chapter 4 Hogwarts letters

Five years passed, and Angel was only five months from turning ten. She awoke early and brushed her long white hair out as she sat in her window seat looking out onto the back garden where the white peacocks pecked the ground in search of the tastiest bugs to eat. A knock tapped at her door and she looked up to see her mother standing there with a warm smile on her face. "Good morning mother." she said with a smile as her mother took the brush from her and helped her to style her long hair for the day.

"It is, a good morning, but I can't help feeling that my good mornings are numbered." said her mother softly as she braided her hair.

"I wish that you could stay here and be home schooled, but you need the interaction with other children to be well rounded. Besides it would be selfish of me to keep you from making friends and attending Hogwarts with your brother. I'm worried about what will happen to you if anything happens to me, so I've made a few arrangements on your behalf. It's not something that I want you to worry about now, so please just enjoy yourself and do well in school." she said as she handed Angel her Hogwarts acceptance letter.

Angel looked down at the Hogwarts letter and frowned with dismay. "Mother, what if I'm not placed in Slytherin house like everyone else in our family? Father already hates me just because I was born, I only want to make him proud of me." said Angel lowering her eyes to the letter on her lap.

"My mother was a Ravenclaw, and my grandfather was a Gryffindor, so I personally don't see that where you are sorted is a problem. Let me worry about your father, your only job is to do well in school, and make loads of friends. Now, what do you say that we go and have some breakfast, and then you can use my owl to send off your reply to the Hogwarts letter." suggested Elaina as she got to her feet with a gentle smile on her face for her daughter.

Angel followed her mother down to breakfast and sat quietly beside her big brother. "So Angel are you looking forward to attending Hogwarts with your brother?" asked Abraxas smoothly.

"Yes father, I've already set my reply with mother's owl." said Angel wondering exactly why her father was for once in her life being nice to her.

"Very good, we will have to get you an owl of your own so that you can write to your mother. After your mother takes you to be fitted for your robes, I'll take you to pick one out, if you'd like." offered her father as he took a sip of his morning coffee.

"Um, that would be nice father. I'd love that." said Angel as she gave her brother a worried side long glance.

After breakfast they all traveled via floo to the Leaky Cauldron. Elaina walked with her hand in Abraxas's arm, and Angel walked a few feet behind them with Lucius by her side. They walked to the robe shop first to acquire new robes for Lucius's fifth year and Angel's robes for her first year. Abraxas went with Lucius into the Wizard's changing rooms, while Elaina went into the Witches changing room with Angel to be fitted. Angel modeled her new school robes for her mother, who clapped with joy at how lovely her little girl looked.

"You look so grown up and smart in those robes, Angel. I know that you'll do amazing things." said her mother as she handed Madam Malkin the other robes and such that her daughter would need for the school year.

"Can I wear them out, mother?" asked Angel happily.

"Best not, dearest, they need taking in a bit first. Don't worry though you'll have them back in plenty of time to go to school." she said as she handed Angel back her light blue robes that she had worn into the shop to change back into.

Next they walked over to Olivander's to get Angel her first wand. "Ah, welcome Lady Malfoy, I had hoped that we'd be seeing your lovely daughter this year." said Olivander with a wide smile on his face.

"Yes, Mr. Olivander, this is my daughter Angel." said Elaina as she gently nudged her daughter towards the older man with a reassuring smile on her face.

Angel stood stock still as the enchanted tape measurer zoomed around her taking various measurements. A quill moved of its own accord across the parchment, and Olivander gasped before running back to the far back of the shop and climbed up to the very top of the ladder that leaned against the towering shelves that were filled to capacity with wand boxes.

As his hands reached the dustiest wand box that was covered with cobwebs, the box seemed to vibrate and he could hear a soft humming noise coming from the box. "Curious, very curious." he muttered to himself as he climbed down from the ladder with the box in hand. As he walked closer to where young miss Malfoy stood waiting, the humming seemed to go silent, and the box vibrated harder making the lid rattle.

"What's happening?" asked Angel as the beautiful sound filled her ears, and her entire body began to glow with a bright white light. Before either adult could answer or even speak the wand vibrated out of the box and flew straight at Angel stopping in front of her and floating there glowing with the same white light that surrounded her. Her eyes went white and she reached out for the wand as if she were in a trance. The light in the room brightened to a glorious intensity then as the light dimmed they all gasped as they noticed that Angel was surrounded by a ring of white feathers on the ground at her feet.

The wand in her hand changed color from gold to her favorite shade of pale blue making her smile sweetly. "Merlin's beard, definitely, not what I expected." said Olivander as he circled the Malfoy girl taking in every detail.

"Excuse me sir, but doesn't that happen to all young witches or wizards who are chosen by a wand?" asked Angel making Olivander stop circling her in shock.

"No! It is normal for a wand to glow lightly once in the hand of its chosen witch or wizard, or even to allow them to cast a spell flawlessly, but this has never happened in all my years of selling and making wands for the wizarding world." said Olivander as he flipped open a large leather bound book on his counter, and flipped through it to find the information on the wand that had chosen the Malfoy girl.

"Olivander, what kind of wand is this, that has chosen my daughter?" asked Elaina in a concearned tone as she picked up one of the feathers from the ground and examined it. The instant that she touched the feather, she felt envigorated as if she were young again, and had never felt the pains of the cruciartis curse. Than the feather vanished, making her blink.

"That wand wasn't made by me Lady Malfoy, please give me a minute while I look it up." He kept on flipping through the book until he came to the very beginning where the very first wands ever created were recorded, and gasped.

His eyes bulged as he read the information on the wand. While most of the book was written in simple English, the first pages were written in old English hand written script, in latin. "Merlin's ghost, you two are not going to believe this!" he said as he shook with excitement over the revelation.

"What is it?" asked Elaina and Angel in unison.

"Your wand was made by Merlin himself! It is made of a magical combination of elder wood enfused with gold. According to this the core is made of what Merlin believed to be angel's feathers and unicorn hair."

"It has been widely believed among wand makers that this wand is even more powerful than the fabled Elder Wand, and it was long believed to be legend. Under normal cercumstansis, wands are buried with famous witches and wizards like Merlin, and Morgan La Fe, but it clearly says here that Merlin was the last known owner of that wand." You must be a powerful witch in deed to have been chosen by the first wand every created. I'd say that we can expect great things from you Miss Malfoy." said Olivander as he handed her white wrist scabbard to carry her wand with.

"That will be five gallions for the scabbard. The wand is a gift from Merlin himself. It clearly states here that if the wand chooses a witch or wizard, that any wand maker who sells it instead of simply giving it will be cursed forever. Take care of the wand." said Olivander as the two witches left the shop.

"I will, Mr. Olivander. Thank you for the wand." said Angel happily as she gently placed her new wand into her wrist scabbard.

Later that day after packing up his things Lucius decided to go and play a game of wizard's Chess with his sister. When he got to her room, he found her sitting out on her balcony with her little nose buried deep in her first year potions book. At her side on a small marble table was a light blue quill that obviously was enchanted to take notes while its owner read. Angel stopped reading and glanced down at her notes with a satisfied smile on her face.

"Angel, what are you doing? You don't have any classes or tests to study for. You haven't even gotten to school yet." smirked her brother as he leaned against the open door frame and looked down at her.

"Why not, Lucius? You've been studying over everything that you've already done all summer. Why should I not study too?" she asked giving him an exasperated look.

"I'm studying because I have to take my O.W.L.'s this year. You are only going to be attending your first year, and there is not a big hard test at the end of the year that you have to worry about passing. Why don't you put away those books and play a game with me?" he asked as he began to set up the chess board on the small marble table as he took a seat.

"I guess we can play for a while." she said as she put her books and notes away in her trunk for safe keeping