She didn't have any idea what this place was, but in the end she thought Dumbledore knew best. Penelope nods, for a while she wasn't sure either. "Penelope, right?" She smiles, "Dumbledore told us you might be coming, but he said he wasn't sure you would." "Um, hello?" She mutters back, wondering who the hell else could be here.Ī blonde woman rounds the corner, wiping her hands on a towel as she eyes Penelope. Penelope shuffles on her feet as she pulls her trunk over the threshold.
Dumbledore didn't mention anyone else staying here-like the letter literally just said an address and a spell. "Hello?" Someone calls out and Penelope straightens up, stopping before she takes another step. Penelope peers around the alley, a little sketched out about the darkness, but she holds her wand ahead of her and yanks the door open in case she does have any reason to be worried.
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It took her a good five minutes to figure out how to use her ticket on the tube, and a long while after that to figure out Muggle money, but still. While she did feel kind of alone, it was fun. It was her first time fully being in the Muggle world, and she got to explore it herself. The house her parents still owned turned out to be hidden as well, it didn't technically exist without a spell to reveal it, and it happened to be right next to a train station in London. She's spent a lot of time around Muggles this summer she finds them quite entertaining. She's supposed be living there tonight anyway, so she really needed it to open. Penelope follows the instructions Dumbledore gave her in the letter he sent via owl, pointing her wand at the Muggle apartment building and watching in awe as the building separates and no one around her seems to notice.ĭumbledore's owl didn't go into much detail after that, so Penelope's relieved when something actually happens.