Chapter Seven: A Rare Gift

"Okay, our last­ store!" Buffy groaned, worn out from the last four and a half hours of shopping, as they entered the last store where Dawn had to get a wand from Olivanders.

"Geez, your over exaggerating, we haven't been shopping that long!" Dawn said, enjoying the shopping.

"Uhh, yeah we have! Nearly five hours to be exact!" Buffy retaliated wanting to just collapse in their hotel and sleep for a week.

"Okay, okay! Our last shop! Just wait a little and we'll be back to the hotel soon!" Dawn said as they went to the front counter to see the shop keeper just arrive there and look at the two sisters.

As he said hello, his eyes stopped on Buffy and stared at her astonished.

"Uhh, hi." Buffy began, "We're here to get a wand for my sister here." and gestured to Dawn as she felt a little unnerved by the shopkeepers stare.

"Of course," The shopkeeper began as he shook himself our of his stare and began to move about the book stacks collecting a few candidate wands for Dawn to try out.

"What was that about?" Dawn asked Buffy as the shopkeeper left and was out of ear shot.

"I don't know." Buffy said a little suspicious of the man.

Dawns eyes widened as she asked Buffy "You don't think he know do you? That you're the..."

"I don't know, he could considering the response he gave when seeing me. But-" Buffy stopped as the man reappeared handing Dawn a wand.

Dawn looked at the man puzzled holding the wand not knowing what to do with it.

"Well, give it a wave!" He replied.

She did and all the glass from the windows exploded.

Dawn jumped back and gave a squeal at the effects as the man took the wand back and went to find another.

"Ohh, that was so not good!" Dawn told Buffy when he left.

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About ten wands later both girls were getting aggravated at the difficulty of finding a suitable wand for Dawn.

As the man took back yet anther disappointment, Dawn asked, "Is it always this hard to find a wand for a witch or wizard?"

"Uhh, no Miss Summers, I've had few this… difficult to find wands for. I feel that the ordinary elements in wands aren't… suited for you. I have found that… unique and different elements help for some wizards having as much trouble finding a wand as you are." The shopkeeper replied as he once again looked at Buffy as if he knew something she didn't know.

"What do you mean? What kinds of different things?" Dawn asked as the man looked back at her.

"For example, a hair from a Slayer." And with this he turned back to Buffy and winked at her.

"Wait a second," Buffy began, "you know who I am?"

He nodded and Buffy asked confused, "But how? No other wizards have been able to know."

"Few of us have the ability to see such, uniqueness in people but we still can. It is a rare gift. But back to the matter of finding Miss Summers a wand, I suggest using one of your hairs. I am quite positive it will work."

Buffy, considering the idea, was still uncertain if this man can be trusted, maybe he wanted to use her hair for a spell of some sort.

"Come on Buffy," Dawn ushered her sister, "you were complaining about wanting to go back to the hotel, and if you do this, we can go straight away!"

Buffy finally agreed, since the man seemed trust worthy enough, and he seemed sincere enough.

He then pulled a hair out of her pony tail and said "Now if you come back tomorrow at around the same time as today, the wand will be ready and you can try it out."

"Thank you!" They both said and as they were once leaving, Dawn quickly turned back and said to the man, "And sorry for breaking your windows!"

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"Finally, We can relax! My legs are killing me!" Buffy exclaimed as she collapsed on her hotel bed after nearly four hours of shopping.

"Really? I thought that was pretty fun!" Dawn said as she sat down on her bed and examined all the items they'd bought.

"That's only because everything we were buying was for you!" Buffy exclaimed as she aimed a pillow at Dawn.

Dawn grinned sheepishly as she rustled through her bags and said "Well, at least I made a friend already! Hopefully she can help me out in Hogwarts since I no absolutely nothing about magic!"

Buffy retaliated "No that's not true! Willow and Tara taught you magic stuff!"

"Yeah, I know," Dawn whined "But I don't know any wand magic!"

Buffy gave in and said "True, but not if you read through that heavy load of books we just bought."

"True, but have you seen how thick these books are!? I mean, those will take me forever to get through!" Dawn exclaimed.

Buffy laughed and added as she jumped into bed, "Well then, you better start soon."

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The next morning, Buffy awoke to an annoying tapping noise.

As she awoke further from her sleep, she realised some one was tapping on the window.

As she finally gave in and knew she wouldn't get anymore sleep until the tapping stopped, she raised her head from her pillow and squinted at the window that sunlight shown through to see a brown owl tapping with its beak on the window with a letter in its beak.

Buffy moaned and let the owl in as Dawn finally started to awake.

Dawn mumbled something incoherently as Buffy tried to rouse her from sleep and once finally up, Dawn asked the owl as Buffy took the letter, "Couldn't you come at a more decent hour of the morning?"

As the owl hooted in response, Buffy handed the letter to Dawn to read.

Dear Miss Summers and Miss Summers,

I would like to request a meeting to take place to discuss what will happen with the older Miss Summers at Hogwarts. Please meet with me at the Leaky Cauldron at noon.

Yours sincerely,

Albus Dumbledore.

"What!? You woke me up for that!?" Dawn exclaimed as she yawned and tried to get back into bed but Buffy stopped her by exclaimed, "Oh, my God! Dawn, its just past eleven! We're going to be late!"

Dawns eyes widened as she saw how long they'd slept and quickly yelled, "I'm in the shower first!" As she raced for the bathroom with Buffy close at her tail yelling "Not if I get there first!"

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