Tom Riddle - A complete soul

chapter four- the wand chooses

A short while after his eleventh birthday Tom had received a visit from a very strange man by the name of Albus Dumbledore, he was informed by Albus that he'd be going to study in a school... of witchcraft and wizardry called Hogwarts. Before Dumbledore left he presented Tom with enough money for robes and equipment and instructions to find a place called Diagon Alley to buy the things, and platform 9 and 3/4, which at the time seemed odd to tom.. the entire thing did.

Despite all suspicion that this may be some cruel joke or a strange test of Tom he set off the next day to the inn 'the Leaky Cauldron' upon entering the Cauldron Tom instantly felt out of place... of course he did, an inn is no place for a child but rather more alarming was he felt more at home here than at Wool's orphanage... all the people there looked at him with a somewhat welcoming manner and Tom felt he related to them, he didn't know why but he did...

" ah i've been told to expect you! Tom, right? Dumbledore said you'd arrive, always right that man... even guessed the time you'd arrive didn't he?! anyway Tom it's this way! oh my names Tom too by the way!" Tom turned to see who'd spoken to discover the owner of the inn pointing him to the courtyard out back.

standing in the hallway Tom pulled out a wand, Tom had seen one before as Dumbledore had shown him one upon visiting the orphanage, tapping several places on the wall the bricks suddenly animated opening to reveal a bustling street like nothing Tom had ever seen before.

"here ya go Tom! diagon alley..." 

and with that he'd gone back through the wall and it had closed up leaving Tom overwhelmed with the scale of this street... the people there seemed so strange, it was like the Halloween witches and wizards tom had seen out the orphanage window yet they seemed to acknowledge the dress code as the norm.

having wandered around the alley for a while tom had amassed an impressive collection of school books and even managed to buy a second hand robe for himself with the Hogwarts crest upon it's chest, now for the last thing on the check list 'wand (see Olivander)' and so Tom made his way to the wand store.

"hello Mr Riddle!" exclaimed Olivander the second Tom had entered... though he was facing away from the door.

"i've been expecting you... and so's this wand it seems" 

He pointed over to a box that was violently shaking and gestured Tom towards it

"w-what do i do?" stuttered Tom

"well take it out, give it a whirl"

Tom timidly lifted the lid of the wand box and the second his fingers touched the wand the shaking stopped... as though the wand had been calmed.

"curious... i know the wand chooses the wizard but i've not seen something like that in a long while!" said Olivander gazing in awe at the wand

"what now?" asked Tom

"it's yours now Tom, it's chosen you for sure, a yew wand with a phoenix feather core... all yours, now on your way! you've gotta get ready for your journey!"

Tom left the store, still confused as to what had happened  but feeling empowered with the thought of owning a wand, now all he had to do was to wait for the summer to pass by and he gets to learn how to use it!

heading back to the orphanage Tom felt complete for once, though he finally had a calling in life and a purpose for his being had finally presented itself... Tom was off to be a wizard!