So… I finally got this done. Yay. Ok, I'll be completely honest. I ran out of motivation for this chapter towards the end and just couldn't get my self to just sit down and work on it until a short while ago. I don't know, maybe I'll take a break from my Harry Potter stories, they always seem to kill my inspiration for some reason… Probably has something to do with the fact I have three of them in the works. My bad. Oh well, I hope you people like this installment! Enjoy!

I do not own Danny Phantom or Harry Potter…. Just thought I'd remind everyone, I hadn't said that in a wile. Oh and don't forget to review!

So far, Dani wasn't impressed. The Grangers had finally found time to go to Diagon Ally, which was apparently behind an old rickety building that seemed shady enough that Dani couldn't decide if it was a place to avoid at all cost or a place she could've gone before living with the Grangers because they didn't ask any questions. Either way, she was underwhelmed.

"The way you described it, Diagon Ally sounded like a theme park. Not a bar." Dani deadpanned.

"The Ally is behind the pub. And it's called the Leaky Cauldron, an important piece of the Wizarding World." Hermione rebuffed with a huff.

"It's a bar thats a couple hundred years out of date." Dani said back, still deadpan. "Even if it hides Diagon Ally, it's shady as hell."

"Danielle! Language!" Elsa hissed as to not make a scene in the admittedly crowded street."

"Sorry Elsa." Dani replied automatically, more embarrassed for being caught. After a moment she asked "Why isn't anyone going in? It's in plain sight."

"The location is spelled so that Muggle's don't notice it. And even if they do they see a condemned building." Hermione explained with a sniff.

"Is that why Elsa and William look like they rather not go in?"

Glancing over to her parents Hermione noticed their obvious apprehension over the prospect of entering the building. "Yes." She answered simply.

"We can't really help it Dear." William said. "But I suppose that it's better to treat it like a bandage. The faster the better." With that William stepped forward, holding tightly to his wife's hand. Hermione and Dani followed bemused.

The inside was just as underwhelming as the outside. The inside of the Cauldron looked like a old time pub, with a bar complete with a bartender, tables with a few patrons enjoying their morning, and stairs leading up to the inn portion of the building. The only major difference from the message Dani had gotten from her first impressions of the outside of the establishment was that the inside almost felt like a home with its warm atmosphere.

"Ok. I'm still underwhelmed, but my impression of this place has changed." Dani commented only loud enough for Hermione to hear.

"Danielle! Don't be rude!" Hermione scolded, also only loud enough for Dani to hear.

"What? I was complementing it! It's nice." Dani defended herself. "Also you're taking this whole 'big sister' thing a little seriously."

Hermione bristled. "Well excuse me!" She said, still keeping in mind to keep the budding argument low key. "I'm still trying to get the hang of this."

"Yeah, I know. It's sweet of you." Dani admitted patting Hermione on the back. Neither of the younger girls noticed the two adults with them were smirking.

As the group stepped deeper into the pub Dani started to notice some differences with the patrons compared to the norm. For one, most everyone were wearing robes. As for the ones that weren't, Dani was pretty sure that they weren't even human. She was pretty positive in her assessment considering she's seen enough blood to recognize it, even if it's in a glass.

Before she could voice any form of comment, either of concern or curiosity, the Grangers made their way to the back door that led to a little outlet with brick walls. Again before Dani could post a question Hermione stepped forward with her wand drawn and traced a pattern over the far wall, like she was counting the bricks. Coming to the end of the pattern she tapped a brick with her wand, and Dani gasped. Now she was impressed.

With shops on all sides Diagon Ally was packed full of people. The main impressive thing was that it was all completely hidden from the outside world. Magic was starting to seem more awesome the more she saw. Then again, compared to moving pictures and spell books actually seeing the community would be freaking amazing!

"I knew you'd see what I meant when we got here." Hermione said with a self indulgent smirk.

"Ok. Point to you." Dani admitted. "He he. Now I get it." she added holding back giggles.

"Get what?" Hermione asked, wondering what was so funny.

"The name's delightfully puny." Dani explained, as she pointed up to the Diagon Ally sign. "Diagon Ally, diagonally... You know like the direction of a line?"

Hermione turned to look at the sign, tilted her head in thought, then finally face palmed and groaned. Dani chuckled at her reaction.

"Anyway, what's the plan?" Dani asked deciding to be merciful and setting Hermione's mind of something else besides the silly naming schemes of the Wizarding World.

Once more within her element, Hermione explained "It's not that different than shopping for school supplies other wise. It just has a magical flair to it."

Sighing, Dani said. "Thats nice and all, but I meant whats the actual plan for today. Scheduling, ya know?"

"We've got that covered." William said drawing the girls' attention to him. "Just stick close to us and we'll get through easily enough."

"So... We don't have a plan." Dani said, much to Williams chagrin.

"We do have a plan." Elsa said trying to reassure her husband. "First we're off to the magic bank."

"She means Gringotts, the large white building on the other side of the Ally." Hermione provided, pointing towards the shining building on the other end of Diagon Ally. Dani couldn't help but to let out a small sound of wonder at its site. Hermione couldn't help but to have a smug look about her at Dani's innocent action.

Even though it was still relatively early in the morning the crowd within the Ally was thick, and made the walk to Gringotts more of a bumpy shuffle. Dani silently wished she could use her ghost powers in public.

Finally, after what seemed much longer than it really was, the Grangers made it to the doors of the bank. "Is it always so crowded?" Dani asked no one, although Hermione chose to answer anyway.

"Not normally, but right now all of the Hogwarts students are getting their school supplies."

"...Makes sense." Dani answered after a moment. Thankfully the group finally made it through the worst of the crowd and climbed the stairs to the ivory building, and Dani saw something she wasn't really expecting to see. If only because she couldn't put a name to the mean looking little creature.

Noticing her new sister staring Hermione quickly informed Dani "Those are Goblins, they run the bank. Also it's better to not stare." Dani quickly looked away from the Goblin that was standing outside Gringotts, probably working as something like a greeter.

"They run the bank? I thought that it would be Wizards that run the place, considering that it's called the Wizarding Bank." Dani said.

"I don't rightly understand it myself." Hermione admitted, albeit with slight reluctance. "But Goblins do have some of the best standards for security as I understand it, and they never break a deal. As such, they're trusted to hold the wealth of Wizards." Somewhere during her explanation, Hermione's tone switched to what Dani calls her "lecturing tone." Normally Dani would feel that it was her sworn duty to point out when Hermione was being a bit of a know-it-all, but the warning that were engraved upon the silver secondary doors just seemed to just drive Hermione's point home.

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.

So if you seek beneath our floors

A treasure that was never yours,

Thief, you have been warned, beware

Of finding more than treasure there.

Dani would never call herself a poet, and her warnings always just seem to aggravate whomever she's trying to warn. Then she would just get into another needless fight. The Goblins' warning was subtle and to the point, basically saying that if you try to steal form this place you will die. It also seemed to have the weight of reputation to back it. Overall, anyone seeking to steal from Gringotts was either crazy or too stupid to live.

The inside of the bank was all polished marble and bustling Wizards. People were going to and fro, either depositing, withdrawing, or other things involving money. All of it was utterly boring to the young Danielle Fenton-Granger. The only thing that was even remotely interesting to her was the heavily armed giants that stood guard. Upon asking what they were Hermione whispered in her ear that they were Guard Trolls employed by the Goblins to act as the basic security for the bank. With her curiosity sated, Dani returned to trying to find something to quell her boredom. She didn't have much luck, and was very glad to be out of the bank once William and Elsa finally exchanged their money for wizarding currency.

Things sped up from there. Upon exiting Gringotts the group shuffled to the various shops they needed to go to. First was Madam Milkens Robes for All Occasions, where Hermione and Danielle enjoyed being almost being poked by needles while they were sized for their robes. Dani had it worse as she was actually getting brand new robes, where Hermione hadn't grown too terribly much and only needed a slight resizing. From there, Dani got to experience the wondrous sights and not so wondrous smells of the Apothecary, all while Hermione chattered on about what some of the weird ingredients could be used for. While they were looking at cauldrons, Dani had to wonder why there were so many. She also openly laughed at the broomstick store that showed off their product like some high end sports car.

Finally, after a few more stops, they made it to the one place that Dani was unknowingly excited to go to. Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C. The store was a small looking shop that Dani didn't think would be so important to the wizarding community. Dani couldn't really understand it, she blamed the business savvy part of her, and for that she blamed Vlad. Something as important as wands should influence more people to try their hands at making them, if not attempts at mass production. Yet, contrary to what she thought of as common sense, there seemed to be only one wand maker, and one shop that sells wands in london.

The shop its self was pretty simple, with the front area cleared for customers with chairs, and the single window display. Once past the front counter, there were rows and rows of shelves filled with boxes that looked like they could've held shoes if they weren't too thin. Of course, one couldn't forget the dust. The place was dusty. Dani didn't have too long to observe the shop as William rang the service bell on the front desk, which quickly summoned the shop's proprietor.

Mr. Ollivander was a thin, silver haired man with what seemed to be overly large eyes behind a pair of glasses. His gaze quickly bounced from person to person, and when they landed on Dani she almost couldn't suppress a shiver. This guy immediately creeped her out, and she couldn't say why. "Ah, the young Miss. Granger. Dragon heartstring, vine wood, rather rigid. It is good to see you again, as well as the Mr, and Mrs Granger as well. Although, I don't recognize the other young lady.

"This is our other daughter, Danielle. She's here for her wand." Elsa said, unknowingly saving Dani from having to introduce her self to the creepy shop keeper.

"Excellent!" Ollivander said as he produced as measuring tape. "Which is your wand hand?"

A quick whisper from Hermione that he meant her dominant hand had Dani offering her right hand. As the tape started to work, by its self, Ollivander hurried to the back and quickly disappeared within the rows of shelves and boxes. Thankfully, just as the automatic measuring tape was starting to get over zealous the old man returned with several boxes stacked in his arms.

"Each Ollivander wand uses a core of a powerful magical substance: unicorn hair, phoenix tail feathers, or dragon heartstring. No two wands are the same, just as no two dragons, unicorns, or phoenix are the same." He handed Dani a wand. "The witch doesn't choose the wand, the wand chooses the witch. This one is holly, dragon heartstring, ten inches."

Dani took hold of the offered wand, and not knowing what else to do waved it a bit. Nothing happened, "Well, that wasn't the one." Ollivander said as he took back the wand and offered a new one. The process continued: Dani was handed a wand, told what it was made from, she gave it a wave, the wand either reacted violently or not at all, rinse and repeat.

Weirdly enough, Ollivander seemed to be having a fun time of it. In fact, he was openly grinning when he came back the second time with a stack of boxed wands for her to try out. "Let us try this one. Phoenix tail feather, elm, 9 1/2 inches." The moment Dani touched this wand, she knew that something was different. Particularly, when the other energy fluttered in what Dani could guess would be excitement. The wand reacted as well, spouting a shower of colorful sparks and them whisking them away on a gentle breeze. After the spectacle was over Ollivander was openly smiling, and so were everyone else in the room. "I do believe we have found you your wand Miss. Granger." He stepped behind the counter, near the register and said "Now, that will be seven Galleons."

William paid the man seven of gold coins and the group left. Dani wouldn't let go of her now boxed wand. She didn't even know that she was excited about getting a wand until after she had managed to actually get one. Her excitement died violently when the group got to the book store, Flourish and Blotts, and she saw the crazy line.

"Why don't you two go in there and get your books, we'll wait out here." Elsa suggested with an easy smile.

"Yeah. Thats a good idea. Besides we know how much you like to look at new books, Hermione." William added, holding his wife close. "Just make sure to keep an eye on Danielle. Well be over there looking at things." As the adults left Dani was left gobsmacked. They both got out of having to suffer through the line for the book store like it was nothing, and before Dani could even comment on it, they were walking off leaving the two girls to their fate.

Dani was impressed.

And just because she was impressed didn't mean that she liked the fact that she was basically forced to suffer through a line for a book signing of all things. As sly as William and Elsa were, she would get them back for this. Eventually, after what seemed like an hour of just taking measly steps they finally made it into the store proper. Inside they were finally able to break away from the line to get to actually shop for what they needed. Which was luckily only one set of books as Dani was getting Hermione's old ones from the year before... Why was Dani stuck having to go through the line again.

Dani was drawn from her hatred of her current situation when Hermione made a confused sound. "What is it?" She asked when she turned around to see Hermione slightly frowning at her school list.

"It's just that... Well there's a odd set of books that are on the list." Hermione said as she turned the list over to Dani, showing her the offending required reading. It was a series of books written by the same guy.

"Lockhart?" Dani said raising an eye brow. "Isn't that the guy doing the book signing?"

"Is it?" Hermione looked somewhat excited. If there was one thing that Dani learned abut Hermione's personality it would that she loved her books, and in extension she tended to put the authors of said books on pedestals. The quickly moved to where the bulk of the crowd was gathered, and caught their first look at one Gilderoy Lockhart.

He had blond wavy hair, shining teeth to go with a stunning smile, blue eyes, and the most flamboyant robes that Dani's ever seen. He would've been good looking, if Dani was thirty. Yet, currently, she was unimpressed. The guy looked like a complete fop. It didn't help that he was also using a kid about her age–who looked like he would rather be anywhere else–for publicity.

"Oh. Poor Harry." Hermione said looking slightly embarrassed along side the kid.

"You know him?" Dani asked as the boy finally escaped with a complete set of Lockhart's books, which he promptly gave to a redheaded girl who was standing by a bunch of other red heads.

"He's a friend from school." Hermione answered before she walked forward and called "Harry! Ron!"

Harry and one of the red heads turned towards them, and greeted her back. "Hermione! What're you doing here?" The red head, Ron, said.

"Shopping for school supplies of course."

"Oh. Right." Ron at least had the grace to look slightly embarrassed from his dumb question. Of course that only lasted until he noticed Dani. "Who's that?"

"This is Danielle, my sister." Hermione responded.

"I don't see it." Ron said after a minute of looking at Dani, who was starting to see a pattern with this guy. She decided to answer on her own behalf.

"The Grangers adopted me." Dani said matter-of-fact.

"Oh." This time Ron didn't have the grace to look embarrassed. "Well, nice to meet you."

"Likewise." Harry said finally finding a spot to jump in.

Hermione slapped her forehead "Where are my manners? Dani, these are my friends from school. Ron Weasley and Harry Potter."

This had to be an awkward conversation, but Dani decided that it was better to just roll with it. Besides, first meetings were always awkward. "Right. I'm Danielle Fe... Granger." Better to not bring attention to the fact that she wasn't used to her new last name... Or the fact that she really didn't know how to refer to her self with the multiple last name thing. "Nice to meet you guys."

"So, Potter. Just can't stay out of the lime light eh?" Dani frowned as she turned with the rest of the group to confront the voice that had interrupted them. The voice belonged to a boy their age with platinum blond hair and a sneer plastered on his face. Next to him was a tall man with the same shade of hair, only longer, that was looking done his nose at them. He also had a sneer.

"Now, now Draco. No need to be rude." The tall man said, obviously the boy's father. Dani immediately disliked the man, too rich to be touched, and a rather large superiority complex he reminded her too much of a certain fruitloop for her liking. It didn't help matters much when he turned his attention to Harry. "Ah yes. The famous Harry Potter. Draco has said... Much about you."

"I'm sure he has." Harry managed to reply despite looking very uncomfortable. Dani could share his sentiment.

"Yes. He's also spoken about the others as well." The man looked to Ron "A Weasley," he turned to Hermione "and a Muggle-born." The man then sneered what Dani would have to place one of the top five sneers she's ever seen. "Interesting company to be sure."

Thankfully the conversation–although it was more like veiled animosity within polite words–was interrupted by the arrival of another adult. The new arrival had thinning red hair making him most likely to be a Weasley. Probably Ron's father. "Ah, Ron there you are, your mother's almost done..." Mr. Weasley trailed off when he spotted Draco's father. The moment the two locked eye's Dani could sense a mutual hatred, this probably wasn't going to end well. "Lucius."

"Arthur... What a... Pleasant surprise." Lucius commented, barely holding back a scowl.

Arthur didn't have such restraint as his scowl was pretty plain on his face. "Yes. A surprise. Well best to be back to it. School shopping and all that."

"Of course. Your youngest is finally going to Hogwarts correct?" Lucius glanced at Ron's sister "I hope she doesn't have it too hard, supplies can be quite expensive."

"I can provide for my family just fine." Arthur almost growled out, and he was steadily starting to turn red.

"No doubt of course." Dani gently pulled Hermione back a couple of steps. Things were starting to get heated and Dani had a pretty good guess what was bound to happen. It looked like the other kids were at least slightly aware of it as well, as they were starting to look more and more uncomfortable as the conversation between the two adult continued. Even the crowd around them were starting to notice as the veiled insults became continually less subtle.

Dani didn't catch what started it, she had stopped listening as they started to get more and more angry, but eventually Arthur lunged at Lucius, knocking over a book shelf in the process as things came to blows. It was pretty chaotic, the red heads were cheering on their dad, Harry looked gobsmacked, Hermione was scandalized, and Draco didn't seem to know how to react to the situation. Thankfully things were quickly stopped as the biggest man Dani had ever seen appeared and separated the two brawlers, one in each hand.

"What the blazes gotten in't you two." The giant bellowed. He had long hair with a matching beard, small black eyes and was wearing some type of animal skin coat.

"Unhand me!" Lucius snarled, thrashing a bit to try to get out of the giants grip, who ended up letting him go. With out a word edge wise Lucius straightened out his robes, motioned Draco to follow, and promptly left. The giant let Arthur down, who then slumped slightly. He then went ramrod straight when his name was called as a matronly, again with red hair, woman came out of the crowd and started to drill into him. It was probably his wife.

Luckily for those two Lockhart drew the crowds attention to himself, saying something that Dani chose to ignore. Dani figured if the dandy wanted the attention he could have it, and that didn't mean that she had to give her attention.

It also wasn't long before they were collected by William and Elsa. Hermione said her good byes to her friends and Dani politely waved farewell. On the ride home, Dani couldn't help but admit to herself that it was an interesting day.

She wondered if magic school was just as fun.

Right. Almost forgot to mention something else. To those that noticed that I didn't get the fight scene quite right, or that the dialogue was sort of skimped over… I couldn't remember what actually started the fight between Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy. I don't actually own Chamber of Secrets, yet I do own the rest of the series. I know; silly.

But… Yeah. I'm going to probably end up winging most of the scenes that also occur in the book proper, mainly because I can't remember what actually happens in all of them. So please bear with me.

Anyway, that's the end of the A.N. REVIEW!