Chapter 1: London

Her mother was dragging Caitlynn McKenzie through the streets of London. Just once, Caitlynn thought to herself, Can I just get away from this! Like all of the other trips, her mother had forced her to go with her on this business trip. Once again she would be stuck in the hotel room while her mother did her "business." And once again she would be in the presence of an old lady who is being paid to watch her. She thinks I'm a child! She thought to herself as they were going up the elevator. I'm sixteen years old for God's sake!

"Caitlynn, hurry up I'm going to be late for my 3:00 meeting!" Her mother told her as she was pulling her down the hall towards their suite. "Mrs. Stare has been waiting for us for 10 minutes!"

"Mom, chill out! I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself! Why did you get a sitter anyway? Don't you trust me?" Caitlynn asked as they were nearing their room.

"Oh Caitlynn," her mother said distractedly while she was trying to put in the card key, "you know I don't."

"Thanks a lot!" she said as her mother pushed open the door and stumbled into the room.

"Oh hello there Mrs. Stare! Sorry we are late." Her mom said to an old plump lady wearing a knitted sweater with kittens and puppies etched into it and black stretch pants, who was snoozing in the oversized armchair in front of the fireplace. (Caitlynn noticed her extremely revolting died orange hair.)

" Great Scott! The bumblebees! They're everywhere!" Mrs. Stare cried in her sleep.

" Er…right, I'll leave you two to it, take care!" And with that her mother ran out and slammed the door behind her.

"What is it? What is it?" Mrs. Stare said hurriedly, waking up from her doze. "Oh hello their dear, my what lovely hair you've got there!" she said pointing out Caitlynn's red hair that rested gently below her shoulders. " I have been trying to get that color for years! Do you mind if I just take a snippet so that I can take it to my hairdresser?" She asked taking an abnormally large pair of scissors out of her handbag.

" WHAT ARE YOU CRAZY?"

" I'm sorry dear what did you say? My hearing aid was turned off," she said while adjusting it and waiting for Caitlynn to repeat her sentence.

Caitlynn looked at her incredulously. Having a loony for a sitter may not be so bad… Just then Caitlynn had the most brilliant plan.

" I said that I have to get out of here!" she shouted just in case the hearing aid was still off.

" Dearie me, There is no need to shout! I'm not deaf," Mrs. Stare said looking quite annoyed. " And your mother gave me strict orders to have you stay here, so I'm sorry but you will have to stay here!"

"I don't think so," she said simply while she was running out of the room and running toward the elevator as fast as she could.

"Get back here young lady!" Caitlynn heard Mrs. Stare shout from the closing door to her suite as she was shutting the elevator doors.

As soon as she was in the lobby she was faced with another problem: Where the heck am I going to… but her thought were cut short due to the opening of elevator doors and a familiar voice shout "Come back!"

With that, Caitlynn ran outside to find a place where she could escape. Mrs. Stare wasn't very far behind. Aha! Perfect! She said to herself as she slipped into the nearest pay phone booth. She picked up the phone and noticed it had no dial tone. She jabbed at a few numbers and started to pretend like she was talking as Mrs. Stare was waddling by.

Then Caitlynn heard a noise that made her jump.

"Welcome to the Ministry of Magic. Please state your name and business" Said a cool female voice that sounded in the telephone box.