DISCLAIMER: I am no J.K. and hence none of the characters are mine (sign) except Jee and her parents.The story line is mine too.
Well , this is where The Evans and The Mason's meet and visit the Diagon Alley.
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2.DIAGON ALLEY
It was the 15th of July and Roger and Anne Mason planned to go shopping alongwith their children as it was Jee's birthday on the 16th.
This was when Jee thought of initiating her plan.
They were walking down the Charing Cross Road when Jee said,"Daddy, The Leaky Cauldron is somewhere to the right."
"The Leaky what?"exclaimed her dad.
"The Leaky Cauldron dad, the pub. It was mentioned in the letter we received from Hogwarts, don't you remember?" asked Jee.
"Look dear, now don't get going on this we-" stopping her dad in mid sentence, she said,
"Daddy pleaseeeee. Now that we are here lets check it out. We can return if there is nothing of that sort. But please daddy atleast lets enquire about the place.Please."
Curiosity got the better of Roger and they walked on looking for some sign of The Leaky Cauldron. Roger was about to give up when a family of four passed them and he faintly heard them saying,
"-I think thats the place-- that's where is --Leaky Caul--" and they rushed off.
"Come on, lets follow them, I heard them talking something about the Leaky Cauldron" said Roger and they set off behind them.
"Excuse-me Mr-. Are you heading towards the Leaky Cauldron?" asked Roger.
"Oh! Yes. We are. I am Evans." said Mr Evans.
"I am Roger Mason. We were wondering where the Leaky Cauldron is and that's when I heard you mentioning it. Do you come here often?" asked Roger, keen to know more.
"As the matter of fact, this is our first trip and I guess, so is yours." said Mr. Evans and then both the men started sharing the details of the letters that they had received and about how they thought all this to be imaginary and so on.
They reached the Leaky Cauldron.Once inside, they saw a few people wearing strange costumes.As they were looking around for someone to ask for, they saw a balding man at the bar.
"Where will we find Diagon Alley Mr-eh-?" asked Mr. Evans
"You folks muggles huh." said the bartender.
"Mug- what?" asked Roger, confused.
"MUGGLES...well, forget it. Do you have the letter sent by the school?"
"I DO" said both the girls together and gleefully looked at each other.
Mr Evans gave the letter to the bartender.
He studied it for a minute and said," Okay, go to the walled courtyard, there (pointing out the place) and tap on the third brick from the left above the dustbin and then u will enter Diagon Alley."
"But tap it with what?" exclaimed Mr Evans.
"uh-o, I forgot. Fresher muggles." he spoke to himself and led them to the walled courtyard.
"By the way, what is your name? and why do keep saying this Muggle thing? What does it mean?" asked Roger.
"That's what we call the non-magical folks and my name is Tom." replied the bartender.
Now at the courtyard they watched, amazed, as the bartender tapped the brick.
Slowly it opened and they stepped through the archway. As they looked behind, they saw the archway shrink instantly back into solid wall.
Now that they were at Diagon Alley, the girls couldn't stop giggling. To them the place was strange and large and they didn't know where to start looking.They saw many strangely dressed men and women walking around buying stuffs.The stores themselves had an odd look. Well everything seemed strange.
"Mr Mason, now that we know that all this is not a joke, may i suggest that we start looking for their uniforms, books and all the other mentioned items?" asked Mr.Evans.
"Well-eh-yes. Sure" said Roger.
Lily and Jee couldn't believe their luck.
"You know Jee, I was so excited when dad said that he would take me here. Isn't is great." said lily.
"I can't believe my luck. Well, my dad didn't even want to talk about the whole thing. We were just passing by and I literally had to beg him to look for this place", said Jee.
"Kids come in here, we are going to get you robes." called Mrs. Evans.
Astounded both the girls entered Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions.
"Well, well. don't you people look worried. I will fix them with the best fitting robes." said Madam Malkin.
"How much will it cost?", asked Anne.
"I think you do not know about wizard money. Well don't worry about it. We have an adjustment with Gringotts, its wizard bank.So don't you worry about the payments.You can pay them in Muggle money",replied Madam Malkin and started taking measurements.After the Uniforms they go in search of Flourish and Blotts for their text books.
Mrs.Evans read out the list of books required-The Standard Book of Spells, A History of Magic, The Dark Forces:A Guide to Self-Preservation and so on.She could make neither head nor tail of these names.
They moved on to The Apothecary, to buy DRAGON LIVER! Roger just couldn't believe that he was actually buying Dragon Liver.But he soon realised and that too for his own good that it would be foolish to consider anything as strange. He was a part of this and so he would be.
Now they had almost everything except the wand. For that they went looking for Ollivanders.
"Look at those brooms!", said lily pointing at the nearby shop.
"Quality Quidditch Supplies, what is Quidditch dad?", asked Lily.
"I have no idea baby. I have no idea at all", replied Mr.Evans.
Nearby a boy with messy hair was literally pulling his mother, "Mooooooom. Lets go in here first. I want that broom, its the fastest don't you see-"
"Will you stop it JAM-"
"Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, mom."
Lily and Jee giggled all the way.
They finally arived at Ollivanders.
"Welcome welcome, I am Ollivander", the owner introduced himself.
"I am Roger Mason and we would like to know what kind of wands do u sell and and which wan-"
"Well well well-",interrupted Mr.Ollivander, "first timers huh.Well Mr Mason We have all sort of wands available here.But let me tell you this Mr.Mason-" he said, "-that its not you who chooses the wand but its the wand that chooses you."
Neither Roger nor Mr.Evans could understand what it meant, they just stared at him.
"So lets begin.Who goes first?", asked he.
"ME", replied Lily, excited. here young lady, try this", said he.
Jee watched all this with utter amazement. She saw Lily try a few wands and finally she found one, it let out smooth flash and Mr.Ollivander said,"This was meant to be yours".
Lily all flushed and shy returned to her mom.
"Its your turn now", said Mr.Ollivander looking at Jee.
Slowly she walked towards him. She tried one of the wands. She felt uncomfortable holding it, so he gave her a second wand. But when she swished the wand it resulted in her blasting the stair which stood next to the cupboard.This went on for some time and then- she held the 7th wand.It somehow felt different.Seemed as if it was warming her and instinctively swished the wand and there came a bright light out of the wand which gave a hightened feeling.
She looked up and said,"I guess this is it."
"This wand-12", Holly, Dragon, is all yours",said Mr.Ollivander.
The two families left The Diagon Alley and went home.
It was Jee's birthday the next day, though it wasn't a big bash, she couldn't ask for more from her parents.
Two days later it was decided that the two families would meet at King's Cross Station on the day of departure and look for platform nine and three-quarters.
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