the girl who lived

PART I - 3

We were walking in to the Gringotts Bank. There we were met by multiple goblins which were working there. We went to the front desk and the goblin was asked on whose name the vault was. After that he took us to the 394th vault, which was ours. Dad went in and took some galleons. Then we existed the bank and went on the Diagon Alley. There we went first to Madam Malkin's store to buy the uniform. Then he took me to the Ollivander Wand Shop to choose my wand while he went to buy me the additional equipment. We agreed to meet up at the Flourish and Blotts library.

I entered at the Ollivander's. I saw that there was no one. I approached the front desk slowly. I looked around the shop. It was messy. There were shelves full with thin rectangular boxes. Some of them were on the floor as well. There was dust everywhere.

"Hello?", I called out. I stood there for about three minutes.

"Hello", said a velvet voice, which make me jump. There was standing an old man looking at me with his glassy blue eyes. "You must be Evelyn Snape! I remember when your father first came to buy his wand. Oh yes, 14 inches, Ebony wood with Dragon Heartstring core.", he continued to talk while going in the back, he came back with his hands full of rectangular boxes.

He took a box and opened it. He took out the wand that was in it and gave it to me. I stretched out my arm and took it carefully. I looked at it examining it.

"12 and a half inches, Aspen wood with Unicorn Hair. It might be good for you. Go on, try it", he said and I was moving it around in the air. Suddenly, the boxes on the floor were know flying it the air and going straight to mister Ollivander. Happily, he got down so the boxes won't hit him. "Yeah, let's try another one", he said as cheerful as he was before, which surprised me. He took the wand from my hand and gave me another one.

"15 inches, pretty rare, Laurel wood with Dragon Heartstring", I tried this one as well and nothing good came out from this one as well. The wand made the light bulbs explode. I looked at mister Ollivander, with a shocked expression. He took the wand out of my hands. "I think we need to keep searching.", he said and I agreed. He then looked at me with both thinking and hesitant expression, then turned to me and gave me another wand.

"13½ inches, yew wood with Phoenix Feather", he said. "Only powerful wizards managed to use it and you might as well be one of them", he continued giving me a small smile. I looked at it. It was a somehow a little heavy. I tried it but nothing happened. I was about to give it back to him when I saw that where the light bulbs were supposed to be now it was a bright orange light which illuminated the whole shop. I was stunned of what I saw. A minute later the light faded until it wasn't in the sight anymore. I turned to mister Ollivander and he was smiling.

"I suppose that's the one", he said and I nodded and I gave him the wand he put it a box and gave it to me, then I gave him the money. "Have a wonderful first year", he smiling.

"Thank you", I said and exited the shop.

Once I was out of there, I made my way to the Flourish and Blotts library. There weren't too many people but I couldn't see my father anywhere so I said I'd look around. There were so many books to choose from. As I looked around I saw a book about Quidditch. I immediately took it and open it. I wanted it so it took it. I looked around a bit more and came along a big shelf full of books for school. I took out the list to see what books I needed. The first book was "General Purpose Magic Formulas (First Year)" by Miranda Goshwak. I looked for it for a bit but then I finally found it. The second book was "History of Magic" by Bathilda Bagshot. It took a little longer to look for this one but eventually found it. And the list of the books went on until I reached the last one. Apparently, I found pretty easily the last one but the book before the last one was nowhere to find. I looked into the whole library I couldn't find it. I walked around the library one more time searching closely. A full fifteen minutes, I've been looking for this book until I finally found it. Where I found it, it didn't surprise me at all. It was siting on a tall shelf and I was, of course, pretty short. Either way, I tried to reach the book but it was no use. I couldn't reach it but I didn't stop. I knew I needed that book. When I almost got it, there was another hand already taking it. 'Bloody hell', I thought to myself. I turned to see who took it before me. There was standing a tall boy. I think he was at least six feet tall. He was red haired and had deep beautiful brown eyes. I could have tell he was older than me. He was looking down at me with a smirk.

"'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' by Newt Scamander,"he said reading the title. "I'm guessing, first year?", he asked and I just nodded.

"You're not a talkative one", I frowned my eyebrows and crossed my arms, he was being mean. "Don't look at me like that, I was just joking. I'm Fred, by the way, Fred Weasley", he said stretching out his right hand waiting for me to take it.

"I'm Evelyn", I said shyly and took his hand, I expected him to shake it but instead he took it to his mouth and kissed it, which made me blush a dark shade of crimson. I guess he noticed because there was a smirk on his face which made me blush even harder. I have never had talked to a boy before, well a teenager boy. If dad would see me right know he would decapitate Fred.

"Oi Fred", I heard someone call for him, he turned around and I looked as well there was standing a young boy, around my age I assume. He had the same red hair and had a mountain of book on his lap. "Come on, we'll leave without you", and with that that boy left, his book were almost falling. Fred then turned to me.

"Hope, I'll see you at school?", he said handing me the book.

"Sure", I said smiling. He gave me a smile and left.

I turned around and took the books I left on the floor. I had a lot of books on my hands I couldn't really walk. That's when someone took a part of the from the top, I looked and see dad taking them. We went at the cashier to pay for them. When we were at the last one, dad noticed the book I found about Quidditch. He had a disapproval look but paid for that either, which made me happy. I had a lot of books home but from all I could remember, I read them all at least twice.

When we got home it was around lunch time, so we ate and then I took all my stuffs to my room. I looked through my new books and the additional equipment. I liked my uniform too but the only thing that I bought today which I was more interested in, it was my wand. I examined it for a long time. It has wood features which I think it should does. I looked at it for hours. I didn't even know what what I felt it was special about it. It was just a wand after all. And I'm becoming a witch, which it's perfectly normal to have a wand. I shrugged the thoughts off and put the wand on my nightstand. I turn off the light and finally fell asleep.

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Title: Flourish and Blotts
Words count: 1399