"Welcome" said Lily "to Diagon Alley" as the wall made a huge archway. She grinned at Harrys' expression. The two of them made their way through the streets. Lily pointed out various shops to Harry as they walked to Madam Malkins' robes for all occasions.

Harry walked into the shop with his mother. "Hogwarts, dear?" She asked when they walked in. "I've got another boy being fitted up as well." And she led the two to the fitting area.

"Abigale!" Lily exclaimed when she noticed who was standing next to the boy.

"Lily!" Abigale said, the two women hugged each other enthusiastically. Madam Malkin stood Harry on the stool next to the boy. He had light brown hair and a pointed chin.

"So who is this?" Abigale asked looking at Harry,

"This is my son Harry, Harry this is my old school friend Abigale Firthland."

"Hello Harry"

"Hi Abigale" Harry said.

"Is this your son?" Lily asked gesturing towards the other boy.

"Yes, his name is Jacob" she said proudly "He's starting his 1st year."

"How's James and Sirius?"

"They are both well."

"Good"

"You're all done now" the assistant said to Jacob, who hopped of the stool saying "Goodbye Harry, I'll see you on the train I expect."

"Bye Jacob see you there then."

"Bye Lily"

"Bye Abigale" Lily whispered something in Abigale's ear, she nodded and left.

Madam Malkin carried on pinning up Harrys' robes. After that they bought his cauldron, a set of scales, and a collapsible brass telescope.

Then they went into Ollivander's. A tinkling bell rang when they entered. It was tiny inside, with not much in it apart from a single spindly chair.

"Good afternoon, I am Mr Ollivander." said a soft voice from behind them.

They both jumped. Mr Ollivander came so close to Harry that he could see his face in the man's eyes. Mr Ollivander touched the scar on Harrys' forehead.

"I'm sorry to say I sold the wand that did this. Yew, very powerful. If I'd known what the wand would go out into the world to do" he winced. Then he noticed Lily.

"Ah Mrs Potter nice to see you in here again" and they shook hands.

"Well on to business Mr Potter." He pulled a long and battered tape measure out from his pocket.

"Which is your wand arm?" he asked

"My right" Harry said.

"Hold out your arm" he the proceeded to measure Harry from shoulder to finger, wrist to elbow, shoulder to floor, knee to armpit and around his head. Whilst doing this he said "every Ollivander wand has a core of a powerful magical substance. Either unicorn hair, phoenix tail feathers or dragon heartstring". Ollivander came back with a box in his hand, he opened it and said

"Right Mr Potter, try this one, give it a wave" Harry took the wand and waved it around, Mr Ollivander snatched it out of his hand almost straight away.

"Nope, hmmmm I wonder interesting combination, holly and phoenix feather."

When Harry took the wand, he felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wand above his head and brought it swishing down through the air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end. Mr Ollivander started muttering under his breath

"How curious, how very curious."

"Sorry but what's curious?" Harry asked.

"Well it's odd because the phoenix whose feather I made your wand with gave me a second feather. And with that I made the wand that gave you that scar."

Lily paid for his wand and together they left the shop.

"Mr Ollivander can be a bit creepy and intense sometimes" Lily said looking at him Harry settled for nodding.

"There's just one more shop to go in and then we can go home.". 10 minutes later they left with a large, white, snowy owl.

When they arrived back at the Potters house, all of the lights were off.

"I guess your father still isn't home yet" Lily said as they took their coats and shoes off. Then Lily turned the light on.