The small group entered an ancient building with an antiquated sign that, in peeling gold paint, read "Ollivanders Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC" The three children followed the much larger and far more confident Hagrid through the door.

The silence was ruined as the small tinkling bell jingled. The small dust motes floated in the air lazily. Thousands of rectangular boxes of varying lengths were stacked haphazardly around the small shop. The three children, so engrossed in the wonders of the shop, nearly jumped when a man with white and bright silver eyes came around the corner.

"Oh my, young Mr. Potter I expected but I never expected three Potter children!" Ollivander said in shock at seeing the three young children before him. He quickly shook his head before asking who would go first.

The three shared a look and Harry stepped forward Ollivander asked him which arm was his wand arm to which he responded that he was right handed. A tape measure began to measure every inch of Harry including the distance between his nostrils as the old man pulled out several boxes from the shelves and laid them on the counter. The tape measure floated back to the shopkeep once he was back and Ollivander began passing wands to Harry. Some he had the young boy wave, some he barely let go of before snatching it back; one jumped out of Harry's hand and back into its box.

With each wand Ollivander seemed to get more excited. Finally he pulled a box from a shelf and gave Harry a quizzical look. He handed Harry the dark brown wand and watched. As gold and red sparks shot from the top but they did so lazily.

"Strange, the wand has chosen you but it is not acting as if it is complete. I wonder. Who wants to go next?" He asked, whatever thought he was having trailing off.

"I will go next sir." Elen volunteered, stepping forwarward. Harry was still clutching the wand that chose him.

Ollivander asked Elen which arm she had as a wand arm to which she replied that she was left-handed. As the tape measure took it's measurements Ollivander returned all wands that were not holly nor phoenix feather wands back on the shelf and grabbed a few more boxes.

Elen tried several of the same wands Harry had. This time the one that jumped out of Harry's hand wouldn't go near Elen, physically pushing back as Ollivander tried to pass it to her. Elen had exhausted all of the holy wands as well as those with phoenix feathers that Ollivander had initially brought to the counter. He had narrowed before bringing a box from the top of the nearest shelf. He handed her the wand which ejected pink sparks over her head but like Harry's it was lackluster.

"I believe I know the issue as to why Harry's holly and phoenix wand and Elen's birch and unicorn hair wand are not fully accepting them but I need to match Winifred with her wand before I can verify it." Ollivander stated

Winifred stepped forward when asked about her wand arm she nervously said she was completely ambidextrous. Ollivander's eye's opened in excitement. Left handed people like Elen were rare but he had only gotten to match one other ambidextrous person since he had been running the small shop, their mother Lily Evans.

With this he started from scratch. Clearly the triplets would not have the same base wand or core like most twins and close knit families did so that theory was out. He decided to start with a 11 inch dragon heartstring wand made of willow, so far length and supple nature of the wand were the only pattern the first two Potters shared. This was a bust. He did try one wand that had vehemently rejected Winifred's siblings. It would not even allow him to remove it from the box this time. That wand was obviously waiting for someone specific and it was not the Potters and it was letting him know it would never be a Potter wand. When she hadn't matched with any of the common woods he delved into the more picky and less common ones. He was now in the back with his grandfather's creations and he found one with a worn label. Considering birch unicorn and holly phoenix were not usual combinations he decided to give this unusual wand that had been one of the first ones created by his grandfather. He brought the dusty box and withdrew the beautifully crafted ivy wand and handed it to the young girl. Silver gray sparks flew from the tip but like the 11 inch holy phoenix wand and 11 inch birch unicorn wand this 11 inch ivy hippogriff wand wasn't as powerful as it should be.

"This happens sometimes with twins as well. I will need to take a sliver of the wood and a piece of each core and fuse them with each base wand. They are complete but not. Like twins and you three. Alone you are complete but not. It is curious that the only wand that was crafted by an Ollivander without a phoenix tail feather, unicorn hair, or dragon heartstring and one of only a handful of ivy wands made by us and that holly wand chose you three." Ollivander said as he collected the three wands.

"Why is the phoenix wand so special?" Elen asked

"Each one of these cores come from a different animal or at a different time. The Phoenix that donated the feather for your brother's wand donated two feathers at the same time. It was one of my first wands, yew and phoenix tail feather. A difficult wand to make I must say. I tell you this because the brother wand to this one gave you those scars." He said solemnly.

The triplets' eyes widened that revelation. Ollivander then said he would send the completed wands by owl post in a few days' time and that he would include a holster for each, but their total for the three wands would be 24 galleons and 6 sickles. They decided to enlarge their trunks and put them in Elen's because they wouldn't have wands to do so for a few days. They would just have to carry Elen's at its full size. Their owl and the three kittens were already there.

After settling the bill and getting everything organized Hagrid led them back to the train station. He accompanied both girl's to retrieve the few belongings they had at the orphanages. Then he left them for the last leg, the journey to the Dursleys. Before he left them Elen made sure they knew how to get onto the platform after seeing the number on the ticket. Harry also asked how to get to the train station and explained they wouldn't be able to fit in the Dusrley's car as they would likely make a family day for their aunt uncle and cousin after getting rid of them, he explained how to call the Knight Bus as a backup. The three had also converted several galleons into muggle currency so they would have some cash for the last month as well.

When they got to the house and saw Harry and Elen holding a single trunk between them she raised her eyebrow. "Only one for the three of you?" she said fridgidly.

"No ma'am. The shopkeep shrunk two of them and we only had one kept normal size for space." Winifred responded politely.

Petunia huffed before allowing the three to enter and Winifred took over for Harry who showed the other two where the room the three of them would share is. A small desk was near the window and a small bed was on one side of the room. On the other side was a rickety bunk bed. There was just enough room for a single armoire next to the door and they put the trunk at the foot of the single bed facing the rest of the room.

"It's a good thing we have Elen's trunk to give us some space." Winifred said, looking around. Sure for even two people it wasn't bad and at 11 years old it wasn't too cramped. Once they reached their teen years though it would become quite cramped.

They spent the next few weeks being completely ignored by the elder Dursleys and being avoided by Dudley as he walked around hands clasped on his backside in fear because of the tail Hadgrid gave him. They spent the days looking through their books where they agreed on a name for the owl, Hedwig. After several days of playing with his little female black cat Harry decided to name her Artemis after the Greek goddess of the moon. Elen named her little siamese kitten Alana because she was always so content to snuggle in bed and just brought a sense of peace to the girl. Winifred named hers Regan because she always sat regally and carried herself like a royal.

They had gotten their wands three days after they arrived at the Dursleys. Each had a streak of colors twisting around the length of the wand and when they picked them up they felt hole.

Finally on the last night before they had to go to London Harry asked their uncle for a ride. True to Harry's prediction on their birthday he said they couldn't because they had to take Dudley to get his tail removed and he would not be making a second trip to London as we wouldn't all fit.

Harry told him we would figure out how to get there on our own and not to be worried if we were not at breakfast the next day. We followed Harry back up the stairs. We made sure that everything we had unpacked was packed up before going to bed in Elen's trunk. After ten years of being separated, sleeping in the living area of her apartment trunk was far more comforting for them.

They were awake and out the door before 7:30 that morning, excited to start this adventure. They walked to a deserted park and Harry got to do the honors of summoning the bus. They paid the seven sickles each to take the bus to London. They made it to the station by 10 that morning as there were other people calling the bus, mostly upper year Hogwarts students, to get to Kings Cross for the train and so they would fill up and then drop off in larger groups to save time.

The Potters, sitting up near the front were the first off and headed to the platform and doing as Hagrid said they calmly walked through the platform. Being an hour early they had a good choice of compartments. They took their shrunken trunks out of their pockets and put them in the luggage racks before enlarging them and sitting below them. They watched the families and friends mulling about and reuniting hoping that would at least partially be them next year.

With about five minutes to spare a large family of redheads rushed to the train, the youngest boy just barely making it on before the train started to pull away from the station. The three Potters settled in and got comfortable for the train ride.

~AN~

So here is another chapter. Not the best, not the worst. The next chapter which it will not take a year for me to get up here will cover the train ride and up to the sorting.