Family discovered and School Shopping
At the Goblin Bank the group walked up to one of the free Goblin Tellers, Quatre said, "Good afternoon, Goblin sir. Myself and my friends would like to exchange some British Pounds for some Wizard Money please. Also I would like to know if it is possible to get a copy of my family's ledger for our accounts here at Gringotts. If possible could we get heritage tests to see if any of my friends have family in the Wizarding World. I know now that myself and Ami are here she's supposed to get one done as per my father's instructions in his will."
"Mr. Winner, please leave the money you wish to exchange and go to your account manager's office when you're finished with everything I'll have your money converted for you. If that is all you know the way and how to announce yourself."
"Thank-you Goblin-sir." Quatre said moving off to a door on the right, motioning for his group to follow him so they could get everything taken care of.
He lead them to a simple door with the name Kuru on it, he knocked on the door, hearing "Enter" from the other side of the door, he opened it and walked in.
"Quatre nice to see you again." Kuru said.
"Kuru, always a pleasure these are my friends that I wrote to you about, Ami Winner-Yui, Heero Winner-Yui, Trowa Barton, Wufei Chang, Duo Maxwell, and Professor Minerva McGonagall. Thank-you for agreeing to meet with us." Quatre responded.
You're welcome, Quatre. Let us begin. Let's start with the heritage tests, I have a copy of your family's ledger for you; you may pursue it while I take care of the heritage tests for your friends. Who would like to go first?" Kuru said, handing the ledger to Quatre.
"I'll go first." Ami said, as Quatre began to go over his family's assets in this world.
"Very well, I'll just need a couple drops of blood on this parchment Miss." Kuru said.
"I could use some help please Kuru. I can not exactly see the parchment." Ami responded.
"Hand please." the Goblin said. She handed him her right hand and he pricked on finger and dropped a couple drops of blood onto the parchment he had pointed out earlier. The Goblin healed her finger quickly and he put aside her paper so that it would have time to work while he had the others do their tests. "Next." Kuru said.
"I'll go." Heero said, and one by one they completed the test and just had to wait.
Trowa was the last to complete the test, and when his was done Ami's parchment was ready to be read. Kuru asked, "Shall I read the results for your test, Ami, while we wait for the rest to be finished?"
"Yes please. Thank-you Kuru." Ami responded.
"The results are your adopted family the Winners, who as you know blood adopted you into the family. You are the birth child of one Lily and James Potter, and younger sister to Harry Potter, the famous boy-who-lived, hero of the wizarding world. I will leave the rest to Quatre or Heero to be read to you at your convenience. Heero, Wufei, Duo and Trowa these are your results." Kuru said.
"Thank-you Kuru." Ami said, surprised, she had expected to come to light she had family, she never thought that it would be that family. Minerva could not believe it, the young lady in front of her really was her God-daughter. The others all looked through their papers seeing that they all had family, or in Wufei's case family that was still alive.
"Ami, I am your God-mother, I don't doubt you are happy with the way your life is at the moment but I would love to get to know you if that would be alright, and I will try to answer any questions that I can." Minerva said, unsure if it was the right thing to do or not.
Ami smiled slightly, unsure how to answer, "I think I might like that, do you know my brother?"
Minerva smiled back, "I do, and I'm sure I can arrange a time to introduce you to him and talk to you both about your parents."
"Thank-you. Quatre have we completed our business here, I want to go shopping, I have things to buy and a bookstore to explore to find books that I can read or if one of you losers will be translating all of my books for me." Ami said, with an evil looking smirk on her face.
"We're done. Thank-you for your time Kuru." Quatre said quickly after one look at Ami's face.
"Your welcome, I look forward to doing business with you all." Kuru said, watching as they left.
Quatre lead them back to the lobby where they picked up there exchanged money for the shopping trip.
Quatre handed out the money as they walked out of the bank. Ensuring that each person had the correct money, he said, "Should we split up and meet in two hours time in front of Olivander's Wand Shop, or would you all like longer to wonder the alley?"
"Two hours is good for me." Ami responded, not really wanting to be here all night getting supplies, "Plus we can always come back and explore more at a later time."
"She's correct, so two hours in front of Olivander's." Heero said.
"Alright, Heero, you and Ami take Professor McGonagall and get our school texts, and your robes and anything else you think you'll need. Wufei take Duo with you and pick up the potions ingredients that we'll need and anything else like robes. Myself and Trowa will pick up what's left and the parchment and quills for everyone. Am I missing anything?" Quatre said.
"No that's it." Duo said, starting to drag Wufei off down the alley to get their supplies.
Trowa smiled, and Quatre said, "Let's go." Leading Trowa in the opposite direction.
Ami smiled as she watched everyone go there separate ways, turning to Heero she said, "let's go get our robes."
"Sounds good to me." Heero said, taking Ami's arm in his and leading the way down the steps, with Professor McGonagall following amused watching the couple.
She said, "The robe shop is Madam Mulkins, I'll leave you there, I have a couple of things to do real fast in the alley and I'll meet back up with you here, I should be done before your fittings are done for your robes."
"Okay." Ami said, "Lead the way." Turning with Heero to follow their Professor and her God-mother.
Ami and Heero's path through Diagon Alley lead them to Madam Malkin's Fine Robes for All Occasions, first. They went in and were fitted for their school robes and ordered two other robes as well, an everyday robe and a dress robe each, just to make sure they would have the appropriate clothing for all events that could come up. They were finished in Madam Malkin's forty minutes after they walked through the door. They walked back out of the store just in time to rejoin Professor McGonagall in going to Flurish And Blotts to get the books they would all need for the school year, and to see about books in Braille for Ami.
They walked into the shop and found an attendant, Professor McGonagall had kindly brought a list of all of the books they would need. Heero walked of the the attendant and asked, "Can I get five of each of these books on this list? Do you have or is there a way to get a set of these books in Braille?"
"Yes, I can get you five of each of these books and a Braille copy of each. Are there any other books you need?" the brown haired attendant asked.
"Do you have a section of books in Braille?" Heero responded.
"Yes they are in the back right side of the store." He replied, leaving to get the books and take them to the counter for the group.
"Ami, I'll take you over there to look, then I'll go look and see if they have any books that the others and I would like." Heero said, taking Ami's arm to lead her to the books she could read.
"Thank-you Heero." Ami responded, "I can make it from here."
"Okay. I'll come back when it's time to leave. See you later." Heero said leaving to explore the rest of the store.
An hour later with many more books then were on the list purchased they left to meet up with the rest of the group.
Wufei and Duo went to the Apothecary first to collect the potions ingredients they would all need for the first five years of schooling. Once they had purchased enough for all six in their group to use they headed to Madam Malkins to be fitted for their robes, they also picked up the extra day and dress robes. With their shopping done they decided to stop and get an ice cream from Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Shop, to pass the time before heading to get their wands.
Quatre, a blonde young man of fourteen years, and Trowa, a young man with dark brown hair who is also fourteen, walked down the Alley where they found the shop selling the supplies they would need for Astronomy. They stopped in the shop and purchased five telescopes, as Ami would have to share with one of them in order to really use the telescope. When they had finished in that store they continued on through the Alley finding a store that sold parchment and quills. Inside the store Quatre looked at all the different quill set and picked up 5 of the starter kits, and picked out an extra twenty quills for each person, of a variety of different feathers for them all to choose from. He then found some quills that he though Ami could use, such as a dictoquill, and pick her up twenty five, with several different types for her to try. He also bought them plenty of parchment to last for a while. He had already picked up notebooks for them to take notes in.
They finished their shopping at the robe shop and got fitted for their robes also picking up the extra robes that everyone else had picked up as well. They then headed off to the wand shop as not to be late.
~~~AN: not mine...