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Rewritten Chapter 5: Shopping for School Supplies

Petunia had received directions on how to get to Diagon Alley, just like
Dumbledore told her she would.

She and Dudley had discussed this for a very long time she asked him where
he wanted to go, Hogwarts or a regular school and Dudley made the choice of
going to Hogwarts so now they were on their way to Diagon Alley in London to
get Dudley's school supplies.

Dudley was so excited that he couldn't sit still even though Petunia had
asked him many times to do so.

They finally arrived in London and Petunia and Dudley found the Leaky
Cauldron that's what it said on the directions and Petunia remembered being
dragged here with her sister when she first went for school supplies so she
knew it was the right place.

' it's still as shabby as it was the first time I was here,' thought Petunia
to herself as she led Dudley through it into the courtyard she sighed and
looked down at the directions, she remembered that they had to tap a certain
brick to get into Diagon Alley, but she didn't remember which and she hoped
the directions said which one.

" Mum are we lost?" asked Dudley staring at his mom as if she were crazy she
had led them out into a courtyard where there was nothing but a trashcan and
a brick wall.

" No Dudley darling we're not lost," she said looking back down at the
directions and she began counting the bricks and then tapped the brick she
stopped at three times and felt extremely foolish for doing so, even after
the wall began to open.

Dudley stood with his mouth wide open staring at the spot where the wall
used to be, he watched as his mom stepped through the archway and he
followed and jumped when he looked around and saw that the brick archway had
returned to being a brick wall.

Petunia looked around and walked off in the direction the paper she had in
her hand said to go to find Gringotts.

" Where are we going first mom?" asked Dudley who had his list of required
items in his hands.

" First, we're going to Gringotts so we can exchange our money for wizard
money and then I suppose we can go get you a wand." She said wondering if
they were going to get lost here.

They walked through the doors of Gringotts and Dudley was startled by
goblins, " Mom," he whispered, " what are those things?" he asked hoping
they didn't hear him, he thought they would be offended if they did.

" They're Goblins," she answered him also whispering, she walked up to the
counter and asked where to exchange money, a short tempered goblin quickly
exchanged their money and watched them walk all the way to the door.

Petunia was glad that was over and she wondered if she could have the money
exchanged by owl, she disliked owls, but liked goblins even less and owls
didn't give her the creeps.

" Okay to Ollivanders to get your Wand," said Petunia reading the name of
the wand shop off of the paper in her hands and following the directions she
was still sure that she would get lost before the day was over.

They stepped inside Ollivanders and were instantly greeted by Mr. Ollivander
his eyes scared Petunia she remembered this man and he spooked her the first
time she met him too.

"Ah yes," said the creepy man in front of them, " well lets see here," he
said staring at Dudley for a few seconds before he went off digging through
his wands he quickly found one and brought it to Dudley for his to try.

"Maple and unicorn hair seven and a half inches" he said handing the wand to
Dudley.

Dudley took it and just held it he didn't know what to do with it.

" Well wave it around a bit," said Mr. Ollivander seeing Dudley didn't get
what to do with the wand.

Dudley waved it around and it was stripped from his hands and immediately
replaced, " try this one Beech wood and phoenix feather eight inches long"

Dudley waved this one around too, but it was yanked out of his hands also
and he wonder what he was doing wrong.

"Oak, dragon heartstring nine and a half inches long" said Mr. Ollivander
handing Dudley another wand.

Dudley took it and swished it around and he realized it made his arm and
hand feel warm and then sparks flew from the wand.

" Ah ha that's the one then, Mr. Dursley, that will be six Galleons." He
said and Petunia and Dudley quickly left after they paid.

" Mum, I never told him my name," he said looking worried.
" I know, he did that with lily too knew her name before she even offered it
to him."

" Is that normal?" asked Dudley

Petunia laughed, " I guess it's normal for him."

" Okay lets go get your robes." She said distracting Dudley from starting at
the window of the store with the brooms inside it, he had been obsessed with
them ever since James had taught him how to fly it was the most exciting
thing he'd ever done.

A few hours later and all they had left to get were Dudley's books. They
walked into the bookshop, Flourish and Blotts and Dudley saw someone he
recognized, " Hermione?" he asked the girl who was sitting in one of the
chairs with her nose buried in a very large book, he only recognized her
because of the frizzy hair.

The girl took her nose out of the book she was reading and looked around, "
Your Dudley," she said when she saw him.

" Yeah," he said nodding, " what are you doing here?" he asked her.

" I'm getting my school stuff I'll be starting Hogwarts next year, is that
where you'll be going?" she asked him.

" yeah that's where I'm going, it's going to be or at least I've heard it's
fun." Said Dudley taking an empty seat next to Hermione.

" I think it's going to be exciting, I mean no one in my family has ever
been a witch or wizard it's a first for me and we'll learn all kinds of new
things." She said excitedly, " what about you is anyone in your family a
witch or wizard?"

Dudley nodded, " my mom's sister was a witch and my cousin Harry and his dad
are wizards."

" Harry? Is he going to be at Hogwarts?" she asked him.

" Yeah he's going he'll be pretty surprised to see us there I didn't tell
him I was going and he'll have no clue that your going." Said Dudley
smiling; " we could surprise him on the train."

" How?" asked Hermione, " I mean won't he see us get on the train?"

" No, well at least I don't think so I asked them about the train and they
said something about walking into a wall to get to the platform."

Hermione looked as though he was speaking a different language, " what do
you mean we have to walk through a wall?"
" Well see it's platform 9 and ¾"

" What, there is no such thing as platform 9 and ¾." Said Hermione
exasperated.

" Yes there is dearie it's how you get on the Hogwarts Express," said a
small little witch from behind Hermione.

Hermione looked shocked, " so will we even see Harry on the train?"

That thought hadn't occurred to Dudley, " We might not but we will see him
at the sorting I heard James telling Harry about it, but he wouldn't tell
Harry how you get sorted he just said that you were."

Hermione looked up, " oh I have to go," she said pointing to her parents who
were trying to get her attention. " I'll see you at Hogwarts okay." She said
as she hopped out of her chair and shut the book she was reading.

" Okay, see you at Hogwarts or the train," he called after her.

A few minutes later his mother appeared with all of his books, " I've been
looking everywhere for you Dudley," she told him but sighed when he
apologized, " okay lets just go home." She said exhausted.

Dudley wasn't about to argue he was just as tired as his mother was.

A few days from now and he would be on the Hogwarts Express on his way to
Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, and he couldn't wait.

THE END

Okay so that's the end of that. Most likely I won't be writing anymore fanfiction
for a while... or maybe at all. I am sorry it took so long to get this up, but I do
also hope that you enjoyed reading it.

I remember a question about how they got Dudley unspoiled and I can't
remember if I answered that or not so I'll go ahead and answer that here...
again, if I already have.

I thought of one of the scariest things for a kid or an
adult is to go into a store, go to buy something and realize you don't have
enough money to pay for it. So when he was taken to the store, she let him
pick out everything he wanted and told him to take it to the register, then
she disappeared when it came time to pay for it, I think that would be a
traumatizing experience for any kid, no matter how spoiled.

I'd also like to thank anyone that took the time to review, so a big thank you
for that, I enjoyed reading them all and getting them.