I now understood why I was supposed to take a deep breath, it felt like I was being squeezed through some plastic tubing that was way tight around my chest. I struggled to breath and gripped Remmy's relaxed arm tighter. Suddenly, I could feel stone beneath me and I opened my eyes and gasped for breath.
"That'll wake you up, eh?" Remmy giggled. I jumped as Lily appeared beside me and I nodded weakly. I looked around, we were in a market street of some kind. Many shoppers and merchants were bustling about around us, oblivious that we just appeared out of no where.
"Here we are," Lily pushed me towards a shabby looking pub that had a creaky sign blowing in the slight breeze it read: The Leaky Cauldron. We stepped inside and I had to blink several times to adjust to the dim light of candles. There was only about three people sitting at the tables and they looked very wary.
"Diagon Alley, Tom," Remmy said quietly. A hunch-backed man with several missing teeth shuffled out from behind the bar. We followed him to the back, I wondered how we were going to get there because it was bricked in with beat up trash cans against the wall. The hunched-backed man pulled out his own crooked wand and tapped a few bricks.
"Wow," I gasped. The bricks started to move apart one by one to form an arch way leading into a cobbled street lined with shops and stores. We stepped through and Tom waved good bye as he disappeared from behind the wall.
There were only a few people in the streets, and they traveled in packs. Lily and Remmy looked awful aware and alert, too. Their wands hung loosely at their sides.
"Here we are," Remmy opened the door for us. I stepped in and looked around, there were every color of robes and some school uniforms.
"Didn't you say your birthday was in a week?" Remmy asked while she rummaged through a rack of clothing.
"July twenty-ninth," I replied.
"Harry's birthday is the thirty-first! If you wanted to, we could celebrate both your birthday's then?" Lily said.
"Sure!" I said and a huge smile grew on my face.
After a long time Lily finally announced that she was tired. Remmy and I breath a sigh of relief, Lily had tested every shade of every color in the shop on me. Remmy just sat back on a little stool and made a few comments here and there. We all decided that periwinkle blue looked best on me and it brought out the color of my icy blue eyes. Lily even picked out a few miniature robes for the twins that I thought were extremely cute. I, myself, received two sets of periwinkle robes, a couple of white Weird Sisters shirt (I still don't know who they are), and a few artfully torn jeans that Remmy bought me because Lily thought they were too tacky. I nearly refused to let them buy all of this for us but they just ignored me and handed over the money to the cashier.
When we left the boutique Remmy stated that she needed to get some food for her cat, Dog. I laughed at the name but Remmy just frowned darkly.
"I try and I try to dump that stupid cat off somewhere but somehow it's at the door the next morning."
"Why don't you give it to somebody?" Lily suggested.
"Right! Do you want it, Leigh?" Remmy's face brightened and she turned to me.
"Naw, I think Liam allergic," I lied.
"Allergic smergic! I can fix that easy…I'll just shave all of its hair off," Remmy shrugged.
Lily looked reprovingly at her, "No, don't do that. Dog is a beautiful cat."
"Puh," Remmy waved the comment away, " Maybe I'll give it to Sirius."
"No, not even Dog deserves that evil of torture," Lily said seriously and we all laughed.
And please review! I did my best to shorten this chapter...