Her nose wrinkled slightly at the promise she was meant to make. "I'll try, but I can't promise you that. Not when that guy, who was as old as you, broke a window a few months ago!" She assumed adults were supposed to have more control and know how to use a wand, even if it wasn't a perfect match for them. Maybe that's why that particular man had needed a new one so badly. He did say he had had some sort of accident with his previous one.

Shaking the memory out of her head, she returned to the task at hand and nodded about purchasing the rest of her school supplies. "Good thing we live in Hogsmeade, so we don't have to go too far!" Not that she didn't love occasionally traveling to Diagon Alley for business. "And I got some extra money from jobs, so I can help." She had mostly met her goal for her broomstick fund, but she hadn't exactly told Gideon about that, yet. "When do you think my letter is going to come?"

Standing on tiptoes, Billie squinted at the first wand Gideon had selected. Even after watching him for almost two years, she still hadn't figured out how he knew which wands were best to suggest. Tentatively, she reached out for it, her expression a mixture of excitement and feeling as if she doing something wrong. She hadn't been allowed to handle them before.

"I...I just wave it, right?" She sounded almost nervous, as if she somehow feared she might not actually possess any magic after all.