Disclaimer: Oheeee! J.K Rowling owns Harry Potter characters, much to my dislike and yours. I'm inviting them into my dirty, dog pee filled sandbox to trap them there and hear their agonized screams, begging to be let free since the smell is overbearing. Of course Emrissa and Kate with my idea, being mine are in the big mansion ontop of the hill enjoying their suffering. --lol, this is fun.
Kate once again opened her eyes to a new set of delights, and once again, Snape pulled her back before she could cause any more chaos.
"We'll be getting your books" he said.
"Okay!" she said, cheerful of getting new books.
He went to Flourish and Blotts, purchasing with school money fourth year books. Kate's face glowed as she saw the treasure of hundreds of books lined on the walls, in the back room, and on tables. She was briefly let go by Snape while he talked to the shop owner. Kate eventually came back with three books, one on Transfiguration, another on Theories behind it, and the last was about magical creatures. He snorted as he looked through them,
"The Transfiguration books are too advanced for you, put them back" he handed them back to Kate who held them and stood where she was.
"Well?" he asked. "What are you staring at, return the books!"
Kate shook her head,
"No, I just want them for light reading, and research" she said. He wouldn't take the books,
"This is school money you realize"
"I know, there has to be some way I can pay it off, right?" she asked. Snape sighed,
"We will discuss it with Dumbledore. In the meantime-"
"Please get me the books! I'll do anything!" she said, not pleading, just trying to be polite.
He thought he was looking at another version of Hermione Granger.
"Oh all right!" he said and snatched them, piling them ontop of the other required books.
Next was the Apothecary. Kate wandered over to the vials of ground pieces of unicorn horns, and dragon blood.
"This is so cruel..." she said, and was surprised when Snape's shadow was cast over her.
"Cruel?" he asked.
"You capture animals for their horns and blood" she said.
"We don't kill them" he said.
"I wish I were a vegetarian" she mumbled, then looked elsewhere.
Snape shook his head while muttering, she was too compassionate. He finsished there and was about to leave, but Kate hounded him with another book.
"Kate!" he said.
"I'm sorry! But can you blame a kid for trying to learn?" she asked a little shrilly.
He bought the book, handing to Kate who obligingly took it and began to turn the pages.
Snape stopped by all the shops needed, save for Ollivander's, and each time, Kate unfailingly found another book to beg him to buy.
"You are going to have a long service term" he growled as he handed the last one to her.
She beamed, "As long as I have my books"
"Wouldn't you love to meet Granger" he muttered and proceeded to Ollivander's.
The old man was there, as always, he seemed to know who was coming for a new wand and greeted Snape.
"Professor Snape, what a surprise!" he said and Snape merely nodded.
"A wand for the child" he said.
"Not yours?" asked he.
"A wand for the child" repeated Snape, making it clear.
"Of course" said Mr. Ollivander, bemused.
Snape didn't like him much, he reminded the wizard too much of Dumbledore, and Dumbledore was not always the man of choice. Mr. Ollivander took Kate farther into the shop and started customary measurments, Kate stared down at the tape measure underneath her nose and flitting between her eyes.
"What the hell...?"
Kate's POV
It was the most strange thing I had ever seen, well...maybe except for Emrissa. Her eyes looked like they were bigger than her head! I snatched at the tape measure, it nimbly skipped away and I managed to aim a good flick. It flew backwards a bit, then came back, waving it's tape back and forth. It looked like it was sticking its tongue out. The old man came back with a bunch of thin boxes and he told me what to do.
"Hazel, eleven inches, unicorn hair, a little bit flippy" he stated and I waved it over my head, he immediatly took it from my hand and placed another.
"Elm, ten inches, phoenix feather, same" he said and I whipped it around, he took that from me as well and the process went on.
He gave, talked, took, these three movements executed in one swift motion. My arm was getting tired and the pile of wands was looming. Snape retired to sitting in a chair and I rolled my eyes, this was starting to get slightly ridiculous.
"Birch, twelve inches, dragon heartstring, reliable" I didn't want to take it, they had a killed a dragon over a wand.
I didn't even bother to touch it,
"I'm sorry, I don't think that wand it right for me" I said. He smiled, knowing,
"Of course not" he said and put that away.
"I belive this will solve the problem" he said and carefully opened a dusty box.
"Cherry wood, ten and a half inches, phoenix feather, supple" he said slowly.
He gave it to me and I immediatly felt a rush of warmth, it spread up from my fingers, back down to my arm in a big rush and my arm arced above my head. Various colored sparkles fell onto my shoulders and I looked up in awe.
"I thought so" said Mr. Ollivander, Snape stood up to pay and I stared at the wand.
"Awesome!"
Author's Note:I was thinking, we would all LOVE to have wands right? So let's spread the infection to Kate! AWESOME!!! *dances around with brown coloured chopstick. Pointing to sister shouting "Wingarden Leviosa!*