Chapter 2:
Diagon Alley and the Hogwarts Express
When Luna and her mother and sister entered Diagon Alley, they headed to Gringott's Wizarding bank to get some money before they started shopping.
"I'm heading to Flourish and Blott's bookstore first." Luna said, and without an answer, she took off.
When she entered the shop, she pulled out her list and began searching for the books.
"Well, if it isn't Luna Moon. The smartest witch of her age." Someone behind a nearby bookshelf said as Luna headed toward the Potions section.
Luna quickly spun around to see who it was, and when she spotted them, she did a double take.
"Professor… What are you doing here?" Luna asked, clearly puzzled.
"I'm looking for some spell books. I need a new collection. It seems that Professor Snape got mad at me for some silly reason, and burned all my other ones." Professor Remus J. Lupin said as he thumbed through a particularly thick spell book.
"I never see you in Diagon Alley during the summer. How have you been?" Luna asked.
"I've been better. It's actually nice that someone asks me that. No one ever does, especially since both my best friends are dead." Lupin said, clearly its still too painful for him to talk about his late friends Sirius Black and James Potter.
"How's Harry doing? Is he still depressed about it?" Luna asked.
"I'm helping him try to get through the loss, so, basically, yes, he's still depressed about it." Lupin said.
"I wish there was something I could do to help." Luna said.
"Everyone's been helping us lately, especially Professor Dumbledore. He's a really smart man. I'm glad he's the headmaster. He's actually a lot better than Dippet was." Lupin said.
"Really? That's cool." Luna said.
"I'm sorry if I've been blabbing too much. I haven't been able to talk to anyone for along time, since I've been stuck in my house all summer." Lupin said.
"It's okay." Luna said.
"Well, I've got to continue searching for spell books. Happy shopping." Lupin said.
When Luna went back to shopping, she spotted one of her friends standing by the window with his parents.
"Roger!" Luna said, excitedly, to get Roger Davies' attention.
"Luna! How have you been? I'm looking forward to the new school year. How about you? I wonder what new things were going to learn in our classes this year. I just hope they're not the same stuff as last year and the year before. That's getting pretty boring." Roger said.
"I don't think Defense Against the Dark Arts will be the same." Luna said.
"What do you mean?" Roger asked, curiously.
"Lupin's getting new spell books." Luna said.
"Why? Doesn't he have enough?" Roger asked.
"No. What I mean is that he has to replace the old ones." Luna said.
"Really? What happened? Did he figure out that they're not accurate? I could've told him that myself." Roger said.
"No it's not that either. It seems that Snape got mad at him and burned all the others, so we might get better ones this year." Luna said.
"Really? That's interesting. Do you know what they fought about?" Roger said.
"He didn't say they fought. He just said that Snape got mad at him. About what, I don't know." Luna said.
"Roger, we've got to finish our shopping now. Say goodbye to Miss Moon. You can always talk on the train tomorrow." Mrs. Davies said.
"Alright mum. Well, I guess I'll talk to you on the train tomorrow. See ya then. Bye." Roger said, then left the shop with his mother.
When Luna finished up her shopping, she met up with her mother, who was in the Apothecary, and went to look for her sister.
"Jamie, we need to get home. Dad'll be there soon, and I want to get home before he does." Luna said.
"Geez, you're so pushy." Jamie said.
"I have the right to bepushy. Now, come on." Luna said.
When they got home, Mrs. Moon forced the house-elf to clean and make dinner (they spentmost of their time shopping).
After a fewhours of getting the house clean and the dinner cooked, Mr. Moon came home around eight 'o clock.
"Welcome back, dad. I missed you. How was Japan?" Jamie asked.
"It was wonderful. I brought back souveniors. I hope you like them." Mr. Moon said.
"They're souveniors, why wouldn'twe like them?"Luna asked.
A couple minutes later, the house-elf came pushing the cart of food into the dining room.
"So, did either of you see any of your friends in Diagon Alley?" Mr. Moon asked.
"Yeah. I saw Roger Davies. And I also saw Professor Lupin." Luna said.
"Really? How is ol' Lupin doing? Is he still teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts up at old Hogwarts?" Mr. Moon asked.
"Yeah. He's the best Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher ever. He's a lot different from all the other ones we've had. He's even lasted longer than them." Jamie said.
"Looks like the curse is broken. I remember how hard it wasfor a teacher to stay in that position for more than half a year. But it looks as though Dumbledore got tired of hiring other people for the position." Mr. Moon said.
After they finished their dinner, and ate their dessert, they headed to bed early (after packing their trunks).
The next morning...
"Luna! Jamie! It's time to get up! You're going to be late for the train!" Mrs. Moon screeched from downstairs.
Once Luna got up, she grabbed all her belongings and brought them downstairs for the ministry wizards to put in the cars Mr. Moon had hired.
The two girls ate a fast breakfast, headed to the cars, and left to King's Cross.
When they got onto platform 9 3/4, Luna found her friends, and sat with them on the train.