Okay here is a story that I had started a long time ago, but never finished. I decided that it should go on and started from scratch. Please review and let me know if I should keep going with it. Rated M for later chapters. P.S. I own nothing accept for the OCs. Love you J.K.

The Song Bird

By: Merridrew Horicon

19 years later

Diagon alley was busy as it usually was the weeks before school started. Young witches and wizards running back and forth with their parents buying supplies. The muggle borns trying to absorb all the new and amazing thing they were seeing.

Harry Potter was walking down the street with his middle child Albus to the wand shop to purchase his first wand. "But Dad, what if I blow up the charms class," Albus hissed as they worked through the crowd and Harry suppressed the urge to roll his eyes. Of his three children Albus was his worrier, and he hoped that his time at school would help instill more confidence in him.

"Don't worry son," he said as he placed a hand on Albus shoulder as they reached the door to the wand shop, "That school has seen far more dangerous thing than you and survived. You will be fine," he finished as he guided him into Dashall's Wands.

The shop looked almost the same as when Ollivander had owned it, maybe a little less dust. But shelves of boxes lined and walls and nearly all the free space of the building. All filled with wands waiting to chose a special witch or wizard to ally its power to.

Albus stood just in side the door nervously looking at the floor until he felt someone gazing at him and looked up into the chocolate brown eyes of a pretty girl his age. She had an oval face with a straight nose and full lips and when they stretch into a sweet smile and she brushed her platinum blonde hair over her shoulder he felt all his anxiety vanish for the first time in his life.

He walked over to her with a smile on his face as he greeted her, "Hello. I'm Albus, Albus Potter, but everyone calls me AL" Now he wasn't a lady killer like his brother James who had gotten the Weasley confidence, but he looked just like his father and had the same understated charisma that could do serious damage if not kept in check.

The girl giggled cast a quick glance at the woman she was with then back at him, "My name is Selena Starfire. Pleasure to meet you Albus," and Albus felt a shiver run up his spine at the sound of her voice, which not only had a bell like quality, but also a soft Texan drawl.

He was about to respond when Dashall came back to the front of the store with several boxes held in his arms. "Well one of these should do the trick for the little girl Mrs. McCoy. Harry Potter what a pleasure to see you again sir. Another Potter off to Hogwarts already?"

"Yes, young Albus but help Mrs. McCoy first," Harry said with a wave of his hand, trying to displace the attention placed on him.

"Thank you Mr. Potter" she said with a smile and the same soft drawl, then turned back to Dashall, "Now are you sure…"

Selena rolled her eyes and looked at Harry to see his reaction. When she noticed he was looking out the window she winked at Albus and he felt his heart jerk. She darted up and grabbed two of the boxes and handed him one. "Here if we don't start trying wands now we never will. Cici can talk the ear off a corpse and keep goin'," she said and began to open the box she still held.

Albus looked down at the side of the box that he held and read what was written. It was the wand specifications. 'Cherry wood—10 ½ '—phoenix feather—rare'. He then looked over at Selena's and read 'Cottonwood—11"-Nunda fur—extremely rare'.

She pulled the pale wand from the box and looked at him expectantly, "Well are you going to pull it out of what Albus," she asked quietly casting a quick look at the still oblivious adults and Albus pulled out the darker wand quickly.

"Okay, on the count of three we will wave it. Don't point it at the adults," she hissed as he pointed it at his father and he quickly aimed it at a statue of a werewolf. As she nodded and smiled she pointed hers at a vase on the same shelf, "Alright ready. One, Two, Three," and they both flicked the wands.

Then the statue started to dance and the vase levitated above the shelf drawing the adult's attention as the children laughed. With a smile Dashall said, "Well it seems they have found their own wands."

"Brilliant," Harry said with a bright smile and pulled his money from his pocket, "How about lunch Albus."

"Dad can we bring Selena and her nanny. She is the one that helped me find the wand," he asked not wanting to lose her right after he had found her.

"Well I don't see why not," then gave Selena a strange look she didn't notice as she latched on to her nanny's hand. The girl reminded him of someone, but he couldn't seem to think of whom.

"Please Cici. We just barley got here and you promised that we could spend the afternoon in London," she pleaded and the woman smiled down at her.

"Of course Darlin'," she said and ran a hand down her blonde hair in a loving way and Selena jumped in the air and then jumped on Albus with a hug causing him to blush deeply.

Twenty minutes later they sat at The Leaky Cauldron with the adults chatting away and the children speaking about all the things they were going to be learning. "Well I am looking forward to learning the body bind curse," Albus said around a mouth full of mashed potatoes and Selena shook her head with a smile as she wondered why boys always seemed to talk with their mouths full.

"Well I am looking forward to learning the summoning charm. Much more practical applications. Just think no more lost items," she said as she took a sip of her pumpkin juice and grimaced. She didn't like the stuff, but it was so popular over here she thought she would try it. Turns out she would have preferred the Coke she had wanted in the first place.

"Well all that aside I hope I get into Gryffindor. Where the brave at heart dwell," Albus said as he thrust his fork into the air making Selena giggle, "What house do you think you will be sorted into?"

She grimaced and looked down at her plate and played with her food, "I'm not going to Hogwarts," she mumbled and snapped her eyes back to Albus when she heard his fork drop.

"No that's not fair, I thought you would be going as well! That I would have someone else to talk to besides my cousin and brother," he cried

"I want to, but my mom is making me stay in Texas and take private lessons so I can help take care of my grandmother," she said then leaned closer to him, "Not the nicest of women, but you know the whole family sticks together thing so I'm in a no go situation till I get Mom to hire a nurse or she keels over," she whispered and Albus shivered as her breath tickled his ear.

She leaned back and looked at with a frown, "We can still be friends though right?"

When he saw her looking so sad he could only think about wanting to see her smile again and gave her a bright one to try and bring hers back, "Sure. You can write to me and tell me about your home and lessons and I can tell you about Hogwarts," and felt his heart jerk again as she smiled at him again.

"Fantastic," she said reaching into Cici's purse and pulled out a pen when she saw the woman getting ready to leave. She took Albus' hand and began to write while Albus felt heat rush to his cheeks, "Here is my address," and when she looked up at his she couldn't help but stare.

"What," he asked as his face heated even more.

"Sorry," she said and dropped his hand and gave a soft smile, "You're just really cute when you blush," and laughed when he threw a napkin at her.

"Baby girl it's time to go," Cici called and she sighed as they both stood.

She looked at him warily, "You're gonna write me right," she asked and smiled when he did.

"Most definitely," he said and blushed when she hugged him then darted to Cici's side and took her hand.

"Don't forget," she said and then with a *Pop* she was gone.

"Dad," he asked as he looked at the place she had just been, "Do you think I will see her again?"

Harry scrubbed his hand over his jaw and fought the feel of unease that the girl brought up in him, "I'm sure you will son. I'm sure you will," he said and though he had never been good at divination he knew that Selena Starfire would be back in their life.