Author's points: 'X' is a stand in for each, so 3x can be read as 3 each. '*' Are the twins markings is they have already gotten something. Also, three initials (so either W.W.P or J.S.P) indicate only one twin got this item. Finally is you see a point under a number starting with an '-', that means the twin deviated from the setlist (and a description of what they got instead) or are explaining what they got for their own memory's benefit.
-I am a line break
'1. Uniforms: Three sets of plain work robes (3x)*
Extra(bought with the money Aunt Audrey sent us for schooling; we'll need to send her a personal 'Thank You Note' before we leave):
-Casual Robes navy blue (2, W.W.P)*
-Casual Robes tan/brown (2, J.S.P)*
2. One plain pointed hat (black) for day wear (x)*
-An awesome black cotton bucket hat with the Hogwart's insignia placed on the front (W.W.P)- "Because the pointed hat looks stupid!"
-An awesome black cotton bucket hat with the Hogwart's insignia placed on the front (J.S.P)- "I wasn't disagreeing, I just asked where you found it so I could buy one!"
pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar) (x)*
4. One winter cloak (black, with silver fastenings)*
-Tan winter cloak with gold fastenings (J.S.P) -"Because I don't like black and silver makes my skin break out...I don't care what the school says...I'm getting the coat I want, Wilder."-
-Black cloak with silver fastening (W.W.P)- "Because the school asked for black and I don't care if my skin breaks out...I don't care if it's not practical...I'm getting the coat the list says, Juniper."-
*All clothes have either been embroidered on the pocket with the initials W.W.P (for Wilder Wen Porter) or J.S.P (for Juniper Sparrow Porter)
Course Books:
The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1) by Miranda Goshawk (x)*
A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot (x)*
Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling (x)*
A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch (x)*
One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore (x)*
Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger (x)*
Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander (x)*
The Dark Forces: a Guide to Self- Protection by Quentin Trimble (x)*
Other Equipment
1 wand (x)*
'W.W.P Wand, Blackthorn Wood/ Dittany Stalk Core/ 12' Length
'J.S.P Wand, Pine Wood/ Black Coral/ 14' Length
1 cauldrons (pewter, standard size 2) (x)*
1 sets glass or crystal phials (x)*
1 telescope*
W.W.P a golden telescope
J.S.P a bronze telescope
1 set brass scales (x)*'
"So, do we have everything we needed for school?" Juniper asked, looking over her brother's shoulder at the list he had carefully scrawled in his journal. The young girl was happy to see the multiple *, which indicated things they'd bought and the way her brother had actually written bits of their conversations out. It was nice to know that when the twins were older and were looking back on their life there would be a small glimpse of current selves within the pages of Wilder's journal.
Wilder hummed contently, gently pulled his sister closer into him by way of their connected elbows. "I think we'll have enough left over to both get a familiar. Any thought on what you might like to have?"
"-" Juni opened her mouth to respond, but just as quickly shut it when she noticed a familiar 'just-call-me-Lily' walking towards them...with a pack of orange haired people who looked very similar to the Molly and Arthur Weasley they'd also had the 'pleasure of meeting' almost two weeks ago.
"Wilder? Juniper?"
"Hello, Professor Evans." Wilder offered politely, making sure to bow the appropriate depth and amount of time, hearing the goblin's sharply hissed words 'show you respect them by bowings but don't bow too long or they will think they are superior to you' in the back of his mind. "Shopping with family?"
The twins noticed the way 'just-call-me-Lily''s smile suddenly became tight and forced, as she looked the two over carefully. "What nice manners you two have, where did you learn them?"
"That's something I'd like to know also," A new voice spoke, completely hidden from view by the assembled red (orange?) headed people. Suddenly, as if Moses parted the red sea, a fair woman stepped out in very ornate and well fit robs. Grabbing all the twin's attention, as she was the odd one out with black hair in the mass sea of orange. Softly offering a hand in front of the twins. " Lady Narcissa Malfoy."
Juni, who first regained her bearings at the sudden presence, recognized the movement from a point in the Goblin's training. It was a show of respect between high borns in classic wizard society, a way of marking someone as an equal despite age, preference, colour, or blood. This was a statement to society (or at least the fraction that still used these ways) and an offer of allegiance.
With care, Juni pressed a light kiss on the back of Narcissa's outstretched hand. "Pleasure my Lady...we learned our manners from the Goblins at Gringott. We've been working for them...for about two weeks."
Ignoring the harshness -probably from not using it often- of her own voice, Juni tried her best to offer a light -taking care it did not come across as timid- smile to Lady Malfoy. Wilder soon offered his own smile and a short kiss.
"Please call me Narcissa, what would your lovely names be?"
"We are the Porter twins." Wilder noted two seemingly identical -but even though they looked the same, seemed to be so different- orange haired boys share a curious look. "I am Wilder, and this is my dear sister Juniper."
"Pleasure."
"Likewise, Narcissa."
The air turned cold suddenly, and it didn't slip past the Porter's notice that the change in temperature happened when 'I'm-just-James' Potter entered the group. Fallowing behind 'I'm-just-James' Potter was 'I'm-a-cool-adult-Sirius' Black, Remus, 'Keeper-of-keys' Hagrid, and Professor Snape (who didn't seem to really be with the coming group, but rather to have simply been passing by and noticed the assembled group).
"Porter twins." The Potion Master greeted the two eleven year olds, who would have happily been swallowed up by the ground then continue to be in so many stranger's foci. "Narissa, lovely evening don't you think."
The temperature, that had been fridged since 'I'm-just-James' Potter entered, dropped, even more, when Narcissa and 'just-call-me-Lily' made eye contact. Two things were plain, One was that the twins had no idea the history shared between all these people, and Two they needed to get out quickly.
"Well, nice day to you all. It was exceptional to meet you, Narcissa. Too bad Juni and I must leave, we've got light shopping to finish before we start our walk home." Wilder explained evenly, making a show of connecting arms with his sister to leave.
~~~I am another line break, fear me~~
Despite being raised by a devoted Catholic pastor since they were nine, Juni and Wilder were far from being saints.
So the second they left the large group's sight they'd sprinted into Gringotts like they were being chased by something ready to kill. Took a moment to quickly ask (because God/Jesus/Magic?/Whatever help you if you demand something from a Goblin -in their bank no less- ) a teller for access to the large network of tunnels under the bank and that spread through the undergrounds of Diagon Alley.
Not many people knew about the tunnels because few humans work for Gringotts and those few were something called curse breakers -who would have no reason to ever be in the tunnels-. The twins knew about the tunnels because they'd been working for the Goblins doing odd jobs, first to cover their blood adoptions and then money to buy their supplies for the coming year.
While the work was usually physically tiring, it came with many perks. They made twenty-five gallons each for every day they worked, their work days were only five hours in length, they became familiar -and built relationships- with most of the goblins, they got multiple crash courses in different wizarding customs/etiquette, and books were often given to them for one reason of another for free. The biggest perk of all though was learning the less know secrets of the bank.
Secrets, like the before mentions tunnels which were built because of bombings in World War 2. Now the tunnels were rarely used, and the Goblin nation had no problem letting the Porter twins have free run of the tunnels for the time being.
After being waved forward the twins ran again, this time using the tunnels to lessen (spy) on the group of mostly orange haired people they'd previously left.
If they were worried about hearing the group, they didn't need to be. Yelling was heard almost the second they entered the tunnels and despite not having proof, the twins knew the loudest voice belonged to 'I'm-just-James' Potter. Making it almost too easy to find a water drain that was close enough to the group so the twins could have a -restricted- view of the people above.
"-And now you are recruiting innocent Muggle-Borns! How lower can you get Malfoy? Already had them brought to the Goblins for a blood adoption."
"I can assure you," Narcissa snapped in an aristocratic short voice. "I knew nothing about Wilder and Juniper until I saw them exhibited better manners at seemingly eleven years of age, then you yourself show as a grown man Lord Potter. I know nothing of them having had a blood adoption or what reasons they might have had for getting one."
Snape sighed loudly "Though it's none of your business or mines, the Porter twins to my understanding are twins in every way but blood. They might have simply requested a blood adoption so they could share a common family blood line."
"Defending the little Death Eater whore?"
Wilder growled at the use of such a derogatory and degrading term. No one should speak so lowly to another person, let alone a Lady like Narcissa Malfoy, in such a bad light. It was stupid and idiotic, who someone slept with was their own business and wasn't something for others to judge.
Juniper, who would usually be just as upset about the 'W' word being used, was instead caught on another word. Death Eater, despite not being able to place it the word sounded familiar…
"Do you think we should help Narcissa?" Wilder asked his twin after he'd cooled down, lessening only half eared as the people above insulted the monarch of the Malfoy family. "She did mark us as equals…"
"Step back," Juniper instructed, pulling a small box of matches from one of her pockets. Carefully, the girl lights a match and used the flame to light a page of the paper on fire.
Thick smoke poured over the page and into the streets above, causing the group to separate with departing sneers. For a brief second, Narcissa looked down and saw the twins who could only give the women their best half hearted looks of innocent.
"Do you think we did the right thing?" Wilder eventually asked as the twins started the walk back to the bank. "Even if Narcissa becomes our ally, it wasn't our place to get involved. We don't know the history."
"I think what's right or wrong depends on the person you ask, everyone will always have their own justifications."
"..."
"I saw the quote on the bottom of a soda cap," Juni admitted. "But it works here, also we don't know the history because we weren't involved in it. So we can only judge the present."
"You are starting to sound like a fortune cookie."
"Let's just go get our familiars."
