Ch4. Meeting Harry
*Edited*
I stand up.
Everyone is staring at Harry and muttering to each other.
I run over to him
"Harry!" I exclaim.
He looks at me blankly.
"Harry, it me, Sarah. I'm your sister!" I tell him.
He stares at me, smiles, then hugs me.
He obviously must have been told about me.
Finally we are reunited!
The barman, Tom, hurries out from behind the bar,
"Welcome back, Mr and Miss Potter, welcome back," He says, shaking our hands.
I don't know what to say.
The whole pub erupts into applause as they start to coming over to shake our hands.
"Doris Crockford, Mr and Miss Potter, can't believe I'm meeting you at last," An old lady says shaking our hands.
"Always wanted to shake your hands- I'm all a flutter."
"Delighted, Mr and Miss Potter, just can't tell you, Diggle's the name, Dedalus Diggle."
"Hey! I've seen you before!" Says Harry. "You bowed to me once in a shop."
"He remembers!" Cries Dedalus Diggle looking around. "Did you hear that? He remembers me!"
Wow! I knew I was famous, but not this famous!
"Hullo, Sarah!" I hear a man say from behind Harry and and I.
I whip around.
He is a giant of a man. His face is almost hidden behind a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard, although you can make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles in swimming water.
"Me name's Hagrid. Rubeus Hagrid. Keeper of keys and grounds at Hogwarts. I was just bringin' Harry here to get 'is school things and we run inter you, 'is sister!"
Lots more people keep coming over to us, shaking hands, crying, giving compliments until a pale man makes his way foreword, looking very nervous.
Ugh, he smells like a freshly chopped garlic.
"Hullo Professor Quirrell!" Says Hagrid. "Harry, Sarah, Professor Quirrell will be one of yeh teachers at Hogwarts," Hagrid informs us.
"P-P-Potter and P-Potter," stammers Professor Quirrell. "C-can't t-tell you how p-pleased I am to meet you b-both."
"What sort of magic do you teach Professor Quirrell?" I ask.
"D-Defence Against the D-D-Dark Arts," He mutters. "N-not that you n-need it, eh?" He laughs nervously. "You'll be g-getting all of your school equipment I suppose? I've g-got to p-pick up a b-book on vampires m-myself."
"Well, must get on, lots ter buy. Come on Harry, Sarah," Hagrid says.
We follow Hagrid.
"Sarah! Wait for us!" I hear someone yell.
It's Bonnie.
Jeez, with all that, I'd forgotten that her and Dad are still here.
"Right, come on!" I yell back.
Once Bonnie and Dad catch up, we walk back into the small courtyard, where Hagrid takes out a battered pink umbrella.
"What's that Hagrid?" I ask.
"Oh this? Its got me wand in it. I got expelled from Hogwarts and I put me wand in this," He says.
I look at him. Isn't that illegal to do?
He then taps the bricks in the same sequence as Dad.
The archway appears again.
"Welcome Harry, Sarah, to Diagon Alley." says Hagrid.
I can see the look of amazement on Harry's face.
We walk down the alley towards Gringotts.
Damn it! I have to go on that cart again.
"Er... Hagrid." I say.
He turns to me.
"I've already got my money out," I tell him.
"Well, I'll take Harry ter go get 'is money-"
"-and I'll take the girls to get an ice-cream and school stuff while we wait, yeah?" Dad says.
Yes! I really wanted to go to that ice-cream parlour down the road. At least I don't have to go on the cart again.
Phew!
"Okay, see you soon, Sarah," Harry says and he leaves with Hagrid towards Girngotts.
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Dad, Bonnie and I walk down the cobbled road towards Florean Fortscue's ice-cream parlour where we each get an ice-cream.
I get a chocolate fudge brownie sundae, Bonnie gets a triple strawberry burst sundae while Dad gets a strawberry and peanut butter ice-cream.
Yuck!
We sit outside the parlour eating our ice-creams/sundaes, then we go and get our school supplies, all except our wands. Finally Hagrid and Harry come walking over to us half an hour later looking quite sick.
"I think I migh' jus' go to the Leaky Cauldron for a pick-me-up. I hate them ruddy Gringotts carts, they make me sick. Why don't yeh run along and get yeh school stuff and I'll meet yer's back here with yeh birthday present..." Hagrid says.
"Hagrid you don't have to-" I begin to say, but he has already walked away.
"Well, Harry, I'll go get your books and potions stuff and your cauldron while you get your other stuff alright? It'll just cut the time back a bit," I say.
"Alright," Harry says and he walks over to 'Madam Malkin's', a robe shop for 'all occasions'.
I leave Dad and Bonnie to look around at all the shops while I go to get Harry's other stuff.
I go to Flourish and Blott's first to get his school books, then the Apothecary to get his potions ingredients and then the cauldron shop to get his cauldron.
At two o'clock, I meet Harry back at the ice-cream parlour so we can go get our wands.
"Got everything?" I ask Harry.
"Yeah, I think so," He answers.
We walk down the small cobbled road, past all the shops, and one has people standing outside the window looking at the new Nimbus 2000 (the fastest broom in the world!), down to a shop with a sign that reads 'Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC'.
We walked in and I hear a little bell tinkle somewhere in the depths of the shop.
"Good afternoon," a soft voice from behind me says.
It is Ollivander, the famous wand maker.
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