Twilight, Spike, Vinyl, Octavia and Sally were awoken by the sound of something banging on the window. An owl carrying an envelope, Spike ran over and opened the window. The owl flew onto in dropping a letter into Spike’s claw before flying out as fast as it came. On the envelope it had the names of all five of them, Spike called out “Girls, come over here and look at this.”

The four girls galloped over, Twilight frowned “This is from Hogwarts. Do you think it is our invitation?”

Spike frowned “Only one way to find out.” Spike opened the letter “It seems you were correct but I have no idea how we are to get these books.”

Sally frowned “The Dark Force: A Guide to Self Protection sounds very important as does the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”

Vinyl grinned baring her teeth “Three of us are already fantastic beasts when you really think about it. Octavia loves eating livers and I am a predator.”

Octavia frowned “I doubt we will be in their books, we are very different from what creatures exist in their world.”

Meanwhile at Hogwarts Dumbledore was sitting at his desk, looking over various notes. Plans he had made in the past as well as a few notes that were no longer relevant. He frowned at the papers, Harry was gone or at least changed. He had visited the Hall or Prophecies several times the prior year. The prophecy he was following was no longer valid. He was interrupted by a knock, he smiled “Come in.”

Professor McGonagall entered “Headmaster, I am here to discuss Spike Firelight Potter and his friends. They are far from our usual students.”

Dumbledore frowned “I’ve heard from Fudge that Spike is actually the reincarnation of Harry Potter. I didn’t expect his family to be so cruel, I suggest you meet with them and get them to Diagon Alley as soon as possible. They will draw too much attention if they try to go alone.”

McGonagall nodded “I will do that. Is everything okay in here, I smell smoke.”

Dumbledore nodded “I decided to let things play out for now, I hardly have enough information to make a plan. Besides, maybe it’s time for me to let the new generation take control of their future instead of an old fool like me deciding the future for them.” He then chuckled, pulling out a piece of candy “Sherbet Lemon.”

McGonagall sighed “Just this once.” She pocketed the sweet as she left the office. Dumbledore smiled as put his own candy in his mouth. McGonagall headed for the flu in her own office and after pulling a handful of flu powder and throwing it at her feet “Ministry of Magic.”

McGonagall was surprised to see the Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge waiting there for her. Fudge smiled “You are here for the special students, you should head to Little Whinging to meet up with them. We have set up a small building there to act as flu gate.”

McGonagall nodded “Thank you Minster, I’ll be on my way.” McGonagall returned to the floo to travel to Little Whinging. She popped out in what appeared to be a small cabin around a portal. She raised an eyebrow at the small armoured equines guarding the doors, she gazed at one of the guards “Can introduce me to Spike Firelight Potter and his friends?”

The guards nodded “We have been briefed on this. Follow us.” McGonagall followed the guards through towards a floating portal. One of the guards frowned “We haven’t been able to anchor the portal to something yet on this side.”

The other frowned “Go through, the Princess will be with you shortly if she is not already there.”

McGonagall nodded “Thank you.” She stepped through, the transition was strangely tranquil. It was far more stable then any portkey she had used. She saw the equines, some had wings, some had horns and some had neither. Then a taller mare approached her mane flowing behind her head, she had both a horn and wings. McGonagall bowed “You must be the Princess they were talking about.”

Celestia smiled “I am Princess Celestia, I will introduce you to Spike and his four friends.”

Before McGonagall could reply, the ground shook violently, Celesta groaned “They must have had another incident with their lab.” There was a sudden gust of wind as a huge purple dragon flew above them covering the entire city in shadow for a few seconds before the dragon shrunk in size.

The dragon landed on the ground. Four small equines, one made of metal hopping off his back. He then shrunk down to smaller than McGonagall. Celestia frowned “What happened?’

Twilight pouted “Our nuclear reactor almost went into meltdown.”

Celestia was about to panic only for Spike to frown “I ate it, it tasted bad but it can’t hurt anyone anymore. It made me way too large though.”

Sally eyed McGonagall “What is this strange monkey creature? Did it escape from a zoo?”

Octavia gasped “You can’t just say that to someone, do you have no tact!”

Sally shrugged “I speak my mind, I see no point in holding my tongue. Honesty is the best policy.”

Vinyl poked Octavia as the Princess watched “We shouldn’t keep the Princess waiting?”

Celestia smiled as they stopped bickering “This is one of the staff at your school. She is going to take the five of you to collect your school supplies.”

McGonagall nodded holding a golden key “Young Potter has a vault, I believe you should hold onto this. Now I’m afraid we will have to make a stop at the Leaky Cauldron before going into Diagon Alley. Be careful, some shady individuals do come in there.”

Vinyl grinned hopping into the portal “A new world awaits.” The other four soon to be Hogwarts students sighed as they followed their friend. McGonagall followed after them, Celestia smiling as they left.

McGonagall approached the five new students “Do you know how to use the flu?” The five of them shook their heads. McGonagall frowned “You must throw the powder in the jar next to the fireplace and shout where you wish to go. Now one at a time, I will follow behind you.”

The five of them did as she said and she followed them. When McGonagall arrived all the wizards and witches looked at Spike, Vinyl ,Twilight, Octavia and Sally with caution. McGonagall frowned “They are students at Hogwarts or will be soon, they may have a unique appearance but I assure they will cause no harm to anyone providing they don’t try to hurt them. The dragon here is actually the reincarnation of Harry Potter.”

Spike was swarmed by witches and wizards asking him questions. He growled belching a bit of flame “Get back! NOW!” As they stepped back “One at a time or else I will cook you.”

Most of them were offering him empty platitudes and shaking his claws. None of that bothered him, one man though who approached caught his eye, he was a pale young man field with nervousness. One of his eyes was twitching. McGonagall frowned “This is Professor Quirrell, the Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher at Hogwarts this year.”

Quirrell stammered, grasping Spike’s claw “P-P-Potter, c-can’t t-tell you how p-pleased I am to meet you.”

Spike smiled “Well it is good to meet you too professor but we must be going. We need to get supplies for the school year.” They were hurried along by McGonagall into the nearby alleyway and she tapped several bricks on the wall in sequence with her wand before hurrying them into Diagon Alley.

Twilight frowned “That Professor seemed very nervous. Did we do something?”

McGonagall shook her head “No, the stories say he encountered a vampire in the black forest as well as a hag.”

Octavia raised an eyebrow “Would he be scared of me I wonder. I mean back home my kind are the basis for Vampire Legends.”

Sally frowned, “We have more important things to do than talk.”

McGonagall eyed Octavia for a bit before nodding “We need to head to Gringotts Bank, Spike has a vault there which will be used to pay for all your school supplies.”

As they made their way through the Diagon Alley they saw shops selling various goods, some of which they had never seen before. The one nearest to the entrance was selling cauldrons, another shop Eeylops Owl Emporium-Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown and Snowy was pretty self explanatory.

At the end they saw a snowy-white building that towered over the surrounding shops. Besides the door was a member of a species they couldn’t recognize, He was taller than the ponies but two heads shorter than Spike. He had a swarthy, clever face and a pointed beard. Twilight noticed his long hands and feet. McGonagall informed them “He is a goblin, they are the ones who run Gringotts the Wizarding Bank.” The goblin bowed as they entered, a pair of silver doors engraved with 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, SO IF YOU SEEK TREASURE BENEATH OUR FLOORS A TREASURE THAT WAS NEVER YOURS, THIEF, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, BEWARE OF FINDING MORE THAN TREASURE THERE.

Sally frowned “It seems robbing this place would be highly unwise.”

Vinyl nodded “As much as I love to cause mischief this is not the place.” The group entered the bank.

They entered a large marble hall, McGonagall passed a tiny golden key to Spike “This is the key to your vault.” They saw about a hundred goblins sitting on tall stools behind a tall counter, some were scribbling large ledgers, weighing coins on brass scales and examining precious stones.

Spike and his friend head down the hall, McGonagall following behind. Spike and his friends bowed their heads before the goblin at the head desk. The goblin nodded to them. Spike handed the goblin his key “I would like to withdraw some coins from my vault.”

The goblin nodded to them “Very well Mr Potter.” He then called out “Griphook!” Griphook, another of the goblins, came out to guide them to Spike’s vault.

The group followed Griphook through a door out of the hall. Griphook held the door open for them revealing a stone passageway lit with flaming torches. There was a steep slope in front of them with little railway tracks on them. Griphook whistled, summoning a small cart hurtling up the tracks towards them. They all climbed in, the cart easily carrying all of them. As the cart sped through the interconnected maze, Twilight commented “These carts seem to rely on some kind of magic that I don’t recognise, I wish I had more time to study them.”

They all felt a cold gust of wind as they passed an underground lake with huge stalactites and stalagmites emerging from the ceiling and floor. Spike grit his teeth as he saw dragon flame but kept quiet. The cart stopped at a small door in the passage wall, as they got off Spike handed Griphook the key to open the door. Griphook unlocked the door revealing of mounds of gold coins, columns of silver and piles of bronze knuts.

McGonagall explained “The gold coins are Galleons, Seventeen of the Silver Sickles make a Galleon and Twenty-Nine Knuts make a Sickle. You shouldn’t require too many coins for your supplies.”

Spike frowned “I doubt it, given our body shape we will all need custom robes. Not to mention my robes will need to be fireproof which will cost extra.” Spike began gathering a decent horde of galleons and putting them into his carry bag of expenditures.

Author's Note

I will be covering the shopping next time. Hopefully the next chapter comes out a bit quicker than this one did.