The Battle of the Four

Chapter 2

NICO'S POV

After we split up Will and I head for Olivander's wands. Unfortunately we have no idea where we're going, so we have to ask someone.

Will insists on asking the "golden trio", he says that it will be a great way to gain allies on this quest, so here we are, in front of the most famous wizard, asking for directions.

"You look like 5th years, shouldn't you already know where to go?" Asks the redhead.

"Well actually they sound like Americans, they may be the new wizards that we were notified about" says the blond one.

"Sorry about them, they always fight. Anyways, you where asking about Olivander's right? Well it's right that way," the black haired mini Percy Jackson points down the street "I'd show you to it but I already have my wand, plus I need to get my books"

"Can we tag along, we just got here and I don't think my boyfriend here would like talking to very many people" Will says gesturing to me.

The three look at us weirdly but don't question it.

"Sure! The more the merrier" says the blond haired girl says.

"I'm Ron," says the redhead "and this is Hermione," he says gesturing to the blond "and this is Harry" he finishes pointing at the scrawny Percy.

"Hi I'm Nico and the idiot blond beside me is Will" I say.

"Are you from America? We where notified about some Americans coming to Hogwarts, but they said there was 4, not 2" Harry asks.

"Yes we are the Americans, the other two when to get their robes first, and we when to get our wands" Will informs the group.

They nod and we head to book store.

I didn't expect it to be so crowded, the wall were lined with books and at least 20 kids per book. Will and I make our way to the counter, but are stopped by Hermione.

"Hey" she says, barely being heard over the chatter "the books are this way, where are you going?"

"We need text books in Greek" Will replies, I don't know if she heard us because we where getting further into the sea of people.

As we inch our way further we hear bits and pieces of information and rumors.

"Hey did you hear of the new students?"

"A ministry official is coming to Hogwarts"

"Harry Potter grows mandrakes in his bedroom"

"The Americans are mass murderers"

I shake my head at the last one. Rumors.

We finally get to the counter and ask for Greek text books.

"I'm sorry but we only carry English, but I can give you a spell that changes all the words to Greek, it won't be too accurate but it will do"

We take the spell and then find Harry and the others. Very slowly.

"Hey, mates were where you? We've been looking for you" says Ron once we find each other.

"We just had to ask the store keeper something, sorry" I say trying to speak over the noise.

"That's fine, we need to get to our books now"

We get our books and make our way outside. My ears are ringing from the noise after that experience.

"Well that was loud" Will states the obvious.

"Olivander's is quieter" assures Harry.

"That's good, I don't think my ears can handle a noisy place like that again. Who decided to make something that noisy?" I complain.

Ron is already on his way to Olivander's "Come on, Olivander's is this way"

We follow him down the street and as we walk along I notice that the street gradually becomes less and less crowded. We eventually end up at this old looking building.

The windows are so dirty that you can barely see through them, the walls seem to be built out of some dark wood that is rotting. I don't know how the building is still standing. It must be magic.

Ron, Harry, Hermione and I stay outside, partially because I can't bring myself to walk into the shop yet, partially because the store is so full of wands that only a few people can be in there at a time.

The trio and I chat while we wait for Will, more than once I am startled by a crash of some sort but they assure me that it's normal.

Another time a wand flies out of the window and explodes. The trio are sort of surprised but they shrug it off.

Eventually the old door creeks open and we go over and ask Will about his wand.

Will shows us a light coloured wand that seems to want to mold to the shape of a horn "Apple wood with the right horn of a horned serpent as the core"

Well I guess this means it's my turn, I take a deep breath and walk in.

Sorry for the abrupt ending but I had originally written more, but then I forgot that I had to post today and I had a half written chapter so I cut it off here. It's still over 800 words though, which is more than I usually do. Went to rib fest yesterday, yum. Anyways, idk what I was going to put here.

Noelle