Disclaimer: Not mine... Just borrowing it.

Isabella

I was sitting in the corner behind a pot plant, when a young girl, about my age, walked up and sat next to me. She struck up a conversation but soon we both dwindled into silence. I was looking over at the doors, wondering if I should make an excuse and come back later, when another girl walked in. She also came over and sat with us. I started thinking, 'What is it with me and everyone coming over to sit with me? Do I look like someone who wants company? Do I have a Neon sign above my head that says I WANT COMPANY? I mean what is with the magic world?'

The girl started talking and I mentally slapped myself for not paying attention and focused my attention on her.

"... yeah and my name is Lucille. Luce for short. I'm from a wizarding background so most of this stuff is pretty much routine for me. What do you guys need to do? I can help."

"Well... I need to exchange muggle money for wizarding and Izzy here needs to get money out of her vault." replied Kat.

"Cool! Let's go get Izzy's first and then talk to the goblins about exchanging money, Ok?"

"Yeah, that's ok." I replied thinking, 'Not that you gave us much choice.'

So we were off. Lucille... Luce took care of the goblins and told them what needed to be done and Katrina and I just followed along, taking in all the amazing sights.

Lucille

Once I'd gotten over the momentary dizziness, I walked inside. The goblins were still there as always but I noticed something that wasn't quite right. There was two girls sitting in the corner. They looked like they didn't belong, so, being the good citizen that I am, I walked over to offer assistance.

"Hi! Are you guys alright?"

"Well… kind of. Neither of us have ever been here before and it's a bit daunting. My name is Katrina. Call me Kat." the girl with brown hair, Kat, replied, "Have you been here before?"

"Yeah and my name is Lucille. Luce for short. I'm from a wizarding background so most of this stuff is pretty much routine for me. What do you guys need to do? I can help."

I looked from one to the other and back again as Kat replied, "Well... I need to exchange muggle money for wizarding and Izzy here needs to get money out of her vault."

I nodded. "Cool! Let's go get Izzy's first and then talk to the goblins about exchanging money, Ok?"

The other girl, Izzy, looked a bit put out but responded, "Yeah, that's ok."

I led them over to a goblin that didn't look too busy and asked him about getting money from the vault. It was quite easy but Izzy and Kat obviously thought that it was amazing. They stared around us with wide-eyed fascination as the goblin led us down to the vault.

Katrina

I thought this girl was kinda full of herself. Coming over and just offering her assistance like we weren't capable of working it out ourselves but I still accepted her offer of help, for Izzy's sake. She led us up to the goblins and got money from Izzy's account and had my money exchanged.

After that it was kind of awkward so we split up. I went outside and looked for a bookshop. I finally spotted one and made my way over to it. I looked up my list of school books and asked the sales assistant if she could help me find my books. She immediately took the list from me and shoved a pile of books in my arms. Once I'd paid for them, I left the shop.

I kept wandering from shop to shop. Buying what I needed for school and some things that I didn't. I was still overwhelmed by it all and was considering going home when something ran into me and knocked me over. I stood up quickly, apologizing, and realized that it was that girl from the bank… Lucy or something. She looked a bit frazzled and didn't seem to recognize me. I asked her if she was ok but she just stepped around me and continued running. 'Weird' I thought to myself as I picked up the items that I'd dropped. 'I think I'll go home and pack now. I've got all I need.' I made my way out of Diagon Alley and back into muggle London to catch a bus. I got home in record time and dumped all the stuff upstairs in my room. Mum wasn't home so I made myself lunch and moved back to my room to examine all the equipment that I'd bought.

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