Time Turners and Hippogriffs

AU Drabble Series. Yes, drabble. Hermione gets dusted with the Sands of Time and is sent back fifty-something years into the past. This is a TMRxHG fic.

Apologies to Hermione. I know you're shipped with everything with a pulse...

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"Give it a wave." He did, and sparks erupted from the end. "Nope!" She snatched it from his hand and threw it over her shoulder. Garrick caught it haphazardly and put it back in its box as she snatched another wand out of Tom's hands.

The third wand that was presented to Tom blew a hole in the wall. That one was taken from him swiftly.

The next half hour went like this with no reprieve. After a while, Olivia stopped and pressed a few fingers against the bridge of her nose. Garrick came back from replacing all of the wands to their spots along the walls. "Garrick!" she suddenly snapped. The young man jumped.

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"You've been working on some new wands, haven't you?" He nodded. "Go get the finished ones."

He took a long, hard look at Tom and then disappeared behind them. It took only a few seconds for him to reemerge, and Garrick presented Tom with a box. It was still closed, but Tom instantly knew this was the wand for him. The top of the box was removed to show a light tan wand. Tom picked it up and felt warmth spread through his entire body. He was suddenly joyous, and quickly realized that was his magic reacting to the wand.

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"Curiouser, curiouser."

"What?" Olivia asked.

"Thirteen and a half inches, yew, phoenix feather core. One other wand was made with a feather from the same phoenix. It was actually purchased the other day by a youth who looked similar to you."

"Anyway, what price, Garrick?" Dumbledore quickly intervened. The apprentice wandmaker looked thoughtful at his question.

"Eight galleons and three knuts." Dumbledore handed over the allotted amount and the wand was placed back in the box and wrapped up per the professor's orders. Tom chanced a look at the Professor to find him resolutely staring at anything but him. Tom hid a frown, his expression going dangerously neutral.

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"Alright, Tom. We need to get your books, next," Professor Dumbledore stated before sweeping out of the shop. Tom went to follow him when he was stopped by a hand on his arm.

"Bring your friend in next time. She'll be needing a wand much sooner than when they'll give one to her." Olivia turned and disappeared into the shadows of the towering stacks of wand boxes.

"She's a Seer," Garrick said from Tom's elbow. "She's running the shop for my father and knows practically nothing about wands." He looked out the window to where Dumbledore was waiting. "Best be off, Mr. Riddle." He bounded off to reorganize a shelf, and Tom exited the shop.

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"Flourish and Blotts is next. It's the biggest bookstore in Diagon Alley and are guaranteed to have all of your school books in stock." Besides that intro, Dumbledore stayed silent the whole walk there. Tom took this time, again, to look around, however this time he didn't do it with reckless abandon. His mind processed all the people and shops at a high speed, making a mental map of everything. When passing Eeylops Owl Emporium, he noticed a dark alleyway marked as Knockturn Alley. A figure wearing a heavy cloak disappeared down it, quickly followed by a white-blonde haired man and his equally white-blonde son.

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