Chapter 8: - Quidditch and a Return to Diagon Alley
The next morning dawned very bright and very cold. The Great Hall was full of the smell of fried sausages and the chatter of those looking forward to a good Quidditch match.
"You've got to eat some breakfast." Kari said, through a mouthful of sausage.
"I don't want anything."
"Just a bit of toast." Yugi waved a bit under his nose.
"I'm not hungry" Harry waved it away. He felt terrible, in an hour's time he'd be walking on the pitch.
"Harry, you need your strength." Seamus Finnigan said. "Seekers are always the ones who get nobbled by the other team."
"Thanks Seamus." Harry said, watching Seamus pile ketchup on his sausages.
By eleven o'clock the whole school seemed to be out in the stands around the Quidditch pitch. Many students had binoculars. The seats were raised high in the air but it was still difficult for them to see what was going on sometimes.
Ron, Hermione, Yugi, Yami, Joey, Kari, Ombre and Ryou joined Neville, Seamus and Dean up in the top row. As a surprise for Harry; they had painted a large banner on one of the sheets Scabbers had ruined in his attempt to hide from Bastet the one time the Mau had chased him. It said "Potter for President" and Dean, who was good at drawing, had done a large Gryffindor lion underneath. Then Kari has watched while Hermione had performed a tricky little charm that caused the paint to flash.
Kari watched closely as the team filed out, Harry looked nervous. The crowd went wild.
Harry saw Madam Hooch was refereeing. She stood in the middle of the pitch, waiting for the two teams, her broom in her hand, "Now I want a nice clean game, from all of you." Harry noticed she was mostly talking to the Slytherin team. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the fluttering banner high above, flashing 'Potter for President' over the crowd. His heart skipped, he felt braver. "Mount your brooms please." Harry mounted his Nimbus Two Thousand. Madam Hooch blew her whistle and fifteen brooms rose into the air. They were off.
Kari lost track of the commentary as she kept track of the Quaffle. "Budge up there! Move along!"
"Hagrid!" Ron and Hermione squeezed together to make enough room for Hagrid.
"Bin watchin' from me hut," Hagrid said, patting a large pair of binoculars round his neck, "But it isn't the same as bein' in the crowd. No sign of the Snitch yet, eh?"
"Nope," said Ron, "Harry hasn't had much to do yet."
"Kept outta trouble, though that's somethin'." Said Hagrid, raising his binocluars and peering upwards at the speck that was Harry. Way up above them, Harry was gliding over the game, squinting about for any sign of the Snitch.
Kari kept track of the game, Millennium Orb in hand in case anyone fell. Ombre stayed close, her concentration was sliced through by a single line. "- wait a moment – was that the Snitch?" A murmur ran through the crowd and Harry saw it, and dived downward. The Slytherin seeker saw it too but Harry was slightly faster. Pulling ahead of the opposition Harry put on an extra burst of speed…
WHAM! A roar of rage from the Gryffindors below, Marcus Flint had blocked Harry's broom on purpose and Harry was hanging on for dear life with his broom spinning out of control. "FOUL!" The Gryffindor's screamed.
Madam Hooch gave Gryffindor a free shot at the goal posts but the damage was done, the Golden Snitch had vanished again. Down in the stands, Dean Tomas and Kari were yelling, "Send him off, ref! Red Card!"
"This isn't football, guys." Ron reminded them, "You can't send people off in Quidditch – and what's a red card?"
The commentator, Lee Jordan, was finding it hard not to be biased.
"So – after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating…"
"Jordan!" Professor McGonagall growled.
"I mean after that open and revolting foul…"
"Jordan, I'm warning you…"
"Alright, alright, Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor seeker, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure. So a penalty to Gryffindor which Spinnet puts away, no trouble, and we continue play with Gryffindor still in possession."
Yugi gasped and pointed upwards towards, Yami looked up and saw Harry was having trouble with his broom. Kari gasped and gripped her Millennium Orb so tightly her knuckles went white. Harry's broom gave a wild jerk and Harry swung off it, Kari's Millennium Item glowed as she tried to give him magical support but she was thrown backwards by a sudden dark purple glow.
Kari gasped and sat up, supported by Ombre, "Did something happen to it when Flint tackled him?" Dean asked.
"Can't have." Hagrid said, his voice shaking, "Can't nothing interfere with a broomstick except powerful dark magic – no kid could do that to a Nimbus Two Thousand."
At these words, Hermione seized Hagrid's glasses, but instead of looking at Harry she was looking at the stands, frantically. "What are you doing?"
"A student couldn't stop a Millennium Item either…I knew it!" Hermione gasped, "Snape – look!"
Ron grabbed the binoculars, Snape was in the middle of the stands opposite them. He had his eyes fixed on Harry ad was muttering non-stop under his breath.
"He's doing something – jinxing the broom." Said Hermione.
"What should we do?" Ryou asked.
"Leave it to me." Hermione said, disappearing. Ron and the others turned back to Harry who couldn't hang on much longer. The Weasleys flew up to try to pull Harry safely onto one of their brooms but every time they got close his broom would jump higher. They dropped lower and circled, ready to catch him. Kari and Yugi joined forces, ready to use their magic to help if they needed to.
"Come on Hermione." Ron whispered desperately.
Hermione had fought her way across to the stand where Snape was stood and was racing along the row behind him, not even stopping to apologise to Professor Quirrell when she knocked him over. Reaching Snape she drew her wand and spoke a few well chosen words. Blue flames shot out of her wand and onto the hem of Snape's robes.
It took about 30 seconds for him to realise his cloak was on fire. A sudden yelp told her she'd done her job. Scooping the fire off him into the jar in her pocket she scrambled back along the row – Snape would never know what had happened.
It was enough, up in the air, Harry had been able to clamber back onto his broom. "Neville, you can look!" Ron said, as Harry sped towards the ground, he'd caught a second sight of the snitch, he levelled off and leaned forward, praying he could grab it he fell forward and the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he was about to be sick – he hit the pitch on all fours – coughed and something gold fell into his hand.
"I've got the Snitch!" Harry yelled. The game ended in complete confusion.
"He didn't catch the Snitch! HE NEARLY SWALLOWED IT!" Flint was still howling twenty full minutes later. Harry and the others didn't hear it though; they were heading off towards Hagrid's hut. "It was Snape!" Ron explained, "He was jinxing the broom, muttering under his breath and not breaking eye contact, whatever he was doing also effected the Mill..!" Ron was about to add more but stopped suddenly as he remembered Hagrid didn't know.
"Rubbish!" Hagrid said, who hadn't heard a word of what had gone on in the stands below him, or seen Kari thrown backwards by dark energy. "Why would Snape do something like that?"
"I dunno. Why was he trying to get past that three headed dog on Halloween?" Joey quite reasonably asked. "We think he was trying to steal whatever it is guarding." Hagrid dropped the teapot.
"How do you know about Fluffy?"
"Fluffy? That thing has a name?" Hermione gasped.
"Yeah, he's mine. Bought from a Greek chappie I met in the pub last year, then I leant him to Dumbledore to guard the…"
"Yes?" Harry asked, eagerly.
"No more questions, don't ask any more questions." Hagrid said, gruffly.
"But Snape's trying to steal it!" This was from Yugi who'd stayed out of the conversation until now.
"Rubbish," Hagrid said again, "Snape is a Hogwarts Teacher, he'd do nothing of the sort!"
"So why did he just try to kill Harry?" Yami asked. Hermione nodded, this afternoon's events had changed her mind about Snape.
"I know a jinx when I see one Hagrid, I've seen…read all about them!" Ombre changed what she was about to say, "You have to maintain eye contact and Snape wasn't blinking at all, I saw him!"
"I'm telling yeh, yer wrong!" Said Hagrid hotly. "I don't know why Harry's broom acted like it did, but Snape wouldn't try to kill a student! Now, listen to me, you forget about that dog and what it's guarding, it's dangerous. What's it's guarding is between Professor Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel."
"Aha!" Harry said, "So there's someone called Nicolas Flamel involved is there?"
Hagrid looked like he could have kicked himself.
Yami woke up earlier then Yugi then next morning. The first time sine they'd been bonded. He looked around the dorm. Yugi was still asleep, Joey hadn't stopped snoring…there had to be a way of fixing it so he didn't sound like a pipe organ, Harry and Ron were up already, Ron was probably watching Harry at Quidditch practise. Yami had been surprised Wood had called a practise today after their match yesterday, but he was dedicated to the game. Yami got out of bed, shivered and got back into bed. I'm not getting up yet. Not until it warms up!
Yugi stirred and opened his eyes, then looking around the room he got to Yami and grinned. Yami was pretending to be asleep so he could avoid getting out of bed. Trying to hold the mind link so Yami thought he was still asleep he crept out of bed and jumped on Yami, scaring the living daylights out of him. The noise woke Joey who fell out of bed onto the cold, hard floor. "Ouch!"
Yugi apologised and the three of them got up and dressed. Yugi was suddenly aware Yami only had school robes and a copy of the clothes Yugi had been wearing underneath, as the Pharaoh got out of bed, no bedclothes. No wonder he'd been so cold! Yugi blushed and Joey desperately tried to keep a straight face as they got dressed. As Yami left ahead of them Joey smirked and whispered to Yugi. "Hey Yuge, I think you should take him clothes shopping today too."
Kari and Ombre were already down in the Great Hall eating. Bakura was smirking as he swaggered over to the Slytherin table and sat down next to Mouthboy. Bakura wouldn't need his hikari for this trip, since Ryou no linger owned the Millennium Ring. They didn't even know if their souls were still bound to their items. Kari and Ombre finished first and headed outside, Kari waited by the entrance and Ombre saw how far she could walk, she didn't even get half way to Hagrid's hut before the Millennium Orb called her back. Obviously yes, they were. They waited inside the entrance hall for the others, not having to wait too much longer for Yugi and Yami but forced to wait for another hour for Bakura to finish his breakfast.
"Why don't you just wear your Millennium Items for today and give them back to your pathetic hikaris when you get back?" He sneered. Yami and Ombre glared at him, while Yugi looked offended and Kari settled for poking her tongue out at him. Professor Dumbledore arrived promptly after Bakura and led them to his office, where he took a pot off the shelf and threw some of the green powder that was inside, onto the fire. "Floo powder, quite effective. Just chuck it in, step into the fire and say the name of the place you want to go. If you will Mr Muto's." Yami and Yugi stepped forward. Yugi took a hand full and threw it in the fire, "Diagon Alley!" Yami said clearly and the two vanished. Kari and Ombre followed, finally ending with Dumbledore and Bakura. The latter of which spilt from the group the moment he found out what time he had to go back.
Yugi led Yami straight to the pet shop, checking he had plenty of money on him first. Kari led Ombre to Madam Malkins. The four of them met Professor Dumbledore outside Ollivanders at 2 pm, laden with bags, magical supplies, wizard clothes, muggle clothes, pet carriers… and pushed the door open.
Bakura was already inside, looking more like he was having fun wreaking the place then actually trying to get his wand. "Ah Professor Dumbledore." Ollivander said, pulling out an bronze box with hieroglyphs on it and passing the wand to Bakura, "10 inch bronze and chimera venom.", who waved it and was actually disappointed to see it work as a ghostly chimera shot out the end, though he was happy when it tried to attack Yami even though it wasn't real.
"I can see your students now, Professor." Ollivander said, "Come on Pharaoh." He said, calling Yami over who looked at him in shock. "Don't be surprised, I know who everyone is, Mr Yami Muto, or Pharaoh." The tape measure started. "Wand arm please, sir." Yami held out his right arm, which was duly measured. "Now lets see," Thirty wands later, "I should have know to try one of these right off the bat." Ollivander murmured to himself, as his newly repaired window was destroyed again, pulling off the only other gold box on the shelves. "This is the partner to Mr Muto over there's wand, 10 inch gold and shadow's claw."
Shadow's claw? Yami thought but took the wand anyway, he swished it and a giant beast appeared, Yami wasn't sure what it was but it seemed familiar, as it faded away. Ollivander turned to Ombre looked at her and nodded, "Wand arm please, Princess." Ombre stuck out her left arm.
Ollivander looked around for the right wand, finally his eyes rested on the right box, silver with Egyptian markings, "I'd like you to try this one first, 12 inch, silver and fur from the mane of a sphinx." Ombre's eyes flashed at the item in her wand, "Taken from the same sphinx that gave the wing feather in Miss Ironhide's wand." Ombre waved it nervously and to her surprise a huge sphinx leapt from her wand, vanishing as it hit the ground. " I knew it!" Ollivander smirked. They paid for their wands. Yugi and Yami just had to hit one more shop, returning in seconds and then the group made their way back to Hogwarts the way them came.
Yami and Ombre showed off their wands to Harry, Ron and Hermione as they sat around the fire in the common room. Hermione was more interested in their history, finding out if the wands came from Yami and Ombre's time or later. Yami's and Kari's cats were hissing at each other most of the night. Yami had gotten a black Norwegian Forest cat, Ombre had gotten an owl, but Bakura had gotten a raven, something that didn't surprise them when they learnt that ravens were attracted to anything shiny. They left her thinking about it as they headed up to bed.
"You've got to eat some breakfast." Kari said, through a mouthful of sausage.
"I don't want anything."
"Just a bit of toast." Yugi waved a bit under his nose.
"I'm not hungry" Harry waved it away. He felt terrible, in an hour's time he'd be walking on the pitch.
"Harry, you need your strength." Seamus Finnigan said. "Seekers are always the ones who get nobbled by the other team."
"Thanks Seamus." Harry said, watching Seamus pile ketchup on his sausages.
By eleven o'clock the whole school seemed to be out in the stands around the Quidditch pitch. Many students had binoculars. The seats were raised high in the air but it was still difficult for them to see what was going on sometimes.
Ron, Hermione, Yugi, Yami, Joey, Kari, Ombre and Ryou joined Neville, Seamus and Dean up in the top row. As a surprise for Harry; they had painted a large banner on one of the sheets Scabbers had ruined in his attempt to hide from Bastet the one time the Mau had chased him. It said "Potter for President" and Dean, who was good at drawing, had done a large Gryffindor lion underneath. Then Kari has watched while Hermione had performed a tricky little charm that caused the paint to flash.
Kari watched closely as the team filed out, Harry looked nervous. The crowd went wild.
Harry saw Madam Hooch was refereeing. She stood in the middle of the pitch, waiting for the two teams, her broom in her hand, "Now I want a nice clean game, from all of you." Harry noticed she was mostly talking to the Slytherin team. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the fluttering banner high above, flashing 'Potter for President' over the crowd. His heart skipped, he felt braver. "Mount your brooms please." Harry mounted his Nimbus Two Thousand. Madam Hooch blew her whistle and fifteen brooms rose into the air. They were off.
Kari lost track of the commentary as she kept track of the Quaffle. "Budge up there! Move along!"
"Hagrid!" Ron and Hermione squeezed together to make enough room for Hagrid.
"Bin watchin' from me hut," Hagrid said, patting a large pair of binoculars round his neck, "But it isn't the same as bein' in the crowd. No sign of the Snitch yet, eh?"
"Nope," said Ron, "Harry hasn't had much to do yet."
"Kept outta trouble, though that's somethin'." Said Hagrid, raising his binocluars and peering upwards at the speck that was Harry. Way up above them, Harry was gliding over the game, squinting about for any sign of the Snitch.
Kari kept track of the game, Millennium Orb in hand in case anyone fell. Ombre stayed close, her concentration was sliced through by a single line. "- wait a moment – was that the Snitch?" A murmur ran through the crowd and Harry saw it, and dived downward. The Slytherin seeker saw it too but Harry was slightly faster. Pulling ahead of the opposition Harry put on an extra burst of speed…
WHAM! A roar of rage from the Gryffindors below, Marcus Flint had blocked Harry's broom on purpose and Harry was hanging on for dear life with his broom spinning out of control. "FOUL!" The Gryffindor's screamed.
Madam Hooch gave Gryffindor a free shot at the goal posts but the damage was done, the Golden Snitch had vanished again. Down in the stands, Dean Tomas and Kari were yelling, "Send him off, ref! Red Card!"
"This isn't football, guys." Ron reminded them, "You can't send people off in Quidditch – and what's a red card?"
The commentator, Lee Jordan, was finding it hard not to be biased.
"So – after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating…"
"Jordan!" Professor McGonagall growled.
"I mean after that open and revolting foul…"
"Jordan, I'm warning you…"
"Alright, alright, Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor seeker, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure. So a penalty to Gryffindor which Spinnet puts away, no trouble, and we continue play with Gryffindor still in possession."
Yugi gasped and pointed upwards towards, Yami looked up and saw Harry was having trouble with his broom. Kari gasped and gripped her Millennium Orb so tightly her knuckles went white. Harry's broom gave a wild jerk and Harry swung off it, Kari's Millennium Item glowed as she tried to give him magical support but she was thrown backwards by a sudden dark purple glow.
Kari gasped and sat up, supported by Ombre, "Did something happen to it when Flint tackled him?" Dean asked.
"Can't have." Hagrid said, his voice shaking, "Can't nothing interfere with a broomstick except powerful dark magic – no kid could do that to a Nimbus Two Thousand."
At these words, Hermione seized Hagrid's glasses, but instead of looking at Harry she was looking at the stands, frantically. "What are you doing?"
"A student couldn't stop a Millennium Item either…I knew it!" Hermione gasped, "Snape – look!"
Ron grabbed the binoculars, Snape was in the middle of the stands opposite them. He had his eyes fixed on Harry ad was muttering non-stop under his breath.
"He's doing something – jinxing the broom." Said Hermione.
"What should we do?" Ryou asked.
"Leave it to me." Hermione said, disappearing. Ron and the others turned back to Harry who couldn't hang on much longer. The Weasleys flew up to try to pull Harry safely onto one of their brooms but every time they got close his broom would jump higher. They dropped lower and circled, ready to catch him. Kari and Yugi joined forces, ready to use their magic to help if they needed to.
"Come on Hermione." Ron whispered desperately.
Hermione had fought her way across to the stand where Snape was stood and was racing along the row behind him, not even stopping to apologise to Professor Quirrell when she knocked him over. Reaching Snape she drew her wand and spoke a few well chosen words. Blue flames shot out of her wand and onto the hem of Snape's robes.
It took about 30 seconds for him to realise his cloak was on fire. A sudden yelp told her she'd done her job. Scooping the fire off him into the jar in her pocket she scrambled back along the row – Snape would never know what had happened.
It was enough, up in the air, Harry had been able to clamber back onto his broom. "Neville, you can look!" Ron said, as Harry sped towards the ground, he'd caught a second sight of the snitch, he levelled off and leaned forward, praying he could grab it he fell forward and the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he was about to be sick – he hit the pitch on all fours – coughed and something gold fell into his hand.
"I've got the Snitch!" Harry yelled. The game ended in complete confusion.
"He didn't catch the Snitch! HE NEARLY SWALLOWED IT!" Flint was still howling twenty full minutes later. Harry and the others didn't hear it though; they were heading off towards Hagrid's hut. "It was Snape!" Ron explained, "He was jinxing the broom, muttering under his breath and not breaking eye contact, whatever he was doing also effected the Mill..!" Ron was about to add more but stopped suddenly as he remembered Hagrid didn't know.
"Rubbish!" Hagrid said, who hadn't heard a word of what had gone on in the stands below him, or seen Kari thrown backwards by dark energy. "Why would Snape do something like that?"
"I dunno. Why was he trying to get past that three headed dog on Halloween?" Joey quite reasonably asked. "We think he was trying to steal whatever it is guarding." Hagrid dropped the teapot.
"How do you know about Fluffy?"
"Fluffy? That thing has a name?" Hermione gasped.
"Yeah, he's mine. Bought from a Greek chappie I met in the pub last year, then I leant him to Dumbledore to guard the…"
"Yes?" Harry asked, eagerly.
"No more questions, don't ask any more questions." Hagrid said, gruffly.
"But Snape's trying to steal it!" This was from Yugi who'd stayed out of the conversation until now.
"Rubbish," Hagrid said again, "Snape is a Hogwarts Teacher, he'd do nothing of the sort!"
"So why did he just try to kill Harry?" Yami asked. Hermione nodded, this afternoon's events had changed her mind about Snape.
"I know a jinx when I see one Hagrid, I've seen…read all about them!" Ombre changed what she was about to say, "You have to maintain eye contact and Snape wasn't blinking at all, I saw him!"
"I'm telling yeh, yer wrong!" Said Hagrid hotly. "I don't know why Harry's broom acted like it did, but Snape wouldn't try to kill a student! Now, listen to me, you forget about that dog and what it's guarding, it's dangerous. What's it's guarding is between Professor Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel."
"Aha!" Harry said, "So there's someone called Nicolas Flamel involved is there?"
Hagrid looked like he could have kicked himself.
Yami woke up earlier then Yugi then next morning. The first time sine they'd been bonded. He looked around the dorm. Yugi was still asleep, Joey hadn't stopped snoring…there had to be a way of fixing it so he didn't sound like a pipe organ, Harry and Ron were up already, Ron was probably watching Harry at Quidditch practise. Yami had been surprised Wood had called a practise today after their match yesterday, but he was dedicated to the game. Yami got out of bed, shivered and got back into bed. I'm not getting up yet. Not until it warms up!
Yugi stirred and opened his eyes, then looking around the room he got to Yami and grinned. Yami was pretending to be asleep so he could avoid getting out of bed. Trying to hold the mind link so Yami thought he was still asleep he crept out of bed and jumped on Yami, scaring the living daylights out of him. The noise woke Joey who fell out of bed onto the cold, hard floor. "Ouch!"
Yugi apologised and the three of them got up and dressed. Yugi was suddenly aware Yami only had school robes and a copy of the clothes Yugi had been wearing underneath, as the Pharaoh got out of bed, no bedclothes. No wonder he'd been so cold! Yugi blushed and Joey desperately tried to keep a straight face as they got dressed. As Yami left ahead of them Joey smirked and whispered to Yugi. "Hey Yuge, I think you should take him clothes shopping today too."
Kari and Ombre were already down in the Great Hall eating. Bakura was smirking as he swaggered over to the Slytherin table and sat down next to Mouthboy. Bakura wouldn't need his hikari for this trip, since Ryou no linger owned the Millennium Ring. They didn't even know if their souls were still bound to their items. Kari and Ombre finished first and headed outside, Kari waited by the entrance and Ombre saw how far she could walk, she didn't even get half way to Hagrid's hut before the Millennium Orb called her back. Obviously yes, they were. They waited inside the entrance hall for the others, not having to wait too much longer for Yugi and Yami but forced to wait for another hour for Bakura to finish his breakfast.
"Why don't you just wear your Millennium Items for today and give them back to your pathetic hikaris when you get back?" He sneered. Yami and Ombre glared at him, while Yugi looked offended and Kari settled for poking her tongue out at him. Professor Dumbledore arrived promptly after Bakura and led them to his office, where he took a pot off the shelf and threw some of the green powder that was inside, onto the fire. "Floo powder, quite effective. Just chuck it in, step into the fire and say the name of the place you want to go. If you will Mr Muto's." Yami and Yugi stepped forward. Yugi took a hand full and threw it in the fire, "Diagon Alley!" Yami said clearly and the two vanished. Kari and Ombre followed, finally ending with Dumbledore and Bakura. The latter of which spilt from the group the moment he found out what time he had to go back.
Yugi led Yami straight to the pet shop, checking he had plenty of money on him first. Kari led Ombre to Madam Malkins. The four of them met Professor Dumbledore outside Ollivanders at 2 pm, laden with bags, magical supplies, wizard clothes, muggle clothes, pet carriers… and pushed the door open.
Bakura was already inside, looking more like he was having fun wreaking the place then actually trying to get his wand. "Ah Professor Dumbledore." Ollivander said, pulling out an bronze box with hieroglyphs on it and passing the wand to Bakura, "10 inch bronze and chimera venom.", who waved it and was actually disappointed to see it work as a ghostly chimera shot out the end, though he was happy when it tried to attack Yami even though it wasn't real.
"I can see your students now, Professor." Ollivander said, "Come on Pharaoh." He said, calling Yami over who looked at him in shock. "Don't be surprised, I know who everyone is, Mr Yami Muto, or Pharaoh." The tape measure started. "Wand arm please, sir." Yami held out his right arm, which was duly measured. "Now lets see," Thirty wands later, "I should have know to try one of these right off the bat." Ollivander murmured to himself, as his newly repaired window was destroyed again, pulling off the only other gold box on the shelves. "This is the partner to Mr Muto over there's wand, 10 inch gold and shadow's claw."
Shadow's claw? Yami thought but took the wand anyway, he swished it and a giant beast appeared, Yami wasn't sure what it was but it seemed familiar, as it faded away. Ollivander turned to Ombre looked at her and nodded, "Wand arm please, Princess." Ombre stuck out her left arm.
Ollivander looked around for the right wand, finally his eyes rested on the right box, silver with Egyptian markings, "I'd like you to try this one first, 12 inch, silver and fur from the mane of a sphinx." Ombre's eyes flashed at the item in her wand, "Taken from the same sphinx that gave the wing feather in Miss Ironhide's wand." Ombre waved it nervously and to her surprise a huge sphinx leapt from her wand, vanishing as it hit the ground. " I knew it!" Ollivander smirked. They paid for their wands. Yugi and Yami just had to hit one more shop, returning in seconds and then the group made their way back to Hogwarts the way them came.
Yami and Ombre showed off their wands to Harry, Ron and Hermione as they sat around the fire in the common room. Hermione was more interested in their history, finding out if the wands came from Yami and Ombre's time or later. Yami's and Kari's cats were hissing at each other most of the night. Yami had gotten a black Norwegian Forest cat, Ombre had gotten an owl, but Bakura had gotten a raven, something that didn't surprise them when they learnt that ravens were attracted to anything shiny. They left her thinking about it as they headed up to bed.