Avalon (Year 2)

Summer vacation

It was a rainy summer day in August. There were 2 girls sitting in a dark room on comfortable chairs among other people. They both had large popcorn boxes in their laps and in the hole in their seats were 2 large Coca-Cola cartons. They were enjoying the film. It was playing on the silver screen in front of the darkened room.

"Oh look, that guy looks just like Lockheart." One of the girls said. She was red haired with beautiful bright diamond shaped green eyes. Her name was Avalon. The comment made both girls giggle.

"Well Ava, that is not nice, the actor may be ugly but he is probably a lot nicer than Lockheart." The other girl said, pretending to be serious. She had chestnut coloured hair and deep brown eyes. This girl's name was Sharon. And even though both Sharon and Avalon looked just like you and me, the truth was that they were nothing like us at all. They were both witches. And they went to a special school for wizards. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Avalon had visited the school for the first time last year. She had learned a lot about magic that year. But she had also made some good friends. But the year had not only been about lessons and friends. It had also been threatened by a huge, dangerous snake that could kill you if you looked it in the eye.

The school was threatened with closure for a while. But in the end a boy called Harry Potter had killed the snake and also taken care of the one that controlled it, saving everyone in the school and also saving the whole school from being closed.

But that was all in the past, now it was summer's Holiday and Avalon's birthday was coming up in a few days. She was really looking forward to it. Her mother would take her to her best friend Ginny's house. To celebrate. She hoped her other friends would be there too.

"Hey Ava, look he looks like Oona." Sharon said. Oona was one of Her friends. She was a young witch who was half Native American and half British. The film ended with an iconic scene of a beautiful killer whale called Willy jumping over a jetty to reach the open sea and gain his freedom. It had been a great film.

They walked out of the cinema and out into the rainy streets of London. "This will be so much easier when we are 17. Than we can just apperate" Avalon said. She shielded her red hair from the rain with an umbrella. They ran to the subway station, which was only 3 blocks away from them.

There they were lucky because they were able to catch a train and get home quickly. "I think maybe we should tell Mr Weasley about the underground. It will blow his mind." Avalon suggested. "Better not, he will be trying to find the plug that makes it work." Sharon said and the girls giggled.

"I heard they were in Egypt this summer, Ginny wrote and sent me a newspaper clipping. And just like the pictures at school, the picture moved. It doesn't seem to be able to talk to us though." Avalon said, "I think a picture is different from a painting. It scared me the first time though." Avalon said. "What did?" her friend asked. "The pictures move and talk." Avalon explained. "Oh yes, I know what you mean. At the Muggle orphanage, the people in the paintings just stood still." Sharon said. Sharon, like Avalon, had been orphaned shortly after her birth. But unlike Avalon who had been adopted. Sharon had spent her life in an orphanage on the other side of London. But luckily she had been invited by Avalon and her mother to stay with them for the summer. Both Avalon and Sharon were brought up in the so-called 'Muggle' world. It was what wizards and witches called someone who was not magical. Avalon's adoptive mother was a Squib. Which was a nickname for people who had magical blood but no magic in them.

They stepped off the train into the station. "I've got some money left for an ice-cream." Avalon said. "Or maybe a bar of chocolate." She added. "Make it a bar of Chocolate. This one won't try to jump away from you," Sharon said. She was referring to a wizard sweet called a Chocolate Frog. It was a sweet made of ordinary chocolate. But a spell was put on it to make it temporarily alive. And if you were not careful, the frog would jump up and away from you.