Chapter 3- The Truth and Magical Shopping
After their greetings, Harry, John and Susan sat off in the corner of the office, while Amelia Bones (who had introduced herself after Susan did) was debriefed on the contents of the last will of the Potters and she was shocked, angry and annoyed, with a lot of those feelings directed towards Dumbledore, whom they discovered had attempted to permanently seal the will from being read, but that was impossible as along as at least one Potter was alive then it would always unseal when the wills recipients request to view it. As the officials collected the information for Sirius Black's release, outside of London in the school of Hogwarts, the Headmaster got an alert from another one of the Potter family instruments, this one was for maintaining watch over the seal on James and Lily Potters Last Will and it went unheard by any human, but it was heard by a lone bird which looks like he had seen better days, before it burned up and was turned to ashes, leaving nothing more than a hatchling in it place.
(A.N. I am having it so a phoenix will experience more burning days when their bonded human has become corrupt, and the more often burning days are to cleanse themselves of the corrupting that leaks threw the bond, but when revived from the ashes their feathery coat is a lot less lighter than before.)
Back to London, where Amelia had just finished collecting the evidence that was needed and with the request of, "Minerva could you help Susan buy her supplies? I need to begin dealing with this before Dumbledore catches wind," her answer was, "Of course Amelia, it will Harry and John a friend before school starts," before Amelia took her leave, with a goodbye to Susan and promise to be safe. Hours later, the Potter simple decided to purchase a pair of vault link pouches over heading to the vault, to get their purchases today and inspect the vaults at a later date.
Out on the cobbled streets of Diagon Alley, the 3 students and 1 Professor chose to get their trunks first and headed to the store: Tims Trunks, which held the tag line of: Storage for your needs, be it super great or very small, after a looked at the catalogues, the Potters both settle on a 6 compartment trunk, made of ebony wood and platinum trim, equipped with: Feather weight charms, internal space extension charms, security charms, shrinking charms and kick open feature charms, each compartment was blank save one which had an actuated shelves that rose from it for books and potions ingredients.
After the Potters had found their trunks, Susan had found hers: a Tasmanian Oak 3 compartment trunk with a gunmetal trim and equipped one compartment with bookshelf and potion storage, before they headed for their robes. Their next stop was Madam Malkins, for their robes and both the Potters at the suggestion of Susan, got a full set of: Casual, School and Formal robes, in the shop their met a Bushy haired young girl who was getting pinned and fitted into her own robes, while waiting they talked with the girl and found out her name was: Hermione Granger and she was a muggleborn, a witch born of non-magical (muggles) parents, who were also with her along with a tiny man Professor McGonagall indentified as: Professor Flitwick the Charms Potions and Professional Duel Master.
Getting outfitted with robes very little time and with the joint effort of Professor Flitwick, who suggested the boy get dueling robes as well, before they then head for the apothecary with Hermione, her parents and Professor Flitwick, where they purchase standard first year potion kit and then to the Cakes Cauldrons to buy their cauldrons and stirring sticks. While back in Hogwarts: Headmasters office, the door opened to reveal Albus Dumbledore, whom was looking haggard and tired, weary too as he had just got back from a meeting with the International Confederation of Magic, in the attempt to reactivate the Triwizard Tournament and was unsuccessful, due to the negative political affects that are caused by the death counts of the tournament.
As Dumbledore entered his office slowly and sleepily, he begins to make his way to his sleeping quarters, not even noticing the ashes of his monitoring equipment and collapsed on his bed, barely registering the moanful chirp from Fawkes. Several minutes later in London, after the future students had just finished picking up their course books and some branch material, to help them understand their schoolwork, as they then enter the shop to now buy their wands.
Entering the shop called: Olivanders, the group was greeted with the elderly face of Titanus Olivander the 12th generation of Olivanders whom had taken up the study of wand lore, electing to go first Susan Bones had gone threw testing 9 different wands, before a 10 inch blackwood and Unicorn tail hair wand, produce and eruption of: Blue and Gold sparks, then keeping with the theme of: Ladies first, Hermione was the next in line and on her 3rd try wand made of 10¾ inch Vinewood and dragon heartstring shot out: Red and Silver sparks and now it was Harry's turn, as he tries 30 different wand, but only getting a slight reaction from an 11 inch Holly and phoenix tail feather wand, but only just and this was where Olivanders limit was, because if a student fails to have a reaction in 30 different tries, that means that Olivander will have to make a custom wand for the wizard/witch.
Expecting the same results with: John, Olivander forgoes the testing process and leads them to the back of his shop, where several cuts of wood were arranged on shelves in one corner, as cabinets of baubles' and trinkets lined the opposite wall. Once Olivander took his seat at a work bench where the shelves and cabinets, he turned to the Potters and said, "Alright boys, I want you to look in the cabinets and see if you feel a pull on your magical core," doing so Harry and John searched threw the cabinets, trying to feel the pull Olivander was speaking of.
Not even an hour after they started, but longer than half an hour, Harry felt a pull on his magic and it led him to a cabinet full of different kinds of feathers, opening the cabinet door, three feathers seem to come alive and jump in to his hand, the first was gold in color, with black tips, second to come to his hand was silver with a tip of ice blue and the third and final feather was a gold tipped fire red. After Harry had felt his pull, John then felt a pull as well and it was also to the same cabinet as Harry's, where a silver tipped black feather flew into his hand, followed by a Gold tipped Silver feather and a blue tipped yellow feather.
Once they had collected the feathers, they then gave them to Olivander, as he then moved to the shelves of wood and tossed the feathers in the air. While in the air, the feathers seem to magnetically attract themselves to three different types of wood, with Harrys falling on to: Holly, Elder and Yew, while John feather were attached to: Ebony, jarrah and Redwood. Upon seeing this, Olivander then collected the wood and said, "Very good, I'll have your wands finished by: 6:00 pm come back then and they'll be ready," and with that they led the remaining group outside and headed to the Leaky Cauldron, for dinner as the shopping trip took longer than expected and they had an hour before needing to pick Harry and John wands.
(A.N #2. Since no one is giving me a vote on what wand Harry should have, I decided to just do my own thing a give Harry and John 3 custom wands.)
For dinner, Harry and John had a meal of: Sausages, veggies and gravy, while washing it down with a butterbeer, while Susan had a chicken and salad, and washed that down with a butterbeer also, as the adults had their own meal with a glass of Oak matured mead or Firewhiskey, the later of which had the drinker politely (as possible) burping. Before they then headed for the pet shop where once they entered the shop, Harry and John felt another pull, before 2 balls of colored fire appeared above their heads, silvery-white for Harry and charcoal Black for John.
As the flames subsided, to show that they were oddly an undiscovered breed of Phoenix, the white one looked like a snowy owl and the black one had the resemblance of a raven. Once the flames were fully gone the birds then landed on Harry and John heads, staying there for a while as both they and the Potters glowed, syncing their magic with each other. While their magic was syncing up the store manager came out and saw the event, before sighing with relief.
Another couple of minutes later, Susan and Hermione found themselves 2 cute little kittens, with the one Hermione found already named: Crookshanks (yeah I am de-aging the real Crookshanks) while Susan's had not and then with their purchases made, the group then returned to Olivanders and picked the Potters 3 wands, with a set of wand holsters. A few hours later, in Dumbledore bed chambers, Dumbledore was awoken by a squeaky voice stating, "Master Dumby-dore sir, you must eat and you have a letter," which was owned by a bat eared creature who had a serving tray full of food, hovering beside him and a letter in his outstretched hand.
Glowering slightly at the miss-pronunciation of his name, Dumbledore took the letter and dismissed the creature, as it then left with a small pop. Thinking the letter was from his pawn: Cornelius Fudge the Minister of Magic, Dumbledore opened the letter and found that the letter was from: Titanus Olivander, who he had asked to give the results of the wand test regarding Harry, to him. Reading the letter, Dumbledore became increasingly worried, angry and fearful, 'What? Tom's brother wand was not compatible? That can not be right! Where is Harry's connection?' he thought once he was finished, before asking, 'Was I wrong? No! I specifically set that night up to establish that connection, not even occumancy (Spell?) could block it," in thought and reference to the death of: James and Lily Potter.
(A.N. yeah Dumbledore was not trying to protect the Potter but get James and Lily out of the way to control Harry and set up the Horcrux in Harry scar.)
Back in Diagon Alley, where the Potters had just gotten their wands with: 11 inch Holly with Thunderbird tail feather, 11.75 inches of Elder with Anka tail feather and 11.5 inches of Yew with Golden Firebird (rare breed of Phoenix) going to Harry and as John received the: 11 inches of Ebony with midnight Phoenix tail feather, 11.75 inches of Jarrah with Golden tail Thunderbird tail feather and 11.5 inches of Redwood with Anka tail feather. Once the boys gasped their wands for the first time, instinct took over and a brilliant flash of light flooded over them, before it subsided and the boys were no longer welding wands but each Boy was holding a staff bearing the appearance of a bird in flight, before another flash and the wands were back.
A little later on, the Potters, Grangers and Susan were now finished with their shopping and after retrieving a portkey from the goblin, Harry and John bid farewell to the Professors and their shopping compatriots, before getting whisked away from the Alley to their true home.