After Paisley had sent back her reply to the school on the twenty-fifth of July, Virginia rethought her plans for the opening of her new store that was coming up in two weeks. She decided that her and Paisley would go a few days earlier so that they could get Paisley's supplies and they'd meet Charlene, Karl, Anne, Phoebe and Charlie-Jo at the hotel on the day of the opening so that they could get ready. The staff of Virginia's fashion house base only knew that Paisley had been accepted into an extremely private school in the north, nothing else. Virginia had explained the need of not telling people about Hogwarts to Paisley as much as she could without revealing herself as a witch who tried to forget her past.
Virginia was in her attic, sitting by a small trunk which held the most prized possessions of hers and Paisley's life. It was sitting open and Virginia was looking at each of the items, Paisley's first teeth, the baby bracelet that Elsa had gotten Paisley after she was born for the christening, Virginia had never regretted appointing Elsa as Paisley's God-Mother. Other item included trinkets and a charm bracelet which she had in her previous life as a witch; she had a new charm bracelet now, as did Paisley. The ring Harry had proposed to her with was in the box also, as well as the one thing she wanted to remain hidden forever.
Her wand.
It was eleven inches, maple, thin, core of unicorn hair and great for defence. That's what Oliver had told her and it had defended her well in the forbidden forest when her, Harry, Ron and Hermione had gone in blindly to search for clues that helped them uncover a load of Slytherin's who were Death Eaters secretly in her sixth year. She remembered it as though it were yesterday.
"Harry… I don't like this." Hermione whispered, her wand out and guiding the way.
"Mione! Shh!" Ron hissed, Hermione glared at her boyfriend but said nothing.
"Shh!" Harry exclaimed from the front, Ginny and him had been going out for a while and were used to their friends bickering.
Ginny could here quiet talking from up ahead and watched as Harry motioned them all to be quiet. He crept up ahead and indicated them to come forward as he peered through some bushes, what shocked Ginny the most was that there were people in the forest, not centaurs, not the giant spiders, Hogwarts students. More specifically, Crabbe, Goyle and Pansy Parkinson.
"The Dark Lord wants us to do it so we shall!" Parkinson shrieked. "So let's go do our job! We have to kill that little slut Weasley if we're to live through this." Ginny's face paled of colour as Pansy continued ranting. The other three looked at her before Harry shot out.
"Stupefy!" He shouted, knocking down Crabbe. Parkinson reacted quickly and started firing random curses as Hermione, Ron and Ginny joined the fray. Parkinson faced Ginny and screamed "Crucio!", Ginny quickly ducked and cast a bat bogey curse before shouting out the most random curse to appear in her mind at that moment, "Confundo!". Pansy looked around in bewilderment.
"Good going Gin!" Ron congratulated.
Virginia was glad that Paisley wasn't home, she was spending the day with Charlene and the girls from the shop, seeing a movie and getting an ice cream, then having a girly sleepover. The girls loved Paisley to bits, like big sisters would, they argued, they had fun and they were there for each other.
The two weeks past quickly after Virginia buried her wand back into the box. Soon, they were on their way to Diagon Alley.
Virginia played dumb about knowing here it was and let her daughter drag her into the Leaky Cauldron. Virginia talked to Tom, the bar keeper and asked for a room before the two deposited their bags and made their way out back, where Tom told them how to enter Diagon Alley. It really scared Virginia that he was going on about recognising her from somewhere, she had only gotten away with it by saying she was famous in the muggle world.
Virginia and Paisley walked down the street towards Gringotts, Virginia tried to act ignorant to this world but as Paisley was too busy trying to look in all directions, Virginia wasn't noticed.
"C'mon, Tom said that Gringotts is the big white building." Virginia instructed, dragging her daughter through the doors of the bank, but not after reminding her daughter discreetly not to stare at the goblins.
The two approached a free desk.
"Yes?" The goblin asked.
"Um… Hi, we came to exchange some money." Virginia stated.
"How much exactly?" The goblin asked.
"Five hundred for the time being." Virginia stated, unloading wads of cash onto the desk. The goblin silently counted the money before exchanging it.
"Five hundred muggle sterling into eighty galleons, two hundred and seventy-six sickles and two thousand knuts." The goblin informed them, shovelling the money into a seemingly endless leather pouch before handing it to them.
"Good day to you to." Paisley grumbled. Virginia giggled and pushed Paisley out of the shop.
"Where to first then?" Virginia asked, latching the pouch onto her waistband.
"Um…" Paisley checked her list. "Uniform or equipment first?"
"Uniform." Virginia said, Paisley nodded and scanned her uniform list.
"Where would we buy this stuff?" She asked, Virginia scanned the list also.
"Robes." She muttered, "How about a robe shop?" She said sarcastically, Paisley rolled her eyes.
"Oh, look!" Paisley pointed to a shop. "Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions!"
Virginia and Paisley went to the shop and as they opened the door, a woman was immediately upon them.
"Ahh, Hogwarts m'dear?" The woman asked, Paisley nodded nervously and was ushered over to a stool, Virginia sat next to a woman in a chair at the side and sighed.
"Oh, hello." The black haired woman said kindly.
"Morning." Virginia said with a smile.
"I'm sorry, but is that your daughter?" The woman asked, Virginia nodded, slightly confused. "My, you look too young to be a mother." She stated. "I'm Elizabeth Teir."
"Virginia Summers." Virginia stated politely.
"Is it her first year?" Elizabeth asked, Virginia nodded. "My daughter's going into first year also." Elizabeth stated, nodding at the girl who was standing nervously on the other stool.
Paisley stood on the stool and glanced at the pretty raven-haired girl next to her.
"Hey, I'm Paisley." She said cheerfully. The girl turned to her.
"Chenyce." She told Paisley. "Is it your first year at Hogwarts too?"
"Yeah, I didn't even know about it." Paisley said, "I'm probably gonna fail."
"No your not." Chenyce stated knowingly, "Your muggleborn obviously, there are bound to be other muggleborns. Though you wouldn't want to be in Slytherin, my brother said they are all evil sods."
"Oh." Paisley muttered, a bit confused with the strange word the girl was using.
"Got your wand yet?" Chenyce asked, Paisley shook her head.
"This is the first store me and my Mum have been too." She explained.
"Cool, mine and my Mum's too. Wanna come around with us?" Chenyce asked.
"Sure." Paisley replied happily, she wanted to make new friends desperately, so she wasn't alone on her first day. "Shouldn't we ask our Mum's first though?" The two girls glanced over at their mothers, who were chatting.
"Nah, I'm sure they wouldn't mind the arrangement." Chenyce stated, Paisley grinned and nodded.
The two girls walked out of Madam Malkin's sometime after. They were going to go get all of their books before going to get their supplies for potions and other equipment, then they'd go get their wands.
The girls were having a great time and Virginia was having fun talking to the woman who reminded her of her mother, before she was turned out.
They carried on popping into different stores, just chatting, until they went to the emporium for a pet.
"Oh Mum!" Paisley exclaimed, running out of the shop before the two mothers had a chance o enter, Paisley grabbed Virginia's hand and dragged her into the shop, Elizabeth chuckled and followed. "Look! Isn't she adorable?" Virginia gasped, she had never seen anything as gorgeous as it.
It was curled up, asleep, in its cage, its little head resting on its paws. It was a tiny kitten, a tiny powder pink kitten, the colour of cherry blossoms.
"Oh my." Virginia muttered. Elizabeth came up behind her.
"Oh, that is a cute little thing." She commented, "Chenyce wants an owl, so you don't have to mind about her stealing that little thing." Virginia smiled.
"It says that I can have a cat Mum, can I have her? She's beautiful." Paisley said in awe, the tiny kitten, which was no bigger than seven inches. The kitten yawned and lifted its head up, looking at her company curiously.
"Yeah. Of course, it's your decision." Virginia replied, "Sure you don't want an owl?"
"Positive." Paisley stated, Virginia smiled and approached the counter.
"Hi, I'd like to buy the kitten over there." She said to the kind looking woman behind the counter.
"Oh? She's one of a kind she is." The woman stated, following Virginia back to the cage, "You never see cats of that colour anymore."
"How old is she?" Paisley asked as the woman came over.
"She's just over six weeks, so you'll have to take care of her." The woman stated, Paisley nodded enthusiastically.
"I will." She said.
"Good." The lady replied, opening the cage. She carefully picked the kitten up and handed her gently to Paisley, who cradled the tiny creature. "Would you like any cat care items?"
"Yes, we'll need the lot I'm afraid." Virginia said, the lady smiled and just walked back to the counter.
"No problem. That'd be feeding bowl, food, treats, litter tray, litter and travel cage." The lady told Virginia as she got the various things. "I'll do you a deal on them as your new here, eight galleons."
"Is that good?" Paisley asked Chenyce in a whisper, the other girl nodded.
"Okay then, thanks." Virginia said with a smile, handing over the money and taking the items which had been put into a shrinkable container that when you pressed a button, it shrunk and un-shrunk.
Chenyce got a lightning blue owl, and called it Bob, which was a dare from Paisley which she took. Virginia named the kitten for Paisley, she called it Sakura, which is 'Cherry Blossom' in Japanese.
The four made their way to the final shop that they needed to go to. Ollivanders Wands.
The two girls entered first, a bell chimed from somewhere in the back and an old man walked into the room.
"Ahh, I've been waiting for you." Ollivander stated, looking strait at Paisley, Virginia knew that Ollivander would know who she was, but it didn't matter for the moment. "Elizabeth Teir, I hope that wand suits you well, though I do not appreciate the amount of times you have to come back for a new wand." Ollivander said, Elizabeth smiled sheepishly.
"Yeah, I'm just a little clumsy." She said in her own defence, Ollivander smiled suspiciously and turned to Chenyce.
"Hmm, lets see." Ollivander walked off whilst a tape measure flew out and started measuring every inch of the raven-haired girls body. "That will do." The tape measure fell to the floor. "Try this, willow, long, eight and a half inches, core of a phoenix." Chenyce gave it a wave, feeling completely stupid. Some wand boxes fell from a shelf and the wand was whipped away from her hand, another replacing it. "Holly, swishy, ten and three quarter inches long." Chenyce gave it a wave and bright, electric blue sparks flew out. The others clapped at the presentation. Now for young Miss Summers." Ollivander muttered, the tape measure started measuring Paisley this time as Ollivander looked around. "Your father is a powerful wizard Miss Summers, very courageous." He commented, Virginia and Paisley perked up.
"You know my father?" Paisley asked, Ollivander commanded the tape measurer to stop and came back over to them, he glanced at Virginia before handing Paisley a wand.
"I think answering that will get me into some serious trouble." Ollivander stated, glancing at Virginia again. "The time is coming soon Virginia, you'll be telling her soon." He stated. "Beechwood, nine inches, core of dragon heartstring." Paisley waved it but it was immediately snatched away from her hand. "Ebony, phoenix feather, eleven and a half inches." Paisley waved it and a bunch of boxes on Ollivanders desk blew up. "Oh." He muttered.
After another half hour of trying, Paisley started to get frustrated, maybe she wasn't cut out for this? Maybe she should just go to normal high school and be as normal as she could.
"Why, your just as tricky a customer as your father and grandparents. We'll find a wand." Ollivander stated, he left view and came back a second later with a long, thin box, "I wonder." He muttered and silently handed her a beautiful wand. Paisley waved it and immediately felt warmth take over her. "Hmm, ten and a quarter inches, willow with mahogany handle, and a phoenix feather. Very interesting."
"What's so interesting sir?" Paisley asked.
"Your wand, holds parts of your families. The same willow that went into your grandmother's and another woman of your families wands, then the same mahogany from your grandfathers wand. Then the core. This phoenix gave only two feathers to begin with, though around the time you would've been born, he donated another. The other two feathers went to your father and a very evil man. Lord Voldemort." Ollivander explained, Chenyce and Elizabeth gasped, while Virginia's faced drained of colour.
Virginia quickly paid for the wand, as did Elizabeth and then they left. Elizabeth was deep in thought whilst the two girls were engrossed in a conversation. They walked down to the ice cream parlour and ordered ice creams for the girls.
"I'm going to show Virginia my favourite shop, we'll be back before your finished girls." Elizabeth said, the two girls nodded and went back to their conversation as Virginia followed Elizabeth confusedly.
"Elizabeth stopped in a deserted alleyway, she cast silencing charms around them.
"Are you alright?" Virginia asked hesitantly.
"Your Ginny Weasley aren't you?" Elizabeth asked, Virginia looked shocked. "I've researched most aspects of Harry's life, I write the Harry Potter Adventures series, he tells me everything. I mean everything too."
"Please, you can't tell anybody." Virginia begged.
"I won't, I understand why you left, I know what happened with the Death Eater scenario." Elizabeth explained briefly.
"How did you know it was me?" Virginia asked, Elizabeth smiled.
"Random things." Elizabeth stated, "Paisley was talking to a snake whilst you paid for her kitten. The wand details, Ollivander talked about the phoenix and Voldemort's and Harry's wands. I know the two couldn't be used against each other because of prior incantatem, so that was another clue. Then how Paisley looks so much like Lily potter, stunning green eyes and red hair. It made things seem much more simple t work out."
"Oh." Virginia muttered, "Please, not anybody."
"Your secrets safe with me." Elizabeth reassured, before leading them back to the ice-cream parlour.
"You weren't long." Paisley said, she had Sakura in her lap, hiding from the afternoon sun.
"Yeah, it wasn't so interesting." Virginia stated. "So, I want to try a bit of that gorgeous looking ice-cream." She added, Paisley rolled her eyes and passed her Mum the spoon.
"It's white chocolate fruit chip. It's really nice." Paisley told them, before grabbing another spoon and trying a bit of Chenyce's green apple strawberry combo.
They stayed at the ice-cream parlour from a while, just talking about nothing before Elizabeth and Chenyce had to go home to 'feed the family'. So they walked to the Leaky Cauldron together and went their separate ways.
AN: Bummer: You'll just have to wait and see (Smirks evilly) and i can't really tell you the answer to that question either.I, the anonymous: Thanx! I like my stories to be original, but it's hard because of the many more stories out there. Sarahamanda: Hmm, Harry and Ginny, they might get back together and Harry might get to know his daughter. Jennifer: Thank you!