A Herald-Witch Ch. 4

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"That's not very nice Ms. Ginny."

At the sound of her name the young redhead turned to greet them.

"well, I guess that's one concession to my Weasley heritage. At least I don't go about testing possibly dangerous substances on unsuspecting first years."

Kora blanched. Possibly dangerous substances…oh jeez what have I gotten my self into now.

"Oh don't look so worried my brothers graduated years ago. Now no one has the guts to pull that kind of thing. By the way, is this the first year you wanted me to show around?"

"yes Ginny, this is Kora Talese. Kora, This is Ginny Weasley, a seventh year and a generally good student. She's volunteered to show you around and help get you briefed for your trip. I'm off for now Kora, Ginny, I'll see you when you arrive for the start of term."

"Good-bye professor." Kora and Ginny chorused.

Aaahhh! Where is he going! He can't leave me here. I'll drown in weirdness! As Kora's mind began running in circles Ginny motioned for her to sit down and ordered an ice cream soda for both of them. Kora's mental break down must have shown on her face because she suddenly became aware of the redheads hand moving up and down in front of her eyes. "Hello! Earth to Kora! Come in Kora!"

"wha-"

"About time. I asked what kind of family you come from. Are you going to tell me or would you like to space out a bit more?"

"oh sorry, my family, right. Umm well my father was an Artificer who worked in a small town called Sweetsprings." At Ginny's blank stare she elaborated "He worked with steam boilers and engineering bridges."

"Ooohh, but why steam boilers? Aren't they old news?"

"what are you talking about? We can't even get them to work reliably without exploding! Most people where I'm from use Horses to get around. Except Heralds of course."

"Really? Wow, I've never met a muggle-born who didn't have electricity, or telephones, or hadn't ridden in a car."

Kora's head was now spinning. This girl, Ginny, her name is Ginny, was talking about things that had never even been guessed at being possible. As Ginny talked about things that wizards had like the Wizard Wireless Network and muggle cars and television Kora thought her head was going to explode. The artificers are going to have a field day when they hear about this stuff. Maybe I can find a way to get some of these items to them to take apart. They would be in heaven for years.

"So back to you. Why didn't your father bring you here?"

"well about a month after I was chosen I got a letter saying that he had been working on an oversized boiler that had exploded. He was rather messily injured by the shrapnel from the boiler and died three weeks later. I got the letter a week to late."

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring up a sensitive subject."

"That's alright. I've been living at the collegium for two years now and Donni is always there for me."

Ginny looked uncomfortable and suggested they finish their sodas and head over to Gringotts. As they walked Kora's head whipped around so fast the seventh year said that she looked like her head was going to fly off. After about a minute of walking they turned a corner and Kora saw the massive stone building that was the bank. She felt the awe generally reserved for entering the great throne room at the palace. As the two reached the gold doors Kora wanted to stop and read the writing but Ginny pulled her ahead saying "you can read it later. Now we need to talk to Bill."

"Who?"

"Bill, my brother. He works here."

The older girl led the bemused trainee through the dark maze of desks, people and other "creatures" toward a tall man with a flaming red ponytail and an earring with what looked like a claw from some kind of reptile.

"Ginny! What are you doing here?" the man asked.

"This is a new student, muggle-born, she needs to open an account." Kora was glad that Ginny was handling this because she was too busy looking around. When they reached a desk he motioned the girls to sit down. "So what's your name?"

"Kora Talese sir."

"Ouch, Sir, that makes me feel old. You can just call me Bill."

"yes,si-Bill."

So with that the older Weasly had Kora put empty out the travel pouch onto the desk, pulled out a wand and waved it over the large pile of coins turning them from the trade silver and gold pieces she was used to seeing into the larger gold and silver coins that were the currency of the wizarding world. Bill handed Kora a small key gold key with the number 072186 imprinted on it. "This is the key to your vault. When you are in Diagon alley just bring that to one of the goblin tellers and tell them that you want to get money from your vault and they will ask for your key and have someone take you down to it. For now I'll send this to your vault for safe keeping." And with that he waved his wand over the pile and most of it disappeared.

"umm what are the coins called?"

"oh! Sorry. The big gold ones are called Galleons, the silver are called sickles and there are also bronze ones called knuts. You guys have fun! And Ginny be sure to take her to Fred and George's place."

"After we get her supplies. Then she can get things to cause trouble with."

So the two girls gathered up Kora's new belt pouch and ran off through the exit doors and over to a place called Olivander's. "I assume you want to get your wand first."

"Of course!"

Well that was a short chapter but I can't write more right now. So I apologize. Anywayz please tell your friends and get them to review. I would like to have someone besides MaraWeaves reviewing.

By the way Mara, you rock! And I won't give up anytime soon I promise!