Title: Shopping Trip
Rating: T
Character(s): Andromeda, Nympadora
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em - not making any money off 'em. Dern it.
Word Count: 443
Notes: This collection will feature Andromeda in a mother and grandmother role. There will hopefully be fifteen chapters.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry: March Event - Mother's Day - Prompt: A mother and her child out shopping together
Andromeda and Nymphadora walked along Diagon Alley. They had been there together many, many times before, but this trip was special. They were shopping for Nymphadora's first year at Hogwarts.
"I want to get my wand!" Nymphadora shouted gleefully.
'I think we should get your textbooks first," Andromeda wisely decided.
"Mum, that's so boring," Nymphadora whined.
"And yet, that's what we're going to do," Andromeda retorted with a fond smile.
Nymphadora grumbled about boring stores, like bookstores, all of the way to Flourish and Blotts.
Andromeda ignored it, completely understanding the excitement of getting your wand before your first year at school. She had been the same way when she was eleven; of course, if she had shown such rambunctiousness, especially in public, she would have been punished severely. She was happy to let Nymphadora actually act her age, something Andromeda had never been allowed to do.
Despite her initial protests, though, Nymphadora seemed to enjoy looking through some of the Defense books, and she didn't seem in that big of a hurry to leave the store.
Afterwards, they went to Ollivander's, Madam Malkin's, and to get potions' supplies. They continued to check off the items on the list.
When they were done, Nymphadora turned her puppy dogs on her mother. "Can we get ice cream? Please?" She blinked cutely as her tear-colored hair changed to bubblegum pink.
"Well, it is a special day, so sure. We're off to Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour!"
When the two of them were seated at a table with ice cream comes, Nymphadora turned suddenly serious eyes onto her mother. "Mum, what if no one likes me there?"
"How could anyone not like you?" Andromeda asked.
Nymphadora shrugged. "What if everyone sees I'm clumsy and they want nothing to do with me? Or what if I don't make friends? I don't want to spend seven years all alone."
"Honey, no matter who a person is, they always make at least one friend at Hogwarts. My sister was Bellatrix, someone that was either hated or feared. And lot of people tended to stay away from me because she was my sister. But I still found friends, and I still fell in love your dad, and had my feelings returned. There is no reason for you to not find your niche at school. I'm completely certain that you'll be fine."
Nymphadora smiled as she licked her cone. "I feel better now."
"Good. That means I did a good job with my pep talk," Andromeda replied before she continued to lick her own cone.
She thought about her own experiences at school, and she was sure Nymphadora's would be much better.