Professor McGonagall had to consciously keep her jaw from hanging open after the display she'd just seen in front of her. She had expected Miss Rose (If that's what she'd been called for most of her life, so be it), to be at a huge disadvantage in this tournament, but it would appear she'd been grievously mistaken. She almost smiled at the daughter of two of her favorite students, but figured it would be best to keep up her professional face for a little while longer rather than act too friendly towards the girl, as her Professor seemed extremely wary of anyone that got near Ruby, not that Professor McGonagall could blame them. If she'd been sent to some alternate dimension, then she would be appropriately distrustful as well.
Minerva shook her head to clear the cobwebs that had formed in it and walked to the front of the crowd, the students getting out of her way as she moved, she came to a stop at the edge of their arena and crossed her hands in front of her, waiting patiently for the students to get themselves straightened up before she cleared her throat loudly to gain the attention of their Professor.
"Professor Goodwitch?" Minerva called out, waiting for the woman to finish writing notes on her odd device before she closed it and looked up at her with a single raised eyebrow.
"Yes, Professor McGonagall?" She asked politely, wondering what she wanted.
"I was sent to collect Miss" she paused for a moment, biting down the instinct to say Potter, "Rose and her team to take her to Diagon Alley to gather the most important thing she'll need for the tournament" she said shortly.
"And that would be?" Professor Goodwitch asked, her eyes narrowing and mouth morphing into a frown.
Professor McGonagall answered as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Why a wand of course."
Ruby looked at the Professor like she was crazy, "Why would I need a wand? I've got Crescent Rose..." she protectively held her sweetheart to her chest as if they were going to take it from her if she let it out of her sight.
Professor McGonagall looked at the weapon with trepidation, she figured that Dumbledore would get her special dispensation for her "weapon" due to her circumstances, but Minerva would really rather prefer her use a wand, if only because it would make the audience- and her, feel better.
Professor Goodwitch narrowed her eyes at had a microscopic frown as she scrutinized the woman, she didn't trust the staff here, especially the Headmaster, he looked at Ruby like he was planning something whenever she was in the same room as him, and she did not like it one bit. She internally sighed and came to a decision, "Alright, they can go" she saw Minerva's nod and intent to walk off with them before she added, "and I will accompany them." The Professor nodded to that and walked up to team RWBY with Professor Goodwitch now in tow.
Professor McGonagall cleared her throat and got the attention of the four exhausted girls, they looked at her with a quizzical expression in the case of Ruby and Yang, and a single raised eyebrow in the case of Blake and Weiss. "Miss Rose, I've been instructed to take you and your team to the Wizarding World's shopping center, Diagon Alley to get a few items you'll be needing for the tournament, your team and Professor will accompany you as well, now come along, we'll be taking the Floo to our destination, please, follow me. She turned around and began leading them back to the castle with the Beacon residents wondering just what exactly they would be doing.
The Professor eventually led them to her office where she grabbed a small pot from the mantle of her fireplace and took a small pinch of green powder out. she turned back towards the group accompanying her and held it up for them to see. "This is Floo powder, one of the many ways of magical travel in our world. It's use is quite simple" she threw the powder into the fireplace, causing a fire to start and burn green. "You throw the powder into the fire, and then you state your destination, very clearly." The fire died down, leaving the fireplace unlit. "Understand?" The four students nodded uncertainly while Professor Goodwitch looked at her with a critical eyebrow raised.
"Perhaps you should demonstrate, Professor" she said skeptically, not fathoming the idea for a second. Professor McGonagall's lips pressed slightly thinner and she nodded, walking into the fireplace with a handful of green powder.
"It's simple, all you do is state your destination right before you throw down the powder." She began to throw the powder down, "Diagon Alley!" With a roar and a rush of green flames, Professor McGonagall disappeared from her fireplace and presumably reappeared in this "Diagon Alley".
Goodwitch turned around to address Ruby and her team, only to find Ruby already inspecting the powder. "Miss Rose!" Professor Goodwitch called out, Ruby jumped and almost dropped the handful she had, and upon seeing the stern expression on her teacher's face, hid her hand behind her back.
"Eh, heh, heh, Yes Professor Goodwitch?" Ruby asked innocently while slightly sweating at the look on her teacher's face.
"Are you volunteering to go first Miss Rose?" She glared at her with narrowed eyes and a small frown, Ruby sweated and rubbed the back of her head nervously.
"Uh...sure?" Ruby replied nervously, causing Professor Goodwitch to motion with her hand towards the fireplace.
"Then by all means, go ahead" She responded, causing Ruby to walk slowly towards the large fireplace.
Ruby was rather nervous as she stepped into the fireplace, on one hand, she was expecting herself to be burnt but she was team RWBY's leader, she had to go first, it was her duty! So, she steeled herself and put on a confident facade and walked into the rather cavernous fireplace and looked at the green powder in her hand. She absentmindedly noted it felt like Dust before she threw it down and shouted out, "Diagonally!" and disappeared from Professor McGonagall's office...
And promptly landed on her ass in a dark dingy shop that definitely did not look friendly in the slightest. Ruby unconsciously placed a hand on Crescent Rose and sneaked around the shop, trying her best to stay quiet as to not get herself in trouble for trespassing in someone's store, she really didn't like the idea of what the shopkeeper here might do to her if she got caught.
Assuming he could catch her after she used her semblance of course.
However, it didn't seem like she would need to worry as she found herself outside the door extremely quickly and out into a small cramped alleyway full of rather unkind looking people.
Ruby involuntarily shuddered as she took in the appearances of some of the people in the alleyway. Women with very crooked noses, covered in warts, a person that looked like lady in shape, but it was hard to tell due to the large hood over her head. There were extremely pale people with rather luminescent eyes, ragged looking people who's eyes were switching between a dull defeated color to a bright yellow that were growling as they watched her pass by. Ruby began shouldering through some of the more fragile looking people, pulling up her hood as she did so and began to weave through the people while trying not to panic. She needed to find her way out of here and get herself some kind of map and find out where exactly she was.
Ruby unconsciously flared her aura as she walked past a small group of women holding a tray of what looked like organs and toe nails, noticing that one of the women was looking at the organs hungrily.
Somehow, Ruby doubted it was from an animal.
Apparently the way Ruby was walking, hood up, shifty eyes, and one eye on her weapon were dissuading quite a few people from going after her, but only most, as she was set upon by a pair of leering men that were eyeing her figure hungrily.
Ruby wasn't dumb, she had had the talk, however awkward it was, with her dad and Uncle Qrow, she had also attended the Sex Ed classes at Signal. She also knew the looks she was getting from these men weren't unlike the ones Yang got whenever she was around particularly sleazy men, so she rather quickly got the picture of what was going on here in her head and began formulating plans to get out of it.
'Hmmm, I can knock these two out with Crescent Rose and then use my semblance to jump up these two buildings here, that will allow me to escape more hostiles and having to use Crescent Rose in a cramped space, perfect.' Ruby thought as she was jostled back to reality by a very disgruntled sounding "Hey you!"
Ruby decided to play oblivious for a second, hoping that the stuff she learned from a mixture of Uncle Qrow and her Dad's stories would work while she prepared for what she saw as an inevitable fight. "Who, me?" Ruby asked innocently, pulling down her hood with her head cocked to the side.
The men seemed to leer at her even more, causing her to involuntarily squirm under their gazes before she hardened her resolve and tightened her subtle hold on Crescent Rose. "Yea...you little girl, you look lost, want some directions?" He asked, his hand tightening around the piece of wood Ruby now identified as a wand, which she knew was a weapon, and weapons being readied meant they were going to hurt you.
Which meant she could fight.
"Oh you know, just wandering around, taking in the sights, fighting off bad guys" she added as she noticed the other man raising his wand towards her.
Ruby activated her scythe, and in a flash and a twirl, Crescent Rose came out to play, easily slicing the two wands like the twigs they were compared to her sweetheart. She smacked the two of them over the head with the blunt end of Crescent Rose, then just as in the plan she had formed in her head had said, she activated her semblance and used the speed to leap off the walls, kicking off them before coming to the roof of a dingy looking shop with a thud.
"Pfft that was easy!" Ruby said confidently as she twirled Crescent Rose shut and began scanning the horizon from her vantage point.
The horizon consisting of the sides and rears of other buildings.
However, as Ruby found a clear bit of alley to jump down she saw a street sign pointing behind her that was labelled "Diagon Alley". She smiled slightly as she began walking up the hill and towards the first real ray of sunshine she'd seen since she'd tumbled into that dingy looking shop.
Ruby emerged in the sunlight and into the hustle and bustle of what she now assumed was Diagon Alley. Now she she just had to find her team...and Professor Goodwitch.
She was in soooo much trouble.
Ruby was in soooo much trouble.
After tumbling out of a fireplace of all things, and into an incredibly disgusting pub, she had expected to see their leader standing there waiting for them looking around like a curious puppy, barely able to stay still without the reminder that during this...tournament, they were being counted as on mission, which meant she needed to be acting like a leader.
However, instead of the sight she expected after her..admittedly ungraceful entrance into this pub, she'd gotten the Professor who'd told them to follow her here, and then the rest of her team followed by Professor Goodwitch. Which meant Ruby hadn't made it through.
The dunce could be anywhere if that were the case!
Weiss sighed and pinched her nose, something she'd found herself doing quite often after she'd been placed on team RWBY, not that she would complain, her dunce of a leader may be..well a dunce, but she was rather..endearing, and she had found herself becoming less distant to her partner and even beginning to open up to her when she and Ruby were alone at Beacon. However, that didn't mean she wasn't going to be mad at the dunce for getting herself lost in the first place!
She'd just make sure that she was okay first.
I hope she's alright, Ruby can't get hurt, she's integral to our team!
And to you.
Weiss shook her head, squashing the rebellious thought out of her head, not wanting to deal with the traitorous voice in her head trying to make her deal with her emotions at such an inopportune time as this. She'd go over her feelings for the dunce when they got back to the castle and she was alone. Then she could review her thoughts on her leader.
Even though deep down she already knew how she felt.
The rest of team RWBY, Professor Goodwitch, and Professor McGonagall found Ruby not long after she'd found her way out of Knock Turn Alley, and after a thorough dressing down by Professor Goodwitch, an icy look and snide comment from Weiss, which hurt a lot more than it should have, along with a rib crushing hug from Yang, Ruby and the rest of the group were in front of a large and imposing white marble building.
"What is this place?" Ruby asked curiously, noticing the rather short armed guards with wicked sharp axes standing by it's entrance. She also noticed, rather disappointingly, that they weren't very talkative, or friendly.
"This" Professor McGonagall said, walking ahead of them and nodding towards the two short guards at the entrance, "is Gringotts Wizarding Bank. Where all the the Witches and Wizards in Britain store their money. It's run by goblins, a warrior race that turned their love of battle towards financial means, and have done a rather wonderful job of doing so." She ushered them ahead as they stepped into the entrance of the bank, the walls were lined with multiple counters, each one having a short person with pointy ears, beady eyes, and gnarly fingers. Ruby figured these were goblins.
"We're here to get some Galleons from Miss Rose's vault" Professor McGonagall said shortly as they got in line. Ruby looked at her quizzically.
"Uhhh, why would I have a vault?" Ruby asked even more curious than before.
The Professor simply smiled, "Why because your parents" she noticed the girl's look turn sour, "your birth parents" she amended quickly, "left you a trust vault before they died that was to be used for your school, and anything you might want to buy with your own money. The Potters weren't as rich as some of the other old families, such as the Malfoys, but they did get royalties from the profits of few different potions, like Sleekeazy's hair potion, and Skelegrow, both of which were invented by a Potter." At this point they finally reached the teller's desk and the goblin didn't even look up to address them.
"What's your business here?" The goblin asked rudely, Weiss made an indignant huff at being addressed so improperly, causing Yang to grin and Ruby to snicker.
Professor McGonagall however, didn't bat an eye, making it seem like this was the norm with these people. "We're here to withdraw some money from Miss Potter's vault" she said, short and to the point.
This time the goblin did look up, rather quickly and looked at the Professor with narrowed eyes. "And does Miss Potter have her key?" he asked shrewdly with something akin to malice in his eyes.
Professor McGonagall reached into her robes and pulled out a small key with the number "687" engraved on it. "Here you go" she said curtly, causing the goblin to snatch it out of her hand and place it upon what at first glance, looked like a small scratch on the desk, but upon closer inspection, would have been identified as an authentication rune, something that would ensure that whatever was placed upon it was the original article, not a copy or a fake.
The goblin waited a moment before the key glowed a slight gold, signifying it's authenticity, he nodded and turned around in his chair. "Griphook!" he bellowed, causing another goblin to come running over from a different door to the counter he'd been summoned to. "Take Miss Potter, her escort, and one other person down to vault 687" he said, prompting the other to nod and begin walking back towards the door he'd been standing near.
Ruby stopped for a quick moment to pick who would go to her vault with her, and after a moment's hesitation- and a very quick game of 'eenie meenie miney mo' she picked Weiss and the two of them, plus Professor McGonagall, followed after the goblin as he briskly walked down multiple confusing hallways until they reached what looked like an old mine cart that the goblin waved for them to enter.
"We're riding in that!?" Weiss asked disbelievingly. The goblin nodded and Professor McGonagall chose to explain from her place in the cart.
"Yes, this is the transport to the deeper vaults, where Miss Rose's trust vault is, now get in or Griphook will leave you behind." she explained, beckoning the heiress to get in. Which Weiss did rather reluctantly.
"This doesn't seem very safe" Weiss said rather timidly, causing Ruby to throw an arm around her shoulder and small blush to creep up her cheeks with how close Ruby was- "NO! Don't think that way Weiss!"
"We'll be fine Weiss!" Ruby said grandly, "How bad could it be?"
At this point, Griphook finally pulled the level of the cart, causing it to lurch forward at high speeds, Ruby couldn't even keep track of which way they were going, but due to her semblance, the speed didn't bug her anywhere near as much as it did the other occupants. Weiss seemed fine on the outside though, but Ruby knew she was probably more than a little annoyed, and the Professor looked a bit uneasy, and she couldn't really blame her, if she wasn't basically immune to motion sickness, she'd be feeling a little off right about now as well.
After few minutes of speeding through the cave system they had found themselves in, and waiting for Professor McGonagall to regain her equilibrium, they stepped out of the cart onto solid ground. Griphook jumped out first, handing Weiss the lamp while taking the key from the Professor and walked up to the door with the number "687" etched into it. He flipped up a small cover, revealing a small keyhole and put the equally small golden key into the hole and turned it to the left, causing the door to open with a great lurch, showing the large vault in all it's glory.
It was full of golden coins, silver coins, and bronze ones as well, Ruby's mind immediately went to the stories she'd read as a child, where the adventurer would find the treasure at the end and live the rest of his life a rich man. Not that that really mattered to Ruby, she wanted the adventure.
Professor McGonagall handed Ruby a bag and ushered her into the vault, where she went after grabbing the gobsmacked Weiss' hand and pulling her in after her. "The currency for the Wizarding World is as such, the gold ones are Galleons, the silver ones are Sickles, and the bronze ones are Knuts. There are 29 Knuts to a Sickle, and 17 Sickles to a Galleon, it's rather simple once you get used to it." She explained shortly, and instructed Ruby to take a handful of Sickles and Knuts but only ten or fifteen Galleons.
They hopped back in the cart shortly after they got out of the vault and rode the deathtrap- err, mine cart, back to the surface and headed back into the bank's lobby where they rejoined the rest of team RWBY, and Professor Goodwitch, who after a short explanation of their ride, and Ruby's vault, which got a raised eyebrow from Blake, and a low whistle from Yang, found themselves back out in Diagon Alley.
"First things first then" Professor McGonagall said, leading her group, which wasn't unlike when she guided muggle born students and their parents through the Alley for the first time, "We need to acquire your spell books" she ushered them into a big looking shop labeled Flourish and Blott's.
Blake had to take a deep breath to keep her eyes from bugging out of her head at the sheer amount of books that surrounded her, she just wanted to grab one of everything and read them all! Of course, she couldn't do that, so she had to force the urge down as to keep herself calm. Especially with some of the weirder books she was seeing, like the one that was currently biting at the bars of the cage it was in.
That was odd.
Blake kept to the other side of the shop after that.
Weiss however, was scanning a far more cut and dry part of the store, the culture and traditions section.
Grand.
She thought the tournament was barbaric before, and had incorrectly assumed it was something put on by the popular demand of commoners, and was absolutely appalled when she found out that the higher rungs of society actively attended and helped honor the champion! They were the upper crust of society! They were supposed to be sophisticated and cultured, not participating and perpetuating this type of atrocity! She slammed the book shut with distaste and immediately started reading a tradition book, and was hoping that maybe if she ignored the clear prejudice against these 'muggle borns' that maybe she'd be a bit more enthralled in her studies.
While half of team RWBY was enthralled in the books that the shop had to offer, Yang and Ruby were not.
While Yang was trudging behind Blake hoping for something exciting to happen, Ruby was dutifully following Professor McGonagall grabbing the books she was told to grab including, The Standard Book of Spells Grades 1-4, by Miranda Goshawk, The Essential Defense Against the Dark Arts by Arsenius Jigger, The Dark Forces, a Guide to Self Protection by Professor Quentin Trimble, and a few books on Jinxes, Curses, and Charms that were meant to "supplement her with a repertoire of useful spells to help her in the tournament."
It wasn't that Ruby hated studying or learning, she didn't, she just hated learning out of nothing more than a book, she was actually in the top ten percent of her class, just below Blake and Ren in academics, and just above Yang, due in no small part to Weiss' extreme studying habits, but that didn't mean she hated to study, she just found staring at a book for hours on end when she could be doing work on her weapon, training, or doing something far more fun than reading a dry old textbook to be absolutely boring.
In all honesty, Ruby just wanted to know why they were so against her using Crescent Rose. Although she did glimpse something called a summoning charm, that would definitely do her some good on using Crescent Rose in the battle provided they force her to go into the arena with only a wand instead of her baby.
She just really hoped that she didn't need to use a wand that much, it was far more flimsy than Crescent Rose.
After what felt like an eternity to Yang, they got the books Professor Dumbledore had instructed them to get for Ruby, and found themselves in front of a small, shabby looking shop labelled, Ollivander's, Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C, Ruby didn't know what B.C meant, but figured that it must be extremely old if the look of the shop was anything to go by.
They entered the shop, and caused a little bell hung above the door to ring throughout it. The very air was causing the hairs on the end of her neck to stand on end as she walked up to a small desk that had the cash register and a tiny bell on top of it along with what looked like a ledger covered in neatly curved handwriting.
Ruby rung the bell once, and was about to do it again when from around the edge of a rather large shelf a man popped his head out, white curly hair sat neatly upon his head and grey eyes shimmering with intelligence and wisdom, along with a rather large smile on his face as he saw the one standing at the desk.
"Ruby Potter" he said quietly, yet his voice carried throughout the shop, he seemed to choose not to notice the frown on Ruby's face at being addressed by a name she'd gotten rid of ten years prior to even knowing of her parent's existence, and this was further evidenced when he saw the faded scar on her forehead and seemingly smiled wider upon seeing it. "I was wondering if I would ever see you enter my store, it would seem you're about three years late my girl" he chuckled. "Why I remember when your mother and father came in here to buy their first wands. Your mother's wand was ten and three quarters inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wand for charm work. Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wand, eleven inches, pliable. A little more power and excellent for transfiguration. Well I say your father favored it, it's really the wand that chooses the wizard of course." He smiled nostalgically as if reliving the moment he'd just described before his eyes snapped back into focus and he turned his smile back to Ruby as he asked her, "Now, which hand is your wand hand?"
Ruby looked at the man quizzically and assumed that by wand hand, he meant the hand she wrote with so she rather timidly replied, "Uhhh, my left hand?"
Ollivander simply nodded and tapped the tape measure with his wand causing it to go crazy in measuring her wrist, forearm, her biceps, triceps, midsection, legs, height, head circumference, nose length, the length between her eyes, and on an on as Ollivander was rushing through his shelves, grabbing multiple long thin boxes as the tape measure from hell kept taking every measurement known to man, and possibly some only known to Faunus. The length of her leg, her thigh, her foot, it finally stopped when it shot up Ruby's skirt, causing Yang to grab the thing and began tying knots in it angrily to "protect her sister's innocence".
It just laid squirming on the floor after that.
After what felt like an eternity, Ollivander finally reappeared with his arms full of boxes and frowned at his now knotted tape measure. He shook his head however, and placed his load on the desk before he snapped his fingers to cause the tape to stop squirming and waved his wand to untie it, and then summoned it back to him before he smiled again and pulled the first wand out of a box on the top of the pile and handed it handle first to Ruby. "Nine inches, Beechwood and Dragon Heartstring, nice and flexible" Ruby took it and looked at it oddly, she had felt some sort of odd feeling when she picked it up, and looked at it oddly, trying to grab the feeling, but it kept slipping away and it had started to frustrate her. However, just as she was about to wave it to try to get that odd feeling from the wand to come back, Ollivander plucked it out of her hands and shook his head.
"No, no, that won't work, hmmm, try this one" he pulled out a smaller one, "Seven Inches. Maple and Phoenix feather, quite whippy, give it a wave" he handed it to her.
Ruby felt nothing from the wand this time and had it pulled out of her grasp once again just as she was about to wave it as he went back to muttering how it would never work. He pulled out yet another one after another minuted or so of muttering and handed it to her, "Eight and half inches, ebony and unicorn hair, springy" Ruby took it and once again had it yanked from her grasp after only holding it for a few seconds.
And so on and on it went as she began to be handed wand after wand after wand and have them yanked from her hand just as quickly until Ollivander seemingly had a idea as he ran to the back of the store and came out with a dusty old box. "This one might work" he said cryptically as he opened it, revealing a beautiful wand sitting in the velvet casing of the box. "Eleven inches, holly and phoenix feather, nice and supple" he handed it to her gingerly, and with a look of hope waved for Ruby to wave it.
Only for it to spit out three or four red and black sparks that fizzled to the ground. He seemingly cursed himself and stuffed the wand back in it's box before sighing and leaning in towards Ruby. "Well my girl, for the first time in a very, very long time, I'll have to make a custom built wand, the one you just used would work for you, yes, but you would have to fight it every step of the way, and you'd never get any useful magic done with it, it would be barely more than a stick in your hands, however, I could make you a wand that would match you perfectly, it will cost just a little more, but it would be very much worth it, I assure you."
Ruby nodded confusedly and followed Mr. Ollivander as he lead her to his workshop along with Yang who insisted she follow them, and walked into a large, yet cramped room that was full of different boxes labelled with different things, different wand cores, wands, woods, and so on and so forth as they weaved through the shelves until they came up on a small workbench with two small display cases set upon it. He picked one up and walked over to Ruby holding it out in front of her. "Now then, please hold your hand out over the box and tell me when you feel a pull to a certain type of wood if you would" he said, pulling the lid off and telling Ruby to do as he had asked.
Ruby closed her eyes and did so, furrowing her brow in concentration as she waited for the correct feeling to flood her, she finally felt it after doing this, and probably looking ridiculous, for around a minute as her hand went over a certain type of wood and before she realized what she was doing, she had already darted her hand in and grabbed it between her fingers. Ollivander nodded and looked at her with an expression of...giddiness? "Well well, Rosewood, typically used in healer's wands, due to it's deposition towards healing , and prefers kinder people, over those who are more...shall we say, unpleasant?" He smiled as he took the sample from Ruby's hand placed it on the workbench. He then grabbed the other box and took off it's lid, telling Ruby to do the same as she'd done before.
This time it didn't take her nearly as long as it took her to get her core picked out, seeing as there was only three in the box. She closed her eyes, and held her hand out over each one, before grabbing the phoenix feather from the box and handing it to Ollivander. He nodded approvingly. "Rosewood and Phoenix feather, along with your measurements, shall we say, twelve inches then? It will be excellent at healing and protection spells, and good for charms and transfiguration, but it will not like casting dark spells at all, and they would fail unless massive amounts of power were forced into it." He smiled wider as he turned towards his workbench. "It's been a long time since I've made a custom wand, It will be ready in half an hour, you may wait up front" he waved them off as he opened a drawer and pulled out a selection of odd looking tools as he began whistling a cheery tune as he worked.
Team RWBY, Professor McGonagall, and Professor Goodwitch finally walked out of Ollivanders just as the rest of the Alley was closing, following Professor McGonagall to The Leaky Cauldron, where they would be Flooing back to Hogwarts in time for Dinner.
"This is why we waited to get your wand last, Miss Rose, it is typically the longest process in getting supplies, and now you see why I take it?" she asked rhetorically, noticing Ruby's nod as she inspected her new wand curiously. She had thought that she wouldn't enjoy having to use one, though that was before she'd felt the bond between the user and the wand herself. She felt like using her wand was natural, almost like how she'd immediately known Crescent Rose was the perfect weapon for her when she'd first took it onto a training field after spending days sweating over a forge shaping and crafting it to perfection. At first she'd been rather hesitant about learning magic, as she didn't want to abandon the use of her beautiful scythe, however it would be a useful thing to have and she wasn't entirely unsure she couldn't somehow implant it into Crescent Rose.
With that thought she threw her powder into the fireplace and called out her destination correctly this time.
A/N: A little late today, but no matter, I got it out, didn't I? I hope you enjoyed the chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it, I had to have Ruby end up somewhere wrong, and Knockturn Alley seemed as good a place as any, so I had her pay Borgin and Burke's a visit. Next chapter will most likely involve training Ruby with a wand, maybe a mention of Draco Malfoy, and then Chapter eight or nine will be the first task.
Also, the magical properties I chose for Rosewood, (why wouldn't I make her wand ROSEwood? It was too easy in my opinion.) I googled it first, and Rosewood to the Indians (India Indians not American Indians) has healing properties, the smell and such is good for headaches and spiritually it apparently aligns with the heart chakra. The preference towards kinder people I got from a South American legend, where it apparently inspires people to do good deeds, it reminded me of the end of Volume 1 Episode 1's opening speech ending, "but perhaps victory is in the simpler things that you have long forgotten, things that require a smaller, more honest soul."