Owl Post
At Kathleen's RanchNoon
I am at Kathleen's for the rest of the summer. She lives on a ranch far away from the city. Actually she doesn't even live on the British Isles. She lives by the border of France, and she only goes to Hogwarts because her mother told her she had to. So if I want to go to Diagon Alley I have to go to special stations to I may take a small portkey across the water. It is a really complicated process really.
I had to ride the knight bus to a Floo Station in London which flooed me to one next to the Atlantic Ocean. Then Flooed out to I have no idea where then used a portkey to get to another floo station from there I flooed to Kathleen's. I hope that they discover better ways to travel or at least find better or stronger spells to use to transport people. I can't imagine traveling to Germany or someplace! That would not be very fun. It would stop me from traveling anyway. I read in a book once that before Wizards discovered portkeys and floo powder they had to use muggle transportation. So I guess I am luckier then they were in the past. Still.
I now have a huge stock of chocolate frogs. They are in a corner of my trunk and I am getting a larger collection of Chocolate frog cards. They are very interesting. Kathleen says I have gotten boring over the long time we were apart. Oh well. I have never bee to Kathleen's house before this. She has three sisters and a brother.
Audra: He eldest sister, works at a Gringott's bank in a local town. She looks more like Kathleen's mom then Kathleen. She has short, wavy, sandy blonde hair and big blue eyes. She is very cute and petite. She is a bit shorter than myself. And is very thin. She has a little nose splattered with freckles. I notice very odd things I guess.
Lydianne: Just a couple years older than Kathleen. She finished Hogwarts two years ago and is studying to be an Auror. She is a bit taller than Audra and is almost identical to Kathleen. The only difference is her round green eyes, much like my own.
Julie: 8 years old. She looks nothing like her sisters. She is definitely going to be tall. (She is already as tall as me, and I am a couple inches taller than the older sisters) She has very bright blonde hair. She has Lydianne's eyes and is fair skinned, unlike her sisters who all have freckles covering their cheeks and noses. She talks a lot and already has a boyfriend, the neighbor boy Jack. His older brother was Kathleen's first specimen, the first boy to be written on her legendary list.
Kyle: 12 years old has sandy blonde hair. He is as tall as his younger sister and the two are identical in almost every way besides their hair. They have the same shape of face and eyes and the same skin.
She has like 20 pets though, even though they are outside, it is very…odd. I have never had any pets in my life. She has, let me think…8 cats, 4 dogs, 3 rabbits, and 2 horses. Oh! And 4 Owls. I don't know all of their names. They don't need names. I am not a pet person. They are cat. Dog. Rabbit. And Owl. I like horses, so they are fine. Lola and Herbie. Lola is Audra and Lydianne's horse. Herbie is Kathleen and Julie's. Kyle has all the dogs. Ugh. I hate dogs. They are big, they bark, and… eugh!
So now you have seen a side of me you haven't seen before! I wrote Christopher a letter. I told him how much I miss him and that we need to get together. He wrote back. So I am going to post his letters in here like I did his "secret admirer" letters. It will be like old times, before my dreams came true.
Lily
I miss you too.
So, uh, this Thursday is my birthday and I was wondering if I could get together with you at Diagon Alley. It would be fun. We could look at books if you want to, we can get some butterbeers at the leaky cauldron, Ice cream. Who knows how much fun we could have? So write me back with your reply.
ChristopherNot as Romantic as his secret admirer letters, but he won me, right? So I can't wait until Thursday! I am going to see if there is an easier way to get to Diagon Alley. There better be! Isn't Christopher the best boyfriend ever? His special birthday wish is to spend it with me, and me alone. How sweet. I guess that makes up for the lack of Romance in his letter.
Lily
(He hasn't called me "My Lily Flower" ever since those letters, I wonder why not! I always thought that was so sweet!)
In Kathleen's Room9:00 pm
I spent all yesterday trying to find easier way to get to Diagon Alley, I was writing letters like a maniac to people who could help. To the travel department in the Ministry of Magic, to the Floo Station Directors, to as many people as possible, I wrote so many letters! I worked from about 9:00 am to 3:00 pm before Kathleen asked me what I was doing.
I explained what I was doing Saturday and how I didn't want to spend forever at the Floo stations and she laughed at me. She thought my dilemma was silly. I was slightly hurt, until I realized that this meant there was an easier way to get to Diagon Alley.
Turns out that Kathleen's family has special designated portkeys from the ministry because of the distance they live from Diagon Alley and Hogwarts. It can be used over and over to get from there and back. She said that I could use hers. Because she thinks it is a worthy cause we are making a special trip to the local muggle village to shop for some clothes to wear for my date! We are also going to get my hair back to normal the muggle way, just a trim to get it all one length.
We are leaving tomorrow morning at 7: 00 am and we have to be home by 2:00 pm. I think that that is enough time to shop and get my hair trimmed. So I am going to get some sleep. I am so excited. I get to see Christopher and I am getting new clothes just for the occasion!
Lily
In Kathleen's Room5:00 pm
I just got back! Shopping was so much fun! I haven't gone shopping around muggles in a while. I loved it. When we got Ice cream for lunch (we were in charge, and no one told us what we were allowed and not allowed to get…) Kathleen was eating it very sloooowly and it began to melt and she had no clue what was happening! She was standing in the middle of the street screaming because it dripped on her shirt. "It's sticky!" was what she kept repeating over and over again. She was HILARIOUS! Everyone was staring! When she finally calmed down she saw a really cute guy and insisted on following him around for a half an hour before he yelled at us in French. Kathleen (who is fortunate enough to speak fluent French) told me that he was telling us that we were stalkers. She didn't know what he meant and when I told her she said that if muggles need a special name for people following other people around like stalkers do, then we all have big problems.
Well I bought about 3 outfits, I don't know which one I want to wear. There is one back tank top, with a matching jean skirt that goes about 3 inches above my knees. The tank top has thin red lace that goes around the edges. And there is a big heart on the front. The Second outfit is a pink button up shirt with a pair of khaki slacks (mostly so I can have new clothes for school it isn't really a choice for my date with Christopher) The last pair of clothes is pretty good too. It is a short-sleeved bark blue shirt it fits me tight around my waste so I look pretty good. The pants are jeans, it is a new look and jeans are pretty expensive, so I am proud of my only pair of jeans. I got two new pairs of shoes, some tennis shoes and some nicer shoes for school.
I got my OWL results! I passed every class! Yes! I got another letter from Christopher. This one is somehow less romantic then the last.
Lily
Cool, see ya Thursday noon at Leaky cauldron.
Love ya
Christopher
How disappointing!
Lily
