AN: Diagon Alley is always stereotypical... Be patient. Hogwarts is where the magic starts.
Chapter Two
Diagon Alley and Whisper Wood
"Welcome, Amaryllis, to Diagon Alley" Professor Flitwick said, Professor Sprout had gone off back to Hogwarts, leaving the short wizard and mute witch to go shopping. Amaryllis looked around the Alley with wide amazement, her parents didn't bring her here as a baby so she had no memories of the place, she found it relieving. She bounced on the spot waiting till she was given permission to look around.
"Well go ahead" he said, she grinned and then was gone in a flash of red. Flitwick actually blinked and looked around shocked at her speed. He looked around, worried that he had lost the silent girl.
"Amaryllis?" He called out "Amaryllis?"
A tap on his shoulder made him jump and he turned around to find her right there.
"Oh Miss Potter, maybe you should stick with me" he said leading her down to Gringotts, Amaryllis smiled and nodded while skipping after him.
The place was in her opinion, magnificent. The colours and magic just shocked the silent girls mind. People were talking about the prices of potion ingredients and owls could be heard from what looked like a magic pet store. But what caught her attention was two stores, right next to each other, one was a bookstore the other an Art store. Flitwick stopped to see her jumping back and forth looking through the windows of both stores.
"Once we get your money we can come back for books and art supplies" he promised. She gave him a thankful smile and then after one last look, she followed after the short professor to a large crooked building, but he didn't enter.
"Unfortunately this is as far as I go, I'm not exactly welcome among the goblin community" he handed her a key "just give that to one and I'm sure they'll work it out and help"
Amaryllis gulped and took the key before entering, taking a moment to read the engraving on the silver doors.
Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn,
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.
She walked inside and looked around the large bank, goblins were on high desks weighing jewels and coins that looked strange to her. She saw older wizards walking up to desks and bowing there heads but never shaking hands. She noted that since there desks were up high it was a show of there power to look down at people.
'Greed and power hungry' she thought.
She was to nervous to move until a hand was placed on her shoulder.
"Why are you just standing there Weasley?" She turned to look at a boy her age and up at a tall man both with platinum hair.
She went to shake her head but ended up pulling her notepad out and writing -I'm Amaryllis Potter, Im worried about dealing with the Goblins, I don't want to get on there bad side, I'm afraid my Silence won't help the matter-
"Potter, where's your twin?" The tall man asked
-He came with someone else, I came with Professor Flitwick-
"Which would explain why your alone in here, just write that you wish to visit your vault, remember to introduce yourself, and now your head, don't offer your hand" he said.
She mouthed 'Thank you'
"I'm Lucius Malfoy, and this is my son Draco"
-Pleasure to meet you Sir, You too Draco… I best be on my way, don't want to keep the Professor waiting-
"See you on the train" Draco said and then he and his father walked off.
She walked through the room of goblins till she found one without a customer near. She wrote down the note quickly and placed it on his desk with the key.
-Excuse me Master Goblin, my name is Amaryllis Potter, I wish to visit my vault- she waited till he was looking at her before she bowed her head. The goblin seemed to smile at that before calling out to Griphook who took the note and key and reading it through.
"Another Potter, I helped your brother a couple of hours ago, follow me"
She followed after the goblin quickly and hopped in the cart nervously. Once he started it she felt like she left her organs behind, the wind pushed her hair back so hard it felt like it would rip from the roots, after a long cart ride it came to a stop.
"This is your vault, your brother has his own, once your both seventeen you'll have access to the Potter family Vaults" he said
She quickly wrote down -Vaults? As in more then one?-
"The Potter family is a very old and wealthy family" he pulled the key out and opened the door, her eyes widened at the stacks and stacks of Gold, Silver and Bronze.
-would you be kind enough to explain the currency system for me?-
"Muggle raised?" Amaryllis nodded. "The Gold are Galleons, the Silver are Sickles, and the Bronze are Kunts. Seventeen sickles to a Galleon, and twenty-nine Kunts to a sickle"
She did the math quickly in her head.
-So that's Four Hundred and ninety-three Knuts to the Galleon?-
"Correct Miss Potter" he said before handing her a pouch.
She took the pouch and filled it up with around seventy Galleons, twenty Sickles and thirty Knuts after the Goblin explained that the bag was bigger on the inside. Once that was all done he locked the vault, returned the key and then they took the frightening cart back to the top and by the end she thought she would throw up.
She bowed her head to Griphook in thanks and then stumbled outside and sitting down next to Professor Flitwick who was talking to tall man with red hair.
"Oh there you are Amaryllis, Don't worry, the first time is always the worst" the red head walked off and once the Mute was feeling better they headed to Florish and Blotts.
"Okay, go ahead, I'm sure you can handle this, I'm not a fan of crowds"
She walked into the store and with a note asking where first year books are headed to the busy shelf. For a moment she stood still and closed her eyes, listening to the whispers of the books around her, after a moment she shook her head and opened her eyes.
'Okay' I thought 'what do I need?'
She pulled her list out and started grabbing down the books and adding up the price in her head.
1 Galleon - The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1) by Miranda Goshawk
2 Galleons - A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot
2 Galleons - Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling
1 Galleon - A Beginners' Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch
2 Galleons - One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore
2 Galleons - Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger
2 Galleons - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander
1 Galleon - The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble
'Thirteen Galleons all up, I said I would use thirty-forty for books, so I have spare for something else'
She looked through the shelves of books and ended up grabbing.
The Book of Charms & Spells, Charms of Defence and Deterrence (something to do with a Patronus), Curses and Counter-Curses (bad things follow Harry, might as well be prepared), Transformation Through the Ages, Book of Potions, Potion Opuscule, Cutting Chopping & Dicing: a guide to Potion Preparation, Common Magical Ailments and Afflictions, Hogwarts: a History, Important Modern Magical Discoveries, Modern Magical History, Spell Potions and finally one that caught her attention most was, Magical Arts.
'Twenty-five Galleons plus the Thirteen from before' she took the twenty-one books to the counter and they were kind enough to shrink them down and place them in a wrapped box.
After that Amaryllis and Professor Flitwick went to get her robes, then her Telescope, Phials, caldron, scales And a basic Potions ingredients kit.
Next stop was Scribbulus Writing Implements, a small shop full of Quills, Ink and Parchment. Professor Flitwick quickly showed her how to use a quill and was impressed by her handwriting. She brought a set of five quills each a different colour, four bottles of black ink, two in red, one in blue and one which changed colour.
By now she had twenty Galleons left, and two stores to go to. They went to the art supply store where she brought five drawing books, two coloured pencil sets, a charcoal set and a paint set. That all came up to Ten Galleons, so she had fifteen left for her wand.
The last shop was narrow and shabby. Peeling gold letters over the door read Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC. A single wand lay on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window.
A tinkling bell rang somewhere in the depths of the shop as they stepped inside. It was a tiny place, thousands of narrow boxes piled neatly right up to the ceiling. For some reason, the back of her neck prickled.
The moment she stepped into the wand store she could feel the magic, the whispers like with the books, but stronger.
"Ahh, I was wondering when the other would come" a strange looking man walked up to her. He looked… Well, in her opinion, creepy beyond measure.
"Which is your wand arm?" He asked and she held out her left arm.
"I remember when your Mother got her first wand, a charm wand… Made of Willow, your father's was a Transfiguration wand made of Mahogany." He walked down the stacks of wands. "Your brother instead got a Holly wand, powerful… Good for Defence… She'll we see where your talents lie?"
She nodded quickly and clapped her hands a few times excited. Flitwick smiled from his seat waiting to see if She would follow a parent or be unique like her brother.
"Here we go, Willow and unicorn hair" he placed the box on the counter and let her pick up the wand, she could automatically tell it wasn't her wand but indulged the insane man by waving it and making the windows shatter.
"I guess not" he said and walked off for another "Mahogany and unicorn tail hair."
Again not her wand, but waving it for him. This time a large crack appeared through the desk.
"Maybe your like your brother" he said and walked off once more to get a new wand, after the thirteenth wand Ollivander looked at her confused.
"You haven't talked yet, why?"
"She's mute" Flitwick told the creepy man.
He stood there thinking for a moment then walked off returning with an old dusty box.
"Only one of its kind I believe, my grandfather made this, never made another like it since it wasn't every considered for a witch of wizard." He opened the box and she looked at the wand inside, it was pure white with black creeping up it like vines.
"Whisper wood, rare for its kind" she could hear it calling out to her, she tapped her ear to indicate she could hear it. "It has a Thestral Tail Hair, normally found in wands with those who have the potential to become Potion Masters" her smiled grew at the mention of Potions.
"I see that you find Potions interesting" she nodded quickly and held out her hand eagerly for the wand. He picked it up and placed it in her hand, the wand glowed and wind blew around her strongly, her shoulders shook in silent giggles as it tickled her skin.
"There you are Miss Potter, 14' Whisper wood with the tail hair of a Thestral" after paying eight Galleons for the wand, two Galleons for a wand holster and another three for a wand care kit, Amaryllis and Flitwick left and went to buy her a trunk which Flitwick magically expanded the inside slightly to fit all her books. He magically sent them to her room and then they took the knight bus, which frightened her, back to her uncles house.
Before she got off the bus he handed her an envelope, "here is your train ticket, it leaves at eleven sharp… I'm sure Harry knows how to get on the platform, see you at Hogwarts Amaryllis."
She waved goodbye as the bus rounded the corner and vanished and then she walked into the house.
"Where have you been girl?" He uncle shouted instantly. She yanked her wand out of its arm holster and pointed it at him, she remembered the rule about no magic outside Hogwarts, but her uncle didn't know that. Vernon raised his hands then vanished into the kitchen.
'That should make him leave me alone for a while' then headed upstairs to her brothers room.
"Lis!" He shouted seeing her "where have you been, I got back here and you weren't around" she pulled her wand out to show him.
"Someone came and took you shopping, so you did get a letter?" She nodded her head.
"Great, I was afraid of leaving you behind"
She left her brother to return to her room and start reading through her books. The first one she grabbed out was Magical Drafts and Potions and started flipping through the pages, memorising each ingredient then grabbing out her Potion Preparation book and looking through the differences.
'This looks easy' she thought as she wrote little notes on the pages of her book at the simple differences, she grabbed her copy of One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi, and looked at the plants used in potions.
She did this for every book, using the extra books she wrote to scribble notes on the pages of her books. Each book had her name signed inside the cover with a small picture of the Amaryllis Flower under it. She had labeled each of her possessions and packed each item which she didn't need for the month in her trunk.
After she was sure everything was ready she grabbed one of the new drawing pads and the colour pencil set and started sketching pictures of Diagon Alley, the stores and store owners. The goblins and animals she saw, Flitwick offered to buy her a pet but she declined, she knew nothing about owning pets and preferred her books. Plus knowing she would have to use animal parts in potions made her go against owning one.
~H.A~
Four weeks latter, the night before they left for Hogwarts Harry went to ask about a ride, even if Vernon did say no, she would just introduce Harry to the Knight Bus and Ernie. She was laying on her bed reading through her copy of Hogwarts: A History when there was a knock on her door, she let her leg hang off the bed and she stomped it twice to tell them they could come in
Her Aunt stuck her head in the room and and then walked over to the bed.
"I don't know why I hoped you would be normal, your only a reminder of my sister" she frowned and placed a shoebox on the bed and then left.
Amaryllis raised an eyebrow up and grabbed the shoebox opening it up, inside were small novelty objects, a hair pin with a fake Lily on it, a red diary with a lock, a charm bracelet with random charms like Potion Phials, Flowers, A feather and many more. There were a few drawings inside and a string necklace with a Lily on the end which she could tell doubled to tie her hair back when need be.
She smiled and put the Lily string necklace on and then removing it to tie her hair back. She put the charm bracelet on and then went to look in the mirror with a smile.
She set out her clothes for the next day, her plain jeans, her boots, a white shirt and a blue flannel shirt. She placed her school robes on the top of her stuff in her trunk for easy access and placed the shoe box in the trunk next to her own shoebox of drawings. Then settled down for the night having strange dreams of dancing wands of exploding potions.
"Amaryllis, wake up, we got to go!" She woke up to her brother shaking her and yelling at her to get up. She sat up and looked at the clock, her eyes widening and she jumped up running to her bathroom and changed quickly into her set clothes, stuck her wand in her arm holster up her sleeve and grabbed her trunk pulling it down the stairs after Harry.
"About time Girl" Her uncle had given up trying to pronounce her name… Not that it was hard… Just Am-Er-El-is… The Belladona Lilly.
Her brother helped place her trunk in the boot of the car and then they squeezed in the back with Amaryllis in the middle once Aunt Petunia persuaded him to sit in the back with the Magic Uses.
They reached King's Cross at half past ten. Uncle Vernon dumped Harry's trunk on to a trolley and wheeled it into the station for him. Harry thought this was strangely kind until Uncle Vernon stopped dead, facing the platforms with a nasty grin on his face.
"Well, there you are, Girl, boy. Platform nine – platform ten. Your platform should be somewhere in the middle, but they don't seem to have built it yet, do they?"
He was quite right, of course. There was a big plastic number nine over one platform and a big plastic number ten over the one next to it, and in the middle, nothing at all.
"Have a good term," said Uncle Vernon with an even nastier smile. He left without another word.
The twins watched him drive off with Dudley in the back laughing, Harry and Amaryllis looked around trying to work out who to ask, while Harry went to ask a Guard, Amaryllis listened out of anyone.
"-Packed with Muggles, of course"
'Well, it is a Muggle station' she grabbed her brothers arm and indicated for him to follow, Amaryllis ran after the group of Red Heads.
"Mummy, can't I go?"
"You're not old enough, Ginny, now be quiet. All right, Percy, you go first."
What looked like the oldest boy marched towards platforms nine and ten. The twins watched, careful not to blink in case they missed it – but just as the boy reached the divide between the two platforms, a large crowd of tourists came swarming in front of him, and by the time the last rucksack had cleared away, the boy had vanished.
"Fred, you next," the plump woman said.
"I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly woman, call yourself our mother?"
"Sorry, George, dear."
"Only joking, I am Fred," said the boy, and off he went..
His twin called after him to hurry up, and he must have done, because a second later, he had gone – but how had he done it?
Now the third brother was walking briskly towards the ticket barrier – he was almost there – and then, quite suddenly, he wasn't anywhere.
There was nothing else for it.
"Excuse me," Harry said to the plump woman.
"Hello Dears"
Harry suddenly didn't know what to say. Amaryllis wrote quickly on her pocket book.
-Can you please tell my brother and I how to get on the platform Ma'am?-
"First times at Hogwarts? It's Ron's first time too" she indicated to the boy there age with the trademark red hair and dirt on his nose.
Harry finally nodded and spoke "no one told us how to get on the Platform"
"Not to worry," she said. "All you have to do is walk straight at the barrier between platforms nine and ten. Don't stop and don't be scared you'll crash into it, that's very important. Best do it at a bit of a run if your nervous"
Amaryllis volunteered to go first and lined her trolley up and started at a jog towards the wall, her eyes widened but she didn't close them as she ran right through the brick wall without crashing. She smiled and looked around at the train with wide eyes. She pushed her trolley to one of the train doors and then with weak arms tried to tug her trunk onto the train. She huffed and jumped over it onto the ground and tried to push it up onto the train.
"Hello Amaryllis, need help?" She turned to see Draco and with a sigh of relief she nodded. He indicated to two bulky boys which looked like body guards and with a push they got it on the train. 'Thankyou' she mouthed and hopped onto the train with the three following behind her, she found an empty compartment and the bulky boys lifted the trunk up onto the overhead.
"So do you know which house your hoping for?" Draco asked. Amaryllis shrugged and pulled her notepad out.
-While I'm ambitious I'm not cunning, while I'm Loyal I'm not hardworking because I find things easy to me, while I'm creative my wit is imaginary and I'm not one to be brave and jump in at a situation without knowing what to do-
"Well, however they sort us is never wrong, hope to see you in Slytherin" he said and then then he walked away. Amaryllis pulled two wrapped cookie she brought from a vending machine at the station and gave it to the bulky boys for there help, they smiled taking the cookies and leaving.
A few minuets latter a chubby boy entered the compartment looking sad and he sat down not noticing her. And then a bushy haired girl walked in, Amaryllis looked up and saw there trunks already up the top.
They sat down and after a moment noticed her, she waved shyly at both of them.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't see you there, I'm Hermione Granger, it's a pleasure to meet you, this is Neville Longbottom" Amaryllis pulled out a pre-made sign and held it up.
-Amaryllis Potter, Pleasure to meet you-
"Oh are you Mute?" She asked Amaryllis and she nodded. Neville was looking wide eyes at the last name.
"And Potter as in Harry and Amaryllis Potter, I've read all about you too, well, mainly Harry… Your in multiple books that I brought for a bit of spare reading. It's strange you know, how no one could beat him and then your brother does without doing anything. You two survived like it was nothing"
-Books can Lie Miss Granger, while I may have walked away without a scar I have an Eidetic memory, I remember what happened, and don't think it was nothing, I lost my parents that night and I'm going to remember that for the rest of my life. The books have in fact lied, how can they know what happened when my brother and I are the only survives? You seem like an amazing Girl, and I'm sure we will make great friends, but think before you talk otherwise you might say something that hurts someone more then that-
She handed the paper over and then leaned back in her seat looking out the window at Fred and George helping Harry get his trunk on the train.
"I…I'm so sorry, I don't mean to be like that, it just happens, I get excited and I talk and don't really think"
Amaryllis smiled at her and nodded.
"You have Eidetic memory, have you read the books?"
-Every single one-
"I can't wait for charms, it looks so interesting, like the magic you would see on the streets"
-Potions is what I can't wait for, I've studied the book and the extras I brought-
"Your brought Extras as well?" Amaryllis nodded and then they both turned to Neville.
He looked shyly at them before stammering out "H-Her-Herbology" Amaryllis smiled and nodded. They were so into the conversation that they didn't notice the train moving an hour into the trip.
Neville stood up to look for his toad and Hermione went to help him. Amaryllis took this moment to change into her robes and tied her hair back with the Lily String necklace. Hermione came back a moment latter and slumped down. "I did it again" she said sadly.
Amaryllis smiled and patted Hermione's head.
The train slowed right down and finally stopped. People pushed their way towards the door and out on to a tiny, dark platform. Amaryllis jumped up and down on the spot to warm up and to lessen her stiff legs. Then a lamp came bobbing over the heads of the students and She heard a deep voice: "Firs'-years! Firs'-years over here! All right there, Harry?"
Harry smiled at the giant man.
"C'mon, follow me – any more firs'-years? Mind yer step, now! Firs'-years follow me!"
Slipping and stumbling, they followed Hagrid down what seemed to be a steep, narrow path. It was so dark either side of them that Amaryllis thought there must be thick trees there. Nobody spoke much. Neville, the boy who kept losing his toad, sniffed once or twice..
"Yeh'll get yer firs' sight o' Hogwarts in a sec," Hagrid called over his shoulder, "jus' round this bend here."
There was a loud "Oooooh!".
The narrow path had opened suddenly on to the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.
"No more'n four to a boat!" Hagrid called, pointing to a fleet of little boats sitting in the water by the shore. Harry, Ron, Neville and Hermione got in a boat while Amaryllis shared with Malfoy and the two bulky boys she found out we're called Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle.
"Everyone in?" shouted Hagrid, who had a boat to himself, "Right then – FORWARD!"
And the fleet of little boats moved off all at once, gliding across the lake, which was as smooth as glass. Everyone was silent, staring up at the great castle overhead. It towered over them as they sailed nearer and nearer to the cliff on which it stood.
"Heads down!" yelled Hagrid as the first boats reached the cliff; they all bent their heads and the little boats carried them through a curtain of ivy which hid a wide opening in the cliff face. They were carried along a dark tunnel, which seemed to be taking them right underneath the castle, until they reached a kind of underground harbour, where they clambered out on to rocks and pebbles.
"Oy, you there! Is this your toad?" said Hagrid, who was checking the boats as people climbed out of them.
"Trevor!" cried Neville blissfully, holding out his hands. Then they clambered up a passageway in the rock after Hagrid's lamp, coming out at last on to smooth, damp grass right in the shadow of the castle.
They walked up a flight of stone steps and crowded around the huge, oak front door.
"Everyone here? You there, still got yer toad?"
Hagrid raised a gigantic fist and knocked three times on the castle door and then… Silence.
AN: Okay, so, I need help people's.
PLEASE COMMENT ANSWER
Will Amaryllis be a
A. Brave Gryffindor
B. Cunning Slytherin
C. Intelligent Ravenclaw
D. Loyal Hufflepuff?
Amaryllis is a flower also known as the Belladona Lily. It's a smaller Darker version of a Lily. Get it?
Also before anyone asks, I don't think it will be a Amaryllis/Draco story. It's to early to pairings anyway, she's eleven!
And no, she won't be apart of the Golden Group. But they will interact a lot. It mainly depends on her chosen house.