DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling does, I do own Maximilian Kohler however.
"You can't be serious Max" my father said with an incredulous look, "I've just told you that you're a wizard, something that might alter your life forever and you ask "Do they sell football boots?" All I did was nod and in response he sighed before saying "Yes, they sell football boots, but they might be a little different than what you are accustomed to" he finished with a smirk. 'I wonder what he means by that' I thought, I shrugged it off and assumed I'd find out tomorrow when I woke up at 7 AM just so we could go to...what was it called again, Digen Alley? (That's what I understood from Harry in Chamber of Secrets movie that is.) The next day took off to a bad start seeing as how I'd never woken up so early in my life before, seriously did it HAVE to be 7, why couldn't it be like 10 or 11? That's the time I woke up at back in the lone star state of Texas. Anyways, I got up went to the bathroom, which was a nice bathroom might I say, and brushed my teeth and 'styled' my hair with my fingers into a classical look. (Mesut Ozil's current hairstyle at Arsenal only without the line on the left side, I might add that later in the story as part of 'innovation') When I got down to the living room my father was waiting looking slightly disappointed.
"You're late Max, by an hour" he said sternly.
"Yeah well I've never woken up this early before old man, surely Mom would have told you that" I retorted.
"Well" he grinned wickedly, "looks like we're going to have to change that aren't we?" I won't lie to anyone, his grin made me feel uneasy but I was never going to admit and sure as hell not to him.
"Go ahead and try" I said. There was no point really, he had already seen right through me and simply just got up and walked to the door before turning around to me.
"Are you coming or are you going to run to your mother like some milk drinker?" 'Did he just call me a milk drinker; ok I don't even know what that means, but I'm just going to pretend I didn't hear that' and with that said I stood and followed him to the door.
Well we went to a pub and after he talked to the bartender we went out through the back only to end up in a secluded area blocked by a brick wall, I was going to ask if this was a joke but decided against it when my father pulled out his wand and tapped the wall. Nothing happened at first, but when the bricks started pulling apart I was absolutely shocked.
"Not everything will be in plain sight" my father stated, "You'll soon learn that as you grow up Maximilian." I simply nodded in response still speechless. As I looked around I saw a lot of people walking around, going in and out of shops with items in hand. "All right let's see here, so you'll need books, a wand, school robes, and an animal of either a rat, toad, or owl."
"Can I get an owl" I simply asked my father
"I'm glad you said that, because there was no way I'd let you choose otherwise" was all he responded with. "Now come let's go get your books and we'll save your wand and owl for last."
After what seemed hours of shopping for school robes and books we finally stopped at Eeylops Owl Emporium. As soon as I walked in I saw NOTHING but owls in cages on the wall. The two that caught my eye was a black horned owl and a snowy owl. The snowy owl was a bit too girly for my taste and besides it didn't look like it liked me very much anyways. I now shifted my full attention to the horned owl and studied it closely. Pure black feathers, with light blue eyes. I liked the owl, but just like the snowy one, it didn't look like it would enjoy my company very much, but against my better judgment I decided that I could somehow train it. I looked up at my father pleadingly and being such a good father he sighed and went to talk to the manager.
"How much for the death eater wannabe owl?" he asked.
"Ah that's a very rare specimen, not every day you have such dark feathers and light blue eyes to balance both colors" the manager smiled "normally I'd let it go for 100 galleons but it's been such a nuisance scaring the other owls and potential customer's that I'll part with it for 75, how does that sound?"
"Seems fair, I'll take it."
"Excellent"
After that was done we walked outside with a thrashing owl in its cage, only a wand left for me or rather my dad to purchase. We went into Ollivander's and I took in all the boxes of red, black, and yellow on the wall. An elderly man greeted us and went to the back to give me a yellow box taking out a wand of a light color and handed it to me after instructing me to wave it. Yeah bad idea, seeing as how boxes went flying everywhere, I simply placed the wand back and sheepishly pushed it towards him, Mr. Ollivander simply went back and we repeated this whole get a wand and cause destruction about 7 times before he decided to go to the black box section. He came back and handed me a beautiful ebony wand with a silver hilt. I waved it expecting the same to happen but was surprised to see small flames shoot out. To say Mr. Ollivander was delighted was an understatement seeing as how he did a little dance all the way to the counter. My father went over and paid and we both walked out.
"A black owl and an ebony wand, I swear that if you aren't in Slytherin I will be shocked, and not many things shock me kid" my father said once outside, while all I thought was 'what the hell is a Slytherin?' "I assume you want to go see the football boots now?" Suddenly my thoughts on Sly…whatever were gone as I mentally jumped up and down with joy at the new mention of football. We walked up to a store named 'Athletic Footwear' and as soon as I stepped through the doors I was blown away at what I saw. My father leaned in and whispered "Told you you'd be surprised." On the walls I saw boots from Adidas, Nike, and Puma, but none that I recognized. All I saw was Adizero, Evo-Power, and Mercurial plus Hypervenom for Nike.
"I've never seen these boots, not even on the biggest stage of them all" I said referring to the World Cup.
"Ha, these boots have been here for at least a year and aren't scheduled to release in the muggle world until maybe 2010-2014" he saw my shocked expression and replied with, "well we have to have SOME advantages over the muggles, then their wouldn't be much to witches and wizards except for magic, now go look and see what you like, I already want to go home." I eagerly walked nearly ran to the shelves of boots before landing on two pairs of boots, one was a mercurial vapor and the other was a Mercurial Superfly. The vapor was pure white with only the 'swooshes' being blue and the other, the Superfly, was pure black with the 'swooshes' also being a blue. My father walked up to me with a disbelieving look. "Tell my you're not getting the black one." I smiled because while the Superfly looked good the white one looked equally just as good.
"Actually, can I have both?" I asked him hopefully.
He stared at me for awhile before saying, "You don't even know what house you'll be in, you might end up in Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, or Slytherin and neither of them have blue. The chances of you being in Ravenclaw are slim so it'd be wise to get a color that wasn't green, yellow, blue, or red." I however stood my ground determined to get either of them or better yet both. My father sighed knowing he wasn't going to change my mind. "Fine I'll get both but this is birthday present, and don't say I didn't warn you if you get jumped for wearing blue and not being sorted into Ravenclaw." All I could do at that moment was hug him to show my appreciation. I also didn't know what Ravenclaw or the other "houses" were, that'd be the first thing I would ask him tomorrow. After he paid we walked outside and he breathed a sigh of relief that the torture was finally over and both side by side we headed home.
Yeah it took me awhile to write this seeing as how I didn't know what to write next, anyways I hope y'all enjoyed this and look out for the next chapter!