Announcement: I am so sorry for keeping you so long from this chapter! Since starting college, it overtook my free time for research work. This is a fun chapter so hope you'll enjoy it!
After breakfast, I went into my room for a well deserved rest. But it has not been as peaceful as I would had liked it to be. I kept on hearing voices from the outside of my window that were not of any of the Sargent family's voices. The voices had a cold and creepy tone to themselves and they constantly said "Come"
But after a while I just fell asleep as the voices began to fade into the bright morning until I was woken up to go shopping for school supplies.
We walked down to this huge brick wall at around 1pm on Saturday just before the school began.
We stood in front of that wall for a few minutes.
"I can see that it's a wall, but I don't think we have to be standing here, staring at it!" I said plainly
"You are right. But this wall is hiding the Diagon Alley from Muggles, you see!" Dan replied giggling
Emilia rose her wand and tapped it against the brick wall three times. Then one by one, the bricks began to move apart, revealing an old street.
"It looks just like the road that we just passed! What's so special about it?"
"Welcome Julie, to the Diagon Alley! Everything that a wizard or a witch needs is here! Wands, cauldrons, potion ingredients, school supplies and loads of other things!" Emilia smiled
"All I see is that it is a odd looking street with even more odder things in the windows!"
Emilia laughed "That is what some of the people that I went to school with thought as well. Come on let's go to Gringotts to get your money!" She said and we walked on. As I took a look at some things on the shop displays, everything was just so strange to me. Wooden sticks with brushes, owls and even more strangely just wooden sticks with some sort of designs on some of them. Everything to me was just so weird, so uu-understandable. Why would you want a polished stick with some designs on it? That question kept going through my head on the way to the wizard bank.
When we entered the building I was stunned to see that everything on the inside was made of gold-bronze alloy and so shiny at times, that it was blinding to look at. We walked up to the closest 'till' and a creepy tiny man popped up from under it.
"May I help you in any way?" he asked in a posh, deep voice that chilled me out to the bone.
"Miss Sharmons would like to withdraw money" Dan said
He looked at me with his scary glowing green eyes.
"And does Miss Sharmons have her key?" He asked. I reached into my pocket and went through it to find he tiny key and gave it to him with my hand shaking with fright
"Follow me, please" Another tiny man said and I went along with him with Dan as that was our shared vault, apparently.
We got into this really tiny elevator that seemed like it was about hundred years old. Rusty but shiny, oddly enough. This elevator went down and into the right which I had never seem or felt an elevator do.But then again, it was a magic place.
We arrived at the vault in 2 minutes time.
"Vault 832. Please pass me the key!" The tiny man said. I handed him the key and he placed in the tiny keyhole and carefully turned it.
The door opened to reveal the huge amounts of gold, silver and bronze coins.
"Dan...." I said
"I know sis. It's incredible! Never seen this much money in my life!" He replied
We went in and got enough money for the school supplies and some spare money for random things.
We came out of Gringotts and the first stop we made was in the wand(or the wooden stick) shop
I opened the door and I carefully stepped inside.
An old man scrolled along the bookshelves on the ladder came up out of no where and frightened the day lights out of me.
"I'm sorry to frighten you!" He said and gasped.
"Miss Julie Sharmons, I'm so glad that you could drop in!"
"Excuse my asking but how do you know my name?" I asked
"I remember your uncle and aunt coming in here to get their wands and additionally, have you wondered why you have a cut on your wrist?"
I thought about it and realised that this cut was there for a long time.
"Yes, I did wonder. Why do I have it?"
"When you were one month old and you were alone in your home, a man of the name of Draco Malfoy broke into your house and when he could not find what he wanted, he split you and your brother apart and used the Cruciatus Curse on you and your brother. Although it bounced right back at him, it left a mark on your wrist"
"What was he looking for?"
"I can't tell you that"
"Please tell me, so if I ever find it I'll protect it!"
"No, I'm not obliged to reveal that information Anyway, let's get you a wand"
I looked him in the eye for a second before he disappeared into the shelves. I wanted to know more about the so called Cruciatus Curse and what it was that Malfoy was looking for. I needed to know why he had Dan and me split apart from each other. But then I realised that my parents were trying to protect me by not allowing me to go to Hogwarts. They were scared of me coming back with trauma and were scared of losing me just like they 'lost' Dan.
"Here we go 11" Rosewood with unicorn hair, for a unicorn hair it quite hard and survives 99.9 percent of falls and snaps or breakages and it is the first ever want to be able to be magically mended using the Reparo spell."
The man handed the wand over to me. Even with the first touch, glimpse of heat and light came over me.
"Interesting, this is very interesting"
"What is so interesting?" I asked him,
"This wand is made with the same unicorn hair core as the attacker's wand."
"You mean that Malfoy's wand has the exact same material as my wand?"
"Correct. If they were to meet in a battle they could create things beyond my knowledge. I see that your brother Dan is waiting for you. Have a nice day!"
"You too!" I said and quickly got out of the store with my new wooden polished stick(wand) and went on with the shopping for other items.
Back at the Sargent family home, in the room that I was staying in.
"Dan, come here for a minute!" I shouted
Dan comes in to my room.
"What's wrong sis? Is everything OK?"
"Just call me Jules. Anyway I found out something about our family's past"
"Really? Please do tell me!"
"I was at the wand shop and the guy knew who I was. After that he told me that when we were a month old, a man of the name of Draco Malfoy broke into our home and looked for something. When he could not find it he turned the wand on us and cast a Cruciatus Curse took you away. Ever since our parents were a little over protective of me when it came to magical world. I was left with a cut on my wrist as the curse just managed to touch me and bounced back at him"
"What is the Cruciatus Curse? I have never heard of it"
"The Cruciatus Curse is a curse that causes torture. It is a hundred times more painful that anything you could ever experience. The book says that the spell was used on several people in the past to gain information and had left people mentally ill. The spell is un-blockable and is is only effective when cast out of pleasure of seeing the victim in pain and not in anger."
"Crazy, I never heard that before! I bet the Sargent's knew this all along and they have not told me and that store guy gave me that look as well."
"Well Dan one thing we know for sure. Something of ours is out there that Malfoy wants or wanted but I wonder what it could be."
"Do you think it belongs or belonged to our aunt and uncle?"
We looked at each other
"Quite possibly Dan! Look at the spell that I had learned from the Standard book of Spells!"
"Go for it!"
"Lumos Maxima!" I shouted and a great burst of light came from the end of my wand. The light filled up the entire room and the hallway outside it.
Dan looked at me when the duration of the spell ended
"I had no idea it would be this powerful, I mean, when I practised it, the spell just lit up my room brightly now it filled the entire hallway with light!"
Next chapter is on the train journey to Hogwarts, the attack by the new group of Death Eaters and how Julie meets a new friend that knows something more about Julie and Dan's lost item. Will they figure out of what it is or will they be clueless until later on? Find out in the next chapter!
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