Harry was scooping some of the golden coins that he remembered Hagrid call galleons into the money pouch Griphook had provided when he came across a blood red gem in his mountain of golden coins. Initially he wanted to show it to the goblin and half-giant but when he picked it up that idea suddenly became much less interesting to him and instead he stuffed it into his trouser pocket to be examined at a later time when he was alone.

When he had put about two hundred galleons into his money pouch he figured he would have enough; Hagrid had said he would only need about thirty but Harry figured that he would be spending a lot of money in the book shop in order to try to fit in for the first time of his life.

"Is this vault the all that I have in Gringotts?" Harry asked out of curiosity.

"Indeed it is, mister Potter. And before you ask how much it is, this vault currently has about 120,000 galleons a large portion of which comes from your inheritance from your parents but an even larger portion comes from people thanking you for defeating the dark lord Voldemort."

"Hm, interesting. Are there any limits on how much I can withdraw at any time?"

"No, there are not."

After Harry and Hagrid got a small package from a mysterious vault and had gotten back to the surface Hagrid went to the leaky cauldron to get a drink to soothe his stomach and suggested Harry get his robes first. Harry, however, thought it a better idea to get something to put his things into first and Hagrid soon saw reason and agreed with him so he pointed Harry to the luggage store which Harry promptly entered.

After browsing the store for about ten minutes Harry choose a wooden trunk with three compartments, one normal storage compartment expanded to be eight times the normal size on the inside, one library compartment able to store up to ten thousand books and keep them organized automatically and one wardrobe compartment which was also big enough to store so many clothes that Harry expected he would never be able to fill it.

However, while browsing for a school bag to go along with it, the shop owner recognized him and immediately tried to sell him a better trunk, one that he said was even better than the one famous master auror Alastor Moody used, but Harry insisted that he couldn't accept that. In the end the shopkeeper was able to talk him into accepting a bag that was linked to the trunk for free so as long as he kept everything in his trunk he would never forget anything. He was also unable to refuse extra set of permanent charms to be placed on the trunk and his bag, such as featherlight charm, a permanent charm to shrink and resize at a tap of a wand and a lock based on his magical signature.

Having paid twenty-five galleons for what Harry suspected were products worth close to a hundred, Harry put the trunk the shopkeeper had shrunk for him into his pocket; he had gotten a firm warning to never ever put his trunk into the bag, bag into trunk was fine but never trunk into bag, he joined Hagrid outside of the shop.

Now that Harry had his trunk Harry followed Hagrid to Madam Malkin's robes for all occasions and went in just as a blond haired boy left. Harry got his required school clothes and even got a couple of sets of muggle clothes the seamstresses had tailored for him. He even was allowed to walk out of the shop in a set. And he again thought that the shopkeeper had given him a reduced price, for the total he had to pay for all his clothes came to only about nine galleons. All his clothes went directly into his wardrobe compartment of his trunk, which he got a compliment on from the kind woman.

His clothes shopping done, Hagrid led Harry from one shop to another to get his other various supplies until they finally got to the book shop, Flourish and Blotts. Harry had to admit that he went a bit crazy on his book shopping once he fired out that he could put as many books into the basket he picked up at the front of the store and it wouldn't fill up. In the end he of course got all the books on his book list as well as the ones for the rest of his year at Hogwarts that he could figure out. He also got a handful of books on recent history and a couple of introductory books to the wizarding world.

In the end Harry left the shop with about thirty books which again cost him less than he expected they were worth and being called a budding Ravenclaw, not that he knew what that meant. He was also handed a self-updating owl order catalogue at the counter which he could use to order more books, which was something he planned on doing a lot; Harry had always dreamed about being free of the Dursleys and getting his own private library, a dream he now had the means to fulfill.

The strangest experience, however, was his visit to Olivanders' to buy a wand, for not only did mister Olivander seem to be expecting him, he also got the brother wand of the one that had given him his scar on his forehead and killed his parents. Once the wand had chosen him after trying what seemed like half the wands in the little shop mister Olivander told Harry that he was destined for great things.

"After all, he-who-must-not-be-named did great things. Terrible, yes, but great."

"I hope you don't expect me to do terrible things too, mister Olivander."

The old man's eyes widened slightly at this, as if those words put a break in the expected turn of events and Harry heard Hagrid take a sharp intake of breath before mister Olivander responded.

"I most certainly do not expect you to travel down the same road as he-who-must-not-be-named. For one, while your wand is his brother because they share a core, the phoenix feather, they are by no means twins. Much can be learned from the various ingredients of one's chosen wand. For example, a phoenix feather indicates that the wizard is at least fairly powerful. The holly in your wand most likely indicates that you are a good person and will use the wand to do good. The dark lord's wand, however, was made of yew which while more ambiguous more often than not leads their wizard down a path towards darker magics, which in turn has a good chance to lead the wizard to more evil pursuits."

After hearing that, Harry made a mental note to research wand lore at some point for from what he heard it could be a powerful tool to assess wizards and witches.

After Harry had gotten his wand, only one stop remained, which was to get a pet. Hagrid in the end decided to get Harry a pet owl for his birthday. The snowy owl that they ended up getting from Eyeloops Owl Emporium seemed to instantly become attached to Harry and Hagrid told the young wizard that it was likely that if the connection continued to grow between the boy and his owl they might at some point form a familiar bond, which was something that Harry also made a mental note of to research further.

AN: The first couple of chapters will be between 1000 and 2000 words so I can build up a bit of a backlog. I would really like to hear any and all suggestions on how both how to improve my style, for I know it is utter ass, and where to lead this story to. I do have a couple of general idea's and some pages of bullet points on where to take this story but even I get writers block and having plenty of points keeps that from happening.

Published: 18 March 2016
Updated: 19 March 2016; 22 March 2016