Diagon Alley was a strange and wondrous place. Shops lined the road, a large marble building at the far end.
Nagini found her supplies fairly easily and her arms bean becoming full of potions materials, robes, a cauldron, books and other supplies.
At last, her eyes lay on a shabby looking shop, with the name Ollivander over the door.
She opened the door, and a bell rang deep in the shop. But the wandmaker was already at the front of the shop. "Ah, another Hogwarts student," he said, his silvery eyes wide. "Miss…"
"Regin," Nagini told him.
"Miss Regin, which is your wand arm?"
She froze. Her mother had taught her how to read and write before she died, so Nagini knew the most basic things about reading and writing. The only reason she still even remembered how was because she sometimes spent long hours reading in the library. But she had never written a thing since she died, and she didn't even remember which hand she used.
"I'm not sure," she admitted.
Mr. Ollivander raised his eyebrows. He handed her a quill and a piece of parchment, "write your name with either hand and we'll see."
Nagini took both and tried to remember how to spell her name. It was on her envelope. The i's sound like e's, she remembered, N-a-g-i-n-i. The quill already had ink on it and she wrote her name upon the parchment, trying to make it look legible with her left, then her right hand. Mr. Ollivander looked down on her. "You're left hand then," he said. A tape measure flew out of his pocket and began measuring her, beginning with each of her fingers.
He pulled out a few boxes from the shelves. "Nine Inches. Birch and unicorn hair. Wave it around a bit."
She did, but he snatched it away.
"Mahogany and phoenix tail feather, 12 and a half inches." she waved it again, but he took it away again.
"Cedar and dragon heartstring, 8 and a half inches."
Warmth spread through her body, this had to be the one. Green sparks flew out and Mr. Ollivander clapped, "Oh yes!"
Nagini paid 7 gold galleons and left with her wand, left Mr. Ollivander's, left Diagon Alley.