Wizarding Royalty

Chapter 17: Shopping

If you see a '*' please check the bottom author's note for an explanation or translation. 

After leaving Gringotts Sally and Molly split the children into two groups. Sally had: Percy, Thalia, Nico, and Ginny. Molly had taken the rest of the bunch. 

The first stop for Sally's group was Flourish and Blotts. 

Ginny easily found her books for her fourth year. While the demigods looked for their books on the list. 

They found 'Standard Book of Spells, Grade 5' quite easily but struggled to find some of the others like 'Unfogging the Future.' The dyslexia took made words jumbled and harder to decipher. Apparently the sales clerk noticed their struggle and eventually walked up to them. 

"You know there's a spell that can help you read better? Especially if English isn't your first language," the clerk told them. 

"There is?" Nico asked wide-eyed. 

"Of course, Translate ad primam linguam*," The books they were holding were suddenly much easier to read. 

Nico's were in Italian with Percy's and Thalia's in Ancient Greek. 

"Do you think we could learn it?" Thalia asked the older female. 

"Sure, with a little practice you'll be able to translate anything you need to read." she shrugged. They eagerly paid for their books and left the shop.

The next stop was Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. 

"I'll be with you in a moment," a smililing witch called not looking up from her work. She was tailoring a robe to fit one of her customers. 

"All done," she said eventually. The customer smiled gratefully and got off the stool. They went to a changing room and removed their robes eventually emerging and handing the witch her money. She smiled and gave them back their change. 

"Well what do we have here? Aren't you a little old for your first robes? I don't remember ever seeing you in my shop before," Madam Malkin asked. 

"Yeah we just arrived here and learned of this place." 

"Oh are you the royals everyone is talking about?" 

The demigods looked down not really wanting the attention that was sure to be drawn from other patrons. That was all the answer Madam Malkin needed. She took them to a stool and set to work immediately. She gave them differents sizes of robes until she was satisfied with the size. Then she started to tailor them. It took maybe half an hour but by the time they were done the robes fit perfectly. 

"There you go. Perfect," Madam Malkin said as she admired her work. She took a step back and allowed the children to take off the robes.

 They handed her the money as they walked out throwing a quick, "Keep the change." over their shoulder. She had been nice enough not to shout about the whole royalty thing in front of the customers. Not many people would realize that the demigods wanted to keep it on the down low and may as well have gone shouting it to the whole Wizarding World that they had seen the royals or that the royals had been in their shop. 

The next stop was Mr. Mulpepper's Apothecary. The demigods and Ginny had prefered not to linger in the shop and quickly grab most of the items on the list for potions classes. 

When they were done Sally brought them to a shop that looked like it said, lidvaneOlrs kaMres fo nFie Wndas incse 382 B.C.

Sally noticed their struggle and read out the sign, "Ollivanders Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C."