CHAPTER 2- Diagon Alley- August 2nd, 1982
1698 Words
“Morning- 8:30am Mia and Lexi’s room”
Hadrian opens the door as he says “Rise and shine, sleepy heads, Diagon Alley awaits”. Mia blinks as Lexi says “Diagonally…?”
“Nooo, its Diagon alley, sillies.” He says. “Since when did diagonally become a place” Mia says. He face palms at their lack of understanding as he says “Its Diagon alley. D-I-A-G-O-N A-L-L-E-Y.”
Lexi and Mia look at each other then him, and then they shrug, seemingly not getting what he is saying. Then Hadrian looks at them and says “Get dressed quickly, we’ve gotta go. Mom and aunt are so gonna kill me.”
Sitting in place, Mia says “Alright then, I’m going nowhere”. Lexi joins her “I second’. With pleading eyes, he says “Please don’t do this”. Lexi gets up as she gestures for Mia to follow her “Come on, Mia, let’s go.”
“One more step and you’ll regret it” he says, a warning tone etched in his voice. “Come on, Mia” as she starts dragging Mia away. “Lexi, please stop it” Mia says, practically begging. “What could he possibly do Mia??” Lexi says.
“I’ll give you one last chance, Lexi… Go get dressed... NOW.” Hadrian says. “Come on, Mia.” As she pulls her away. “Lexi, Lexi, LEXI! GET BACK HERE!” he yells, muttering curses under his breath. His shouts are responded with an eerie silence.
“Fine then, if that’s how you want to play it, you can stay, I’m leaving.” He says, storming out of the room.
“With Lexi and Mia”
“Do you realize what you just did?? He’s going straight to mom and aunt. We’re in soo much trouble, Lexi.” Mia says, pacing back and forth. “Who says we are in trouble??? We could honestly just say we were going to go get ready, we were just teasing him a little.” Lexi says.
As Mia starts hurrying to get dressed, she says “That could work, but it would only lessen the blow to a minimal, you know that”. Then Lexi says “Less is better than worst, I suppose”.
“Come on then” as they both rush to Misha’s office, running as fast as their legs can carry them.
“At Misha’s office”
Lexi and Mia hastily open the door, as they both say “Sorry, we’re late”. Misha glares at them, as she says “You’d better have a reasonable explanation for me when you get back.” Jessa then says “Now run along kids, Diagon Alley awaits”. Misha yells “And don’t be late!”
“Hold on a minute” Mia says. “You say we’re going somewhere” Lexi says. “But I don’t see a carriage or a floating carpet like they use in the movies” Mia says. “So how on earth are we getting there” They say in unison, seemingly confused.
“The floo system” Misha says. “The food system???” Mia says whilst blinking rapidly. “Floo system, sillies” Hadrian says. “Food system, it is” The girls say clearly not getting a thing he is saying. Hadrian sighs, as he says “Just do whatever I do” grabbing a handful of floo powder, he yells “Diagon Alley”. The girls, although confused, repeat the process.
“As they arrive at the entrance to Diagon alley”
“What on earth are we doing in front of a brick wall?” Lexi asks. “Oh, that.” As he taps his wand on a few bricks on the wall, opening up a new place entirely, and it is magnificent to say the least.
Lexi stares as she asks “Is this Diagon Alley?” Hadrian answers her with a shrug “Well, yeah”. Mia seems like she’s been holding her breath, then she finally says “I’m so getting something from every shop”. Lexi says with a hint of mischief in her eyes “I’m with you there”.
“I’m so not carrying anything for you”. Hadrian says. “But you are the one with magic” Mia says. “Can’t use magic of any sort outside school” Hadrian states matter-of-factly. “Spoiler alert” Lexi says.
Rolling his eyes, Hadrian says “Whatever. Shut up and let’s get walking, we’ve got a lotta ground to cover. Gringotts is our first stop”. Blinking twice, Lexi asks “Is that supposed to be a place?” Hadrian answers her by saying “yeah??” Mia facepalms as she asks “what’s with these wizards and names?” Hadrian answers her by saying “I dunno. Now will you both please shut your trap, I’m trying to concentrate here”. After a few minutes of walking they stop in front of a majestic building, with Lexi asking “So this is Gringotts huh??”
“Yeah, it is”. Hadrian says as he leads us into the building, greeting the goblins as he passes them by. Still awestruck, Mia says “Really?? Cuz I have never seen anything so beautiful before.” Lexi elaborates more on Mia’s statement as she says “That won’t do” pausing slightly; Lexi then says “It’s magnificent, dazzling, splendid, and spectacular. There are no words that I can use to describe it”.
Grinning widely, Hadrian says “we wizards take pride in our architecture”. Mia whispers “of course you do”. Lexi finally asks “I only see people and goblins, how are we gonna get the money? Walking up to the goblin at the counter, Hadrian starts talking to the Goblin. They talk for a while, before I finally hear Hadrian say “we would like to take an inheritance test. Could you please help us out?” Mia then says “still don’t believe you are a potter, huh??” Lexi then states matter-of-factly “classical Hadrian, stubborn as always”. Pausing for a while, Lexi then says “Let’s make a bet”.
Hadrian then says “fine. If I lose, I owe you 5 galleons each. If you lose, you owe me 10. Mia looks at Hadrian, clearly confused, before saying “what’s a galleon??” then Hadrian says “Wizarding currency. There are galleons, sickles and Knuts. From the highest to the lowest in that order.” Shaking her head slightly, Lexi says “agreed.” Mia then says “buh you do know you are gonna lose right?” Hadrian responds with a “whatever”.
Finally, the goblin; who is presumably known as Griphook calls out to Hadrian “Mr. Potter”… he answers with a blank stare, “black”. Griphook shakes his head but decides to go along with it, “apologies, Mr. Black”. He ignores him, saying “the inheritance tests… we’d like to take an inheritance test… one for each”.
Griphook nods, as he hands them a piece of parchment paper each, “3 drops of blood on the parchment, please”; he moves to hand them a knife, when he notices they’re already ahead of him... “Well, that works too, I guess”.
The inheritance tests are shown below
NAME: Hadrian James potter
AGE: 13
MOTHER: Lilith Melanie Potter nee Black
FATHER: James Charlus Potter
GODPARENTS: Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Alice and Frank Longbottom, Severus Snape
SIBLINGS & COUSINS: Amelia Potter, Aziel & Alexandra Riddle
MATE: Darlene Narcissa Malfoy
HEIR TO:
- Potter
- Peverell
- Gryffindor
- Black
VAULTS:
- Potter vault
- Peverell vault
- Gryffindor vault
- Black vault
- Personal vault
CORE: grey
INHERITANCES:
- Dragon
- Wolf
- Veela
ABILITIES:
- Wordless & wandless magic
- Element magic
- Dark magic
NAME: Amelia Lilith Potter
AGE: 11
MOTHER: Lilith Melanie Potter nee Black
FATHER: James Charlus Potter
GODPARENTS: Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Alice and Frank Longbottom, Severus Snape
SIBLINGS & COUSINS: Hadrian Potter, Aziel & Alexandra Riddle
MATE: Blaise Zabini
HEIRESS TO:
- Hufflepuff
- Black
VAULTS:
- Hufflepuff vaults
- Black vaults
- Personal vault
CORE: grey
INHERITANCES:
- Dragon
- Wolf
- Veela
ABILITIES:
- Wordless & wandless magic
- Element magic
- Dark magic and light magic
NAME: Alexandra Rosetta Riddle
AGE: 11
MOTHER: Rosetta Ember Riddle nee Fleamont
FATHER: Thomas Marvolo Riddle
GODPARENTS: Severus Snape, Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Rabastan Lestrange
SIBLINGS & COUSINS: Hadrian and Amelia Potter, Aziel Riddle
MATE: Draconian Lucius Malfoy
HEIR TO:
- Riddle
- Fleamont
- Gaunt
- Le-fay
- Slytherin
- Hogwarts
VAULTS:
- Riddle
- Fleamont
- Gaunt
- Le-fay
- Slytherin
- Hogwarts
CORE: grey
INHERITANCES: Celestial maiden.
ABILITIES:
- Wordless & wandless magic
- Element magic
- Dark magic and light magic
- Celestial magic
- Creature magic
Griphook: (turns to Alexa) lady celestial, it’s an honor to finally meet you.
Alexandra: the honor is all mine, Griphook…
Mia: (turns to Hadrian) dearest brother of mine, you owe us 10 galleons.
Hadrian: whatever.
Griphook: that will be 50 galleons in total, Mr. Potter
Hadrian: take it from my vault.
Griphook hands them their heirship rings… greeting them as they leave, saying their goodbyes.
Hours later
Mia: I’m tired… we’ve been here for so long…. (Exaggerating)
Lexi: how long is the damn list anyways???
Hadrian: language, Alex.
Hadrian: and will y’all shut up and actually stop whining, or I swear I will smack you… cuz if I remember correctly, you are the same people that made sure I bought something from every shop….
Mia: whatever… buh we’re getting ice cream after.
Lexi: I saw an ice cream parlour not too far from here
Hadrian: fine, we’ll go right…. (He pauses as they bump into someone) after.
Hadrian: Malfoy.
Draco: black.. Nice to meet you too.
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