Hermione Voldemort's Daughter

Chapter 9: Diagon Ally

I had a dreamless night, thank god. I didn't feel up to having that battley dream again. It realy creeped me out. I woke up at 7 o'clock with an owl tapping on my glass. I sighed and got up. Having a closer look at the owl I saw it was Hedwig- you know, Harry's owl. I opened the window and took the letter from her leg.

Dear Mya,

First of all, is your Aunt okay? I know it must be serious if you had to floo straight there. I thought you were going to owl when you got home... Ron's worried. Write as soon as you get this, okay? Hedwig won't leave you alone until you do. See if you can come to Diagon Ally today, won't you? Me, Ron and Ginny will be at the Leaky Cauldron at 12:00 today, and then will be looking for Christmas presents in the afternoon. Want to come with? Ginny says hi, and how's your mum and dad, and Ron's eating, as normal. He's saying something but I have no idea what. See you at Diagon Ally?

Harry.

Shit, I thought. We'd have to limit our schedule if Harry was coming. He'd seen both Riddle form AND the Volde-form, so he'd recognise dad anyway. Unless we used Pollyjuice Potion. I was still pondering this when I got downstairs for breakfast.

"Good morning Sophia. Good morning owl flying behind Sophia." my father greeted me and Hedwig sarcastically.

"Hedwig, this is dad. Dad, this is Hedwig, Harry's owl." I introduced then passed Harry's letter to him. He read it twice then handed it back to me.

"Send back a letter saying you'll be there at the Leaky Cauldron, but we'll go shopping in the morning. By the way it's ironic that Potter has a light-coloured bird and I have a dark-coloured bird. And I still haven't given you your present. Dotti!" he called. She apperated almost instantly.

"Yes master?" she asked politely.

"Could you please bring in Sophia's, uh, present?" "Of course, master." Dotti walked out and came back in with a small tawny owl, screeching merrily. She handed the owl to my dad, who gave her to me.

"You got me an owl?" I asked uncertainly.

"Her name is Arabella." he smiled warmly. I smiled back and opened the cage door. Arabella flew onto my left shoulder gracefully and I stroked her wing. She cooed.

"Love at first sight,"

"Shut up."

When I got back into my room to get ready, I wrote two letters. One to Ginny and one to Harry.

Dear Harry,

I'll see you at the Leaky Cauldron, then.

Mya.

Dear Ginny,

My dad is fine, and my mum... well my mum is dead to be honest. And according to my father Harry's my twin brother! My dad and Lily Evans's love story was realy interesting. You know, the typical school-kid love, break up then meeting each other randomly, and get talking stories. Followed by her having his baby- babies in my case! Me and dad are coming to Diagon Ally this morning instead of afternoon so that we can get our shopping done. How are things with you?

Love Phia.

I wrote Mya on one and Phia on another because Ginny will understand it- Phia is short for Sophia. I gave Harry's letter to Hedwig and Ginny's to Arabella, then gave her instructions.

"Arie," I instructed, "This letters for Ginny Alice Weasly. Follow Hedwig, she'll show you the way to the burrow. Ginny's the youngest redhead there. Okay?" she cooed in reply and she and Hedwig flew off. I grabbed a bag and stuffed in a few essentials.

"Sophia, are you ready?" my father called.

"Coming!" I yelled back.

In half an hour we were strolling down Diagon Ally. It's realy clever how they named it, see, the road goes down diagonally, giving it the name 'Diagon Ally'.