The Magic Within

14. Diagon Alley

We arrived at Diagon Alley using flu which was pretty strange since I had never done it before. The streets of Diagon Alley were buzzing with excited school children and adults racing to get to work. The crowd was so busy I forgot to look were I was going and tripped on my own two feet, bumping right into a boy with platinum blonde hair.

"Watch where your going clumsy. Just wait till my father hears about this. Some people just can't seem to be able to use their eyes!" he shouted in my face. I quickly turned around and run to the Weasleys who weren't too far in front of me. 'Wow, he seemed a bit highly strung' I thought to myself as a walked next to Ginny.

"Oh there you are Luna. I thought you had gotten lost," said Mrs Wealsey with a smile before turning to the rest if the family.

"OK Ginny, Ron and I will get the books and supplies, while Fred, George and Raven can go with Luna to Gringots, Ollivanders and the uniform store. Percy will be in the book store. We can all meet outside the pet store in 3 hours" we all nodded and split up.

"Oh Luna, do you mind if we make a stop at the joke shop if there's time-"
"-there's a new potion in store and we want to check it out" asked the twins.

"Of course we can go. I love joke shops, there was one around the corner from my house in America, but I'm sure wizard joke stores are way better" we all laughed and talked about pranks until we came to a tall, white building in the centre of Diagon Alley. Inside the building were little counters with creepy goblins working behind them. I walked to the front and said:

"I would like to open my vault please" The goblin sitting in the front desk turned around and looked at me.
"Key" he asked. I handed him the key which Lady Hecate gave me and and he lead me to a tunnel of mine carts. We hopped into a cart and rode off, deep inside. After a minute or two we stopped at a giant metal door. The goblin put the key in and the door opened into a room if piles of gold, silver and bronze coins.

"Wow Luna, you're rich!" said the twins at the same time.
"Not really, this is my aunt's money. She said I could use it for things I need since she has no need for it in the muggle world." I quickly lied. I walked in and filled a sack with coins and quickly left again.

After that we went to Ollivander the wand maker. He gave me box after box after box to try out but they all ended up breaking something or doing nothing at all. Finally after 10 minutes, I settled for a dark brown one with silver vines going down it. The wand was 10 1/2 inches, maple wood with werewolf hair. I payed Ollivander and walked with the twins and Raven to the uniform store.

I was told to stand on a stool and stay still as the magical measuring tape measured me. After 5 minutes I had a new set of robes and everything else required for the uniform. We still had 1 hour left so we all walked to the joke store. Fred and George immediately run to the shelf which was already being looked at by a crowd of children. Raven and I walked to the spells side. The spell books were pretty amazing and they gave the most random spells from 'how to remove a blood sucking leech from your sock' to 'how to make the perfect pea soup bath' whatever that was. I was reading through one of the books when the twins ran up to us.

"Look how cool these potions are. It allows you to control different animals. Like this one allows you to control wolves!" I instinctively grabbed my necklace around my neck. I so badly wanted to tell them that I already can control wolves but I remember what Lady Hecate told me. I quickly smiled and said:

"Wow that's amazing, how much does it cost?"

"Does it matter. These fools will probably have to sell their sister to get one drop" came the most annoying voice from behind me. I turned around and noticed that it was the same boy I bumped into with two other large boys.

"Hey! You have no right to say that to other people. Especially not my friends" said Raven, while her hair turned red. I didn't know she was a Metamorphagous. He looked at her and smirked.

"I don't know why you would want to be friends with them when you could be so much more with me," he side and winked. I almost threw up in my mouth. He looked like he was 3 years younger than her.

"You can't talk to her like that. Who do you think you are?!" said Fred.
"I'm Draco, Draco Malfoy. I already know who you are ,you blood-traitor! Unfortunately I will be attending school with you this year. I don't how you can afford these school supplies, your parents would probably have to starve for a month!" He started laughing with the other boys. I rushed forward, ready to punch him when I felt George hold me back. Then Draco looked at me.

"Not you again. Watch where you're going, you might fall for me again." His group started laughing louder and George looked like he was about to murder Draco. I just shook my head and walked to the cashier to pay for my books.

"Its best to just ignore those people." I said, while walking to the pet store. We and taken 45 minutes in the joke store and it was almost time to meet the others.

"Yeah. He's probably just jealous because the only friends he's got are those to lumps." Said Raven which made us all laugh. George was still red with anger.

"Gosh calm down George. Don't frown, you might get wrinkles," said Fred who waved his hands around. We carried on joking until we got to the pet store.

The others had not arrived yet so I started to look around at the pets. They were all sorts of different colours and sizes, but one stood out for me. A cute little black kitten with greyish silver eyes. Her eyes reminded me of Annabeth and I started getting home sick. I reminded myself to write a letter to my friends at camp and bought the cute little fur ball, naming her Anna. I brought her outside and showed her to Raven who started playing with her. After 10 minutes, the others arrived and we flued back to The Burrow.

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Hey. So I really want Luna to have a crush on George, but I'm not sure. What do you guys think? If you want her to like someone else please comment. The character can be from Percy Jackson OR Harry Potter. Thanks!

-Artemis' Angel