As she waved it it hummed pleasantly just before releasing a burst of magic.
"Ah it seems, the pickiest of wands here has finally chosen a master for itself," Olivander said with a chuckle as he observed her reaction.
She, however, didn't give him one.
"Why is there an infinity symbol on the handle?" she asked.
"I don't really know, but I believe it's there to represent immorality, as the wand is said to have originally belonged to Nicolas Flamel, who discovered the Philosopher's Stone when this wand was created."
"I see." She said as she paid for the wand.
She and Lucius left the shop. "Where next?" she asked eagerly.
"Why don't we get you fitted for your school robes, hm?"
"Sure." She replied as her smile faded.
It was always her least favorite pastime.
~Time skip-just after buying everything she'd need~
"Thanks, Mr. Malfoy for taking me around to get everything I needed for school," Jade replied while smiling at him. "I can't even believe I'm saying this, but it also wasn't terrible shopping for clothes either."
"You're welcome, don't forget to say 'American Horror' to go back home," Lucius said reminding her just as he disapparated.
Jade smiled then pulled out the pen and whispered the words. By the time she returned home, it was time to eat.
"Jade, are you home yet?" Mrs. Green yelled up the stairs.
"Yes, mo- uh... oh I don't even know what to call you... You're not really my mother so I can't call you that anymore..." Jade replied thoughtfully as she walked down the stairs.
"Of course, you can still..."
"No. I can't. It would be a lie and you know it! Plus if I ever met my real parents, it wouldn't be right for them... for me to still refer to you as my parents." She said a bit more harshly than she planned, but she knew it needed to be expressed or they wouldn't stop saying it.
Mr. Green had accepted that she would call him by his name months ago, however, Mrs. Green refused to change.
"I will leave for school tomorrow morning. If you can't accept that I'm not your daughter by the holidays, I won't visit for those either..." she told her as she sat down to her last meal with them for a while.
After she ate, she walked back up to her room to sleep.
The next morning, Mr. Malfoy sent her an owl explaining how to board the train and what brick to tap to get to platform 9 3/4. He also told her she could wear what she liked on this first day. However, any day at school after this she would be expected to wear school robes. She was dressed in a Sheer Mesh Panel Form-Fitted Teeshirt, Punk Rave Kera Visual Gothic Broken Mesh Pants, and Gothic Lace Up Platform Mid Calf Boots with Emerald green laces. Just before gathering all her things to take with her to Hogwarts, she placed the hooded cloak Mr. Malfoy had given her over her head hiding her hair. She figured if the reactions she got around London were anything to judge, she'd get some answers. However, only if she hid her hair and face long enough to surprise the person she assumed was responsible.
With that done, she grabbed the pen again and whispered 'London Bridges'.
Once again at the train station, but this time it was bustling with all sorts of people. Most of whom seemed to be muggles. However, Jade thought it was weird that they missed a bunch of oddly dressed witches and wizards disappearing into a brick wall. After a group of dirty blondes disappeared into the wall, she tagged along and followed through. This is when she found herself on platform 9 3/4.
Her heart pounded in her chest at the realization; 'I really am a witch. This is no dream. I'm really going to Hogwarts!'
When she finally calmed herself, she saw at least four red-heads surrounding a boy with glasses asking him if he was 'Harry Potter'.
'What does it matter if he's Harry Potter?' She thought to herself as she found a place for her things and boarded the train.
Jade placed the owl's cage on her right, so she could stare out the window and wait for the train to leave.
"Ugh, this is so boring." She complained to herself.
"You're bored? Try sitting in a cage all day." She heard a voice to her right.
She looked at the bird.
'No it couldn't happen with more than snakes... could it?' She thought to herself, and as she was about to face the window again it spoke again.
"Do you have a staring problem, human?" the bird asked glaring at her.
"Wait, can you talk to me too?"
"You can understand me?" The bird asked happily flapping its wings.
She just nodded too dumbfounded to say a word.
"Well, then I've got a lot to tell you." Jade turned her body to face the bird. "First off, even though Malfoy gave me to you, he's my only master. I'm only here till he tells me otherwise."
"Fair enough," Jade said with a smile. "I can appreciate your loyalty to your master." She finished after the bird looked surprised.
"Anyway, I... uh... I forgot what I was about to tell you, for now anyway. Make sure you watch those you associate with in this school." The bird advised.
'Liar...' Jade thought as she stared at the owl. 'I just caught you off guard.'She laughed to herself.
"Why?" she asked curiously.
"Because to most, blood status means everything, and people like them are looked on as less than muggles." The bird said pointing her beak towards the window, where the red-heads she'd seen earlier were boarding the train.
"What's a muggle? And if they're inferior to muggles, why are they getting on the train?"
"Muggles are non-magic people and blood traitors are allowed into the school simply because they're still witches and wizards," said a witch, who had just overheard her talking to the bird.
"Who are you?" Jade asked looking at the witch skeptically.
She had blonde hair with small beach waves, held halfway up in a ponytail. She wore a green dress and black shoes and had light-colored eyes.
"I'm Daphne Greengrass," she said with her hand outstretched in greeting.
Jade looked at her hand for a moment, then shook it.
"Jade Green." She said politely. "What's a blood traitor?" Jade asked.
"May I?" Daphne asked motioning towards the empty seat in front of her.
Jade nodded. Daphne then sat and for the next couple of hours, she explains blood traitors, explains blood supremacy and tells Jade the reason she can speak to animals is because of an ability called Parseltongue which probably meant she was a descendant of Salazar Slytherin.
Around noon there was a clattering noise outside in the corridor.
A smiling, dimpled woman slid back their door and said, "Anything off the trolley, dears?"
Jade, who hadn't had breakfast yet, leaped to her feet nearly causing her hood to fall, but Daphne stayed seated and calmly asked for pumpkin juice. Jade had never held so much money in her pocket before (about 50 Gallions and 100 sickles), so she was about to buy as many Snickers Bars as she had but noticed the woman didn't have any on her trolley and sighed in disappointment. What she had were Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Liquorice Wands, and several other strange things Jade had never seen in her life. Not wanting to be caught off guard about anything, especially something as simple as food or drink, she bought one of everything she had. Jade gave the woman a Gallion. When the woman attempted to give her change back, Jade waved her off and told her to keep it.
"Woah! I thought with all your questions you were muggle-born, but that couldn't be possible." Daphne exclaimed in awe.
Jade didn't say anything. She didn't want to lie and imply she was or wasn't when truth be told she didn't know for sure.
"You said your name was Jade Green, right?" she asked.
Jade nodded as she sipped her pumpkin juice.
"I've never heard of them, so are you half-blood?" Daphne asked.
Jade sighed loudly.
"Truth be told... I was adopted by Muggles. So I've no idea if I'm muggle-born, half-blood, or pure-blood." She said and it suddenly felt like some invisible weight was lifted from her shoulders.
"Well if you live with muggles, you're not a pure-blood as no pure-blood would give away their children, let alone to muggles." She wanted to smile, but any topic dealing with who her parents were or her adopted parents just made her frustrated and disappointed.
"What are these?" Jade asked changing the topic as she held up a pack of Chocolate Frogs. "They're not really frogs, are they?"
"No, Jade, they're not real frogs. But I'm sure you'd be surprised to see how quickly they can hop away if you don't keep an eye on them!" Daphne joked. "See what the card is, I'm missing Artemisia Lufkin."
"What?"
"Oh, yeah you don't know. Chocolate Frogs have cards inside, to collect... Famous witches and wizards. I've got about five hundred, but I haven't got Artemisia Lufkin or Ptolemy." Jade opened the box and picked up the card.
It showed a man's face. He wore half-moon glasses and had long flowing silver hair, a beard, and a mustache. Underneath the picture was the name 'Albus Dumbledore'.
"So this is Dumbledore?" Jade asked with a frown.
"Heard of him, have you?" Daphne asked, but Jade couldn't tell if she liked the man or not as she hid her eyes from view.
"Yeah, once in Gringotts. The goblins said it was because of him that they couldn't tell me who my parents are."
"WHAT!?" Daphne shrieked in surprise as her head wiped back to face Jade.
She knew exactly who the young witch was and now she had to find Draco.
"I'm sorry but I have to leave. I'm liable to freak out if I stay here any longer." She lied.
She wouldn't freak out but she'd say something her mother told her not to if she stayed here longer.
"It was a pleasure meeting you Jade and I hope we're in the same house so we can become true friends." With that Daphne left to find Draco.
"Okay... that was... weird..." She said more to herself than to the bird that used its wings to shrug.
Jade then turned over the card and read:
Albus Dumbledore, currently Hogwarts Headmaster. Considered the greatest wizard of modern times,
Professor Dumbledore defeated the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945. He is also famous for the discovery
of the twelve uses of dragon's blood, and his alchemy work with his partner, Nicolas Flamel. Professor
Dumbledore enjoys chamber music and tenpin bowling.
"I don't understand why he'd try to hide who my parents are from me?" She asked out loud without realizing it.
"Maybe he's trying to hide them from you for a reason." The bird said sounding like it knew the answer but actually didn't.
"Hmm? Maybe, indeed." She agreed as she looked out the window and watched the clouds.
After a short while, she picked up a bag of Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans. After eating a few of them she threw them as far away from herself as possible without spilling them all over the place. She will never eat those again. Now there were woods, twisting rivers, and dark green hills outside her window. There was a knock on her compartment door and a round-faced boy came in. He looked tearful.
"Sorry," he said, "but have you seen a toad?"
When she shook her head after asking the owl if it'd eaten it the owl just hooted and the boy cried,
"I've lost him! He keeps getting away from me!"
"I'm sure he'll turn up," Jade said.
"Well, if you see him..." He walked away.
She scoffed and rolled her eyes after he left.
"The closest I'm coming to touching that toad is feeding it to the owl or finding a hungry snake," Jade muttered under her breath with a slight smirk.
Finally getting bored enough, she left her compartment to see if there were more enlightening people to talk to. As she reached the end of the hall she noticed three boys conversing with one of the red-heads she'd seen outside her window back on platform 9 3/4 and the boy she remembered from her trip to the zoo. She walked up to them as they seemed pleasant enough, but only talking to them would ensure that.
"Hello, I'm Jade Green." She said introducing herself.
"Ron Weasley." The redhead said, holding out his hand for her to shake in greeting.
Her eyes were fixed on him as she stared at his hand in disgust.
"Nothing against you, but I'm not shaking your hand." She then heard the three boys to her left snickering and Jade glared at them, but because of her hood, they hadn't seen it.
"Anyway, it's because I don't know you and I don't know where that hand has been."
Then she looked at the boy with a lightning bolt scar on his forehead.
"You, I feel... like I saw you at the zoo last year... what's your name?" She asked stunning all the boys into silence.
"Yeah, you stopped my uncle and cousin from disturbing that snake. I'm Harry Potter." He told her and she could tell he wanted to shake her hand since his hand twitched.
Harry then turned to face the blonde boy and his friends.
"Well, while you figure out who these fools are, I'm off to find some more interesting people to talk to. See ya!" Jade said just before leaving.
She could hear the boys complaining about her calling them fools and chuckled to herself. Jade walked along the hall, meeting several more witches and wizards, Luna Lovegood, Nevil Longbottom, Cho Chang, and several others. However, none of them were worth hanging out with right now at least not in her opinion. So she walked back to her compartment and searched through one of her bags for the one muggle item she'd brought with her, her MP3 player and earbuds, and began to listen. It was on a random playlist with all sorts of music. She started listening to Linkin Park, Nickelback, and Seether. But after a while, she'd forgotten she wasn't at home in her room where no one would see or hear her when she sang. She sang the next song unintentionally, facing the window.
Second Chance by Shinedown:
My eyes are open wide...
And by the way...
I made it through the day...
I watched the world outside...
By the way...
I'm leaving today...
It was at this point that some students opened the door to her compartment. She didn't hear them as they watched her, the first of whom were the three boys she had called fools earlier. They were drawn in by the tone of sadness in her sweet-sounding voice.
I just saw Hayley's comet, she waved...
Said why are you always running in place? Even the man in the moon disappeared...
Somewhere in the stratosphere!
She sang as she pushed herself away from the window with a small smile.
Tell my mother...
Tell my father...
I've done the best I can...
To make them realize...
This is my life...
I hope they understand...
She sang that last bit while thinking of the Green's sad expression as she left home and frowned.
I'm not angry, I'm just saying...
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance...
Please don't cry one tear for me...
I'm not afraid...
Of what I have to say...
It was then that she opened her eyes and saw that people were watching her. However, she didn't care much and to their astonishment, she continued.
This is my one and only voice, so listen close...
It's only for today...
I just saw Hayley's comet, she waved...
Said why are you always running in place?
She sang that last bit with a sad smile on her face.
Even the man in the moon disappeared...
Somewhere in the stratosphere...
Tell my mother...
Tell my father...
I've done the best I can...
Her face then took on a blank stare as her next words took a numbing tone.
To make them realize...
This is my life...
I hope they understand...
I'm not angry, I'm just saying...
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance...
She sang trying to keep Mr and Mrs Green's faces from popping into her head again.
Here's my chance...
This is my chance...
Tell my mother...
Tell my father...
I've done the best I can...
To make them realize...
She sang remembering the argument she had with Mrs Green.
'I hope she knows I didn't mean what I said...' She thought as a silent tear slipped from her eye.
This is my life...
I hope they understand...
I'm not angry, I'm just saying...
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance...
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance...
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance...
She sang only pulling her earbuds out when the song ended.