Chapter One: Oh my god did you here?
Luna drifted slowly down Diagon Alley. She was in no hurry to find her school things for her 6th year at Hogwarts. As she listened and watched people walking by her, she started to pick up on the low hum streaming around; she caught small sound bites trying to put them together into one sentence.
"It's like muggle mobile phones," a girl said to her mother.
"sends owls to anyone with one, without the Owl!" an older gentlemen said as he gestured to a black piece of plastic in his hand.
"A new shop opened up, it's connected with that Weasely's joke shop!" a dark skinned boy said to another boy next to him.
Luna's curiosity got the best of her. She had to see what all the hustle and bustle was about. She continued up the small hill she was on and turned down one of the few streets in Diagon Alley, when she rounded the corner she saw the large sign above her destination. Luna quietly pushed her way through the window shoppers and into the store, which was just a fraction less crowded. Luna quickly located one of the tall red heads and tapped him on the shoulder.
"George," she said in her light airy voice, she added a smile for good measure.
"I'm Fred not Georg e," he said with a huge grin. Luna tilted her head sideways and closed one eye.
"No, you are George, I'm sorry you don't remember who you are," she shook her head as if giving condolences to a widow.
"Ah, well you were always one of the very few who could actually tell us a part," George smiled, "How can I help ya Luna?"
"Oh well I was wondering around the street when I kept hearing about something that sends messages without owls, and everyone was referring to your shop so I thought I would stop in and see what was up," Luna looked at George with her large questioning eyes.
"Oh! Well follow me!" He gestured as he moved through the customers, "all the Hogwarts students are getting them, I've already okayed it with Headmaster Dumbledore, as long as we make it so they are locked during your scheduled classes, which was simple enough." They went through a large wooden door and it was almost empty only a handful of people were in this room, Fred included, "Fred will take care of ya, if you have any questions feel free to ask me, if you do get one Fred can program our digits into your messenger and you can contact us anytime!" with that George left, re-entering the crowded joke shop.
Luna carefully looked at all the 'messengers' as George called them, in the cases. She watched others pick and choose and ask questions about them.
"Is there anything I can help you with Luna?" Fred asked her, she slowly turned to look at him.
"Oh well I don't know, are you free for me to ask questions?" She lifted her head up slightly trying to make eye contact with the tall boy. Fred just nodded and leaned on the glass, "Okay so 'messengers' are these things and you can send letters to anyone with a messenger instantaneously?" He nodded with a smile, "And they work at Hogwarts as long as there is a spell of sorts on them that makes it unable to work during lessons?" He nodded again, Luna paused scanning the room again, "How much do they cost?"
"Well," Fred said, "the messengers themselves cost anywhere from 75 sickles to 23 galleons depending, the service right now is just unlimited letters, or messages for 3 galleons a month, this can be billed to whomever and if it is not paid the service will be cut off or you can prepay sense you are going to school and cover however long you want the services, you can also pay an extra ten galleons and get insurance which gives you one free messenger of the same type and then a replacement for half the price in which you paid for in the store," he stretched out his arms a little.
"Oh," Luna looked around the store again, "Okay, do you have any that are sea foam green?" Fred looked at her like she was insane and then thought.
"Well I actually do have a sea foam green case," Fred walked across the room to pick up the case he was talking about, "this is the only case and it goes to, " He migrated to another side of the room and behind the counter, "this messenger," He pulled it out and Luna made her way to him. The messenger was black and it had a lot of keys and a large screen, "It's a touch screen, here I'll show you how it works." Fred turned it on and started moving things across the screen, "you can take pictures and use them as backgrounds or send them to your contacts…err...other people with messengers, you can also write notes for yourself like homework or a Christmas list things like that, oh and the letter-pad, the thing you use to type up your letters slides in so it isn't hanging out, it makes it look sleeker don't you think?" Fred snapped the case onto the messenger and Luna's eyes lit up.
"I want it," she smiled.