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BEEEEEEEP! BEEEEEEEEEEEEP! BEEEEEEEEP! August 21st, 2008, It’s time for back to school shopping.. Ugh. You slam your hand down onto your alarm, you do it every morning, the beeping stopping immediately. How is that thing still working.. Anyways, you rolled around in bed for all of what, five minutes?, and now you decided it’s time to be productive! You flip off your blanket, rub your eyes and stare at the ceiling for another two minutes, sighing to yourself as you slowly sit up and throw your legs over the bed, your feet meeting your floor. Slouched over and mumbling while you hear your father’s loud footsteps on your stairs, really? At eight AM? Being this loud? You stay sat on your bed while your dad flings open the door with a giant grin.
“Goooood morningggg myyyyyy littleeeee fart!!” He does a spin, moving his feet into a lunge position and giving you jazz hands, he was so unbelievably excited for his little baby to be going to Hogwarts! I mean, it’s a little late since you’re a seventh year student but that wasn’t your fault, not your fault he had a taste for women who want him dead.
“BRO. I told you to stop calling me thaaaat.” You pull your hands down the front of your face, your under eyes sliding down and exposing the pink muscle, hair sticking all different places at once, one sock off and the other one barely hanging on by a thread, pajama pants that are now pantaloons, yeesh.. You looked rough.
“Why munchkin? It’s a cute nickname from a funny story, maybe don’t fart so loud in the middle of a chorus concert next time.” He giggled as he put his other leg down onto the floor, his knees acting as feet as he shuffled towards you and laid his head onto the foot of your bed.
“Whaaaateverr…” You smirk, shake your head as you stand, stretching your arms while ur dad stands up, pressing his weight onto one knee and slowly standing up, a loud pop could be heard from his hip.. Old ass. He smiled, his cheeks glowing pink while he looked at you, his only daughter is now going to Hogwarts, the very place he went. It might have been the public school of wizarding schools but it still had its reputation.
“Well, get ready Y/N quick, I’m not trying to fight some kid’s mom for books and robes. And look presentable, you’re going to SCHOOL and LIVING with these kids, make an impression on them, make it known that you’re so amazeballs and that they wanna be your friend.” Your dad crossed his arms, smirking at you, he felt like he had given a speech so inspiring that it might change your life around. Yeah right, you cringe at him and shoo him out of the room, shuffling to the door to close it, he yelled down the stairs ‘TWENTY MINUTES!’ while chuckling to himself. Twenty minutes!? That’s not nearly enough time to even do makeup! Well, guess you’re going simple today.. Whaaatever.
You scurry to your bathroom, grabbing your tooth brush, bla bla bla, hair, bla bla bla, mascara and eyeliner, y’know gettin’ ready stuff. Then you stop, you have thick black curly hair.. Just like your mom, Bellatrix Lestrange, but your dad didn’t have curly hair, his is PIN straight, so he never knew how to style your curls. But you figured it out, sort’ve, so you huff and decide twin braids work today, you braid your hair swiftly, the ends wavy and just going past your chest, they were loose and half-assed but, they were still cute duhh. Now it was time for clothes!! The hardest part to be honest, I mean how do you wanna dress?? You have a new style every day, a little indie, sleez, twee, grungy, homeless, a little boy, the girl you see on the street and fall in love, SO MANY CHOICES. But for now, you decide to be cute but nothing crazy, black shorts, black ripped up tights, grey tank top with a brown zip-up, and your black sambas, adidas always did you right.
Now, you are finished! You stomp down the stairs with your bag in hand aaand your dad is asleep on the couch.. Nice, you chuckle while kissing him on the forehead and covering him with his blanket, you grabbed the keys from the keyholding on the side of the wall nearest to the door and locked the door before you left. Onwards! You put the keys into the ignition and off to Diagon Alley you went, the car flying through the air, windows down and radio all the way up. After twenty minutes you finally see the entrance to Diagon Alley, you park the car somewhere in the middle, it was horrible trying to find a spot.. Maybe you should’ve gone last week. Whatever, you were ready to knock down someone’s mom for the last owl and fight a kid for something from the joke store.. What was the name again? You had only gone to Diagon Alley twice since you moved back, in the middle of the summer time, so it was going to be fun trying to remember where the hell Ollivander's was.
Stepping foot into the alley way you see that you REALLY should’ve gone last week.. This was going to be a fun adventure. The entire alley was full, people running around like ants in a colony, it was way different from Durmstrang, everything there was cut and dry, you get in line and get your stuff. Everyone was gawking at stores, kids running into the ice cream store and candy shop, then a bunch of kids going into the.. ‘Weasley's Wizard Wheezes’ wow, that name is right on the nose. Apparently there were these two teenagers who bought Zonko’s and made it their own. It looked cool to be honest, plus the owners were hot.
Anyways, back to the list, first you needed three black robes, a pointy hat? Ok this isn’t the 1800’s anymore, dragon hide gloves, and a winter cloak, okay cool that’s easy peasy. You march yourself over towards ‘Madam Malkin’s Robes’, the door opening with a little jingle, you saw other teenagers, parents, and pre-teens, it was packed to the brim with people getting their first and new robes. You didn’t have a ton of money so maybe you should’ve went to the second-hand robes, but this was your final year, you were gonna go in style at least.. ‘I wonder if I could DIY it..’ You think to yourself, rushing over to the hangers. You scramble through the robes, finding the rise size, two mediums and a large juuuust in case, then you go over to the uniforms.. YEESH, these things were crazy expensive, twenty-five sickle for just the vest? Oh blow me. You grab the same sizes, two mediums and a large, then you overhear some girl screaming, really? In the middle of the shop?
You peek over to see a shorter girl with long black hair pulled into a ponytail, two strands of hair falling down so effortlessly.. Okay enough staring at her, you look like a creep, she’s yelling at two boys who are hysterically laughing at her, trying not to fall over from themselves laughing. They were both much taller than her, one had a buzzcut, pierced ears with GIANT diamonds, two slits in his left eyebrow, high cheek bones, slanting black eyes, and his brown skin looked like he had never had acne in his life.. ‘Wonder what his skincare routine is..’ You thought to yourself as you stared at them, kinda creepy bro. The other had brown shaggy hair, dark circles underneath his eyes which made him look exhausted, bright green eyes, thick bushy eyebrows, and a couple beauty marks on his left cheek and down his neck. The entire group were a bunch of baddies? Wtf?? Who knew everyone who went to Hogwarts was so.. So pretty???
Okay anyways, enough of being weird, you pretended to shop around the store but in reality you were lowkey eavesdropping onto their conversation. Apparently the boy with the amazing skin is Blaise, and the boy who looked like he needed a nap was Theo. They troll the shorter girl, Pansy, a little more before she stomped out of the robe shop, leaving the two boys giggling to themselves, lighting shoving each other’s elbows into their sides, mumbling something about how ‘Easily Pansy can be bothered’. It was kind of funny you had to admit, but you definitely didn’t want to cross their path, it seemed way to hostile and they seemed.. Weird. Like they thought they were better than most of the people inside of the alley, so you quickly shifted over to another table so you– The one boy, Blaise, shoved his elbow into Theodore a little too hard and he stumbled over his feet, bumping into you as you shifted to another table, almost knocking you over before you could hold onto the table. Blaise chuckles as Theo glared at him, Theo looked back over to you, his eyebrows furrowed and lip raised in.. Almost disgust?? What the hell dude??
“My bad..” He muttered to you, pulling his shirt down to fix it, Blaise and Theo chuckled to each other and walked outside of the robe store.
There’s literally no way he just did that, is he fucking serious??? HE ran into ME and HE’S OFFENDED?? ‘What the actual hell is their problem.’, you mumbled to yourself, standing up properly and picking up the robe you had dropped from being bumped into, then you hear a girl’s soft voice from behind you, you furrowed your eyebrows while turning around, seeing a girl with pale skin and long curly blonde hair in front of you.
“Don’t mind them, you won’t have to deal with them when you get sorted.. That is if you don’t get Slytherin..” Her voice was soft and sounded like a loud whisper, her eyes wandered around the store as she spoke, but when she finished each sentence she made direct eye contact. She had a weird aura around her.. It was cool.
You smile at her, trying not to drop your robes and uniform onto the floor and embarrass yourself further in front of a potential friend. Tucking the hair sticking out from your braids behind your ears, you leaned against the table next to you.
“Well, whatever Slytherin is, I really hope I’m not stuck with those assholes. Maybe I’ll get stuck with youuu..” You implied, trying to get her name without asking for it, it felt awkward to say ‘What’s your name!’.. What are we in kindergarten? No, you gotta play it coooooollll..
“Luna Lovegood, and Slytherin is the house they’re in, for Hogwarts, mostly purebloods.. Are you a transfer? I’ve never seen you around here..” The ends of her lips curled into a smile, like her resting face was always happy.
“Yeah, I’m Y/N Y/L/N, I just got here from Durmstrang around last month. It’s a giant change from Europe, like insanely giant..” You smiled awkwardly at her again, trying not to sound even more awkward than you are.
“But you don’t.. sound European?” She cocked her head in confusion.
“Oh well, I was born in Aberdeen but um.. Uh, my uh, my dad’s job decided to transfer him to Scandinavia, so I went to Durmstrang for the first six years and now I’m here.. For my final year.”
“Oh.. That sounds stressful, I don’t know how I’d be able to change countries so quickly, moving to a new school for my final yeart..”
Was this girl trying to be mean?? Or was she just being painfully truthful.. Either way it was a little awkward, but she was cool, definitely needed to stick to her if you wanted to survive the year without losing your sanity and becoming friends with a talking frog or a teacher..
“Yeah.. Kind of stressful..” You muttered.
“Hopefully you settle in nicely Y/N.. I know my first year here was eventful.. Especially because of the nargles, they kept stealing my shoes..” She jutted her bottom lip out slightly, tapping her chin, like she was wondering where her shoes went, walking with you as you approached the clerk at the register.
“Nargles..?” You asked her, paying for your robes and uniforms, the cashier took the money as bags floated into the air and scooped up the items. You watched, astonished, it was MUCH different than Durmstrang..
“Oh Nargles are mischievous little creatures.. They take your belongings and live in mistletoe.. But my butterbeer cork keeps them away..”
You nodded, furrowing your eyebrows as you two walked outside of the shop. After a while you’re warmed up to her, Luna was just a little weird but hey, everyone is a little weird. You and Luna roam around Diagon Alley together, going to the ice cream and sweets shop, finding a perfect pet for you, there were cute nifflers and pygmy puffs that you’d die to own but your dad would hate a niffler and a pygmy puff was too expensive, so you settled onto a black and grey barn owl.. He didn’t come with a name so you had to come up with SOMETHING, so his name is.. is.. Alberto! No, that’s not right for him.. Maybe, Onyx? Onyx fit his feathers, a bit of his personality, he seemed like an edgy bird, but he never nipped at you, you felt weirdly close to this bird you’ve had for two hours. Now it was time for a wand, but where the hell was the wand store?? Luna’s wand was given to her by her father, it might not have been her personalized wand but it bonded with her almost instantly since it had known the Lovegood family for years. Anyways, you and Luna were stomping around the town, trying to find where the hell ‘Ollivander's’ was, you two searched for twenty minutes till you realized, it was one of the first shops, right in front of the entrance.. Oops. You and Luna laugh together as you approach the doors– Oh my gosh, why is the line so long?? It might be two weeks before Hogwarts started but why is the line out the door and wrapped around the store, TWICE. You sighed as you found the last person in line, standing behind them, Ollivander was one man but damn, could he speed it up.