"Here we are!" Mrs. Bailey stopped the boat and glided it back to the water."Are you alright lad. You look sick." "I'm just not a fan of boats." "Well you've flown before?" "Not on a boat!" She laughed under her breath." Grab your stuff. We're off to the Leaky Cauldron. The portal was the first thing built so don't worry if it looks abit run down." Hiccup's eye narrowed as she climbed off the boat. He drug his luggage off the boat and Toothless was perched on his shoulders.
"Here we are." She gestured to a fairly new bar." Come on." She opened the door for him to answer. Some immediately offered him a cup of mead."Um, I'm 15." "You still want some?" Bailey wacked the bar tender on the head with her cane. "Robert!" "Sorry ma'am". She led Hiccup to a brick wall in the back. "What is this?" "A brick wall silly." She tapped a few bricks and waited. "What are we doing exactly?" She hit him on the head with her cane. "Ow!" He rubbed his head. "What?" The bricks started moving. A large door opened up. "I thought you said it was a wall?" "It was a wall. Now it's not." She strutted through the portal, Hiccup stumbling behind.
"Your uncle owns a pet shop a few shops down. Here is a letter from me to your uncle. See you at school." She patted him on the head. Hiccup cowered to the side. What kind of teacher leaves their student on a crowed unfamiliar street? He made his way through the mess to the pet store she had told him of. "Hello!" "Customer? Customer! Customer!" A middle aged man came rushing out of the isle. "No no! I'm not a customer." "Oh." "I'm Hiccup. I'm looking for my uncle?" "Hiccup? Hiccup! Hiccup!" He hugged the young boy."Um, please put me down." He set Hiccup back on the ground. "I'm your Uncle Arne. Means Eagle you know?" "Yes. I'm aware." "I'll show you your room."
Arne and Hiccup carried the bag up a few flights of stairs. This building looked a lot smaller on the outside." "Yeah well." They set the bag on Hiccup's new bed. "I'll help you clean up. Sorry it wasn't done before hand." "That's alright." Hiccup grabbed a broom. "Ahh! No! Put that down. Here, use this one. Don't touch baby again." He rushed out of the room. "Little off his rocker isn't he?" Hiccup remarked to the cat.
Arne came back with a cage. It was covered with a blanket. "I almost forgot. I know you already have a cat, but I didn't know this beforehand. So I guess Toothless will have friend." He pulled back the blanket and there was a tiny little cat."Aww." Toothless meowed and sniffed the kitten. "It's a munchkin so he's as big as he's going to get." "Are we aloud to have two cats?" "It doesn't say on the letter not to." "Letter?" "Oh right. Tomorrow we're going shopping for your supplies."
Hiccup began unpacking."Um, what house were you in?" Arne stopped to think. "I was in Hufflepuff. Your mother was in Gryffindor. Our family doesn't really have as specific house. But you really don't want to be in Slytherin. That's the only bad house at Hogwarts." "How is it bad?" "Every Slytherin is sorted there because of their blood status and how selfish they are." Hiccup raised an eyebrow."I thought that Mrs. Bailey said that Slytherins are ambitious, resourceful, good leaders, and cunning." "And Evil!"
Hiccup rolled his eyes after his uncle left."Yup, off his rocker." Hiccup scratched the cats behind their ears.
I'll explain why Arne hates Slytherin later in the story. The next chapter will be Hiccup buying his supplies and meeting a few of his new friends.