Miss Potter?

Might actually get on to buying a wand now…

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About half an hour later, when the Weasley's had finally finished checking out the T.V and Ginny and I had got changed into something lighter (it was hot outside) the housekeeper came up to tell us it was Lunch. I nodded in dismissal and we went down to lunch. We ate a really lovely lunch in the conservatory, of sea bream in a creamy celery sauce.

When we finished, we all left for Diagon alley. On the way there, we kept meeting a lot of my father's friends and I had to bow and curtsey. Harry was also formally introduced to a lot of them. He kept making me and Ginny giggle, as when he bowed he always went very red.

About ten minutes later we finally reached the pub 'the leaky caldron'. It was absolutely disgustingly dirty and I didn't want to go in. Harry dragged me in though, and I bet he wished he hadn't. As soon as we got in thousands of people came and shook his hand. Then they all wanted to be introduced to me as well.

When I had curtsied and shaken loads of people's hands, we finally managed to leave, saying we had to meet someone. The Weasley's were waiting quietly on the edge of the crowd with my mother. They all looked slightly cross. We went outside to a disgusting court yard with rats scuttling under our feet. Mrs. Weasley pulled out a long stick, which I assumed was her wand. My mother however spoke up

'Molly dear, can I do it? I haven't done it in so long.' Molly giggled and moved out the way. My mother tapped a few of the more worn down bricks in the wall of the courtyard. I turned to roll my eyes at the others, but they were all watching the wall intensely. I too looked at the wall and was astonished, the wall had transformed into a massive archway! A busy street was beyond.

Mrs. Weasley turned to us all briskly,

'First of all we will all go to Gringotts, and then we will do all the books, then we'll…' the list went on and on. I just stared at the street, it was vibrant, busy and everyone was laughing. There was an owl emporium, a potions store, a .. But Harry was dragging me along again and I didn't want to get lost. Ginny and I followed the rest of the party up the street to Gringotts, if that was what it was called. We reached the end of the street and ahead of us was a massive white building, with short, fat and very ugly creatures at the doors and serving inside. Ginny saw where I was looking and whispered

'Goblins' in my ear.

My mother beckoned me over and we stepped up to the counter. She gets a credit card out of her pocket and gives it too the Goblin. I recognise it as my credit card.

'Take all of the money off of there please and could you put it in a new volt please?'

'Mya' I heard a voice shout out behind me. There was Harry beckoning me over to where he was standing with a girl with bushy brown hair and brown eyes, about four shades lighter than mine. She was staring at me in shock. I walked over smiling

'Mya, I'd like you to meet my other best friend Hermione.' I grinned at her and gave her a hug. 'Hermione meet my cousin Mya.' She hugged me too and then turned on Harry.

'You never told me you had a cousin!'

'I only just met her this morning' she glared at him suspiciously like she didn't believe him. Then she turned to me and started telling me all she knew about Hogwarts, how to do charms and transfiguration. She was really nice and about 30 minutes later, when my mother had finished transferring money, got my money and the Weasley's had got there's and Harry had got his as well. I was still chatting to her about the finer points of wand movement. She was showing me, how to correctly say and perform the levitating charm (wingardiam-Leviosa (sp?)). Ron came to get us and we followed him outside, where we stood blinking in the sunlight.

Ginny came up to Hermione and I and said to me

'Your mother wants to buy my school books for me as a present for the last few years of not being here, because she is my godmother, but my mum won't let her. So can me and you go and buy wands? Your mum is defiantly going to be buying the whole family new wands, but I don't want everyone to be there when I get mine.'

'Okay' I replied and asked Hermione if she wanted to come with us.

'No' she replied, 'I'll stay here.' I went up to my mum and grabbed a bulging purse of Gallons.

'Ginny and I are going to buy wands mum, we'll meet you in the book shop.' She nodded and continued arguing with Molly. I linked arms with Ginny and we walked off to Oleanders.

A few minutes later, we were standing in the shop, ringing the bell. A wizened man with large classes and large yellowy blue eyes.

'What can I do for you ladies?'

'We'd like to buy wands please' I replied. He flicked is wand at too tape measures on the desk and then turned back to me.

'I remember your mother's wand, lovely wand that one. The measuring tapes came back to him and he caught them deftly. He put them down on the desk. Then he went out the back, carrying about six boxes of wands.

'Ms. Weasley' he gave a long wand to Ginny. 'Willow, 32 inches, unicorn hair. Good for charms.'

Ginny gave it a flick. The whole room was bathed in a white light and Ginny shone brightly.

'Wow Gin, that was great'.

'Now, Mrs. Potter. I am asking you to try a very rare and beautiful wand. It is brilliant for defence against the Dark Arts, transfiguration and charms. It is a wand much sort after by many wizards, but remember, the wand chooses the wizard!' With that long speech he gave me a long black wand. I gripped it and gave it a little wave. Immediately, the whole room went black apart from me and the wand, we shone with a shimmering dark blue light.

'ahh.. A silver dragon scale' Ginny gave a little gasp '42 inches, bogwood.' Ginny gave another gasp, 'a perfect pair with you Miss. Potter.'

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I will now be skipping ahead to 1st year were we will hear about one or two lessons and the chamber of secrets.