Chapter 2: The Shopping Trip

- Surrey England – 2011 -

Life for Eve has gotten a lot better in the past few years. In that time she found after trial and error she loved flying! And sure there was a few scares lately as her glamours had failed. But she was able to cast a new one on herself before to many people saw. But now there's a new urban myth about a dark shadow who hunts people. She didn't know where they got that last part at..

"Boy get up!" She could hear her aunt's voice yell as the locks came undone to her cupboard. She didn't take long to get out and head to the kitchen to start cooking. While life had gotten better and easier in most ways. Her relatives attitude towards her hasn't.

"Don't burn them, It's Dudley's big day after all." She barked as she looked over her shoulder at the bacon. Eve had to stop herself from rolling her glamoured eyes at this as she never burned them before, And most certainly wouldn't now, As while she may dislike her relatives. She had to much pride in her work to mess it up just because of them.

But she did think of adding laxatives to the food. It's not like they could do anything to her. They still could lock her in the cupboard, But that won't do very much other than get her bored. But in the end she thought better of it and finished up breakfast as her cousin and uncle came into the dining room.

As she sat the table her aunt gave her some bread and shooed her away. She just shrugged and put the bread back where it came from as she played her favorite game EMP. She went over to her uncles phone and casually shot a spark of electricity through it frying it's internals. He'd be lucky if they could repair half of what she just burned out.

While she may hate ruining her own work, She has no problem ruining the mass-produced junk on the market, And that stuff belonging to the people she disliked the most was just the icing on top.

She got to work cleaning the in coming dishes as Dudley started to thrown one of his famous tantrums about his present or something. He even kick one of them. A quick x-ray scan showed that it was a TV and there was a foot size hole in the screen where he kicked it.

That definitely made her day. By the sound of it they were planning on taking her along to the zoo with them, Well at least it would be nice to see the animals, So she made her way to her cupboard and shifted her glamours around to make her look more presentable as she heard her uncle curse up a storm when he found his phone.

It wasn't long before her aunt got her into the back of the car along with Dudley who thought it would be fun to try hitting her, He never seemed to learn as he hit her as hard as he could only to clutch his hand in pain. This would be the third time this week he hurt himself in this way. At least uncle Vernon was to busy ranting about how smart phones where a scam or some nonsense. She still couldn't understand why they blamed her for everything under the sun. But when she actually did something they thought it was something else.

They stopped by one of Dudley's friend house to pick him up before heading to the zoo, On there way she wound up frying his 3DS as he made a crude comment about her mother. When they finally got to the zoo they forced her to follow them to the reptile house,

She watched Dudley and his friend as they bothered some poor snake as she shook her head looking at it in sympathy as she wandered off she wondered if they had any foxes. She thought as she started looking for them, Sadly her relatives found her and dragged her off before she could find them. Apparently Dudley kicked one of the attendants and they like usual blamed her for provoking him somehow.

Of course they had to stop at the store to get the other presences while there she found a nice book to read, Well to her it was reading to anyone else it looked like she was just skimming through it without even looking at the pages, Liking the book she went around looking for some old receipts and other trash as she used the nanobots in her body to deconstruct and reconstruct them into a few pounds, And bought the book.

It was stupidly easy to hide it from them and when she got home she put it in her cupboard with the rest of her meager belongings.

- 31 July – 2011 -

Another day another late morning breakfast, It was Eve's Birthday again and she was eleven today, Not that her relatives knew or cared. But for her she was waiting for a knock on there door and a Professor from Hogwarts to give her a letter.

She was just getting done setting the plates when the mail came in. "Dudley get the mail."
"No, Make Harry get it." He whined like he always does, She was wondering why they even bothered asking him anymore as she went and grabbed it and dropped it in front of her uncle.

She went back to waiting when she heard a choking sound from the table. She turned to see her uncle holding his neck as her aunt was holding an old looking letter with the Hogwarts crest on it. She wasn't expecting it to come through the normal mail.

Predictably the letter was ripped up and she was sent to her cupboard, However much to her shock they took her out of there and gave her Dudley's second room as they thought they were being spied on. While in there she noticed a small hidden compartment at the bottom of the trunk it was so seamless that she couldn't even see the indentations. The only reason she saw it was after she smuggled the trunk in her new room and she most have jostled it open while she was doing that.

She really didn't think that her mother would have had to hide anything in there but apparently she was wrong. Inside she found a journal with notes and a magic circle formula for something.

- A few days later -

No more letters that was the thought of all the Dursley's as while the last few days were starting to get out of control. The sheer amount of letters was ridiculous, But they just stopped out of nowhere. It was good because Vernon was about to try and make a run for it while taking them with him.

So why exactly did the letters stop? Well that was because Eve thought this was going to far and just went and answered one of them. She could see the crazy look Vernon was getting so she decided this would be for the best. Now she just had to wait, She asked specifically for a professor to come by and help her get her stuff, Only they haven't done that yet.

She was starting to feel a bit incensed, Not only did they literally flood her home with letters wanting a reply but when she finally did there wasn't even a confirmation letter much less one telling her when they would be picking her up.

She was about to head back to her room when a loud knock came from the front door and the second one sent the door flying, In an instant she had her arms up and particle beams charged while her relatives screamed in terror.

A moment later a giant of a man walked in, he was wearing a fur jacket and had a long whiskery beard. "Harry?" He asked blinking at her strangely. Looking at the way her arms were being held at with the glamour's on her, She probably looked like she was trying to imitate a cheap movie zombie.

She quickly dropped her arms but kept her weapons powered up. "Yes? Should I know you?" "Oh right about that!" He said as he got himself composed and introduced himself to her. "I'm Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds of Hogwarts. I'm here to help you get your school supplies." He said as he handed her a letter from his pocket along with a cake.

At this time her uncle unfortunately made his presence known and started yelling up a storm about his door. Not that she was listening as she just stared at the cake, Her glamour was starting to tear up as she wished she had a mouth. She hasn't eaten anything in over a year.

This was the nicest thing anyone has done for her. She carefully hid it in her room. Before coming back out as she heard more yelling and a flash of what looked to be magic. She couldn't help but smile at the site of a pig's snout on Dudley's face.

After that they headed out and after getting lost a few times, They ended up in front a place called the 'Leaky Cauldron' Even though it took longer than strictly necessary she had least got treated to stories about her mother and some unwanted stories about her 'Father'. From what all she could summarize from his stories and the brief mentions in her mom's notes and journal he was extremely arrogant and liked pranks that could be downright cruel at times.

She was almost immediately bombarded with greetings and well wishes when Hagrid said who she was. She was overwhelmed with just how many people were crowding her, It was a good thing he dragged her away from them or she may have panicked and done something unpleasant.

After showing her how to open the wall he took her right to there bank, "This here is Gringotts your parents left your trust here." He said as they went over to a teller. "Mr, Potter is to take out some gold and" He leaned closer in an attempt to be subtle. "Dumbledore also asked me to pick something up." He handed over a letter which a quick x-ray scan showed it had a key and parchment inside. It took her a second to make out what it said as the ink was a little smeared,

Sadly all it was a signed permission form for Hagrid to take something unspecified out of a vault. Well whatever it was if it was valuable enough to be stored here and Dumbledore wanted it, Than she wanted it. "And does Mr Potter have his key?"

Hagrid seemed to have forgotten about that or something as he blushed before quickly started looking for it, After pulling out some random stuff and wait is that an owl!? She looked in astonishment as he pulled out a small frightened looking owl from his pocket who promptly flew away. A little concerned now of what all could be in his pockets she did a quick scan and was relieved not to find any extra life signs in his pockets.

He finally got out her key and handed it to the unamused teller who acted like he was looking over the key as she felt some magic wash over her and pulled on her glamour's she had to hold them strong before the magic stopped and the goblin nodded satisfied. She had no doubt if she was human the glamour's would have broken. That was both reassuring and disconcerting. At least she knew how they got rid of the glamour's on a normal person. But it was just so simple and easy to get around.

After having the keys handed off to a goblin called Griphook they went on a short cart ride that was more like a roller-coaster then anything else. Hagrid didn't seem to take to it well. But this was nothing compared to what she could do in the air. But on the way down she made sure to ask a lot of questions, Like the conversion rate and value of each coin. 'They got to be kidding me a galleon is only worth five pounds? If this is real pure gold than I can sell it for at least six hundred pounds back in the muggle world.' She thinks as this is a ridiculous disparity in the two economy's.

She was so busy processing the nightmare it would cause if she flooded both markets with the other's currency. She didn't even notice they were their until she was tapped on the shoulder and she snapped out of it. quickly got up and got a bag that Griphook got for her. She filled it up to the brim with coins. Hagrid was a bit concerned about her getting to many but she just said it was better to have then to not. Unless they wanted to have to ride the cart back down again. That got him off her back as he was already sick from the trip so far.

If she had to guess they may need a sick bag by the time they returned to the surface if the ride kept making him sicker. They quickly made their way to the next vault where before Griphook even got out of the cart she was performing a deep scan of it only to find a small bag with a red jewel stone around the same size of a baseball, It kind of looked like a very rough version of her core. When they had their backs turned she casually reached down and grabbed a rock about the same size and let her nanobots get to work.

Bye the time they were leaving the bank she was leaning on him acting just as sick as him. Her bots did a good job as they turned the rock into a perfect recreation of the original. She subtly swapped the two out as he lead them back to the cauldron for him to get a "pick me up" as he called it and for her to rest a bit. Filling a bit bad about tricking him she made sure to pay for everything.

After almost an hour they were back in the ally where they first got her a school trunk with a Feather-light and bottomless pouch. She had plans to study that and hopefully reverse engineer it. They also got her robes where they ran into a snobbish blonde kid just leaving. Then came her potion supplies which the cauldrons were of horrid quality. She was glad she managed to convince him to let her get hers from the muggle world. But she nearly had a short circuit when she saw the sorry excuses for telescopes they had.

They barely qualified to be called that and the "Top Range" ones the salesman showed her where barely any better. At most she would say 2% better at best. Sadly she was forced to get one of the sad things as Hagrid was too trusting and fell for the scam. At least she had some scrap metal.

Next was the wand shop where she got a sakura wood and unicorn hair wand. The wand maker gave her an odd look like the first wand he handed her wasn't supposed to work. Well she couldn't really tell as she wasn't using the wand. She was just casting her spells in front of the wand giving the illusion she was.

And lastly they went to the bookstore were she got her school books along with some on laws and other things. But she made sure to get the official Hogwarts rule book. And thus they left to take her back home. It was lucky she remembered something before Hagrid left. "Hey quick question, How to I get to the train platform?" "Oh blimey! I'm sorry I must have forgotten, You'll need to go through a secret entrance in one of the pillars between the two platforms." He said a bit sheepishly before he left.

As soon as he was gone she went in to be greeted by her aunt screaming at her. She just ignored her and went to her room with her new belongings she had a lot of things to do and little time do them. But first she had to decide what to do with her cake. She couldn't eat it and she had no plans to let her relatives have it. After a second she decided not to waste it and took it to a small orphanage nearby. She hoped they would enjoy it.

Author's Notes:

Well first of all I'll say that next chapter will be Hogwarts, And second I'll reveal what that journal is about to then. But I will say it will lead to her getting a few companions, But not from this universe or even the Strike Witches one either.