And it's so hard to choose

[hannah]

Between the many books that were stacked up and floating around Flourish and Blotts when Hannah entered the book shop for the first time that early sunshiny morning.

Of course, some of Hannah's siblings wanted to go with her, but Hannah wanted to go to the book store herself and choose some books after she had bought the books that were required for Hogwarts.

Both sets of Hannah's parents also gave Hannah extra galleon as an going away present and Hannah decided to buy some extra books and that was what she was doing, trying to decide if it was better to buy "The Grand Art Of Divination" or "The Finer Parts of Arthimancy"

[Jeremy Taylor]

Why oh why, did shopping need to be soooo boring? Jeremy didn't want to go to a new school, much less live in a new country, so what made anyone think he'd enjoy shopping for textbooks?

While his mother flitted between the isles with his book list, his dad was pointing out interesting things to Jeremy's baby sister, who seemed to be having much more fun than he was. Jeremy, in the mean time, was wandering around, wishing he was anywhere else but a stuffy old bookstore. The most interesting thing he had seen so far was a girl who actually seemed to be enjoying herself. If Jeremy had been interested in girls at all, he might have thought she was pretty, but he thanked his lucky stars he wasn't interested yet. Instead, he just sat on the floor in the middle of the isle, watching her with interest.

[hannah]

Hannah had chosen "The Grand Art Of Divination" over "The Finer points of Arthimancy," the study of Divination fascinated her and Hannah's Father (the one that was a Professor) had the same interest and even applied some sort of Seer ability, things like knowing who was on the other end of the phone and knowing who came in the room without looking up at them.

Hannah could've bought both of the books of course, but she still hadn't explored all of Diagon Alley and Hannah still wanted an Owl and that was next on Hannah's to do list, tucking the book under her arm, Hannah made her way to the counter, not noticing the boy on the floor until it was to late and Hannah ended up tripping over the boy and landing half on the floor and half on the boy. "Owwmf" Hannah said into the floor, her feet on the boy and lucky for her she was wearing jeans that day.

[Jeremy Taylor]

"Hey, watch it! I'm sitting here!" Jeremy cried out as the girl tumbled over him. Granted, he probably shouldn't have been sitting there where people usually walk, but that didn't matter much to him. He glared at her, daring her to make him think she was pretty again. He wasn't going to fall for any girl tricks. No siree.

He caught sight of the book she was carrying and wrinkled his nose at it. "What are you reading that for?" he asked. His family never thought much of Divination.

[hannah]

'Sorry" Hannah said in a sarcastic tone, pushing herself up and rubbing her nose, "Maybe I should watch where I'm walking next time, then again, maybe you should find a better sitting position" Hannah continued on with her sarcasm, rubbing her forehead, feeling lump number two coming up.

"I haven't read my book yet, I was trying to to pay for the book until I tripped over you" Hannah said to the boy, pushing her hair back from her face and taking the ribbon off her hair, the ribbon had came undone when Hannah had fallen.

[Jeremy Taylor]

"I was here first," Jeremy answered, sitting up as tall as his four and a half foot frame would allow him. He was a little concerned as he watched her rub her head. She had obviously gotten hurt, but he still wasn't going to ask if she ws okay. It was probably all a trap.

"So why are you reading divination books anyway?" he prodded. "You a seer?" True seers were really rare and he had only ever met one down on the boardwalk at Venice Beach.

[hannah]

Hannah rubbed her two lumps on her forehead and winced, those two lumps were going to be on her forehead for awhile, they still might be there even when she goes to Hogwarts and Hannah didn't want that, maybe she might ask her Mum to do some sort of spell on it later.


"Nope, my Dad has some Seer ability though and I thought I just read up on it" Hannah informed the boy, figuring it was high time one of them should introduce themselves. "I'm Hannah, by the way"

[Jeremy Taylor]

"I'm Jeremy. I'm eleven and a half and I'm going to start at Hogwarts this year. We just moved here from United States so I could go to school here. I'm going to be in Ravenclaw because my cousin is Head Girl and that's what house she's in and you have to be in the same house as your family. It's a rule. Is your dad really a seer? That's cool. My grandmother says it's a bunch of hogwash, but I read there are some people who can actually do it," he answered, probably giving Hannah more information than she really cared to know. She seemed okay... for a girl.

[hannah]

"Gee, he can sure talk a lot for boy" Hannah thought, digesting what Jeremy had just told her. "Cool, you come from the United States, I've never been there before, I'm from the other side of the world, Australia, well I used to live in Australia, I now live in London with my Mum and Step-dad" Hannah informed Jeremy, giving him the basic run-down of where she had came from.

"Ohh, your going to Hogwarts to?, So am I! and I want to be in Ravenclaw too" Hannah said to Jeremy, Hannah had heard a lot of good things about Ravenclaw from the older kids around in Diagon Alley and Ravenclaw sounded like a good house. "I don't think my Dad's a pure Seer, he just posses some Seer ability, my Dad's a Professor at a magical school in Australia" Hannah pointed out to Jeremy.

[Jeremy Taylor]

"So you're new here too?" Jeremy asked, intrigued. He hated having to leave his home in California just to go to school here. It wouldn't be so bad with his cousins here, but still, he wasn't a fan of change. "We're living in London now too. Me and my mom and dad and my little sister."

[hannah]

Hannah shook head at Jeremy, "No, I'm not new, I used to live in London with my Mum and Dad, before they got a divorce and I went to live with my Dad in Australia, but on school holidays I used to go back and visit my Mum and Step-dad in London" Hannah tried to explain her family life as easily as she could and Hannah opted out of telling Jeremy how many siblings she had for the time being, because it was hard enough trying to explain to Jeremy about her two set's of parents, let alone telling him about all her other siblings.

[Jeremy Taylor]

"Oh," Jeremy answered, a little disappointed she knew her way around better than he did. It sounded like she had been a lot of places that he had never been. "I've only been here and in America," he told her, wincing and waiting for some snide comment he was sure would come.

[hannah]

Hannah gave Jeremy a small smile, she would've liked to just stay in the one spot, preferably in London and preferably with her original set of parents, but Hannah knew that wasn't going to happen any time soon and Hannah just had to accept that fact. "Wow, America, I've never been there before, what's it like over there?" Hannah asked Jeremy, trying not to think about her parents and her family.

[Jeremy Taylor]

Jeremy shrugged back, not really sure how to describe the difference. It just was. "They drive cars on the other side of the street there," he answered a little lamely. "And at least in the bigger cities like Los Angeles and New York, they aren't as strict on the magic secrecy." Of course, it was because of that last part he had had so many difficulties back home, but now that he was older and understood, he figured he could play Muggle pretty well out in the non-magical parts of London.

[hannah]

"Wow, so you get to drive cars over there?, I've only ever flooed" That part was true enough, Hannah had never been in a car and since the only places she ever needed to get to was school and her home in London, Hannah flooed to her Dad's office in school and used the same to get to her Mom's place in London.