Chapter Two: Diagon Alley

Teddy paced back and forth in his bedroom, wondering when His Grandmother and Harry would end their conversation so they could leave.

They were going to use the Floo network, to Teddy's relief; he didn't like side-along Apparation much, it made his head spin.

"We're leaving!" his Gran announced.

Teddy raced down the stairs, almost tripping on the last step.

"Hello Teddy, James was very disappointed not to come along, if it weren't for Ginny, I would've had to shut the door on him!" Harry said, chuckling.

"Maybe I can get him something from the joke shop, or somewhere…" Teddy replied cheerfully.

"He'll like that" Harry said, and with two words, he disappeared.

"Are you sure you can do it by yourself?" his Gran asked, concerned.

"I can do it" Teddy answered.

"Speak VERY clearly, heaven knows where you might end up if you don't!"

Gran reminded.

"I'm alright, Gran." Teddy assured her.

"DIAGON ALLEY!" he said after dropping the green dust.

When Teddy arrived, he stepped out of the Leaky Cauldron's stone fireplace and was surprised to see so many people.

His eyes widened as a wizard in an Orange cloak walk in with a goat, the barkeeper had to push him outside.

Harry was talking to a friend when Teddy gasped. There was a giant crack on the ceiling.

"How did THAT get there?" he asked to the barkeeper.

Very silently he said "It's been up there since the war, some spell did it"

After Eleven years, the 'dark years' as his Grandmother called them still affected people in ways, the crack on the ceiling included. The war had affected him, too. Teddy had been orphaned at the very last battle, and the worst, when he had been three weeks old. He'd been switched back and forth from his Gran to Harry ever since, though he lived with his grandmother.

His Gran interrupted his thoughts as she steered him through the back door, to the magical entrance to Diagon Alley. His grandmother did the spell, and Harry Announced "Welcome, Teddy, to Diagon Alley"

Teddy was shocked, marveling at the whole thing. They went into the Apothecary:

"What's that smell?"

"Herbs, and Potions ingredients"

Madam Malkins:

"You look so grown up!"

"I do?"

And Flourish and Blotts:

"I'm buying three for myself, and six for school"

"A reader, are you?"

Then Weasley's Wizard Wheezes

"We have twenty different scents for our Dungbombs"

"That'll make a stench."

And the Ice Cream shop:

"What type of chocolate Ice cream"

"Triple chocolate, please"

The day was quite interesting, and he'd nearly forgotten Ollivanders.

The door creaked as he stepped into a small, enclosed and dusty store, with lots of shelves with thousands of little boxes.

As the real Ollivander had passed on, he'd passed his store onto his assistant, Mr. Keller. Mr. Keller, a small man with spectacles, walked in.

"Well, Mr. Lupin, we've been expecting you." The Portrait of Ollivander said.

"It feels like just yesterday, when your own mother walked in to get her first wand. Oak, fifteen inches with unicorn hair, swishy, wasn't it?"

"Indeed it was, Mr. Ollivander." Said Gran.

"Your father on the other hand," continued Ollivander " Willow, thirteen inches, good for Transfiguration, stiff"

Teddy stood there, staring at the portrait, which was grinning.

"I remember every wand this shop has ever sold, Mr. Lupin, every last one." Ollivander said.

Mr. Keller interrupted "Are you here for a wand?"

"Oh, yes, Mr. Keller"

Teddy tried several wands, with no avail, Teddy started worrying.

On his eleventh wand, he knocked down a curtain, which contained a very dusty looking Wand.

"What wand is that?" asked Teddy.

"This wand is older than your Grandmother, Mr. Lupin, 12 inches, Cherry wood, Phoenix tail feather and Bilywig stinger. Very unusual combination." Said the portrait.

"Can I try it?" asked Teddy hesitantly.

"If you wish…" stated Mr. Keller

The very moment the wand touched Teddy's hands warmth spread up to his fingertips and sparks sped out of it, spreading dust everywhere.

"Oh my! I never believed I'd sell that tricky wand, and I have!" said Mr. Keller.

As his Grandmother paid for his wand, Teddy picked a brown owl from Magical Menagerie and decided to call him 'Ridgebit' after a Dragonologist he had read about.