Chapter 1: First Taste
Blinking as she looked at her father she wanted to do nothing more than slap him for waking her up at this ridiculous hour of the morning, after all it was just 11:30am, and then scream at him for how stupid his idea was. London was England's capital and thereby they both considered each other in a rather parent-child relationship, one which involved her still living with him.
Slowly sitting up in her bed, glaring at the windows which he'd opened in an effort to wake the city she looked at Arthur.
"So basically, because Italy asked you if he could go to Hogwarts and then Japan displayed the same interest despite you saying you'd think about it and fully aware you'd anyway say no, because Albus asked to you teach there and you thought the time wasn't right you want to turn all of us back into aging 11 year olds so that I can watch them and Harry Potter while they learn about magic?" she asked rambling as she looked at the country with confusion, completely dropping the slight valley girl accent she used.
Arthur always knew it was meant to annoy him.
"Yes" he replied nodding, not letting her know how much of a stupid idea he thought it was looking back on it.
"Have you lost your mind?" she screeched suddenly, before turning back to murmuring in her slight and very well faked valley girl speech pattern. "No, this is like… totally a dream… that's definitely got to be it"
"It's not a dream you bloody teenager!" her father suddenly yelled at her causing her to flinch and shoot upright again right after she'd snuggled back into her warm and comfortable bed. Running the thin pale fingers through her blonde hair she stood up walking over to pick up a brush to brush her hair for the rest of this conversation.
"Dad, you like know what most of the countries are like, hell you're one and I'm a city so I know what all of you are usually like, they're never going to be able to keep the secret!" she countered in annoyance.
"Which is why I want you to go with them London, you've been to Hogwarts before, hell you've bloody taught there before so if you go they'll have someone to knock some sense into those three wankers" he exclaimed as she let out a harsh laugh.
"Knock some sense into Italy? You've really like, lost it dad" the girl countered as she kept brushing the long blonde curls her fiery green eyes meeting his as her face was set in a scowl before it softened into a slight smile thinking about the castle as she turned away, silence echoing around the room for a few minutes. "But… I've like missed Hogwarts and I'd also like to see Albus again, it's been a while since I visited him so… I suppose I'll do it"
London already regretted ever saying yes. Now instead of looking like a rather attractive, in her opinion, 17 year old she now looked like an 11 year old. Oh she wasn't happy at all, but looking up at the other nations that were now also 11 years old she figured it could've been worse.
After all, Japan looked like he was even younger than he should've looked and was at least 10cm shorter than the city.
"Guys remember we're gonna be there in a minute and you have to like, use your human names" the somewhat temperamental and currently overly easy to annoy girl reminded them as she glared at the Italy, who immediately seemed to shy away from her. How he was a country and she remained nothing but a capital city surprised her considering she figured she could've taken his entire country with ease if it wasn't for the fact that Germany was protecting him.
"Hai" Japan said nodding at her.
"Si! This is going to be so much fun veh! We're going to a place where they have magic and a magic school…" rolling her eyes at his rambling she led them to the place where she remembered the leaky caldron once, and hopefully still, stood as suddenly she flinched when she heard her human name. "Audrey won't it be so much fun?"
"Yes it will be Feli" she replied with a sigh as they arrived in the Leaky Caldron, something that though once was a glorious sight to see might now only be considered a grubby old pub that most people wouldn't consider looking twice at. Ignoring the current behaviour of the nations behind her she led them through the pub, ignoring the looks they got from other people when they walked out into the courtyard behind the bar.
"There's a vall here, I thought that you said we vere going to buy our school supplies" Germany stated making the city laugh a bit, smiling for the first time since the nations had seen her that day.
"We're like going to a magic school so don't rule out any possibilities non-believer" she replied teasingly with a wink as she pulled a wand out of her jeans pocket, something that she'd had for years and was extremely proud of, 12" applewood with a veela hair core, from back when they were commonly used in wands, and even on the wood is looked as though flowers and vines were on it, engraved well in the wood.
Yes, this had been her want for over a century and though it wasn't used all too often she always had a tendency to carry it with her. Tapping the bricks of the wall she took a step back, glaring until she noticed the brick did start wiggling before disappearing altogether. All the axis powers looked as though they were in complete shock as she turned beaming with pride and amusement as she quickly pulled out a camera and took a picture for England, giggling as the flash shook them out of it.
"Well like, let's go get all the stuff that we'll need for this totally awesome year!"
"Veh" the Italian beside her said breathlessly causing her to laugh, at least she now knew a way to temporarily shut him up of course that peaceful silence wouldn't last for long as they walked down the alley. "Luddy, Luddy! Look they have brooms! And caldrons! And ice cream! Luddy, can we go get an ice cream please?"
Some things would just never change.
Besides this was their first taste of the magical world.
"Guys we should probably like, get your wands first because you kind of like… need them" she said with a yawn as she led them into the all too familiar doors of Ollivanders Wand shop the place she'd bought her wand hundreds of years prior so thankfully the man didn't recognize the young girl leading her friends into the shop. "Um… Mr Ollivander Sir, my friends like… all need wands"
Ollivander nodded at her with a smile, looking at the bright green eyes and blonde hair that reminded him awfully of Arthur Kirkland many years prior had brought one of the muggle born students in, or one brought up with muggles, a young Tom Riddle.
"Ah yes, no wand for you then Miss Kirkland?" he asked and she could only smile at how he managed to do it as she knew he'd only known despite the fact that they'd never directly met. "Well then we'll start with you" he said to the Italian that was already trembling in fear.
"Feli calm down you'll be like totally fine, all you have to do is like hold the wand and see what happens when you do" London told him as she looked at the trembling country while the others looked fairly protective, which seemed to get them all relaxed.
"Grazie… Lo-Audrey" the Italian corrected himself before completely stuffing up; still trembling a bit as his eyes closed again when Ollivander came back taking the wand carefully.
"Right then Mr"
"V-Vargas" Feliciano supplied as a measuring tape flitted around him before floating away as Ollivander put a couple of boxes on the counter.
"Mr Vargas, try this one; ash wood and phoenix feather, 11 inches, rather brittle" he commented passing the wand to the Italian. "Well go on, don't just stand there wave it!"
With a slight tremble he waved the wand and heard something crash come from somewhere as he yelped jumping and latching on to Ludwig.
"No, no, no… that isn't right, try this one" Ollivander said taking one wand off of the easily frightened Italian as Audrey tried to coax him into waving it again when roughly the same thing happened and something was set alight causing the Italian to almost cry as he started begging to go home, Japan blocking the door way.
"Feli, just try like… try at least one more for me okay? You've already come so far it would be like, an awful waste if you couldn't like see Hogwarts at least once" London tried to once again coax the young Italian to try to wave a wand while Ollivander stood in thought suddenly walking back and pulling a new box out and walking back right as they had managed to pry Italy off of Germany.
"Dogwood and unicorn hair, 10 inches, slightly bendy" Ollivander stated as he passed the next wand to the boy.
As soon as the wand touched the nations hand he felt oddly warm and comforted, and when he waved it they noticed sparks that looked like fireworks beautifully coming out from the wand disappearing after a few seconds as Audrey grinned, clapping a bit before she hugged Italy.
"You did it Feli" she whispered gently in his ear and as she removed herself from him she saw him beaming at her.
"Luddy! I have a wand! Did you see the sparks did you see them!" he cried overenthusiastically before suddenly freezing. "Luddy… why where there sparks?"
"You're wand chose you Feli" Audrey explained as Ollivander started measuring up Ludwig, before getting the tape to measure Kiku as well as he moved to find a wand for Ludwig, though thankfully nothing broke nor caught fire, instead nothing happened for him for most wands.
Until he brought out an elegant though fairly plain, in Audrey's opinion, and smooth, orderly looking wand proclaiming that it was Ebony and Dragon Heartstring, 14 inches, quite rigid.
Finally it was Kiku's turn, and though he was a lot more co-operative than Feliciano it seemed that he was taking much longer as the pile on the counter just kept growing and growing with every wand they tried. In fact they spent around half an hour trying to find a wand for him when Ollivander looked at him for a second thinking.
Though most kids would've lost their temper by now he hadn't and then he thought about one of the wands he owned… yes, this was dangerous but this boy did seem to be able to control his temper. Silently he went back pulling out another box and solemnly pulled out the wand passing it to the Japanese boy in question.
"Cherry wood and dragon heartstring, 13½ inches, surprisingly swishy" Ollivander supplied and watched as another reaction occurred a small smile on his face.
Yes, that was one of the most dangerous combinations, the cherry tree making lethal wands though it was generally popular with the Japanese, and with dragon heartstring it was even more dangerous and caution had to be taken when giving it to anyone, especially a child.
But Ollivander had a good feeling about this, and high expectations for the young wizards (besides maybe the Italian) that just walked out of the door of his shop.
Zantetsuken Reverse: Yup, this may be one of the more common basic plots but it's one that can be turned into your own in certain ways, anyway I hope you liked it and thanks for reviewing even though there was only a short prologue!
Other than that I hope you all like it and below are a few notes about the wand choices thanks to information available on Pottermore:
London's Wand: Applewood with a veela hair core – Firstly the wood is a fairly rare sort of wood but it's suited to those with High Aims and ideals, something she gets from her 'father' England's gentlemanly side they also often can speak to magical creatures and therefore as she's the personification of a lot of the magical places it seemed fitting. Beyond that the Veela hair core thing was because Ollivander doesn't make them because they're temperamental but then again she can be too and she is almost a personification of the magic community so it makes sense.
Italy's Wand: Dogwood and unicorn hair – Dogwood wands apparently have playful natures and insist on partners that provide them with excitement and fun something I think Italy would do, though these wands can perform serious magic. The unicorn hair wands are best known to be consistent in magic and remain strongly attached to first owner (whether or not they're good at magic) but they don't make very powerful wands.
Germany's Wand: Ebony and Dragon Heartstring – Ebony wands are apparently usually found with those that have enough courage to be themselves and won't conform to others, having no problem with being the outsider. Perfect matches are people who hold to their beliefs no matter what outside pressure there is and won't lightly be swayed from their purpose. Dragon heartstring generally have the most power and are flamboyant, learning quicker than other types of cores.
Japan's Wand: Cherry wood and dragon heartstring – as mentioned Cherry Wood is popular amongst the Japanese wizards, and they make wands that have a particularly lethal power no matter what the core is, but especially so with Dragon heartstring which is a hazardous combination. If Cherry wood is paired with Dragon heartstring is should only be given to someone who has exceptional self-control and mental strength.
See I did my research but anyway review if you like, or just read and enjoy but I hope you like the back info too, most of its from the Harry Potter Wiki site, which was originally taken from pottermore.