Reacting to the Potter Quadruplets

Diagon Alley

Harper woke early the next morning. Although she could tell it was daylight, she kept her eyes shut tight.

"It was a dream, she told himself firmly. "I dreamed a giant called Hagrid came to tell me,Harry,Harper,and Logan we were going to a school for wizards and witches. When I open my eyes I'll be at home in my cupboard with Logan,Liv,and Harry."

There was suddenly a loud tapping noise.

And there's Aunt Petunia knocking on the door, Harper thought, her heart sinking. But she still didn't open her eyes. It had been such a good dream.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

"All right," Harper mumbled, "I'm getting up."

SHe sat up and Hagrid's heavy coat fell off her falling more onto Harry,Liv,and Logan. The hut was full of sunlight, the storm was over, Hagrid himself was asleep on the collapsed sofa, and there was an owl rapping its claw on the window, a newspaper held in its beak.

Harper scrambled to her feet, so happy she felt as though a large balloon was swelling inside her. SHe went straight to the window and jerked it open. The owl swooped in and dropped the newspaper on top of Hagrid, who didn't wake up. The owl then fluttered onto the floor and began to attack Hagrid's coat.

"Don't do that."

Harry,Liv,and Logan woke up as Harper tried to wave the owl out of the way, but it snapped its beak fiercely at her and carried on savaging the coat.

"Hagrid!" said Harper loudly smiling at Harry,Liv,and Logan. "There's an owl--"

"Pay him," Hagrid grunted into the sofa.

"What?"

"He wants payin' fer deliverin' the paper. Look in the pockets."

Hagrid's coat seemed to be made of nothing but pockets -- bunches of keys, slug pellets, balls of string, peppermint humbugs, teabags... finally, Liv pulled out a handful of strange-looking coins.

"Give him five Knuts," said Hagrid sleepily.

"Knuts?" Logan asked.

"The little bronze ones."

Liv counted out five little bronze coins, and the owl held out his leg so Harper could put the money into a small leather pouch tied to it. Then he flew off through the open window.

Hagrid yawned loudly, sat up, and stretched.

"Best be off, Harry,Harper,Liv,and Logan, lots ter do today, gotta get up ter London an' buy all yer stuff fer school."

Harry and Harper were turning over the wizard coins and They,Liv,and Logan were looking at them. THey had just thought of something that made them feel as though the happy balloon inside them had got a puncture.

"Um -- Hagrid?"

"Mm?" said Hagrid, who was pulling on his huge boots.

"We haven't got any money -- and you heard Uncle Vernon last night... he won't pay for us to go and learn magic."

"Don't worry about that," said Hagrid, standing up and scratching his head. "D'yeh think yer parents didn't leave yeh anything?"

"But if their house was destroyed--" Harper stated.

"They didn' keep their gold in the house, girl! Nah, first stop fer us is Gringotts. Wizards' bank. Have a sausage, they're not bad cold -- an' I wouldn' say no teh a bit o' yer birthday cake, neither."

"Wizards have banks ?"

"Just the one. Gringotts. Run by goblins."

Harry,Harper,Liv,and Logan dropped the bit of sausage they were holding.