Chapter Two- The Wand Chooses the Wizard Mr. Adams Foster.
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"Are we there yet?" Jesus asked as they were flying over the Atlantic.
"Not yet, we still have about a half hour." Steph said as they continued flying.
"I don't understand why we couldn't use floo powder." Jude said.
"Because it's a family tradition that we fly over the Atlantic when someone gets their letter honey." Steph explained. "Besides, it's absolutely gorgeous out today look how clear the water is!" as she flew down closer to the water skimming over the water so the wheels of the car touched the surface. Callie rolled down her window and enjoyed the water spraying around her face.
"Alright, we are going to divide and conquer in order to make this a successful trip." Steph said once she had flown the car back up into the air. "Jude will be with me because we have to go to Olivanders. Callie and Brandon are in charge of finding their books. Marianna and Jude find the books you need. We'll meet up at the Leaky Cauldron for lunch and then Jude gets to spend his birthday money on something that he wants."
"I want something." Jesus said
"Well you should have saved your money like Jude did instead of spending it on Wizard Cards." Steph said as the car touched down on a deserted back road that would take them to the London Streets and their destination.
Jude looked down at his feet, nervous about what Jesus would say about his new cat. Especially when he found out that it was going to be a kitten. Hopefully anyways. Jude didn't want a grown cat. He wanted a kitten so he could grow up with it. When Jude attended Anchor Beach, he didn't have many friends. He stuck to himself and things mostly turned out ok. Steph and Lena were excited when Jude got his letter because he would be put in a house with a family of kids that would hopefully integrate Jude to hang out with him.
"Alright we're here!" Steph said with a smile. She parked the car and the Adams Foster clan piled out of the car. "Callie and Brandon, you take Jesus and Marianna with you to Flourish and Blotts and Jude and I will head to Olivanders." Steph said, authority ringing in her voice.
The kids nodded at her and went into a small run down pub called the Leaky Cauldron. When they got inside, Steph waved her wand and her witches robes appeared on her, the police uniform vanishing back into the car. The kids walked back to the wall that would take them to Diagon Alley after waving a quick hello to Hannah Longbottom, the new bar keep of the Leaky Cauldron. When they got to the back, Steph took out her wand and tapped the bricks with it.
"Three up, two across…" Steph muttered and then took a step back. The brick wall shuddered and the bricks started moving, revealing the pathway to
"Welcome Jude, to Diagon Alley." The entire family said to him with a smile on their faces.
Jude looked around in amazement. He had never really paid attention to the Alley before, there was nothing there for him to really be interested in besides the sweet shop. He looked at the different shops, The Apothecary, Flourish and Blotts, Eeylops Owl Emporium, and the two that Jude was most excited to see, Olivanders and the Magical Menagerie.
"Mom, I need more potion supplies." Marianna said.
"We can make all the stops we need to love." Steph said. "I won't send you off to school unprepared."
Just as Steph was saying this, a man and a boy walked up to the Foster clan. The man was tall, with broad shoulders, and the boy was about Jude's age. The boy smiled shyly and waved gently towards the Fosters. The man, however…
"Look here lady, I don't need you and your family clogging up the archway. Now will you kindly get out of our way?" The man said angrily.
"Excuse me?" Steph said angrily, her hand twitching, slowly moving towards her pocket where her wand was resting.
"Did your husband not teach you manners?" The man goaded, keeping a wary eye on where Steph's hand was headed.
"Dad can you not do this here?" The boy asked, with a pleading look in his eye.
"Be quiet Connor. Women need to learn their place." The man said with an angry glint in his eye.
Steph angrily looked at the man "My wife and I do not promote gender roles or outdated stereotypes." She said angrily. "C'mon kids lets go." Steph said smirking inwardly at the dumbfound look on the man. She couldn't help but feel sorry for the kid, Connor was it? He mouthed sorry to her and she smiled at him before glaring angrily at his father.
"If I ever see you again, I expect you to be cordial to me. Do you understand?" Steph said.
"Who are you?" The man asked.
"Oh no." Brandon muttered.
"Here we go." Callie and Marianna said.
"My name is Stephanie Adams Foster. Auror. I report directly to the Minister of Magic himself." She spat out at the man.
"Oh beg pardon Madame Auror." The man apologized rapidly, trying to regain his composure after finding out the woman was an Auror. "My name is Adam Stevens."
"Well Mr. Stevens, it seems like you are blocking my children's path so that we cannot proceed." Steph said, her voice so cold she could have refrozen the ice caps.
"Connor get out of the way." The man barked at his son. Jude noticed how scared Connor was of his dad. Steph just glared at the man and very calmly, told the kids to get going. The man and his son walked through the archway back into the Leaky Cauldron.
"Some people." Steph muttered angrily under her breath. Realizing the kids were watching her, she quickly regained her composure and gave the kids some silver Sickles and a few gold Galleons.
"Here kids, go to Flourish and Blotts first, and get the books, if you have enough to replenish potion supplies go for it. If not, wait for Jude and me." Steph said trying to show the kids that she was over the incident that just happened. The kids nodded slowly, and walked off to the store, shocked at how their mother handled that creep.
"That boy looked so afraid." Jude whispered looking up at Steph.
'I know honey. Thankfully he had a copy of the Standard Book of Spells: Grade 1, so he'll be in your class. And away from that creep." Steph added on as an afterthought.
"I think I'll try to be his friend. I'll see if I can find him on the train." Jude said with a smile towards Steph.
"I think that's a lovely idea honey." Steph said with a smile on her face. "Now come on, I think I promised you a trip to Olivanders." Jude's face lit up when Steph said that and grabbed her hand and, like an excitable puppy, drug Steph to the most famous wand shop in the entire world. Olivanders.
"Hello?" Jude asked walking into the shop ahead of Steph, who couldn't keep a smile off her face as her youngest son went into the shop to get the very item that would start his magical journey, like the four before him, and Steph and Lena before them.
"Why hello Mr. and Mrs. Adams Foster." A voice said from nowhere. Jude looked around anxiously for the store keep.
"I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr. Adams Foster. I've sold wands that have done great and terrible things. Terrible yes. But great." Mr. Ollivander said with a smile on his face as he walked out from around a corner in the shop. "Hello Mrs. Adams Foster, it's lovely to see you again. I presume this is the last time you will be bringing a child into my shop?"
"Yes Mr. Ollivander." Steph said with a smile on her face. "This is our youngest, Jude."
"Well Jude, I daresay we shall find you a wand. Or rather the wand will find you." Mr. Ollivander said cryptically. Jude looked at him with a bewildered look on his face.
"How about this one. Birch and Dragon Heartstring. 8 and a half inches. Unyielding."
Jude took the wand from Mr. Olivander, waved and, and before Jude could do anything else, Mr. Ollivander snatched it out of his hand.
"That wand is most definitely not for you." Said Mr. Ollivander. And so the process went. Jude spent over an hour trying out wands, a look of desperation coming across his face. And he was worried. The others had returned from Flourish and Blotts and were waiting on Jude to go to the apothecary.
"A tricky customer eh?" Mr. Ollivander said with a smile on his face.
"Maybe he's not a wizard." Jesus said making Jude's face flush with anger.
"Shut up Jesus." Marianna said. "Take your time Judicorn."
"Judicorn?" said Mr. Ollivander. But before Jude could replay, he went off to the back of the store again, bringing out a wand muttering "I wonder….".
He gave Jude the wand case saying "Willow and Unicorn Hair. 10 inches. Nice and supple."
Jude took the wand and sparks flew out of the wand. Jude felt a warmth running up his arm as a cloud of smoke rolled around his feet.
"I think we found our wand Mr. Adams Foster." Mr. Ollivander said.
"Mr. Ollivander, can I ask you something?" Jude asked looking at the wand that was lying in his hand.
"Anything, my dear boy." Mr. Ollivander said
"Why did you give me this one? Why didn't the others work? And why does whats inside the wand matter?"
"To answer the first question Mr. Adams Foster, the wand chooses the wizard. It's not always clear as to why. And as for the second question, you will have to discover your wands personality and see how it matches up." Mr. Ollivander answered cryptically.
Jude looked at Mr. Ollivander with a smile and said thank you. Steph paid for the wand and then the Foster family exited the fabled wand shop.
"Well what do you think bud?" Brandon asked his youngest sibling.
Jude looked from Brandon to Steph and asked "Can we go to the Magical Menagerie now?"
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