Recap...
"I will go first, then Ed, Al and finally Harry." I walk over the fire place drop the bag of powder and step into the fire, throw down the powder and call out "Diagon Ally!"
Chapter 4
The green fire spun me around in circles until it spit me out in the Leaky Cauldron. I step out still semi-dizzy and waited for Al, Ed and Harry to come out. I look around the pub and it looks the some as normal. The tables clean and yet at the same time really dirty looking, and Tom standing behind the bar cleaning his glass and he shot me a friendly, toothless grin that he gives to everyone. I smile back as a big gust of wind comes out from behind me singling the arrival of Ed. I turned around, smiled at him, and said "Welcome to the Leaky Cauldron!"
Ed started to look around when another gust of wind come from the fire and there Al stands, who steps out and begins to sway from side to side like a new fish out of water. He heads over to his brother and they look around the old pub together, being careful not to touch anything. Another gust of wind comes and out steps Harry, glass askew.
"Well now that we are all here, lets get all of are things, first stop Gringotts." Called out Harry while adjusting is glasses
"We're going where?" Ed replied, not knowing anything now.
"Gringotts, the wizard's bank. We need wizard's money to buy our school things." Harry said back
"Oh" that was all Ed said as we headed out the pub to the back yard. The back was just a patch of browning grass and a garbage can standing next to a solid brick wall.
"Well this is just a dead end, I don't see any shops or bank." said Ed as if he was king of the world.
"Just you wait, shortie, you will see soon enough." I reply with a smirk on my face. Ed's temper flared and he burst out "Who are you calling a super midget that makes you want to step on him!"
"Woh Ed, chill pill. I didn't call you a super midget. Just wait and you will see Diagon Ally." I stated.
As I was saying all of this to Ed, Harry was tapping the brick wall with his wand and the wall then folded back to reveal Diagon Ally. "Well Ed what did I tell you. There is Diagon Ally."
"But, how? There is no evidence, nothing changed, it just moved. . . ."
"Ed, its magic, it doesn't have to make sense," Said Harry to answer Ed's question.
"Well, let's get going, come on Ed, Al" I called out to the two brothers standing there in amassment.
When we entered the Alley, the boys' eyes popped out and stated scanning the whole ally as we started to walk. We passed Madame Malkin's Robes for All Occasions, and just outside were Draco Malfoy and his two flunkeys. He spotted the four of us and started to walk over to make trouble for Harry and me.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't Potty and his redheaded half-blood girlfriend, and who would be these two short little boys?" Draco asked is his cold voice. My whole body tensed forcing myself not to punch Malfoy's smug face. When Ed's voice comes out with "Who did you say was a super-ultra short kid!"
"Brother please, we don't want any trouble." Said Al in his calming voice laced with worry
"Malfoy, if I have told you once, I have told you a million times, I am NOT Harry's GIRLFRIEND! Get that through your thick skull and into that tiny pea brain of yours! Now, go away unless you want my fist in your face." I told him while raising my fist threatening him.
"Now, now. No need to be violent Chant," replied Malfoy calmly "or I might just have to teach you a lesson."
"Draco as if you could ever beat me in a fight, so what would you do; would you have your flunkeys fight for you? They couldn't even beat a fly." I commented back
"Who ever said I was going to use Crabbe or Goyle, and not my magic." Draco replied with a smirk and a creepy almost perverted look in his eye rolling his wand around in his hand.
Now Harry stepped in front of me as if to block me from leaping at Malfoy and killing him and said "Draco you couldn't kill a fly with your magic, so why don't you leave us alone, unless you want me to tell the whole school when we get back that you are gay." With that said, you could see Malfoy pale. Malfoy stormed off followed by his goons, when he bumped into a fellow Hogwarts student. The girl had her long brown hair pulled back in an American Indian style and was dressed in blue jeans a red tank top with a brown button up shirt over the tank top. The brown haired girl flared up after Malfoy didn't apologize for walking into her. She yells over at him "Hey, how about a sorry, Malfoy." Her friend, a girl with long dirty blond hair and blue eyes, turns after her friend and nods her head in agreement with that.
Malfoy turns back around and says "Why don't you watch where you're going, you filthy mud-bloods." With that comment, the brown haired girl temper flairs and she walks up to Malfoy turns him so he facing her and punches him dead in the mouth.
"Hopefully that will teach you to watch not only your tongue but your feet too!" The brown haired girl yell and walked up to her blonde friend high five her and continued on there way.
With that, I start to laugh and I said loud enough for Malfoy to hear me "That's karma for you!"
After the Malfoy incident, we continued our way up to the bank. Ed and Al looked like little kids in the big city for there first time. When we finally reached Gringotts, Ed and Al just stared up in wonder at the huge marble building. We walked through the front doors to find Ed looking at the sign inside saying
"Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there."
(Page 72 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
"Hey Phox what does that sign means? What would you find besides treasure?" Ask Ed
"Oh the sign, its means if you steal from bank you will end up dying before you get out with the money."
"How can they guarantee that? I mean it's just a bank, they will always have robbers in the world." Ed said
"They can guarantee that because the bank vaults are all underground and they are in a huge tunnel network that would take years to figure a way out." I told Ed. He looked at me with absolute confusion, "you will see soon enough."
We head into the bank and walk across the marble hall up to the first open goblin. We walked up to the goblins desk and Harry said, "Hello, I'm here on Hog-works business and I need to go to the Hogwarts fund vault, Miss Chants vault and my vault, Potter."
"Alright sir. Do you have the keys to the keys to the faults?" Ask the goblin
"Yes I do." Harry said as he pulled out two gold keys, "Phox your key."
"Oh ya, it's right here in my pocket." I said as I reach into my front pocket. However, my key wasn't in there, I checked my other pockets but my key wasn't in them ether. "Oh crap, where is it?"
"What's wrong?" ask Harry with concern,
"I think I lost my key." I told Harry with shock, "wait a second, Malfoy had his wand out when we were auguring."
"That's not possible; we would have seen him levitate the key out of your pocket." Harry told me surely.
"He must have done it after we left after laughing at him. I'll be back."
I ran down the Alley looking up and down it to find Malfoy. As I was walking past Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlor, I said not too loudly "Where the hell could that bastard Malfoy be!" And just then Malfoy walks up behind me and says
"I'd be careful of what you say about me Chant, especially since I have this." He says as he pulls out the key to my vault.
"Give that back Malfoy!" I yelled, as I tried to grab it but Malfoy only raised his hand, putting it out of my reach. I was about to punch Malfoy when his two goons, Crabbe and Goyle, grabbed me and held me back by my arms. Just then, Harry came around the corner seeing me held back
"Phox, what's wrong?" Harry asked.
"He has the key to my vault that's what wrong Harry." I replied.
"Malfoy, give it back."
"Make me Potter." Malfoy said, challenging him. Suddenly, a pillar of stone wrapped around Malfoy's body.
"Wow, I didn't know it took two pipsqueaks to take me down." Malfoy commented. Ed started to get angry at this, but only by the force of Harry and Al holding him back not to punch him.
"Who did you call miniature size! You better be careful Malfoy, you never know when I'll get back at you."
"So, what? I can see you prepare your alchemy with that transmutation circle that you have to do in order to make it work" Malfoy responded within his stone prison.
Ed just laughed darkly. "How little you know, is pathetic. Don't try to act as if you know anything about alchemy when you know nothing." With that said Malfoy just gave him that 'ugh, I hate you for being right' look. His two goons were still holding me, with a good bit of strength I pulled my right arm, which was being held by Crabbe, and brought it back into his stomach, forcing him to free my right to hold his stomach in pain. With my right arm free, I swung to hit Goyle, who was holding my left arm and punched him dead in the jaw sending him reeling. Now free, I walked up to Malfoy, held in place and punched him dead in the nose, and as I punched him, I could feel and hear his nose brake. When he screamed out in pain, I grabbed my bank key from his hand and slipped it back into the back pocket of my blue jeans and said to him
"Thank you for your time" with an overly fake happy smile that was lip tight and walked off, calling the boys' to hurry up.
We had gotten through Gringotts and got all the money we needed to get all of our school supplies. Our first stop was Flourish and Blotts, where we stopped in and bought: 2 copies of Standard Book of Spells Grade 7, Grade 5 and Grade 4, two copies of Intermediate Transfiguration; a copy of Asiatic Anti-Venoms; and one of Magical Drafts and Potions; two copies of A History of Magic; two copies of One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi; 2 copies of Confronting the Faceless. After paying for all the books, which filled 2 big bags, which Harry and I split carrying around. Then we head of to the Apothecary to refill Harry and my potion supplies and get 2 cauldrons and basic positions ingredients for Ed and Al. After that, Harry needed his robes refit and Ed and Al needed school robes so we headed off to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions, and got them fit. Therefore, our last stop was Ollivanders.
"Ok this is a warning, Ollivander is kinda creepy. So be nice and no comments about the way he looks or his shop. I almost got thrown out doing that." I told them as we walked into the small shop and stood there waiting for Ollivander. He came from the back of his shop to see us standing there, he came up and shook Harry, and my hands, reminiscing about when we each came in to get are wands.
"Mr. Potter your wand is Holly and Phoenix Feather, still so strange and Miss. Chant, when you came in with Dumbledore, so young, you were 12, coming for your first wand in shock that such a place excited, I remember almost throwing you out for almost destroying my shop, your wand is Cedar and dragon heartstring. Such a powerful wand, I hope you are taking good care of it."
"Yes, sir, very good care of it." I replied to the shop keeper.
"Now what can I do for my two most interesting customers?"
"Well we need to get these two some wands." Harry told Ollivander
"Ah and what's your names be boys?"
"I'm Edward and this is my younger brother Alphonse."
"Ah, it's a pleaser to meet you both. Now I will be started with you Edward, lets see," Ollivander brought out his measuring tape "Now which arm is you wand arm?"
"Well, um...I write left handed." Ed told him unsurely.
"Good, good." Ollivander said as he started measuring Ed all over. "Now let's see, how about Cedar and unicorn hair, five and half inches," he said, as he pulled a thin box from the shelf. "Go on, give it a wave" Ed picked up the wand and was bringing it down when Ollivander pulled it from his hand saying "No, no. How about Ash and Dragon Heartstring, 5 ½ inches?" Ollivander's walk down the aisle to the back shelf and summoned the latter over and climbed to the top and pulled out a small box that was covered in dust. He blew off the dust, climbed down the latter and walks back over to Ed handing him the wand. "Here, give this one a wave," Ollivander's told Ed. He lifted the wand up above his head and brought it down and sparks come out of it. "Perfect" cried out Ollivander. "Now time for the younger brother, which is your wand arm?" Shyly, Al told him that he was right handed. After that was said, the tape measure jumped up and measured Al. Hand to armpit, Middle finger to wrist, thumb to pinky, arm span. As the tape maser was moving to his face, Ollivander clapped his hands causing the tape measurer to fall to floor. Ollivander came over and handed Al a wand of his own. "Apple and Unicorn hair, five inches give it a wave," so Al lifted his wand up with his right hand and brought it down in a simple but elegant move. "Wonderful, wonderful! That would be the wand for you."
We left the shop after paying for their wands and heading back to the Leaky Calderon.
"Well, that was fun-filled, now back to school." I commented, "We need to introduce you both to the teachers and get you started on you lessons. So that you are all caught up in the curriculum and can go into your proper year." We all entered the pub and headed over the fireplace. I pulled a bag filled with floo-powder from my red and green massager-bag. I gave the boys all clear instructions on what to say to get back to the Gryffindor common room. I headed into the fire place and called "Hogwarts, Gryffindor common room."
AN: Hey everyone I am SOOOO sorry this took 5 months to post the this chapter. I hope you all like it. The reason why it took me forever to update is because my life got really busy. I had to drop 2 of the 4 clubs I was in. I got a really bad writers block through Dec, Jan and most of Feb. Then March and the end of Feb where taken up my one of my clubs (we had our regional computation the first weekend of March) So that had me busy. I also started work on an orginal story which I will be posting on Deviant art. Its called A New Highschool, New Problems. The link is... http/ phoxchant455. deviantart .com So, ya...I hope you all come and read it. I plan on having the next chapter TEGTH before...SUMMER VACATION!(which is in June). So you all know I encrage you all to send me messages through Fanfiction telling me to update. It will get me moving...typeing...you know what I mean. So if you want an update before June I would advices you to bug me, every weekend trust me it will work!
