new clothes {open}

[potter]

Elliot chuckled a bit when Nix thanked karma for finding the rude ma's bag of coins on the ground, though almost immediately afterward frowned. He might have been inconsiderate, but surely he would miss it. She looked over her shoulder but the man was nowhere to be found, he had likely disapparated and she just hadn't heard him over the general hustle and bustle of the alley. Though when Nix held out the bag to her... Elliot wasn't sure what to think. She hesitated a moment, but accepted the bag from her acquaintance's outstretched hand. "I'll donate it," said Elliot, thinking of the fountain she passed every day to work in the Atrium, and the little plaque that said all coins put in the water would be given to St. Mungo's. It seemed a better alternative to her than flat-out keeping it for her needs.

[nixnight]

Nix gave a small chuckle at Elliot's comment and smiled at her friend ,"I did have a bit of a feeling that you wouldn't accept it yourself" she said with another chuckle. She dropped her hand from where she had been holding it out and then placed it in her pocket inside her robes, she looked around the street before spotting the shop they were heading for and nodding her head again before she stepped across the path and over towards the doorway of the shop before turning back to look to Elliot again. "I would have only given it to my siblings so it's better you really get it" she said with a small nod to the bag she had passed to her

[potter]

"The Potter-do-gooder attitude that obvious, eh?" asked Elliot, though she smiled slightly all the same. She wondered what her father might have done in that situation, probably the same thing. Out of her own curiosity Elliot loosened the strings on the bag to peer inside. There had to have been at least a hundred Galleons in it, surely the man would miss it, though at least she wasn't going to be selfish with it. She tightened the strings once more before pocketing the bag, she still somehow felt like she was doing something wrong, but the feeling faded as they neared the wand shop. "For a good cause all the same," said Elliot with a shrug. Of course she wasn't sure that Nix's siblings would have done anything productive with the money, though she imagined that they wouldn't squander it.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled as her friend joined her at the door before pressed a hand against it and stepping inside only to be greeted by a smile from the wand maker, nix smiled back and found herself already drawing her hand inside her robe to take her wand out and hold it in her hand. She heard the door swing shut behind her and turned to see her friend and then nodded towards the shop and all it's sleeves of wands, nix had her own in her hand now and the wand maker was walking over to the female pair and nix tried to to grin as she knew he would name her wand as soon as he recognised her

[potter]

Elliot slipped in, catching the door with her foot so she wouldn't have to awkwardly try and hold it with her hands which still had her shopping bags in them. Once inside, however, Elliot opened up her purse and lowered the bags inside where they fit perfectly. She had taken a leaf out of her Aunt Hermione's book and put an Undetectable Extension Charm on it, it really was a neat trick. Elliot nodded in greeting to the wandmaker before turning her attention to a small shelf on the wall that had several bottles of wand polish. She scanned the labels a moment before selecting one that proclaimed it was best for cherry wood wands, and holding it loosely between the knuckles of her index and middle fingers.

[nixnight]

Nix heard Elliot come in behind her and moved to the side of the shop to allow her to find the polish she needed as the wandmaker stepped over to her and nodded his head in greeting. "buying anything yourself?" he asked as nix considered drawing her wand from it's pocket but she shook her head in answer, the old man smiled before turning to look at Elliot who seemed to have picked what she needed. He examined the bottom for a moment before nodding his head and walking over to towards the old sliver till and pressing some buttons on it before peaking round it's side ,"three sickles and a knut please" he said with a small smile

[potter]

Elliot followed the man to the till, setting the bottle of polish down on the counter so she could rummage through her purse for the appropriate change. "The price has gone down," Elliot commented as she searched, recalling last time she had needed six sickles. The wandmaker only nodded as she pulled out the correct amount, and then deposited the coins into his open palm. Elliot then placed the bottle into her purse along with the receipt the old man handed her before turning back to Nix. "Where to next?" asked Elliot, drawing a blank on the nearby shops. It had been far too long since she had last been in Diagon Alley, as she preferred to go to Hogsmeade.

[nixnight]

Nix hung back as her friend paid for her polish and then tilted her head to think, it would be best to go to the broom shop as it was the next closest shop but it would also be full of people. So she shook her head and decided on walking a little further up the street to the potions supplies shop and then going back to the broom shop afterwards, just as she finished thinking to herself, Elliot came Over to her and nix smiled. "I'd say we work on potions supplies and all things like that and then head to the broom shop and then to get maya's kitten and we'll be all done" she said as she ticked off the things she needed to do in her head

[potter]

"All right," said Elliot, not having any objection to that. Of course, like always she would feel entirely out of place in the broom shop- she had never been a flier. Flying was the only subject in school where she had ever been below average, and thankfully they had only needed to take it the first semester of their first year- she had been most eager to drop it when she could. Elliot just was not confident on a broomstick the way her father and late mother were. It seemed she had missed those genes entirely. Elliot pushed open the door, holding it for Nix while she reflected on what potion ingredients she needed- her supplies were getting to be in a downright depressing condition- she was scraping the bottom of several jars even for basic things that seemingly everyone had in their stores.

[nixnight]

Nix walked quickly up the street and started to think of everything that she and her adoptive siblings needed so when Elliot kindly held the door open, she gave a smile and quickly ducked inside and over towards the counter. A young woman looked her over and then smiled for a reason nix didn't understand before nix started to recite the list in her head ,"1 kilogram of beetle eyes and 200ml of dragon blood, three mandrake leaves and 300 grams of oak shavings" she said in a quick voice before she had to pause to breath. But of course time and life tend to team up to annoy people and nix gave a growl as the last thing she needed to buy for her eldest adoptive sister slipped out of her mind

[potter]

Elliot stepped into the potion shop behind Nix, half-gagging, half-coughing at the initial smell of rotten eggs and boiled cabbage. She wasn't sure how the people who worked there could handle it, though she supposed that they got used to it after a while. Elliot smiled a bit as Nix recited what she needed. She herself quietly went through the shelves, picking up jars, bags, and boxes of all sorts of things, whether she knew she needed them or not. It never hurt to be stocked up on what she frequently used. Elliot frowned a bit as she focused on what she should be picking up. This would probably be an expensive trip...

[nixnight]

The women walked away from the counter with a small but sharp nod and then walked over to a few different barrels and jars and started to put all the things nix had asked for into bag and tubes and pots before walking back to the counter and placing them down as nix remembered the final thing. "I also need some newt blood" she said with a smile and the woman raised an eyebrow at the ingredient for a forth year but still wandered away to get nixs list item as nix dipped a hand in to her coin bag again to try and pull out all the cash she would need for everyone's potions ingredients for class

[nixnight]

*wifi broke and double posted....*

[potter]

Elliot after a certain point just began grabbing things off the shelf without glancing too hard at their labels, she made many a complex brew, and found she often needed even what other wizards would consider very obscure indeed. She then took the basket she had filled to the brim up to the counter so the cashier could ring up her order. The young man raised an eyebrow at her, though nonetheless punched the prices into the register to come to a grand total of one hundred and four galleons, eight sickles, and four knuts. Shaking her head lightly, Elliot paid the man before depositing her shopping into her extended purse and turning around to see how Nix was coming along in her shopping.

[nixnight]

The woman behind the table looked at nix before punching some numbers in to the till and then nodding to the number the popped up and nix gave a little smile before dipping her hand into her coin purse again and taking out four galleons and placing them on the counter. The woman nodded and then slid them off the counter before handing nix some sickles and then nix pulled her bag of potion ingredients of the table before nodding to elliot. "where next then?" she asked with a smile as she shifted the bag to sit slightly more comfortably on her hand and fingertips