Harry Potter: Son of Hades

Chapter 9

We arrive at the Knockturn Alley wandmaker and make our way inside, where there could be seen a woman in his late thirties attending the counter.

Shopkeeper: What would you like?

She asks as she would prefer to be in any other place but here.

Narcissa: I would like a wand made for my ward.

Shopkeeper: Okay, come here boy.

I approach her while she takes some boxes from inside the shop and places them on top of the counter.

Shopkeeper: , pass your hand from one box to another and tell me in which ones you feel a stronger pull.

I nod and begin to pass my hand on top of the boxes starting from the first one. At first, I don't feel any kind of pull, until I reach the end at the final two boxes, which I could feel the strongest pull in them, so I signal them to the woman attending the store.

Shopkeeper: Let's see. Uhm... strange. Anyways, now do the same for these woods.

The woman then takes the boxes from the counter and put wood branches instead.

I do the same as before and once again I only feel the strongest pull at the end, this time being the only wood left. As I did before I signal the wood to the woman, and she takes it.

Shopkeeper: Well, I will make the wand now, it will take at least one hour so return then.

With that she disappears in the dark of the back store and Narcissa and me are left alone.

Narcissa: I wonder why she looks spooked out?

I hear her mumble for herself, but I don't say anything.

Narcissa: Would you like to go to eat something for the meantime? If we have time, after eating we could also go to take your belongings from where you were staying.

Hadrian: That would be fine, thanks.

At this, Narcissa smiles, and we leave the wandmaker shop to return to the Diagon Alley to eat something.

-Time Skip-

After we ate, we went to the Leaky Cauldron and took my belongings with us as we had time before we had to go to pick up my wand.

Shopkeeper: You are here.

As before the woman greets us with very little enthusiasm.

Shopkeeper: Here you have, a Yew wood wand with Thestral hair and Basilisk venom as cores, this wand is closely related to death, you know?

At this, Narcissa turns to look at me worried.

Hadrian: Probably, for what happened when I was young.

I say without worrying, I mean it is probably because I'm a child of Hades, but they don't know, and I can't tell them. And, for Narcissa at least, is possible that she was thinking that the reason was because I was supposed to be dead after being struck with the Avada Kedavra, yes, my father had told me about it.

Narcissa still looks worried but turns away.

Shopkeeper: Anyway, this will be 15 galleons.

With this Narcissa pays and we leave the shop.

Narcissa: We will now be going to my house. I will apparate us, so don't take off your hand for your safety.

She takes my hand and suddenly I start to feel nauseous, so I close my eyes.

When I open them again, I can see that we are in a large living room with golden and silver trimmings.

In one of the corners in the room I can see one blonde man, probably in his late thirties or early forties, sitting in one armchair, while a blonde boy my age, probably the man's son for his resemblance, is sitting next to him in the couch. The two reading something unintelligible for me.