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None: I'll try to explain itStephanie POV
"Dad is there really a school of witches?" I asked him.
"Well, yes," he said.
"Then how come D.J. and Michele don't have to go to that school then?"
"I don't really know," he said, "All I know is that your mother was half witch. She told me just before D.J. was born. You sisters might be witches I just don't know."
I sighed. "Well I don't have to leave till the September 1st," I said, "Hey am I staying there a whole year?"
"I think you will. You can probably come home on the holidays," he said.
"No way! I get to stay in England for an entire year by my self!" I said pretending to be happy. "But what am I going to tell my friends? I can't say I'm going to a school to learn magic. They will think I have gone nuts."
He stopped to think, "I guess we will just tell them you are going to a private school in England."
Some time in late August:
I was watching T.V. when I heard a knock at the door. I turned off the T.V. and went to answer it. When I opened the door I was surprised to see what was on the other end. There standing in my doorway was a man with a dark shaggy beard who was at least seven feet tall. Or he at least seemed to be. I stared at him with my mouth hanging open.
"Is Miss Stephanie Tanner here?" he asked in a loud booming voice.
I stared dumbstruck for a few more moments. "Um, yeah, I'm her," I said snapping out of my thoughts. Then dad came in. "I heard someone knocking. Who is it?" but he stopped behind me. "Um, hi I'm Danny Tanner. And um, who are you?" he asked.
"I em Rubes Hagrid, gamekeeper of Hogwarts," he said proudly. "I have come to take Miss Stephanie to Diagon Alley to buy her school supplies."
I blinked. "Now! We can't go now!" I said surprised, "Can I dad?"
"Well," he said still looking astonished at Hagrid's height, "I guess you can go." I went upstairs to get my suitcase. "Tell everyone I said bye," I said waving to my dad. We hugged quickly. "Well how are we going to get all the way to England?" I asked him.
"By floo powder of course!" he said smiling.
"What is floo powder?" I asked.
"Well you use it to travel from fire place to fire place." He walked over to the fireplace and reached into his pocket and pulled out some kind of powder. He handed me some. "Just walk over to the fire place, close your eyes, and say loud and clear Diagon Alley," he instructed me. I uneasily walked over to the fireplace and closed my eyes. "Diagon Alley, " said as clearly as I could.
My feet seemed to swirl beneath me. I tried to open my eyes but I was swirling too fast. When I came out I was in some different fireplace. I walked out and dusted of my clothes trying to get off as much soot as possible.
I looked around in the odd store. I saw the front door and walked out. 'Where was I?' I thought. The streets were crowded with people wearing cloaks. I felt odd since it seemed like I was the only one dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. I looked around. There were some buildings that looked a little run down. I started to wander off.
As time passed it seemed as if I was wondering in circles. Everything looked the same to me. And also I have never been here before and there was noone I knew here also. "Stephanie!" I heard someone call out of the crowd. I stopped and turned around. It was Hagrid and he had someone else with him. He was a boy that looked around my age. He had glasses and messy black hair. 'Finally someone I know!' I thought. I walked toward him, making my way through the busy crowd. "Eh I should have told you to stay put," he said. "First we need to go to Gringott's to exchange your money," he said. 'Gringott's? That must be a bank I guess,' I thought.
We made our way to a large building. "What are those," I whispered to him. I pointed at something behind the counter. "Those," he said, "are goblins. They run the bank." The boy and me exchanged glances.
"This way," the goblin instructed us. We stopped at a vault. Inside there was many glitter coins. Later when they were exchanging my money (my dad gave me $300 because he didn't know what how much this whole thing was going to cost) "Um hi I'm Stephanie Tanner," I said holding out my hand to the black haired boy.
He looked surprised I was even talking to him, "Hi, I'm Harry Potter."
"Is this your first year?" I asked him.
"Yeah, I didn't even know magic was real," he said.
"Same here," I said relieved that I wasn't the only one who had no idea what was going on. "I thought it only existed in stories, but here we are in a different world with magic."
After leaving Gringott's we fallowed Hagrid to a rundown store. "Now we need to buy your wands," he said, "You can't do much magic without them." 'Wow a wand. I wonder it is mad out of plastic,' I thought. I read a sign hanging. "Ollivander's: Makers of fine wands since 382 B.C." I read out loud. "Wow 382 B.C. I guess magic has been around longer than I thought."
We went inside. The place was dimly lighted. "Ah," a soft voice said. I jumped slightly. An old man was standing behind the counter behind what it looked like a bunch of stacked boxes. "Some more first years come to get their wands," he said walking over to us. "I was wondering when you arrived Harry Potter." He stared at Harry for a few moments and then went over to the boxes and started looking threw them. He pulled one out and handed it to me. "Here, it's a eleven inch ebony with a unicorn hair." He handed it to me. I stood there just looking at it. "Well give it a swish," he told me. I flicked it a little. Some boxes were sent flying. "Oh dear no, not that one," he said shaking his head. My cheeks flushed. "Sorry," I said.
He went over and picked out another one. "Here," he said sounding slightly happier, "This one is 19cm hazel wand with dragon heartstring. Give it a swish," she said handing it to me. I tried this one, but luckily it didn't destroy anything. The end stated to light up. "That one will work," he said smiling, "A fine wand you have chosen, or should I say a fine wand has chosen you." After Harry got his wand. Which was a holly and phoenix feather 11inch.
"I'll let you two go buy your robes," Hagrid said. "I'll be back to come and get you. And don't go wandering off," he told us. Harry and I both nodded. They measured us and we got our robes for school. "So I guess we have a school uniforms," I said to Harry. He didn't look too thrilled too. Something knocked on the window. There was Hagrid holding two cages with owls in them. One was snow white and the other one was black, white, and gray. We went outside to greet Hagrid. He handed the white one to Harry. "Happy Birthday Harry," he said handing it to him.
"It's your birthday?" I asked him.
"Well it was a few days ago," he said.
"And this one is for you Stephanie," Hagrid said giving the cage over to me, "You will need it to send letters to your family."
"Send letters with it?" I asked him while looking at the owl.
"That's how witches and wizards communicate."
"Oh," I said, "I think I'll call her Malaya. What are you naming yours?" I asked Harry.
"I don't know I think I'll call her Hedwig," he said.
"I like that name," I said. We smiled at each other but walked faster because of the fast moving crowd.
We went to get our books. "Here," the bookkeeper said holding a lot of books. He dumped them into my cauldron. They were so heavy I almost dropped the cauldron. "Am I going to need all of these?" I asked wide-eyed.
"Of course," the bookkeeper said collecting Harry's books, "That should cover every book on the list and a few others that might come in handy later one."
While I waited for Harry to get his books I wandered around. I picked up a few books. I found one that looked like something that could be interesting. It was about magical creatures. I opened and the pictures started moving! "What was that!" I asked myself. My curiosity got the better of me and I picked it up and looked at again. It was pretty cool that the pictures were moving. Odd, but cool. I found another book that would help somewhat with understanding magic. It was about the history of magic, it covered all time periods and what important things that happened. I put it the cauldron with the other books and went over to pay for them.
We then stopped at an ice cream shop. There were so many flavors I couldn't decide which ones to choose. In the end I picked out a strawberry shortcake cone. We made a few stops in other stores too. I decided not to buy anything extra since I need that money to last all year.
Ok I'll explain about Stephanie and her family's magic thing. And I tried to make it long enough but don't have much time to write. I will eventually explain everything. And Stephanie's owls name, Malaya, is a name. I looked it up. It means freedom. Just so you know. Confused yet? Sorry if you are.
