It had taken a little bit longer than Jade expected to have her robes measured and fitted to her. The longer it took the more impatient she grew, she had decided she wanted to get her owl before her wand and once she made up her mind, standing still while Madam Malkin worked on her became difficult. When she was finished, Madam Malkin grabbed a black pointed hat and added it to her stack of robes and the winter cloak she had picked out. Jade grabbed the bag as her mother thanked Madam Malkin for her help and then they made their way back to the Leaky Cauldron where she saw her father.

"How did it go?" He asked her mother and she smiled,

"Jade made a friend." Jade looked up at her mother with a frown on her face,

"Just because I talk to someone doesn't mean they're my friend." Her mother nodded,

"Right, I'm sorry." She nodded but exchanged a quick look with her father before smiling again, Jade rolled her eyes. Rodrick came around a corner and saw his family standing outside of the entrance to the Leaky Cauldron.

"I see I'm the last to arrive." He noted. Rodrick carried a stack of thick books in his hands and wore a charming grin on his face.

"And now that you have," Jade started and then turned to her parents, "can we go choose my owl now?" Her father placed a hand on her back and gently pushed her towards Eeylops Owl Emporium. Unlike Madam Malkin's, the Emporium was filled with children staring at all of the owls. Every time Jade came to Diagon Alley with her parents she always asked to stop to see the owls and now it was time for her to pick out one of her own. They were sectioned off by breed, barn owls, snowy owls, eagle owls, long-eared owls, and more. They were all fascinating and beautiful, Jade wandered over near a large eagle owl that was frowning down at all of the children who came near it. He was intimidating, but Jade closed the distance between them and examined him carefully, she reached out to his cage and he quickly pecked at her incoming fingers.

"Jade." Her father warned, "Don't go putting your fingers in cages, that's how you lose them." She stepped away from the owl and moved on, she looked over all of the owls, and she thought they were all nice and would do well with her while she was at school, but none stood out to her. She was looking at a tan barn owl when an older man with a large, brown owl came up to her,

"You like this one?" He asked her and she shrugged her shoulders, "Well, feel free to any in the store. I train them all myself." She turned to face him now, the owl on his shoulder catching her eye.

"What about that one?" She asked and he chuckled as he gave a glance and a little pet to the owl. "He's magnificent." Unlike the eagle owl, this one was just as large but much less scary looking. This owl had pale yellow eyes almost the shade of a ripe banana and they were wide as they stared at her. His feathers were a mix of a rich dark brown and an unbelievable white.

"He's available, yes, my only great-horned owl at the moment. Rather a gentle giant." She smiled as she took a step forward.

"Hello." She said quietly, "May I?" She asked as she reached out a hand but far enough away from the beak's reach. He nodded and she stepped to the man's side and gave a hesitant pet to the owl's head. The owl froze for a moment but then gently pushed into her touch and she broke into a large smile. She turned for a second to see her family watching her closely behind. "This one." She stated and turned back to the owl, "This one's the one." The older man chuckled and clucked his tongue twice, the owl began moving down his arm,

"Hold your arm out, dear." She did as she was told and the owl gladly transferred itself over to Jade's arm and rested up at her shoulder. The owl looked even bigger on her small frame. "Oh, look at him!" The old man smiled, "He's very content where he is." Jade smiled at her new owl and then followed her parents to the front where they paid for him and the old man gave her a large cage to house him in. She clucked her tongue twice like the man had earlier and extended her arm towards the open cage. The owl obediently launched off her arm and flew into the cage to sit on the perch. "Thank you!" The old man waved to them as they left the shop. Jade's father held onto the cage and owl even though Jade said she wanted to hold him herself.

"You've got to choose your wand, now. Can't have you doing that while you hold on to this big cage now can you?" They approached Ollivanders with a new surge of energy since it was the last task for the day. The wand shop was quiet as Jade and her family walked in, a soft bell ringing noted Ollivander that people entered his shop and he came around from the back and offered a soft smile to Jade. She stepped up to his counter,

"Hello, sir. I'm here to pick out my wand." She greeted him and he smiled and turned to go into one of the many rows of boxed wands on shelves.

"You don't choose the wand, my dear, it chooses you." He announced to her and then a few seconds later he emerged with a wand and she grabbed it gently from him. The wand was cold to the touch, she could actually feel the power within it. "Give it a flick." He instructed her and she did as she was told. A stack of papers that was sitting on the counter shoved itself off of the counter and scattered everywhere on the floor. "Hm." He noted and examined her, "Almost." He plucked the wand from her hand and retreated into the same aisle. She heard him scuttling around in the aisle and then a soft 'ah' as he returned with another wand, he extended it to her with a smile. She grabbed it and as soon as she touched the wood a rush of warmth flooded her body and she stood there for a second as the feeling seemed to absorb into her body. This wand was different; it wasn't an instrument to help her focus her magic, it was as if it was an extension of her arm. She smiled and felt an adoration begin to bloom in her chest, it was the connection Ollivander had been talking about, she knew it was. As she looked up at the man behind the counter she knew that he knew it too as he smiled down at her. "I believe we have a winner." Jade held it up so she could examine it closely for the first time. "Eleven inches made of red oak," Ollivander explained, "fairly bendy, made with the hair of a unicorn as its core." Jade nodded up at the man, "Congratulations."