A couple of days later, everyone had put their jobs on hold so Jack could get the things required to do this 'Mission'.

Not knowing how long it would take, North suggested on going right after breakfast.

"Remember to take some of that potion Jack, just in case," Tooth said as she was sipping her tea.

She was dressed as a human teenage girl, a green jumper to hide her wings, and somehow her feathery crown had turned to long black hair with streaks of yellow and green.

"Yeah, yeah," Jack said his mouth full of cereal as he read the letter that was in the envelope, not having had a chance to read it yet.

'Dear Mr. Frost,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on the 1st of September. We await your owl by no later than 31st of July.

Yours Sincerely

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Head Mistress.'

Bunny, who was also designed as a human, with bluey grey hair, a yellow shirt, long leather jacket, and an Easter egg medallion around his neck, had been watching Jack read the letter.

"Something wrong Frostbite?" he asked seeing looks of confusion on Jack face.

"What does it mean 'They await my owl?'" Jack asked checking the calendar.

"That's how Witches and Wizards send messages to each other," Tooth said a little grumpily, remembering a few Barn Owls a few years ago who attacked a couple of her fairy's.

"They have talking owls then?" Jack asked confused seeing that that was the only way owls can pass on messages.

"Of course not ya gumby," Bunny said rolling his eyes "They're write down the messages and tie them to the birds leg and then send them off."

"But how do the owls know where to go?" Jack asked.

"It's magic Jack," North said coming into the room with Sandy "That's how."

"So what does it mean by they await my owl?" Jack asked again having learnt to accept when he got answers like this.

"They want us to write to them to say we got their letter and that you will be attending the school," North explained "But seeing as this is all set up by Dumbledore I don't think we will need to do that."


Half an hour later, they were all in the sleigh and on their way to London, Jack looking like his human self again thanks to the potion, and told to leave his staff behind.

Along the way, he pulled out the second sheet of paper and read it.

HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY

Uniform

1.Three sets of plain work robes (black)

2.One plain pointed hat (black) for day wear

3.One pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar)

4.One winter cloak (black with silver fastenings)

Please not that all pupils' clothes should carry name tags.

Set books

All students should have a copy of each of the following:

*The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1) by Miranda Goshaawk

A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot

Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling

A Beginners Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch

One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phylida Spore

Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger

Fantastic Beast and Where To Find Them by Newt Scamander

The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble

Other Equipment

1 wand

1 cauldron (pewter, standard sized 2)

1 set of glass or crystal phials

1 telescope

1 set of brass scales

Students may also bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad.

At the bottom, there was a message in a different hand writing.

*Jack if the Sorting Hat does not place you in the First-Year, I will get you the right book of The Standard Book of Spells you need. Dumbledore.

"Can we get all this in London?" Jack asked as he felt the sleigh go down meaning they were nearly there "And how am I meant to pay for all of this?"

"If you know where to look," Tooth said smiling always wanting to bring Jack here "And you remember Gringotts?" she asked reminding Jack that Dumbledore said something about this place "Well it's well a wizard bank, and how-ever-long-ago, Manny made us sign up to be part of it."

o0o

As they got to their destination, the roof of a building Jack saw was 'The Leaky Cauldron', they all got out of the sleigh and headed down into the bar to see everyone in there around a boy with black hair and glasses next to a large man with a long shaggy black hair and a wild beard.

"What's so good about him?" Jack asked the Guardians as they came up behind him.

"That young man," said a man with a long beard and dark green eyes "Is Harry Potter."

"So?" Jack asked.

"So? So he's the one who stopped You-Know-Who ain't he?" the man asked starting to get the attention of some of the other people in the bar "He's the one who made the world safe again for us Wizards and even the Muggles."

"Muggles?" Jack whispered to Tooth.

"Europe's name for non-magic people," she whispered back.

"And you know what?" the man said getting Jack's attention again "They say, that he was just a baby, merely one year old when You-Know-Who showed up where he and his parents were hiding and killed his mum and dad. But he couldn't kill the boy. After killing, and torturing, and harming all them others, he couldn't kill little baby Harry Potter."

Jack looked over to Harry.

"Who's that man with him if his dad was killed then?" Jack asked.

"That's Hagrid, he's the Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts," the man said now puffing on a pipe "Suppose Dumbledore sent him to see to it that Harry got all his school stuff."

And as if to answer, just at that moment Hagrid called out...

"Must get on – lots to buy. Come on Harry."

An old lady Jack was sure had been up three times already got in one handshake with Harry and then Hagrid led him to through the bar and out.

"Come on Jack," North said the others already going ahead.

Jack thanked the man for the information and followed everyone into a small walled courtyard, where there was nothing but a dustbin and a few weeds.

"Told yeh didn't I? Told yeh you was famous. Even Professor Quirrell was tremblin' ter meet yeh – mind you, he's usually trembling." Hagrid was telling Harry as the Guardians came out.

"Is he always that nervous?" Harry asked waving hello to them while Hagrid seemed to be looking for something.

"Oh yeah," Hagrid said not noticing the Guardians "Poor bloke. Brilliant mind. He took a year off ter get some first-hand experience... They say he met vampires in the Black Forest and there was a nasty bit of trouble with a hag – never the same..."

"There are Vampires in the Black Forest?" Jack asked loudly, getting Hagrid to turn around.

"North!" he yelled embracing the other bearded man like a brother "So sorry I didn't see you there, and Tooth, and Aster, Sandy, good to see all of yah. And who's this?" Hagrid asked looking at Jack.

"This is Jack Frost," Tooth said smiling "He came to our family a couple of years ago."

"Nice to meet yeh too then Jack," Hagrid said shaking Jack's hand so roughly that once he let go Jack felt like it was going to fall off.

"Same here," Jack says smiling trying to get some feeling back into his hand.

"Well then now we can all go to get their stuff together," North suggested getting nods.

"Just what I was thinking," Hagrid said smiling "Now, where's my umbrella?"

'Umbrella?' Jack thought confused as Hagrid pulled out an old pink umbrella and was counting bricks in the wall above the dustbin.

"It's three up and two across, Hagrid," Tooth said kindly.

"Ah, thank yeh Tooth," Hagrid said nodding and telling Jack and Harry to step back, tapped said brick three times with the point of his umbrella.

The brick he touched quivered a little, wriggled, and jumped out making a small hole appear that got bigger and bigger and bigger.

Making both Jack and Harry's eyes grow wider as well, which pleased North.

After a bit, there was a large archway, big enough for even Hagrid and North (if they stood side to side) to use, facing into a cobbled street which twisted and turned out of sight.

"Welcome you two, to Diagon Alley," Hagrid said addressing the two boys.

"Well we going to get goin' or are ya going to just stare?" Bunny asked setting off soon followed by everyone else, Jack and Harry taking a little longer so they can see everything.

"Keep up Jack, keep up," North said when he saw the boys had stopped to look at a caldron shop with a sign saying Cauldrons – All Sizes – Copper, Brass, Pewter, Silver, Self-Stirring – Collapsible.

"Hey give me a break," Jack said following them "It's my first time here remember?"

"You can look around after you get your money," Hagrid said pointing down the street to the large building at the end.

Jack, and he had a good idea that Harry wanted this too, wished he had about eight more eyes. There was just so much to see.

Almost as many things, if not more, which Jack could believe, than the stuff at the Pole.

One thing that got Jack attention was a low soft hooting that came from a dark shop with a sign over it saying 'Eeylops Owl Emporium –Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown and Snowy.'

Next to this shop was what looked like a post office with different sizes of owls outside all color-coded with a sign saying 'Owl Posting Service, Red Tag – Super Fast, Orange Tag – Fast, Yellow Tag – Medium, Green – Slow / Fragile'

"Told you they use owls like that didn't we?" Bunny asked smirking at Jacks face.

A little further on there was a group of boys around Harry's age with their noses pressed up against a window with broomsticks.

"Look, it's the Nimbus 2000 – fastest broom ever" one said.

"That's not the fastest," a girl said pointing to a different broom "The fastest is the Snow Flurry 68 over there!"

There were shops selling robes, shops selling telescopes and other strange silver instruments, windows stacked with barrels of bat spleens and eels' eyes, tottering piles of spell books quills and rolls of parchment, potion bottles, globes of the moon – which North took a liking to and had to be pulled away from, and...

"Gringotts," Hagrid said.

The reached a large snowy–white building which towered over the other shops. Standing beside its burnished bronze doors, wearing a uniform of scarlet and gold, was –

"Yep that's a goblin," Hagrid whispered to Harry as they walked up the steps, but the goblin was more focused on Jack.

"What are you doing here?" he asked scowling looking down his long pointy nose at the disguised winter spirit, confusing everyone.

"Um, do I know you?" Jack asked sure he had never met his goblin before.

"America, 1921..." the black greasy haired goblin said.

"Nope sorry don't know you, now if you excuse me," Jack said but was blocked by the goblin.

"Oi mate he said he doesn't know ya, now move it!" Bunny said glaring at him.

After a staring contest, the goblin stepped aside and bowed them in.

"We'll talk about that later Jack," Bunny whispered as they went in and met a second pair of doors, silver this time, with words engraved upon them:

-o-

Enter, stranger but take heed

Of what awaits the sin of greed,

For those who take, but do not earn,

Must pay most dearly in their turn,

So if you seek beneath our floors

A treasure that is not yours,

Thief, you have been warned, beware

Of finding more than treasure there.

-o-

"Huh?" Jack said reading it confused.

"It's basically saying don't try robbing the place," Tooth said.

A pair of goblins bowed them through the silver doors and they were now in a vast marble hall. About a hundred more goblins were sitting on high stools behind a long counter, scribbling in large books, weighing oddly shaped coins on brass scales, and examining precious stones through eyeglasses.

"Meet yeh back here North?" Hagrid asked getting a nod as they went to different desks on the counter.

"Morning," North said to the goblin "We've come to take some money out of the Guardians of Childhood's safe."

"You have your key sir?"

"I do," Tooth said coming over and handing the key over which the goblin looked at it closely.

"That seems to be in order," the goblin said "I will have someone take you to the vault. Haggard!"

Haggard was yet another gobblin who lead the Guardians towards the one of the doors leading out of the hall.

Jack who was expecting more marble was surprised to see a long narrow stone passage way lit with flaming torches and had mini railway tracks on the floor and what looked like an old mining cart.

After climbing in, North having to pull Bunny in, they set off.

The thrill and speed and twists and turns reminded Jack of North's sleigh runway.

Jack tried to remember the course, but they were going so fast that the next part came before he could place the old one in his head.

Bunny looked very green, where as Sandy, North and Tooth were all beaming and looking as if they were on a roller coaster.

Finally the cart started to slow down and came to a stop.

Once it had, Bunny was the first to get out and ran to the side to be sick, getting a chuckle and a small look of sympathy from Jack.

"Lamp, please," Haggard said to North who detached the lamp at the front of the cart and gave it to the goblin who used it to lead the Guardians to the door in the wall and set the lamp down.

"Key, please," he said holding out his hand accepting the small bronze key and inserting it into the key hole and turning it.

The door slid open and inside were piles of gold, silver and bronze coins.

"All ours custody of Manny," North said trying to remember the number system of the Wizards coins.

"The gold ones are Galleons," Tooth said butting in "17 silver Sickles to a Galleon, 29 bronze Knuts to a Sickle. It's easy enough."

"Um right," Jack said not sure he believed her.

Sandy gave Jack a small leather money pouch and helped him scoop some coins into it.

Once that was done, they went back to the cart.

"Back to the surface now please," North said as they all got back into the cart.

"Hey can we please go more slowly?" Bunny asked as he got in.

"One speed only," said Haggard as he took the drivers seat.

Once they were all in, they set off.