A flash of light, a cry of "Buffy!" and a sensation of dizziness hit Callie as she gained her sanity. "That…was…I feel sick." Callie groaned. She then noticed her mum on the floor with two people hugging her. A red head witch and a bouncy brown haired man were shrieking. "Buff! You're here. With the miniature Scoobies." Xander than noted. There was a cry of outrage. "We are not miniature!" Tom cried. "Yeah you are! You may have grown but to me you will always be ickle 10 year olds." "Shove off." Tom muttered. This time the outraged cry came from Xander. They all smirked. Willow smiled at them and said "Come on! We're just waiting for Giles." Callie looked around. The Leaky Cauldron was very dark and shabby. Just then Giles rushed in muttering "Stupid drivers. What were they doing there, they should never have done that, never ever…"
"GILES!" Giles looked up surprised as Buffy, Willow, Callie, Anya, Natasha and Marie ran at him. "Hel-Ah what are you doing!" He shouted outraged as they wrestled him to the floor trying to hug him. "It's like we haven't seen you in years G-man." Xander said joyfully. Giles looked at him bemused.
"You haven't."
"O yeah."
"Me name's Rubeus Hagrid." A large man said as he came over. He had a long shaggy mane of curly brown hair and black beetle eyes that were very friendly. Callie took a liking to him immediately. "Yeh to come with me to Diagon Alley. The kids only. This is a port key to 'ogwarts. 'Ere yeh go. The kids 'll be fine with me." Hagrid said. "Now what are yeh names?" They grinned nervously at him. Natasha kept shooting furtively at Willow, Buffy, Xander and everyone but they just smiled before disappearing by the port key. "Josh stepped forward bravely. "I'm Josh. This is Tom, Marie, Natasha and Callie."
"Yeh the slayers daughter aren't yeh?" Callie nodded. "Yeh need to take this potion." Natasha glanced at it then stepped forward asking the question running through Callie's head. "Why? It might be dangerous." Hagrid roared with laughter. "The potion changes what yeh look like. Just so no one gets suspicious of yeh. Summat needs to be done yer see. Yeh look like yeh mother and that could be dangerous. It'll just change yeh hair 'n eye colour. Red 'n blue Dumbledore said." Callie nodded and quickly took the potion. Hagrid smiled encouraging at her. She gulped it down but didn't feel any different. She heard a gasp of wonder and opened her eyes. "Those colours really suit you Callie," Marie said admiringly. "You look really classy." The others all agreed.
"Yeh gonna have ta change yeh last name I'm afraid." Natasha spoke up suddenly.
"How about Star? Stars your favourite shape and you do have a star necklace." Callie nodded to show her agreement. "Can I get my hair cut please?" She said changing the subject. Her hair reached her waist and it getting out of hand. Hagrid nodded before taking them out into a small, walled courtyard where there where a few dustbins and weeds. Hagrid started counting bricks above the dustbins and then the bricks started to wiggle. "Welcome…to Diagon Alley."
Diagon Alley was crammed full of shops. The bright colours were dulled quite a lot by the mass of posters stuck up. On closer inspection they looked like Ministry of Magic work. A number of shabby stalls were up along the street. Callie carefully placed her feet on the cobbled floor as there were many potholes down the Alley. "Not looking its best at the moment." Hagrid muttered. "Look here's some money from Dumbledore. The shops you got to go to are written 'ere and there are also a fews shops written there yeh can visit. I'll see yeh at 5." With that, the miniature Scoobies, were on their own.
Natasha looked at the piece of paper. "We have to go to Madame Malkins." She said. They all headed off down the street. "I don't like this." Marie muttered as they wandered on. "This place sounded nice when they described it to us. But it's pretty scary actually." Tom looked around.
"It's not that bad I s'pose." They all looked at him surprised and ready to argue. He surrended. "Ok, Ok, It's awful. But it's probably okay inside the shops."
"I dunno about that." Josh said pointing to one shop which was filthy. Callie grimaced. This was not her idea of fun. "There's Madame Malkins," Marie pointed out suddenly. They went inside to be confronted by Madame Malkin. "Are you here for Hogwarts? Yes well can the girls go over there and can you boys stay here. The girls disapeared and the boys loitered for about 10 minutes. The girls came out with two bags. They'd got all their uniform but had also got dress robes. "A Yule Ball is on at Christmas apparently." The boys went in and got everything they needed. "Next stop is Flourish and Blotts."