It was just my mother and I heading through Diagon ally when we suddenly made a turn into a side ally called High street. High street wasn't a street but a cul-de-sac with three establishments.
There was a store that sold enchanted furniture and other housing items and across the street from that is a designer level clothing store that sold everything made to order.
If one were to buy their Hogwarts robes from them they would cost nearly triple per robe but they would come with loads of handy enchantments weaved in like self cleaning and repairing.
At the end of the street situated between the two other stores is an unassuming building with the sign that read Claire's Custom Wands.
Walking inside we were greeted by Claire 'Oh Miss Lily I was wondering when you would come in with Harry. I can't thank you enough for getting me my apprenticeship.'
'Well I was always fascinated by wandlore but never had the chance to learn. Although that wasn't the main reason I did it you see Olivander's bugs me that in order to make wands cheaper you had to skimp on quality' Lily said as she closed the door and locked it drawing the blinds closed.
'Yes well thanks to you priestess I have had near infinite money to find a better way. The only problem is that each wand costs 500 ish galleons. I don't think I'll be very popular' Claire said sadly.
'Have you had any customers yet? I know you just opened this week' Mom asked.
'No customers yet but a few older wizards made some inquiries. Although Mr Olivander stopped by to see if I was planning on putting him out of business but I set him straight that racing brooms didn't put general brooms out of business. Thus we will always need a cheap alternate for the masses' she said smugly.
'Alright enough chit chat I'll get my new wand first' Mom said.
Claire had Mom run her hand along a selection of woods. 'Which of these do you feel the strongest pull?' Claire asked.
'A tie between these two' Mom said holding up two blocks of wood.
'I figured you would grab the walnut but the aspen also makes sense. Well this will be interesting to make a blended wand. Now onto the core' Claire said.
They then moved over to a row of jars and assorted magical animal parts.
Mom stopped over a box that said werewolf and said 'I think I'm feeling the all of the parts not just one in particular.'
'Ok that's a little weird but I don't see a problem with doing that. This wand should be vary adaptable doing equally powerful in all aspects of magic but especially good with magics of the wild and nature' Claire said putting Moms parts off to one side.
She then turned to me and said 'alright it's your turn young master.'
I hurriedly walked up to the shelf that contained all the woods barely able to contain my excitement.
Running my hand across the different blocks of wood only one stands out as I pull it up I can feel it resonating with me.
'This one' I said turning to Claire.
'An elder wand, you two are not giving me an easy start' Claire said huffing.
Moving onto the various cores that Claire had. Running my hand along trying to find that same resonance that happened with the wood.
'I don't feel anything as strong as with the wood' I said disappointedly.
'And that's why I had mistress bring me the more exotic and impossible to find cores' Claire said.
At this mom took out her expanded bag and started pulling out various different cores.
There some of the items that I could identify were: thestral tail hair, vampire fang, incubus venom, a vial of unicorn blood freely given, basilisk fang, and dementor cloak.
Running my hand along these new cores I felt a very strong pull towards the incubus venom, thestral tail hair and an unknown vial of golden liquid.
'Young master you are going to never want to tell anyone what your wands core is' Claire said nervously.
'Why? It can't be that bad at most I can see 4,000 galleons worth of materials' I said giving a rough estimate based on the worth of the things knew the value of.
'Young master this gold liquid is the blood of a nemean lion. Do you know how hard it is to get the blood of a creature that's hide is impenetrable and highly resistant to the point of near invincibility. The only known way of dealing with one is to drive it into another lions territory but that's harder than sounds cause they are near impossible to find. I believe mistress bought this at an auction for 100,000 galleons' Clair said.
'Don't worry about the cost my son this was the reason I bought these items as they are impossible to acquire at the scale needed for other things. Also the only people that will have access to the exotic cores are those that we are keeping' mom said reassuringly.
'Young master your wand will be exceptionally powerful with few others as peers. It will have an affinity with charms, defence against the dark arts, and the dark arts themselves. Your wand is likely to give you some knock on effects like being more resistant to spells and witches will likely find you more attractive then your peers' Claire said as she explained the properties of my soon to be wand.
She then turned to mom and said 'can you stay until I have made the wands I don't feel comfortable working with such rare materials without someone watching my back.'
'Of course I will. Harry why don't you go get fitted next door for your school robes. Make sure you ask for Christina' mom told me.
'Okay' I said leaving to go next door.
Walking into the store I am greeted by a young girl who looks like they just graduated Hogwarts.
'Hello how may I help you' she said.
'Hello my mother wants me to get fitted for my Hogwarts robes and she said to ask for Christina' I responded.
'Well right this way young man' she said leading me off to a side room.
Once inside she shut the door and waved her wand putting up a spell of some sorts. She then turned to me and said 'young master I am Christina it is my honour to serve you today.'
She then waved her wand again and this time all of her clothes disappeared revealing a nice and supple body with average sized breast and nice and full hips. She stood there for a second to allow me to take in her naked body.
'This body is for your pleasure young master don't hesitate to touch it during your fitting. Now could you please strip to your underwear so that I may get the most perfect measurements of your perfect body' the naked girl said with no hint of seduction only reverence.
Having no problem with this I took off my clothes since I was still standing near the entry to the room and I needed to be in the centre to allow for easy access I walked past Christina.
As I walked past her I gave her a hard slap on the ass and said 'ok let's go I don't have all day'
**POV Shift**
Meanwhile a certain brown bushy haired girl is looking around in Flourish and Blotts for the last time before school starts. When she is approached by an older student.
'Hello there are you about to be a first year' the older girl asked
'Why yes I am, my name is Hermione Granger what's yours? Oh and what house are you in? What year are you in? And what's it like? And what books would you recommend? And is enchanting worth it?' Hermione asked in a rush of questions at the poor girl.
'Slow down I'm not going anywhere' the other girl responded.
'Sorry it's just I get so excited talking about magic' Hermione said.
'I understand I was like this too before my first year. In order my name is Tiffany Aurora, I'm a 3rd year Hufflepuff student, as a muggleborn its overwhelming but miss Lily is very helpful to us, Hogwarts a History is very helpful, enchanting is only worth it if you have a lot of money and most enchanters work by themselves so the only way it makes sense for us muggleborns is to find a rich pureblood family's patronage' Tiffany said.
'Can you explain what all this pureblood, moggleborn, and halfblood is?' Hermione asked a little confused as she saw refences to this in her books but it didn't make a whole lot of sense to her.
'Ok well purebloods are those whos parents are purebloods or 2nd generation half-bloods. Half-bloods are those whos parents are both magical but still have a recent relative who was a muggle. So our children will be half-bloods as long as the father isn't a muggle. The government is run by the heads of these pureblood families, a new family is only added if there is a distinct unbroken male line that traces to a muggle and if that pureblood has done something distinguishing enough to be elevated to what is essentially noble status' Tiffany said.
'That's barbaric' Hermione exclaimed.
'It is but miss Lily explains it the best muggleborns are joining the society not the other way around and wizarding culture split off hundreds of years ago so it is understandable that it would develop differently. Just learn everything you can and try to integrate as best you can and I promise that you will have an easier time then other muggleborns' Tiffany said.
'This is twice you've mention "miss Lily" do you mean professor Potter?' Hermione said a bit scandalized by the lack of respect of an authority figure.
'Nope that's how she likes to be called as to quote her words "professor Potter makes me sound old and it sounds like I need a title to make you respect me, trust me I don't"' Tiffany said in a haughty voice.
'So which house do you think I'll be gong to?' Hermione asked curiously.
'Well I can see the ambition and knowitallness dripping off of you but I know Slytherin is out cause your a muggleborn and I can't see you in Ravenclaw because it looks like you don't learn for the sake of learning but to do something with it. So that leaves Hufflepuff and Gryffindor your knee jerk reaction make to learning about wizard culture makes Gryffindor likely but I can see you crave friends. Your intelligence made making friends difficult growing up so deep inside you desire the approval only friends can give you. So you my little firstie are going to Hufflepuff' Tiffany said with overwhelming confidence.
'How can you be so mean and confident in your assessment of me' Hermione said disheartened.
'Did you already forget Hermione I said I saw a younger me in you and thus I have already been through this. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go now' Tiffany said giving Hermione a cheshire smile then turning and leaving Hermione deep in thought and self reflection.
**POV Shift**
Having finished up with my robes I bid Christina farewell and made my way back to Claire's to meet up with mom. Walking inside I was greeted by mom and Claire, mom was playing with her new functional looking wand where the lighter aspen wood was being chased around the wand by the darker walnut and on a pedestal in between the two was my yellow-white colored wand along its length it is very standard little flare but its handle can best be described as a leaping lion wearing a crown.
'Very subtle Claire' I said absolutely falling in love with my wand picking it up I felt as if I had just found a part of myself that I didn't know I was missing.
'Oh heavens if I had any control over the appearance I would have made it as subtle as possible but sadly my control is over the second I place the core within the wood. Its one of the great mysteries of wand crafting. Now here's your holster just attach it to your dominate arm and it will become invisible and protect your wand from damage. Then to draw your wand just flick your wrist and your wand will fly into your hand and to return it you need to say a return phrase the default is return but you and mistress can change it later' Claire said.
I did as she told me to and my wand disappeared into my the invisible holster on my right arm. With the shopping done that I needed to be there for we headed home.