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Date: 31st August Location: Apothecary shop

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- To eat or not to eat -

Ottilie had only been to London once before in her life, when she was very small and her mother had driven up for a job interview that never went anywhere. Being a city girl herself, she wasn't too shocked by the hotel that they had stayed in and the high rise buildings surrounding it. She was mainly focused on the fact that her mother had taken her to get McDonalds and she never got McDonalds. To Tilly, McDonalds was a treat better than fancy fine dining restaurants anywhere. If she was allowed to, she would probably live off chicken nuggets. The cheap hotel that they had stayed at was far less nice, and she was honestly glad to be out of there. It smelled kind of weird, but she didn't say anything about it because she knew that they couldn't really afford anywhere else. Hopefully there was a budget option for all of her school supplies, although she wasn't really sure what they were buying that was going to take a whole day. What did you need for wizard school? She was proud to say she already had a wizard hat. It was purple and had stars on it, and she had worn it last Halloween.

When the car pulled up outside what looked like a pub, she was even less optimistic about school shopping. Her mom seemed nervous as well, although she didn't say anything. After being assured by her mother that yes this was the right place (although she didn't seem to believe her own words when she said them), Tilly had her jaw on the floor for at least two minutes when she first saw Diagon Alley. She wasn't a particularly sheltered kid, and she had seen plenty of strange things in her life. Some kids smuggling chickens into math though was nothing compared to this. The whole place was so... magical, for a lack of better words to describe it. Everything from the storefronts, with cauldrons and weird plants in the windows, to the people, who wore beautiful strange dressing gown things in all sorts of different colour's, was so far from what she had seen before it was like putting a unicorn next to a pug and saying that they were cousins.

While Tilly stood wide eyed and excited at everything new and strange, her mother had turned as pale as a sheet. She had taken her mothers arm and saw her attempt to stay composed for her daughter, and asked her the very serious and important question of when they were getting ice creams. That had shaken Bree Thompon back into reality, and she had sternly informed her daughter that no ice creams were to be had before all of her school supplies were brought. So here they were, standing just inside the doorway of a building promisingly titled "Apothecary Shop". Not that Tilly knew what that word meant. If you glanced at it and then looked away, you could easily dismiss the store for some hipster plant shop perhaps. Upon closer inspection though, it was obvious that this store was nothing ordinary.

Although you didn't really need your eyes to tell that there was something up with this shop, because it stunk. Tilly pinched her nose and mimed throwing up to her mother, who gave her a very stern you-are-embarrassing-me look. Some of the stuff making the smell (or horrible mix of them) were perfectly normally things that you could find at the supermarket, like chicken. From there it just got weirder though, because there was shelves of bones, worms, jars of floating eyes and what looked like an actual heart. While her mother looked like she very much wanted to hop into the car and drive all the way home, Ottile was not a partially squeamish girl. Her childhood had been spent poking at dead birds and being double-dared to eat worms (she was proud to say she was no coward), so while this was certainly out of the ordinary her main question was would she survive if she was put in a situation where she had to eat some of these?

A shocked little "Woah" escaped her mouth. She wanted to buy all of this, just to stare at. She bet the kids at home would be so jealous. Or at least a few of the more brave ones would. Feeling a strange mixture of excitement, shock, and hungry (not for the worms, she didn't eat those unless she absolutely had to), she took a tentative step to the middle of the shop. There was wings hanging on the walls, and strange flowers that she had never seen before. There was also some grapes, which were also there for some reason. Most impressively, there were some massive scales that seemed to shine in the dim light from the shop windows. Her brain ran around in circles trying to figure out what animal could be big enough to shed those. How could all of this exist? How did they hide a whole street from everyone walking by outside? She had so many questions that she felt like she was about to explode.