"Follow me Mr Evan's " Professor Mcgonagall walked towards a snowy white two storeyed marble building at the end of the street that towered over the other small shops.
A set of stairs led to burnished bronze doors which were flanked by two pale skinned creatures with about 4ft tall with long nose and ears wearing armored and armed with swords.
"Goblins" Informed professor Mcgonagall.
He had seen them in certain video games and comics. Although the ones in fiction had green skin and were savages. He was puzzled as to why he was here. 'What am I supposed to do in this goblin den' thought Noah. but he followed nonetheless. He recalled something else from those games 'surely these Goblins do not kidnap and rape women, right?'.
Although Noah wanted to ask Professor Mcgonagall he thought not to at the moment. He is in 'enemy' territory after all. Behind the door was a small entrance hall. at the end of which were another set of doors. On these silver doors are the words:
Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed
For those who take but do not earn
Must pay most dearly in their turn
Si if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
of finding more than treasure there
Reading that Noah wanted nothing more than to rob the bank one day. He made a note to himself that he would come back when he was a better wizard and sneak in.
Noah and Professor Mcgonagall walked in and entered a vast marble hall with counters stretched on both sides. Nearly a hundred goblins where present there.
"Mr Evan's this is where you will exchanged your muggle currency to wizard ones. We use Galleons, sickles and knuts. with galleons being of the highest value and knuts the smallest."Noah was stunned by the vastness of the hall so only nodded in response.
After a quick exchange Noah looked at his gold, silver and copper coins in amazement. This was the first time he was holding such precious metals.
Once Outside gringots Professor gave him some final instructions."Mr Evan's I will let you go and finish your purchase. Meet me near the Leaky couldron in about two hours and don't be late." Saying so she stormed of leaving a confused little wizard in the middle of the street.
Noah quickly calmed himself and decided to buy his uniform first, then the books and later his wand. After asking another wizard he finally found himself at 'Madam Malkins Robes For All Occasions'.
It was a fairly decent shop. A stout woman greeted with a smile. "Welcome dear, hogwarts robes I presume. I have not seen you before, you must be a muggle born first year."
"Yes Miss Malkin, I would like the standard set." Noah didn't stand on ceremony and replied quickly. He was more interested in the other things he planned to buy, especially the wand.
After a quick measurement he bought the robes and headed over to florish and blotts book store where he would get the books for this semester. He wondered who Gilderoy Lockhart was. There were so many books authored by him afterall.
On his way he saw a huge commotion. A long line of witches was present outside florish and blots. Noah was confused by this 'is there a need to be lined outside a book store'.
On closer observation he noticed a moving picture of a blonde haired handsome man. beneath it was written in big letters.
Gilderoy Lockhart ( five times winner of Witches Weakly most charming smile award) signing his books today.
He was naturally very curious about Gilderoy Lockhart. He went in take a look and know about the man more. There he was greeted by the same blond haired man he saw on the poster next to a scrawny boy wearing glasses posing in front of a photographer.
Although he was socially awkward, Noah was very good at observation. He noticed the boy exchanging gazes often with a group of people. There were six children of various ages. with the youngest being around his age.
He walked towards them since they seemed to be Hogwarts students too. It would always be helpful to get to know his classmates and seniors ahead of time. Most of them had ginger coloured hair which he evaluated as being siblings. apart from them there was a brown haired girl with rabbit teeth who looked like the bosy type.
There was also a middle aged man and another stout woman both with ginger hair. Working up his courage and putting a calm persona Noah moved towards a timid looking girl with ginger hair.
" Hello, names Noah, are you a Hogwarts student as well." he kept his breath as steady as possible and spoke with a confident exterior.
"Ah....Hmm yes, I'm a first year and will be joining Hogwarts this year. Y-you can call me Ginny."
"Looks like we are in the same year. I am a first year too...Looks like you know the boy. can you tell me who he is." Noah said pointing at the boy was currently feeling uncomfortable under everyone's stare.
Ginny blushed almost immediately. Although Noah was mature for his age, ultimately he was still a eleven year old so he didn't know why Ginny was blushing that. " Are you unwell" Noah asked while touching her forehead.
Ginny's blush deepened at that. Before Noah could ask anything further a commotion broke out. He saw the ginger haired man from before arguing with a blond haired man dressed in elegant dress that screamed 'noble' from a mile away.
Soon the discussion got heated and became physical. The 'noble' man fell towards the couldron next to Ginny dropping it along with her books. A huge beefy man who was more than seven feet tall came out of nowhere and held the ginger haired man back. " Don bother with em Arthur it's ain't worth it."
The two adults noticed that the crowd was gathering and they were gathering too much attention so they stopped the fight mid way. But a strange light twinkled through the blond man's eyes as though he had accomplished his goal. Through the corner of his eyes Noah saw the blond man hide a small diary within one of Ginny's books.
After that he and his son who Noah just noticed walked out of the store as they seemed to have lost 'face' due to the debacle. He appeared furious but his eyes told otherwise but no one seemed to have noticed it.