Chapter 2: Hagrid, Diagon Alley, and a New Friend
Phoebe's POV
A few weeks later I had nearly forgotten about Hogwarts, everything entering the back of my mind. I had been playing with friends and loosing track of the days. By the time the end of August rolled around, Hogwarts was back on my mind and remembered that I would need to tell my friends that I was going away to school now. Over the next couple of days I told them I was going to a boarding school, Grams making me swear not to say a school of witchcraft and wizardry to anyone, and said my good byes. I was supposed to buy my school supplies two days before going to Hogwarts and by the time it rolled around I was extremely excited.
I was humming to myself in my room while I read a book when I heard Grams call me from downstairs.
"Coming," I screamed down.
I walked down the stairs tying my hair up in a bun along the way, and went into the living room. The doorbell had rung right before Grams had called me down, so I guessed the visitor was for me. I finished tying up my hair up right as I walked in, which was good because the minute I walked in my hand fell to my side and my mouth nearly fell to the ground. The guest I had been expecting turned out to be two guests. The first was a giant, and he was the one I was starting at. He had a big bushy beard and was only able to stand up straight because we had quit a tall ceiling. The second visitor was a boy, around my age, with untidy hair. What surprised me about him was that he had a lightning blat scar on his forehead.
"Um, hi, I'm Phoebe Halliwell," I said stunned to the giant standing in my living room.
"Rubeus Hagrid," the giant said, unaware, or ignoring, my stunned state, "but you can call me Hagrid."
"And I'm Harry Potter," the boy said smiling slightly.
"Are you the one taking me to Diagon Alley?" I asked Hagrid.
"Yep," he answered, "Ready to go?"
Grams handed me money and I fixed my bun a bit and then nodded.
"Alright, let's go," I said smiling at the two former strangers.
"Alright, come on you tow, lets get moving," Hagrid said.
I followed smiling as we left and headed off to buy supplies.
When we got outside I looked at the sky. It was a nice clear day, with a few clouds in the sky. They would have been perfect to lie in the grass and come up with what they looked like. Harry and I followed behind Hagrid, looking around trying to figure out where we were. We walked by a lot of buildings I had never seen before and I was just about to ask where we where when we stopped in front of one of them. It had a sign on it that read The Leaky Cauldron.
"Hagrid, where are we?" Harry asked looking around.
"This is the way to Diagon Alley, well one of the ways anyway, where we'll be buying your school supplies."
I looked around and realized it stuck out like a soar thumb from the rest of the buildings.
"Um, Hagrid, don't the people passing realize how different this building looks?"
"No, course not, all muggles see when they look at it is an empty lot."
"Muggles?" I said questioningly.
"Non-magic folk."
"Ah," I said and looked back at the Leaky Cauldron. "So, we're going in there?"
"Yep, come along you two."
We both followed him into the little pub, and I let Harry go ahead of me.
"Hello Hagrid," the man at the bar said.
"Hello Tom."
"You want the usual?" Tom asked.
"Not today, taking young Harry Potter and Phoebe Halliwell here to get their school supplies."
"Harry Potter," Tom said slightly shocked as he came around the bar and shook his hand, which Harry had no choice but to accept. "It is a pleasure."
Murmurs shot through the crowd and I was pushed back farther towards the door, where I stood, shocked by the scene. Harry was being swarmed by everyone in the bar, having to shake their hands at least once, most multiple times. I stood by the door, feeling sort of out of place.
"Phoebe," someone said coming up to me. I was a little shocked that someone would know me here, and rather talk to me than Harry, who seemed to have the whole pub swarming him, and I jumped slightly. "Oh, sorry dear, didn't mean to frighten you," they said when they got to me.
I looked at the speaker and smiled slightly. "Hi, Mrs. Hatch, I definitely did not expect to see you here."
"I could say the same thing about you."
"So, does this mean you're a…witch?" I asked after a slight pause.
Mrs. Hatch laughed slightly. "Yes I am, and I take it you are too?"
I nodded but didn't say anything. I glanced over to Harry and Hagrid and saw Harry still crowded by a ton of people. I sighed and looked back at Mrs. Hatch. "What's with the huge group around Harry?"
"You mean you don't know who he is?"
"Harry Potter…" I said shrugging my shoulders. "Should it mean something?"
"I take it you just found out about the wizarding world?"
"Yea, somethin like that," I said a little disinterestedly.
"You'll find out soon enough then," she said as we heard Hagrid call me over. "Go ahead, I'll talk to you later Phoebe and tell your sisters and grandmother I said hi."
"Will do," I said sighing and walking over to Hagrid and Harry.
"Harry, Phoebe, this is Professor Quirrell he'll be one of the teachers at Hogwarts."
"V-v-very p-p-pleased to meet you Ms. Halliwell, and Mr. P-P-Potter," he said shaking Harry's hand and then practically ignoring me. I sighed and stood next to Hagrid. I zoned out though, only catching that Professor Quirrell would be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts until Hagrid finally said that we'd better get going to get supplies. I followed Hagrid and Harry out, nodding and smiling to Mrs. Hatch on the way out.
We left the pub and entered a small, walled courtyard where we stopped at the far wall, and Hagrid pulled out a pink umbrella. He reached out and tapped bricks, muttering to himself which bricks, and I noted them to memory should I ever need to know the correct ones. Harry and Hagrid had been talking, but I hadn't been paying the least bit of attention until the brick wall started moving, opening up into an alley.
"Welcome to Diagon Alley," Hagrid said smiling as we stepped into the alley.
All I did for a bit was stand there staring wide eyed around the alley, my jaw dropped to the ground. I looked all around, seeing shop after shop of objects I had only heard of in fantasy books and the like. There were cauldron shops and potion supplies…owls and robes…spell books and practically anything else you could think of. I put my hand in my pocket, making sure I still had my school lists and everything else I would need when we started shopping.
We finally stopped when we reached the very last building. It was guarded by what Hagrid said was goblins and I just turned my head every which way, taking everything in. When we got inside Hagrid stopped for a bit to ask me if I had money. I showed him what I had and we exchanged it for wizarding money and then walked up to the end of the huge hall we where sanding in. I wasn't paying attention as Hagrid handed over two keys and a letter and then followed the goblin he had given it to, although I subconsciously followed Hagrid and the goblin he was following.
When we entered a series of tunnels a cart came up and we all hopped in, making a very tight fit, mainly because of Hagrid's huge size. We stopped in front of a vault and I heard Hagrid say it was Harry's. I followed out of the cart as the vault was opened and my jaw dropped to the ground, for the millionth time that day, as I saw all the gold, silver, and bronze coins that where housed in the vault. I paid close attention as Hagrid told Harry that the gold ones where Galleons, the Silver where Sickles, the Bronze where Knuts, and how many of each equaled each other. Harry and Hagrid put it in a bag and then we loaded the cart again and where off to the next vault, which turned out to be mine.
The next vault we stopped at looked quit the same as Harry's and Hagrid informed me that I was to take money out of it, and that it was actually my vault, although he refused to tell me how it was mine. I looked at him confused and he said it was from a relative, and that that's all he'd tell me. I was to ask Grams if I wanted to know more, although I'd later completely forget about it and not end up asking for a while. When the door was opened I saw a few considerably nice heaps of coins; although not nearly as many as Harry had and put some in a bag and hoping back into the cart next.
The last vault we ended up at was vault seven hundred and thirteen, where Hagrid removed a small parcel, which caused my curiosity to rise considerably. When we where out of the tunnels I looked around a little confused, not sure where to start or where to finish. I let Hagrid lead me to the first shop, which was to buy the required robes. There was another boy in the shop although I paid little, if any attention to him as I was fitted. I heard little bits of their conversation though, a lot of no's from Harry being most of what I heard.
We shopped for everything else, Hagrid explaining a game called Quidditch to Harry and assorted other things he thought Harry might need or want to know, which I usually listened in to so I knew what was going on. We had stopped at the owl emporium where Harry received a snowy white owl as a present from Hagrid.I decided that instead of an owl thatI would go toa different animal storeandI bought a cat whichI named Kit.The last stop at Diagon Alley was a wand shop. Hagrid left us both there to get it ourselves, saying he'd meet us at another shop when we where done. We entered and neither of us saw anyone standing anywhere. I figured whoever was there was in the back, out of view.
"Should we ring the bell?" Harry asked pointing to the little bell sitting all by its lonesome.
I shrugged but decided to walk up and ring it. Almost instantly Ollivander came out. He looked at Harry first, not seeing me, although I was closer to him. "Ah, Mr. Potter. I wondered when I'd see you in here."
"Um, Hi," he answered awkwardly.
"You have your mother's eyes, that's for sure," he muttered as he spotted me. "And who might you be my dear?"
"Phoebe Halliwell," I said hesitantly, not sure whether to like this Mr. Ollivander or not.
"Well how bout you first then, wand arm out."
"Wand arm?" I said confused for a second then realized he meant my writing hand. I held out my right arm and a tape measure appeared out of nowhere and started measuring me. He looked pleased for a second as he pulled down a wand box, took it out and handed it to me. I stood there for a feeling stupid for not knowing what I was supposed to do.
"Well, give it a wave," he said and I quickly obliged. It was pulled out of my hand before I knew what was happening and replaced by another, which worked wonderfully this time, at least it looked that way from the expression on Mr. Ollivander's face and from the effects of waving it. "Very good, nine inches, Maple and unicorn hair," he said smiling.
"Um, right," I said as he wrapped it up for me. "Here you are. That'll be seven Galleons please."
I quickly paid and would have run out of the store, had Harry not been there. I went and sat in one of the few chairs in the store and waited. I paid very close attention to their conversation, some things about what wand Harry was trying and then some on some He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and how Harry had the brother wand of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's.
After Harry paid he, like me, wanted to bolt out of the shop as fast as possible, so we left and met Hagrid at our agreed meeting spot. When we where completely finished buying everything we wanted to, and spending a while in the Quidditch store, which started to grow on me after a while, we left Diagon Alley, back through the brick wall, and the Leaky Cauldron. I was dropped off at my house with instructions to go to the train station on the first of September, platform nine and three quarters. Not thinking anything of the platform I said bye to Harry and Hagrid and took everything up to my room, only afterwards realizing I had no clue how to get onto platform nine and three quarters.
A/N: So sorry it took this long, I've kind of been out of it lately, hope you like this next chapter. Thank for all the reviews everyone, I'll try to answer ones with questions in them after each chapter.
Allen Pitt: I realized that to do this either the Halliwels's or the Harry Potter story would have to take place somewhere else. I was kind of ignoring it because this is a fun story to write. I probably would have had to have one of them move or somethin for it to work, and that would kind of mess one of the main stories up, hopefully you can just overlook the place difference, if not feel free to flame me, lol. For powers being bound I was going with the charmed ones powers where bound, not her Hogwarts powers, slightly different. And for the unbound powers, you'll just have to wait and find out what happens…