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Never had a dream come true

1 Chapter 6 Getting Started

A month later Late July

Thirteen long hours. There she was. London Heathrow Airport.

She didn't have a lot of luggage with her, as she knew most of the her clothes would not be suitable for her new job anyway, most of her luggage were actually full of books and teaching materials she had prepared. She met McGonagnall in the Departure terminal and headed for central London in a cab.

"Do you have a good flight, dear?"

"Yes, I slept through the whole journey, which is quite rare for me. But I don't feel that tired like the past few times."

"Oh, right. I heard Dumbledore said that you studied in England for your degree."

Then McGonagnall started to tell her more about the magical world, about muggles, floo powder, wands, brooms, Gringotts, Harry Potter, Voldermot etc.

"Well, here we are. King's Cross station. We are getting off here to go to Leaky Cauldron to leave your stuff there before we go shopping for the things you need. By the way, we are going to stay there for tonight, and then head back to Hogwarts tomorrow."

They paid and got off the cab and Eve followed McGonagnall walking through the streets. Although she had been studying in England for three years, she had never been to London before. Therefore she could only depend on McGonagnall to lead the way.

Ten minutes later, they arrived at Leaky Cauldron. It was not a really significant shop on the street, but it might possibly be the best way of keeping it from muggle's interest. Anyway, they went inside and checked in their rooms and left Eve's luggage there.

McGonagnall then brought her to Gringotts to open a bank account, and changed her muggle money into galleon, sickles and knuts. She deposited most of the money back into her account, and left some with her, which McGonagnall said that amount would be more than enough for her to use for a year.

After they left Gringotts, Eve asked, "Professor, where are we going now?"

"Oh, Eve, do call me Minerva. Although I will be your teacher, but we are also going to be colleagues."

"Okay, Minerva. Where are you going now then?"

"We need to go get you some robes, cloaks, then things you need to get started with your studies, a broom, and a wand. Well, as for text books, you can use the staff books anyway. No need to buy. Let's start with buying some clothes first."

They went into a shop which sell robes, and McGonagnall seemed to know the sales there. Eve tried quite a number of different robes, and felt like she was back to the days when her mom would take her to buy clothes and said everything looks great on her. Well, McGonagnall was doing the same thing anyway. Although Eve loved blue and black, McGonagnall insisted that she should buy some other colours like yellow and red, while all the sales in the shop agreed with her. In the end she bought five robes --- one red, one green, two blue and one black, and also a thick cloak for winter and two pairs of buttoned boots.

Then they left to buy a broom. She decided to buy a Nimbus two thousand and one, which was a rather old model, but she thought it was good enough already. They bought things needed for her potions lessons, which interestingly, McGonagnall seemed to have a bit of hate towards the potion professor --- Severus Snape.

Lastly, they went to buy her wand. They entered a shop called Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C. After they entered, there came an old male voice, "Good Afternoon."

"Good Afternoon, Ollivander." said McGonagnall.

"Good Afternoon, sir." Eve said.

Ollivander came out from the counter and shook hands with Eve. "So, Minerva, is this girl the new Muggle Studies teacher?"

"Yes, her name is Eve Ho."

"Well, nice to meet you Miss Ho. I have been waiting for you since last month, as Dumbledore informed me that I will encounter another tricky task after Harry Potter."

"Huh?" she looked back at McGonagnall, but she had no idea what either.

"Don't worry. We'll find a wand suitable for you, but let me have some measurements first." Then he pulled out his tape ruler and made measurements around her body. When he finished, he had taken out some of the wands for her to try, but none of them would do. They tried more and more, but still couldn't find one. When they almost gave up, Ollivander said, "Well, I still have one left, but I am not really confident if it will go with you... well, we have to try it. It is really a tricky one."

He went back behind the counter again into the back, and came out with a wand in his hand. "Try this one."

When Eve picked it up, she knew it was made for her, it kind of felt like it was originally a part of her, and illusions of phoenix and dragon swirling around her.

"Well, this is your wand then. It is a pretty good one. I would say you shocked me actually. Twelve inches, made of phoenix tail feather and heartstrings of dragons. Really tricky, as you are Chinese, and phoenix and dragons have been in the Chinese Myths for so long, so you could handle it so good, with such a rare combination. You also got to have a clear mind and strong-will to have the wand to choose you. After all, the wand chooses the witch or wizard."

They paid for the wand and went back to Leaky Cauldron for dinner.

After dinner, they went to their room to rest after such a busy day, and getting ready to go to Hogwarts tomorrow.

TBC

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