Through the crowded street we went, trying to find our way to Madam Malkin's. What? Did you think we were going to go to Hogwarts looking like ourselves? Yeah right! Okay, so we decided to ask an old wizard guy.
"Um, do you know where we can find Madam Malkin's?" Kavie asked. Why is she always the polite one? What happened to miss shy and timid that used to be me? Oh yeah. I started writing this story. The wizard looked at us like we were insane, but he pointed us in the right direction. We thanked him and as we walked into the store, we were amazed at the rows and rows of fabric that lay before us. Considering we're both aspiring fashion designers, we had found our heaven. As much as I wanted burgundy robes to match my hair, Madam Malkin wouldn't let me.
"Only black for Hogwarts students!" She said. I reluctantly let her take my measurements, after she had fitted Kavie. Within seconds we were at the register, paying.
"Teehee... galleons..." I laughed manically as I played with the gold coins in my hand.
"We're um, not from around here..." Kavie explained when we got the weirdest of all looks. I think Madam Malkin was trying to send us to St. Mungo's with her brain powers. I don't know. I think she belongs there! I mean, she wouldn't let me get burgundy robes! And I have burgundy hair! I would have looked so kick ass. Anyway, next we headed to Ollivander's. We walked in the door, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the movie had done it complete justice. There were so many wands... I was amazed that one building could hold them all. Creepy Mr. Ollivander crept from behind one of the shelves and almost gave me a heart attack.
"Can I help you, ladies?" He asked. Kavie was absolutely in shock, so I decided it was my turn to talk.
"We need wands." I stated. Then I thought to myself. No... I wanted to order a copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! I mentally kicked myself.
"Of course." He smiled. Creepily, might I add. He turned to Kavie, who was closest to him. "Which is your wand arm?" She hadn't read Harry Potter. She had no idea what he was talking about.
"She's right handed." I laughed at Kavie's severe uncomfortable-ness. Ollivander measured her, then pulled out a wand from the front of the shop.
"Here. Try this. Redwood with a single Phoenix feather core. 8 ¾ inches." He said, as he handed her the wand. She looked at me, and I motioned for her to flick it. She did, and funky sparkles came out the end of it and there was this big wind and...oh it was creepy. Then he turned to me. "Wand arm?" He asked.
"Right." I smiled. This was tres cool! He measured me (which I have to admit felt like border-line molestation...), and stared at me.
"Hrm. Let me think." He said. He grabbed a wand that was right beside Kavie's, and handed it to me. "Holly with a unicorn hair core. 10 inches." I flicked it, and ended up breaking a mirror. I handed it back. "No. Alright, let's see..." He trailed off as he wandered to the back of the shop. He brought back another wand. "Let's try another Unicorn Hair core. This time, however, it's yew. 7 ½ inches." I flicked it, and the same thing happened to me. I was ready to piss my pants. See, here I was, a muggle my whole life until some random day when I was 15 and decided to go to Dairy Queen, and all of a sudden I'm holding a twig and there's light and sparkles coming out the end of it. It was pretty weird. Ollivander took my wand back and went to the register.
"That'll be 5 galleons, girls." He said. We handed over the gold, and he gave us our wands. I was ecstatic. I actually had a wand! It was a miracle. See, if Ollivander had really known me, he would never have in a million years given me that. I'll probably end up poking someone's eye out. Or levitating it out while trying to do wingardium leviosa. I don't know.
We continued shopping and eventually we ended up in the Leaky Cauldron. I think the landlord, creepy toothless Tom (as he has lovingly been dubbed) tried to kill Kavie. Some of the looks we got, you'd think these people thought they could move things with their minds. (oh wait… they probably could… AAAAHH!) Okay, so, we got a room and spent the rest of the night huddled in there. We had luckily gorged at Florean Fortescue's, so we were pretty content hunger-wise. However, I wanted desperately to see that sex god Harry Potter. I had a hunch that he was staying in the same building (doesn't he always?), but as much as I wanted to see him, I did NOT want to run into Tom. Kavie and I played around with our wands, teaching ourselves the basic spells all night (well, until around 3 am when we both totally crashed), and by morning, we could successfully cast Lumos. Without setting our hair on fire. I don't really know how the fire got in there... maybe we got it mixed in with Incendio or something... anyway, we could both also cast Wingardium Leviosa (and I didn't levitate anyone's eye out! Although, the mirror did yell at me for accidentally hitting it with a pillow...), as well as Engorgio (and well, the toilet's gonna stay pretty big for a while. At least until we learn the counter-spell!).
The next morning, Kavie and I went down to the parlor, after a little game of truth or dare. Without the truth. It went a little something like this: "You go first!" "No you!" "I DARE you to go first!" "Well, I DOUBLE DARE you to go first!"... Tom is really creepy. I ended up losing. But, luckily enough, Tom was stuck behind the bar filling the order of some fat wizard dude. That's when I noticed him. HARRY POTTER! WOOT! He was sitting at a table with Mr and Mrs Weasley, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione (who's hair is wild! It sticks out everywhere! I wanted to buy her a straightner...)... and... yeah. I wanted to ask for their autographs. I almost did, before Kavie stopped me.
"Meanie." I tried to suppress my extreme desire to burst out giggling. "I was gonna ask Harry to sign my butt." Kavie looked like she was going to explode.
"Yeah, I can picture that. 'Hi Harry! I'm this random chick who thought I was a muggle until some weird guy in a cloak chased me and my friend half-way to Dairy Queen. Then we ended up here. Oh yeah, you're a character in a book. Can you sign my butt?" She mocked. I stuck my tongue out at her. Until I noticed Harry and Ron pointing us out to Hermione. I immediately nudged Kavie and tried to look my best (which believe me, was pitiful). They waved and we waved back, looking like morons. After they had turned back to their food, we noticed some little relationships forming. Hermione and Ron clearly had something going on (the way they were arguing, it was impossible that nothing was there), and Ginny was staring at Harry very intently. Sorry, Gin, he's mine! I thought. I laughed out loud without realizing it, earning an odd look from Kavie.
"What is wrong with you?" She asked. I could tell she was about to laugh as well.
"Nothing! I just thought of something!" I told her. We headed out into the back yard, and hit the 'special' brick. We entered Diagon Alley and went instantly to Quality Quidditch supplies. Oh how I wanted to buy a broom... A Firebolt was sitting there, calling my name. I was ready to fly away with it before Kavie noticed something.
"Kacy! You're lover boy's going into that pet place!" I turned around and sure enough, Harry was walking into the door of the Magical Menagerie, accompanied by Ron and Hermione, as well as Crookshanks. I ran out of the store and followed them. Hey! I was going to buy a cat anyway!
It was dark, and rather musty. There were sheets in front of the window to keep the light out, and well, it stunk. I noticed the dream team at the front desk, while Hermione spoke to the shop keeper person about Crookshanks. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed the cutest little kitten! It was so tiny! I walked over to it's cage, and within seconds, I was in love. It was walking around it's cage purring, and when we walked up, it came to the bars and meowed at us.
"It's so cute!" She laughed as the kitten meowed and purred happily. The trio left the counter and noticed us.
"Hello again!" Harry smiled. Oh so dreamy...
"Hi!" I blushed. I hoped that because it was so dark, he wouldn't notice.
"Are you buying a pet?" Hermione asked me. I nodded.
"She's fallen in love." Kavie gestured towards the tiny cat.
"She's adorable." She said. "Oh, by the way, this is Crookshanks."
"He's quite a character, isn't he?" I smiled at the ginger cat. He purred and I quickly petted him.
"Yeah, he is. Well, we'd better be going. See you on the train on Monday, I guess!" Ron said. We nodded and they walked out the door.
"Aah! I see you've spotted our little one!" The shop keeper chick said to me as I turned back to the cage.
"Yeah. Is it a girl or a boy?" Kavie asked.
"She's a little girl. Quite a cutie, if I do say so myself." The older witch said. "Would you like her?" I nodded. "It's going to be difficult to let her go, but I can see that you'll take care of her." She said to me. I handed over my money, and the witch unlocked the cage, and put my new kitten in a little basket for me. We walked out of the shop, and back to the Leaky Cauldron, so we could come up with a name for my new kitty. We walked up the stairs from the parlor, and into our room. I set the basket on the bed, and took the lid off. The little kitten slinked over the side and began to roll around on the bed. We came up with a ton of names, but in the end, we decided to name her Artemis.
A/N: Oi! I forgot! Thanks to ShadowOnTheMoon and tuxedo cat for reviewing! I LOVE YOU! Mwah!