Diagon Alley pt 2
"Okay, we've got money, know what do we need to get for your school?" asked Charlie.
Harry handed her the list, there were multiple books, robes, ingredients(?), cauldron and an animal (?)
"Okay then," Charlie said, looking slightly concerned about the things on the list, "let's do this I guess?"
They went throughout Diagon Alley, buying books and other supplies.
"Well this was one hell of an interesting day! No pun intended," said Ilvymore, carrying supplies. "What else do we need?"
"Robes, wands and an animal," responded Harry.
"Well, why don't you two go get that stuff and we'll get you some food?" asked Charlie.
"Sounds good to me, what about you?"
"Sounds good to me too, we'll be back soon," responded Ilvymore.
The two of them weaved their way towards a shop, it was large and was called 'Olivanders'
"this is the wand place yeah?" asked Ilvymore.
"I think so, only one way to find out I guess," responded Harry.
The two of them walked into the store, it was dusty and there were boxes all along the walls. "Hello?" called Harry, "anyone here?" there was no answer.
"Maybe we should get the other stuff and come back later," said Ilvymore.
They were both about to exit when a raspy voice called out, "Ah I'm sorry! I was restocking my wands what may I do for you young children?"
They both turned and were surprised to see an old man with large grey eyes looking at them. Both teens jumped, clutching their chests at the sudden appearance of the man.
"I have never seen you two before, though you look much to old to be getting your first wands," he said getting closer to both teen, it was creeping both of them out quite a bit. It wasn't as creepy as Alastor but it still made both of them feel extremely awkward.
"Uh- yeah we've never visited you before and uh, Okay do you mind man, personal fucking space." Ilvymore said, pushing him away, looing annoyed.
He moved back and Harry chuckled awkwardly. "Sorry about her, but uh yeah, we've been in a place that Hogwarts couldn't exactly get to... so uh, we'd appreciate it if you could get us some wands? Please?"
The man nodded, "Of course," he walked away towards a group of wands, taking a couple away and handing one to each of them, "Go ahead, go ahead, wave them."
Harry waved his and a bunch of wands fell of a rack, when Ilvymore waved hers a window exploded, they both looked shocked. The man took them both away, muttering something under his breath.
"Okay I expected this from you but I don't have magic, I only have that shadow stuff that I can do," hissed Ilvymore.
Harry shrugged, "Guess turning into a demon gave you more magical potential."
The man returned and he got them to try multiple other wands, in the end they both managed to find one.
"12 inches, Ash, Phoenix feather core," the man said once he got a wand that he seemed to be happy with.
He then turned towards Ilvymore, "And for you, 11 inches, Willow wood, Dragon heartstring core."
Both teens payed the man before exiting the shop. "Y'know that there's a high chance that we'll never use these right?" Ilvymore asked.
"Yep," responded Harry, popping the 'p'.
"But we still got one just in case?"
"Yep"
"Good to know."
The two of them then made their way towards a shop that seemed to be selling robes named 'Madam Malkin's'. They both entered.
A lady popped her head from behind a curtain, "Oh! come in come in, there's another boy about to get fitted for his robes too, you can go stand next to him while you wait," she said.
Both Harry and Ilvymore went and stood on a platform, between them stood a tall blonde boy. He was a bit taller then the both of them.
"Oh, hello," he said regarding them. Both teens simply nodded in acknowledgement. He frowned at the two of them, "I'm Draco Malfoy, and you?"
"I'm Hadrian Magne," Harry responded, attempting to sound just as regal as the blonde boy.
"And I am Ilvymore Clay," said Ilvymore, she sounded slightly bored.
"I haven't seen you two at Hogwarts before, not a lot of people transfer there in their 5th year."
"Let's just go with, we were in a special program."
He looked at them suspiciously then turned away, pins suddenly started pocking around, adjusting the robes, Ilvymore scowled, "This is kinda uncomfortable to you two as well right?" she asked.
Harry nodded, "I've been doing this for years, you get used to it," responded Draco.
Ilvymore nodded and it was quiet for most of the time, then Draco spoke up once again. "What house do you figure you will be sorted into?" he asked.
"House?" asked Harry.
Draco's eyes widened, "What where you doing on this special program that you don't know about Hogwarts houses?" Neither of them responded, he rolled his eyes.
"Well there's Gryffindor's, they're quite annoying if I'm honest with you, brave and daring, though they can be quite idiotic because of it. The only smart one is a muggle born named Hermione which is honestly quite sad, to have someone who's been in the wizarding community for only 5 years be the best out of your entire house? Quite embarrassing." Both Harry and Ilvymore could tell he didn't like these guys a lot.
"And the headmaster is extremely biased towards them, they say it's because he was one of them before he became the headmaster, not to mention they have the almighty 'Chosen one' in their ranks." The other two stayed quiet.
"Next is Ravenclaws, they're intelligent, all of them are know-it-alls but I suppose they're quite okay depending on which one you meet. They'll ask a lot of questions and can get awfully annoying after a while. Instead of a password you have to answer a riddle, which honestly just seems like a waste of time."
"You've also got the Hufflepuffs, patient and loyal quite kind, they are pretty okay I suppose. They get along with Slytherins more then the other houses and considering that I'm Slytherin I suppose I'm a touch biased. They like hard work and practically all of them have a thing for plants or I suppose animals."
"And last but not least Slytherin, my house. We're cunning and intelligent, we also value strength, ambition and resourcefulness, we get along quite well with Hufflepuffs but the other houses can be awfully biased. Not to mention the fact that the headmaster is extremely biased against us, though we do have a wonderful Quidditch team," he concluded. "Which house do you believe that you'll be placed into?"
"I have no idea/I'm not certain," the two of them answered simultaneously, he frowned and stepped off of the platform, "well I suppose I shall see you once we get to Hogwarts, take care." He then walked out.
"Well he sure was... something," muttered Ilvymore, Harry hummed in agreement, they then both payed for their robes and walked out.
"So we need our pet next I suppose," muttered Harry.
"Yep," responded Ilvymore, popping the 'p'.
"Well let's get going then."
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It took the two of them a bit of time before they found their desired destination, a large pet store that harbored all types of magical and non-magical animals.
The shop owner was a young man, maybe in his twenties with dark hair and brown eyes, he smiled at the two that entered the shop. "Hogwarts students I presume?" he asked them. They nodded, "I'm Rodger, follow me."
The two of them followed before Harry stopped, he was right in front of the tank of a snake tank, within it was a beautiful Rosy Boa. Rodger was about to say something when he saw that both Harry and the Rosy Boa's eyes were the same killing curse green. His own eyes widened.
"She is your familiar," he said.
Harry looked away from the snake, "My what now?"
"Your familiar, an animal that is closely connected to a certain witch or wizard,"
"Oh, um well, how much for her?"
"She is your familiar, you may have her for free," Rodger then picked the snake out of the tank and gave it to Harry. She wrapped around him and slithered up his sleeve, she was around the same size as Harry's arm, possibly longer and seemed to really like him.
Ilvymore ended up finding an owl who she named Hedwig. The owl was beautiful and looked like snow. All in all both of them were very happy with the animals that they got.
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The two teens found the rest of their group at an ice-cream place, Charlie was happily stuffing her face with a chocolate sundae.
"Ah! I see you two found the rest of what you needed," Alastor said gesturing at the snake that was poking out of Harry's sleeve. He looked at the sleeve, "hm? Yeah, yeah we did, what about you guys?"
"We've been eating all different types of food, it's so much fresher up here!" Charlie said happily.
"We got something for you two as well," Vaggie said, handing the two of them an icicle each.
The two thanked her and ate them, Charlie was right, food was better here! "Ooo is this tropical? I love the tropical ones." Ilvymore said happily eating the icicle.
The others finished their food of choice and got up to leave, Harry bumped into someone, "Hey watch it!" he said, unhappily.
"Sorry, I'll be more careful next time, I'm Neville and you?" the boy had a bunch of red heads around him and a brunette girl as well. They were all dressed like the wizards here and all of them seemed to be staring at what him and his friends non-wizard like get-ups.
"I'm Hadrian, and I'm leaving, I'll see you around Neville," he said as him and the other four got up and walked away.
The wizards stared at them, wondering why they were so strange.
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Once they got back to Hell they got busy reading up on anything that they might need to know as well as the history of 'Hogwarts'. They also read up on some of the many families that attended the school and Harry read about his own parents as well.
Harry also learnt that he could speak to his pet snake, at first he thought it was because it was his familiar but then found out that it was because he was a parseltongue, which practically just meant that he could speak to snakes.
The snake's name was Rose and she didn't seem to like Hedwig very much, though the two of them eventually got to like each other.
They also had to modify their robes as they would be going in their demon forms and were a bit taller, not to mention had some... added features. By the time September the 1st came around the two of them were extremely excited and completely ready for Hogwarts.