Expecto Patronum {Harry Potter FF}

1: Diagon Alley

Violet Smith's young, dimpled smile glows through the narrow streets of Diagon Alley as she walks quickly ahead of her mother and father, the excitement of the awaiting school year taking over as she looks at older wizards performing incantations in front of her. 

She had received her Hogwarts letter earlier that day, and had insisted that the Smiths immediately travel to Diagon Alley to collect everything she needed according to the letter. The memory of the tawny brown owl flying to their kitchen window, where it dropped the letter addressed exactly to Violet, caused a wave of excitement to take over. 

The moment her pale green eyes had been drawn to the wax seal on the letter, she had let out a loud yelp and dropped the piece of toast she had been eating. She called up the stairs to her mother in excitement and her dad had even left the sitting room where his favourite football team had been playing a match to see what all the fuss was about. 

Violet's mother, Mrs Smith, or better recognised as Chloe Temples, had been ecstatic for her daughter. Mr. Smith did not understand the excitement quite the same, being a muggle, but he had still been very proud to hear that his daughter had been let into the "best wizarding school in the world" according to Mrs. Smith. 

Mrs. Smith could be described as a "blood traitor" to some witches and wizards. She had been a pureblood, having had a wizard for a father and a witch for a mother, the whole line dating back for centuries. To some wizards who regarded the amount of magic blood in a family line to be important, Chloe Temples marrying a muggle was a disgrace. But Mrs. Smith did not think like this, nor did the rest of her pureblood family, thank Merlin. 

"Violet, how about your dad takes you to go and get an animal while I gather some school books and maybe a few extra books for light reading," Mrs. Smith suggested, pointing towards the entrance of Flourish and Blotts. Mr. Smith and Violet agreed, heading in the opposite direction to Mrs. Smith. 

"Well it says here you can have an owl or a cat or a toad, but your mother told me people stopped buying toads when she was in her 3rd year at Hogwarts, so which would you like? I think an owl would be brilliant, handier too, so you can always be writing to us," her father suggested, and Violet agreed, for she wasn't too fond of cats and she didn't want to be laughed at for having a toad. Having an owl would be easy in the summer, too, for when she would write to her new Hogwarts friends and to her cousin, Isaac. 

The thought of Isaac made her remember that he too had probably received his letter today. With that thought, they entered Eeylops Owl Emporium.

Violet and her father stared around at the different creatures in amazement and awe, neither of them having seen so many beautiful owls in one place. But Violet's eyes soon settled on one owl, a beautiful barn owl near the back of the shop, who was letting out small noises. She tapped her father and showed him the owl, her father smiling at her.

"10 galleons isn't too much, do you want this one? We'll have to get him a cage too, I suppose," Mr. Smith said, causing Violet's face to show her large dimpled grin once again. They ask the shop assistant for help choosing a cage and within ten minutes, Mr. Smith and Violet were walking back into Diagon Alley's now bustling streets. Mrs. Smith was waiting opposite the shop, talking to a woman with bright red hair and two identical men with long, jet black hair. 

Violet's smile grew as she also noticed the young brunette boy standing beside the four adults, holding a copy of Quidditch Through the Ages. 

"Look, mum, dad, Violet's got an owl!" The boy shouted to one of the twins and the red haired woman. Violet and Mr. Smith walk up to Mrs. Smith and the Steele's. The Steele's were Violet's very distant cousins, but seeing as Violet's family was very small, they were all very close. As well as this, the Steele's shared a very special bloodline with the Smith's.