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First Fanfic Post! Yay! ^everyone applauds^
After Deathly Hallows pt.2 came out, I really wanted to write a good fanfic about Harry Potter but none of my ideas were good enough, it wasn't until the full release of Pottermore that I started getting very good ideas and soon they were accumulating into one wonderful mass. The only thing missing was a main OC character. My cousin helped out on that one when we started coauthoring a story, and soon the first few pieces of this story were completed.
I don't know how it turned out but I hope its okay. I'll probably revise it again after it's finished.
So, about my story:
It goes from the marauders time to post DH so it's probably going to be a little long. There is an OC and she is a Mary-Sue. Please no flames. I know she's a Sue and because of that I will be extra careful on not making her cringe worthy.
CC is greatly wanted and don't hesitate to point out any mistakes. I'm the type of author to go back and correct things when I post a new chapter so you may want to look back on previous chapters for any corrections in the future.
Let's see, I don't know how often I will be able to update especially with college looming around the corner, so bear with me until I can get a rough estimate on how fast I can get out chapters.
I don't have a beta and I don't feel I need one as my cousin is as much of an editor as I need(she's in college to be an editor anyway). She helps me with any spelling errors and plot bunnies.
After each chapter I will have a little rant on facts about the story, and other randomness if I feel like it.
One more thing. Above all I want people to enjoy my story as that is why i love to write. I ask anyone who reads any of my stories to give positive feed back. You will make this otaku very happy!
Last but not least, the disclaimer:
I don't own Harry Potter or anything related to it. I do own my OC characters.
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On with the story-
Ch:1
In which a wand chooses…
To say Sam was excited would be the understatement of the year. She had done it! She had talked her adoptive uncle into pulling a few well place strings and allowing her to go to Hogwarts, the best wizarding school in the world!
Three weeks ago her official acceptance letter had come to their little house in Illinois and ever since Sam had been anticipating the day that they would go to London to get her supplies. Many books on her 'to read' list could be found in Diagon Alley. Though she could have always ordered the books, the cost for overseas shipment was quite expensive and, to her dismay, they weren't exactly rich.
Today however, she would have many opportunities to buy all of those books. She could almost feel the spines of them under her finger tips as the two walked into The Leaky Cauldron.
There were originally four in their group, but Anna and Gabe, Sam's little cousin, had gone to Anna's London flat, preparing it to be occupied for the next few days. Ira, her uncle, took Sam to get her supplies.
They walked to the back of the pub and into a tiny courtyard. Ira stood in front of the trash can counting three up and two across before tapping the right brick. Immediately a hole appeared in the brick, increasing in size until it was a large archway into the busy streets of Diagon Alley.
Sam didn't even have enough time to look around before Ira had her whisked away to Gringotts. Glasses knocked askew, it took her a moment to find her bearings and right them before she looked up at the world famous wizarding bank.
Her first impression of the bank was intimidating. Its lopsidedness made it leer down on the rest of the shops and it was even, arguably, the tallest building.
Ira led Sam past the scarlet and gold clad sentries and through the bronze doors. The main hall was quite grand and completely flanked by goblins. Had it not been for the fact that the goblins seemed to not even notice their entrance, she would have probably turned around and walked right back out again.
Ira walked right up to the head goblin and said authoritatively, "I would like to make a withdrawal." taking out a little silver key as he did so.
The goblin looked up at Ira for a second before snatching the key and inspecting it. Satisfied, he snapped his fingers and another goblin walked up, took the key, and told them to follow.
Sam loved the rollercoaster-like ride down to their vault, her glasses held safely in one hand while the other was waving about wildly. It was rather disappointing when the goblin cried out, "Vault 614!"
The goblin quickly unlocked the vault and Ira took out a small bag stuffing what looked like more galleons than the bag could carry - under certain circumstances, of course. Sam was stuffing her pockets as well, preparing for the bookshops around Daigon Alley, with glee.
Their first task done, they both stepped out of the bank and she finally got her chance to fully see the alley.
Sam looked around in wonder. Diagon Alley really was an amazing place. Already she had seen a dozen shops she wanted to enter, the most prominent being Slug and Jiggers Apothecary, Flourish and Blotts, Magical Menagerie, and several peddler stalls selling eye-catching knickknacks.
Distracted by a peddler selling beautifully crafted phials, Ira had to practically drag Sam down to the South side of the Alley.
"First things first, my dear, you are getting your wand. Then you can go around to the other shops. I'll even let you have free reign. Here take a few more galleons. As much as I know you love books you probably don't want to spend all of you time getting them." said Ira, thinking of the long lines he had to go through to get his books when he was her age.
"Ah, here we are."
They now stood outside a shabby old shop. The windows had a few cracks and the sign was peeling. Ollivander's: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C. could just be made out. Sam, though, was not put out by the shabby atmosphere, and walked into the shop. She gazed, interested, at the many stacks of boxes, the smell of fresh wood from the new wands filling her nose.
A grey haired man walked out from behind a stack and smiled in recognition at Ira. "Mr. Werder; Elm and dragon heartstring, 10 inches, rigid, am I right?"
"Quite, Mr. Ollivander." Ira smirked. "I'm actually here to get my niece fitted with a wand; she will be starting her first year in just a few days."
Mr. Ollivander looked at her, immediately taking out a measuring tape that flew out of his hands and started taking measurements of her body. At first it was the basics; height, arm length, finger length, then it started measuring strange things like nostril length and even between her eyes. While Sam was getting more tangled up in the tape Mr. Ollivander was taking note of every measurement made and asked which hand was dominant.
She answered her right, and, satisfied, he called back the measuring tape, going to the back of the shop. Not a minute passed before he was back with five boxes.
He took a very nice looking brown wood wand out and handed it to her before immediately taking it away and handing her another, repeating the process and mumbling "no, no" every time.
Ira strolled over to an empty chair and sat, taking a small book out of his pocket and flipping to a page. Already having gone through all five wands Mr. Ollivander was in the back, getting more boxes. This wasn't how Sam had pictured getting a wand would be like, and glared at Ira lounging in the chair.
Fifteen minutes had passed. Some wands had sparked or warmed in her hand, others were lifeless, either way Mr. Ollivander was not happy with any of them. This didn't appear to be a bad thing as each failed wand seemed to make him more excited, saying "interesting" at every new reaction.
With the last failed wand giving a few pathetic sparks, Mr. Ollivander pause for a moment thinking before whispering "I wonder…" and disappearing into the back for a whole minute.
Sam almost thought he had given up, when he came back out with a very old looking dark blue box. He removed the lid and took out a beautiful light wood wand. It had a simple design, a doubled spiral on the handle, ending at a textured thumb rest wrapped just around the middle.
He handed it to her and she immediately felt a connection, like warmth had spread through her.
"Interesting." said the wand-maker, a thoughtful expression on his face. Ira was now interested as well, as he had walked up behind her. Both had expressions begging Mr. Ollivander to elaborate.
"English oak and phoenix feather, 11 inches, slightly springy; this wand has been around the shop, waiting for an owner for over a thousand years. You see, this wand was part of a pair of wands. The wands not only shared a feather donor but a tree as well. The owner of its brother was one of the greatest wizards in our history."
Sam, surprised, asked "Who was it?"
Smiling, Mr. Ollivander said one word "Merlin".
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So what did you think?
CC, again, is highly coveted! :3
As much as I tried, I couldn't help making Sam a bit Mary-Sueish; its soooo hard not to make a Sue. SO I've accepted my OC's fate and am trying to make her the best Mary-Sue possible.
**warning Twilight bashing** The way I see it, at least she isn't Bella material. XP
Okay Pottermore spoiler! Skip until the second set of om noms.
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It is specifically stated on Pottermore that there's a rumor that says Merlin's wand wood was English Oak. Phoenix feather is the rarest core type out of all of Ollivander's wands and Ollivander's has been around in England since 382 B.C. We can hypothesize from that, that perhaps Ollivander would know what type of wand Merlin had and from the description of the properties of the Phoenix feather as a wand core, that it could have been used in Merlin's wand.
Sam's wand, or rather our wand, is English Oak and Phoenix feather. With the fact that the wand chooses the wizard, and that our wand is similar to Merlin's; why couldn't it be possible for us to get the brother wand of the great Merlin. :3
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Stay alert for the next chapter where two very familiar cannon characters are indirectly introduced.