The Following Day

America's Point of View

On the day of the meeting at Iggy's house, I was rudely awakened at about 7 by Canada's bear biting my hand, yelling at me to get up. Canada and Jamaica had decided to have a sleepover at my house since we were all coming from the same area of the world and ya know to just hang out since the three of us haven't had a chance to do so in quite a while. Fully waking up, I put on my glasses and walked downstairs, deciding to get breakfast before getting ready. Walking into the kitchen, I saw Canada making enough breakfast to serve an army.

"America, I see you've finally woken up," She said.

"Yh sis, all thanks to your bear deciding I had enough sleep and woke me up by biting my hand," I said lightly chuckling.

Laughing, she turned around to face me and said, "that definitely sounds like him, eh? Anyways, Jamaica is out for a run, has been since before I woke up. I've also decided to make breakfast for the others since I wouldn't want to subject anyone to the horror that is his food and also to avoid you making the three of us late because you just had to stop at McDonald's and end up holding up the meeting," she said in a joking manner.

"Now please come over here and finish the eggs and sausages," she said as she continued to flip pancakes.

Nodding I went beside her and did what she asked. While I was frying the Eggs, Jamaica ran in, took a very hot pancake just out of the pan and ran upstairs to the guest room, doing the funniest little dance, trying not to drop the very hot pancake, probably to get ready without even greeting us which was very unusual for her. Shrugging it off, I continued cooking until about 30 minutes later when she came back downstairs.

"Sorry 'bout before but gud mawnin," she greeted, "now America, get your ass upstairs 'n get yuself ready. We already running behind schedule," she said, pushing me out of the way and taking over the cooking./p

I ran upstairs but not before telling her to make sure to not put too much peeper in the food to which she threw a fork at my head, which I of course dodged, and shouting at me that at least her food has flavour. Laughing, I took a shower and put on my usual clothes of a white crop top, green pleated skirt, and my bomber jacket but instead of my boots, I put on a pair of brown sandals and pinned my hair back with my star hairpins. Pulling on my gloves as I walked downstairs, I saw Canada and Jamaica packing all of the food and went over to help them. By the time we were finished, it was already 10:10. We nation hopped and got to Iggy's house about 5 minutes later.

Kicking down the door to the meeting room I shouted, "yo! Dudes and dudettes, the HERO has arrived to save you from whatever Iggy has managed to cook up! Oh, these two are also here," I said, moving aside to reveal Jamaica and Canada. Everybody came up and got food and started eating as England started to talk in between bites.

"Okay, now that we are all here, I have all of your acceptance letters right here. After we are finished eating, the first order of business will be to age ourselves down then we will be meeting with a man named Rubeus Hagrid, who will also be accompanying the boy we are supposed to as protect, as it would be very strange for 16 eleven-year-olds to be walking around unsupervised and with no adult nearby. Also since Germany, Jamaica, and Russia don't have wands, they will have to go with Harry Potter to buy his wand," he said and stood up, handing out the letters.

Looking down at the envelope on the table in front of me, I decided to open it and read it. At the top was a crest with four animals and what seemed to some sort of motto.

HOGWARTS SCHOOL

of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

HEADMASTER: ALBUS DUMBLEDORE

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorceror, Chief Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confederation of Wizards.)

Dear Ms. Amelia F. Jones

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. All necessary books and equipment can be purchased at Diagon Alley. We await your owl no later than 31 July. Please make your way to Kings Cross Station and onto platform 9 3/4 where you will meet the Hogwarts Express. The term begins on 1 September. Students shall be required to report to the Chamber of Reception upon arrival. We very much look forward to receiving you as part of the new generation of Hogwarts Heritage.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall.

On another piece of parchment, there was a long list of books and ingredients written.

After everyone finally finished eating, and everything was cleaned up, Iggy stood up and said, "ok, everyone, I hope you have all read your letters," at this everyone nodded, "now please follow me to my basement where we will be deaged."

Going down to the basement, I was excited to see how it would happen. When we reached the basement, he turned around and said to us, "I'm not sure how many of you know this, but we as nations have the ability to change the age we appear as once it is not older than our normal age appearance and there are a good number of people that age in your country," at this there were gasps of surprise and excitement from most of the nations around, then he continued speaking, "there are a few side effects to this though. Our superhuman strength will remain but will be a bit weaker, also, nation hopping will be even more tiresome than usual and as such, should only be used for emergencies. The final side effect I've observed is that it causes us to act a bit similar to when we were physically that age, so don't be surprised if you find yourselves acting differently than usual. It is fairly easy to do it. Just visualize yourselves at that age and try to think of your citizens at the age of eleven," he said closing his eyes and presumably doing what he had just said.

Closing my eyes I tried to remember when I lived with England, before everything went downhill, and tried to relate with my citizens, trying to separate them. Suddenly, I fell unconscious. Upon waking, I realized that it worked as I looked down and saw my very chubby hands and seeing as I was much shorter than before. Looking around, I saw that most of us had already recovered and were sitting up or looking at each other laughing and teasing. Seeing as the only two countries that I knew how they looked when they were younger are Canada and Jamaica, I was just amazed and had taken out my camera and was taking pictures of everyone for later and to show the other countries. From what I could see, the shortest were Jamaica and Iceland. Almost immediately, England and France started fighting and it went on longer than normal which worried me a bit since normally at this time Germany would normally be yelling at us to shut up. Looking over to where she was standing before, Prussia was cracking up and ruffling her hair. When I got a better look at her I was very surprised at how she looked. She didn't even look eleven, she was very thin and very frail-looking.

He laughed that very strange laugh of his and said, "ah, Vest, you're so cute. I haven't seen you like this in almost a century. Your growth spurt really hit you like a train didn't it? But there are definitely some things I don't miss about you. Let's just hope they don't rear their ugly heads while you have to be in this state," he said laughing but with a small look of worry and what seemed to fear in his eyes. It's really hard to remember that Germany is the youngest of us, her country being formed in just the 1800s when most of us have been around for much longer than that. With even Jamaica having existed for at least a 1000 years but only recently having gained her independence in the most uncool way ever. I couldn't help but wonder what could cause Prussia to be so fearful since it normally takes a lot for him to even be worried much less both worried and fearful.

Finally, France and England stopped fighting and Iggy turned around to face us, he shrunk our clothes so that they fit and went over to a fireplace that iI hadn't noticed before and took up a pot and said, "now that that is done, this is how we will be traveling. This is called Floo powder, " he said. I tuned him out as I already knew what it was and how it worked. I went first and as I stepped out of the fireplace, I saw that I was in a very dingy bar. When everyone else arrived, England led us over to a giant of a man.cHarry's Point of View

I was so excited that I could hardly stand still, I had just learned that I was a wizard and Hagrid was to take me to buy my supplies for Hogwarts but we were just sitting around doing nothing.

"Hey, Hagrid?" I asked, receiving a small grunt in response, "when are we going to buy my supplies?" I asked.

"Soon, 'arry, soon," he replied, "just waiting on some other kids I'm supposed to be showing around and who also need their supplies. Foreign transfers or summon."

After waiting for about ten more minutes, I saw a group of very strange looking people about my age coming our way. There were ten boys and six girls. Tugging on Hagrid's coat, I pointed them out to him and asked if they were the ones that we were waiting on to which he nodded yes.

A short boy with messy blonde hair, bright green eyes, and the biggest eyebrows I have ever seen said to him, "good dfriendlyay, are you Rubeus Hagrid?" he asked in an accent that sounded like a mixture of Irish and British. When Hagrid nodded he said, "oh thank God. I was told we were supposed to meet you here since we don't have anyone to accompany us?" He asked in a questioning tone.

"Since yer finally here, we can go and get yer things. Who needs to go to the bank?" Hagrid asked and two of the girls and a boy rose their hands. Hagrid continued, "since it's only three of you, can ye get yer things on your own?" Hagrid asked and the others nodded. Hagrid told us to follow him and lead us into an alley and stopped in front of a brick wall. He took out his pink umbrella and tapped it on a couple of bricks while saying, "three up and two across". I was just about to ask what he was doing when the bricks parted showing a street filled with shops full of things that I had never seen before, causing mine, and when I looked around some of the transfers', jaws to drop. I was speechless. We split up meaning that I was left with the three people from before while the other transfers split up into smaller groups and went to different areas of the alley,

For the first five or so minutes of our walk, it was completely silent then I felt a tap on my shoulder. Turning around, I saw a short girl medium brown skin, very curly brown hair, and brown eyes behind glasses wearing a strapless dress with what looked like a flag or something on it, light brown gloves, and with a very wide, smile on her face. "Oh, I just realize we didn' introduce ourselves," she said with an accent I couldn't quite place. "Anyways," she continued, "I'm Gabrielle n' Arthur said we're from overseas, I'm from Jamaica. It's really nice to meetcha," she said keeping that same smile on her face.

"I am Ivan Braginsky," I heard from my right. Turning around, I saw a very tall boy with pale blonde, almost white hair, and strangely enough, violet eyes. He was also dressed very inappropriately for the 30-degree weather with a scarf, gloves, and a long tan coat. He also had a very wide and creepy smile and was giving off a terrifying aura. "I am from Russia. We will become great friends da?" He asked in a very thick accent, somehow, as he said this, his smile seemed to grow even wider and I just quickly nodded my head out of fear.

"Ru-Ivan why must you be like this?" I heard a thick German accent say from behind me, "anyvay, I am from Germany, my name is Ludva Beilschmidt." Turning around, I saw the last transfer. She was about the same height as Gabrielle, quite skinny with a very strict-looking face, ice-blue eyes, and about shoulder-length hair that was slicked back and was wearing a black crop top, olive green pants, and black boots. "I hope ve can get along." She said holding out a gloved hand for me to shake which I did a bit hesitantly.

"It's really nice to meet you three," I said, "my name is Harry Potter I hope we will get along during the school year," I finished with a small smile.

They seemed very surprised and a bit excited. After that, we talked excitedly about what the year would be like and what classes would be like. I also asked them about what their countries were like, especially Gabrielle's since I had never even heard of Jamaica before other than when the Dursleys mentioned it once when talking about where they would go for vacation. When we got to the bank, we went to different goblins. We first went to my vault and I was very surprised when I saw the large number of coins that were in the vault and I couldn't believe that it was all mine. After we left my vault, we went to another vault with very complicated locks and I was greatly disappointed Hagrid just took out a small bag and when I asked what it was, refused to answer me when I asked what was in it.

Going back to the main lobby, we saw the other three. Ludva and Ivan were standing a bit away from Gabrielle while she was leaning against a wall, drinking something out of a bottle looking very angry and seemed to be cursing someone under her breath. We got the books, the potion ingredients, and the other equipment. When we were to get our robes fitted, Hagrid left, saying he had to go and do something. Walking into Madame Malkins, a short witch came running up to us saying, "Hogwarts too? There's another boy getting fitted over here. You two can just go stand up on those stools while the other two can wait while I get you two fitted," she said, pointing to me and Ivan.

Standing on the stool next to me was a pale boy with a pointed face and pale blonde hair slicked back with pale grey eyes. Turning to me, he said, "hello, Hogwarts too?"

"Yes," I replied.

"My father's next door buying my books and mother's up the street looking at wands," he said in a bored, drawling voice. "Then I'm going to drag them off to look at racing brooms. I don't see why first years can't have their own. I think I'll bully father into getting me one and I'll smuggle it in somehow." As he said this, I was greatly reminded of Dudley.

Just as he was about to say more, Ivan decided to speak up just then and asked, "Who are you da?"

"I should be asking you the same. the name's Malfoy, Drac Malfoy," he said.

We talked a bit more, well more like he continued to talk while I nodded along to whatever he said. He was talking mostly of Hogwarts and houses which caused me to be confused as Hagrid never mentioned anything about houses. Eventually, he left, and Ivan and I sat down while we waited on the other two to finish. When they did, we went outside to see Hagrid there waiting for us with a cage that had a snowy white owl in it. He said that it was my birthday gift and I hugged him out of gratitude. After that, the only thing left to get was our wands. We went to Ollivander's and it took quite a number of wands before I got my wand, 11 inches, phoenix feather core, and holly wood.

Ludva went next, she was apparently ambidextrous. After about thirteen wands and an almost destroyed shop, she whispered something into his ear. With an overly excited look on his face, he went to the back and came out with some boxes. It took maybe three more wands until finally after she waved a wand black, red and gold sparks came out of the end of the wand and there was the smell of freshly baked bread in the air. Ollivander said, "I had a good feeling about that one, twelve and a half inches, oak wood, a feather from an eagle, unyielding, especially good for defense."

Next went Ivan who was also ambidextrous. It took about five wands until he waved a very light coloured wand. This caused white, blue and red balls of light to appear and a light snowfall started. Ollivander said, "Siberian Pine, also contains a feather from an eagle, 13 inches, sturdy good for curses."

Lastly, Gabrielle went up, she was left-handed. Hers took ten tries until she waved a wand striped with both dark and light colours causing black green and gold ribbons, the same colours as her dress, came out of the end of the wand and the sound of waves sounded in the room. "9 inches, blue mahoe wood and the hair of a mermaid," Ollivander said. We all left, paying for the wands and apologizing greatly for the damage done to his shop.

After we left, we returned to the Leaky Cauldron where the other transfers were already waiting and said our goodbyes.

A/N: I'm sorry if this may seem stiff, I'm used to writing more formally. As always, constructive criticism is always welcome. Finally, sorry it took so long, I have been preparing for exams. I also modified this because somebody brought up a very good point about Sweden and Finland.

I apologise if anybody found fault with it.