"Ah! Ze Americanz. How niz to sez you." My Olivandor said upon our entering his wand shop. "Yez, Yez! Let'z ztart zhall we? Mizz. Horzt if you pleaze."

Sami walks over to him as a tape measurer starts measuring everything about her, not only how tall she is, but how long her nose is. Liv and I start giggling because we have read this in the Harry Potter books.

Mr. Olivandor takes notice of the tape and shouts, "ztop, ztop, ztop, you ztuped ztring. How many timez must I tell you? Zorry. Get ze otherz."

He turned to look at the thousands of boxes. He walked down a row and came out on the other side holding several boxes, a good twenty or more,

"Ere we go." He handed us each one as Matt and Ben walk in. "You're late!" The measuring tape flies over and starts measuring them. Mr. Olivandor hands them wands too.

We all stand there dumbstruck. "Well, givz em a wave." As we did he took them away and switched them. Again we tried and again he took them away.

Finally he was satisfied with what each of us had. "Good, good, now letz ring you up." We walked up to the counter, wands in hands. "Mizz Horzt; Oak, Hippogriff feather. 8 ½", bezt uzed for tranzfiguration, 3 Galleonz. Mizz Bradley; Cherry, Veela hair. 8", bezt uzed for charmz, also 3 Galleonz. Mizz Zchumann; Willow, Lepercon four leaf clover, 10 ½", bezt uzed for charmz and defenze againzt the dark artz, 3 Galleonz. Mizz Lawrence; black walnut, zilver thiztle, 10" bezt uzed for tranzfiguration and charmz. 3 Galleonz. Mr. Wagner; birch, phoenix feather, 9", bezt uzed for tranzfiguration.3 Galleonz. Mr. Zlivia; elm, dragon heartztring, 11", bezt uzed for defenze againzt the dark artz. 3 Galleonz. Mr. Lichtenberger; maple, unicorn hair, 13" bezt uzed for defenze againzt the dark artz. 3 Galleonz. Mr. Buzik; pine, eagle feather, 12 ½", bezt uzed for charmz. 3 Galleonz. Very good. Good day, nize doin' biznezz with youz."

Walking out I heard Matt asking Ben what had happened to me. Cool, that really inflated my confidence to hear that come from the guy who use to call me stupid, fat, ugly, smelly, bitchy, and well you get the point.

"Okay, next uniforms." Alivia said enthusiastically. "Then the pet shop. Then everything else. Okay? Lets go."

Two by two we went, got measured, and get our new uniforms. I was happy to see they had more than uniforms there. They had other clothes; t-shirts, sweatshirts, jeans, and other. I went and got my uniforms and a whole new word robe. Once everyone had finished there we made our way to the pet shop.

Inside, the noise overwhelming us, we started shopping for the animals we each desired. There is so many to choose from. I think I will get an owl and a kitten.

Toads? No. Tats? No. Snakes? Ohh I wouldn't mind having one of those, but I am going to be staying with a bunch of girls. They may not like a snake in the room. That's a no then. Pigeon? No. I wonder which guy I will be with? Cats? Here we go. Owh! I love them all.

One little kitten walks up to the edge of the cage, to where I am. It is black all over but for a spot on its nose and tip of its tale. Slowly I bend down and pick it up. It's a boy and I want him. Now for and owl.

I pass Sami and Manda at the fish tank. They are making faces at the fish. There is a sign that says, "Owls up the tower." I make my way to the stairs and walk up to the tower.

At the top I find myself surrounded by owls of every kind. Big, small, black, brown, white, fat, skinny. None of there really look like me. Not literally. They don't look like what I am looking for. Leaving I spot the one. Snowy white at first but when it turns it looks like a hawk. She is beautiful. With my new friends I make my way down to take them to our new home.

At the counter I find Liv with a calico cat. She already has two back home. Amanda has an owl. It's auburn color. Sami has a few gold fish. I thought so, she would be allergic to anything else. Matt has an eagle owl. Ben had a barn owl. Sean has a white cat. Kevin has an orange cat.

I get up to order and I see a snake sitting on the counter. "50 off, too small." He's about 6-7". I will buy him. I will give him a home. The girls will just have to get over it.

I left with three new friends. Prudence ( Prue) the owl, Shadow the kitten, and Iota (Ota) the small snake. I also got a band on Prue that is a tag of who she is and who I am. Shadow got a spiked collar with a tag. Ota got a new small home with a small tree and rock. They all got food and a caring owner.

"Let's get brooms." Manda calls out.

"Okay, let's go." Liv said as she walks. Finally we find it. The broom on display is " The Fire Bird 3000 XZ." 2000 Galleons. Wow that's expensive. "That's a lot for a broom." Liv said with disgust. "Let's find something cheaper."

I don't know, I have this money from my real parents. Should I treat myself to the broom in the display? I really like it. It's dark colored wood, with an even end, and etched in silver, it has the name on the handle. Yes, I think I will buy it. With out anyone realizing I went to the desk and asked for the Fire Bird 3000 XZ. The sales lady gave me the broom wrapped up. I paid her and went to help Amanda and Kevin look for their brooms.

As we all walked out, with our new brooms all wrapped up, Liv says, "Next, books." We followed her.

Everyone had so much new things that we had to put our things in the shopping carts. They are carts that float behind us as we walk.

Looking at the book list each of us got we found we needed:

Transfiguration 5th year

Hogwarts a history

Potions book set (1-5)

Herbology

Defense against the Dark Arts

I wonder what kind of extra interesting books they have there? Maybe they have novels; that would be nice.

It's a little crowded in here but we find help to get all our books. I trail off as the helper goes up the second floor for eight books of transfiguration 5th year. I am in a small row of books about crystal ball and tealeaf readings. I back up to get a better look at a higher shelf and bump into someone. I almost fall over but this guy helps me stay standing.

"Oh my, I am sooo sorry. I didn't see you there. Are you okay?" I asked quickly.

"Hey, it's cool. No harm done." He replies casually. He is really cute. He is around 6'2" tall, not too skinny he has muscles, shaggy dark, dark brown hair, very tan, deep brown/gray eyes, and a scar on his right eyebrow. He maybe Mexican or something like that. "Just be more careful around Hogwarts."

"Yeah, I guess I really….. Wait, how did you know I was going to Hogwarts?" I asked.

"Your friends and your books. 'Hogwarts a history,' it was not that hard to figure out." He said. Starting to walk away he manages to say, "See you at school." He was right I was holding the book 'Hogwarts a history' but how did my friends give away we are going to Hogwarts?