A/N- I just thought I would mention that there is a lot of incorrect spelling and grammar in this chapter because the woman with the French accent isn't that good on her English. Just thought I would explain in case anyone thought it was just me being an idiot.
Disclaimer- No matter how many times I wish on shooting stars, Harry Potter doesn't belong to me... Or Draco Malfoy (Insert tears)
I couldn't believe I was finally here. I was so excited. I was at a wand shop ready to buy my first wand. Unfortunately for me, the famous wand maker Ollivander had mysteriously disappeared, so my mum had taken me to France, to get one there. I had travelled by side along apparition, so I was feeling a little bit queezy as I walked in to Madame Monique's Magnifique Bâton Magique. The woman manning the till was a stunning blonde, but she looked quite old around the eyes. She looked like she was part veela.
"Bonjour! Vous cherchez un bâton?" the woman said causing me and my mum to look at each other confused.
"English?" Mum said slowly, hoping she understood.
"Oh, welcome, you look for a wand for zee little girl?" she said with a strong French accent.
"Yes, she is going to Hogwarts in September, but I'm not really fond of that Jimmy Kiddells shop, the wands are very temperamental" mum said, not realising that the woman didn't understand her much.
"Very well, zis way!" she said taking my hand. "You are very delicate... Try zis..." she says pulling a small wand. I read the box that said, holly, unicorn hair, 8 1/2. The moment I touched it, the wand shot out a bunch of sparks and smashed a vase.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" I said worriedly.
"No worries, no worries, zis izn't zee wand for you. 'Ow about zis one?" she passed me one. I tried it and it just felt perfect. A few sparks came out but it didn't break anything. It was a 8 3/4 hazel wood wand, with a core of veela hair.
"Wow! It has a veela hair core, aren't these really hard to get by?" I asked a bit confused.
"My dear, my mother iz veela, she supplies zem," she told me, but she seemed more interested in the wand "You possess veela 'eritage?" she asked me. I looked to my mum.
"We don't know, we have a very large family tree..." my mum said politely. The woman glared and carried on talking to me.
"Very pretty you are, boys will fall over you! Veela core not usually work for zee non veela 'eritage" she explained. I was blushing terribly. Now that she had finished with me she had turned to my mum.
"Now ze price 'as gone up with all ze wand shops closing. Iz zis a problem?" she asked, eyeing the wand in my hand.
"Oh, it is no problem at all!" my mum said after pulling a bunch of galleons from her purse. The woman gave a quick smirk but quickly turned it to a friendly smile as she saw me looking
"Ze wand iz eleven galleons but for you it iz ten!" she smiled, acting as if it was cheap, but my mum knew that a standard wand was about eight galleons, but money wasn't an issue to her so she passed ten golden coins to the woman and then got out. Once we got outside my mum held out her arm and I groaned. I hated apparating so much. I grabbed on tightly and took a deep breath. A moment later everything went black and it felt like all the air had been punched out of me. We ended up at Diagon Alley. Today I was getting my robes fitted and getting a cat, and the next day we would be going off to Kings Cross Station, to get on the Hogwarts express. We was going to be staying at The Leaky Cauldron overnight, so we wasn't travelling forwards and back.
"Where are Emma and Romilda?" my mum asked impatiently, tapping her foot. A second later they both ran up.
"Sorry, we saw Seamus Finnigan and we were talking for ages, because we found out he is staying at The Leaky Cauldron as well, and then we saw the time, but we are here now!" Romilda said hurriedly.
"Just quickly help your sister choose her pet and then you three can go to Madame Malkins on your own, because I am meeting Augusta Longbottom as her and her grandson Neville are staying at the Leaky Cauldron." she said giving us a wave and then walked off.
"Okay, lets go to the Magical Menagerie!" Emma said dragging me by the arm into the shop. We went over to the cats and started looking at them all. Romilda was pointing out a sleek black cat, and Emma was looking at an old tortoise shell cat, but I was already in love with this small ginger male kitten.
"He is perfect" I said picking him up. He climbed around me and let me stroke him. My sisters both turned to look.
"Aww he is so cute!"
"He is just tiny!"
"Look at his cute little paws!" they both cooed.
"This is the one!" I said as we went to the till to pay for him. We got a carry box for him because according to the shop keeper he liked to run around and had gotten lost quite a few times.
"What are you going to name him?" Emma asked, watching him paw the door to his box.
"Hmm..." I thought for a moment then looked at him again. "How about Xander?" I asked. Romilda looked annoyed as she probably wanted to name him, but Emma seemed to like it.
"Lets just go and get out robes fitted." Romilda said in another one of her moods. As we walked into Madame Malkins we saw another kid who looked like he was from Hogwarts. Emma and Romilda seemed to recognise him.
"Hello again Seamus!" Romilda said with a blush. He grinned widely at her.
"Hey, who is this?" the lad who was called Seamus asked looking at me. He seemed really nice, and he had a strong Irish accent.
"Oh this is our younger sister, Georgie, she is just starting" Emma said. I gave a small wave, but I suddenly became really shy.
"Cormac McLaggen has a little brother who is just going into his first year." Seamus told Emma. She blushed a bright shade of red. They both talked to him while we was getting our robes fitted. He was also going to be staying at The Leaky Cauldron as well so when we had finished we all walked together.
"So what wand did you get?" Emma asked me. I got it out from the bag I was carrying.
"It is 8 3/4, hazel wood wand with a core of Veela hair," I told them showing it.
"Veela hair? Wow!" Emma said inspecting it.
"I've seen Veelas before at the Quidditch world cup," Seamus explained. "They were sent off though." Romilda smiled at him engrossed in every word that he said. We soon arrived at The Leaky Cauldron. I walked in and saw mum talking to an old woman, who looked like she still had a lot of energy in her, and a lad who was about Emma's age.
"Hey Neville!" Emma said. I remembered that Romilda had said something mean to him last year and Harry Potter had said something to her. I tried to stifle a giggle.
"Hey..." he said edging away from the adults. "Okay, you three," he said not really seeing that I was there. "In our fifth year Harry Potter started a group called Dumbledore's army. It was to get rid of that Umbridge woman, but know there is rumours that there is death eaters teaching at Hogwarts, and Harry isn't going to be here this year according to Ginny Weasley, so we are going to set it up again." he explained.
"What if you get caught?" I asked him. He seemed to just realise that I was there.
"Um hello?" he said looking at them all. He caught Romilda's eyes and then looked back to me. Me and Romilda looked very alike, so he probably guessed.
"Yes, the freak is my sister. You can call it Georgie." Romilda said with her pet lip hanging out. I elbowed her slyly then looked back to Neville who was chuckling.
"Don't worry I'm nicer," I said with a smile.
"I don't doubt that for a second!" he said chuckling again. "But when we got caught we just battled on. The old bat, Umbridge, got attacked by centaurs if I remember rightly" he chuckled again.
"Well you know that I am in, I feel guilty about not been there the first time..." Seamus said patting Neville on the shoulder.
"I am in too!" Romilda said quickly, slyly glancing towards Seamus when she didn't think that he was looking.
"Same!" Emma said, probably being protective over Romilda, like she always was.
"And me!" I piped up. Both of my sisters turned to look at me incredulously. I knew that they would both disagree with me joining.
"No way." Romilda said quickly.
"Come on Georgie, you are too young! You haven't even started Hogwarts yet!" Emma added with her eyebrows raised very high.
"Please, would you rather me be on my own, or with a group of people older than me to help protect me?" I argued. Emma thought about it for a moment then looked to Neville.
"She has a point... It would be the safer option," he said and as Emma looked away he gave me a quick wink.
"Okay, but you have to promise to not get in dangerous situations because you know..." Emma started. I decided to blank out as I knew what she was going to say. She would go on about mum, and then say she only wanted the best for me and then try and get Romilda to say something, who would probably just shrug. I nodded a few times so that she thought I was listening. By the looks of it I wasn't the only one who ignored her as when she tried to get Romilda to say something, she actually had to shake her.
"Shall we all go upstairs?" Seamus said quickly after Emma's rant as he saw Neville's grandmother looking towards us suspiciously.
"Good idea!" Romilda said, and we all went up to the room that me, Romilda and Emma would be sharing. I had taken Xander upstairs with me.
"We didn't need to worry about my nan... I swear if she found out what we are doing then she would be proud of me!" he said rolling his eyes.
"Were as our mum would hang us." Emma said grinning.
"Where would we meet?" Romilda asked Neville, "Because we could sneak into some classrooms couldn't we!" she added.
"Too risky, but we already have somewhere. We just need to make it more secure..." Neville told us all. "Have any of you heard of the Room of Requirement?" he asked, and with the blank looks that he got from us he guessed it was a no.
"I will have to show you that when we get to Hogwarts." he told us but he couldn't say much more as we heard footsteps coming towards our room.
"See you then!" Seamus said running out, with Neville close behind him.
"Well we should finish packing then!" Romilda said, dragging out her suitcase from under the bed. Our mum had summoned our stuff to the room before we had gotten there it seemed. I let Xander out of his box and he ran round checking everything out. I finished packing and then after realising how late it was, I fell asleep, with excitement for the next day...
