1-Sept
1 Sept
Hi again, Diary!
We still have some time before we go to kings cross to catch the Hogwarts Express and I’m bored!
Since I have nothing better to do, I want to tell you about the surprise Mum and Dad gave me this morning!
I woke up this morning after sleeping in a bit and walked out into the sitting room to find myself alone. Mum and Dad’s door was shut, so I thought they were still asleep. I was sitting on the couch, flipping through a magical magazine when the door to the room opened and they walked in from the hallway outside. I was a tad surprised they left me alone in the rooms while they went out for a bit, but happy that they trusted me, too.
They immediately sat on either side of me on the couch and Dad slung his arm around my shoulder and started telling me how proud he was of me and how he was going to kiss me while I was away at school. Then Mum interrupted him and said that they had decided that I would need company when I was far away from home and a way to know that they were thinking of me everyday. Then Dad dropped a little kitten in my lap!
She’s so adorable, Diary! Her fur is a smokey grey, so dark in some places that it’s almost black, but pale in other spots, and her eyes are the oddest color- they’re purple! I’ve never before seen a cat with purple eyes! I have named her Amethyst and she seems to really like her name.
I really didn’t think they would get me a pet! When we went to Diagon Alley last week, they told me that they would not buy me an owl because they were to inconspicuous and it would be awkward to explain why I had a pet owl. However, they also told me no to anything else once we got to the magical menagerie with the group because the required supplies apparently cost too much. I’m still struggling to understand the conversion between pounds and galleons, but I know a galleon is several pounds and we spent more than a dozen galleons on school supplies, so I understood and didn’t expect anything.
Mum then began to tell me all about how they had noticed this kitten following me through the shop when we had been in the Magical Menagerie that day. She said that no matter where I went in the store, the kitten had been only a few feet behind me, watching. Dad added, as mom placed a box of supplies for the kitten at my feet, that as soon as they had walked into the store this morning, Amethyst had approached them and meowed insistently at them. Apparently she knew that she and I were to be good friends!
Amethyst seems to think that she is a parrot. She has been sitting on my shoulder since this morning. She climbed up there when I went to pack her supplies in my trunk and stayed there when we went downstairs for breakfast (although it was really lunch because it was almost had past noon!) and even while I’ve been writing in here, she’s stayed there purring in my ear. I have teasingly called her a pirate kitty twice, now. She has simply rubbed her head against my cheek when I’ve said that so I guess she approves.
Oh! It’s time to go! I’m going to go to Hogwarts now!