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This is not a shouting match, but it could get that way any moment now.
"I'm not impugning your quality, Mr. Ollivander, but if you don't want to sell me a wand -"
"I have sold you a wand, Miss Swan, and if you say it does not suffice for your purposes I do not see how else I could possibly interpret you."
"Only in quantity!" she says. "I just want two."
"With an attitude like that you might one day find yourself in possession of two pieces -"
"That's exactly the sort of reason I want a second! If you won't sell me one -"
"I have sold you one, good day, Miss Swan!" Ollivander turns to the next customer. "Pardon her. What can I do for you today?"
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chanuphis
chanuphis
"Well, it's hazel, and the person who pawned it said chimaera hair but I don't know whether to credit it," says the shopkeeper.
"It's probably not really," laughs Miranda. "It works, though! Thank you very much!" She wraps her mass of little braids into a knot at the back of her head and sticks her wands through it, crossed.
"It's probably not really," laughs Miranda. "It works, though! Thank you very much!" She wraps her mass of little braids into a knot at the back of her head and sticks her wands through it, crossed.
always_and_forever
She does not have enough hair for that!
She spends a few seconds in silence as they start leaving the shop, then says, "...so I really want to talk to you a lot about all sorts of magical things but I have no idea how to do it without asking you to tell me a complete story of your life."
chanuphis
Miranda giggles. "I don't mind filling you in but I'm not sure the story of my life would be that useful! It has things in it like 'lived in Australia for a bit' and Muggles also live in Australia, I know, I saw them."
always_and_forever
Sadde giggles too. "Yeah, but well, I bet there was stuff in Australia that you saw and muggles—that's a really weird word—anyway, muggles didn't see! And besides it's mostly the small things I want to know, like how cooking goes, and rent, and where you live, and what you do all day, and is there magical school before Hogwarts?"
chanuphis
"Well - is all your shopping done?" Miranda asks. "Because I live just down Plur Alley, if you want to watch me poach an egg and ask Mum about the landlord and her job. She's a schoolteacher for little magical kids."
always_and_forever
She nods. "Yeah, it's all done, though I should probably tell Mum before going anywhere else. She told me to meet her at the bookshop after I was done with wands and other likely distractions."
chanuphis
"Sure. I got my books already but that was before I knew my second wand would be cheaper than my first one, I should get a couple more things there."
always_and_forever
"I hadn't planned on buying a second wand but I had planned on buying something, Mum expected I'd find some nice trinket to purchase on my way back there." What she does not say is how rare the possibility of finding nice trinkets to purchase is in her life.
chanuphis
"Flourish and Blott's?" Miranda inquires, about to set off in a direction.
always_and_forever
They arrive, and a tall blonde woman who looks nothing like Sadde and was standing fairly close to the entrance spots them, walks towards Sadde, and says: "This place is remarkable, there are—oh, hello, you've made a friend!"
"Mum, this is Miranda. Miranda, this is my mum, Laura," Sadde introduces.
"It's a pleasure," Laura says brightly.
chanuphis
"Pleased to meet you," Miranda says, offering a handshake. "Have you been finding your way around okay?"
always_and_forever
The woman shakes Miranda's hand and smiles. "Yes, indeed, although I've mostly been here. This is truly amazing."
"Mum, Miranda invited me over so I could watch her poach an egg and talk to her Mum about the landlord and her job teaching magical children can I go?"
Laura blinks, then says, "I suppose there's no problem with that. Do you live nearby?" she asks Miranda.
chanuphis
"Yes, Plur Alley branches off Diagon at Fortescues's and I'm not even a block down from there."
not_a_witch
"Oh, splendid! Well, how long are you planning on being there?" she asks her daughter, who looks at Miranda in turn. Laura laughs and continues, "You do have to get back home eventually, and I don't think I can exactly spend all day walking around the place waiting for you to leave."
chanuphis
"I didn't have any other plans besides school shopping today. Although I don't know if you want to hang out in my apartment all afternoon! We're still moving in and there's things not unpacked yet, and don't you still have stuff to buy?"
always_and_forever
"Are you kidding me? It's a magic apartment! Of course I want to spend all afternoon there! Beats my boring old muggle place."
"Sadde!" Laura admonishes, before looking at Miranda again and gesturing at a bag she had left over there where she'd been standing before spotting her daughter. "Wands were the last thing on our list. How about I come pick her up in about a couple of hours, if that won't trouble your parents too much?"
chanuphis
"It's just my mum and she won't mind. Do you think you'll be able to find it okay? We're 15-J, Plur Alley."
always_and_forever
"Absolutely. Very well, then, have fun, darling," Laura says, planting a kiss on top of Sadde's head.
Sadde accompanies Miranda on whatever shopping she has left, and there never was a more obvious muggleborn, giggling at the most trivial things and gaping a lot. Eventually they get to Miranda's place.
chanuphis
Miranda just grabs a couple of books, is all. And here is the apartment, reachable via moving staircase. The outside of the building looks shabby in places, brand new in others - like it was damaged and then repaired by someone to whom bricks were too dear to resurface the whole thing - but the inside is cozy.
Miranda's mum is in the apartment, shelving books. "Hello, Miranda! Who's your friend?"
"Sadde, this is my mum Renée. Mum, This is Sadde," Miranda says. "She wants to watch me poach an egg."
"...I think the egg cozy got unpacked. If it didn't it should be... somewhere. Probably in one of the kitchen boxes, I guess," says Renée.
"I'll find it," Miranda says. "Oh, and Ollivander wouldn't sell me a second wand so I got one at a pawn shop and it was cheaper. I got more books, but there's change, here." Miranda hands over coins.
Miranda's mum is in the apartment, shelving books. "Hello, Miranda! Who's your friend?"
"Sadde, this is my mum Renée. Mum, This is Sadde," Miranda says. "She wants to watch me poach an egg."
"...I think the egg cozy got unpacked. If it didn't it should be... somewhere. Probably in one of the kitchen boxes, I guess," says Renée.
"I'll find it," Miranda says. "Oh, and Ollivander wouldn't sell me a second wand so I got one at a pawn shop and it was cheaper. I got more books, but there's change, here." Miranda hands over coins.
always_and_forever
Sadde thinks the outside is charming and is in awe of the moving staircase. Over inside, she says, "Hi Miranda's mum! It's nice to meet you! Miranda told me you could tell me things!" She beams, then realises she was awfully nonspecific so she adds: "I'm muggleborn and I want to know everything about magic and how magical people live!"
chanuphis
"You may call me Renée if you like," Renée says. "I'm Muggleborn too! Don't worry, you'll get the hang of everything in no time. It looks like Miranda's found the egg cozy. She likes to do a lot of the cooking and of course didn't have a wand until today so we have a lot of magic items like that for doing things."
Miranda has found a dish that comes with a woolen hat. She cracks an egg into the dish, adds some water from the sink - it works like a normal sink, apparently - and then puts the hat over the dish, and says, "Poach."
She pulls the knitted hat aside and reveals a poached egg.
Miranda has found a dish that comes with a woolen hat. She cracks an egg into the dish, adds some water from the sink - it works like a normal sink, apparently - and then puts the hat over the dish, and says, "Poach."
She pulls the knitted hat aside and reveals a poached egg.
always_and_forever
"Okay! Hi Renée!"
Sadde walks over to where Miranda's preaching an egg and... blinks.
"How does it do that? Wait, dumb question, magic, it's probably very inscrutable. I bet if you try to peek it doesn't actually work."
chanuphis
"You can peek through the gaps in the knit actually but not under the edge. But it just looks like the water boiling really suddenly and the egg cooking really fast."