid our good nights and headed off to bed. When I entered the dormitory, I saw that everyone was fast asleep. So I quietly put my things away, put out some food & water for my new tabby, and snuck into bed. When I was settled in, Speckles hopped on my bed and currled up on my pillow, and we sleeped that way for the rest of the night.