That night Harry could hardly sleep she was so excited.
1 am
2 am
3 am
4 am
Sleep.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, click. Harry shut off her alarm and rolled over. Then she sat up with a start. It was already eight! Quickly, Harry put on her glasses and stumbled out of bed. Quickly Swiftly, she put on the clothes she had laid out the night before and rushed downstairs to get breakfast.
As she ate, Harry thought of all the things she would be doing today. She couldn't wait to go to Gringotts Wizarding Bank, get her school supplies, and robes. She figured that since she already had a wand she wouldn't need to get one, but who knows, she wondered, maybe wizards carry two wands.
After Harry finished eating she put her dishes away and proceeded to get ready. At precisely nine o'clock the doorbell rang. Harry opened the door to reveal a calm Severus. "Good morning Mr. Snape" Harry said greeting him.
"Likewise," Severus responded, "are you ready to leave?"
"Yes." Harry almost jumped with excitement, "how are we getting there?" she asked.
Severus answered her, "I will be performing what is called sidelong apparition." He took out his wand and held out his hand to Harry.
Before she took it though she looked at his wand and said, "Yours looks very different from mine."
Severus started, "I beg your pardon? Do you mean to tell me that you have a wand?"
"Well yes, you need it to perform magic right? Well I got a nice maple branch that has been working very well for me. Would you like to see it?" Harry asked. Severus stared at her and nodded. Carefully Harry pulled her wand out of her backpack that she had taken with her and handed it over to Severus who then inspected it with great care.
"This has no magical core!" he exclaimed. "Do not tell anyone of this wand Harry, not even Dumbledore, they must not knoww,." Severus said urgently.
"Why?" Harry asked her head tilting to an angle as if she was examining Severus' reaction.
"Because Harry," he responded, "people do not perform magic without a wand, and yours is most certainly not a true wand. We will have to get you another one and perhaps we can have Ollivander examine yours."
Harry nodded and tucked her wand back into her backpack. Then she took his hand and waited for him to perform this apparition thing.
"Wait!" Harry almost shouted, "is this the thing where you are squeezed into an atom? I can do that by myself."
Again Severus stared at her and then shook his head. "While your ability to do that does not surprise me, you have never been to Diagon Alley if I am correct? How would you know where to apparate to?" he asked.
"Oh," Harry said, "I didn't think of that, sorry, lead on."
Nodding, Severus raised his wand and suddenly Harry once again felt like she was being squeezed into an atom before it was over again.
If Severus hadn't been holding her hand she would have dropped to the floor again. Luckily he was though and she was able to maintain the facade that she was not fazed. Severus looked at her to check if she was alright and then turned to the brick wall in front of them and tapped the bricks.
Harry gasped when she saw what was behind the melting wall. "This is amazing!" she whispered.