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Chapter 1 – Ollivanders

A tinkling bell rang somewhere in the depths of a narrow and shabby shop as a small girl entered beside a wizened old woman.

The woman waited for quite a few moments. "Hello?" she asked with her brittled, yet commanding voice towards the dark back of the shop. An old man rolled out on an ancient wheeled ladder from the rows and rows of wands before standing before them, his pale, watery eyes shining like moons through the gloom of the shop.

"Ah Mrs. Black. 10 inches, dragon heartstring and hawthorn if my memory serves me well?"

"It does indeed Mr. Ollivander." Mrs. Black subtly pushed the girl forwards.

"Good evening Mr. Ollivander. My name is Elladora Black." she held out her small hand and he shook it deftly.

"You be must be Regulus' child. You have his eyes, yet you have your mothers nose. I was wondering when you would visit my shop." he said to Elladora. Mr. Ollivander turned towards her grandmother.

"Such good manners!"

"It is only fitting. She is of noble birth, and I have raised her accordingly." Mrs. Black said. Sniffing her nose haughtily.

"Of course." Mr Ollivander complaisantly replied.

"Lets look for a wand that will fit you now Miss. Black. I do remember your father's wand, Cypress and Unicorn hair, 12 inches, rather pliable."

He seemed to be in deep thought for a while before pulling out a long tape measure with silver markings out of his pocket. "Which is your wand arm?"

Elladora held forth her right arm.

"Hold out your arm. That's it." He measured Elladora from shoulder to finger, then wrist to elbow, shoulder to floor, knee to armpit and round her head. As he measured, he said,

"Every Ollivander wand has a core of a powerful magical substance, Miss. Black. 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."

Elladora thought that his speech seemed rather well rehearsed. 'He must say it to all his customers' she speculated as Mr. Ollivander left the measuring tape to record by itself while he fiddled around the shelves, occasionally taking out boxes.

"That will do," he said, and the tape measure flopped onto the floor. "Right then, Miss. Black. Try this one. Eight and a half inches, Blackthorn and Dragon Heartstring, unyielding.

Elladora picked up the wand and waved it at a pot of flowers, she grinned as one of the flowers started dancing, but her grin faded as the flower shrivelled up and crumbled onto the counter. Mr. Ollivander snatched the wand from her hand after grimacing. "No, no, not to worry dear- here, ten inches Cedar, Unicorn hair and slightly springy."

This time, Elladora waved the wand at the small chair in the shop, but it flew over their heads and broke against the wall.

"No matter." Mr. Ollivander said as he repaired the chair and sent it back to where it once was with a wave of his wand.

A few wands later Elladora held the handle of an Aspen and Dragon Heartstring, quite springy eleven and half inches. A sudden warmth spread through her fingers. She waved the wand and a bright smile came over her face as a pleasant bright gust of wind twirled about her. Mr. Ollivander cried, "Ha Ha! Oh well done".

"Thank you so very much Mr. Ollivander" said Elladora

"Oh it was my pleasure dear."

She paid seven gold Galleons for her wand, and Mr. Ollivander bowed them from his shop.

As they departed, Elladora bumped into a freckled red headed boy coming into the same shop she just left.

"Oh, I'm terribly sorry" she said.

"It's alright" the boy replied.

A man with the same flaming red hair and freckles as the boy appeared behind him.

"Walburga Black!" He exclaimed.

Mrs. Black sneered "Weasley."

"Wonderful to see you" he said in such a tone that made Elladora doubt if this statement was true.

Mrs. Black ignored the man and was about to leave until the man noticed Elladora.

"And who might this little lady be?"

"Good evening sir, my name is Elladora Black."

"Good evening to you too Miss Elladora. You must be going in to your first year, Charlie here will be a first-year as well" He put his hand on Charlie's shoulder.

Walburga cut in, "Come now Ella we must get your robes fitted."

Elladora's grandmother pulled her away towards Madam Malkins before she could reply to the Weasleys.

"Why did you hurry away from the Weasleys grandmother? I thought they were pure-bloods? Plus Beatrice already fitted my robes last week"

The comforting smell of new clothes and leather enveloped Elladora as they entered Madam Malkin's.

"Their blood is indeed pure, but they are traitors to our kind. And I thought it would be a fine idea to visit Beatrice"

Elladora shrugged and reached out her hand to fiddle with a soft navy fabric. Mrs. Black's voice seemed to alert their presence to an old squat witch dressed in all mauve who came bustling out from behind a row of smart cloaks with a few pins on hand.

"Walburga! Dearest it has been far too long since I last saw you." Beatrice Malkin said in a friendly tone as she pinned the robes on a boy with dark brown hair and large caterpillar eyebrows.

"Beatrice dear it certainly has been far too long for my liking. When was the last time we laid eyes on each other?"

"Why, it must have been last week!"

The two women giggled. Elladora could not find the humour in this, but she was not surprised. When Beatrice Malkin and Walburga Black were together, it seemed to be as if they were in Hogwarts again.

Beatrice greeted Elladora with a peck on both cheeks and slyly handed her a chocolate frog from her apron. She turned back to Mrs. Black.

"Have you heard the news Walburga? The old Minister Ignatius Tuft died of a heart attack."

"Good riddance! I say, that man was an absolute fool."

The two women gossiped and Elladora's eyes became unfocused on watching Beatrice pin the boys robes. Her vision cleared and noticed that the boy with the eyebrows was leering at her. Wishing to avoid being in this boys presence, Elladora floated over to her grandmother.

"May I have some change Grandmother? There is a new book at Flourish and Blotts that I must get."

"We'll go over together dear as we may as well buy your school books there as well, and they will be hard to carry." she fished out a leather purse from her green velvet handbag and handed it to Elladora. "Here, look around the Magical Menagerie, buy anything you like but a cat, you know I am allergic. Be here in under 20 minutes."

Elladora grinned excitedly "Yes Grandmother." Mrs. Black had already continued with her conversation.

Elladora exited the shop into the busy Diagon Alley. A plump man outside the Apothecary was shaking his head as she passed, saying, "Boomslang skin, a galleon an ounce, what a joke"

A low, soft hooting came from Eeylops Owl Emporium. Several boys of about Elladora's age had their noses pressed against a window with broomsticks in it. "Look," She heard one of them say, "the new Comet 260 - fastest ever —"

Elladora smirked, her uncle Thorfinn had gotten her that very broom for her birthday in June. It's a shame first years aren't allowed brooms she thought glumly. She'd only flown her broom around her yard a few times.

The bell tinkled lightly as she entered the very crowded menagerie, noisy with the sounds of all the animals. Elladora was browsing though the fire-crab cages when the shop assistant appeared over her shoulder.

"Ahh yes I see you've found the fire crabs, I'm afraid that you'll have to have a special license to buy one of those. Over this way are some rather amazing felines" he said in a honeyed tone.

"No, sorry but my grandmother is allergic. Could you perhaps show me some other animals?"

"Of course! Over here are some Puffskeins, I'm sure a girl your age would love one of these fluffy.."

"What is that?" Elladora interpreted.

"Oh those are the great eastern snakes with…"

"No, what is that," she said pointing to a sleek, black rodent, its dark eyes looking right into hers.

"Oh, that is a rat. Yet it is no ordinary rat." he said, leading her towards the said animal, enclosed in a windowed box, surrounded on all sides by the snake boxes. "We have tried to feed this rat to the snakes twice, but he's escaped both times!"

"Perfect. Ill take him."

"Are you sure?" the man said doubtfully. "There are plenty of rabbits in stock."

"No, I will take him." Elladora said in finality. The shop assistant sighed and reached into the box. He handed it to her. The rat seemed docile and sniffed Elladora a few times before climbing up onto her shoulder.

"That will be 5 galleons please." the shop assistant said. Elladora handed over the correct amount and walked out of the shop feeling happy with her purchase.

She looked down at her watch and had five minutes to spare so she hurried back to Madam Malkins. She walked inside, and as she did so, Beatrice gave a great shriek and pointed to her shoulder. "What is that?!".

"His name is Maximus." she replied wittily.

"Well get it out of my shop!" she shooed Walburga and Elladora out onto the alley and they started towards Flourish and Blotts.

"I probably should have mentioned that Beatrice hates rats" smirked Walburga.

They entered the bookshop and the smell of parchment whirled over Ella". She took a deep breath in and headed towards the history isle, but her grandmother pulled her back.

"School books first." Walburga said with stern eyes. Elladora glanced longingly at the many volumes waiting to be leafed through before following her grandmother. They made a quick purchase, and Elladora got the book on Goblins, so she was content. Everything else on her school list they already had at home, so they disapparated out of the alley with a 'pop'.

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A/U-

Hey guys, this is a redo of my old story Myra Black. If you notice any mistakes please notify me :)

You will probably notice that Walburga is kinder than you would expect, but since we only got a judgement of character from Sirius, who hated her, and she raised Elladora all on her own, I thought she might be a bit different this time round.

The name Beatrice is something that randomly came to mind, I did not base her name of anything :)

Maximus means 'greatest' in Latin.

Please review! Reviews keep me going :)

Chapter 2 will be posted soon ;)