August 10th 2019

Martin was in his uncle's car heading for London with his cousins for school shopping not something he was looking foward to, their reactions were less exited than Lily's specially James's, who looked at him with an expression saying why are you here?

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Diagon Alley was a weird place, unlike anything Martin had ever seen, the style of the buildings the stuff being sold.

"Ok, here is the plan, I will go with Martin and Lily to go shopping for their wands, robes, cauldrons and books while you, honey, take James for that new broom he wants and buy their books, we meet on uncle Georges shop ok" Aunt Ginny said.

Martin followed her to the shop for school robes, Lily told Martin that while they still had to wear robes for formal events that muggle clothes were allowed after adding protective spells. Good for him, he looked ridiculous on those robes. Next was book shopping not anything weird, except for the topics in the books. Cultures of Magical creatures, history of magic, that kind of things what really got his attention was an astronomy book. He liked astronomy what would wizards know about astronomy.

Now to the wand shop was wacky enough, lots of boxes some seemed to move.

"Well what do we have here two cousins, one raised with magic one raised without it quite interesting I'll see what I'll get for you" the shop owner said
Lily followed the man behind a curtain after a few moments she came out with a dark red almost fuchsia colored wand.
"A great choice, colored wands seemed to have come back into fashion for the 21st century with the growth in material exchange from wand crafters around the world the most amazing combinations and designs are popping up now your turn boy" He said again turning to Martin.

Martin went trough the door there were even more boxes.
"Now, you might be hard, growing up in a muggle family these days tends to make personalites harder to match to a wand only very special combinations can match."He said once again.
Martin tried many different wands, a lot of different wands, nothing seemed to work, maybe it had all been a big mistake after all, and he wasn't a wizard, he wouldn't get a wand and he'd go back home and go to school with his friends as he wanted, the little electrical problem at school wasn't his fault just a weird coincidence.
"really difficult client, maybe is time to pull out a secret weapon, a friend from America send me a really rare Thunderbird feather set, and I have a very special wand." He said as he pulled out a dark blue box with a silver stamp.
Inside was a dark blue almost black wand with a silver thread around it
"black hickory with a thunderbird feather core and a glint of silver for asthetic purposes 18 cm long a true treasure, not two wands are equal but this one is truly special" He said to Martin
Martin took the wand in his hand and felt a jolt of electricity coming from the wand into his hand a huge wind went around him even though there didn't appear to be any windows a blue spark seemed to come off the tip of the wand and he felt a strange sense of attachment, connection with the piece of wood in his hands. Through out his life he had felt attached to a lot of things, toys, books, TV shows, games, cellphones things he was afraid of letting go by entering this magical world but he had never had an attachment like this one. For the first time since that letter came in the mail, since he knew about the existence of magic, Martin felt as if part of that world belonged to him and he might actually belong in it. This thoughts were confusing him.

He got out to find his aunt and cousin smiling at him, he showed them his new wand

"it's so pretty, what is the core? Mine is unicorn hair" Lily said.

"Thunderbird feather, I think" Martin said

"That is an American creature this is a really rare type of wand to find here in Britain" Aunt Ginny said

"Let's go see my brothers and you'll meet my cousins too, Rose and Hugo, you'll like them" Lily said

they went to see the rest of the family at what Martin saw as some sort of toy shop Rose and Hugo were nice kids, Martin looked specially at Rose, she was cute and smart she was interested in Muggle technology a lot as she said she didn't believe magic and technology to be incompatible and appeared to be a little bit activist about it, Lily told Martin she got that from her mom, who according to uncle Harry militated for equal rights amongst magical creatures since her school days.

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Martin came back home with a bunch of books my wand and a black and white cat, how did people sneak a bunch of animals into a train station was anyone's idea, he named his cat Alexandra as it was a female cat and when he went away for school he would the cat to remind him of his best friend.

He began reading his school books, he was paricularly interested in the astronomy and history of magic books, the astronomy book was fantastic, it described the Solar System in such beauty, the history of magic book was also pretty cool, cooler that the history he knew even though it was weird seeing the part with uncle Harry on it, that was for sure, Alex would love to see the book, its all the weird fantasy battles she loved reading about as well as different perspectives on historical events, she also loved that, he would love for her to come with him, but she couldn't.

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Alex was video chatting with her dad again, without her mother as she had something to do

"Hey dad, how are you doing, how's china?

"Actually sweetie I am in a lab with some colleagues that appear to have similar findings to mine, in America, Boston to be exact, we think we are on to something really big" Her dad said.

"America? that's great dad, I've always wanted to see America, how long will you be there dad?" Alex asked

"Soon honey I promise, is just that the project I am working on is really important it could make history, change the understanding of biology as we know it" Her dad said

"Dad, I'm going to boarding school soon, I just wanted to spend time with you before that, but I guess seeing the name Dean Carstairs on a history book sooner rather than later." I said slightly sobbing.

I didn't want the recognition of a history book as Alexandra Carstairs, daughter of famous scientist who changed history, if that meant she couldn't see her dad.

"Honey I know this is hard to understand at your age but, I am doing this for you and for the world, our discovery will make the world a better place" dad said