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Diagon Alley. Part 1

I looked around at the place we had arrived at. Gorups of strange people dressed in odd clothing were rushing from shop to shop, buying countless amounts of things. I stared in awe before Dumbledore walked off to a nearby shop. As I followed, I managed to catch the name; Madame Melkin's.

A short, cheerful lady welcomed us in the shop, her mouth full of pins and a smile etched on her face. She was wearing bright fushia coloured robes, decorated with silver and gold stars. She was already helping a dark haired boy with his robes and began chattering away to his parents as me and Dumbledore sat down. He grinned.

"Hello! I'm Lee! Lee Jordan! Are you a first year too?" He held out a hand and I shook it, having to stand on my tip toes as he was standing on a stool.

"Ashleigh, I'm a first year!" I smiled.

"Cool, what house do you want to be in? I want to be in Gryffindoor or Ravenclaw although, Hufflepuff wouldn't be too bad, I suppose, just not Slytherin." He grimaced at the last word.

"What's a 'Slytherin?'" I asked, causing Lee to laugh uncontrollably, much to Madame Melkin's chagrin.

"It's a house. All the first years get sorted into a house, at the banquet. There's four, Gryffindoor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin." He said, wiping a tear from his eye.

"So what's wrong with Slytherin? Are they dangerous?"

"No, more like stupid. Between you and me," He paused, glancing at Dumbledore, who was tapping his fingers on his knees and whistling, clearly in a different world. "Most of them are Death Eaters to be."

"Death Eaters...?"

"Oh. Are you a Muggle Born?"

"Muggle Born?"

"Born a witch from a non-magic family?"

"Yeah...something like that?"

"Ohh, cool. Well a Death Eater is a person who supports You-Know-who. The darkest and most evil wizard of all time."

"Oh."

"Yeah. Well, I've got to go and buy some more quills, I broke my'n. See you later, Ashleigh!" He waved and jumed down from the stool, heading for the door.

"Goodbye, Lee!" I waved back, and got on the stool, whilst Madame Melkin chattered on about fitting my robes and how tiny I was...

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Afterwards, we headed to a shop called "Florish and Blotts" then to another called "Ollivanders"

The shop was quite cramped, due to the stacked shelves that coverd the majority of the walls. It was dark and a bit eerie and a shiver traveled down my spine as the silence settled in my bones. I heard a faint squeek and a crazy haired man appeared, on a metal ladder connected to a pair of rails on the shelves.

"Hello, looking for a wand, are we?" He grinned, I took a step back. Dumbledore put a re-assuring hand on my shoulder.

"Hello, Ollivander, this is Ashleigh, she would like to purchase a wand,"

"Good Morning, Dumbledore, and lets try this one. I think it will suit you perfectly." He handed me a long wooden wand.

" Hawthorn and Unicorn Hair," He smiled, leaning back slightly, awating the result.

"Well go on then. Give it a wave!" He encoraged, I waved the wand and the only source of light, a small light, samshed and fell to the floor.

"Oh. Sorry." I facepalmed, handing it back to Ollivander. He gave me a new one.

"Holly and Dragon Heartstring?" I tried it and knocked over a pile of paper.

"No. No!" Hours passed by and I managed to go through at least 20 different wands. At that point I wanted the ground to just swallow me up whole. He suddenly exclaimed. I jumped back, thinking I had hurt him again. (I'd managed to hit him on the head a few times with the boxes of wands.)

"Try this one! It's Silver Lime and Pheonix Feather! Very Rare!" I help the wand up and waved it Slightly, and managed to lift up the box it came in, before sending it falling. I grinned, proud of my achivement. Dumbledore and Ollivander clapped and congratulated me.

"This one, yes?" Ollivander asked.

"Yes, thank you!" I smiled.

"Thank you for what?" He asked, wrapping it up and putting the wizard money Dumbledore gave him in the register.

"For helping me find my wand!"

" Oh! Well your welcome Miss." He waved us off and we headed to the next shop, our collection of things for school grew...

A/N: My friends will also be featuring in my story too and will probably be in it for the next chapter

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