Chapter 3: A Wizard Shopping Spree!
Knuckles and Tails were leaning up against a shop, waiting for Sonic, Amy, and Carolyn to come back. They had managed toignore most of the people's stares. Knuckles was peering into a shop.
"Why are they selling brooms?" he asked, not seeing the sign above that read "Racing brooms." Tails walked over and pointed to the sign. "Oh."
"Hey, shouldn't you two be in a freak show?" a voice jeered from behind them. They both turned to see a boy with a pale face. They both glared at him.
"I dare you to say that again, so I can punch you in the face!" Knuckles threatened. The pale boy just laughed at him. Tails had to hold Knuckles back from beating the boy to a pulp, which was pretty hard.Finally the rude boy left. Knuckles growled as he watched the boy go, mad he didn't get to punch him, glad he finally left them alone.
"Hey guys!" Tails and Knuckles turned to see Carolyn, Amy, and Sonic running up to them. Sonic was holding a large bag that looked to be very heavy.
"We got some money!" Amy said happily. "We met a really nice boy named Harry, he gave it to us!" Tails looked interested.
"Harry? Didn't the people in the pub talk about seeing someone named Harry Potter?" he asked. "He sounded famous."
"I can't believe we didn't think of that," Carolyn said, slapping herself in the face.
"Well, let's go shopping!" Amy said happily. "Did you guys figure out where everything is?" Tails and Knuckles nodded. "Great! Let's go!"
"Alright, here's the plan. Amy, Carolyn and I will go buy our books for school. Sonic and Knuckles, you two go and buy our cauldrons, scales, etc. Then we'll meet at, er, Madam Malkin's for our robes, then head over to, uh, Ollivanders to get our wands," Tails explained. He and Knuckles would lead each of the groups to the shops, seeing as how they knew where they were. Everyone nodded and headed off.
Amy, Carolyn, and Tails entered Flourish and Blotts, the book shop. They all stared in amazement at all of the books, some of the stacks reaching the ceiling!
"Look at all of the books…" Amy said astonished. "I don't think I've seen so many in one place before!"
"Well, it's going to take a while to find all of the books," Carolyn said. "We might as well split up." Tails and Amy nodded.
Tails walked to the back of the shop and started looking there. He spotted one of the books at the very top of a pile. He easily flew up to the top and grabbed it. He looked down to see a couple of people staring at him. "What? You act as if you've never seen a fox fly before!"
Carolyn was searching the bookshelves and stacks on the other side of the store. She wasn't having much luck, when she spotted one in the middle of a tall stack. "Aha!" She grabbed it, without thinking that the entire stack would fall until it began leaning over. "Timber!" she shouted, diving out of the way. There was a loud crash, and all the books were scattered everywhere. "Oops…" Luckily there was a kind witch there who simply flicked her wand and made the books restack themselves.
Amy, not wanting to spend so long looking for books, did the obvious thing. She went up to the counter and asked shopkeeper where the books were. She soon found Tails and Amy, with a stack of books in her hand.
"I can't believe we didn't think of that either," Carolyn said, looking at the two books she and Tails had managed to find.
"Well, let's go," Tails said, taking some of the books for Amy, as did Carolyn. They both walked out of the shop.
Sonic and Knuckles had already bought their cauldrons, scales, and telescopes, and were heading into the Apothecary. They both covered their noses when they smelledthe horrible stench, which caused them to drop the cauldrons, which had the telescopes and scales in them, on their feet.
"Ow!" Knuckles said, rubbing his foot. "This place is creepy…"
"Let's hurry up and buy what we need so we can get out of here," Sonic said, already picking up all the potion ingredients that they'd need. Knuckles got a couple of glass phial, and they quickly paid for their things and left. They ran over to Madam Malkin's where they ran into Tails, Amy, and Carolyn.
"Hurry and take your stuff!" they all said, quickly grabbing their things. The weight of carrying five people's things makes you tire quickly. They entered Madam Malkin's.
"Um, we're here to be fitted for our robes," Carolyn said, noticing the look on a witch who worked there. "Hogwarts, them too." The witch, who they assumed to be Madam Malkin, simply nodded. A while later they exited the shop, with their robes now crammed in their cauldrons with everything else. It had taken a while for Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy, seeing how hard it was to find a robe that fit them…
"Ok, now all we need to do is go to Ollivanders to get our wands," Tails told the group. They nodded and quickly hurried to the shop. When they finally reached and entered the shop, they were greeted by an old man, Mr. Ollivander. Looking around the shop, they saw thousands of boxes that contained wands.
"Good afternoon," he said. He didn't seem to think that they looked at all strange. "Don't just stand their, let's find your wands, shall we?"
"You mean we don't just pick one out?" Sonic asked. They all had expected to just come in, by a plain old wand and leave.
"Well of course not!" Mr. Ollivander said. "The wand picks you!" The group looked confused but shrugged, and one by one they each found their wands, though not so quickly. Lots of boxes were flying off the shelves, but whoever was waiting would always catch them before they went flying out the window.
"Finally we're out of there," Carolyn moaned as they exited the shop. She had a bruise on her forehead from when a box hit her before she could duck.
"Well, come on, we need to find a place to stay," Tails said. "The train to Hogwarts leaves tomorrow, and we don't want to be late." Everyone nodded, glad their shopping was done, even Amy, who loved to shop! They found a place to stay and quickly fell asleep, their dreams filled with what they imagined Hogwarts to be like.
Yes, I realize that in the book that it was a while before Harry left for Hogwarts, but I didn't want them to wait that long!