Sorry for the big delay between this chapter and the last. Had one hell of a lot of work to do for my university course.
I don't own harry potter it all belongs to J.K. Rowling
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Mrs Zabini chuckled to herself as she made her way into the hallway and picked up her pot of floo powder before making her way into the reception room where Blaise and Charlotte were waiting by the fireplace clutching their Hogwarts letters.
Blaise and Charlotte watched eagerly as she through the powder into the fire and shouted diagon alley, before doing the same themselves. Soon they found themselves inside the Leaky Cauldron, which was full of activity; it seemed many had come to get their children's Hogwarts items.
"Come we shall have some lunch before going shopping," she said to Blaise and Charlotte guiding them to a table before ordering them each food.
Once finished Blaise and Charlotte eagerly followed Mrs Zabini to the back of the Leaky Cauldron and entered diagon alley. The streets seemed to be alive, there were people everywhere, bright shop displays and in the distance they could see the great white building of Gringotts bank towering over the shops. They made their way towards the bank forcing their way through the crowds in front of Quality Quidditch Supplies, and through the large heavy doors into Gringotts.
Both Blaise and Charlotte soon had the money they needed from their own vaults to buy all the items they needed for Hogwarts. Mrs Zabini allowed them to go to Olivanders whilst she went to get the books they would need for the first year.
Blaise grabbed Charlottes hand as they moved through the bustling street; they soon had made their way to Olivanders and were both stood outside staring up at the shabby looking but somewhat intimidating shop. They looked at each other and nodded before slowly pushing the door open and entering the shop, they stared at the never ending shelves all fully packed with wand in slight awe.
"Um, Blaise, where is ?" Charlotte asked Blaise quietly.
Blaise looked at Charlotte and shrugged before pressing the small bell on the desk, a man ame out of the darkness, "Hogwarts students?" he asked.
Charlotte and Blaise nodded silently, "Ah yes excellent!" the man exclaimed, " and , I remember the day your mothes gt their wands, and now it's time for you to get yours, now let me just take some measurements," the man said before a tape measure started weaving its way around Charlotte and Blaises bodies.
"Ah, yes before I forget I must introduce myself, I am Olivander," the man said to them, "Now your wand arm which is it?" he continued.
Charlotte and Baise both raised their right arm, Olivander nodded before making his way over to a section of wands, he gave one to each of them. This process went on for around twenty minutes before finally Blaise and Charlotte had found their wands.
"I see, so for Mr. Zabini, 13 inch ebony with a phoenix feather core, a supple wand indeed, and for Miss. Flume 12 and a half inch maple with a dragon heartstring core, quite bendy." Olivander mumbled to himself as Blaise and Charlotte payed for their wands.
They quickly left the store and located Mrs Zabini in her arms their Hogwarts books, she ushered them toward Madam Malkins robes, where they were soon measure again and fitted with their Hogwarts robes. Mrs. Zabini quickly apparated home with all they had bought so far before coming back to finish up the shopping, soon it was done all that was left was for Blaise and Charlotte to get a pet. Mrs Zabini left them at this point telling them to floo home as soon as they had purchased theit new pets.
As Charlotte and Blaise were walking towards Eeylops Owl Emporium, Charlotte began rummaging through her pockets; Blaise looked at her and shook his head before rummaging in his pocket and passing a lollipop to Charlotte. "Here, I knew you would need one whilst we were here," he said.
Charlotte smiled at Blaise and thanked him before slipping the lollipop into her mouth, they continued on the Eeylops Owl Emporium and entered the shop enthusiastically, they had already discussed what pets they would get, Blaise would buy an owl they could both use and Charlotte would buy a kitten.
After staring at the many choices for over an hour, they soon left the shop with a tortoise shell and white Maine Coon kitten named Keiko and a young rock eagle owl named Amber, they flooed home as Mrs Zabini requested as soon as they were done, now all they had to do was wait for September 1st.
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"Charlotte, come on get up, its September" Charlotte woke up and looked around her room yawning, she spotted Blaise standing in her doorway, she looked at him and rolled her eyes before rolling out of bed.
"Alright I'm up Blaise," she said to him, Blaise smiled and walked up to her, he handed her a blood flavoured lollipop before pulling her downstairs, asking her whether she had packed everything and running through a check list, she nodded at him as he continued talking, letting him know she had everything ready.
They entered the kitchen to see Bellina at the table in her finest golden coloured robes, sipping coffee. "Good morning you two, I suggest you get dressed soon as you cannot go to Hogwarts wearing pyjamas," she said to them both.
Blaise and Charlotte looked at each other and nodded in agreement before both rushing upstairs to get dressed. When they came back downstairs they noticed that Bellina had already brought their Hogwarts trunks to the reception room, and had got Keiko and Amber ready for travel.
"We will be leaving soon, we should get their early to avoid the rush," she said to them. Blaise and Charlotte nodded in agreement, they couldn't wait to see the Hogwarts express, Bellina and Ambrosius had told them it was quite the sight to see.
Soon they arrived at platform 9 and 3 quarters, the platform was very quiet when they arrived only a few other families where there. Bellina made her way across to the Malfoy family with Blaise and Charlotte following close behind.
"Lucius, Narcissa how nice to see you," she said to them politely, Charlotte and Blasie smiled in greeting.
"Bellina," Lucius replied, "Draco has already boarded the train with the cons of Crabbe and Goyle, we got here early to avoid the muggle families," Narcissa nodded in agreement.
Charlotte and Blaise looked at the scarlet train, it really was impressive close up, and they looked at the long line of carriages in amazement. They looked around the platform again noticing that all the people present were from high class pureblood families.
"It seems that many of our class had the same idea," Bellina noted, looking around the platform herself, before turning to Blaise and Charlotte, "You two should get your stuff put in a carriage now, if you wait until later, you will find yourselves stuck in a cramped compartment full of other students."
"Of course mother, we shall go now," Blaise said to her he always spoke to her like this when around other pureblood families, before both he and Charlotte moved toward the train and climbed onto it. Bellina waved briefly at them as they entered the train before turning back to her conversation with the Malfoys.
Charlotte and Blaise made their way through the carriage, it was completely empty, they saw Draco Malfoy in the next carriage up and entered the carriage nodding in greeting to Draco before selecting the compartment nearest to the door.
Watching out of the window onto the platform they saw many families starting to turn up, they watched as many of the pureblood families quickly apparated off the platform, they watched the platform become more and more crowded with families as the time neared 11 o'clock.
The door of their compartment slid open and two boys were standing at the doorway, "Hi, is it ok if we sit in here?" the one asked.
Charlotte and Blaise looked at each other and nodded, before gesturing for the two boys to come in, the boys both smiled and thanked Blaise and Charlotte before setting down across from each other in silence. The clock on the station indicated it was 11 o'clock and the train slowly started moving from the platform.
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Chapter 3 done
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