As Promised Elara had been free to try on her new uniform while her mother bought most of her supplies.
Carina arrived just in time to pay for the new robes, by the time everything had been wrapped up Elara was already at the door.
"Wait up Elara," Carina shouted as Elara pulled open the door.
"I'll meet you at Flourish and Blotts," Elara shouted just before darted out the door, pretending she hadn't heard her mother.
She raced across the street, dodging shoppers and closely avoiding being knocked over a couple of times.
There was only one book Elara was interested in, The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 1. It was after all the most important book on her list.
Elara managed to find the book in no time, but as she stretched up to take it off the shelf she realised the problem immediately. The book was just out of her reach.
"Who in Merlin's name would put a first year book out of reach of first years," she mumbled under her breath.
Elara didn't want to ask for help, and she did have her brand new, unused wand with her. It didn't matter that the book she was currently trying to reach was the one with spells in it, she had heard her parents use the particular spell she needed countless times.
She pulled out her wand confidently and took a deep breath. She was excited to do her first spell.
"Accio book," she said pointing at the book she wanted.
Nothing happened.
"Accio book," she said, this time with more determination.
Again.
"Accio, Accio, Accio." she said waving the wand, yet still nothing.
"What's it supposed to do?" someone asked from behind her.
Elara turned with a sigh.
"It's a summoning charm," She explaned to the rather tall, dark skinned boy who had asked her the question. "It's supposed to give me the bloody book."
She rolled her eyes at the boy, hadn't his parents used spells like Accio in front of him?
"It doesn't seem to be working," he stated the obvious, earning anther eye roll from Elara.
"You're observant," she said shaking her head. "There must be something wrong with my wand. you try it."
"I don't have a wand yet," he said as he reached up and pulled to books from the shelf easily. "But I don't need one to reach that high."
He passed Elara one of the books with a grin on his face.
"That's the first thing I bought," she said taking the book and letting the boy hold her new wand. "It's beautiful, but i'm going to have to see about getting it fixed."
The boy passed her the wand back.
"I'm sure you just need more practice, cant be easy doing spells for the first time."
"Maybe you're right," she said with a sigh, but she didn't believe that to be the case. She was, after all, a pureblood witch, spells would come easily for her. "I'm Elara Avery," She introduced herself proudly as she put her wand back in her pocket.
"Dean Thomas," The boy introduced himself, shaking Elara's hand.
"Thomas," she said trying to recall which magical family the name came from but she couldn't think of any. "I don't recognise the name, and I know lots of wizarding families."
Dean let out a small laugh before speaking.
"That's because its not a wizarding family name, I'm the first in my family, well as far as I know anyway."
Elara pulled her hand away from the boy immediately and wiped it on her skirt.
"You're...you're a mudblood." she tried to hide the disgust creeping into her voice.
How had she been so careless as to let a filthy mudblood touch her.
"I'm a what?" he asked raising an eyebrow in confusion.
"Mudblood," she replied. "your family are muggles, non-magic..." vermin. she didn't finish her sentence out loud.
"I'm not sure if I like that term," he said taking in her words.
Elara was confused, he had seemed like a nice boy he was kind to her and she had even considered asking him to join her and her friends on the train, but everything she knew about mudbloods said they were to be avoided, they were filthy and unworthy of magic.
"I'm not sure if you should be so open about your blood status." She said thinking the boy deserved a chance, if everyone knew what he was he'd have a terrible time at Hogwarts.
He had been kind enough to help her get the book, so she would be kind enough to give him some advice.
"Uh, okay." he said with a small frown.
"I should probably find my mother, she'll be looking for me."
"Yeah," he said with a small nod, "me too,"
Elara soon found her mother, she had most of the books needed already, which Elara was grateful for. She didn't want another awkward run in the the mudblood boy.