Spring Break Trip, 3/7 - Diagon and Knockturn Alley

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

A field trip into Professor Skeeter's hometown is going to be necessary in the afternoon. Enter the world of Albus Dumbledore, Tom Riddle, Minerva McGonagall and various others here.

Map of Diagon Alley

List of things available in Diagon Alley


The Leaky Cauldron, Charing Cross, London

Diagon Alley
The Apothecary
Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor
Flourish and Blotts
Gringott's Wizarding Bank
Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes

Knockturn Alley
Borgin & Burkes

St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

OOC!


COME ON IN!

NOTE: Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes products will last two days for food products; one day for non-food products. So if you buy then, realize they have a *very* short shelf-life.

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The Leaky Cauldron - Charing Cross Road, London

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

The gateway between London and Rita's hometown. The pub was built by Daisy Dodderidge around 1500 ""to serve as a gateway (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/places/leaky_cauldron.html) between the non-wizarding world and Diagon Alley (fw32)."

Re: The Leaky Cauldron - Charing Cross Road, London

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker, Rory, Marty, Angela, and Xander were stuck wandering the Charing Cross district, looking for the Leaky Cauldron.

So far, no luck.

"How hard can it be to find *one* magical pub?"

Diagon Alley - street

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Diagon Alley, a long cobbled street where is to be found a strange and exciting assortment of shops and restaurants, some of which have tables outside with brightly colored umbrellas.

Atlas (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/atlas/britain/atlas-b-diagon.html) of Diagon Alley

Re: Diagon Alley - street

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter expected that Victor would join him eventually in Diagon Alley. In the meantime, he was going to be taking advantage of being on his own to get some shopping done that you couldn't just do on the internet.

His first stop netted him a carefully packaged box with an astronomical model (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/devices/devices-a.html#astronomical_models) inside. He also picked up a wizard's chess set (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/devices/devices_a-g.html#chess_set) for Alfred, a model dragon (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/devices/devices-d.html#dragon_model) for Victor, a fanged frisbee (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/devices/devices-f.html#Frisbee_Fanged) for Pup, a pocket sneakoscope (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/devices/devices_n-r.html#Pocket_Sneakoscope) for himself, three decks of self-shuffling playing cards (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/devices/devices_s-z.html#cards), and a nose-biting teacup (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/devices/devices-t.html#Teacup_Nose-Biting).

There were a bunch of things there that seemed really exciting, but wouldn't work for him. He wondered why he kept hearing the word "muggle."

Re: Diagon Alley - street

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia didn't have a whole lot of cash, so her main plan was to just wander around and see what there was to see.

Which, it seemed, was a lot.

She did spend quite awhile outside what looked like a sporting goods store wondering what the heck "quiddich" was.

Slugs & Jiggers Apothecary

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

The Apothecary sells potion ingredients. It's a fascinating shop crammed with all sorts of interesting things. There are barrels of slimy stuff lined up on the floor and jars of all sorts of powders, herbs, and the like along the walls. Bundles of feathers, fangs, and claws hang from the ceiling. The whole place smells very bad, a mixture of bad eggs and rotten cabbage. The name of this shop is Slug & Jiggers Apothecary.

Re: Slugs & Jiggers Apothecary

[chasingangela]

Angela? So not touching anything here.

Okay. Maybe a little. Cautiously, she opens a jar of foul-smelling herbs and sniffs the inside, making a face as she does.

Re: Slugs & Jiggers Apothecary

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory eyed the shop as she entered, wrinkling her nose. "Okay, ew."

Re: Slugs & Jiggers Apothecary

[fates_jaye]

Jaye wonders if she can throw something on someone and see what they turn into.

Re: Slugs & Jiggers Apothecary

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth eyes the apothecary cautiously, before stepping in. She wasn't squeamish normally, but this place gave her the creeps.

Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

When you need a break-- get your chocolate-and-raspberry with nuts here.

Re: Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor

[swerval_zero]

Zero came out of Knockturn Alley looking slightly haggard, with a miniature giraffe following her. She headed straight for the ice cream parlor. After that, she needed chocolate. "Right," she asked the Parker-giraffe. "What do you want?"

Flourish & Blotts Bookstore

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Manager is a bit brusque, but then he has to deal with strange and bothersome things like books that bite (The Monster Book of Monsters), books that are completely invisible (The Invisible Book of Invisibility), and book signings by Gilderoy Lockhart, who draws quite a crowd which can get a bit unruly at times.

Re: Flourish & Blotts Bookstore

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi buys a copy of "Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean" for her very own.

Re: Flourish & Blotts Bookstore

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Books are books. From whichever world. So it's hardly surprising that Elizabeth is almost immediately drawn there, and spends far too long wandering around there, looking at things in amazement.

Gringotts Wizarding Bank

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Gringott's (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/places/gringotts.html").

For all your money-changing needs from Muggle to Wizard money.

Re: Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes

[swerval_zero]

Zero entered Gringott's and headed straight for the money-changing counter. The trick to this sort of thing, she'd found, was to pretend you knew what you were doing. And if they were heading somewhere shady, they'd probably have to pay in cold hard cash.

Re: Gringotts Wizarding Bank

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

After his first go at paying in pounds, Walter stopped here to have some of his money converted to gold.

Someplace smack dab in the middle of London that didn't take pounds. Maybe this wasn't his universe either.

Re: Gringotts Wizarding Bank

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip stopped in to change his money for wizarding currency.

He was completely unsuprised that British magical peoplehad as much trouble with his accent as British non-magical people. It was nice to have a constant in the world.

Re: Gringotts Wizarding Bank

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth had a feeling that they weren't going to take VISA here.

Which, considering the trip so far, her VISA was probably thankful for.

As this place seemed to be the only place she could get money changed (which at least cut down on looking for the best exchange rate, she supposed), she headed there first.

She had no idea how much she was going to need here, but she could always change it back to sterling or even come and change more.

When she was handed her bag of coins, she tried not to sigh. Plastic was so much easier.

Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes! (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/wheezes.html)

Re: Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

After getting his *handwave* money exchanged, Marty went a little wild at the Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. What a great novelty store!

He picked up about five fake magic wands, several boxes of the deluxe selection of Weasleys' Wild-Fire Whiz-Bangs and a couple boxes each of the Canary Creams, Fever Fudge, Fainting Fancy, Nosebleed Nougat, Skiving Snackbox and the Ton-Tongue Toffees. Weird names, but hey... candy is candy right?

It seemed a little expensive, but why not?

Knockturn Alley - streets

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Knockturn Alley is a dingy alleyway where the shops are devoted to Dark Arts items. The alley is connected to Diagon Alley near Gringotts. There are stores selling shrunken heads, live gigantic black spiders, and poisonous candles. Street vendors include an old witch with a tray full of whole human fingernails. And somewhere in the alley, according to Hagrid, someone sells Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent.

Re: Knockturn Alley - streets

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia shouldn't have taken that left turn at Albuquerque not that her character would even get that joke.

She'd somehow managed to lose the "main strip" of Diagon Alley and end up somewhere a lot . . . creepier.

She shoved her hands in her pocket and turned slowly, taking in the place, her curiosity overcoming some of her common sense.

A quick look around couldn't hurt.

Knockturn Alley - Borgin & Burke's

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Just a few (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/dark_items.html) of the items for sale.

Re: Knockturn Alley - Borgin & Burke's

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker was getting a very definite bad vibe in this place. The sides of this street were very close, no one was meeting their eyes as they walked by, and frankly? It could've used dusting. She kept her hand on the knife in her jacket pocket, and kept scanning in front of her and toe the side. "I can't believe you got Wings blood lollipops."

St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

St. Mungo's (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/places/mungos.html), floor by floor.

OOC: Contact Your Student Council Rep here

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

So. Tired.

Re: OOC: Contact Your Student Council Rep here

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

*hugs*