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Chapter 1: The Events At Diagon Alley!
It was a lovely, sunny day in London even though people's moods didn't necessarily reflect the weather. A teenage girl was storming around in her room in a wizard pub called the Leaky Cauldron because her owl knocked her Butterbeer over her Potions homework. There was a loud honk and she ran downstairs to the front door of the Leaky Cauldron.
"Hi Rachel."
A girl from inside the Knight Bus called to her. The girl standing in the doorway of the pub was Rachel, a now fourth year Gryffindor student at Hogwarts. She had brown/black hair, green/brown eyes and stood at about 5 foot 4. She had had quite a traumatic life, at the age of 5; her muggle mother was killed by her husband, Rachel's father, as he had become a Deatheater, after which he was sent to Azkaban. She was sent to live at a muggle orphanage, but had recently left. She had come into her powers of molecular combustion and the ability to freeze time at the age of 11, just before she left for Hogwarts where her life picked up. After 3 years at Hogwarts Defence Against the Dark Arts was easily her best lesson and in her second year she had been picked for the Quidditch team for the position of Chaser. Rachel had learnt how to control her emotions from a young age, some see this as her being emotionally detached but when her mother or her friends are criticised she becomes violent and unstable.
The girl who had called to Rachel fell out of the Knight Bus looking incredibly green.
"Hi Clare. You look well."
This was Clare who had long brown hair, hazel eyes, stood at 5 foot 6 and was a fifth year Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts. Clare had also had quite traumatic life. Her father had been killed when she was 2 by the Dark Lord Voldemort. Clare had lived with her younger brother Harry and their mother Lily at Godrics Hollow Cottage. Clare had come into her empathic powers at the age of 12. In her 4 years at Hogwarts Clare's favourite lesson was Charms and had been picked for the position of Seeker on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. Clare has always been known for her peacekeeping skills and the ability to be cool in a crisis unless her younger brother is in trouble.
Following Clare out of the bus was her younger brother Harry who was due to start his fourth year at Hogwarts with Rachel in a week's time. He had black messy hair, emerald green eyes, black round glasses and a scar on his forehead shaped like a lightening bolt. He stood at 5 foot 9.
"Get out of the way Harry." said a girl's voice from inside the bus.
This was Amy, a Gryffindor student due to start her fourth year at Hogwarts with Harry and Rachel. She had bright pink hair although this wasn't her natural hair colour, dark brown eyes and stood at 5 foot 7. Her mother was killed by Voldemort when she was 1 years old. She still lives with her father Sirius Black. Her best lesson at Hogwarts was Transfiguration as she had been born a Metamorphmagus. Amy had the tendency to let her mouth run at a mile a minute and half the time spoke without thinking, a trait from her father.
Following Amy out of the bus came Kirsti, a now fifth year Slytherin student. She had shoulder length light brown hair, blue/grey eyes and was 5 foot 6. She was Clare and Harry's cousin for her deceased father was James Potter's brother. Her best lesson was Potions, whether or not this was due to favouritism from her Potions teacher and head of her house Professor Snape, nobody knows. One of Kirsti's strengths is that she can talk herself out of anything, but regularly causes arguments because she always thinks she's right.
"There is a surprise for you lot inside." said Rachel as she led them into the Leaky Cauldron. Sitting at one of the tables was a woman with red hair and green eyes, this was Lily Potter. Sitting next to her was a man with black hair and an air of casual elegance around him, this was Sirius Black. Sitting opposite them was a man with a purple bowler hat and a serious expression.
"What are you guys doing here?" asked Amy with a mix of surprise and confusion.
"What a nice way to greet your father, Amy." came Sirius' reply.
"No I didn't mean it like that." said Amy.
"We just had to make safety checks before you arrived and to sort out our rooms." said Lily.
"Your rooms? Surely the Deatheaters won't attack here." said Clare.
"You can never be too careful." growled Moody.
"Hmm sounds like home." said Kirsti.
"You won't even know we were here" said Sirius "just a couple of rules you must abide by. They are
1 –DON'T leave Diagon Alley.
2 – No going into Knockturn Alley.
3 – Let any of us know where you are at ALL times.
Any questions?"
"First stop. Gringotts." Rachel declared as they left the Leaky Cauldron the next morning. Gringotts was a huge building at the end of Diagon Alley. They made their way to Gringotts and noticed that Lily, Sirius and Moody kept walking up a down the Alley keeping an eye on them. Gringotts had large front doors that opened automatically as they got close to them. After numerous visits to numerous vaults, everyone emerged from the bank feeling rather ill and Clare was the same colour she was when she got off the Knight Bus.
The first shop they went to was Flourish and Blotts to buy their new schoolbooks, Amy, Rachel and Harry bought The Standard Book of Spells, grade 4 by Miranda Goshawk. Clare and Kirsti bought The Standard Book of Spells, grade 5 by Miranda Goshawk and Defensive Magical Theory by Wilbert Slinkhad. Rachel also bought Most Potent Potions, The Rise and Fall of The Dark Arts and Death Omens: What to do when you know the worst is coming. Kirsti also bought Basic hexes for the busy and vexed. Clare also bought Where there's a wand there's a way. Amy bought Fowl or Foul? A study of Hippogriff brutality. The next shop they went to the joke shop where they came across the Weasley twins and a dungbomb battle ensued, which resulted in a few angry parents and shopkeeper, and a few smelly kids. The next stop was Quality Quidditch Supplies, where Lily bought Harry and Clare a Firebolt each, Sirius bought Amy a Firebolt, Danielle Kirsti's mother bought her a Firebolt and Rachel bought herself a Nimbus 2001. They then went to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions, where they bought their school robes. The next stop was the Apothecary to buy their potion ingredients and Kirsti and Rachel had to be pulled out of the shop. They then went to buy their school quills and ink from the Stationary Store. They spent a lot of time completing their homework at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour.
On the Wednesday of that week Rachel opened the Daily Prophet and discovered to her horror that her father had escaped from the top wizard prison, Azkaban, with Bellatrix, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange. After reading this Rachel ranted and raved for half an hour and nearly blew up half of the pub. With this escape Mad-Eye Moody became even more uptight with security and announced that the group would now have a curfew and that they would have to be back at the Leaky Cauldron by 6pm.
The next day Rachel, feeling incredibly restricted, decided to sneak off to Knockturn Alley to buy a book from Borgin and Burkes. She returned at 5.30pm and met the others and went to the Junk Shop, totally forgetting the curfew. At 6.01pm the two-way mirror that belonged to Amy began to shout from inside her bag. She got it out and found Sirius who had the other half of the mirror, beetroot red, shouting for them to return to the Leaky Cauldron. The group were then shouted at for a further hour when they returned and were forbidden to leave the Leaky Cauldron until 1st September, when they would leave for Kings Cross Station. This did not stop them from causing mischief. Rachel would freeze the room from under Harry's invisibility cloak and the group would put drops of different potions into other people's drinks. After fifteen minutes most of the people in the room would either sprout twice the usual amount of hair, loose their voice, shrink to half their normal size and age, or sing uncontrollably. Once again they were shouted at for another half an hour, however Sirius was silently laughing because of the potion that he was given took away his voice. Kirsti would also get told off a lot because she kept losing her toad called Gobble, for example one of the guests found it croaking in her bath whilst she was in it, claiming she originally thought it was a bar of soap, until she picked it up.