An Elementalist At Hogwarts

When I noticed who bumped into me I couldn't refrain a smile to appear on my visage, he's a short, chubby kid with black hair with a round-face, clothed in wizard robe and seemed to be very clumsy.

"S-sorry, I-I wasn't watching."

The boy started doing stuttering apologies while looking at the ground, it seems he had a very low opinion of himself.

"Don't worry, It wasn't your fault, this place is quite crowded after all."

The boy stopped looking at the ground to look at me and he presented himself.

"Yes, this street is always crowded, I'm sorry that I bumped into you, I'm Neville Longbottom." said Neville regaining some confidence after seeing I wasn't angry.

"I"m Alexandre Arkhas, did you come here to buy your Hogwarts furnitures?"

"Yes, I will attend Hogwarts this year, are you from the famous Arkhas family?"

"Yes, I come from the Arkhas family, me too I will attend at my first year at Hogwarts, I hope we can get well along together, you are a Longbottom so you will probably be sorted in Gryffindor and me in Slytherin, I hope the clichés between these two houses won't bother you too much."

"The Arkhases generally are sorted in Gryffindor, why do you think you will be sorted in Slytherin?"

"Well my personality doesn't match very well with the three other houses so I will probably end in Slytherin by default, not that it bother me, I don't really care in which house I will be sorted, my mind isn't this narrow but I know that a lot of Gryffindor don't like Slytherin because they think that every Slytherin is a potential Dark Lord but history proved that more Dark Lords came from Gryffindor that from Slytherin but people have a short memory and only remember Voldemort."

Neville grimaced when I said Voldemort, they are so affraid of a simple name, it's very pathetic, I know there is a curse on his name but at this moment he is supposed to be dead so I still don't understand why people are so affraid to say his name...

"Really? Gryffindor produced more Dark Lords than Slytherin, I didn't know..."

"Don't lower your impression on Gryffindor because of that, what I'm trying to say it's that a Dark Lord can come from every houses and not only Slytherin, they can come from other schools that Hogwarts."

"You speak like as Dark Lords are commun."

"They are not but their number is far greater that people remember, how many Dark Lords do you know?"

"I only know two Dark Lords, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and Grindelwald" said Neville affraid, talking about powerful Dark wizards seemed to get him on the nerves.

"So only two, and these two came from Europe in this century, they are not the only in this century and they are not the strongest Dark Lords in the history, well it's the case for Voldemort but Gellert Grindelwald was by far more powerful, charismatic and intelligent than Voldemort but the last one is now by far more frightening for the majority of the british wizarding community, do you know why?"

"No, I don't know."

"Because he is the most recent one and he came from Hogwarts, he is a racist that killed muggles without concern and his followers are called Death Eaters and were always masked, Grindelwald fought for his ideals without killing more than necessary in his eyes, he didn't ruled by fear but by conviction and let the choice to everyone to choose their camp, Voldemort killed everyone who didn't followed him in fright, that's the difference between these two, Voldemort is famous in Britain and a little in Europe but Grindelwald was very famous in the entire world, one was a fool and the other the real deal."

"You talk about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named at present like if he is still alive."

"Do you really think a one year old baby could kill a Dark Lord, I don't think that Voldemort is dead, I think that night his spell rebounded to him by a powerful magic used by on of the parent of Harry Potter, so for me Harry Potter is famous for no reason and one of his parent probably sacrificed him or herself to cast a spell able to save their son and made Voldemort diseappear."

Neville was very pale now and his eyes looked like if they were haunted, before I can brainwash, uhm teach Neville more, a old lady came to him and took him with her in a nearby shop, didn't she saw that we were talking? What a rude person, probably Augusta Longbottom, mother of Franck Longbottom and paternal grandmother of Neville and probably the reason why he have a low value of himself and why he is not good at magic since she force him to use the wand of his father.

After the talk with Neville, I resumed the shopping with my family, we bought our books at the bookshop "Flourish and Blotts Bookseller", our Potions furnitures at "Slug & Jiggers Apothecary", we then went to "Ollivanders" to buy our wand.

The shop was narrow and shabby with peeling gold letters over the door of the shop read:

Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C.

The shop's display consisted of a solitary wand lying on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window. The shop was tiny, empty except for a single, spindly chair in the corner. Thousands of narrow boxes containing wands were piled right up to the ceiling of the tiny shop, and the whole place had a thin layer of dust about it.

Nobody was in sight, so I ringed a tiny golden bell who ringed loudly in the quiet shop, very soon a old man came to our sight, he had pale silvery eyes and white skin.

"Ah customers, come, come, don't stay in the entrance."

"So, do you came here to buy your first wand?"

"No we came here to buy wines... Of course we came here to buy wands, what esle we would buy in a wandmaker shop?" I said exaspered, stupid questions...

"Be nice Alexandre, yes we came here to buy our first wand, sorry about my brother, we are in your care" said Aurore while bowing with a red face, ashamed at what I just said.

"There is no problem, I will start with you if you want little one" said Ollivander, smiling.

It took some time to Ollivanders to find our wand, Aurore's one is from Cherry wood, Phoenix feather as core and have a lenght of 10.5". The Yoruichi's one is from Holly wood, Unicorn hair as core and have a lenght of 11.3". Mine is from Ash wood, Dragon heartstring and have a lenght of 12". Seems I don't have the cliché wand with wood and core not built by Ollivander but still have one from his ancestor.

After buying our wands, we went to the pet shop "Magical Menagerie" to buy a raven since I quite like these birds, I tried to buy a black cat, maybe it would transform in Kuroka or Blake but Yoruichi didn't let me do. So I came out of the shop with a little raven with crimson red eyes, she is very cute and already very lovely, it seems nobody wanted her because of her eyes, they said she was cursed and will bring misfortune, seriously, people in this world are so superstitious...