A/N: Okay, new chapter. I always feel weird posting these. I'm afraid that all the people who like the story so far are going to get disappointed and stop reading.... O well. I don't think that it matters that much. Happy reading.

Disclaimer: Jump around, touch the ground, and be happy. I don't know what that has to do with disclaimers, but you should still understand what I was trying to say... or maybe I'm just weird.

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Chapter 3: Wands and Friends

Tiana and Dean slowly walked down Diagon Ally towards Ollivanders, amusing themselves by observing the other people.

"Can you believe that outfit? I would never be caught dead in something like that!" Dean exclaimed after a wizard wearing a particularly strange outfit passed.

Tiana nodded her head in agreement. "Look at her hair," she whispered to Dean.

Dean turned in the direction Tiana was pointing and saw a woman with very little hair. It was styled so that it curled back over her head, but several inches above it. It would have looked like the women had lots of hair, but there was so little of it that you could see her head through it. Dean burst out laughing and was shortly joined by Tiana. Soon they were standing outside Ollivanders.

"Well, we should go in and get our wands then," Tiana said.

"Your wand," Dean corrected.

"Right," Tiana said as she walked into the store. She had been in Ollivanders once before when Uncle Lucius came in to sell some old wands he had lying around his house. Tiana suspected that the wands had once belonged to Aurors and other people that had stood in Lucius' way, but had no way of confirming it.

Mr. Ollivander looked around from the shelf he was behind when he heard the bell. "Ah! Ms. Crystiana.it's been a while, hasn't it? Here to get your wand for school?"

Tiana nodded.

"Good. Mr. Malfoy stopped by only a few minutes ago to buy his. A very good wand if I do say so myself. Well, try this one here," Mr. Ollivander said while pulling various wands of the many shelves. "No...no...hmmm...."

After trying what felt like fifty wands, but was in reality only about fifteen, Tiana's arm began to get tired. After several more wands, Tiana's arm began to go numb. When Dean's count reached thirty-seven, Tiana found a match. Silver and gold sparks shot out of the end. Tiana sighed with relief.

"Ah! One of my finest wands! Redwood, 10 ¾ inches, Dragon Heartstring," Mr. Ollivander said.

"How much will that be?" Tiana asked. Then something occurred to her. "Did Draco pay for his wand?"

"Yes he did. One of his friends got it for him. That will be twelve galleons," Mr. Ollivander told Tiana.

Tiana was surprised by the high price. 'It really must be a special wand to cost so much.' She handed over the money and pocketed her wand. Dean held open the door for Tiana.

"Thanks Dean." Tiana smiled. It was nice to have friends who actually had manners. Tiana had just stepped out the door when somebody bumped into her.

"Oh, Sorry!" The person said.

Tiana looked up to see a girl with auburn hair looking at her. The girl was slightly shorter then Tiana, had lots of freckles, and wore small gold- rimmed glasses.

"It's okay," Tiana told the girl. She moved aside and allowed the girl to head inside. Before Dean closed the door, she could have sworn that she heard the girl say 'Uncle Will....'

Dean stepped away from the door and asked Tiana if there was anything else that she still needed to get.

"Yah...I need to get my robes and my books. I have to meet my aunt and uncle outside Gringotts at five," Tiana told Dean. "Madam Malkin's is the closest, so we should go there first."

Several Hours later, Dean and Tiana were sitting in The Leaky Cauldron talking and drinking pumpkin juice.

"What time is it Dean?" Tiana asked her friend.

"Umm...Almost five. I'll walk you over to Gringotts if you'd like." Dean stood up to walk over with Tiana, but Tiana declined.

"I can go by myself. Besides, you're supposed to meet your parents here at five also. I don't want to make you late." Tiana didn't say that the real reason she didn't want Dean to go with her was that she would get in trouble. Uncle Lucius, Aunt Narcissa, and even Draco would probably want to punish her for talking to a muggleborn. Tiana hated the way that they thought that everybody who wasn't a pureblood was trash. Her mother had brought her up to think that too, but one of her friends was a half-blood and had kept Tiana on the good side of things.

"Ouch!" Tiana had gotten lost in her thoughts and instead of walking through the doorway to open the brick wall, had walked straight into the door. She opened the door and tried again. 'I can't believe I did that! Stupid me. I need to watch where I'm going better.' Tiana tapped the brick that opened the doorway and waited for her way to be clear. She stepped through then weaved her way around the ally to Gringotts.

As she got closer to her goal, she saw Draco talking to his friends, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, or Vince and Greg, as she liked to call them. Uncle Lucius and Aunt Narcissa were nowhere in sight. As Tiana approached, she could hear the three boys talking.

"Then Father told us to shut our mouths and listen. We weren't even saying anything. He is just so unfair sometimes," Draco said.

Greg snickered.

"What's so funny Goyle? That wasn't something to laugh at." Draco snapped.

Greg wasn't looking at Draco though. He was pointing at the witch with the strange hairstyle that Tiana and Dean had noticed earlier. She was trying to tug a young but very overweight girl away from Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor. The girl was crying and kept trying to get back even though she had a large cone of ice cream in her hand. Tiana thought the sight was amusing and apparently, Vince did too. He started laughing so hard that he fell over.

"Oh come on Crabbe, it's not that funny." Draco didn't look amused.

Tiana walked over to where the three were standing. "Hey Draco. Where have you been?"

"I've been with Crabbe and Goyle the whole time. I heard from Parkinson and Bulstrode that you were keeping company with some mudblood boy," Draco sneered.

'So that's why he's in a bad mood.' Tiana sighed. 'I wish Draco would only understand.'

"He's not a mudblood. His name is Dean Thomas, and he is actually nice. He even held the door open for me when I went to get my wand. You, on the other hand, ditched me and didn't even bother to come back and find me." Tiana stated this while handing Draco the bag that held the rest of the money. "And you should pay whomever bought you the rest of your school stuff back now."

"I can't." Draco stated.

"Yes you can! You have money and Greg and Vince are right behind you," Tiana pointed out.

Draco looked agitated. "They didn't pay for my stuff. This one girl with red hair paid for me. I don't know where she went."

Tiana sighed and sat down to wait for her Uncle Lucius and Aunt Narcissa to come get them. Draco, Vince, and Greg all sat too after waiting for about half an hour.

Vince turned to Draco. "Weren't you supposed to be picked up at five? It's-" he paused to look at his wrist, and it took him about a minute to continue talking "four-fifty."

Tiana looked over at his watch. "No, it's five-fifty. You read it wrong."

"Oh," came the reply. This was the reason Tiana liked Greg and Vince. They were a little slow, well, more than a little, but it was also good just to have someone around to talk to. Even if they didn't understand half of what you said. Tiana had long suspected that both Vince and Greg had been dropped on their head several times as babies, but after meeting their parents a few years ago had realized that it was just genetics.

About another half an hour went by with no sign of Uncle Lucius or Aunt Narcissa in silence. Finally Draco spoke up.

"Do you think that Father wants us to go back into Knockturn Ally to look for him? Maybe Mother told us wrong," Draco sounded slightly worried, but no sign of emotion showed on his face.

"No, we had better wait here. I hate Knockturn Ally and there are too many shady people in there. Not to mention that Aunt Narcissa would love to have an excuse to lock me in my room for a week." Tiana told Draco.

At seven o'clock Vince and Greg left with their respective families and Tiana and Draco were left alone. Tiana pulled out one of her new books and began to read. Draco followed suit shortly. After a long while, after the Ally was mostly abandoned and the sky was dark, Tiana drifted off to sleep.

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A/N: A big thanks to all my reviewers.

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