I again apologize for the lateness and shortness of this story but lately my inspiration has ran dry and my mental health is being a bitch. I just hope you can wait a bit longer before regular update starts.
The Waiting Of The Wall
Part 1
The waiting for summer to come around might have been the longest thing Jack had ever had to wait for. Every day after he had come home from school, he had crossed over the day on the calendar. He had mentioned to his friends that he was going to another school. They had kept asking him where but he had still kept it a secret. He was pretty sure Hogwarts was supposed to be a secret anyway.
Eventually summer came around and the morning dawned on the day where Jack would be going to Diagon Alley. He woke up, looking over at the calendar and seeing the date that he had finally circled. All the waiting had been worth it. Part of him had to wonder what time the Professor was going to come get him, all he had really been thinking about was the day arriving. Now that it was here, a sense of dread filled him. Where would they be going? What would they be doing? He didn't know anything about being a wizard, was he going to fit into the world?
"Jack, you need to come down for breakfast!" His mother called up the stairs, interrupting his thoughts.
Once he went down the stairs and headed to the kitchen. He froze in his tracks because there sitting at the table, carefully eating a pancake was Professor Moon.
"Jack stop gaping and go and eat your pancakes." His mom mumbled and Jack reanimated. He hadn't expected for Professor Moon to be here straight away!
He clambered onto his chair and dug into his pancakes but kept a weary on Professor Moon in case he did any magic but to his disappointment, Professor Moon seemed more interested in the pancakes.
"Emma stop! You have to eat them properly." His mom sighed and Jack turned his head to see Emma with pancake in her hair but most of it was over his mother.
"Mom I think you have something there." Jack gestured all over him trying not to laugh.
"It will be all over you in a minute if you don't eat those pancakes." His mother laughed back. A smile appearing on her face. Jack was always able to make her smile no matter how bad the situation had been. It had him who had kept her smiling when their had father had died about four years ago.
Once breakfast was over, Jack looked at Professor Moon.
"Erm, do I call you sir?" He asked.
Professor Moon laughed. "No, no. How about you call me Manny. I'm giving you special permission to do so."
"Okay but what does Manny mean?"
Professor Moon just tapped his nose before winking.
"Mrs Overland, we won't be more than a few hours at the most. What we will need though is some money so we will be able to buy his supplies, they don't come cheap."
"Right, wouldn't it be better if I came along? I don't know much about this wizarding stuff." His mother commented, trying to wipe down her pyjamas.
Emma laughed and threw the pancakes onto the floor. "You're not going Mommy! I want to go too! The food's on the floor so I can't eat it now."
"Emma! Now isn't the time for that!" Mrs Overland sighed looking over at her daughter.
"It seems that you have your hands full Mrs Overland so I think it would be better if you just let your son have some money and then we can be on our way." Manny replied.
"I guess you're right."
Five minutes later, Jack had got his wallet and was now dressed. His mother had poured plenty of money in it. Well money that Manny had said would be enough for the supplies that he needed.
"Are you ready Jack?" Manny asked, bending down to talk to the boy.
"Yes but how are we getting there and where are we going?"
"We are going to Diagon Alley which is all the way in London but we're going to apparate there."
"Apparate?" Jack asked with a frown.
"I'll tell you after it happens. If you would take hold of my hand Jack."
Manny reached out his hand and Jack took it. Suddenly it felt like he was being squeezed inside and out. The world was spinning and being squeezed until he felt air come back into his lungs and they landed onto a street.
Jack tried to catch his breath; so that had been apparating? It had been horrible! Was that how wizards were able to transport to places? He had thought his first experience with magic would have least been something more magical. Not something that made him feel sick!
"That was horrible!" Jack coughed getting up from where he was slumped from the ground.
Manny patted him on the back. "It is a very difficult thing to do my boy."
"Is that how wizards and witches get to places? Because I won't be doing it if it is!" Jack protested, looking around at his surroundings and realised that they were on a street in a very busy looking London. They had actually moved to another place!
"Sometimes but there are other methods as apparating is something that you won't learn until your final years at Hogwarts. It requires a wand but as you can see I did not use mine as some may argue I'm a powerful wizard but we will leave that up to speculation, eh?"
People passed Jack along the sidewalk and kept giving stares at Professor Moon who walked down the street with a certain grace, his white robe billowing from the wind. They didn't walk for long before Jack's attention was caught from a dingy looking pub that people didn't seem to notice. In fact it stood quite out of character as the surrounding shops where just normal retailers that people saw every single day.
"What's that place?" Jack asked watching as none of the muggle seemed to be giving it attention.
"The Leaky Cauldron, a place that we need to go through in order to get to Diagon Alley." Manny replied and the two of them headed inside.
Inside the pub were all assortments of people chatting and drinking mugs of something. They were all favouring robes similar to what Manny was wearing. They stared at Manny as he passed with a strange look of either fear or respect, they also stared at Jack although most of it was just a passing glance.
The two of them went through a back door and came out to an alleyway where a few dustbins were littered along the brick wall. There was also a few multicoloured leaves covering the floor that crunched as Jack stood on them.
"What is this place? This is a bit creepy." Jack mumbled looking over at the brick wall in front of him.
"The way into Diagon Alley." Manny replied and he tapped a brick a couple of times with a wand that he pulled out of his robes. The brick began to move on it's own accord.
Jack was astounded as the bricks began to move one by one to reveal what was behind the wall. He walked forward onto the street that was brimmed with strange shops, cauldrons outside them gleaming in the weak England sunlight. People walked along the street all wearing robes but there was a few people that Jack saw wearing t-shirts and jeans. He supposed that they might be called 'muggle' clothes.
"Where are we going first?" Jack asked in wonder, taking in all the street around him.
"Gringrotts to exchange your mother's money and then we are going to get your first wand." Manny said with a smile. His wand! Jack couldn't believe it, soon he was going to have his very own wand!
