Finally the Diagon chapter! It ended up longer than I expected it too, but I'm sure no one is upset about that. I will apologize for the stuff that was quoted from the book, but really for some of this JKR just said it better. I've taken some liberties with the timeline because Luffy and Brook actually made it Diagon earlier than Harry and Hagrid did because the Dursley's didn't spend days running away from letters. Currently, it's a day or two until the 31st but some things happen like they did in the book. There is a lot of fun stuff in this chapter, I hope everyone enjoys it.
"Are we there yet?" Luffy whined tugging at Brook's sleeve pitifully. An older woman sitting across from Luffy and Brook on the tube gave the whining child a nasty look. Both pirates ignored her.
"Just about," Brook said thoughtfully. "One more stop!"
Brook and Luffy had left Privet Drive early that morning. Brook had, of course, invited himself to breakfast but because neither he nor Luffy could cook properly added to the fact they did not have an idea of proper portion control they devoured everything they could from the refrigerator. The missing food and the mess of blankets in the guest room were sure to be a not-so-welcome home for the Dursleys.
Brook, with a little magical assistance, got the pair to London where Luffy insisted on taking the underground as far as they could to purchase his school supplies.
"It's us! It's us!" Luffy cheered bouncing in place as they waited to leave the car.
Brook smiled indulgently at his pint-sized captain and easily led the way back above ground and onto the street where they needed to go.
"Do you still have your list, Luffy?" Brook asked steering his captain toward the hidden entrance of the Leaky Cauldron.
"My list?" Luffy said in confusion. "List of what?"
"Oh dear," Brook muttered. "It should have come with your acceptance letter. Did it not?"
Luffy furrowed his brow in thought for a moment and then grinned. "Oh, my mystery letter! I have it!" He cried and stuffed his hand down into his left pocket.
"Somewhere…" He muttered when his first attempt didn't produce any results. "Maybe this one?"
Brook sighed with mild exasperation but gave a large smile of relief when the boy finally pulled the crumpled letter and list from his back pocket.
"Aha!" Luffy said proudly presenting the papers.
Brook plucked the documents from Luffy's hand and smoothed them out as best he could. "I'll keep an eye on these," Brook said. Nami was normally in charge of shopping lists and she only trusted Sanji and Robin to actually complete the lists so out of the two of them Brook figured he was the best choice to hold onto it.
"Our first stop!" Brook said brightly opening the door to the dingy bar. Luffy shuffled in and looked around curiously.
"It looks like a dirty old pub," Luffy told musician. "It doesn't look very magical."
Indeed it did not. The Leaky Cauldron was lit only by the midmorning light that managed to force its way through the windows that were coated in gray dust. The floor was sticky and main entry stunk of tobacco smoke. Luffy's eye drifted to the patrons of the bar, all of whom looked like they had spent the night in their seats.
"It is a dirty old pub!" Brook informed him. "But it's also magical!" The living skeleton pointed to the bar where old Tom was using magic to wash dishes.
Luffy followed Brook's hand and gaped. He was finally seeing real magic. "Wow! The dishes are floating!" Luffy shouted with excitement drawing irritated looks from some of the patrons.
"Why Professor Brook!" Tom greeted, Luffy's shout having caught his attention. "Escorting one of Hogwarts' new first years then?"
"Yohohoho! I am!" Brook said with a wide smile. "Young Harry and I are after his school things. Any chance you can open the way up for me?"
The barman glanced curiously at Luffy when Brook said his name but nodded. "Of course! Right, this way gentlemen and I'll send you on your way."
Tom let the two pirates just outside the pub opposite of the way they had come in. 'The way' as Brook had called it resembled an old dirty dead end.
"Broooook, I thought we were going to that diagonally alley place! Not some trashy dead end," Luffy pouted up at the musician.
"Yohohoho, just wait a second," Brook said turning toward Tom. "You'll see in just a moment."
Tom shared a fond look with Brook and drew his wand. "It's always fun to see the first year's first time seeing the Alley," The man said as he began tapping the brick wall. "Welcome to Diagon Alley!"
The bricks slowly moved away to reveal a walkway and Luffy wished he had eight more eyes. There were shops selling robes, shops selling telescopes and strange silver instruments Luffy had never seen before, windows stacked with barrels of bat spleens and eels' eyes, tottering piles of spell books, quills, and rolls of parchment, potion bottles, globes of the moon.
"Woah," Luffy whispered to himself as he tried very hard to see everything at once.
"Come along then! The bank is our first stop!" Brook said after giving his captain a minute to take everything in. "Thank you, Mr. Tom, for your help!"
Luffy, still mesmerized by the alley, let himself be drug along behind Brook toward a snow-white multistoried marble building.
"Now, Luffy, the bank is run by goblins so try not to touch anything," Brook explained. "They get rather … touchy when someone gets too close to their gold."
"Like Nami?" Luffy asked curiously.
"Yes, exactly like Nami," Brook agreed.
Both shivered at the thought of the navigator when someone threatened her money.
"I'll do the talking so you just stand there, okay?" Brook said hopefully.
"Awww, but I wanted to see the goblins!" Luffy pouted.
"You'll still be able to see them just fine," Brook promised. "Just don't talk to them."
It was a futile hope that somehow they would make it through the visit without Luffy offending the goblins.
"Fiiiiine," Luffy said drawing out the word.
Brook just shook his head. Being the responsible one wasn't fun, no wonder Nami was always so frustrated.
They had actually made it almost to the end of the visit without something happening. Brook and Luffy had made it through the main entrance and to a teller. They even made it down to Luffy's vault but the minute they came back into the lobby a goblin stopped them.
"Come with me, please," The goblin said not bothering to wait and see if they followed him.
Luffy gave Brook a questioning look but the skeleton just shrugged. This wasn't normal Gringotts procedure.
The goblin led the two into a small side room. The door was sparsely furnished holding only a tall desk that resembled the ones in the main hall of the bank and two thin wooden chairs.
"Take a seat," The goblin seated at the desk said with a wave of his hand.
Luffy bounced over to the seat on the left and Brook slipped into the one of the right.
"You are Mr. Harry Potter, yes?" The goblin asked sounding bored.
"Uh huh," Luffy said and nodded.
The goblin peered across his desk at the eleven-year-old and then shifted his gaze to Brook. "And you are?" The goblin asked.
"Professor Brook of Hogwarts. I'm escorting Mr. Potter to retrieve his school supplies," The music professor explained.
The goblin made a noise of acknowledgment and turned back to the paperwork that he had in front of him.
"What's this about Mr. Goblin-Guy?" Luffy asked breaking the silence that had fallen over them.
For a moment the goblin didn't respond but then he picked up the piece of paper he had been writing on since they arrived. "Sign this," The Goblin said giving the paper a little toss. Like magic the piece of paper floated right into Luffy's lap.
The boy glanced at the paper curiously. "What is it?" He asked looking around for a pen to sign with.
"It says that you accept Vault number 7326," The goblin said plainly.
"Huh? I thought my vault was six-hundred-something," Luffy said frowning at the paper. Brook leaned over and scanned it over.
"Harry has a second vault?" The professor questioned.
"Yes, now sign the paper and get out," The goblin demanded flicking a quill toward the two pirates. Brook caught the quill effortlessly and handed it to his captain.
"It says here that you can't access the vault until you're 13," Brook read. "How odd."
"So I have a mystery vault," Luffy declared signing his name with a flourish. "I wonder what's inside?"
"Maybe something you parents left you," Brook suggested.
The boy shrugged. "I guess I'll find out when I turn 13."
The goblin snapped his fingers and the paper floated away from Luffy and back up on his desk. "Now get out of my office."
"But I don't want to go clothes shopping!" Luffy protested grabbing onto the doorway of the robe shop.
Brook had a tight grip on his captain's leg and gave a sharp tug. "You have to get robes!" Brook insisted. "Your supply list says so!"
"But I don't want to wear them! They look like dresses!" Luffy shouted maintaining his grip on the door jam.
"You have to!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"If you get your robes we can get a snack before we go get your wand," Brook bribed desperately.
"Okay," Luffy chirped releasing his grip on the door just as Brook gave another tug.
The two collided when Luffy, having been pulled by Brook, slammed into the older man and sent them into into a rack of robes.
"Oww," Luffy complained rubbing his sore head.
"Now I'm going to go get your birthday present," Brook told the boy who Madam Malkin had stuck on a stool with pieces of what would become his robes draped over him. "I'll be back in just a minute so wait here for me when you're done, okay?"
"Sure thing!" Luffy agreed. "What's my present going to be? Is it meat?"
Brook just hummed softly and ducked out of the robe shop leaving the young pirate captain fidgeting in place.
Being fitted for robes took forever, Luffy thought to himself. It was so boring having to wait there and do nothing.
"Another one for Hogwarts?" Luffy heard the seamstress ask. A small pointy faced blond had entered the shop while he was lost in thought. "Hope on up, dear."
Luffy turned his head to the new boy curiously. He hadn't met a wizard his own age yet. "Hogwarts too?" The blond asked cooly.
Luffy nodded staring hard at the boy.
"My father's next door buying my books and mother's up the street looking at wands," said the boy. He had a bored, drawling voice. "Then I'm going to drag them off to look at racing brooms. I don't see why first-years can't have their own. I think I'll bully father into getting me one and I'll smuggle it in somehow."
Luffy was strongly reminded of someone by the way the blond spoke and stood. At first, he thought it might have been his cousin Dudley but that was just the boy's there was something else about the boy that reminded Luffy of … someone.
"Have you got your own broom?" The boy went on.
"No," said Luffy curiously. Why would he need a broom?
"Play Quidditch at all?"
Luffy laughed. "Nope! I don't know what that is! Is it meat?"
"You don't know what Quidditch is?" The blond asked incredulously. His face melted into a nasty sneer. "Who are you parents anyway? They aren't muggles are they?"
Luffy scowled at the boy next to him. "My parents were a witch and wizard," Luffy told him. "They're dead, though," He said cutting off the next question he could see the boy going to ask.
The blond's sneer let up a bit and he nodded slightly. "What's your surname?" He asked Luffy looking him over like one would a particularly nasty bug.
"All done dear," the seamstress said giving Luffy a light pat on the shoulder.
The reincarnated pirate hopped off the stool and didn't bother answering the boy's question. He could see Brook just outside the door.
"I'll see you at Hogwarts, I suppose," the blond called. Luffy nodded tightly and marched toward the door.
"Luffy? What's wrong?" Brook asked passing his captain an ice cream cone.
"That boy," Luffy said staring at the blond through the window.
"The blond? Do you know him?" Brook asked.
"Yeah."
"Last stop!" Brook practically sang. "It's time to get your wand! The most important item on the list!"
All of Luffy's purchases including the birthday present from Brook, that happened to be a beautiful snowy owl that Luffy had promptly named Shirohige despite Brook's protest that the owl was female, had been delivered to the room Brook had booked Luffy at the Leaky Cauldron.
The pirate musician had decided that Luffy wasn't returning to the Dursley's the summer and could spend August in Diagon Alley before going to Hogwarts on September 1st.
Luffy stared up at the sign that proudly read, "Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C."
"Uh, I'll wait outside," Brook said not moving to open the door.
Luffy stared at his musician in confusion. "Why?"
Brook laughed slightly. "Mr. Ollivander is really creepy and I'd rather not going in his shop!" The skeleton told the boy cheerfully.
Luffy just shrugged and pushed open the door and shivered. His skin tingled and it felt like he had just walked through a spider web. The shop was tiny and empty except for a single, spindly chair in the corner. Thousands of narrow boxes containing wands were piled right up to the ceiling of the tiny shop, and the whole place had a thin layer of dust about it.
"Ah, mister … Potter," a voice said from behind a stack of boxes. "I wondered when I was going to see you."
The wand maker shuffled out from behind the boxes and stared at the boy rather intensely for a moment. Mr. Ollivander had wide, pale eyes that shined like moons through the gloom of the shop.
"You have your mother's eyes," Ollivander told him. "It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wand. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wand for charm work."
Luffy stared unblinkingly into Ollivander's pale eyes never noticing the man get closer and closer. "Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wand. Eleven inches. Pliable. A little more power and excellent for transfiguration," the wand maker said. "Well, I say your father favored it — it's really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course."
Mr. Ollivander had come so close that he and Harry were almost nose to nose. Harry could see himself reflected in those misty eyes.
"And that's where…"
Mr. Ollivander touched the lightning scar on Harry's forehead with a long, white finger.
"I'm sorry to say I sold the wand that did it," he said softly. "Thirteen-and-a-half inches. Yew. Powerful wand, very powerful, and in the wrong hands… well, if I'd known what that wand was going out into the world to do…"
"It's not the wands fault," Luffy said breaking Ollivander's musing. "Voldemort chose to use it that way." Luffy had always had a way of cutting to the heart of the matter.
"Ah, yes, of course," the old wand maker said softly as was his way. "You are indeed an interesting one, Harry Potter."
Luffy grinned. "Does that mean I can get my wand now?"
"Of course!" Ollivander said with a matching smile. "Let's find your match."
Ollivander pulled a long tape measure with silver markings out of his pocket. "Which is your wand arm?"
"I use both," Luffy said plainly.
"Both you say? Interesting." He measured Luffy from shoulder to finger, then wrist to elbow, shoulder to floor, knee to armpit and round his head.
As he measured, he said, "Every Ollivander wand has a core of a powerful magical substance, Mr. Potter. We use unicorn hairs, phoenix tail feathers, and the heartstrings of dragons. No two Ollivander wands are the same, just as no two unicorns, dragons, or phoenixes are quite the same. And of course, you will never get such good results with another wizard's wand."
Luffy went cross-eyed staring at the tape measure that had decided to measure his nostril by itself.
Mr. Ollivander was flitting around the shelves, taking down boxes.
"That will do," he said, and the tape measure crumpled into a heap on the floor. "Right then, Mr. Potter. Try this one. Beechwood and dragon heartstring. Nine inches. Nice and flexible. just take it and give it a wave."
Luffy took the wand and waved it around rather enthusiastically, but Mr. Ollivander snatched it out of his hand almost at once.
"Maple and phoenix feather. Seven inches. Quite whippy. Try —"
Luffy raised the wand but it was quickly snatched back by Mr. Ollivander.
"No, no — here, ebony and unicorn hair, eight and a half inches, springy. Go on, go on, try it out."
Luffy tried. And tried. He had no idea what Mr. Ollivander was waiting for. The pile of tried wands was mounting higher and higher on the spindly chair, but the more wands Mr. Ollivander pulled from the shelves, the happier he seemed to become.
Luffy was also enjoying himself. Sometimes the wands would shoot sparks or make noise when he waved them. Once a wand had even shot fire that Mr. Ollivander had to duck to keep from getting hit in the face.
"Tricky customer, eh? Not to worry, we'll find the perfect match here somewhere — I wonder, now — yes, why not — unusual combination — holly and phoenix feather, eleven inches, nice and supple."
Luffy took the wand and unlike with the others, there was a strange warmth that climbed up his arm. For a moment Mr. Ollivander looked as this were the wand for Luffy but at the last second just like all the other, it was snatched back. "Not this one either, curious."
The old wand maker stared at the boy in silence for a moment before his face lit up. "I think I know the wand for you, Mr. Potter."
Luffy watched curiously as the wander make disappeared behind a stack of boxes for a moment before reappearing carrying one that as covered in dust. "Phoenix feather and cedar twelve inches very flexible. Give it a wave!"
Luffy took the cedar wand and waved it experimentally. The warmth he had left before with the holly wand was nothing like the warmth from this once. It felt like he had walked into the Alabasta desert and in that moment Luffy could smell ocean spray.
"Curious, very curious," Mr. Ollivander said watching Luffy wave the wand back and forth.
"Eh? What's curious?" Luffy asked hesitantly giving the wander maker the wand to be put in the box so he could purchase it.
"I remember every wand I've ever sold Mr. Potter, every single one," Ollivander told him. "The phoenix feather in your wand is unique. I have never seen another like it, you see because the feather belonged to a blue phoenix."
"A blue phoenix?" Luffy asked in wonder. A blue phoenix, that sure sounded familiar … where had he heard of that before?
"Indeed Mr. Potter, it's the only blue phoenix feather I have ever come across," The wandmaker handed the box to the boy after taking the golden coins for payment. "I believe that we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter."
Mr. Ollivander watched as the green eyed boy took the wand and all but bounced out of the shop eager to tell his companion about the experience.
"Oh yes, we must expect great things from you … Monkey D. Luffy."
SBS
About Luffy's wand, and yes this is Luffy's wand, not Harry's which is why it's different. Luffy gets the rare blue phoenix feather and cedar wood. I'm sure you can guess why a blue phoenix feather but the wood choice was pretty deliberate.
Pottermore says people with cedar wood wands are strong in character and are unusual loyalty. Gervaise Ollivander, Mr. Ollivander's father, said, "you will never fool the cedar carrier."
It also said that Mr. Ollivander had never yet met the owner of a cedar wand whom he would care to cross, especially if harm is done to those they are fond of. Finally, Pottermore says, "The witch or wizard who is well-matched with cedar carries the potential to be a frightening adversary, which often comes as a shock to those who have thoughtlessly challenged them."
Luffy's wand is an inch longer than Harry's because Luffy has a bigger personality and it's very flexible as a throwback to Luffy's own flexibility.