Chapter 3
A red head, brunette, and black hair dude walks out of a store…
They banged along in relative silence for another half hour. When they reached Diagon Alley, Stan ushered them out of the Knight Bus, and Valentine gasped as her feet hit the pavement. She was standing in a street full of men, women, and children. Most of these people were wearing long robes of varying colors. On each side of the road were loads of different stores each containing many different things for the average witch or wizard. Professor McGonagall was quickly ushering her into a shop where you were supposed to by robes for school.
"I will be back before long. Madam Malkin will be taking care of you. See you in a bit." And with that, Professor McGonagall left the building and walked up the road.
Uncertain of what to do, Valentine stood there uneasily. She jumped at the sound of a woman's voice.
"You here for Hogwarts?" asked Madam Malkin.
"Yes." Said Valentine, with a hint of uncertainty in her voice, talking to complete strangers was not something she did.
"Well step right up here then, we'll get you measured and fitted."
As Valentine stepped onto a stool a measuring tape started measuring all parts of her body. Just before Madam Malkin shoved some robes over her head, she caught a glimpse of three people walking out of the shop. One was tall and redheaded, the other with black hair, and one with long, brown bushy hair. When she had finished, she left the shop with her bag of robes.
As she got out of the shop, she wondered where Professor McGonagall was. As she looked around, Valentine saw her sitting on a bench not too far away. She walked over, Professor McGonagall stood up.
"Have you got your robes?" she looked inside Valentines bag. "Good, Good. I have taken the liberty of getting your books, quills, parchment, and cauldron. Now all you need to get is a pet, if you wish, and a wand. Wand first." And with that Professor McGonagall guided her into the wand shop.
The man at the wand shop also measured her. She tried out about six wands, and then finally settled on one that was 13 and a half inches long, and contained a hair of mermaid. Personally, Valentine didn't care what was in it. It was beautiful. Nice, dark wood, and it was very shiny, like it had just been polished. After she pocketed her wand, she went into the pet store.
It smelled very bad in there, on account of the fact that there were about 100 animals in the shop, and they were all very noisy. She walked around the shop for about ten minutes, trying to decide between a cat or an owl. Professor McGonagall pointed out that owls were much more useful than cats. Valentine then settled on a tiny, black and white owl with green eyes.
When they got to the Leaky cauldron and got settled in, Valentine immediately cracked open a book and sat down to read. When Professor McGonagall left Valentine could have swore she could of heard her mutter something that sounded a lot like, "Yes, her and Hermione are going to get along fine."