Hi guys! Thanks for the story alerts and favourites guys! The last few chapters were pretty short by my usual standard, sorry about that, but this one's pretty long to make up for it. Hope you enjoy! If you do enjoy it, I would love a review to tell me! ;p

I've finished this segment of this story, so I'll probably put them up every day while I write the sequel, which may take a bit longer seeing as school starts up again in two days.

"Alright, so we have robes and we have our books and our cauldrons and stuff. Now what?" Leo yelled above the noise and bustle of Diagon Alley.

"Wands!" Reggie yelled. He'd been begging to buy a wand since they'd started.

Shaking his head, Lupin pointed out the Magical Menagerie with the hand that wasn't full of cauldrons.

"We get a pet?" Reggie asked. The sweet he was eating almost fell out of his mouth as he gaped.

Leo rolled his eyes. "It said so on the letter, dimwit."

The insult had absolutely no effect on Reggie, who immediately bounded towards the shop.

Leo looked at the Professor somewhat hopefully. He wanted to follow Reggie, but he didn't want to be thought of as such a child.

The Professor just smiled. "Go on."

Leo's face split with a smile and he bolted towards the store, his robes bouncing from their spot in his cauldron.

"Leo! They have so many animals in here! You have to check this bit out!"

The shop was so packed full of people, Leo couldn't have gotten to Reggie even if he had known where he was. Eyes wide, he spun in a circle to try and get a view of the whole shop. Cages were stacked to the ceiling with every animal small enough to fit in them.

One side of the shop was entirely devoted to owls, while the front was filled with cats. As he made it down the side, he observed the pure mania that was at the back. Some he recognised, like rabbits, snails and tortoises, but they had subtle changes that made them different to what he was used to. Then, however, there were things he didn't recognise at all, little balls of fur with long, thin tongues, and odd, winged creatures that looked like bats mixed with some sort of plant…

Turning away from the mania, he returned to the more familiar section. He gave the cats a look before passing over them. He could get a cat anywhere. He turned to the owls. Most of them had their heads stuck under their wings, but one turned to look at him as he approached. It was the largest bird there, with bright, orange eyes and black and tawny feathers. Two tufts stuck out of the top of its head, darkening from light brown to deepest black. It's head slowly rotated as it observed Leo.

He heard a clerk step up beside him. "Eurasian Eagle Owl. Beautiful breed. One of the largest there is for owls. He's the only one we have in stock and he's twelve galleons."

For a moment, Leo stared at the bird, but then he smiled. He loved it. "I'll take him."

Taking his new owl, Leo made to exit the shop.

"Leo!"

Spinning at the sound of his name and taking care not to bump into anyone, he searched quickly for Reggie.

It wasn't hard.

Leo blushed and tried to pretend he didn't know him.

Reggie was standing in the middle of the shop, simply beaming at him, with a cat in his arms. It wasn't just any cat, though, it was a fricking humongous cat. It had a long coat of black, dark brown, caramel and reddish-brown fur, and a ruff of tawny and black fur like a mane around its neck.

It had bright, green eyes and it was barely tolerating being held in Reggie's keen grasp as he gave out massive grins.

He ran out to meet Leo outside the store, where Lupin's eyes widened at the sight coming towards him. "Is that a kneazle?" he gasped.

Reggie shook his head, his dark curls flopping about. "It's a maine coon!"

Sighing, Lupin lifted a hand to his face and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Of course it is. Good choice Reggie, as always." he said sarcastically. The Professor stared at the cat for a moment, reaching out to pat it. The cat hissed and swiped at him. Lupin quickly withdrew his endangered hand and sighed. "Well, come on, let's go and get your wands."

At that, Reggie's excitement over his new cat faded considerably, and nerves began to build up in his stomach. He didn't know why he was nervous-he'd been waiting for this all day! But still, the butterflies in his gut flapped their wings harder the closer they got to Ollivander's.

He'd always wanted a wand of his own. He remembered staring at his parents' wands when he was small, always wanting to have one in his grasp, to feel that power and that magic flow through him and out of that wand. And now he was going to get one. He was going to get a wand!

Lupin smiled as he stopped outside the shop. "I'll wait outside. You boys go on in."

Reggie took a deep breath, the butterflies in his gut making a tornado. He looked over at Leo who looked just as, if not more nervous, and they briefly hugged before entering the store.

Ollivander's was dusty and had the feel of intense age. Reggie shuddered at the power in that room. Boxed wands lined every wall and made corridors, floor to ceiling through the entire shop. Every wand in there seemed to buzz at the prospect of a potential owner's arrival.

A small man with a shock of white hair tottered out and smiled. "Ah, hello. And who might you be?"

A tape measure jumped up from the desk and began to measure them as the little man stared at them.

Reggie found his mouth dry, so he swallowed. "I'm Reginald Parks. This is Leopold Carr."

Ollivander's eyes narrowed. "I don't believe I've ever had any relatives of yours in here before."

Now that the conversation had started, Reggie wasn't nearly as nervous. "No, I'm actually from Australia, and Leo's muggleborn."

Ollivander nodded slowly, his piercing gaze resting on each of them in turn, before he spun and wandered off into the back of the shop.

The tape measure continued to ravel and unravel, first on Leo, and then on Reggie.

As soon as it stopped, Ollivander emerged with a small stack of boxes. "Now then, I have three choices for you," his sharp eyes rested on Leo before flicking to Reggie. "And four for you, Reginald. Perhaps you first, Leopold." He placed four boxes off to the side and spread the other three over the front of the desk, offering one of the wands to Leo. "Ten inches, solid, fir and dragon heartstring."

Leo held it in complete awe, and at Reggie's nudging, gave it a wave.

Absolutely nothing happened.

Ollivander scratched his head. "Not that one, I suppose." He quickly swapped them with careful, practiced hands. "How about this? Willow, ten and a quarter inches, springy and unicorn hair core."

Leo held it, and the neat, straight wand seemed to hum and warm up in his hands. Smiling, Leo gave it an easy swish. A sweet smell was produced, as the slightly wilted flowers in a vase on the desk perked up. At the small magical act, Leo finally seemed to comprehend what was happening to him. He was magic. He was going to a magic school. He was magic! Tears quickly welled up in his eyes, and he made no attempt to hide them as they began to run down his face.

Ollivander smiled. "Perfect. Now, Reginald."

Carefully picking out a short wand, Ollivander handed it to him, muttering, "Rowan, phoenix feather, nine inches, unyielding."

All Reggie did was touch the handle, and the wand emitted a squeal like a banshee.

Quickly pulling his hand back, Reggie stared at the wandmaker, whose eyebrows had flown into his hair. "You pick one of the others, my boy."

Grinning, Reggie's hand hovered over the top of the other wands on the table. Closing his eyes, he put his hand on one.

Ollivander carefully took it out of its box and handed it, handle first, to Reggie. "Flexible, eleven inches, dragon heartstring and spruce."

The wand was dark and fairly long with a significant crook in the middle. Reggie liked it immediately. He grinned as he gave it a swish. The other boxes on the table packed themselves up, stacked on top of one another and flew into Ollivander's arms. The old wandmaker laughed. "Well, I think that one likes you."

Reggie grinned at Leo and the old man in turn. He had a wand.

"That'll be sixteen galleons each."

Stepping outside of the store with their new wands, the pair both ran up to Lupin and showed him their new acquisitions.

"Look, sir, look! We have wands!" Reggie squealed.

Lupin laughed. "So you do. Now, let's see about you learning to use them. Are you ready for school, boys?"

The pair nodded emphatically.

Reggie smiled, clutching his new wand tightly. "I'm ready for anything.