August 19th arrived and Harry and Petunia arrived early to the Leaky Cauldron. Tom let them through to the Alley. Their first stop was Ollivander's. Thaddeus Marcello was there and told them by way of greeting "Boy, that wand of yours had a mind of its own. Of course, I doubt that I'll ever experience such a thrill of accomplishment ever again, I'm actually considering retiring."
"Can I see it !" Harry sounded very much his age at that moment, causing all the adults to smile.
The wand maker extended it, handle first to him. It looked amazing the four woods swirled thirty two centimeters from the base to the tip in a coil, narrowing from a four centimeter diameter on the grip to centimeter at the tip. Each wood was edged by the woods of compatible elements. Where the grip began was a ring of silver inscribed with five runes small but smooth silver wires swirled and chris-crossed giving it a texture that would make hanging onto it easy, that continued twelve centimeters to the haft where Harry's aquamarine was held in place by another silver ring this one inscribed by six runes.
"First you must activate the runes, by putting a drop of blood on each. This will bind the wand to you so only you can use it."
Harry took the small knife Ollivander offered and frowned as he made a small cut on a finger of his left hand and did as directed.
" Magica sanguine excitari ligaveris. There it is finished, take your wand Harry."
Harry took it and couldn't resist giving it a wave. A veritable fountain of rainbow sparkles burst from it like champagne from a bottle.
"Bravo!" exclaimed Mr. Ollivander.
Mr. Marcello just got a very pleased look on his face before saying, "I hope you know how to take care of this wand young man. No carrying it around in your pocket or some such nonsense, and keep it clean. It was far to much work to create for you, not to take the best care of it. Understand?"
"Yes, sir. Where do I?"
"Ollie here carries holsters and wand care kits. My payment if you please."
Harry paid him the thirty four galleons he still owed. Then looked to Mr. Ollivander who said "Let's look at holsters shall we?" before waving goodbye to Mr. Marcello.
Half an hour later wand appropriately holstered and backpack dropped off for charming, Harry was at the optician's, while Petunia headed to Gringott's. Medi-witch Chang was a early twenty something witch who seemed thrilled to meet him.
"Harry Potter, in my shop! This is such an honor." she practically squealed.
Harry eyed her suspiciously "Yeah, I wanted to get some contacts. Unless there's some spell or potion that can fix my vision all together."
"Oh that's right you've grown up with Muggles. Let me explain your options. First: total correction, it involves both spells and potions and is very expensive two thousand five hundred galleons. And if your vision were to change it would have to be done over. That's one reason I don't recommend it for someone your age. Option two: glasses most people, 98 percent, go for this, most glasses are between three and five galleons. Third and it's something I've pioneered, is gradual correction. I took the muggle concept of contact lenses and adapted it. I put a lens that has been spelled to always maintain appropriate oxygenation and moisture in your eye, to self clean and to maintain whatever curvature is needed to give you twenty twenty vision. Then you also have a course of drops to put in your eyes that over the course of, well for most of my patients who have tried it, which I admit is not many, in two years their vision was corrected to the point they no longer needed correction of any kind."
Harry wasn't sure how she could have said all that without taking a breath but he was sure she did. "Okay. If I go with option three how often do I take the lenses out for cleaning."
"You don't, I put them in and six months later you come back and I check your vision before I put a fresh pair in. The lenses have set ranges for correction."
"That sounds like what I want. How much is it going to cost? "
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