Chapter 1
I excitedly step into the fireplace with the floo powder clutched in my hand, mum has already gone and dad is going after me. I throw the floo powder down,
"Diagon Alley," I say clearly, I appear a moment later and mum grabs my arm to keep me from losing my balance. I step out of the fireplace and brush the soot off my robes. Dad appears a moment later and steps out of the look at us, well more like look at dad, whenever we go somewhere as a family it's like a spotlight is shining on us. Having Harry Potter as a dad I'm used to the staring.
"Where shall we go first?" My mum asks.
"My wand," I say decisively. After a moment most people look away but one man walks up to us.
"Uncle Ron!" I say and give him a hug.
"Where's Hermione?" Dad asks looking around.
"Off to look at the bookstore with Severus, like mother like son." Uncle Ron replies.
"Ah, well we better be off, I think Leah will explode if we wait any longer to get her wand," My dad tells Uncle Ron, my ears get warm but I still pull on dads hand.
"Yes well bye then," Uncle Ron replies.
"Bye," I say quickly and drag dad behind me.
"Slow down," He laughs. I slow my pace a little as we near Ollivander's wand shop. I let go of mum and dad's hands and push open the doors making the bells jingle.
"One moment," Ollivander says from somewhere in the back. We walk forward to the counter and after a moment Ollivander emerges from the rows of shelves full of wands. "Ah, a Potter," Ollivander smiles.
"Hi, Leah Potter," I say reaching out my hand, he takes it in his and we shake.
"Yes, I have heard a lot about you Leah dear," He says releasing my hand. I smile politely. "Now let's find you a wand," He says going back into the maze of shelves, he emerges a moment later and takes a wand out of its box, he hands it to me. "Rosewood, phoenix feather core, 10 inches, ridgid," He tells me. I do a flick motion with my wrist and a drawer shoots out from the counter knocking over a stool.
"Sorry," I say even though I know this is how you tell if it's your right wand or not.
"No need to be," he says disappearing into the back again after taking the wand back from me. "How about this one?" He says appearing a moment later with another wand. "Yew wood, unicorn hair core, 11 and ¼ inches, flexible," He says. I flick my wrist again and a stack of papers flies off the counter and scatters across the floor. "Hmm," he says and does a motion with his wand that makes the papers get back into a stack. He takes the wand back and disappears again into the back. He reappears again a minute later.
"Let's try this one, ebony wood, dragon heartstring core, 12 ¾ inches, hard flexibility," He says handing me the wand. I grip it and flick my wrist, green sparks shoot out the end.
"We have a winner," My dad says smiling. I grin and look up at Ollivander,
"Thanks," I exclaim.
"You're welcome," He says smiling, dad reaches into his robe pocket and pulls out 10 galleons. He pays Ollivander 7 and we leave the shop. We go to the robe shop to get my robes fitted, after that we go to the cauldron shop and get a cauldron, then we go to the book store and get all my books, then to the potions shop and get various other items that I need. We meet up with Uncle Ron, Aunt Hermione, and Severus at the leaky cauldron. We all get butterbeers and then we travel home by floo powder.
[One Week Later]
Mum helps me double check the my trunk and I pet Ice one last time before locking the snowy owl in her cage. She bites at the bars to make a clanging noise and I hush her. We pack my trunk and other supplies on a trolley placing Ice's cage on top. We walk to london station ignoring the strange looks given to us by muggles and dad hands me my ticket leading me to a pillar by platform 9 and 10.
"Now all you have to do is-" He starts, I don't pay attention and run through the wall emerging on the other side on platform 9 ¾. Mum and dad walk up next to me a moment later laughing, then conversations start to stop and people start to stare, at first it's just a couple people but soon the entire portion of the platform near us is staring. I wave awkwardly then people return to their conversation but steal glances at us between sentences. Dad helps me carry my luggage onto the train and when we come off the train Uncle Ron, Aunt Hermione, and Severus have found mom.
"Hey Severus," I say.
"Hi," he replies, the train whistles three times.
"10 minutes before departure, you guys better get going to get a good spot on the train," My dad says. I go over to him and give him a hug, he hugs back and kisses the top of my head.
"Love you dad, promise to send letters?" I ask.
"Every day," He says.
"No once a week, everyday is to much," I tell him, he smiles.
"Ok," he agrees release each other and I move over to mum. We hug each other and she kisses my cheek,
"Have fun, stay out of trouble, don't talk back to your professors," She says tearing up.
"Love you," I say and we seperate. "Bye, love you guys," I say giving them each another quick hug then I bound up the steps of the train waiting for Severus at the top, once he reaches me we head off into the train together.
"I'm going to get loads of chocolate frogs and Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans and we can-" He starts rambling.
"I'm not going to sit by you, sorry but we've known eachother since we were born and I want to make more friends, what if you end up in Ravenclaw and I'm in Gryffindor or something then we can't hang out all the time," I interrupt him.
"Oh, um, yeah, sure, right," he says trying to sound casual but I can tell he's disappointed, but it's true I will get to see him whenever I want when we aren't at Hogwarts and I don't want to just hang out with him the whole time. I leave him by the first seats and walk down the aisle, I glance back and see Severus walking into the car in front of us.