you bury me

4. boon :: a favor, a gift.

"yer two go and look for a wand and some pets, i'll get e'rything else."
he didn't even wait for us to answer, before he disappeared into flourish and blotts.

hermione shrugged and we stepped into ollivanders, perceiving a strong smell of wood.

i closed my eyes, imagining walking through the forbidden forest, when i heard a man's voice.

"hello, ms. noir. nice to see you. i've been waiting for you."

i looked over to hermione, who was inspecting the dusty cupboards.

"how do you know my name ?" i asked him quietly.

"is there anyone who doesn't ?" he smiled at me mysteriously, confused at my question.

"you came to get a wand, didn't you ?" i nodded.

"let's start off with this one" i heard him say, while he was taking a wand out of it's box.

i gave it a good swish and the papers on the cashiers check were blown away.
mr. ollivander shook his head, taking the wand away from me.

after some time of searching, he gave me another wand and i repeated the movement.
this time, several wands fell out of the shelves. mr. ollivanders held out his hand to take back the wand.

after many tries, he got onto his ladder to reach a wand that was packaged differently from the others. "i don't know if this one's gonna work, but let's give it a try !"

i took it and felt a warmth in my hand.
i gave it a flick and golden sparkles came out of it.

"wonderful, ms. noir !"

he looked at me happily but his smile disappeared slowly, when he spotted the label of the box. "what's wrong ?" hermione asked curiously.

"well...it's the elder wand's brother. elder wood, 11 3/4 inches with a thestral tail-hair."
hermione gasped.
"only people who've mastered death can control it." she whispered
"and you are one of them." he added.

"but that can't be true" i stuttered,
being unsure of what exactly he meant.

...

we paid 7 galleons for my wand and walked around diagon alley with confused looks on our faces.

the magical-creatures shop smelled weird and it was really noisy inside.

the witch, who was working there,
showed us some younger owls and i decided to adopt a fluffy dark brown one.

i named him anouk, it means grace.

hermione on the other side fell in love with a ginger cat. his name is crookshanks.

ron was not a big fan when he found out later...

we were just about to get some ice cream at florean fortescue's ice cream parlour,
when we saw hagrid again.

"hagrid !" i almost screamed.
"mr. ollivander said something about death and my wand's the elder wand's brother...
what does he mean ?"

he looked at me in a frightened way. "i can't tell yer now and i'm not the one who should...tell yer. wait until yer get to hogwarts. dumbledore will help."