Friday, 30 December 2011

A trip to Diagon Alley

Today my family went to Diagon Alley for a day out and about. When we arived at the Leaky Cauldron my best friends Sarah Longbottom and Scorpius Malfoy were waiting for me.
"Hey Hermione!" Sarah called from where she was sitting chatting to Scorpius and a couple of goblins. "Hello Mione." Scorpius said. 
"Hey Sarah! Hiya Scorp!" I said coming over to them. The goblins looked kind of annoyed as I sat down, because they still remember that it was my father who practicaly destroyed Gingotts during his hunt for Voldemort's Horcruxes. "Good morning Goruk, Eiric, Olaf." I said politely to the goblins but only getting a grunt in return.
"So where are you kids off to first?" Sarah's dad Neville Longbottom said handing each of us a free bottle of butterbeer. "Florish and Blotts!" I said. "Weasley's Wizard Wheezes!" Sarah exclaimed. "Knockturn Alley!" Scorpius said. We all stared at him. "Only joking!" He laughed. "Hermione, sorry to take sides but I'm with Sarah, lets go to your uncle's joke shop first." "Okay, perhaps Arnold would like say to hi mum." I joked pointing to the Pygmy Puff on my shoulder that Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione gave me for Christmas.
After getting permission from oiur parents (they were going to various shops to get some new school supplies for us), we headed down the alley sipping our butterbeers, our cloaks drawn agaioolnst the wind. We turned a cornor and there it was: bright lights liluminating the sign -WEASLEY'S WIZARDS WHEEZES- and everlasting fireworks going off in the windows around my favorite advertisment:
WHY ARE YOU WORRYING ABOUT
YOU-KNOW-WHO?
YOU SHOULD BE WORRYING  ABOUT
U-NO-POO
THE CONSTIPATION SENSATION THATS SWEEPING THE NATION!!!
"I tried that stuff on Father once. It had very interesting results!" Scorpius said as Sarah and I disolved into giggles imaginning Draco Malfoy after a dose of U-No-Poo.
When we entered the shops all sorts of bangs, whizes and squeals of excitment filled our ears. "Ah, customers! Have a free Love Potion." My Uncle George said trusting a Love Potion into a blushing Scorpius's hand. "As long as you don't use it on these two" Uncle George said pointing to Sarah and me and making poor Scorpius go crimison. "Hermione! Lovely to see you again! Is that a Pygmy Puff? And whats the lad's name? Did my pathetic assistant of a brother give it to you?" He said pointing at Uncle Ron who waved from where he was demostrating what a Nosebleed Nougat does to a delighted groups of Hufflepuff second-years. "Yes he did, and his name is Arnold." I said laughing as Uncle Ron tried to eat the part of the Nosebleed Nougat that would make the nosebleed to way, through a heavy nosebleed.
"Well, well, well. if it isn't Potter, Longbottom and Malfoy." A cold voice said behind us. We whipped around to find Daisy Goyle standing in the doorway with her gang of Slytherin third-year girls. "Oh hello Daisy!" Sarah said taking a sweet out of her pocket. "Fancy a sweet?" Of course fat Daisy whipped the candy out of her hand faster than you can say STUPID and gobbled it up. Suddenly we heard a gagging noise and Daisy's tongue was suddenly over a foot long! "Sarah! Was that a Ton-Tongue-Toffe?" I asked while trying to breathe because I was laughing so hard. "Yup. Lets make our purchases and get out of her before her sumo-wrestler of a dad comes in and sits on us!" Scorpius was starting at Sarah with a look of mock horror on his face. "Sarah! Her dad will beat me up next time he comes to one of my dad's Pure-Bloods Only paries!" "Oh come on Scorpius are you a Gryffindor or not?" "Of course I am! Even if my parents wish I wasn't!" "Well then go to the Sorting Hat and...." "Oh stop bickering you two, or else I'll put and Eatible Dark Mark in your butterbeer!" I said as I examined a box of Extendable Ears (I like use them in Ron's room when he friends are over ;)). "Oooooooh look! George has created more Defense Against the Dark Arts stuff!" Sarah exclaimed. "Lets get some for when Dumbledore's Army starts again."
Ron, Sarah, Scorpius and I have restarted Dumbledore's Army (or the D.A.) at school because being the  kids of Voldemort's destroyers and (in Scorpius's case) former Death Eaters, we felt that our Defense Against the Dark Arts lessons are not enough to protect ourselves (we sometimes call our selves The Order of the Phoenix In-Training). But great was my surprise when they all elected ME as leader! I think it was because I was the only Animagnus at the time. Now most of us are Animangus and our forms are:
Me = Cat
Ron = Jack Russel Terrier Dog
Sarah = Doe
Scorpius = Fox
James = Beetle
Albus = Wolf
Rose = Fawn
LuLu (Really Luna II Uncle George's oldest daughter) = Rabbit
Teddy = Well he is a Metamorphagus so any animal really.
(I'll do another post about this just in case you can't be bothered to read this big LONG post.) But back to the story.
Sarah, Scorpius and I selected: Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder, Shield Cloaks, and several copies of:  So You Want to Learn Advanced Jinxes. Lulu rang us put and since they are for the D.A. we get a special discount (FREE). "So whens the D.A. starting up again Hermione?" LuLu asked. She is my favorite cousin and one of my best friends. "I was thinking maybe the third day of school but I'll let you know tonight when you come for the New Year party." "Okay sound good. I'd come with you all, but Dad says I've got to help out today." "Can we help?" Sarah asked. LuLu brightned. "Sure! There is aprons in the back. Hermione your in charge of Pygmy Puff adoption. Sarah Defense Against the Dark Arts stuff, and Scorpius the Wonder Witch stuff." Scorpius groaned "Can I PLEASE be in charge of the Skiving Snackboxes?" "Nope." Good old LuLu knows what everyone should do and how to get them to do it.
And well that was my trip to Diagon Alley
Thanks fro reading!
Hermione Ginevra-Ronalda Potter (the Second)

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