Author's Note: I do not own the rights to Harry Potter or any of the animated characters within this chapter.
As Gobber and the nine children walked to The Leaky Cauldron, on Gobber's right: Hiccup, Kristoff, Anna, Elsa, and Merida – his left: Astrid, Jack, Eugene, and Rapunzel; Hiccup looked up at Gobber and asked…
"Where is Diagon Alley – and why are we going to The Leaky Cauldron?"
Gobber chuckled. "You'll see."
They entered The Leaky Cauldron.
As they made their way in, the bartender called to Gobber. "Ay, Gobber! The usual?" She called, with two people in front of her.
"No thanks, Doris (Ugly Stepsister from Shrek 2). I'm on official Hogwarts business – just helping these nine youngsters get their school supplies." He patted Hiccup's shoulder.
Doris looked astonished. "Are those THE Nine?" She said loudly enough for everyone to hear and they all stopped talking and looked at the kids.
Gobber sighed, somewhat disappointedly. "Yes, yes they are."
Doris smiled and put her hands over her chest. "Well bless my soul."
"Welcome back, Mr. Haddock. Welcome back." One man shook Hiccup's hand and Hiccup gave him an odd smile.
"Norma Wiggins (Grammy Norma from The Lorax), Mr. Haddock", the elderly lady shook Kristoff's hand; "I can't believe I'm meeting you at last." Kristoff also gave a weird smile.
"Hello, children. Can't tell you how pleased I am to meet all of you." A small lean man with what appeared to be a turban around his head said to them.
Gobber smiled lightly. "Hello, Professor. I didn't see you there. Kids, this is Professor Weaseltown –"
"Weselton." He sharply said to Gobber.
Gobber cleared his throat. "Right – Weselton. He'll be your Defense against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts."
"Oh", Anna said with a faint smile, "nice to meet you." She stuck out her hand.
Weselton rubbed his hands together as he looked at Anna's. "Fearfully fascinating subject." He said and looked at the kids. "Not that all of you need it, eh?" He made an awkward laugh and all the kids shared a genuine smile.
"Heh." Gobber let out. "Well we ought to be going. Lots to buy."
"Goodbye." They said to Weselton and he nodded to them as they all left.
Once Gobber opened the door to the back, he said: "See you guys? You're famous."
"But why?" Elsa asked.
"Yeah", Merida started, "all those people – how do they know who we are?"
Gobber then said: "Don't know if I should be the one to tell you all." Gobber then tapped around these empty spaces in the brick wall in front of him with his wand and then the wall opened up, brick by brick, practically folding back, and revealing a busy street market. "Welcome – to Diagon Alley."
They began to walk through the street.
Gobber gestured to a store. "Here you'll be getting your quill and your ink – and over there, your bits and bobs for witchcraft and wizardry." He pointed to the store.
As they came across other kids looking into a window at a broom one of them said: "It's a world class racing broom."
"Wow!" Another practically yelled. "Look at it! The new Isle-o-Berk 2000!"
The nine all gawked at it.
"It's the fastest model yet." Another kid put the cherry on top.
"So, how are we gonna pay for all of this?" Eugene asked.
"Yeah", Jack started, "our parents didn't give us any money."
Gobber stated: "That's because they wanted you all to go into Gringotts; the wizard bank." He pointed at the large bank. "No safer place – except Hogwarts probably."
Once they made it inside, the kids started to look at all the creatures whistling as they worked.
Rapunzel then asked: "Goblins?"
"Hey!" One turned to her angrily and then sneezed.
"They're Dwarves, Rapunzel." Gobber told her. "They don't like to be called anything else."
They then made it to the front desk.
Gobber cleared his throat to get the attention of the Dwarf sitting at the front desk. "These children would like to make withdrawals."
"Oh." The dwarf said and then leaned over the desk to look down at the kids with a smile. "And do they have their keys?"
"I've got them actually." Gobber dug into his pocket and the dwarf gave him a confused look and sat back down. "Ha!" Gobber pulled out what looked like keys for a janitor. "There's the little demons. Oh – and there's something else." He held out a piece of paper that was tied. "Professor North gave me this." He handed the paper to the dwarf. "It's about You-Know-What in vault you-know-which."
"Very well." The dwarf said.
Gobber turned to the kids. "So, who wants to go and who wants to stay behind?"
None of the kids said anything.
"None of you?" Gobber asked.
Hiccup shrugged. "I'll go with you, Gobber."
"Great!" Gobber cheered. "Let's go." The two walked off and left the other eight to wait.
Jack folded his arms. "Dwarves, huh? Why are they whistling?"
The dwarf above them sitting in the front desk answered Jack's question. "It's what we do while we work. It's a dwarf thing."
Anna smiled at the dwarf. "And your name is?"
The dwarf smiled. "My name is, Doc." He winked at them and sat back down.
After sometime, Gobber and Hiccup came back, and Hiccup gave everyone their sacks of gold.
When they made it to the door, Merida, Jack, and Rapunzel got next to Hiccup, as he counted his gold, behind everyone else.
"So, what was it like?" Merida asked.
Hiccup put his gold back into his sack. "Kinda creepy." He put it in his pocket. "And", he started to whisper, "Gobber got this thing from another vault."
Jack whispered along. "What was it?"
Hiccup shrugged. "I don't know, but it was small – wrapped and tied up for some reason."
Rapunzel hugged her wad of hair in her arms against her chest. "Weird." (Should've made note of this in the last chapter, but – Rapunzel's hair is 35 feet long in this story)
Then Gobber took them to a pet store, they all rushed in, but Kristoff, Merida, and Eugene stopped and turned to Gobber.
Kristoff began: "We can't get anything like a reindeer –"
Merida and Eugene followed: "Or a horse –"
All three: "Can we?"
"Sorry." Gobber scratched the back of his head. "You have to get a smaller pet than those."
"Whoa." Hiccup said as he looked at a black iguana with green eyes.
Gobber walked up behind Hiccup. "Ah, very rare that one."
"It's so cool." Hiccup put his hand against the glass and the iguana put its claw in front of Hiccup's hand. "Awesome."
"If you want him – you gotta name him." Gobber stated.
The iguana yawned, showing off its gums.
Hiccup grinned and said: "Toothless."
"Fine name." Gobber patted Hiccup's shoulder.
Astrid gasped and then jogged up to a Parrot with a beige belly, brown wings with blue dots circled by yellow outlines, while the rest of its body is a beautiful light blue. "Name it before you buy it." Astrid rubbed her chin.
"That parrot is a girl by the way." The brunette at the cash register said with her English accent.
"Oh." Astrid smiled. "Thank you." She looked back at the parrot and pondered…then she smiled widely. "I'll call her: Stormfly."
"Beautiful name." The lady said to Astrid.
"Thank you, Miss…" Astrid looked for a name on the woman or the desk.
"Jane." The woman answered. "Jane Porter." Jane smiled.
"Thank you, Jane." Astrid returned the smile.
Jack looked at a hummingbird, picked up its little cage, put his finger in the cage, rubbed the birds belly, and the hummingbird rubbed its head against Jack's finger. "I'll name you, Baby."
"Baby, what?" Eugene asked also holding a cage.
"What?" Jack asked.
Eugene shrugged. "Don't just call her, Baby."
"Well what do you have in mind?" Jack sneered.
"Baby Tooth."
"Why Tooth?"
"Because when we were little you used to say that the Tooth Fairy looked like hummingbirds because of the Fairies in our Fairy book."
"Oh yeah." Jack smiled and then looked at the bird. "What do you say, Baby Tooth?" The bird then darted from side to side. "I think she likes the name." Jack smiled at Eugene. "What's that?" He asked, looking down at the cage Eugene was holding.
"It's a rat." Eugene showed off with a smile.
"Why?"
Eugene shrugged. "He just kinda called out to me."
"Well what's his name?"
"Mr. Scabbers."
Jack closed his eyes. "Again", he opened them and shook his head at Eugene, "why?"
"Because he's missing a toe and its scabbed up." He lifted the cage for Jack to see.
"You know", Jack looked at Eugene, "sometimes it shows that you're adopted."
Eugene laughed at Jack. "You jerk." He then punched Jack's arm and they both laughed.
Rapunzel held a chameleon in her hands and said: "Hello, Pascal."
The chameleon chirped happily and then pointed at Jane with his tail.
Rapunzel laughed. "Don't worry; I'm going to buy you."
Merida set an owl in its cage down in front of Jane.
"And his name?" Jane asked.
Merida stood straight, looked Jane in the eye, tilted her head up, put her fists on her hips, and said: "Angus." The large owl turned its head to Merida, it was black as night with ivory talons and beak.
Jane tilted her head, looking at the owl. "I don't think he likes it."
Angus looked at Jane, hooted, and flapped his wings.
Jane quickly brought her head back in a surprise and said: "Or maybe he does." She and Merida giggled.
Kristoff, Anna, and Elsa looked at the owls they knew they were gonna get.
Kristoff grabbed his owl's cage and declared: "Sven." He smiled at the odd colored owl. It had a tanned belly, a white back, wings, and talons, and a copper-brown colored head.
Anna looked at her small snow white owl, with an orange beak, three black dots on its belly, and brown wings; and called it: "Olaf."
Elsa held up a large snow white owl and called it: "Marshmallow."
"Why?" Both Kristoff and Anna asked.
"Because he's big and fluffy like a marshmallow." Elsa replied with a smile.
Anna and Kristoff snickered and shook their heads at Elsa.
Once they bought their pets and set said pets on their carts, they went into Porter's Wands. When they entered the bell went off above the door. They walked up to the desk.
"Hello?" Hiccup hardly called out.
Astrid rolled her eyes and loudly asked: "Hello?"
Then Archimedes Q. Porter showed up on a rolling ladder, going across the shelves, and smiled at the nine children. "I wondered when I'd be seeing you nine." As he climbed down the ladder he said: "Though, I did not expect all nine of you to show up at once." He laughed and the kids lightly laughed along. "It seems only yesterday that your parents were in here buying their first wands." He grabbed a boxed wand, walked to the kids as he unboxed it, and handed it to Kristoff; but Kristoff just looked at the old man. "Give it a wave." Archimedes smiled and gestured to Kristoff.
"Oh." Kristoff said, looked at a shelf, waved the wand, and all the drawers flew out the shelf!
"Not for you." Archimedes said and then handed the orange wand to Anna.
Anna giggled.
"Yes?" Archimedes asked.
Anna looked at him. "I feel tickle bumps all over." She giggled again.
"Then I would dare say, that wand is for you." Mr. Porter smiled. He then went back, unboxed another wand, and handed it to Elsa.
Elsa gave the wand a wave and shattered a glass vase.
"Nope!" Mr. Porter yelled.
Elsa handed the wand to Jack, he gave it a wave, and it set the flowers from the vase on fire.
"No." Mr. Porter shook his head.
Jack then gave the wand to Eugene.
Eugene chuckled and his mouth started to water. "I like how it's gold."
"Well give it a wave." Mr. Porter practically demanded.
Eugene lightly jumped, looked at Jack, and poked Jack's blue gilet and it became gold.
Jack rolled his eyes at Eugene. "Alright, Midas – change it back."
"It'll ware off." Eugene winked.
"Next wand." Mr. Porter handed a green wand that had a yellow tip and a pink petal design underneath the yellow, to Rapunzel.
Rapunzel's heart started to race, she was becoming exceedingly happy, and then she started to run and jump around the shop! "This is my wand, this is my wand, this is my wand!" She stopped and beamed at the wand with a wide smile.
"Hoo-hoo!" Mr. Porter cheered. "I haven't seen anyone get that excited when they got their wand!" He jumped, clicked his heels together, and got another wand. "Here you are." He handed a wand that resembled an axe to Merida.
Merida waved the wand and the ladder gained a crack.
"Definitely not." Mr. Porter blew air out the side of his mouth.
Merida handed the wand to Astrid.
"Are these blades real?" Astrid ran her finger across the blade and: "Ow!" She put her finger in her mouth.
Mr. Porter smiled. "Does that answer your question?"
"This wand works like a real axe!?" Astrid's jaw hung open.
"If you throw it into something – the wand will come back to you." Mr. Porter said. "If it is meant to be your wand that is."
Astrid threw the wand into the ladder. "Come on." She held out her throwing hand, waiting – and the wand came back into her hand! "Yes!" She held up the wand.
"Very good." Archimedes clapped. He then handed a wand to Hiccup and it failed, Hiccup gave the wand to Kristoff, and it didn't work for him either.
Elsa was then given the white wand with blue icy patterns and the floor began to frost under her feet.
"Whoa." Everyone stepped back from the frost.
Elsa saw the frost and smiled at Mr. Porter and he nodded in approval.
Jack was then handed a wand that looked like a shepherds staff.
"Which end is the handle?" Jack asked.
"The crook is the handle." Archimedes held up his index finger.
Jack took hold of the crook; he chuckled, ran his left hand through his brown messy hair, and said: "Wow." When he did – everyone could see his breath.
"I suppose it is yours." Mr. Porter said. "Tell me, are you cold?"
"No, sir." Jack cocked an eyebrow at Archimedes. "Why do you ask?"
Elsa leaned in front of Jack. "Because we can see your breath."
Jack looked down, but couldn't see his breath – nor could anyone else.
"Well we could before." Anna shrugged.
Jack smiled. "So, that's why you said this was my wand." He smiled at Mr. Porter and Mr. Porter winked at him.
Archimedes handed Merida an arrow.
"This is a wand?" Merida asked.
"Yes." Mr. Porter replied. "It has the same special property as Astrid's – give it a try."
Merida threw the wand to the back of the shop, it stopped before it could hit the wall, and quickly came back to Merida's hand! "I knew I always like arrows." She said as she walked away, looking at the wand.
Archimedes hand Kristoff a wand that looked like an antler from a deer; one protrusion coming up two inches from the base of the wand, another three inches away from the tip, and the third being the tip of the wand.
Before Kristoff could give the wand a wave – Gobber came into the store.
"What is taking so long?" He asked, clearly irritated.
Kristoff waved his wand at Gobber and Gobber's pants fell down – all the kids busted out laughing!
Mr. Porter looked convinced about the situation. "I suppose that's not –"
"I meant to do that." Kristoff told him and Archimedes lightly laughed.
"Hardy harr harr." Gobber said as he put his pants back on.
"I wonder…" Mr. Porter said ominously as he looked a wand box, he unboxed the wand, walked to Hiccup, and handed him the black scaly wand.
When Hiccup grabbed the wand, the room began to shake and all the flames in their canisters became larger.
"I figured as much." Archimedes said when it all stopped.
Hiccup swallowed hard. "Figured what?"
"I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr. Haddock." Mr. Porter stated. "And it just so happens, that the Night Fury Dragon that gave its scale for this wand gave another scale. Just – one – other. I knew that not only you, but all of you, could've been and quite possibly are destined for this wand…because its brother is the reason you are all so well known."
Kristoff stood next to Hiccup. "And who owned that wand?"
"We don't speak his name." Gobber said.
Archimedes leaned closer to the children. "The wand chooses its owner. It's not always clear why. But it is clear, that we can expect great things from all of you. After all; He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things…terrible! But great…" He then handed the wand back to Hiccup and walked back behind his desk; all the others gathered around Hiccup and stared at the wand…
