Yeah, I know, I'm being lazy again. Sorry about that.

Some parts of this fic might be a bit AU-ish. I started writing it before HBP came out and didn't feel like changing it :P

4. And even weirder people

'Hello, Mr. Ollivander,' Aunt Luna said.

'Ah, Luna!' the old man said, looking at the wand stuck behind the woman's ear 'Unicorn hair, wasn't it? Ten and a half inches…'

'I heard he remembers every wand he's ever sold,' Jimmy whispered to Daisy.

'Yes, indeed,' the man said 'I do.' Apparently his hearing was as good as his memory. Then he spotted Uncle Harry.

'Mr. Potter!' he exclaimed 'Holly and phoenix feather, eleven inches, great wand…'

'Uh… Yes…' Uncle Harry said 'We are… erm… looking for something for Jimmy and Daisy here…'

'Ah, yes,' said Ollivander finally noticing the two children. Not that they really wanted to be noticed at the moment. Daisy actually wished she could just disappear. This man was scary!

XXX

It took a while to find the right wands for Daisy and Jimmy. There were lots of wands in the shop and they had to try one after another until they found the right ones. Jimmy seemed very excited about it, Daisy felt rather stupid. After all only a few days ago she wouldn't have imagined buying a wand. She had no idea that she was a witch. And, as she tried one wand after another and nothing happened, she began to think that maybe she was not a witch after all. She saw red sparks shoot from a wand in Jimmy's hand. He was more thrilled than ever before. He tried to do it again and again; another stream of sparks nearly hit Daisy.

'Sorry,' he said, even though he probably wasn't very sorry, since only a few seconds later he was trying to shoot some more sparks in a different direction.

So he already had his wand. But Daisy had to keep trying, more and more worried with every wand she picked up. What if she tried every wand in the shop and didn't find the right one? What if it turned out it was all a mistake? Maybe she didn't belong in the wizarding world? And then, what if it turned out she didn't belong in the Muggle world any more either? She panicked. What if she was a freak by both, wizard and Muggle standards? And then, suddenly, as she took another wand in her hand, her fingers felt oddly warm and yellowish sparks shot out of the wand. Daisy had known what to expect, but it was still quite a shock to her. She felt as if she was going to pass out again.

'Wow…' she said weakly 'Did I do that?'

XXX

Just as they were about to leave Diagon Alley, Jimmy remembered one more thing.

'Dad,' he said 'You said we could go to the WWW today!'

Daisy wondered what on earth the WWW was.

'Daisy seems rather tired, you know…' Uncle Harry pointed out 'Maybe we can come back later.'

The girl wanted to agree, but curiosity took over…

XXX

The shop was rather small and full of things that looked far too interesting for Daisy to want to touch them. One of the very few things she knew about the wizarding world was that interesting things tended to be dangerous. A red-haired boy only a few years older than her was standing behind the counter. Jimmy ran over to him as soon as he saw him.

'Hey, Corn!' he almost shouted 'What are you doing here?'

'Helping Uncle Fred with the shop,' the older boy said 'My dad is always talking about my future, and how I have to work hard at school, and then get a good job and work even harder… And how I'm wasting my life on stupid things like fun,' for some reason the grin on his face was growing wider and wider as he spoke 'So I decided to prove him wrong and get a job…'

'At a joke shop!' Jimmy laughed 'That's a good one! What did he say?'

'A lot of things I didn't really listen to,' Corn said 'But I understood it's safer to spend the rest of the summer here.'

'So Percy still doesn't approve of jokes?' Uncle Harry said, rather amused.

'I don't think he ever will,' Corn admitted.

'Oh, by the way,' Jimmy said 'This is my cousin, Daisy Dursley.'

'Hi,' Daisy said quietly.

'And that's Cornelius Weasley,' he introduced the boy, who made a face at the sound of his name.

'My dad's a bit crazy,' Cornelius told Daisy 'You can call me Corn… Actually, you can call me anything as long as it's not my name…'

'All right, idiot,' said Jimmy.

'Hey!'

'What? That's not your name, is it?'

'You're lucky you're not a girl, Corn,' they heard another voice 'or he could have named you Dolores.'

Everybody seemed to find this very amusing.

'Hi, Fred. How's everything going?' Uncle Harry asked as a red-haired man walked in from some other room.

'All right,' he said 'Corn's helping me a lot. And my own kids are trying to help,' he smiled 'Even Georgia, although she's still too little to be much help.'

Suddenly the conversation was interrupted by a loud noise coming from what must have been some kind of storeroom. A moment later a girl a few years younger than Daisy ran out of the storeroom.

'Dad!' she shouted 'Fabian's been trying to hex me again!'

'I should have known better than to give them wands before they go to Hogwarts' said the man, who was probably the girl's father.

'Whatever it is, we didn't do it!' two boys said, following the girl into the shop. For a moment Daisy thought they were twins. They were both about the same age as she was and had red hair, like the rest of their family. After a closer look at their faces, however, she realised they actually looked quite different.

Daisy was introduced to everybody again and found out that the man's name was Fred Weasley, Georgia and Gideon were his children and Fabian was the son of his twin brother, who had died in some kind of war, a few months before Georgia was born (It seemed that Mr. Weasley had always been a very cheerul person, the kind of person who believes bad things only happen to others. He apparently still found it strange and more frightening than the wizarding world was for Daisy to talk about tragic things like his brother's death). She also found out that a magical joke-shop is a very dangerous place.

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When Daisy finally got rid of the feathers ('Canary Cream!' Gideon had laughed 'I thought nobody fell for that any more!') it was time to leave. The girl was extremely tired. It had been a long day, full of shocks and surprises, and she couldn't wait to get back home for some rest. The journey seemed to go on for ages. However the nearer home was, the more Daisy began to worry. All right. So she was a witch. So she was going to Hogwarts. So she had a wand, a cauldron and a lot of spellbooks. What now?