9 September, 1894 — Flourish & Blott's

Most of the day passed like any other, without incident. Ned had a new display to put up in the window which occupied most of his morning, between the sporadic visits from housewives. Out with the stacks of textbooks for the current Hogwarts school year, in with the selection of new autumn novels. Re-shelving had been underway all week, moving all the excess school things down to storage until the next rush of students would descend on the shop; the window display was the last bit, and almost an afterthought — nothing particularly exciting was due in for the next two months. At least, nothing that was window display exciting. He expected two of the new ones to sell well, but to the same group of avid readers that would have bought them without an advertisement telling them to.

The woman who entered in the late afternoon wasn't especially familiar to him, and neither was the name she gave for her order. When he found it among the other bundles set aside behind the counter, though, his eyes lit up. "Oh, this one," he said as he brought it up to the register. He remembered putting it together late last week. "This is an interesting selection."

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Ivy Sandow

  

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Set by Lady ♡

Another year, another October nineteenth approaching — Ivy was always trying to figure out what happened to them, but it seemed more urgent every autumn. She was not sure that the books would help, but she was still excited about them — if any of them proved promising, she would have to share it with Persy.

She didn't have a shift, so it was easy enough to get to London when the order was ready. Ivy half-smiled at the light in the bookseller's eyes. "Not many people reading these?" she asked.

  

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set by MJ