Yes, Harry and Luna. Why not? I kind of like the pairing. And I like the idea of Luna being a member of Daisy's family even more :P

(Sorry for not updating for such a long time. I had a cold, a lot of problems with my dear parents and not very much time…)

3. All those weird places

Daisy couldn't help being excited the whole next day. She wrote a letter to her grandparents. Ten letters in fact, because every time she finished one she decided it wasn't good enough, threw it away and began to write a new one. She spent half a day writing the letters and the other half wondering what the wizarding world was like. She didn't sleep much that night, because she was too excited, and when she finally fell asleep, her dreams were all about magic. She found this rather disturbing. She had never dreamed about magic before.(1) But of course, she had never thought magic could be real. And now it turned out that, abnormal or not, scary or not, it simply was there and didn't need Daisy's belief to exist.

When the Potters finally arrived and they set off for Diagon Alley, she was almost disappointed to see that they were going by car. She had expected something more unusual.

'It doesn't… fly or anything?' she asked as they got into the car.

'No, that's illegal,' Uncle Harry told her 'And I have some bad experiances with flying cars…'

'Do you mean the time when you and Ronald -?' Aunt Luna asked.

'Yes…' Uncle Harry seemed rather embarassed.

Daisy wanted to ask what exactly had happened, but decided not to. She wasn't a particularly brave person, and when she was nervous, she was shyer than usual. And she certainly was nervous now. She was in a car (which may or may not be magical) with people she had only met once before, going to a place she had never been to, to see and buy things that she had always been sure did not exist.

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By the time Uncle Harry parked the car in front of a small pub somewhere in London, Daisy was terrified. She had nearly got used to the thought that she was a witch and she had been waiting for this impatiently, but waiting is one thing, and the moment when the thing you are waiting for actually happens is another. Shaking with fear, she followed the others into the pub and then out through another door. Then she closed her eyes, scared of what she might see. After a moment she felt someone, probably Jimmy, grab her hand and lead her where a brick wall had been before she closed her eyes.

'Come on, Daisy!' he said 'We can't stand here all day!'

The girl opened her eyes to see a whole street that hadn't been there a few minutes earlier.

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They walked past some of the strangest shops Daisy had ever seen. She kept looking around in something between shock and amazement. There were shops selling spellbooks, robes, broomsticks (There was a small crowd of people in front of that shop admiring the latest model. Jimmy just had to stop and join them for a while.) and cauldrons. All this, however, was nothing, compared to the bank. The first thing there that surprised Daisy was meeting the goblins. They were weird! She felt rather uneasy when she exchanged her Muggle money for Galeons. The Potters seemed quite used to all that and Jimmy actually found it funny when she said it was scary.

'Remember she grew up in a Muggle family, Jimmy,' Uncle Harry reminded him 'When I came here for the first time -'

'Yeah, I know… sorry…'

'It's ok,' Daisy assured him 'So, what do we do now?'

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Fifteen minutes later Daisy really regretted agreeing to go to the Potters' vault with her family. Jimmy had told her the cart-ride was fun. Well it was certainly not the kind of fun she liked. She got out of the cart and tried to remember how to walk. It suddenly seemed rather difficult. The world around her still seemed to be moving very fast, or possibly spinning and she felt rather sick and desperately needed some fresh air. The wizarding world might have been more interesting than the Muggle one, but it also appeared much more dangerous. She didn't have much time to think about that. Everything was spinning faster and faster, and then the ground was closer and closer, but it disappeared before she hit it. Everything disappeared.

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'Daisy!' somebody called her…

'Are you all right?' she heard another voice…

'Maybe the ride wasn't really such a good idea…' somebody else wondered. She agreed. It had not been good. It had been… kind of like a Muggle roller-coaster, but underground and much more scary. She opened her eyes to see that she was already outside. Uncle Harry must have carried her here for some fresh air while she was unconscious.

'What happened?' she asked. She never really got an answer. Instead more questions were asked.

'Are you all right, Daisy?' Uncle Harry wanted to know.

'I think so,' the girl said.

'Do you think you need a bit of rest now?' Aunt Luna asked sounding rather worried.

'Mum!' Jimmy on the other hand sounded rather annoyed 'She's been lying here for -'

'This is why she might need a break,' said Uncle Harry.

'What do you think?' Aunt Luna asked Daisy 'Can we go on?'

'As long as it doesn't involve another ride like this,' Daisy said standing up. There were still lots of other weird places to visit. She was not sure she wanted to visit them any more, but, as she was already standing in an invisible street, in front of a bank ran by goblins, it was probably too late to change her mind now.

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'So now you only need your wands,' said Uncle Harry some time later. They had visited about half of the shops in this strange street. There had been no more unexpected scary underground roller-coaster rides, but Daisy was still very tired and the only reason why she didn't show it was that she was even more excited, frightened and amazed at the same time. They had bought a large amount of books about magic (Jimmy had insisted on buying a copy of something called The Monster Book of Monsters, which had to be kept in a cage; Uncle Harry said something about his old copy running away a few years ago.), some black robes which were apparently the school uniform, two cauldrons, two telescopes and a few other things Daisy had never thought she would ever need, until last week.

The four of them headed for a rather old and shabby-looking shop.(2) The words Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC over the door looked rather as if they had been there since 382 BC.

When they entered the shop, it seemed empty, except for one chair and quite a lot of boxes, which must have contained the magic wands. Daisy felt rather uneasy. She noticed that this time it wasn't only her. She had never seen Jimmy looking frightened before. Now he seemed almost as nervous as Daisy was herself. Even Uncle Harry looked a bit nervous. Aunt Luna was the only one who reamined perfectly calm, and was actually smiling. Everyone else was looking around, waiting impatiently for…

'Good afternoon,' said someone they had not seen a few seconds earlier.

(1) It never occurred to anyone in her perfectly normal family, that dreams are actually supposed to be strange. In fact, not dreaming about 'abnormal' things is abnormal.

(2) Daisy had already noticed, that, apparently, the more uninteresting a place looked to a Muggle, the more magical it turned out to be.