The Fourth Musketeer
By bitmaxmouse
Disclaimers: Harry Potter and Smallville don't belong to me. Both belong to their respective writers and companies. I am not making a profit out of this.
Note: If you have such a huge problem with this story… don't read it! Unless you're a masochist… idiot (in which case, your bitter diatribes won't even be considered before being fed to Loki).
~~~
The next morning (… well, it was actually nearly noon.) Chloe and Annie set out to Daigon Alley to purchase Chloe's school supplies. The streets were full or bustling people who were also there for the same reason as Chloe. Most of them were wearing robes that looked like her mother's and there were a few who wore witch and wizard hats. There were others (that were a year younger), like Chloe, who were wearing normal Muggle clothes since they were also starting Hogwarts that year.
Annie smiled as she walked along the busy street, "Good, it's not so crowded yet. I suspect it'll be worse this afternoon."
Annie first took Chloe to Gringotts since she only had Muggle currency on her and she hadn't drawn any money out of Gringotts for over a decade. As they walked by the many tables and teller windows with frighteningly vicious and short looking creatures, Chloe edged closer to her mom. And she barely resisted the urge to grab onto her mother's robes like a child. Annie turned to Chloe and gave her a reassuring pat, "Don't worry, Goblins won't hurt you unless you intend on stealing from them."
But that still didn't make Chloe feel any better as she noticed a few that were glowering at her under their small spectacles. Annie ended up walking up to the teller at the very end of the bank. He was bigger than the rest of the Goblins and was sitting in front of an enormous book. Annie regarded him neutrally, "I'd like to make a withdrawal from the Goldman account."
The Goblin nodded and held his gnarled hand out, "Key."
Annie pulled a small golden key from her pocket and handed it to the Goblin. He then looked at it and nodded as he called a smaller Goblin over to lead them to the vault.
~~~
Chloe wobbled a bit as she and her mother walked out of the bank, the ride to their vault was pretty cool, but a bit disorienting after a while since it all happened in the dark.
Annie was now holding a satchel full of Galleons and was ready to buy Chloe's supplies. First they went to the clothes shop and bought Chloe a three black robes and one deep red robe with dark copper buttons. Then they went off to find other clothing such as uniforms. All the uniforms were the same. The odd thing that Chloe noticed was that the badges on the uniforms were completely white and so were a lot of the ties. Annie explained that they would magically change into their correct house colors once they had been sorted.
As the two of them walked over to Ollivanders, Annie described the four houses of Hogwarts to Chloe. After listening a while, Chloe quietly tried to decide whether she wanted to be in Gryffindor or Ravenclaw. Then Chloe thought about her friends. 'Lana would probably be a Slytherin, Whitney would be a Hufflepuff, Pete would probably be a Ravenclaw since he was such a smart-ass (not in a good way), and Clark… Clark would be all nice and too loyal, so he'd be a Gryffindor.'
The sound of Annie's voice broke through Chloe's thoughts, 'We're here."
Ollivander's was dark and musty, unlike the brightly lit robes store. The owner, Mr. Ollivander was quite old and seemed overly obsessed with wands. As Chloe stood in front of him, she lowered his glasses and looked at her, and then bumbled away to look for a suitable wand.
7 wands and a chaotically messy shop later…
Ollivander pulled out a nice mahogany wood wand and handed it to Chloe. Chloe felt a bit of warmth and then swished it. Ollivander beamed, "Ah! There we are!"
Then he held out his hand and gently took the wand from Chloe and boxed it so that she could take it. As he handed her the box he smiled and told her about it, "Ten inches. Pliable. Great for Transfiguration! I bet you'll have a great time in McGonagall's class."
Chloe beamed and took the box and held it possessively to her chest, "Thank you."
Ollivander beamed at her, "Great doing business with you Miss."
~~~
The final store Chloe and Annie went to was Eeylops Owl Emporium. At first, Chloe considered getting a cat as a girl passed by her with a tabby. But then as she thought about it, she realized that this was a once in a lifetime chance to have a tame owl. Besides, owls could also carry letters.
After about twenty minutes of shopping, Chloe set herself on a Northern Hawk Owl. He was quite handsome with mostly white feathers that had brown tips, his two wings were a nice coffee brown, he had two black lines framing his face, making him look very alert and he had a nice long tail.
He was actually very nice as he kept hooting softy and rubbing his head against her cheek. They had also purchased a cage for him, but he seemed perfectly content sitting on Chloe's shoulders, so she didn't force him into the cage.
As Chloe and Annie walked out of the Owl Emporium with Chloe's new familiar, Annie turned to Chloe and asked, "So, what are you going to name him?"
"Well, he's really handsome… I've been thinking… maybe Apollo."
Annie smiled, "Apollo sounds good."
Chloe rubbed Apollo's head gently and he gave an appreciative hoot.
Then Annie pulled a letter out of her pocket, "Let's use Apollo and sent your Statement of Intent letter to Hogwarts then."
Chloe nodded, a bit sad to part with her Owl so soon, but it was important business and he looked rather proud over the fact that they were already going to send him off on his first mission.
~~~
(the next day)
Chloe and Annie quickly rushed back to Diagon Alley the next morning to purchase books since there were supposedly going to sell the Lockhart books at a cheaper price the next day, "Six Galleons a book," Annie had muttered as they left the bookstore yesterday, "His crap isn't even worth half a sickle if you ask me. Out of all the rubbish in there, there's probably only one spell in there that actually works. At least they're half off tomorrow. Let's hope we can beat the crowd, buy the book and get out of there."
Unfortunately, even at nine in the morning, the bookstore was already crowded. Chloe rolled her eyes, "Oh great…"
There was an idiotic blond man at the end of the bookstore harassing a dirty looking boy with glasses and messy brown hair. Lockhart quickly grabbed the boy's arm and made a couple of ridiculous poses in front of the camera. Chloe raised an eyebrow, "Lockhart I presume."
Annie nodded, she looked incredibly irritable at the moment. They two of them maneuvered around the hordes of women going up to Lockhart for autograph and managed to get their books and pay for them. As they exited. They saw a tall blond man starting a fight with a shorter red haired man with freckles. Chloe's mother gave an angry huff as he muttered, "God dammit Lucius." And strode over to break up the fight.
Annie managed to walk around the two belligerent men without being noticed and the came up behind Lucius and gave him a light tap on the shoulder. Lucius froze and spun around with a furious look on his face. Chloe gasped, afraid that he might hurt her mother.
Lucius let out a roar as turned around, "Who dares touch m-"
He stopped mid-sentence and gaped, "Golden?"
Annie had a bored look on her face and nodded, "Nice to see you again Lucius. Still on probation? I'd watch it if I were you. Wouldn't want me to call up Moody."
Lucius growled and stood up straighter as he looked down at Annie, "I thought you retired and ran off with a useless Muggle."
"I did. But the Ministry called me back. Besides, we're not getting along."
"Oh?" Lucius sounded a bit interested.
Suddenly a blond looking boy watching from the stares interrupted rudely, "Who's that father?"
Lucius smirked, "That's Annie Golden, the only Gryffindor I've ever met that didn't like Gryffindors and excelled far too well in the Dark Arts classes. I could never figure why you ran off with a Muggle." His voice had turned condescending.
Annie rolled here eyes, then looked up at the platinum haired boy and quickly changed the subject, "Narcissa's?"
Lucius raised a brow, "Not a bad guess."
Annie mad a face and then started to laugh, "You have terrible taste you women you know that?"
"I could say the same about you. A Muggle?"
Annie shrugged, "At least my 'soon to be ex' has a job. What do you these days, hang around the Ministry and be Fudge's lapdog?"
Had it been anyone else, Lucius would have pulled out his wand and blasted them away, but this was Annie… instead, he smirked, "Still got that nasty tongue of yours. Someone ought to do the world a favor and cut it out."
With that Lucius gestured towards Draco and the two of them exited the bookstore.
Mr. Weasley, who had finally gathered his bearings, was glaring at Annie, "Hello Mrs. Golden." His voice was cold.
"Hello Weasley." Annie's voice was just as cold and a bit like Lucius'.
Mrs. Weasley also managed a weak glare and then shuffled off her children, Harry Potter and Hermione.
Chloe walked up to her mom, "What's wrong with them?"
Annie shrugged and then looked a bit abashed, "I'll explain on the train ride to Hogwarts."
cont...
By bitmaxmouse
Disclaimers: Harry Potter and Smallville don't belong to me. Both belong to their respective writers and companies. I am not making a profit out of this.
Note: If you have such a huge problem with this story… don't read it! Unless you're a masochist… idiot (in which case, your bitter diatribes won't even be considered before being fed to Loki).
~~~
The next morning (… well, it was actually nearly noon.) Chloe and Annie set out to Daigon Alley to purchase Chloe's school supplies. The streets were full or bustling people who were also there for the same reason as Chloe. Most of them were wearing robes that looked like her mother's and there were a few who wore witch and wizard hats. There were others (that were a year younger), like Chloe, who were wearing normal Muggle clothes since they were also starting Hogwarts that year.
Annie smiled as she walked along the busy street, "Good, it's not so crowded yet. I suspect it'll be worse this afternoon."
Annie first took Chloe to Gringotts since she only had Muggle currency on her and she hadn't drawn any money out of Gringotts for over a decade. As they walked by the many tables and teller windows with frighteningly vicious and short looking creatures, Chloe edged closer to her mom. And she barely resisted the urge to grab onto her mother's robes like a child. Annie turned to Chloe and gave her a reassuring pat, "Don't worry, Goblins won't hurt you unless you intend on stealing from them."
But that still didn't make Chloe feel any better as she noticed a few that were glowering at her under their small spectacles. Annie ended up walking up to the teller at the very end of the bank. He was bigger than the rest of the Goblins and was sitting in front of an enormous book. Annie regarded him neutrally, "I'd like to make a withdrawal from the Goldman account."
The Goblin nodded and held his gnarled hand out, "Key."
Annie pulled a small golden key from her pocket and handed it to the Goblin. He then looked at it and nodded as he called a smaller Goblin over to lead them to the vault.
~~~
Chloe wobbled a bit as she and her mother walked out of the bank, the ride to their vault was pretty cool, but a bit disorienting after a while since it all happened in the dark.
Annie was now holding a satchel full of Galleons and was ready to buy Chloe's supplies. First they went to the clothes shop and bought Chloe a three black robes and one deep red robe with dark copper buttons. Then they went off to find other clothing such as uniforms. All the uniforms were the same. The odd thing that Chloe noticed was that the badges on the uniforms were completely white and so were a lot of the ties. Annie explained that they would magically change into their correct house colors once they had been sorted.
As the two of them walked over to Ollivanders, Annie described the four houses of Hogwarts to Chloe. After listening a while, Chloe quietly tried to decide whether she wanted to be in Gryffindor or Ravenclaw. Then Chloe thought about her friends. 'Lana would probably be a Slytherin, Whitney would be a Hufflepuff, Pete would probably be a Ravenclaw since he was such a smart-ass (not in a good way), and Clark… Clark would be all nice and too loyal, so he'd be a Gryffindor.'
The sound of Annie's voice broke through Chloe's thoughts, 'We're here."
Ollivander's was dark and musty, unlike the brightly lit robes store. The owner, Mr. Ollivander was quite old and seemed overly obsessed with wands. As Chloe stood in front of him, she lowered his glasses and looked at her, and then bumbled away to look for a suitable wand.
7 wands and a chaotically messy shop later…
Ollivander pulled out a nice mahogany wood wand and handed it to Chloe. Chloe felt a bit of warmth and then swished it. Ollivander beamed, "Ah! There we are!"
Then he held out his hand and gently took the wand from Chloe and boxed it so that she could take it. As he handed her the box he smiled and told her about it, "Ten inches. Pliable. Great for Transfiguration! I bet you'll have a great time in McGonagall's class."
Chloe beamed and took the box and held it possessively to her chest, "Thank you."
Ollivander beamed at her, "Great doing business with you Miss."
~~~
The final store Chloe and Annie went to was Eeylops Owl Emporium. At first, Chloe considered getting a cat as a girl passed by her with a tabby. But then as she thought about it, she realized that this was a once in a lifetime chance to have a tame owl. Besides, owls could also carry letters.
After about twenty minutes of shopping, Chloe set herself on a Northern Hawk Owl. He was quite handsome with mostly white feathers that had brown tips, his two wings were a nice coffee brown, he had two black lines framing his face, making him look very alert and he had a nice long tail.
He was actually very nice as he kept hooting softy and rubbing his head against her cheek. They had also purchased a cage for him, but he seemed perfectly content sitting on Chloe's shoulders, so she didn't force him into the cage.
As Chloe and Annie walked out of the Owl Emporium with Chloe's new familiar, Annie turned to Chloe and asked, "So, what are you going to name him?"
"Well, he's really handsome… I've been thinking… maybe Apollo."
Annie smiled, "Apollo sounds good."
Chloe rubbed Apollo's head gently and he gave an appreciative hoot.
Then Annie pulled a letter out of her pocket, "Let's use Apollo and sent your Statement of Intent letter to Hogwarts then."
Chloe nodded, a bit sad to part with her Owl so soon, but it was important business and he looked rather proud over the fact that they were already going to send him off on his first mission.
~~~
(the next day)
Chloe and Annie quickly rushed back to Diagon Alley the next morning to purchase books since there were supposedly going to sell the Lockhart books at a cheaper price the next day, "Six Galleons a book," Annie had muttered as they left the bookstore yesterday, "His crap isn't even worth half a sickle if you ask me. Out of all the rubbish in there, there's probably only one spell in there that actually works. At least they're half off tomorrow. Let's hope we can beat the crowd, buy the book and get out of there."
Unfortunately, even at nine in the morning, the bookstore was already crowded. Chloe rolled her eyes, "Oh great…"
There was an idiotic blond man at the end of the bookstore harassing a dirty looking boy with glasses and messy brown hair. Lockhart quickly grabbed the boy's arm and made a couple of ridiculous poses in front of the camera. Chloe raised an eyebrow, "Lockhart I presume."
Annie nodded, she looked incredibly irritable at the moment. They two of them maneuvered around the hordes of women going up to Lockhart for autograph and managed to get their books and pay for them. As they exited. They saw a tall blond man starting a fight with a shorter red haired man with freckles. Chloe's mother gave an angry huff as he muttered, "God dammit Lucius." And strode over to break up the fight.
Annie managed to walk around the two belligerent men without being noticed and the came up behind Lucius and gave him a light tap on the shoulder. Lucius froze and spun around with a furious look on his face. Chloe gasped, afraid that he might hurt her mother.
Lucius let out a roar as turned around, "Who dares touch m-"
He stopped mid-sentence and gaped, "Golden?"
Annie had a bored look on her face and nodded, "Nice to see you again Lucius. Still on probation? I'd watch it if I were you. Wouldn't want me to call up Moody."
Lucius growled and stood up straighter as he looked down at Annie, "I thought you retired and ran off with a useless Muggle."
"I did. But the Ministry called me back. Besides, we're not getting along."
"Oh?" Lucius sounded a bit interested.
Suddenly a blond looking boy watching from the stares interrupted rudely, "Who's that father?"
Lucius smirked, "That's Annie Golden, the only Gryffindor I've ever met that didn't like Gryffindors and excelled far too well in the Dark Arts classes. I could never figure why you ran off with a Muggle." His voice had turned condescending.
Annie rolled here eyes, then looked up at the platinum haired boy and quickly changed the subject, "Narcissa's?"
Lucius raised a brow, "Not a bad guess."
Annie mad a face and then started to laugh, "You have terrible taste you women you know that?"
"I could say the same about you. A Muggle?"
Annie shrugged, "At least my 'soon to be ex' has a job. What do you these days, hang around the Ministry and be Fudge's lapdog?"
Had it been anyone else, Lucius would have pulled out his wand and blasted them away, but this was Annie… instead, he smirked, "Still got that nasty tongue of yours. Someone ought to do the world a favor and cut it out."
With that Lucius gestured towards Draco and the two of them exited the bookstore.
Mr. Weasley, who had finally gathered his bearings, was glaring at Annie, "Hello Mrs. Golden." His voice was cold.
"Hello Weasley." Annie's voice was just as cold and a bit like Lucius'.
Mrs. Weasley also managed a weak glare and then shuffled off her children, Harry Potter and Hermione.
Chloe walked up to her mom, "What's wrong with them?"
Annie shrugged and then looked a bit abashed, "I'll explain on the train ride to Hogwarts."
cont...