"Could I stay with Professor Reynolds?"

"If she agrees, yes."

"That would be my first choice."

"We can go ask her right now, then, if you'd like."

Nod.

Auror Beck gets up and heads to the door. Professor Reynolds is hanging out talking to Tonks, but she looks up and heads in.

"Need me for something?" she asks.

Deep breath.

"Could- I stay with you? Just- temporarily."

She considers, then nods. "Yes, if you want."

She grins back. To Auror Beck, "Is there anything else, Dinah?"

The auror nods. "Just some paperwork - and we'll be doing weekly check ins..." Small smile. "Perhaps something to give Miss Tonks a chance to stop vibrating around my office. But it'll mostly be a formality."

Professor Reynolds nods. "Alright." She waves one of the chairs on the side of the room over, sitting to fill out the paperwork (not much, really, and there's more of it for her than for Ellie).

Ellie diligently fills her forms out.

And then, after making an appointment (Saturday the tenth) for a department member to come check on them, they're free to go.

Relatively painless.

"Do you want to do any more shopping, now?" she asks. "We can also hit Gringotts again..."

"Gringotts first? I forgot to get some money changed..."

Small smile. "Alright." And off to Gringotts - she needs to access her vault to withdraw galleons to exchange for muggle cash, since she doesn't have a muggle bank account...

She wanted to get some of the other things into her trunk anyway, books and journals and pictures.

"That makes sense."

Everything fits just fine, of course. (Most of the pictures are of the Potter family; still, there's some of Lily, including a few muggle style pictures of her family, and quite a few of baby Ellie. Playing with toys, drooling on a big black dog ("Ellie and Padfoot", in the chest of things recovered from her old house), smiling at something off camera...)

She doesn't spend too much time shifting things in. It's- odd, to have this stuff, old unknown memories. She's not sure how she feels about it. Maybe she'll figure it out when she sorts through it in detail.

For now it goes in the trunk, and after she grabs the money to be changed they can leave again.

It's approaching lunchtime, if Ellie wants to eat out before heading into muggle London for clothes...

That would be nice.

To another new restaurant, then - this one's less creative, more traditional wizarding foods... It still has things Ellie hasn't had before, though, like pumpkin juice.

Whatever possessed them to juice a pumpkin? Strange. Reasonably tasty, though.

"I don't actually know the history of that one... But it's the kind of traditional that every place has their own recipe and spice mix."

"I'll keep that in mind."