Well, if anyone's curious my grades came in last night and I made a 3.1, so I'm quite relieved. Pearl gets her wand in this chapter! BTW my wand on pottermore is sycamore and dragon-heartstring, 12 3/4 inches and of a hard flexibility.
After Pearl had calmed down and Rose had magically repaired the gaping hole in the floor, Pearl realized Rose was right. She was a free elf, and she belonged at Hogwarts no matter what anyone else might think. Madam Malkin bustled back into the room and told them she had found some robes in the back and had Pearl try them on, but they were far too large.
"I don't think these are quite my size" Pearl commented. The sleeves came all the way to the floor and dragged behind her.
"Don't worry, I'll fix them, dear" Madam Malkin replied, and shrunk the robes with a flourish of her wand. "Reducto." Pearl felt the clothes constrict painfully around her form and let out a strangled gasp. "Oospy daisy" the woman apologized, and muttered another spell to loosen the clothes. "Alright then. That ought to do it. The Hogwarts crest will turn into your house crest and the embroidery will turn your house colors when you are sorted. It's a new feature. We used to have to sew the crest and embroidery in after your first year. Rather inconvenient." Pearl and Rose thanked the woman and she and Rose exchanged a few galleons. Rose and Pearl then left the shop and Rose bought them both ice cream before heading to Olivander's. Rose got a large bowl of butter pecan and Pearl chose a small waffle cone full of raspberry ice cream with rainbow sprinkles on top. They soon arrived at the famous wand shop and Pearl looked around the massive building with wonder. There were boxes of wands everywhere. How would they ever find the right one?
"Pearl, this is Mr. Olivander." Rose introduced, and the old man shook the house-elf's had after exchanging a friendly hello with Rose.
"Nice to meet you, Pearl. Rose has told me how excited you are to be going to Hogwarts." Pearl didn't know what to make of this. She still wasn't quite used to being spoken to like she was human. "So glad they repealed that law about free elves not being allowed to have wands." Rose gave the man a stern look and he quickly decided it might be best to stop talking and start taking measurements. He used a floating tape measure to determine Pearl's proportions, ones that Pearl thought should not be relevant, but she decided to just go with it. He asked a few questions while he was working and when he finished the measurements, he hurried of to get a box. "I believe you would certainly must be best suited to a wand with a core of unicorn hair. This one is rowan wood, ten inches, surprisingly swishy. Try and lift the box with it" he said, setting the wand's box on the counter. Pearl couldn't even lift it, as it was over three times her size. Olivander quickly took it and came back with another. "cedar, nine and three quarter inches, pliant." Pearl barely got the tip off of the ground. "Alright, how about this"? Olivander handed her another one and Pearl thought she might ask if he had any that were actually her size. "Aspen, unicorn hair, nine and a half inches, supple." Pearl took the wand in hand and felt a cool, tingling sensation in her fingers. It was only a little smaller than the others, but as if by magic, she could lift it with ease. The box on the counter began to levitate. Pearl laughed delightedly. The wand was so large compared to her that she felt more like she was carrying a spear or sword than a wand, but it just felt so right. Rose of course could not have looked more proud. At that moment, the door jingled and a young girl of about eleven walked into the shop.
"Amethyst!" Rose said happily, waving the girl over.
"Professor Quartz!" the girl grinned and jumped into Rose's arms. "I'm so glad to see you!"
"Hi." Pearl nervously greeted the girl.
"Oh, you must be Pearl. Professor Quartz told me all about you and that you'll be coming to Hogwarts! First elf ever, huh? That's fantastic!" Pearl blushed a bit but Amethyst didn't seem to notice. "I'm here to get my wand! What did you get?" Pearl showed the girl her wand and Amethyst chuckled throatily. "Dude, it's so big! It looks like you need to use a cane!" Pearl felt a bit self-conscious, but said nothing, so Rose broke the awkward silence by further introducing the two.
"Amethyst lives at the orphanage and I've been tutoring her in the summers since she was little. She's quite the talent, always has been. She's a metamorphmagus and Animagus! Show her Amethyst!" The girl grinned mischievously as her dark golden skin turned bright purple and her long brunette hair a pale lavender. Pearl gasped in shock.
"Pretty cool, huh? Well check this out!" Amethyst said as she morphed into a huge puma right in the middle of the shop. Pearl hid behind Rose, scared the puma might see her as a snack, but Amethyst shifted back to her human self and laughed obnoxiously. "Don't worry, I don't bite!" she yelled out, not at all in an indoor voice. This girl was downright feral, Pearl thought to herself. "Well, I gotta go get myself a wand!" Amethyst said in a goofy voice and hurried over to the counter. Rose and Pearl watched as she tried the first wand Olivander gave her, a perfect match on the first go.
"Dogwood, dragon heartstring, fourteen and a half inches, surprisingly swishy. Just as I thought Olivander smiled proudly as she handed the girl her wand. Amethyst showed Rose the wand and Rose looked it over admiringly.
"Very nice. I knew you'd be dogwood" Amethyst actually began to bark like a dog and run around on all fours until she ran completely out of the shop, laughing hysterically the whole time.
"Is she mad?" Pearl asked Rose, honestly a little frightened of her soon-to –be classmate.
"No, she's a bit of a wild child though. I don't want you to tell this to any of the children at Hogwarts, but her parents abandoned her as a baby and then murdered a couple of aurors using the death curse. They're in Azkaban now, and Amethyst is terribly embarrassed about the whole matter. Anyway, we'd better get going; we still have most of your school supplies to buy, I'll even get you a pet to go with you if you'd like."