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"Might as well get yer uniform," said Hagrid, directing us towards Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. "Listen, would you two mind if I slipped off fer a pick-me-up in the Leaky Cauldron? I hate them Gringotts carts." He did still look a bit sick, so Harry and I nodded and entered Madam Malkin's shop by ourselves. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUY0feeOrU
Madam Malkin was a squat, smiling witch dressed all in mauve."Hogwarts, dears?" she said when I started to speak. "Got the lot here, another young man is being fitted up just now, in fact." 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TiZgNjPri
I looked to where she pointed at the back of the shop. A boy with a pale, pointed face was standing on a footstool while a second witch pinned up his long black robes. Madam Malkin stood us on the stools on either side of him and before I could blink, she'd slipped a long robe over my head and begun to pin it to the right length. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrhsdS5gqLb
"Hello," said the boy looking at both of us. "Hogwarts, too?" 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLl3d7Va2Sh
"Yes" we said together. I refrained from shouting "Jinx!" as this new boy made me nervous and I didn't know what to make of him.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxmx4Ffd92u
"My father's next door buying my books and mother's up the street looking at wands," said the boy. He had a bored, drawling voice. "Then I'm going to drag them off to look at racing brooms. I don't see why first years can't have their own. I think I'll bully father into getting me one and I'll smuggle it in somehow. Have either of you got your own broom?" the boy went on. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0Lw4dTWF5
"No," I mumbled and heard Harry say as well. I didn't like this boy one bit so far.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDU2iy6w4V
"Play Quidditch at all?" 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNpCnYWnu3
"No," we said again. What the hell is Quidditch? I really wanted to know but before I could ask the boy started talking again.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQOaKCy4p3
"I do. Father says it's a crime if I'm not picked to play for my house, and I must say, I agree. Know what house you'll be in yet?" 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFKBpa3cBs
"No," I said, feeling more stupid by the minute and lowering my gaze to the floor in shame. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡft9D772C2s
"Well, no one really knows until they get there, do they, but I know I'll be in Slytherin, all our family have been. Imagine being in Hufflepuff, I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?" 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY01ObzvPoU
"Mmm," said Harry. I just nodded my head wishing he would leave soon.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhpHnmyRCtd
"I say, look at that man!" said the boy suddenly, nodding toward the front window. Hagrid was standing there, grinning at Harry and I as he pointed at three large ice creams to show he couldn't come in. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9O7raxcPM
"That's Hagrid," said Harry. "He works at Hogwarts." 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpR9ijUSMr
"Oh," said the boy, "I've heard of him. He's a sort of servant, isn't he?" 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrmWrvRmim
"He's the gamekeeper," I said as my head shot up to glare at the boy. I was liking him less and less with every passing second. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ptQ9ZezUj
"Yes, exactly. I heard he lives in a hut on the school grounds and every now and then he gets drunk, tries to do magic, and ends up setting fire to his bed." 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOw0jlUvBF
"I think he's brilliant," said Harry coldly. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw707aig6bC
"I agree," I said. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ801zrpLYjO
"Do you?" said the boy, with a slight sneer. "Why is he with you? Where are your parents?"351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkONjgGWXm
"They're dead," said Harry shortly. I could hear the sorrow in his voice and I fought the urge to punch the boy for his lack of tact. He looked over at me. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nAAxhaHaK
"I don't know anything about mine..." I mumbled staring at the floor again. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4hDCxZ8ytV
"Oh, sorry," said the boy; not sounding sorry at all. "But they were our kind, weren't they?"351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDZyEh5X1g
"Mine were a witch and wizard, if that's what you mean." said Harry.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqLnEpR6LEn
"I really don't think they should let the other sort in, do you? They're just not the same, they've never been brought up to know our ways. Some of them have never even heard of Hogwarts until they get the letter, imagine. I think they should keep it in the old wizarding families. What's your surname, anyway?" 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeLuSjPVoK
Before Harry or I could answer, Madam Malkin said, "That's you two done, my dears," and we hopped down from the footstools in relief. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbkuVg20WJ
"Well, I'll see you at Hogwarts, I suppose," said the drawling boy. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHaYTEQzTNc
Harry and I were rather quiet as we ate the ice cream Hagrid had bought us. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0RKckKM8OC
"What's up?" said Hagrid.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNkFLDTRFma
"Nothing," Harry lied. I nodded in agreement. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRfIUUgdDR
After we finished our ice creams and continued shopping, we both cheered up a little. We stopped and got parchment, quills, and ink, which was a welcome distraction.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBTIJcuFzIB
When they had left the shop, however, I heard Harry say, "Hagrid, what's Quidditch?" 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBSBgRjhw8
"Blimey, Harry, I keep forgettin' how little yeh know...not knowin'about Quidditch!" 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAxH07BRpA
"Don't make him feel worse than he already does, Hagrid! Neither of us were raised knowing about magic!" I exclaimed suddenly feeling very protective. I paused for a moment utterly surprised by my outburst. Harry smiled gratefully at me as Hagrid chuckled.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWPprH8Yrw
"Meanin' no offense o'course, Kat!"351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlHYvuRCSd
We continued to walk down the street as Harry told Hagrid about the pale boy in Madam Malkin's. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMzUfUxYME
"...and he said people from Muggle families shouldn't even be allowed in." 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWnCb8clWsz
"Yer not from a Muggle family. If he'd known who yeh were...he's grown up knowin' yer name if his parents are wizardin' folk. You saw what everyone in the Leaky Cauldron was like when they saw yeh. Anyway, what does he know about it, some o' the best I ever saw were the only ones with magic in 'em in a long line o' Muggles. Look at yer mum! Look what she had fer a sister!"351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa65oqe45Am
"I bet my parents were both muggles..." I said sadly. It was Harry's turn to grab my hand and comfort me as he decided to redirect the conversation. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1YLAEfY73U
"So what is Quidditch?" 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIzQRaR7VD
"It's our sport. Wizard sport. It's like...like soccer in the Muggle world. Everyone follows Quidditch. Played up in the air on broomsticks and there's four balls. Sorta hard ter explain the rules." 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0CN0sGzZBc
"And what are Slytherin and Hufflepuff?" I chimed in.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGT4QWuXst1
"School houses. There's four. Everyone says Hufflepuff are a lot o'duffers, but..." 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YJO2lV3dn
"I bet I'm in Hufflepuff" Harry and I said gloomily.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxVTMG0rr5
"Jinx!" I said halfheartedly.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkUZ6P0q41V
"Better Hufflepuff than Slytherin," said Hagrid darkly. "There's not a single witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin. You-Know-Who was one." 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtQfV2MUPH0
"Vol-, sorry - You-Know-Who was at Hogwarts?" 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBNlntq76n
"Years an' years ago," said Hagrid. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrk6yKL99E
"Who's he?" I said not following. Instead of answering, Hagrid pretended not to hear me and continued down the street. I looked at Harry but he shook his head and whispered, "I'll try and explain later, though I don't know much." 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGV2XyPfN8l
"Just yer wands left...ah yeah, an' I still haven't got yer birthday presents." I felt himself go red. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCF529uS0ry
"You don't have to..." 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NMNJJZjTG
"I know I don't have to. Tell yeh what, I'll get yer animals. Not a toad, toads went outta fashion years ago, yeh'd be laughed at, an' I don'like cats, they make me sneeze. I'll get yer two owls. All the kids want owls, they're dead useful, carry yer mail an' everythin'." 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwMaTw7dxE
Twenty minutes later, we left Eeylops Owl Emporium, which had been dark and full of rustling and flickering, jewel-bright eyes. Harry had chosen a beautiful snowy white owl, whereas I had picked out a jet-black one. Both Harry and I couldn't thank Hagrid enough.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fJQitSjfH
"Don' mention it," said Hagrid gruffly. "Don' expect either a you had a lotta presents growing up. Just Ollivanders left now. Only place fer wands, Ollivanders, and yeh gotta have the best wand." 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvOuqpl8H8
A magic wand... this was what we had been really looking forward to. I squealed in excitement and hopped up and down forcing Harry to join along in my dance. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR30YVuxvwT
The shop was narrow and shabby. Peeling gold letters over the door read Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C. A single wand lay on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window and a tinkling bell rang somewhere in the depths of the shop as we stepped inside. It was a tiny place, empty except for a single, spindly chair that Hagrid sat on to wait. The very dust and silence in here seemed to tingle with some secret magic. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6a2IetiaO
"Good afternoon," said a soft voice. I jumped. Hagrid must have jumped, too, because there was a loud crunching noise and he got quickly off the spindly chair. I glanced at Harry and we both burst out laughing.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK1LDVvWpUv
"Hello," I said awkwardly as I noticed an old man watching us closely. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGoOfWentFt
"Ah yes," said the man. "Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter and Katrina." It wasn't a question. I wondered how he knew my name...but he didn't give me a chance to ask.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5yePwIJipy
"You have your mother's eyes, boy. Seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wand. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wand for charm work." Mr. Ollivander moved closer to Harry. "Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wand. Eleven inches. Pliable. A little more power and excellent for transfiguration. Well, I say your father favored it but it's really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course."Mr. Ollivander had come so close that he and Harry were almost nose to nose. I could tell that Harry was uncomfortable and I shifted anxiously. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsIxPPcWFL
"And that's where..."Mr. Ollivander touched the lightning scar on Harry's forehead with a long, white finger. As he did so, I became painfully aware of my own scar and rubbed my collar bone. I was still confused as to why it had suddenly started hurting when we were in the Leaky Cauldron...it had grown unbearably hot right as I looked into Quirrell's eyes, but I'm sure it was only a coincidence.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNNjixZ2BbQ
"I'm sorry to say I sold the wand that did it," he was saying softly as I returned to the current conversation. "Thirteen-and-a-half inches. Yew. Powerful wand, very powerful, and in the wrong hands... well, if I'd known what that wand was going out into the world to do...."He shook his head and then spotted Hagrid. "Rubeus! Rubeus Hagrid! How nice to see you again.... Oak, sixteen inches, rather bendy, wasn't it?" 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR1OlHAxYQS
"It was, sir, yes," said Hagrid. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdX0X7UEN4
"Good wand, that one. But I suppose they snapped it in half when you got expelled?" said Mr. Ollivander, suddenly stern. I looked at Hagrid shocked. He'd gotten expelled? I wonder what for.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHsEJcz1A99
"Er...yes, they did, yes," said Hagrid, shuffling his feet. "I've still got the pieces, though," he added brightly. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAD8FGa8VVM
"But you don't use them?" said Mr. Ollivander sharply.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0eE4i55nUB
"Oh, no, sir," said Hagrid quickly. I noticed he gripped his pink umbrella very tightly as he spoke and made a note to ask him about this later. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrWIJGrY0QC
"Hmmm," said Mr. Ollivander, giving Hagrid a piercing look. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fZ9p3Zpzl
"Well, now...Mr. Potter. Let me see." He pulled a long tape measure with silver markings out of his pocket. "Which is your wand arm?" 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFfAOrf8mz
"Er, well, I'm right-handed," said Harry. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxC2iUHVSsP
"Hold out your arm. That's it." He measured Harry from shoulder to finger, then wrist to elbow, shoulder to floor, knee to armpit and round his head. As he measured, he said, "Every Ollivander wand has a core of a powerful magical substance, Mr. Potter. We use unicorn hairs, phoenix tail feathers, and the heartstrings of dragons. No two Ollivander wands are the same, just as no two unicorns, dragons, or phoenixes are quite the same. And of course, you will never get such good results with another wizard's wand." 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GMj6fYNMk
With that said, Mr. Ollivander started flitting around the shelves, taking down boxes. "That will do," he said, and the tape measure crumpled into a heap on the floor. "Right then, Mr. Potter. Try this one. Beechwood and dragon heartstring. Nine inches. Nice and flexible. just take it and give it a wave."351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡicGS1AUTFT
Harry took the wand and waved it around a bit, but Mr. Ollivander snatched it out of his hand almost at once."Maple and phoenix feather. Seven inches. Quite whippy. Try..." Harry tried but he had hardly raised the wand when it, too, was snatched back by Mr. Ollivander. "No, no, here, ebony and unicorn hair, eight and a half inches, springy. Go on, go on, try it out."Harry tried. And tried. I had no idea what Mr. Ollivander was waiting for...nothing seemed to be happening with any of them. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5lnplwcs7
The pile of tried wands was mounting higher and higher on the spindly chair and eventually Mr. Ollivander said that I might as well start trying wands from the pile to see if one worked for me, but I had as much luck as Harry seemed to be having. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOOUlhAwVxs
However, the more wands Mr. Ollivander pulled from the shelves, the happier he seemed to become."Tricky customers, eh? Not to worry, we'll find the perfect matches here somewhere...I wonder, now...yes, why not...unusual combinations...." He disappeared into the back and returned with two wands. The first he handed to Harry saying it was holly and phoenix feather, eleven inches. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9UzR3cmtP
Harry took the wand, raised it above his head, and brought it swishing down through the dusty air. My jaw dropped as a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNc033oVTj6
Hagrid whooped and clapped and Mr. Ollivander cried, "Oh, bravo! Yes, indeed, oh, very good. Well, well, well... how curious... how very curious... "He put Harry's wand back into its box and wrapped it in brown paper, still muttering, "Curious....very curious..." He then stretched out the second wand for me to take. I held my breath in as I slowly took it from him.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBggNxFhcQ8
The next thing I knew, I was blinded by a bright flash of golden light as bright as the sun. I squinted my eyes as I tried to see what was happening but it was no use. My eyes watered and I couldn't see a single thing. I closed my eyes and stood frozen where I was. Was this supposed to happen? It certainly had not happened with Harry's wand! 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFF0zOxdfFf
When I felt the light falling on my lids darken enough, I finally risked opening them again. A pair of green eyes reflected my own shock back at me. I shifted my focus to Mr. Ollivander who was acting odder than ever. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdOWy8KmNc
"Even more curious! My goodness...haven't seen a reaction like that since...but of course...that would explain it....but still...how curious!"351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNMjnrWNvSZ
"Excuse me, Sir. But could you please explain what the hell is so curious about mine and Harry's wands?!" I cried out trying to mask my frustration. I had just about had it with this guy!351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB02HZL7yCy
Mr. Ollivander fixed us with his pale stare."I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr. Potter and Ms. Katrina. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feathers reside in both your wands, gave one other feather, just one. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for those wands, when its brother why, its brother gave you those scars. Furthermore, it is curious that your wand, Katrina, is also combined with a dragon heartstring and a drop of Basilisk venom. A unheard of and very powerful mixture. I confess, there was a period where I dabbled and experimented with...elements not ought to be meddled with....so much power....I regretted making it immediately...yet so much power...I dared not destroy it..." I watched his eyes triple in size as fear took over and swallowed the lump in my throat. This was not sounding good.... 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVEpgMfGAn
"Yes, curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember.... I think we can expect great things from you, Mr. Potter, Ms. Katrina. After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things...terrible, yes, but great." I shivered. I still had no idea who this mysterious never-to-be-named fellow was, but I was seriously starting to get scared. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGOS3oVh0e
We paid seven gold Galleons each for our wands, and Mr. Ollivander bowed us from his shop. The minute we were out, I clutched Harry's hand in a death-grip.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeg4nbtSvao
"Harry, that was scary..." I confessed with a nervous giggle.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AwMDBnoiK
"Yeah, yeah it was." He agreed glancing back at the store. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMmLEsB6N33
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We returned to the Leaky Cauldron and made our way back to Little Whinging. It was a surprise when we found out that we both lived in the same city! But it was a happy, yet unfortunate surprise. I felt my face go red with embarrassment as I observed Harry's face as he recognized the name of the orphanage I was heading back to. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLyT6ovVZ9
It was quite infamous in the neighborhood for being a horrible place and while I agreed, I had never cared so much about someone's opinion before and when he asked where I lived, it was awkward having to tell him knowing that he'd know. But Harry just hugged me and held my hand until we had to part ways and I felt like the luckiest girl in the world. Not only was I going to get to learn magic, but I was going to have a friend beside me for the first time in my life.
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